Just a quick language-related note today. You may have noticed me using the words ‘outist’ and ‘outism’ to refer to those who want to leave the EU. I like playing with language and creating words like that. The campaign to leave often feels like an -ism, like fascism and nazism. The problem is, it occurs to me that ‘outism’, the word, is a bit too close to ‘autism’. I must emphasise that this is not deliberate: I am not making a joke, or saying that all Vote Leave campaigners are autistic. I know from my work at school that autism is a very serious condition, and that people on the autistic spectrum go through some real emotional turmoil and hardship. Nobody told me to write this entry; I just wanted to make clear that I’m not trying to be funny, or laugh at what is often a severe disability.