The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

FAIL Blog

10 Trashy FAILures Who Need to Get Their Sh*t Together - These morons need a reality check.
TMZ.com

Terminal Cancer Dog, In-N-Out, That's What Life and a Hamburger are All About - It'll make you cry but it's also loving and sweet ... a dog with terminal cancer gets what most canines and humans say is one of life's great pleasures -- ...
PoliticalBetting.com

The good news for TMay’s successor is that her party’s due to exceed expectations next time - The pattern appears to be clear One of the great things about monitoring election betting is that it gives you a good indication of what expectations were ...
Iain Dale's Diary

ConHome Diary: Why Theresa May Was Right to Play the Ball, Not the Man - Sarah Champion is one of the more impressive Labour MPs. She is that rarest of people, a Labour front bencher who can actually string a sentence together...
Guido Fawkes

Saturday Seven Up - This week 181,133 visitors visited 540,341 times viewing 830,466 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: Sarah Champion Resigns From Shadow C...
Awkward Family Photos

Gimme Some Sugar - “This is a picture from our wedding day. After the ceremony, we dismissed the pews and when my new husband leaned down to kiss my Grandma on the cheek, I...
FT.com Westminster

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Ben Charlton

Batter for Pancakes and Yorkshire Pudding - Batter for Pancakes and Yorkshire Pudding - Updated: Mon Jul 3 18:42:07 2017
Bagehot's Notebook

The politics of a tragedy - WE USE the phrase “death-trap” all too lightly. But a death-trap is exactly what the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in West London became when it caught fire in ...
Radiac's Diary

Tagulous 0.12.0 released - Tagulous v0.12 is now available - it adds support for Django 1.10 and addresses several issues - see the changelog for full details. Note that this versi...
Anna Raccoon

Why Ms Raccoon is howling at the biggest moon since the year she was born and taking no prisoners. - Other than a couple of days last week, I have been in hospital for the past three weeks. First Sepsis, then the effects of the attempts to cure me of that....
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 ...
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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