A while ago I wrote about Bratz dolls in a flippant way. It seems I didn’t take the subject as seriously as it deserved. Charles Laurence in the Sunday Telegraph has been reflecting on the usurping of Barbie by the Bratz:

In toy terms, this is an upheaval on the same scale as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This earned him entry to Private Eye‘s Pseuds Corner. (It’s also worth checking out the front cover of the magazine [warning: large image], for its attack on the Hutton Report.) If you’re looking for a real political revolution in the doll world, Razanne‘s your woman.