The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Lana Del Rey Surprises Coachella With Special Guest Camila Cabello - Lana Del Rey has done it again at Coachella ... first surprising the crowd on weekend 1 with Billie Eilish and now with special guest Camila Cabello to kic...
FAIL Blog

31 Teacher Memes for Educators Skipping Class More Than Their Students - You take a deep breath as the projector hums to life, bathing the room in the soft glow of a colonial map. You push aside the stack of ungraded essays th...
Guido Fawkes

Saturday 7-Up - This week 159,645 visitors visited 367,225 times viewing 452,235 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: - Rayner Claims ...
PoliticalBetting.com

Raynergate isn’t cutting through - The public really aren’t paying attention to the Rayner because it is very thin gruel. If the Tories want to damage Labour they will need another story bec...
Awkward Family Photos

The Party Crasher - “Here I am mourning the end of my 6 years as a pampered only child. Suburb of Paris, 1992.” (submitted by IG @ladame.en.noir ) The post The Party Crashe...
Iain Dale's Diary

Me and My Books - The Daily Mail runs a feature on Fridays called Me and My Books. This week they asked to contribute. Well, it would have been rude not to! WHAT BOOK… ...
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...
Ben Charlton

RTSP video from a Raspberry Pi (Zero) Camera using VLC cli - I think this is the easiest way to get reliable RTSP video out of a Pi Zero with a camera attached.
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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