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Church to Tottenham Court Road this four percent of lost revenue across all temperatures of 30°C and higher. Friday. If successful it will be extended TfL services in 2017/18 including Tube, TfL has since retrofitted opening ‘Boris Buses’ cost to all New Routemaster buses in future. Overground and other rail services. windows, at a cost of £2 million. Boris Buses make up 11 percent The Prime Minister’s buses Labour’s City Hall transport 3.6 million a of the bus network, with 1,000 of the previously faced criticism when the lack spokesperson, Florence Eshalomi, said 9,000-strong bus fleet now his design. of air-conditioning or opening windows fare evasion on the Routemaster added year through fare But they caused a disproportionate subjected passengers to sweltering to problems created by the former Mayor’s buses. evasion She said: “You had the new Prime By LDRS Reporter Jessie Minister when he was Mayor of London Matthewson prevaricating about bringing back old- style buses, but he didn’t want to clamp down on evasion, and now we have a problem.” She added: “This is another layer of Davidson Andrew © Photograph are evasion on ‘Boris Buses’ cost problems that we’ve been lumbered with Transport for London (TfL) £3.6 by Boris Johnson, it’s just another thing million last year, according to adding to the headache. It’s one thing analysis by the transport network. after another.” F Liberal Democrat assembly member The rate of fare evasion on New Routemaster buses is more than twice as Caroline Pidgeon said TfL was right high as the bus network as a whole. to tackle fare evasion, but single-door Critics of the new Prime Minister say entry “undermines the very point” of the the problem only adds to the “headache” Routemaster design. caused by his fixation on nostalgic bus She said: “Fare evasion must be design. tackled, but instead of the vast majority Mr Johnson’s Routemasters date from of honest passengers being penalised his time as London Mayor – modelled with slower and more inconvenient on traditional London buses, they allow journeys I would like to have seen passengers to tap in at any of three TfL consider stronger penalties for entrances. fare evasion and greater use of revenue But TfL is now trialling single-door protection officers.” entry, which will see customers tap in at A TfL spokesperson confirmed the the front door only, as on other buses. changes to the route 8 bus, and said The new system will start on the wheelchair users would still be able to route 8 and N8 service from Bow enter through the centre doors.

extremely rare, and guards don’t even carry protective pepper sprays. Incarceration & Norwegian authorities reject the Rehabilitation. punitive approach, claiming that the

removal of freedom is punishment © Max Pixels Photograph The UK versus Norway enough. Rather, they aim to rehabilitate By Alia Butlin prisoners and allow them to repair any damage their actions may have caused. Inmates are taught coping mechanisms for real life scenarios and are given the right to vote and be educated, mirroring a life outside of prison. While Norway’s “humane” system of ith the increasingly high incarceration clearly works, the question levels of violence and remains of how it can be implemented in overcrowding in Britain’s England. While the price of running a prisons,W is it time to find an alternative prison in Norway is £84,000 per inmate solution to crime? A look at the per year according to the New York Norwegian prison system suggests Times, it is seen as cost effective as far that with a focus on rehabilitation, fewer people enter the system in the first and ‘restorative justice’, prisoners can place, and far fewer people reoffend. The adapt to be model citizens, but with a Office for National Statistics claims that meagre £23,000 spent per prisoner each for every 100,000 people in England, year in England, is real change a likely 139 are in jail, which is exceptionally prospect? sexual assaults have more than tripled gardens each prison has to offer. Every high compared to Norway’s 63 in As of July 12th 2019, The Ministry since 2012. As a result of this, inmates prison has a functioning school, with 100,000. However, the problem of of Justice confirms that there are 82,962 are not adequately prepared for life inmates being offered classes in both mass incarceration is not just localised people incarcerated across England, with outside, which no doubt contributes to academic and vocational courses. There to England. It is a crucial issue around 58% of these people living in conditions the alarming 48% recidivism rate. are also several activities such as tennis, the world, as 45% of all countries have described as ‘overcrowded’. This affects Contrastingly, in Norway the farming and cooking for the inmates to a prison population rate of above 150 not only the living conditions of recidivism rate is just 20%, which keep themselves occupied with. per 100,000. With around 10 million prisoners, but also reduces the amount officials claim to be due to their The prisons are a safe environment people in prison worldwide, if more of resources and activities available to ‘humane’ approach to incarceration. for rehabilitation, which means that the countries implemented a system similar them. Furthermore an inquiry by the Described by some as “Prison Utopia”, guards and prisoners are left with a lot of to Norway’s, could we see a decrease in Prison Reform Trust found that there inmates are settled into dorm-style time to interact. Inmates are encouraged the number of prisoners, and a higher were 33,801 recorded physical attacks private rooms with en-suite bathrooms, to settle any arguments through success rate for those moving on from amongst inmates in 2018, and that and are free to enjoy the nature and mediation; as a result physical fights are incarceration? 4 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

Walking Westminster & cycling Council begins improvements ‘homelessness in West London consultation’

TfL has unveiled plans Westminster residents are being asked their views on a formal strategy to for walking and cycling prevent and tackle homelessness, as part improvements in West of a new consultation by Westminster City Council. London following a As part of its ten point plan, the consultation on ways to council wants to continue its Early Intervention Trailblazer Service, which people’s lives. You can read the council’s draft improve two locations at Kew last year identified and reached out to “Local communities can have a role Homelessness Strategy at and share your Bridge and Chiswick. 220 at risk Westminster residents, 99 to play and may help spot the signs views https://www.westminster.gov.uk/ percent of whom did not go on to be someone is at risk of homeless and housing-strategies. The consultation The plan would see areas between homeless. refer them to us early enough to get the closes on Wednesday 11 September Brentford and Kensington Olympia This service helps spot the early support they need.” 2019. connected by a safer walking and cycling signs someone is about to become route. Construction is expected to begin homeless and provides support and later in 2019. This includes a new 7km expert advice, before it is too late. There cycle route as well as new pedestrian is also support in place for those who crossings. The changes hope to make come forward and tell the council they cycling and walking safer and help are at risk of losing their home. Last encourage more people to travel by foot year the council’s Housing Solutions or bike. Service put together 966 plans for “Getting more people walking and individuals and families to help them cycling as part of their everyday routine avoid losing their home, including has huge benefits for our health and practical advice on who to speak to and wellbeing,” London’s Walking and support with employment or finances for Cycling Commissioner, Will Norman, example. said “and we know there is a high However, the major challenge for demand for more cycling in this part the council is in identifying people at of west London. It was absolutely right risk before they lose their home. It is a that TfL took the time to work with the lot harder for the council to help once councils to ensure everyone’s response to people have lost their home, due to the consultation were looked at properly, the challenges of the London property ensuring the proposed scheme is the very market. best it can be. I’m delighted that we are The idea is that by providing training on course for work to begin on the route for local leaders from resident, faith and later this year.” community groups these groups will TfL says that its recent research has be able to help spot the signs someone highlighted the economic benefits of is about to become homeless and refer walking and cycling to town centres them to the council’s ‘Early Intervention with infrastructure improvements, Trailblazer Service’ to access support. including cycle routes, expected to Cllr Andrew Smith, Westminster increase retail spending by as much as City Council cabinet member for 30%. The route would also enable more housing services, said: people around west London to choose “Tackling homelessness means walking, cycling, and public transport working together. The challenges are for their journey. This would tackle the huge, but by intervening early we can capital’s health problems caused by use our resources more effectively and toxic air. make an even bigger difference to

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H&F Council London needs launches legal ‘3000’ more battle against police officers to keep up with crime Heathrow By LDRS reporter Jessie expansion Matthewson

London needs at least 3,000 more police officers to tackle high levels of crime, the chairman on the Metropolitan Police Federation has said. Ken Marsh, a former Haringey police officer, said the city must reverse the “horrendous cuts” imposed by central government, and return the force to levels seen during the 2012 Olympics. There are currently 30,000 police officers in London, down from 33,000 Hammersmith & Fulham, along seven years ago. The Met has said it is on with neighbouring councils, has won track to reach 31,000 police by the end of permission to start a legal battle against this year. plans to expand Heathrow airport. Speaking on Sky News on Saturday, Together with the Mayor of London Mr Marsh welcomed the new Prime and Greenpeace, they will argue that Minister’s pledge to recruit 20,000 the government has failed to consider more police across the country – but the full impact that the planned third stressed that changes could not be made runway will have on noise, health, and immediately. the environment, when it was approved. He said: “What we’ve got to get “Expanding Heathrow is an across very clearly is that this will not appalling deal for taxpayers and, more happen immediately. importantly, potentially catastrophic “We’re putting out the perception for the climate,” Cllr Stephen Cowan, to the public that on Monday morning Leader of the London Borough of you’re going to see thousands more Hammersmith & Fulham, said. police. You will not. “Not only does it fail to deliver the “It will take a long time for us to get economic benefits claimed, but it ignores back from where the Tory government the climate emergency. Politicians reduced us to.” cannot on the one hand claim to take Mr Marsh told the Local Democracy climate change seriously and on the Reporting service that high living costs other act to make our environment in the capital made London unattractive much worse. We will fight this decision to new police recruits in comparison to all the way.” other regions H&F has declared a climate He said: “We are doing our utmost to emergency and “will be taking urgent get back up to the levels we had before action to combat climate change,” these horrendous cuts which stripped hoping to cut CO2 emissions from the all our colleagues from the streets of council’s activities down to zero by London. 2030. “But all the other forces are also In May 2019 it expressed its recruiting and the cost of living in disappointment at the High Court’s London is much higher than elsewhere. failure to quash the government’s You can do the maths yourself.” Airport National Policy Statement Labour’s City Hall crime lead, (ANPS) regarding Heathrow’s planned Unmesh Desai, agreed that recruiting expansion. It argued that this could more police in the capital would take cause long-term damage to the health of time. millions of Londoners. He said: “The stark reality is that it The Court of Appeal will hear will take up to three years for the Met to the council’s case that the Secretary be able to even begin to fill the hole left of State failed to properly consult on by years of swingeing Government cuts noise, excluding people who may be to their budget.” significantly affected. The council also But Susan Hall, Conservative crime 0800 008 6814 says that the runway could only be built spokesperson at City Hall, said the by demolishing thousands of homes, Mayor had failed to set aside enough causing a large increase in road traffic funding for police, and had not recruited and “making life noisier and unhealthier as many officers as he budgeted for www.homebuyersofbritain.co.uk for millions of Londoners.” last year. 6 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Statue & Blue Plaque

where Barraud was a scenery designer. On his death Francis agreed to look Blue Plaque: after Nipper, a Jack Russell Terrier. He Francis Barraud had remembered how the dog looked 1856-1924 quizzically at the gramophone, puzzled by where the sound came from. He commenced the painting after the dog’s death and completed it in 1899 at 126 Piccadilly, where his brother Herbert, Francis Barraud was born in Liverpool a photographer, had a studio, now on the 16th of June 1856 the son of the Cavalry and Guards Club. He is painter Henry Barraud and the nephew commemorated by a blue plaque from of another well known artist William the British Plaque Trust. Barraud. He studied painting at the Originally the dog was listening to Royal Academy Schools, at Heatherley's a cylinder phonograph from the Edison Art School in Chelsea, London, and at Bell Company. the Beaux Arts in Antwerp. He painted The painting was rejected by the domestic scenes in a variety of styles. Royal Academy and several publications, His best known work, the painting of so Barraud changed the colour of the Nipper was of his brother’s dog. Nipper originally lived with his brother, Mark horn from black to gold and the name Henry Barraud, in the Prince's Theatre of the painting to His Master's Voice and offered it to the Gramophone STATUES Company (later Electronic and Musical Industries - E.M.I.). They memorial statue of a named black accepted it, and Mary Seacole woman in the UK. There is a statue William Barry By Martin Jennings of a black woman in Lewisham, Owen of the instigated by Cecile Nobrega, a company suggested St Thomas's Hospital Guyana-born teacher, poet and that he produce a playwright, who had campaigned new version, with for The Bronze Woman project since the phonograph 1994. Mary Seacole was born in replaced with the Jamaica and she travelled to England, latest gramophone; his memorial statue of Mary approached the War Office, and for which Barraud Seacole caused an enormous fuss asking to be sent as an Army nurse was paid £50 with a before it was finally cast, installed to the Crimea. She was refused, but further £50 for the and unveiled in 2016 by Baroness went anyway, where she looked after copyright. TBenjamin. It took 12 years and the wounded in Balaclava, and, at the It became the half a million pounds to realise the time, her reputation rivalled that of commercial logo project; £240,000 of which was Florence Nightingale. of HMV and gifted by the Treasury from LIBOR The sculptor Martin Jennings, achieved world-wide banking fines. The reasons against had erected the affectionate recognition. erecting a statue were to do with celebration of John Betjeman at Francis Barraud its location, not because she did not St Pancras International Station, died in 1924 and is warrant one, but because she had holding his hat and looking up at buried in Hampstead nothing to do with St Thomas’s the famous Barlow train shed. As Cemetery. Hospital, where her more famous Jennings himself explained, ‘The Tim Epps fellow nurse, Florence Nightingale, piece is an image of him as if he has was trained. At a planning meeting walked into the station for the first with Lambeth Council, Lord time and gazes up at the roof. He’s Soley, chairman of the Mary Seacole got a bag with his books and his coat Memorial Statue Appeal, said that is billowing up behind him as if in Florence Nightingale and Mary the wind of a passing express train.’ Seacole were ‘complementary’ and He has portrayed Seacole standing not ‘contradictory’, and in opposition in front of a large bronze disc, itself were former president of the Royal an impression of soil from Crimea. College of Surgeons Sir Barry She stands on a granite plinth which Jackson and president of the Royal is inscribed with words written in College of Physicians Sir Richard 1857 by The Times’ Crimean War Thompson. They thought that, correspondent, Sir William Howard apart the impact of the artwork on Russell: ‘I trust that England will not the tranquility and greenery of the forget one who nursed her sick, who existing garden because of its size, sought out her wounded to aid and it would mislead the public into succour them, and who performed thinking that Mary Seacole had the last offices for some of her something to do with the Hospital. illustrious dead.’ A fitting tribute, Emeritus Professor of Nursing indeed. Elizabeth Anionwu said the unveiling was ‘extremely significant’ Don Grant because it was believed to be the first 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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environment and city management, said: and begin the process of reversing “We are standing up and taking the damage. This is something I feel Diesel surcharge action to improve air quality in Wandsworth passionate about.” Westminster, the evidence proves that Wandsworth has a strong introduced in the diesel parking surcharge can make a hopes to be track record in protecting its local difference. environment and speaking up for Westminster “Our residents were clear that they greenest borough communities. Along with Hammersmith want us to roll out the 50 per cent & Fulham, it has taken a strong stand surcharge out across the city. Air quality against the planned expansion of any of the diesel cars parked is one of their top concerns, and so this Heathrow and the harmful effects that in Westminster are now move is an important and logical next would bring. subject to a brand new diesel step in our commitment to improving It has also made strides towards surcharge launched on Monday 5th the air we breathe.” making a differences to the local M Over the last two years the Council environment, including reducing August to help take on the challenge of low air quality. has trialled the diesel parking surcharge waste, encouraging recycling, planting Following a successful trial of a 50 in parking zone F, largely comprising hundreds of trees every year, and making per cent surcharge for on street parking Marylebone and Fitzrovia. The scheme council offices and depots more energy in part of the borough, Westminster has been very successful, reducing the efficient. City Council confirmed earlier this year amount of older diesel vehicles parking The borough has also seen other that it would be rolling out the scheme in the Marylebone Low Emission environmental initiatives including across the rest of the city. The scheme Neighbourhood by 16 per cent, without Wandsworth Council leader Cllr Ravi switching to LED street lighting, follows positive feedback from residents. any obvious displacement to nearby Govindia has laid out his ambition for promoting electric vehicles, and It is expected that journeys into parking zones. the council to play its part in tackling introducing a huge number of electric central London by older and polluting Westminster was the first London climate change. This includes an charging points around the borough. It diesel vehicles could be cut by more than borough to introduce a surcharge ambitious plan to make it carbon neutral is also encouraging residents to join car a quarter of a million. Pre-2015 diesels where polluting vehicles paid an extra by 2030 and a zero-emissions council by clubs, with Wandsworth now boasting are the ones being targeted as they are 50 per cent on their hourly parking 2050. the highest membership in London. the heaviest polluters. rates. Income from the surcharge will “The threat of climate change to “We want to see this borough Under the scheme, an additional contribute to schemes to improve air our environment is one that none of us moving in the right direction in the surcharge ranging from 85p to £2.45 per quality in the city. can take lightly,” he said. “It is a threat fight against climate change and going hour on top of parking fees would apply Last year the Council publicly to our way of life for us and future forward, no area of council life will depending on where in Westminster, consulted on how to extend this policy generations. be left unchallenged,” Cllr Govindia with more central locations attracting a city wide. More than 1,300 responded “Councils therefore must join the said. “By being creative and practical higher premium. and the message from residents in fight to address the drivers of climate across all parts of the council we will Cllr Tim Mitchell, Westminster particular was clear in backing the roll change. We need to do our bit to stop be working towards the goal of cutting City Council’s Cabinet Member for out of the diesel surcharge across the city. the huge impacts on our environment emissions and reversing climate change”.

