Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

The sheep-worrying aliens made me think about homosexuals and B&Bs

Gay couples are as unlikely to seek out B&Bs run by bigots as aliens are to visit Shropshire to do ovine experiments, says Rod Liddle. Just the same, we should be able to debate the issue

issue 10 April 2010

Alien life-forms have been cutting holes in sheep in Shropshire with highly powered lasers and strange glowing balls of light. According to a local farmer, reported by an oddly credulous chap from the Daily Telegraph, there is a ‘corridor’ of 50 miles stretching from Shrewsbury towards the Powys border where UFOs arrive quite regularly and do weird stuff with sheep.

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