Ross MoughtinJan 17, 2020We need to keep moving. Come on!I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger Travelling through this world below There is no sickness, no toil, nor danger In that bright land...
Ross MoughtinJun 28, 2019God, leave me alone so that I may have some happiness.And it is also 50 years ago, again virtually to the day, when I first made contact with Joseph Heller’s eponymous novel, Catch 22. Phil...
Ross MoughtinNov 9, 2018Remembering FrankNot that I knew it at the time but Frank and I shared the same bedroom. I only discovered this a few years back when I googled the...
Ross MoughtinJul 1, 2016Security in a fast-changing and dangerous world.1 July 1916, 7.30 am. I am writing this one century later, virtually to the minute. The Battle of the Somme has begun, the worse day...
Ross MoughtinJun 28, 2014One event – huge consequences28 June, 1914. We mark the centenary tomorrow. The assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his wife by Gavrilo...