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The Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Education president of the largest economy in the cost of a trip to his condo in Florida is 21 world, has a duty of care to his people. Art Director & Director: Tim Epps $1m. He goes most weeks. The cost of yet to see his first budget where he has tweet online. It would be surreal if it was Literature Or not. securing Trump Tower in New York is said he will slash Government spending. not true. Acting Editor: Dr Emma Trehane 24 The wall is such a ridiculous idea. estimated at $1m a day when he is there My sense is Trump is struggling to There are really only two ways for Head of Business Development: Dr Emma Trehane Poetry The Mexican border is 1900 miles long and $450k a day when he is not. Then understand the role of being President; President Trump to go. Upwards by Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 25 (the Berlin Wall was 96 miles: the Great there is his family to think about. 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The Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward 32 question remains as to how to prevent Bridge: Andrew Robson Westminster 42 Arts & Culture this style of attack and whether it can be Political round-up Business: Ione Bingley, Prof. Hugo De Burgh attack: is more prevented or should simply be accepted Douglas Shanks Travel as a risk of modern city living. on Article 50 reaction: 54 Global messaging service WhatsApp, Chess: Barry Martin surveillance the Health from which the offender had sent several "We're losing a strong and important member state.” Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 55 messages shortly before the incident, answer? German Chancellor Angela Merkel Derek Wyatt was reportedly working with police 58 Motoring By Ione Bingley to attempt to hack its own end-to- Music: James Douglas “I make no apology for being ambitious Sport end encryption. 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Brexit Secretary David Davis Editorial: Ione Bingley, 62 Public Notice, Crossword & Bridge Last month, London bore Home Secretary Amber Rudd witness to horrific scenes on speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Max Feldman, Owen Fulda 63 Chess Show has since called for police and “The triggering of article 50 is politically Events: Polly Allen, Fahad Redha Westminster Bridge when intelligence agencies to be given access and constitutionally reckless” Health Editor: Kate Hawthorne a 4x4 vehicle travelling at to messaging services like WhatsApp to thwart future ‘terror’ attacks adding that First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon Lifestyle & Fashion: Ione Bingley, Owen Fulda over 50 mph mounted the “there should be no place for terrorists to Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman pavement mowing down hide”. “It will be hugely in our interests as Europeans if we put I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton It emerged after the attack that the assailant, Khalid Masood, had been on aside our temptation towards recrimination and rancour.” Motoring: Don Grant, Owen Fulda All Appendages Crossed! around 40 pedestrians, the radar of intelligence services for News, Online Editor tourists and Londoners alike, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Wednesday 5th April 2017 is the date for 20th News Awards potential links to extremism in 2010 & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman and killing two. following his return from Saudi Arabia. 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sewage spilled into nature reserves, while Executive. “A company with a singular Thames water nappies and other debris went into the Tri-borough vision; to design and build dedicated The London Thames and the adjoining River Thame. urban commercial vehicles that can Photograph © Jon Photograph fined £20m The Observer revealed in 2013 that the partners to split in operate without emissions in cities Motor Show for dumping untreated sewage ten biggest water companies were the around the world and bring down Battersea Evolution most persistent polluters of ’s running costs for drivers,” he said. in the Thames rivers and beaches committing over 2018 Battersea Park The company has also announced © London Motor Show Photograph 1,000 incidents between 2005-2013 a light commercial van (LCV) as the 4th-7th May 2017 inclusive. and fined a total of just £3.5m, a sum company’s second all-new model. This described by a senior MP at the time as too will be a range-extended electric Thames water has been fined a record “pitiful”. vehicle, an electric car with an engine £20.3 million after it was found to have “We have failed in our responsibility Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster It is great news for car enthusiasts and and hear industry and guest speakers. have reluctantly agreed to serve notice acting as a generator to keep the battery a wide range of the population that Brooklands Motor Museum will have pumped 1.4 billion litres of untreated to the environment and that hurts both topped up. sewage into the River Thames. personally and professionally because on Hammersmith & Fulham of their the London Motor Show is returning cars on display too. intention to withdraw from service “The Mayor and TfL are fully to Battersea Park for the second year It provides a lovely day out for all the The spills occurred at four Thames we do care. But in the three years since committed to helping the iconic London Water Utilities Ltd sewage treatment sharing arrangements in the areas of running family. Catering provides for all tastes the last of those incidents we have learnt taxi trade become the greenest, most works, Aylesbury, Didcot, Henley and our lesson – there have been sweeping, Adult Social Care, Children’s Services HRH Prince Michael GCVO is the with formal and informal eating facilities. sustainable fleet in the world,” Shirley Little Marlow, as well as a large sewage far-reaching changes across the waste and Public Health. Patron and the President is Tiff Needell. Entertainment for children will not be The move follows the gradual Rodrigues the Deputy Mayor for Energy They are supported by prestigious forgotten. delightfully eclectic list of gifts given to pumping system in Littlemore in water business,” said External Affairs and emergence of a Hammersmith & Fulham and Environment said. “With air quality Ambassadors who include Jodie Kidd Last year this show was a sell out. You Her Majesty included another horse, two Oxford. Sustainability Director at Thames Water, plan to set up an in-house ‘people’s’ at toxic levels in London, our Taxi and ( racing driver and TV Presenter ), Ben need to book tickets in advance. All the Queen’s stags, an ostrich egg, a maple tree and Hundreds of fish were killed and Richard Aylard, outside the court. department that, once established, would Private Hire Action Plan sets out bold Collins ( Hollywood stunt driver and Go to 'book tickets ' on www. four padded dog jackets. take over and deliver these key services to measures to fully support the black cab the former 'Stig' ) and Catie Munning ( thelondonmotorshow.co.uk and use Horses Possible the Queen’s most loved Hammersmith & Fulham residents alone trade’s evolution into zero emission Champion Rally Driver). Alec Mumford the code "LMS" to obtain your readers horses effectively double as her private “We had no wish to withdraw capable vehicles.” is the Chairman and Stephen Maitland- discount. equine bodyguards. Known as Queen’s from sharing arrangements with LTC can bring the new models to Oxley is the Event Director. Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Hammersmith & Fulham,” said RBKC market thanks to a £325m investment There will be an impressive range Opening times: inston Churchill described the soldiers and their horses maintain a Leader, Cllr Nick Paget-Brown. “But from parent company Geely including of exhibitors both manufacturers and General Public, Trade and Press. Princess Elizabeth, when world-famous tradition dating back to these are vital services to vulnerable £30m for the LCV and £25m for the dealerships representing brands such as 4th May. 2.00 - 6.00 pm

she was aged just two as “a 1660, while every man on parade is first Agency © Environment Photograph people. As knowledge of Hammersmith plant. Morgan, Toyota, Lexus, , Rolls Royce General Public: 5th and 6th May character. She has an air of authority and and foremost a fighting soldier, fully W and Fulham’s plan grew, staff were Motor Cars , Vauxhall, Porsche, Aston 10.00 - 6.00 pm reflectiveness astonishing in an infant,” trained and operational. becoming more and more anxious about Martin and Bentley. General Public: 7th May. he said. Given her first horse at just four The HCMR face a busy summer their futures and that of the critically The Show will provide the chance 10.00 - 5.00pm. years of age, a Shetland pony named in 2017, during which they will find important services they work so hard to to see over 150 new vehicles, hybrids, Tickets: from £17 Peggy, the Queen still regularly rides themselves centre stage in the State provide.” electric cars and classic cars. It will (includes 2 children 11 and under free ) horses to this day, not even bothering to Opening of Parliament and the Queen’s Kensington & “These services need certainty and be splendid chance to meet motoring Carer is Free with one ticket holding wear a helmet! Birthday Parade: Trooping the Colour stability in order to be reliable and legends, see the latest tech innovations disabled adult. Buying gifts for a 90-year-old on June 17. The iconic image of Chelsea worst effective. We have taken this action can be tricky at the best of times, but HCMR soldiers and horses escorting in order to restore that certainty and when it also happens to be a Monarch, the Sovereign represent the very best in first noise stability.” serious inspiration is required. On her of British Pageantry. But that glamour The formal severance notice means landmark ninetieth birthday last year, the is hard won; an astonishing amount nuisance map that by 1 April 2018, Hammersmith of man hours, professional training, & Fulham tackling Adult Social Care, skill, discipline and physical effort ares of London Children’s Services and Public Health required to produce the immaculate LONDON CLUBS alone. results necessary for events as prestigious AT HOME as the Queen’s Birthday Parade. 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They Fulham v Ipswich, 15:00 boroughs, the city overall had more indisputedly passed with flying colours. April 17 than 143,000 noise nuisance complaints Fulham v Aston Villa, 14:45 Recent reports have claimed that Taxi © LOndon Photograph the Queen’s Household Cavalry could logged, but the data also revealed the April 17 areas which were complaint hot spots. QPR v Sheffield Wednesday, move from the Hyde Park Barracks to The statistics put Kensington and 15:00 Wellington Barracks near Buckingham FREE £150 TRAFFIC WATCH April 22 Palace, under proposals being considered Chelsea top of the noisy neighbourhood Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, by defence chiefs. Property experts say BIOMECHANICAL poll with 13,790 complaints over the 17:15 the current barracks could be turned ASSESSMENT & £30 12 months, covering a population of April 25 into a £2 billion “ultra-prime” housing Call today for a FREE 157,700. That is the equivalent of Chelsea v Southampton, development. 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and nondiscrimination so as not to leave these citizens in a situation of Russia ‘actively Article 50 has uncertainty.” Agrochemical Remind EU of EU consider Norway increase Measles involved’ in been triggered The 27 EU member states will meet giants receive EU German war debt sanctions whaling quota by outbreaks what’s next for Brexit and in Brussels on 29 April to agree their over Macedonian power French election, negotiating position with talks expected go-ahead cancellation 119 occurring warns US Senate intelligence Britain? to begin about a month after that. for £103bn merger says Senior Tory MP struggle During her visit to Scotland last throughout the EU. chief month, Theresa May announced that By Owen Fulda the Brexit deal would be secured in 18 months, which the Scottish National The head of the influential Following the triggering of Article 50 Party claims would clear the way for UK government ministers should orwegian Fisheries Minister, Per Measles is spreading across Europe on March 29, Britain enters into two Scotland to have another independence remind the EU about the cancellation Sandberg, has confirmed that wherever immunisation coverage has Senate Intelligence Committee years of negotiations before the official referendum within two years. of German debt after the Second Norway has allocated itself a dropped, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday that divorce from the European Union in However, May continues to insist that © BIRN Photograph World War as they try to secure a better Nquota of 999 minke whales for the 2017 is warning, with the largest outbreaks 2019. The EU has been adamant that, “now is not the time” as the Scottish Brexit deal, according to one senior catch, an increase of 119 whales on last being seen in Italy and Romania. Russia is interfering in the on its departure, Britain cannot continue people could not possibly give an Conservative MP. year’s quota of 880. In January, Italy reported more French election just as it did in to enjoy the current benefits that it does, informed vote before they know the full Sir Bill Cash, a long-standing According to a documentary aired than 200 cases, whilst Romania has like tariff-free trade, free movement of terms on which Britain is leaving the EU Eurosceptic, who chairs the House recently on NRK, a government-owned reported more than 3,400 cases and 17 the US presidential campaign people and funding, without incurring following the negotiation talks. of Commons European Scrutiny public broadcasting company, 90 per cent deaths since January 2016. Measles is last year. costs. First Minister of Scotland and leader Committee, said European officials of the minke whales hunted and killed a highly contagious disease and travel In answer to Prime Minster Theresa of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon holds that wanting to whack Britain with a hefty each year in Norwegian waters are female patterns mean no person or country is Senator Richard Burr, who has access to May’s assurance that “no deal” is better there is no longer a “rational” argument Brexit bill were being “extravagant”, and "almost all" of them are pregnant. beyond its reach, says the World Health Norway officially objected to the some of the most highly classified US that a “bad deal”, the EU chief leading against the holding of the referendum, as and should remember how European Organisation. For good protection, it's 1986 moratorium on commercial intelligence, said Moscow has shown a the Brexit negotiations Michael Barnier she believes that between autumn 2018 countries had written off German debt recommended that at least 95% of the whaling and still refuses to respect it. clear will and ability to disrupt elections writing in the Financial Times issued a and spring 2019 enough information in the 1950s. population is vaccinated against the Along with Iceland, they are the only in Western democracies. warning that Britain will be “undoubtedly would be available from the talks before Agrochemical multinationals DuPont Reports suggest the UK could be Macedonian leaders risk facing disease. worse off ” if Britain crashes out of the forced to pay a £50 billion “divorce bill” nation to hunt whales commercially. In However many European countries "What we might assess was a very Britain’s official exit from the EU for the and Dow have announced that the sanctions if they continue to block a bloc without a deal and that a “no-deal Scottish people to make an informed that would cover the cost of outstanding the 1993 season Norway resumed the are struggling to achieve that. Most covert effort in 2016 in the United European Commission has granted new government and stoke inter-ethnic scenario” was a “distinct possibility”. decision on whether to remain part of EU spending in Britain. practice after a few years pause. of the measles cases have been found States, is a very overt effort, as well as conditional clearance in Europe for conflict, EU mediators dealing with a Failure of the talks, he said, would the UK. their proposed merger. This regulatory crisis in the Balkan country have warned. in countries where immunisation has covert, in Germany and France," he told lead to “severe disruption” at airports as dipped below this threshold and with the reporters. "I remind you that we're within milestone is a significant step toward Gjorge Ivanov, president of Macedonia, well as “long queues” for tourists and closing the transaction. has refused to give Zoran Zaev, the subsequent infection proving endemic in 30 days of the first French election, with lorry drivers at Dover. He added that London-Paris France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, four candidates. It will go down to two The deal is expected to create a opposition leader backed by a majority of the breakdown of negotiations would 16-year-old boy combined worth of £103 billion with the MPs elected in December, a mandate to Switzerland and Ukraine. candidates with a runoff in May," he electric flight lead to the “disruption of supply chains” potential for additional growth in excess form a government. said. delivered 'in decade' including “the suspension of nuclear sole survivor of £800 million. Around 50,000 Macedonians took to "I think it's safe by everybody's material” to the UK for which nuclear of migrant boat tragedy The intention is then to spilt the By Max Feldman the streets in Skopje recently, protesting Strenuous efforts are made by judgment that the Russians are actively power provides around a fifth of national merged business into three independent against a coalition government between involved in the French elections." Burr is energy. He wants an “orderly withdrawal” publicly traded companies which, Social Democrats and ethnic Albanians, Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster leading the Senate inquiry into Russian and hopes for an “ambitious free trade according to DuPont, is “expected which they perceive as a threat to the Today newspaper to ensure that interference in the 2016 US presidential agreement”. to unlock even greater value for country's national unity. Ethnic Albanian campaign, an effort that US intelligence Home Secretary Amber Rudd, shareholders and customers and more parties, who effectively have a kingmaker the content and information is alleges was directed by Russian President however, said that she did not recognise opportunity for employees” as each role due to their backing of Zaev, have correct. Kensington, Chelsea & Vladimir Putin. this “apocalyptic” vision of Britain’s future company aims to be an industry leader Electric Wright © Photograph controversially demanded that Albanian Westminster Today newspaper He said Russia was potentially a independent of the EU regardless of the “where global challenges are driving be made an official language across Photograph © Greenpeace

"balance disrupter" in the European outcome of the talks adding that Britain demand for their distinctive offerings”. Force Defence © Irish Photograph Macedonia. reserves the right to report elections, able to tilt the result toward the would push for the widest possible access To fulfill the EU’s conditions, Ethnic Albanians make up around unsolicited material being sent candidates it favours. "So we feel part of to the single market, but that we did not however, DuPont must sell off the one quarter of the country's 2.1 million our responsibility is to educate the rest of yet know “what that cost would be”. insecticides and herbicides arm of their inhabitants, but president Ivanov, an Stolen Van Gogh through to the publication. the world about what's going on, because Because of the large number of EU business as well as much of its crop Wright Electric, a new start-up, says ally of Nikola Gruevski, the former Personal views expressed in this it's now into character assassination of member state representatives that will protection research and development it intends to offer an electric-powered prime minister, accuses Mr Zaev of artworks be in attendance and the widespread candidates." division. commercial flight from London to Paris undermining Macedonia’s sovereignty by back on display after 14 years newspaper are solely those of the affect of the content, a policy of “full The warning came days after French "Our decision ensures that the in 10 years. promising the ethnic Albanian minority transparency and public debate” will be in respective contributors and do not far-right presidential candidate Marine Dozens of people are feared drowned merger between Dow and DuPont does Its plane, yet to go into development, greater language rights. place throughout. reflect those of the publishers or Le Pen met Putin in a visit to Moscow as after a rubber boat carrying migrants not reduce price competition for existing would carry 150 people on journeys of The threat of targeted measures Barnier has also outlined three central and refugees from Libya sank in the less than 300 miles. Wright Electric said she tries to boost her international status pesticides or innovation for safer and against Macedonia’s ruling elite echoes its agents. All materials sent to uncertainties that the EU and its 27 Mediterranean. by removing the need for jet fuel, the by meeting with world leaders. better products in the future,” said the events in Ukraine in 2014, when member states want addressed first by the The sole survivor, a 16-year-old EU's competition policy commissioner price of travel could drop dramatically; restrictions were imposed on senior Two priceless paintings by Vincent Van Kensington Chelsea & Westminster negotiations. Gambian boy, told rescuers that 146 Margrethe Vestager. low-cost airline Easyjet has expressed its figures in the final phases of Viktor Gogh are once again hanging in an Today are at the suppliers’ risk. The talks must decide on the rights other people including children and "We need effective competition in interest in the technology. Yanukovich’s government. EU leaders Amsterdam museum, 14 years after being of EU nationals in the UK as well as pregnant women were on board when this sector so companies are pushed to The company is relying heavily are preoccupied by growing political stolen by the Mafia. The works, 1882’s Reproduction in whole or in part the rights of Britons living in the EU, the boat sank. develop products that are ever safer for on innovation in battery technology instability in the Balkans, with Jean- View of The Sea at Scheveningen and the of this publication is strictly also of utmost importance are decisions A Spanish frigate, the Canarias, people and better for the environment." continuing to improve at its current rate. Claude Juncker, European Commission 1884 Congregation Leave the Reformed regarding budgetary commitments, found the boy clinging to a piece of However, a letter sent to the If not, the firm will not be able to build president, warning of the risk of war Church in Nuenen are from a period that prohibited without prior consent. and finally a solution must be found to debris in the sea before transferring Commission signed by over 200 in enough power to give the plane the if countries have no prospect of EU was crucial to the post-impressionist The appearance of advertising in Photograph © John Saunders © John Photograph remedy the new border issue between him to an Italian Coast Guard ship that environmental and social groups said range it needs. membership. master’s development as a painter. this newspaper, including inserts or Northern Ireland and the Republic of brought him to the Sicilian island of the merger, along with those proposed The company said that as well as Macedonia has been mired in Discovered hidden behind a false Ireland. Lampedusa. between Monsanto and Bayer, and lower fuel costs for the airlines, the deep political upheaval for the past wall in an Italian villa, each work has supplements, does not constitute “It will take time, several months So far this year nearly 600 migrants Syngenta with ChemChina, "would technology could have a major added two years sparked by a wiretapping been valued by investigators at over £40 endorsement by Kensington, certainly,” said Barnier. "We must do have died trying to reach Italy from exacerbate the problems caused by benefit for the public. "Depending scandal. Gruevski is accused by the million. The owner of the villa where serious legal work on this with the North Africa, despite 4,600 deaths last industrial farming, with negative on how it's designed, you can have an Social Democrats of having ordered the they were found is accused of running a Chelsea & Westminster Today of the United Kingdom. But we can and we year and migrant arrivals to Italy are up consequences for the public, farmers electric plane that's substantially less wiretapping of thousands of his rivals, cocaine trafficking ring. One of burglars products or services advertised. should agree, as soon as possible, on more than 50 percent this year than at and farm workers, consumers, the loud than a fuel plane," said Jeff Engler, including religious, media and other who was jailed over the theft, said it took the principles of continuity, reciprocity this point last year. environment, and food security". Wright Electric's co-founder. public figures. under four minutes to steal the paintings. 8 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 International News International News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Missile failure Pakistan to Islamic State ‘Global Eight fossil fuel Israeli PM won’t slow North reinstate secret could be near Laundromat’ companies approves Israeli responsible for as much Korean weapons military courts stateless scheme pollution as the entire U.S. West Bank despite criticism link to Donald Trump race settlement

North Korea’s latest missile launch may S has been driven out of almost all Deutsche Bank, who loaned £260 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin have ended in failure, but despot Kim of its territory in Iraq, where they million to Donald Trump, played a Netanyahu has announced the first Jong-Un intends to ramp up his military once held more than half the country, prominent role in a money laundering Israeli outpost in the West Bank for two weapons testing still further. A senior except half of Mosul where it is fast scandal run by Russian criminals with decades. The move threatens to deal an U.S. intelligence official told NBC News I ties to the Kremlin. Dozens of western early blow to relations with President losing ground. that North Korea is estimated to have However, US forces have fallen foul financial institutions processed circa Donald Trump's administration. between eight and 10 nuclear weapons of an airstrike on a building in Mosul £16 billion in money of “criminal origin” At a joint press conference in while other analysts say the number is that killed as many as 200 civilians. If from Russia. February, Trump told Netanyahu that he likely between 10 and 20. confirmed, the series of airstrikes would Law enforcement agencies are would “like to see [him] hold back on The problem faced by the rogue rank among the highest civilian death investigating how politically well- settlements a little bit”. state is getting the warheads to their tolls in an American air mission since connected Russians managed to use UK- Plans for the new bloc are considered target. North Korea claims to have built Pakistan's lower house has passed the went to war in Iraq in registered companies to launder the cash. to be illegal under international law a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable legislation to reinstate secret military 2003. The companies made fictitious loans by the majority of the international of being delivered on an intercontinental courts, despite criticism from human And the reports of civilian deaths to each other, underwritten by Russian community. Netanyahu told Newsweek ballistic missile, but have yet to provide rights activists. Military courts were first in Mosul came immediately after two businesses. reporters in March, “I made a promise concrete proof. set up as a response to the 2015 attack recent incidents in Syria, where the In January, the UK and US imposed that we would establish a new settlement. The United States have reportedly on a military-run school by the Pakistani record £500m fines on Deutsche for its We will keep it today.” used cyber and electronic strikes to Taliban that killed 134 children. role in another money laundering scam The settlement will be created to sabotage North Korea’s weapons The courts, which try civilians run from its Moscow office. The bank Eight of the world’s largest oil companies appease 40 settler families after their their personal and financial information launches in recent years, although the charged with terrorism offences, had failed to prevent £8bn of Russian money are responsible for as much of the February eviction from the Amona Congress vote to to sell highly targeted ads making them many failures may simply be due to a two-year mandate that expired on 7 being laundered in a complex “mirror climate-damaging pollution as the entire outpost in the West Bank, which the rivals to Google and Facebook in the $83 January. The legislation still needs Senate trades” operation. U.S. according to a study by a London- Israeli High Court ruled had been built repeal landmark billion online advertising market. approval before it can become law. The based researcher. illegally on private Palestinian land. The providers could also sell their government of Prime Minister Nawaz Saudi Aramco, Exxon Mobil internet privacy users’ information directly to marketers, Sharif said in January it wanted to Corp., OAO Gazprom, the National financial firms and other companies that reinstate the military courts, but lacked US begins Iranian Oil Co., BP Plc and Royal protections mine personal data all of whom could use the two-thirds majority in parliament. coalition is also battling the Islamic State Dutch Shell Plc were among the eight Fears of the data without consumers’ consent. In After months of discussions between from the air, in which activists and local installing companies whose fuel was responsible addition, the Federal Communications parties, the bill was passed late on residents said dozens of civilians had for a third of emissions from oil and Paraguayan Commission, which initially drafted the Tuesday. been killed. controversial gas, according to the non-profit group protections, would be forbidden from One of the main arguments made America’s top commander in Iraq CDP. The companies released a fifth of dictatorship ongress in America voted to issuing similar rules in the future. in favour of military courts is that the who is investigating the building’s missile defence all greenhouse gases outside of farming grows as president moves to approve legislation making it legal Policy analysts said the deregulatory government cannot provide adequate destruction, Lieutenant General in South Korea and forestry since 1988, the year most amend constitution for Internet service providers to effort may be the first of several that security to judges who preside over Townsend, said “we probably had a system governments acknowledged man-made Ccollect and sell customers' web browsing could alter the future of the Internet. terrorism related cases. But critics say the role in these causalities”. However, he climate change as a risk. histories to third-party marketers. Although regulators under President courts lack transparency and due process. suggested further investigation would The findings suggest policymakers Senate Joint Resolution 34 passed Barack Obama had moved to limit be required to assess whether IS coerced The US says it has begun deploying may be better off focusing on the Paraguay’s the House by a vote of 215-205 on the power of Internet providers, by civilians into the building and rigged it the first parts of a controversial missile practices of companies instead of national president, March 28th. The legislation seeks to restricting what they could do with with explosives following coalition air defence system in South Korea.The environmental policies. The study’s Horacio Cartes, eliminate landmark privacy protections customer information and curbing their More Mexican strikes. Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense release coincides with preparations has moved enacted last year by the Federal ability to block websites or slow down incompetence. North Korea remains Some witnesses said IS had previously system (Thaad) is designed to protect by U.S. President Donald Trump to to amend the Communications Commission under certain types of content, momentum an exceptionally difficult target because mass graves forced at least 140 civilians into the against threats from North Korea. slash environmental regulations and constitution to former President Barack Obama. appears to be moving in the opposite of its isolation and limited digital house to be used as human shields, and The move to begin installing the possibly withdraw from the landmark allow him to Not a single Democrat voted for the direction. infrastructure. discovered had booby-trapped the building. system comes a day after the North Paris Agreement, which promises be re-elected measure, which argues barring ISPs from For example, consumer advocates “We’re stopping shipments. We’re Maj. Gen. Maan al-Saadi, a launched four ballistic missiles, breaking to limit global warming to below 2 in 2018, selling customers' Internet activity stifles fear that Congress or the FCC’s new making sure things don’t work the way commander of the Iraqi special forces, international sanctions. But the US- degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) prompting innovation and burdens providers with Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, may seek they’re supposed to,” one former CIA said that the civilian deaths were a result South Korean arrangement has angered compared to pre-industrial levels. warnings that overbearing regulations. In a party-line to roll back the agency’s rules on net official said. “We’ve been able to delay Authorities in Mexico have found more of a coalition airstrike that his men many on the Korean peninsula and CDP analyzed 50 oil and gas the country is in vote, House Republicans freed Internet neutrality, the policy that forbids Internet things, in some cases probably by a lot. than 250 skulls in what may be the had called in, to take out snipers on the around the region, including China. companies, gauging their direct emissions danger of turning into a dictatorship. service providers such as Verizon, providers from blocking content they It’s a cat-and-mouse game.” largest mass grave site in the country, roofs of three houses in a neighborhood South Korean media said operations and pollution from the use of their Members of the governing right AT&T and Comcast of protections don’t like or charging websites a fee to Meanwhile, an influential group of just outside the port city of Veracruz. called Mosul Jidideh. General Saadi to install a Thaad battery had begun products dating back to 1854. The whole wing Colorado party joined with approved just last year that had sought reach consumers over faster Internet politicians in Japan is publicly arguing Of the 252 bodies discovered, only two said the special forces were unaware that on Monday, with some parts flown oil and gas industry combined produced several opposition legislators to propose to limit what companies could do with speeds. Industry analysts said Tuesday for the technically pacifist nations have yet been identified: Pedro Huesca, a the houses’ basements were filled with from the US to an air base near Seoul. about 40 percent of the world’s 832 changes to the Senate’s procedural rules, information such as customer browsing that the FCC is also poised to deregulate to acquire the ability to strike the young state investigator, and his personal civilians. A statement from the US military gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a precursor to introducing a re-election habits, app usage history, location data the $40-billion-a-year industry for Communist regime, instead of having to secretary. In Syria, IS has also been pushed confirmed that the "first elements" of the released in the past three decades, bill after a similar attempt was narrowly and Social Security numbers. The rules data connections used by hospitals, rely on the United States for its defence. The site was reportedly located by back past its ‘capital’ Raqqa, a small system had been sent to South Korea. according to CDP. Saudi Arabia’s defeated in August. Opposition parties also had required providers to strengthen universities and ATMs. “Japan can’t just wait until it’s a group of mothers who have spent city in the East of the country. Raqqa South Korea's Yonhap news agency, national oil company, Saudi Arabian Oil have vowed to resist moves towards safeguards for customer data against Internet providers have historically destroyed,” Hiroshi Imazu, the head of months digging up the area in search of is now surrounded on three sides with quoting a military official, said the Co., which is also known as Aramco, was legitimising re-election, decrying an hackers and thieves. made their money from selling access the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s their loved ones. Veracruz, like several the Euphrates River on the fourth, and system could be operational "as early as named the biggest emitter, responsible for effective coup d’etat and the imposition The Senate has voted to nullify those to the Web. But now these providers security committee and a proponent of other Mexican states that have been planes from the Global Coalition to April". almost five percent of industrial carbon of a “dictatorship”. Polls suggest that measures, which were set to take effect at are looking to increase their revenue the idea, said in a recent interview. “It’s under the control of Mexican drug Counter Islamic State have cut the city Chinese foreign spokesman Geng pollution over that time. China National nearly 80% of Paraguayans oppose re- the end of this year. If Trump signs the by tapping the vast troves of data their legally possible for Japan to strike an cartels, particularly Los Zetas, have of from re-supply by bombing its bridges. Shuang said on Tuesday that China Petroleum Corp and Petroleos Mexicanos election via constitutional amendment, legislation as expected, providers will be customers generate as they visit websites, enemy base that’s launching a missile at dozens of clandestine grave sites that Both cities are expected to fall soon, opposed the deployment and would complete the list of the eight companies although some favour a more gradual able to monitor their customers’ behavior watch videos, read information and us, but we don’t have the equipment or government officials have previously but ridding the countryside of rebels will "resolutely take necessary measures to that in 2015 emitted 6.59 gigatons of constitutional reform that would online and, without their permission, use download apps. the capability.” attempted to cover up. take much longer. defend our own security interests". 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a professor at the Harvard Business think within the boxes of their screens. Dirty Bomb’ Terrorist Scare. Coulson knew that a more sophisticated School, told Over a hundred years after colonialists Now on a sabbatical in jail (as a public was now less susceptible to news MARIUS BRILL’S “Technology is transforming how we and slavers like Cecil Rhodes, Isaac result of making up stories, this time items that looked like PR puffs. DUDLEY SUTTON’S hold ourselves, contorting our bodies Royall and Edward Colston did their in court), and perhaps enjoying his Osborne himself can’t have been into … the iHunch. When we’re sad, own bit for immortality by having morning porridge among some of the too upset by the story; two years later, I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT MEMEING OF LIFE we slouch.” Cuddy then pointed out the statues erected and university buildings hundreds of criminals he likes to claim it was he who recruited Coulson to studies that show, posture does not only bequested, their positions as ‘alright were banged up as a result of his work, become the Conservative’s Director of Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... reflect our emotional state, it’s also a chaps’ are being questioned, their right Mahmood arrived in prison too late Communications. cause. to posterity challenged. Your colony, to bump into his former boss, Screws Following this, other versions But hey, Steve, there’s an app for that: your slaves, Steve, are on my train, in editor and subsequent Downing Street of reverse spin emerged around the SPRING Moment has been created to help people my office, and worst of all at my table. spin doctor, Andy Coulson. Coulson Conservatives. Before the 2010 election Gerard Manley Hopkins manage their telephone screentime and, Only 6 iOS iterations after your death, if had served five months of a fifteen it was ‘leaked’ that David Cameron’s wife, #SteveJobsMustFall of course, it spies on them as well. Of a statue of you is ever put up, I’ll be the month prison sentence handed down Samantha had once voted for the Green its 8,000 users, almost ninety per cent first in line calling #SteveJobsMustFall. in 2014 after he’d been caught listening Party. Shock Horror! If the public knew Nothing is so beautiful as Spring - are using their phone far more than to voice-mails on Prince William and that his wife had once voted for another When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and ; they had thought when self-assessing Prince Harry’s mobiles, along with those party, they might think that she wasn’t of several thousand other politicians and fully behind him as the wife of a party Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Hi Steve revolutionise lives. Strange then that and, on average, every month they (we) you never let your own kids have one. are spending almost a hundred hours ‘celebrities’. He has also been regarded leader should be. Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring glued to their (our) phone screens. Not as the sacrificial lamb who redeemed the In fact the effect was entirely ou swiped left on life nearly 5 And when you told the New York Times Alternative truths even taking into account how long we sins and saved the career of his former positive; it showed Cameron as the sort The ear, it strikes like lightenings to hear him sing; years ago now. Or, from your “We limit how much technology our By Peter Burden may also be looking at TV or computer boss and lover, Rebekah Brooks, now of man who had married an intelligent perspective, at iOS 4.3.5; which kids use in the home,” you weren’t alone. The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush screens. That’s eleven years of an average reinstated at the top of the News Corp independent-minded woman whom was pretty much the iRon-age to today’s Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, did The descending blue; the blue is all in a rush Y too, “because we have seen the dangers lifetime. Just staring at your little lighted heap by her boss, Rupert Murdoch. he wasn’t going to push into thinking iOS 10.3. You’d be so proud how the rectangle. Andy Coulson had been fast-tracked the way he told her; he was a modern With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. defining feature of you’re the latest of technology firsthand.” And Evan Unless you’ve just returned from a few That’s quite a legacy Steve. Your tiny into the editor’s chair at the world’s husband, not a chauvinistic Tory blimp. system is pushing the boundaries of Williams, one of the founders of Blogger, months on a desert island without a little screen has even forced Hollywood, biggest selling newspaper by Rumpled The revelation did him nothing but emotional articulacy: , and Medium, stocked his house radio or internet device, you must have big-screen story teller to the world, Rupert who admired Coulson’s track good. Andy Coulson had struck again. What is all this juice and all this joy? So, considering the speed of tech- with hundreds of books for his sons, but caught at least a few snatches of the to fight back to compete for eyeballs record in the Sun’s gossip pages, where he Until recently, there was a widely development, we’ve had plenty of time refused to give them an iPad. It’s the new American soap that’s gobbling up A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning by churning out even more addictive had learned the art of phone hacking and held belief that the new US President to consider your legacy now and, let’s drug dealer’s mantra: “Don’t get high on the ratings in Britain. This drama is less dramatic “Box Sets”. Stories being, as grubbed up stories around the private had paid very little tax over the last 20 In Eden garden.-Have, get before it cloy, face it, it’s massive. Your iPhone, has your own supply.” sophisticated than the West Wing or the Scheherezade proved to keep herself alive lives of anyone whose name the readers years, a practice which those around Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, changed the world. I know it wasn’t the So Steve, it turns out that instead of Simpsons, and often too fantastical to be for a 1001 nights, one of man’s earliest might recognise. Coulson also had other, him disingenuously ascribed to his first handheld computer or touch-screen technology that would liberate the world, deemed truly witty. The writers of the Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, and least resistible addictions. more sophisticated skills in manipulating business acumen. Then last week, to Mr smart phone but you made it all work you created one of the most addictive new White House Show have managed One study, according to the, The the news, not just to sell papers, but to Trump’s vigorously tweeted indignation, Most, O Maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning. and you made it simple enough for any fixations ever. In Irresistible author Adam fearlessly to launch some astonishing Washington Post found “59 percent of readjust the public image of prominent a photograph of his personal tax return fool to operate. Alter points out that our definition story lines, with the added spice of parents think their teens are addicted to people. This practice morphed into what for 2005 was spectacularly leaked, and we You’ve had two hagiographic movies of addiction is too narrow. “Greg conflicting versions of the plot, and the mobile devices. Meanwhile, 50 percent of might be called reverse spin, or Fake learned that he had, in fact, paid $38m made of your life, countless biographies, Hochmuth, one of Instagram’s founding use of a few neat catch phrases: ‘There teenagers feel the same way.” Leaks. in tax that year, a generous slice of his and I’m sure somebody would have made engineers, realized he was building an are Alternative Facts’. So Steve, I thought I’d write to you These involved stories that on the income by any standards. a statue of you by now if they hadn’t engine for addiction. ‘There’s always But while you might welcome the personally because, well, you got personal face of it were negative, in that they worried it would already need an upgrade another hashtag to click on,’ Hochmuth reckless freshness of it all, you should be first. Though, just by being old I’m fairly looked like stories that the subjects Was that bad for his public image; or was in September and be redundant within said. ‘Then it takes on its own life, like aware that there’s nothing new about one Take a subscription of KCW TODAY immune to your iNchantment, my kids wouldn’t want to see published. An early it really rather good? a year. an organism, and people can become of their themes, Fake News. Fake News are as vulnerable and susceptible to example appeared in the Screws in the Your empire has grown and inspired obsessive.’ Instagram, like so many other has been around for years; here in Britain FOMO as all teens and preteens, and autumn of 2005, just before the annual Had his chum, the rumpled Rupert been for 2017/8 and receive rival empires. All colonising new social media platforms, is bottomless. it used to be called Tabloid Journalism, they’re screen hooked. Not just to the Conservative Party Conference, when whispering advice in his ear? territory: the heads, minds and attention Facebook has an endless feed; Netflix and, to our shame, we have been smartphone, but any device that will Coulson ran a front-page splash ... a copy delivered of virtually every young mind in the automatically moves on to the next world leaders in the practice. Its most serve up endless diversions and decimate “TOP TORY, COKE AND THE Was it a real leak; or was it a False Leak? developed world. episode in a series; Tinder encourages outstanding vehicles have been our major their tolerance of boredom. Bullfrog- HOOKER” Like an East India Company for the users to keep swiping in search of a tabloids : the Sun, the Daily Express, like croaking to each other across the Illustrated with pictures of the Was 2005 the last year that Trump had 21st century, and all the great colonisers, better option. Users benefit from these the Mirror and, of course, the late Name social network ponds, repetitive, flashing innocent looking Shadow Chancellor, paid any meaningful tax? your corporation has exploited this new apps and websites, but also struggle to unlamented News of the World (or News colour, swiping/tapping games and series George Osborne, the story claimed territory for profit, mined and extracted use them in moderation. According to of the Screws). The hacks on the Screws of inane drivel, picaresque petty dramas, that eleven years earlier, the apparently Was the photographed document even Address anything of value to leave behind empty Tristan Harris, a ‘design ethicist,’ the were the brightest stars in this mucky that plague the denizens of the Gossip clean-living Osborne had watched a real? husks. No street in this city is without problem isn’t that people lack willpower; firmament, with highly developed and or Gilmore Girls and their Dance Moms. ‘dominatrix hooker’ snorting a line of the shuffling zombie, bowed heads, of it’s that ‘there are a thousand people on unsurpassed skills in spinning stories Even the BBC iPlayer is jumping into coke. Her boyfriend, an unnamed friend Fake News is an old, familiar your human data mines, transfixed by the other side of the screen whose job it from the merest whiff of a rumour, and e-diction, giving you seconds to switch of Osborne’s, had gone on to become an phenomenon. their screens. You, Steve, created the is to break down the self-regulation you often not even that. So highly regarded off before they push the next episode and addict, the report alleged. habit forming machine par excellence. have.” among the world’s purveyors of bogus another hour of your life is eaten away as When I saw the story, I remember Fake Leaks are new, less detectable, and And it’s not like you didn’t know It’s not just that we’re passive news were these Wapping Warriors that easily as lotus leaves, soma or opium. being struck not so much by any damage far more insidious. what your machines could do to young recipients of information. It is changing many were enticed to the US to work for It is terrible to watch the minds of it might been done to Osborne, but by minds. In the year of Our Job iOS 3.2 who we are. “If you’re in a public place, that nation’s biggest purveyor of fictitious your own children rot in front of you, how much good it had done him. After you launched the iPad with a lecture look around: How many people are news, the National Enquirer (one of hunching over a phone?” Amy Cuddy, close off the outside world and only all, the story didn’t say George himself on just how incredible it was, it would Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic had done anything at all. He hadn’t campaign supporters.) snorted the coke, and he hadn’t taken 11 month’s subscription One hack who wasn’t tempted to advantage of the hooker’s dominatrix UK £ 46.00 (Tick box) leave for the States was Birmingham- skills. But it did make him look, by Overseas on request born Mazher Mahmood, the Screws association, as if he’d lived a bit and had a former ‘Investigations Editor’. 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of her brothers who were at Cambridge. before asking them questions to clarify Summer holidays were spent in any points. At the end of the inquest, the Blue Plaque: Cornwall. Sadly her mother died when Matters of Life coroner or jury will come to a conclusion. Adeline Virginia she was only thirteen years old. and Death This will include a legal statement Virginia enrolled at King's College, By Max Feldman about who died, as well as where, when Woolf London University where she read Latin, and how they died, with the coroner Hastings © David Photograph 1882 - 1941 Greek and History, only being allowed also making make a statement about to attend the Ladies' Department the cause of death so it can be formally in Kensington Square. She was very registered with the police. interested in gender equality. hilst most people understand However far from being subservient Sir Leslie died when Virginia was the broad outline of what a to the police, Dr Knapman posits that Sir Leslie Stephen and his in her youth, and she and her siblings, coroner does, the specifics of the coroner’s independent status is one daughters,Vanessa and Virginia, are Thoby, Adrian and Vanessa, moved to 46 the role are as misty to the general public of the central strengths of the British honoured by three individual Blue , where they were hosts to

