The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

Guido Fawkes

Opposition Extinguished From Smoking Ban Committee - The government has now published the members the Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee – they’ll be considering amendments to the bill in May. Guido is surpri...
FAIL Blog

Expectation vs. Reality: 25+ Botched products that didn't meet expectations - Things don't always turn out exactly as you'd hoped. Sometimes things are a little better than you thought it would be, and that's a lovely surprise. Oth...
TMZ.com

Oklahoma Bus Driver Viciously Attacked By Passenger, Forces Crash - A bus driver found himself in the middle of a brutal attack last week, which was captured on video ... and which resulted in a huge crash, not to mention a...
PoliticalBetting.com

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes - It’s been an exciting morning in Scotland with the First Minister abrogating the Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens. As noted in the Tweets abov...
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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