Christmas Suggestions - My Little Pony Knackers Yard

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Forget the games consoles, TV-spin offs and all the other crap on the £10k Xmas wish-list, the My Little Pony Knacker's Yard is what your daughter needs!

It's a trap!

Elvis lives! God exists!

Applying the rigourous intellectual standards of the BBC, Simon Clark brings us incontrovertible evidence for the above two contentions.

As is tradition on this 'blog, I'll do a quick run down on the organisations whose spokesmen are quoted in the BBC articles and how they are financed:

The Children's Society, charity reg. number 221124, 'only' gets a quarter of its total income from "central and local government fees and grants" (£9 million, page 34 of the accounts) and 'only' spends a third of its gross income (£13 million) on fundraising and admin costs (page 43).

The National Schools Partnership is a straightforward marketing consortium for "a wide range of quality, ethical businesses with whom we have developed tools to help enhance pupils' learning experience" (altho' they get bonus marks for 'whom'; 'pupils' instead of 'students' and for getting the apostrophe in the right place).

Dr Rowan Williams needs no introduction, f*** knows why the BBC or anybody care about his opinion any more.

And finally, The Institute of Child Health, London is run by University College London and the NHS so that's just a quango.