STATUES W as a Druid’s work itinerary. judicial system. If a coroner is dissatisfied Plaques erected by English Heritage at Cambridge friends, including Roger Fry, However, considering that the office with the evidence supplied from the 22 Hyde Park Gate, London. This was Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, and John of the coroner is one of the oldest in police report he or she is able to question the birthplace of Virginia Woolf and her Maynard Keynes. They were all early the United Kingdom (predating the and express misgivings about the officers childhood home. members of the set. Metropolitan Police by over seven who supplied the evidence; whilst Virginia Woolf was a celebrated, Thoby died tragically from typhoid, hundred years) and is vital to the presiding over the inquest of the barrister influential writer and critic, who wrote Vanessa married Clive Bell, so Virginia day to day running of the country, Mark Saunders, who was controversially groundbreaking novels, alongside and Adrian then moved to 29 Fitzroy Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster shot to death by Metropolitan Police in numerous essays and diaries. She was Square, an area most popular with artists Today decided to sit down with Dr Paul 2008, Dr Knapman (who the jury ruled a key figure in the Bloomsbury set, and writers. Knapman, Coroner for the borough the death a ‘lawful killing’) stated on the who were a coterie of notably prolific, Virginia married Leonard Woolf City of Westminster and Kensington record that he would use his powers as gifted artists and writers who favoured and lived in Hogarth House where they and Chelsea between 1980 to 2011, in coroner to highlight lessons that should founded the Hogarth Press. Later they a Bohemian lifestyle. They were very an attempt to demystify this important be learned by the police for the future, important in London’s literary scene. went to Monk's House in Sussex. south side, and are by sculptor Henry subject. making copies of his recommendation Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia’s father, Virginia wrote for the Times Literary Bursill. His allegorical statues are both Dr Paul Knapman currently serves as available to the then Secretary of State was an eminent editor and critic. Her Supplement and her first novel, The Holborn full-figured and robed in full-length the Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Justice, Kenneth Clarke. This wasn’t mother, Julia Prinsep was born in Voyage Out was published in 1915. gowns, Agriculture holding a scythe, for Westminster. A role which sees him unusual for Dr Knapman, who would India and later became a model for the In further works she made a timeless Viaduct and a crown fashioned of olive leaves, standing in for the Lord Lieutenant often offer his thoughts and advise on Pre-Raphaelite artists. They both had exploration of the human condition and Sculpture by Henry Bursill with her robe fringed with oak leaves, of Greater London, as the Queen’s the reports brought to him by the police. children by previous marriages and four reflected on the anxieties of the post while Commerce holds gold and coins representative. Towards the end of his service as and Farmer & Brindley more together, namely: Virginia, Vanessa, first world war period. Her writing was in one hand, the other outstretched in HM the Queen appoints a Lord Westminster coroner, Dr Knapman welcome. At her feet are the keys of Thoby and Adrian. lyrical and poignant. She was a leading Lieutenant for each county on the advice The family was large and had good Modernist and an innovator of the helped found the charity Coroner’s the city and a parchment offering the of the Prime Minister, who consults Courts Support Service in 2003, which literary connections. Sir Leslie was English Language, always seeking the widely in the county concerned. 'The freedom of the City. The other two offers support to family members previously married to the daughter of underlying psychological and emotional Lord Lieutenant and Deputy’s first and uilt between 1863 and sculptures of Fine Art and Science who are summoned to the Coroner’s William Makepeace. George Henry motives of her characters. She responded foremost duty is to uphold the dignity of 1869, the Viaduct linked were designed and sculpted by Farmer Court and require advice and help. Lewes and James Russell Lowell were to the panoramic scenes of London and the Crown. Holburn with the City of and Brindley, a firm of architectural Paul Knapman had noticed that many frequent guests. the people and took ordinary narratives The role involves Dr Knapman London, crossing obliquely sculptors and ornamentalists, whose of the witnesses in the court seemed Virginia's early education was at and recreated them in the receptive attending numerous charities, dealing has four children) was key in being able where the death is “violent, unnatural or over Farringdon Street and most noted work was for the Natural “confused and scared” and when he was home, learning Latin, Greek, English consciousness of the characters. Her with voluntary organisations, attending to undertake his job effectively and to where the cause of death is unknown”). the subterranean River Fleet, which History Museum, with their innovative approached by volunteers who wanted Literature and History. She met friends vision was poetic. royal visits and delivering prizes and keep things in perspective. Dr Knapman The decision was then made whether to became a sewer, and was, at one point use of terracotta carving and cladding. to trial a scheme where they would meet up until 1680, navigable to coastal coal The pre-eminent Victorian architect Sir Virginia’s best known awards for events like the Queen’s likened the experience to “a priest who hold a formal inquest, which they would B novels are Mrs Dalloway, Awards. The Deputy and Lord would never show how exhausted they conduct themselves in the Coroner’s the witnesses and provide them with a barges from the North East of England. George Gilbert Scott said of Brindley thorough explanation of how the process Alexander Pope famously wrote in his that he was “the best carver I have ever To the Lighthouse, and Lieutenant’s roles are an important part may feel whilst performing a funeral” Court. Unlike many other countries, works thereby offering an insight into Dunciad, ‘To where Fleet-ditch with met and the one who best understands Into the Waves. Orlando of the system that enables Royal duties and similarly the office of coroner must where much of the power rests with the a process that can be deeply painful disemboguing streams / Rolls the large my views.” These two figures are is a biographical fantasy. to be carried out on their current scale. possess solemnity, a public persona of local police, the coroner in the UK is and confusing to those involved, he tribute of dead dogs to Thames / The less detailed than Bursill’s, with Art A Room of One’s Own is Prior to this Dr Knapman’s thirty- absolute discretion and professionalism. the authority who determines whether a enthusiastically got behind the project. king of dykes! than whom no sluice holding some kind of tablet to represent a seminal Essay. Her last year career as a coroner saw him involved Apart from the diversity, detail and suspicious death is a murder, suicide or a However He was disappointed by the of mud / with deeper sable blots the architectural drawing and, what looks work was Between the with some of the most famous cases of technicalities that come with the title justifiable homicide. “scandalously small amount of support silver flood.’ The architect was City like a stylus of some description, and the Acts. the 20th century. These included the the role requires considerable patience. If the cause of death is unknown surveyor William Haywood, who with head of Athena, representing sculpture, Virginia’s marriage to Iranian Embassy Siege, The A coroner is not allowed to defend their the coroner will arrange for a forensic offered by the government at first ” who Joseph Bazalgette was responsible mounted on a fluted column behind her. Leonard was happy, but Rail disaster and The Marchioness decisions to any criticism, either by those pathologist to do a post mortem offered only token small amounts of for improvements in London’s sewer Science is holding a ‘flyball’ centrifugal all her life she suffered Boat incident (in 1980, 1987 and 1989 who feel they haven’t been offered justice examination (whilst very few coroner’s financial aid to help the scheme. “These system, and the engineer was Rowland speed governor from a steam engine, from periods of acute respectively). He also sat in on one of or from attacks by the media. often have the additional medical seemed paltry in contrast to sums put Mason Ordish, who was noted for with a globe adorned with Zodiacal depression and nervous the England’s most mysterious cases, As Dr Knapman explained, the office training as in Dr Knapman’s case, in into some individual inquests”. his work on the single-span roof of signs on a pedestal by her side. This firm breakdowns. At times the inquest of the death of Lord Lucan’s of the coroner has notably changed England they are exclusively recruited It can seem that coroners seem to toil St Pancras Station and the Albert also designed the four bronze winged she was hospitalised. nanny, when he was Deputy Coroner. from its original duties as something from the ranks of lawyers of the judiciary in silence, compared to the more broadly Bridge, which utilised his own modified lions at each corner of the Viaduct, She killed herself Dr Knapman believes that he dealt resembling the medieval equivalent and never physically undertake any post- publicly known others in the legal cable-stayed bridge, but proved to be each with a paw resting on a globe, the by drowning in the with something in the region of 85,000 of a royal tax collector whose duties mortems themselves). If results prove profession legal professions like judges structurally unsound. Bazalgette was size of a football. From a total of four River Ouse which deaths, of which approximately 500 occasionally extended into investigating anything like a natural cause of death and barristers, but their work is some brought in to stabilise the crossing other statues, there are two surviving ran near her home in were murders or manslaughter; generally ‘unnatural’ deaths. Suicides would such as a heart attack or a stroke, then of the most important in our judiciary. by incorporating some of the design by Bursill of Lord Mayors Sir Thomas Sussex. Her suicide note seeing as many as seventy new cases a automatically forfeit their property to the coroner will not announce an inquest. Dr Knapman remarked that he “never elements of a suspension bridge. The Gresham and Henry Fitz-Eylwin (the expressed gratitude for week processed by his office “plus all the the crown for example and a coroner When a death is judged to be dreaded going back to work on Monday” highly-decorative red and gold Viaduct, first Lord Mayor) on the step-buildings so much happiness she difficult ongoing cases from the week would investigate to see whether the unnatural an inquest will be presented as there was always a satisfaction to however, was much more stable and it each side of the bridge. The Luftwaffe had received from her (and months) before”. He explained Crown could take its due. Over time in the coroner’s court, either with be found in the job. He feels he was was opened by Queen Victoria with a claimed the other two, but they have husband. Her cremated that an ability to compartmentalise his however the office of the coroner grew or without a jury depending on the fortunate to be able to overcome any formal coach procession in 1869. reinstated Sir Hugh Middleton to his remains were buried by work and being able to mentally shut off out of its role as tax gatherers into an situation. Evidence is given by witnesses feelings of morbidity which came with There are four statues on the niche and the figure on the missing him beneath an elm tree after working hours from “the catalogue entirely separate and independent office but there's no prosecution or defence. his work. Whilst Dr Paul Knapman parapets, two of which represent building was of Sir William Walworth. at Monk’s House, their of human misery” that constitutes the whose which duties included formally During an inquest, witnesses chosen clearly has a deep affection for his old Commerce and Agriculture on the Don Grant home. job, is a vital ability for any prospective investigating the circumstances and by the coroner will give evidence. The career, he seems both settled and happy coroner. His own relationship with his medical causes behind any suspicious coroner usually can ask the witness to in his new role as a deputy lieutenant and Marian Maitland loving and understanding family (he death (which covered circumstances summarise events in their own words his extended family of 12 grandchildren. 14 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Feature Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Although the Democratic They hate the self- These authorities neither have the Unionist Party was the only employed because time nor the inclination to decide in The Anniversary major party in Northern The boomerang we are perceived favour of the contractor. If subsequently Ireland to oppose the to be outside their they’re proved to be wrong, the of the Good budget © Disney Photograph agreement (along with the John Handley rotten decaying department will be liable for the PAYE/ Friday Agreement more marginal UKUP), both corrupt self-serving NIC. Will any civil servant take that By Max Feldman the UUP and Sinn Féin said & Douglas Shanks bureaucratic system. risk? Of course not; everyone will that they would have to refer Don’t kid yourself be treated as caught by IR35. When the document to their wider that the European was a public official last fired for memberships before signing Court of Justice procrastination? up to the deal. was another layer. How would you feel, or perhaps you he Good Friday Agreement, While UUP leader David hilip Hammond surprised many Surely our intelligent are just about to feel it, if someone took whilst not immune to criticism Trimble received the support Tories by lashing out at the readership didn’t buy 35% out of your pay-packet next week. (and later requiring the St of his wider party for the self-employed not only with the that one. The ECJ Permanently. It’s a disgrace. Not the Andrew’s agreement to bolster it) has deal, he lost the support Pextra National Insurance, which was was a powerful and government but you and me for letting T on analysis not that material, but with preserved a peace that was by no means of six of the party’s ten effective check on the them get away with it. guaranteed in Northern Ireland since Members of Parliament. the polemics that came with it. Having abuses of our own What will actually happen is that 1998. That peace is not guaranteed, These dissenters joined praised the Chancellor and his boss government. Brexit either the contractors will leave or put however, and the shockwaves of Brexit forces with the DUP and in the past for apparent pragmatism, has just signed us up their hourly rate. In either case the (Northern Ireland voted Remain by the UKUP to campaign for it seems a little hypocritical to have a over to the modern government has shot their department 56% to 44%) have placed unprecedented a ‘No’ vote in the referendum go about the U-turn. The damage has equivalent of Jacobite in the foot. But before we end on that tension on the Peace Agreement. which was to follow on 22 already been done in the language of absolutists, or worse, high-note of schadenfreude, government Over the last nineteen years of amity May 1998. alienation, accusing the self-employed of Norman conquerers. is judge, jury and executioner in these it’s become easy to undervalue the Referendums were held seeking unfair advantage. this absurd ivory-tower assault on A rant needs a little case study. Let’s circumstances. The British courts are achievements made by the 1998 on the same day in both The main unfair advantage is of common sense, it’s actually quite hard to get really personal: the daughter of one of craven; so’s the House of Lackeys. Shed a negotiations, so in the run up to the Northern Ireland and the course no security of employment, but get worked up about it. our partners here at DSC Metropolitan. tear for the ECJ, as having experimented twentieth anniversary and in the shadow Republic of Ireland. In the the most visible is the fact that holidays What’s really worrying is not that She’s a contractor in the public sector. on their own subcontractors, how long of the death of Martin McGuiness, we’re north, voters were asked to are unpaid. There is the additional they backed down, which was sensible, From 6 April 2017 all government before they turn their misguided venom re-evaluating the history of the Good ratify the deal. In the south, advantage of no job-related pensions. and in the context of the extent of the authorities using contractors will need on the private sector? Friday Agreement. they were asked to approve Other advantages include unlimited HM cock-up almost admirable, but how to decide whether those contractors are Bring me my pin-striped tights. At the beginning of 1998, the a change to the constitution Revenue & Customs policies skewed hopelessly out of touch they are with life caught by IR35 or not. IR35 has been I’m off to Sherwood Forest. prospects for peace in Northern Ireland of Ireland. All sides agreed to the taxpayer’s disadvantage. If you as it actually is for the massed ranks of around so long you’re probably familiar were poor, though to the untrained eye, a credible majority was make a mistake you’ll be hit with interest the UK’s self-employed. The mandarins with it, but essentially if you think you’re plenty of positives had begun to emerge: required if the deal was and penalties; if the Revenue makes a of Whitehall see themselves as feudal self-employed, which the government multi-party talks had been established in to survive. While most mistake they won’t even pay your costs. overlords from the sybaritic palaces has just spelt out in the budget it hates to Doug of Loxley and Little John Handley June 1996, Irish Republican Army (IRA) Nationalists and Republicans The Chancellor and the Prime Minister that you have paid for, with gilt-edged the point of phobia, HMRC can pretty continue to rage against the state from paramilitaries had restored their ceasefire were clearly in favour, a sounded so crass as they tried to justify pensions that your children will finance. much arbitrarily decide you’re not. the Forest of DSC Merry Metropolitans. in July 1997, and, by September of that Unionist and Loyalist year, the political representatives of the majority was far from certain. retirement at age 45. Best wishes to all. in Scotland and Wales.” republican and loyalist paramilitaries herself. the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to In Northern Ireland, campaigning Pensioner’s World It’s been a good read,” Britain’s property Recent figures from commercial were engaged in the talks at Stormont in It later transpired that Mowlam join the negotiating parties at Stormont. was fierce as DUP leader Ian Paisley Pensions World magazine closes after property investment managers JLL reveal Belfast. did not consult Prime Minister Tony The Thursday midnight deadline passed urged a ‘No’ vote to safeguard the Union. 45 years of service that the mood in the Central London While all were undoubtedly prices slow Blair or any of his aides ahead of this as the parties increased pressure on both The ‘Yes’ camp, by necessity carrying a After 45 years of news and informed development market did brighten a significant breakthroughs in the peace more mixed message in attempting to unprecedented step. Blair’s chief of staff, governments to get the best possible deal. comment for pensions professionals, little during late 2016 and early 2017 as process, problems were still plentiful appeal to both sides of the community, Jonathan Powell, recalled: ”If she had In the early hours of Good Friday, leading industry magazine Pensions World prices stabilised. However, the market and a genuinely successful outcome only really gathered steam days before asked us we would certainly have said no. the Ulster Unionist team was still “I have been privileged to meet many bids farewell to readers. remains subdued relative to the past five appeared remote. The Ulster Unionist the vote. In an iconic moment at a rock House prices fell in March for But in the event she was right and we unhappy with some of the detail, marvellous people, from pensioners and years with development activity slowing Party (UUP), the largest political party concert in Belfast, Bono managed to Editor of the publication for 28 years were wrong.” Her engagement with the particularly the sections dealing with politicians to high flying industry gurus the first time since June 2015, in response to a more challenging sales in Northern Ireland at the time, refused cajole David Trimble and John Hume and winner of 10 first and second prizes paramilitary prisoners assured them that the decommissioning of paramilitary too numerous to name,” writes Stephanie market. to engage directly with negotiators from (leader of the nationalist SDLP) to for pensions, property and insurance according to Nationwide’s their concerns were being taken seriously weapons and the release of paramilitary Hawthorne in her final article as editor “Activity in both the Central London Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA. appear alongside him onstage, the three journalism, Hawthorne looks back fondly at the highest level and a potentially prisoners. A personal assurance from of the publication. March House Price Index. and Greater London Development This was because the IRA had yet to linking arms as the crowd cheered. over her years as editor. show-stopping hurdle was overcome. Tony Blair to UUP leader David Trimble Often called upon for independent Prices unexpectedly fell markets has slowed over the past year give up its weapons (a process known The involvement of the UDA and smoothed these last ripples of discontent. In Northern Ireland, 676,966 people pensions advice over the years, she indicating a concerning trend that the as decommissioning). The Democratic IRA in further killings in January and At 5.30pm on Friday 10 April 1998, voted in favour of the deal, while 274,879 by 0.3 percent contrary to Unionist Party (DUP) and the UK voted against. The 'yes' vote was 71.12%. gives her final piece under the umbrella Capital’s housing supply problems February 1998 led to the exclusion of George Mitchell stated: “I am pleased to DB Green Paper Shortfall of Pensions World warning readers Looking ahead expectations of a rise by the At retirement are set to continue. This is despite the Unionist Party (UKUP) had earlier left Turnout was a record 81.10%. In the Covenant p30 their political representatives, the UDP announce that the two governments and p14 of hidden costs and pension tax as Depending on you p23 Mayor’s initiatives, the Housing White the talks over the same issue. They also and Sinn Féin, from negotiations. Talks the political parties in Northern Ireland Republic the recorded 'yes' vote was www.pensionsworld.co.uk April 2017 same amount. well as reminding employers of their Paper and the growth in the institutional feared the negotiations might weaken were stalled yet again. Frustrated at have reached agreement”. 94.39%, with 1,442,583 people voting responsibility. private rented community sector,” said Northern Ireland’s place within the the lack of any real progress, the talks’ The Belfast Agreement (or Good in favour and 85,748 voting against. The leading magazine for pensions professionals since 1972 The annual pace of growth slowed to 3.5

