@radiobrendan There’s a scene in the Godfather Part II movie where a sick Hyman Roth, in Havana, is being seen by a Cuban doctor who only speaks Spanish. Before leaving, the doctor gives his instructions as to what Roth should do to recuperate. As this is being relayed in...
@radiobrendan The Wrong Way approach to dating, or more appropriately trying to set up dates, has been to follow in some ways the economic policy of light-touch regulation. A laissez-faire style; um, beating about the bush rather than grabbing it by the hands you could say. In...
@radiobrendan There’s no doubt that sport can have a very positive impact on society. For one, those who actually engage in a sport generally have much better all-round health than those who don’t. Then you have the uniting aspect to it. Sports can bring together a...
@radiobrendan I recently had to write an article for another publication looking at a new movement, centred in Argentina and labelled on social media ‘NiUnaMenos’ (‘NotOneLess’), calling for an end to violence against women. Many of the protesters involved in this have spoken about how they believe that many men see women as mere objects, […]
@radiobrendan When you’re an expat who has been based in Colombia for a while, you generally get used to the place; well, as much as a westerner can in these parts. In fact, you can even start to take it for granted, especially in terms of its natural beauty. It is only...
@radiobrendan With the club season, both domestically in Colombia and abroad, put to bed, attention on this side of the world turns to the Copa América. Chile provides what will be, um, the chilly venue for this year’s renewal. The winter weather apart, there are solid...
@radiobrendan It’s generally not seen as a good thing to be a ‘holic’ of anything. Everything in moderation and all that. Yet in today’s world, it seems that being a workaholic is almost universally accepted and even expected in some quarters. And of...
@radiobrendan There are lots of things we could all complain about, and on various occasions this blog has touched on many of them. For sure it can be good to vent every now and again, but you have to find the balance between highlighting malpractices and letting them personally...
@radiobrendan It took a while, but William Butler Yeats you’re going to have to eat your penned words now (or whatever you’ll do with them from beyond your grave). Romantic Ireland isn’t dead, as you infamously wrote in your poem September 1913. It has just been in a some way self-induced, other ways imposed, coma. […]
@radiobrendan For some expatriates in Colombia, perhaps after an initial hedonistic phase that many don’t escape, the country can become a land of opportunity, of sorts. Or at the very least a place to trial out new things. Not all will go on to have success, but most have...
