This is going to be a jumble of a post, because it is a jumble. In no particular order…

An email earlier from Rory Toher, a documentary filmmaker/journalist. He attended Connor’s inquest and came for the post-determination (verdict) booze and nosh up round the corner from the coroner’s court. He emailed about the documentary Under Lock and Key which is on Channel 4 at 10pm on Weds this week.

Ali (Millar) and Liz (Byrne) [filmmakers] were in touch with me every day that I was in Oxford, and hung on every update from George’s live tweets; so it’s been a huge help to have the Justice for LB campaign making such a huge noise around the issue of vulnerable people locked away, apart from their families, in uncaring institutions. It was certainly the movement that got this film going, so we’re hugely grateful to you all. 

Wow. And how much do I love the courtesy, thoughtfulness and commitment that has characterised pretty much every interaction we’ve had with journalists over the past few years? They get the importance of what is happening to certain people (still).

David Harling has finished his fourth animation. The first three are embedded here because each one deserves to be watched and then watched again:

The fourth takes things to a whole new level of extraordinary. It’s being launched at the NWTDT conference in Blackpool on Thursday (suspect a shedload of tissues will be needed). And if it doesn’t kick ass some sort of tangible change, I don’t know what will.

On Wednesday, Mark Neary and I are talking on a panel at the ‘Autistic Wellbeing‘ seminar, part of the ESRC Research Seminar Series: Shaping Autism Research organised by Damian Milton and Liz Pellicano. Saturday is an International Women’s Day event at Doughty Street Chambers; What more can the Law do for Women? Again, a packed agenda of brilliance.

Finally, my book (title still being thrashed out) has a provisional publication date of September 17… LB is seriously rocking the the agenda, along with Thomas, Nico, Danny and others. As they blooming well should be.