United Kingdom. chairman, former US Senator George Friday Agreement as it would become The Good Friday Agreement came into World © Pensions Photograph “Employers must not continue to use percent in March, down from 4.5 per Residential Research Director at JLL There was also the very real Mitchell, concluded that a deadline was known) contained proposals for a force in December 1998 when Northern the rise of defined contribution as an cent in February and below the 4 percent Neil Chegwidden. possibility that negotiators for the crucial to securing a settlement. After Northern Ireland Assembly with Ireland's politicians took their seats at excuse to cut costs and not finance their pace expected. Nationwide also noted that loyalist paramilitaries would withdraw persuading all the participants to agree, a power-sharing executive, new the assembly in Stormont, but it would employees’ pensions adequately,” she “Six regions saw the pace of house homeownership is at its lowest since from the talk’s process. On 4 January Mitchell set it at the stroke of midnight cross-border institutions with the not be plain sailing from this point writes. price growth accelerate, six saw a 1985, particularly among young people, a the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on Thursday 9 April. Republic of Ireland and a body linking on. Disagreements over contentious “Your workers are worth more than deceleration and one (East Midlands) demographic traditionally containing the prisoners in the Maze, took a vote on The final week was to prove a hectic devolved assemblies across the UK issues like the annual Unionist/Loyalist that: they are not just a cost centre to be recorded the same rate as the previous most first time buyers. the matter, with two thirds in favour of and dramatic finale to a process which with Westminster and Dublin. The Orange Order marches, policing and exploited. And every expert will tell you quarter,” said Nationwide’s chief “The counterpart to this trend has withdrawal. The Ulster Unionist leader had begun almost two years earlier. At Republic of Ireland has also agreed the decommissioning of paramilitary it is the size of contribution that makes economist Robert Gardner. been robust growth in the private rental David Trimble went to the Maze to talk, half past midnight on Tuesday 7 April to drop its constitutional claim to the weapons occurred on a regular basis. the biggest difference to the pension “The South of England continued to sector, with 20 percent of households in but he was unable to change their minds. 1998, Mitchell presented the negotiating six counties which formed Northern There were also attacks from dissident pot.” see slightly stronger price growth than England now privately rented, a record Remarkably, following a request from the teams with a 65-page draft document for Ireland. There were also proposals on paramilitaries who opposed the peace In an industry hungry for End of an era the North of England, but there was high, up from 12 percent ten years leader of the Ulster Democratic Party consideration as the basis for the final the decommissioning of paramilitary process, the worst of which was the information, Pensions World will surely 1972–2017 a further narrowing in the differential. ago. The number of privately rented (UDP), which represented the UDA, the round of negotiations. It was rejected weapons, the future of policing in atrocity in Omagh when a Real IRA be sorely missed and as one avid reader Northern Ireland saw a slight pickup households has increased by more than Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by the unionist parties. This prompted Northern Ireland and the early release of bomb killed 29 people and unborn twins laments: “Pensions World to take early PLUS Round table: DB – a way out of the morass? p18 in annual house price growth, while 75 percent over the past decade and now Mo Mowlam, made the same journey British Prime Minister Tony Blair and paramilitary prisoners. on a busy shopping street. 1 23/03/2017 16:08:21 conditions remained relatively subdued stands at 4.5 million,” said Nationwide. 16 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

groups aimed at a wide growth of and 39 percent, respectively, of content American influence, rather than a narrow flagged as illegal by its users. Google’s Obituary: David focus on his own company’s’ profits. His Advertising YouTube, he says, is exemplary, deleting Rockefeller influence was huge: He was crucial in threat pushes social media 90 percent of flagged illegal content. persuading Carter to admit the deposed to police content Critics of the bill have asked Shah of Iran to the US for cancer why the government is trying to put In light of the recent death treatment, provoking his opponents By Ione Bingley the liability in the hands of private to seize the United States Embassy in companies instead of enforcing existing of David Rockefeller, Max Iran. Rockefeller was also criticised for laws. The EU digital commissioner Feldman takes a look at the befriending autocratic foreign leaders commenting on the bill said that in an effort to establish and expand his there is already legislation to deal with billionaire banker-diplomat’s bank’s presence in their countries. misinformation and bigoted posts. life Whilst David Rockefeller’s passing The trade-off faced by the social marks the effective end of the old he UK government, alongside “But we also have a responsibility to across Europe are a “wake-up call” to the media industry continues as they s the last living grandchild of American patrician families who several other high profile brands our advertisers who help these publishers technology industry to put its “house in tweak regulations while attempting to John D. Rockefeller, the founder dominated American life in the 19th including L’Oreal and Marks and creators thrive. We have strict order” and that the ethical statements maintain policies of free speech. They of Standard Oil and the US’s century, he leaves a legacy that has & Spencer, has pulled their taxpayer- policies that define where Google ads released by the social media powerhouses have also encountered problems with T the unwarranted removal by automatic first billionaire, the death of David city that the Twin Towers were even and was particularly generous in his seen more and more billionaires make funded adverts from YouTube following should appear, and in the vast majority “had to mean something”. A filter systems of LGBT content causing a Rockefeller at age 101 marks the end nicknamed David and Nelson (his older support of the New York’s Museum their will felt in government policy. their appearance next to videos featuring of cases, our policies and tools work as Mackey told the London assembly’s of an era. The Rockefeller family took brother). of Modern Art, which his family had In 2010 the controversial Supreme extremist content. intended. But at times we don’t get it police and crime committee there backlash from the community. the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren’s Unlike his brothers Nelson (vice- helped found Court ruling on Citizens United v. Google has since been summoned right.” was a “truly enormous” amount of Google’s acceptance of responsibility tomb in St Paul’s Cathedral (“Reader, president of the US and Governor of In 1961, Rockefeller became Federal Election Commission (along to the Cabinet Office “to explain how On behalf of Google, Schindler digital information involved in terror represents a step forward in an industry if you seek his monument look around New York) and Winthrop (Governor president and co-chief executive officer with several subsequent ones) removed it will deliver the high quality of service admits that there were “a number of cases investigations. better known for using its structure as you”) and applied it to the entire island of Arkansas) who were both major of what was by then Chase Manhattan. virtually all limits on how much money “Some of that a platform to negate its control over of Manhattan; playing a unique role in figures in US Public office, Rockefeller 8 years on he took up the position of corporations and non-profit groups would be in secure user-contributed content. The companies developing a list of buildings that have sought to have a powerful influence sole chief executive, steering the bank can spend on federal elections. This applications; some are still avoiding responsibility for the become world famous sites: The World on world affairs from his position towards expansion overseas. He also included how much individuals can give of that would be in policing of users, but the old excuse that Trade Centre, One Chase Manhattan as a businessman. He encouraged played a vital part in the rescue of the to political-action committees, who have a variety of formats it is too difficult to produce algorithms Plaza, The United Nations. Rockefeller international engagement and became City of New York, whose bonds were proffered blank cheques in exchange for that are more easy to and AIs to tackle the problem of Centre, The Museum of Modern the first director of the think tank set a key Chase holding, after the City’s influencing government policies to super analyse and work with,” inappropriate content will not hold for Art. Lincoln Centre, The Memorial up by the Council on Foreign Relations financial meltdown in the 1970s. By rich ideologues, as was the case of the he said. “We work hard much longer, particularly with recent Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, The (CFR) and founded of the Trilateral the time he stepped down as chairman Koch brothers or David Mercer. Whilst with the industry to successful crackdowns on copyright Rockefeller University, The Metropolitan Commission, created in 1973 to bring in 1981, the bank’s profits had doubled. David Rockefeller may be dead, both highlight some of the violations by engineers. The question Museum of Art, Riverside Church and together private sector leaders to discuss He broke new ground by taking Chase the artistic institutions made possible challenges of these very remains as to whether this move will The Cloisters are just some of the best issues of global concern. David was also into the Soviet Union, China and Egypt, by his philanthropy and his traditions of secure applications. instigate an industry wide shift. known. Such was their stamp on the one of the US’s leading philanthropists, and sought influence abroad via advisory political influence, are very much alive. “It’s a challenge when you’re dealing with companies that are in a central European location, and will enable Lloyd’s to government demands on behalf of the where brands’ ads appeared on content global by their very nature because they continue to provide specialist underwriting expertise to our taxpayer”. that was not aligned with their values” don’t always operate under the same legal Lloyd’s of customers. I am excited about the opportunities this venture “Digital advertising is a cost-effective conceding that this is “unacceptable”. framework as us. But it is something we will offer the market by providing that important European way for the government to engage They have promised to make it easier continually push for.” London keeps access efficiently.” © Lloyds Photograph millions of people in vital campaigns for advertisers to exclude their adverts Mackey said there was a team within Whilst the UK Government has triggered Article 50, it such as military recruitment and from specific channels and videos and, to the Met’s special operations that took one foot in EU remains a full member of the EU for at least two more years. blood donation,” said a government raise the bar for safer default content that down material hosted in places the force Lloyd’s have reassured clients that there is no immediate spokeswoman. adverts appear next to. could access. with new Brussels impact on existing policies, renewals or new policies, including “Google is responsible for For many, however, this is not Germany, known for having some multi-year policies, written during this period of time. ensuring the high standards applied to enough. Following the recent terror of the worlds toughest laws against office “It is now crucial that the UK Government and the government advertising are adhered to attack in Westminster, there have been hate speech already, has taken this a By Ione Bingley European Union proceed to negotiate an agreement that and that adverts do not appear alongside renewed calls for social media giants, step further releasing a new hate speech allows business to continue to flow under the best possible inappropriate content. We have placed Facebook, Google and Twitter to work bill in an attempt to get social media conditions once the UK formally leaves the EU. I believe it a temporary restriction on our YouTube with police to flag potential terrorist companies to abide. is important not just for the City but also for Europe that we advertising pending reassurances from threats and remove extremist content. German Justice Minister Heiko Maas The world’s largest and oldest insurance reach a mutually beneficial agreement. We stand ready to help Google that government messages can be The acting chief of the Metropolitan says that these organisations are not market, Lloyd’s of London has and support the Government as best we can,” said Beale. delivered in a safe and appropriate way. police Craig Mackey who witnessed doing enough to take out hate rhetoric announced that it will be opening a post- Lloyd’s is expected to shift up to 100 jobs initially to Google has promised to change its the savage attack on PC Keith Palmer, and dangerous ‘fake news’. The new Brexit Brussels subsidiary to ensure that Brussels from London, where it currently employs about 600 procedures and have issued an apology said that the incident and those like it bill follows a rise in xenophobic and it stays “at the heart of the EU”. Their people. Globally it has a workforce of 900. It will fine tune the in a blog post by Chief Business Officer racist posts aimed towards migrants and headquarters will, however, remain in details of the move with regulators over the coming months, Philip Schindler entitled “Expanded refugees as well as a recent report of ten London. to ensure that the new centre is up and running by the time safeguards for advertisers”. Schindler attacks a day on migrants in Germany The move will allow them to write the UK leaves the EU in two years. champions the power that advertising last year. risks from all 27 European Union and The announcement comes with the news that Lloyd’s has had in carving the way for small “We have to increase the pressure on three European Economic Area states enjoyed a £2.1 billion pre-tax profit for 2016, a far more businesses and individuals to benefit social networks,” said Maas. “Too little after the United Kingdom has left the agreeable sum than in a disastrous 2011 when the market paid from their free platform, as well as illegal content is deleted, it’s not deleted EU, providing their customers and out a record £20.6 billion. recognising their responsibility to look quickly enough and it looks like the partners continued access to the Lloyd’s While many big financial names have been looking after those advertisers. operators of social networks aren’t taking market. to open offices on the continent, Lloyd’s is the first major “Thousands of sites are added their users seriously enough.” “It is important that we are able to financial firm to choose Brussels as their EU base. Frankfurt every day to our ad network, and more The bill states that social networks provide the market and customers with appears to be the preferred destination for many investment than 400 hours of video are uploaded must delete or block “obviously illegal” an effective solution that means business banks including Goldman Sachs, which has said it will move to YouTube every minute. We have a content within 24 hours after it’s been can carry on without interruption when hundreds of bankers to the German financial centre as well as responsibility to protect this vibrant, flagged or face hefty fines of up to 50 the UK leaves the EU,” said Lloyd’s Paris. creative world, from emerging creators million euros. Chief Executive Inga Beale. The US insurance giant AIG has recently revealed plans to to established publishers, even when we Citing a study commissioned by his “Brussels met the critical elements of set up their EU subsidiary in Luxembourg to best serve clients don’t always agree with the views being ministry, Maas says that Twitter and providing a robust regulatory framework after Brexit, and JP Morgan is yet to decide on a location. expressed,” writes Schindler. Facebook currently delete only 1 percent 18 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Environment Business & Innovation online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and the Netherlands calling for a blanket 250,000 foreign students, but that is As in the UK, culture is now and culturally - so when it emerged ban on microbeads, EU free trade laws just the beginning. The Korean, South recognised as an industry. This includes blinking into the sunlight under Deng have made it very difficult for any EU China’s Design East Asian, Latin American and African art, performing arts, music, media, Xiaoping in the 1980s it had a great deal countries to remove polluting products students in the International Blocks at product design, architecture, fashion, of catching up to do. from the market, with no EU country Revolution: Tsinghua, for example, have Chinese as software, video games and advertising. For many years Europeans and Photograph © Greenpeace Photograph Britain's response and looking successfully implementing a ban to date. their common language, not English. Private and public investment in the Americans have been very smug, At 51 trillion, microbeads in our at China with new eyes To make them more down to earth, creative industries is rising and, according assuming that China will not match oceans now outnumber stars in our by Professor Hugo de Burgh universities are encouraged to partner to an EU report, over the last decade them any time soon, especially in design galaxy according to recent estimates from with businesses and offer industrial the Chinese cultural industry multiplied and innovation. They are being proved the UN. and professional training. For example, by 60 times, reaching 5% of GDP as wrong. Very soon we will be dealing with there are often new buildings in which planned by the government in 2013. equals, innovating in numerous fields. Plastic economy both established companies and new Across the country, creative clusters And to cooperate with China, the The plastic bag levy introduced in enterprises take space in order to give are springing up where artists produce, China of President Xi Jinping, in which 2013 has not only halved the number work experience opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. One of Anglo American culture is explicitly of plastic bags washed up on Britain’s students and as experiment labs. my former students set up a creative rejected and a traditional Chinese beaches annually, but has also generated a modest profit for supermarkets nationwide with most donating a varied proportion to environment organisations and other charities. Between 2014 and 2015, Morrisons made almost half a

million pounds from the charge, all of De Burgh © Hugo Photograph which less VAT went to the Morrisons . Plastic: Time to Ireland was the first country to introduce a plastic bag levy in 2002, break the mould which led to a 90 percent drop in plastic By Ione Bingley bag use and generated a profit of over £7.6mil used to support environmental projects. As bans and levies gain traction globally, there is a material abyss left by lastic is the most widespread, to the UN, and speaking at the launch single-use plastic that needs bridging and man-made material on Earth of Clean Seas, the head of UNEP Erik those who succeed in providing a cheap, and its pervasiveness has found it Solheim firmly stated that “it is past the biodegradable alternative stand to make a deeper than any human has ever been, at time that we tackle the plastic problem very healthy profit. Industry giants Danone and Nestlé

P © epSos.de Photograph the very bottom of the world’s deepest that blights our oceans. We’ve stood oceans. With only five percent effectively by too long as the problem has gotten have joined Californian green startup recycled worldwide, plastic congregates worse. It must stop”. Origin Materials to develop a PET on the beaches of uninhabited islands, plastic bottle made from 100 percent hina’s government, which has Design in the curriculum company in Peking six years ago. By identity being reinstated, it would be amasses in global ocean current swells, Tides of Change bio-based, recyclable, renewable, managed the extraordinary 35 chance I was visiting her when she was wise to put effort into understanding overflows landfill sites and blocks Despite the magnitude and global degradable material at a commercial scale year transition from basket case to 1,400 colleges offer courses in art and meeting two local government officials a civilisation that is very different and drainage systems causing flooding. scale of the plastic problem, the tide does in record time. The market for which is Cleading economy, now wants to set it on design to 1.2m students. They include who had supplied her company with intends to remain so, and discovering just Perhaps most shockingly, it has been appear to be turning with governments projected to reach $13bn by 2023. a new course: to become a knowledge- famous ones such as the Academy premises in a small creative hub in old how advanced it is, and may soon be. estimated that there will be more plastic and consumer pressure inciting domino Indonesia would achieve a 70 percent Multi-nationals Coca-Cola and based economy, even an ‘innovation of Fine Arts in Peking and that of warehouses in the city centre. Four years Two years ago China Media Centre than fish in the ocean by 2050, according bans on disposable plastics around the reduction in marine waste over eight Toyota have also weighed in for the society’, rather than just a manufacturing Hangzhou. The cities of Changsha, later, they were there to discuss a grant organised a media colloquium, at which to the United Nations Environment world. years. race to develop plant-based plastic, with hub. Kunming, Shenzhen and Wuxi have for expansion of a company employing the keynote speakers were Jeremy Programme (UNEP) that has classed France has banned the sale of non- Closer to home, following last year’s Toyota investing an undisclosed amount Manufacturing industry is "to move recently upgraded or built specialist over 150 people, of whom 50 are Paxman, the TV anchor and political plastic as a major environmental crisis biodegradable, disposable plastic cups, outcry about the huge numbers of tiny, in sustainable technology company from cheap products that others specify design education institutions, and Innovation & Development. analyst, and Bai Yansong, China’s and launched a Clean Seas campaign to plates and cutlery in a law that comes plastic microbeads found in exfoliating Anellotech. to developing their own designs and provincial governments are trying to When the China Media Centre, equivalent, a forceful and critical current encourage offending countries to counter into force in 2020. Kenya is the most , as well as household cleaning Despite the financial gains to be brands" and is to take on hundreds of attract design firms to their technology which I founded, got its first commission affairs host. their plastic addiction. recent in a long list of African nations products, being washed down the made from green alternatives and the thousands of product designers. Design parks. to train TV producers from Hunan At the end, Bai, courteously, asked The durable nature of plastic, which to ban single-use plastic bags. India plughole and out to sea, major retailers environmental benefits, the plastic education is a focus of investment and Few of the design schools are up to TV, in 2005, that company had already Paxman what Chinese media might has proved so useful to humankind, has banned all forms of disposable such as Boots, Tesco, Waitrose and industry is not likely to go down without encouragement. standard, especially since the feeder copycatted British programme formats learn from the BBC. Paxman made an means that the hardy material does plastic from its capital city Delhi that is Superdrug have vowed to phase out a fight. Powerful plastic lobbyists in In many other countries such vaulting secondary schools have side-lined or without permission. After our trainers eloquent exposition of the glories of the not biodegrade and instead fragments choked by smog, in part attributed to the products using the beads by the end of Britain were able to successfully lower ambition would be ridiculous, but abolished art and design in recent years, had introduced them to format producers BBC, implying that China had nothing into smaller and smaller pieces, many widespread practice of burning rubbish 2017. recycling targets nationwide last year and this government is very effective in but institutions are working to correct who explained their designs in minute comparable. He showed that he knew of which are ingested by filter feeding as a disposal strategy. Plastic bags have The British government has also despite the support of citizens, California promoting its policies. Furthermore, the their weaknesses in three ways. They detail, Hunan TV started buying little about the world’s biggest media marine animals, leading to deadly been banned for many years in several pledged to change the legislation fought industry groups for two years aspiration is widely shared. Businesses are importing teachers from abroad; formats under licence. Shanghai TV, system. blockages and poisoning. An estimated Indian states following revelations that regarding microbeads by October joining before local levies on plastic bags were know that they urgently need design if initiating overseas collaborations in among others, noted the success of this Returning the compliment, Paxman 150 million tonnes of plastic “disappears” they exacerbated the severe flooding that New Zealand, Canada, the US and allowed to be imposed. they are to compete abroad. And the design education, and sending students, approach but in recent years has gone asked Bai Yansong what the BBC might from the world’s waste stream each submerged two thirds of the nation in Sweden. While hoping to cash in on future universities are tooling up rapidly. like the Europhiles, abroad. This is a stage further in using China Media learn from Chinese media. Bai paused year, and it is thought that this is how recent history. “Adding tiny pieces of plastic to green gains, Coca-Cola reportedly One reason why there are so many the nitty gritty of economic change Centre services. Their producers come and then made the laconic remark: it enters the food chain, increasing in Even Indonesia, second only to China products like face washes and body has also been lobbying against a bottle Chinese students in the UK is that there and a new challenge for the advanced over twice a year with programme ideas ‘Learn Chinese’. concentration as it is eaten by larger as the nation dumping the most plastic scrubs is incredibly damaging to our sea collection scheme in Scotland designed were not enough university places at economies. that they then work up with experienced [Based on a talk to the Conference creatures, eventually ending up on our into the sea a year, has pledged $1bn life; they can swallow them, but cannot to encourage consumers to return their home, and that the quality is variable. In programme development executives; they of British Heads of Design, given at plates. annually to reduce the amount of plastic digest them. The UK has always been a drinks bottles by way of a small deposit 1991 barely 3.5% of 18-22 year olds went The economic background also brainstorm and hold innovation College of Art on 16th Plastic also has the unfortunate and other waste products entering its leader in environmental protection and at sale. to university, whereas today 40% do; workshops in London so that they can March 2017] attribute of being permeable to toxins, so waters in an announcement made by we take our responsibility to marine life, It appears to be only a matter of time that’s 200 million in a variety of types of China is no longer the workshop of the develop their own programme concepts. often it is the chemicals absorbed by the Indonesia’s coordinating minister for not only in our own seas, but around before biodegradable alternatives reach a institution. world. Rising wages and labour scarcity In other words, they have progressed Hugo de Burgh plastic as they move through our global maritime affairs Susi Pudjiastuti at the the world, very seriously,” declared commercially viable reality; the question The UK government is encouraging show that China is ready to upgrade its from copiers, to partners, to originators. is Director of the China Media Centre systems and out to sea that causes the 2017 World Oceans Summit in Bali. Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom remains as to whether the new players private universities to set up; so is economy and produce higher value goods I suspect that this is the form we can and Chairman of Kensington Wade most damage to marine ecosystems. Pudjistani, popular for her effective at a consultation in December. will have enough leverage to overpower the Chinese. There are already a few and services. This means investment expect of many industries. English Chinese Dual Language School, There are 46,000 pieces of waste crackdown on illegal fishing, told Despite government ministers in the plastic industry heavies and their foreign university campuses, including in education, innovation, science and From 1949 to 1979 China went Europe’s first immersion school for plastic per square mile of sea, according delegates at the conference that Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg friends in high places. three British, and so far there are over technology. backwards – economically, politically children 3-13. 20 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Astronomy Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Children struggling to to more than 8,000 in 2015-16. gave a teenage boy the Fort Knox of pornography. They find ways around the Kensington Wade MPs also raised concerns about the laptops with every single parental control safety measures that we put in. concentrate at school impact of social media on children’s on it and challenged him to find some “What schools need, I think, are School: mental health, with reports of widespread pornography. He did it in 30 seconds experts in this field who are really up to Investing in the future due to lack of sleep, MPs told cyberbullying, and parents’ inability by Googling the Spanish word for date with the technology.” to protect their children. Former

By Ione Bingley Wade © Kensington Photographs By Max Feldman government mental health champion Natasha Devon said neither teachers nor parents could keep up with the fast-moving technology and suggested schools needed IT experts to help children use social media safely. leep deprivation is a growing “There is a gap in understanding problem in schools, with pupils qual parts English, equal parts between young people and their parents struggling to concentrate in lessons Chinese, Kensington Wade and teachers and the technology is due to lack of sleep, MPs have been told. School opens its doors officially S developing faster than we can measure Edward Timpson, minister for in September and, helmed by principal the psychological impact. “Last year an E children and families, highlighted Professor Hugo de Burgh, is already extensive report on the impact Facebook the issue while being questioned by seeing the admissions flying in. had on self-esteem was published but MPs who are investigating the role of During a journalistic career that born. speak and write Chinese and English Clearly hitting upon a niche in teenagers aren’t on Facebook anymore. education in preventing mental health saw his founding of the Chinese This ambitious scholastic enterprise perfectly upon graduation, not only the educational market, the ambitious They’ve moved on to Instagram and problems in children and young people. Media Centre within the University of was to be the first of its kind in Western making the children irresistible to the prep school already boasts parental Snapchat.” Lack of sleep has been linked to Westminster in 2005, Prof de Burgh was Europe and would teach Chinese and top independent secondary schools in the registrations for admissions in 2018, The MPs heard that some schools children’s use of mobile phones and quickly convinced of the fundamental English from the basics, capitalizing country, but laying down the foundations 2019 and 2020. The majority coming try to tackle the problem by confiscating tablets late into the night, MPs sitting on importance that China was having on the sponge-like nature of young for a distant career in Chinese business from British and international banking mobile phones for the duration of the the joint inquiry by the Commons health on the global economy and policy. He children’s brains for languages. and international affairs. families looking to set the next day, but Devon – who founded the Self- and education committees were told at also noticed how speaking even a small “We work in the theory of immersion, “It’s the biggest market in the world, generation ahead of the curve. Esteem Team – said children and young Wednesday’s hearing. amount of Mandarin was able to hugely the day is divided into two, 50 percent China is the main trading partner of 124 “There will be so many areas in the people were able to get round safety Timpson said: “A big issue in improve his working relationships. in Chinese and 50 percent in English, in countries now, it dominates the economy world where Chinese will be as valuable measures adults try to impose. schools now is around sleep deprivation. In 2008, on communicating this the Chinese classroom you never speak of most of central Asia, is increasingly as English, management consultancy, “I went into a boarding school Children are not getting enough sleep discovery to a friend, Lady Tessa English, and in the English classroom, important in many African and Latin finance, scientific research. Regardless where they removed their phones at and that causes problems concentrating.” Keswick, who was very interested in you’re not permitted to speak one word American countries and that’s without of the area, Chinese will be useful the beginning of the day and handed Doctors have previously reported a China and learning Chinese herself, it of Chinese and young children find this even trying,” says Prof de Burgh. “And everywhere,” says Prof de Burgh. them back at the end for a few hours dramatic increase in children with sleep was agreed that the only way to learn a perfectly easy to deal with straight away,” it’s increasingly important here, we While this may be the first you hear – they all have two or three phones to disorders; NHS data shows hospital language and be “really good” is to start explains Principal Prof de Burgh. have a lot of investment, many of our of Kensington Wade, it certainly looks circumnavigate that problem. attendances in England for under-14s “very young”. The idea of creating a Catching the children young would universities would collapse if we didn’t like it won’t be the last we hear of its “There was an example where they bilingual, Chinese school in London was allow Kensington Wade alumni to have Chinese students.” alumni. have risen from almost 3,000 in 2005-06

Bousted and Courtney will stay on as joint general secretaries until 2023 when NUT and ATL a single general secretary will be elected cordonbleu.edu/london for the new union. © NUT Photograph vote to merge Prof Howard Stevenson, director into National Education of research at the University of Union Nottingham’s school of education, said Begin your culinary adventure this summer the merger of the two teaching unions By Max Feldman was a development of international significance: “The amalgamation of NUT and ATL is on a scale that has not been seen previously, and may be Two teachers unions have voted to the beginning of a trend, as teachers merge to become a single “super union” everywhere face common pressures,” to create a stronger voice to speak up he said. “There is no easy evidence that for those working in education and fewer, bigger unions necessarily generate challenge government policy. better outcomes for teachers. There With almost half a million members, is however considerable evidence that With a history spanning over 120 years, Le Cordon Bleu is the leading cuisine and pâtisserie can be completed in as little as six focus is also placed on the management skills needed to the new National Education Union employers and governments deliberately global network of culinary arts and hospitality management institutes. weeks, equipping you with the same fundamental skills set. succeed in a commercial environment. claims to be the biggest union of teachers seek to exploit divisions. Making this and education professionals in Europe The school also offers their popular three-week cooking Le Cordon Bleu also runs a series of evening wine education. For too long governments amalgamation. The NEU, with more more difficult will make it harder for Whether you’re a beginner, a keen cook, or looking to turn and the fourth largest trade union in the your hobby into a career, the renowned school is sure to course Summer Essentials, which teaches a mix of key courses which will give you a better understanding and have played divide and rule amongst than 450,000 members, will start in government to impose change without have the perfect programme to suit your needs this summer. techniques and recipes based around the traditional appreciation of this much-loved beverage. UK. Members of the National Union of unions. Today marks the beginning of September, with the two former unions wider support and may presage the teaching methods of Le Cordon Bleu. The course has been Providing the finest education in food, wine and hospitality Learn a new skill Teachers and its smaller sister union, the the end of that. The NUT and ATL operating parallel sections under a joint need for a new relationship between management, Le Cordon Bleu offers everything from designed for home cooks and food enthusiasts who want Le Cordon Bleu London offers a wide range of gourmet Association of Teachers and Lecturers, to learn practical cookery skills and gain confidence in the both have proud histories, but speaking executive committee until full integration government and teacher unions.” workshops and short-courses, through to comprehensive short courses starting from as little as a couple of hours voted in favour of the merger, which has with one voice we will be a stronger force in 2019. Russell Hobby, general secretary 9-month Diplomas. kitchen but have limited time to do so. all the way up to ten-day programmes. With courses been described as “a game changer” in the standing up for education, teachers, the Mary Bousted, ATL general of the National Association of Head Enter a world of wine ranging from Mastering Macaroons and Breakfast Baking, You can rest assured that whatever journey you choose to to Cuisine Techniques and Tastes of Asia, the world leading education landscape. wider education profession and for the secretary said: “With nearly half a Teachers welcomed the merger, which embark on at Le Cordon Bleu London, you will be taught The world leading school also offers a professional selection Teaching unions including the NUT of wine courses, delivering the same high standards of school definitely has something to suit everyone. The short children and young people we teach.” million members, we will speak with a he said created a powerful voice within by the school’s leading Master Chefs, lecturers and wine courses are perfect for learning something new this summer and ATL are campaigning against experts, who will share their knowledge and expertise. teaching and expertise. He continued: “The NEU will be a stronger voice on behalf of education education. He said: “NAHT has worked or building on your existing culinary skills. government plans to increase the number The Diploma in Wine, Gastronomy and game-changer in the education landscape professionals and the children, young constructively with both the NUT and Explore Culinary Arts Having produced many notable alumni over the years of grammar schools, and are fighting Management, which has been developed by renowned and I am delighted to be jointly leading people and adults they support. The ATL in recent years on a range of issues, In addition to Culinary Arts, wine, nutrition and including the legendary Julia Child, Great British Bake Off for more funding for schools, which are management Diplomas, during the summer term the wine professionals, explores the theory of wine knowledge stars Mary Berry and John Whaite, and renowned cake it forward over the coming months and government will need to listen when we most recently school funding. There are school offers intensive options that allow courses to be done and places a strong emphasis on practical learning. Students decorating queen, Peggy Porschen, what better place to facing real-terms budget cuts. years.” speak on the key issues facing education: a huge number of issues NAHT can in just half the time. Basic and intermediate certificates in visit renowned wineries, breweries and distilleries whilst a gain some expert culinary training? Kevin Courtney, NUT general More than 97% of NUT members funding cuts, excessive workloads, the continue to work closely on with the secretary, said: “This is a fantastic result and 73% of ATL members who recruitment and retention crisis, the NEU, and we look forward to doing that for members of both unions and for voted in the ballot were in favour of chaotic exam reform and accountability.” in the months and years ahead.” 24 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Literature Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

