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East London and the City migration London Festival walking tour of Architecture Postman’s Park, 2 June The Migration Museum hosts a walking tour exploring the many migration stories embedded in this diverse area. © Daniel Chapman Photograph From the Jamaica Winehouse to the ondon is already building Great Synagogue, many communities excitement for the upcoming have passed through East London London Festival of Architecture and the City, and all have left their 2019. June will see the capital thrum a mark. This tour showcases the ways L that the livelihoods, cultures and divers series of over 400 events exploring this year’s ‘boundaries’ theme across practices of these diverse communities London from 1-30 June. The London have interacted with one another over Festival of Architecture (LFA) is the hundreds of years - leaving layer upon world’s largest annual architecture layer of intriguing histories. festival, with a stated mission to support London’s architectural and design talent, Architecture for the dead: burial enthuse and engage with the public, and grounds and crypts in 18th-19th find new ways to look at familiar places. century London Bridge LFA2018 attracted over 600,000 visitors The Old Operating Theatre Museum rooted and originating in a place, like practices which address the public good and a global audience of 122 million. and Herb Garret, 6 June an indigenous plant that has always just another form of patronage to ease The 2019 programme features belonged, or global, transient and non- the guilt of a design-conscious elite? exhibitions and installations, talks and No boundary is as definitive as the native? It challenges people to reassess One of a series of lively and provocative debates, walks and tours, family events boundary that separates the living from the boundaries around the history and debates hosted by Fourthspace. and a wide range of special events. the dead. Around the London Bridge language of the terms native/exotic, While LFA events take place in every area there were many ancient burial natural/man-made, with a playful Brutalism on a human scale corner of London, this year’s programme grounds which now have disappeared. garden rich with reference and meaning. The Silver Building, features many events focused in four Kirsty Chilton narrates a tale of how throughout June specially-designated Festival Hubs: the these boundaries were defined and how Negroni talks: Who’s your daddy? City of London, London Bridge, the they can still be felt around us after Ombra, 24 June This exhibition in the Royal Docks Royal Docks and the Heart of London several centuries of re-development. focuses on the post-war architecture of district covering St James’s, Piccadilly Architecture has a difficult relationship Belgian architect Léon Stynen, whose Circus and Leicester Square. The quintessential English garden: with privilege. When education was work is characterised by brutalism with From street dance and a séance at what does it mean to be native? free we saw the rise of the working class a sensitivity to the human scale. Large- John Soane’s country retreat to debates Cabot Square, 10 June – 12 July architect: Norman Foster describes his scale photographs by Filip Dujardin challenging architecture’s hidden childhood on the wrong side of the show Stynen’s buildings in their current boundaries of gender and privilege, we’re Lily Jencks Studio’s pop-up garden tracks in Manchester. Could someone condition, alongside a selection of pieces including a sneak preview of some of the tests the long-standing question which rise to prominence like this today or is from the Stynen archive. highlights of this year’s festival before we drives identity politics around the the system rigged for Hooray Henrys cover in depth next month: globe. What does it mean to be local, and Sloane Rangers? Are the emerging

Crossrail have announced that Crossrail: Where the remaining fit-out and systems installation in the stations and tunnels we are now will be completed this year. This Photograph © TfL will allow the new stations and rail infrastructure to be integrated with the new plan to finally complete the outstanding works on Crossrail, rest of the railway. Crossrail also expects and bring the Elizabeth line into that Bombardier Transportation and passenger service at the earliest possible Siemens will complete development of A the train and signalling software this date has been developed by the new Crossrail leadership team and agreed by year allowing the train control system to the Crossrail Ltd Board. be fully tested. The new plan has required complex project and there will be delivery challenges. Once the central Each Elizabeth line station has over identifying and re-sequencing over challenges ahead, particularly with section opens, full services across 50 km of communications cabling, 100,000 interdependent tasks and takes the testing of the train and signalling the Elizabeth line from Reading and 200 CCTV cameras, 66 information full account of exactly what is to be systems, but the Elizabeth line is going Heathrow in the west to Abbey Wood displays, 200 radio antennas, 750 done and how long it will take. As many to be incredible for London and really and Shenfield in the east, will commence loudspeakers and 50 help points. All this risks and uncertainties remain in the will be worth the wait. This new plan as soon as possible. technology is yet to be fully installed, development and testing of the train and will get us there and allow this fantastic As the completion work proceeds tested and integrated. signalling systems, Crossrail Ltd has new railway to open around the end of Crossrail Ltd has expressed their Dynamic testing of the trains in the identified a six-month delivery window next year.” he concluded. intention to provide Londoners with tunnels are currently underway with with a midpoint at the end of 2020. The central section of the Elizabeth regular progress reports, and increasingly intensive work to increase the reliability “I share the frustration of Londoners line will open between Paddington and specific estimates of when the Elizabeth of the train software to enable trains that the huge benefits of the Elizabeth Abbey Wood and link the West End, line will open so as to avoid the lack to successfully operate across the three line are not yet with us’ claimed Mark the City of London, Canary Wharf of transparency that helped lead to signalling systems on the Elizabeth line. Wild, Chief Executive of Crossrail Ltd and southeast London, initially with 12 the collapse of the original deadlines. Trains have been operating at line speed in a statement. ‘But this plan allows trains per hour during the peak. Crossrail’s initial budget was 15 billion, (100 kph / 62 mph) in the central section Crossrail Ltd and its contractors to put It is expected that all stations on the but it is estimated to have already using the new automatic signalling the project back on track to deliver the route will open except for Bond Street overrun by an additional 3 billion, which system and multi-train testing will soon Elizabeth line. Crossrail is an immensely which is delayed because of design and is expected to rise. get underway. 4 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

took place as the capital’s murder rate was approached for comment about the Police numbers reached a 10-year high in 2018, with west London police figures but did not 134 victims, including 24 who were aged respond in time. collapse across under 19. On March 28, 25-year-old Zahir But senior politicians from Tory-run Visiter died in hospital after being West London Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster stabbed to death just metres from By LDRS reporter Owen councils pointed the blame at Mr Khan his family’s flat in St John’s Wood, after seeing the figures. Westminster. His death followed the Sheppard Kensington and Chelsea Council killing of 17-year-old Ayub Hassan in leader Elizabeth Campbell said: “Crime North End Road on March 7. is on the rise. On Sunday, May 5, an 18-year-old “The Mayor must make policing and male who was stabbed in Elephant and fighting crime on the streets the priority Castle, south London, became the ninth xclusive figures have revealed for this year. I am not saying this is an teenage murder victim of 2019. three west London boroughs lost easy thing to tackle, it isn’t. But so far The Met took on cuts of £700 million inspectors, and a 13% increase in the we have seen too many words and not between 2010 and 2018. 14% of their police constables number of detective constables, up to since 2017, amid a rising tide of knife enough action.” However a Home Office E 243. Westminster’s cabinet member for spokesperson said it increased funding crime gripping the capital. This equalled a 10.5% net loss of public protection, Ian Adams, said: for the Met by £175 million this year, It comes after three separate police officers across the three central/ forces,Hammersmith & Fulham, “It’s no secret [we are] concerned about up to £2.72 billion from £2.55 billion in west London boroughs, compared with the police reorganisation. Numbers 2018/19. Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster, April 2017. merged last year to form the Central have been reduced overall, there are far The spokesperson added: “As part The Met Police did not respond to a fewer police on our streets and this has of our Serious Violence Strategy we are West Basic Command Unit. request for comment. Figures obtained by the Local corresponded with increases in crime investing over £220m in projects to steer A spokesman for London Mayor and anti-social behaviour. young people away from crime and our Democracy Reporting Service show for Sadiq Khan said the city’s crime rate the first time the number of rank-and- “We are holding the Mayor’s public health approach will see public had been “made far worse by this Office… and the commissioner of the bodies work together more effectively to file PCs serving the three boroughs now Government’s huge cuts”. And that stands at 1,438. This was down from Metropolitan Police to account for this.” protect those at risk of being drawn into London now has the lowest number of Hammersmith & Fulham Council violence.” 1,680 when the boroughs were separate officers on its streets since 2003. units. The spokesman added: “We’ve seen Following the merger, the three the decimation of the very services boroughs also lost 13% of their police that help to address the root causes of sergeants, now down to 152 from 172, crime. Cuts really do have consequences, the figures from Scotland Yard show. something that even the Government However there was a modest increase now admits.” in the number of middle-ranking The borough mergers, across London,

agent throughout the 90s and 2000s. Meeting for breakfast at the Wolseley Damien Hirst in Mayfair, the pair would discuss their business affairs; it was during these drawings meetings from 2004 to 2010 that Hirst produced these 73 portraits drawn on the back of the Wolseley restaurant’s 22cm diameter placemats. A collection of 73 portraits of Frank Hirst would rest a placemat on his Dunphy by Damien Hirst, known as The knee, so that they were out of sight of Wolseley Drawings, has been generously passers-by, and begin to sketch in pen donated by Frank Dunphy through the or pencil. Some of the portraits are Cultural Gifts Scheme and allocated to stained with coffee and food from the the British Museum. breakfasts. Many are humorous, such Frank Dunphy masterminded many as the portrayal of Dunphy as a boiled important sales of Hirst’s work, during egg; drawn after a discussion between his time as his business manager and the pair as to whether it was best to open a boiled egg at its pointed or flat end! (shades of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels). On others Hirst frequently alludes to auction dates of his own works, with titles including FRANK: PHARMACY AUCTION DAY! and Photograph © British Museum © British Photograph SKULLDUGGERY DAY, the latter referring to the sale of his diamond and platinum skull sculpture, For the Love of God. “The British Museum is delighted to have acquired such a vivacious group of drawings by Damien Hirst,” Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, said, “and we are grateful to the Cultural Gifts Scheme and to Frank Dunphy for making it possible. These drawings provide a compelling insight into one of the most fascinating and impactful art world partnerships. 0205 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

stories of being forgotten. “The archive will document, preserve After Grenfell and celebrate our community in all Preserving North Kensington’s its diversity, resilience, collaboration, local history through the arts colour, and vibrancy.” This initiative will provide mentoring, skills, and the tools to enable our young history-makers to build a positive legacy, represent their own identities through art, and preserve ocal community organisations are their own heritage. Birkbeck historians developing an archive of North will also work with local arts-leaders Kensington’s creative response and young people to develop creative Lduring a period of rapid historical content, including video, photography, change since the Grenfell Tower fire podcasting and writing, which will with support from the National Lottery be showcased in a permanent digital Heritage Fund. exhibition. In addition, the project team Called the Kensington Art will also train volunteers in how to & Heritage Archive Project, the use the archives and to learn about the collection will preserve artworks and history of communities. testimonies produced by local people, Dr Julia Laite, Lecturer in History and developed by a local group the at Birkbeck, is developing the project “Kensington Narrators”, in partnership alongside the community groups. She with Birkbeck, University of London, said: “The important part of this project the Bishopsgate Institute; and FerArts, is that it will build capacity to continue a non-profit youth arts’ organisation. to document, preserve, and interpret The project is supported by a £99,700 the culture, art and heritage of North National Lottery grant. Kensington in a format that can be Christina, a local resident, parent, widely accessed for many generations to and the founder of “Kensington come.” Narrators”, spent a year in consultation The archive will be held at with the local community. During these Bishopsgate Institute and managed by conversations it became apparent there a board of trustees made up of North was an urgent need for both physical and Kensington residents. The project has digital storage space for the preservation been made possible by generous funding of historical and precious materials from the National Lottery and the which were at risk of being lost, and the voluntary work of local organisers.

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champions will help spread the message in the town hall. Councils Single use plastics The council is also planning to draw up a Plastic Action Plan setting out its disappointed to be outlawed in targets and milestones on the road to becoming plastic free. Hisgett Tony © Photograph by the court Kensington and It follows initiatives by other decision on Chelsea councils, including the Plastic Free City By LDRS Reporter Julia scheme in the Square Mile, which aims to cut down on the 1,000 pieces of single Heathrow Gregory use plastic at City worker can use in the office each year. ouncils are disappointed in the There will be another stage where The throw away culture of using a plastic High Court’s failure to quash the the damage caused to life and health cup once and then discarding it is set to Government’s Airport National and the environment by a third runway be outlawed in Kensington and Chelsea Policy Statement (ANPS), regarding and its associated traffic (damage Kensington and Chelsea council has C causing air pollution, noise pollution and Heathrow expansion. Councils argue decided to ban single use plastic in its this could bring long-term damage to the contributing to climate change) will be libraries, parks, leisure centres, schools © Pxhere Photograph health of millions of Londoners. more closely scrutinised. Objections to and depots throughout the borough They warn that large areas of London runway three must be heard then and by the end of next year in a bid to be and the Home Counties will be affected any decision to approve it will be open to greener. by noise from the north-west runway. challenge through the courts. The west London authority already For many London boroughs it means “Today’s ruling is hugely collects 6,000 tonnes of plastic which a substantial increase in the number of disappointing for Londoners,” Cllr people throw away in their rubbish. communities affected. Ravi Govindia, Leader of Wandsworth It also recycles 1,400 tonnes of The local authorities had argued that Council, said. “It shows that the plastic bottles, cups and packaging. the third runway could only be built by Government can drive through Overall it spends nearly £11m disposing demolishing thousands of homes, adding expansion plans without properly of rubbish and recycling put out by large increases in road traffic and making considering the full environmental and residents and businesses. life noisier and unhealthier for millions health impacts. But it does not mean the The authority will work with of Londoners. runway will ever be built. It still faces contractors, schools and suppliers to The court has refused all the enormous legal obstacles particularly phase out the use of single use plastic by applications for judicial review of the around air pollution.” the end of 2020. ANPS essentially because it has decided As single use plastic goes out in that at this stage the decision to support For more information visit will come recycling bins in all council a third runway at Heathrow needs only heathrowexpansion.com/the- buildings and staff will be encouraged meet a low level of judicial scrutiny. expansion-plan to use “alternative products”. Green

the BBC Local Democracy Reporting site in central London”, though she Service: “All these changes to the couldn’t suggest one when asked. And Government’s plans are about mitigating the campaigners say the Imperial War harm to the gardens, this small historic Museum would be the “logical place” to Photograph © DCLG Photograph park, and about reducing harm to put a learning centre. the views of Lambeth Bridge and the In early April, communities Buxton Memorial Fountain (also in the secretary, James Brokenshire, said the gardens).” memorial will have national significance, The Government revealed more than “not just for London. It’s not just for £5 million has already been spent on Westminster”. the project. “It will probably cost £10 “Having it located slap bang next million in the end. That’s all taxpayers’ door to the House of Commons money,” Ms Annamalai said. underlines that sense of connection, “We’re not rejecting the proposal, it’s the role of government and how we not anti-semitic. This is about saying you must not just reflect but also learn and can remember the Holocaust without apply the lessons of the Holocaust,” said destroying a park.” Mr Brokenshire, whose department is The new plans show the pavilion behind the memorial plans. will have a “lighter, more transparent” Organisations including The Royal appearance to “harmonise” with the Parks, which oversees the 19th century gardens setting. A courtyard boundary Victoria Tower Gardens, as well as fence has been made lower, so as to not UNESCO and Historic England, all say disrupt views. The learning centre will the location is unsuitable. be given a longer but narrower shape so The Royal Parks wrote to that it is “set back” from the park’s trees. Westminster Council, which is charged waste millions of pounds. Its basement would also be smaller. with deciding on the plans, and called it Holocaust Critics say the Grade II*-listed The government says other suggested a “highly sensitive location in planning Victoria Tower Gardens is the wrong locations, such as next to the Mayor of and heritage terms”. Memorial location for the proposed learning centre London’s offices or by Millbank Tower, However the plans are backed by By LDRS Reporter with entrance pavilion, and courtyard. would offer “poor visual prominence, no more than 150 Labour and Tory MPs The Government’s updated plans, emotional or political logic, little or no who signed a joint letter to Westminster Owen Sheppard which reduce the size of the structure outdoor space to provide a prominent Council. from the original plans, have done little memorial”. 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leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative government called the Extinction climate emergency and are now facing pressure from MPs to achieve the net Rebellion and the zero goal by 2050. However, whilst these events have future of climate caused the world to see the UK as a change leader on climate change, the meeting By Ellen Harper Extinction Rebellion had with Michael Gove on 1st May told Extinction Rebellion otherwise. 14 year old Felix O’Mahony, member of Extinction Rebellion Youth who was at the meeting ince writing in KCW Today last with Gove said: “I’m frustrated that he month about the movements of avoided our demands and just spoke activist organisation Extinction about what they’re already doing.” SRebellion, things have exploded. Little Sam Knights said “he also agreed to did we, or anybody else, realise quite meet us again within a month so that we how big an impact their campaign would can hold him to account and continue have on the British government. exerting pressure on our political class. At 11am, on the 15th April in get to work, Extinction Rebellion also the law and significantly disrupt the lives We welcome these steps.” London, activists gathered across hosted die-ins, where activists ‘played of others.” Alongside this, there was As the countries two main parties London and 30 other cities throughout dead’ in iconic venues, including the some hostility from the public, with an isolated themselves from their voters the world. Their stated aim: to demand Natural History Museum. Since January, anonymous female bus driver telling The over matters to do with Brexit at the those who make decisions on our behalf the group have raised £365,000, mainly Guardian “They made their point and recent local elections, the Green Party to ‘tell the truth’ about global warming. from small donations alone. it’s been over a week. We all care about found incredible success, gaining 194 Ten days of peaceful protests Despite huge support amongst the climate change, but people have to get to new councillors, perhaps on the tailcoats ensued, with occupations of key British public, Extinction Rebellion faced work.” of Extinction Rebellion. Considering London landmarks; raising momentum backlash from conservative politicians, To date, Extinction Rebellion proudly the UN have claimed we have 12 years as the days went on, alongside guest including Sajid Javid, who pressured the have 1078 arrests to their name; a to reverse the effects of climate change appearances from celebrities such as Metropolitan police to use the full force number that represents their success. and stop a currently impending ‘mass Emma Thompson. Talks from figures of the law against the protestors. He Their number one goal was to get extinction’, a political party whose focus such as MP Diane Abbott (among said “Everyone has the right to protest the government to declare a climate is on maintaining a healthy planet, is others) and a major collaboration peacefully, it’s a cherished, long-standing emergency; starting the process of much needed. with the Green Party encouraged the British tradition and a fundamental getting legislation put in place that For more detailed information about motivation. Whilst roads were blocked cornerstone of the democracy we live in. would reduce carbon emissions to net Extinction Rebellion and to follow what and London’s commuters struggled to But people do not have the right to break zero. Following a motion put forward by comes next, go to: www.rebellion.earth

encourage sales of cleaner commercial per cent of local market rates for private vehicles in place of the harmful diesels. sector accommodation. Van Drivers, If you hold a category B driving London Councils “Crisis’ research confirms license you could only drive vans up what London boroughs have long together in to 3.5 tonnes. But under the new rules responds to experienced,” Cllr Muhammed Butt, that number goes up to 4.25 tonnes for London Councils’ Executive Member Electric Dreams alternatively-fuelled, including electric Crisis research on for Welfare, Empowerment & Inclusion, vans, with a minimum of five hours of said. “The freeze in Local Housing additional training. benefits shortfall Allowance rates combined with year-on- This is part of the government’s year rent increases means that fewer and plan to encourage more business and homelessness fewer properties are affordable to low- Drivers with a standard car license owners to make the switch to cleaner income households in the capital. will soon be able to drive larger, electrified vehicles just as more brands risk “Too often, the result is Londoners alternatively-fuelled vans. This comes are launching either pure battery electric going into rent arrears and ending up as part of a government initiative to or plug-in-hybrid versions of their van homeless. This is a terrible situation for models, aimed mainly at urban drivers. Londoners to find themselves in. It also These vans would be exempt from road London Councils has puts huge pressure on councils, who take tax, as well as the congestion charge and responsibility for those made homeless Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ). welcomed new research from and ultimately have to pick up the bill. Another reason for this change is the Crisis (published at the launch “The upcoming Spending Review added weight of electrified vans, with is an opportunity for the government large, heavy batteries needed for a usable of Crisis’ new Cover the Cost to put a stop to this spiralling problem. range on such large vehicles. campaign), which shows that Ending the Local Housing Allowance “The government’s Road to Zero freeze and restoring rates to ensure Strategy sets out our ambition for all Londoners receiving Universal that at least 30 per cent of the market new cars and vans to be effectively zero Credit are unable to afford the is affordable to claimants would be a emission by 2040,” Jesse Norman, future massive boost to boroughs’ efforts to of mobility minister, said. “By changing vast majority of rented homes tackle London’s homelessness crisis.” these driving licence requirements, we in the capital. are seeking to support business owners London Councils represent London's by enabling them to use alternatively These findings chime with boroughs’ thirty boroughs. It is a cross-party fuelled vehicles more easily.” experience of worsening homelessness organisation that works on behalf of The National Register of LGV in their communities. Boroughs are all its member authorities regardless of Instructors and the National Vocational calling on the government to lift the political persuasion. Driving Instructors Register are the Local Housing Allowance, which is only two government agencies that offer administered under Universal Credit For more about London Councils: additional tuition and is currently frozen, to at least 30 www.londoncouncils.co.uk 0209 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Mayor announces plans for first National Park City Festival Kamal-Pasha © Jasmine Photograph

he Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the next step towards making London the world’sT first National Park City, with plans for a week-long National Park City Festival from 20–28 July 2019. Working with the National Park City Foundation and other major partners, including the National community sectors. • National Park City Stage: beautiful rooftop gardens and natural Theatre and Open City, the free festival The Mayor’s ambition is to make For the opening weekend of the spaces. The full programme will be will celebrate London’s green spaces, more than half of the Capital green and Festival, City Hall will host a free announced later in the year. wildlife, green rooftops and waterways, increase tree canopy cover by 10 per cultural programme in partnership • National Park City Splash: and aims to help a wide range of cent by 2050. Sadiq has updated the with the National Theatre, on its London’s first multi site outdoor Londoners discover new environmental, London Plan to prevent the loss of the outdoor River Stage on the Southbank. swimming and paddle sport’s event cultural, sporting and community green belt and increase ‘greening’ in new Performances will celebrate everything will see everybody, whatever level their activities. developments. green and wild about the city. There will ability, able to try their hand at activities The Festival will take place after City Hall has also funded the be a mix of dance, theatre and music, such as stand-up paddle boarding and the Mayor hosts London Climate Action planting of 170,000 trees and 200 green with a range of performances for all open water swimming. Week, between 1-8 July 2019, which will space improvements and developed high- ages. The new festival follows last highlight London’s climate expertise, tech mapping of London’s green cover to • National Park City Rooftops: In December’s record 80,000 mass tree services and action, and involve over ensure his targets remain on track. partnership with Open City, organisers plant-a-thon, funded by the Mayor, 80 events with partners from across Key events taking place during the of Open House are offering free access where more than 15,000 Londoners the business, finance, culture and National Park City Festival include: to some of London’s most dynamic and helped to make the Capital greener. 10 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Statue & Blue Plaque

