The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Donnie Wahlberg Plane Emergency: Listen To Air Traffic Control Audio - Donnie Wahlberg narrowly escaped disaster when his private jet skidded off a Las Vegas runway ... and TMZ has obtained air traffic control audio capturing ...
FAIL Blog

7 Employees Who Are Only "Working for the Money": An Employee Surprises Their Boss With a Truthful Answer When the Boss Asks Them Why They’re There if They Are So Unhappy - When their boss pointed out that they looked unhappy at work, this employee surprised him by telling him honestly that they were only there for the money...
PoliticalBetting.com

The descent of Zack Polanski - These polls are no surprise to me for the English & Welsh Greens given how poorly the news around the Greens and Zack Polanski have been. The shocking thin...
Guido Fawkes

Guido Whispers: Which Minister Has Had a Big Falling Out With Their SpAd? - Guido Fawkes members get access to Guido Whispers, our exclusive insiders-only newsletter revealing all the latest gossip and tittle-tattle swirling around...
Iain Dale's Diary

Five Years On: Remembering Sir David Amess - Today is the fifth anniversary of the brutal terrorist murder of my friend, Sir David Amess MP. What follows is what I wrote for the *Telegraph* the day ...
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 ...
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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