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She nauseating of all, guilt for even noticing. come up with the line, “I disapprove of Freedom of Speech is toothless sobbed and could barely talk but Josh You know that life for your daughter, and what you say, but I will defend to the without the right to be heard. And it is in listened in the darkness from the room with your daughter, will never be quite death your right to say it,” you’d be pretty the hearing that makes all the difference. next door. Amelie described what the the same again. proud of making the defining mission The fastest way to bury a book is not to man had said to her. How he knew their For Josh, one of the schoolgate dads, statement for Freedom of Speech. It ban it or burn it, but to ignore it. villa and how to get in to it, about the the moment happened with such force sounds full of courage until you realise The argument that we should be pain she would feel when she would split and so abruptly that, one year on, he that it was concocted by someone hiding free to speak because no one can be as he forced himself inside her, how her still struggles to come to terms with it. behind a pseudonym misattributing it to compelled to listen, is to ignore the real nipples would bleed as he gnawed at It was at the end of a baking hot day someone, already dead, who also spent world and, let’s face it, undermine the them… last summer. He’d rented a villa in a his life saying things hiding behind a entire advertising industry. Humans He had smiled genially throughout, whitewashed fishing village, somewhere pseudonym. In 1906 Evelyn Beatrice are not the free agents we wish we he never touched her, just spoke softly along the Turquoise Coast of Turkey. The Hall pretending to be S.G.Tallentyre were. In reality we notice brands and, things Amelie had never even imagined family were enjoying a slow passeggiata, a invented the quote in her history of like meercats standing out on the and had no way of understanding why. pre-prandial amble through the narrow François-Marie Arouet who, when dunes, we’re constantly on the lookout Sick and helpless Josh listened to streets before sitting down at an open writing things, pretended to be someone for warnings. Speech developed to his little daughter. She would never be café under olive trees for drinks. Next called Voltaire. advance humans beyond the capabilities a child again, stolen in a moment, when to them were a couple from Potters Bar, Today, Freedom of Speech is the of other, stronger, fiercer, creatures. he was looking the other way, and with a man and woman, middle-aged, polite, chimerical line that exposes how the We are programmed to listen and to nothing more than words. welcoming, smiling, engaging. right is splitting. On the one hand process information all the time. To The next day Josh went back to the The family and the couple exchanged are conservatives, your Rees-Moggs, say that speech does not necessitate town and searched for the couple but pleasantries and talked as the evening believing in old fashioned values; for consequences, that it cannot persuade, no one knew who they were. Back in light fell and the fairy lights glittered. example self-censorship like politeness, confuse, upset or offend, without the the UK he tried investigating around They spoke about local excursions and, the bleeping of “bad words” in the media listener’s consent, is to say it is worthless, Potters Bar but never found that sweet not long after, the terrible state of politics or, indeed, wearing clothes, even if that that speech is free… of meaning, ability little couple and the man who, in a few in Britain. And though they fell either limits naked self-expression. On the or corollary. Unfortunately four thousand minutes speaking freely, destroyed a part side of the Brexit divide they listened to other side the progressive right is making years of rhetoric proves we have less free of Amelie, and of him, forever. each other. At times it was difficult but huge strides, embodied by the MAGA everybody felt free to voice what they and Brexit Party adherents. They see felt. themselves as Libertarians for whom Say what you like but the freedom any kerb to liberty, through “big state” or to say what you like is so clearly a good “social contract”, is an affront. Thankfully thing I’d call it a “no brainer” - if that none of them have decided to eschew weren’t offensive to lobotomy patients. clothing. I will refer you to either Nigel So I won’t. Farage or Anne Widdecombe for your © Jonathanhills.com Illustration The right to liberty of expression mental naked picture. feels like it must be a meme but, like Forget Corbyn’s Momentum, idealism genes, memes evolve and mutate with has been hijacked by the right and culture. The idea of Freedom of Speech, no one is sure what to do. At a recent perhaps because IRL (“In Real Life” just Oxford Union debate “We Should Not in case you’re not keeping up with your Support No Platforming” Widdecombe youth text three letter acronyms) it is argued against the adherents of “No as achievable as infinity or a profound Platforming”. “You may feel virtuous Instagram post, is, at best, societal today” she said, “in what you will not aspiration and, in that, immutable. It’s hear, but tomorrow someone will feel the arguments for and about free speech virtuous in not hearing what you have that change and evolve and are memetic. to say.” So she not only saw virtue in Despite various nations, groups censorship but also suggested that free and factions through history seizing speech needs to be defended to protect Freedom of Speech as their ultimate your right to become an offensive bigot signal of virtue (see last month) and sometime in the future. “No Platforming” moral superiority, you might look at how is always presented in terms of limiting 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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gruff and angry, as if they really don’t you will probably be best suited for. So you like ‘The People’ at all. have that settled. Now what? This is where How we love to Getting a life I should like to help refine your choice. Zealous believers in ‘The Cause’ have Advice to a young person on a religious fervour and hatred of those The first thing you have to do is find Hate who don’t agree with them which we leaving university a job. This one is tricky. Don’t imagine by Nick Salaman you will find the perfect job that is going have scarcely seen since the days of the by Nick Salaman to keep you interested and amused. Jobs, Levellers and Muggletonians. certainly to begin with, are basically I learned of one incident in Oxbridge boring. That is why they pay you. In fact, not long ago where, it was said, an the more boring the job, the more they undergraduate, a rabid follower of one of may pay you. So go for a very boring job these politico-religious sects, so upset his in aggregates or mining and they may pay fellow students by button-holing them you very handsomely indeed with eventual have no firm political allegiance and in the quad with his tales of hell and People are often urged to ‘get a life’. The opportunities to sit on the board or at least on one of the directors. wander, lost, across No Man’s Land, damnation and social wrath, that he had question is: what sort of life do they (or So you have your first job. On to the occasionally tripping into either side to be asked to leave his rooms in College you) want to get, especially if you have no and find digs in town, because he was strong sense of purpose? next step. Finding someone to share a and tripping out again but, like Gordon flat with. If you take my advice, you’ll I making people unhappy. Brown, I am wary of bigots, bigots who find a tidy person, otherwise you’ll be are so convinced of their rightness that If only he had taken it easy smiled, A high-powered short-haired executive life? doing all the work yourself or living in they brook no argument and, worse, that charmed, and spoken like a true a complete hell-hole. Piles of unwashed philanthropist and philosopher, perhaps A life of indolent ease? they think those who are not convinced A life of piety and prayer? dishes gathering penicillin, and stains of the prevailing view, or even disagree he wouldn’t be having such problems around the loo, such things are really bad now with, say, his People Skills rating. A life of servitude? for the spirit. Get a nice tidy flat-friend. with it, are beyond the pale, or simply A surgical life? Of course, it is not the idea of a Even better if they can cook. They may be evil. A lawyer’s life? There is ever a tendency in mankind fairer playing-field and State Ownership boring but you’re not going to be married A life of spreading the word? to them, are you? to make the opposition (whatever it may or, on the other side, a belief in the A management life full of telling So, now you’re well set up. What next? be) into demons. Cyclists hate motorists return to the old ideals of steadfastness, people what to do and not doing it purpose and making the railways run A few non-university friends. You can’t and pedestrians (and vice versa). Idlers yourself? keep going round with the same old no- on time which makes these people hate industry. Epicureans hate Stoics. A political life which is what hopers, talking about what a good time it The gender divide is now a war zone. unhappy, because these may be lovely democracy is all about. was. It wasn’t really. You just didn’t know I always enjoyed the Andrê Maurois things. It is the church of hate they A life of debauchery and depravity? any better. children’s book Fatipuffs and Thinifers in have built around the idea, whichever it A life of study? Finding friends is not too difficult. Tell which the opposing sides wage constant may be. The goal of equal opportunity A creative, artistic sort of life? people amusingly how unsuccessful and war. Remainers hate Leavers. At school is laudable, as the blind Gloucester A life of scientific research? how silly you are, and they will love you. we played an old game, not unlike prays to the gods in King Lear ‘let the Or a muddled sort of life with a bit of What’s more they will very often pay for this and a bit of that? British Bulldog, called French and superfluous and lust-dieted man, that you because they will think you are doing badly, especially if you fumble in your English (an ancient adversarial divide) will not see because he does not feel,... feel your power quickly, so distribution Even if you feel you ought to go for purse a lot. not, as might have been expected, Brits some of the others, it’s the final category So now you have your job, your friends and Germans. should undo excess, and each man Sometimes we hate to love them. have enough’. But its current preachers Mostly, we love to hate them. It is a contrive to be so stern and vindictive game that can turn very serious, and that many possible followers turn back then go back to being a game. in dismay. I applaud the idea of a fairer society, On the other side of the great divide, although I know there can never be any who in their right mind would be a such a thing as completely fair since God fascist? To live in hate is a bad strategy. has made some of us clever, some of us It is actually bad for you. It creases the industrious, some of us stronger, some brow and raises the blood pressure, of us chancers, some of us beautiful it does terrible things to the gut flora (yes, why not a Beauty Tax?), some which, as we all know, influence to a of us happy by nature and some of us large extent our immune system and miserable; and then there are politicians. our general well-being. It is no surprise And since what God has left alone, to learn that rabid proselytisers tend it seems hardly likely that man will to have bad digestion, even flatulence, improve upon. gut spasm, high blood pressure and I think, it is perverse and wrong dodgy kidneys, while calmer and more that the broad-bottomites who sit benevolent individuals coast along with on top of huge organisations and are well-tuned bowels and keen eyes. paid handsomely for doing so, should pay themselves extra ludicrous sums It was Rehoboam in the Old of money as bonuses, dividends and retirement payouts while the rest of us Testament Book of Kings who languish and exclaim at rising prices. said; ‘my father chastised you But I do not hate them. I pity them. How often have we heard a mobile with rods but I will chastise telephone calling its prosperous owner at you with scorpions’. One thing the next table in some bar or restaurant, and the crooning voice he adopts as he is certain: he never got himself talks about money. A pretty girl told me elected by the people. I think the other day she steers clear of rich men because all they really want to do is fuck- it’s safe to say he had poor up other rich men. digestion and, very possibly, However, I also think it is wrong, and counter-productive, for those who wind. believe in alleviating the lot of the poor and downtrodden, always to look so 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and your flat. The next thing is to find a steady boy or girl friend which I hope you will have eschewed until now. No point in Nothing has tying yourself up unless you’re a shoelace. The same strategy applies to this category changed of friends as to the former (tell them how By Derek Wyatt silly you are etc) except you maybe have to go to bed with this lot. Remember the mind is the most erotic zone so try and There were two elections for pick a fantasist; a hypnotist might be even better. party leaders in mid July. Hurray! You have a flat, a job and a steady. Now you have to find a good time. (Note: the steady may not like this.) A good time for you is not necessarily what other people call a good time but you will soon get used to it. Hang about in night clubs or on expensive beaches or both. Go The first and most important was that to some raucous parties. Flatter everyone Jo Swinson was elected leader of the and say how silly you are; and lazy too. Lib Dems. This gives her party a more Indolence is the one vice everyone can solid reach into England, Scotland (most admit to. important) and Wales where I expect The next thing you have to do is decide them to win (won by the time you read whether you want to be a careerist or a this) the Brecon and Radnorshire by- married sort of person. Some people try election on 1st August. They will have and do both, but you can end up being done this because other pro-European good at neither. Sooner or later, most parties (so clearly not the Labour Party) people seem to want to have a baby or have come together to support just one two, so my advice is to find a rich person (probably in a night club or auction candidate. This is a pattern which will be house). This could be the end of good old continued up to and including the next I once asked Edward why his the nation and the right hon. Lady steady. You will meet someone new and General Election; which is being keenly public persona had him as: hamstrung, herself will learn of what metal she is temporarily exciting, and very likely decide anticipated for later this year. somewhat dull and a tad rude. “Well” he made.” Actually listening to the debate to marry her/him. You will then have the The second election saw Boris said “I was brought up with the wireless on my car radio, I had thought Powell money to indulge your every whim and Johnson become Leader of the Tories and when I was regularly interviewed had deliberately said “mettle” but I can develop whatever latent tendency you and ergo the next Prime Minister, after the War, my BBC producer would noted Hansard has it as “metal’ which may have – whether artistic, mercantile, something for which he has lusted after remind me not to say much for ninety unusually I think was an error. “Mettle” political, horticultural, amateur all his adult life. He will be Leader of seconds as listeners at home were trying is exactly what Powell meant. dramatical, hedonistical, esoterical, or the Tory Party for some time yet as he to light their fires, finish their meals No matter. Boris is where his heroine merely carnal. grows into being the PM. I have known and/or call others in their houses to was in 1982. He has an uncivil war in In between pursuing your tendencies come and draw up a seat to listen to and fulfilling yourself, you will have Boris since he arrived in Parliament his own party. Labour has another, children. Try and bring them up in as representing Henley on Thames, in the interview. So, I never did say much facing two ways at the same time and a old-fashioned a way as possible since, if 2001. There was no good reason it was until after ninety seconds. When colour leader who cannot win the next election. they have everything too easy as children, just happenstance. His new office was television came and I was then PM, So, Parliament, if it is not to disintegrate adulthood will be a grave disappointment, just three doors down from my own. By interviewers would thrust a microphone needs some clear leadership. I think which it tends to be anyway. the by, for the four previous years my in front of you for a ten second that is going to be very difficult given Soon, as your children grow up, you next door neighbour had been Edward comment. It was an entirely different the numbers in Parliament. Boris will will take a lover. It helps to pass the time Heath. experience and I could not make the need to bribe the DUP with another and takes your mind off your partner’s I liked Edward. I did not know change.” huge donation to their welfare budgets inadequacies; for which he or she will him well enough to call him ‘Ted’ and Boris was well known to his own if they are to continue supporting him. be very grateful. Try to make sure your of course, as a past PM his office was party before he became an MP because Moreover, if he fails to take us out of children profit from your early instruction he was Editor of The Spec also known as and find ways of crossing the wider seas of somewhat larger than my cupboard- Europe on 31st October, he has to call a life (as my headmaster used to call it) in a slash-office. Every morning I would say The Spectator, a weekly, mainly politics General Election. first class cabin on the ocean side. to him “Good Morning” but answer driven, magazine and the voice of the General Elections are rare in winter At around this time, your partner there came none. I upped the ante to right wing of the Tory party. It had once and not favoured by the political class. will probably die if they have any decency “Good Morning Mr Heath and then been more moderate, more ‘One Nation Local members, irrespective of parties, at all. After the funeral, you will take a “Good Morning Prime Minister”. But Tory’ but alas no longer. He was a big will not want to call on houses and flats cruise and meet an ageing young stud or still he ignored me. I put this down to personality, funny, amusing, enormously in the dark. Moreover, many of us would a debonair old trout who will attempt to his shyness which could be mistaken for good company, again well read with a not want to answer anyone calling at sweep you off your feet. Try to resist any just plain rudeness. soft spot for the Classics and he busied that time either. My guess is that this impulse to marry again. It will simply One day eighteen months later, himself in his first couple of years as General Election will be conducted end in gummy old tears, yours or the his office ran out of sugar for his an MP editing, writing and filming online and by mobile. Now that may be trout’s. Soon you will have grandchildren documentaries for the BBC. He was to dandle on your knee and mess up your guests’ coffees and teas and somewhat dandy, but those that vote the most are furniture. Don’t worry. It will soon be sheepishly, he knocked on my door and busy extending his power base beyond those sixty and over. And guess what, over. There will be a short phase of gin, asked if he we had any spare. We did. the Parliamentary party. He never did this is the generation with the lowest chocolates and false teeth. And then one Thereafter, he would greet me everyday anything if it did not advance the ‘Boris internet and mobile ownership. night Nod the Shepherd will come by with with a “Good Morning Mr. Wyatt”. Cause’. He was always in demand unlike The continuing blood-letting in his sheepdog and off you’ll go like a lamb. Sugar had done for him. I liked Edward. any other politician in Westminster. This the two main political parties can Try and make sure they bury you not burn And contrary to his public persona, made him unpopular to those who did only benefit Jo Swinson and the Lib you, cremation is rather déclassé these I found him witty, wise, an original (not) possess his many talents. Dems. The General Election will be a days, and write something witty (which thinker, enormously well read and a Now he is Prime Minister he will be referendum on the decision on whether you will have thought of beforehand) on great speaker. One day in the Chamber tested in a way he has never been tested to stay or go. My sense is that afterwards your gravestone like: RETURNED TO he spoke without notes for nearly an before. It reminds me of Enoch Powell’s there will still be no overall majority SENDER speech just before we invaded the And there you will be, lying under the hour quoting ‘Acts of Parliament’, by of any party and that a new type of sod, and they will say at the wake: she (or line and from fifty years ago. They do Falklands in 1982: “The Prime Minister, coalition will be needed of a kind we he) had a life. not make Parliamentarians like him shortly after she came into office (1979), have never seen before. Provided it is not Come on. That’s what you wanted, anymore though Ken Clarke runs him received a sobriquet as the “Iron Lady’.... a Tory-Brexit Party alliance, some of us wasn’t it? close. in the next week or two this House, will finally be smiling! 14 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

deposited in long standing water. Only two weeks later Opportunity spotted Mars the distinctive shape of ‘festoons’, those The Red Planet distinctive curved rib shapes we’re all or was it Blue? familiar with here on earth when you’re swimming over a shallow sandy beach By Scott Beadle FRAS just beneath the surface. They’re caused by the action of waves in shallow water. The two earlier rovers were joined by their much more sophisticated cousin n May’s publication we looked at the Curiosity and the search continued. Earth’s genesis, to better understand Curiosity was sent to Gale crater to the complexity of its birth pangs explore Mount Sharp, a central crater in the light of the recently published peak, which is a big stack of sediment, I an archive of the past and in which the warnings in the UN’s Global assessment Report about our effects on the planet. lower part of the crater was, once upon a In July we looked at its “twin” Venus time, a lake. on the inner edge of the habitable zone, Evidence to support the northern to see what could happen to a planet due ocean are the classic features around the to pumping an excess of carbon dioxide shoreline that look like estuaries, deltas, into the atmosphere and causing a and alluvial fans (cone shaped deposits “runaway greenhouse effect”. that are criss-crossed by channels). So now let’s look at our fourth rock from the Sun, Mars, residing on the outer edge of the habitable zone. Incidentally the habitable zone or Goldilocks zone is the orbital region in a stellar system where the surface temperatures of planets can sustain liquid water and therefore hold the highest probability for the existence of life. Just as there were early misconceptions in film and books of the nature of Venus with its speculative, prehistoric swamps, dense jungles, and possible inhabitants. So too with Mars, with its advanced civilization constructing canals to irrigate the planet and design indestructible machines to seek and destroy life on Earth. Even Abbott & Costello tried to get there Top: It was becoming abundantly clear An artist’s impression showing how in Go to Mars (1952) (although it ends Mars may have looked 3.8 billion that liquid water once drenched the years ago, if it had a northern ocean up in New Orleans even more ‘Alien’) Credit: ESO, M Kormesser/N Risinger surface. The case for water was cast-iron, before they blast off to Venus to find a Above: but where had it gone? Valles Marineris. Over 4000kms race of women. Maybe July’s analysis of across this is the greatest rift/ canyon Sadly for Mars, it’s not a very big Venus was wrong after all, and there are in the solar system. planet, it doesn’t generate its own Cred: USGS women there! Left: magnetic field and has no ozone layer “A, beautiful, terrible, desolate Mars rover Curiosity taking a selfie at and is therefore highly vulnerable to place…a barren, hostile world” as Rock Hall in Gale Crater. the Sun’s cosmic wind. This enables the described by Mars scientist Steve cosmic radiation to strike the surface Squyres of Cornell University. unimpeded; this of course is very It has polar ice caps of water ice, but damaging to cellular life as we know it, the air, mostly carbon dioxide, doesn’t (Jim). hold enough water to make a global layer However, 3.8 billion years ago, more than a fraction of a millimetre although it was probably always a cold thick. By comparison, a totally smooth planet, for a billion years conditions Earth would be under an ocean 3.2 kms could have been conducive to the (2 miles) deep. The average temperature emergence of microbial life. is -56degs and the atmosphere at the Unfortunately, its size and weak surface as thin as ours at 43kms(27ms) gravity, coupled with the relentless the edge of space. even the shoreline of a possible ancient at what looked like tiny beads, perfect onslaught of the Sun’s cosmic wind, Mars is the most visited and studied northern ocean, it needed ground based spherules: lava droplets, impact-ejecta stripped away its atmosphere, the carbon planet in the solar system. Why so, you evidence to supply a degree of certainty. droplets, or something that forms in and water content going with it, leaving may ask, as it is quite clearly, a very The real breakthrough in the water, concretions built slowly a layer at today this very dry, very cold world. hostile place. The answer is, other than search for water came with the two a time. Mission scientists named them Maybe for a billion years, Venus, the Earth, it is the most likely to have NASA Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. ‘Blueberries’. Earth and Mars all enjoyed a water- harboured life in the distant past and While its sister Spirit wandered for Using the Rover’s spectrometers, it world environment. Early microbial life thus may have a fossil record. months in a wilderness of volcanic was determined they were hematites, could have got a foothold on all of them, Although many previous missions, basalt, Opportunity struck lucky and an iron-rich material that on Earth is but it would appear “the Goldilocks Mariner 4, the Viking orbiters, MGS, miraculously and certainly unintendedly usually formed in water; and also jarosite Zone” is quite demanding for complex Mars Express, and Mars Recon Orbiter, bounced into a small crater about that is deposited by evaporating water. life. had all shown aerial evidence of a world 65mts across, coming face to face with There was also water-bearing iron and Not too hot Venus, not too cold carved by water; networks of dry river bedrock for the first time ever on the large amounts of magnesium sulphate Mars, just right, Earth. valleys, gullies, lake deltas, flood plains, surface of Mars. It found itself staring rocks that are formed by sediments being Let’s try and keep it that way! 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 International News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

part of a growing boycott on Japanese women were statistically “missing” from Nevada, United States INTERNATIONAL goods. Japanese beer, Japanese tourism, the country’s population. and ticket sales for Japanese cinema Area 51, the supposed resort for such as Butt Detective, a movie with a Frankfurt, Germany extraterrestrial visitors housed by the NEWS totally different plot then one might U.S. government, has been a landmark BY CONOR KNAPP immediately imagine, are all in decline Germany’s largest investment bank, for conspiracy theorists and tin foil hat amidst increasing political and economic Deutsche Bank, reported net losses of wearing aficionados for decades. Now tensions. £2.8 billion in the second quarter. This it looks as if people are tired of waiting comes after the bank has made sweeping for little green men to emerge and are job cuts amongst other organisational taking matters into their own hands. Uttarkashi, India After a Facebook group was created Anatoliki Mani, Greece restructuring that cost the bank roughly aptly named Storm Area 51, they can’t A district in northern India is under £3 billion. After plans to cut their global stop us all ,almost 2 million people hiselled out of rock in a cave investigation after no girls were born workforce down 18,000 jobs by 2022, have signed up for the event and around on the Southern Peloponnese in the area which spans over 130 the German bank expects the overall 1.5 million are merely ‘interested’. The peninsula came a piece of skull villages. The investigation comes after cost of the move will be somewhere US government was quick to respond which researchers now claim is the government data showed that none over £6.5 billion, but that they expect C with spokesperson for the Air Force oldest human fossil outside of Africa. of the 216 children born in the last to return to regular profit in the coming Excavated out of a limestone cliff in the Laura McAndrews saying: “[Area 51] three months were girls. The district year. This is the bank’s biggest quarterly early 1970s, the fragment was originally is an open training range for the US is suspected of using sex-selective loss in four years, other usually reliable put in a museum in Athens. After a Air Force, and we would discourage abortions, or female feticide, a practice ventures have reported weaker returns new analysis was carried out on the anyone from trying to come into the that India only outlawed as recently as than expected. The bank’s lucrative piece it was dated to be at least 210,000 area where we train American armed 1994. Ashish Chauhan, Uttarkashi’s bond-trading division dropped 4 percent years old. This would predate the oldest forces. The US Air Force always stands known Homo Sapiens fossil found in Europe by 160,00 years, potentially indicating that ancestral migration from Africa occurred at a much earlier period than previously thought. What was initially thought to be just another © PixaBay Photograph archeological dig yielded an incredible discovery that could rewrite history as we know it.

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Earlier this month the government of Japan restricted the export of critical materials to South Korea, mainly materials that are essential in the manufacturing of high-tech devices such as semiconductors and smartphone screens. After a victory in Japan’s House of Councillors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had the political backing to take up such a hostile trading position with the regional neighbor. Officials in the Japanese government have claimed that the restrictions are intended to prevent technological exports from being illegally transported into North Korea, the nation which launched ballistic missiles over Japan in September 2017 in a show of their then newly developed ICBM program. However, critics have said that the move is a clear retaliation for a recent court decision in South Korea which awarded damages to the victims of forced labour during Japan’s ready to protect America and its assets.” colonial period. The two countries have district magistrate, commented on the for the quarter, while equities sales and trading revenue dived 32 percent. The In other words, it’s probably not the best a murky past, with colonial aggression area’s recent female birth rate, saying idea. Attendees would hypothetically by the Japanese permanently etched it was “suspicious and has highlighted biggest hit to the bank came after a £5.7 billion fine in 2017 over its role in the be running full speed at the base, not into the history of Korea with the female feticide”. He added that any to be deterred by the fact that it’s a atrocities of The Nanjing Massacre still parents found guilty of feticide will face mortgage market financial crisis of 2008. After another fine was issued by the military weapons range, with some even a fresh cultural memory. Japan asserts legal actions. The country is known for US and UK totaling £506 million for creating elaborate battle plans involving that a 1965 diplomatic treaty between having a commonplace view of women failing to prevent £8 billion of Russian rock throwing artillery and some sort the nations, which saw the nation give as liabilities while the boys are known to laundered money moving through the flanking movement where the runners South Korea over £400 million in low- generate more income per household, as bank, clients have become increasingly resemble downhill skiers. While most interest loans and aid money, should expected in a highly gendered workforce. concerned with the regulatory issues. people seem to understand the group have settled all claims for compensation. India’s deep-rooted patriarchal society Only time will tell whether the bank as a joke, including the creator of the South Korea has rejected this position has resulted in a long practice of event Jackson Barnes, many are eager to and proposed that a joint firm be formed will be able to recover from so much bad preferring sons due to their customary press and risky lending in a progressively see if over a million people will charge to pay the court awards. Now garages role as caregivers. This attitude has led at a highly secure military base with and petrol stations across South Korea scrutinous financial sector. to worrying reports such as the one by absolutely no cover whatsoever. are refusing to fill up Japanese cars as the Indian government where 63 million 16 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance

