@radiobrendan Big city life, somewhat paradoxically, can be quite solitary. There are people all around us, yet as we go about our business they may as well not exist — indeed at times we might wish that to be the case. In this regard, Bogotá is no different to any other...
@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....
@radiobrendan There may be an amount of pointlessness to the following; but hey, this blog is still ongoing so I might as well stick to the programme (I jest, kind of). For writing about the etiquette deficit of Bogotá’s Transmilenio users in the hope of bringing about...
@radiobrendan In conflict resolution, common practice in both academia and ‘real-life’ politics is to compare different regions that have experienced or are experiencing violent problems. While no two conflicts are exactly the same, broadly speaking there is a common...
@radiobrendan A significant factor in man’s ability to obliterate his fellow man, as has happened on countless occasions, is to view him as less than human: mere vermin to be exterminated. Such a mentality is usually witnessed amongst competing cultures or races; the...
@radiobrendan Colombia’s recent high-level gay sex scandal that has caused somewhat of a sensation brings into question, yet again, journalism’s role as a watchdog with the public’s interests at its heart (it’s always been a grand theory that). This latest...
