The World According To Dan

Random photos, TV, politics and anything else that comes into view

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Emma Stone Wants To Change Back To Her Real Name Emily Stone - Everyone knows Emma Stone by name, but now the famous actress wants to change it up with a more formal twist. In an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter"...
Guido Fawkes

Caption Contest (Alba Gone This Time Tomorrow Edition) - *Entries in the comments…*[…] Read the rest
FAIL Blog

‘You do you, I’m happy to split': Friendship ends after double date turns awkward when one friend offers to split the check and the other insists 'It's always the gentlemen who pay' - "I'm now not a 'girls girl' because I didn't back her, without being told I should or given any kind of heads up. I responded that if I want to pay for m...
PoliticalBetting.com

Will Starmer do better than Blair? - It speaks volumes to Sir Keir Starmer’s brilliance that the betting markets are offering odds on Sir Keir doing better than Sir Tony Blair in 1997, this is...
Awkward Family Photos

The Party Animal - “My mother hired this critter to liven up my birthday party. 1986, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.” (submitted by IG @glaumir_muraca) The post The Party Animal ...
Iain Dale's Diary

My Review of TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE WEST by Liz Truss - I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with book reviewers who lazily review the author of the book rather than the book itself. Many of them have cl...
Radiac's Diary

Putting the fun in funeral - Welcome to Radiac's Guide to Death! My father died a few months ago, and as the last member of the family it's been my responsibility to organise his fun...
Ben Charlton

RTSP video from a Raspberry Pi (Zero) Camera using VLC cli - I think this is the easiest way to get reliable RTSP video out of a Pi Zero with a camera attached.
FT.com Westminster

Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more
There, I Fixed It.

Epic DIY Chainsaw Fails Video Compilation - It’s funny that you need a license to fish, hunt, own a gun, drive a car, and work as a manicurist a nail salon, but there’s no such requirement for owni...
Bagehot's Notebook

And then there were two - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest
Anna Raccoon

A clattering of Jackdaws. - When we bought this house, we noticed that there appeared to be a pair of Jackdaws living in the chimney. We had to block off the chimney, so felt rather b...
Chase Me Charlie

i knit, therefore i am - The past few days have been pretty busy, so I haven’t had the time to sew. (I live in a very small flat, so getting my sewing machine & ironing board out ...
Benedict Brogan

RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...
Cranmer

Canon Andrew White deserves a knighthood - He doesn't care about temporal honours, of course. You only have to hear the 'Vicar of Baghdad' preach, or take a few minutes to watch the above short fi...
Peace. Of. Analeigh.

It is a Sunday, and I wanted to find my disjointed thoughts in front of me. For me. - There was an old wicker bird cage, canary yellow, that sat on some unnecessary piece of furniture in a lovely, but unnecessary room we fittingly dubbed the...
Torah Club

A Simple Noahide - This is something I learnt during my die-trying seeking for conversion to Judaism. There is a beauty in Judaism that it does not require you to be Jewish...
Henry Porter

I'm off, but the struggle for civil liberties must go on | Henry Porter - With the new government promising to respect our civil liberties, I think now is a good time for me to bow out This is my last post for liberty central, a ...
The Carrie Prejean

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