The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

FAIL Blog

23 Hilarious Times That Translations Failed Miserably - Guys. Stop eating carpet.
PoliticalBetting.com

Is there life after Brexit? - Chou en-Lai is supposed to have said that his assessment of the French Revolution was “It is too early to tell.” Sadly, this appears to have been a misunde...
TMZ.com

Dick Cheney's Signed Waterboard Kit Purportedly for Sale on eBay - The "waterboard kit" Sacha Baron Cohen got former Vice President Dick Cheney to sign for his new show has apparently hit the digital marketplace ... and bi...
Guido Fawkes

Best of Six Years of the Sunday Politics - That’s all folks… The post Best of Six Years of the *Sunday Politics* appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
Awkward Family Photos

Thunderdome - “My pitbull is terrified of thunder. Every day she gets more creative about hiding places.” (via source) The post Thunderdome appeared first on AwkwardFa...
Iain Dale's Diary

Keith Simpson's Summer Reading List Recommendations - *By Keith Simpson MP* What a contrast between the Commons and Lords. MPs have been grumbling about the paucity of legislation and votes and the Lords the...
FT.com Westminster

Hard Brexit: the eye-catching contingency plans to stop NI power blackouts - Thousands of electricity generators would have to be requisitioned at short notice and put on barges in the Irish Sea to help keep the lights on in North...
Bagehot's Notebook

Labour is no longer the party of the traditional working-class - ON JULY 3RD Jeremy Corbyn told Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, that “Labour is back as the political voice of the working class”.
Ben Charlton

Slow Cooker Honey Chicken Wraps Recipe - Slow Cooker Honey Chicken Wraps Recipe - Updated: Sun Jan 28 21:20:02 2018
Anna Raccoon

A clattering of Jackdaws. - When we bought this house, we noticed that there appeared to be a pair of Jackdaws living in the chimney. We had to block off the chimney, so felt rather b...
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...
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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