Imagine then a world without the autistic spectrum. No Michelangelo, no Leonardo, no Beethoven, no Mozart. No Emily Dickinson, no Andy Warhol, no Tim Burton or Anthony Hopkins... also no Elon Musk, although we probably wouldn’t miss him too much — and by too much, I mean at all.

It’s a long, hectic day of sound checks and running around and trying not to get Jamie XX mixed up with James Blake, or scream 'Oh my God, it’s Felicia!' into Guy Pearce’s face.

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"Unlike Linehan, in court charged with harassing a trans teenager and smashing their phone (this was before he urged his online followers to physically attack trans people), Mo Chara’s ‘terrorist’ charge involved touching a flag thrown on stage at a gig."

"The ones involving the blurry waking up next to someone after a party; the ‘misunderstandings’ on the sofa; the awkwardness on a date, where you might feel the need to ask for Angela, or is that making too much of a big deal of it?"

We need to end the inversion of reality

"The arts are a masterclass in empathy, in how we see ourselves in others. Films, books, songs, paintings, plays — it’s how we access the inner lives of ourselves and others. How we relate."

"I fell in love with Pammy because she was a massive animal rights advocate. An animal lover beyond dogs and cats. My kinda lady."

"The spitegeist is schadenfreude on steroids. You’ve slipped on a spectacularly stupid banana skin and we are crowding over you, gurning and hooting like gibbons."

"We’re supposed to care about Oasis, or Ozzy, or those Coldplay kiss-cam people, or how bad the English women’s team are at penalties, while, a few short hours away, ordinary people are being murdered by starvation."