Peter Hoskin

Ignore the simplistic politics, Pride will make you laugh and cry

But will anyone shed a tear for the Welsh valleys, where a fifth of the working-age population is stuck on benefits?

Whoop! The 1985 Gay Pride march through central London 
issue 13 September 2014

1984 and all that. Which side were you on? The side of Margaret Thatcher, her hairdo and person standing rigid against a rising tide of industrial activism and British declinism? Or the side of the miners, socking it to the Tory scum and their jackbooted adjutant, Johnny Law?

There’s no doubting which side this new movie Pride is on.

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