However, he is a serious man and follows current affairs and reads the papers He tuts and shakes his head over the young of today. I interviewed his wife, Kate, in the back of a car, one morning; by the afternoon, Ronnie had called to say that he was distinctly underwhelmed that I had been so familiar with his missus. He was even less impressed by one of the questions that I asked Kate: why are you marrying a declared homosexual with whom you will never be able to live? She said their love was pure; he said that it was none of my business and that I would be well advised to keep my nose out of it, or else I might manage to leave it behind somewhere. But many of his supporters may feel that their moment has come. Over in the East End of London, any mention of the Krays brings a misty smile to the lips of ladies of a certain age, and an indulgent sigh of nostalgia to old men. Anyway, the surviving twin, now an elderly dandy, is much given to collecting ornate gold jewellery; he was carrying the equivalent of a small pawn shop around his neck when I saw him.

Mr Kray, currently a guest of Her Majesty’s Prison, Maidstone, asked to see me to congratulate me on a film I had made some years ago about him and his brother His late brother was slightly less chuffed at the time. Prejudice against lesbians is manifested not against what you do but how you look when you do it. Or as Ms Rodgerson wryly points out: “If you’re young, pretty, white, middle class and urban, your life will be better whether you are lesbian or heterosexual.”. I think that Mr Reggie Kray is puzzled that he has not yet received a call from Downing Street, or at least from the new Home Secretary.

After all, if you really want to tackle crime, why not call in the experts? New Labour, New Twins. Anyone glamorous seems to get away with it,” says columnist Suzanne Moore. “But once it involves lesbian parents, then it becomes disgusting, however the children are produced Lesbian babes are a glamorous classic male fantasy. They don’t quite believe that women can manage without a man They are no sexual threat. But once they have a child, it’s like `we really meant this; we’re not joking – we don’t need you’.”So lesbian chic is fine as long as you look like the actress Sophie Ward (and not her lover, who was described as a bulldog chewing a wasp), you don’t have kids and you’re well off.

say that the children of these women should be put up for adoption because they are irresponsible parents. I do think that is a bit rich coming from someone who has had as many children as she has.”"There is always been a tolerance for certain kinds of lesbian – Helen Baxendale is a babe, so no-one minds if the character she plays likes women. They have been vilified,” says Gillian Rodgerson, editor of Diva magazine, the bi-monthly journal of lesbian life and style. “What particularly depresses me is that people such as Victoria Gillick can … Under the headline “Gay mums are making a sickening mockery of motherhood”, The Sun accused Lisa and Dawn Whiting of having “DIY babies” and brand the case “a sickening, selfish, immoral perversion of the act of procreation”.”The recent ubiquity of Ellen DeGeneres in the popular press has made some of us more visible but you have to set that against quite revolting coverage that we have seen in The Sun about women who have chosen to raise children in a lesbian family.