@wwaycorrigan About the only thing we can be certain of these days is that the uncertainty permeating through practically every sector of society is set to continue for the coming months if not years. Much has been written about the «new normals» we’ll have to live with because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them, […]
@wwaycorrigan As most of you regular readers of this blog may have realised, it’s not one that tends to engage in hyperbole. So, in honour of that, here’s the understatement of the year: The coronavirus crisis is having a negative impact on many sectors of the...
@wwaycorrigan While born and raised on a farm in the west of Ireland, it would be quite a stretch to say that my upbringing was one where I lived completely off the land in some sort of idyllic, symbiotic relationship with nature. No. For one, we rarely directly consumed any of...
@wwaycorrigan There really is no greater an emotive topic than death and the pain and suffering one’s passing inflicts on those left behind. (OK, romance heartbreak might come close at the actual moment of hurt but this generally diminishes with time.) We never really come...
@wwaycorrigan Those idealistic at heart may have thought that in a world connected as never before, the arrival of a common enemy of humankind would unite us as never before. You know, like in the Independence Day movie when the aliens attack, we rally together, led, of course,...
@wwaycorrigan There has been much comment in recent weeks about a coming great change in how we humans conduct our affairs once we get through this coronavirus chaos. It’s a belief that a return to the status quo before the virus crisis is practically impossible. Our...
@wwaycorrigan A sure-fire way to ensure you get the blood up of a large section of readers is to start off a blog post quoting Donald J. Trump. So here goes. The US president tweeted the other day about coronavirus and the measures being taken to control it that ‘We cannot...
@wwaycorrigan In a previous episode of The Colombia Cast, the ‘Colombianised’ British-born historian Malcolm Deas said, in response to a question about his love for Colombia: ‘One doesn’t love countries, one loves people and dogs and cats and that sort of...
@wwaycorrigan ‘Help, help! We need more help to put out this fire!’ ‘Don’t worry, I’m here.’ ‘Great!’ You lend a hand, doing the best you can to quench the intense flames. Then, the person who pleaded for your assistance, getting...
@wwaycorrigan In a recent episode of The Colombia Cast podcast, the eminent economist and political scientist James Robinson, co-author of the influential Why Nations Fail, restated his view that geography plays no part in the economic development of countries. Looking at it from an Americas perspective from the time Europeans arrived on these shores, that […]
