The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Matt Barnes Says LeBron Leaving Lakers Best Thing For Bronny James - Matt Barnes believes LeBron James bolting to Philly was the best thing for Bronny James' career! TMZ Sports caught up with the retired NBA player-turned-po...
PoliticalBetting.com

Welcome to PB Election Results - There are a lot of elections out there. And you know what there isn’t? A really good, free, normalised set of election results that anyone can query. So, I...
Guido Fawkes

WATCH: Labour MP Says Defence Funding Gap Can Be Filled by Clamping Down on Tax Avoidance - Backbench Labour MP Emma Lewell versus Tory shadow defence minister Mark Francois. The gymnastics the Labour Party will perform to avoid saying the welfare...
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...
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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