*Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog entry. @wwaycorrigan ‘Your grandparents and great-grandparents had to live through devastating wars, with a bloody end a very real possibility. Today, all you have to do to play your part is stay at home.’ This...
@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...
@wwaycorrigan In a classic episode of The Simpsons — in its heyday — a temporarily housebound Bart suspects that do-gooder neighbour Ned Flanders is about to murder his wife. He frantically calls the police and gets through to a ridiculous pre-record of options. In haste, he...
@wwaycorrigan Ignorantia juris non excusat. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. ‘It’s your fault, buddy, if you didn’t know what you were doing was illegal. Don’t waste energy blaming the system, take your punishment and learn from it.’ Taking that...
@wwaycorrigan ‘I’m blue, da ba dee da ba daa …’ Those of a certain vintage will remember that pop hit from the late 90s. What exactly the «blue» referred to in the song, I’m not sure, but with the passing of a generation since it was a...
@wwaycorrigan ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Most of us have heard that statement before, Isaac Newton’s third law of motion as it is. It has, of course, significance in our daily lives. That is to say, every decision we take has...
@wwaycorrigan Renowned historian and author Niall Ferguson believes Colombia had little option but to impose what he refers to as the ‘pretty blunt instrument’ of a lockdown for dealing with coronavirus. Speaking to Wrong Way’s Colombia Cast podcast (recorded on 19 June) Professor Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, revealed Colombian […]
@wwaycorrigan It has been said that the first item on the agenda of a newly formed Irish political party is the split. Ireland just doesn’t do unity very well it seems. Borrowing from that, after over eight years of Bogotá as my base, it would seem the first item on my...
@wwaycorrigan OK. I admit it. I’m addicted. For over a year, I thought I had it under control. The discipline and routine that a full-time job gave me saw my dependence on this reduce dramatically. However, then came the double hit. The first was self-inflicted: resigning...