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An English Heritage Blue Plaque honours Margaret Lockwood at 14 Highland Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 1 DP where she lived from 1922 to 1938. Two other houses, number 18a and number 30, in the same road, were her homes, but they did not survive the bombing in World War 11. poor her mother and the Headmistress Margaret Lockwood is one of the agreed she should leave. She progressed STATUES 14% of women to be honoured with to Italia Conti where she made her first a Blue Plaque and her Plaque was stage appearance, aged 12, as a fairy supported by fellow actress Judi Dench. in Midsummer Night’s Dream at the English Heritage is seeking further Holborn Empire. In 1932 she appeared nominations to address this gender in Cavalcade. imbalance. Linda Neal of the Blue The next stage was RADA in 1933. Plaque Panel said, She was driven there by future husband “Margaret Lockwood holds a really Rupert Leon. The stage was now set for a hexagonal plinth, sitting in a pool, special place in the history of British successful acting career. Locking Piece with arcing water jets playing at the film and TV and we are delighted she Her many performances on stage base. Moore himself said, ‘The location can be honoured under the Blue Plaque included House on Fire at Queen’s By Henry Moore isn’t bad, but I don’t like the idea of the Scheme...she bought a 'radiant defiance' fountain, nor that great big thing the Theatre in 1934 and in the same year, Millbank sculpture is standing on, its pedestal to all her roles.” Family Affairs by Gertrude Jenning. In is too powerful for the sculpture; it Margaret Lockwood was a famous 1936 she performed in Miss Smith by knocks the strength out of it’ film star of the 1940s, best known for Henry Bernham at the Duke of York's ocking Piece is made up of two As if by divine intervention, The Lady Vanishes by Hitchcock in which Theatre large amorphous interconnecting a powerful gust of wind blew the she played the leading role opposite A prolific number of films in which forms stacked one atop the other, sculpture off its base in January 1990, Michael Redgrave and for The Wicked Margaret Lockwood acted included and is one of Henry Moore’s best and it was damaged quite considerably, Lady in 1945. Hitchcock referred to her Beloved Vagabond with Maurice known works, on display a few requiring it to be sent back to the as, Chevalier which was very popular and Lhundred yards from Tate Britain in Noack Foundry in Berlin, where it “An emerging star of hitherto led to a contract with Gainsborough Riverside Walk Gardens, Millbank, was repaired and restored, while its un-anticipated probability, with an Pictures for £3.000 p.a. Untold wealth at since 1968, having been gifted to Tate surface was also re-patinated and given undoubted gift for expressing her beauty that time! by the artist a year earlier. Moore’s a protective acrylic lacquer coating. biographer Donald Hall, described It was not until 2004, that the piece in terms of emotion”. She recalled him Night Train to Munich and Man in the work as follows: ‘Locking Piece, in was placed where it remains today, as “a dozing, nodding Buddha with an Grey were successful. its final shape, is a generally circular mounted on a cylindrical concrete enigmatic smile” Margaret Lockwood received bronze, nine feet high, in two parts pedestal in the re-landscaped gardens. Margaret's successful career was a BAFTA for Cast a Dark Shadow which fit together like a child’s puzzle. The origin of the sculpture is said made of many years in a variety of with Dirk Bogarde in 1955. Her last It doesn’t resemble one thing . . . to have come from two pebbles he performances for film, TV and on the professional appearance was as Queen There’s a portion of it which looks like was playing with which seemed to stage. Alexandra in Royce Ryton’s play, The an elephant’s foot; there are scraps fit together, but he later said that it She was born in Karachi, at that Rose and Slipper. of landscape and of natural objects; was inspired by a sawn fragment of time, in British India. Her father was an She was honoured with an award of there are bits and pieces of many faces, bone with a socket and joint which he Administrator in a Railway Company the CBE in 1981. including a fragment of T S Eliot’s found in the garden. The artist and and her mother, Margaret Evelyn During Margaret's long career she nose. The more abstract a sculpture is, writer William Packer has argued the more inclusive it can be of form that Locking Piece ‘has the massive Waugh, was his third wife. Margaret gave her name to some products such as experience. Walking around Locking monumentality of a mill, fraught with had a brother Lyn and two half brothers. Lux soap, Drene shampoo and Pringle Piece, the observer encounters a series that sense of the imminent, heavy When Margaret was four years old, knitwear. of soft explosions of recollection; horizontal turn. It has the domed form she and her brother came to England Margaret was a true thespian and forms become other forms, a hill from of a skull, that seems to clip and hinge with their mother and they lived in was devoted to acting. For her 'the world one angle is a torso from another, with together, jaw and cranium. Here are North Norwood. Their father stayed in was a stage'. a sort of wit in the sudden shift in the smoothed and hollowed declivities Karachi, making rare visits to England She died in the Cromwell Hospital, scale. Locking Piece is the end result of and opportune points of pressure of the and eventually divorced his wife. Kensington and is buried in Putney Vale thousands of things seen and things Venetian rowlock, here the deep cavity From Margaret Lockwood's Crematorium. She left a daughter, Julie, touched.’ T S Eliot’s nose? Prior to to hold the ball of hip or shoulder’. It biography it is evident that she loved to whom she passed on her talent. entering the Tate collection Locking is certainly one of Moore’s best known films and from an early age had Marian Maitland Piece was exhibited at the Montreal public sculptures and seen by countless Expo in 1967, where it was positioned thousands of people walking, cycling memories of visiting a cinema in Crystal in a moat surrounding two sides of or driving past it every day along the Palace to see films of the silent era. She the British Pavilion, designed by Sir Embankment. was keen on Charlie Chaplin. Spending Basil Spence. When it was installed at six pence on sweets on a Saturday was a Millbank, it was originally placed on Don Grant great treat. 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unchecked and the next steps seem was Rowling’s derivative storytelling, inevitable. Few Jews live totally free of lazy stereotypes and humour bypass that MARIUS BRILL’S the fear that it could all kick off again at made me put her book aside but part of any moment. me knows that it was her short, sinister, “Is this picture offensive?” asked the big nosed, money hoarding Griphook MEMEING OF LIFE Jewish Chronicle featuring a publicity the goblin that was just too much for shot for the new Gringotts attraction at me. Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... Warner Studios’ The Making Of Harry Is Rowling an antisemite? Is Corbyn? Potter experience. It “positively shrieked Probably not, almost certainly not with antisemitic tropes; the long-nosed consciously. And yet by repeating the racist than a joke about the Pope. But goblin, his natty suit, clawed fingers tropes and letting them slip through, the trouble is the term also signifies caressing a pile of gold coins. When I they are just feeding the long established Shpilkes a race, an ethnicity and, for some, a positioned a Gringotts shot alongside a unconscious biases rather than challenge conspiracy of wealth and power, or a series of cartoons from Nazi Germany’s them. political ideology about Palestine, or Der Stürmer, it did not seem out of Sensitivity to antisemitism is a even drinkers of the blood of Christian place.” wrote Marianne Levy. She’s life-skill nurtured from birth so it will babies. right. The picture is also somewhat probably never be something that non- You know you’re in a real The Labour party, a movement that reminiscent of the mural in the East End Jewish politicians can truly empathise Jewish restaurant when the prides itself on its inclusivity, has seen which Corbyn couldn’t understand the with. Even the most assimilated of Jews member after member being called out need to remove. It depicted hook-nosed get their moments of paranoia, that waiter comes to the table and for antisemitism and is still struggling to fat Jewish bankers playing monopoly history could repeat itself. You don’t, I asks, “Is anything alright?” understand why. How could an anti- on the backs of starving black people. guess, go through a couple of millennia racist party keep on being accused of Sitting beneath an illuminati eyed of wandering and persecution without The tendency to kvetch (complain) racism? The Right, a more traditional pyramid the symbol of global economic evolving a sixth sense for trouble. The about everything is a standard character home for antisemitism, is having a conspiracy. Yiddish word for it is shpilkes (needles), flaw for Jewish jokes to riff on. But, field day as left-leaning England’s Is this just being touchy? Is it being “a state of impatience, agitation, anxiety, what exactly is a “Jewish joke”? For me, lazy confounding of Israeli-Palestine oversensitive? or any combination thereof.” The there’s at least three very different kinds: atrocities and an entire race conspiring Personally I was relieved to see character of the neurotic, paranoid, Jew the jokes Jews tell each other, the jokes to back it, bubbles out with humiliating someone else had noticed. I gave up is well-trodden in comedy, and so is the Jews tell non-Jews in an effort to be regularity. Corbyn himself tries to reading Harry Potter to my kids after feeling that as long as there are Jews disarming, and jokes non-Jews tell to differentiate between “Jewish people” the first book because: Roald Dahl had there will always be antisemitism… like see if a listener shares their prejudices. (presumably the nice guys in funny hats) done the grotesque Dursleys so much the old joke: The victims of all the gags are Jewish and “Zionists” (Palestinian murdering better in Augustus Glump or James’s Moishe and Solly are passing a stereotypes so they’re often difficult scum) but then doesn’t understand why (Giant Peach) aunts Spiker and Sponge; Catholic church and see a sign that reads to tell apart and yet there’s a world of nobody is fooled. He doesn’t seem to Jill Murphy had been more original “Convert to Catholicism, £50 Cash.” difference. understand how transparent his Semitic in her Worst Witch boarding school of Moishe turns to his friend Solly and There’s a joke Woody Allen tells in semantics are. witchcraft; and at least Enid Blyton, says, “Hey, I'm going to try it.” He enters Stand Up Comic: 1964–1968, “I’m very He seems unable to comprehend when she adopted the traditional fairy- the church and returns a few minutes proud of my gold pocket watch. My how acutely attuned Jews are at listening tale ersatz Jews, the goblins, as the later. grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me for the slightest whiff of antisemitism. hook-nosed money chasers of Noddy’s “So, did you convert? What was it this watch.” It stems from a collective anxiety that Toy Town, was writing in an era that like?” Solly asks. But try telling that same joke in informs so many things from the jokes was so awash with racist stereotypes she “It was nothing,” says Moishe. "I the third person and it takes on an told to the neighbourhoods picked to the can’t be entirely blamed for her lack of walked in, a priest sprinkled holy water ominous antisemitic tone. The image side of the street walked. “wokeness”. Even so it surprised me that, on me, and said ‘you’re a Catholic.’” of the money-pinching Jew, who can’t Why? Because that’s how it starts; 21st century reboots of Noddy excised “Wow,” says Solly, “and did you get take it with him and yet can’t stop his the Jew as other, as different, as non- Golly from his garage but were happy the £50?” avarice, plays right into antisemitic white, it’s that first subtle step towards to keep perpetuating the criminal antics Moishe looks at Solly, “is that all you notions. So just being able to tell certain open hostilities. Allow that to go of Gobbo and Sly. I tell myself that it people think about?” jokes inoffensively becomes a badge of brotherhood. Even if, as Freud pointed out, “sometimes a cigar is just a penis,” a Jewish joke is almost never, just a joke. There’s an old one about a couple of Hassidim walking down a dark alley when they see two thugs coming the other way. One whispers to the other,

“Quick run. There’s two of them and © wbstudiotour.co.uk/gringotts Photograph we’re all alone.” Cultural self-deprecation is used as a sort of charm to ward off hatred. Disarming bullies by victimizing yourself before they do is an age-old survival tactic and infuses much Jewish humour. It’s like trying to reduce the level of threat you represent so the hatred might pass you by. Punching yourself in the face before anyone else does. The minefield of subtleties and cultural anxiety that gets lost in the catch-all term “Jewish Joke” applies equally well to the term “Jewish”. If “Jewish” just meant a set of beliefs, a joke about a Jew would be no more 02013 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

justifiable sources of success (i.e. The disadvantages winning). The possession of outstanding physical attributes; a large pair of lungs, of advantage a well-developed set of abs, or extra- By Peter Burden long legs, are recognised as naturally

acquired and therefore completely Skidmore © Gage Photograph allowable advantages. Any fair-minded opponent would accept that an athlete In this era of popular with exceptional physical attributes has a right to deploy such advantage in trying egalitarianism, for a person to win a race, a weight-lifting contest or to be described as ‘privileged’ boxing match. However, contrary to this sense of fair and natural competition, is not as complimentary or, the female middle distance Olympic at least, as untarnished by runner, Caster Semenya who possesses unusually high, naturally occurring negative connotations as it levels of testosterone in her system has might have been, say, fifty been ordered by her sport’s international body to use an outside agent to diminish years ago. These days to be this natural advantage, while there is no privileged means to possess question (and this has been categorically established more than once) that advantages that have been Ms Semenya was born and remains unfairly, perhaps unjustly physically a woman. That a quasi-legal sporting body acquired or, as in the case like the International Association of of hereditary advantages, Athletics Federations (the IAAF), could make such a judgment is truly ways at once or worse try and walk own imposed. In crude terms, alarming. There would be a resounding Goodbye to the middle of a street, will get run over.” privilege is mostly about and justified outcry if the Scandinavian Labour should be a country mile ahead academies who administer the Nobel in the polls by now but it is not and having money, especially if Prizes demanded that potential Analogue Politics the chances of them making the next it hasn’t been earned by the recipients of their awards should have a by Derek Wyatt Government is receding fast. chunk of their brain lopped off in order Some consider Mrs May to be the individual being described. that competition for these honours worst Prime Minister in history. Yet might be seen to be more fair. There her polling figures are marginally better n Britain, characteristically, this is than Labour. It is hard to believe. To would be outrage if the judges in the The Brexit Party with no MPs or MEPs further obfuscated by a perception of my mind what we are witnessing is the Eurovision Song Contest ordered a is attracting full houses across England vague, often unmeasurable benefits death of analogue politics. Nineteen singer with an exceptionally wide vocal - largely in blue collar, working class of a social status unconnected with the years into this century and twenty five I range to have this range artificially areas; three times a week. It has just possession of outstanding wealth. At years after Tim Berners-Lee gave us the restricted. edged 100,000 members and raised over the same time, the daughter or son of a World Wide Web, politics has moved Perhaps, in our strange limbo £2m in subscriptions. It is less than eight labourer, born with all the advantages online but Parliament has not. Change is land which is both modern, egalitarian weeks old. of intelligence, good looks, good health in the air. democracy and monarchy, the time The wretchedly named ChangeUK and natural confidence who makes it To illustrate how bad it is at has arrived when the young royals now political party, also known as the through a comprehensive educational Westminster, six million people signed aspiring to Sovereignty should have Independent Group (TIG) of MPs, may system to a good university and career a petition for Remain but not one of that gene that renders them the natural still have no logo on our Euro polling may be deemed gifted, not privileged them could come and argue this in heirs to the British Crown removed so card but it too is playing to packed (although to some extremists they might Parliament. In fact, all petitions with that other bright young Britons should houses in Norwich, Nottingham and be considered privileged if they’d had over 100,000 signatures are decided by have an equal opportunity to become Stockport. You can book your tickets the good fortune to have been born a committee of MPs as to whether they monarch, and enjoy, or not, the many for these events via the Eventbrite App. within an education authority that should be debated or not. What then is privileges that brings with it. Their events may lack the pizzazz of operates a selective Grammar School the point of the petition? Ditto Early Brexit’s but that’s deliberate. system.) Day Motions which can attract 2-300 Both these parties have embraced There is an enjoyable irony in the signatures of MPs but no matter there the positive elements of social networks. fact that easily convertible advantages are no rights of debate. This is analogue Good for them. like good looks, good health, a ready politics. As we head to the European polls, talent with language and an engaging Parliamentarians will vote this year the Tory vote will completely collapse manner are not recognised as the or early next on whether it should spend as will some of the Labour support bankable assets they are, especially in a £5bn, it is sure to overspend, on making especially for Leave candidates. The context where a significant number of its building fit for purpose. For under local elections told us that voters the most unhappy, dysfunctional people £1bn it could move the chambers to were completely fed up with the two in society are distinctly ‘privileged’ in the Queen Elizabeth building across main political parties. They will be so far as they have access to income the road and refashion them so every emboldened again in the Euros. Remain that is safe and well in excess of their MP and every Peer has his or her own voters especially will flex their muscles natural needs. I have an untested hunch seat. It could bring in voting online. It by voting mainly for the Lib Dem’s but that a survey among major winners of could start at 0930 and stop at 1730 like also for the Greens, ChangeUK and the Euromillions, now well within the most of us. It could do a lot to restore Independents. This is new politics. ranks of the ‘privileged’, would reveal faith in the body politic but for the My sense is that the Brexit Party will considerable misery and dysfunctionality first time since 1945 it has no leaders have the most MEPs of all the parties among people who had not, after and no leadership. It is increasingly all, been brought up to deal with the but not a clear majority if all the Remain peterburden.net painful to watch the awfulness of Brexit parties were treated as one. It is hard to fatuousness of privilege. irrespective of how you voted. On the sports field it is clear know where the Labour vote will go. As my old professor of philosophy used to

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100 exhibits and showcases at least 40 enough attention at school, but I’m not through the stultifying influence of the different writing systems from all over sure words such as “syllabaries” and internet. This exhibition offers a much Writing: Making the globe, including an indigenous “abjads” are really as broadly understood needed rebuttal to this pessimistic view. Your Mark Inuit language from Arctic Canada, as the British Library seems to believe: Language is always in flux, always British Library as well as Ethiopia’s liturgical Ge’ez they mean respectively ‘ a set of written changing, stealing and breaking from script. If writing is one of the great characters representing syllables’ and the past. The written word is no more Until August 27th achievements of humanity, then the ‘writing systems where every letter is a finished than history is at an end. One By Max Feldman exhibition demonstrates it as a collective consonant’. By the time we’re informed of the scholars cited in Writing: Making one. Our own alphabet receives an that in some of the illuminated medieval Your Mark describes writing as a “system interesting deep dive, showing how our gospels on display which “harmonises of graphic symbols … used to convey seemingly inviolate 26 letters contorted Roman cursive minuscules with uncial any and all thought” and despite what he more integral something is to and mutated as they greedily snapped majuscules”, you might be having comments on YouTube might have you our daily existence, the easier it up linguistic principles from any rival the scholastic equivalent of Vietnam believe, thought’s not going anywhere is to take it for granted. After all alphabet that looked useful. One of the flashbacks. for awhile. no one’s hobby list includes ‘respiration’, highlights of the Exhibition is a series Thankfully this is balanced by a T of ancient inscriptions, discovered across somewhat puckish and almost irreverent and so among mankind’s achievements the written word is often treated like the Eastern Mediterranean, which selection of exhibits. Tennyson’s something of a red-headed step-child. demonstrates the Latin alphabet’s jerky broken quill jostles for position with Events inspired by the This is not a grumpy accusation that sideways evolution by showing how, over a BIC ballpoint and dour gothic texts exhibition no-one appreciates literature, but abound with cheerfully rather that the actual creation of a illuminated rabbits written form of language is somewhat and fish. There’s also The British Library is promoting a shrugged off compared to flashier an oddly fascinating programme of events inspired by the innovations like the pyramids or selection of personal Writing: Making a Mark exhibition until pokemon. ‘We’re a civilisation, so ergo writing from famous June 2019: here is a choice selection: we have the written word’ seems to be hands: James Joyce’s the take on it, as if each alphabet was alarmingly dense Papyrology handed down to us on Mount Sinai colour-coded notes Monday 20 May 19.15-20.30 whole-cloth by the God of semicolons. for Ulysses makes an What is papyrology? What do However our lack of appropriate appearance as does

papyrologists do? What does writing on Board Library © British Photograph context for one of the most important Mozart’s quickly papyri tells us about the ancient world? developments in human history is jotted down list of Join expert, Jean-Luc Fournet, for an hardly surprising. Considering that his own compositions insight in to the world of papyri. most people don’t study Neolithic and perhaps most £10 / £8 / £7 / Knowledge Centre linguistics at degree level, and there strikingly of the lot is aren’t any historical re-enactment Captain Scott’s Arctic Handwriting: Then and Now societies acting out ‘the subsumption of diary, lying open on its Tuesday 28 May 19.00 – 20.30 Phoenician alphabet into Latin’, there anguished final page. From carving on stone to putting pen are really not a terribly large amount of Even more to paper, much of writing involves opportunities to learn about it. interesting however is work by hand. Ewan Clayton looks Writing: Making Your Mark at the prosaic nature of at handwriting styles and materials the British Library is a scholarly, yet many of the exhibitions: from the past using the British Library unfussy exhibition which fills in the a pair of Egyptian collection; while Angela Webb explores margins of writing: from pictograms wax tablets, bound its future, including a look at the impact to emoji and peels back to the misty together with string, it can have on learning. origins of the first written language. dating back to the 2nd £12 / £10 / £8 / Knowledge Centre This is, naturally, a very wordy Century AD is one of exhibition, the opening stretch in the earliest homework The Wisdom of Fonts: particular offers some intimidatingly books in the world Designing Typefaces detailed informational placards, and you can practically Friday 31 May 19.00-20.30 fairly bristling with increasingly feel the student’s We encounter hundreds of typefaces intimidatingly technical linguistic stultifying boredom every day, from the centuries-old terminology. However the selection of curling around his Garamond to the 20th-century fascinating and unthinkably ancient beautifully copied classic Helvetica, and new designs exhibits on display helps keep things almost two millennia, the stern capital Greek characters. Where the exhibition are consistently introduced, reflecting from becoming too dense. Whilst our letter “A” evolved from its original falls down, however, is in the final changing tastes and needs. Leading interpretation of ancient writings tend to form: a modified Egyptian hieroglyph section which attempts to plot out where designers including Jonathan Barnbrook be hieroglyphs proclaiming the godhood depicting an ox-head which wouldn’t the written word is headed in the future. and Jeremy Tankard talk about their of a long dead pharaoh, many of the have looked out of place on a Led Taking the form of a series of recorded processes in a celebration of fonts. exhibits are charmingly simple: a four- Zeppelin album. “Vox Pops” with scholars and members £12 / £10 / £8 / Knowledge Centre thousand-year old stock inventory is still The ox-head was originally part of of the public, the sudden twist to In association with Graphic just a stock inventory jotted down by a a system adopted and disseminated by video is jarring. Whilst it was probably Communication Design, Central Saint bored workman, thinking about the nice Phoenician traders, who bore it across meant to be a nod to how writing has Martins, University of the Arts London horn of mead he’s going to treat himself the Mediterranean on their fleet. The been perceived as being threatened by to when he clocks out. Whilst the sign was later finessed by the Greeks evolving technologies, in practice it’s just Martin Puchner: exhibition posits some of the inspirations and Etruscans, who made it sleeker annoying and rather unenlightening. The Written World for the development of language as and more abstract, and swivelled it There is a persistent murmur that Tuesday 4 June 19.00-20.30 springing from the need for funereal around, so that its “horns” pointed language is under threat; across the Literary critic and philosopher Martin and religious purposes along with more downwards, before it was finally internet, pedants spit bile at each other Puchner delves into our basic human possessive reasons (after all you can’t standardised under the Romans into for the smallest literary infraction. As need to create stories, explores what show people what you own if you can’t its familiar form. This is Making Your words change meanings due to collective happens when writing attempts to record label it) it’s slightly alarming to think Mark at its best, but often to get to misinterpretation, there are many and so fix these tales, and how these that the need for better bookkeeping was grips with the fascinating information who despair that our languages are sagas and fictions have shaped the world the first step on the road to Shakespeare. on offer requires seriously dedicated being dumbed down from intellectual we live in today. The exhibition features more than concentration. Perhaps I just didn’t pay splendour to grubby colloquialisms £12 / £10 / £8 / Knowledge Centre 20 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

About 40 to 50million years after the Hell, on Earth beginning a cataclysmic event took place By Scott Beadle FRAS as a Mars sized proto-planet smashed into the Earth, the rocky debris spewing out into orbit and eventually coalescing into the Moon. This mega-collision would have produced a truly hellish state on Earth. Computer models suggest the he UN Global assessment Report atmosphere or what was left of it would states that human society is in have reached 2500K degrees Celsius jeopardy from the accelerating and been topped with a cloud layer of decline of the Earth’s natural life- vapourised rock. For a thousand years T it would have looked like a red-hot ball, support systems. It makes for very grim reading indeed. but eventually cooled and began to look Maybe if we were better informed as more familiar, with gases like hydrogen, to how the Earth came into existence, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water we might better appreciate how we can vapour making up the bulk. look after the planet and its resources While the Earth was accumulating and find a balance between its own mass and the moon was forming the needs and our own. Sun was entering what astronomers call The verdant hills, lush valleys the main sequence; a state in which the and blue waters that distinguish our fusion fires in its core ignited and began planet today weren’t there from the turning hydrogen into helium. The Sun beginning. Peering into Earths genesis, has been on the main sequence ever scientists find a Game of Thrones world since, and will remain there for another forged in fire and sculpted by ice. Our 5 to 6 billion years, but at the time of planets infancy was a violent, chaotic the “Hadean” period it was only 70% as time. When you visualize the hellish bright as today. conditions then, its hard to reconcile it Computer models suggest that the with the lush planet that is under threat Earth’s carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere today. produced a runaway greenhouse effect There were times in the past when for the 2 million years after the collision. Earth was covered with a mile-thick This stage lasted until normal chemical layer of red-hot rock, what geologists processes could pull the carbon out call a “magma ocean.” There were times of the atmosphere, incorporate it into when the atmosphere was so hot it could surface minerals, and pull it down into have melted steel at the surface and, the mantle. This was the beginning of a paradoxically, when it got so cold the geological cycle that still operates today, planet froze over. Through it all, a rain of and that we, in our infinite wisdom are gigantic meteoroids fell from the skies. messing with and reversing. Conditions were so different back Given the faintness of the early then that geologists refer to the first Sun there wouldn’t have been enough several hundred million years as the energy to keep the planet’s temperature “Hadean” period to conjure up ancient above freezing point, and the Earth visions of hell. would have been jerked from its fiery Gravity caused the collapse of a cloud beginnings into a wintery snowball. of interstellar gas and dust and then Something like Jupiter’s icy world fragment and condense into giant balls Europa, so one could say “hell really did of heated gas that eventually became freeze over”. stars. Planets build up as dust particles The solar systems genesis was not collide and stick together, growing over. Even as it settled down into a into ever larger rocky objects in a disk steady state, our planet experienced an surrounding their fledgling star. All this intense period of impacts called the late took place about 4.5 billion years ago. heavy bombardment, around 3.9 billion Once the planetesimals formed, years ago and for which the Moon’s ordinary gravitational amalgamation multiple scars bear witness. This massive would have turned them into thousand- asteroid/cometary (some as big or bigger mile-wide objects called planetary than Yorkshire) assault on the Earth embryos. would have brought enough energy to Then began a planetary billiards boil the oceans and turn the atmosphere

Top: game in which gravitational forces to steam for a thousand years. Our spaceship, our home, as seen from our very caused these embryos to collide, break Earth’s youthful excesses were mostly important partner, the Moon. Credit: NASA/JPL up, come together, and, in some cases, soon forgotten. When the “Hadean” Middle: get kicked out of the solar system period was over, Earth settled down Evidence of the Late Heavy Bombardment. This also occurred on Earth but was eroded by the altogether. Although much of this into comfortable middle age, an age action of plate tectonics. Credit: NASA/JPL planetary accretion was over within that allowed intelligent life to evolve Below: An English astronomer's lot. Waiting for a break in 10million years, it still continues to this and ponder our planets tumultuous the weather... day. Every time you see a “shooting star” beginnings. ...better start writing my article! © Fleury Beadle you are witnessing a piece of primordial Now we owe it to the beautiful planet material burning up in the Earth’s that gave birth to all the fascinating atmosphere (10 million kgs per year). life-forms that have shared and continue All the heavy stuff mainly iron and to share our unique spaceship, to avoid nickel melted and sank to the Earth’s being the ones responsible for bringing it centre forming its core. all to a premature end. 02021 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 HealthEducationEducation & Lifestyle online:online: www.KCWwww.KCWTodayToday.co.uk.co.uk EDUCATION Photograph ©Ashley Coombes ©Ashley Photograph

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and offers the charity FarmAbility the School © St Edward's Photographs chance to host regular sessions for young people with learning difficulties. As part of the school’s volunteering and outreach programme, St Edward’s pupils join with some of these sessions, working under the guidance of the FarmAbility staff to support the other young people on tasks as varied as fruit picking, sheep shearing and field clearance. Paula explains the benefit to St Edward’s pupils of this experience: ‘It’s about bringing community together: school grounds makes it all the more we are bringing people from different rewarding.’ At St Edward’s School, Oxford, areas of society together who may not There are tangible benefits to both community is a byword for many have had much occasion to communicate the local community and to the St The academic aspects of school life, both internally, in previously in their day to day lives. The Edward’s pupils for working with Houses, classrooms and tutor groups, St Edward’s pupils have the opportunity projects such as FarmAbility. The young benefits of a day or on the sports fields, and externally, to realise that, in so many ways, they are people on the FarmAbility programme as part of the city beyond the school very similar to the young people they benefit from the combined ingredients on the farm. gates. The location in Oxford is a huge meet at the Community Farm, but that of the farming environment and an cademic rigour will, rightly, part of the School’s identity, not only people have different skills and abilities. approach that supports young people always form the bedrock of a for the academic, cultural and social ‘For the young people from to progress through to meaningful solid education, but the wider benefits of being a boarding school in a FarmAbility it is a fantastic environment occupation. Though away from the learning opportunities, and the benefits vibrant university city, but also for the to develop their confidence levels, classroom, the experiences offered here A opportunities it gives the pupils to forge finding purposeful roles where they’re bring significant benefits to pupils’ they bring to the classroom, must never be overlooked. Co-curricular purposeful and lasting relationships with valued and appreciated for the work they academic studies; it enhances their wider activities, whether artistic, sporting, their neighbours in the community. are doing in their community is clearly skills, such as leadership, teamwork and musical, theatrical or otherwise are just Under the inspired and immensely gratifying, and you can see collaboration, as well as engendering as important in the modern educational compassionate leadership of Head of the progress they are making as a result. a good work ethic in a physically landscape as work in the classroom. Community Engagement, Paula Diaz To be able to host such activities on demanding setting.