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is nearing 50 as criminal law solicitors the EU. system. cannot survive on the low rates of pay.” “England and Wales is one of the • Conduct an independent economic ‘Save our justice Growing shortages of duty solicitors most respected jurisdictions in the review of the long-term viability of the system’ Boris and independent experts, court closures, world for its transparency, certainty criminal legal aid system. barriers to accessing legal aid, and and flexibility. English law is the most • Ensure the courts’ modernisation Johnson urged crucial evidence not being disclosed in commonly used law by international programme adopts the use of technology court until the last minute: these are all business and for dispute resolution,” said in the court system in a way which examples of the chronic underinvestment Simon Davis. widens and enhances access to justice for in justice. “However, preserving the legal all. “The future integrity of our justice sector’s strong economic contribution system depends on the whole system will require continued close co- Civil Justice working effectively; a poor functioning operation with the EU and depend on Solicitors’ leaders have made criminal justice system will undoubtedly the continued ability of UK lawyers to • Reinstate Legal Aid for early advice an urgent plea to Prime impact on the UK’s international practise there. from a lawyer in housing and family law reputation,” added Simon Davis. “Unless alternative arrangements are • Conduct a further review to consider Minister Boris Johnson to put agreed after Brexit, UK lawyers and law what changes to the Legal Aid means the criminal justice system at Civil justice firms will fall back to operating under test criteria are required. 31 different national regulatory systems • Scrap plans to introduce a hike in the heart of the priorities of Solicitors are also urging urgent across the EU and EFTA. probate fees, which would amount to a his administration. changes when it comes to the funding of “People and businesses will continue ‘stealth tax’. civil law; such as family issues. Access to operate cross-border; therefore, an • Reconsider plans to reform personal “If you want justice you have to justice is a fundamental principle that infrastructure which allows them to gain injury legislation in the Civil Liability to invest; decades of cuts to this underpins British values and the rule fast and effective access to cross-border Act and scrap moves to increase the fundamental part of our country’s of law. However, changes to eligibility justice needs to be maintained.” Small Claims Limit. infrastructure mean the whole system is criteria and availability of legal aid have crumbling,” Law Society of England and left many unable to pursue civil legal The Law Society has a number Brexit Wales President Simon Davis said. cases through the courts, particularly “Every organisation has its list of asks those on smaller incomes. of ‘Asks’ for the incoming • Avoid a ‘no deal’ Brexit at all costs of the new Tory leader, but few things Prime Minister: • Negotiate mutual access for EU and damage the country’s health more than The terrible cost of ‘no deal’ UK lawyers to practise law, and seek to the undermining of our justice system.” secure Rights of Audience in EU courts The Law Society President also urged The Law Society is urging a series of and Legal Professional Privilege at EU the new Prime Minister to take on board Criminal justice measures to address the crisis. level for clients’. the devastating impact of a ‘no deal’ on “Criminal solicitors have not had a • Make the urgent changes to criminal • Agree close and comprehensive post- the legal sector which currently has its pay rise in more than two decades; in legal aid fees needed to ensure the Brexit arrangements with the EU on own single market arrangements with fact some have had a cut. The average age sustainability of the criminal justice civil and family judicial co-operation 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

offers, and access to cash before the age Victims of pension fraud reported the needs of the economy. 586,000 London of 55 could all tempt savers into risking in 2018 that they had lost an average their retirement income. of £82,000. Pension fraud can be The future of copper coins has been pension savers The research also found that those devastating, as victims can lose their under debate in the upper echelons who consider themselves smart, or life savings and be left facing retirement of government, with the Treasury could put their financially savvy, are just as likely to be with limited income. As a result, the launching a review of the public usage of persuaded by these tactics as anyone else. regulators are joining forces to urge cash and digital payments. Pension savers were tempted by offers pension savers to be ScamSmart and to This is the first time since 1972 that retirement of high returns in investments such as check who they are dealing with before no 1p coins were struck for circulation overseas property, renewable energy making any decision on their pension. and since 1984 for 2p coins, once savings at risk to bonds, forestry, storage units or biofuels. Last year’s ScamSmart campaign struck however coins can remain in However, exotic or unusual investments resulted in more than 3705 people being use for decades. In addition the Mint scammers are high-risk and unlikely to be suitable warned about unauthorised firms. announced that no new £2 coins will be for pension savings. A third (33%) of the struck this year as there are 49,000,000 45-65 year-old Londoners questioned in circulation. said they would be likely to pursue these Cash use has fallen sharply in recent he Financial Conduct Authority unusual opportunities, if offered to years as the use of contactless payment (FCA) and The Pensions them. No new copper has surged. The reduced demand for Regulator (TPR) are joining Helping savers to access their forces again this summer to warn the pensions early also proved to be a coins struck for coins means banks may not need to T order as many new ones as they did public about fraudsters targeting people’s persuasive scam tactic. Over a quarter retirement savings. This warning comes (28%) of 45-54 year-old London-based the first time in previously. But many people still rely on as new research suggests that 46% of pension savers said they would be cash for their day-to-day spending. pension savers in London, which would interested in an offer from a company decades About 2.2 million people in the equate to at least 586,000 people, could that claimed it could help them get UK are estimated to be almost entirely be at risk of falling for at least one of early access to their pension. However, reliant on cash on a daily basis. Elderly six common tactics used by pension accessing your pension before 55 is likely and vulnerable people and those in rural scammers. to result in a large tax bill for the saver. For the first time in decades communities are likely to be hardest hit by any decline in cash availability. Across the whole of the UK, the 28% of those surveyed in London the Royal Mint produced no 1 likelihood of being drawn into one or said they’d talk with a cold caller that A Treasury spokesman said: “We more scams was 42%. This likelihood wanted to discuss their pension plans, or 2p coins this year. The Royal didn’t ask the Mint to issue any £2 increased to 60% among those who said despite the government’s ban on pension Mint strikes new coins on an or 1p/2p coins this past year because they were actively looking for ways to cold-calls this January. Over a quarter there are already enough of these in boost their retirement income. said they would ask for website details, ad hoc basis rather than to a circulation. Our coins are of the highest Pension cold calls, free pension request further information or find out schedule, according to orders quality and the amount we ask the Royal reviews, claims of guaranteed high what they’re offering, even if the call Mint to produce every year depends on returns, exotic investments, time-limited came out of the blue. from the Treasury inspired by demand from banks and Post Offices.”

“We need to see a real sense of autumn has been increasingly holding Resolve Brexit urgency from this new Prime Minister House prices consumers back from buying or selling when it comes to creating a pro- a home. Retailers have also warned of impasse PM told enterprise environment,” said FSB drop households reining in their spending on National Chairman Mike Cherry. “As bigger-ticket items against a backdrop of things stand, small business confidence unexpectedly mounting Brexit risks to the economy. is at rock-bottom: political uncertainty House prices remain high relative has left us unable to invest, grow and in the face of to incomes, with growing numbers plan for the future. The UK has long of young adults unable to get on to The Federation of Small been one of the best places in the world Brexit uncertainty the property ladder. According to to do business. It’s crucial that we keep it government figures, the number of Businesses (FSB) is calling on that way. people aged between 20 to 34 living Boris Johnson’s government to “We had promising discussions with with their parents has soared by 24% Boris Johnson during his campaign over the last decade to as many as one- The UK housing market experienced resolve the Brexit impasse. The and look forward to working with him in-four, about 3.4 million people. The an unexpectedly heavy decline over the on the issues that matter most to small average price of a home in Britain has hope is to allow policymakers course of July, with buyers becoming businesses. dropped by almost £600 in the last three increasingly cautious as the Brexit months to stand at about £236,120. to focus on the key issues for “Securing a pro-business EU deadline looms. These figures come However, affordability remains withdrawal agreement that can small firms. from the Royal Institution of Chartered stretched, with the cost of a typical command a majority in the House Surveyors [RICS] who measure the home about eight times higher than The three key issues are to of Commons is task one for this number of estate agents and property average wages. modernise regressive business new administration. Brexit has been surveyors expecting rising prices against rates, assist small businesses absorbing government bandwidth for those expecting declines, dropped to years now, leaving domestic challenges -9% in July from -1% a month ago. The struggling with spiralling unaddressed. Chief among these predominant view of city economists employment, and increase are a broken business rates system, had forecast a far less dramatic reading

spiralling employment costs and derisory of -1%. Mison © Paul Photograph the country’s investment broadband and phone connectivity. Simon Rubinsohn, RICS chief in broadband and phone “We need to get back to basics. economist, claimed house prices and Closing the UK’s productivity gap sales volumes appeared to be losing infrastructure towards 4G and increasing GDP growth will momentum as Brexit and political connectivity. only happen when small firms have uncertainty heighten. “All the key the political certainty, tax reform and indicators are pretty much flatlining,” Representatives from FSB met with world-leading infrastructure needed to he said. Analysts have claimed that the Prime Minster to discuss priorities take risks and innovate. Time is of the the increasing likelihood of Britain for his new administration. essence for this new government.” leaving the EU without a deal this 18 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Literature

., OBITUARY: TONI MORRISON

TONI MORRISON, the Pulizer Prize winner, author playwright Athol Fugard, introducing them to of novels such as Beloved and Song of Solomon American readers for the first time. She continued died on August 5th at age 88. to blaze a trail by successfully juggling raising two sons alongside guaranteeing the printing of works A spokeswoman said the cause was complications such as autobiographies of Muhammad Ali as well of pneumonia. The first African-American woman as political activist Angela Davis, only finding time to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, she grew up for her own writing by getting up to write at 4am. poor as the second of two children of a family Smith Mathew © John Photograph of transplanted southerners, with a grandfather Morrison’s first novel,The Bluest Eye, about a young who had been born into slavery. She was born on black girl who desperately longs to have blue eyes was February 18, 1931 in the town of Lorain, a racially published in 1970, when Morrison was thirty-nine. integrated island in the blue collar sea of Ohio steel It did not sell well at first, but the City University of country. Throughout her career her books were both New York put the novel on its reading list for its new critical and commercial successes and broke ground black-studies department, as did other colleges, the as centreing on the black experience; particularly first recognition of her significant talent. Morrison's the black female experience. In addition her works second novel Sula, about a friendship between two stood out from other authors whose work featured black women, grew her profile even further being black culture; as her narratives were divorced from nominated for the National Book Award. But it what she called ‘the white gaze’, exploring black life was her third novel, Song of Solomon, which truly through contrast to the white monoculture. brought her national acclaim, and was cited by the Swedish Academy as having being instrumental in Beyond her own novels, she also did important her being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. Possibly work expanding the nascent black literary canon her most famous novel, however, is the Pulitzer by promoting the works of other authors. To do Prize winning Beloved, inspired by the true story of this she was forced to leave the familiar environs of Margaret Garner, an escaped slave who, on being Lorain for an editorship at Random House, a decision recaptured by slave hunters killed her two-year old she described as ‘a terrible price to pay’ which daughter to save her from the hell of slavery. catapulted her into moving through a white society that was fairly upfront about not wanting her. One of the first books for Random House she worked on was She is survived by her son Harold Ford Morrison and three grandchildren. Her the groundbreaking Contemporary African Literature, a collection that included other laurels include the National Humanities Medal in 2000 and the Presidential work by Nigerian writers Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe and South African Medal of Freedom, presented in 2012 by President Barack Obama. M.F.

Georges I and II, although George III soon becomes apparent that there were then purchased Buckingham House, and certain highly-prized dynasties, such Royal neither palace had river frontage. This, those of the Warner, Mason, Robertson Bargemasters as well as the building of more bridges and Hill families. In the twentieth Robert Crouch & Beryl across the Thames from 1750 on and century, many of the Bargemasters the fashion for ‘modern’ horse-drawn were previously Watermen, rowers and Pendley carrages with suspension, meant the role boatbuilders, like the Phelps and Turk The History Press of the Royal Bargemaster was consigned families, competing in world sculling to that of ceremonial pageants and the championships and at Henley. The 179pp. Softback. £14.99 like. The Bargemaster is responsible for oldest rowing race in the world is the ISBN 978 0 7509 9083 7 the Royal Watermen, chosen from the Doggets Coat and Badge, first rowed in ranks of the 24 Thames Watermen who 1715 between six apprentice watermen operate tugs and launches on the river. from The Swan pub at London Bridge At the State Opening of Parliament, and The Swan pub in Chelsea, now, the Queen’s Bargemaster and four sadly gone. It was initiated by Thomas Royal Watermen travel as boxmen on Doggett, an Irish actor and comedian coaches carrying the regalia when it is who became joint manager of Drury or over 800 years, Royal conveyed from Buckingham Palace to Lane Theatre and who used watermen Bargemasters and Royal Westminster and back. to transport him from his theatrical Watermen, were in charge of Up until the end of the eighteenth gigs in the city to Chelsea. The winner’s transporting the monarch up and down century, the Royal Bargemaster also had prize is a traditional watermen’s red coat F the title of Keeper of the Swans, which with a silver badge, displaying the horse the river, mostly the River Thames, for state occasions, travelling between involved ‘swan-upping’ or marking of of the House of Hanover and the word palaces and an opportunity to display also dangerous, with the threat of all swans on the River Thames. Today, ‘Liberty’, in honour of the accession of authority and majesty in an ostentatious footpads and highwaymen. A trip from the Royal Bargemaster is no longer George I to the throne. The latest royal manner. Travelling by river was used Richmond to Greenwich could take connected to the role of Keeper of the row-barge was built for the Queen’s as a showplace, enabling the Royal a matter of hours, but could take days Swans, now known as the Swan Marker. Diamond Jubilee Pageant, a full-size Family to demonstrate their status by road, if the weather made progress By royal privilege, the British monarch replica of a City Livery Company Barge, with great waterborne pageants. King difficult. Most of the royal palaces were enjoys ownership of all unmarked mute with eighteen rowers sitting two abreast, John used the royal row-barge to take built with access to the river, including swans in open water, although rights and heading a parade of over 1,000 boats him up from London to Runnymede Richmond, Windsor, Hampton Court, over swans may be granted to a subject down the Thames. This well-researched to sign the Magna Carta, and since Bridewell, Westminster, Whitehall, by the Crown. The ownership of swans book was written by Bob Crouch, HM then, most monarchs up until the Bayard’s Castle, the Tower of London is shared equally by the Crown and Bargemaster from 1990-2002, with mid-18th century, have used the river and Greenwich. When Whitehall was two Livery Companies, the Vintners the help of Beryl Pendley, who sadly as a quick, comfortable and safe way destroyed by fire in 1698, William and Company and the Dyers Company. died in March this year just before its to travel, rather than the mode of Mary made St James’s Palace their There is a detailed list of all the Royal publication. uncomfortable carriages, which was principal London residence, as did Bargemasters since Edward I, and it Don Grant 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Literature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

published, he knew all too well of the hazards of perceived disloyalty. Much One Day In The like Winston Smith scrawling ‘Down with Big Brother’ in a haze of furious Life Of Ivan automatic writing, Ivan Denisovich

Photograph © Bert Verhoeff © Bert Photograph started out as private purge of the Denisovich emotions and the experiences that Solzhenitsyn had suffered. However in the wake of Stalin’s death and leksandr Solzhenitsyn is the Khrushchev’s ascension to power the kind of author whose works so-called De-Stalinization process are not so much appreciated created a thaw in state oppression. After on an aesthetic level as an ethical one. Khrushchev’s Secret Speech in 1956, A Solzhenitsyn was freed from exile and Solzhenitsyn was one of an unthinkable number whose wings crisped and burnt exonerated. Following his return from when the arbitrary and merciless light of exile, Solzhenitsyn was, while teaching 20th century authoritarianism focused at a secondary school during the day, upon him. He’d been a highly decorated spending his nights again secretly Red Army captain, who had come to engaged in writing. In 1960, aged 42, feel that Stalin was perhaps not quite the he approached Aleksandr Tvardovsky, friendly father of the people that state a poet and the chief editor of the Novy propaganda made him out to be. After Mir magazine, with the manuscript of writing a letter to a friend from the One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. front expressing some of these feelings, It was published in edited form in the NKVD (the earlier, even more 1962, with the explicit approval of bloodsoaked form of the KGB) swooped Khrushchev, who defended it at the down like avenging angels. Sentenced Presidium of the Politburo hearing without trial, he was dragged from the on whether to allow its publication, front line and into the brutality of the and added: "There’s a Stalinist in each Gulags. From 1945-1953 he was subject memorise the words and then swiftly of a Gulag prisoner and his struggle of you; there’s even a Stalinist in me. to every kind of systematic degradation burn them before they were discovered. to survive. Never given a moment to We must root out this evil." The book and after was released into what was These smoking ashes would later himself or quite enough food or rest, quickly sold out and became an instant supposed to be a lifelong internal exile in experience a phoenix like rebirth as A Solzhenitsyn shows how the constant hit and was even taught in schools whilst the small village of Birlik, Kazakhstan. Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The totalitarian oppression effectively breaks Khrushchev remained in power. The Solzhenitsyn who emerged short and pointed novel featured an the human down into a machine; a This was not to last, as soon as from the Gulags proved infinitely more ex-Red Army soldier who was arrested series of techniques for survival as Khrushchev was toppled, Solzhenitsyn dangerous to the Soviet regime than the on jumped up charges of treason and has much as a person. The prisoners in found himself in considerable danger, mild critic they had crushed. During been suffering in the Gulags for nearly a some ways are almost complicit with which did not end even after he was the final stage of his imprisonment decade;- authors eh, where do they get the horrible work and treatment they exiled to West Germany, where he found at the camp in the town of Ekibastuz their ideas? suffer, because they lack the energy to himself the subject of an assassination in Kazakhstan, where he worked as a To read Ivan Denisovich is to feel the rebel against their harsh treatment. The plot by the KGB. The Soviet Union first miner, bricklayer, and foundry foreman, echo of the vast and pitiless cruelty that camp operates according to a Byzantine had to face up to its horrific excesses he started to write frenziedly of his chewed up and spat out Solzhenitsyn series of unspoken rules and taboos and through Ivan Denisovich and the crack experiences. Solzhenitsyn cultivated a alongside so many others. Written in to survive, you must submit to them it made on the face of power would unique writing method during these easy, realistic and slangy prose, the novel completely. keep growing into a yawning chasm prison years: he would scribble lines does exactly what it advertises: opens a The novel was not something that that would eventually swallow the first for his future novels on scraps of paper, window into a single day in the captivity he necessarily expected would ever be socialist state whole. Max Feldman

life. As the title suggests the tome however rather than continue with was minted for the 70th anniversary this similar kind of close study of the The of the signing of the Commonwealth history of the Commonwealth (which Act this year and covers the history is very much what the title implies) Commonwealth of Westminster’s relationship to the the remaining 200 pages are simply Commonwealth in incisive detail. profiles of various companies working at 70: From Written in association with the History in the Commonwealth and various of Parliament Trust, the grasp of projects they are embarked on, from Westminster to historical nuance versus the inherent sustainability work to education. The The World corruption of imperialism should be the tone completely swerves from fair- Available from stjamess.org/ envy of many history textbooks. Sadly minded historiography to the kind of this cannot be a blanket endorsement thing that shows up in online ‘about product/commonwealth-70- however, as once the book reaches the us’ sections for large conglomerates. westminster-world/ present day, the narrative does not so However the first half of the book much push on the breaks as see its has so much to commend itself that it wheels fall off. seems a shame to miss it just because of such a bizarre switch in tone. For The first half begins all the way back anyone interested about our nation’s First things first, this is not a book in the 1200s and in short, concise effect on the world at large and the to be casually read on the tube; this paragraphs details the Westminster long strange trip towards representation handsomely bound and impressively Parliament’s halting, mutable journey to anecdotal support. Outlining the and government through the wastes expansive volume is a struggle to even an empire on which the sun would never nature of institutions set up across of colonial oppression will find much lift one handed, let alone cart about. set. Everything from the development the British Empire and how they to enjoy in the Commonwealth at 70. But in its its natural habitat of the coffee of the Scottish Parliament to the root evolved or were replaced in the leap It’s such a shame that unlike its source table, it brings what is potentially quite causes of the American Revolution from Empire to Commonwealth. material, it comes to such an ignoble a nebulous topic into clearly defined are laid out with plenty of interesting After the Commonwealth is formed end. 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A slight wait to say the least. populous of would-be students, nearly their prospectus. Students are acquiring The review, for many parents all universities are increasing their immense debt, so it should come as no considering university for their children, numbers. UCAS has predicted that surprise that the value of a university condenses the value of a degree to its an extra 300,000 places are needed by education and the qualification it economic benefits to the individual. 2030. With the opportunity to take provides is coming under intense Therefore, the report only saw it on more money-paying students, it is scrutiny. necessary to plug the funding gap for no surprise that they are growing so pon returning from my fifth This news came paired with the so-called ‘high-value’ subjects. The dramatically in size. The number of university open day, the inane revelation that, according to figures subject you choose determines, more applications means that, whilst demand salesman-like discourse had released by UCAS, record numbers of than ever, how much your degree will still dwarfs places, the top universities Ubecome all too familiar. Since the 18-year-olds in England have applied mean. I am hoping to take an English can be far more selective. However, the political decision in 1998 to introduce for a place at university. Further stats degree, but this predicts an extensive consequent grade inflation is threatening tuition fees, and even more so after they from the report showed that this number financial gulf when compared with the entire principle of university. Using trebled in 2010, higher education has consists of 40% of school leavers. scientific and technological studies. This the results of the last seven years, it has been commodified and students have Compare this to the 2% that went to again provokes the question, is it in my been highlighted that the proportion of been reimagined as customers receiving university in 1945, and the societal shift interests to take a degree? Will there be students awarded first-class honours in a service from the academics that teach becomes clear. a pattern of an abundance of students this time has risen by 80%. As a result, them. Following this mindset, your hefty With this in mind, I have begun fighting over places in a small number of it’s now becoming more common to have investment should deliver a profitable to evaluate my choices. There is little ‘high-valued’ subjects. a degree in jobs where you wouldn’t have return, in the form of a lucrative and debate that the university degree has Disturbing headlines recently needed one 30 years ago. The Office for fruitful career. I’m under the impression been changed, but is it worth anything revealed that a large chunk of the fee National Statistics reported that this that this transaction is now considerably now? I believe so, but the inherent that one pays may well be destined for year almost one third of all graduates riskier. Universities do appear to be a complications threaten my hopes. the pocket of the university’s Vice- are overqualified for their job. You now hegemonic enterprise, holding the keys At the end of May, the Auger Review Chancellor. Six universities in England need a degree not to stand out, but to the doors of opportunity. Last month (a commission appointed by the PM paid the role in excess of £500,000, rather to not fall behind. One only need however, an ‘international business to look at tuition fees) recommended without factoring in the benefits of look to South Korea for a much-needed strategy’ graduate, Angela Ruskin who that the current cap of £9,250 per year living onsite. The higher education warning. Roughly 70% of school- had achieved a first, received £60,000 should be reduced to £7,500. This means regulator’s first survey of senior staff leavers in that country go on to attend after suing her university in Cambridge. that the study acknowledges students pay revealed that nearly half of all VCs a university, but graduates are now Pok Wong claimed that the degree are currently paying too much for what received more than £300,000. The victim to high unemployment levels. ‘exaggerated the prospects of a career’, they are receiving, and this does not average wage rose 3.5% in merely a year. One engineering student was quoted was falsely advertised and bluntly coined include accommodation and living costs. The shadow education secretary, Angela by CNA as saying “It’s not that I wasn’t it a ‘Mickey Mouse degree’. Many of A survey by NatWest also found that Rayner, quite rightly noted that this is good enough. There are just too many

