The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

NY Gym Apologizes to Jermell Charlo, Insists They're Not Racist - Jermell Charlo has gotten an apology from the upscale NY gym he was kicked out of on Thursday night -- but the gym insists he was NOT racially profiled. A...
FAIL Blog

Mom's Hysterical Real Time Texting Storm To Beyoncé Goes Viral - We need commentary from this mom on all future Beyoncé concerts.
Guido Fawkes

Two More Cadwalladr Factual Errors - Just the two corrections for Carole Cadwalladr this week. First, she has deleted a tweet linking to her Observer article last weekend in which she claime...
PoliticalBetting.com

The Tories hold on against an SNP challenge in Scotland but lose 2 seats to the LDs in England - Highland on Perth and Kinross (Con defence) Result: Con 1,907 (47% +2% on last time), Lab 239 (6% no candidate last time), Lib Dem 78 (2% -1% on last time)...
Iain Dale's Diary

ConHome Diary: The Consequences of Windrush & Spinning the Local Elections - Back in 2006 the then Labour Home Secretary John Reid described his own department as “not fit for purpose”. Twelve years on very little seems to have ch...
Awkward Family Photos

Down Boy - “I failed at taking engagement pictures today. When you see it…” (via source) The post Down Boy appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
Bagehot's Notebook

Coming face to neck with Vladimir Putin - T.H. MARSHALL, one of the founders of modern economics, and one of the most brilliant analysts of the economics of place, argued that “there was something ...
Ben Charlton

Slow Cooker Honey Chicken Wraps Recipe - Slow Cooker Honey Chicken Wraps Recipe - Updated: Sun Jan 28 21:20:02 2018
FT.com Westminster

How DEXEU is shedding staff faster than the rest of Whitehall - Officials are quitting the UK’s new Brexit department four times faster than the civil service average, according to a new report by the Whitehall audito...
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

-
There, I Fixed It.

-