The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Derwin James Jr. Says Active NFL Players Should Skip Olympics Over Injury Risk - Derwin James Jr. says it's cool that NFL players have the opportunity to compete in the 2028 Olympics, but he's suggesting they skip the Summer Games, tell...
PoliticalBetting.com

Smoking kills Reform’s chances? - I am shocked to see Nigel Farage criticising Oliver Cromwell, a man who helped take back control from our unelected rulers, but when it comes to the smokin...
FAIL Blog

New Manager claims first-come, first-served served employee parking spot, sends email promising to retaliate against and tow any staff who dare park in it, Big Boss forced to intervene and put them in their place: 'That’s my parking spot' - A newly-hired manager came in swaggering, attempting to claim a free-for-all employee parking space as their own, threatening other staff with towing shoul...
Guido Fawkes

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week - This week 940,272 visitors visited 839,009 times viewing 908,837 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Starmer Holds Head in...
Iain Dale's Diary

An Evening with Lord Ashcroft (And Elton John. Oh, and Nicole Scherzinger) - Dear all, So there I was, catching snippets of the West Ham v Manchester City match on my phone, while also watching Kemi Badenoch and Theresa May str...
Ben Charlton

Beating UKPC in court - In April 2025 I took UK Parking Control (UKPC) to court. They’re one of the private parking companies that are famous for aggressively pursuing consumers...
Awkward Family Photos

Bones, Hugs, & Harmony - “Me and my twin sister on Halloween. I was the skeleton and this picture sums us up perfectly. Another year, my sister was Esmerelda and I went as a frui...
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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