@wwaycorrigan [Listen to/watch on YouTube an audio version of this blog entry here.] After almost ten years based in Bogotá, one might have thought that I’d be fluent in Spanish by now. The fact is, I speak the dominant language here mostly in social settings, where...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia … Some new sorts of microbes were attacking the bodies of men, but these...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘If you ever meet a woman … Just be yourself, Dougal. Be yourself, make them feel at ease and, the golden rule, always let them have their way. It’s easiest in the long run.’ That was the...
@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 […]
