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.

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".