The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

King Charles Funeral Plans Reportedly Being Updated Amid Cancer Battle - King Charles is reportedly not doing great amid his cancer battle -- so much so, in fact, that his aides are apparently dusting off his funeral plans and u...
FAIL Blog

44 Scrubby Nurse Memes for Snarky RN's Working Another 12-Hour Shift at the Hospital - On paper, working a couple of 12-hour shifts in a row sounds doable. After 5 minutes in the ICU debating pain levels with a sassy patient who claims they...
PoliticalBetting.com

Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine? - As I thought this morning, Humza Yousaf’s strategy to abrogate the Bute House Agreement would be as successful a strategy as Emperor Palpatine decision to ...
Guido Fawkes

Who’s on Question Time Tonight? #BBCQT - […] Read the rest
Iain Dale's Diary

My Review of TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE WEST by Liz Truss - I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with book reviewers who lazily review the author of the book rather than the book itself. Many of them have cl...
Awkward Family Photos

The Party Crasher - “Here I am mourning the end of my 6 years as a pampered only child. Suburb of Paris, 1992.” (submitted by IG @ladame.en.noir ) The post The Party Crashe...
Radiac's Diary

Putting the fun in funeral - Welcome to Radiac's Guide to Death! My father died a few months ago, and as the last member of the family it's been my responsibility to organise his fun...
Ben Charlton

RTSP video from a Raspberry Pi (Zero) Camera using VLC cli - I think this is the easiest way to get reliable RTSP video out of a Pi Zero with a camera attached.
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...
Bagehot's Notebook

And then there were two - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest
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...
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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