Tag: Winchester Nepalese

In a landslide election, Nepal’s corrupt, moribund, senescent government was recently thrown out and replaced by a parliament of astonishingly youthful MPs. Almost half of Nepal’s new directly elected members are under the age of 40, and they are led by a prime minister – a former rapper – who himself is just 35.    It seemed fitting then that when the Winchester Nepalese arrived at River Park the average age of the park’s patrons plummeted. If it had … Continue reading The Racqueteers v Winchester Nepalese, Thursday, 14th May

Thursday, May 15th North Walls, 16 May 2025  Nepal is famously one of the only countries to have successfully resisted colonisation by the British, having fought us to a virtual stalemate 200 years ago. Today, Winchester is the happy beneficiary of that unique moment in history. The British began recruiting the opponents who had so impressed them into their own, new “Gurkha” regiments. Later, many Gurkha soldiers retired to the UK, … Continue reading The Racqueteers v Winchester Nepalese