Happy Eid everybody!!!!!

(Friday blog)

After yesterday’s video of a Halal slaughterhouse in Britain, I think I’ll spare you from videos of animals meeting their Halal ends in countries that don’t quite have the same standards of animal welfare as we pretend to have in Britain.

However, as millions of animals get cruelly slaughtered in celebration of Eid or something like that, a worrier might worry whether there really was any great distance between this barbaric medieval horror:

And this barbaric medieval horror:

And now, to cheer us all up, here’s a brief video of ventriloquist Nina Conti with her Gran. Enjoy!

Why have I included this Nina Conti video? Maybe it’s to show how uplifting and life-enhancing our Western culture is compared to some other cultures that could seem slightly less uplifting and life-enhancing.