ELCOME TO APRIL’S POETRY PAGE and with it a reflection on The Task by William Cowper, (1731-1800) a poem that ‘brownies’ assailed him The Strange Case with the story of the good while it may seem somewhat out of keeping with modern fashions and tastes, resisted despotism and the infliction of formalism doctor and his evil other on society and art. In 1783, William Cowper wrote: of Dr Jekyll and self. It must have struck Mr Hyde Stevenson that there were AW lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the Author, and gave him the SOFA for a subject. He obeyed; and, having much leisure, connected more than a few parallels another subject with it; and, pursuing the train of thought to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length, instead of the trifle which he at By Robert Louis Stevenson to his youthful fascination with the seamier side first intended, a serious affair – a Volume of his home town. As a writer, Stevenson wanted The Lady of whom Cowper speaks was Lady Austen, a friend and patron. Austen’s suggestion that Cowper write a poem on a subject such as a Sofa to explore the various sounds inanely dull. The poem, however, is recognised as a masterpiece of the eighteenth century and in large part changed the poetic discourse at facets of human nature, but a time that was critically divided both politically and socially. On the one hand, mob violence was widespread and there was a dangerous stench of IN OUR LITERATURE through the prism of the revolution in the air as the guillotine took the life of yet another aristocrat on the other side of the channel. Wider a field, the rest of the world appeared suspicion that the vaunted PAGE, we look back on great Victorian civilisation to be ‘losing its religion’. Most importantly back in England there were deep concerns of a tangible decline in moral standards that was a threat to works of literature. was just a thin veneer propriety and the English way! Consequently, a new movement toward a reformation of conduct was burgeoning! over an internal savagery. Max Feldman unmasks Jekyll feels trapped by Robert Southey called Cowper the most popular poet of his generation and the Task in particular, speaks volumes about a new world emerging, one the cultural fears behind The his own respectability; which sees the rise of the professional classes and gentile society, where the lessons of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy were to be followed to the T, and straightjacketed into his where later the likes of Becky Sharpe, were instructed to mind their manners! Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and own skin; made to comply Mr Hyde with the rigid conventions of his class and society. What stands out most about Cowper’s The Task is the he Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Being Hyde frees him distance that he places between the religious and political Mr Hyde is one of those novels is actually meant to be a shocking final had always trusted to ‘brownies’ (his from this, but the sensation of liberation formalism of his time and (in Cowper’s eyes) the artifice of that has become so well-known twist. daydreams and nightmares) for artistic becomes addictive. It is no accident eighteenth century art and literature. Instead, he turns to in our cultural subconscious that often However with perseverance one will inspiration. He often felt that stories that Hyde is described as being much God and nature for inspiration. Whether you agree with T discover a novel constructed like a steel and characters were being channelled to younger than Jekyll. Jekyll himself is when actually reading it for the first Cowper is, of course, a matter of opinion and taste, however time, readers can be thrown off by how trap, which overflows with economy, him from elsewhere. As a young man his a man of 50, regretting times past and the story doesn’t necessarily fit how they tension and wit. The thematic concerns fantasy life had been kept in check. He opportunities missed. The folly of youth, it is undeniable that as a poet he played a major part in expect it to. Rather than plunging you of the novel help to show the modern had grown up in a family of engineers along with a sense of infinite possibility influencing the masses to steer away from following in the into the tortured mind of the famous audience the seething social and moral and was himself destined for a career and invincibility, is regained when he footsteps of the French and Americans, and instead look to scientist we are instead introduced to two tension that lurked beneath the primness in the law. He lived with his family in a becomes Edward Hyde. This is the a world in which they could reflect on world and religious gentlemen by the name of Utterson and that we commonly associate with the large house in Edinburgh’s ‘New Town’ unspoken fear of much of the fin de siècle views through nature rather than cold and dry didacticism Enfield, characters who have resolutely Victorian period. The stifling nature of (constructed to a rational, geometric literature: that the reason society needs and dictatorship. not entered said aforementioned cultural the strict morality that governed (or was design in the late 18th century) but was to cling on so tightly to its conventions subconscious. The pair spend the supposed to govern at any rate) the upper captivated by the ‘Old Town’, squalid, and traditions is that unleashed primal beginning of the novel discussing how classes, is what leads Jekyll to develop drunken and actively dangerous to hungers once tasted will overwhelm any they suspect the thuggish and mysterious his transformative serum, in less of a which he would sneak out at night, away reasoned mind. It’s a depressing view of Edward Hyde to be blackmailing the battle between good and evil as between from the watchful eyes of his family. human nature, but the continued power excerpt wealthy and urbane Henry Jekyll and civilisation and barbarism. Stevenson suffered ill-health all of The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr The Task, Book I: The Sofa the readers heart sinks upon realising The tale originally came to its author his life, and was being dosed with an Hyde shows that it’s not one that we have By William Cowper that the well-known duality of the two in a dream. Robert Louis Stevenson experimental drug at the time when his entirely discarded. Thou know’st my praise of nature most sincere, But though true worth and virtue, in the mild God made the country, and man made the town: And that my raptures are not conjur’d up And genial soil of cultivated life What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the implication To serve occasions of poetic pomp, Thrive most, and may perhaps thrive only there, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught Fin De Siècle is that the brutal and uncivilised Hyde is But genuine, and art partner of them all. Yet not in cities oft. In proud and gay That life holds out to all, should most abound By Max Feldman somehow a reversion to a more primitive How oft upon yon eminence our pace And gain-devoted cities; thither flow, And least be threaten’d in the fields and groves? stage of human development; a ghastly Has slacken’d to a pause, and we have borne As to a common and most noisome sewer, Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about evolutionary precursor who stands in a The ruffling wind, scarce conscious that it blew, The dregs and fæculence of ev’ry land. In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue direct genetic line behind the eminently While admiration, feeding at the eye, In cities foul example on most minds But that of idleness, and taste no scenes respectable Dr Jekyll. And still unsated, dwelt upon the scene. Begets its likeness. Rank abundance breeds But such as art contrives, possess ye still The fears over evolution worked both Thence with what pleasure have we just discern’d In gross and pamper’d cities sloth and lust, Your element; there only ye can shine, In its simplest definition, Fin De Siècle ways, with fears of mankind evolving The distant plough slow-moving, and beside And wantonness and gluttonous excess. There only minds like yours can do no harm. refers to the end of a century, yet at into monstrous forms. H.G. Wells The His lab’ring team, that swerv’d not from the track, In cities, vice is hidden with most ease, Our groves were planted to console at noon the end of the 19th century in Britain, Time Machine sees The Time Traveller The sturdy swain diminish’d to a boy! Or seen with least reproach; and virtue, taught The pensive wand’rer in their shades. At eve the term did not just refer to a set of (he is never named) discover that in Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain By frequent lapse, can hope no triumph there The moon-beam, sliding softly in between dates, but rather a whole set of artistic, the year 802,701 AD the human race Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er, Beyond th’ atchievement of successful flight. The sleeping leaves, is all the light they wish, moral, and social concerns. To describe has biologically diverged into the Eloi, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course I do confess them nurs’ries of the arts, Birds warbling all the music. We can spare something as a fin de siècle phenomenon who represent the leisured classes Delighted. There, fast rooted in his bank, In which they flourish most: where, in the beams The splendour of your lamps, they but eclipse invokes a sense of the old order ending grown elfin and effete through idleness Stand, never overlook’d, our fav’rite elms, Of warm encouragement, and in the eye Our softer satellite. Your songs confound and new, radical departures. Literature and completely unable to look after That screen the herdsman’s solitary hut; Of public note, they reach their perfect size. Our more harmonious notes: the thrush departs of the Fin De Siècle explored the themes themselves, and the Morlocks, the decayed While far beyond, and overthwart the stream Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim’d Scar’d, and th’ offended nightingale is mute. of change, development, evolution, working classes, who have devolved into That as with molten glass inlays the vale, The fairest capital of all the world, There is a public mischief in your mirth, mutation, corruption and decay in an orc like subspecies reduced to living The sloping land recedes into the clouds; By riot and incontinence the worst. It plagues your country. Folly such as your’s, relation to the human body and mind as underground; brutal, predatory and afraid Displaying on its varied side the grace There, touch’d by Reynolds, a dull blank becomes Grac’d with a sword, and worthier of a fan, a metaphor for the changing social mores imperial dealings, or mused obsessively Late-Victorian society obsession with of the light. Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tow’r, A lucid mirror, in which Nature sees Has made, which enemies could ne’er have done, that ushered in the beginning of the 20th on the continental discord that would the implications of Darwinism. The Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells All her reflected features. Bacon there Our arch of empire, steadfast but for you, Century and the end of the Victorian end in World War One in allegorical ideas outlined in Charles Darwin’s On the The Fin De Siècle is often ignored as Just undulates upon the list’ning ear, Gives more than female beauty to a stone, A mutilated structure, soon to fall Mind-set. novels such as H.G. Wells’s War Of The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent a genre, or labelled as Gothic or Horror Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote. And Chatham’s eloquence to marble lips. Novels such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula Worlds which took worries over foreign of Man (1871) had by the 1880s and novels, but following its twisting path is Scenes must be beautiful which daily view’d or Richard Marsh’s The Beetle fixated on invasion to their logical conclusion with 1890s been assimilated, initially by the key to understanding (and in some cases Please daily, and whose novelty survives the malign power of the foreign, in part an alien attack. scientific community and then by much sharing) the fears and paranoias of an Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. due to a repressed guilt over Britain’s Another perennial concern came from of the general public. In The Strange Case entire society in the eve of a new century. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 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Goode & Wright, Mango Tree, 271 Portobello Rd. W11 1LR 46 Grosvenor Place By David Hughes SW1X 7EQ Photographs © David Hughes © David Photographs mangotree.org.uk Hughes © David Photographs ombine a Spanish and an Israeli chef, add a trendy small Reservations on Opentable, bistro that occupies an old school outfitters, then add Squaremeal or 020 7823 1888 in some top quality local ingredients. Next, install a Ccharming and effervescent front of house man. Blend for a few months, then serve hot and cold from 10am until late.

At the table: The evening menu encourages sharing plates, which are a generous tapas size, and perfect for a bit of mix and match. To help the first beer and glass of wine down we kicked off with a few items from the Nibbles section: Yogurt bread, Seaweed crisp, Olive tapenade with crudités and the Beets ricotta and radish. The flavours were so good that M was unstinting in her praise (not a very common occurrence) and the presentation showed real care and thought. I`ll let the pictures do some of the talking.

For the next stage; more an extension of the feast rather than a traditional mains, we chose Grilled octopus, harissa yogurt, chickpeas & herbs, and the Lamb chops, sherry wine kidneys and mint pickles. The octopus had been slow cooked for some hours and it took considerable willpower not to mutter “gerrof, this one’s mine!” If I`d been any less full, I would have ordered another. Over at plate number 2, the lamb chops were being devoured with equal relish, so not so much sharing this time then.

Goode and Wright claim that 271 Portobello Rd is “in the centre of Notting Hill” pedantic geography fans might dispute this assertion as being a good half a mile adrift, however this place is a jewel, and well worth the short stroll from the true epicentre. Highly recommended.

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merchants exist to do the donkey work for their customers; they spend long Wine Merchants days tasting hundreds of wines ranging from the sublime to the barely drinkable. What’s it all You build up knowledge of vineyards, producers, regions and access to them; about? you learn what is a sensible price for a wine and above all you develop the trust and a knowledge of your customers that ensures that they can rely on you to sell them wine they want to drink, at the price they want to pay and then every now and again introduce them iven we visited on the day that a would-be terrorist took his rage out on Westminster Bridge to something new. Of course, there are only hours earlier, this is a tale as much about a refusal to be cowed by such behaviour as it is a many customers who buy wine to invest wonderful meal. Mango Tree sits just across the road from the wall that surrounds Buckingham as well and here again a good wine GPalace, so I was thrilled to find that it was business as usual, and despite the sad news the staff were as merchant can guide you through the upbeat and welcoming as ever. It was in my first few weeks in the wine minefield of what to buy, where to keep Initially the dining area looks a little soulless, but the big open space soon started filling up, and good trade, after eight years serving in the it and when to sell it. acoustics meant there was a convivial background hubbub surrounding our window seat. Unsurprisingly, British Army, that I found out what a There is never a dull week in the wine Bespoke catering there was still a bit of a lockdown on mobile phone signals that evening, but the preppie group from customer really requires from his wine trade, you learn something new every for weddings, parties Boston at an adjacent table were less than impressed. Oh well, at least our PM didn’t go into hiding for 2 merchant. Calling a gentleman whom day, you share your passion for great wine days. I knew loved his wine, I began to with enthusiastic customers and whether and other events describe in flowery terms what a Puligny they are buying bottles of Bordeaux’s My companion’s eyes alighted on her favourite Soft shell crab, so we opened with this and a mixed Montrachet I had in stock tasted like. As Esprit de Pavie 2010 at under £20 per Seasonal produce, canapés, bowls, platter of griddled prawns and chicken satay, served with the usual dips and some grated cucumber, onion I got into full flow I was interrupted with bottle or bottles of vintage Krug 2002 2 and 3 courses & tasting menus and chilli in lime which was an excellent partner for the crab. an irate, “Oh Piers, do shut up! I am not Champagne at £335 per bottle it still all Hampers, wine & flowers Sometimes it’s good to let go a little, so when our waiter came back, and I was still undecided on a interested in whether it evokes memories boils down to one thing… mains, I went with his suggestion. What a good move, the duck red curry served in a seared pineapple was of an al fresco lunch on a Summer’s day When it comes to choosing which a celebration a fantastic visual as well as culinary treat. The top notes were of course the red chilli and the aniseed-like in France, all I need to know is, is it good wine to buy the question to ask, whether for every occasion! Thai basil, but grape and caper were also subtly woven through. Inevitably we had the sticky rice, and the to drink?” you are the wine merchant or the 5-a-day was taken care of with a crunchy and garlic laden steamed Pak Choi Taken aback I confirmed that it was customer, is quite simple: “Is it good to My companion’s Prawn & Asparagus slightly paled in comparison, but there’s only so much you can really, very good to which the response drink?” was, “Fine, send me four cases.” dress up before it looks a bit fussy. The only thing left to decide was, do we stay in the region with a Kow That simple experience has stood Piers German Niew Mamuang, or roll over and go for the chocolate bomb with salted caramel sauce? I took a quick glug 66 ROYAL HOSPITAL RD, CHELSEA, LONDON SW3 4HS me in good stead throughout my years Burns & German Vintners Ltd of my partner’s wine; a bit of a random way to decide, which swung it for the chocolate bomb. The sauce T: 077 2000 8201 E: [email protected] in the wine trade and still influences Chelsea SW3 is poured at the table for a bit of extra theatre, and it part melts before you can get a spoon in. Seriously every decision I make today. Wine www.bgvintners.co.uk sweet, there was easily enough to share. DH 28 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Lifestyle & Fashion Lifestyle & Fashion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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be had for a fraction of their original cost Studies teacher isn’t a stickler for accuracy when Chiswick it comes to her students’ grasp of the bible’s with pieces starting at Chelsea Nanny main events. £70 and soaring to the To ensure that Jesus doesn’t get all the Champagne Auctions multiple thousands EASTER attention, Lola’s parents organise a day packed for collectors’ classics. with Lola-centric activities. Even the Easter egg The sales act as a hunt is orchestrated to ensure that the birthday Photographs © Lots Road Auctions © Lots Road Photographs girl gets the most eggs. This consists of her great entry point breakfast? father checking the kids’ baskets and instructing for many people any child with more eggs than his daughter to to own a designer ‘pop them in pile in the middle so it’s fair.’ Later piece. Alternatively, I see him scoop the stolen horde into his wife’s 5K run in hyde park for people needing tote bag and shove it in the back of their Range Timeless Chanel handbags Rover Evoque, along with the mountain of Lola’s 28 Flights of stairs in quilted butter-soft leather, to clear some space presents. The Small One, having been victorious in their wardrobe, in his egg-collecting, feels cheated. I don’t blame champagne breakfast discrete yet elegant Bottega selling at auction is a him. I take an extra cupcake from the birthday quick and easy way to tea as a consolation prize. Galvin at windows Veneta shoulder bags, loud generate some extra The Middle One and the Eldest are also struggling through Easter. The Middle One has and fun Louis Vuitton totes – cash. been locked in a battle of wills with American helping young people Meg never fails Mom for over a month about the prospect most women will have her eyes to be amazed by of having tutors to help prepare her for her on at least one of these. the pieces women entrance exam to a scary London secondary continue to pull out from the back of their wardrobes: ‘Often women hold onto school. Not only does the Middle One not want mayfair power & a tutor, she doesn’t want to her next school to pieces that remind them of when they first started in business in the 80s, or a bag be in London. She has her heart set on going With 5 Designer Handbags and that was gifted to them for their birthday but they haven’t used in years and are in ‘What’s a Horniman?’ asks the Small One. to boarding school with all her friends. This tower race Fashion auctions this year alone at near perfect condition.’ ‘Don’t be vulgar,’ says American Mom. is apparently ‘because their parents actually Chiswick Auctions, the department Whilst there are always great bargains to be had, the rocketing prices for classic I explain to American Mom that the Small love them.’ It’s ironic that people who do go has experienced significant growth models have made selling and investing at auction a lucrative business. Icons such One has been invited to a party at the museum to boarding school end up having to spend of that name in South London. He hasn’t been the rest of their lives assuring others that their may 26 2017|8.30am since specialist Meg Randell set up as the Chanel 2.55 and Hermes’ Kelly and Birkin bags continue to command looking up rude words on the iPad again. parents don’t hate them. A lesson the Middle the department nearly two years ago. exorbitant prices. Last year, Chiswick Auctions sold a black Chanel medium ‘Oh,’ she says. And then, ‘whose party?’ One will learn if she manages to get her way. The The sales regularly prove one of the 2.55 with its original packaging for £2,040 (including buyer’s premium). A gold Lola, a girl in the Small One’s class has Eldest, meanwhile, doesn’t want to go back to most popular dates in the annual sale Birkin, (similar to the above) the most expensive handbag in the world, sold at invited the whole year group to do the Easter boarding school. He spends the final week of the calendar and boasts an impressive Chiswick for £5,400. Not a bad return for one afternoon. egg hunt in the museum gardens, followed by holidays building a very convincing case to stay galvinschance.co.uk/mptr2017 birthday tea at her house nearby. at home, including a rare illness. American Mom selection of luxury labels including Offered in forthcoming auction on the 23rd of May is a Hermes mini-Kelly, ‘She gets upset because she has to share her diagnoses Easter egg-itis and packs him off back Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, dating from 1975 (see left). Particularly rare, Hermes only made this size of birthday with Jesus and he already has one at to school with her driver. When he arrives home Prada, Mulberry, and Christian bag for a limited time and at 20cm wide, it is just big enough to fit your phone Christmas.’ again with Glandular Fever two days later, she Dior to name a few. and keys. A highly sought-after collector’s piece, it has an estimate of £2,000 - Something tells me the Small One’s Religious lets him eat every last mini egg in the house. © Pellier Noir Many of the bags at auction can £4,000. No small change indeed! 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Holocaust and Genocide about the horror and humour of news stories, April 7th-May 27th Focusing on the family of illustrator Franciszka especially political events. Events Mat Collishaw: Themerson, who was alone in London during Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-18:00. April/May 2017 The Centrifugal Soul WWII, whilst her husband (a writer and film- Free entry. Blain Southern maker) was in Southern France and other relatives 25-26 Mason’s Yard, SW1Y 6BU Collishaw presents a typically challenging show, HOLY WEEK & EASTER were trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto. Themerson’s 020 7930 5373 © Ione Bingley Image inspired by , evolution and trompe l’oeil 9 year old niece, Jasia Reichardt, escaped the www.whitecube com painting. Warning: this exhibition contains strobe Ghetto and went into hiding until 1946, when she @_WhiteCube DANCE lighting. SERVICES WESTMINSTER was reunited with her aunt. Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:00; Monday-Friday, 10:00-17:00; Ends May 14th April 13th-22nd Saturday, 10:00-17:00. Free entry. ABBEY AND ST Tuesdays until 19:30. Free entry. Eduardo Paolozzi Fevered Sleep: Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:00; Saturday, 10:00- 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP Whitechapel Gallery Men & Girls Dance 17:00. Free entry. 020 7636 7247 wienerlibrary.co.uk A huge retrospective devoted to the Godfather of The Place 4 Hanover Square, W1S 1BP MARGARET’S CHURCH @wienerlibrary Pop Art. The 250 works on show will demonstrate This unusual piece arrives at The Place, following 020 7493 4492 his talent in different media, including sculptures, a nationwide tour. Meet male professional dancers blainsouthern.com Ends May 1st textiles, paintings, collages and screen- and young female amateurs who are brought @BlainSouthern Memorial: A Tribute to Taxidermy prints. together to blend their dance styles and experience. Horniman Museum Tuesday-Sunday, 11:00-18:00; Thursday until Starts 19:30, plus Saturday matinee on 22nd April Ends April 17th Ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long responds 21:00. Tickets £11.95-13.50. at 14:30. Tickets £12-18. The Remarkable Life Story of Emma to the Horniman’s collection through new works. 77-82 Whitechapel High St, E1 7QX 020 17 Dukes Road, WC1H 9PY Hamilton Each piece will be displayed alongside its museum 7522 7888 020 7121 1100 National Maritime Museum counterpart. whitechapelgallery.org theplace.org.uk Hamilton was an international beauty, best known Daily, 10:30-17:30. Free entry. @_TheWhitechapel @ThePlaceLondon for being Lord Nelson’s mistress, who went from 100 London Road, Forest Hill, rags to riches and back again. View over 200 SE23 3PQ Ends May 19th April 14th-15th objects connected to her, such as paintings by Sir 020 8699 1872 horniman.ac.uk Jo Brocklehurst: Family Weekend Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, and @HornimanMuseum Nobodies and Somebodies Aracaladanza: Vuelos letters between Hamilton and her lovers. The House of Illustration 27 - 30 April Sadlers Wells Daily, 10:00-17:00 (last entry 16:00). Tickets Jo Brocklehurst’s raw illustrations of youth Taking inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci, this is £6.30-12.60. May 4th – July 30th and club culture are brought to life. The show Chelsea Old Town Hall a heartwarming show about man’s quest for flight. Greenwich, SE10 9NF Gilded Interiors: French Masterpieces of Gilt is co-curated by Brocklehurst’s muse, Isabelle Suitable for ages 5+. 020 8312 6565 Bronze Bricknall. Friday, starts 15:00; Saturday at 11:00 and 15:30. rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum Wallace Collection Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00. Last entry 17:30. Tickets £18. @nmmgreenwich An in-depth study of 18th century French gilt Tickets (covering all exhibitions) £4-8.25. Original Works of Art Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN bronze objects and embellished pieces, many 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, 020 7863 8000 Ends April 21st of which belonged to royalty such as Marie N1C 4BH 020 3696 2020 www.sadlerswells.com Designology Antoinette. houseofillustration.org.uk www.chelseaartfair.org @sadlers_wells London Transport Museum WESTMINSTER ABBEY Daily, 10:00-17:00. Free entry. @illustrationHQ We often take for granted the design processes Hertford House, Manchester Square, 07961 371961 April 20th-May 7th behind our everyday journeys: the signage, the Palm Sunday W1U 3BN Ends May 21st Currents by Mayumana tickets and the decor that becomes commonplace. Sunday 9th April 020 7563 9500 wallacecollection.org @ Quentin Blake: Hackney Empire Here’s a chance to revisit these often overlooked WallaceMuseum The Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits icons, and learn about the future of transport 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) British Library A dynamic dance piece inspired by the rivalry 11.15 am Blessing of Palms, Procession, and Sung Eucharist* between scientists Thomas Edison and Nikola design, such as driverless vehicles. Ends May 7th Head to the Second Floor Gallery in the British Tesla. Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 7BB 3.00 pm Evensong* Full Circle & Recycle Library to surround yourself with Quentin 020 7379 6344 21st Century Swedish Textiles Blake’s famous portraits of world-famous Roald Tuesday-Friday, starts 19:30; Saturday at 17:00 and Maundy Thursday 20:00; Sunday at 17:00. Tickets £10-35. ltmuseum.co.uk Fashion and Textile Museum Dahl characters, including Matilda and The Thursday 13th April 291 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1EJ 020 @ltmuseum The head of the Swedish textile design collective Twits. 10-gruppen presents 10 of the best Swedish textile Monday-Thursday, 09:30-20:00; Friday, 09:30- 7492 0810 5.00 pm Sung Eucharist with the Washing of the Feet* hackneyempire.co.uk Ends April 23rd artists who upcycle their materials. 18:00; Saturday, 09:30-17:00; Sundays and public Adventures in Moominland Followed by The Watch in St Margaret’s Church until 9.00 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday until holidays, 11:00-17:00. Free entry. @HackneyEmpire Neville 4 Impressions Monday-Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 Good Friday 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-17:00 (last entry 45 minutes 96 , NW1 2DB Contemporary Art April 26th-29th - 18:00; Friday, 11:00-18:00 (last entry 17:15). Friday 14th April before closing). Tickets (covering all exhibitions) 01937 546546 Tickets £11.50-17.50, valid for one year with £6-9.90. bl.uk Motionhouse: Scattered 3.00 pm Solemn Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Our Lord* The Peacock Theatre unlimited visits. 83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF @britishlibrary 020 7407 8664 Motionhouse’s trademark style of acrobatic Holy Saturday Southbank Centre ftmlondon.org @fashiontextile Ends May 29th dance returns to the Peacock Theatre for a Saturday 15th April water-inspired piece, using film excerpts and live Part of the Nordic Matters season, this exhibition Hockney This is your Complimentary performance. for adults and children delves into the ongoing 8.00 pm Vigil and First Eucharist of Easter* Ends May 7th Tate Britain Wednesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday success of the Moomin books, written by Josef Frank: Patterns-Furniture-Painting Fashion See David Hockney’s paintings, drawings, print Ticket for Two matinee at 14:30. Tove Jansson. Extra evening off-peak sessions Easter Day and Textile Museum media and videos at this vast exhibition, ahead of th Tickets £15-29. (Wednesday-Friday) are for adults only. Sunday 16 April Multi-disciplinary artist Josef Frank, a major part the artist’s 80th birthday. Some works are being Timed ticket sessions run hourly, Monday-Friday, of the Swedish Modern movement, is remembered shown for the first time. Portugal Street, 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 14:00-18:00; in 15-minute intervals on weekends in this comprehensive show. Frank’s work appeared Daily, 10:00-18:00; extended for Hockney to CHELSEA ART FAIR 27-30 March Holborn, WC2A 2HT 10.30 am Sung Eucharist* 020 7863 8222 and holidays, 10:00-18:00; adult off-peak sessions, on lighting and furniture and in various interior exhibition, until 22:00 Friday and 20:00 Saturday. 3.00 pm Evensong and Procession* from Kensington & Chelsea Today sadlerswells.com @sadlers_wells Wednesday-Friday, 19:00, and Thursday-Friday, design projects. Tickets £15.90-19.50. 20:00. Tickets £12-16.50. Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday until Millbank, SW1P 4RG * Services sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey April 28th Upper Ground, London 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-17:00 (last entry 45 minutes 020 7887 8888 Thurs 11-8, Fri / Sat 11-7, Sun 11-5 Political Bodies SE1 9PX before closing). Tickets (covering all exhibitions) www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain Rich Mix 020 7960 4200 £6-9.90. @Tate A bill of three dance works, inspired by issues southbankcentre.co.uk ST MARGARET’S CHURCH 83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF To Validate this ticket, please write your Email Address surrounding immigration, national identity and @southbankcentre 020 7407 8664 ftmlondon.org Ends June 4th racism. A Q&A follows the performances. @fashiontextile America After the Fall: here:______Ends April 23rd Good Friday Painting in the 1930s Starts 19:30. Tickets £12-15. Friday 14th April 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Ends May 8th Royal Academy Please cut out this coupon and bring it to the Fair E1 6LA Rebellion 10.30 am Matins and Litany Perspectives of Destruction: An eclectic mix of famous paintings from a 020 7613 7498 richmix.org.uk Two Temple Place Images of London, 1940-44 Museum of transformative decade in American history. One @RichMixLondon Sussex was a melting pot for creatives in the Easter Day London highlight is Grant Wood’s iconic American Gothic, early 20th century. But what drew them there, Sunday 16th April War artists and photographers captured the Blitz which has never been displayed beyond the USA. The Russell Guy and how did these eventual artistic communities in unsparing detail. See how Graham Sutherland, Gallery Putney Portelli May 2nd-3rd 11.00 am The Easter Liturgy Timed ticket sessions every 15 minutes, Saturday- The Happiness Project grow? Bill Brandt, John Piper and David Bomberg, Thursday, 10:15-17:15; Friday until 21:15. Tickets The Place Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 10:00-16:30; among others, responded to the devastation on £8-13.50. Didy Veldman, known for her work with Rambert, Wednesday, 10:00-21:00; Sunday, 11:00-16:30. their doorstep. Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD 020 Northern Ballet and Headspace Dance, brings Free entry. Westminster Abbey is open daily for visiting except Daily, 10:00-17:30. Free entry. 7300 8000 her own company to The Place, for a piece Two Temple Place, WC2R 3BD Good Friday and Easter Day 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN royalacademy.org.uk that examines our never-ending drive to find 020 7836 3715 020 7001 9844 @RoyalAcademy happiness. twotempleplace.org museumoflondon.org.uk Starts 20:00. Tickets £12-16. @TwoTemplePlace @MuseumofLondon Ends June 11th 17 Dukes Road, WC1H 9PY Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 020 7121 1100 Ends April 28th Ends May 13th Tate Modern theplace.org.uk One Family, Three Cities, www.westminster-abbey.org Fred Tomaselli: Paper It’s the first time Tillmans has staged an exhibition @ThePlaceLondon Six Years of War: A Family of Artists During the White Cube Mason’s Yard at the Tate, and he’s pulled out all the stops, with War and the Holocaust Tomaselli’s daring experiments with pages of The a huge portfolio of his work. Expect a mixture of EXHIBITIONS The Wiener Library for the Study of the New York Times draw the viewer into a dialogue photography, film, projections, music and other 34 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Events Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

multi-media projects. 020 7611 2222 holidays; also, first and last Saturday of the month. acclaimed exhibition that tells the stories behind Monday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00; Friday-Saturday wellcomecollection.org Free entry. the looks. until 22:00; tickets £10-12.50. @ExploreWellcome Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ Open daily, 10:00-18:00; last entry 17:00. Free Bankside, SE1 9TG 020 7416 5000 entry with standard entrance ticket (£13.60-19). 020 7887 8888 Ends June 25th iwm.org.uk @I_W_M Advanced booking advised. tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern Michelangelo and Sebastiano Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, PRESENT @Tate National Gallery Ends August 27th W8 4PX Two megastars of High Renaissance Rome are Where the Thunderbird Lives: cultural resilience 0844 482 7799 hrp.org.uk/kensington- Ends June 18th shown side by side: Michelangelo and Sebastiano on the Northwest Coast of North America palace @HRP_palaces The American Dream: Pop to the del Piombo. Their 25-year friendship and artistic British Museum. Present partnership is laid bare through drawings, Discover artefacts from the people of the Pacific FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY British Museum paintings, sculptures and letters. Northwest Coast, whose culture spans 9,000 An all-encompassing tour of American art over Open daily 10:00-18:00, with extended hours until years, and immerse yourself in their legends and Ends April 22nd the last 60 years. Featured artists include Jasper 21:00 on Fridays. Last entry 45 minutes before legacies passed down through the generations. The Making Jamaica: Johns, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud and Kara closing. Tickets £8-18. Thunderbird, one of the Northwest Coast Peoples’ Photography from the 1890s Autograph Walker. Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN most important spiritual figures, takes centre ABP Daily, 10:00-17:30; Friday, until 20:30. Last entry 020 7747 2885 stage. Over 70 images from the Caribbean Photo OPEN-AIR CONCERT SERIES SET WITHIN THE HISTORIC HOME OF THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS 80 minutes before closing. Tickets £8-16.50. nationalgallery.org.uk Daily, 10:00-17:30; Friday until 20:30. Last entry Archive will be on show, including photographs Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG @nationalgallery 80 minutes before closing. Free entry. by Valentine & Sons from an Awakening Jamaica 020 7323 8181 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG committee project in 1889. Alongside these britishmuseum.org Ends June 25th 020 7323 8355 artefacts, view a new commission by Ingrid THURSDAY 15 JUNE 2017 @britishmuseum The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After britishmuseum.org Pollard. 1945 @britishmuseum Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:00-18:00; Ends June 18th Barbican Thursday, 11:00-21:00; Saturday, 12:00-18:00. Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends Domesticity and everyday objects are given a new Ends September 3rd Free entry. National Portrait Gallery appreciation at the Barbican’s exhibition, created The Art of the Brick Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA Dive into the expressive world of Howard in conjunction with the Japan Foundation. The South Bank, Upper Ground 020 7749 1240 Hodgkin, a leading British painter known stand-out piece is a life-size replica of the 2005 Following a successful show in 2014 at the Old autograph-abp.co.uk for his distinctive brushwork and unusual Moriyama House. Truman Brewery, LEGO® artist Nathan Sawaya @AutographABP BELLE AND SEBASTIAN portraiture. Timed sessions every 30 minutes; Thursday-Friday returns to London, this time with DC Comics as Timed entry, Saturday-Wednesday, 10:00-16:45; 10:00-20:30; Saturday-Wednesday 10:00-17:30. his theme. Sawaya has used almost 2,000,000 Ends April 29th Thursday-Friday, until 19:45. Tickets £3-12.50. Tickets £5-14.50. LEGO bricks to create sculptures of classic DC Scarlett Hooft Graafland: Discovery St. Martins Place, WC2H 0HE Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 8891 figures, such as Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flowers Gallery 020 7306 0055 barbican.org.uk @BarbicanCentre Joker. Over 10 years of travel to far-flung destinations FRIDAY 16 JUNE 2017 npg.org.uk/ @NPGLondon Timed tickets, daily, 10:00-17:00; Thursday until has given Scarlett Hooft Graafland plenty of Ends August 18th 19:00; Friday until 18:00. Tickets £11-16.50. source material for this exhibition. Her surreal Ends June 25th People Power: Fighting for Peace Imperial Corner of Upper Ground and Cornwall Road, SE1 interpretations of local life and mythology make Electricity: The Spark of Life War Museum 9PP 033 3247 0620 for a series of arresting photographs. Wellcome Collection Learn what it really means to be a pacifist by aotbdc.co.uk @artofthebrickdc Monday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00. The story of electricity in all its guises, exploring over 300 objects connected to peace Free entry THE CHELSEA from Frankenstein’s monster to the use of movements, from banners to anthems, including Ends February 28th 2018 21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ electrotherapy. photographs of anti-conscription marchers in Diana: Her Fashion Story 020 7439 7766 Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Sunday, 11:00- 1939, CND paraphernalia and the women of Kensington Palace flowersgallery.com @flowersgallery. 18:00; Thursday until 22:00. Greenham Common. She was a fashion icon for women all over the Free entry. Daily, 10:00-18:00. Tickets £5-10. world. Now, Princess Diana’s best-known outfits Ends April 30th FIREWORKS PROM 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE Wednesday-Friday 10:00-17:00, except public are put on display at Kensington Palace, in an Secret Cinema: Moulin

