Hampshire Chronicle | Columnists

Khalid Aziz: Bread and circuses?

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:51:00 +0100

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

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:16:00 +0100

BORED, I booked my pony-tailed teenage self into a salon and asked for a perm.

Rosemary Macmullen: A tale of two centenarians

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:49:00 +0100

MY sister and I adored our great-aunts.

Ron Allison: To the High Street and beyond!

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:09:00 +0100

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

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:58:00 +0000

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

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:55:00 +0000

"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

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:07:00 +0000

...this country is at war with Germany".

Ron Allison: Senior moments and serious memories

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:40:00 +0000

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

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:59:00 +0000

ACCORDING to Robert Burns, "The best-laid schemes o mice and men gang aft agley".

Ron Allison: Back to basics at Bushfield

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:38:00 +0000

A FRIDAY morning in mid-June 1950.

George Hayter: Help save dying breed

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:51:00 +0000

THE hippo, most types of bear and many sharks face extinction, naturalists are warning.

George Hayter: Architects rule OK

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:14:00 +0000

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

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:52:00 +0000

WINCHESTER has many attributes and one is that it enlivens the M3.

Ronald Allison: The price of the Good Life

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:27:00 +0000

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

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:45:00 +0000

I'M ALL for health and safety, because I don't want to die.

Warwick Payne: Driven to distraction by promise of jams tomorrow

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:21:00 +0000

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

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:00 +0100

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

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:14:00 +0100

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

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:47:00 +0100

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

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:07:00 +0100

A NEW term has started and my youngest daughter is busy catching up on all the news.