Children in Need? Pass that bucket!

Children need love and care. They don't need a barrage of C-list TV hacks singing songs and chasing ratings. £15 that cost me yesterday and if I thought that it would prevent any small child from being smeared in chocolate and battered to death I would have made it £25. The constant barrage of plastic empathy seems to somehow be turning the subject of cruelty into a sideshow, forget about an evening on telly, what's it like the rest of the year? A constant cult of everlasting youth and a pervasive fear of teenagers means that there's probably never been a worse time to be a child, or at least since they were being stuffed up chimneys....