The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Patrick Swayze's Brother Sean Swayze Dead at 63 - Sean Swayze, the younger brother of late Hollywood legend Patrick Swayze, has died ... TMZ has learned. Sean's son, Jesse Swayze, tells TMZ ... his father ...
FAIL Blog

26-year-old woman puts vegetables in all her meals to stop her roommate’s 6-year-old kid from eating all her food behind her back: ‘The mom is UPSET!’ - Adulting involves a ton of unexpected curveballs, but having to deal with your roommate's kid stealing your food should not be one of those issues. This...
Guido Fawkes

Civil Servants Launch ‘LGBT Film Club’ in Working Hours - Civil servants at Whitehall’s wokest agency have launched a monthly hour-long LGBT film discussion club. To meet in – you guessed it – working hours… A rou...
PoliticalBetting.com

Note the time and date, Starmer does a funny - Today was my first day back in worth in nearly three weeks so I haven’t followed the news today so apologies for the brevity of this piece. I find this qui...
Iain Dale's Diary

New Year, New Innovations for my LBC Radio Show - [image: LBC Stream] New year is a good time to start afresh, so we've got two new innovations for my LBC eveninf radio show. We're extending Cross Qu...
Awkward Family Photos

A Mighty Wind - “We were visiting our family in Tokyo and set up to do a group photo. The camera was on a timer and snapped the pic just as a strong wind blew the tripod...
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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