The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Late Boston Red Sox Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield's Florida Mansion For Sale - Late Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield's Florida estate is up for sale ... TMZ has learned. Tim's waterfront mansion hit the market Friday ... and...
FAIL Blog

18-year-old student clashes with her mother over choice of university sparking exchange of harsh words: 'I then proceeded to tell her it was my choice not her decision' - Eighteen years of age is when the training wheels of life really start to come off. Of course, it depends on your personal situation, but for the first t...
Guido Fawkes

Politician and Bodyguard Set to Be Charged Over Election Bets - The Gambling Commission is eyeing a politician and a close protection officer following its investigation into election bets, Sky reports. *At least thre...
PoliticalBetting.com

The Chancer of the Exchequer - The story about Rachel Reeves and her curriculum vitae is one of those stories that can be so debilitating for a politician and the government when things ...
Iain Dale's Diary

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Fatal Character Flaw - This article first appeared in the iNewspaper. Watching a wounded animal in its death throes is never an edifying experience, and that is exactly how it’...
Awkward Family Photos

Burn Baby Burn - “It was the 80s & hot sticks and the “Burning Bush” hairstyle was the latest craze and my beautiful sister was rockin’ it.” The post Burn Baby Burn appea...
Ben Charlton

Moving to the Hugo Static Site Generator - I finally got round to updating from my old 2006-era DIY static site generator Meek to hugo, which is much more flexible and has far nicer support for im...
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...
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

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 ...
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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