The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Carrot Top Texted Manager 'Done' Before Suicide Attempt - Carrot Top was informed that allegations of sexual misconduct were coming out about him around an hour before he attempted to take his own life ... this ac...
FAIL Blog

Woman doesn’t know how to tell her 30-year-old friend that the reason she’s single is that she comes on too strong: ‘I'm starting to get sick of hearing about it because the answer is so obvious to everybody but herself’ - Let me hold your hand when I say this… Sometimes the only alternative is to tell your friend the truth, even if it hurts them. It's our opinion; it doesn't...
Guido Fawkes

WATCH: Trump Says Chagos Deal Is “Terrible” - Trump on the Chagos deal: “I don’t support it, I think it’s terrible.” Dead… The full comment: “I don’t support it. I think it’s terrible. It was a terribl...
PoliticalBetting.com

As the Lib Dem conference begins voters give their thoughts on Sir Ed Davey - Given all the stunts Sir Ed Davey participated before the last general election I am astonished that 6% of voters think Sir Ed is boring. TSE
Awkward Family Photos

We’ll Always Have Paris - “We were living in Europe & my husband had a work conference in Paris the same time as our girls’ fall break so we all went & thought exploring Paris wit...
Iain Dale's Diary

The Autumn Political Season Begins - Let's do a Sitrep! - The autumn political season has well and truly begun, with Andy Burnham facing his first parliamentary tests and the Reform UK conference having just hap...
Ben Charlton

EMF 2026 Scale Solar System - I cycled along a 10km scale solar system in Cambridge back in 2022 and really appreciated the sense of scale and how empty even our local bit of space is...
Radiac's Diary

A Pretty Good Year - After the disaster that was 2023, my 2024 was pretty good, so I thought if I share the bad the least I can do is share the good! If my year had a theme, ...
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...
Anna Raccoon

My campaign is bearing fruit. - Not sure if I can do this but I will do my best. The disease is progressing and today I have had my medication pushed up to 300 ml of Ketamine and 275ml of...
Chase Me Charlie

new look 6262, part 2 - So far it all seems to be going ok. I accidentally cut the back bodice piece a size smaller than I needed, but it still seems to fit alright so I’m not to...
Bagehot's Notebook

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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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