The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Offset Claims L.A. Weed Shop Guard Provoked Fight Last Year - Offset claims the security guard suing him for assault provoked the fight that went down at a L.A. weed shop ... TMZ has learned. According to court docs o...
Guido Fawkes

LIVE: Ex-FCDO Chief Sir Philip Barton Gives Evidence on Mandelson Vetting Farce - Barton at 9am, McSweeney at 11am. A disastrous double bill for Starmer. Grab the popcorn…
PoliticalBetting.com

The Burnham surge - Full declaration of interest: I will be going to the poorhouse if Andy Burnham becomes next Prime Minister Yesterday we saw some signficant moves on the ne...
FAIL Blog

Honorably discharged US Army Sergeant vet working at a hardware store gets accosted by an angry customer, calmly puts her in her place by saying her yelling is nothing in comparison to his past: ‘I just smiled, cool as a cucumber…' - In the army, you get used to a lot of yelling. So once you reenter society, handling someone yelling at customer service employees must feel like a breeze!...
Iain Dale's Diary

A Weekend in the Big Apple - Today’s newsletter comes to you live from New York City, where I’ve spent a couple of days before heading down to Washington DC on an Amtrak train a litt...
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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