The Grinch is everywhere!!  His unmistakable scowl is hard to miss as we go about our preparations for Christmas.  He is on shirts, and socks, and tea towels, and wrapping paper, and chip bags, and underwear, and chocolate bar wrappers, and pyjamas, and coffee cups,...

If I were to ask you to come up with two people from the 19th century who made a significant contribution to Western culture and literature, you may land on Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw. Shaw, the Irish playwright, brought us such epic theatrical...

In the fourth century AD, Christianity had become the de facto religion of the Roman Empire.  It had fortified itself at the centre of the power structure and was given a privilege and prestige afforded to no other faith.  Christians, ready to flex their newfound...