Innocence

Project Unbreakable: For Shame

Jo Rourke | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK Tech
Jo Rourke

Despite deadlines, demands and general downheartedness, on a typical weekday morning, I am not usually taken to weeping into my tea. Neither am I often seething with rage, nor humbled, or in awe, or heartbroken - all of which I was as I gazed at my screen this morning. The cause? This website.

The Politics of Christmas

Mike Ion | Posted 17.02.2012 | UK Politics
Mike Ion

The single most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis at Christmas: the child who was born in Bethlehem represented a drastic political challenge to the imperial power of Rome.