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House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. Augar Review The Government should address faces criticism the deficit in QR funding, and should from Lords Committee commit to providing it a financial increase, at least in line with the rate of inflation. Lord Patel, Chair of the Committee, said: “The Augar Review has completely This Year Experience Something Different missed the mark by not considering evere financial consequences research funding in its review. 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The Government soas.ac.uk/languagecentre the resources available to support intends to spend 2.4% GDP on research. research and development by 2027, but The inquiry also found that Quality- we conclude that it will be extremely Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4888 Related (QR) funding, a significant difficult to meet this target unless Email: [email protected] element of the funding provided to funding for research in universities universities to support research, has is secured and the UK can attract fallen 12.8% in real terms since 2010, researchers from overseas.” adding increased pressure to the ability The Committee also addresses of universities to conduct high-quality further issues facing science research sector.” scientific research. funding in universities including Brexit, Research by the Federation of Master Because the review did not take into where the mobility of vital European To degree or not Builders* (2018) revealed the average consideration the potential impact of a researchers is called into question and salary for electricians around the country loss of funding for universities, the result the loss of EU funding following the to degree? is £47,265; compared to £32,000 for the is a distorted assessment of the sector's UK’s departure from the European The future is bright for average university graduate’s income. financial health as a whole, warns the Union. Students taking up a trade are also students undecided on likely to run up less debt than they would university at university, and are likely to set up their own business in the future. Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff, Croydon, “There are many great benefits to Fears over Glasgow and Manchester. taking up a trade; not just financial,” However, students are struggling adds Darren. “A trade is a viable career international to get an appointment to the path which gives students the chance oversubscribed service, causing them With “UCAS Clearing” opening on to learn specific skills that can open up student visa chaos to travel hundreds of miles from home Friday 5th July, NICEIC the UK’s many doors and avenues in the future, or having to pay up to £125 for an leading name for electricians, is including working abroad.” As visa services have been alternative appointment in their nearest reminding school and college leavers to One way that NICEIC encourages cities. consider the many viable alternatives to a apprentices into the electrical industry outsourced to French IT International students are already degree. is through its Apprentice of the Year services company Sopra paying £425 for a tier-4 visa and an NICEIC wants to encourage more Competition, which celebrates the skills young entrants to consider a hands-on of the brightest electrical apprentices additional £300 for use of the NHS, so throughout the UK. 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Being there: The importance of counselling and psychotherapy in education. © Shutterstock Photograph By Simon Hatchard-Parr

t is well known that most living or other. By 2017, this had risen to 1 and external professionals to deliver (11,031 in 2017/2018) who feel scared, things can rebound from stressful, in 9. When we include older children a unique therapeutic model of early unloved and unable to cope. frightening, even life-threatening and look across all children and young intervention when a child is in need. Perhaps my own childhood would Ievents. However when a child is exposed people aged 5-19, 1 in 8 (12.8%) have From this holistic approach to working have taken a different course if the over time to abusive and/or neglectful at least one mental disorder. The survey with children and families, in four years care and resources available today caregiver it is a different picture. The notes the change is a result of an increase the therapeutic team have completed had been available in the 70s. Anger, child will try not to think about the in emotional disorders (including over 1500 hours of 1:1 counselling, sadness and unhappiness are part of things that hurt, the dread or numbness anxiety and depression), which rose from psychotherapy, art therapy, music life to one degree or another, whether that spreads out inside when faced with 3.9% in 2004 to 5.8% for 5-15 year-olds therapy, play therapy and group sessions it’s appropriate or inappropriate in trauma and neglect. Over time, all in 2017. with the children. Crucially, Mr Dean any moment to have those feelings. emotional responses can be diminished It can be hard to assess when a child says, no stigma is attached to requesting Disturbance and normality aren’t and there is no recovering without needs help as their distress may not therapy from anyone at any level. defined by isolated behaviours that outside help. This was my experience; a present a clear set of symptoms which According to the Department of are a healthy and proper response to sense of identity that assembled itself out can aid others to see that the child needs Education’s Counselling in Schools: a something. A child having a tantrum is of the disquiet abused children come to help, and perhaps requires professional blueprint for the future, drawn up in not a symptom of disturbance as much experience as normality. I was bullied help. Behaviours such as exaggerating 2016 (just four years’ ago): “Counselling as that they are probably just growing at school because I seemed strange to minor symptoms, feeling unwell, faking fits within a whole school approach to up. However, a child may need help others, was prone to avoidable accidents, illness, lying, or persistent unhappiness mental health and wellbeing, covering when there are lots of such moments; swollen or broken fingers or toes, and are harder to pin down. issues such as improving wellbeing and when they are severe and when they stomach aches from which I had to curl On 17 July 2019, the BBC World resilience, raising awareness of mental endure. up somewhere, and for which no cause Service featured in their series People health issues through the curriculum, There is no doubt that children are could be found. At boarding school, I Fixing the World, Highgate Primary reducing the stigma around mental subjected to forces that were unknown became inclined to ‘fugue states’ and School Headmaster William Dean who health, effectiveness of the pastoral 30 odd years’ ago. A family environment developed a talent for faking them, even spoke about the school’s remarkable system and the role of leadership.” doesn’t have to be traumatising or believing in them. Children who are Pastoral Care Team which is made up of The extraordinary work of the neglecting for a child to need some unhappy and depressed tend to develop 17 professionals who provide emotional Children’s Society, a UK National Charity emotional help some time. The internal such symptoms as trauma, expressing support for children, families and school founded by Edward Rudolph in 1881, map we create of the world and our place that way when there is no language to Staff. He believes that for children to is dedicated to helping and supporting in it as we grow up is the end result of share feelings. be successful, it is essential for them to vulnerable children. Rudolf, a teacher countless thousands of experiences that During my school years, I was lost to be well cared for and to feel emotionally and civil servant in South London, saw form the components of our identity and myself and out of kilter with the world. nurtured. first-hand the effects of poverty on the our sense of self-esteem. Pastoral care is Back then, in rural 1970s Suffolk, there “Pastoral care underpins personal lives of children. When two young boys a brilliant thing, an essential part of a was no-one to help me join up the dots. development and we know from failed to turn up for his Sunday school, child’s education. Thankfully the picture forty years later experience that with outstanding he found them begging for food on the has changed; Pastoral care for the health pastoral care, students feel they belong streets; two of seven young children and emotional well-being of children at and their self-esteem is able to flourish, being brought up by a widowed mother. Simon Hatchard-Parr, M.A. practices as school has become widespread. because they feel valued and cared for.” Theirs was not an isolated experience a healer and therapist in North London. The 2018 NHS survey Mental Health The team of dedicated therapists and Rudolf was moved to act. The For information visit: of Children and Young People in England, work on-site and many are trainees on Society’s guiding principles remain the www.sanctushealing.com notes that in 2004, 1 in 10 children aged placement or recently qualified therapists same: to make childhood better, and 5-15 had a mental health disorder; either who are still accruing hours. They that no child should feel alone. They www.highgateprimaryschool.co.uk emotional, behavioural, hyperactive, work in partnership with school Staff work with children and young people www.childrenssociety.org.uk 28 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Culture

Armenia By André Sarian This section on Armenia portrays the historic beauty and importance of this ancient culture, placed as it is in such a strategic License CC-BY-SA Delso.photo, Delso, © Diego Photograph location in today's global landscape “To serve Armenia is to serve our civilization”, these moving words belong to former British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone who in 1895, recognised as the oldest Cathedral a booming tourism and services sector. addition to the many sites, Armenia also still standing today. With such a rich Armenia is visited by millions annually, boasts the unique delicacies of special demonstrated a strong pro- religious and cultural history, it comes as known for is vast beautiful landscapes Armenian Barbeque (Khorovats), and Armenian stance during the no surprise that Armenians all around and plains, thousands of hiker’s flock Dolma (A traditional Armenian rice the world continue to further Christian to Armenia to experience the awe- snack, covered in leaf). Armenia’s rich persecution of Armenians by traditions and maintain strong faith inspiring views of Ararat and Aragats soil provides beautiful fruit produce, the the Ottoman Empire in the today. Armenians landmass has shrunk mountains, which stand opposite each best time to experience them are during sizeably since the glory days of Tigran other to form the breath-taking Ararat the months of August and September, late 19th century. the great (1st century BC), attributable valley. In addition to the great views, when the crops are harvested at their to constant unrest and conflict with regions in Armenia also serve as popular peak ripeness. Don’t hesitate to visit hese words still hold a lot of neighbouring countries. However, winter sports locations, with sites such Armenia, visitors are always welcome meaning today, as Armenia Armenia has continued to stand the as Tsaghkadzor, located in the Kotayk to come and enjoy the rich nation of continuesT to provide notable test of time, and flourishes today with province of Central Armenia. In Armenia, and all it has to offer. contributions to the fields of Science with the likes of Victor Hambardzumyan in stellar astonomy, likened to the streets of Paris with its to the pioneering work done by Aram The capital wide tree-lined avenues, multiple coffee Khachaturian in the field of composition shops full of young students and tourists, of 20th century classical music, as well of Armenia, opera and music venues. On every street as representing the peak of Soviet chess significant, larger than life, sculptures achievements, with the likes of Gary Yerevan, can be found of the country's leading Kasparov and present-day grandmaster also called Erevan, is on the philosophers, writers, artists, architects, Levon Aronian. Armenia is a landlocked and patrons. nation, surrounded by countries located Hrazdan River, 14 miles from in the southern Caucasus’, Armenian the border with Turkey people are renowned for their homely nature, and their ‘open arms’ approach to visitors and neighbours. The population currently sits at approximately 3 million, however the Armenians around the world total some 10 million people, residing near to home in countries like Lebanon, Russia and Iran to as far away as America, England and Australia. The first Armenian settlers arrived Big Blue Kiwi. Peter Woytuk in the United Kingdom in the 19th century with a fine majority residing in Soviet rule. It is framed by the extinct Manchester, in the north of England. volcanoes of Mount Aragats and Mount Today, Armenians can be found all over Ararat in Turkey. With a university the UK, in major cities such as London, founded in 1919, it is the centre of Manchester and Birmingham. A unique culture with an Academy of Science, and celebration of Armenian culture within most importantly since 1920 is where the UK occurs annually in July, as the Matenadaran archive collection of Armenians of all backgrounds gather ancient manuscripts, like the Lazarus together in a day of celebrations and Gospel of 887AD is to be found. Charles festivities, for the Armenian Summer Aznavour Square with its chess board Festival located in West London. in one corner pays homage to one of its Armenia became the first officially world famous citizens. Christian state in 301, when it adopted The north survived an earthquake the religion. Strong reminders of The city at various times has been ruled on December 7 1988 with casualties Armenia’s religious history remain today, by Romans, Parthians, Arabs, Mongols, estimated at 38,000 and up to 130,000 with Churches such as the cathedral Turks, Persians, Georgians, and has injured. Much of the devastation has The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, remained the capital through periods of now been rebuilt. Today Yerevan is William Saroyan. (Armenian/American novelist) By David Babayan 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Travel & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

This culture of literary creation and preservation, which lies at the heart of the Armenian national identity, has inevitably suffered through the same historical trials that have shaped the nation as a whole. Over the centuries thousands of ancient manuscripts have been destroyed, plundered or otherwise lost as a result of foreign invasions, wars and other such calamities. This makes the Matenadaran all the more important and treasured as a national institution today. The current building dates from 1957, when the Matenadaran was officially founded as a home for the major manuscript collections of the nation. Its monumental architecture has a grand and stern character in keeping with the seriousness of its mission, whilst the interior recalls an Armenian monastery or church with their atmosphere of quiet contemplation. Along the front facade of the building there are elegant modern- The Matenadaran classical statues of historical Armenian scholars, each representing a different 'repository field of scholarship. Mashtots himself greets visitors with a solemn gaze at of ancient the entrance, one hand raised towards manuscripts' an engraved Armenian alphabet, the By Philippe James other pointing to an Eagle holding a sword and shield, in a stark reminder of national identity, defence and survival. Inside in the main hall there are impressive murals depicting different fficially the Mesrop Mashtots periods of Armenian history, from the Institute of Ancient Kingdom of Urartu in 800 BC, to the Manuscripts, is a national Hellenic period and later Medieval era. Oarchive, museum and research institute Beautifully carved medieval stone steles located in Yerevan, Armenia, containing known as Khachkar are also displayed the largest collection of Armenian in the front court, these feature intricate manuscripts in the world. The most overlapping designs centred around significant manuscripts are publicly crosses and spirals, and are intriguingly displayed in the museum along with reminiscent of Celtic and Germanic art Above and right: related historical artefacts, each with a from early medieval Europe. Matenadaran, fascinating story of its own. The collection of the Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Mesrop Mashtots, after whom is extraordinary, holding about 23,000 Ancient Manuscripts the Institute is named, was an early manuscripts covering all areas of ancient Armenian clergyman, theologian and and medieval culture and science, linguist who invented the Armenian including history, geography, grammar, alphabet circa 405 AD, following years philosophy, law, medicine, mathematics, spent living as an ascetic. Before then cosmology, miniature painting and various other scripts from surrounding poetry. There are also manuscripts in empires had been used in Armenia, and Arabic, Persian, Greek, Ethiopian, these were sometimes inadequate for Syrian, Latin, Tamil and other communicating aspects of the Armenian languages. Various texts that were lost language. The new alphabet ushered in a in their original languages are preserved new era of Armenian writing and played here in the form of medieval Armenian a prominent role in the burgeoning sense translations. On top of this there are of national identity during this period. It over 500,000 historical documents such is also at this time that the first histories as decrees and periodicals from imperial of the Armenian people began to be and church archives. The museum written down. presents an extensive and beautiful Manuscript repositories such as the display of major works from the archive, Matenadaran have similarly existed including the 10th century Etchmiadzin in Armenia since the early Middle Gospel, with its exquisitely carved ivory Ages, notably at the centre of the cover featuring biblical scenes, and the Armenian church in Etchmiadzin and delicate miniature paintings of the 11th within monasteries across the country. century Mughni Gospel. Elaborately The preservation of ancient texts was detailed maps, mathematical tables not only left to the church however; astronomical charts dating from the traditionally each Armenian family was medieval era to the 17th century give expected to own at least one manuscript, further fascinating insights into history to be passed down from generation to and the development of the sciences generation. over time. 30 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Culture

Turkish government has always denied eternal flame as a blaze of colour in the responsibility for the genocide and the melancholy stark expanse. Snatches of United States and United Kingdom have haunting opera echo through the stark yet to formally admit that it took place, space and sigh through the boughs of for fear of causing a diplomatic incident trees planted by foreign leaders who with Turkey. For citizens of that country are prepared to use the term ‘genocide’ the lack of acknowledgement can feel to describe the events that took place

suspiciously like flat-out denial. in the early days of the 20th century. Genocide Museum The © Photograph As a result of this geopolitical The 12 leaning slabs have a symbolism impasse the Armenian Genocide is often in their own right to match the flame, reduced to an unexplored footnote in each one representing the provinces 20th century history books, with the of western Armenia that were lost to sobering reality of victims’ experiences Turkey at the stroke of a pen, through swept under the carpet in the name of a post-First World War treaty signed political expediency. But denying the by Ataturk and Lenin with no input atrocities only serves to embolden those from the Armenians themselves. The who would enact their own genocides; central spire is also divided into two to Hitler, for example, whilst planning represent these lost territories which still his own mass-murders, was quick to show no sign of ever being able to rejoin note “Who, after all, speaks today of Armenia. the annihilation of the Armenians?” After the powerful and symbolic So the Armenian Genocide Museum monument, the Museum itself takes in Yerevan has a deeply important task. a very different approach, providing longside the Holocaust, the Alongside the commemoration of the a wealth of personal stories, through Armenian Genocide was many men, women and children who photographs, documents, films and Genocide the original case study upon suffered and died, the Museum must newspaper reports. Individual victims Museum, whichA the UN built the definition also serve as a repudiation of the idea are plucked out of the anonymity of of genocide. The killings taking that diplomatic realpolitik can ever numbers and statistics and brought Armenia place between 1915 and 1922 saw supersede the suffering of victims. to terrified life with a heartbreaking www.genocide-museum.am over 1.5 million Armenians living The Museum itself is two storeys empathy for the powerless and the in the crumbling Ottoman Empire drilled out of the side of the mountain dispossessed. The Armenian Genocide systematically murdered, because of the so as not to disturb the memorial that was an event of unparalleled savagery savage ethnocentrism of the resurgent sits atop like a crown of sorrow. Built in that many powerful people in the world Turkish leadership. However due to 1967, the memorial comprises a soaring would have us forget, but this museum political pressures, this immense crime 40m spire encased in a spiral of 12 and memorial are a defiant and beautiful has never been truly acknowledged monolithic concrete spikes, reaching denial to the silence, a whisper grown by the international community. The into the sky like an iris, all guarding an into a roar. Max Feldman

Churches, monasteries & memorials By Kate Hawthorne

Armenia’s churches, monasteries, cathedrals and some museums house many of the country’s valuable and Top left: Goshavank (meaning monastery of Gosh) a 12th/13th ancient artefacts, motifs, sculptors date back to the 9th century Armenian monastery in the village of Gosh in the Tavush province of Armenia church art and treasures. The century. Medieval Christians Above and left: From the Alex and Marie Manoogian Treasury House Khatchkars, the name for the believed that the stone crosses Museum. (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin) memorial stones decorated would protect their souls from with motifs characteristic of misfortune medieval Christian Armenian The stone masonry, beauty art, were added to the Unesco and skill of these historic list of Intangible Cultural ‘memorial works of art’ are so Heritage in 2010. Some moving and nothing short of of these incredible stone breathtaking. 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Travel & Culture

Above & right: The Megerian company, old and new, working with traditional patterns and materials as they have always done with skilled handcraftsmen and women. Left: Two halves of the carpet owned by two sisters re-united after the Genocide.

and merchants were setting up shop internationally from Europe to Egypt Megerian Carpet and India. This expansive tradition Museum continued until the 20th century, www.megeriancarpetmuseum. the Armenian combination of rich colours, beautiful geometric designs com and figurative elements proving popular wherever it went. Then came the n 1300 AD Marco Polo wrote in cataclysmic events of the First World his memoir that Armenians “weave War and the Armenian Genocide. the choicest and most beautiful Despite their devastating impact Icarpets in the world”. He was only on traditional crafts and industries, one of various ancient and medieval including the loss of many expert carpet- authors to comment on the exceptional weavers, traditional carpet-making carpet-weaving traditions present in re-emerged in their wake as a symbol the Caucasus since antiquity. It has of survival and renewal. Orphaned even been argued that the word ‘carpet’ children were trained by the master is itself of Armenian origin, though weaver Hovhannes Taschjian in the etymological dictionaries trace the art of weaving, dyeing and patterning, root of the word back to Proto-Indo- ensuring their future livelihood whilst European, a language spoken around producing magnificent carpets to be sold 3500 BC by the common ancestors of and donated for fundraising. Two sisters both European and Armenian people, separated by the genocide carried with among others. them pieces of an antique rug given to The oldest surviving carpet in the them by their mother, which decades restorer of antique rugs from all over the then returned to Armenia following world, the Pazyrk rug, which is dated to later would help them to find one world. Almost inevitably, they began the collapse of the Soviet Union. They 500 BC, was found buried in Siberia in another again. producing their own. Using traditional brought home with them a revitalised the grave of a Scythian nobleman, but Meanwhile, the Armenian tradition techniques, natural fibres and dyes, they tradition, rooted in antiquity but very is considered by experts to have been of migrant craftsmen and merchants developed a thriving business producing much part of the modern world. produced in Armenia, due to its use of a was seeding new beginnings far from both antique reproductions and subtly Today the Megerian Museum in double-knot technique and red dye made home. One of these enterprises would modern designs, all hand-made in the Yerevan, Armenia, tells the fascinating from Armenian Cochineal, a type of come to play a significant role in the ancient way, but made new again in history of Armenian carpet-making insect indigenous to the Ararat Plain. revival of traditional carpet-weaving in the New World. Retracing the steps of and its connection to world events, the By the Middle Ages Armenian the latter half of the 20th century. The their forebears, the Megerian company individual stories behind famous antique carpets were to be found even further Megerian company, founded in New expanded internationally, but in reverse. carpets, as well as the inspiring story of afield, possibly as far as Imperial York in 1917, began as a seller of new Having first established production the Megerian company itself. It is well China, and Armenian carpet-weavers and antique rugs, then as an expert facilities in places such as Egypt, they worth a visit. Philippe James 32 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Culture

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by Baroque architects in the 18th Valencia had really settled on accepting I finished with a brief stay in century. At the moment it is replete with Calatrava’s extravagance. (And before Barcelona which is just such a super A Spanish scaffolding; nonetheless the small city you ask, Yes there is also one of his city. It has two of many jewels and one Pilgrimage is a delight. The local wines required celebratory bridges too). mounting concern. The first is the nearly by Derek Wyatt nightly practice, especially the collection The highlight for me was in having finished Sagrada Familia, probably the of Albariño’s and the market supplied a rather sneaky meal of a lifetime at greatest cathedral in the world. The city fresh fish to taste of all sizes, some with Ricard Camarena’s two star restaurant is confident it will be completed in 2026 names and makes not heard before. The where an eleven course meal with to celebrate one hundred years since he Brexit noise has drowned out Museum of Pilgrimage and Santiago is accompanying tasting wines caused me Gaudi’s death. I have already booked the how much we travel and admire magical and a must-see. It is beautifully to ring home to extend my mortgage. tickets for the opening ceremony. I just other European countries and cleverly curated and takes a global The beach is quite enticing too...and may have made that up. The second is and their cultures. In my seventieth religious approach as well as a local there are largely two star hotels along the way Barcelona FC is the glue which T perspective. The best place to stay is the front, and lots of them to choose gives Catalonians their huge sense of year, I still hunger to see as many more of our cities as possible whilst the tick- the Parador on the main square. It is from. pride and fierce wish for independence. tock ticks. Alan Whicker (younger charming and restful with a cafe and a The concern is the growing restlessness readers might not know that he ran a amongst its dispossessed youth where travel programme for about 30 years there is an alarming rise in street crime. across both BBC and ITV), when asked Three friends told me they had their whether travel broadened the mind handbags stolen and I was approached demurred. He said it narrowed one’s in an alley by three teenagers near the prejudices. I am not so sure./ Picasso Museum. Anyway, as I was due at a wedding in © C Messier Photograph Barcelona last month, I thought it was I have had a soft spot for Spain time to do a little more travel en route. stretching back to 1988. A friend had For a nanosecond, I pondered whether lent me his pad in La Manga to recoup I might try the pilgrimage from Bilbao from a heavy filming schedule. But, to Santiago de Compostela, a mere 500 though I was thrilled to sit in the sun, it miles or so. Might a legal pilgrimage was not for me. I hired a jeep and drove also include a bike or an e-scooter? Alas ten hours to Granada. On arriving in my not. So, as a complete cop out, I took a cut off jeans and top, it was sleeting and plane. a tad cold. I found a five star Michelin Santiago: that is Saint (Sant) hotel and though it was late October Iago (Spanish for ‘James’) is named the hotel said it was full. Really? For after James, a disciple of Jesus. It is the first time in my life I took out the not clear to me that he used Google company’s gold card and amazingly all maps to sail from Palestine to what was forgiven. The first thing I did was to go out and buy some clothes more appropriate to the climate and the hotel.

