The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

Iain Dale's Diary

Another Edinburgh Fringe Run Comes to an End - I’m writing this on the train back to London from Edinburgh. I always feel rather melancholy at the end of a Fringe run in the city I have grown to love....
TMZ.com

YouTuber Chris Sails Arrested for Allegelly Lying to Cops About Kids Being in Danger - YouTuber Chris Sails allegedly lied to cops about his kids falling into a body of water ... and ended up in handcuffs after officers figured out the kids w...
Guido Fawkes

David Dinsmore Exits as Permanent Secretary for Government Comms - Former Sun editor David Dinsmore is leaving his role as Permanent Secretary for Government Communications. The official release claims the decision was mad...
PoliticalBetting.com

A reminder that midterm polls aren’t great predictors for general election outcomes - I was researching something when this poll turned up. This poll was at the height of the vaccine bounce. One cannot help but wonder what the outcome of the...
FAIL Blog

Dad refuses to pay for daughter's college tuition if she chooses an arts degree, despite being able to easily thanks to a $3 million inheritance, daughter and wife disagree: 'She absolutely hated this' - Is it better to be average or below average in a massive pool of graduates? Or excel in a niche field that you are passionate about?
Awkward Family Photos

And Then There Were 5 - “Our first reaction to meeting our new baby brother at the hospital.” (submitted by Ann) The post And Then There Were 5 appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPh...
Ben Charlton

EMF 2026 Scale Solar System - I cycled along a 10km scale solar system in Cambridge back in 2022 and really appreciated the sense of scale and how empty even our local bit of space is...
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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