The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

'A Thousand Years' Singer Christina Perri Files For Divorce - Christina Perri apparently won't love her husband for a thousand years ... because she just filed for divorce. The "A Thousand Years" singer beelined it to...
FAIL Blog

'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working - At some workplaces, employees are given the opportunity to skip the breaks they are legally owed and instead leave work earlier. Instead of "wasting" 30 ...
Guido Fawkes

‘Beijing Barbara’ Woodward Becomes New Deputy National Security Adviser - Barbara Woodward has been announced as the new Deputy National Security Adviser today in the Cabinet Office. A role in the public eye thanks to her now-col...
PoliticalBetting.com

Why I think Scotland will not vote for independence - In 2014 one of the main reasons I thought and back No to win was the fact the Yes side couldn’t come up with a plausible answer for the currency an indepen...
Iain Dale's Diary

Why Does Nothing Work? - When a high profile prisoner, who has been found guilty of committing sex offences against young girls, is wrongly released from prison, and when you fin...
Awkward Family Photos

The Wedding Finger - “Call me crazy, but I don’t think my sister’s new mother-in-law was happy about the wedding.” (submitted by Erin) The post The Wedding Finger appeared fi...
Ben Charlton

Volkswagen Takata Airbag Mess in 2025 - Starting in 2013, many vehicle manufacturers recalled vehicles fitted with faulty airbag inflators made by Takata Corporation. Over 100 million airbags h...
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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