only just moved out of their family homes. How boarding Boarding schools provide opportunities and school prepares experiences to pupils that other schools don’t always children for have the resources to university provide and support. Filling By Ellen Harper their spare time with a wide range of extra-curricular activities; the skills, friendships and discipline that an extensive array of interests and hobbies Statistics revealed in 2014, showed can provide, help shape that over 50% of Oxford students were children into well-rounded privately educated. The Independent individuals, well-suited to Schools Commission, released their 2016 the world of university and statistics which claimed 92% of Private work. These skills, that school pupils went on to study at look good on university university; it is no secret that a paid for and job applications, set an education actually gets results. advantage over other non- Encompassing structured, focused boarders. and disciplined learning within a The hard work and wholesome and nurturing environment discipline provided to means Boarding Schools can provide to achieve their first choice and course. and the life skills it nurtures, ensures the children who board during their early support and opportunities for their The independence created from settling in period to university is much education, prepares young people for the students that are not always accessible a boarding school education, can smoother. This means the ‘freshers’ shock, stress and overload that comes in a day school education. The staff are give children heading to university can focus on their education from an with studying for a degree. Whilst highly trained in providing children with an advantage over non-boarders. For earlier point. The self-discipline and many have to adjust to the rigorous in-classroom learning as well as support many children, university will be the independence taught from an early age at self-discipline and dedication that it outside academia. One-on-one support, first time they live away from home, boarding school, often makes the stress takes to succeed at university, boarders mentoring and round the clock pastoral the adjustment period can be hard and of university easier. Learning to balance have already been down this route with care, ensures the children thrive; helping nerves and anxiety take over their focus chores, university work and the much the steady-hands of educators, who have them to earn the grades they need to get for the first few weeks. However, the coveted social life, gives boarders a head steered them gently down a committed into those top universities. Helping them independence created by boarding school start, over university pupils who have academic path. 02027 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and helping children prepare for the look into everything from your income at Staffordshire University, found the scholarship exams and interviews. For and the amount of property you own, higher the school appears in The Times Boarding School more information about them, as well as right down to where and how frequently School League Table and the longer the the list of schools involved, visit www. you holiday. reserve list is, often the lower the bursary Bursaries: The feeassistancelondonschools.org.uk. Doing your research on the schools they will offer. Facts However, as scholarships are now and what they can offer you is most Those who mainly benefit from By Ellen Harper sometimes considered honour-based important. Whilst schools will not bursaries are children from single-parent and as a way to skip waiting lists, with reveal their criteria online, there are families, orphans, children of those in some schools awarding only 10-20% various things to take into consideration. the armed forces and children of clergy; of the fees, looking into bursaries is an For example, research published by however each school has different alternative solution. Bursaries aim to Sutton Trust; a foundation working criteria. Schools also consider the ccording to the Financial Times, offer financial support to the families towards increasing social mobility in changing circumstances of the family whilst independent school fees of pupils who wouldn’t otherwise be the UK, found more than ¼ of schools of existing pupils as well as having have seen the slowest rise since able to send their child to a boarding offer less than 5% of tuition in bursaries, the power to take away bursaries if the 1994,A with an incline of only 3.5% in school. Some families can be awarded whilst a further ¼ offer more than 10%. family’s financial circumstances change 2015; wages are still 7% lower than up to £35,000; including funding for The research also found the higher the for the better. Often, the school doesn’t they were in 2008. Because of this, it is trips and uniforms etc. Currently, up school’s fees, the higher the remission, want to lose a pupil, especially if they are becoming more financially challenging to 1/3 of boarders receive some kind yet they are likely to offer less bursaries. at the GCSE or A-Level stage and so for parents to send their children to of bursary, however, these are always The report, written for the Trust by the will often grant bursaries later down the boarding school. Parents are on the hunt means tested. The school’s bursar will Institute for Education Policy Research line if the family’s circumstances change. for grants, bursaries and scholarships in Once you have found the school order to provide their child with the best of your choice, inform them of your possible education. financial situation at the very beginning Scholarships are often granted of the process and remain completely to gifted children, based on their transparent with the school’s bursar, intelligence or talent in something such

it will help in the long run. Apply as © Pixabay Photograph as sport, music, the arts or literature. early as possible as many schools only These children may get up to 50% have a limited number of bursaries they of their fees paid for by the school, can give out, and make sure to do your with extra grants for items such as research. equipment and resources. They may To read the report published by also pay extra for boarding costs, if it is Sutton Trust go to: www.suttontrust. necessary to the child’s circumstances. com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ A group of teachers from some of the finalbursariesreportstaffs-1.pdf top independent schools in the country, Visit: www.andersoneducation.co.uk/ have formed an organisation that travels for up to date and relevant information around state primary schools, informing regarding UK boarding schools.

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www.royalmedicalfoundation.org The School Fees Charitable Trust invited to envision a furnishing project The Education Royal Merchant Navy Education Offer grants to cover the final year of addressed to the No Code Generation, Foundation GCSE’s, or A-Levels or equivalent the new generation of nomads who Trust Supports children whose parents examinations at fee-paying schools. travel the world in a smart and fluid By Ellen Harper are either Merchant Navy Seafarers, www.sfs-group.co.uk/charitable-trust way. Now, in its fifth year, the project profession sea-going fishermen and offers a scholarship covering the entire RNLI lifeboat crew members. Thornton Smith & Plevins Young cost of the Master in Italian Product & www.rmnef.org.uk People’s Trusts Furniture Design programme. Means-tested grants to help families The London branch also dedicates he Education Trusts Forum is an Royal National Children's with children already in fee-paying a Master’s in Product Design, in association of separate Education SpringBoard Foundation schools, who due to financial hardship collaboration with Poliform UK to Trust’s, working together and Supports vulnerable children who have can no longer pay children’s fees. the most ambitious designers. The individually to give young people the experienced abandonment, abuse, death Email: [email protected] candidates are asked to develop a series T or severe illness of a parent. of multipurpose pieces inspired by the best start in life. Set up in the early 1980’s under the name the Joint Trusts www.royalspringboard.org.uk Wispers Trust brand’s collections and accompanied by Liaison Committee, each member Assists families of children who already a mood board that reflects the proposed charity is independent and has its own St Marylebone Educational attend Wispers School for Girls, to theme: ABC Design, a product inspired criteria for making awards. Foundation support them through GCSE’s and by the letters of the alphabet. Istituto Provides grants to under-25’s who have A-Levels if family are unable to. Marangoni thus proposes a very rich Armed Forces Education Trust attended school for at least two years in www.wisperstrust.btck.co.uk programme in collaboration with high Grants offered to children whose parents the City of Westminster. profile partners who believe in the who are or were in the armed forces. www.stmarylebone.org/information/ value of professional training in step http://armedforceseducation.org/ charities/st-m-educational-foundation with the demands and opportunities of an international market in constant BMTA Trust The Emmott Foundation Istituto evolution. Short-term grants for children with Support children with high academic exceptional social needs in years 9 and standards whose parents can no longer Marangoni For more information: www. 10, if parents fall into financial hardship. fund their education. scholarships.istitutomarangoni.com/ http://bmtatrust.org.uk/ announce The Girls’ Day School Trust Buttle UK A group of independent girls schools, scholarships Offer grants to children in secondary whereby nearly 1,100 pupils benefit from How to write a school, who are adopted, from single a means tested bursary. for 25 Masters parent families, looked after my www.gdst.net/parents/bursaries brilliant UCAS grandparents or relatives or have a programmes severely incapacitated parent. The Lloyd Foundation Personal Helps a British child obtain a British www.buttleuk.org Istituto Marangoni has announced that education whilst their parents are they are offering scholarships for 25 Statement with overseas. Canon Holmes Memorial Trust Master’s programmes and 50 three- Email: [email protected] Provide grants to families who’s year programmes in Milan, Florence, Simply Learning changing circumstances, mean they London, and Paris starting in October are no longer able to meet the financial The Mitchell City of London 2019 in partnership with top fashion and Tuition needs of their child’s education. Charity and Educational interior design brands. The scholarships www.canonholmes.org.uk/applications. Foundation will cover 50% of the course cost. The Consultancy Grants to children who attended a html deadline for London is June 12th. city school and are from single-parent The courses have been developed in families. Ewelme Exhibition Endowment collaboration with leading fashion and The Personal Statement is email [email protected] Supports the education of young people design houses. The coveted scholarships worth at least 50% of every in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and are underwritten by brands parts of Wiltshire and Hampshire. The NFL Trust representing the best of the Made in university application and Means-tested bursaries, granted to www.ewelme-education-awards.info Italy; brands such as Missoni, Loro it is easy to underestimate girls aged 11-18, who attend fee-paying Piana, Cappellini, Zanotta, Poliform, schools. Fashion & Textile Children's Trust and Rossana Orlandi; international the amount of work that is Email: [email protected] Supports the educational needs of fashion houses such as Jimmy Choo, required for it. children who’s parents work in the BVLGARI, and Stephane Rolland; fashion and textile industry. The Ouseley Trust and trendy culture sources with global This workshop will be particularly useful Assists with school fees for pupils at www.ftct.org.uk reach such as British magazine i-D and to help Year 12 students to research and choir schools. American magazine ODDA. write the most effective UCAS Personal www.ouseleytrust.org.uk Reedham Children's Trust In partnership with Missoni, through Statement. It is usually expected that Supports children whose families who International Digital Engagement, such work will begin during the summer have experienced death, disability or The Royal Navy and Royal Marines students are challenged to develop term or the summer holidays. If your illness with limited financial resources. Children’s Fund innovative ideas for online strategies teenager does not yet have this on their Support given to children of members www.reedhamchildrenstrust.org.uk and campaigns in order to obtain a radar the workshop will be an excellent and ex-members of the royal navy, royal scholarship for a Master’s in Digital way to get them engaged, in a proactive, marines and their reserves. Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Fashion Management. There is a supportive session with their peers, www.rnrmchildrensfund.org.uk/ Institution second contest with the brand: A New delivered by expert UCAS advisor from Supports children of families where a Target from Emerging Trends which asks Putney High School, one of London’s parent who served in either the merchant The Royal Pinner Educational designers to identify emerging trends leading independent schools. navy or fishing fleet has died. Trust and outline a specific target for the fresh, Means-tested Support for the children www.rlsoi-uk.org/Home.html playful brand spinoff M Missoni. www.simplylearningtuition.co.uk/about- of travelling sales and commercial Together with Cappellini, and with us/events-and-courses/ representatives. Royal Medical Foundation the sponsorship of ADI – Associazione per T:020 7350 1981 www.royalpinner.co.uk/ Supports children whose parents are il Disegno Industriale, Istituto Marangoni Battersea Studios 2, 82 Silverthorne registered doctors and have fallen into has also launched a new challenge to Road, London, SW8 3HE financial hardship. young international designers, who are May 28th 02029 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

all the children. Teachers at St. Anthony’s Girls An ‘Outstanding’ bring a calm, caring presence to their bright airy classrooms; through repeated School for your encounters with mindful teachers the children learn to trust the value of their Daughter insights and opinions. They grow in By Donal Brennan courage and confidence, able to verbalise School Anthony's © St Photograph Headmaster, St. Anthony’s complex thoughts and feelings when they are met with an attitude of respect School for Girls and authentic interest. The teachers have created safe and non-judgmental listening spaces using t. Anthony’s School for Girls in ‘Talking Points’, ‘Talking Assemblies’, North London offers an ideal ‘Talk Partners’, ‘Big Questions’ and education for girls aged 4-11. critical thinking challenges to ensure SSt. Anthony’s is the sister school to that children come to believe that what St. Anthony’s Boys Hampstead, sharing they say truly matters. the same ethos of a nurturing family Our passion for teaching and atmosphere and high quality education learning is revealed through the many in a Catholic environment, respectful of voices of the articulate, confident and all faiths. engaging St. Anthony’s Girls who reflect Judged ‘Outstanding’ in all five on, discuss and share their learning inspected areas in its recent Ofsted experiences, with enthusiasm. The inspection, the school is proud of its girls are encouraged to be their best mindful approach to educating the girls selves and achieve their full potential. within an environment which offers a The children are focused, engaged in happy healthy academically challenging challenging work, well behaved and education. happy. St. Anthony’s Girls is a respectful St. Anthony’s School for Girls is a and peaceful place that inspires and successful and busy school offering a motivates children to explore and supportive and relaxed environment in develop to their fullest capacity where which children can be themselves and individual temperament, learning style achieve their potential at 11+ without strengths and areas for development are having to compromise their sense of self. all valued and worked with in a mindful www.stanthonysgirls.co.uk way that ignites the thirst for learning in T: 020 3869 3070 30 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

acting, photography, creative writing, to medical school or the eleven plus are Buddhism and Thai Society Summer and stand-up comedy. All City Academy also available. Meanwhile, Academic Summer Program tutors are experienced professionals from Camp Canada based in Vancouver Immerse yourself in the richness of School the theatre, film, TV and performance Island or New Brunswick offers a Thai culture by spending six weeks on industries. Everyone is welcome. similar blend of learning and fun in a campus that was once the Viceroy’s Listings city-academy.com stunning locations. palace grounds. During this six credit For further details email info@ Thai studies program at Thammasat Guildhall School of Music and academicsummer.co.uk, visit University, learn about Buddhism and Drama https://www.academicsummer.co.uk or Thai society while spending weekends Guildhall School is one of the world’s call +44 203 959 9370 on organised field trips exploring This month we’re looking at leading music and drama schools, temples, monasteries, museums, summer schools, here and situated in the City of London with archaeological remains, palaces and some of the best facilities in the UK. Abroad ethnic minority communities throughout abroad. Its short courses offer opportunities to the country. There are also several

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University of London) National Youth Theatre (in Japanese) Summer Academic © Photographs The Cass London Summer School is Join the National Youth Theatre of The Nanzan University eight-week open to undergraduates and graduates of Great Britain this summer. A London language program includes courses any discipline who want an introduction Theatre Experience is a three-week in Japanese cultural studies and arts to business or financial concepts from National Youth Theatre course designed (‘hanga’ and ‘ikebana’), optional a leading business school. Over three to offer a fully immersive experience courtesy of bestsummerschools.co.uk excursions, and opportunities to interact weeks, you’ll learn from world-class in theatre-making, while developing and isepstudyabroad.org with local students. Nanzan is located academics who have worked on trading your talent in the heart of London’s in Nagoya, one of Japan's largest cities, floors, at hedge funds and in corporate Theatreland. DEBLA Spain Summer offering students endless opportunities advisory teams. nyt.org.uk Programme for cultural immersion. cass.city.ac.uk courtesy of bestsummerschools.co.uk nanzan-u.ac.jp King's College London DEBLA was founded in 1979 and has Central Saint Martins (UAL) King’s College London offers a range since been an established and popular Yonsei International Summer With more than 450 art, fashion and of pre-university and undergraduate language school with an excellent School design courses to choose from, students summer programmes taught by its track record for student learning and Studying at Yonsei University entails experience intensive practical tutoring faculty. Take part in academic learning satisfaction. The school is situated in the learning from top international and the Central Saint Martins’ way, taught enriched by live case studies, excursions city centre of Málaga, the most southern local faculty while living among a by industry professionals and CSM and guest speakers from leading London city of Spain. It is located in one of the diverse international student body. The tutors. Courses range between one institutions. You can also experience best and safest areas of Málaga, very six-week Yonsei International Summer and four weeks, with summer school British culture and make friends from close both to the city centre and the School Program allows students to running for 12 weeks, from 24 June to around the world. Application deadline: beach (within walking distance). take a variety of classes while truly 13 September 2019. 31 May 2019 debla-spanishcourses.co.uk experiencing Korea. Located in the studylondon.ac.uk kcl.ac.uk wooded hills of western Seoul, Yonsei Hattemer French Language University is only 10 minutes by bus Chelsea College of Arts, University Programme or subway to the downtown area, the of the Arts London UK courtesy of bestsummerschools.co.uk fashion-filled city center that sparkles Chelsea College of Arts specialises This is a non-residential French as a with both modern innovation and in curating, fine art, graphic design Foreign Language (FFL) course suitable ancient cultural tradition. Students can communication, textile design, interior for non-native children with all levels of enjoy a variety of Korean cuisine and and spatial design. With over 100 French (beginner to advanced). Focused also take in lively festivals, performances unique short courses, Chelsea College on oral expression and socialisation, this and folk museums. of Arts' Summer School schedule runs programme will allow your children summer.yonsei.ac.kr from 24 June – 20 September 2019. to improve their French language in a Courses range from one-day to 3-weeks, stimulating and playful environment. Summer Service Learning in Dakar and are for all ages and abilities. Courses hattemer-academy.com Experience the dynamic and familial are taught flexibly in the daytime, culture of Francophone West Africa evening, or at weekends. by living, learning, and volunteering SINARC Summer Program arts.ac.uk in Senegal. There is much to discover (in English) in Dakar, from peaceful islands just Located at the center point of the London College of Fashion, off-shore to frenetic markets and Middle East and West; of Christianity University of the Arts London Academic Summer Camp for Kids a bustling downtown. This 5 week A summer school schedule of fashion 7-17 and Islam; of tradition and modernity, program includes homestay, optional short courses runs from 25 June to 20 July & August, London, Cambridge, Lebanon is sure to be a place where French language immersion or courses September 2019. Courses range from Bristol, Manchester you will engage with new and diverse in English, and community engagement one day to four weeks and are for all ages Aimed at UK and international students perspectives. LAU's Beirut and Byblos opportunities in one of Africa’s most and abilities. Learn something new in wanting to get ahead with their studies, campuses are both home to national vibrant cities. 2019. summer camp specialists, Academic cuisine, beach resorts and ancient thedakarinstitute.com arts.ac.uk Summer, aim to mix learning, with harbors. A walkable city, and in between a big dose of fun. Alongside discos, classes you will be able to feast on City Academy trips to Harry Potter studios, learning traditional Lebanese mezza, relax on City Academy is one of London's to punt or play drums, students can the beach and visit some of its most Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha. leading performing and creative arts choose from over 25 academic subjects celebrated sites such as the Temple of academies for adults, with summer including all the core GCSE/A level/IB Bacchus and the ruins of Baalbek. If you have a course you’d like listed in schools in dance, singing, acting, Diplomacurriculum topics. Programmes sinarc.lau.edu.lb the next edition, please email: fahad@ musical theatre, film-making, screen preparing students for Oxbridge, entry kcwtoday.co.uk 02031 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Glenalmond College, London’s Best Kept Secret… Photograph © Glenalmond Photograph Bringing up children in one of the world’s greatest cities means weaving together love and ambition, protection and adventure. One way to do this well is to look for an education which familiarises them with a different environment, while refusing to compromise on academic excellence.

A short flight to Edinburgh, and less than an hour’s drive north, Glenalmond College has been educating Britain’s leading lawyers, business leaders, bankers, doctors and diplomats for 170 years. The school was founded by William Gladstone, whose vision of intellectual and personal fulfilment it has never lost sight of. It sits in a magnificent rose-red quadrangle, set in 300 acres of parkland, with its own golf course designed by James Braid who created the King’s course at Gleneagles, a short distance away. The estate is above the River Almond, whose glen defines the southern edge of the Highlands.

Top grades at A-level, and entrance to chosen Universities, are a given. These are enhanced and made more achievable by the highest standards of creativity in art, drama and music, by excellence in a huge variety of sports, and by an outdoor education programme which embraces the stunning Scottish landscape all around. With a safe campus, a caring house system and no mobile phones during the working day, they have space and time to learn and to grow.

Pupils from all over Scotland, Britain, Europe and the world benefit from the intimacy of a community where most teaching staff live on campus. This gives them unrivalled knowledge of the pupils’ characters and capacities. Glenalmond alumni develop those human qualities which will best prepare them for success and happiness in adulthood and an identity they never lose. Join the many other families who find a Glenalmond education the perfect complement to London living.

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to understand and interact with the 84% of teachers and 65% of children opposite gender, can see success in ways Re-imagining aged 11-18 wished education did more to EDUCATION beyond their professional lives. help students learn more about making The learning environment that is a positive impact on the planet and forned within an all-boys or an all- Education society. NEWS girls school, can create certain energies 32% of parents wish that school BY ELLEN HARPER that may be disruptive to the learning would help their children discover what environment. The testosterone that A new report titled Reimagining they’re passionate about and 42% want encourages boys to fight and engage Education Together, released by charity school to help children improve their in disruptive behaviour within the Big Change and the Innovation Unit, communication skills. classroom, encouraging each others’ resulted in a new survey that found 64% of teachers want education to Gender & displays of masculinity, can be pupils, parents and teachers believe help children get the job they want. counteracted by an opposing female there needs to be a shift in the education 50% of parents and 71% of teachers Boarding school presence. By contrast women get the system. thought the government had the most emotional intensity of a female-heavy The survey data from YouGov and power to positively reform education. education environment diluted. The two genders TeacherTapp, found that three-quarters For case studies and examples cool their own hormonal energies of all teachers, 60% of parents and 50% of alternate systems see full report to study together in harmony. This of children wished exams weren’t the at https://www.big-change.org/ can create a better environment for main focus of the curriculum. reimagining-education/ hilst boys’ boarding schools studying, but it can also soften the have bred politicians and challenging biological traits of each leaders from every corner of gender as they move out of the home theW country, sending young boys to the and school environment into the ‘real likes of Eton fuels a fresh motivation for world’. It also helps bring an end to aspirational parents. A historic legacy, the gender stereotypes that riddles left by the ancestors of these elite boys’ single-sex schools, as boys who don’t schools present and future pupils, almost conform to the institutional practices guarantees success. they are ‘supposed’ to engage in are However, is single-gendered education ridiculed by their male peers who tease the best way to breed success into your their effeminacy. The Head of Brighton child? The opposing argument, claims college, Richard Cairns said ‘At mixed Unit Innovation The & © Big Change Photograph understanding, empathy and diversity schools boys are much more likely to are bred into the minds of mixed- dance, sing and act. In my first week gendered boarding school students, here, I witnessed a rather gentle young which may be a much more valuable and man being lauded by a group of girls for marketable set of traits. his performance in a play.’ Mixed-gendered boarding school Whilst there are many arguments reflects the wider world; a world in supporting single-sex boarding school; which genders have to know how to such as enabling girls and boys to be such as Cranleigh in Abu Dhabi and communicate with one another in order taught in a style that suits their gender, Brighton College in Dubai. to survive and thrive. The competitive girls learn better when boys aren’t there Brexit Sees With a reduction in the numbers and often ruthless world of work sneering at them and segregation of of British parents sending their child means being able to cut through the genders causes less distractions in the Boarding Schools to boarding school due to the financial barriers created by socially constructed classroom; the institutional sexism that uncertainty caused by Brexit, the gender norms by having the necessary riddles this country is first formed in Populated By UK’s top institutions are relying on communication skills is bound to bring same-sex boarding schools. In order international students to fill the places. about success. Alongside this, the world to end this systemic pattern of toxic UAE Residents Judith Bristow from the King’s of dating can be daunting at the best masculinity and patriarchal supremacy As uncertainty around Brexit continues School, in Canterbury, Kent said: ‘The of times and as young people move that sadly still plagues the mindset of to devalue the strength of the pound, domestic market has slowed down, into adulthood and dating takes over many men (and women), encouraging UK boarding schools are gaining because people are holding off spending almost every crevice of their young integration from a young age is bound to considerable interest from overseas money until Brexit is resolved and we’re adult consciousness, knowing how do society justice. students. experiencing more supply of pupils from As the pound drops against the international markets.’ Dirham (the local currency of the As parents who travel for work, place UAE), a British education that was their children in boarding school to give worth £11,000, before the pound began them some stability, the prestige of a during the week. to plummet in 2016, would be worth British education is enticing. Flexi-boarding, Flexi-boarding benefits those around £15,000 today. Whilst the number of international parents who may travel for work on This means that an education in students in UK boarding schools has a new trend select days during the week and use the the UK, is financially worth more than increased by 8% in the last 10 years, boarding opportunity as a chance to save some of the highest regarded British It seems likely that this number will on childcare. curriculum schools in the Middle East, continue to increase. However, leading head teacher of Flexi-boarding has been on a steady Steyning Gramma School in West increase in the last 2 years, as children Sussex believes extra-curricula activities opt to board just a few nights a week. could be to blame for the increase. Whilst the number of flexi-boarders As children participate in school-run was 15.7% in 2016, this increased activities, outside of classroom hours, to 17.9% this year according to the they opt to stay overnight rather than Independent Schools Council annual going home. census. He said: “It is a natural response to Whilst full-time boarding has been demand. Parents are asking for it, and a popular option for parents who live you have spare beds, it suits parents and overseas, parents who reside in the UK the young person benefits from the time. often have their children live at home It is a national phenomenon.” 02033 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 HealthEducation & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk HEALTH & Lifestyle Photograph © Max Pixel Photograph

