Last week I watched the third programme in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror series. The stories in each programme aren’t connected but there are wider themes that overlap. The last episode was called The Entire History of You. It showed us a frightening glimpse of a near future in which people have chips implanted in their brains which record what they see and enable them to play back and zoom in on their memories.…

Last night my friend Ruth’s documentary aired on BBC3 and she was absolutely amazing – articulate, funny and charismatic – just as I’d expected. The documentary was both thoughtful and thought provoking.

Even though I write about living with Tourettes every day, I found seeing and hearing Ruth describe its challenges on screen difficult, and at the end it left me feeling inexplicably sad.…

Tonight at 9:00pm on BBC 3, my friend Ruth will be making her TV debut in a documentary about her life, her singing career and her Tourettes.

It’s called, ‘Tourettes I Swear I Can Sing’ which is a bit of a lazy title.…

A few days ago I wrote about my motto, “Changing the world one tic at a time.” I had a really good example of what this means yesterday when I called a supermarket helpline because of an incorrect delivery. Confusingly, what they hadn’t sent were the biscuits I’d ordered.…

Yesterday afternoon London Mayor Boris Johnson visited one of the projects I work for to launch a new volunteering scheme. We have a big team of young volunteers who help run our go-kart track and we’ve got some funding from the Mayor’s office to extend this.…

This evening Touretteshero features in the third episode of Stephen Fry’s series Planet Word on BBC2. I spoke to Stephen back in February about having Tourettes and about the unusual relationship it gives me with language. We also talked about Touretteshero and why it’s important to me.…

There have been riots in many areas of London over the last few days. The first riots started in Tottenham after Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police last week. From there, unrest has spread to other parts of the city, including Peckham.…

Ruth has just told me about an interesting film project called @Random, produced by the Tourettes Syndrome Foundation of Canada. If you watch the film, you’ll see a different version from the one I saw. This is because the film is different for each person.…

Ruth and I have been asked by a TV production company to do some test filming because they’re interested in making a programme about Tourettes. I’m not completely sure about taking part but I agreed to do the test filming. It took place this evening – Ruth and I interviewed each other, each asking the other ten prepared Tourettes-related questions.…

Yesterday I was interviewed on As It Happens, a daily Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio show. It was aired in the early evening and at my request all my tics, which included some swearing, were left in because I felt it was important that my disability was heard uncensored.…