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The ability to say 'no' when needs be is very useful. Alas, not everybody can actually say it, especially in Colombia.

@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Pathetic. When thinking of a one-word summary for it all, that’s what comes to mind. No, I’m not referring to the content of this blog — it’s not all bad, is it? And no, it’s not my...

@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] It’s generally accepted that there’s a fine line between genius and insanity. The distinction, fortunately you might say, only applies to a fraction of humanity. The majority of us tend to fall...

@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....

@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] ‘Is it possible that he has nothing but cowardice and fear of death to make him live?’ So Sonia Marmeládova asked herself about the one she cared for dearly, the murderer Rodion Raskolnikov, in...

@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] George Orwell’s dystopian classic, Nineteen Eighty-Four, while a work of fiction had, as most in the genre do, a basis in the reality of the time of its release. Published in 1949 when the world was still...

@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] Many reasons have been given as to why certain countries continuously perform worse than others. The most common of these are the legacy of colonialism, the system of government in place, corruption, clientelism...

@wwaycorrigan (Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.) In my previous blog entry, I wrote about the possibility of the current cold war between China and the US heating up and how it could bring biological warfare to a new, devastating level. In light of the deep...

*Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog entry. @wwaycorrigan ‘Your grandparents and great-grandparents had to live through devastating wars, with a bloody end a very real possibility. Today, all you have to do to play your part is stay at home.’ This...

@wwaycorrigan There’s been a lot of frustration expressed on social media about the world’s longest coronavirus-induced lockdown. Since mid-March Colombia has not only been in a state of emergency but also in an ‘obligatory quarantine’. On the face of it,...