@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 […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Yes, it’s that moment you’ve all been waiting for, the Wrong Way Corrigan Loser and Winner of the Year Awards 2020. We’ve had plenty of contenders for the former, the latter has been much more...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Each year throws up its surprises that catch us off guard, leave us badly exposed. From a global perspective, this year has, um, trumped them all since, arguably, the end of World War II. Covid contradictions...
Having failed in his bid for residency, influencer Dominic Wolf is now taking on Colombia's La Cancillería, the country's Foreign Affairs office. With the apparent backing of the masses, he'll probably win.
@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.] 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.) 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...
@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,...
@wwaycorrigan Very few things in life are simple black and white affairs, not even Black Lives Matter. And certainly not this coronavirus pandemic. Little wonder, then, there’s confusion amongst the general public when we don’t exactly have one clear voice from the...
