The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Watch Ben Crump Announce Nolan Wells' Independent Autopsy Results - Ben Crump is set to announce Nolan Wells' independent autopsy results. As you know ... Nolan was found dead off the coast of Horn Island in the Mississippi...
Guido Fawkes

Labour and LibDems Unite to Block Tory Calls for Burnham Scrutiny Debate - Peers have rejected the Tories’ motion for one of Burnham’s ministers to face parliamentary questioning this week, with the LibDems joining Labour in votin...
PoliticalBetting.com

Andy Burnham’s government has a Northern Soul - As a bona fide Yorkshireman I am not keen on being parochial but I find the make up of Andy Burnham’s cabinet interesting with its shift to Northern Englan...
FAIL Blog

‘Started a new job today and the red flags are flying’: New hire spends day one with no equipment, a delayed iPad, and broken IT logins, then gets brushed off when she raises concerns - Seven hours of memorizing a talk track alone in an empty office says a lot about how this company handles new hires. Before this person even signed on, the...
Iain Dale's Diary

Dear Ann,,, - Dear Ann I have no idea where to start. What I do know is I will miss the email you send me every Sunday evening protesting about something I have writte...
Awkward Family Photos

The Haunted Cathedral - “Our annual Christmas violin recital took place in a big Catholic cathedral and afterwards, my mom tried to get me and my sisters to stand together for a...
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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