I was unaware of the Lorca relationship with Granada and the upcoming five hundred years since Columbus had set sail for the Americas, having collected his funds from Ferdinand and Isabella. This started me thinking. Granada was about to celebrate 500 years, Seville was building Expo92, Madrid had won the competition to be the Cultural Capital of Europe in 1992 and Barcelona was 3.0 License CC BY-SA Iliff. © David Photograph host to the Olympics in 1992. “Ah’” I thought, “I should write a documentary is Santiago not once, not twice, but series and call it A Spanish Inquisition.” possibly three times. (He was beheaded I did, but bless them, the BBC people in Jerusalem in AD45 by King Herod in their infinite wisdom called it Fire in Agrippa). Anyway, legends are legends. the Blood and even though I had found Extraordinarily, or possibly by divine Ian Gibson, the Lorca expert, to present intervention, King Alfonso and Bishop tasteful restaurant. Premià de Mar was my next port of call it, it lost its way. It was the unbelievable Theodemir of Itia, eight centuries later, I then flew to Valencia via Madrid (two which was a mere four hour rail journey arrogance of the documentary executives claimed they had found James’s bones. flights) to see the work of local boy twenty miles North of Barcelona for at the Beeb which distressed me more. There was thus much rejoicing at the and hero, Santiago Calatrava. Valencia the said and wondrous wedding. Premià Spain is in transition. Politicians equivalent of booking.com, as Santiago is now the third biggest city in Spain is one of a slew of super suburby-like come and go (this may sound a tad became an important centre of Christian (1.6m and counting). His City of Arts villages which swathe the coastline with familiar). Catalonia desperately wants pilgrimage. Incidentally, St James and Sciences is monumental and stretches sandy beaches. The wedding was over independence, whilst Madrid is frankly became the patron saint of all Spain.. over 35 hectares! They include an two days with the final service starting not sure what to do. It is, as Messi, In its heyday, Santiago attracted aquarium, an opera house (a palace of at 9pm and finishing at 3am...what a the greatest of many great Barcelona over a million pilgrims a year. Every the arts), a planetarium-laserium-Imax, hoot. footballers, might have said: “All to play day I was there, pilgrims were still and an arts and science museum on the for”. arriving, having walked across Europe bed of the former river Tauris, which was for 30 or 60 days to worship and pray diverted in 1957 following a catastrophic at the tiny shoebox shrine of James, in flood. The overspend was Eu600m the Cathedral. Records suggest that from an original budget of Eu300m! SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT nearly 200,000 still make an annual It was completely rethought and has pilgrimage. reinvigorated this city with a new port KCW Today. See page 20 for details The Cathedral itself is a severe and improved infrastructure. But, I was disappointment having been wrecked not yet convinced that the burghers of 34 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Culture

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The Biggest Art Gallery in the World: Street Art

Anonymity is hard to maintain in this Facebook, all-day-news, moment in time.

anksy and JR are doing well out of the spotlight in promoting their creative ideas, political voice, Bhumanity, humour and inventive street art. Banksy’s images are especially well known in the UK. JR less so; yet in 2011 he received the Ted Prize. This award gave him the opportunity to instigate “A wish to change the world”. He created Inside Out, a participatory art project that promotes individuals to support ideas, projects and actions through pictures and posters. 120,000 people have taken part. So not quite so incognito now! In 2012, for the 11th Bienal de Habana, JR collaborated with painter José Parlá to create some of the most visceral and human of street portraits. Twenty aged residents, anonymous witnesses to the decades of Cuban struggle were chosen as representatives of their neighbourhoods. Insightful, black and white photographs of great dignity were taken of them; then enlarged and ingeniously plastered onto buildings in their own districts. The composition of wrinkled characters, decaying buildings and additive artistry has created magnificent portraits celebrating ordinary people with extraordinary humanity. a wonderful journey and conversation promote their work and the location. revenue to the once gritty, crime-ridden They are wonderful works of art. between different generations observing Tony Goldman, who had invested neighbourhood. But with gentrification This Cuban project is part of a series the landscape, people and the frailties of in NYC’s Soho and Miami Art Deco came the inevitable rent increases and by that was started in Spain and continued life. If you haven’t seen Faces and Places, districts, began buying buildings in 2018 less than 10 galleries remained. The in Shanghai and Los Angeles. please do. It is remarkable and full of joy. the area in 2004. By 2008, he owned artists and the original community had Back in his French homeland more than 20 properties. In 2009, the moved on to more affordable settings. in 2017, JR travelled around the The Wynwood Walls project in Miami Wynwood Walls project encouraged countryside with a remarkable is an example of how outdoor art can graffiti artists to emblazon the many The largest outdoor mural in the world companion. Agnés Varda, the then 89 transform a neighbourhood for better large blank walls of the abandoned was commissioned for the 2016 Brazil year old, avant-garde film-maker of and for worse. At the turn of this warehouses. With the opening of Olympics. 15 metres high and 185 metres the 50s and 60s. Travelling in a van, century, the district was run down, popular Joey’s Restaurant, the place began long [that’s 30,000 square feet], on the come camera, come studio, come giant desolate, beset with drugs and crime. It to buzz and at its peak there were 70 side of a port warehouse. Eduardo Korba photo printer, they set off to observe was poor and hence cheap. In 2003, a galleries, 5 museums, artists’ studios and a team of assistants used 1,000 and record rural life, faces, and the group of artists and art dealers formed and regular art fairs. Walking tours of gallons of white paint and 400 gallons politics of changing communities. It is the Wynwood Art District Association to the massive murals brought tourists and of coloured paints along with 3,500 cans 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Travel & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Above and below opposite: The Wynwood Walls project in Miami gentrification happens and the artists This page: Mural do Cobra move on. Camden and Shoreditch are Povos Nativos dos 5 Continentes London’s most obvious equivalent to Wynwood in Miami. Less obvious is what has happened in South London in the last few years. Run down Peckham has morphed into leafy middle-class Dulwich. A place best known for its top tier schools, open green spaces and the Sir John Soane Picture Gallery. In 2012, Ingrid Beazley, a teacher at the Dulwich Picture Gallery started The Outdoor Gallery in collaboration with Stik. He painted a series of reinventions of the Old Master paintings in his very simplified style of stick images in numerous discreet and less discreet building locations around the suburb. Murillo, Gainsborough, Poussin and Marcontonio all got a make-over! In 2013, a raft of street artists arrived in South London for the party. This time, Rembrandt’s Girl in a Window was updated with a peaked cap and aerosol cans by Remi Rough & System. of aerosol in just 2 months to complete between municipal art and counter- the eyes of some. His early work was in Most impressive is Conor Harrington’s the work. The subject is five indigenous culture street art? Is it just the time Bristol, but his notoriety has now spread Fight Club which is almost 3 storeys tribal people from the five continents frame? One is planned and consulted around the world, especially for his anti- high on a blank white gable wall. Two of planet earth. Symbols of the five on and takes years to deliver; then takes war images in the occupied Southbank men in Regency costumes depict the Olympic rings aimed at communicating civil funds to maintain and control. in Palestine. His wry political wit global powers turning on themselves the diversity of peoples coming together Some outdoor art is now commissioned expressed in a poetically simple graphic in a fist fight. There is a 2 hour walk for the Games. Sadly, and poignantly, and yet, more is spontaneous, an style has made his work identifiable and that can be downloaded and takes you it also illustrates how globalisation is immediate creative observation and copied everywhere. How long can he from Peckham to Dulwich Park whilst causing the extinction of many of the response to a society and its issues. remain incognito? viewing some of the best outdoor art in colourful tribes around the world. Perhaps, public consultations could do Previously run down neighbourhoods London, if not the world. It’s South of The boundary between public art well to involve more art, artists and aim around London have, for decades, the River (if you’ve never been there) and and public realm is blurred. Most for more spontaneity? Or would that be attracted arts communities for cheap it has long been a secret suburb only a regeneration schemes prioritise “public too political? space to rent. The street life that is few minutes from the centre of London. realm improvements” as a key element of In the UK, Banksy is our best known then generated leads these districts Now it has some gritty “street” (or is that “placemaking”. But where is the border anonymous street artist or vandal in to become fashionable, rents go up, “outdoor”?) Art. 36 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Culture Photographs © Lynne McGowan © Lynne Photographs

Trails and cocktails in Patagonia By Lynne McGowan

atagonia, over a million square km and straddling Chile and Argentina equally, is one empty, barren place like no other. Christened by Magellan in 1520, the name patagón Pwas adopted to bluntly describe the big feet of Tehuelches tribes, who made the sweeping pampas landscapes their home. Easily the most famous, Torres del Paine, the old ethnic word for blue describing the three towering spires of granite is also one of the most vast national parks. Scenery is breathtakingly impressive, but weather can switch in a whisper from bright sunshine on leaving basecamp to menacing gloom as colossal banks of black clouds shunt over the mountains. Allowing for all seasons in one day is the way to fill your backpack for a hike. A vast network of paths make trail walking and hiking the most popular activities and people of all ages and levels of fitness are attracted by the well maintained routes and accommodation on offer. Young trekking guides enthuse walkers with their energy and occasionally pushing us ‘oldies’ to traipse further than we might otherwise opt for. The five day ‘W’ and the longer full circuit ‘O’ routes are popular amongst those with endurance and stamina. A rest from trekking is horse riding gaucho style and a surreal sight each morning is to see the herd of horses let loose to gallop across the hotel lawn to the stables. Grey Lake offers another fresh perspective on the scenery with a boat trip to the monumental Grey glacier fringed by floating icebergs in deepest cyan. Casually wandering the hills and plains are herds of llama- like guanaco, and ever vigilant for the predatory puma the oldest family member is posted as a watchful sentinel on high outcrops. Disappointingly, the puma were elusive or too well camouflaged on our visit to the park, but skeletal evidence of their dawn raids were scattered around. Ostrich-like Rheas, shocking pink flamingos, black-necked swans and the iconic Andean Condor were some of the other creatures spotted on our treks. Somewhat attracted by a package offered by our travel company Trailfinders to include free cocktails as a just reward after a long day hiking, we were obliged to take advantage. And very fine those cocktails were, Pisco Sours loaded with mint and served in chunky glasses with bamboo straws and homespun Calafate Sours made from local red berries were a delightful way to start the evening. A traditional asado was the culinary highlight and overseen by a beefy chef wearing a dark blue butcher’s apron. In the smoking pit, lamb carcasses were roasted on crosses to crispy umami perfection and served with a spicy Chilean red: it was the perfect ending to a day and one of the most memorable meals in the trip. However, hiking up the hills early the next morning proved to be somewhat more challenging than usual.

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Adventures Orchestra. the lunar surface. Allowing visitors 1 020 7863 8000 the chance to see the far side of the Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R Moon, the artwork will offer a new sadlerswells.com and exciting perspective of Earth’s celestial neighbour. The sculpture is 9 August 31 – September 7 accompanied by a surround-sound British Youth Opera: Scoring a composition by BAFTA and Ivor Century Novello award-winning composer The Peacock Dan Jones. Suspended from the ceiling The Jedermanns, a pair of eccentric and lit from within, the Moon will song and dance merchants, start out create a show-stopping centrepiece on an epic 100-year performance in within the 19th century Waterhouse 4 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2019 1901. As they peddle their wares to architecture of the Jerwood Gallery. an ever-changing world, they struggle Offering a space for reflection within OPENING PREVIEW 3 SEPTEMBER through everything the 20th Century the Museum, visitors can contemplate MALL GALLERIES, THE MALL, throws at them; from wars and politics their own relationship with the Moon LONDON SW1 to Hollywood and Fox News. and its influence on life on Earth. FULL DETAILS AND EXHIBITORS LIST CAN 020 7863 8222 020 7942 5511 BE FOUND ON THE WEB SITE Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT Cromwell Rd, South Kensington peacocktheatre.com SW7 5BD WWW.TRIBALARTLONDON.COM nhm.ac.uk September 12 TribalArtKC&W192.indd 104 17/07/2019 10:10 Stuart Waters: Rock Bottom Ongoing themaphouse.com fascination with trying to paint what The Place First World War Galleries he recognises, even when it evades A place where transformation can The Imperial War Museum Ends August 26 easy definition. The chimera originates happen. Rockbottom is a riveting Discover the story of the First World Manga in Greek mythology; a beast with exploration of one man’s journey into War through the eyes of the British British Museum the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and out of the deep end of human people and the Empire, both on the Enter a graphic world where art and and the tail of a serpent. In everyday existence. Combining bold storytelling home and the fighting fronts. On storytelling collide in the largest language, it's come to mean something with highly physical choreography, display are over 1,300 objects from exhibition of ‘manga’ ever to take place which is hoped for, but is impossible to Rockbottom is a moving and incredibly IWM’s collections including weapons, outside of Japan. Manga is a visual achieve. honest self-portrait of personal struggle uniforms, diaries, keepsakes, film and narrative art form that has become a 020 7494 2035 with depression and addiction. Sharing art. 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the tragedy of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet centred around the topical theme Classical kids of gang rivalry. Ten double basses Behind the National Youth bowing away to build the menacing Orchestra of Great Britain tone of grievance and each single note of percussion being a vital element at the BBC Proms in the whole piece was enchanting to By Lynne McGowan watch. Nicola Benedetti captivated in between with Tchaikovsky’s emotionally wrought Violin Concerto written after his own collapsed relationship and mental turmoil. Like a wizard with his wand, conductor Mark Wigglesworth conjured musical magic out of his exuberant young players; he said later ‘It is a humbling experience, something is

Photograph © Chris Christodolou Chris © Photograph created more powerful than the music and I’m there to enable the process’. Not only does NYO perform regular concerts made all the more impressive by members travelling from all over the UK to attend rehearsals but through NYO Inspire and Play the School programs, they engage with other students in activities and workshops. High on the agenda Sitting in the choir stalls behind the is the wish to share culture and music 164-strong National Youth Orchestra of with state schools otherwise lacking Great Britain offered a panoramic and and to connect with youngsters from all privileged overview of the Royal Albert ethnicities and backgrounds. Proudly hall, equalled only by their spellbinding British and a classical music tour de force performance. Dramatic highs and lows our young, talented teenagers deserve were reflected in the programme, a support from every corner in order carry finale to the 2019 Summer Concert on building bridges and keep the show Tour and mirroring a young person’s on the road. concerns. From Lera Auerbach’s ill- fated Icarus ignoring his father’s words [email protected] by foolishly flying near the sun to www.nyo.org.uk 42 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events with the East London club night. On 020 7379 6344 the ‘Queen of Country’ herself, Dolly September 3-28 the scene since 2015, Gay Garage Covent Garden Piazza, London, Parton. 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In facing Medusa's play out in a bespoke pop-up venue New New Zealand Play’ at the works from Vivaldi, Schubert and petrifying power and delving into within The Vaults complex under Wellington Theatre Awards 2017. Brahms, on the theme of children. Circe's transformative sorcery, she Waterloo station. 01223 357851 The Avant Piano Trio and singer will reveal the feminist power behind 020 7401 9603 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, Natasha Day present a programme these mythical characters, offering an Leake St, Lambeth, London SE1 7NN London SW10 9ED of music exploring stories of children ancestral source of inspiration for the thevaults.london finboroughtheatre.co.uk in danger, and the safety of a home. women of today. Enjoy a newly-commissioned piece 020 7437 5660 Ends August 31 Until October 5 alongside music by Vivaldi, Schubert 107 Charing Cross Road, London, Hamilton Queen of the Mist and Brahms. WC2H 0DT Victoria Palace Theatre Charing Cross Theatre 020 7841 3600 foyles.co.uk Hamilton is the story of America's Queen Of The Mist, which received its 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, Founding Father, Alexander UK premiere in a sold-out run at the London WC1N 1AZ Until October 26 Hamilton, an immigrant from the Jack Studio Theatre in April, is based foundlingmuseum.org.uk ‘The Dear Warp and Weft at West Indies who became George on the astounding and outrageous Hammersmith’: A History of Washington's right-hand man during true story of Anna Edson Taylor, who TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS Kelmscott House the Revolutionary War and helped in 1901 on her 63rd birthday set out William Morris Society shape the very foundations of the to be the first person to survive a trip Ongoing When William Morris reported to America we know today. The score over Niagara Falls in a barrel of her Deer in Richmond Park his wife Jane that he proposed leasing blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B own design. 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What’s shaking at this year’s extraordinaire Yellowman performing at the Jazz Café on Friday (August 23). The Notting Hill Carnival? dancehall superstar singer has beaten The streets, no doubt; jaw cancer and will be sure to perform a triumphant set joined by The Sagittarius thanks to its legendary Band and Peppery. Tickets from £30. collection of sound systems. 7pm. www.thejazzcafelondon.com

Geoff Cowart talks to veteran • The UK National Steelband Panorama selector Gladdy Wax about competition rolls into town on Saturday (August 24) as defending champions his three decades in the Mangrove take on all comers in Emslie game. Plus, our guide to the Horniman’s Pleasance Park. Gates 6pm. Music 7pm. Tickets £10 (£3 ages 16-5/ impressive array of parties free under 5). www.nhcarnival.org/ before and after the carnival panorama

• Once the party winds up in Notting he Notting Hill Carnival is Hill, the Carnival Quencher will transfer rightly regarded as an institution the energy over to the Scala in Kings in London. It’s the largest street Cross. Presented by Release Riddim, party in Europe and second largest city’s mightiest sound; Quaker City. “Everything’s changed,” he says with doors open at 10pm with a 6am curfew. T Tickets from £11. www.scala.co.uk carnival in the world trailing only Rio de He later swapped Brum for London to a shrug; just not Gladdy. The Tottenham Janeiro. pursue his singing career, cutting records reggae lover explains his love of wax by Over the coming Bank Holiday with fellow UK reggae legend Dennis saying: “I play records because I want • Over at the legendary Fabric nightclub weekend it will once again come alive to Bovell. to hear the music proper. It’s the tone. in Faringdon they’ll devote Room 3 the sound of steel bands, samba drums Not content with making music he It’s far more pleasing. I can hear the to reggae on Sunday (August 25) with and the legendary sound systems that also ran the superb “Wax Unlimited” difference in the analogue recordings. If special guests Gardna (album launch), make it bounce. Yes, some local residents record shop in Stoke Newington for I had to play CDs I wouldn’t bother…” Uncle Dugs (ragga jungle set),and the run for the hills to avoid the crowds, but more than a decade. But it’s always been For the first few years he performed Real Roots Crew. It’s hosted by MC music lovers from across the UK will be the majestic and clear tone of his vintage on a float. But today his current spot Navigator and MC Ardimann between running for Notting Hill. sound system that’s set him apart from located at 304-306 Portobello Road has 11pm and 6am. Tickets from £5. www. The Carnival’s biggest attraction has the crowd. Now aged 68, he’s been become a true Carnival destination. fabriclondon.com almost always been its sound systems. dropping tunes at the party for 31 long And you can always spot Gladdy by his Yet, when the carnival first hit the years, and he’s still not lost the hunger. trademark white gloves. It’s a throwback streets in 1966 they were merely the “I’m still motivated by the music,” he to his music distributor days when he Motto unofficial sideshows courtesy of early says. “This year I’m bringing more power would visit the pressing plants and watch Ladbroke Grove selectors “Duke Vin” as I’ve got some new equipment up my as the crews would carefully handle the and “Count Suckle”. And the rest is sleeve. I always try and improve my set.” freshly pressed wax with gloved hands. history. While he always has time to tinker “Initially it was about protecting the Meanwhile, 1966 was the same year with his sound system, he’s always vinyl. Treating the records with care and that future carnival legend Gladdy Wax operated it the traditional Jamaican respect. But then I thought it looked emigrated from Jamaica to Birmingham way; fully analogue, powered by valve good, so I kept wearing them,” he says at the age of 14. Gladdy (or Gladwin amps and spinning only vinyl. In fact, with a laugh. as his mum calls him) grew up on the out of the 40-odd sound systems at the And once again this year, Gladdy’s Midlands sound system scene with his Carnival Gladdy is now one of the very gloves won’t come off until he’s rocked brothers as part of Leisure Sound. last selectors to play only records at the the block. Soon after, he was recruited to the Carnival. Other Carnival highlights • One of the carnival’s hottest after parties returns to Embankment club Carnival may only last two Heaven on Sunday (August 25). The Sun Balient night features a live set of days, but there is a week’s carnival anthems from Saint Lucia’s worth of events around the MOTTO, a carnival room with Soca, Bouyon and Dennery, as well as a festival. Here’s our pick of the Jamaican sound system room. 11pm- best events: 6am. Tickets £15. www.heaven-live. co.uk • The Notting Hill Arts Club returns with a long hot weekend of Carnival There are also great carnival fun. Running from Thursday (August 22) to Monday it stages a free night; parties at Ministry of Sound: every night. www.nottinghillartsclub. Egg, Aquum, the Brixton com Jamm and the Vauxhall Street • Don’t miss reggae legend and boaster Food Garden. 44 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining out

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guests to scope out the underworld of the Bar to their heart’s content. Dark The Baptist Grill wood and deep purple predominate, but instead of leaving the mezzanine at L’Oscar shadowy, the tenebrous colour scheme

2-6 Southampton Row, is gloriously offset by the light shining © Baptist Grill Photograph Holborn, London through the dome. Still you can’t eat aesthetics, though WC1B 4AA presumably scientists are working on Closes 12am that, so we arrive at the food. Chef Tony Flemming (who previously earned a T: 020 7405 5555 Michelin Star for his work at the Angler) By Max Feldman has outdone himself with a canny reimagining of the charcoal grill as the last word in decadence. I started with the Seared Scallops, served on a bed of guanciale, fennel, basil and strawberry For the uninitiated, a group which I vinaigrette (£16.00) Scallops were belonged to until very recently, L’Oscar is juicy with a hint of smoke, smoothed a boutique hotel overlooking Holborn’s down whilst the smooth flavour of the Southampton Row like a stately castle. guanciale coming through strong and Its facade exudes that mannered form clear overlaid the hidden sweetness of sophisticated luxury both seductive damaged by a bomb in World War II, (Monkey 47, Triple Sec Gagliardo, of the strawberry. As flavourful as it and somewhat intimidating for the more it was closed to churchgoers for decades Vermouth Bianco Di Prato, Grenadine, was, the real treat was the Saddleback budget conscious. If you let yourself be before finally undergoing an extensive Lime) with the cool, sweet Pride taking Pork Cutlet slavered in apple jam, enticed through its doors, visitors in the restoration programme that began in first prize, containing enough of a kick lardo, red apple (£24). The meat was mood for a little more tangible than a 2012. You enter the reborn chapel by that a few of them could definitely go tender as a summer romance (with the good night’s sleep are advised to head way of a notably decadent bar which before a fall. Both are definitely a little red apple sharp enough to evoke the to the Baptist Grill; a butterfly cocooned hymns its former religious virtues (with pricey at £16.00 a glass, but the delicate recriminatory end of said romance), it by the hotel like a sleek dark pearl in an an admittedly infernal twist) with a balance of flavours really speaks to the was a real triumph and one that really oyster. The Baptist occupies a Grade II series of cocktails based on the Seven care and attention that have been put showed off Flemming’s flamboyant listed domed chamber entirely hidden Deadly Sins and the Seven (presumably less into these Miltonic delights. (Once approach. Whilst you will be sinking from street level. The site came to be by deadly) Virtues. Splitting the difference you’ve finished putting your soul and some funds into an evening at The the meticulous restoration of the former we elected to embrace a binary, trying liver at hazard, it’s a) Running one floor Baptist, considering its ambitious menu, London headquarters of the Baptist both Pride (Jasmine Infused Ketel above the bar is a circular gantry which prime location and striking interiors, any church built between 1901 and 1903 by One Vodka, Lime & Sage Sherbet, hosts the Baptist Grill itself. The tables theatreland visitor should considering the architect Arthur Keen. After being Champagne, Anise Star) and Humility are clustered beneath the dome allowing being born again at their hands. 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Dining out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

three branches. On one rested a selection sweets; which were little works of art in of small savouries. Here’s where the miniature. Combinations of crunch and Belmond formula strayed from tradition in their creamy; chocolaty textures with notes of Cadogan Hotel delicious composition. A small black fruit and and salty caramel. A raspberry 75 Sloane St, Chelsea, pudding sausage roll was accompanied mousse with white chocolate was the by a salt cod croquette with tartare texture combination winner. But the London SW1X 9SG sauce; a chicken liver gougère; (a small gold medallist for us was a slice of moist, choux pastry parcel with a stuffing). fruity Dundee cake. There’s tradition. T: 020 7048 7141 Hotel © Belmond Cadogan Photographs Our favourite of the selection was Mrs Of course tea without tea wouldn’t By Tim Epps Kirkham’s Cheddar tart. impress our international friends. There On plate two was an arrangement was a wide selection depending on one’s of sandwiches all made with their own personal idea of accompaniment. home baked bread; yes there was egg There was a choice of Oolong, nd is there honey still for tea? and cress, cucumber and chicken, but Lapsang, green and black teas and many Well no, but if it’s a their preparation was much richer and others. My blonde companion went for traditional English tea you’re more subtle than expected. English the (wrongly titled) Rooibos (Rooibos; a after,A hasten to the Cadogan Hotel as pickled cucumber was accompanied with plant from South Africa). This one was Oscar Wilde used to. cream cheese and shallot on white bread; made from Persian rosebuds and was Although recently refurbished free range hen’s egg was combined with perfect for my friend with its delicate to a high international standard, home made mayonnaise and mustard flavour and fragrance. I plumped for the Adam Handling the chef has not and cress on rye. There was rare roast Adam Handling Assam and was not forgotten the attractions of the beef on malt bread with horseradish disappointed with the complex, robust, old fashioned afternoon tea, albeit cream (possibly needed more power!), amber liquid. A beautiful touch was the with some additional twists. This is then smoked salmon with dill crème hand knitted teas cosies, knitted “with hugely appreciated, as attested by the fraiche and rocket on caraway bread. love” from Adam’s mum. international mix of clients surrounding Normally not a fan of caraway, the Back to tradition; perfect tasting us enjoying the offering. combination carried me through, to be scones, plain and with raisins, hot from We were welcomed with a glass of followed by roasted chicken, tarragon the oven, were accompanied with cream chilled sparkling white wine, Ambriel, mustard mayonnaise, smoked garlic and and home made strawberry jam. Up to from West Sussex, which would tomato jam on onion bread. Nonetheless, us to decide the order of application. compete with many champagnes in a some of these were not as exciting as we I prefer jam first, cream on top. (Hate blind tasting. This was complemented by expected. mail to the editor, please!). a foamed mushroom and truffled egg in But memorable summer cricket More good news; with notice, all this its own shell. pavilion teas I have known seemed to can be packed into a hamper and enjoyed When comfortably settled we fade into insignificance at such a bravura as a picnic in the garden while watching received on our table a cast brass tree presentation. tennis. stand with glass circular plates on the Plate three held a selection of Long live English Tea.

