I’m back at sea. Well, I’m in Whitby now, demobilising from the aforementioned dive job in Bridlington Bay. No, we didn’t kill the Whale that washed ashore there this week. I think he committed suicide due to the cost of living crisis. I joined the ship offshore by Crew Transfer Vessel. After a 30-minute handover […]
Part 1 It’s been two weeks since our last correspondence. What have we missed? I got home over a week ago, and despite exhaustion from a four-week trip at sea, I launched into an urgent attempt to pick up some of the load from my wife. I could feel the strain increasing in her voice […]
Very little of what passes for ‘culture’ today, is anything more than a cult or a sub-culture. The political movements of our time have more in common with a bowel movement than any of the guiding principles they use as camouflage. The focus on the outcast, the downtrodden or the marginal has become so fetishised […]
It has been a peaceful, but rather dull week of decent weather offshore. With twelve hours on watch and a reasonable satellite internet signal, I’ve been trawling the depths of Twitter and Wikipedia. I finished In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland, as mostly peaceful ‘diversity-riots’ spread across England. I’m looking at real […]
My first duty this week is to thank my new friend Steven Wilkinson, of the excellent Substack Pitchfork Papers and his company Good and Prosper, for his continued support and encouragement. I’ve been following his work for some time, and his kind words on Friday, when he allowed me to guest post my article ‘Half-Mast’ […]
I have returned to the sea, for a three-week trip. On this occasion, I have signed on as Mate. That is second in command on this ship and entails a 12-hour night shift from 7 pm to 7 am. After the manic trip we had last time I was here, nights are a blessed relief. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The mood has changed.
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, […]