A prominent politician, campaigning in the Brexit referendum in 2016 declared: ‘I think the people of this country have had enough of experts.’ It earned him a certain infamy in some circles and the label of a populist. A couple of years later, when the current pandemic struck, the very same politician insisted – as a member of the British…

I must confess that I am not a petrolhead. I’m not interested in cars beyond their usability. I used to like driving but that stopped many years ago. In other words, I guess that I am a car dealer’s nightmare incarnate – as I recently realised again when I went to buy a new car. My requirements regarding a car…

To say that the last 15 months were challenging is a bit of an understatement. There has been a broad range of difficulties that we have had to face as individuals, families, communities and nations. Those challenges produced different responses on individual, communal and national levels; ranging from despairing to opportunistic and everything in between. To make this planet-sized crisis…

In a recent interview, a celebrity-turned-farmer said: ‘I thought farming was a part-time thing; you just put seeds in the ground, weather happens, food grows then you sell it.’ Which is in line with today’s gospel reading and its first parable. Except it isn’t. Because, as the newly minted farmer continued, ‘it’s a full-on, twenty-hours a day, seven days a…