There’s never an animal-rights crackpot around when you need one

This year’s ‘annual livestock fair’ in Brussels takes quite a toll – 20.000 sheep slaughtered in that city alone for Eid, all without a screeching lefty of superior intentions and virtues to be found anywhere, or the raft-load of regulations whose enforcement is reserved for honky.

So is the joy they take in of scaring other people’s children somehow also only okay when in the back of your mind, you’re still rebelling against your parents at the age of 34 - they only get lecturesome with people who will be tolerant of them.