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Veteran screenwriter Russell T Davies has just penned a new TV drama - It's a Sin - that takes us...
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The idea of gay police officers was hilarious to Private Eye in 1981 In the 1980s, attitudes towards LGBT people...
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History repeating...as Shirley Bassey might have sung. In 2019, Labour MPs stormed off to form a new party. It was...
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The 1980s were a period of crisis for gay people - but emerging from the decade, the LGBT community would...
In 1984, the students at Liverpool University saw fit to elect me as Deputy President of the Guild of Undergraduates...
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I was at school with the son of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) boss Len Murray and together with a...
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The first two years after Labour lost to Margaret Thatcher in 1979 saw all out war in the party. And...
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In the summer of 1981, riots gripped every major city in Britain - but with particular ferocity in Brixton, London...
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Since winning the 1979 General Election, the Conservatives had embarked on a kind of austerity economics called ‘monetarism’  This entailed...
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The 1970s was a time when black and Asian Britons formed organisations of resistance to racism but at the same...
