The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

Guido Fawkes

Labour Health Minister With Cancer Resigns - Ashley Dalton says: “Whilst my oral chemotherapy treatment will not stop me from being that champion for West Lancashire, I believe now is the right time t...
FAIL Blog

Boss lectures an employee about taking “personal calls” on their break, then gets burned when the employee start screening their calls: 'I let it go to voicemail' - The company had a policy against using personal cellphones on the job, and this manager took every opportunity to bring the hammer down on her employees. S...
TMZ.com

Kimora Lee Simmons Wants To Drop Russell's Last Name - Kimora Lee Simmons looks like she wants to make her life simple ... because she's looking to officially drop the last names of a couple of her exes, includ...
PoliticalBetting.com

London 2028: Reform v Green? - In the 2024 London Mayoral election Zoë Garbett of the Greens finished fourth with 5.8% of the vote (albeit under the hugely flawed first past the post sys...
Iain Dale's Diary

Iran and the Consequences of International Law - It’s astonishing how many experts on international law there seem to be. They all seem to know it, chapter and verse assume that any action taken by the ...
Awkward Family Photos

True Blood - “1998, Solano Mall in Fairfield, CA. My parents were not pleased that me and my sisters went with the vampire lipstick for our family portrait.” (submitt...
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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