The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Stefon Diggs Slams Man Claiming He Coordinated Beatdown Over Stolen Ferrari - Stefon Diggs is firing back at claims that he had a man assaulted because he believed he had something to do with his stolen Ferrari ... TMZ has learned. I...
PoliticalBetting.com

It’s never a good sign when in your first day in the job people start speculating when you’re going to be sacked or resign - Given the volatility of Donald Trump this is a market I am going to avoid but based on first outing things surely can only get better for Katie Zacharia? I...
FAIL Blog

Logistics operations coordinator blindsided by layoff in 5-minute Zoom call along with 15% of the company—then the employer demanded they sign a non-compete to get severance pay, along with this veiled threat - An employer allegedly made ten weeks of severance pay conditional on signing a non-compete that would ban them from working in the industry for 2 years. ...
Guido Fawkes

LIVE: The Guido Fawkes Show - Today’s guests: Katie Lam – Shadow Housing Secretary. Scarlett Maguire – Founder & Director, Merlin Strategy. Watch along…
Awkward Family Photos

Stumped - “My mother always got what she wanted and she wanted this family picture of my four brothers and me and my sister. The boys got to wear their lovely red ...
Iain Dale's Diary

Twenty Years On: The Story of 18 Doughty Street Talk TV - *Twenty years ago this week, I was part of the launch of a new internet TV station. It only lasted a year, but it was a decade ahead of its time.* In the...
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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