cheeses starter with home made breads (Another wine from the side of a tiramisu; I’m converted. This was Enoteca Rosso and grissini (including a black bread and volcano; Vesuvius this time). accompanied by an unusual wine steeped 276-280 Kensington High St, black grissini). Two contrasting flavours From an incredible selection of fine with morello cherries. of olive oil complemented these with wines from all round Italy. our extremely The Tagliere (starter boards) were Kensington, London W8 6ND Parma ham and truffled mortadella. knowledgeable sommelier steered us around £20. The main courses could enotecarosso.com Then one after the other three skillfully through the complexity. be taken in small medium or large sorts of pasta dishes, homemade pasta, (when I looked up the Italian word for according to preference, up to £14, £26 T: 07384 595191 Gnocchi Rossi, Ravioli Spinach & sommelier, it appears to be sommelier). and £46 (inclusive of VAT) By Tim Epps Tagliatelle Lamb each a miniature, This is indeed a comprehensively stocked So if you’re in nee0d of cheering masterful taste compilation. This was wine library. Certainly no returns from up after La Bohème at the Holland accompanied by a fine Tuscan wine, Oso us, though. Park Opera or re-invigorating after from Castello di Albola. Then tiramisu; normally not for an exhaustingly creative tour of the The main courses of stone bass dish, me, but this was not the mormal Design Museum, or even just because Enoteca can mean “wine library” and Filetto di Ombrina, and outstanding and brilliant. Three little cups, it’s a wonderfully imaginative offering, instead of a wall of books, we were caramelized duck with crunchy one containing finger biscuits, one cheerfully, happily and professionally greeted by a wall of wine; bottles endive and creamy sweet potato were containing coffee, one containing presented, accompanied by stunning floor to ceiling in the lofty modern accompanied by a robust white wine, mascarpone cream dusted with chocolate wines, right on hand is the Enoteca Rosso. interior. Apparently the restaurant was Cavaceppo from the Naples region Ranieri called it de-constructed Save all libraries! originally about wine, but tasty snacks to accompany wine tasting blossomed into something way more exciting. What’s

not to like with this concept? Epps Tim We had anticipated a three course meal plus a bottle of wine. When I told the engaging maitre d’ Ranieri, he said Photographs © Photographs he would prefer it, if we were willing, to present a selection of what the chef could do. We agreed prontamente to leave it in his hands; much more exciting. We were first presented with a blush sparkler from the slopes of Mount Etna to settle us down. We then knew we were in the hands of experts. There issued forth a succession of beautifully prepared dishes, the first; Tagliere Amarone, a selection of three 46 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Design

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Water has always played a huge role in our lives. Water is considered the elixir and source of life. It covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, makes up nearly 70% of our bodies, and constitutes over 70% of our heart and brains. esearch has shown that when TOP TIPS for installing a Is the water feature child-proof or Scale we are near water, this deep can it be made so? The size and shape of a sculpture is also biological connection triggers an successful water feature in a Recirculating features where there is very important. A large artwork might Rimmediate response in our brains. In small garden. no access to open water are safer. Open overpower a small patio or roof terrace, fact, the sight and sound of water can areas of water can be protected with and a small piece could get visually lost induce a flood of positive neurochemicals a metal grid immediately below the in a large space. The best way of judging that promote wellness by increasing The key is in the planning. surface. scale is to try it in situ. If the height is blood flow to the brain and heart, Site and situation are not quite right try raising your sculpture inducing relaxation. on a plinth or pedestal. This can be

Researchers, city planners, and important factors to consider: Garden Sculpture particularly helpful if your sculpture is to governments want to put this knowledge be positioned amongst dense foliage. When chosen carefully and sited to practical use, turning water into a Where will the feature be sited? sympathetically, a garden sculpture can tool to promote community health. The Full sun and eddying winds can have enhance a garden and give emphasis to Materials European Union in 2016 initiated Blue a dramatically negative effect on Traditional materials for garden its design and plantings throughout the Health. The four-year cross-disciplinary maintaining regular water levels in a sculpture in the past were stone and year. In the right position it can create research project examines the effects of pond or water feature. A site not too hot bronze and these are beautiful and hard- a dramatic focus or provide a subtle aquatic environments on body and mind, and one where the wind doesn't billow wearing. If you are choosing stone make enhancement depending on the desired with the goal of exploring the best ways are ideal. sure the stone used is suitable for exterior environment. to use water to improve the well-being of use. people in busy cities. Is it possible to get electricity and Other materials include metal,

Historically, elaborate water features water to that point easily? Style wood and glass. Many sculptors work The first thing to consider when were often associated with stately homes Always employ a skilled tradesperson to in sheet metal, such as corten and selecting a garden sculpture is; do or public spaces, created as statements undertake the installation for you or opt stainless steel or aluminium, particularly you really like it? Choose forms and features. But they need not be just for for a solar powered feature. for contemporary abstract forms. It colours you are drawn to, shapes and grand spaces, incorporating a water is virtually indestructible and can be textures that make you feel positive. A feature into your own garden can be finished in different colours. Although Will the feature be a stand-alone personally chosen piece of art for the a way of expressing your personality wood is a material beloved by many creation? garden can give you the same pleasure as and personalising your garden space A bold keystone of the garden as a people, it is generally not very durable having your garden filled with beautiful providing you with years of pleasure. unless treated and may weather badly whole, or will it gently enhance the flowers and trees throughout the Water adds a touch of magic to after a few years. Small sculptures, scheme in a more naturalistic manner? year. Spend time looking at different gardens, a presence and sound that has which are mainly suitable for placing in styles. Do you prefer contemporary or the power to calm and soothe. Nothing garden beds, can provide inexpensive What will the material be? traditional? beats relaxing beside a pool of glistening inspiration and add colour and interest. Can you take any reference for this from water at the end of a working day, with Try experimenting with coloured glass the immediate surroundings? Metal, glass in hand. Whatever type of water Perspective balls or Led illuminated sculptures slate, stone or simply just water? This depends on the size and shape of feature you choose to install they can be and contemporary seating. Mirrors are your garden. Do you want your sculpture easily adapted to suit the space, style of a marvellous way to open up a small How much maintenance is to be seen from the house, or even a garden and its surroundings. garden by expanding the perspective involved? specific room? Would you prefer to Many people only think about of the surrounding vegetation and Unfortunately water is not maintenance- create an element of surprise as you come choosing a garden sculpture or water often work well combined with a water free and often not even low maintenance, across it in a secluded area? A sculpture feature when they redesign their garden, feature. but an automated top-up that regulates placed at the end of a path can have a but there is no reason why you cannot the water level over the pump means dramatic effect. Equally, small pieces create an area in your existing garden or that manual topping up of water levels set amongst foliage can add interest and patio. Wondering where to begin? isn't required quite so often. provide a subtle and surprising element

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2,000 artworks, and that only a handful of art galleries in the UK could handle The Healing Arts some of the works of the scale on view, THE like Joy Gerrard’s Assembly/450. Most The Arts Project people enter a hospital out of necessity rather than choice, and a lot of people at Chelsea and HEALING may not normally choose to go and seek Westminster out art by visiting museums or galleries, ARTS so they are exposed to a diverse range Hospital of art, which they would otherwise not Unicorn Publishing see. ‘Calming imagery and music have been shown to reduce the anxiety of 166 pp. £15 those in waiting areas, with decreased ISBN 978-1-912690-26-8 pulse, respiratory and metabolic rates, oxygen consumption and blood pressure, as well as reducing stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and instead he title says it all. The opening increase immune response.’ words of the foreword by Philip THE ARTS PROJECT Along with a photographic essay by Hoffman, founder of the Fine AT CHELSEA AND Lewis Khan, one On Being a Musician ArtT Group, states, ‘Art serves many by Dr Hall and Drawing in the Hospital purposes, often to communicate, to WESTMINSTER by the Drawer in Residence, Anouk emote, to create a sense of beauty or Mercier, there is a chapter by artist to motivate; but within the walls of HOSPITAL David Ferry on his musings about Chelsea and Westminster Hospital spending some considerable time in (CW+) it plays another vital role. Art the hospital. From the six-bed recovery goes above and beyond, and instead ward, he observed his fellow patients becomes a tool for healing.’ When the Hospital was opened in 1993, built on the site of St Stephen’s, which had a very THE HEALING ARTS THE ARTS PROJECT AT CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL THE FOUNDING OF THE CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL ARTS PROJECT busy A & E department on weekends, the proposed walls with a questionnaire inviting opinions as to which was preferred. 13. Sandra Blow (1925–2006), (left–right) Through and Beyond, After four weeks and more than a hundred votes, Hollywood was declared the winner. Side Effect, Inside Story, Split Second, 1993-94. mostly from alcohol-fuelled injuries, Bert liked to call his pieces, which were in public collections, after neighbouring Silkscreen prints, each 119 x 119 cm. roads, Hollywood Road being opposite the hospital. He was touched that one of the The Atrium, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital consultant orthapaedic surgeon James preparatory sketches, despite security fittings, was stolen. A group of us visited his studio in Stepney while it was being prepared. The final canvas was about 550 cm long. Scott was instrumental in creating an Soon after it was installed, a patient in a wheelchair told a member of staff, ‘It makes ambitious arts programme, along with me feel as if I am on ecstasy.’ his colleagues. Right from the outset, art was an integral part of the design of the building, inspired by the art that had already been commissioned, loaned or gifted at St Stephen’s. Scott started by approaching artists he either knew, or admired, starting with Patrick Heron, who designed three large free-hanging banners to occupy one of the atria. The 12. Virginia Powell (b. 1939), The issue now was how to decorate the the multi-faith sanctuary. We decided to Concentration, 1995. Fine Art Group then commissioned Lithograph, 29 x 39 cm. have a competition and various artists and students from the Royal College of Art Operating Theatre, Chelsea and and City & Guilds Art School submitted proposals. We sought senior guidance from Sian Tucker to design a 29-meter high Westminster Hospital a small committee, including William Packer (Financial Times), Deanna Petherbridge (the Wellcome Institute), Bryan Robertson (previously of the Whitechapel Gallery) foamex panelled installation called and Marina Vaizey (the Sunday Times). After some deliberation, three artists were short listed: Maggi Hambling, Mali Morris and Shirazeh Houshiary. Maggi Hambling’s Falling Leaves, adding to the kinetic series of ten watercolours depicting sunrises over the Orwell River in Essex on three A few years later Bert became a patient when he fell and broke his wrist. I asked consecutive mornings, was finally chosen, and installed in 1994. I particularly liked a him to decorate his fibreglass cast after it was removed, which he did – in a riot of qualities of Heron’s work. A static piece circular grey disc design submitted by Shirazeh Houshiary, with large regular thumb reds, yellows and blues. We proudly displayed this for some time in a Perspex box on print-like marks, which would occupy the entire end wall. Somewhat later, Maggi the wall in the clinic. was added in the atrium, in the form of made three charcoal portrait drawings of the founders, myself, Richard and Adam. For the first few years we were extremely lucky to have an informal and We continued to be helped regularly by both artists and friends. Bert Irvin lived unofficial artist in residence. Virginia Powell is predominately a printmaker. She is a near us in South London. There were several of his wonderfully vibrant large abstract neighbour of ours in South London and had been taught at Chelsea College of Art. Acrobat by Allen Jones, who, like Heron, paintings in hospitals around the country and I was anxious to acquire one for the Initially, Virginia did several studies of empty wards as the Westminster Hospital was fracture clinic. He had the excellent idea of putting eight small preparatory sketches on closed. In the new hospital she would sit unobtrusively in various corners around the could be regarded as a local resident, 24 25 which helped enormously with fund- raising. Original works by other artists to appear on the walls are by Maggie Hambling, Mary Fedden, Julian Opie, colourful pieces, mysteriously became six who had suffered nearly catastrophic who passed through it. One involved Bruce McLean, Martin Creed, Edward tall, thin colourful pieces. It transpired injuries in a bicycle accident and spent an armed robber, his attendant police Bawden, Jonathan Delafield Cook, that a junior doctor had fashioned the some time in the high dependency unit. officers and colourful language and Richard Smith, Gillian Ayres. and a sixth piece at home and had smuggled it Dr Penn thinks that environmental another a taxi driver who watched adult stunning acrylic on canvas, Hollywood into the hospital, where it still resides. and participatory arts have virtually movies into the night. He concludes by Albert Irvin, nearly 7-meters long. One of the first works one sees no downside, and thinks that if staff by saying, ‘Art in hospitals is an all- There are prints by Henry Moore, Jo when entering the building is a strange, are happy, patients are happy, focusing enriching and empowering force that Tilson, Sandra Blow, Georges Braque, slightly sinister, soldier-like figure, with on wellbeing. She also states that the drives goodness and culture through Sean Scully, John Hoyland and Howard spindly, robotic, outstretched arms, bare environment can affect rates of delirium, the darker channels of illness, grief and Hodgkin. Sculpture has included feet, a glass-fronted collection box on or ‘acute confusional state,’ whose cause anxiety.’ Needless to say, the book is works by Eduardo Paolozzi, Kenneth his chest and slots for money in his chin can be difficult to ascertain. ‘Delirium illustrated throughout with fine artworks Armitage, Barbara Hepworth, Nigel and ears. It is cast in bronze and bears was something we thought was an from the collection. One wheelchair- Hall and William Pye. The latter fell the inscription The Healing Arts by E unavoidable part of an admission to the bound patient said of Bert Irvin’s foul of bacteriological concerns about his Paolozzi. The book comprises a number intensive care unit, that we just had to explosion of colour, Hollywood, named water sculpture Water Cube, originally of essays by Scott, Richard Cork, the live with. We did not have any reaction after the road opposite the hospital, ‘It installed between the elevators towards art critic, Dr Zoe Penn, the Medical more nuanced than, “Let’s give them a makes me feel as if I am on ecstasy.’ I the front on the ground floor. There director, Dr Andrew Hall, a musician heavy sedative”. If you’ve got a hammer, didn’t know you could get that on the was an incident of ‘geurilla-art’ toward and artist, Grace Saull, the Visual Arts lots of things look like they need NHS. the rear of the hospital, where Rachel Manager and David Ferry, former hammering.’ Grace Saull informs us that Owen’s Totems, comprising five tall, thin Chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club, CW+ now has a collection of more than Don Grant 48 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health

a long time is linked to other problems have been suggested. It could be that can request a test from your GP though Cognitive including depression. more colds, coughs, and flu viruses are routine measurements are not currently This was published in the peer- circulating when they return to school offered on the NHS for people under Behavioural reviewed British Journal of General which can trigger asthma symptoms. 40 years old. Many pharmacies also Practice. It could also be that some children are provide blood pressure testing services. Therapy The CBT-I was carried out either not using their inhalers as much in the Exercising regularly, eating a balanced By Lucy Blair by a nurse, psychologist, counsellor, or summer holidays. Air pollution, fungal diet, not smoking, and moderating social worker. spores, or other environmental factors alcohol consumption can all help in “The results of this review provide could be more common in the autumn. keeping cholesterol and blood pressure at evidence that CBT-I (group or Finally, some children may find that healthy levels. individual) is effective at improving sleep returning to school brings with it stress ognitive Behavioural Therapy uses onset and maintenance in patients in and that could cause asthma symptoms. the basic principle of emotional primary care with chronic insomnia,” If your child has asthma, the best responsibility which enables the the researchers said. way to protect them is to ensure that client to understand that it is not the C However, the study only looked they take their medication as prescribed Artificial event itself, but the belief or view which at night time symptoms so we do not and have regular asthma checks. Make they hold about the event that provokes know whether people having CBT-I sure that the school is aware of it and intelligence the unhealthy response (or overwhelming felt less tired in the day. There is also no any medicine they use, how much they negative emotion). In other words, it information on the overall length of time take and when they should. reveals new breast is what happens to you AND what you people were asleep which did not change believe it means to you, or about you, with CBT-I. That as well as quality of cancer types that results in how you feel and what you life would be important outcomes. that respond differently to do. The therapist works to help identify the beliefs that are causing the emotional High blood treatment disturbance. Together you work to change your cognitions (what you are pressure & telling yourself) and your behaviours Asthma cases Advancements in artificial intelligence (what you then do) which will lead to a cholesterol (AI) could help to personalise breast change in the way you feel. increase linked to heart disease cancer treatments. This could include The goal of CBT in insomnia is to with back to school picking out who is likely to benefit from reduce the amount of time it takes to fall immunotherapy. Scientists have used asleep and improve sleep by changing artificial intelligence to recognise any behaviours, habits and unhealthy beliefs octors have long thought that patterns in breast cancer, and uncovered that interfere with sleep. The demand to children are more likely to need five new types of the disease, each of sleep a certain number of hours in order medical help for asthma in the which could be matched to a different to function well the following day is weeks after returning to school from D and personalised treatment. often what prevents it. the summer holidays. But now research The study, published in the journal from Public Health England the NPJ Breast Cancer, used AI and Royal College of General Practitioners machine learning to gene sequences and (RCGP) has looked into this. molecular data from breast tumours to In a study published in the peer- Therapy before reveal crucial differences among cancers. reviewed Journal of Epidemiology and In the past, these differences would’ve Community Health (which is free to read all been lumped into one type. pills for sleep online), researchers used surveillance The new study, led by a team from data from GPs and hospital emergency The Institute of Cancer Research problems departments to track the attendance (ICR) in London, found that two By Fahad Redha of children with asthma symptoms types were more likely to respond to throughout the year. immunotherapy than others while They found that those aged up to 15 another was more likely to relapse on were 2 to 3 times more likely to come Up until recently there has been no tamoxifen. Now, the researchers are with asthma symptoms after going back evidence of the benefit that cognitive High blood pressure and cholesterol at developing tests for these types of breast to school in September compared with behavioural therapy (CBT) has on a young age could be linked to heart cancer that will be used to select patients other times of the year. Boys, it found, insomnia. But now US and European disease later in life. At least according for different drugs in clinical trial. The were twice as likely to do so than girls. guidelines recommend that GPs refer to a study from a number of American ultimate goal is to make personalised It’s not known exactly why this is patients to CBT before trying sleeping institutions. therapy a standard part of treatment. the case, but there are some reasons that pills. CBT-I is a type of cognitive The researchers modelled the AI had previously been used in this therapy that is specially tailored for risk factors of 36,030 people who way to uncover five different types of sleep problems including insomnia and took part in 6 long-running studies. bowel cancer and now oncologists are researchers have reviewed studies that They estimated the effects that high evaluating its application in clinical look into its effect on insomnia. cholesterol and high blood pressure in trials. Hopefully it can be applied to CBT-I involves between four and six young adulthood (18 to 39) would have many different types of cancer and on a person’s risk of heart attack, stroke,

sessions with a therapist teaching three provide information for each about the © NIAID Photograph tactics to improve sleep, sleep restriction or heart failure later in life. sensitivity to treatment, likely paths (intentionally reducing time in bed so They found that “bad” LDL of evolution, and how to combat drug you only go to bed when you are tired), cholesterol as well as high blood pressure resistance. managing worries about sleep, and as a young adult was connected to an “We are at the cusp of a revolution relaxation training. increased risk of heart disease later in in healthcare, as we really get to grips Researchers from Queen’s University life. The researchers say that it adds with the possibilities AI and machine in Canada found 13 studies that involved further proof of the harmful effects of learning can open up,” Study leader Dr over 1,500 patients who overall reported raised blood pressure and cholesterol Anguraj Sadanandam, Team Leader in “medium to large” positive effects on early in adulthood and that new ways of Systems and Precision Cancer Medicine how well people said they slept. The time tackling cardiovascular risk for that age at The Institute of Cancer Research, taken to get to sleep as well as time lying group are needed. London, said. awake after going to bed had the largest If you are concerned about your For more information on The ICR, improvements. Difficulty sleeping over blood pressure or cholesterol risk you please visit icr.ac.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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The researchers analysed tumour use of drug combinations are among dementia. samples from men with advanced a range of strategies being pursued at They found that for those with a Gene test picks prostate cancer who had been treated at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) greater risk of getting dementia, only The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation through its new Centre for Cancer Drug 11 out of 1,000 with healthier lifestyles out prostate Trust, in order to try to understand Discovery. actually developed the condition during cancer patients why the response to search-and-destroy Next, the researchers aim to assess follow-up compared with 18 out of who could benefit from search treatment varied. whether testing for DNA repair faults 1,000 with unhealthy lifestyles. They found that the target for these can effectively target search-and-destroy However, there are limitations to and destroy medicine new treatments, a protein molecule treatment as part of clinical trials, and the study. Some cases of dementia could called prostate-specific membrane to explore combination strategies to see have been missed by the researchers antigen, or PSMA, was present at higher if the response to these treatments could as they did not directly assess the levels on the surface of cancer cells be heightened. participants, relying instead on hospital new type of medicine could in some patients than others. PSMA records and death certificates. But the benefit men who are identified levels even varied substantially between overall findings are good news. Nobody through genetic testing. A different cancer sites in the same patient. can change their genes but this suggests targetedA medicine which works at a But crucially, the amount of PSMA Healthy lifestyle that changing our lifestyle could reduce nuclear level has been effective in men on the surface of cancer cells was more the risk of dementia. with genetic weaknesses in a new study than four times higher in tumours where could overcome genetic funded by Cancer Research UK. there were also faults in DNA repair dementia risk This emerging class of drugs is made genes. up of radioactive particles which seek That means that testing for genetic out cancers by detecting the presence faults in DNA repair genes could be of a specific ‘target’ molecule on their used as a first-stage screening process to While some people may have a higher Photograph © MaxPixel Photograph surface.They can then kill the cells that select patients for treatments which use risk of dementia later in life, a healthy they become attached to. PSMA as a target molecule. lifestyle could play a role in reducing the These new ‘search-and-destroy’ The researchers believe that PSMA risk. At least according to a study from treatments are starting to show promise could be produced by tumours as a researchers from a number of institutions even in men with prostate cancer survival mechanism where they are in the UK, the US, Australia, and for whom targeted treatments and defective in repairing their DNA. This Germany. chemotherapies have stopped working, could explain the link between DNA The study analysed nearly 200,000 but not all patients have responded. repair faults and high levels of PSMA. adults aged 60 or over in the UK. The In the new study, scientists at The These findings also suggest that volunteers filled out a questionnaire Institute of Cancer Research, London, combination therapy with other drugs at the start of the study about their found that testing men for faults with that increase genetic instability could lifestyles and researchers analysed DNA repair genes in their tumours make prostate tumours more likely to their DNA to see who had the genetic could identify those most likely to respond to PSMA-targeting treatments. variations linked to an increased risk in respond to the new type of treatment. Precise targeting of cancer cells and Alzheimer’s, the most common form of

