Threat detection, empiricism, relativism, and authority. It’s been a busy old week! Since joining my ship on Wednesday I’ve had nine arrivals and departures, shifted berth twice, went alongside a ship in harbour for cargo, and pushed on to so many ships and towers offshore that I’ve lost count. And I’ve been training a new […]
Why the more subtle iconoclasms of the left, affect us all. ‘Haha. So you are employee of the month? These Americans. When I was a cadet, I won Communist of the month’. I didn’t mind Pavlo (not his real name, for multiple reasons). He was a grotesquely large Ukrainian man. Seriously overweight, but strong, with […]
Observations after two weeks travelling the UK I’m drafting this article on the train, as I travel up North again for a three day job as skipper on a fast CTV. I’ll be departing on the flood tide, working some transfers offshore between larger ships and a wind farm. Arrival back at port should be […]
The news of Boris Johnson’s, as yet only promised, resignation has not impacted my mood, or my worldview, nearly as much as you might have thought. The man wore the rank of PM, but was never a leader. Agenda 2030, 2050 and the Great Reset/Build Back Better, Greener, whatever/ Levelling Up, more green blah, blah, […]
I’ve just arrived back home from one of the nicest weddings I’ve ever attended. It was at the spectacular Glen Tanar Ballroom and St Lesmo’s Chapel, outside Aboyne, in Royal Deeside. It was the wedding of a good friend from my university days. A former colleague from the RNR, who’d pursued an exciting career in […]