We already knew that bloated corruption and snake-eyed greed has long been the currency which governs us; the Panama leaks were just the proof, writes Suzanne Harrington

First-time novelist Morrissey has won the most unwanted prize in writing, a bad-sex-in-fiction award.

In 1854, John Henry Newman, a well-bred English convert to Catholicism who had abandoned his career as an Anglican cleric to become a Roman priest, arrived in Dublin. He had been asked by Cardinal Paul Cullen to be Rector of the new Catholic University.

The gold-medal standard for finding the alternative view of an event suffering media overload remains Jimmy Breslin at the funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 50 years ago.

Bob Woodward’s recent flap reveals a grotesquely swollen ego fed by 40 years of hero worship. Max Holland asks: why is this man an icon?

The Yellow Birds

“Well, yes, and here we go again...”

AMERICAN author David Guterson has joined John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and other literary stars as the recipient of the dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction award.

AMERICAN author David Guterson has joined John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and other literary stars as the recipient of the dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction award.

Frank Sinatra Has A Cold and Other Essays

As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or The Simpsons.

Al Aronowitz, a US pioneer of rock journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, died yesterday in Elizabeth, New Jersey, his son said. He was 77.

AT THE same time as Pope John Paul II was struggling to hang on to his life in Rome, another famous man was putting paid to his life in the USA. Using a gun. Also a telephone, but we’ll come to that later.

Black activist the Rev Al Sharpton today claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign after a 1983 tape showed him discussing a major drug deal with an undercover FBI agent.