I suppose everyone will be expecting me to say something about Children in Need being on tv tonight. I should, I suppose, tow the disability activists’ line and launch into a rant about how patronising Children in need is; how it traps people with disabilities into reliance on charity. Don’t get me wrong: no doubt CIN does exactly that. Yet you don’t need to hear another rant about it; you don’t need to read me going through the motions, railing against ‘the system’ all over again. These days, too many people attack the bbc, from both sides of the political spectrum. What we need to be doing is attacking a government whose ideologically-based cuts have forced so many kids into positions where they need to rely on charities like children in need. That’s who we need to be railing against. To do anything else, I fear, is to distract ourselves from focussing on the real causes of the problems we currently face.