"The idea of unions seemed to me as old-fashioned as flares or the penny farthing," admits Stephen Beresford, who wrote Pride after hearing the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (LGSM).
She orders the public not to call her by her name and flares her nostrils with disgust whenever she's placed anywhere that isn't covered in gold pillars.
This is not unusual; police and Jewish civil rights organisations have long observed a noticeable spike in antisemitic incidents each time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict flares.
The banner, surrounded by lit flares, was shown before Legia's Europa League play-off victory against Aktobe of Kazakhstan on Thursday.
We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean?" he laughs.
I began to see how memory flickers and flares like firelight.
I guess I had written off flares, to be honest, and had started thinking of them as comedy fashion.
What I have discovered about wearing flares in 2015 boils down to this: it's much easier to work this look for daytime than for evening.
Stones, lighters, coins, flares, chunks of crumbling terrace and other objects – the Albanian FA's submission claims a wheelbarrow was spotted on the terraces – found their way on to the pitch having been hurled in the direction of Albanian players.
"Tourism and leisure do not fit well with fracking, flares and the transportation of waste".
I have been wearing two pairs of flares, in real life: a new silky high-waisted black pair, £39.99 from Zara (it says wide-leg trousers on the website, but since the width of my thigh equals that of the trousers, they are definitely flares in my book) and an old pair of Made In Heaven flared jeans which are flat-fronted with a double row of gold buttons down each hipbone.
