His novel “A Fairy Tale of New York” (1973) inspired the title of the song by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl that helps make Christmastime bearable. Donleavy was born in Brooklyn, to Irish ...

The music world said goodbye to one of its stars today with a memorial service for singer songwriter Kirsty MacColl, who died last month. Friends and fans packed the church of St Martin-in-the ...

Cameron Mackintosh, Lee Hall and Sam Grabiner were among stars condemning government proposals to allow tech giants to train on artists’ work by default at this year’s Olivier Awards.

Kirsty Coventry transitioned from Olympic champion to IOC president with her lifelong commitment to the transformative power of sport, making history as the first female and African leader of the ...

Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows how sport is able to reshape race and power. Kirsty Coventry’s story is one of apparent ...

The physics of sound. How different frequencies become harmonic.” Until our talk, I hadn’t realised Longplayer and The Pogues were both deeply concerned with the passage of time, the former being more ...

The Pogues have announced their first North American tour in 13 years. The outing, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1985 Pogues album Rum Sodomy & the Lash, begins Sept. 5 in Washington, D ...

It might have been Davina McCall’s doing. Or Kirsty Wark’s. One of the Loose Women could have had a hand in it. Anyway, the menopause became such a mainstream subject someone made a sitcom ...

Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chief whip Pupurayi Togarepi has proposed a farewell party for former Sports minister Kirsty Coventry who was recently elected president of the ...

Recent weeks have seen viewers obsessed with the second season of the BBC's revival of the alternative sporting competition that first premiered on ITV in 1992. Airing for eight seasons until 2000 ...

Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues is the most beautiful Christmas song of all time, but every Yuletide debate rages about one word in the lyrics — an insult spat out by the female character in ...