The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Director Eli Roth Files for Divorce from Wife Lorenza Izzo - Eli Roth and his wife are calling it quits on their marriage ... the "Hostel" director just filed for divorce. Roth submitted docs in L.A. Monday -- obtain...
FAIL Blog

21 People and Things Who Had a Real Bad Day - It makes us feel that much better to know that it could be that much worse.
Guido Fawkes

Tory Rebellion Over Attempt to Break Parliament Up Early - The government is facing another rebellion – this time over its attempt to break parliament up early. Recess was due to begin next Tuesday, but Number 10...
PoliticalBetting.com

TMay caves in to the Brexit Taliban over Chequers plan - May rejects claim accepting Tory Brexiter amendments means 'Chequers deal now dead' https://t.co/tzNxFys2Hv — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 16, 2018 Mo...
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...
Awkward Family Photos

Flesh and Bone - “When your amazing, artist Dad says we’re taking a family photo and his photographer friend is going to shoot it, you do it with no question. Oh, and Dad...
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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