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Secret Cinema The first retrospective of British photographer highlights include a talk from author Jessica Dr. Helen Fry presents an illustrative talk on some Secret Cinema returns with screenings of Baz Roger Mayne (1929-2014) since 1999, featuring Cerasi, and craft demonstrations from The New of London’s many buildings used by spies, whether Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge, to be shown at an images of London, Sheffield and Nottingham, Craftsmen. working for or against this country. undisclosed London location. Guests will receive plus his installation piece, The British at 18:00-20:30. Free entry. Cash bar. Starts 14:00. Tickets £16-20, or £28 for both dress code instructions and venue details after Leisure. 85 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LD sessions (Part 2 will be held on 19th July) when booking. Monday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday until 020 7930 6074 booked online in advance. Times and prices vary; see website. 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-18:00. Tickets £2.50-4 www.christies.com 341-351 Finchley Road, NW3 6ET Venue TBC, within Zone 2 (covering all exhibitions), or free before 12:00. @ChristiesINC 020 7433 8988 020 7739 6055 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW jw3.org.uk www.secretcinema.org 020 7087 9300 ORDER, ORDER April 18th @jw3london @secretcinema thephotographersgallery.org.uk Revenge on Stage @tpgallery National Theatre (Venue: Clore Learning Centre, April 26th May 5th Book your tour today Cottesloe Room) Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award Silent Film Screening: Sherlock Jr Ends June 25th Where and when did revenge dramas become a Readings St. John’s Notting Hill Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year staple part of theatre, and what can we learn from Foyles Buster Keaton’s silent film, Sherlock Jr (1924), Exhibition their history? Lucy Jackson, an expert in classicist Simon Callow and Fiona Shaw read entries by will be revived for the big screen, with live Royal Observatory Greenwich and Greek theatre and performance at Kings the finalists of the Sunday Times award for short accompaniment from Donald MacKenzie, See the results of the 2016 competition to College, London, will discuss. story writers; there will also be a Q&A with the Resident Organist at The Odeon Leicester find the very best astronomy photographs, 18:00-19:00. Tickets £5-6. shortlisted entrants. Square. A short Laurel and Hardy film is also featuring spellbinding work from international Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX 18:30-21:30. Tickets £10-12, including a glass of included. competitors. 020 7452 3000 wine. 20:00-21:30 (doors open 19:00). Daily, 10:00-17:00. Free entry with standard nationaltheatre.org.uk The Auditorium at Foyles, Level 6, 107 Charing Tickets £10. entrance ticket (£5-9.50). @NationalTheatre Cross Road, WC2H 0DT Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich, 020 7437 5660 W11 2NN SE10 8XJ 020 8312 6608 April 19th foyles.co.uk 020 7727 4262 rmg.co.uk The Summer of Brexit @Foyles stjohnsorganproject.com @ROGAstronomers The Idler Academy @NottHillSilents Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie, talks to Joy May 2nd Ends June 25th Lo Dico, editor of Londoner’s Diary in the Christie’s Lates: Living East May 6th Voyages Evening Standard, about the fallout from the EU The Arts & Culture of Asia Film Screening: Science Museum Referendum. Christie’s South Kensington All the President’s Men Photography duo Anderson & Low capture the 18:30-20:30. Tickets £25, including a Hendricks Join us for an evening inspired by the arts British Academy at the British Museum Science Museum’s maritime models in their own gin and tonic. and culture of Asia. Stop by Christie’s South Professor Ian Christie FBA, from Birkbeck unique style. St Stephens Church Hall, Talbot Road, Kensington to learn more about Chinese and College, introduces this classic American film Daily, 10:00-18:00. Free entry. W2 5QT Japanese art with talks from Chinese art specialists which tells the story of the Watergate Scandal Exhibition Road, South Kensington, 020 3176 7907 and previews of the upcoming Chinese Ceramics, and the mysterious informant known as Deep SW7 2DD idler.co.uk @idleracademy Works of Art and Textiles auction and Art of Throat. 0333 241 4000 Japan online sale. Feng Shui Living consultant 14:00-17:00. Tickets £2-3. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk April 20th Sylvia Bennett will discuss incorporating Feng Great Russell Street, London @sciencemuseum Hidden Histories: An Evening with Mary-Ann Shui into the home, sign up on arrival for a tai chi WC1B 3DG (British Academy HQ) Ochota workshop (spaces will be very limited) and enjoy 020 7969 5200 Ends July 9th Stanfords traditional Chinese music recitals whilst sampling britac.ac.uk @britac_news You Are Looking at Something That Never 020 7219 4114 Learn to explore British landscapes in more detail a selection of Chinese and Japanese teas and mochi Occurred with historian, anthropologist, broadcaster and treats. Ends May 7th Zabludowicz Collection Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Mary- 6.00-8.30 pm The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from “Explore the power of photography in all its forms, Ann Ochota. 85 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3LD the Sir Elton John Collection from spur-of-the-moment street shots to carefully 18:30-20:45. Tickets £4. Free entry, cash bar Tate Modern composed long exposure pieces”. The line-up 12-14 Long Acre, Covent Garden, WC2E 020 7930 6074 Elton John has been a passionate collector of includes Anne Collier, Richard Prince, Cindy (Baroque flute). Together they’ll perform a range 020 7304 4000 Brasserie Zedel 9LP www.christies.com Academy, brings Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize- photography for many years. Now the public has Sherman and Sara VanDerBeek. of pieces where the composers had stolen melodies roh.org.uk and Stephen Sondheim get the 020 7836 1321 @ChristiesINC winning novel (later turned into a star-studded the chance to see a selection of his 1920s-1950s Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-18:00; free entry from other compositions. @royaloperahouse Friedman treatment in this show. A three-time www.stanfords.co.uk prints, from the likes of Man Ray and Margaret 176 Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3PT 020 Starts 18:30 in the Music Room. winner at the Olivier Awards, Maria Friedman is film) to the stage. @StanfordsTravel May 2nd Starts 18:00. Tickets £19.50-75. Bourke-White. 7428 8940 Tickets £12. April 27th one of the West End’s greatest talents, and she’ll How to Brexit? 5 Sloane Terrace, Chelsea, SW1X 9DQ Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-18:00; Friday-Saturday, zabludowiczcollection.com 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, W1K 4HB 020 Halcyon Quartet be accompanied here by Jason Carr, himself a Tony April 20th The Best Deal for Britain 020 7730 4500 10:00-22:00. Tickets £13.10-16.50. @Zabludowicz_Coll. 7495 1685 Eaton Square Award nominee. Sutton Hoo Under the Microscope How to: Academy cadoganhall.com Bankside, SE1 9TG 020 7887 8888 handelhendrix.org The 2017 winners of the St. Peter’s Prize at the Starts 19:00 Tuesday-Saturday, plus Saturday British Museum (Venue: BP Lecture Lawyer and KCW contributor Gina Miller joins @cadoganhall tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern Ends August 28th @handelhendrix Royal Academy of Music will perform pieces by matinees at 16:00. Tickets £26. Theatre) Roger Graef and Stanley Johnson to discuss the @Tate Edmund Clark: War of Terror Beethoven, Borodin and Haydn. 20 Sherwood Street, W1F 7ED Sutton Hoo is one of the most important Anglo- best potential outcomes of Brexit. Ongoing Imperial War Museum April 20th Starts 19:30. Tickets £12-18. 020 7734 4888 Saxon burial sites in Britain. Sue Brunning, Classical Season 2016-2017 Ends June 4th Blending photographs, videos and documents, Phoenix Piano Trio St. Peter’s Eaton Square, brasseriezedel.com Curator of Early Medieval European Southbank Centre Legacy: Photographs by Clark demystifies the War on Terror and exposes Eaton Square 119 Eaton Square, Belgravia, SW1W 9AL 020 @BrasserieZedel Collections, explains why its The season continues with a varied calendar of Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith the realities of Guantanamo Bay, control orders Haydn, Schubert and Danish composer Niels 7288 6511 treasures, first exposed in 1939, are so events, such as Global Voices: Top World Youth Choirs THE LECTURE CLUB Dulwich Picture Gallery (a form of house arrest) and prisons such as Abu Gade feature on the repertoire of this much-loved eatonsquareconcerts.org.uk May 4th meaningful. Unite (17th April), Last Night of the Spring Proms SPRING Uniting the work of Bloomsbury Set artist Vanessa Salim in Libya. piano trio. They’ve performed at some of the UK’s @EatonSqConcerts Jane Austen’s Music Room 13:30-14:30. Free, but booking be informed PROGRAMME Bell with contemporary musician, artist and writer Daily, 10:00-18:00. Free entry. best chamber music venues, and now it’s the turn Handel & Hendrix in London (29th April) and The Sound of Musicals (13th essential.Great Russell Street, WC1B May). Patti Smith. As part of the exhibition, Smith took Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ of Eaton Square to host. April 28th The Flauguissimo Duo, on flute and guitar, 3DG All Lectures 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm. £15 Entrance on the door Times and prices vary; see website for details. or pre-book online for £12. Wine and Refreshments included. up an artist’s residency at Bell’s former home, 020 7416 5000 Starts 18:30 in the Music Room. Folk at the Foundling: Jimmy and Sid & will play pieces from Jane Austen’s music 020 7323 8355 Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Charleston, in Sussex. iwm.org.uk @I_W_M Tickets £12. Samantha Whates books, to celebrate 200 years since the author’s britishmuseum.org TH 020 7960 4200 APRIL 18 CARRIE BROOKS - LIFE COACH - Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00. Tickets £7-8 St. Peters Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, Foundling Museum birth. @britishmuseum www.southbankcentre.co.uk AGEING WELL “TIME OF OUR LIFE!“ (covering all exhibitions). Ends September 10th Belgravia, SW1W 9AL Enjoy an intimate concert in the museum’s Picture Starts 18:30 in the Music Room. @southbankcentre April 22nd Gallery Road, SE21 7AD Wildlife Photographer 020 7288 6511 Gallery, from two critically acclaimed British folk Tickets £12. APRIL 25 TH MICHAEL MORRIS FRANKS, 020 8693 5254 of the Year eatonsquareconcerts.org.uk acts whose music is rooted in their own national 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, Retailing Morris & Co: the Ongoing; every weekday PARTNER WILLIAM STURGES LLP: “MR TURING I PRESUME” www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Natural History Museum @EatonSqConcerts and local roots. W1K 4HB evidence of the log books in Lunchtime Concert @dulwichgallery Nearly 50,000 submissions from worldwide 18:30 for 19:00 start. Tickets £10-14. 020 7495 1685 Hammersmith ND St. Martin-in-the-Fields MAY 2 ALASTAIR PLUMB OF CHRISTIE’S photographers were whittled down to a selection of April 23rd 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ handelhendrix.org William Morris Society Catch a free lunchtime concert every weekday at “HOW TO COLLECT SENSIBLY“ Ends June 11th just 100. Find your favourite nature photography The Golden Age of British Big Bands 020 7841 3600 @handelhendrix Sanderson holds the log books of 13:00. Look out for baritone Emyr Wyn Jones Deutsche Börse moments of 2016, including those by children Cadogan Hall foundlingmuseum.org.uk @ Morris & Co, William Morris’s MAY 9TH KIRILL KALININ - OWNER (21st April), pianist Yulia Vershinina (25th April) Photography Foundation Prize and teenagers, and determine what makes a great Mark St. George’s Day in style with this very foundlingmuseum May 5th extensive offering of textiles and and the NLSO Chamber Ensemble (5th May). “INTRODUCTION TO ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS” The Photographers’ Gallery image of the world around us. British celebration of 1950s-1970s Big Band tunes, World Harmony Orchestra: Bevrijdingsdag furnishings. Achivist Keren Protheroe Starts 13:00. Free entry. Photographers from across the world compete for Daily, 10.00-17.50 (last entry 17:30). Tickets brought to you by the Jazz Repertory Company. April 28th-May 13th Concert discusses the company’s history and MAY 18 TH SUE NATALIE Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JH a £30,000 prize, awarded to the best contemporary £6.50-13.50. Starts 19:30. Tickets £18-36. Mayerling Dutch Centre and Dutch Embassy its influence on the rest of the Arts & 020 7766 1100 “A SELECTION OF POPULAR OPERATIC ARIAS“ work or exhibition of the past year. Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD 5 Sloane Terrace, Chelsea, SW1X 9DQ Royal Opera House To mark Dutch Liberation Day, the World Crafts movement. stmartin-in-the-fields.org Monday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday until 020 7942 5000 020 7730 4500 A Royal Family in chaos and a morbid Crown Harmony Orchestra (consisting of musicians from Starts 14:15. Tickets £5-12. JUNE 6 TH GERALD RATNER - CEO, GERALD ONLINE @smitf_london The Coach House, Kelmscott House, 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-18:00. Tickets £2.50-4 nhm.ac.uk cadoganhall.com @cadoganhall Prince create unforgettable drama, based around the world) will perform pieces by a range “THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF GERALD RATNER” (covering all exhibitions), or free before 12:00. @NHM_London on real-life events, in Kenneth Macmillan’s of refugee composers. 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, W6 April 4th TH 16-18 Ramillies St, April 24th-May 8th masterpiece. 18:30 for 19:00 start. Tickets £5-10. 9TA 020 8741 3735 JUNE 27 PETER HIGGINSON “ROME: A CITY OF Christie’s Lates: W1F 7LW MUSIC The Exterminating Angel Times vary; see website for details. Dutch Centre, 7 Austin Friars, williammorrissociety.org @ Contemporary Living: EXTREMES. CARAVAGGIO OFFERS AN ARTISTIC SOLUTION” 020 7087 9300 Royal Opera House Tickets £4-100. EC2N 2HA 020 7588 1684 dutchcentre.com WmMorrisSocUK Art, Craft & Design thephotographersgallery.org.uk April 13th The première of an opera inspired by the Luis Bow Street, Covent Garden, @DutchCentre Christies South Kensington VENUE: 9 ILCHESTER PLACE, LONDON W14 8AA @tpgallery Beg, Borrow or Steal Buñuel film, set during an opera performance WC2E 9DD 020 7304 4000 April 26th An evening inspired by the Christie’s exhibition, LECTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST SCHEDULE ON Handel & Hendrix in London where the audience is locked in and the mood roh.org.uk @royaloperahouse May 5th Hidden Spy Sites of London: Part Contemporary Living: Art, Craft & Design, Ends June 11th Madera, a Baroque ensemble, features David turns anarchic. The Color Purple 1 WWW.THELECTURECLUB.COM including a scale model of Christie’s South Roger Mayne Beaney (Baroque flute and recorders), Claire Starts 19:30, except for 19:00 on 6th May. 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18:45-20:00. Tickets £25. population. April 3rd- July 22nd April 10th-June 24th The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square (off Portobello 17:00-20:00. Free, but booking essential. The Philanthropist The Braille Legacy Road), W11 2AY Email john.gordon@ 639 Enterprise Centre, Trafalgar Studio One Charing Cross Theatre howtoacademy.com howtoacademy.com @ 639 High Rd, N17 8AA Christopher Hampton’s most celebrated play is The true story of Louis Braille’s pioneering howtoacademy 020 7631 6000 revived by Simon Callow, directing an all-star cast, invention to give blind people their own SAVE bbk.ac.uk including Simon Bird, Lily Cole, Charlotte Ritchie alphabet, leading to greater independence and WESTMINSTER ABBEY BY DIRECT DEBIT May 4th @BirkbeckNews and Tom Rosenthal. communication. ASSOCIATION £10 Belief in an Age of Suspense: The Changing Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday and Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday Emotional Landscape of the UFO and Alien May 11th Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £19.50-89. matinees at 14:30; Saturday matinees at 15:00. Contact Phenomenon Hanif Kureishi in Conversation 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Tickets £17.50-39. Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Foyles 0844 871 7632 The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL 0844 Emotions Discover the story behind the hotly- atgtickets.com 4930 650 Greg Eghigian, Associate Professor of Modern anticipated new novel by Hanif Kureishi, The @TrafStudios charingcrosstheatre.co.uk History at Penn State University (USA) and the Nothing. @braillelegacy NASA and American Historical Association 19:00-20:00. Tickets £5-8. April 5th-May 6th Fellow in Aerospace History, leads a talk on UFOs. The Auditorium at Foyles, Level 6, The Plague Ends April 15th How have reported sightings changed over the 107 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DT Arcola Theatre Limehouse years, and what do our responses say about our 020 7437 5660 foyles.co.uk Neil Bartlett directs his own adaptation of Albert Donmar Warehouse TREAT YOURSELF society? @Foyles Camus thought-provoking novel, which focuses on Steve Waters’ new play is a fictionalised account 18:00-21:00. Free, but booking essential, via May 17th a plague-stricken French town, inspired by France’s of four Labour politicians (Bill Rodgers, Shirley Eventbrite. Enid Blyton and Me experience of Nazi occupation as an ideological Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen) meeting The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, British Academy plague. as their party is in crisis. The cast includes Roger WC1N 1JD Contact via Twitter, or listing on Bruno Vincent’s spoof books, based on Enid Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and Allam and Tom Goodman-Hill. eventbrite.co.uk projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/ Blyton’s Famous Five, have taken the literary world Saturday matinees at 15:00. Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday and emotions by storm. Find out what it’s like to take 75-year- Tickets £10-22. Saturday matinees start 14:30. Tickets £10-40. TO THE PERFECT @emotionshistory old source material and reinterpret it for modern 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL 020 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX readers with a sense of humour. 7503 1646 0844 871 7624 May 5th 18:30-19:30. Tickets £3-5. arcolatheatre.com www.donmarwarehouse.com Michael Palin in Conversation 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, @arcolatheatre @DonmarWarehouse National Gallery SW1Y 5AH Actor, writer and explorer Michael Palin talks 020 7969 5200 April 7th – May 20th Ends April 16th about his favourite National Gallery paintings, britac.ac.uk @britac_news Guards at the Taj The White Devil and explains what the National Gallery means to Bush Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre EASTER GIFT him. April 3rd-22nd The recently reopened Bush Theatre welcomes (Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) 18:30-19:30. Tickets £5-7. Out of Blixen acclaimed director Jamie Lloyd, directing a new A Jacobean revenge tragedy is transformed into a Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN Coronet Printroom historical comedy by Pulitzer Prize nominee Rajiv dystopian nightmare. Directed by Ryan, the 020 7747 2885 A new play from Riotous Company, charting the Joseph. Our setting is the Taj Mahal, in 1648: play will be performed by candlelight. nationalgallery.org.uk story of Danish author Karen Blixen. She became our focus is two of the guards protecting the Monday and Thursday starts 19:30; Sunday at @nationalgallery world-famous for her memoir, Out of Africa, but landmark. 18:30; Tuesday matinee at 14:30. Tickets £10-62. produced a large body of work under various Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT May 10th pseudonyms. Saturday matinees start 14:30. 020 7401 9919 Birkbeck’s Big Ideas: What Causes Autism, and Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday matinees Tickets £10-20. shakespearesglobe.com Why Do Adolescents Often Feel Paranoid? start 15:00. Tickets £16-28. 7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, @The_Globe Birkbeck 103 Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill, W11 3LB W12 8LJ Dr. Angelica Ronald will discuss her research 020 3642 6606 020 8743 5050 Ends April 17th on autism and related conditions, arguing the-print-room.org @the_printroom bushtheatre.co.uk @bushtheatre Twelfth Night there is a continuum of autistic traits in the National Theatre

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A concert packed full of show stopping hits from the world's best-loved musicals, performed by four star soloists from the West End. a wealth of benefits JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR KISS ME KATE SUNSET BOULEVARD To purchase membership and gift membership, please visit westminster-abbey.org/association OLIVER LES MISERABLES MAMMA MIA OKLAHOMA CHESS For more information, email [email protected] or telephone 020 7654 4843 London Concert Orchestra Richard Balcombe conductor Thank you for supporting Westminster Abbey Saturday 13 May at 7.30pm TICKETS 020 7960 4200 Saturday 13 May at 7.30pm ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL SOUTHBANKCENTRE.CO.UK 40 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Events Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

(Venue: Olivier Theatre) lyric.co.uk pleasance.co.uk Martins Lane, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of mistaken @LyricHammer @ThePleasance WC2N 4BG identity hits the National just after Valentine’s April 24th-June 10th 0844 871 7623 Day, starring Tamsin Greig as Malvolia (in an April 21st-June 17th The Treatment theglassmenagerie.co.uk additional twist, Malvolio has become a woman). The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui Almeida @TGMWestEnd Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday (and Donmar Warehouse The film industry in New York is laid bare, warts selected Wednesday) matinees at 14:00. Tickets Sir Lenny Henry stars as small-time gangster and all, in this drama by Martin Crimp. Lyndsey Ends April 29th £15-65. Limited availability. Arturo Ui, whose protection racket soon becomes Turner returns to the Almeida to direct. Travesties Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX deeply involved in Chicago’s dangerous mob Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30. Wednesday and Apollo Theatre 020 7452 3000 dealings. Saturday matinees from early May, 14:30. Tickets Tom Stoppard’s play transfers from the Menier nationaltheatre.org.uk Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday and £10-39.50. Chocolate Factory for a 12 week West End run. chiswickauctions.co.uk @NationalTheatre Saturday matinees at 14:30. Almeida Street, Islington, N1 1TA Patrick Marber directs, and Tom Hollander and Tickets £10-40. Limited availability. 020 7359 4404 Freddie Fox are among the cast. 020 8992 4442 April 18th-23rd 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX almeida.co.uk Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and Drowning on Dry Land 0844 871 7624 @AlmeidaTheatre Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £20-71.50. New Wimbledon Studio Theatre donmarwarehouse.com 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London W3 8BL Talentless celebrity Charlie Conrad is about @DonmarWarehouse April 26th-May 27th W1D 7EZ to discover the dark side of fame, as his long- Madame Rubinstein 0330 333 4809 suffering wife, plus an investigative journalist and a April 22nd -July 9th Park Theatre (Venue: Park200) nimaxtheatres.com clown, turn his world upside down. Another classic Romeo and Juliet Première of the new comedy, set in 1950s @NimaxTheatres comedy from Alan Ayckbourn. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Manhattan and inspired by cosmetics giant Helena Starts 19:45 Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday. This retelling comes from Daniel Kramer, Artistic Rubinstein. Starring Miriam Margolyes in the May 2nd-27th Specialising in objects, art and furniture Matinees 14:45 Saturday-Sunday. Tickets £15.40. Director of the English National Opera. Where titular role. The Gap in the Light 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, better to see Shakespeare’s best-known romantic Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30. Thursday and New Diorama SW19 1QG 0844 817 7646 tragedy? Warning: performances contain strobe Saturday matinees at 15:00. Tickets £10-26.50. Engineer Theatre Collective presents a challenging from the 20th century to the present day. atgtickets.com/venues/new-wimbledon- lighting. Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, N4 3JP 020 play, partially set in complete darkness, exploring theatre/ Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Sunday, starts 7870 6876 the nature of climbing into the unknown. @atgtickets 16:30; selected matinees at 13:00 and 14:00 (see parktheatre.co.uk @parktheatre Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30. website for details). Tickets £12.50-15. April 19th-30th Tickets £5-45. April 26th-May 27th 15-16 Triton Street, Regents Place, NW1 3BF 020 Junkyard 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT The Cardinal 7383 9034 Rose Theatre Kingston 020 7401 9919 newdiorama.com @newdiorama New musicals don’t come with a much better shakespearesglobe.com In the kingdom of Navarre, the Cardinal’s Entries are now invited for the sale of pedigree than this: a story of friendship and @The_Globe ambitions for power know no bounds. Enter his May 6th – June 24th growing up, penned by BAFTA Award-winning nemesis, the Duchess Rosaura. This was one Life of Galileo writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Ends April 22 of the last plays to be performed before Oliver Young Vic Child, This is England 90), scored by composer Chinglish Cromwell’s theatre ban was enforced. Joe Wright directs a new version of the Bertolt 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Wolf Park Theatre (Venue: Park200) Monday-Saturday, starts 20:00. Tuesday and Brecht play, enhanced by projections and puppetry, Hall, Jerusalem), and directed by Jeremy Herrin Catch the European premiere of David Henry Saturday matinees start 15:30. Tickets £12-20. and designed by Lizzie Clachan. (Wolf Hall, People, Places and Things, This Hwang’s comedy, which examines what can be 77-85 Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD 020 Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30 (except 29th May); 2nd May 2017 House). lost in translation when an American businessman 7407 0234 Wednesday and Saturday matinees, 14:30. Tickets Wednesday-Thursday and selected Saturdays, wants to make it big in China and has his heart set southwarkplayhouse.co.uk £10-38. starts at 19:30; selected Thursdays at 14:30; on an impossible romance. @swkplay 66 The Cut, Waterloo, SE1 8LZ selected Fridays at 20:00; selected Sundays at Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday and 020 7922 2922 15:00. Saturday matinees at 15:00. Tickets £10-26.50. April 26th-September 23rd youngvic.org Tickets £16-31. Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, N4 3JP 020 Alice’s Adventures Underground @youngvictheatre 24-26 High Street, Kingston, KT1 1HL 020 7870 6876 The Vaults 7492 0810 parktheatre.co.uk @parktheatre The Olivier Award-winning immersive theatre May 7th-8th rosetheatrekingston.org experience returns to Vaults, following its sell-out Metamorphosis @Rosetheatre Ends April 22 2015 run. The Vaults Incident at Vichy Tuesday-Saturday, staggered performances start Theatrical Niche adapts Franz Kafka’s April 19th -May 13th Finborough Theatre 18:00, 18:15 and 18:30. Sunday matinees at 13:45, nightmarish novel, using puppetry and physical Nuclear War The first professional production of Arthur 14:00 and 14:15. Tickets £31.50-71.50. theatre. Royal Court Miller’s play for half a century takes a no-holds- Leake Street, Waterloo, SE1 8SW 020 Starts 19:30. Tickets £11-13. Simon Stephens, one of Britain’s best barred look at evil and bureaucracy in Nazi- 7492 0810 The Vaults Theatre, Launcelot Street, SE1 contemporary playwrights, presents his new work, occupied France. alice-underground.com 7AD inspired by desire, death and time, at the Jerwood Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; from 8th April, @AliceUnderLDN 020 7401 9603 Theatre Upstairs. Saturday matinees at 15:00; Sunday matinees at thevaults.london @thevaultsuk Monday-Saturday, starts 19:45; Thursday 15:00. April 28th -June 3rd and Saturday matinees at 15:00; limited extra Tickets £14-18. Occupational Hazards May 9th -September 13th performances on selected dates at 21:15. Tickets 118 Finborough Road (above the Finborough Hampstead Theatre Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour £12-25. Limited availability. Arms), Earls Court, SW10 9ED 0844 847 1652 A new play based on Rory Stewart’s memoir of his Duke of York’s Theatre Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS finboroughtheatre.co.uk time as a governor in Iraq. Simon Godwin directs. It’s the Edinburgh Festival Fringe production that 020 7565 5000 @finborough Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30. Wednesday took the theatre world by storm. Follow six unruly royalcourttheatre.com matinees at 14:30 and Saturday matinees at 15:00. Catholic schoolgirls on an unforgettable school @royalcourt Ends April 22 Tickets £10-28. trip to Edinburgh, soundtracked by ELO, that’s Othello Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU both hilarious and poignant. April 19th-May 30th Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 020 7722 9301 Vicky Featherstone directs. Obsession (Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) hampsteadtheatre.com Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and Barbican Ellen McDougall’s version of the Shakespearian @hamps_theatre Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £30-65. Part of the Toneelgroep residency at the Barbican, tragedy blends period and modern references, St Martins Lane, WC2N 4BG this is a stage adaptation of the classic Italian including updated swear words and slurs. The Ends April 29th 0844 871 7623 Neorealistic film, Obsession (1943). director believes the racism and inequality featured Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead ourladiestheplay.co.uk Extra Monday performance on 24th April. in the play are still huge problems for society to Old Vic @OurLadiesLDN Tuesday-Sunday, starts 19:45; Thursday and overcome. 50 years after Tom Stoppard made his name with Saturday matinees, 14:30; Sunday matinees, 15:00. Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday, starts 19:30; this witty play, the Old Vic revives it with a stellar May 13th -June 24th Tickets £16-60. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday matinees at cast, including David Haig, Joshua McGuire and Woyzeck Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS 14:30; Sunday matinees at 13:30. Tickets £10-62. Daniel Radcliffe. Old Vic 020 7638 8891 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and Georg Büchner’s incomplete Cold War play has barbican.org.uk 020 7401 9919 Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £12-65. been adapted by Jack Thorne, with Star Wars John @BarbicanCentre shakespearesglobe.com The Cut, SE1 8NB Boyega in the lead role. @The_Globe 0844 871 7628 Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday and April 20th- May 13th oldvictheatre.com Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £12-65. City of Glass Ends April 22nd @oldvictheatre The Cut, SE1 8NB Lyric Hammersmith Posh 0844 871 7628 The world premiere of a daring play, adapted Pleasance London Ends April 29th oldvictheatre.com from Paul Auster’s book and the graphic novel An all-female cast tackles Laura Wade’s hugely The Glass Menagerie @oldvictheatre it spawned. Expect innovative staging and successful play, which was later adapted for the Duke of York’s Theatre To receive a free and confidential valuation please contact James Nurse illusions. screen as The Riot Club. It’s seven Olivier Award nominations should be Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday Starts 19:30; matinees at 14:30. reason enough to see the acclaimed John Tiffany matinees at 13:30; Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £17.50-25.00. production of The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee [email protected] Tickets £15-40. Carpenters Mews, North Road, Islington, Williams. Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL 020 N7 9EF Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday and Compiled and edited by Polly Allen 8741 6850 020 7609 1800 Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets £15-85.St and Fahad Redha 42 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Michelangelo & Sebastiano National Gallery Until 25 June 2017 Museum © British Photographs Admission £18 nationalgallery.org.uk

