The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Stars At Coachella Day 1 And Tons Of Fun - Year after year the most iconic music festival in the world pulls out all the stops and puts on a one-of-a-kind Coachella Music And Arts Festival ... and a...
FAIL Blog

'Ok! Everyone is fired!': Heroic manager defends his employees from layoffs after the C-level bosses try to ‘thin out' the higher-paid senior employees, ends up getting HR and the legal department involved - Bosses who have never set foot in the workplace love to set impossible goals. Driven by their urge to please faceless stockholders, and crazed by an over...
Guido Fawkes

LIVE: Parliament Votes Through Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill - Watch live as Parliament sits on a Saturday to vote through measures to take state control of remaining British steel production. *The last time for the ...
PoliticalBetting.com

The great disappointment - One message that Nigel Farage and Reform are pushing is that the Tories and Labour are effectively one party and that it is time for something completely d...
Iain Dale's Diary

The Rachel Reeves Interview: Behind the Scenes - In opposition, Rachel Reeves used to do a monthly phone-in with me. She even did one on the evening of Jeremy Hunt’s last budget a year ago. Ever since s...
Ben Charlton

Texas-style Chilli - This is my variation on Kenji López-Alt’s recipe for Texas-style Chilli adjusted for someone who has very limited tolerance to spicy heat and issues with...
Awkward Family Photos

Big Red - “My amazing mullet!” (submitted by Annie) The post Big Red appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
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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