@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.’ That’s one of many maxims from Mark Twain. Were he to be with us today, it’s safe to assume that...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Stop comparing covid-19 to the flu. It’s much worse than that.’ So goes the retort from those who view the coronavirus pandemic as a significant threat to much of humanity, responding to those...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] If you’ve ever listened to and/or read the work of Canadian cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular-science author, Steven Pinker, you’ll know that he’s been at pains to tell us, replete...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.’ That famous observation, attributed, rightly or wrongly, to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov — better known as Lenin to...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] The chaotic times Colombia is experiencing bring to mind just how inflexible a presidential system can be. Back me or sack me Faced with such a crisis in a parliamentary democracy, a motion of no confidence would most likely be tabled against the prime […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?’ ‘Whaddaya got?’ Some of you will recognise those lines from a classic scene in the 1953 US crime film The Wild One, with Marlon Brando playing protagonist Johnny Strabler. It was parodied, for those of us of […]
@wwaycorrigan Colombia’s Vice Minister for Tourism has spoken out about the ‘huge problem’ of prostitution in Medellín. In an interview with Wrong Way’s Colombia Cast podcast, Julián Guerrero Orozco described sex tourism in Colombia’s second city...
@wwaycorrigan Renowned Colombian journalist, Daniel Coronell, has revealed how he once dated the sister of current Colombian president, Iván Duque. Coronell, a regular critic of Duque as well as his party Centro Democrático and, more controversially, that party’s leader,...
@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.] So Colombia’s Farc has rebranded. The old rebel group that for over five decades waged guerrilla warfare across the country until signing a peace agreement with the government in 2016 is looking to put...
