Today for me has been about getting ready for saturday. The Charlton and Woolwich film festival is almost upon us, and I’m frantically trying to make sure everything’s in place for my little talk on cinephiliac moments (2pm, charlton house). However, I think I need to flag this news story up too: hundreds of disability rights campaigners have shut down Westminster Bridge today, protesting at the harm the tory’s cuts have done to disabled people. Part of me really regrets not going. Slowly but surely, we are being stripped of our rights, and even our means to live. Under any other circumstances, I’d have been there, but between preparations for saturday, school stuff and film writing, I thought I’d better stay home. Nonetheless, I’m itching to see what coverage – if any – it gets on the evening news. Tonight of all nights, this is surely a disability story the mainstream media cannot ignore.