To be honest, despite mulling it over all day, I don’t think I can write much about last night’s paralympic opening ceremony, in terms of a critical or analytical response. There were plenty of awesome moments of course, such as the fiery hot air balloon, but nothing which I felt I could get really enthusiastic over. There were probably quite a few references to French disability culture which I just didn’t get. For me to try to write anything lengthy about it thus wouldn’t do it justice. I will say, though, that it was a clear continuation of a legacy now stretching back beyond London 2012: a vivid celebration of global disability culture. Every four years, it seems to me that disabled people get a chance to show the world who ‘we’ are. We are at last given the chance to take centre stage and show the rest of the world that we have just as much to contribute as everyone else. I think that that is what we saw last night in Paris. They’re clearly going to have a great Paralympic games there, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store.