The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

PoliticalBetting.com

The independents with a real shot at the US Senate - In the US, the Democrats are regarded -by many- as out of touch coastal liberals who care more about letting boys in dresses compete in girls sports than i...
TMZ.com

Former NFL Player Alphonso Smith Jr. Dead at 40 - Alphonso Smith Jr. -- a former NFL player and standout cornerback at Wake Forest University -- has died ... TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge ...
FAIL Blog

‘Everyone is acting like this is cute and wholesome. I don’t want to do it’: Company asks employees to submit a video of their home-office setup for publicity - *Do we have to rebrand our lives now?* Boundaries between work and personal life have become diffuse, to say the least. People used to have a life that wa...
Guido Fawkes

Cabinet Office Minister Unable to Say Any Way in Which Labour Will Cut Welfare Bill - Junior Cabinet Office minister Sally Jameson insisted on the morning broadcast round that the government would cut benefits, but was unable to say when or ...
Awkward Family Photos

Happiness - “We were not know for our smiles but every year, mom would schedule a family portrait and every year, nobody ever smiled.” (submitted by Diana) The post ...
Iain Dale's Diary

Fortunes Always Hiding - Now if Ann Widdecombe were still with us, I could expect an email missive from her later on tonight, which would go along the lines of… “I enjoy your Sun...
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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