Wills Robinson
Wills is an editor for politics at the DailyMail.com and a journalist with a decade of experience in both the U.S. and U.K. He started his media career at the age of fourteen by writing reports of his school rugby games and now has a portfolio that includes investigations into government corruption, stories about the treatment of veterans, and coverage of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In 2015, he was looking through photos from the War on Terror when he saw Bill’s brush with death and decided to write to him, to find out more about his life since that day in Garmsir in May 2008. After publishing the first interview with Bill, they continued collaborating and pieces until the book on The Shot became a reality.
John Stuart Mill (1848): War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.