The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Bette Midler Regrets Not Suing Lindsay Lohan Over Her Failed Sitcom - Bette Midler is still upset with Lindsay Lohan for bailing on their 2000s sitcom "Bette" ... and apparently feels like she should've taken her to court for...
FAIL Blog

Popular MMORPG account hacker learns a valuable lesson: 'An hour later my friend had his account back' - It's hard to think that anyone who played Runescape in the 00s walked away without ever having their account hacked. It was kind of a given that one day ...
Guido Fawkes

Sunak and Starmer Trade Personal Blows in Fiery Exchange - Fresh off the news that Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defected to Labour, PMQ’s got off to a testy start. Rishi Sunak hit out at the “*virtue signalling lawye...
PoliticalBetting.com

There’s utterly cynical politicians then there’s Siân Berry - If there were a market on Brighton Pavillion at the next election then the money would have piled on to Labour yesterday. This would have based on yesterda...
Awkward Family Photos

Berry Head - “Exhibit A that I was Strawberry Shortcake obsessed in the 80s.” (submitted by IG @that_lewis_life) The post Berry Head appeared first on AwkwardFamilyP...
Iain Dale's Diary

Looking Forward to the Fowey Festival, 17-18 May - [image: Fowey] I first appeared at the Fowey Festival at least 20 years ago. My role was to interview Ann Widdecombe about one of her novels. I fell i...
Ben Charlton

Aldi Kamado Upgrades - Back in 2021 I bought the very cheap Aldi Kamado ceramic BBQ/smoker.
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...
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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