The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Cardi B Allegedly Went Berserk at 'SNL' Rehearsal Over 'Weekend Update' Nicki Minaj Joke - Cardi B made "Saturday Night Live's" 1,000th episode one to remember ... allegedly for all the wrong reasons -- according to our sources, Cardi started des...
Guido Fawkes

Green Party Policy Is to Abolish Faith Schools - The Green Party’s aggressive sectarian campaigning in Gorton & Denton is curious considering the party’s very much non-conservative policy on contentious f...
FAIL Blog

Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged' - After switching to unlimited PTO, this employee realized they took significantly fewer vacation days than when they had a defined 15-day cap, exposing the ...
PoliticalBetting.com

The influence of Political betting is causing problems in Gorton & Denton - When I first became deputy editor of Political Betting, despite knowing the then Prime Minister was a regular reader of PB, one thing that shocked me was t...
Iain Dale's Diary

Press Announcement: Biteback to Publish Iain Dale's Unfiltered Autobiography 'HAVE I SAID TOO MUCH?' - [image: Have i said too much] *BITEBACK TO PUBLISH IAIN DALE’S UNFILTERED AUTOBIOGRAPHY* Biteback Publishing has acquired Iain Dale’s searingly honest a...
Awkward Family Photos

Triple Threat - “1990, Missouri. My sister brought us to a “photo studio” someone had set up in a hotel room of the Red Lion Inn. I guess we needed a pic to memorialize ...
Ben Charlton

Volkswagen Takata Airbag Mess in 2025 - Starting in 2013, many vehicle manufacturers recalled vehicles fitted with faulty airbag inflators made by Takata Corporation. Over 100 million airbags h...
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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