@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] At the zenith of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger period in the early noughties, a time when most of the populace had, quite literally, more money than sense, there was a public house in my local town that nicely...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Back in those halcyon days in the early years of the last decade, I published a blog post called Phantom freedom. If you’re too busy to click on the hyperlink to read it, the basic idea was that despite...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In a recent episode of the UK-based Spectator TV, Adam Ritchie, Senior Project Manager in vaccine development at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, was asked how ethical it was for the UK and other...
@wwaycorrigan Dr Jay Bhattacharya, co-author of the controversial Great Barrington Declaration which called for ‘focused protection’ instead of widespread lockdowns in dealing with coronavirus, says we’re in store for a ‘half-and-half world’ for most of this year. The Professor of Medicine at Stanford University made the comments in relation to the probability that many of […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] They are being dubbed the game-changers. More accurately, they are the weapon humanity is unleashing to render useless the real game-changer that has been holding us all to ransom for the best part of a year now...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Much of the world appeared to breathe a collective sigh of relief when Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States of America. After four crazy years of Donald J. Trump, calm has been...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] New year, new hope. And after the stagnation that was 2020 for many — save for the comfortable, virtue-signalling folk who have seen their lot actually improve — there appears to be more of a focus than usual on the positives that lie in […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Yes, it’s that moment you’ve all been waiting for, the Wrong Way Corrigan Loser and Winner of the Year Awards 2020. We’ve had plenty of contenders for the former, the latter has been much more...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Each year throws up its surprises that catch us off guard, leave us badly exposed. From a global perspective, this year has, um, trumped them all since, arguably, the end of World War II. Covid contradictions...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In January of this strangest of years, unaware of what was coming down the line, I made a couple of what could be seen as rash decisions. One was to resign from my full-time, relatively well-paid marketing job....