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they are not the panacea to movement in the housing market or improvements BRICKS AND to the Capital’s health crisis. Choices for older people should be a right and if they existed this would do much to generate BRICKBATS more housing. GLA policy is stopping BY SQUINCH choice. The 32 London Boroughs are diverse in their needs, demographics and wealth. However, all of them share the same issues of not enough housing, not Something would enough affordable housing and a social and healthcare crisis. The answer is not be better than to take a short-term view by stopping a sector in its tracks that can assist with nothing. these issues by imposing policies and political persuasion to try to make things seem ‘fair’. This column has raised this he London housing crisis is issue before. getting worse. London is now Outside London, some towns and closed for business with respect cities are taking a more considered and to any private tenure ‘retirement housing Top: T Trees Highgate with care’. Developers have only just Left: started to look at the retirement sector PRP Lorenco House in London and no sooner have they Bottom: PRP Windmill Court done so than the GLA have done their Photographs © Tim Crocker best to stop it dead in its tracks. The current Draft London Plan policy H15 states that, contrary to previous advice, all housing with care for older people will now trigger the need for upwards of 35% or 50% affordable housing and on top of that it needs to be on-site. This requirement, whilst admirable in its intentions, has killed the market and 35% of nothing is absolutely nothing. Conversely, London is now wide open for business if you are a registered care home provider. Care homes, being C2 class use and therefore exempt from providing any affordable housing, can now ‘out-bid’, by some margin, the developers of private residential housing

summary findings for Birmingham alone are fully occupied and retain living prove very strong points that the GLA neighbourhoods. should learn from. Too many new London developments It concluded: stand largely empty with the lights off. 1. 1,152 homes have been provided This is begrudged, does not support for over 1,300 older people. vibrant communities, and fails to meet 2. 990 Homes have been released housing needs. back into the community for families. The myopic, arrogant inability of our 3. 150+ Council homes have been politicians to listen, learn and structure released back to the Council. policies that solve problems rather than 4. NHS costs across a range of exacerbate them is astounding. Public services have been reduced by 38%. opinion of politicians has dropped across 5. Unplanned hospital stays have society to all-time levels of dismay for been reduced from 8-14 days to 1-2 days. their self-serving deaf ears, whatever 6. Routine and regular GP visits the issue. Wake up GLA, you and have reduced by 46%. your planning policies are part of the problem. If you will wake up, look Importantly, these senior living around and learn from other exemplars, projects have enabled older residents to you could be part of the solution. remain living within their City. Well ExtraCare in Birmingham won the planned retirement developments enable Outstanding Approach for Innovation at who have to provide upwards of 35% holistic policy approach that is providing people to remain in and contribute to the 2016 UK Housing Awards. Seems of affordable housing. This is great solutions. Birmingham has been their communities. Such developments like the GLA forgot to turn up. news for high dependency older people encouraging senior living developments and of course for those of all economic through five major schemes. It is the status, rich or poor. So this is a good UK’s largest homes, care and lifestyle thing, right? It is unlikely that this project. The ExtraCare Charitable Trust phenomenon has been thought through commissioned a 3 year detailed study SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT by the GLA, who are now at risk of of the outcomes across their whole 14 KCW Today. See page 7 for details ‘losing’ affordable housing as a result of location portfolio by Aston University this policy. Care homes are needed, but which was published last year. Even the 02035 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

The Art and Healing Power of Plants

A new exhibition in association with Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust Opens May 13th Chelsea Physic Garden, 66 Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HS chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk 36 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health & Lifestyle

efficacy of such therapies will have to drag themselves kicking and screaming to the evidence from gold standard The Caring Touch research that continues to pour out of By Simon Hatchard-Parr, MA universities. While the research shows beneficial effects, the mechanisms that cause Photograph © Simon Hatchard-Parr Photograph beneficial physiological changes need further research. One common finding, from the Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow,among others, is that touch lowers heart rate and blood pressure. Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found that touch and massage reduces stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and appeared to increase levels of melatonin and the hormone, serotonin, which has long been associated with an improvement in mood. In America, the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine has carried out more than 100 studies into touch therapies and found that the health benefits are significant. Cincinnati Children's Hospital is one of several leading health centres in the US that now uses healing touch therapy. “Research has demonstrated that patients who receive healing touch experience accelerated wound healing and relaxation, pain relief and general comfort,” said a spokesman. It is hard to dispute such evidence. Touch has a sophisticated psychology and is deeply embedded in the recent NHS census analysis for the young carer if one were needed, is voluntary and government sponsored development of our sense of self. The found a relationship between The Wiltshire Young Carers Service, Youth services such as fire brigade, life-boat, senses help us to socialise and connect the hours of care given by the Action Wiltshire (YAW) which last year air ambulance, mountain rescue and with others in a way filled with meaning. 5.4 million unpaid carers in the UK and celebrated its 70th anniversary. Steve first-responders, to name a few, the The language of touch constitutes and A establishes the nature of our human their health. 64% of unpaid carers stated Crawley, Head of YAW, has worked army of silent young carers, many times a lack of provision of care for themselves with young carers from Wiltshire for 19 more in numbers than all of them put relationships.The research findings as the cause of a wide range of health years and says: “The support we provide together, look after the health, welfare are that touch forms a vital part of problems. Carers make a major, and includes mentoring, coaching, advocacy, and protection of those among us who our physiological and psychological often unsung, contribution to their information, advice and guidance, need extra care to live their lives. regulation. Humans reliably signal their communities. It is arguably immaterial, training and a wide ranging programme The research shows that, apart from feelings and intentions with touch: but the Exchequer would have to find of respite activities and breaks, designed physical injuries, the main health risks love, gratitude and sympathy as much 130 billion every year if these silent with young carers to help them be safe, for carers come from anxiety, lack of as enmity and indifference. It’s not just workers were on the payroll. happy, healthy and to do well at school sleep and depression as well as high throughout childhood we experience While unpaid carers help and and in the future. It was established in blood pressure and a range of stress- touch as a form of healing and holding support their sick or disabled siblings, 1998, as one of the first young carers’ related illness. Caring for a relative in as a signifier of safety, protection and parents, relatives and/or their friends, support projects in the country.” It’s a long-term need is often accompanied comfort. It sets the early template for the they are more than twice as likely to wonderful resource. by distress, frustration, guilt and approach to the boundary of our bodies suffer from poor health than those The Children’s Society estimates exhaustion. as one that tells us we’re going to be ok. without caring responsibilities. Crucially there are more than 800,000 young The range of support services It is enough to look to the psychology of it is children, young carers between the carers across the country. They campaign available in London is increasing year touch for its power as a remedy for that ages of 5-18,who are more likely to be for policy change, support schools and on year and a growing number offer which disconnects us from our feelings unsupported. Young carers often juggle help to raise awareness of young carers’ therapies as part of their resources for of security and welfare. It is intrinsic to their responsibilities alone. Evidence needs. Action For Children who help to the health and well-being of carers. the provision of care because It embodies increasingly points to an adverse impact, identify young carers and work in close In Brent, for example, the Brent the helping hand, at whatever age,and not only on their social and leisure partnership with schools, education Carers’ Centre is one service that signifies that we are not alone. activities, but their physical and mental welfare, children’s social care services offers relaxation therapies such as yoga Our digitally enhanced world health and even future employment and GPs, have teamed up with Over The and massage. The impact of touch is one nevertheless embedded in a opportunities. For many young carers Wall, a UK wide children’s charity and therapies continues to make inroads psychological, biological and social their burden is simply part of the prosaic a member of the International Serious into conventional well-being resources reality. Care for the carer and the carers’ reality of their daily life and routine; one Fun Children’s Network. Over The Wall and the findings of research commend need for support across the range of their which can be unsupported outside the supports children and young people its place there. Touch therapies such experiences as carers, family members home simply because they don’t know facing serious health challenges through as massage and Reiki are becoming and members of their community, can where to go for help. The reality is that residential therapeutic and recreation common approaches to relieving stress be better seen as a collaboration in many child carers can’t choose what camps. Their camps are free and help and anxiety. As carers are much more which we are collectively responsible for to do with their leisure time and head to develop the confidence, self-esteem, likely to suffer poor health than those looking after all those members of our home after school, because that’s where coping strategies and relationships of without caring responsibilities, it is communities who need it. they are needed. They’re there for those their campers. a vital resource to help support them Simon Hatchard-Parr practices as a who need them, but who is there for Our society is quietly, and not so and one which is gradually increasing healer and therapist in North London. them? quietly, evolving into a more caring one as part of the service of care for carers For information visit: One such resource, a model of care as a matter of necessity. Beyond the in London. 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5 things to ask before choosing a live-in care provider

Live-in care is fast becoming the preferred The Good Care Group and a choice for those who need extra help to stay Will they improve at home. Gone are the days when moving into 3. your quality of life? new standard for live-in care a care home was inevitable. With the benefits of live-in support better understood, the A good provider will explain how they will keep In April 2019, The Good Care Group landscape is changing. you safer and healthier at home. Aside from became the only provider dedicated tailored, 1-2-1 support, this might include making to live-in care to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ If you want to stay put (97% of us do), the search subtle home adaptations to improve your mobility rating in all five categories of the CQC for the right live-in care provider can begin. Many and reduce the risk of falling; or using the latest inspection. companies claim to offer a similar service at a monitoring technology to pick up the first signs Working through small regional teams, we similar price, so it can be hard to know which one of an infection, helping to prevent emergency to choose. How they answer these five questions offer completely tailored live-in care, enabling trips to hospital. will help you make a better decision... people, especially those living with dementia, to retain their independence and enjoy a better quality of life at home. Our carers are directly Are they How do they look employed, fully managed and trained beyond 1. fully managed? 4. after their carers? industry standards to support complex medical conditions with an unrivalled quality of care. There are two different types of live-in care provider. The way in which your carer is supported is one Introducers will simply source a qualified carer for of the greatest influences on the care you receive. Uniquely, we also employ a Consultant you to employ, an approach which can reduce cost, The best providers recognise the importance of Admiral Nurse and Occupational Therapist. but carries its own set of responsibilities. frontline staff, giving them all the help they need They support our clients, their families and our Fully managed providers employ full-time staff, to deliver an outstanding service. Some give carers, identifying even the smallest changes that can make a huge difference to your wellbeing. train them well and select a carer that suits you. specialist training in complex conditions In our care, you’re far less likely to have an Many consider this a simpler solution and enjoy the like dementia, a deep understanding of accident at home, pick up an infection or suffer extra peace of mind it brings. symptoms and how they might affect you. from bed sores than a care home resident.

And thanks to our investment in the latest What do other How does the technology, our service monitors your health 5. proactively, further reducing unnecessary 2. people say? regulator rate them? hospital admissions and keeping you safer, happier and healthier at home. You’ll find personal reviews of many live-in care Reputable companies are regulated and inspected providers online, from respected websites like by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). A service Trustpilot or NHS Choices. They’re often the is assessed in five categories to be Outstanding, Safe Outstanding next best thing to hearing it from a friend or family Good, Requiring Improvement or Inadequate. member and could give you a valuable insight It must receive the highest rating in at least two Effective Outstanding into the service you’re considering. categories to be deemed overall Outstanding. Outstanding Inspected and rated Caring The CQC’s website is a great place to find a Outstanding Responsive Outstanding regulated provider near you. Go to www.cqc.org.uk Well-led Outstanding

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diabetes remission. A number of studies Silver Diabetes funded by the charity Diabetes UK have By Dr Raj Chandok shown that using a “very low calorie diet” approach people have been able

to stop diabetes tablets and their blood © Max Pixel Photograph sugar levels have returned to normal or f you are over 50 you may already near normal. This treatment approach is have people in your peer group who not for everyone as it is quite difficult; have type 2 diabetes. As we age it involves an 800 calorie per day diet many of our organs become less flexible for at least 3 months, eating only liquid I nutrient mixes and some green leafy and cannot deal with extra workload. This is fairly obvious with our heart vegetables. It should only be used in and lungs; we all know that we cannot factors for diabetes are family history Another reason our pancreas gland patients with newly diagnosed type 2 do that 100 yard dash so easily as when of diabetes, growing older and being may have more work to do is if we are diabetes who are overweight and under we were 20. But the same problem overweight. overweight. Insulin works less well in medical supervision. also affects other organs including the Diabetes diagnosed in people over overweight people due to changes in a pancreas which makes insulin. With the age of 60 is most likely to be type number of chemicals in the body. This Dr Raj Chandok is a General extra workload e.g. a larger meal, the 2 diabetes, which will be managed means that the pancreas needs to make Practitioner and Commissioner of older pancreas is less flexible and does with diet, exercise and tablet medicines more insulin to do the same job. In Diabetes Services & Dr Kevin Baynes not make quite enough insulin. This initially. Physical activity definitely people with type 2 diabetes even modest is a Consultant in Diabetes and means that our blood sugar becomes a helps lower blood sugar levels in people amounts of weight loss (5-10% of body Endocrinology, they work together little higher. Our metabolic flexibility is with type 2 diabetes. Partly it does this weight) helps lower blood sugar by in improving Diabetes care across lower. Diabetes is diagnosed when the because the exercising muscles take up making insulin work better. NorthWest London including KCW blood sugar levels have reached a certain sugar from the bloodstream and this One of the exciting developments in as part of an award winning Diabetes higher level. For most people this does happens without needing any extra the diabetes field in the last few years is Transformation Programme. not make you feel unwell so there are no tablet medicines. The effect is seen even the news that people who have recently This article does note constitute personal medical symptoms to make you rush to your GP. with moderate physical activity e.g. brisk been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes advice. Please consult your Practice Nurse or GP Diabetes is becoming increasingly walking for 15 minutes, but is larger if may be able to put their diabetes to and discuss further. common in the UK and now affects the exercise is longer or more intense. sleep,which is known as achieving 6.8% of the adult population in England. So if you have type 2 diabetes rambling, In Kensington & Chelsea there were swimming, gardening or dancing will all over 10,000 people with diabetes in make a difference to your condition. In 2017/18 representing 4.8% of the Kensington & Chelsea, the organisation SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT population. About half of these are aged “Open Age” promotes active life for 40-64 years and one third are aged 65- older people with a wide range of KCW Today. See page 7 for details 79 years of age. Three of the main risk activities on offer.

over a period of time. 7– 8 June 2019 Eye test potential 39 people with Alzheimer’s, 37 for diagnosing Alzheimer’s with mild cognitive impairment, and 133 healthy people with normally By Fahad Redha functioning brains had their retinas Olympia London tested. These people, all adults over the age of 50 and with an average age A new study from Duke University in of 71, were recruited from a memory the USA has found that there are fewer clinic in North Carolina. Those blood vessels and less blood flow in the diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s or retina (back of the eye) among people Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with Alzheimer’s. This suggests that were diagnosed using standard and an eye test could be a faster solution to accepted criteria and by experienced e etst e diagnosis. The eye tests that detected specialists. People with non-Alzheimer's • terate eerees • atest routs seres these changes used a scanning technique dementia, diabetes, high blood pressure, • rtua emeta our • rata attes known as an “optical coherence neurological conditions like multiple tomography angiography” or “Octa”. It sclerosis, glaucoma, age-related macular can reveal blood vessels in the retina that degeneration or poor vision were all are finer than the width of a human hair. excluded from the study. Research is still in the early stages The research did find that people and it is too soon to tell if it will lead with Alzheimer’s had fewer blood to an easy test for the disease. One vessels and less blood flow in the retina thing it does not show is whether these compared to either those with MCI or retinal changes occurred before or after TICKETS without either. It is thought that these • ae s • Eert seaers Alzheimer’s set in. We also don’t know if small changes in the tiny blood vessels A sessos £15 the changes are unique to Alzheimer’s. It • efu ts formato • IE of the retina could mirror small blood could also potentially be seen with other vessel changes seen in the brain itself. types of dementia, as well as medical However, more research is required Visit The Alzheimer’s Show 7th and 8th June Olympia London, the UK’s leading event conditions like diabetes, and other eye to see whether this could pick up the for help, support and advice for and . conditions. progression of MCI to Alzheimer’s. o boo tets a for more formato st It’s worth pointing out that this was “It would be valuable to follow over aemerssoou what’s known as a cross-sectional study, time people with Alzheimer's and with meaning that it compared the eyes of MCI, where the blood vessel changes people with and without Alzheimer’s Headline sponsor In partnership with Research Charity partner Sponsor Supported by Accredited by aren't currently seen,” according to NHS at a particular point in time. This is Behind the Headlines, “to see whether useful for showing characteristics of a things progress or change. population, but it does not follow people 0203939 7738 2348 May 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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The Carer’s Bible

Amanda Waring Renowned Author, Dignity Campaigner, Filmmaker and Funeral celebrant is on a mission to ensure that we address care of the dying through her powerful films and latest book.

he Carer’s Bible is an absolutely invaluable guide for anyone who cares for the elderly or dying, whether as a relative of a loved one, or as a professional carer. This wonderful resource is beautifully and clearly written, providing a wealth of hints and tips and supportT on caring for oneself as well as caring for others. Amanda Waring inspires and educates on how to give the best possible care. Chapters on Dementia support, compassionate end of life care, dignified personal care, emotional and spiritual needs, creative solutions and how to beat burnout are just a few of the areas addressed sensitively and expertly. This book really does feel as if you have a wise companion with you to help one navigate the difficult times and celebrate those we are caring for as well. As more of us will be called upon to care for others, this is essential reading and The Carer’s Bible could not be needed more during these times. I highly recommend it.

Amanda Waring: “ let us remember that those who are ending their lives in the frailty of old age deserve the same care and attention as those who are beginning their lives in the vulnerability of infancy.” As a special offer for Dying Matters week in May, Amanda Waring is providing her inspirational “I am near you” CD of words and music and support for those caring for those near end of life, free when you purchase The Carer’s Bible through her. Email your request to [email protected]

Amanda is taking her Heart of Care workshops on caring for the dying and ourselves throughout the UK. Please see her website www.amandawaring.com for more details or to have her visit you.

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Promotion A client story Celebrating 30 years Live-in care is helping a family fulfil the “One-to-one care of this type, promise they made to an elderly relative tailored to an individual’s needs and in of first-class care that she wouldn’t have to leave the familiar your own home, is the best you’re going surroundings of her Norfolk home. to get. As a result, her quality of life is Aged in her 80s and widowed, the improved, without a doubt. in your own home lady in question needs 24-hour support “Despite her immobility, she doesn’t ince 1989, Patricia White’s homecare agency has because of a variety of serious health stay in bed. Her carers will get her up challenges, including dementia and the every day, moving her to a wheelchair, supported families across the United Kingdom with a effects of a number of mini strokes. dress her, and of course give her meals. discrete and highly professional introductory care service. A friend of her family says: “Live- It is the care I would want for myself or in care first began around 15 years ago my own family.” 90% of our clients and carer recruitment is through referral or when she came out of hospital, but as The family friend says the carers S her health has deteriorated, particularly have proved themselves to be dedicated word of mouth, and our satisfaction feedback is some of the since she’s needed to be hoisted in and and Patricia White’s takes care to highest in the care market. out of bed, we’ve moved to the point recommend carers with skills and We continue to introduce the highest quality self-employed where two carers are now essential.” training that match the needs of their carers to our clients, from our pool of UK and overseas carers, Over those 15 years, the family has elderly clients. hired self-employed carers recommended She concludes: “Looking after largely recruited from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. to them by introduction agency, Patricia someone in this situation is a partnership We provide three types of private care: hourly visiting care in White’s. between the carers, the family and The friend continues: “This elderly the agency with good communication London, live-in care nationwide, and care companions to assist lady is now immobile, incontinent and and trust. That’s when you get the best with travelling. can no longer feed herself. results.” 02041 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Promotion

From left to right: Avril Martin, Lesley Erwee and Gemma Streeter

Why do your clients choose to stay How adaptable are your services if Meet the team at home rather than move into the clients’ circumstances change? residential care? We are Avril Martin, Gemma Streeter We adapt through our different skill and experience levels of carers. We are and Lesley Erwee run the For anyone to be taken out of their Patricia White’s familiar surroundings can be hard .It here to support the client, arranger We love it and we have behind-the-scenes action at doesn’t matter how much you pay for a and the carer to react to any change in circumstance. such strong bonds with Patricia White’s and have so residential home, you will not receive one-on-one care. We ensure the home environment is our carers and clients. much passion for their jobs, Depending on their abilities and appropriately prepared. We encourage We do this because we their carers and clients. They particular ailments, often the only time our carers to be proactive and stay in they have any contact with carers is for touch with the doctor and the district genuinely want to provide discussed with us their roles nurses. their personal care and their meals. It the best care to our clients. and why their dedication to doesn’t matter what end of the spectrum provide the best service is so they’re on, they are often just sitting in What sort of feedback do you Lesley handles all new client their room, staring at a television screen receive from your clients? enquiries. Originally a Patricia crucial to the organisation. getting little interaction. Our homecare White’s carer herself, with ease she is totally different, with one-on-one We regularly receive lovely complements will guide you through the process care the client is engaged, supported about our carers. Our very high and answer any questions you have. How do your clients and your and stimulated – our clients families customer satisfaction survey scores, are carers benefit from the service The initial consultation can be by often talk about their relatives renewed testament to this high quality of service. phone, or face-to-face if you would that you provide? enthusiasm for life. Also, if you look prefer. Lesley will understand the at the cost of a live-in care facility, as Our clients scored us We’re providing the client with care required and recommend the opposed to having somebody staying at 10 out of 10 for care services best solution to fit. continuity of care. This is extremely your own house, there is no contest. important for a patient with dementia, and 9 out of 10 for support, It is all part of the bespoke as change is very disruptive service that makes Patricia White’s Much of our time is spent trying to How do you provide a service that in our 2018 survey results. stand out. match personality of the carer to client. stretches beyond standard care? If someone lives in your house, you We are on hand 24 hours a day, so the need some sort of common ground. client and their families have security We find people with similar interests and peace of mind. Carers are human as and personalities as best we can. well, so if they fall ill, we find someone To find out more, please contact us Our recruitment process for carers to facilitate a handover as soon as is incredibly stringent, only 2% of possible. We go above and beyond to Call 0800 092 1107 enquiries meet the high standard keep our line of communication open, required. so that everybody feels comfortable and Email [email protected] open about the care provided. or visit patriciawhites.co.uk 42 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health & Lifestyle

Therapeutic gardens for mind, body and soul © JD Design Photograph By Jane Duncan

here are no definitive texts that attest to the mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon asT healing gardens, but it could be said that the king’s wife’s yearning for the green landscape of her homeland was a longing for her connection with plants and nature. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were amongst the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs and vines, resembling a large green mountain. According to legend, the Hanging Gardens were built around 600 BC by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, as a gift for his Median wife Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. Millenia later, our growing understanding of the restorative benefits of gardens and green spaces continues to feed our need for a connection with nature. Regardless of age or culture, humans find nature pleasing. Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes us feel better emotionally, but also contributes to physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. It may even reduce mortality, according to scientists In her book Healing Gardens, Landscape Architect Clare Cooper- Marcus highlights research findings that reveal more than two-thirds of people choose a natural setting to retreat to project with the aim of improving on others and help them cope more activity, has recently received the go when stressed. Further research suggests outcomes for residents, with benefits for effectively with some of the symptoms ahead to build a gardening school in that varying environments can increase the whole nursing home community. accompanying dementia and other the grounds of his Scottish residence or reduce our stress levels, which in The idea was to use gardening to health issues, such as anxiety and at Dumfries House in Ayrshire. The turn impacts on our bodies. What we improve activity levels of residents in a depression. In turn, happier residents, facility includes plans for a gardening are seeing, hearing, experiencing at creative and fun way, and to get nurses families and friends and less pressured school where experts will teach young any moment affects not only our mood, in the position of active participants and staff; everyone gains. people how to master horticultural but also how our nervous and immune facilitators. This article describes the In 2016, the World Health skills. There is, it would seem, at last a systems are working. project, now embedded in the care plans Organization launched a strategy for its paradigm shift; a recognition of what In healthcare design, this is of all residents, and how it helps enhance European region aimed at improving many have recognised for years about particularly evidenced in residential residents’ quality of life. physical activity levels in people of all the value of connecting with nature. care homes, where biophilic design Further evidence suggests that as ages to reduce the burden of disease Even spending brief periods of time can help to improve quality of life and visual and cognitive ability changes, caused by sedentary lifestyles (WHO, outside can help to improve our health create an environment that is supportive certain people with dementia will 2016). One of the priorities was to get and wellbeing. It may not be possible by integrating access to nature and by increasingly function on a sensory older people to be more active, as it is to build the Hanging Gardens of creating therapeutic and restorative rather than intellectual level. A well- recognised that physical activity in that Babylon, but we have surely established spaces for residents, staff and visitors. planned garden can form part of a age group helps slow down physical and enough evidence that the importance of A recent report in ‘The Nursing Times’ holistic treatment plan providing scope mental health deterioration. connecting with nature is of value to us described a study identifying the benefits for physical exercise, personal space, However, gardens are not only all. of a gardening project for people with reflection and privacy. Other benefits beneficial for seniors; Prince Charles, dementia. In 2016, staff at two nursing can help improve residents’ sleeping a long-standing advocate of the Jane Duncan www.jdddesignlondon. homes in Scotland set up a gardening and eating patterns, reduce dependency therapeutic benefits of horticultural com #jddesignlondon 02043 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

mainstream thanks, in claims and is involved in work to produce team of highly trained medical staff. The part, to celebrities such scientific evidence to further support the cocktail I was given included vitamins, as Rhianna, Jane Fonda, positive client feedback he receives. He support for the liver, magnesium, Gwyneth Paltrow and advises to start with a package of four hydration and a form of Glutathione Anne-Marie (to name sessions in a row, followed by a monthly unique to this clinic that is more bio Photograph © IVBoost.uk Photograph but a few) talking top-up. The clinic regularly see people active than others, stays in the system publicly about the who come in feeling hungover or sick; longer and provides the best chance of benefits. Good London within 15 minutes they are feeling better fighting disease. They show me charts to clinics are the height of due to the fast acting IV and hydration. back up this research. discretion but it goes Medical assessment and lifestyle An hour later and the bag of vitamins without saying that a discussion over, I’m led to the and fluids is empty. I’m told that not roster of celebrity names, comfortable lounge where my IV drip everyone feels results after one session sports personalities and will be administered. The art on the wall and part of the clinic’s first assessment business moguls visit reads ‘infuse vigour’ and I’m certainly is to manage expectations. However, as the clinic to receive hoping for a dose of that. Nurse Ella I say goodbye to the staff team and step their injections of the is an experienced professional and out into the spring sunshine, I have more good stuff. In LA it’s I’m pleasantly surprised by how well I energy, the brain fog has lifted and there possible to hook up to tolerate the cannula. I am encouraged to is a spring in my step. Later that day two an IV the moment you put my feet up and take a nap, watch TV people comment on how well my skin land to counteract the or sample the LED lights for ultimate looks. effects of jet lag and leave relaxation. Dr Josh tells me that new In an ideal world we’d all be enjoying the airport looking and friendships have formed in the treatment the benefits of eight hours of perfect feeling your best. So is it rooms and the warmth and genuine care sleep, a balanced diet and good exercise; just a trendy fad? at this practice is infectious. IV Vitamin Therapy supports these IV vitamins and Nurse Ella and Dr Josh check my efforts to ensure the body functions in minerals have been on blood pressure (‘nice and healthy’) the optimum way. the scene since 1959 throughout the treatment and had there For more information: when John Myers, MD, been a problem I was surrounded by a www.ivboost.uk a Baltimore physician pioneered their use to treat various medical problems. Vitamin therapy And Darryl the clinic manager tells By Talia Hull me that, ‘IV infusion has been part Benefits of IV Therapy of mainstream medicine for several decades most commonly to help patients IV Therapy can help speed recovery from: with intravenous feeding, antibiotics, • Food poisoning o you ingest, infuse or inject dehydration, fluid and electrolyte • ‘Flu and other viral infections your vitamins? 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Throw in a demanding job and a environment. • Crohn’s Disease nasty divorce which had left me drained Dr Josh is called ‘family’ by his • Rheumatoid Arthritis. and I emerged blinking into the spring devoted staff team, a number of whom sunlight, fatigued and lacking my usual have worked alongside him loyally for Finally, it’s a great beauty boost to combat: joie de vivre. many years, and it is easy to see why. • Ageing It’s a situation that Dr Josh Berkowitz He studied at Birmingham University • Oxidative stress must encounter all the time and I am Medical School in the late 1960s, • Loss of skin tone hoping that the treatment will help me spent years in private practice in South • Dull complexion feel better. 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The survey also asked how long negative “trip” compared with just over a said. “Very little is known about why, they had been practicing meditation, fifth (22 per cent) of those with religious when, and how such meditation-related A quarter of as well as the frequency, whether they beliefs. When it came to those with a difficulties can occur: more research is had attended a meditation retreat, and retreat, nearly one in three of those who now needed to understand the nature of meditators what form of meditation (attentional, had been on one (29 per cent) had a bad these experiences. When are unpleasant constructive, or deconstructive) they experience compared with just under a experiences important elements of experience practiced. They also measured repetitive fifth (19.6 per cent) of those who never meditative development, and when negative thinking and self-compassion. have been. are they merely negative effects to be unpleasant Just over a quarter (25.6 per cent) said “These findings point to the avoided?” experiences that they had a “particularly unpleasant” importance of widening the public and There are some caveats about this By Fahad Redha meditation related experience. More scientific understanding of meditation study. First of all, those taking part men, 28.5 per cent, had experienced this beyond that of a health-promoting were asked only one question to find compared with 23 per cent of women. technique,” Lead author, researcher out the prevalence of meditation related Nearly a third (30.6 per cent) of those Marco Schlosser at the University experiences that were negative. This with no religious belief had a similar College London Division of Psychiatry, means that the results do not provide any additional information on what type of experiences these are, let alone their severity or impact. Over one-in-four of those who It is also an observational study. It regularly meditate say they have had a doesn’t conclusively show cause and “particularly unpleasant” psychological effect between meditation and negative experience as a result. This is according experiences. It does not assess any to an online survey of 1,232 people who pre-existing medical conditions that had at least two months’ meditation may affect these experiences. “This experience and published in the future research could inform clinical scientific journal PLOS ONE. The guidelines, mindfulness manuals, study was conducted by researchers from and meditation teacher training,” says Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, Schlosser. and the University of Ljubljana, The NHS meanwhile recommends Slovenia. mindfulness meditation, a different Participants answered “Have you type compared with those in this study, ever had any particularly unpleasant for depression. “Paying more attention experiences (e.g. anxiety, fear, distorted to the present moment, to your own emotions or thoughts, altered sense of thoughts and feelings, and to the world self or the world), which you think may around you, can improve your mental have been caused by your meditation wellbeing,” it says in an article on its practice?” website. 02045 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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brain cancer for the past 20 years. This pre-clinical research work that Abbie’s new type of drug targets the protein Army has supported in the Jones lab with Hope on the molecule produced by mutated versions ACVR1 heading towards a biologically of the ACVR1 gene found in the deadly relevant treatment,” Amanda said.

