The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Jay-Z Announces Himself As Super Bowl Halftime Performer - Jay-Z has officially been named the Super Bowl 61 halftime show performer. The music mogul released a statement confirming the news. He said, "Thirty years...
FAIL Blog

School Forces Teachers to Work At McDonald’s to Raise Money for the School: 'What a respected profession.' - While I understand why teachers participating in a volunteer event for the school can incentivize kids and their families to attend, I also understand wh...
Guido Fawkes

Healey to Hike Minimum Wage - A briefing to the Times confirms that Healey will use Wednesday’s budget to raise the minimum wage by about 3.9%. But he is slowing the catch-up for young ...
PoliticalBetting.com

Should Andy Burnham take the advice of Piers Morgan? - This weekend saw two polls with Labour ahead by 8% which has led to people like Piers Morgan to say Andy Burnham should call a snap election, I have my dou...
Iain Dale's Diary

10 Reasons Why Andy Burnham May Call a 10 December General Election - Hear me out. I think I am more or less alone in thinking that Andy Burnham may still call a general election this year. If he does, it will almost certai...
Awkward Family Photos

Stumped - “My mother always got what she wanted and she wanted this family picture of my four brothers and me and my sister. The boys got to wear their lovely red ...
Ben Charlton

EMF 2026 Scale Solar System - I cycled along a 10km scale solar system in Cambridge back in 2022 and really appreciated the sense of scale and how empty even our local bit of space is...
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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