"Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd"

From The Daily Mail:

A farmer who wants to give travellers her land for free because she hates her neighbours was confronted by irate locals today and told: 'We are not up our own a****'...

Mrs Watson made her controversial offer after a local council turned down her application to building temporary accommodation for stable workers on her two and a half acre plot.

She insists that travellers would have better luck making a similar planning application.

Today she said she had been 'flooded' with requests from travellers who wanted to take her up on her offer of buying the plot which she says is worth around £350,000.

One suspects that the new building really would only have been 'temporary accommodation for stable workers' for a year or two, after which it would be sold as a normal house, but so what?

Sadly, the article does not tell us what a typical house would cost in the village. Her plot would be worth £350,000 if she had planning for a couple of houses, but she doesn't.

Fun Online Polls: Brexit delaying tactics; The attack near Finsbury mosque

The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

The major political parties deliberately messed up the election so that they can sideline or delay Brexit.

Probably true - 51%
Probably not true - 49%

So pretty evenly split. I voted 'probably true', although I must caveat that, I'm not sure it was deliberately deliberateor whether there was just a blatant disregard bordering on negligence or even recklessnes; certainly on the part of Mrs T May who basically threw it away. I'm no fan of the Tories in any way shape or form, but this is one thing which they appeared better equipped to sort out.
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This week's hot topic appears to be the attack near Finsbury Mosque.

If you ask me, this sort of thing was going to happen sooner or later, to paraphrase apologist Sadiq Khan circa 2016, this is just part and parcel of attending what is or was believed to be a radicalising mosque.

So that's this week's Fun Online Poll.

"Are you surprised that somebody finally snapped and attacked a group of Muslims near a mosque?"

Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.

If the usual suspects want to pile in and call me a racist for my casual disregard of the issues, feel free, but please note you are missing the point.

I am a modern, west European liberal who believes in equality between people of whatever colour skin and wherever they are from (provided they are here legally); equality between men and women; equality between straight and gay/lesbian; freedom of religion and more importantly freedom to be atheist; respects democracy; likes a booze-up; and who opposes violence and corporal/capital punishment. I've a downer on any movement which takes the opposite view on such matters.

The Pryce Is Right

But were they asking for it?

From The Daily Mail:

A swarm of bees attacked an elderly couple at their South Texas ranch, killing both and injuring their son, officials said.

William T. Steele, 90, was spraying insecticide on a bees' nest when the bees attacked him...

Unlikely heroes (5)

Three young first-time buyer couples!