How Shane MacGowan’s views on Fairytale of New York’s homophobic lyrics changed

It’s that time of year again – no, we’re not talking about filling our homes with gaudy Christmas decorations and watching endless reruns of Nigella’s Christmas cookery shows and every version of A Christmas Carol ever made.

What we are talking about is the “Fairytale of New York” homophobia discourse, which rears its head each year and was reignited early last year after the death of The Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan at the age of 65.

People say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for queer people, the slow march towards December has come to represent a return to a tired, exhausting debate about homophobic slurs, “woke” politics and cancel culture.

In case you’ve spent the past few Christmases sleeping under a rock, here’s the

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