in retro televisual and video imagery, from gas stations to space rockets, from The American flashy, winged cars to Hollywood, with the other displaying the prints on show Dream: Pop all around. The exhibition opens with ten to the Present colour Warhol screenprints of Marilyn, British Museum the face that launched a thousand tote bags, an image so familiar as to be a Until 18 June 2017 cliché, alongside his Electric Chair from Michelangelo. Seated nude and two studies of an arm © Albertina, Vienna Sebastiano del Piombo. Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Pietà) © Museo Civico, Viterbo Admission £16.50 1971. Later in the exhibition, there is the creepy, bile-green face of Richard Nixon [email protected] staring at the viewer, with the caption her nocturnal eglected’, ‘overlooked’, was not comfortable with the medium, have loaned ten, mostly letters between he was reproached for no longer working below reading Vote McGovern. Warhol landscape by ‘forgotten’, ‘unappreciated’ are providing him with drawings and designs the two friends.The Judgement of Solomon, as he used to and being more interested is a key player in the American flirtation the use of just some of the words that for paintings. The first joint venture was on loan from the National Trust at in the best wines and the rarest luxuries with the medium of print, in all its many black and blue could describe Sebastiano del Piombe their depiction of the pietà, Lamentation Kingston Lacy in Dorset, also shows the that could be found. His response was forms, although his legacy is mainly woodcuts. ‘N silkscreen, and there is an explanatory Other printing (1485-1547), at the time, the achingly over the Dead Christ (1516), a powerful influence of Michelangelo, but is curious that men of genius could finish a work in talented Venetian and as big a name as composition, with Christ, unusually, in that it does not feature a baby, surely two months what he used to do in two clip of the process, cleverly presented techniques Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael in lying in front of Mary and not residing the subject of the painting. years. he British Museum holds over on the flat, as though a screenprint rig. are displayed Rome, from where most of the large in her lap, although Andrea Mantegna With the success of his altarpieces, A novel highlight of the exhibition thirteen million objects, relics Other artists to favour this medium are and explained commissions were emanating. In Vasari’s painted him on a marble slab thirty Sebastiano became closely connected is a cutting-edge recreation from the and antiquities from ancient Roy Lichenstein, Ed Ruscha, with his in this Lives of Artists, his first profession is years earlier. We are told that this is also to the Cardinal, and was duly rewarded Spanish workshop, Factum Arte, of andT modern civilisations, including iconic Standard Station and Hollywood, expansive and attributed to being a musician, primarily the first large-scale nocturnal landscape during his pontificate, the most the Borgherini Chapel in S. Pietro Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt, Richard Serra, Joseph Albers and Frank comprehensive a singer and a lutist, which made him in history, although the third panel of important being becoming a friar. After in Montorio, Rome, decorated by the Mayan civilisation, China, Ancient Stella with his Double Gray Scramble, exhibition, a darling of the gentlemen of Venice. Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, The Garden Fra Mariano Fetti, Friar of the Piombo, Sebastiano to partial designs by Greece, Persia, Rome, the Aztecs, which comprised two squares of including When he professed an interest in of Earthly Delights, portraying a night- died, he was appointed to the same office Michelangelo, using composite colour the Incans, each empire seemingly concentric stripes printed in 150 colours drypoint, painting, he was first placed under the time hell and damnation, was finished and assumed the friar’s habit, in spite of photography and photogrammetry, indomitable at the time, but each from fifty screens, printed by Ken Tyler engraving, tutelage of Giovanni Bellini, then an old in 1510. Mary is not the usual willowy being married with two children, and complete with the chapel’s half-domed eventually declining and crumbling, to be at Gemini in LA. The hyperrealist photogravure, man, and thereafter under Giorgione figure, but a much more butch version, also the biship’s mazzetta. As Vasari ceiling and curved walls painted with absorbed, supplanted by another, beaten painter Richard Estes’s hard-edged sugar-lift da Castelfranco, from whom he learnt with broad shoulders and muscular neck, points out, ‘now he had the means to scenes of the Transfiguration and in wars, or, in the case of the Roman Urban Landscapes featuring facades from aquatint, the rudiments of painting in oils. He against a background that was surely satisfy his desires, he spent his time in Flagellation of Christ, the lunettes with empire, overrun by millions of barbarians diners, restaurants, hardware stores and spit-bite was soon lured to Rome and, as Vasari inspired by the ambiguous Tempest by his repose without touching a brush.’ The St Matthew and St Isaiah, and the two from the north and east of Europe. The office blocks, are ideally suited to his anal etching and wrote, ‘While Sebastiano was executing former teacher, Giorgione. office of the piombo (or leaden seal) columns which stand on either side of Persian Civilisation was brought down depiction of reflections and neon signage. flags, maps and his deceptively simple sometimes, more than one process on these works in Rome, Raffaello da Christ being scourged at theTemple is is the office of Sealer of Briefs of the these masterpieces. A plaster-cast of after 200 years by a soldier of Macedon, Pop art emerged from the economic Coat Hanger, produced in 1960. Wayne the same print, such as Jim Dine, who Urbino had risen into such credit as a another work for which Michelangelo apostolic chamber, which required him Michelangelo’s sculpted Pietà, from the Alexander the Great. Perhaps we are boom in the 1960s, when Americans Thiebaud is not only represented by his utilised etching, drypoint, soft-ground painter, that his friends and adherents provided the outline for the work, to accompany the Pope in all his travels. original in St Peter’s, Vatican City, is an about to witness the decline and fall of were blanket-bombed by advertising charmingly mundane etchings of Lunch and aquatint in his Five Paintbrushes said that his pictures were more in as well as the Raising of Lazarus, a Fra Sebastiano, always a little tardy in astonishing work, made when he was the richest and most powerful nation on TV, in the press and on billboards. and Bacon and Eggs, but by lithography (sixth state). Chuck Close experimented accord with the rules of painting than complex composition, busy with many his work, became lazier, and thereafter only 25 years old, and another copy of ever seen on earth? If so, we can thank The pop artists also took inspiration and colour linocuts, while Robert with yet another medium, the paper-pulp those of Michelangelo, being pleasing participants, which was bought by the only took on portaits. Cardinal Ippolito the Risen Christ, made in 1898, stands the British Museum for doing what from movies, comics and newspapers Bechtle’s black and white etchings technique, then the painstaking spit-bite in colour, beautiful in invention, and National Gallery in 1824, although de’ Medici, having become enamored of alongside an earlier, original version in museums do best, cataloguing, and and were fascinated with consumerism depict automobile status-symbols, aquatint and etching process, and, finally, charming in the expressions, with design recent infrared reflectography has Signora Giulia Gonzaga, commissioned Carrara marble, both of which stand bringing together an exhibition that and commodities. James Rosenquist like ’60 T-Bird and a Camaro. Robert mezzotint, in the three examples of his in keeping with the rest; and that those revealed that Sebastiano’s contribution Sebastiano to take her portrait, in which 2.5m tall. Some of Michelangelo’s celebrates an era of change and naïveté produced his monumental composition Motherwell adopted surrealist automatist work on display. After a collapsed spinal of (Michelangelo) Buonarroti had none is greater than first thought. Two of he captured her ‘celestial beauty’ and studies are sublime in their execution in American culture from the 1960s F-111 in 1964, a multi-panel oil painting techniques to make his dynamic marks artery in 1988, which left him paralysed of those qualities, with the exception of Michelangelo’s red chalk on paper produced ‘a divine picture’. After twenty- of musculature and structure, and one until the present day. Donald Trump with aluminium 26-metre long, longer using lithography, and Elsworth Kelly’s and wheelchair-bound, he carried on the design.’ drawings of Lazarus, on loan from the five years of friendship, it all came to can appreciate how the two artists talked about “the American dream being than the aircraft, but on show is a 7.3 flat, lithographic ovoid shapes, one working with a brace attached to his arm. Michelangelo, who was working on British Museum, determine how much a juddering halt when Fra Sebastiano complemented each other, with his dead” during his campaign trail, then metre long colour lithograph with of which he said, according to David Three quarters of the exhibits are from the Sistine Chapel, befriended the young of an influence he was on the final persuaded the Pope that he should make extraordinary skills and Sebastiano’s cast himself as its saviour by proclaiming screenprint done 10 years later. Claes Hockney, was ‘two boys’ bums’. the British Museum’s own collection, painter, ten years his junior, and they painting. It was conceded that Lazarus Michelangelo paint the Last Judgment smooth oil technique. It is a great regret “Let’s make America great again”. He Oldenburg became obsessed with Mezzotints, an intaglio process that with loans from MOMA, Tate, V&A, fast became allies against the prodigious was produced in response to Raphael’s on the front wall of the Papal Chapel in that they fell out after so many years of then withdrew funding for the National everyday household objects such as works from dark to light by scraping the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Raphael, whose main challenger at the commission by Cardinal Giulio de’ oils. He said that he would only do it in collaboration, but this show redresses the Endowment for the Arts and pumped electrical plugs and screws, using etching and burnishing, are best represented by and many private owners. time was Michelangelo. Sebastiano Medici to paint an altarpiece, the fresco, and that painting in oils was an painterly skills of this indolent genius more into defense. and aquatint, while Robert Rauschenberg Craig McPherson,whose moodily eerie If only Andy Warhol had been was the only oil painter in Rome to Transfiguration of Christ. The National art for women and for leisurely and idle as well as underlining the unrivalled There are two films playing side-by- experimented with lithography, as well Yankee Stadium at Night is a masterpiece around in 2017 to make a screenprint of rival the Umbrian artist, so the two Gallery have provided seven works, the people like Fra Sebastiano. Leisurely and draftsmanship of Michelangelo. side in one of the displays, one showing as screenprinting. Jasper Johns used in chiaroscuro, while Yvonne Jacquette’s Donald Trump, with his pout and hairdo collaborated, with Michelangelo, who BM ten, and Fondazione Casa Buonarroti idle was certainly what he became, and Don Grant what epitomised ‘the American Dream’ both mediums for his targets, alphabets, Tip of Manhattan achieves great depth in in various colourways. Don Grant 44 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

a goods yard statues, urns and bird cages. All these Brunswick House and a riverside are artistically displayed in the house Howard Hodgkin 30 Wandsworth Road. wharf. and courtyard. Original flagstones and In 1863 Persian carpets on real floor boards set Vauxhall the house was the scene. Absent Friends National Portrait Gallery London SW8 2 LG handed over There are several display rooms, one to the British exhibiting marble columns, painted Until 18 June 2017 Rail Staff wooden columns from a fairground Association and an English revival, white Rococo Admission £12 Club. It was Carrara marble chimney piece. Glorious www.npg.org.uk officially named chandeliers glitter abundantly. the Literary The panelled office room has a six and Scientific branch chandelier with a wonderfully Institute. They coloured orange carpet and an unusual had facilities for steel and cast iron fire basket. he NPG could well have Billiards and The fine library is braced against the followed pocket cartoonist table tennis. weight of the Billiard tables above with Osbert Lancaster’s lead when A concert hall a piece of used railway track! There is an he called his book of memoirs All Done was built in elegant reclaimed mantel piece. T from Memory, as Sir Howard only used 1890 providing The Saloon, now the restaurant was his memory when starting a painting. music and the Duke of York's drawing room and it Some poorly-informed visitors may be dancing. Once was used for snooker at one time. baffled by the nature of the paintings on the Temperance There are a series of cellars which display, and wonder what these ‘abstracts’ movement show the remains of an earlier building. are doing in a gallery devoted purely to faded a large They contain many road signs. portraiture. One has to pose the question, bar was opened The courtyard is most attractive and if one instinctively thought that they on the ground packed with statues, urns of all shapes were abstract paintings, how was one to floor. and materials, iron gates, fountains, an know that they were, in fact, portraits, Brunswick old wooden barrow and benches. Some if it were not for captions and a sneaky was bought in of the urns are filled with flowers. look at the catalogue? We are told that 2002 by Adrian The restaurant has an excellent lunch there are clues in the paintings as to who Amos, pioneer and dinner menu and the bar is well the sitters are, but without a gentle nudge or crib-sheet, it is quite challenging to discern who is who and what is what. But does this matter? When the pictures on show are such a vibrant and vivacious display of colour, texture and Photographs © Tim Epps Tim © Photographs bravura brushmanship, no, it does not matter a jot. What was in Howard’s mind when he started a painting, is a magine walking round an 18th matter between him, his memory and his Top: the same time it took to put this show Going for a Walk with Andrew century house, home to an eclectic emotional involvement with the subject. by Howard Hodgkin, 1995-1998; together. Apparently, he played two collection of antiques, architectural How it ends up, with many re-visits to Walker Art Center pieces of music while he was painting Left: gems and curios, together with a the canvas and numerous revisions and Absent Friends it: The Last Time I Saw Paris by Jerome I overpainting, is up to us, the viewer. To by Howard Hodgkin, courtyard garden filled with statuary and Kern, sung by Noël Coward, and the 2000-1; Private Collection rescued treasures. At Brunswick House say that he was a slow worker, would be theme tune from Carol Reed’s film The you can do this, buy anything you desire like saying that he painted at the speed Third Man, composed and performed and experience fine dining, all in this of a koala bear, but without the same by the Austrian zither-player Anton historic house. sense of urgency, sometimes spending up Karas. Five incessant years of either Brunswick House (originally known to ten years on a painting. The end result tune would surely send one up the wall? as Belmont House) used to stand in over is often a joy and a delight, no matter He was wheelchair-bound during his five acres of parkland and had its own how he arrived there. Sadly, Sir Howard last years, and had to be lifted up to the jetty on the Thames with a handsome died at the beginning of March, after 189cm x 263cm oil on wood picture to frontage onto the main road. It now flying back from one of his favourite finish it, using a long-handled brush and stands in a sea of modern development; locations, Mumbai in India. He loved his open palms. It is no co-incidence St George Wharf with its high rise the nature and colours of India, and that the Kern song is all about looking towers of flats, a supermarket and the had a large collection of Mogul-derived back and re-living the past, which is new American Embassy springing up Pahari paintings and miniatures from the exactly the act of remembrance Hodgkin close by. A startling contrast of old and Himalayas, and was particularly partial to was trying to achieve in this powerful, new as we so often see in our great city. elephants. vigorous and lyrical painting, surprisingly Forget some of the worst traffic in There is a thin line, or, in his case, a full of life. Other portraits include those London and enter the house. It was broad brush-stroke, between abstraction of his friends and patrons including built in 1758 and was the home of the and representation, and many of the of knowing what emotional experience Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, and, most David Hockney, seen standing like a Duke of Braunschweig (anglicised to titles of his paintings are designed he was trying to capture, although significantly, Matisse, whose use of yellow phallus in his pool in LA, Patrick Brunswick) in 1811 before he died in the to confound and tease. Take A Small Waking up in Naples and Bed in Venice coloration and application of paint can Caulfield, R B Kitaj, Joe Tilson and Napoleonic Wars at Quatre Bras. Other Thing but My Own, an absolute gem of are more explicit, the latter depicting a be seen in many works. Interior with his wife, Robyn Denny and his wife, famous residents were John Alexander radiancy within a black frame, and one of naked figure in white, rumpled sheets at Figures is redolent of Matisse’s The Piano Stephen Buckley, Gillian Wise and Woodward, also the Reverend Henry the best works in the exhibition, a mere the 14th century five-star Danieli Hotel Lesson or Vuillard’s Green Interior, with Anthony Hill, a Constructionist painter, William Baker, who wrote the hymn 44.5cm x 53.5cm. It comes from the title in 1984, which celebrated his long- two nude figures lying in the foreground whose interest in mathematics led him The King of Love my Shepherd Is. He also purchased by the South West Railway of the Architectural Salvage and Supply stocked. Tea and coffee are available. of a book of essays by the seventeenth term relationship with the musicologist and a cloud of post-coital cigarette to be made a visiting research associate edited Hymns. Ancient and Modern from company. The terminus was built nearby Company ( Lassco) and is their flagship. Brunswick House is a 'different century poet Abraham Cowley, but that Antony Peattie. It was also the year he smoke rising in the background. in the Department of Mathematics at 1860 to 1867. with a locomotive building works. The They rescue architectural pieces from experience' and is a paradise for may have been selected merely to confuse represented Britain at the XLI Biennale, His last painting was done with this UCL. Whether one sees the paintings Brunswick House ceased to be a quiet Nine Elms engine shed was built in the developments. These include chimney collectors and curio aficionados. the viewer. He is often quoted as saying, so the British Council really must have exhibition in mind and is a self-portrait as portraits or abstracts, this is the most retreat with the advent of the railway area and rail track and sheds were near pieces, mantel pieces and iron gates. Marian Maitland ‘I paint representational pictures of pushed la barca out. His influences called Portrait of the Artist Listening to striking, poetic, sumptuous and colourful and riverside industries and it was soon the house. The Rail company created They also collect lamp posts, street signs, www.lassco.co.uk emotional situations’, and there is no way include Turner, Seurat, Degas, Vuillard, Music. It took him five years to complete, exhibition in London. Don Grant 46 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and you have the perfect platform to constantly on display. The piece was Company Wayne McGregor dancers Theresienmesse Mass in B-flat Major Rival Queens. It’s going to be a kind of develop your own choreographic style optically exciting and challenging as worked seamlessly as one. within the City of London and Royal experiential opera performance through BALLET and statement. McGregor is a creative the eye was taken in every direction as (CLASSICAL) Philharmonic Mozart & Haydn series, Handel House using Handel’s most BY ANDREW WARD genius in the middle of his journey the dancers twisted and turned with which climaxes with the unmissable famous arias and reliving the relationship where the likes of Martha Graham pristine precision and boundless energy Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A (chosen between two of his most famous divas.

and Merce Cunningham laid the path for 75 minutes with Jamie xx pulsating Project Polunin MUSIC by my brother Euan for our father Then in August they’re holding a © Handel House Photograph for others to follow. He believes dance electronic score. With all the hype the dance world BY JAMES DOUGLAS Jimmy’s committal) and Haydn’s Hendrix housewarming party on the should speak the language of today. Olafur Eliasson’s visual concept could muster, dance sensation Sergei Harmoniemesse in spring 2018, was same date he headlined Woodstock (18 Like Kenneth McMillan in the 70s and and sets offered a choice of reflecting Polunin entered centre stage but this interesting. There is a purity in the August 1969). There will be performers Tree of Codes. early 80s, McGregor now enjoys the views to the work. The inventive use of time not only as a dancer but also as Theresienmesse which academics have throughout the house, Hendrix- luxury of creating an artistic vision not mirrors and lighting added to evening director and choreographer. Polunin had explained was of necessity: at the time of inspired cocktails and a whole load of Company Wayne a commercial one, and rightly so. He in more ways than one! At a flick of a a point to prove. its writing in the mid seventeen-nineties Woodstock-themed happenings. says “We live in complex times. Our art switch the mirrored sets would change Leaving The Royal Ballet aged City of London there weren’t enough wind players at the I’d never heard of Handel & Hendrix McGregor & forms should reflect the need to decipher angles offering the audience the choice 22, almost as dramatically as Nureyev Esterházy court. What the piece lacks in in London till fellow scribe Pamela Nash meanings and find new synergies. It’s of seeing double with the cast instantly entered the West, the youngest ever Choir variety of orchestration it makes up for mentioned Jane Chapman’s harpsichord Paris Opera not for everyone and that’s fine. But it is changing from 15 to 30. At times it was Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet in subtle shifts in key, and to a certain concert to be held at the museum absolutely what we should be doing.” even hypnotic as the brain had to decide decided he needed artistic freedom. Royal extent brute force, putting great pressure (entrance in Lancashire Court, near Ballet Tree of Codes was created by what was reality in the real world and His antics and life style has branded on the choir, most of all on the lead Hush) on 19 May 2017 at seven pm. him the bad boy of the ballet Philharmonic vocalists. On the night, soprano Grace Award-winning composers Effy world. Who could argue with Orchestra Davidson, mezzo-soprano Catherine and Litha Efthymiou present a new that, but he is still arguably Carby, tenor Nick Prithard, and baritone Esme Patey-Ford (actor), multimedia experience, fusing music the most talented dancer Mozart Tantum Ergo K142; Tristan Hambleton sang fabulously and for harpsichord, electronics, percussion of this generation. So what Piano Concerto No 24 K491 with real presence. Harriet Parker-Beldeau and found objects with theatre and went wrong? Prodigiously Stunning art on your doorstep. Treat (dance artist). movement. The show unites ‘Britain’s talented young people in the Haydn Mass in B-flat Major yourself. Do us a favour and say we sent most progressive harpsichordist’ (The performing world need wise Theresienmesse Hob XXll:12 you. And speaking of doorsteps … 19 May 2017 (Seven pm) Independent on Sunday), Jane Chapman, mentors and managers to guide with actor Esme Patey-Ford and dance them through their careers. Cadogan Hall 23 March 2017 Separated by a wall & 200 years are artist Harriet Parker-Beldeau, and has Photograph © Alastair Muir. R and above R R and above Alastair Muir. © Photograph You can’t do it all, but by all the homes of two musicians who chose drawn material from 1500-year-old accounts Polunin keeps trying Handel & London and changed music. Both manuscripts of early medieval Iberia. to go it alone. s we arrived at the Cadogan Hall, composers will be spoken about in a I’m going. So’s Pamela. If I were you As an evening of dance, one of my favourite venues, Plus Hendrix in thousand years’ time. Is it just me or is I’d go too. Take a music correspondent. with such high expectations, One Colin commented there’s London Handel cropping up a lot more? As for The museum will be delighted. it was always going to be something clean about its ambience; 25 & 23 Brook Street Mayfair Hendrix, his star has faded marginally hard for Polunin to succeed A over the last twenty years, but that’s it’s a convenient but nevertheless at the level he is used to as a glamorous location. A newer venue, Rituals to Mould Her With largely because he’s awaiting reappraisal performer. The opening work, at times exquisite music used to be Jane Chapman (harpsichord), when the Rock Movement finally comes Icarus, The Night before the relatively thinly supported, but these days to an end, which at about seventy years Flight, was a throwback from it’s usually as packed as it was for two of age has to Easter Wrap the past. Choreographed in masterpieces, and in Tantum Ergo a very happen soon. 1971 by Russian Star Vladimir pretty cameo introduction. Mozart and Looking ahead after Vasiliev, the piece looked and If Mozart’s on the bill he’ll probably Haydn both Easter, idling through our felt dated not least because steal the show, but Colin sang the mass’s went out of as Polunin soared around the praises. If only these two close friends fashion before multifaceted constellation of Osipova and Polunin. Narcissus and Echo (and right) stage the steps were those could see themselves 200 years after coming back venues’ websites one event Mantzell © Barrie Photograph that Vasiliev and Nureyev Deepres © Ravi Photograph their deaths fêted as the star attractions, stronger than shocked audiences with back still at the top of that select group of ever, as indeed springs out, not to be missed: in the 70s. Dance has moved really big guns. The Cadogan Hall did Handel. ayne McGregor is a on in 50 years and Polunin puts on a tremendous spectacle, this This will happen Shostakovich Symphony No 10 contemporary phenomenon has the talent to prove it, one all the more so with its packed to the guitar’s on the world stage TODAY. especially if he were to work choir, as demanded by the mass, and Chopin; Hendrix in E minor op 93 If you had to name five choreographers closely with one of today’s the largest orchestra required for any stands first as the Orchestral Masterworks W eminent choreographers. Mozart concerto. I always seem to get great virtuoso on one hand that, in the last ten years, had creatively influenced the direction He is irresistible on and off fabulous seats, so was perfectly in line guitar-composer. Royal College of Music contemporary dance has taken over stage. His recent dance video to appreciate Leon McCawley’s delicate How wonderful Amaryllis Fleming Concert this period you would be hard pressed Take Me to Church went viral flamboyance leading a concerto with to exploit not to name him twice alongside with nearly 20 million hits real aplomb, one that Mozart wrote to geographic Hall William Forysthe, Angelin Preljocaj online. The next up, Tea or show-off his own virtuosity at the piano, coincidence. 5 May 2017 (6:15pm) Coffee, created by Andrey as Hilary Davan Wetton conducted Events and Christopher Wheeldon. These Tree of Codes choreographers’ creations are engaging Kaydanovskiy was performed deft interaction between soloist and the at Handel & Rafael Payare conductor RCM audiences with the top companies McGregor for the 2015 Manchester what was “fake news”, when suddenly the by dancers of the Stanislavsky Ballet. orchestra. The effect of this is to give the Hendrix in Philharmonic around the globe 52 weeks of the year. International Festival and is based on, viewer was unable to decipher which one The piece was meant to be a joke but piece almost a call and response rhythm London include McGregor has works being performed and inspired by, Jonathan Safran Foer’s was mirror and which one was the real was lost on most. that must have sounded revolutionary to the special Rafael Payare, Chief Conductor by The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera book of the same name. The packed dancer! Ending the evening was the eagerly the first educated late eighteenth century feature Friday of the Ulster Orchestra, conducts the Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, New York audience had high expectations and were Talking of dancers this was perhaps awaited choreographic endeavour audiences. Lates. Friday RCM Philharmonic in Shostakovich's City Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky not disappointed at London’s Dance the star attraction of the evening. by Polunin, Narcissus and Echo. The Beethoven declared that he could Lates, they open powerful Tenth Symphony. From tragedy Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Netherlands House;The Sadler’s Wells. After years of working with his own mythological piece was long on sparkly never have written the Piano Concerto the house until to triumph, the symphony is widely Dans Theater, Royal Danish Ballet and Yes, the piece was complex yet at contemporary dancers and separately jock straps but short on meaningful in C Minor; while Mozart is seen as around 10pm, speculated to depict Stalin’s time in Australian Ballet to name a few! the same time it had a simplicity. Like with classical ballet dancers with the choreography, giving the audience plenty the very acme of Classicism, the Piano normally once power, travelling through terrifying Combine McGregor’s international reading a book… some would find Tree likes of The Royal Ballet to perform his to think about. Polunin will reflect on Concerto in C Minor is a pivotal work every couple of march and waltz movements complete choreographic foot print with running of Codes a hard read and others would sit own creative contemporary vocabulary, where his talents really lie and how best prophesising both the nineteenth months, each with military drums. It concludes with a his own company whilst at the same back and enjoy being visually stimulated. McGregor pushes out the boundaries to bring them centre stage. If he was a century’s Romantic Movement, and the time with a victorious chord symbolising the end of time enjoying the creative stimulus It was like being put in the middle of even further by combining both classical golfer he would have a manager: his first ethereal multi-dimensional psychedelia different theme. his rule. of being The Royal Ballet’s resident a kaleidoscope with numerous visual and contemporary dancers working shot at choreography was a fore! loud and of Schubert. In July the Friday Tickets a snip from £5 Late is called The choreographer for the last ten years choices of colour and dynamic movement together. The Paris Opera Ballet and clear! The juxtaposition of Haydn’s www.rcm.ac.uk 48 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Top: of forest, comprising roughly 800 trees, Eltham Palace 11,000 ground-cover plants, and 5,000 Middle: London Brunswick House: BRICKS AND shrubs, have been planted on the 111m (Also see page 44) and 76m towers. These green towers will Bottom: Uncovered L. Manze Eel and Pie Shop help to dramatically decrease the city’s Photographs by Peter Dazeley. BRICKBATS Boeri © Stefano Photograph C02 emissions and problems with dust. BY EMMA FLYNN Nature is a great solution but it Text by Mark Daly. Dazeley © Peter Photographs is not the only one. Many designers Published by Frances Lincoln. are also developing façade systems that can actively reduce pollutants 2016 artificially. A Berlin-based firm, £30 Air pollution & Elegant Embellishments, have developed a pollution-eating façade, the ISBN 9780711238091 Architecture Prosolve370e, a decorative architectural (Smog-eating façades) tile that helps reduce air pollution in cities when applied to a building facade. Coated with a superfine titanium dioxide London Uncovered is a welcome follow up to photographer (TiO2), a pollution-fighting technology Peter Dazeley’s earlier work, Unseen London, and again has most that is activated by ambient daylight, the informative accompanying text by Mark Daly. It describes both tiles neutralise air pollutants when sited familiar places and those which are less known in the capital. near traffic or other polluted conditions. There is a wide range of subjects from places of worship to halls The façade system is a decorative of entertainment and unusual shops. modular design. Inspired by fractals in The photography is detailed and Daly’s text contains a ‘greening’ and to nature, the undulating shapes maximise wealth of stories. This is an exciting book full of the atmosphere Photograph © Bikeworldtravel Photograph harness the benefits the surface area of active coating to of the buildings, large and small, that make the amazing city of of nature to help diffuse light, air turbulence and pollution. London. Dazeley and Daly are a brilliant team and they bring create a cleaner So far, the Prosolve370e is one of the the buildings to life. and healthier few technologies developed to retrofit Among the various subjects covered is Cleopatra's Needle, a environment for all. existing structures to reduce air pollution. monument whose history is not, perhaps, so well known. This Trees and Another idea by artist and innovator Obelisk is the oldest of London’s outdoor remains, predating

other green plants Daan Roosegaarde, proposes giant Embellishments © Elegant Photograph the Roman Wall by 1,600 years. It was one of a pair erected in ondon breached its legal limits for improve urban air street side filters to help combat smog Heliopolis by Pharaoh Thutmose II. After Egypt became a Roman toxic air for the entire year in the quality by removing in Beijing. The prototype 7m ‘Smog Province, the obelisks were shipped to Alexandria and set up first five days of 2017. Readings CO2 and common Free Tower’ sucks up polluted air and at Cleopatra’s Caesareum. Later one was discovered toppled by Lshowed that air at locations in the capital urban pollutants filters out smog particles before releasing British Army Officers and after lengthy negotiation it came to were worse than the notoriously smoggy like nitrogen clean air back into the environment. England in 1877. Notice the plaques around the base. Beijing, hitting a peak 197 micrograms dioxide (NO2) and While operating, the Smog Free Tower It is a good choice to include the Charles Dickens Museum per cubic metre for particulate matter on disease-causing creates a small bubble of fresh air around as this is the last remaining home in London of this great writer. the Air Quality Index. In response to the particulate matter itself, allowing inhabitants of the city to It has an important collection of material relating to him. Note emergency, Mayor Sadiq Khan issued the (PM). Not only experience (perhaps for the first time) the splendid photograph of his study. highest air pollution alert in London for this, research has the difference between the typical, daily The photographs of Eltham Palace encourage one to visit the first time, stating that the capital’s shown that ‘green urban air quality and clean smog-free this unusual building. It is a modern home integrated with ‘filthy air’ is now a ‘health crisis.’ infrastructure’ can help to reduce the air. China’s Ministry of Environmental the Great Hall of the Palace which was built for Edward 1V. The World Health Organisation’s urban heat island effect, filter fine dust Protection recently announced that There are stunning photographs of the Entrance Hall and most recent estimate attributes one on the streets and soak up storm water the air around the tower is in fact 55% Dining Room. Stephen and Virginia Courtauld kept their Art in eight premature deaths around the surges. Tom Armour, Global Landscape cleaner than it was before (however there Collection there and entertained guests. world to air pollution. This finding Architecture Leader at Arup said: is some debate over just how accurate It was a real pleasure to see Bibendum uncovered. It is more than doubles previous estimates “Tackling rising air pollution is a priority the statistic is). According to Studio seriously photogenic, especially the stain glass window based