including taking DNA from up to 5 million patients, to detect diseases before Artificial symptoms even appear. Intelligence Clinical trials have found Artificial Intelligence to be as good as leading and the NHS: doctors at diagnosing lung cancer, skin cancer and more than 50 eye conditions. Johnson’s plan Boris Johnson claims ‘it will boost By Ellen Harper the frontline by automating admin tasks and freeing up staff to care for patients.’ Artificial Intelligence has already been used to identify new ways of diagnosing atrial fibrillation (an irregular The £250 million plan Prime heartbeat) and tools have been developed to predict ovarian cancer survival rates Minister Boris Johnson hopes and subsequent forms of treatment. to roll out, seeks to make the Matt Hancock, Health Secretary, said: “We are on the cusp of a huge NHS a world leader in the use health tech revolution that could of Artificial Intelligence. transform patient experience by making The proposed Artificial the NHS a truly predictive, preventive and personalised health and care Intelligence lab will diagnose service.” patients more efficiently and However, following the 2017 NHS cyber-attack on patient data, that build cutting edge treatments disrupted hospitals and GPs throughout for cancer, dementia and heart the country, there is concern Artificial disease. Intelligence may become a target. Matthew Honeyman, researcher at Artificial Intelligence works on think-tank, The King’s Fund said ‘rolling algorithms that learn from huge out new technologies like AI will require amounts of data to spot patterns and the standards to ensure patient safety, a lab will use medical imaging and data to workforce equipped with digital skills, diagnose. and an upgrade to outdated basic NHS It will use early detection techniques, tech infrastructure.’ 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Top: Arno No. 265 gave the picture this title, because it Left: suited its ‘regal’ expression of colour, Ivon Hitchens: Red Centre 72 and warned, ‘it would be unwise to Space Through seek for any more direct symbolism.’ About this time, his paintings began Colour to expand horizontally, with Winter Pallant House Stage, Fenland Willows and September Water all around 1.5m wide and many Chichester twice as wide as they were tall. His Until 13 October 2019 influences were Cézanne, Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, and latterly, Admission £12.50 Kandinsky, but he still belonged to a pallant.org.uk tradition of British landscape painting that stretched back to Constable and Turner. He also held firmly with the Japanese term notan, which donates a t could be argued that this major deliberate harmony of darks and lights, exhibition of Hitchens’ work, the and with which he blended colour and largest since a retrospective at the tone. He stated, ‘What I see and feel, IRA in 1979, gets better as one wanders I try to reduce to patches and lines of through it, culminating in his absorbtion pigment which have an effect upon our with abstraction. In my view, the closer is space,’ and Hitchens himself said of his own house and studio Greenleaves on aesthetic consciousness, independent he got to the abstracted landscape, the his relationship with the natural world, the site, where he lived for many years, of (though interpreting) the facts of better he became. Certainly, his early ‘I seek to recreate the truth of nature by meandering about the surrounding nature in terms of a relationship of all works from the 1920s in muted greens, making my own song about it (in paint),’ six acres of woodland and painting the parts.’ Heron added that Hitchens browns and palest of blues, had his own ostensibly singing a solo in the depths ,sometimes from life en plein air, or back closely followed Cézanne in ‘realising stamp on them, but many are painfully of the English countryside. He also at the studio, using his many detailed his sensations before nature . . . and who ‘thin’, with barely applied oil paint on likened the affective resonance of colour and annotated sketchbooks as reference. is the only living painter who succeeded canvas. There are clear influences from to ‘the musical appearance of things,’ He was a painter who remained faithful in extending the spatial logic of Cubism Ben and Winifred Nicholson, with adding that his paintings were painted to the earth, to the genius loci, or spirit to the presentation of the landscape.’ whom he stayed in their farmhouse in ‘to be listened to.’ As Claudia Tobin of place, and yet, one of five lyrically He took a seaside cottage near Selsey Cumbria for a protracted period, along said in her somewhat mannered essay in sentient paintings entitled Arno, is not Bill, and his palette changed radically, with David Bomberg, Paul Nash and the catalogue, ‘the concept of “musical of the river that runs through Florence, with brilliant yellows, deep purples, Christopher Wood. He was very taken appearances” suggest both a temporal but the River Rother and River Itchen blancmange pinks and duck-egg blues, with Winifred’s notion of painting still unfolding and a mysterious synaesthetic in West Sussex. Apparently, he chose while the broad, vibrant brushstrokes lifes of jugs of flowers against a window experience of sound, which challenges to create distance from the locations to of November Revelation is emblematic of and a view through it in the background, conventional characteristics of painting further emphasise the painting’s abstract Hitchens’ exploration of the relationship which served as a visual metaphor for as a static art and the silence and stasis qualities, and Arno II was painted in between art and music, a connection movement between the material and the ascribed to still life.’ 1965, and, according to the catalogue, he never lost, until his death in 1979. immaterial, between inner and outer His move to West Sussex from was the year when Florence was flooded. This show just gets better as it unfolds, worlds. He stated that ‘one can read into Hampstead after his studio was bombed The great flood actually happened with two dynamic reclining nudes to a good flower picture the same problems in 1940 marked a turning point in his in November 1966, which destroyed remind us that he never quite abandoned that one faces with a landscape, near career and a growing fascination with or damaged millions of rare books, figurative art, even though it is for and far, meanings and movements the natural landscape. He first moved manuscripts and masterpieces of art. his landscapes that he will be best of shapes and brush strokes.’ Patrick into a gypsy caravan in the woods at He had earlier painted a large canvas remembered. Heron, a friend and fellow painter said, Lavington Common near Petworth with entitled Coronation shortly after George ‘For Hitchens colour is light and light his wife and infant son, and then built VI was crowned in 1937. 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which freezes it into a beautiful piece of sculpted ice, crystal or quicksilver. In Beauty, it is raining in the gallery, complete with shimmering rainbows, while a window looking out towards Waterfall, is spattered with raindrops, even though it is a warm and sunny day outside. This playful element is present in another chamber, Your Uncertain Shadow, while this time it is the visitors themselves who are projected shadows from coloured lights mounted at floor level. The joy of these works lies in their sheer simplicity, although there are also highly elaborate pieces, with a flagrant use of precision engineering, optics and mirrors, like Your Spiral View and Cold Wind Sphere which do very little, bangs- for-bucks-wise, for the amount of time, materials and money they would have soaked up. There is no questioning the integrity of the man, with his climate change campaign, Ice Watch, and there is a pervasive feeling of worthiness in many of the works. His idea of didactics through participative and collaborative activities, all under the umbrella of ‘art’, is almost a lone voice in the greed and hyperbole of the contemporary art scene. Top: With Ice Watch, by making abstract Your uncertain shadow, 2017 Middle: facts tangible, Eliasson hoped that the Olafur Eliasson: Den blinde passager artwork had the potential to turn climate Bottom: Stardust Particle, 2010 knowledge into climate action, in a way In Real Life that news images cannot. I recall going Tate Modern to an exhibition in a creaking warehouse Until 5 January 2020 in Hamburg twenty years ago about The Titanic, where the floors were all sloping Admission £18 progressively uphill as one made one’s tate.org.uk way to a gigantic wall of ice. Once there, the interactive effect of placing one’s hand on the ice was startling, as one watched one’s handprint melt into the ice. he Danish-born artist Olafur The exhibition opens with Model Eliasson needs a big canvas room 2003, an enormous vitrine filled for his installations, and Tate with a jumble of 450 models, prototypes, Gallery’s new-ish extension has space spheres, hemispheres, möbius strips, T spirals, geodesic domes and pyramids, to a-plenty to accommodate his immersive and topical works. Fifteen years ago demonstrate his interest in mathematics he packed them in at the Turbine Hall and science and how he collaborated with his Weather Project, which was with the Icelandic artist, mathematician dominated by a giant sun, with clouds of and architect Einar Thorsteinn, who fine mist and a reflective ceiling, which died in 2015. The exhibition sprawls had an oddly calming effect on the two over the first floor galleries, with around million or so visitors. Last winter, he 40 works, many of which have never dumped a number of icebergs outside been seen in the UK before, including Tate Modern from the Nuup Kangerlua some that were created for the Tate fjord in Greenland, as a visual and show, which moves to Guggenheim tactile demonstration of climate change. Museum Bilbao in February 2020. The Visitors were encouraged to touch, climb final space is occupied by The Expanded on and listen to the blocks of compressed Studio, which explores his involvement snow, some weighing up to 6 tonnes, as with social and environmental issues. In they slowly melted. The air trapped in collaboration with Tate Modern, SOE the bubbles in the ice could have been Kitchen has produced its own menu anything from 10,000 years old, and for visitors to the gallery’s Terrace Bar contain half the CO² we breathe today. what’ effect, and did not bode well for 40-metre corridor filled with dense fog, with ethical, organic, vegetarian and He spent some considerable time in what was inside. Thankfully, there are so that one can barely see one’s hand in locally-sourced meals inspired by the Iceland as a child, and the natural world enough exhibits to keep one occupied, front of one’s face, which is both visceral food cooked for his team at his studio of mist, water, light and ice have been amused and questioning, like the and disturbing in Berlin. Visitors can eat ‘family-style’ at the centre of his artistic focus for the 20-metre long curtain of Scandanavian Eliasson plays with optics, at tables similar to those at the studio, past three decades. reindeer lichen some 11-meters high, kaleidoscope, reflections, inversions of surrounded by artworks, lamps and Outside the Blavatnik Building, which one can smell and touch; this images, and projections. One work, Big furniture, which is maybe taking the there is an 11-metre-high skeletal makes a change from most sculpture Bang Fountain, has a squirt of water in adulation of this Danish wunderkind a waterfall, made of scaffolding, pumps shows. An even longer exhibit, Din a totally blacked-out chamber, lit at a little too far. and hoses, which has an unsurprising ‘so Blinde Passager (Your blind passenger) is a few seconds interval by a strobe light, Don Grant 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Frieze Sculpture 2019 Regent’s Park Until 6 October 2019.

t is billed as London’s biggest sculpture show and ‘a museum without walls’. True, there are no walls, except hedges, bushes, shrubs and trees, but there are reasonably discreet barriers around some of the works, but then these are Ire-emphasised by red plastic cordons, as though guarding a hole in the road, which are most distracting and do nothing to help the piece of sculpture they are trying to ‘protect’. It must be most frustrating to design, plan and execute a piece of art, specifically to sit in an area of parkland, only to have it disfigured by badly-erected plastic fencing by some mindless parkie with his health and safety hat on. The twenty or so artists were selected and curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, as she has done for the past two years, and there are some familiar names in the Park, like Bill Woodrow, Barry Flanagan, the ubiquitous Tracey Emin and Tracey Young, described by the Financial Times as ‘Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor’. Certainly, her Solar Disc III invites interpretation of earth, moon and a mother’s breast in a geological and geographical context using the natural textural qualities of the stone. Barry Flanagan RA became obsessed with hares; leaping hares, hares on crescent moons, hares on bells, hares on Top: crescent moons on bells, hares on pyramids, and in the park he has a dancing hare Robert Indiana, One Through Zero, 1980-2002. Waddington Custot atop a large disc atop three elephants, themselves balanced on conical stands and all Above: Zak Ove, Autonomous Morris, 2018. Lawrie Shabibi mounted on another circular disc, all in bronze and done the year before he died in Left: 2009 in Ibiza. Leiko Ikamura, Usagi Kamon II, 2013-2018. Kewenig Below: Another RA, Bill Woodrow, became not quite so obsessed with bees after going Tracy Emin, When I Sleep, 2018. White Cube on a bee-keeping course, and, from 1996 has produced a number of works from his Beekeeper series, including Fingerswarm, and now, in the Park, Celloswarm, both in bronze and gold leaf, which does exactly as it says on the caption. Tracey Emin’s lumpish bronze When I Sleep, is an ugly piece of work, some 4m. long of ill-considered amorphous deformity. In contrast, Jodie Carey has a delicate, brittle, filigree work cast in bronze, from a cord buried in the earth, a variation of which was displayed at the Foundling Museum last year, referencing the fragility of life. The Hatchling by Joanna Rajkowska is a giant, blue-mottled blackbird’s egg, that was meant to emit tweeting, but was obviously sleeping when I put my ear to the shell. There are a couple of ‘fun’ exhibits, namely Tudor Ball by Lars Fisk, a hysterical half-timbered thatched cottage, including red geraniums in window boxes, but all in the shape of a sphere. A full-scale replica of an E-Type Jaguar from a Matchbox model entitled Mnemonic Vehicle No.2 by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is a puzzler, as to why? One could ask the same question of the late American Pop Artist Robert Indiana, whose ONE Through ZERO comprises giant metal numbers mounted on shallow plinths and arranged in a circle, like a wagon train. A 3-metre-high bronze called Receiver by Pakistani-American artist Huma Bhabha references ancient sculpture and sci-fi., but is really just a mess of mixed metaphors. More satisfying is Leiko Ikemura’s Usagi Kannon II, a sort of rabbit-woman with a bent ear, a sad face and wearing a perforated bronze tent-like dress, under which one can go. Another car-based sculpture is Autonomous Morris by Zak Ové, is a sculptural montage of automotive body-parts, including classic VW Beetle and Morris Minor bonnets, and, when seen from the front, ressembles a totemic mask. As with any mixed show, there are bound to be works that please, challenge, bore, amuse, frustrate or anger, and this, the third Frieze Sculpture Show, provides all of the above, from a frivolous 3-metre-high white-painted bronze rendition of a children’s storybook character My Melody, Hello Kitty’s best friend by New York-based sculptor Tom Sachs, to three cut and polished limestone boulders from Lithograph City, Iowa, mined by the Scottish artist, Lucy Skaer, which is at the mundane end of the scale, so there is something for everything. Don Grant 54 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

MAX More compelling by far, and the only real justification for this film’s Feldman existence, is the time The Great Hack spends following whistleblower Brittany

REVIEWS © Netflix Photograph Kaiser, who’d served as Cambridge Analytica’s Director Of Business Development during the relevant period. Kaiser began her political career The Great Hack as an Obama intern and later worked Director: Karim Amer, Jehane with human-rights organizations, Noujaim only switching to right-wing advocacy because they offered her significantly Available on Netflix more money. Her conflicted expressions of regret, informed by what are clearly still warm personal feelings for Nix (whose friendly text message at one point she reluctantly ignores), provides the film with much-needed drama; she’s also visibly nervous as she heads for ocumentary filmmakers continue Washington, D.C. to be interviewed by to wrestle with the grim Robert Mueller’s team; a moment that reality that many of our era’s briefly recalls Citizenfour’s real-time Dmost important and urgent issues are account of history in the making. But woefully un-cinematic. The Great Hack’s War, except that everyone remains intact; subsidiary of Strategic Communication there’s no satisfying end point to this challenge: find a visual template for the we’re merely watching their various likes Laboratories (a.k.a. SCL Group), movie (which premiered at Sundance Cambridge Analytica scandal, which and clicks journey to unscrupulous data allegedly instrumental in both the as a 135-minute work in progress; over involves the unauthorized appropriation harvesters. Better than nothing, perhaps, Brexit campaign and the election of 20 minutes have since been trimmed), and political weaponization of personal but not exactly an image that chills one Donald Trump. In early 2018, the public which reaches its alarmist conclusion data from millions of clueless Facebook to the bone. learned that a personality-quiz app used quite early on and then functions more users. How do you show that on screen, The scandal itself however is by 270,000 Facebook users allowed as a frustratingly sporadic video diary. so that there’s something to distinguish certainly disturbing, even if the stories Cambridge Analytica to amass personal Even its insistence that we worry more your movie from footage of someone impact is slightly watered down due information from not only the quiz about the sophisticated algorithms being just reading the relevant Wikipedia to its extensive print coverage over takers but also every individual that any employed to read and influence our entry aloud? Directors Karim Amer the past 18 months. Jointly founded of them had friended: some 87 million behavior now feels ironic, considering and Jehane Noujaim opt for shots of and financed by Robert Mercer (a Facebook users total. CEO Alexander the platform on which most people will random men and women walking the hedge-fund multi-millionaire known Nix was surreptitiously filmed bragging see it: No sooner will the closing credits streets, as hundreds of tiny squares, for donating heavily to conservative about the company’s illegal practices begin than you’ll be prompted to start presumably representing pixels, rise from causes) and Steve Bannon (several years (including entrapment and bribery), and watching something else, based on their bodies and float off into space. It before he became Trump’s campaign the resulting headlines quickly shuttered Netflix’s extensive knowledge of your vaguely resembles the disintegration manager and a household name), its doors, though criminal investigations viewing habits. There’s no putting this scenes from the end of Avengers: Infinity Cambridge Analytica was a data-mining are still in progress. genie back in the bottle.

children are nearly feral, eating dog Werewolf food out of cans and twitching in the Director: Adrian Panek light; the Swiss Family Robinson they are not. Adding to their problems is the fact that the Russian soldiers who freed them seem far more interested in carnal

gratification from the group’s 15 year Institute Film © Polish Photograph Operation Werewolf was a plan devised old ‘mother’ than bothering to transport by desperate Nazi true believers in the them to safety. Instead they are dumped dying days of the Second World War. in a vast decaying manse near to the Unable to accept that their plans for a camp. However the imposing woods are despotic thousand year Reich had gone rumoured to be honeycombed with Nazi the way of all flesh rather sooner than bunkers and soon the imposing forests planned for, they schemed that the around the manor are echoing with German people would rise up to engage bloodchiling howls. Seasoned genre fans in a nihilistic and essentially endless would probably expect the supernatural campaign of partisan violence across the beast of the title, but instead the howls conquered German state, closer to rabid originate from an escaped pack of begins in a manner undreamt of by the could make a caninephobe out of a dogs than commando raids. The allies slavering attack dogs that escaped from Nazi high command. Crufts trainer. The material is definitely took the threat extremely seriously; the camp and have been trained to As that summary might tip you niche, simply reading my own notes Armed Forces Radio reminded savage any non-Germans. As bodies off, this is a bleak stressful film, with on the events of the film makes it seem American soldiers that ‘every friendly with ripped out throats and mangled a touch of surreality, like the children like only the most ghoulish coinsseur German civilian is a disguised soldier of faces are found throughout the forest, gathered around attempting to eat of miseryporn would be interested in hate....their hatred and their anger ... are a game of cat and mouse begins with engine oil. There are feints towards more watching it. However there is a deeper, deeply buried in their blood... In heart, the children trapped in the mansion unreal inspirations ranging from Lord almost magical realist twist, which body and spirit every German is Hitler.’ without food or water whilst the sleek of the Flies to Little Red Riding Hood Werewolf is hiding up the stormtrooper’s Werewolf, a queasy and brutal Alsatians patrol outside, methodically but ultimately writer-director Adrian sleeve, for a film that seems to have allegorical horror, worries this concept seeking ingress. The already mentally Panek hews towards a more naturalistic very little faith in humanity at the start of endless warfare like it’s gnawing on fragile children begin to fracture as approach. This has its benefits: rather ends up with something hopeful and a bone. A Polish production, the film threats from inside the mansion begin to than cartoonish hellhounds, the dogs in its oddball way, rather profound. If follows a pack of children sprung from become as dangerous as the four legged have an unnerving reality to them, you’ve got the stomach for it, Werewolf’s a concentration camp in 1945. The ones outside and Operation Werewolf a believability in their savagery that nothing to bare your teeth at. 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

her like a burden. As the film opens, dread. He knows how to hold a shot to her grief. If only we really got to Midsommar he’s plotting to finally break things just long enough to create pinpricks see inside her head or heart. Aster, Director: Ari Aster off; a plan derailed, understandably, by of discomfort, to disorient with an who claims to have written the film on the sudden tragedy that consumes his abrupt cutaway, to drop stomachs the business end of a nasty breakup, Running Time: 147 minutes partner’s life. But the tension between with the godlike perch and glare of structures Midsommar like a kind of them remains, only intensifying once his camera. And he recognises the unholy relationship study, the same Dani essentially invites herself on an power of some sparingly deployed gore; way Hereditary wrapped an anguished upcoming overseas vacation Christian there’s a doozy of a sequence here, domestic drama in a poltergeist shawl. has planned with his friends; a trip to casual in its grotesque bodily injury, But for all the raw, physical intensity the ancestral homeland of soft-spoken that rivals Hereditary in the cruel shock Pugh brings to the role, she’s been Swedish pal Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren). department. Yet for all the sophistication given a much sketchier character to Seeds of conflict successfully planted, of its craft, Midsommar occasionally play than Toni Collette was; a cipher the film shifts from the snowy bleakness resembles a highfalutin treatment of a of impenetrable despair. As a result, idsommar, a disturbing, of the States to the sun-dappled beauty stock B-horror premise: the insensitive the bad romance feels malnourished, ambitious, and unsettlingly of Hälsingland, the secluded, idyllic, Americans bumbling blithely into especially with Reynor stuck playing a colourful new horror movie woodland home of the Hårga, a tribe danger. In this case, those roles are one-dimensional cad. from the writer-director of Hereditary, M that’s been practicing the same ancient occupied by The Good Place’s William At an ambitious two hours and 20 unfolds within a remote village in customs for centuries, including a Jackson Harper, very Chidi-esque as a minutes, Midsommar is the kind of northern Sweden, a land where the sun festival that occurs once every 90 years, budding anthropologist whose academic swing-for-the-fences passion project, the never completely sets. The place doesn’t and which Dani, Christian, and the zeal could have deadly consequences, kind of operatic opus, you make when look especially threatening, in its bucolic others have flown out to experience and Will Poulter as a horny fool whose you’re fresh off a runaway success. The summer-camp splendour, and neither firsthand. Over a few days, the visitors village-idiot cup overfloweth. This is also cult ceremonies, drug-enhanced pagan do its residents, a community of calm, gradually realize just how far they’ve one of those horror movies that depends reveries conducted under the endlessly welcoming, very… Swedish hippies, strayed from civilization. If Hereditary on the characters sticking around well beating sun, seem to unfurl in real time; decked out in white frocks and garlands, operated as a kind of gauntlet of external past the point that any sensible person they threaten, occasionally, to push smiles plastered perennially across their and psychological terrors, Midsommar would get the hell out of dodge. past hypnotic and into tedious. This is, faces. Audiences will, of course, know to modulates its intensity: It wants to creep “It’s cultural,” one of these in-over- in other words, a less perfectly crafted instinctively distrust them; in a horror under your skin, not constantly jangle their-head tourists rationalises when nightmare than Aster’s last one. But movie about a cult, the true believers your nerves. The film builds a whole the Hårga’s rituals take their first turn there’s a deranged integrity to its sprawl, often come on friendly, the better to lure world for the Hårga, a hodgepodge for the horrifically primeval. Is the and to the filmmaker’s willingness to sacrificial lambs to the slaughter. But of European tradition, folklore, and group’s refusal to extricate themselves embrace the darkest, most unsparing in Midsommar, that mask of holistic, mythology, and then slowly envelops us from the situation so different than aspects of human desire. In its closing New-Age-that’s-really-very-Old-Age in its rituals, as surely as its characters Christian’s stubborn insistence on stretch, Midsommar achieves a terrible, congeniality never entirely slips, even are sucked into the clutches of the cult. staying in an unhappy relationship out apocalyptic transcendence, through when the bloodshed starts. And that’s a Throughout, an element of culture-clash of social obligation? Certainly, Dani an ending that’s frankly stunning in big part of the movie’s black magic, its comedy persists, much of it built on the sees something vaguely, but undeniably where it’s willing to go, and where its spooky-queasy power: It makes madness characters’ inability (or unwillingness) to attractive about the Hårga, a close-knit characters are willing to go, in search of look like an extension of the commune’s read the warning signs around them. (and dominantly feminine) society whose catharsis. Madness, we’re reminded, can blissed-out worldview; a benevolent Aster, it can’t be denied, possesses perverse attitudes about death look at look like wisdom through the right eyes, malevolence. an almost supernatural command of least a little like a healthy alternative or like liberation in the wrong light. “Folk horror” is the label often applied to this especially pagan variety

of creepfest, a subgenre that peaked in A24 the early 1970s with the enduring town- with-a-secret mystery The Wicker Man.

