Facebook in their infinite wisdom have smashed the holy hell out of the reach of comedy pages likes ours, NewsThump, Tuckered and SNN.

Apparently they don’t like satire very much and think you shouldn’t be allowed to see it in case you get offended, you fragile little snowflakes.

It turns out that they don’t like poor children much either because they have been clamping down on the reach of our Satire Aid Toy Appeal to buy Christmas presents for children in poverty.

This time last year our readers had bought 26,000 presents for kids in poverty, care and crisis. This year we’re at about 10% of that. It can be no coincidence that Facebook has reduced the reach of pages like our by about 90%. Less readers seeing our content means less presents for children!

Thank you to those of you who have helped the 2018 appeal so far, but we still really need your help please!

So how can you help us? You can buy a kid a present from our Satire Aid appeal by clicking https://amzn.to/2C5WPB2 and then you can share it and please tell your friends. You can post the link in your status updates and beg your friends to do the same. Don’t let Facebook spoil Christmas!!

It couldn’t be easier. Go to the link, buy a present and it will delivered to a charity social worker who’ll make sure a child in poverty, (literally the opposite of Zuckerberg), will get a nice surprise on Christmas morning.

Go on. You know you want to.

For further details of the appeal visit: www.satireaid.com

Quentin D Fortesqueue is a founding editor of The Rochdale Herald. Part time amateur narcissist and full time satirist Quentin is never happier than when playing his lute and drinking a full bodied Bordeaux. He rarely plays the lute and never gets to drink Bordeaux.