and confirms that air pollution is now to help improve people’s health. As our Roosegaarde, the tower has snatched © Studio Roosegaard Photograph on one of the first Michelin posters of 1898. He was the tyre the world’s largest single environmental cities continue to become built up, ‘grey’ billions of PM2.5 fine particles out of man who absorbs and drinks up obstacles on the road. Daly health risk. Reducing air pollution could structures, such as walls and roofs, are a the polluted air. explains well that it is a unique industrial building and now a save millions of lives. To translate this source of untapped potential for adapting While the cost and scope of smart restaurant. It was built in 1910 incorporating a tyre depot in local terms: a 2015 study by experts into green spaces. Well-designed green the Smog Free Tower is somewhat and was the first building in London to use the Hennebique from King’s College London found air envelopes can have a positive impact prohibitive, the proposal succeeds in its reinforced concrete usually used for warehouses. There are pollution in London linked to 9,400 on tackling air pollution, but can also mission to raise awareness of China’s excellent photographs of the pictorial tiles by Gilardoni Fils and premature deaths a year. deliver a wide range of social, economic dirty skies, and the human right for clean Cie showing Edwardian sporting scenes. Immediate action is needed. While re-imagine buildings as active solutions and environmental benefits to make air. As part of the Smog Free Project, The Rivoli Ballroom, once a cinema, is a good subject. It politicians appear slow to implement to combating poor air quality. Proposing cities more attractive and healthier jewellery made from collected smog is decorated in scarlet and gilt and has Chinese lantern lights, change, designers around the world are both visions and working solutions, places to be.” Research on the health particles (rings and cufflinks) are given to chandeliers and glitter balls. There is a stage at one end and calling for action to curb dangerous architects and designers are stepping up and economic benefits of air cleansing visitors as a memento, serving as a lasting fixed chairs and tables for couples round the sides. The floor is pollution in the city. According to to increase awareness of the issue and has shown that trees save lives, reduce reminder of the issues of air quality in Canadian maple and sprung! The building is grade 11 listed. Greenpeace, diesel vehicles are the show that it is possible to make positive hospital visits and even reduce the their city. The interior really is most original. “single biggest source” of London’s change. number of days taken off work. There is no doubt that policy will I liked the selection of unusual shops which included air pollution, however the form and One idea being promoted by Many architects around the world be the key driver of change in cities, Lassco in Brunswick House which sells architectural salvage, make up of the built environment can engineering firm, Arup, is to encourage are also adopting this philosophy; however it is clear that architecture, antiques, curios and garden decorations, L. Cornelissen & greatly affect the city’s capacity to deal cities to adopt strategic plans to ‘green’ acknowledging the value of nature to the fabric of our cities, can also play an Son in Gt. Russell Street which sells artists’ materials and has with it. Stagnant streetscapes can trap the urban realm in order to cut air improve the environment of our cities. important role in improving air quality, original Victorian and shop fittings, James Smith and Sons of polluted air rather than dissipating it; pollution and dampen noise. The firm Stefano Boeri is one such architect. His and consequently the quality of life for New Oxford Street which has a wonderful window display of hard concrete surfaces and a lack of says that green building envelopes, Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest), a pair city dwellers. It’s time for London to umbrellas, sword sticks and dagger canes. The frontage dates to greenery make cities hotter, the elevated such as green walls or green roofs, are of residential towers in Milan, has been clean up its air. Mayor Sadiq Khan has 1930. Do not miss the photographs of L. Manze, the eel and pie temperatures worsening pollution at reducing street level air pollution by built with façades covered by a thick said he’ll double funding; spending £875 shop in Walthamstow. ground level. Acknowledging the impact 20% and muffling traffic noise by up to green canopy of trees. The trees sit on million over five years to combat the London Uncovered takes you on a journey of exploration of building form and materiality on 10 decibels in certain situations. Arup the individual terraces of each apartment, issue. Rather than sit back and hope that giving surprises and visual pleasure. It would be a perfect air pollution, architects and designers is calling on developers and planners to cooling the interiors by shading them the money is well spent, we should all addition to your coffee table or as a present for any occasion. are using their unique opportunity to implement strategic approaches towards from direct sunlight. More than 2.5 acres demand it. 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on the cheap with MAX “baby knows best” and reminds Ruth of Alien. Most of the film’s horror comes As the film goes on, it becomes cast members being that she’s been given a beautiful gift of from the unease of watching a heavily clear that Ruth isn’t just offing assholes, wheeled around Prevenge Feldman Director: Alice Lowe nature. “I think nature’s a bit of a cunt, pregnant woman commit cruel acts of as brutally black-and-white as her REVIEWS on office chairs). though,” Ruth responds. And indeed, graphic, bloody violence, playing on the worldview may be. She’s even got a kill The jokes, if corny, Running Time: 92 Minutes she’s been dealt an exceptionally bad of mothers as essentially kind. list (written in a baby book, naturally) succeed due to their hand: A recent widow, she found out she Ruth is no earth mama. She relates more with names that she crosses off like sheer number, the Theatre © Mischief Photograph was pregnant on the day her husband to the vengeful spirits in the 1934 Crime a prenatal Beatrix Kiddo every time sheer weight of died in a rock-climbing accident and is Without Passion, clips of which pop up she submits to her fœtus’s murderous A Comedy About numbers mean that now utterly alone. And if that wasn’t bad periodically throughout the film. And bidding. As a result, the tone shifts to it’s actively difficult op culture frequently depicts enough, her baby, who speaks to Ruth her victims, by and large, are horrible that of a revenge thriller, culminating in a A Bank Robbery not to walk out with pregnant women as beatific in a deceptively chirpy voice, is already a people, from loser DJ Dan (Tom Davis), scene where Ruth dresses up and sets out The Criterion Theatre a rather manic smile. fertility goddesses, flushed cynical, bloodthirsty little monster. And whose delusions of freewheeling virility to claim her last victim at a Halloween Of the new cast with hormones and the unparalleled she hasn’t even been born yet! don’t match up to his pathetic living party in a scene reminiscent of the climax Tickets from £12.50 Steffan Lloyd-Evans P But while Prevenge does touch on situation, to cold-hearted Ella (Kate of Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45. That’s not the satisfaction of fulfilling their biological is the clear stand out, destiny. Either that or they’re fragile the utter strangeness of having a whole Dickie), whose cutthroat corporate only nod to horror history in the film, possessed of both a vessels, their “condition” rendering them other person growing inside you, this attitude serves as the setup for an either: visual references to Dario Argento winning leading man vulnerable to not only the cruelties of isn’t a body-horror movie along the lines especially groan-worthy pun. and Andrzej Zulawski (hello, creepy ith their prior (and still charisma and superb men but also the whims of the life inside subway tunnel!) amp up the sinister running after four years) play capacity for physical them. Writer-director Alice Lowe (the atmosphere, as does the synth-based The Play That Goes Wrong, comedy, whose first co-writer of Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, score from electronic duo Toydrum, in the theW Lamda theatrical group Mischief half ending show who’s probably best known for her roles hallucinatory final third of the film. Theatre managed to strike farcical stopper where a in Hot Fuzz and in cult classic sitcom Given the highly subjective point of gold. Focusing on a wholly inept group frantic impersonation Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace) skewers view and unreliable narrator, perhaps it’s of actors totally murdering a murder- Shields, the play portrays, in the style a horizontal set that stands out at a 90 of Foghorn Leghorn voiced Bank both of these viewpoints in Prevenge, a inevitable that the script for Prevenge mystery in a comedic tour de force of a 50s Hollywood comedy, an attempt degree angle from the back wall of the Manager Freeboys (himself played with wryly misanthropic slasher comedy about would be a bit rough around the edges, Photograph © Westren Edge Pictures Edge Westren © Photograph that hilariously broke down the barrier by a Canadian gang to steal a fabulously theatre. manic Southern brio by Steffan Lloyd- a woman whose fœtus commands her to and nitpickers will find plot points wide between actor and role in a clever turn expensive diamond from a Minneapolis By riffing on the Hollywood Evans) gone wrong reduced your humble kill. enough they could probably drive cattle twist on Noises Off ‘play within a play’ bank. The show (which has just put a classics (along with a healthy dollop reviewer to tears of laughter. Lowe, who was actually pregnant through them. Its shaky, grainy, handheld conceit. Their most recent piece A new cast into action) is perhaps slightly of Police Squad), Mischief Theatre Whilst it certainly isn’t a particularly during filming, stars as Ruth, a seemingly shooting style and unrelentingly dark Comedy About A Bank Robbery boldly left broader than it needs to be in its script have succeeded in creating a genuinely deep play, it’s game commitment to rootless woman who lives out of a worldview seem similarly destined to behind this framework (that the a lesser (there’s a lot of conversations that play berserk vision of the 1950s reduced to screwball insanity is to be commended, hotel room and stalks the streets of an turn off mainstream viewers. But Lowe’s company would have happily run into on Airplane ‘don’t call me Shirley’ style its most absurd clichés (even down to particularly during London’s current anonymous city searching for what at take on pre- and postnatal depression the ground) by replacing it with some of misunderstandings.) but the new cast an almost Lynchian sprinkling of live tense atmosphere where kooky laughs first seem to be random victims. Her and the dark side of motherhood is the most amazing comedy staging to be prove themselves incredibly athletically do-wop number) of leather jacketed seem to be rather discouraged. Anyone only regular human contact is with her undeniably unique. If nothing else, you’ve found around the world. game, particularly in a vertiginous section hoods, volcanic authority figures with who likes their entertainment silly rather condescending midwife ( Jo Hartley), got to respect a woman who will push Written by Mischief founders Henry where the perspective flips and the suitably preposterous accents and manic than serious should find the play a steal. who dispenses clichéd platitudes like herself through a doggy door while seven Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry actors are seen clinging desperately to car-chases (done rather entertainingly And don’t call me Shirley. months pregnant for her art.

problem with him being black. But once as part of a hazing ritual. Over the fate. Stuck in the middle is Justine’s in buckets of blood without recalling Get Out the two arrive at the massive suburban Raw course of the film, Marillier undergoes attractive gay roommate Adrien (Rabah another tale about a cursed young Running Time: 144 Mins estate of Missy (Catherine Keener) and Director: Julia Ducouranu a remarkable physical transformation Nait Oufella), who becomes a source of woman, Carrie. Dean (Bradley Whitford), Chris is put that reflects her character’s psychological fascination for both Justine and Alexia. That’s not to say that Raw is Director: Jordan Peele through the casually racist wringer. On Running Time: 99 Minutes turmoil, transforming from a demure (if Although the content of the film derivative. Ducournau’s vision is top of the insensitive questions and more than a tad self-righteous) innocent is undoubtedly horrific, Ducournau distinctive and refreshingly female in embarrassing attempts at small talk to a feral, sex-crazed beast. eschews jump scares and instead focuses its gaze, embodying the contradictions

(“I would have voted for Obama for © Blumhouse Productions Photograph Complicating matters is Justine’s on tone, never allowing the audience to of grotesque and beautiful, clinical and a third term,” Dean proudly declares, “An animal that’s tasted human flesh rebellious sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf ), fully relax by peppering even what appear subjective, and composed and immediate Get Out, the darkly hilarious directorial minutes after introducing himself ), isn’t safe.” This line of dialogue, spoken a sophomore at the same school and a to be quotidian transition scenes with all at once. The director juxtaposes the debut of sketch comedy kingpin Jordan there’s just something vaguely… off halfway through the film by a father bit of a party girl. Alexia suffers from little reminders of the macabre. No bus students’ young, frequently half-dressed Peele, definitely can’t be described as a about the whole place. Could it have who has yet to discover the dark secret the same insatiable hunger as Justine, ride comes without a bloody car crash by bodies with those of animals both alive Scary Movie style comedy-horror. Whilst something to do with the family’s black that’s upended both his daughters’ lives, alternately teaching her how to cope the side of the road, no plate of mashed and dead; under her lens, flesh is just it certainly elicits frequent cringing maid and gardener, both of whom could also serve as the thesis statement with it and tormenting her with it in potatoes without an errant, forbidden that: flesh. For Justine, the struggle is laughs, Peele has made a bona-fide fright exhibit personalities that oscillate from for French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s typical older-sister fashion. The volatile meatball to ruin dinner. She doesn’t whether to succumb to the primitive flick that just happens to be funny. He robotically ingratiating to unnervingly Raw. The film gained an unfortunate relationship between the siblings reject genre convention entirely, however: urges that overtake her after that fateful knows how to make shadowy streets into unhinged? Or maybe the way Missy, reputation as a gross-out cannibal provides for some moments of pitch- The film’s vividly saturated palette is first bite, or whether to follow her pre- menacing ones and turn silences into constantly stirring her tea, keeps trying shocker on the festival circuit, and black comedy; a scene where Alexia drenched in bold accent colours in a way existing moral code in the face of unholy warnings from the abyss. His greatest to get Chris to agree to hypnosis to cure while that categorization is not entirely, attempts to give Justine her first bikini that recalls the Italian horror masters of temptation. It’s a struggle every human stroke in Get Out, though, is to have him of his smoking habit? technically incorrect, this is a piece of wax provokes giggles and gasps in equal the 1970s, as does the organ music that goes through at one point or another just hitched these genre elements to an evil Whilst there is definitely a conspiracy body horror, and an intensely visceral measure, as well as setting up the rivalry blares over the end credits. And it’s hard hopefully not to these extremes. that isn’t obscured by a hockey mask, but to be unpacked in the film’s final third one, it detracts from the striking imagery that will ultimately determine their to see the image of teenagers drenched instead is more distressingly common most of the truly effective moments and layered symbolism of Ducournau’s than demons and serial killers: a kind of come in the film excellent (and work what feels like a dozen variations confesses that he gets nervous when uncommonly assured debut feature. faux glib-liberal (gliberal?) commitment squirmingly awkward) first half which on ‘boy’ into conversation) which helps around a lot of white people, Georgina Another relative newcomer, Garance to equality that mutates into muted uses the horror movie framework to turn the bucolic scenery into a social answers by advancing toward him with Marillier, stars as Justine, a first-year hostility when anyone with a different explore how racism and white privilege battlefield humming with tension, in a a shrieked volley of “no, no, no,” coupled veterinary student who’s dropped off at

melanin count or culture moves in next has mutated and evolved in the wake of weird way when the real horror starts up with cascades of tears and a smile so wide college by her parents in the opening Bunch Wild © Photograph door. the All-Lives Matter movement. There in the third act it’s almost a relief. it looks as if it could split her face in two, scenes of the film. Justine is a classic The film (which is a kind of genetic are more overt moments like a run-in Still it’s this fusion of race and horror an image that instantly strips back layers sheltered overachiever, a model student fusion of The Stepford Wives and Look with a bigoted state trooper, but some of that is Get Out’s real selling point, even of years to reveal the grinning minstrel who’s never tasted flesh, either animal Who’s Coming To Dinner) focuses on the most effective material comes from with the Grand Guignol excess of the show skull of America’s slave owning (she’s a lifelong vegetarian) or human Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, of Sicario the, shall we say, ‘charged’ interactions (admittedly technically effective) finale. past. Peele often played the queasy racial (she’s also a virgin). Those two primal fame) as he prepares to accompany between Chris and his girlfriend’s family, A key moment that stuck with me interplay of modern day America for urges are thematically and visually his girlfriend on a weekend trip to her particularly Dean’s constant smarmy involves Chris talking with one of the laughs in his sketch show, but it seems intertwined throughout the film, hometown. Rose (Allison Williams) paternalism (during one particularly parents’ black servants, a maid, Georgina that post Trump he’s decided that the beginning when Justine is peer-pressured insists that her parents will have no awkward two minute stretch he is able to (a fantastic Betty Gabriel). When Chris more appropriate response is screaming. into eating a bite of raw rabbit kidney 52 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Christian Camargo, Max Casella and Danny Huston on cocaine. Speaking of which, this turns out to be his downfall, that and The Kid Stays in his involvement-by-association with a murder. The ‘narrator’ throughout is the Picture the American actor Danny Huston, Royal Court Jerwood Theatre seen only in silhouette, who brings Until 8 April 2017 a gravelly-voiced gravitas to the role worthy of his father John, who appeared Photographs © National Army Museum Army © National Photographs Box Office 020 7565 5000 in Chinatown as the monstrous villain Noah Cross. Sometimes in the British theatre, the audience is subjected to some he title is from Daryl F Zanuck’s quite embarrassing American accents, order he bawled through his but in The Kid, there are four actors loud-speaker at the cast of the in an exchange programme between 1957 movie version of The Sun Also Rises, Thomas Arnold and T Heather Burns American Equity and UK Equity, as all of whom, including Tyrone Power, well as Huston, to keep it real. The play Photographs © Johan Persson Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, the writer of clatters along at a helluva rate, with the book Ernest Hemingway, but not shed-loads of lighting effects, front and Errol Flynn, wanted Robert Evans (the back projection of movie and newsreel Kid) off the picture. He got his break clips and very loud sound FX. There when he was spotted by Norma Shearer are some very funny lines, particularly pool-side at The Beverly Hills Hotel, when he is dealing with Brando and and offered the role of her late husband Henry Kissinger, but also some poignant Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand moments, such as the slow reveal of the Faces. This pacy, brash, fast-action, Sharon Tate murders, or when he realises allegiance was crucial to a successful black soldier, Khudad Khan V.C.. He loud, drug-fuelled play tells the story of that his wife is having an affair with army. represents others in that Regiment. He Evans, from when he took over as head ‘the most handsome man in the world’ Architects BDP and Design Agency, was the first black soldier to win the VC. of production of the floundering studio, Steve McQueen, which he could have 'Event' have transformed the site and The Battle Gallery' explores the Paramount. He turned out a number of avoided by paying a little more attention created a light an airy environment British experience of battle since 1640 truly memorable films that the writer was also responsible for Serpico, Barefoot and actors are awesome and fiery, with to her and not to his mistress, the movie with five exciting, new and thematically to the present day. It emphasises how and director Simon McBurney, with in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Italian a great deal of swearing, insults and business. This is not a morality play, nor arranged Galleries. technological development can spell James Yeatman, of Complicite, focus on, Job, True Grit, The Great Gatsby and The slamming down of telephones, which does it try to make out that Evans was There is a large temporary Exhibition victory but tactics have to keep up or including Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby, Conversation. The play is adapted from would not translate into a present-day hard done by, as he was dealt some lucky space, Study centre, Learning Centre, there are huge scale casualties. directed by the diminutive and difficult his autobiography of the same title, and drama because how does one slam down breaks in his youth, but from there, he attractive cafe, shop and a Play Base for 0 'The Siborne Model' of the Battle of Roman Polanski, Love Story, in its Evans is also a co-producer of this Royal a mobile? He is played by a number of made his own (bad) luck, although he to 7 year old children. Waterloo is excellent and the film show time, the biggest grossing movie ever, Court production. different members of the cast, who swap left a legacy of classy films. Janice Murray, Director General of is very informative. Do not miss the Marathon Man and Chinatown, but he His negotiations with agents, lawyers and switch roles like Robin Williams Don Grant the Museum, said that the design and quick firing 18 pounder field gun Mark displays are based on the feedback of 1, 1906 from the Battle of the Somme. for students of architecture and town surroundings and social harmony. was selling at a premium. visitors over the years, who found four The skeleton of Wellington's horse, planning, but for home-owners in Instead, it soon became a middle-class The astonishing range of suburban hundred years of history presented Marengo, is on display. It was captured Metroburbia and around Greater London. It charts enclave. In my childhood, it certainly architecture is highlighted by the use chronologically too much! The displays by the British but lived a quiet life for By Paul L Knox the development of the suburbs, from felt like an idyll, cushioned against of clear, comprehensive photographs, are now thematic. She said there is some years after. Merrell outlying villages to building booms, from reality, but with no shops or pubs within including civic buildings, cemeteries, an emphasis on a soldier's personal 'The Society Gallery 'has many new garden suburbs to Metro-land, celebrated the Suburb, it felt somewhat dull, even churches, factories, shopping parades experience, thoughts and emotions. acquisitions never been displayed before. 224pp. £35 in three poignant poems, and a TV though Golders Green and Temple and offices, as well as parkland, This is important as consideration of It is concerned with presenting the army ISBN 978-1-8589-4651-1 documentary, by John Betjeman: Fortune were just down the road. During schools, country mansions and palaces. mental suffering on soldiers returning as a cultural force as well as a military the ten years each side of 1900, 250,000 Although central London has become for traumatic events has not always been one. Its influence on our customs, values, Gaily into Ruislip Gardens acres of countryside around London a hard-hat area, with a forest of cranes, admired and often requested to send given much attention. toys and music is interesting., together Runs the red electric train, were converted to housing, industry and mostly building ‘luxury’ (aren’t they The National instructors overseas to train new armies The Exhibits in the 'Soldiers Gallery' with its effect on fashion. Notice the With a thousand Ta’s and Pardon’s railways. all?) riverside apartments for foreign on its model. are personal and tell of training, Earl Haig fund(Scotland) badge. Poppies Daintily alights Elaine. Knox’s book examines the building absentee landlords, there is still a Army Museum : The Museum was originally founded punishment, combat and non combat were noticed and written about by John booms in the Victorian and Edwardian housing crisis, with a projected Greater Redevelopment and Opening. by Royal Charter in 1960 to preserve and roles and the return home. There are Macrae in 1930. The Royal British I was brought up in Hampstead eras, the expansion of the capital London population of 12 million by collect objects and records relating to the portraits, posters and uniforms, flags and Legion adopted the poppy symbol. Garden Suburb, a cosy, lush and well- city between the wars, and, after the 2050. Knox quotes the Atkins report, The National Army Museum. Land Forces of the British Crown. The horse shit cigarettes! 'The Insight Gallery' draws our organised development, instigated by Second World War, along the lines which sees ‘Outer London as revitalising Royal Hospital Road. idea was conceived in the 1950's and Sir The Army Gallery is significant attention to the fact that no other army Henrietta Barnett and her husband of the Underground and absorption the economy, involving spatial and Gerald Templar raised original funding as it charts the history of the Army has seen service in so many countries. Samuel, who were responsible for a of nearby towns. In 1938, in an effort environmental policies - orbital transport Chelsea. and put in much dedicated work. Its first as an Institution during the chaos This Gallery changes its display regularly. number of charitable and educational to stem the untrammelled expansion improvements, making suburbs denser, London. SW3 4HT. home was No.1. Riding School at the of the British Civil Wars. Charles 1 It is currently looking at the Army's institutions, including the Whitechapel into the countryside, nearly 20,000 networks of green infrastructures, a Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. It believed in 'The Divine Right of Kings' connection with Germany, Scotland, Art Gallery and Toynbee Hall. The acres of land were purchased by local car-free environment and a redefined Opens 30th March 2017. then moved to a purpose built building and considered he was appointed Punjab, Ghana and Sudan. Notice a Nazi he conversation around the intention was ‘to provide for people of authorities under the provisions of economic and social role for Outer on the site that formed part of the by God to rule. He was opposed by car pennant and an actual piece of the dinner table turns from local state all classes in a setting reminiscent of a the Green Belt Act, and after the war, London centres.’ Hammer drills and Infirmary of the Royal Hospital. The Oliver Cromwell together with the Berlin Wall. schools to property prices. ‘Well, country town’. Raymond Unwin was another 30,000 were secured. Over time, orbital planers will be drowned out by collections were arranged chronologically Parliamentarians ( Roundheads ). The new building, the thematic we paid thirty-five for ours thirty years appointed as Architect and Surveyor, pressure for development has meant the chattering classes still banging on he National Army Museum and the building was rather unwelcoming Charles was supported by the Royalists displays and interactive activities are T ago. It’s now worth, what, two and a half and Sir Edwin Lutyens as Consulting that alterations have been made to about house prices in the ’burbs and the is the leading authority on and gloomy. ( Cavaliers ). Oliver Cromwell, after truly impressive and certainly state of million.’ ‘When we moved here, it was Architect, who designed many of the Green Belt boundaries, but a new area Stockbroker Belt, which Knox quaintly the victorious and colourful The Collections relate to the overall suffering several defeats reconstructed his the art. Perhaps, just a passing thought, considered a no-go area, with drive-by’s, principal building around Central of countryside had to be assigned in its refers to as the Cocktail Belt. ‘When historyT of the British Army, with its rich history of the British Army, the British army into the first standing professional but maybe in this age, the army should drug pushers and street crime à-go-go. Square, including Henrietta Barnett place, so that the overall designation we first moved to Putney, taxis simply tradition of regiments, its important Colonial, Imperial and Commonwealth army, 'the new model army'. Hitherto, maintain a certain mystique, create awe Now there’s a Waitrose at the bottom of School, the Anglican/Episcopal St has remained the same (appoximately wouldn’t cross the river.’ role in Defence, Wars, Civil Disasters Forces and the British Indian Army armies had been private, some owned by and not be camouflaged by popularity. the road. That’s what I call progress.’ ‘We Jude’s Church, a magnificent spired 2,100 sq. miles or 1,344,000 acres), but and State Occasions. It contributes and they reveal the impact made on Barons, and they had to be paid. Marian Maitland managed to get rid of the sitting tenant, edifice on the hill, opposite the Free its configuration had shifted. Virtually, A stained-glass windmill and a pot of greatly to Weddings, Funerals, Jubilees national and international history. Unlike Interesting Exhibits in this Gallery and now we’ve got the whole house, with Chuch, a Grade I listed barn of a place. the whole of Surrey and Hertfordshire, tea, and Trooping The Colour by providing other Military museums the collections include the Regimental Colour of the Admission is free. six bedrooms and an enormous garden.’ Dame Barnett’s dream was to build a and large tracts of Berkshire and Kent, And sepia views of leafy lanes in Pinner. organisation and glorious pageantry emphasise the individual Corps and 4th West India Regiment (part of the Opening times: Daily. 10 am - 5.30 pm. Apart from the awkward portmanteau model community where all classes of were designated as Green Belt, but one and music. The British Army is much Regiments where comradeship and regular Brtitish Army) which show a Last admission 5.00 pm. title, this is a fascinating book, not just people could live together in attractive obvious effect was that housing within it Don Grant 54 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Travel Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

is another distinctive sight. Thanaka is made for a deliciously restful night. and most hospitals now use these physio straight away. I’ve worked with all of my patients on the ward before big business in , plantations Earlier, the local village entertained with principles in the management of their some amazing teams in my career and we going home and I’ll come and visit them Yellow cheeks are grown and the precious logs from two prancing princes adorned in satin, My life’s work: a joint replacements. are lucky at The Lister Hospital to have again the next morning, even if it’s a & red teeth sandalwood-like trees are ground down accompanied by clacking percussion privilege and a joy I looked at the whole patient some of the finest anaesthetists, nurses Saturday. It’s great to see how they are Travelling around Myanmar into paste for the cosmetic with an spf and womenfolk graciously performing Mr Hugh Apthorp, Consultant pathway, utilised new surgical techniques and physiotherapists in the country. getting on and it’s not unusual for my factor. traditional song and dance. and adopted a multidisciplinary team patients to say ‘you have changed my life’ By Lynne McGowan Our tour kicked off in Yangon and ; the very name conjures Hip Surgeon at The Lister working approach. This allows patients Have you seen increasing demand and that’s a real privilege. That’s what the first sight greeting us out of the exotic charm and a compulsion to quote Hospital, tells us about his to experience less pain, bleeding and for hip replacements during your gets me out of bed in the morning. window the next day was a squatter from the famous Kipling poem, not to radically improve their rate of recovery. career? sleeping on the opposite roof of a mention the 1950s children’s song Nellie work Patients can normally recover sufficiently Absolutely. We are an ageing population, Visit www.thelisterhospital.com for decaying deco pile going through his The Elephant. Stamina and determination quickly that they can comfortably go so that is to be expected. But increasingly more information or call 020 7730 7733 morning ritual. By mid morning the city is needed to explore this town’s hidden home after only two days; if they want to I have patients who want to get back for enquiries. is a heady brew of pavements teeming treasure so a trip out on the Irrawaddy Tell us a little about yourself of course! to activities such as kickboxing, surfing with vendors, markets and dense traffic, to see the Hsinphymae Pagoda of I qualified at Barts in 1987 and have How did that work in practice? and living life to the full. People aren’t but lush parks and churches abound Mingun squatting like a gigantic multi- been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon I like to think of the hip replacement content to slow down and live with the Photographs © Lynne McGowan © Lynne Photographs and all pay homage to the vast golden tiered wedding cake is well worth it. for 18 years. I specialise only in hip team in the same way as a Formula 1 pain, which can be extremely debilitating. Shwedagon Paya Pagoda. The Strand Another gem is the peaceful campus of surgery and particular minimally invasive pit crew. It’s about working as a team In the words of one 101 year old patient, Hotel, famous for its elegant afternoon and was reputed to chop off the hands of the Sweinbin teak monastery with its hip replacements, and even though I’ve and getting every detail right first time. “I have things I need to do!” tea offers a welcome contrast to the masons if he could fit a pin between the intricate carvings of Buddhist myths. been doing it all this time I still love By making lots of little changes we colonial tenement slums with their own bricks. Not even the building of titanic After hiking in the cooler climes of coming to work every day. found we could make a big difference to What advice would you give to electricity generators the size of cars on twin Buddha statues was ever going to the , our trip finally ended I do around 600 hip replacements patients. For example, training them to someone who thinks they might the crumbling pavements outside. Long gain him sufficient merit for the next life. with skimming Inle Lake by long tail per year (probably the most in the use crutches before their operation, so need a hip replacement? strings with a bull clip or clothes peg on Clambering up steep steps of the She boat and watching balletic moves of the UK) and have done over 6,000 in my they felt confident afterwards, or working To come and see me! Don’t suffer in the end dangle from top floor windows Sandaw Pagoda temple to catch a sunrise fishermen with their hooped nets. It career – which has kept me busy! But it with the anaesthetists to try different silence. Hip pain can often be resolved and are a typically quirky Yangon sight. is a hearty way to start the day, even was all merely a glimpse of Myanmar, means I can use my experience to offer types of anaesthetic which allowed the with simple measures avoiding surgery, e was a wiry young man with A short flight away is the ancient city better is to catch a hot air balloon and but it left me with deep impressions patients the best kind of surgery for their patients to be up and walking on the however if necessary a hip replacement glossy black hair wearing the of Bagan; a far-flung, sci fi landscape peacefully drift over the stupa-studded and an array of fond memories from the particular circumstance. same day. really is a life changing procedure. In usual longhi but when he of stupas and pinnacles piercing expanse. blood red betel spattered pavements, most cases patients will have a normal Hturned round in the cosy cab of his tuk the morning mist and was once the Due north from Bagan, one of the thanaka smeared faces of the girls, the How has hip replacement surgery Was that hard to achieve? hip for the rest of their lives. tuk and beamed, it was a ghoulish sight. site of 10,000 temples, pagodas and highlights of the trip for me was staying irrepressible Irrawaddy, towering teak changed during your career? I think it was all about bringing the Fortunately, his teeth were in tact but monasteries. Luckily, there are still plenty overnight in an eco community lodge trees, the infinite watchful Buddhas and When I started doing hip replacement clinical team into the process early on, Tell us about your typical day at for many, a gappy grin is the norm, such left and the best way of exploring the city nestled next to a lake near Myaing, shimmering stupas, the colourful woven surgery it was normal for patients to so that everyone understood what we The Lister Hospital is the grip of chewing the betel nut. It is by bicycle. King Narathu, who built the a result of Actionaid in action with costumes of the hill tribes and even the spend up to nine days in hospital before were trying to achieve. We also needed to At typical day at The Lister starts with isn’t so much the nut that wrecks the colossal Dhammayangyi Pahto temple Intrepid Travel. All the huts were made mangy dogs lying in the dust. they felt well enough to go home. 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biodegradable material being followed. Streets are being swept Oh! Kolkata! being tossed into the and shops display as wide a range of Change is afoot. streets and plenty of goods and services as one would ever cows adding their own need. By Cynthia Pickard contribution. The central area of Kolkata was once

