The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Woman Body-Slammed After Throwing Punch In Road Rage Confrontation on Camera - Fiery road rage turned icy fast -- a woman threw a punch at a man and got viciously body-slammed onto the frozen pavement, and it was all caught on camera....
FAIL Blog

'If you don't want me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best': 20+ unprofessional comments job applicants wrote on their resumes - It's not easy to make yourself stand out on paper. That's what 99% of job candidates have to deal with every time they submit an application. The remaini...
Guido Fawkes

Labour Forces Civil Servants Through Media Training for Party Political Video - Last month the Tories accused the Ministry of Justice of producing a video which accused the previous government of not being “straight” with the public....
PoliticalBetting.com

If Lab doesn’t succeed perhaps the voters will turn to somebody other than the Tories? - TSE
Ben Charlton

An Insane Resolve Possessed Me - OUR brave new world. THEIR timeless worlds of space. OUR microscopic allies. THEIR minds immeasurably superior to ours. OUR sound of shunting trains. TH...
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, ...
Iain Dale's Diary

The Honours List is Full of Undeserving Failures - This article first appeared in the iNewspaper Our honours system is one of our great British institutions, yet if it is to survive in a meaningful way it...
Awkward Family Photos

The ‘Do of ’72 - “My mom cut my bangs for picture day, 1972.” (submitted by IG @keciadeveney) The post The ‘Do of ’72 appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
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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