horizon for © Zephyris Photograph childhood brain cancer ‘diffuse intrinsic “Our hope very much is that further rare terminal pontine glioma’ (DIPG). However, translation and combination studies will ACVR1 mutations do not exist in provide a successful therapy for this sub- childhood any other type of cancer but can cause set of DIPG patients in the near future.” inherited heart disease as well as stone The drugs have been taken on as the cancers man syndrome. first project of an all-new open science By Fahad Redha The study is published in the journal company M4K Pharma whose aim is to Communications Biology and funded by discover and develop affordable drugs for Abbie’s Army, Children with Cancer UK, rare childhood diseases. Rare diseases Cancer Research UK and the DIPG have less market incentive and are collaborative. often poorly served by current business There are no life-extending models. A new treatment could treatments other than radiotherapy “It’s simply not good enough that become the first ever for DIPG tumours and children with we can cure some cancers,” Professor them are expected to live for just nine Chris Jones, Professor of Paediatric targeted therapy designed for to twelve months after diagnosis. Brain Tumour Biology at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said, “but Because they happen in the brainstem ‘untreatable’ childhood brain in others we have seen no progress in they cannot be removed by surgery and decades. We owe it to children and their cancer. The new drug show chemotherapy just doesn’t work. Ever families to do better.” since researched found that ACVR1 such promise in preclinical “DIPG is a relatively rare childhood mutations occur in a quarter of DIPG studies, that trials from an brain cancer, but it is always deadly. tumours, they have been working on a Learning more about the biology of open science company are drug to target it. DIPG, and trying to find ways to set to begin in 2021. The Amanda and Ray Mifsud lost their translate that knowledge into new cientists at The Institute of Cancer six-year old daughter Abbie to DIPG Research (ICR), London, led the treatments, has been a passion of treatment could also work for brain cancer in 2011. Together they mine for years. My lab discovered that research with an international team set up Abbie’s Army in November 2012 ‘stone man syndrome’ which is and found that the new drug class can mutations in the ACVR1 gene occur S so that one day parents of children in a quarter of DIPG cancers and it’s kill brain cancer cells with particular a rare genetic disease in which diagnosed with DIPG will not be told incredibly exciting to see this now lead mutations in mice. muscles and ligaments turn to that there is no cure and no hope, as to potential new drugs for the disease. So far there haven’t been any licensed they were. I can’t wait to see how they perform in bone. new drugs for adults or children with “We’re so pleased to see some of the patients.” 02047 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk KC W Today May2019

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proposed affordable housing would “In light of the evidence available to have been delivered on-site and would me, and given Kensington and Chelsea’s HEALTH have been provided elsewhere in the recent track record in failing to provide borough. In the twelve months to April enough genuinely affordable homes

2018, there were just 89 new affordable across the borough, I have decided to © Unsplash Photographs NEWS homes completed in the Kensington and refuse this application. Chelsea. “We welcome the provision of Today, the Deputy Mayor for retirement housing and we hope the Planning, Regeneration and Skills, Jules applicant submits a revised application Pipe, agreed with the assessment of City with an appropriate level of affordable Mayor of Hall planners that the developer had homes.” not provided a sufficient explanation of London’s office why it would not be possible to meet this Including naps babies under 3 months target. old should get 14 to 17 hours of sleep refuses permission The developer had argued that, Children’s a day while those aged older than 3 for Kensington development because the properties were retirement months should be getting 12 to 16 with no on-site affordable housing, the Mayor’s affordable housing sleep, activity hours. targets did not apply, and the borough Children aged 1 to 2 years old need housing indicated it agreed with this position and screen-time to be physically active for at least 180 when it granted planning permission. minutes a day with a variety of physical However, the Deputy Mayor and guidelines activities spread throughout the day. he Mayor of London’s office City Hall planners were clear that this is They should not use screens below 2 has refused permission for a not the case. and should not be restrained for over an residential development in Policies in the Mayor’s draft London Guidelines from the World Health hour at a time. Those over 2 should not Kensington and Chelsea, which was Plan support providing retirement Organisation (WHO) for sleep from use screens for over an hour, the less the T physical activity and screen time for better. They need at least 11 to 14 hours approved by the borough despite properties in this area, as there is a clear including just five affordable homes; need for such a development, but it is children differ greatly depending on the of sleep in a day, including naps. equivalent to 3.3 per cent. also clear that this must not be provided child’s age. Children between 3 and 4 should The application to redevelop as the expense of genuinely affordable Children less than a year-old need have at least 180 minutes of physical Heythrop College in Kensington Square homes. physical activity, particularly what it calls activity a day including 60 minutes of included 142 new homes, a majority of Deputy Mayor for Planning, “interactive floor-based play,” for at least moderate to vigorous activity, spread which would be retirement properties, Regeneration and Skills, Jules Pipe, said: 30 minutes several times a day. They out through the day. They should not be but fell well short of the Mayor’s “While we agree there is the need for should not be restrained in a pushchair restrained for over 1 hour at a time and threshold of 35 per cent affordable retirement properties in this area, the or high chair for over an hour at a time, have no more than 1 hour a day of screen housing (as detailed in his new London Mayor and I are clear that developments and rather than screen time, they should time, preferably less. They need at least Plan). of this kind should always meet his be “engaged in reading and storytelling 10 to 13 hours of sleep with regular sleep Under the scheme, none of the minimum target for affordable housing. with a caregiver” while in this position. and wake times per day.

drink intake. Also, due to the design of Sugary drinks the study it does not prove definitively Patient Advice Head of Legal, that the sugary drink itself is responsible linked to increase for the increase, and therefore does not and Liaison Complaints & make it certain that they are bad for your in death health. Service PALS That being said these results do Reply provide support to the recommendation A single sugary drink a day can that we should limit the intake of sugary increase the risk of death, research drinks. “Our results provide further Dear PALS Dear Cynthia has found. Researchers from Harvard support to limit intake of SSBs [sugar- T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sweetened beverages] and to replace In December 2018 I spent a week as a This was so lovely to receive; thank you Huazhong University of Science and them with other beverages, preferably patient in Kingston Hospital which I so much for taking the time and for the Technology in China and the University water,” the lead researcher said. found to be a very positive experience. glowing article you wrote. Beautifully of Calgary in Canada found that there I am a Correspondent for written in its description of being a is a 31% increased risk of death from KCWToday, Kensington Chelsea patient. cardiovascular diseases including heart and Westminster Today, a monthly I have forwarded your email to disease and stroke among those who publication, and I enclose the article I the Chief Executive, Chairman and consumed 2 or more sugary drinks a day wrote for them after my stay. Director of Nursing and we will be when compared with those who drank Also enclosed is the complete paper sharing it more broadly. less than 1 a month. for that month. 121,700 women aged between 30 and I thought you might like to add it to Thank you; the staff are so uplifted by 55 since 1976 and 51,529 men aged 40 your records and distribute it to those emails like yours. to 75 since 1986, took part in this study. in the hospital you feel would like to In both cases, they took questionnaires receive it. Many thanks and kind regards every 2 years to assess lifestyle factors Clare and health status. No complaints, only praise! While it has been known and widely reported that too much sugar is All the best unhealthy, the link was not as strong Cynthia for artificial sweeteners. For artificially sweetened drinks the increased risk Clare Parker was 4% from any cause and 13% from Cynthia Pickard Head of Legal, Complaints and PALS cardiovascular disease. Travel and Lifestyle Correspondent Kingston Hospital NHS However, it should be noted that this Kensington,Chelsea & Westminster FoundationTrust study relied on the participants keeping Today 020 8934 2980 an accurate record of their daily sugary www.kcwtoday.co.uk Bleep 994 02049 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Events online:online: www.KCWwww.KCWwww.KCWTodayToday.co.uk.co.uk.co.uk EVENTS & AUCTIONS

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Each object on greatbritishbusinessshow.co.uk Zulu tradition, promising a powerfully regular lunchtime performances feature display gives a voice to the people who uplifting live experience. artists from The Royal Opera, Orchestra created them, used them or cared for them, May 29 020 7863 8222 of the Royal Opera House, Jette Parker and reveals stories not only of destruction, Wandsworth Big Breakfast Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT Young Artists and a range of guest suffering and loss, but also endurance BoConcept peacocktheatre.com artists in performances inspired by the and innovation, duty and devotion, A working Breakfast with Patron Members heritage of the Royal Opera House, its comradeship and love. BoConcept as the Chamber launches the May 31 & June 1 operas and music. The Jette Parker Young 020 7416 5000 Battersea Reach Business Club. San Francisco Ballet; Programme B: Liang Artists also return to St Clement Danes Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ 020 3633 6575 / Marston / Pita for two additional lunchtime events. In iwm.org.uk Business Club, Battersea Reach, Unit D Sadler’s Wells April, Aigul Akhmetshina gives a recital Jasmine House, Juniper Drive In ‘The Infinite Ocean’, Taiwanese-born accompanied by Patrick Milne. In May, May 23 – August 26 (off York Road), SW18 1GL American choreographer Edwaard Liang Patrick Milne conducts a chamber concert Manga wandsworthchamber.org interprets loss and letting go. Cathy with soprano Jacquelyn Stucker and British Museum Marston adapts Edith Wharton’s haunting counter-tenor Patrick Terry Enter a graphic world where art and June 4 tale of adultery, Ethan Frome, in Snowblind. 020 7304 4000 storytelling collide in the largest exhibition First Tuesday Networking And, in a match made in Wonderland, Bow St, Covent Garden, London of manga ever to take place outside of Zuaya the fantastically surreal choreographer WC2E 9DD Japan. ‘Manga’ is a visual narrative art Join The First Tuesday Networking at Arthur Pita is inspired by the music of the roh.org.uk form that has become a multimedia global the fabulous Zuaya which has raised the Icelandic icon, Björk, for his Björk Ballet. phenomenon, telling stories with themes bar for Latin American food with its 020 7863 8198 July 20 from gender to adventure, in real or adventurous plates, beautifully crafted Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London EC1R The Lisa Gilbert Academy of Ballet 10 imagined worlds. 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The exhibition includes 100 objects from Brexit for SMEs Seminar Dance Company as well as performances 020 8985 2424 the Horniman’s anthropology collection, Bailey's Hotel from acclaimed artists who are performing 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ which have been curated by the Collective 140 Gloucester Road, London, SW7 4QH in the UK for the first time ever. hackneyempire.co.uk alongside Korda and Horniman staff. kccclondon.org 020 7121 1100 The objects have been selected for the 17 Duke's Road, London, WC1H 9PY messages they carry about people’s spiritual June 20 theplace.org.uk EXHIBITIONS and cultural relationship with plants and Women in Business London Networking water. 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an excellent way to get them engaged, in Get a feel for how scientists work by performance on 6 July. Each weekly The National Portrait Gallery a proactive, supportive session with their having a go yourself. Come and explore session will be an opportunity to make new A major new exhibition of works by peers, delivered by expert UCAS advisor hundreds of real nature specimens that friends, have a cuppa and sing your heart Martin Parr, one of Britain’s best-known from Putney High School, one of London’s form the evidence Museum scientists use out. The group is open to everyone. There and most widely celebrated photographers. leading independent schools. in their work. Science Educators are on is no need to audition and no need for This brings together some of Parr’s best- 020 7350 1981 hand to help you look closely at real objects experience. It’s fun. It’s free. It’s yours. known photographs with a number of Battersea Studios 2, 82 Silverthorne Road, using the many tools provided. 020 8543 4888 works never exhibited before to focus on London, SW8 3HE 020 7942 5511 Various locations. See website for more one of his most engaging subjects; people. simplylearningtuition.co.uk Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 information. 020 7306 0055 5BD polkatheatre.com St. Martin's Place, London, Ends June 2 nhm.ac.uk WC2H 0HE Soundpit npg.org.uk Royal Festival Hall June 7, September 6, October 11 FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY Have you ever wondered what sound Astronights Ends June 2 feels like? Or what music looks like? Science Museum Ongoing Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Run your hands through the sand, or An overnight science extravaganza at the Moons Beyond Counting Prize 2019 even walk across it. Play in giant sandpits Science Museum. If your child has ever Royal Observatory The Photographers’ Gallery illuminated by beautiful graphics, creating wanted to explore the Museum after dark, Discover the moons of the Solar System in This year’s nominees survey a vast range music with your own movements. You are or if the idea of spending the night in this brand new show narrated by our Royal of topical issues through the lens and the composer of your own masterpiece. one of our iconic galleries fills them with Observatory astronomers. From the Earth’s language of photography. Collectively Through play, children and adults can excitement, then they’ll love Astronights, closest neighbour in space, our Moon, to their projects explore state and gender explore their individual sense of sound, sleepover for children. With workshops, the moons of the distant gas giants, this politics, social injustice, human rights and vision and touch. For those interested science shows and activities, rounded off show explores our Solar System’s natural conceptual approaches to image making. in art and music, and those who simply with breakfast and a breathtaking IMAX satellites. Voiced by Royal Observatory The exhibition of the shortlisted projects enjoy sensory play, this is a fun, interactive 3D film; it will be a night they never forget. astronomers, discover more about the will be on show at The Photographers' experience. Created by artist Di 020 7942 4000 appearance and features of our own moon, Gallery to 2 June 2019, before touring Mainstone,Soundpit is creative play for all Exhibition Road, South Kensington, as well as a selection of the many different the Deutsche Börse's headquarters in ages. London, SW7 2DD kinds of moons out there that orbit the Eschborn/Frankfurt. 0844 875 0073 sciencemuseum.org.uk other planets. 020 7087 9300 Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, 020 8858 4422 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London Lambeth, London SE1 8XX Ends July 6 Blackheath Ave, Greenwich, London SE10 W1F 7LW southbankcentre.co.uk Re:Sound: Polka40 Choir 8XJ thephotographersgallery.org.uk Polka Theatre rmg.co.uk Ends June 30 Join in and learn four Polka classics, Ends May 27 June 10 Investigate for families plus be the first to sing an exclusive new Only Human: Shakespeare in Love (1999) Natural History Museum commission by Julian Butler at a special Photographs by Martin Parr Dulwich Picture Gallery 02055 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Winner of the 1999 Academy Awards for May 25 Best Picture, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ depicts Albert and Victoria: The Coburg a fictional love affair between a young Connection William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) Cadogan Hall and Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow). To celebrate the 200th birthdays of Shakespeare, experiencing writers’ block Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the and more-or-less penniless, is inspired by Royal Choral Society (the choir named by his love for Viola to write Romeo and Juliet. Queen Victoria herself in 1888) will join Directed by John Madden and starring the magnificent Coburg Philharmonic Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Orchestra (from Prince Albert’s home Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench town) in a special performance of some 020 8693 5254 of the royal couple’s favourite music. Gallery Rd, Dulwich, London Accomplished pianists and excellent SE21 7AD singers, Victoria and Albert shared a dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk passion for music. They were particularly keen on Mendelssohn and his music, and June 13 this celebratory concert will showcase his Weimar Berlin: Metropolis Live Screening works including the beautiful symphony- Royal Festival Hall cantata Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) and Watch Fritz Lang's sci-fi masterpiece his Reformation Symphony. The concert Metropolis accompanied live by Gottfried will begin with Mendelssohn’s Hear My Huppertz's score. Composer Huppertz Prayer, and will also include a short work and film director Lang were frequent composed by Prince Albert himself. partners in the creation of German cinema 020 7730 4500 of the Weimar period. Their most famous 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London collaboration was on Lang's 1927 tour de SW1X 9DQ force of epic expressionist science-fiction cadoganhall.com storytelling. Set in a city of the future May 28 (in 2026), Metropolis is lauded for its An evening with Mark Knopfler and The imaginative flair in depicting a nightmarish Band mechanised-industrial future. Its warning O2 Arena about society, equality and the nature of Mark Knopfler, one of the most critically the city itself reflect the instability and and commercially successful artists of all concerns of the Weimar age. time, has announced a world tour with his 0844 875 0073 band that will stop at The O2 on Tuesday Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, 28 May 2019. Knopfler, who released his Lambeth, London, SE1 8XX ninth solo studio album Down The Road southbankcentre.co.uk Wherever on 16 November, has always viewed touring as an integral part of the Ends July 19 process of releasing an album, going from A Beautiful Planet songwriting through recording and ending Science Museum up on the road performing old and new See fantastic images of the Earth from songs. the Space Station and gain a new 020 8463 2000 understanding of how wonderful and Peninsula Square, North Greenwich, unique our planet is. See the world light London SE10 0DX up at night and enjoy natural spectacles theo2.co.uk such as the Northern Lights from a unique viewpoint. Discover how the Earth is June 4 changing and how much power we have to Baroque without Borders protect it. Handel & Hendrix 020 7942 4000 Soprano Eleanor Broomfield explores the Exhibition Road, South Kensington, importance of European openness; the free London, SW7 2DD movement of composers, performance and sciencemuseum.org.uk the transfer of musical ideas in the 17th Century. 020 7495 1685 MUSIC 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB Ends May 18 handelhendrix.org Garden Furniture & Statuary: 9 May London Festival of Baroque Music Wines & Spirits: 9 May St John’s Smith Square & Westminster June 13 Abbey Young Artists’ Platform: Colours in Sound Toys & Models: 29 May The London Festival of Baroque Music, Foundling Museum Entertainment & Memorabilia: 30 May known before 2015 as “The Lufthansa Flautist, Camilla Marchant, presents a Festival of Baroque Music”, was founded colourful programme of music focused Movie Props: 30 May in 1984 and aims to put before London on the work of Carl Philipp Emanuel audiences the highest quality performers in Bach, a composer heavily influenced by James Bond 007: 31 the field of Baroque music from abroad and Handel. She is accompanied by Pianist, Vintage Posters: 31 May from the UK. Joseph Havlat. Camilla Marchant enjoys a 020 7222 1061 varied freelance career and has performed London SW1P 3HA and SW1P 3PA with many of the UK’s leading orchestras lfbm.org.uk including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, English 56 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events

National Opera and Royal Northern Royal Opera House May 21 – June 8 Sinfonia. In addition to her orchestral Visit the Backstage and Front of House June 18 Blueprint Media work, she regularly enjoys performing solo areas of one of the world's leading theatres Curator’s Talk: The EY Exhibition: Van Finborough Theatre and chamber recitals. Most recently she has as it prepares to open its doors for the Gogh and Britain curator's Talk: The Ey Kurdish freedom fighter Medea escapes the performed as a soloist at the Royal Festival evening performance. Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain Turkish military and arrives at UK Border Hall, St Martin in The Fields, Cadogan 020 7304 4000 Tate Britain Control on a forged passport. Slipping Hall, and at the Royal Concertgebouw, Bow St, Covent Garden, London Find out more about Vincent van Gogh’s through immigration, Medea discovers Amsterdam. WC2E 9DD time in England as a young man. 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This hour and a half tour takes followed by a private view of the exhibition. 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, London, Founded to perform the masterpieces place at dusk, as London's bats are coming 020 7887 8888 SW10 9ED of the 18th century at St Martins in the out to play. Be guided through Kensington Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG finboroughtheatre.co.uk Fields Church, the ‘Festive Orchestra Gardens and Hyde Park at night to search tate.org.uk of London’ draws its members from the for bat species such as common pipistrelles, May 21 – June 15 outstanding period performers of London. soprano pipistrelles and noctules. Play Dead Dog in a Suitcase The ensemble broadcasts on both radio and a fun quiz to separate bat facts from bat THEATRE (and other love songs) television and their recordings and concerts fiction and enjoy using bat detectors that Lyric Hammersmith have been critically acclaimed both in the make the bats' echo-location calls audible April 26 – May 25 Pioneering theatre company Kneehigh UK and abroad. to the human ear. Bats are not the only The Glass Piano by Alix Sobler return to the Lyric with their trail- 020 7766 1100 creatures out at night, owl calls may add The Coronet Theatre blazing and much celebrated show. Mayor Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London to the evening's atmosphere and perhaps a Princess Alexandra thought her life would Goodman’s been assassinated. And so has WC2N 4JJ curious fox will cross your path as well! never change, living in the castle with her his dog. MacHeath the contract killer stmartin-in-the-fields.org royalparks.org.uk father King Ludwig, her maid Galstina, is dangerously on the loose. What the and glimpses of her mother as she runs hell is the world coming to? Pioneering 4 June from the stables to the rose bushes. theatre company Kneehigh return to the TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS Poetry Club 020 3642 6606 Lyric with their trail-blazing and much An Evening with Simon Armitage 103 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, celebrated Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other See website for dates The Coronet Theatre London W11 3LB love songs). Using their legendary mix of The Karl Marx Walking Tour Simon Armitage will read from his thecoronettheatre.com puppetry, physical theatre and live music, Karl Marx was one of the most influential latest collection, Sandettie Light Vessel the extraordinary cast of actor-musicians thinkers of modern times. His epic life Automatic followed by a drink in the bar story combines comedy and tragedy, love where Simon will be signing copies of his and hate, hope and despair. This set the books. Celebrated as ‘the most popular and backdrop to an intellectual expedition prolific British poet of his generation’ (The that sought to unravel the mysteries of Times), Simon has published eleven poetry history, politics, economics and philosophy. collections, two novels and three non- Marx’s work inspired protests and strikes, fiction bestsellers. HAMMERSMITH rebellions and revolutions, terrorism and 020 3642 6606 war, struggles for freedom, democracy and 103 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, liberty, as well as regimes of tyrannical London W11 3LB repression. This tour will walk you through thecoronettheatre.com the story of his life in London and explain his ideas and their influence on human June 11 destiny, taking you to the places in and Fatima Bhutto and Dina Nayeri in Friday 17 May around Soho where Marx lived and conversation Lyric Square worked, show you traces of the London he Foyles 11am - 9pm knew, and tell the extraordinary tale of this Join authors Fatima Bhutto and Dina man who would change the world. Nayeri as they discuss their new books: Global Food Quarter marxwalks.com The Runaways and The Ungrateful Refugee with live music and seating area ahead of Refugee Week 2019. 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a string section for a one-off gig. Butler produced MacIntyre’s latest album, MUSIC Wakelines. MacIntryre’s debut novel The Letters of Ivor Punch won the 2015 Edinburgh ROUND UP International Book Festival First Book BY GEOFF COWART Award and he’s just adapted it for the stage. But his rambling lo-fi tales are what captivated fans decades ago, and thankfully his new songs manage to be impressively grandiose while losing none of their intimacy. 7.30pm. Tickets from Spring sees the £16. www.bushhallmusic.co.uk The same night, newly signed gig calendar in 4AD starlets Big Thief take to the Roundhouse stage in north London. west London The New York-based band, featuring Adrianne Lenker (guitar/vocals), Buck getting hot Hot Dreams, Jasmine Thompson, Jordan His rescheduled gig on Friday May Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), Mackampa, Laurel, LION, Marsicans, 24 at the Acklam Road venue is a great and James Krivchenia (drums), has spent Bushstock, the superb one-day Mosa Wild, Rhys Lewis, and Yoke chance to catch the spirited singer who is the last four years travelling the world celebration of new music and Lore. Undiscovered artists are also still a force to be reckoned with. 7.30pm. and winning the devotion of fans. Their invited to apply for a slot on a festival Tickets from £50. www.subterania.net songs traverse the world of adventurous artists, returns to Shepherds stage. folk and homespun pop with rarely a Bush on Saturday June 15. Tickets from £35. For more details, misstep. 7pm. Tickets from £18.50. visit: www.bushstock.co.uk Play it late at Wigmore Hall www.roundhouse.org.uk

