The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

FAIL Blog

‘You go girl:' Boss gives off major green flag energy when he has the best reaction to a prank of his employee being mean to a customer over the phone, goes viral - Every boss needs to have their employee's back like this guy!
TMZ.com

Tornado Crosses Over Nebraska Freeway, Wild Video Shows - A tornado in Nebraska made a lot of motorists' days scarier ... forming right on the side of a freeway before crossing over the motorway, a new viral video...
Guido Fawkes

Tory MP Dan Poulter Defects To Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dan Poulter announces his defection with an article in *The Observer. *Poulter was a health minister from 2012 to 20...
PoliticalBetting.com

I suspect this will go on every Labour leaflet during the general election campaign - Dan Poulter is also a NHS doctor who has been working on the front lines will have resonance, Sunak is proving to be a very unlucky general as the Observer...
Awkward Family Photos

The Stand In - “Beijing, 1986. I really (really) wanted a dog as a kid, but we moved around a lot. After a particularly weepy episode, this was the next best thing my p...
Iain Dale's Diary

My Review of TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE WEST by Liz Truss - I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with book reviewers who lazily review the author of the book rather than the book itself. Many of them have cl...
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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