I thought last night went very well indeed. Lyn was on the One Show with her fellow members of the british Paraorchestra and the Kaos Choir performing their new christmas song. it was her second time on the show, but the first time I had been to the bbc. I must say it was a brilliant experience: I got to go to the bbc tv centre, and, while I didn’t get to see much, I felt inspired by the place. The programme, which Lyn and the guys book-end as it were, can be seen here. I was so proud of them all.

As I said yesterday, disability arts seem to be on the ascent. No doubt this is due in large part to the Paralympics, and I’m very proud that Lyn had a role in that. But now I think we need to keep it up. People with disabilities are suffering disproportionately due to the cuts: the time has come to show the world what the government is doing to us. While the cuts wren’t mentioned last night, such things at least help to heighten our profile as a community. I feel we need to use such things to reveal our plight to the world. The question is, how to do this without being abrasive. I thought briefly about standing behind the choir holding up a sign saying something like ‘cuts kill crips’, but decided I better not. The fact is, though, the time has come for disability arts to step up a gear as an artistic movement of protest.