tarted in 2011, the festival remains Wigmore Hall’s eclectic late-night a vibrant local showcase for the Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff concerts return with another series Fulham Symphony Orchestra Notting Hill-based promoter and of vibrant one-hour Friday night record label “Communion Music”. Over dives into Subterania performances. turns 60 S Jamaican singer Jimmy Cliff is coming the past eight years, Bushstock crowds Running until July 19, the 10pm to Kensington club Subterania. The The Fulham Symphony Orchestra is concerts see acclaimed musicians such versatile veteran artist and actor has a celebrating its 60th birthday in style as violinist Viktoria Mullova, mezzo remarkable backstory, having been born with a high-profile concert at St John’s soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and in a house in Jamaica that was destroyed Smith Square on Saturday June 29. electric/acoustic guitarist Sean Shibe by a hurricane shortly after his arrival. The ambitious amateur orchestra will play at the legendary London hall. Luckily, his mother had already sought perform excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Tickets are just a fiver if you’re under 35. shelter at a neighbour’s. ballet Swan Lake and Janacek’s suite His good fortune continued as The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as two he recorded his first hit tune at age Other highlights include: suites from composer and soundtrack 14,fittingly titled Hurricane Hattie. He legend John Williams; his Jurassic Park later went on to record a string of big • Sarod virtuosos Amaan Ali Bangash Suite and Adventures on Earth (from tunes, such as You Can Get It If You and Ayaan Ali Bangash (sons of sarod E.T.). Marc Dooley conducts. 6pm. have more than doubled in size across Really Want It, for big Jamaican labels maestro Amjad Ali Khan) perform Tickets from £10. www.fso.org.uk its six W12 venues, which include such as Trojan and Island, while Bob music by their father/guru, as well as Bush Hall and St Stephen’s Church in Dylan famously proclaimed Cliff’s track by JS Bach with violinist Jennifer Pike Look what the Stray Cats Uxbridge Road. Vietnam ‘the greatest protest song ever (May 31) Headliners at this year’s event written’. In 1972, Cliff starred in the • The London premiere of septet dragged in include Aussie rockers Gang of Youths. Trenchtown cinema classic The Harder Nnenna from contemporary composer They arrive at Bushstock after four They Come as it depicted a hopeful Errollyn Wallen performed by Europe’s Forty years after capturing hearts and consecutive sold-out nights at Islington reggae star in too deep with corrupt first ever BME orchestra, the Chineke! minds with their infectious swinging Assembly Hall in April. The festival producers and drug dealers. Other film Orchestra (June 21) rockabilly The Stray Cats return with line-up also includes Marthagunn, Ider, appearances included Club Paradise, • Leading soprano Susan Bullock a new album as well as a tour. It brings Balcony, Eloise, Ferris and Sylvester, Muscle Shoals and Marked for Death. performing classics from the Great the original trio of Brian Setzer, Lee American Songbook, featuring Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom to the everything from Gershwin and Rodgers Hammersmith Eventim Apollo for and Hammerstein to Burt Bacharach two nights on June 26 and 27. It was and Stephen Sondheim (July 19). the summer of 1980 when the lads first All concerts 10pm. Tickets from £5. hopped a plane from New York City to www.wigmore-hall.org.uk London and kicked off the rockabilly revival with iconic songs such as Runaway Boys and Rock This Town. 8pm. Mull Historical Society and Tickets from £46. www.eventim.co.uk Big Thief play the same night

It’s a night for tough choices on Thursday May 23 as competing sets from Mull Historical Society and Big Thief split indie pop-loving audiences across

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Like the East German photographer Christian Richter, who started to record abandoned buildings after the Wall

came down, Debra Welch decided to Welch © Debra Photograph make a video essay of her old school in Portsmouth, when she heard it was going to close and be demolished.

She visited the building while it was still operational but after school hours, so it is seen as unpeopled and ‘at rest.’ Her film is both evocative and nostalgic, and most viewers will resonate to the shear ordinariness of such familiar objects as coat-hooks, a broken basket-ball net or painted lines on the gym floor. King Richard School, previously Paulsgrove Secondary Modern Boys and Girls School, had been at the heart of the community for over 60 years, and Welch wanted to record a collective memory through imagery and conversations with former pupils, staff and families, before it was gone for ever. Long carpeted corridors, redolent of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining, lines of stackable plastic chairs in Assembly, hopscotch squares in the playground, all say ‘school’. Occasionally we glimpse the outside world through windows (gazing out of the window is a pastime every schoolchild ends up doing), which offers us the only movement, that of swaying branches, as though the whole place will be taken over by greenery. All Things Are Yours is a motto All Things Are Yours taken from one of the school emblems, and is a slightly opaque line from St Paul, writing in Debra Welch, Chelsea Space Corinthians, preceded by ‘Let no one boast in men’. Since making the film, the school has totally 16 St John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU gone, and, as Welch says, ‘the land on which it once lived totally grown over as if it was never there to start.’ Welch has succeeded in making a slice of living history, in a series of familiar vignettes, Until 31 May 2019 experienced by anybody who ever went to school, which is probably just about everybody. Don Grant

the dramatic visions to come. The all green malachite sitting room Tendril is The is a perfect setting for the contrasting ‘shiny poppy red glazed triffid’ works Night and ‘red poppy glazed pots’ which Curated by Fru Tholstrup contain melted Murano glass.This Braine © Kate Photograph 20 Cheyne Row, Chelsea technique is very effective. The ‘rusty orange scorched Lava SW3 5AL Alien’ flowers are dynamic with glass 27 June-July 1, 2019. beads nestling in their leaves. Kate’s studio will be open. It used to be a Turkish Bathhouse.

In the garden I was fascinated to find a graveyard for broken and discarded pots. It reminded me of the Kerameikos at ate Braine, Chelsea Potter and Athens where those great black and red Artist, will open her 18th century figure vase painters of ancient Greece townhouse, with studio and discarded their imperfect works in their Kgarden, for a solo Exhibition of her ceaseless striving for perfection. Kate pottery, created over a period of twenty has created red glazed poppy tendrils years. growing from the mound of shards in Kate studied Art and Sculpture her garden; an evocative scene. at the City and Guilds School of Art where she produced bronze portrait Tendrils is The Night, an Exhibition in busts of celebrated figures, such as Sir lived and worked. He was famous for craftsmanship of marine life, flora and such a splendid setting, is inspirational David Tang and Francis Bacon. A life innovative designs with deep glazes plants. Tendrils seemed to reach out and should not be missed. size statue of Chuck Berry, happily and other worldly fish and birds. everywhere. The Curator, Fru Tholstrup, is a strumming his guitar, is now in her Josiah Wedgwood also established his Clay does not readily do as the artist London based Art Consultant. For ten garden. decorating studio in Cheyne Row. wishes, it has a memory. This makes her years she was a Director of the London Kate also opened a Jewellery design Three hundred pots will be on Carmen Roller features so amazing. She and Berlin based Haunch of Venison house, with a friend from College, view and at the Preview they seemed curls the clay and pins it on the pot at Gallery and is known for her role in Charlotte Legge. to pervade the house in every nook optimum temperature, using bamboo launching Sotheby's flagship London Art This Exhibition will give a splendid and cranny. They created a mirage chopsticks. Gallery S/2 in 2013. She also curated the opportunity to visit a townhouse in of kaleidoscopic colour and shape. The viewer, on arrival will see white Art Collection for the Hotel de Crillon in Cheyne Row, the road where William Kate takes her inspiration from the glazed ‘storm lamp tendril’ pots which Paris. De Morgan, the Victorian Potter natural world which is traced into her are lit up. This is a reassuring prelude to Marian Maitland 02061 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Home to haphazard hills crawling with colourful boxes made of ticky tacky and streets packed with art, Valparaíso is one flawed, In praise of but glorious gem in the Chilean crown.

ess than 90 minutes from Santiago yet a world away, this exotic sweep of a Photographs © Lynne McGowan © Lynne Photographs Valparaíso Travelling around Patagonia coastal town may appear graffiti strewn and eccentric but it works; containers are unloaded, streets are swept and lamps light up. and Chile LIn the historic quarter of the city, buildings are painted in every rainbow hue, French colonial facades are clad in pleated tin, and painted turquoise and purple, By Lynne McGowan murals adorn nearly every square inch of wall space. It is as if a pack of crazed flower power children had ran amok with spray cans; everything is covered including fire hydrants and drain pipes. Rusting antiquated elevators and funiculars trundle up and down adding to the eccentricity and charm. Basking in the ‘boho’ era of the sixties, boutiques and artsy bars, galleries and chic restaurants are scattered throughout the quaint streets; creatives and artisans have set up shop and flog wares from paintings to pottery. Every year the city plays host to festivals, setting those streets humming with street artists and musicians. In 2003 Valparaíso was awarded the status of a Unesco World Heritage Site in recognition of its history, architecture and unique urban development. To many the city echoes the grandness and hilliness of San Francisco; in fact it was named ‘Little San Francisco’ by sailors long ago, but I was reminded of the 60s King’s Road boutique Granny takes a trip, so I saw it more as Brighton on acid. But for all the chaotic charisma and reputation as a cultural centre, Valparaíso played an important geopolitical role in the late 19th century. For centuries the city served as a major stopover for ships sailing between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Back in its prime it was a well known port for trading gold and attracting the likes of buccaneer Sir Francis Drake, who not only sacked Spanish ships for ducats, but to his credit, casks of Chilean wine. Suffering a decline caused by the Panama Canal opening in 1914, Valparaíso has since been reborn housing the Chilean National Congress HQ and continues on as a significant port town. Boasting several universities, the city now has a serious reputation for being an intellectual hub and vital educational centre. Pablo Neruda’s house La Sebastiana perches on a cliff with sweeping vistas of the bay, now a museum, the building has more tiers than a wedding cake and is filled with a quirky mix of artefacts and furniture. The Nobel Poet Laureate once wrote ‘Valparaíso, how absurd you are…you haven’t combed your hair, you’ve never had time to get dressed, life has always surprised you’. He lived there for the remainder of his life gazing out to sea, writing his penetrating poems and growing old disgracefully just like his beloved Valparaíso. www.trailfinders.co.uk 62 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

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broccoli served with pistachio and chilli. AFTERNOON TEA With just enough space left for desserts, Ashburn S.W.7 our charming waiter steered us towards at the Holiday Inn, London a Tart Tatin and a disarmingly light Kensington Forum Hotel and delicate cheesecake with raspberry sorbet. A perfect end to our meal, and In one of London's most popular tourist spots, Cellarium is set over two floors Cromwell Road another place to add to our little black in Westminster Abbey. Enter through the stunning cloisters to enjoy coffee, book! cake, afternoon tea or lunch. Breakfast is also served from 8am on weekdays. ituated just 3 or 4 minutes The cellars are cool and tranquil and the small terrace is a lovely outdoor spot walk from Gloucester Rd tube 97 Cromwell Rd, Kensington, in the summer. Children can eat free from our children's menu, with every station, the Holiday Inn, London London SW7 4DN main or set menu purchased. SKensington Forum Hotel, Cromwell T: 020 7341 3278. 11.00am-11.00pm Opening times: Mon-Fri: 08:00-18:00 Road is a convenient spot to meet that www.hikensingtonforumhotel.co.uk/ Saturday: 09:00-17:00 Sunday: 10:00-16:00 makes a pleasant change from the usual food-drink/ashburn-sw7-restaurant/ Kensington and Chelsea haunts. The www.benugo.com/restaurants/cellarium-cafe-terrace brand new Ashburn S.W.7 restaurant Cellarium Café and Terrace Westminster Abbey is a light and airy space on the ground Dean’s Yard London SW1P 3PA T: +44 (0)20 7799 3925 floor adjacent to the reception area. It has that happy knack of keeping you in touch with the lively buzz of the hotel, but from a restful distance The menu is modern European meets pub bistro, and offers a good selection of popular dishes with decidedly more verve than the average pub can muster. Our shared starter of Salt and Pepper Squid had a lightly seasoned crunchy coating which was well complemented by the tasty mayo dip. For our mains, we selected the Lamb Cutlets and a Ribeye Steak, both were well cooked and tasty, and served with fresh veg of new season carrots and parsnip mouselline for the lamb, and portobello mushroom and French fries for the steak. As a little indulgence we also ordered a side of

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Launceston Place By Tim Epps Photographs © Launceston Place Photographs ast month, on leaving the superb Japanese restaurant in Japan House, I idly speculated whether Lour culture could produce such exquisite food, so beautifully presented. This month, I have the answer. It can. Having been deposited by our red limo (no 49) to High Street Kensington, spade alongside, to extract the last have one. Murphy were outstanding. my companion and I sauntered south morsel. Then a cigarette sized tube of Our main courses of milk fed lamb Regulars know: One regular comes past stucco palaces, very neat villas and pastry with a powerful haddock mousse and pink slices of iberican pork were as in once a week to his usual table for converted coach houses, and wandered contained therein; small banana and immaculately cooked and presented, in the pigeon breast. There is nothing like down a back alley. We found ourselves shallot tartlets, with a mist of 39 months the most artistic ways to tease the eye having something hand made for you in a vestigial village green with a cluster aged parmesan. as well as palate. Again our sommelier and of course this will never be cheap. of shops and businesses at the confluence Next our “toast and soldiers” surpassed himself. However more good news to of what must have been old country confirmed that we were maybe Sweet wine from Tokai and accompany this very good news, is lanes, Launceston Place. experiencing the nursery; but what a D’Arenberg accompanied the soufflé that set lunches are available through Warmly welcomed by Mr sophisticated one. Our miniature eggs with pistachio ice cream, and strawberry the week at much more modest prices; Alessandrini into a comfortable modern were presented in a quirky bird’s foot lime and verbena tart as a sublime but with the same levels of creativity, décor, we were about to be presented eggcup and the eggs were filled with an combination. attention to detail and service as our with creative culinary concepts. We egg foam to be dipped with beautifully His final unusual selection to wonderful evening experience. were led through the intriguing menu toasted batons of sourdough bread accompany the choice of 20 artisanal I urge you to tell only your very best of dishes depicted by brightly coloured to reach the foie gras beneath; a very cheeses from England, Wales and the friends, and keep this a closely guarded emoticons of our experience to come. naughty nursery. Continent was an aged Malmsey; an secret! Our introductory snacks were not just Our sommelier had suggested tastes of inspired choice. amuse bouche. We chuckled aloud at wine to accompany these beginnings. He My companion and I knew we had the creative ingenuity; tiny flower pots continued to recommend with unerring been privy to a rare experience. The 1a Launceston Place, Kensington containing slivers of crudité in lovage expertise throughout the meal. Not levels of knowledge, good natured W8 3RL cream, nestling in a slightly larger mossy surprisingly, he was one hurdle short and cheerful service, sheer inspiration T: 020 7937 6912 flower pot with a miniature garden of Master of Wine. Every home should and taste orchestration from chef Ben www.launcestonplace-restaurant.co.uk

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“I`ve just had a fabulous evening, and I think we need to capture it more dynamically for our readers, how about a scratch and sniff panel?” the Editor in Chief gave a faint smile “What’s brought this on? You know the printers won`t allow it, and I`m not sure we can get eau de asparagus at this time of year” “Er, very well then, let’s get started. How pairing as high art, quite superb” Were Chave? I should have, it deserves a good point” I mumbled “plus” said she did the evening begin? “Really well, a you not a trifle full at this stage? “Is that paragraph to itself really” Please don`t “you realise you are dreaming. Could nice glass of Billecart Champagne, quite a pun – I thought shrinks had no sense tell me you went for dessert “We did, it be the cheese?” It probably was, but a favourite of ours” Anything else? “A of humour? Well, it was all so good we one cheese plate, one sweet, but we did I was enjoying myself so I pressed on charming amuse bouche, some warm had no trouble going on to the mains, take a small rest before we embarked “OK, how about flavoured inks and bread and whipped butter” And your if that’s what you mean” I do, please on dessert. Oh, and we had a couple edible paper?” I awoke to a sharp nudge surroundings? “Beautifully lit, welcome continue “Well, I had the Slow Cooked of glasses of South African Reisling in the ribs and a request for Lady H`s flashes of colour against a muted green. Iberico Pork, Spring carrots, Cracked from Paul Cluver to wash it down with. morning tea. I thought I might need one Tranquil, yet not lacking in verve” What Wheat, Wild Nettle & Radish which Marvellous!” I don`t know that there is a too. happened next? “Starters – Cannelloni was melt in the mouth perfect with just cure for your condition, except perhaps a After a soothing cuppa I self- of Rabbit Shoulder, White Asparagus, a hint of crunch from the radish, and the return visit. Perhaps you can give me the diagnosed as still being somewhat Wild Garlic, bacon & Morels. Countess went for the Roast Rump of address of this place so I can conduct a under the influence of Kitchen W8, so I Absolutely exquisite. In retrospect I Veal, Young Garlic, White Asparagus, little personal research? phoned a psychiatrist friend. Apparently, might swap the white asparagus for Jersey Royals & Morels. Everything This is one place I have no hesitation the treatment was simple – I`d need to green, but who else is doing white at was an exemplar in its field, brought to in urging you to go (unless you take the debrief, and re-live the evening under the moment, and this well. M dabbled perfection. Jumping on the best of the last table, I`m 2 streets away, and I`ve supervision, discussing all the relevant with Warm salad of Artichoke and new seasons produce does mean that foolishly neglected to book that is) Set points. Normally these sessions are Cauliflower, Swiss Chard, Spiced some things appear more than once, menu or al la carte splash out, this is of conducted in private, but today we are Cashews and Olives that she was very but they are impeccably well matched a quality that says spend that little extra going to throw open the doors, so here’s impressed with” What next? “Then and the flavours are so involving. Did I and enjoy. the transcript: we both shared the signature starter mention that we were now a couple of Name? “DH” Is that your real name? of Grilled Cornish Mackerel, Smoked glasses into a splendid bottle of 2016 Kitchen W8, 11-13 Abingdon Rd “I`m not on the run from the law” I see, Eel, Sweet Mustard and Leek. Flavour Crozes-Hermitage, Aleofane, Natcha Reservations on 020 7937 0120 64 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture Image © Heine Onstad Kunstsenter Image

psychological state of insecurity about shooting accident, Munch was wounded is, in fact ‘nature’ that is doing the the human condition, or even the state in the left hand, for which he blamed screaming. She references the moment in Edvard Munch: of the world we live in. Angst, in one Tulla and subsequently broke off all several notes, one version written years love and angst form or another, seems to extend almost contact with her and their set of friends. later in the South of France, in which British Museum globally, from America to Russia, from His friend Henrik Ibsen wrote he states, ‘‘I was out walking with two India to Australasia, with the possible about the entrapment of women by friends. The sun began to set. Suddenly Until 21 July 2019 exception of all but the remotest South marriage, and, according to James Joyce, the sky turned blood red. I paused, Admission £17 Pacific islands being infected. he demonstrated an ‘extraordinary feeling exhausted, and leaned on the By all accounts, and evidenced knowledge of women in his plays, such fence. There was blood and tongues of www.britishmuseum.org by his own self-portraits, he was a as Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Nora in The fire above the blue black fjord and the handsome man, attractive to women, Doll’s House, the twin sisters in John city. My friends walked on and I stood but his relationships were fraught with Gabriel Borkman and Rita in Little there trembling with anxiety, as I sensed neuroses and self-doubt, and he was Eyolf, all with sexuality simmering on an infinite scream passing through branded a misogynist. He had a number the back-burner. Munch, however, saw nature.’ of tumultuous love affairs, but none men as the victims, and his depiction of At the end of the exhibition the he Scream by Edvard Munch developed into a lasting relationship, women were as vampires and creatures visitor is confronted with a staggering has become one of the most which may be instrumental in the way that would tempt, seduce, eat up and and unashamedly tasteless range of popular images from the he regarded the opposite sex in his destroy men. They apparently sent him The Scream merchandise including the worldT of art, ever, jostling with such work. Munch began a love affair with mad with desire, which, combined usual tea towels, key rings, tote bags, contenders as Mona Lisa and The Last Milly Thaulow, ‘Mrs Heiberg’ as he calls with deep inner fears, drove him to cards and note-books within the exit- Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, Van her in his literary accounts, a married despair. One print that seemed to through-the-shop retail experience. Gogh’s Starry Night, Rembrandt’s woman, the wife of a captain in the sum up his views of the female sex One would be hard-pushed to think Night Watch, Vermeer’s Girl with a medical corps of the Norwegian Army was that of Women in Three Stages, in of objects that could not be imprinted Pearl Earring, Picasso’s Guernica, while and mainstays of the “Kristiana (later which a virginal maiden in white and with The Scream motif, and that includes Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam is Oslo) Society”, where she already had a cadaverous old woman shrouded in maybe condoms or riding crops, but fear one of the most replicated religious a reputation amongst Munch’s fellow black, flank a brazen naked woman ‘with not, help is at hand in the BM shop, paintings of all time. What is it with the artists. Munch was attracted to the older a lust for life,’ as he explained to Ibsen, where one can find that special gift or public’s obsession with angst, anxiety, woman from the start and their many when showing him around his exhibition souvenir, with ‘haunting imagery of raw fear, call it what you like? It is almost encounters were described by Munch at the Blomqvist gallery in Kristiana in human emotion, from love and desire to febrile in its intensity and widespread in his diaries. His relationship with 1895. An unhelpful caption mentions a jealousy, loneliness and grief’, including in its appeal. Angst is a German word, Tulla Larsen, the 30 year old unmarried ‘phallic reflection’ of the moon, which The Scream silver necklaces at £150, but also used in Danish, Dutch and, of daughter of a rich wine merchant, was is a recurring motif in a number of The Scream silver cuff-links at £165, course, Norwegian, to describe a feeling one from which neither would ever his prints, but could be put down to a The Scream umbrellas, iPhone covers, of despair, apprehension or anguish. recover. He was quite taken aback by fanciful piece of curatorial bollocks. silk scarves, nail file sets, pin badges, Up until the 1940s, it was regarded as the intensity of her passion, and tried to Having always assumed that the candles, napkins, magnetic finger a foreign word in the UK, but is now disentangle himself from her grasp. In scream in The Scream was emitted by puppets, erasers, spatulas, kaleidoscopes, accepted into our vocabulary. It is not 1902 Edvard Munch and Tulla met for the troubled figure on the Oslo fjord porcelain vases, cups, mugs or plates, just in Northern Europe and particularly a ‘reconciliation’ in Åsgårdstrand. There walkway, one stands corrected by the pencil-sets, neck-ties and glasses. Scandinavia, that it is recognised as a was a revolver in the house and in a same curator, who informs us that it Don Grant 02065 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 65 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Who’s Afraid of Drawing? Drawings from the Ramo Collection Estorick Collection 39a Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN www.estorickcollection.com

ho’s afraid of . . . ? What? Why drawing? And who is afraid of drawing? W Not many of the artists featured in this new show in Canonbury Square, surely? Umberto Boccioni was an influential Futurist painter and sculptor, his most famous work was most probably Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, a seminal and startling piece, produced at the same time as Jacob Epstein’s The Rock Drill. He could draw! And he is represented by a sensitive, pen and pencil back-lit portrait of a girl, entitled Controluce from 1910. And Dominico Gnoli can draw, and has two delightful compositions to prove it; one Boat IV, a pen, ink and watercolour, depicts a mournful horse in an ark like vessel, Above: Umberto Boccioni. Controluce. Against the Light. 1910. Below: Domenico Gnoli. Boat IV and has a group of exuberant men in a rickety grandstand observing an apple on a pedestal. We know that Renato artists from the Renaissance on, who Guttuso can draw; stray no further than used drawing, not just as a means to an his illustrations for Elizabeth David’s end, but to an end in itself. One has to Italian Food, although he is probably look no further than Leonardo da Vinci, better known for his paintings, the most Michelangelo, Durer, Rembrandt van famous of which is of the street market Rijn and Rubens to verify this. Four in Palermo, called La Vucciria. Marino hundred years later, Alberto Burri, Marini is represented by a solitary pen Alighiero Boetti, Piero Manzoni and and ink drawing of his favourite subject Fabio Mauri may not be artists with matter, a man and his horse. The last whom the British public are familiar, but exhibition put on at the Estorick was they resonate in Italy, while Boccioni, De of the works of Fausto Melotti, and Chirico and Lucio Fontana have more there are a pair of pencil sketches of of an international appeal. Gianfranco his, alongside two by his friend Lucio Baruchello’s close friend was Marcel Fontana, both of whom studied under Duchamp, with whom he shared the Symbolist sculptor Adolfo Wildt in an interest in Surrealism, and he is Milan, who also has a couple of pencil represented by a box-framed assemblage works in the exhibition. of doodles, scraps from periodicals and We are told that the title of the sketchbooks, while Maria Lai, ‘mistress exhibition is ‘an ironic rhetorical of the phantom thread’, used sewn question that aims to belie the somewhat threads that are literally interwoven with disparaging perception of drawing.’ literature and poetry of the traditions Admittedly, it probably does sound and folklore of Sardinia, where she was better in Italian: Chi ha paura del disegno? born in 1919. In a way, Emilio Isgrò The curators do not stop there; they is the Italian Tom Phillips, in that he continue their quizzical sub-titles into has ‘redacted’ all but two words, era the galleries themselves: ‘Abstractions?’, perenne, from a double-page spread of Figurations?’, ‘Words + Images = ?’ and a book using black ink, in much the ‘What about Sculptors?’ Questions, same way that Phillips has been fiddling questions, questions. The Collezione around with his Humument for over Ramo comprises some 600 drawings 50 years. Piero Manzoni, who died gathered over the years by Pino Rabolini tragically young at the age of twenty- of only Italian artists working in the nine, eschewed conventional materials, 20th century, of which around seventy and used Artist’s Shit (Merda d’Artista), are represented here. Some critics define packaged in 30-gram tins and sold as a works on paper as somehow inferior parody on the art market and a comment to painting and sculpture, hence the on consumerism. He is represented by an tentative uncertainty inherent in the empty book of stubs. No shit. title. There are dozens of truly great Don Grant 66 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Smoke and Mirrors: The psychology of Collection Wellcome © Images magic Wellcome Collection Until 15 September 2019 Admission free wellcomecollection.org

