Where does the money come from? It’s rather a tricky question, so let me narrow it down. What is the source of the money we can spend? The answer is: it depends on who you ask. Usually, it’s children that have the funniest ideas, like tooth fairies, Santa or ‘hole-in-the-wall’. The latter is the most convenient because – unlike the…

I think we can all agree that comedy – in various forms – is among the most popular forms of entertainment. My favourite one is stand-up comedy and I have to admit that I consume quite a lot of it. Partially because – thanks to the internet – I’m able to watch or listen to relatively short comedic snippets rather…

Having noticed the degradation of my eyesight I prayed (that’s what you do…) and gave serious consideration to Jesus’s rhetorical question in today’s gospel: ‘Can one blind man guide another?’ As my prayer didn’t seem to be working, I went to Specsavers where I had my eyes tested and consequently got new glasses. My gaze is so sharp now that…

To say that today’s gospel is impossibly challenging would be a massive understatement. Taken literally it’s a recipe for disaster because it would be exposing oneself to exploitation and abuse. And because very few people – if anyone – wants to willingly be exploited or abused, this passage of the gospel is effectively dismissed as undoable, the impractical remarks of…

We have just started to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel only to find that a cost-of-living crisis is fast approaching. We seem to go out of the frying pan into the fire, driven by skyrocketing gas prices and inflation gathering momentum. Both Scottish and British governments have come up with their respective plans on how…