The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Aaron Carter’s Mom Loses Fight With Late Pop Star's Ex-Fiancée - Late pop star Aaron Carter’s mom Jane Schenck's fight with his ex-fiancée Melanie Martin over his estate was shut down in court, TMZ has learned. Accordin...
Guido Fawkes

British Service Sector Posts Weakest Performance in Eleven Months - The latest services PMI from S&P Global shows the sector is growing at its slowest for 11 months. Downturns… Services PMI dropped sharply to 50.5 in March,...
PoliticalBetting.com

The politics of oil - Leaving LNG to one side, the problem can be summed up with the above chart from a Goldman Sachs research report. When the problem will be catalysed is give...
FAIL Blog

"Car person" realizes that their neighbor's cat might be damaging their car - What could go wrong when the neighbor's cat chooses your car as their favorite sleep spot? Cats have a particular worldview: what's theirs is theirs, and ...
Iain Dale's Diary

The Utter Hypocrisy of the British Medical Association - On Tuesday the resident doctors start a six day long strike. It’s the 16th strike since this pay and conditions dispute started. At the beginning, there ...
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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