y only real close contact with a magician, was with a delightful nonagenarian, and Msurvivor of the horrors of the Burma Railway, called Fergus Anckorn, who died two years ago aged 99, the oldest member of the Magic Circle. As an 18-year-old conjuror called Wizardus, he was their youngest member, before he signed up and was shipped to Singapore, only to be captured by the Japanese and made a prisoner-of-war for three-and-a- half years of torture and mistreatment. He was also a member of an arts club that I belong to, and he would happily perform in front of its members and guests. One trick he did after he had confounded the audience, involving a pen-knife that changed colour as I particularly after the First World War remains an inexact science. Recently, watched, literally, in front of my eyes, and the Spanish-flu pandemic, when psychologists have dramatically revised completely baffled me, and I said to him, the bereaved wanted to get in touch their ideas about how hypnosis works, ‘how on earth did you do that?’ followed with their lost loved ones. Spiritualism and it is that of social compliance, immediately by the rejoinder, ‘actually, had millions of followers, including social pressure and simple obedience to I really don’t want to know.’ Not that he such luminaries as Sir Arthur Conan someone in authority. In other words, would have told me, anyway. Doyle, who was earlier duped by the it simply works because the subjects The Wellcome Collection has come photographs of the ‘Cottingley Fairies’. believe it will. A good magician can up with an exhibition that makes The famed escapologist and magician make you think you are making a free the connection between magic and Harry Houdini took on the veracity of choice, while skillfully leading you psychology, and endeavours to give a medium Margery Crandon in 1924, towards only one outcome. Televangelist a few scientific answers to questions when she attempted to win a prize of and self-styled faith healer Peter Popoff that apparently defy explanation. The $2,500 offered by the magazine Scientific was exposed with a hidden earpiece, exhibition is divided into three main American, open to any medium /who listening to his wife transmitting themes, The Medium, Misdirection could demonstrate their powers under excerpts from prayer request cards filled and Mentalism, and a common theme scientific control. After rigorous testing, out by audience members, proclaiming running through them all is Deception, Houdini came to the conclusion that this information as divine revelation which can be broken down into she was a complete and utter fraud. and ‘God-given ability,’ in his psychic Perception, Reasoning and Memory. ‘The slickest ruse I ever detected,’ scam routine. During one of his stints, In one video highlighting Houdini said later, in something close his wife had reportedly transmitted, misdirection, the visitor is asked to to admiration. and she failed to take the ‘Hello Petey, can you hear me? If you count the number of times three people prize. One clip of a séance filmed with an can’t, you’re in trouble.’ It made him and in white tops pass basketballs to each infrared camera, shows the medium and his family very rich, and, even after his other, milling around three other people that all the cards had been changed his accomplice blatantly moving objects unmasking as a charlatan, he was up to in black. At the end of the clip, one is whilst we were being distracted, so about a table encircled by a number his old tricks again, this time flogging pretty pleased with oneself when one whatever card we chose could not of trusting subjects, or dupes, holding ‘Miracle Spring Water’ on late-night gets the correct number of 15 passes. possibly be there; we just assumed that hands in the dark. infomercials in the US, Canada, the UK, However, when the video is replayed, the cards would be the same and we did Mentalism looks at how magicians Australia, and New Zealand. one is astonished to see a man in a not remember what they were in the first and mind-readers practise their skills, One of the two curators is an artist, gorilla suit walking backwards through place. using quite sophisticated psychology A R Hopwood, who has worked closely the action! The first exhibits deal with The and basic techniques of auto-suggestion with experimental psychologists and In another example a conjuror Medium, focusing on séances and and hidden psychological ‘tells’, as neuroscientists on the subject of false shows us five cards and we are asked spiritualism as performed in the well as the trickery and illusion, as one memory, and the other is a Wellcome to choose one card, which we are told Victorian era and into the 20th century, might expect. Although some magicians Collection curator, Honor Beddard, who will disappear. When the four cards and their relationship with science, claim to have genuine psychic powers worked on the excellent The Institute of are revealed, the card I selected was and the emergence of psychology, in their mind-control stunts, most can Sexology exhibition at the Wellcome four not there. Well, blow me! A cognitive to examine so-called ‘paranormal’ be explained scientifically, including years ago. psychologist Gustav Kuhn then explains phenomena, which were rife at the time, horoscopes, although hypnotism still Don Grant 02067 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 67 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

service cap, is both alluringly haughty Games rarely used humour per se in his commissions that gained him large-scale and beautiful. work, although there are flashes of wit. recognition and reward, but Games’s The Art of In 1941, his first job for the War Late in the war, he designed a poster heart lay with his social convictions, Office was designing a recruitment entitled Please Knit Now, in which such as his Zionist connections. He Persuasion: poster for the Royal Armoured Corps British women were asked to knit socks designed posters for the United Palestine (RAC), and he produced a dramatic for soldiers fighting in the Far East. Appeal, the Jewish Committee for Wartime Posters duotone airbrushed image of a helmeted Whilst completing the design, he met Relief Abroad and the Central British by Abram Games head with simple geometric tanks his future wife, Marianne Selford, and Fund, for which he did not charge. He National Army Museum and typeface. He was to be appointed he allegedly incorporated her name into also designed the BBC’s first animated Official War Poster Artist, a unique the tangled loops of wool, but he has ident in 1953, which became known as Until 24 November 2019 office throughout the war, and he hidden it rather too well for these tired ‘the bat’s wings’, with original music Admission £6 designed over 100 for the Army. eyes. improvised by Sidonie Goossens, When he requested to rejoin his fellow Although the exhibition focuses on principal harp with the BBC Symphony nam.ac.uk infantrymen in the Hertfordshire his wartime work, during which he had Orchestra and sister of Léon the eminent Regiment, he was told that he was the been promoted to captain, after the war oboist and which was used by the only man who could do (what he was he secured several important projects Corporation until the early 1960s. The doing) ‘and you will bloody well get notably the commemorative stamps day before this exhibition opened, a Blue on and do it. We can always replace a for the 1948 Olympic Games, earning Plaque was unveiled on his house and soldier, but we cannot replace you.’ In himself the nickname ‘Olympic Games’, studio in The Vale in Golders Green, 1942, he designed his version for the and winning the 1948 competition to where he lived and worked for many Careless Talk campaign, a dramatic Your create the emblem for the Festival of years. Talk May Kill Your Comrades poster, with Britain, which became one of the most Don Grant a spiral radiating from a soldier’s mouth popular images of post-war Britain. It (that of Games himself) to become is said that he was inspired to add the a blood-red bayonet spearing three bunting, after seeing his wife hanging soldiers in a brutal metaphor. These are out washing on the line. Commercial at the other end of the spectrum from commissions included popular Fougasse’s almost whimsical Careless advertisements for Guinness, Shell, Images: © National Army Museum Talk Costs Lives series of cartoons, but BP, London Transport and The Times; and The Estate of Abram Games

ay ‘propaganda’ and you may think Serge Eisenstein’s 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin glorifying SCommunist ideals, or Leni Riefenstahl doing the same for Nazi Germany under Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda. In England, propaganda was originally a neutral term for the dissemination of information promoting any given cause; in this case, the Public Relations Department at the War Office, through recruitment, education and information for both the military and civilians alike, as part of the war effort. Abram Games was the doyen of graphic designers during the Second World War, producing hundreds of posters, pamphlets and other publications, and he set a standard and a style, that was emulated by others even after the war. His aphorism ‘maximum meaning, minimum means’ was at the heart of his design ethos, along with a limited palette, minimal hand-lettering, airbrushing and simple, stark imagery. Some of his designs had a certain ‘slavonic’ feel to them, particularly one recruiting women for the Auxillary Terratorial Service (ATS), featuring a young girl with eager-eyed nobility gazing into the middle-distance, like so many of her Soviet sisters putting down their farm tools and taking up their rifles. This particular poster replaced one that became known as the ‘blonde bombshell,’ which was regarded as being far too racy by Thelma Cazelet-Keir MP, who said, somewhat tartly, ‘Our girls should be attracted into the Army through patriotism and not glamour. It is not the kind of poster to encourage mothers to send their girls into the Army.’ It has to be admitted that the banned poster-girl, with her bright red lippy and coiffed hair under a field 68 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture Photograph© Old Royal Naval College Naval Old Royal Photograph©

The Sistine Chapel in the UK The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich By Marian Maitland

he Old Royal Naval College is Fragile surfaces and varnished layers the cupola of St Paul's Cathedral, the Ceiling celebrates the Triumph of Peace the architectural centre piece of had fractured from heat and humidity. ceiling of the Chapel at Queen's College, and Liberty over Tyranny; King William Maritime Greenwich, a World 40,000 square feet of painted surface Oxford and he also worked on Blenheim and Queen Mary take centre stage HeritageT Site, described by UNESCO has been meticulously restored under the Palace, Chatsworth, Hanbury House and William's foot rests heavily on a as being of outstanding universal value supervision of expert conservationists, and Hampton Court. His Rose Window figure representing Arbitrary Power and and reckoned to be the finest and most Stephen Paine and Sophie Stewart. in the North Transept of Westminster Tyranny. It might be Louis XIV. dramatically sited architectural and The visitor now enters the Hall via Abbey is very impressive. He was a The paintings on the Hall Ceiling landscape ensemble in the British Isles. King William III's vaulted undercroft, prolific painter and painted portraits of honour Queen Anne and her Consort, This description is not exaggerated. where the inevitable cafe and gift shop Isaac Newton and Richard Steele. Prince George of Denmark. Next to The Old Royal Naval College await and welcomes them together with James Thornhill received several them are the personified continents of houses The Painted Hall, famously their first vision of architectural designs honours, Painter-in-Ordinary to Europe, Asia, America and Africa. decorated by Sir James Thornhill's vast by Wren and Hawksmoor. William III, Sergeant Painter in 1720 The painting on the West Wall, Baroque murals. The Hall has been over The artist, Sir John Thornhill, who and Sergeant Painter to George 1 and completed in 1725 celebrates the arrival euphemistically referred to by some glorified The Painted Hall, was born in George 11. He received his Knighthood of the Hanoverian Dynasty. A motto sources as ‘The Sistine Chapel in UK’. 1675 or 1676 to a minor landed family in 1720. declares them to be A New Race of Men The College building was originally in Dorset, which had sixteen children. Sir James Thornhill's inspired art from Heaven. George 1 is seen at the a new Royal Naval Hospital for sick Their father fled to escape debts and the permeates through The Painted Hall centre of a group family portrait. Various and wounded veterans of the Navy. It young James was protected by his great which became a dynamic synthesis of adornments send the message of Peace, was established by Queen Mary in 1694 uncle, Thomas Sydenham, a successful art and architecture. During his time Prosperity and Stability, all underpinned and designed by Christopher Wren and Physician, who left him £30 to buy working there, the United Kingdom was by Naval Power. Nicholas Hawksmoor. The Painted Hall an apprenticeship. John Thornhill was created and became a dominant power in The chiaroscuro technique appears was used as the residents' dining room apprenticed to Thomas Highmore, a Europe. King William 111 and Queen strongly amidst the flowing drapery. and also as a Ceremonial area. relative, who became Sergeant-Painter to Mary 11, both Monarchs in their own Fictional light and foreshortening In 1824 The Painted Hall became a William III. John Thornhill also studied right acceded to the Throne in 1888. enhance the scene. Illusionistic Gallery of Naval Art. The Hospital was the works of foreign decorative painters George 1 acceded in 1714. architecture and steep perspective are closed in 1869 and became the Naval such as Antonio Verrio and Louis Sir James immortalised these figures apparent from the legacy of Roman College with the residents again dining Laguerre. in the central narrative of his work. He High Baroque painting. Sir James was in the The Painted Hall. Only four years after the also celebrated Britain's triumphs at sea very skilled at changing his designs This year, a massive two year apprenticeship was completed, beyond and in trade. Pensioners and Cadets to keep abreast of the ever changing refurbishment project was completed. his wildest dreams, James Thornhill was of yesterday were left in no doubt as to political scene. The National Lottery provided funds granted the commission to decorate the Britain's powerful place in the world. He crystallised Great Britain in his which amounted to £8.5 million. New Royal Naval Hospital; a twenty He painted two hundred figures to Baroque style of History painting. On The project revealed the foundations year assignment which made him pre- narrate political changes, scientific and his death in 1714, the Baroque style in of Greenwich Palace, home to Henry eminent in the new field of Baroque art cultural achievement, Naval enterprise England died with him. VIII and birthplace of Elizabeth I and in England. Such commissions usually and commercial success. Allegory, The now gleaming gilding and Mary I. went to foreign artists. Wealth and mythology and contemporary figures pristine pigmentation of his Baroque Sir James Thornhill's murals had introductions to society patrons followed abound together with seas of gods and Murals in the Painted Hall preserve his suffered extensive damage from smoke his success. goddesses, cherubs and classical motifs. memory. and dirt over three hundred years. He went on to decorate scenes on The Decoration on the Lower Hall Visit www.ornc.org 02069 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 69 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition Design Museum Until 15 September 2019 Admission £16 Photographs © Stanley Kubrick Productions Kubrick © Stanley Photographs designmuseum.org

o, who did Stanley Kubrick think were the most influential filmmakers? He listed Charlie SChaplin, Vittorio de Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federicco Fellini, Alfred Hitckcock, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and Max Ophüls, in no Top: special order. That was in 1960, some 2001: A Space Odyssey one.’ The main War Room set was a bold time before Francis Ford Coppola, Right: piece of design by Ken Adam, who was The War Room, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Dr. Strangelove previously the production designer for Steven Spielberg burst onto the scene. Dr No, and won a BAFTA for his work Apart from Max Ophüls, who rose on Dr Strangelove. There are some very to obscurity in the 1950s, the others quotable lines from the film, including he mentioned still rank high on the Merkin Muffley’s ‘Gentlemen, you can’t lists of best directors. No mention of fight in here! This is the War Room!’ Billy Wilder, however. Like-for-like The screenplay was written by Kubrick lists never really satisfy, because of the with Terry Southern and the author of passage of time and the advances in the book on which it was based Red Alert technical expertise over the years,but by Peter George, with a stipulation on Kubrick must be a contender for one of the first page of screenplay stating ‘The the best filmmakers ever. Every film he story will be played for realistic comedy directed is totally and utterly different . . . the acting will never be so-called from its predecessor, and the one that “comedy” acting.’ succeeded it, without a whiff of, what Ken Adam worked with Kubrick might be termed, the ‘Kubrick style’. The again on Barry Lyndon in 1975 and only thing that overlaps in his oeuvre is was awarded an Academy Award for the extraordinary lengths to which he fiction, (2001: A Space Odyssey), a period their relationship with the same weight Best Art Direction, for his recreation went to achieve exactly what he wanted. drama (Barry Lyndon), a sword-and- Nabokov did.’ There is a montage of of 18th century England. It was quite His planning was legendary and this sandal epic (Spartacus), a political satire imagery from the film, culminating in an unsatisfactory and ponderous film, exhibition, drawing on the family’s own (Dr Strangelove), a black comedy (Lolita), James Mason as Humbert Humbert marred by Ryan O’Neal’s truly dreadful collection, and the Stanley Kubrick war pictures, featuring both the First tracking down and killing Clare Quilty, Irish accent and even worse acting Archive at the UAL, demonstrates just World War (Paths of Glory) and Vietnam sqeamishly played by Peter Sellers, ability. It was also quite gloomy, as how meticulous he was, right from the (Full Metal Jacket), a futuristic dystopean containing the playful lines, ‘Are you Kubrick was obsessed with only using inception stage through to production. crime drama (A Clockwork Orange) and a Quilty?’ Humbert asks him. To which natural and candlelight. One historical He involved himself in every aspect of psychological fantasy drama (Eyes Wide he replies, ‘No, I’m Spartacus. Have you film that never got made was his epic filmmaking, including design, casting, Shut), his last film, completed in 1999. come to free the slaves or something?’ Napoleon, due to go into production after costume, music, editing, filmography, There are hundreds of props, There is a lot of dark humour in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He produced a scripting, even poster design. He models, story-boards, interviews, Lolita, as there is in Dr Strangelove, 167-page treatment, having secured the employed the doyen of film graphics stills, sketch designs, schedules, notes, featuring one of Kubrick’s favourite rights to Professor Felix Markham’s Saul Bass, to design the poster for The correspondence, posters and generous actors Peter Sellers, who played three biography and read hundreds of other Shining, and interfered on a massive excerpts from a number of his films, completely different characters, Group books on the subject. He created a scale, scrawling on Bass’s original sketch with several themed viewing areas Capt. Lionel Mandrake, the bonkers massive filing system, with cards designs such comments as ‘Hard to centred around each separate film. wheelchair-bound scientist Strangelove, detailing every known day in Napoleon’s read, even at this size,’ and ‘Too much There is some awkward sound spillage and the ironically-named President life, location shots, costume studies and emphasis on maze,’ with the most in one section of the exhibition, with Merkin Muffley, a play on the fact that a detailed shooting script. MGM lost damning being, ‘Looks like a science Spartacus playing at one end of the room, he is almost completely bald. Sellers interest in the project after two of their fiction film.’ Of course, nearly twenty depicting a slow build-up to the battle was also originally down to play Major large-scale productions failed. Kubrick’s years earlier, Kubrick had made the sequence, while at the other, American Kong, the commander of the only interest also waned, as he turned his mother of all science fiction films. marines are shooting the living daylights bomber to get through to its Russian attention to A Clockwork Orange. This It is impossible to categorise out of a Vietcong-occupied building; target. He thought that he could not film really hit the headlines, with its Kubrick’s output. Just about the only the sound of M16 rifles rat-a-tatting master the Texan twang required, but focus on ultraviolence and the copycat genre he did not apply himself to, was across the broad landscape of the Third Kubrick was adament that he play the crimes committed by droog lookalikes the western, although he did some Servile War is quite distracting. Around fourth role. However, he ‘accidentally- after the film was released in 1972. work with Marlon Brando, and Sam the next corner is a section devoted to on-purpose’ hurt his ankle whilst Kubrick himself withdrew the film and Peckinpah as screenwriter, on what was Lolita, and above a vitrine, containing stepping out of his limo at Shepperton it was not until a quarter of a century to become One-Eyed Jacks, but fell out stills and correspondence with Vladimir Studios, and the role was given to Slim later that it was re-released in England. with the studio, who elevated Brando to Nabokov, is a quote from the director, ‘If Pickings. Even so, Kubrick said of It still has the power to shock. director. He made a thriller (The Killing), I could do the film over again, I would Sellers at the time, ‘It’s like having three a horror movie (The Shining), science have stressed the erotic component of different great actors, for the price of Don Grant 70 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

provides some striking images, even MAX as he sticks to an earthy, decidedly Feldman non-mythic style that aligns well with REVIEWS the movie’s ramshackle spirit.) There’s more violence to come, but it’s not really the meat of The Sisters Brothers, which is more interested in shooting Releasing © Mirror Photograph the breeze than shooting rifles. The The Sisters episodic structure, an incident involving a poisonous spider; a pitstop in a town Brothers named after its wealthiest resident, is Director: Jacques Audiard straight from DeWitt’s bestseller, which let the sibling rivalry move things along, Running Time: 121 Minutes from one misadventure (and punchy, plainly written chapter) to the next. Like plenty of Westerns before it, The Sisters Brothers can feel like a eulogy for its own legendary time frame; everything from an early toothbrush he Sisters brothers are Eli to a bustling San Francisco portend (John C. Reilly) and Charlie an encroaching modernity. But that (Joaquin Phoenix), squabbling rapid change; so often greeted with guns for hire. They drop bodies and ambivalence if not outright distrust by T the genre, could also bring emotional chase bounties for a mysterious (and largely unseen) Oregon City baron enlightenment, embodied by Ahmed’s called simply The Commodore. The good-hearted dreamer, whose idealism work suits Charlie, a drunk and maybe proves catching. The best moments of a sociopath, who enjoys trouble. But Eli this rambling, minor-key frontier story, has grown weary of the outlaw life, of down by the moral toll gunslinging antagonism. like a hilarious and touching encounter killing to make ends meet. Reilly, in a takes. He’s a fine foil, too, for Phoenix, We meet the Sisters boys, and between Eli and a prostitute (Fargo’s rare starring role, foregrounds the sad- who makes Charlie a figure of casual become familiar with their contentious Allison Tolman), are the ones that sack melancholy that seems to gather destructiveness; his menace somehow rapport, in the opening minutes, when find vulnerability in rakes and rogues, around the edges of even his broadest amplified by his pratfalls. The two they get the drop on some marks at a pulled away from their baser instincts by comic performances. He plays Eli as a forge a bond of believable brotherhood: farmhouse, their gunfire cutting through their consciences, and by the bonds of soft soul born into the wrong family, the competitive and petulant, driven by the total black of night with brilliant friendship and family. There’s something wrong line of work, maybe the wrong hurt feelings, a shared sense of humour, flashes of illumination. (Benoît Debie, a little Deadwood about that, too, isn’t era altogether; a decent man worn and a love never entirely obscured by who shoots all of Gaspar Noé’s work, there?

going on about how different kids just a few years their junior are, because they Eighth Grade got Snapchat earlier. Eighth Grade finds

Director: Bo Burnham something closer to an analog absurdism Photograph © A24 Running Time: 94 minutes in the shared ordeal of middle school. Its jokes are at the expense of timeless targets: clueless teachers making lame attempts to connect to their students; The phrase ‘middle school’ hasn’t really the sanctioned stereotyping of class traversed the Atlantic, but much like superlatives (Kayla, to her horror, wins how different religions can have different ‘Most Quiet’); the single-track mind words for hell, we know exactly what the of our heroine’s perennially bored and phrase means on some reptilian level. horny cool-kid crush (Luke Prael). On It’s that awkward stage midway between the other hand, a scene of students child and teenager; where the first yawning through a safety presentation narcotised splurt of box-fresh hormones on what to do during a school shooting through the body trails acne, growing demonstrates that things aren’t exactly as pains and terminal awkwardness in film and it has the fitting stamp of largely theoretical audience of YouTube they used to be. their wake like biblical plagues. At an a deeply personal project. Burnham followers. Eighth Grade sidesteps the easy Eighth Grade puts Kayla through a age when genuine empathy is still more hit stardom when he was in his early irony of the class wallflower handing lot, through plenty of middle school’s theoretical than ingrained, children teens at a time where ‘going viral’ out social tips, mostly by suggesting commonplace terrors, including who have lucked out by managing to necessitated a visit to the doctor rather that these pep talks are self-directed, a humiliating backseat encounter surf the hormonal wave, prey on those than endorsement deals, and the fervid a kind of fake-it-until-you-make-it guaranteed to drum up some bad crushed under it with all the tenderness world of social media and YouTube exercise for someone working up the memories of early pubescence and make of velociraptor. Darwin would run have changed that irrevocably. The confidence to leave an impression, or at more than a few parents squirm in screaming from how savagely these deliberately filthy sketches and songs least pick up a few companions, during their seats. But the film also shows us proto-teenagers assert this pecking order of Burnham’s day has made way for the the waning weeks of middle school. who Kayla really is; the very qualities, and how cruel they are at maintaining glitzy professionalism of ‘influencers’ and Burnham’s perspective on the new teen like brightness and kindness, that put it. Add in homework and the usual lifestyle pornography. experience feels more like the opposite her behind in the zero-sum popularity trials and tribulations of the scholastic In Eighth Grade Kayla (Elsie Fisher), of generational condescension: For as contest of middle school. Can she make experience and you have fever bright the movie’s 13-year-old heroine, much time as they spend with their faces it out of these hellish few years with years that you never really get over. is a wallflower who is desperately planted in smartphones, Kayla and her what’s good still intact? The best thing You graduate from school; middle- attempting to overcome her lack of shark-eyed classmates aren’t really very about your early teens is that they end. school is something you survive, if you’re friends through asserting herself as different from suburban American youth So does Eighth Grade, but after just an lucky. a wannabe influencer. When we first of any era; a point debated, during one hour and a half of its charms, you may Eighth Grade is YouTube star turned meet Kayla, she’s speaking directly into of the movie’s cleverest moments, by a wish it didn’t. comedian Bo Burnham’s first feature a camera, stammering out advice to a group of older teens at a mall food court, 02071 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 71 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Top Left: Parrot Tulips II Igor Levashov. Oil on canvas, 140 x 140 cm Top right: Toucans Plus One Gallery: Gabriela Ezcurra. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120 cm Middle: Roses Monet Sky Ben Schonzeit. Acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 111.8 cm Hyperrealism in Bloom Below right: Rosie the Calf Alexandra Klimas. Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm All © Plus One Gallery

