Thomas Mogford

Freshers’ Week is a time for mistakes, and one of mine was to sign up for the university Wine Society. I’d hoped for decadent evenings spent quaffing fine wines from cobwebbed vaults; instead, we gathered in a strip-lit seminar room listening to a postgraduate pontificate on his favourite grape, receiving barely a thimbleful for our […]

As someone who has to watch a LOT of cartoons these days — I even caught My Little Pony: The Movie last weekend; not too shabby in fact; stirring theme song — I suddenly remembered an animated sequence that was made of Shadow of the Rock. The Gibraltar-based company that put it together, Wright Tech […]

I stumbled across this old notebook the other day, containing a series of jottings debating the title of the first book in the Spike Sanguinetti series. I remember thinking at the time — ‘How can I combine a mention of Gibraltar with something connected to the plot of the novel?’ You can see the title […]

When it comes to nicknames, there’s clearly something appealing about ‘Mog’. All my life, I’ve been Moggy, or Mogs, or Mogman or Moggers. Having never met another Mogford who wasn’t related to me, this nomenclature has been something I’ve tended to attach to me and my family. The mysterious rise of Tory politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, […]