The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Savannah Guthrie Begs Kidnapper to Bring Her Mom Nancy Back in Tearful Video - 'TODAY' show anchor Savannah Guthrie is begging her mom Nancy's kidnapper to bring her home in a new video where she urges whoever took her that it's "neve...
FAIL Blog

Parent refuses to let 16-year-old daughter's boyfriend get her a promise ring: 'I was stunned but ultimately I told him no...16 is too young' - These 16-year-olds who are dating are already talking about a ring, much to the surprise of the teens' parents! At just 16 years old, these teens are in t...
Guido Fawkes

Chagos Sellout Architect Powell Briefs He Will ‘Return to Consultancy’ Raising Ethical Questions Over Deal - A huge blow was delivered to Starmer’s struggling Chagos deal today in an inadvertent briefing to The Guardian newspaper. The story – which Guido understan...
PoliticalBetting.com

Something inexplicable is happening in the most seats market - Unless punters think Sir Keir Starmer’s remaining leader is a major positive for Labour I am not sure why the most seats markets have moved quite so much. ...
Iain Dale's Diary

Book Review: The Next World War by Peter Apps - My generation has experienced a rarity in British history. We’ve never really faced the prospect of a European or World War. You could argue the nuclear ...
Awkward Family Photos

Triple Threat - “1990, Missouri. My sister brought us to a “photo studio” someone had set up in a hotel room of the Red Lion Inn. I guess we needed a pic to memorialize ...
Ben Charlton

Volkswagen Takata Airbag Mess in 2025 - Starting in 2013, many vehicle manufacturers recalled vehicles fitted with faulty airbag inflators made by Takata Corporation. Over 100 million airbags h...
Radiac's Diary

A Pretty Good Year - After the disaster that was 2023, my 2024 was pretty good, so I thought if I share the bad the least I can do is share the good! If my year had a theme, ...
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...
Anna Raccoon

My campaign is bearing fruit. - Not sure if I can do this but I will do my best. The disease is progressing and today I have had my medication pushed up to 300 ml of Ketamine and 275ml of...
Chase Me Charlie

new look 6262, part 2 - So far it all seems to be going ok. I accidentally cut the back bodice piece a size smaller than I needed, but it still seems to fit alright so I’m not to...
Bagehot's Notebook

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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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