Manu's scripts

What most jargon seeks to achieve is exclusivity and a promotion of the notion that the user of a language few understand is somehow m...

Let me say, first of all, that I am going to avoid using the word ‘seafarer’ from now on. I am a proud seaman and refuse to be an airy...

By now, the hope at the end of last year that shipping would see some kind of revival in 2015 has given way to near despair. That hope...

I promise not to repost old posts again- at least not soon!- but this is a 2012 one I was forced to recall today. The not...

In a few days time, this column (or this blog, depending on where you read it) will be eight years old.   The following (long winded an...