The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

The New Weinstein Co., Bob Weinstein Pushed to the Back - There is full-court press underway to save The Weinstein Co. from bankruptcy, and the plan is bad news for Bob Weinstein but good news for a number of wome...
FAIL Blog

These Terrifying Pennywise Pumpkins Will Send Chills Down Your Spine - Well, some creative and inspired people out there got it in their heads to decorate their doorsteps with Pennywise-themed pumpkins. If the goal here's to...
Guido Fawkes

OECD Received £85 Million From EU - Interesting research just out from Change Britain this evening. The OECD has received a grand total of £85,173,454.91 from the EU since 2007: In 2007 the...
PoliticalBetting.com

Facts and fantasies about public ownership. Don Brind looks at the evidence from abroad - Did you Know? • “In Singapore 20% of GDP comes from state owned enterprises, 90% of land is state owned and 85% of housing is public.” • “48 million Americ...
Iain Dale's Diary

Sunday Telegraph Column: Would a Reshuffle Solve Theresa May's Problems? (Answer: Probably Not) - *This is the full text of the article which appeared in today’s Sunday Telegraph* Reshuffle fever is gripping Westminster, which is not unusual when a g...
Awkward Family Photos

Sandwich Surprise - “Couldn’t figure out why my wife was in such a good mood after our argument.” (via source) The post Sandwich Surprise appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhot...
Bagehot's Notebook

A strange disease has taken hold of British politics - BRITAIN is suffering from a very un-British affliction at the moment: millenarianism. A country that has always prided itself on its support for common sen...
FT.com Westminster

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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...
Ben Charlton

Batter for Pancakes and Yorkshire Pudding - Batter for Pancakes and Yorkshire Pudding - Updated: Mon Jul 3 18:42:07 2017
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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