The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Venus Williams Says Preparing For Met Gala Is 'Much Tougher' Than Grand Slam - If you thought preparing to compete against some of the greatest tennis players alive was tough, try planning the world's biggest night in fashion!! Venus ...
FAIL Blog

Neighbors repeatedly drive over new homeowner's lawn to park, forcing her to stop them by installing T-posts on her driveway: ‘I feel like this is property damage’ - The lawn next to your driveway isn't an extension of your parking space. Somebody's private property shouldn't be treated as a public road. Someone can cut...
PoliticalBetting.com

More spin from Team Burnham? - From The Times Ed Miliband wants to be “kingmaker” to a potential Andy Burnham leadership bid in return for being offered the post of chancellor in his gov...
Guido Fawkes

Rich’s Monday Morning View -
Iain Dale's Diary

The Consequences of Thursday's Elections - Local elections are always an expectations game and revolve around each party trying to convince us pundits and voters in advance that they’re going to d...
Awkward Family Photos

Starfleet Class of 2000 - “I took my high school senior photos wearing my Starfleet uniform because I was cool like that.” (submitted by Tracy) The post Starfleet Class of 2000 ap...
Ben Charlton

Beating UKPC in court - In April 2025 I took UK Parking Control (UKPC) to court. They’re one of the private parking companies that are famous for aggressively pursuing consumers...
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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