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Khalid Aziz: Bread and circuses?
2:51pm Wednesday 21st May 2008
IT is said that during the dying decades of the Roman empire, emperors fought an increasingly losing battle for the hearts and minds of the populace through ever increasing bribes.
Have your say »Rosemary MacMullen: To dye or not to dye
4:16pm Wednesday 7th May 2008
BORED, I booked my pony-tailed teenage self into a salon and asked for a perm.
Rosemary Macmullen: A tale of two centenarians
2:49pm Wednesday 9th April 2008
MY sister and I adored our great-aunts.
Ron Allison: To the High Street and beyond!
3:09pm Wednesday 2nd April 2008
SOON after moving with my wife and son to Winchester 10 years ago (returning in my case), a neighbour told us that if we stood in the High Street at a weekend for even only an hour or two, we would see just about everyone we knew in the city.
Khalid Aziz: Lessons can be learned from the Maasai
9:58am Thursday 27th March 2008
TO Tanzania to learn about leadership from the Maasai, but we learnt as much about life as leadership, whether herding goats, or practising spear throwing and realising just how close you would have to get to spear the lion that would turn you from a boy to a warrior.
Rosemary Macmullen: Putting the ‘fun’ in funeral
9:55am Friday 14th March 2008
"THOUGHT about your funeral?" Usually I enjoy being assured I've enough to cover the odd holiday or burst of retail therapy.
Rosemary Macmullen: We are right to feel pride and honour them
3:07pm Thursday 14th February 2008
...this country is at war with Germany".
Ron Allison: Senior moments and serious memories
4:40pm Thursday 7th February 2008
LAST week I had one of those "senior moments". Truth to tell, I had several, but one in particular sticks with me, as it proved somewhat expensive.
Rosemary Macmullen: The best laid schemes
10:59am Thursday 17th January 2008
ACCORDING to Robert Burns, "The best-laid schemes o mice and men gang aft agley".
Ron Allison: Back to basics at Bushfield
4:38pm Thursday 10th January 2008
A FRIDAY morning in mid-June 1950.
George Hayter: Help save dying breed
7:51am Friday 7th December 2007
THE hippo, most types of bear and many sharks face extinction, naturalists are warning.
George Hayter: Architects rule OK
3:14pm Thursday 22nd November 2007
THIS is a golden age for architecture in Winchester, and I'm not talking about the sheds that went up last week on the cathedral green.
George Hayter: A pretty pass
6:52pm Thursday 15th November 2007
WINCHESTER has many attributes and one is that it enlivens the M3.
Ronald Allison: The price of the Good Life
4:27pm Wednesday 14th November 2007
THE thoughts have been nagging away at me for three or four weeks now. About Winchester, I mean, and the fame and the infamy it has recently been awarded.
George Hayter: Health centred
9:45am Thursday 8th November 2007
I'M ALL for health and safety, because I don't want to die.
Warwick Payne: Driven to distraction by promise of jams tomorrow
3:21pm Wednesday 31st October 2007
WHEN Wintonians were named last week as Britain's biggest polluters, friends from far away eagerly pointed out why. "It's mums in massive 4x4s taking one tiny kid with a bobble hat to school."
Ronald Allison: Join the great British sporting public
3:42pm Wednesday 17th October 2007
ARRIVING in Britain from a galaxy far, far away, an alien spent the first day finding out as much as he could about its inhabitants.
Khalid Aziz: Of peace and violence
10:14am Thursday 11th October 2007
LATENT violence of the sort epitomised by the hooded youths seen hanging around street corners the length and breadth of the country is hardly what you expect in a small sleepy town like Alresford.
George Hayter: When I fail words
2:47pm Thursday 4th October 2007
AS a keen user of the book borrowing system, I'm looking forward to the opening of Winchester's new library - sorry, "discovery centre".
Judith Heneghan: Looking for the right answers
4:07pm Wednesday 3rd October 2007
A NEW term has started and my youngest daughter is busy catching up on all the news.
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