@radiobrendan While there are those who take a zero-tolerance approach to relationship cheating, there are others who give it something of a scale of seriousness. True enough, a willingness to give some leeway in the event of a breach of trust might reflect that you weren’t...
@radiobrendan A quick glance through the Colombian (Bogotá-centred ones anyway) newspapers or sitting down to watch the main TV news here and it’s unlikely you’ll read or hear much, if anything, about Zika. Indeed, most Bogotá residents have probably forgotten what...
@radiobrendan Let’s face it, the United Kingdom — the parts of it that matter in England and Wales anyway — has never really been that pushed on the European Union. One foot in, one foot out kind of job. So should the UK’s electorate do the, um, honourable thing...
@radiobrendan It’s fair enough to assume that most of us like at least a little stability in our lives. The comfort of knowing, barring absolute disasters, that you can rely on certain things. Even in the world of sport where stability, nay predictability, might not be what we always want, we do have certain bankers. […]
@radiobrendan Taking into account the grand history of our planet, it doesn’t take long at all for us humans, judging by behaviour anyway, to feel that certain things are indisputably part of where we are from. ‘It is what it is, and that’s just that.’...
@radiobrendan We’ve all had our ‘horror’ stories when renting rooms, especially in shared accommodation — those of us who have to endure such things, that is. In a (slowly) developing city such as Bogotá, less-than-positive experiences in this regard are...
@radiobrendan For many occurrences in life, it is easy to be wise after the event. Yet, while this Sunday, April 24th marks the passing of 100 years since the start of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, no one can say with any certainty what the men and women behind it should or...
@radiobrendan Considering the, um, pop star-esque lifestyle I lead, I’ve been reluctant to get into a lasting relationship. You know, I’d lose a certain appeal (don’t laugh) if I was suddenly no longer ‘on the market’. However, it’s time to come...
@radiobrendan So Colombians throw some 9.76 million tonnes of food in the rubbish bin each year. That’s over 200 kilograms per person, if it were divided equally, which of course it isn’t (witness the country’s many homeless scavenging through bins as proof of...
@radiobrendan A typical response by some what you might call ‘leftist’ types to Isis-inspired terrorist attacks on the West is, after the perfunctory expressions of condolences, ‘they (we) had it coming.’ There’s a modicum of truth to that....