ince Neanderthals first daubed cave walls with illustrations of mammoth hunts, the natural world has proved one of the most consistent inspirations for the artistic impulse. The fact that the Chelsea Flower Show draws over a million flower loving Londoners each year is ample evidence of the Sconnection between greenery and the arts. However whilst most still life merely preserves a rose’s ephemeral bloom on oil and canvas, a Hyperrealist still-life of the same flower can practically snare you on its thorns. For the uninitiated, Hyperrealism evolved from the 20th century Photo-realism artistic movement; but there are significant differences between the two. Whilst a Photo-realist would in effect seek to exemplify Realism through creating an exact clone of a photograph with paintbrush or pencil, for Hyperrealism photographs are merely the jumping off point. Utilising a coruscating nimbus of colour and an inhumanly clear-eyed depth of field, a Hyperrealist artist accentuates along with reproducing the image they started with. By upping the vibrancy and colours, a successfully realised piece feels like the artist has snapped reality into digitally augmented focus. This crystalline clarity combined with flaring colours can allow a single flower a delicate invocation of spring, or a near psychedelic blaze of summer. The Hyperrealist artist Igor Levashov has spent his entire career focused exclusively on flowers, each painting approaching his deceptively simple metier from a different angle, in Peonies, his blooms fume like supernova whereas in Parrot Tulips they wind serpentine with their petals angled like sharp beaks. His works are striking and immense and unique even amongst his peers in the movement. Hyperrealism has no set artistic manifesto and so as a result each artist’s results are broadly individual, even on a single subject such as flora. For example Gabriela Ezcurra’s Toucans: a leafy explosion, replete with bright billed toucans nestled like pearls in an oyster, is a singular vision. Her work only shares the subject or those at a loose end after the Chelsea Flower Show finishes, curious matter in common with Ben Schonzeit’s corona of blooming flowers, blazing out like torchlight from the Fabout Hyperrealism and feeling adventurous, there is the upcoming 50 years of Realism: Photorealism to Virtual Reality Exhibition in Rio shimmering background mirage. Whilst Ezcurra’s approach is wild, Schonzeit’s playful surrealist take De Janeiro which is running from May 21-July 29. However if crossing the on the vivacity of nature is an entirely separate sensibility, yet the two artists are bound together by the Atlantic is a bridge too far, the extremely distinctive Alexandra Klimas is artistic possibility that Hyperrealism offers. All the artists mentioned are represented exclusively by Plus featured in her own solo show at Plus One Gallery from Jun 13-July 9 One Gallery in London, one of only three galleries in the world which specialise in Hyperrealism. Each Plus One Gallery is located in the Piper Building, Peterborough Road artist is as individual as a genus of flowers and all their works are evergreen. SW6 3EF and is open Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm by appointment only. Plus One Gallery, 39 The Piper Building, Peterborough Road, SW6 3EF, T: 020 7730 7656 T: 020 7730 7656. www.plusonegallery.com www.plusonegallery.com 72 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

and tested psychic mediums, including the Schneider Brothers, and the Could it be ectoplasmic Helen Duncan, under his own “laboratory conditions”: a kit box Magic? full of threads and brushes and pins and By Marius Brill whatnots. Price copied his kit box from fellow supernatural investigator Eric Dingwall. Dingwall’s original kit is just a ten ou wait years for a decent magic minute walk away in the last of the three exhibition and then three come exhibitions, the Wellcome Institute’s along all at the same time. At the Smoke and Mirrors. Perhaps the most endY of last year the Ashmolean Museum interesting exhibition for illusionists. in Oxford featured a large exhibition Nowadays magicians rarely use either called Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and smoke or mirrors so anybody visiting the Witchcraft. It featured 800 years of exhibition expecting to find either, will not just superstitious magical objects be sorely disappointed. and texts but also much about the art The exhibition has an even narrower of faking magic. It’s easy to forget that historical scope starting with the rise of magicians don’t do “magic” they just dodgy mediums in the late 19th century. create the illusion of magic. You can see Arthur Conan Doyle, It’s likely that the idea for the inventor of the world’s most sceptical exhibition came from the Ashmolean’s detective, exclaiming that he doesn’t Director, Alexander Sturgis, who is also just believe the supernatural exists, known, in his spare time, as The Great he “knows it.” Gimmicks and other Xa. He was the first magician my kids objects chart the history of spiritualism ever saw, at The Chelsea Arts Club who and its debunking by magicians. A pulled a long line of bloody razor blades séance enabling packet trick from the out of his mouth laced on to a thread. 1900s claims “No Skill Required – No Their resulting nightmares allowed me Difficult Moves”. The exhibition moves to dissuade them from pursuing magic on to the great C20th illusionists before as either a hobby or career. turning to the psychology of magic. Xa’s eye for the macabre meant A slightly creepy psychologist, who his exhibition was full of wonderful refuses to blink (clearly miffed at missing weird totems, like a shrivelled human things that magicians do), exposes the heart inside a silver case from the thinking, and the workings, behind 12th century, a French Prognosticator some classic illusions. from the 1500s, used to calculate The exhibition, just one block away “bloodletting times” and some 1939 from the headquarters of The Magic “Ectoplasm” as produced by (for?) Circle has caused some magicians to the original spiritual medium Helen fret about exposing magic methods. Duncan. However, you’re not going to come out At Senate House Library, near of any of these exhibitions and start Russell Square, the current exhibition being Derren Brown. But what these Staging Magic limits itself to 400 years exhibitions do do is show how magic, of sleight-of-hand and stage illusions, which has been around a lot longer than from 16th century court jugglers to the science has much to teach scientists great masters of the golden age of magic about the workings of the human in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mind. A field that is often treated with through the collected books of Harry suspicion or mocked for being dated Price, one of the original Edwardian turns out to be timely, relevant and, ghostbusters. Price was best known for more than just an entertainment or his investigations of mediums, hauntings diversion, it has something serious to tell and other supernatural phenomena. He us about human thought and behaviour. exposed the fakery in spirit photographs Marius Brill MMC Images Courtesy of Senate House Library Courtesy Images 02073 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 73 Fishing online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

not lifting too soon, not thumping about up and down the riverbank, not fishing From the in the same place particularly if one has Riverbank experienced success or seen a rise and Part 10. not over-excitedly rushing to fish in bright, sunny spots, following the dark By Don Grant days of winter. All these may sound like stating the bleedin’ obvious, but it easy to forget basic page one rules in the heat of the first day’s fishing. Good Friday dawned bright, egg- t’s been a six months since I last cast shell blue, with a promise of high T.H.Barnes by Trout Catching Barnes from © Joy Images a fly on the river, six long months of pressure and warmth being funnelled feeling the autumnal chill enfolding up from mainland Europe. We just Ithe evenings and penetrating one’s very about kept in front of the head of bones, russet and parchment leaves traffic building up on all the main cracking underfoot, shortening days arteries pumping holiday-makers out of shuffling into night, a white confetti London, guaranteed to clog up by the shower on scrunching grass, ponds middle of the day, causing overheating, freezing over, and then, suddenly, breakdowns, both mental and physical, magical galanthus bowing their little and other kinds of high pressure. By white heads as we pass, followed by noon, we were on the riverbank, ‘strung and compare notes. In spite of some crocuses, hellebores and daffodils. in early-season river fishing, tied on up’, as the Americans say, with a Grey supremely accurate casting, it yielded Spring is a-coming. There was a mad another sedge and calmed down, with Wulff dry-fly already on my line, and nothing resembling a fish. Robert came rush of show-off magnolia, candy-floss the ‘bleedin’ obvious’ rules ringing in a glass of champagne to toast the new back with two handsome 3-lb rainbows, cherry, lesser celandine and splashes of my ears. The second cast had the desired season and signal the end of Lent. The and we agreed to have something to effect, hooking a 2½lb fish, which shot eat while the trout were patently not up like a torpedo from the depths to take interested in what I had been offering my fly. All the splashing and commotion them. We tucked into a few little light woke my pal, who ambled over to nibbles, like quail’s eggs with celery help net the beauty. It was now late salt, Palma ham, cashew nuts, olives, afternoon, and Robert, the Wise Virgin, roasted guinea fowl thighs and breasts, had bagged a couple early on in the day, plum tomatoes, Adriatic anchovies fillets thus avoiding the stress of not catching in a parsley, garlic, lemon and orange one later. I carried on being the Foolish marinade, salad, guacamole dip with Virgin, by insisting on the self-imposed cheese and poppy seed twists, sluiced dry-fly only rule, but my stubbornness down a nicely-rounded Guignel Côtes du was rewarded less than half an hour Rhône, followed by English Cheddar, later, when a dark brown head appeared biscuits, and onion and garlic chutney. to slurp a fly off the surface. I gave Robert laid out his tartan travelling- the same sedge the benefit of a bit of a rug, and, with his fishing bag as a pillow, clean-up, cast a few feet above the rising went to sleep in the dappled shade of a fish, with the same result as before; this willow, dreaming, no doubt, he was on time a sleek 2lb brownie took my sedge the banks of the Rhône. I walked up to down to the bottom and made the reel the top of the beat, where there were shriek. At that moment, a handful of signs of action, but, infuriatingly, the pale mayfly struggled into the air, which rises were a couple of yards upstream on cadmium yellow forsythia. A month bodes well for the next few weeks. We Easter weekend was three weeks later the next beat, separated by an oak tree before the Spring equinox on 20 March, packed up as the sun set at about eight than last year, but nature had already and a little wooden notice hammered it was time to get one’s fishing kit out to o’clock, just before a stunning pink- got her boots on, with may beginning into the riverbank. Tempting, but there give it a good clean, most importantly, orange full moon rose and hung like to blossom in April, which does not are some things a fisherman really the line, which has spent half the year an apricot over the fields in the south, necessarily mean that the mayfly will cannot do. As I walked back, I passed tightly wound round the reel, with no and accompanied us all the way back to follow. I shall adhere to the post- the spot where the earlier rise had been, chance of unwinding, or even relaxing. London. The only slight regret was that Piscatorial Society 1836 prescript of only and, blow me, there he was again, bold With the vernal equinox past, the we did not see a kingfisher. Next week, ‘casting upstream to observed fish using as bass (sic). I changed my fly to a sedge, summer solstice seemed a long way off for sure. It was a glorious day, and the dry or unweighted nymph fly patterns’ which I promptly lost in a hawthorn until 21 June, when the days will get perfect way to start a new season, with a with Episcopalian zeal. tree on the back-cast. I reminded myself shorter again, although it doesn‘t feel very good Friday. There then followed a peaceful of two of the 12 biggest mistakes like that then. interlude of sitting on the sturdy bench, In the current issue of Trout & listening to the birdsong, the river Salmon (porn for consenting fishermen), cascading over the little waterfall into there is an article about the new season the large pool in front of the hut, with entitled Fools Rush In, which lists the a glass in one hand and a hot sausage 12 biggest mistakes in early-season river bun in the other, musing about how fishing. First on the agenda is all about dam’d lucky and privileged we were. one’s tackle, and keeping it maintained The momentary respite was broken by and clean. I can tick that box, rather an impertinent trout rising in a stretch than take out one’s rod and reel on the of calm water upstream from the first day, after six months in a fishing pool, to take a fly off the water. ‘Oh, bag, and find that the fly-line has rotted for god’s sake, is there no peace?’ My to buggery. Numbers two, three and four fellow-fisherman, Robert, trolled off are all about Over-enthusiasm, Avoiding downstream to fish with a wet-fly, while Routine and Impatience, all of which I I cast upstream of the rising fish. We have been guilty. The rest are all nots, agreed to meet up again in about an hour including not changing one’s fly so often, for some snacks, a cold beer, possibly, 74 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Sports

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up around the block to buy. After tractors, after being snubbed by Enzo It was too high revving, too much of a all, it wasn’t until this century that Ferrari. According to motoring folklore, race motor. God only knows what he One man’s Lamborghini ever turned a profit. This he was told to stick to tractors and leave would’ve thought of the 730hp mill that treasure… car helps to ensure the firm’s long-term the sports cars to the prancing horse. powers the Aventador S! By Fahad Redha survival, as the Cayenne did for Porsche Legend has it that in that moment, He hated racing, allegedly after a 15 years ago. likely out of spite, he decided to build a crash at Mille Miglia long before he But what makes a proper better car than Enzo ever could. entered the tractor business. The Miura, Lamborghini? What is a car that The company met some difficulty the world’s first mid-engined car, was Ferrucio, the company’s founder at the beginning. For one thing the developed behind his back; he told them hen Lamborghini unveiled would’ve wanted? He famously started engine, designed for him by racing they could build it, as long as it never the Urus last year it was met making road cars, having begun with legend Bizzarrini, was not to his liking. goes racing, and, well, the rest is history. with contempt. That the It would seem therefore, ragingW bull would ever make a four- looking at the company’s first door, let alone an SUV, is sacrilegious. production car, the 350GT, Lamborghini joined Bentley, Maserati, that what he really wanted was Porsche, and Rolls Royce in straying a GT car: a high performance, from the purists’ vision of the brand. comfortable cruiser, a sort of A mid-mounted supercar with a Italian Aston Martin or Bentley. screaming V8, V10, or V12 engine, Isn’t that what the Urus is?

preferably with doors that open in With its twin-turbo V8 it meets Lamborghini Automobili © Image: an unconventional way (though only the high-performance part. four models in its history have had And because VW owns both ‘Lamborghini doors’) is seen by many as Lamborghini and Bentley, the the only ‘true’ Lamborghini. Oh sure, car shares its underpinnings the company had the four-seat Espada with Bentley’s Bentayga and the as well as the LM002, a true military Audi Q7 and Q8, so that covers grade off-roader with a plush interior. comfort. But that’s different. Those cars are now We can never know what he classics after all, so that makes them really would’ve thought of it had okay! he lived to see it being made. But With the Urus the raging bull has based on his taste in cars it seems made itself a cash cow. Like it or not, truer to his vision than anything this is the type of car that sells these else the company has made in days. Whatever the reason (and enough decades. Besides, everyone knows editorial space has been given to that that the only true Lamborghini is question), they are what people queue a tractor.

internally) would be the first to wear 1989, 20 years after the original. The GT-R was revealed to the world in Godzilla turns 50 a Nissan badge. But that is not the R32, as it was designated, was powered 2007, with yet another new straight-6 By Fahad Redha anniversary we are celebrating. by an all-new 276bhp, 2.6 litre, twin twin turbo engine. This car has been a The Skyline was taken racing, but in turbo straight-6 engine. This car proved giant killer, keeping up with Ferraris 1965, after noticing the superiority of a so indomitable on the track that the and Porsches, just as its forefathers had mid-engined layout of the Porsche 904, Australian press dubbed it ‘Godzilla’ done before. The R35 is the first GT-R very major car producing country the company built the R380. This was a and the name has since been applied to that is unrelated to the Skyline, being a has its own national sports purpose-built race car with a twin cam, all of its descendants. That engine would bespoke supercar. car. America has the Corvette, 2.0 litre, straight-6 engine. continue until the R34 in 2002 and While this icon may not be so well EGermany has the Porsche 911, and for After Nissan acquired Prince, that it would be years before a new GT-R known outside of Japan, it is an icon Japan that honour goes to the Nissan motor found its way into the humdrum returned. nonetheless, and on its 50th anniversary, Skyline GT-R. All of these countries family saloon and the GT-R was born. After a number of concepts, a new we salute it. have of course made many different A total of 1,945 were sports cars but each of these nameplates made, most of them have come to symbolise its nation’s being the later coupes motoring heritage in a way that few from 1971 and 1972, others ever have. before the second The Skyline began life as the Prince generation debuted. Skyline in 1957. Prince started with The 1973 model looked the little electric Tama in 1947, but a very different to its drop in petrol prices, and therefore sales predecessor, sporting of electric cars, turned its attention to more American building cars instead. The Skyline was lines, much like the to be the firm’s new family saloon to original 1957 Skyline. replace the imaginatively named Prince The GT-R returned Sedan. It was christened Skyline after exclusively as a coupe its designer, Shinichiro Sakurai,who was with the same 160bhp mesmerised by the beauty of ridge in the 2.0 litre engine, but distance from his hut in Shiga. after just 197 were sold Nissan enters the story a decade the plug was pulled. later as it bought Prince in 1967. All of Over the years the little firm’s models would be either performance versions rebadged as Nissans (or Datsuns for of the Skyline (all of export markets) or discontinued. The them being coupes), Skyline was reinvented the following but the GT-R name year and the C10 (as it was known remained dormant until 76 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Motoring

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PUBLIC NOTICE Andrew’s Top Ten Conventions With Andrew Robson GOODS VEHICLE OPERATORS’ A CONVENTION is worthwhile if it occurs reasonably often, is easy to remember, and does not sacrifice a useful natural bid. This month’s convention scores highly in all these categories. Suppose you have prime support for the suit partner has opened, LICENCE a hand good enough to go for at least game and shortage in another suit. It seems incredible, but you can get all these factors Notice is hereby given that: across in one go by use of a Splinter Bid. THE GREEN TEAM (GROUNDS A double jump in a new suit (single jump sufficient if at the four level) agrees partner’s last bid suit and shows a singleton (or MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS) LTD void) in the bid suit. Perhaps this news will please partner sufficiently so he can go for slam; as in this month’s hand. Of: OFFICE 11, UNIT 1-3 WYVERN Dealer South North-South Vulnerable ESTATE, BEVERLEY WAY, ♠ *%#" "&' $%'# !&' $('# NEW MALDEN KT3 4PH ♥ (+)$ ♠ Is applying for a licence to use:  ♦ & THE ROYAL MEWS $%(( ♦ $%(( # BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, ♣ )%" WESTMINSTER, SW1W 0QH $%(( ♥ $%(( !♠ ♠ )'& ♠  as an operating centre for: N 1 GOODS VEHICLE ♥ & ♥ '%#! "&&'%(( WE 0 TRAILERS ♦ + ! ♦ *)'$ S Owners or occupiers of land (including ♣ *+ ' ♣ ($#! buildings) near the operating centre(s) ♠ (+$! who believe that their use or enjoyment of that land would be affected, should ♥ *" make written representations to the ♦ (%#" Traffic Commissioner at Hillcrest ♣ House, 386 Harehills Lane, Leeds, & LS9 6NF, stating their reasons, within 21 days of this notice. Representors North’s 4♦ “splinter” showed the values for at least a 4♠ contract with diamond shortage. South realised his diamonds could must at the same time send a copy be trumped in dummy, and so upgraded his hand. His 4NT was “Roman Key Card Blackwood”, and North’s 5♥ bid showed of their representations to the two of the five aces (counting ♠K as and ace) with no ♠Q. applicant at the address given at the West led ♣K against the excellent 6♠ contract, and continued with ♣9 to ♣A, declarer trumping. Declarer cashed ♦A, top of this notice. A Guide to Making trumped ♦4, cashed ♠K, crossed to ♠A, trumped ♦5, crossed to ♥K, drew West’s ♠J with ♠Q , then led to dummy’s ♥AQ J, Representations is available from the discarding ♦7. Note that he delayed drawing all the opposing trumps until he had trumped two diamonds in dummy. Traffic Commissioner’s office ANDREW’S FAVOURITE CONVENTIONS (8): The Splinter Bid. 02079 7738 2348 MaySeptemberAugust 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 79 Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

crown from spot and named Baden-Baden! Of CHESS Stockfish in the interest perhaps is that team, and the Computer Chess Grenke tournament share the same By Barry Martin Championship’s sponsor, a financial service provider Blitz Bonanza, based in the spa town in south west represents another Germany. The 20th Women’s European major breakthrough Chess Championship 10th- 23rd April, for neural network Antalya, Turkey, has just finished With a spring engines given with a 5-way tie for first place, and Google’s Deep 130 players competing over an 11 in its step Mind’s Alpha round competition. The first 14 players Zero’s astonishing finishing the contest also qualify for the self-taught wins FIDE Women’s7 World Cup competition, here seems to be a sudden in 2018. LcO also plus the 70,000 prize fund. Tie- outburst of all things chess created history breakers decided the winner and Alina making the news from a 15 year- by winning its Kashlinskaya 8 pts, Russia, had the oldT holding the World Champion to an head-to-head highest tie-breaks, and having led the 81 move game in the 1st round of the final game against championship until the last few rounds Grenke Chess Classic, to the upending Stockfish to win had a majority of successes against of Stockfish’s run of 7 wins out of 8 the championship, stronger players than the other 4 players. Computer Chess Championships by the since the latter Marie Sebag, 2nd French, Elisabeth neural-networking chess engine LcO, had never lost an Paehtz, 3rd, Gaponenko and Stefanova which taught itself to play chess and individual match- secured 4th and 5th places. Two players is now the bees knees as the top chess could become highly plausible. This is a up with any engine in Computer Chess represented England with Jovanka computer! really useful book outlining the thought Championship history! LcO won the Houska 2426 Elo, finishing 23rd with Chess publications in book form processes, strategies and questions that crown with Stockfish 2nd. But, two 7pts. A good performance, also finishing are also sprouting to good effect can be worked at and applied during a further neural network variants finished in the same spot as her pre-match with two new books from the ever chess game. Its 304 pages and a stylish 3rd and 4th in this blitz section, causing ranking predicted 23rd. inspiring Everyman Chess publications. cover design by Horatio Monteverde CCC’s rules to be updated to allow only Our other English representative Grandmaster Neil McDonald’s, Coach comes in at £18.99 printed by TJ two finalists to be in the neural category Katarzyna Toma 2211, 4.5pts. Finished Yourself, and The French Defence, by International Ltd Padstow, Cornwall. that share a significant code base. The 84th. This month’s puzzle is taken from International Master Cyrus Lakdawala The French Defence by Cyrus Lakdawala question of whether LcO can defend its the ongoing CCC tournament and from are two indispensable additions to any has 365 pages and is similarly priced, title with longer time controls remains the Blitz section that LcO won head to chess player’s repertoire who wishes to designed and printed as above. An to be seen, but at the present rates of head in the finals, with the previous 7 improve their playing strategies and earlier publication First Steps: French achievement it seems that hurdle will times winner Stockfish. LcO as White resourcefulness. Both authors display Defence by the author was published be cleared and is only a matter of time. has played 41.Q g3+, ...having 3 pawns impressive curriculum vitaes with one year ago and specifically designed A clear problem identified by the CCC on its Queenside, and with Queen and considerable achievements in teaching for 1200-1800 rated players, whilst his organisers is that neural engines can Knight for Stockfish as Black connected and writing about chess and notable new book is specifically aimed at 1800 share codes with each other, giving Rooks on the 7th Rank. It has been successes in playing the game across the rated and upwards, definitely not for advantages to other neural devices suggested that White’s damage to the board. Both books are well designed beginners! He states that the ‘French by showing the weaknesses of other Stockfish position on the h-file with with Neil McDonald’s exhibiting Defence is difficult to play, yet full of engine types, and proven advantageous Black having played the Pirc Defense may clean page layouts and large easily read opportunity for Black!’ He goes on, ‘... move structures giving success. The be a textbook classic for us humans on diagrams. Its use as a ‘ complete self- the French is perhaps the most difficult 3rd and 4th places in the Blitz section how to defeat this stout defence! improvement programme’ begins with opening in all of chess to comprehend which LcO won were Leelenstein What was Black’s only real move the assumption that you are already and master, since it is too large to be and Antifish, both neural networking and can you see how White developed a chess player of some standing, you boxed into a single category of tactical variants of LcO. “Times they are the game by squeezing the Black King know the rules and are serious about or strategic play’. He continues with a-changing!” into the centre of the board and giving improving your standard of play. It isn’t something closer to my heart too The 4th Grenke Chess Classic Black a false sense of advancement by a for the beginner, or casual social player, with, ‘I can handle memorisation of 22nd-29th April is in full swing as sacrificial sacrifice? although sometimes pitting yourself my home address, zip code (he lives in I write this column with 5 of the Answer upside down below. against the unknown and conjuring the U.S) and phone number. My brain top players in the world competing. questions from such cataclysms you draws the line in protest if I’m forced The first 5 rounds are played in the

never would have known existed before, to analyse long, forcing lines, so I don’t Schwarzwaldhalle, Karlsruhe, with the

can provide true inspiration to succeed. expect my readers to do so either’. final rounds in the Kulturhaus LA8, 1-0. Kc3,Kd1.81Qe8,Kc1.82.Qe1

The author’s topics within chapters (The latter has been the ruin of many Baden-Baden. The opening rounds Qe8,Kc2.78.Kc4,Kd2.79.Qe6,Kc1.80.

entitled, for example, Judging the Right a chess book where yards of notation of the 10 player tournament saw the Qc8,Kf4.75.Kb6,Ke3.76.Kc5,Kd3.77.

Moment to Use a Combination, or run unceasingly across page after page World Champion, Magnus Carlsen ,Ke4.74. b6+,Kd6.72.b7,Kd5.73.b8=Q

Learn How to Shut a Piece out of without any form of respite!) The held to an 81 long move game that he xc7.71. xa7,K xa7+.70.K Kb7,R

the Game, are laced with game author’s description of what to expect eventually won against the 15 year old Qxd6+,Kxd6.67.a7,Ra3.68.c7,Kd7.69.

examples by modern masters such as from the general prevailing character of Vincent Keymer ! This was no push Qh7+,Kf6.65.Qh6+,Ke5.66.

Carlsen,Caruana, Anand, Adams and so the ‘French Defence’ is worth repeating over, with the youngster putting up stiff g7+,Kf5.64. Qf8+,Ke5.63.Q

on, giving the book a very modern ‘now’ after 1.e4,e6.2.d4,d5.3. ... The ‘Anti- resistance! Only 10 days after winning c6,Ra1+.60.Kb6,Rd6.61.Qe8,Ra4.62.

feel, which is exactly the sense such a Winawers’, ‘Main Line Winawer’,’The the Gashimov Memorial with a very a6,Rhg7.57.b5,Rd7.58.Ka5,Rg1.59.

book should exude. Tarrasch’, ‘Advance Variation’, King’s impressive performance, Carlsen has for Ka4,Raf7.55.Qe4+,Kxf6.56.

Each chapter carries numbers of Indian Attack, Exchange Variation, the first time since successfully retaining c4+,Ke6.52.c5,Kd5.53.Kb3,Ke6.54.

games illustrating the chapter’s heading, Two Knights Variation, 2nd. Move his crown last year against Caruana, the Qc4+,Kd6.50.Qf4+,Kd5.51.

but each sub-section carries not only Variations, are all there. With recent added pressure of facing this opponent Qc3+,Kd5.48.Qd3+,Kc6.49.

very useful and inciting explanations examples of games played by modern during the Grenke competition. The Qxd6+,Ke4.46.Qxc6+,Ke5.47.

move by move, but also substantive masters this book is a complete, world looks on with anticipation! Other 44.exf6,Kxd4.45. Nd4+,Kd5.44.

questions to the reader at cardinal enjoyable and well thought-through players making up the top 5 include 42.e5,Ke6.43. over!). game next,

points, requiring them to take a larger book that every chess player will Anand, Vachier-Lagrave and Aronian. Rook a7 the and Rook h7 the

overview of each game’s progress, its make excellent use of, and is probably It’s no coincidence that the same players loses Kh5 move. only the Kf7, possible outcome, and why with some indispensable! make up the victorious team winning 41..... went game The Answer: positional changes another outcome The win by LcO, snatching the for the 13th time, the Bundesliga top 80 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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