Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

Walking’s New Movements conference, Friday evening.

🔗 Autism profiles and diagnostic criteria.
A very useful breakdown of the terminology and potential for misdiagnosis.

🔗 UK renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels for first time.

🔗 Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think.

Went to the MAC to see Black Men Walking, a play about black men walking in the Peak District. It was very good. That’s two theatre productions I’ve seen in the space of a month. Maybe I’m a theatre go-er these days.

Fungus season

Tonight’s film was Theory of Obscurity​: a film about The Residents, about a band I’ve known about for decades (they overlap with a lot of underground comics / counterculture stuff that I’ve liked) but for some reason have never properly explored.

The doc is a good introduction but also a good layout of their philosophy towards art and creative work in general. I think I may have to lend this to all my art friends. Good stuff.

Johnson’s Britain and Corbyn’s Britain are vastly different countries, on starkly divergent paths. Each one contains millions of opponents who will feel more like dissidents under a hostile ideological regime than citizens under a government they happened not to choose.

Rafael Behr