I’m going to tell you a soppy story, so get your hankies ready – just in case. Having worked for ten years as a priest in Poland I arrived in Scotland fourteen years ago completely burned out and seriously considering my future in the job. It was no one’s fault; it was the result of a well-intentioned but unbalanced pastoral…

Packing my cases for a trip is one of the chores I hate most. I like travelling light, but usually, I have to take more stuff than I personally would like to, and I end up with a case just a few milligrams short of the airline’s allowance and with hand-baggage pulling my arm out of its socket. I suppose…

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…