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 […]
Author: Scott Campbell
Master Mariner 500GT, Merchant Navy
SDPO, Chief Mate, Writer, Father, Etc.
Born to a catholic mother, turned new hippy mother, wee-free Presbyterian father. They divorced and he converted to marry a Pakistani Muslim. My brother tried Buddhism, and I married a Jew and moved to the USA for a bit. Back in Scotland now, keeping it real.
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Titanic Omissions
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, […]
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Union, Jacobin.
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 […]
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Masculinity
Top Gun, Punch Ups, Management, Ukraine and Christ. It is my birthday today. It is one of many that I have spent at sea, away from my family, friends, wife and children. It is a painful aspect of the job and one that honestly does not bother me as much as I thought it would […]
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Observations On Deck
The mood has changed.
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Apologies for not posting last Sunday. I had drafted an article in my usual vein, and was nearly ready to publish, when the news of digital passports for the energy industry popped into my inbox and destroyed my mood. Before I could re-write an article in response, I took quite ill with acute stomach flu, […]
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The Unfinished Trust Exercise
Failure as a human being and as a leader. The curse of self-awareness. When I was young, I had a strange experience. One that would probably have had me on medication or sectioned in a therapeutic home if I’d lived in the US and told an adult. But one that was absolutely real to me, […]
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Billy Gates, the Passenger
A short piece on the portability of principles, instinct and having enough certainty to become your own ‘authority’. Has being ‘unvaccinated’ (i.e. normal until five minutes ago), damaged my career or made my life more difficult? Should I have kept my mouth shut? Was I just being a desperately paranoid weirdo? I don’t think so. […]
Zero Nets, after Net Zero. In many ways, I am dismissive of people classed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ on the internet these days, not because they make preposterous claims. In fact, they’ve been right on nearly everything in the past two or three years, from Epstein to Covid, and after watching The Northman, probably Nicole Kidman […]