Atonement

We work long days at sea, and Sunday is no exception. 12-hour shifts are my current minimum each day, with occasional overtime required. We got a hurried order to leave port this morning, while I was halfway through doing an…

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Red Alert

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…

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War

Erase the Jews

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,…

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Ukrainian refugees

The Crisis, Crisis

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…

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Cross Dressing on the Lower Decks

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,…

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Gun

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…

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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…

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