@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘The hardest part was leaving the WhatsApp group.’ This is a common refrain you’ll hear from recently retired sports stars, those who are part of teams that is. Groupthink I find this rather...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Whether one agrees or not with the coronavirus pandemic response taken by most of the world, the fact is we’ve all had to live with the constraints for well over a year now. Fear mentality As is well known, and as is the case […]
@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.] ‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ It could be said that when this was first coined — by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 — those who preferred the pen over the sword still had to...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I’ve stated previously how I’m not at all averse to routine, as long as I feel it’s not too detrimental to my health and well-being. Downwardly mobile On the other hand, I’ve also let it...
@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.] For somebody who likes to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, to discover new, more tranquil settings, having not left the greater environs of Bogotá for over 15 months has been far from ideal....
@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 [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In a recent episode of the UK-based Spectator TV, Adam Ritchie, Senior Project Manager in vaccine development at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, was asked how ethical it was for the UK and other...