I have always delighted called ‘White Town’ and was reserved for Pickard © Cynthia Photograph in the characterful adverts Europeans; here cricket is played on the hand painted onto the open expanses of the Maidan and whilst sides of buildings; these much new construction has taken place, rriving at the main Howrah are now becoming scarce, many colonial buildings survive. The railway station during the giving way to digitally most impressive of these is the Victoria evening rush hour, one can produced posters. As India Memorial, a huge white marble structure The Lister Hospital is a private hospital feelA the dynamism of Kolkata as the progresses, the middle built after the Empress’s death to vie located in the heart of Chelsea. It has many thousands of commuters stride class enlarges and takes with the Taj Mahal. Nearby horse-drawn past, confident and purposeful, there is their weekend breaks carriages, looking like fairground versions been providing care and treatment for an electric force in the air. Kolkata, as travelling in 4x4 cars of a state coach, give tourist rides. over 30 years. Calcutta, started as the headquarters of traffic, not just the inflow of modern up to the formerly sedate hill stations. The British left behind other of the East India Company and later Japanese cars, but the huge numbers of Dowries of gold jewellery sets and silk monuments to their dead; the graves became India’s imperial capital before it motor bikes and scooters whose drivers saris are being replaced; parents are now in the Park Street Cemetery, created in Our service is bespoke to your medical was moved to Delhi in 1911. feel they have priority over not only investing in good education for girls, 1767, consist of obelisks and pyramids As a long time visitor to India I other traffic but pedestrians too, beeping making them more attractive as marriage that seem to vie with each other in needs with access to the capital’s leading am attuned to looking out for any their horns as they manoeuvre down the partners. height and grandeur to commemorate specialists and treatments. transformation taking place in the narrowest of footpaths and alleyways Kolkata has moved forward to, the shockingly early deaths of members country. As a hopeless romantic, I where motorised traffic wasn’t meant stepping away from the habits that of the families who came from so far miss the familiar blast of smoke from to go. All Indian drivers however are hold some parts of India back in the away to live in the city. We want you to feel like family from the thousands of little fires that used to fill very skilled at ducking and diving and Leaving Kolkata in the early hours third world. The city’s chaotic energy moment you walk through our door. the air and greeted me on alighting from avoiding other road users, be they cows has been channelled, there is a metro of the morning, one can see taxi drivers the long flight east. Doubtless, banning or cars. system; in the central parts of the city congregating by tea and snack stalls and Rubbish collection has never been there are still bodies wrapped in blankets them was a step in the right direction no cows or rickshaws are allowed, they Call now to book an appointment: health-wise as a measure to reduce adopted here, litter is merely swept away have been relocated elsewhere. There lying in rows, asleep on the pavements pollution. from the space in front of one property are traffic lights, lanes are defined and and people are still seen soaping and If you ask, ‘Is anyone doing anything to end up in some other common area. are becoming adhered to by cars, the rinsing themselves at pumps in the about the chaotic traffic, the dirt, the There has been a move to discourage frequent buses and yellow Ambassador streets. With all the changes taking place, 020 3733 0253 rubbish, the pollution?’ the answer would the use of polythene; purchases are taxis. There are signs instructing, ‘No still so much remains the same. www.thelisterhospital.com be a look of surprise at the question. But now often wrapped in bags constructed Spitting’ and ‘No honking!’ so that the these are all growing problems in India. from old newspapers rather than in historic exhortations on the back of Cynthia Pickard travelled with There has been a massive proliferation plastic bags, but there is plenty of non- lorries to ‘Sound Horn!’ are no longer www.wildfrontierstravel.com 56 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Health Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

f you already believe in the power your calves prior to running, avoid heel- The Happy of words to alter our feelings, then Being active striking and run on grass if possible. seeing this title should have you With the tennis season in full swing, Kitchen: Iracing to the checkout. Written by a this spring courts up and down the country are packed young and vibrant looking Rachel Kelly, without suffering with inspired amateurs channeling their inner Good Mood this book shares her personal experience Andy Murray. But for some players, tennis of harnessing the power of food to a sports injury mania can induce tennis elbow. The injury, Food stay calm and well. It is a colourful By Owen Fulda which can also be caused by golf, often occurs by Rachel Kelly book, with some clever and appealing after strenuous overuse of the muscles and photographs, and equally appealing, tendons of the forearm, near the elbow joint. Short Books quick, straightforward and tasty recipes Try to avoid using your wrist and elbow £14.99 for every time of day. more than the rest of your arm by spreading Her first book was a memoir of s the evenings get longer and lighter, the load to the larger muscles of your ISBN 978-1-78072-296-2 depression called Black Rainbow, throwing ourselves into a new sport shoulder and upper arm. Consider using a which she followed up with Walking or exercise regime might seem like the double-handed backhand, or change the on Sunshine: 52 small steps to Happiness. healthiest way to counteract all those hours spent loading of the strings, perhaps try a golf In between these books she discovered A slumped over a computer screen, or in front of lesson to check whether you’re using your some links between mood and food, Netflix. But this all-or-nothing approach to hips in the right way. thanks to her excellent GP, and made physical activity can spell disaster when it comes Hamstrings are three very important a list of ‘Happy Foods’. With the help to sports injuries. muscles in the back of the thigh but with Sesame seared tuna with crunchy asian slaw Smoked mackerel and horseradish paté of meditation, exercise, poetry and Our bodies are designed to move little our increasingly immobile lifestyles, sitting discovering the healing power of food and often throughout the day, but with our for long periods of time with our knees bent she gradually got better. She started Peace and Sweet Dreams. The book put together in an easily digestible style increasingly sedentary lifestyles, we seem to be at 90 degrees, our hamstrings are in very working with Alice Mackintosh, a ends with Comfort Food, which is full with dishes for vegans, vegetarians and going from one extreme to another. Many injuries shortened positions all day long. Hamstring nutritional therapist with a similar of healthy substitutions for the more meat eaters alike. There is even a quick reported to physiotherapists are suffered by injuries can be caused by a number of interest in the connection between mood traditional ones that most of us crave recipe at the start of each chapter for 'weekend warriors’: people who spend nine hours different reasons, such as a repetitive injury, and food. when we are feeling low. How do you those who are feeling fragile and unable a day stuck behind a desk before going home and an over-stretch or simply because you haven’t Together they have come up with feel about Chicken Pie and dairy free to cook much. Whether you are targeting consuming a bottle of wine, but then jumping warmed up sufficiently. this delightful book of advice and ginger, coconut and banana icecream? a particular symptom or looking for feet first into some fairly intense sport or exercise Bear in mind your seating position recipes starting with 10 Golden Rules There is an additional Good Mood some bright, healthy and delicious dishes at the weekend. at work, consider stretching, staying well and then divided into 7 chapters. Six Food Index, (Fab, Very good, Good, to shake up your eating habits, this The scourge of the novice road runner, shin conditioned and lengthening the muscle of these contain recipes to address Treats and Low Mood) information book will be a welcome addition to your splints, are exercise-induced pains felt along slowly through movement to avoid an particular symptoms, and each includes about Mindful Eating, Seasonal Eating, library. Stick the Good Mood Food Index the shinbone (tibia) as a result of frequent and overstretch problem. Once you have problems an introduction, essential foods and meal Key Ingredients, and a thorough recipe, on your fridge and greet the Spring with intense periods of exercise when your body isn’t with your hamstring, it can trouble you for planner. You can take your pick between information, and symptom index, plus a a lighter, more hopeful, heart. used to it. Often brought on by an increase in the rest of your sporting life, so it’s vital to Balanced Energy, Beating the Blues, Nice short poem to go with each chapter. frequency, intensity or duration they can be very stretch them out prior to exercise and warm and Calm, Mental Clarity, Hormonal There is a lot of information here, Lucy Blair painful. To prevent shin splints you should stretch them down afterwards too.

Working on the notion that wishing to talk through problems, but then able to help newcomers in return. uncomfortable approaching friends or “There’s a hugely unharnessed power Circles: a health a key part of recovery comes family. of peer support that we want to tap into. from helping others afflicted “When it comes to support and The primary aim is to conquer isolation Helping you app designed to care, you can’t automate that stuff, so by linking like-minded people and by tend to the mind by similar experiences, new technology should go back to what it’s doing that you then create a motivation By Ione Bingley concept mental health app, best at, which is nudging people to do to function normally. The Holy Grail a better job at being better to people. for me is active, normal, functional Circles, joins up users into take care of Prompting the person to help the person, behaviour, if you can go to work and see small, peer-led support not replacing the person,” says Crawley friends, you’re ok.” Having been through such an Currently in a test period, Crawley groups, creating a safe, non- experience at a young age himself, is using this year to prove the model to judgmental space to talk founder Aidan Crawley, believes that his investors and, confident of its success, yourself the outcome of any extended medical Circles will then be available in Britain through problems and discus problem is isolation, regardless of the and the USA. World class clinical care in west London effective ways to aid recovery. symptom set, and that feeling of isolation is one that needs to be addressed but Kensington’s Bupa Cromwell Hospital offers an exceptional he app is designed for people cannot be by a stretched, modern medical healthcare resource for Londoners. Whether using private who are experiencing or have system. health insurance or ‘self-funding’, our world-renowned services been through minor to moderate “The only model that seems to are available to everyone, and just a five minute walk from traumas that have damaged their mental work is the idea of peer support, I want Kensington High Street, Earl’s Court or Gloucester Road. T a doctor for a diagnosis, but when it health, with users often not having private GPs with walk-in appointments approached a medical professional. comes to helping me day to day, I want the latest diagnostic technology, with no waiting times and These low moments may be brought to talk to someone who has been in quick results on by experiences as common to life as exactly the same position as me because bereavement or post-natal depression, their emotional support, empathy, and London’s leading consultants, with appointments available at but the familiarity with the term often trust that is automatically built of that short notice means that the toll taken on our mental empathy, means I can open up and share tailored health screening packages to suit every need with them, and listen to their story health goes unchecked. Women’s Health Centre with female-only specialists Far from providing a substitute for and advice, even if I don’t know them,” the human element, the lack of which explains Crawley. Call us on 020 7460 2000 or email in many cases exacerbates the problem, The circle idea is one that is neatly [email protected] to discuss your healthcare needs. Circles looks to bring people together reflected in the nature of the technology, who can help each other, providing an users enter looking for help with their bupacromwellhospital.com alternative to the traditional one-on- own problem and as they improve, one doctor-patient set up for those thanks to the help of other users, they are 58 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Motoring Motoring online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

of the smooth, well-groomed roué. I From the back think he made his money in sump oil, which he bought from garages and then LONDON’S ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY SPECIALIST seat Part 41 had re-refined. He always wore a dark By Don Grant blue blazer with gold buttons and a pale established 1977 blue shirt, he drove a dark blue Aston Martin, then a dark blue Ferrari, and, what would you know, he always had a delicious piece of crumpet on his arm. here was always a very friendly As an awkward sixteen-year-old, I could bunch of organisers at the not for the life of me see what a beautiful circuits, particularly the ones eighteen year-old blonde could see in further north. People like Rex Foster T this old, tanned, millionaire playboy. at Oulton Park in Cheshire, Dean Clive Wormleighton was another Mr Delamont and Basil Tye from the RAC, Nice Guy, even to a couple of teenagers, always made one feel welcome, and dad like Gregor and myself. He was the ‘Big was very good at introducing his two Cheese’ at Mallory Park in the village of Gordon Wilkins with Eba on the Scottish Rally in his super-streamlined Talbot T23 boys to everyone, including, one year, the Kirkby Mallory in Leicestershire, a very great Fangio. Before dad went off to the fast little club circuit, with the slowest Rolls-Royce GT1 press box with his battered typewriter, before they were married, and she the wheel of anything, from her Mini corner in motor racing, Shaw’s Hairpin. diagnostics for he would have wrapped a photographer’s was also being courted by many other and MGB to dad’s Sunbeam Alpine The rest of it was just about flat-out. Rolls-Royce pass round my arm and sent me off with competitive gentlemen, including the and 4.7-litre SunbeamTiger, as well as Our mum rarely went to these Phantom a 35mm SLR Nikon to supplement dapper racer, rally driver and fellow cars dad had on test, like a six-cylinder circuits up north, but did go to the wet and Ghost. whatever the staff snappers were doing. journalist Gordon Wilkins, who took Triumph Spitfire GT6, which I managed and windswept meetings at Snetterton As a sixteen-year-old, one could feel the Eba on the Scottish Rally in his super- to completely total on Totteridge Lane in Norfolk, because the club to which hostility from the spectators stuck behind streamlined Talbot T23 with a Figoni et by running headlong into a breakdown Full body off she was Hon. Sec., the Women’s Motor the fencing and hay-bales, as I sauntered Falaschi coupé body. Somehow, dad, with truck. Her only accident was when restoration. Racing Associates Club, or more simply, track-side and took pictures of Graham his open Singer Le Mans won the day, Gerald Ronson, who ran the Heron The Doghouse, had a presence there, Hill, Jimmy Clark and Jack Brabham and the hand of the lady. They married service station empire, ran into the in a pokey little steamed-up caravan. Bentley GT slide around Old Hall Corner feet away, in London, when grandpa, conductor, back of her Sunbeam outside his house and Flying Spur Snetterton Heath had been home to in perfectly-controlled four-wheel drifts, composer and arranger of note, was ‘doon in Winnington Road in Hampstead Latest ODIS the US Army 8th Airforce during the lap after lap. Occasionally, one of my south’ to conduct his Scottish Champion Garden Suburb and coughed up the diagnostic software. war, and was run by another friendly pictures was used in the magazine, and Goven Burgh Band in a competition at repair bill in cash, like a true gentleman, Access to technical face Oliver Sear, himself a racing driver, I was paid more than my pocket-money. the Albert Hall. They then went back without going through his insurance database direct from with a goodly collection of cars. Before There was a racing driver called John up to Scotland to live with his parents company. This was before he was sent Crewe. Full Geko the war, Eba would accompany dad to accessibility allows Dalton at Oulton, who was the epitome in a tiny house in Bearsden, a few miles to jail as part of the ‘Guinness Four’ various hill-climbs, mostly in Scotland, outside Glasgow. Then war broke out fraud trial, and fined £1m. Since then, coding of all and dad joined the Fife and Forfar he has become one of Britain’s greatest immobiliser 3 and 4 Tank Regiment as a Captain, while philanthopists, components including kessy, grandpa’s regiment had been the Argyll Eba was a very attractive lady and engine control and Southern Highlanders, where he, had many admirers amongst the THE module and too, was a Captain, and conductor of the racing fraternity, amongst whom was 2nd generation keys. regimental band. a dashingly good-looking English- CHELSEA A visit to the 500-year-old Anchor born GP driver called Johnny Claes, Hotel in Thetford was always on the who looked as though he had been to Full engine cards after another bleak and blustery handsome classes, and who used to WORKSHOP upgrades meeting at Snetterton, with the wind race Talbot-Lagos and Gordinis under having blown unhindered from the Ecurie Belge. 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He was teetering on the top, when he was had won Le Mans twice in Ecurie Ecosse soon joined by Les Leston on drums, D-Types, in 1956 and 1957, and he also which had been left on stage by the raced in Formula 1 for BRM, Lotus and local rockabilly band and there ensued a Cooper, but his passion was flying and he foot-thumping session that went on until twice attempted to beat the record from closing-time. The pub, which featured Sydney to London. He stayed with us in the opening scene of the first episode the night before he left for Sydney, and a of Dad’s Army, was bought by the local few days later, we heard that he had been council and then closed ten years ago, killed on a test flight in poor weather in only to be demolished and replaced by Victoria in his Mustang World War Two a Travelodge. Eba would sit patiently fighter before the record attempt in April chatting to her lady-friends, waiting for 1962. 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April 15 - May 1: US Open (Golf) England v South Africa, 1: Rowing World World Snooker Erin Hills, Wisconsin 1st Test Championships Sports Calendar Championships Lord’s Sarasota, USA Weather By Owen Fulda Crucible Theatre, Sheffield June 17 - 18: Le Mans 24 Hour July 8: September 24: permitting, April 23: London Le Mans, France All Blacks vs British & NFL International Series Felcem Tim © Photograph Marathon Irish Lions (3rd Test) Baltimore Ravens vs this summer London June 17 - 27: Eden Park, Auckland Jacksonville Jaguars, hether you prefer a masterful America’s Cup (Sailing) Wembley Stadium of cricket battle of safety shots in a resolutely April 28: Bermuda July 20 - 23: is all set to be a scorcher defensive snooker match, or Anthony Joshua v Open Championship September 27 - October Wladimir Klitschko June 22 - 25: Aegon (Golf) 9: World Gymnastics By Owen Fulda theW highly-tuned 200 miles-per-hour Wembley Stadium Championships (Tennis) Royal Birkdale, Southport Championship pandemonium of the Isle of Man TT, the Queens Club Montreal, Canada upcoming months of sport cater to all. May 13: European August 4 - 13: Mark Selby attempts to retain his World Champions Cup Final June 22: Royal Ascot, World Athletics October 1: Snooker Championship at Sheffield’s Crucible (Rugby Union) Ladies Day Championships NFL International Series Theatre in April, while rival Ronnie O’Sullivan Murrayfield, Edinburgh Ascot Race Course Olympic Stadium, London New Orleans Saints vs Miami Dolphins, is gunning for his sixth title. Overcoming a May 24: June 24: August 10 - 13: Wembley Stadium tragic childhood which saw him abandoned by Europa League Final All Blacks vs British & The PGA Championship his mother at the age of eight, the ‘Jester from Friends Arena, Sweden Irish Lions (1st Test) (Golf) October 7: Leicester‘ then lost his father to cancer aged Eden Park, Auckland Quail Hollow, Charlotte, Super League Grand Final just 16. But he focused his life on snooker to May 27: FA Cup Final NC (Rugby League) triumphantly become a world champion at the Wembley Stadium July 1: All Blacks vs British Old Trafford, Manchester age of 30. & Irish Lions (2nd Test) August 28 - September 10: May 28 - June 11: Westpac Stadium, US Open (Tennis) October 26 - December 2: O’Sullivan, master of the green baize French Open (Tennis) Wellington Flushing Meadows, Rugby League World Cup and undeniably one of the greatest to ever Roland Garros, Paris New York City Australia, New Zealand hold a cue, also had a troubled upbringing July 1 - 23: and Papua New Guinea during which his father was imprisoned for June 3: Tour de France September 2: murder. Fans of snooker are hoping that Champions League Final France/Germany T20 Blast Finals Day December 1: Russia 2018 destiny may pair the two in an almighty Millennium Stadium, Edgbaston, Birmingham World Cup Draw World Championship final showdown. Selby Cardiff July 2 - 16: Moscow, Russia All England Tennis September 10: won the UK Championship in December, June 3: Championships Great North Run December 14 - January ith Joe Root newly installed in the ICC rankings, one place above mid-table. They host Warwickshire at Worcestershire’s pre-season tour to Abu defeating O’Sullivan 10-7 in the final, but has Isle of Man TT Wimbledon, England Newcastle upon Tyne 2: World Darts as England Test captain, and England and the four Test series will give the Kia Oval in their opening fixture of Dhabi after dislocating his shoulder suffered from a poor run of form since, leaving Isle of Man Championships Ben Stokes recently becoming a true indication of Root’s credentials the Specsavers County Championship playing for Penrith, but the batsman has tournament wide open. June 15 - 18: July 6 - 10: September 23 - October Alexandra Palace, London the most expensive overseas player in the as national captain. The County on April 7. now undergone a successful operation. W “He is continuing rehab work at New history of the Indian Premier League at Championship will feature ‘pink ball’ Now in its 82nd year, the Walter gold on home soil at Atlanta in 1996. awe of his perseverance at 35 years of £1.7 million; all that’s left is for cricket is cricket for the first time in its history in Lawrence Trophy which is awarded Road. Tom has had to have his arm in a In 2001, Agassi opened a school age. The six month rest he’d taken from the long-awaited English summer to get 2017, with a round of day-night fixtures for the fastest hundred of the season, sling a little bit longer than anticipated Destiny Awaits which became an educational model the game paid massive dividends. underway! which starts on June 26. All England was won by Tom Kohler-Cadmore in to make sure he immobilises it, so that in Clark County. “That school is still Murray, six year Federer’s junior, is England cricket's 2017 home season players are expected to be made available 2016. He scored a 43-ball hundred for might mean a slightly longer recovery,” Andy Murray said Steve Rhodes, Director Of Cricket By Owen Fulda thriving and our endowment allows it to in the prime of his career. Quite how © Carine06 Photograph is scheduled to span 149 days, and as it for their respective counties for the nine Worcestershire Rapids in their 38-run live in perpetuity,” Agassi recently told he conspired to lose in the fourth round features both their earliest start and latest floodlit games. victory over Durham Jets at New Road at Worcestershire CC. . “I then figured out a way to a man ranked 50th in the world, and finish to a summer, hopefully someone The matches will give England on May 20. The 22-year-old’s century, England opener, Tammy Beaumont, to scale that mission across the country with his nemesis Novak Djokovic already at the ECB has struck a deal with the players the chance to prepare for the first which launched the 2016 NatWest T20 was the winner of last year’s Walter and in the last three and a half years I eliminated, I doubt even he knows. weather Gods. The UK’s seasons seem to day-night Test in this country, against Blast competition in explosive fashion, Lawrence Women’s Award for her f you read one sporting deployed over $650m nationally to build The door to his first Aussie Open was be shunted further backwards by the year. West Indies at Edgbaston, beginning on included 5 sixes and 13 fours. The dazzling innings of 168 not out, scored autobiography this year, I implore 79 new schools.” wide open, or at least ajar, yet somehow Winter often doesn’t seem to skidaddle August 17. Pink balls have only been in aggressive nature of modern day batting from 144 balls and including 20 fours, you to make it that of 1990s’ tennis How many kids has Agassi helped Murray managed to slam it on his toe. until early April these days, so we can use in cricket since December last year is excellently illustrated by the Walter against Pakistan Women in the Third ‘hipster’ Andre Agassi. Raised in the educate? “I’ve got 1,200 kids in my Now comes the real test. Can he bounce expect a disproportionate amount of when they made their debut in a match Lawrence Trophy. Back in 1970 the One-Day International at Taunton I on June 27. A proverbial thorn in the suffocating heat of the Las Vegas desert foundation school and they revolve back while on the grind of the ATP drawn games in the early rounds of the between Australia and Pakistan at the methodical Geoffrey Boycott managed by a merciless Iranian father, Agassi annually. I now have 38,000 kids tour, keep his number one ranking and County Championship. Gabba in Brisbane. There is a complex to win the trophy with a 222 ball Pakistan Women’s side, the 25-year-old despised tennis from his early childhood, nationwide revolving. I can’t do the math succeed at the French Open in May? England’s first games of the domestic and highly secretive process behind century! Not exactly rapid. Since 2006 Kent Women opener and wicketkeeper but knew of no other life. but the numbers go up pretty quickly.” But yet another psychological season will be two one-day internationals producing pink leather for cricket balls. however, just one of the season’s fastest scored 484 runs across the 6-match ODI His supreme talent railroaded Despite his dour demeanor, Andy barrier awaits Murray in Paris. In last against Ireland, which will mark the first What is no secret, however, is that the centuries has required more than 50 and T20 series, after which she was voted him down a path that earned him the Murray has finally won over the British year’s final he won the first set against time the teams have met in England. hides sourced to produce the balls are a deliveries. T20 cricket is certainly partly Women’s Player of the Summer by her admiration of millions, as well as millions public. His incredible form throughout Djokovic, before capitulating and losing England’s skipper in the shorter formats direct result from beef production. The responsible for the increased pace of the England teammates in the PCA Awards. of dollars, but also severe depression 2016 saw him win a mammoth 76 the next three, winning just seven games Eoin Morgan was born and raised in fact that the sport is using a by-product game. Loughborough MCCU’s Robbie which even led to recreational drug use. matches and finish the year as world in the process. Murray, 29, has already Dublin, an upbringing that ensures the from beef production and turning it into Kohler-Cadmore went on to score White picked up the MCC Universities Smoking crystal meth is not exactly a number one. He entered the first Grand had 10 different coaches since turning occasion will be particularly emotional cricket ball leather can only be good 127 from 54 balls, including 8 sixes and Award for his score of 174, made at pastime you associate with the clean cut Slam of this year, the Australian Open in professional. Agassi for comparison, had for him. Three more ODIs with news. 14 fours, the highest score for the county Haselgrave Ground, on June 8 against tennis stars of today! As his depression while winning 14 Grand Slams, never Melbourne, as the bookmakers favourite just four throughout a career spanning South Africa follow, before the ICC This summer’s County Championship in 14 years of T20 cricket. Sadly, Tom Leeds/Bradford MCCU. White’s innings worsened Agassi inexplicably turned even reached a final at Roland Garros. to lift the trophy. But at a tournament two decades. An indictment on modern Champions Trophy which will see eight will feature eight teams in Division was unavailable on the night as he was was scored off 219 balls, including to drugs in an attempt to ease his Tennis is the loneliest of sports, a where the Scot has reached the final tennis, or a window into Murray’s quest nations play 15 games from June 1-18 One and 10 in Division Two, instead in Australia participating in the New 18 fours and 4 sixes and helped psychological burden. facet that undoubtedly contributes to the on no less than five occasions, he has for perfection? at The Oval, Edgbaston and Sophia of the nine-nine split of previous years. South Wales Premier Cricket first grade Loughborough secure the 2016 MCCU The fact that he suffered so badly pressure. There are no teammates to pick never managed to haul himself over the With Federer and Nadal, despite Gardens in Cardiff. England have Reigning champions Middlesex whose for Penrith Panthers. Following in the 2-day Championship. Tom Haines of with mental health issues makes Agassi’s you up after a crushing five-set defeat finishing line. their heroics in Melbourne, evidently been handed a tough draw in Group A last-gasp victory of 2016 will live long in footsteps of Graeme Hick (1988) and Hurstpierpoint College won last year’s achievements within the sport all the and no one to banter with in training. Amazingly the old guard of Rafa in the twilight of their careers, the alongside Australia, New Zealand and the memory, begin the defence of their Vikram Solanki (2009), Tom became Walter Lawrence Schools Award for more admirable. When he won the On the court it’s just you and your Nadal and Roger Federer rolled back expectation on Murray has shifted. Bangladesh. first County Championship win since only the third Worcestershire batsman to his innings of 187, the highest score by French Open in 1999, Agassi became demons. It’s no surprise to learn that the years and ended up dueling it out Winning majors, rather than reaching The summer Test matches will not 1993 by travelling to the Ageas Bowl win the Trophy, which, along with prize a school batsman against MCC. Tom’s just the fifth player in the history of the Agassi enjoyed the camaraderie of Davis in Rod Laver Arena in January’s final. finals, is now the be-all and end-all. This begin until 6 July, but making up for lost to take on Hampshire. Surrey suffered money of £3,000, was accepted on his mammoth knock on June 14 broke the game to have won all four major titles. Cup to such an extent that he helped The indefatigable Federer won his 18th is his year. Murray must finally usurp time they’ll encompass seven games in a poor start to the 2016 season under behalf by his father. Sussex school’s record for the highest Even Pete Sampras, who shared an epic the USA win it three times. He also Grand Slam in an enthralling five-set Djokovic if he is to truly stake his claim 67 days against South Africa and West new head coach Michael di Venuto but Kohler-Cadmore, 22, was score in a one-day match and helped his rivalry with Agassi throughout the 90s destroyed his opponents to win Olympic win over Nadal, leaving tennis fans in as the dominant force in world tennis. Indies. The Proteas currently sit third ended the season strongly, finishing in unfortunately ruled out of side post a winning total of 302 for 9. 62 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 April 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Public Notice, Crossword & Bridge Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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(9) 19 Male native adapted Asian country. former World Champion Alexandra A E C I I (5) 8 Sounds like I’m reminding you off the (7) 20 21 22 23 24 their duels across the chequered boards of the game and its players free from Kosterniuk, Russia, played Anna R E F I T M O R T A L S I N 4 Kabul resident has this money too. (7) cuff. (9) 20 Wan’s creative activities come at the Espinas Palace Hotel in Iran strictures and world politics. FIDE have Muzychuk. The former has a formidable D I O U A U O 5 Joan maybe in SSE part of California 14 Crystallise by saying your together on racing track. (2-5) 25 26 27 for the world title, the furore rumbled in a lamentable fashion failed miserably FIDE rating of 2549, was taught chess C E N T R A L C L A P P E D grandmother is tardy. (9) 23 Said a flower got up in the morning (3,4) on with two Iranian nationals, the in this subject, and put female players in by her father at the age of 5, and in O I A A E C E D 6 Black cumin seeds might be used by 15 Could be a spider that runs internet (5) 28 29 Derekhshanis, brother and sister, who the firing line unnecessarily! September 2008 became the WWC R A T A T A T M I N E R A L her. (7) sites. (9) 24 Toss out civet. (5) had competed in the recent Tradewise, Whilst the world chess forum Champion defeating Hou Yifan by E E E E E E B E 7 More level hesitation like a sycophant. 18 Mob rage about trade ban. (7) Gibraltar tournament, also came under continued to debate those frustrating 2.5 to 1.5, the latter being the self- severe criticism from the Iranian issues about chess served up with politics, same player who as the reigning WCC authorities. Dorsa, a student in Spain Iranian style, here in leafy London in Champion refused to defend her title in  Section 17 Licensing Act 2003 Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates CLASSIFIED ADS refused to wear a veil at the event, and the quiet and demure atmosphere of that this year's debacle in Tehran! Alexandra with Andrew Robson LICENSING ACT 2003: Borna was punished for playing an Israeli splendid club, the RAC in Pall Mall, the in 2013 won both the Women’s and TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A at the tournament “in defiance of Iranian 135th Varsity Chess Tournament was the Men’s Swiss Chess Championship! OR SERVICE HERE, he Women's World Chess If the opponents have had the courage to bid for twelve or thirteen tricks, a slam, you NEW PREMISES LICENSE laws”, stated Ahmad Salek, deputy under way, which ended in a win for the In their game Alexandra was clearly in TELEPHONE: 020 7738 2348 Championship held recently in will rarely defeat it by more than one trick. Last issue we saw a defender double a OR EMAIL: head of Iran’s parliamentary cultural Oxford team. Cambridge is still however control of a good part of the play, which Notice is hereby given that Mr Suruk Miah Tehran, Iran, 10th February-4th small slam with three aces. It made, and was lucky not to be redoubled! [email protected] has applied to the City of Westminster on commission. These two teenagers are two in an overall lead with 59 wins against began with a French Defence, Tarrasch March, was won by Tan Zhongyi, of The time to double a freely bid opposing slam is when you want partner to 29th March 2017 for a new premises licence T of Iran’s leading youth players and have Oxford’s 54, including this latest success, Variation: Christyakov Defense CO7. The China. She becomes the 16th World make an unusual lead. Such a double, invented by US player of yesteryear Theodore for Seymour Catering Ltd, 132 Seymour been informed they are barred forever with 22 of the matches drawn. 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