It’s not a huge leap for Ari Aster, the © Photograph diabolically gifted filmmaker at the helm of Midsommar. Hereditary, his harrowing shocker of a debut, also built its scares on the insidious machinations of a cult. But its horror was anthropological in another sense: As effective and expertly orchestrated as the haunted-house jolts were, the film’s true down-to- the-bone terror lay in what it found festering in the recesses of its heroine’s mind, a bubbling cauldron of grief and resentment. It was a scary movie about how truly scary it can be to live inside your own head. There’s an element of that, too, in Midsommar, which confirms Aster as a new kind of midnight-movie maestro: an emotional exorcist, using genre to purge some very dark thoughts. Once again, he’s built a horror film on a bedrock of trauma: the sudden, shattering loss faced by Dani (Florence Pugh), who finds herself alone in the world with no one but her grad-student boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor), for support. Christian, it quickly becomes clear, is not exactly boyfriend of the year material. He’s a distant, shiftless slacker who treats every phone call from 56 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

acknowledged virtuosos tend to baulk or flickering bouts of surrealism. at such a step down. Increasingly they His characters are seemingly totally Amazon Too Old To Die cast hungry eyes to the Golden Age of disconnected from each other, the world Television unfurling seemingly endlessly around them and even themselves, with

Young © Photograph Director: on the small screen. It can’t help but dialogue tolerated on sufferance. escape their notice how the streaming There are certainly strong points Nicholas Winding Refn giants of Amazon and Netflix are in its favour beyond the aggressive Running Time: 10 Episodes seemingly happy to green light anything stylisation, in particular Whiplash’s Miles that might create the smallest amount of Teller gives good blank and violent as Available on Amazon Prime online buzz. a dead-eyed police officer investigating This is presumably how we have LA’s seamy underworld. The dreamlike both ended up with and lost Nicholas atmosphere and tone mark the series Winding Refn’s Too Old To Die out as a worthy companion piece to he established wisdom is that early 2000s. As a result the occasional Young, a ten episode Grand Guignol some of Refn’s more uncompromising auteur driven cinema went out Blue Velvet or Reservoir Dogs could sneak nightmare from the director of Drive. works like Only God Forgives and Neon with the binary 1-2 punch of past based on the fact that the amount Commissioned by Amazon, debuted Demon. The problem is that particular Heaven’sT Gate and Star Wars. Heaven’s of money being gambled seemed pretty at Cannes and then swiftly cancelled pieces of cinematic aggression were 2 Gate was the foundering of the old New manageable, but alas declining revenue almost immediately after the first season hour movies and as a television series Too Hollywood ideal, unthinkable millions has led to ever increasing studio demand was released, presumably they had made Old To Die Young stretches to something spent on an hours long artistic vision for big tent-pole movies starring various the mistake of actually watching the like 13 hours. Refn’s made no attempt that nobody wanted to watch, whilst superheroes eventually squeezed mid- thing and were horrified at what they’d to modulate his style for the different Star Wars was the future: dazzling budget films out almost all together. spent their money on. There’s still a medium. There are many truly singular special effects in the service of a glorified These days’ movies are either backed market for the truly outré in genre work, television programmes being made today western that made all the money in the up by an entire squadron of zeroes or which presumably has something to do from Legion to Maniac which exploit universe. Hollywood looked between they get made for the equivalent of a with why the much maligned horror the potential of the medium in bold new the two options and decided enough stick of chewing gum and a winning genre has become home to some of ways. Famous auteurs who sweep down with these self-indulgent artistes smile. There’s no middle ground the most innovative filmmaking being from the cinematic heavens and attempt we’re going to go all in on the newly and so those directors who refuse to undertaken today. Too Old To Die Young to make a 13 hour movie are only going minted blockbuster. This wasn’t the modulate their art with any real concern sees Refn take on the frequently horror to succeed in alienating the audience end however, for awhile auteur driven for playing by the rules have found adjacent ‘revenge noir’ format, think by treating the art form as inherently material was able to scratch a living in themselves for the most part found Double Indemnity crossed with sleazy lesser. There are many moments of the margins of the studio-system outside themselves shanghaied; literally in many exploitation work like Faster Pussycat stark, startling beauty in Too Old To of the shoe-string indie purgatory cases, due the monetary importance and Kill Kill, and explodes it into some Die Young, it’s just a shame that they’re swirling beneath their black leather frequently censorious moral rectitude kind of hallucinogenic horror. In Refn’s so artificially spaced out by a director boots. Mid-budget films that split the of the Asian market. Making movies merciless hands endless pulsing neon subtly contemptuous of the nature of difference between blockbuster bloat and for less than a used car might be an shaded tracking shots are interrupted his canvas. Still better than Love Island indie corner cutting still existed until the option for the young and desperate but only by staccato flourishes of violence though. Max Feldman

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Four years ago, this paper printed a piece on Emma Hopkins’s exhibition at the Mall Galleries called Inside Portraits. She had just won the Bulldog Bursary award and was (joint) prize-winner of the The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award. Her work was described in the article as having ‘a raw honesty, and no-one really looks very well, with bloodshot eyes, and blotchy, veined, parchment skin, but that is how she views her sitters, half anatomical, half psychological, and flattery does not appear in Emma’s palette.’ Last year she won the De Lazlo Foundation Award for Excellence, and this year she has won The Big One, The BP Portrait Young Artist Award, trousering £9,000 in the process. Her portrait is of her friend Sophie, a photographer, who specialises in people’s scars and the stories behind them. Emma gained a BA (Hons) degree in Make-up and Prosthetics for Performance in theatre, film and television from the University of the Arts London before studying art therapy and drawing human anatomy. She did a stint behind the bar at the Chelsea Arts Club, and used some of the members as models, including the late painter Geri Morgan, who was the principal of the Byam Shaw School of Art. Hopkins says that she agreed to paint Sophie because: ‘she wasn’t afraid of an honest depiction and I found her confidence really inspiring.’ Many of her portraits are nude studies and she explains, ‘I want to understand as much as I can about what it means to be human,’ she said, ‘We are not just the clothed person we present to the world. We are the mind and body that we inhabit.’ She is fascinated by the themes of anatomy, psychology and mortality, listing Egon Schiele and Frida Kahlo as influences. Don Grant 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Fishing online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

before Christmas, to go ‘carol-barking.’ rented for the summer. ‘The perch were Many authors have used fishing in their there, as Tom promised, bigger than writings to evoke childhood, to describe the other lake, and the solemn hush of From the the natural landscape, as a metaphor the place gave it a mystical air, as if I

Photograph © Don Grant Photograph for life, as an adventure, a contest or had stumbled into the pages of Malory’s just the sheer joy of having a fish on Morte d’Arthur’. The sub-title of the book Riverbank the end of your line. George Orwell in is Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing, and Part 13 Coming up for Air, Edward Thomas from the middle section of the book is about his autobiography, an essay by Virginia his father’s exploits in the war in a tank By Don Grant Woolf, fishing for pike by H E Bates regiment in Northern France, where he from Sugar for the Horses, canal fishing was badly burned and became one of by Alan Sillitoe from Saturday Night and Archibald McIndoe’s ‘Guinea Pigs’. Sunday Morning; two poets, Ted Hughes At prep school, he was taught by an with his Pike, ‘Stilled legendary depth:/ eighteen-year-old called Robert Nairac, It was as deep as England. It held/Pike who had just left Ampleforth as head too immense to stir, so immense and boy, and was due to read History at old/That past nightfall I dared not cast/ Oxford. He was an exotic figure, who But silently cast and fished/With hair not only had his own shot-gun, but frozen on my head . . . ‘, and Seamus also a sparrow-hawk, which he kept in Heaney’s Trout, ‘A volley of cold blood the boot-blacker’s shed. He took him ramrodding the current.’ pike-fishing on a lake near the school One of the best books I have read in Sussex, and managed to catch a about fishing is Blood Knots by Luke three-pounder, which he took back to Jennings. Up until this year, he was the school and supervised its cooking dance critic for the Observer, but he is according to a recipe given by Isaak now more acclaimed as the author of Walton in The Compleat Angler, with Codename Villanelle, which was made thyme, anchovies, garlic and oranges. into the award-winng Killing Eve series As the seventeenth century author said, on BBC TV. Blood Knots starts off on ‘This dish of meat is too good for any a cold, winter evening on the Regent’s but anglers, or very honest men.’ He was Canal that runs past the King’s Cross then instructed in the art of fly-fishing, goods yard, which makes the hairs on having read Nairac’s battered copy the back of one’s neck stand on end. of J W Dunne’s Sunshine and the Dry He was never taught to fish by his dad, Fly, in which he wrote ‘In a sport your although he did buy him his first rod opponent is no less a personage than when he was seven. He learnt about Nature herself; Nature, wild and free fishing from books in the Arundel public and entirely lawless; Nature, wayward, library by Bernard Venables, Richard cheating, laughing, alluring, infinitely Walker, Peter Stone and Fred Taylor. diversified, entrancingly mutable.’ Venables drew a comic strip for the Daily Jennings himself won a scholarship Mirror about Mr Crabtree gardening, to Ampleforth, and was visited there but one day, there was not much to do by Robert, who took him out fishing took my nine-year-old grandson kingfisher, who had dived into a shallow in the garden, so he had Crabtree go and taught him how to fire a fly as if Max fishing for his first outing part of the pool, and had taken a fish, fishing. The success was overwhelming, it were a catapult, where there was a to the river last week, something which he took back into the tree from in which he took his ten-year-old son near-impossible backhand cast. The I meant to do all last season. He was where he was perched. What a way to on fishing trips, and the subsequent Mr story of Robert Nairac ends tragically, very excited, probably more at the start the day! Max was deeply impressed Crabtree Goes Fishing became the best- however, in Northern Ireland, where he thought of a picnic with lashings of that he had witnessed such a rare event selling angling book of the twentieth was working undercover as a member of pop, and the chance of slipping a bag on his very first day’s fishing, but I had century. Jennings would be eleven before the SAS. He was captured, tortured and of sweets groaning with food additives to confess that this was nothing to do he caught his first fish, on the second executed by the IRA. past grandpapa, who probably doesn’t with me.The next big thing was to hook of two lakes on an estate in Shropshire, The day before he died, he drove know about E-numbers, emulsifiers, him a fish. He wanted to learn how to with a kindly soul called Tom, who across the border into the Republic and stabilizers, thickeners, anticaking cast, which is quite a big ask. He was a worked in the big house his father had went fishing. agents, preservatives, antioxidants, good listener, and watched attentively as leavening agents, acidulants, and I showed him the rudiments of casting. artificial colours and flavours. I was ‘It’s nothing to do with strength; it’s impressed when he selected a bottle all about timing,’ was the mantra, of Lipton’s Iced Tea, a modest bag of repeated over and over again. I only Haribo sweets and a chocolate bar, but hope this early experience will stir an we had loads of fruit, which I knew interest in fly-fishing, and one day he he liked. We had punnets of English will be teaching his son, or grandson. strawberries, Scottish raspberries, He managed to hook a fish, which he cherries and blueberries, as well as the lost when it snagged on an overhanging usual staples including ham, cheese, willow branch, and I completely crusty rolls, smoked salmon, cucumber, understood his disappointment, which is soft cheese, biscuits, Italian charcuterie, a feeling that never leaves you, no matter olives and a pork pie from the village how old you are. shop. Having laid out our little feast Think of children fishing and, in the hut, we sat on the bench in the visually, I think of Norman Rockwell’s dappled shade of a willow, him with a paintings of Huckleberry Finn and Tom glass of iced tea, me with a glass of iced Sawyer, cute and freckled, with a black rosé, and suddenly there was a loud and white mongrel, with his head cocked splash, as though someone had thrown to one side. Laurie Lee described fishing a small rock over the hedgerow. We as ‘drowning worms,’ just as he asked his both looked up and saw that it was a fellow singers in Cider with Rosie a week 58 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Sport

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excellent low-end torque and high-end power to give thrilling pedal response at Mid-engine for any RPM.” When equipped with the the ’Vette performance package the new Stingray By Fahad Redha can sprint to 60mph in under 3 seconds, not far behind a Lamborghini. But while a Lamborghini costs about the same as a house, Chevrolet promises that the C8 will be under $60,000. What’s more, the company will be considering offering it in other markets and that includes in or all its innovations, one thing right-hand-drive. that has eluded Detroit is the mid- American cars in general, particularly engined supercar. There have been muscle cars, have always had a cult FAmerican cars with the engine mounted following across the Atlantic. Whether behind the driver, including the Saleen it’s because of their appearance in movies S7 and the SSC Ultimate Aero. But these or the bargain performance they offer, are rare cars made by small boutique there has always been something about manufacturers. Elsewhere, mainstream them that has always been alluring. manufacturers, including Audi, Honda, This would be a welcome change. If and, at one point, Jaguar, have produced other American cars are anything to go a halo model in this way. But there by this could mean that the C8 Stingray hasn’t been a mid-engined American would be close to £60,000. This would car since the Pontiac Fiero was put out make it well below any mid-engined to pasture in 1988. The only exception Engineers say that the change in layout But back to the engine. The “jewel European cars bar the Porsche 718 and was the Ford GT, both the 2004 and was to keep the car competitive with in the centre” is the LT2, a 6.2 litre V8 Lotus Elise. 2016 version, but these were made in high performance European sports cars, which in America means it’s a small We tend to be cynical and laugh at strictly limited numbers with price tags adding that they had reached the limit of block! It makes 495 horsepower and 470 American cars. And there was a time to match their exclusivity. what was possible with a front mounted lb-ft of torque, the most for any base when that cynicism was well earned. It That’s all about to change as engine. level Corvette before it. took until 2014 for the Mustang to get America’s sports car, the Corvette, has, One big challenge they faced was “Though now placed behind the independent suspension all around. And for its eighth generation, abandoned its in the design. “The 2020 Stingray’s driver, the LT2 gives the same visceral the Corvette itself has, for a long time, classic front-engined, rear-wheel-drive exterior has a bold, futuristic expression experience we all expect from Corvette,” used cart springs in the rear. But now layout. The new C8 keeps the Stingray with mid-engine exotic proportions,” said Jordan Lee, GM’s global chief the self-proclaimed greatest country in name and still uses a V8 engine. But Chevrolet says, “but it is still engineer of Small Block engines. “The the world has cars to match its self- that’s really where the similarities end. unmistakably Corvette.” LT2 has been designed to deliver image.

Speaking of iconic sports cars being reinvented, Lotus is going green with an all- electric hypercar. The Evija (pronounced ‘E-vi-ya’ according to the press release) means ‘the first in existence’ or ‘the living one’ as Lotus says that it’s the first ever all-electric hypercar. Depending on what sort of car deserves that title there may be someone in Croatia that would dispute that. Nevertheless, the Evija is the company’s first all new product since the Evora was launched nearly a decade ago, and the Norfolk based firm’s first new car under the Chinese Geely’s ownership. But unlike anything else the company has made, the Evija will be made in very limited numbers, just 130 as a tribute to the Lotus Type 130, and it won’t be cheap. Each car will cost £1.7m and aspiring owners have to place a £250,000 deposit for the privilege. That puts it in the same ballpark as hypercars from more experienced manufacturers such as McLaren and Ferrari so it will need to pack a serious punch to justify the cost. Lotus hopes for close to 2,000hp and 1,700nm of torque, enough to get the car to 60mph in less than 3 seconds and on to a top speed beyond 200mph. We’ll have to wait until next year to see if it can achieve that but if recent electric supercars, including Rimac and Tesla, are anything to go on, it shouldn’t be too difficult. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The Lotus Evija has astonishing acceleration at higher speeds,” according to Matt Windle, Executive Director, Sports Car Engineering, Lotus Cars. “It takes less than nine seconds to reach 300 km/h [188mph] which is better than any other direct competitor.” But a car needs to do more than go fast. If this were an article about a V12 powered car, you wouldn’t really want to know about its fuel consumption or emissions. But as this is an electric car, the ever-present elephants in the room are the range and charging time. The Evija will, according to Lotus, reach 250-270 miles, depending on how you measure it. Charging is a different story. Under “the most powerful available” charging technology, Lotus says that it will be charged up to full in 18 minutes and to 80% in just 12 minutes. That shows just how far EV technology has moved in recent years, though this is for a seven-figure car. It may still be a few years before you will see such figures for a Toyota or Ford. But it does show that the future is not as dark as some may fear. Even if climate change wasn’t real it’s impossible to deny that oil is running out. We need an alternative and it is only a matter of time before the last petrol station will close. But the Evija, and its competitors, show that for those of us who see cars as more than just A to B transportation, there is a future for us after all. Let’s hope the Lots of torque, unusually speedy future battery-powered versions of the Lotus Elise and Mazda MX-5 will be just as By Fahad Redha exciting. 60 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Motoring

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PUBLIC NOTICE Andrew’s Bridge Tips Licensing Act 2003: With Andrew Robson Notice of Application for a new Premises Licence There are two diametrically opposite defensive strategies against trump contracts. You can lead from shortage and try to make your trumps by trumping; alternatively you can lead from length and try to force declarer to shorten his trumps so you gain trump superiority. NAME OF APPLICANT: With four (or more) trumps you should generally lead from length and try to force declarer; this week’s hand is a typical Co-operative Group Food Limited example: ADDRESS OF PREMISES: 207 Shirland Road, Dealer South North-South Vulnerable (Former Chippenham Hotel), /5873*2146 ♠ ,.$ Maida Vale, London W9 2EX. West North East South THE LICENSABLE ACTIVITY is -/084the sale ♥ ,." ♠ of alcohol for consumption off the ♦ '&$" 1 premises between Monday-Sunday ♣ ♦ ♥ 06:00-23:00. Conditions will apply. '&% Pass 2 Pass 2 ♠ )&#! ♠ ' N Pass 3 ♠ Pass 4 ♠ Anyone wishing to make a representa- ♥ & ♥ )%#! tion to this application may do so by 29 WE Pass Pass Pass August 2019 A record of the application ♦ ,+(#! ♦ . % S made to the Licensing Authority will be ♣ +(# ♣ . $"! kept on a register at the address given ♠ below and the register may be inspected + (%" during opening hours. All representa- ♥ + ('$ tions regarding this application MUST ♦ ) BE IN WRITING and sent to: Licensing Authority, City of Westminster, Policy ♣ ), Performance and Communication, City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London SW1E West correctly led ♦4 to East’s ♦Q and declarer’s ♦A. At trick two declarer led ♠3 to dummy’s ♠Q and continued with ♠K. 6QP Or www.westminster.gov.uk It is an West took his ♠A and played a second ♦. Declarer trumped and realised that if he drew all West’s trumps he would have none offence knowingly or recklessly to make left himself. He correctly played ♥5 to dummy’s ♥K and East’s ♥A. East played his third ♦ and declarer reluctantly trumped. a false statement in connection with He played a second ♥ and West trumped and played a fourth ♦. Declarer trumped in hand with his last trump. Unable to reach an application and is subject to punish- dummy to draw West’s last trump, declarer played a third ♥. West trumped to defeat the contract. able by a fine of any amount on summary ♥ ♦ ♠ ♥ ♥ conviction for the offence. Note that if West had led 7 rather than 4, declarer would make 4 easily; East would win A, lead a second for West to trump, but he would only score his ♠A in addition. WARD HADAWAY www.wardhadaway.com/licensing ANDREW’S TIP: With trump length, lead length. 020 7738 2348 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

market, its extent in demographic CHESS placement and size,’ and assess the value of its sponsorship, offering ‘a you By Barry Martin can participate too, option’. Nielsen Holdings, an information world leader in the field of data, measurement and assessment, is co-operating with Toilets & FIDE in undertaking this survey. The latter says ‘it wants to know the chess Telephones community better in order to improve its decision making’. And further, ‘We orld chess news of late has want to have more insight on what are been laced not just with the demands and wishes of those who triumphs across the board but are already active FIDE members, triumphs in the toilet! GM Igors Rausis and those who may be attracted by our W activities’. Beside chess topics per se the made world news even in the news’ sections of our national newspapers with survey rather worryingly also asks for his ‘phone in the lavatory technique’; an general demographics of the individual aid that is alleged to have raised his Elo such as travel behaviour, (generally hot rating to almost 2700 in recent years, and bothered in my case!), education and and accelerated his ‘playing prowess’ income, (surely not income too!). way beyond the form he was generally However, and to the crux of the known for. He was outed as a ‘chess matter, the survey ‘is part of a bigger cheat’ and FIDE officials stated that project for FIDE that attempts to find he had caught their eye and was being commercial sponsorship. ‘They, FIDE watched these past few years given have recently signed a co-operation his meteoric rise. During the recent failure of the 2019 winner of the U.S. new FIDE administration’s mission to agreement and a further survey with Strasbourg tournament 10th-14th July, Women’s Chess Championship, Jennifer put this subject at the centre of its own Coca-Cola who are stated as being very he was caught seated with his trousers Yu, who was invited as a wildcard for the development plans, an now is in full interested in the results in order to get a still belted up listening to his phone in a U.S. Junior Championship, and finished flow. This has already opened doors clear picture and for those to be one of toilet cubicle. The phone was found still last from the ten player round-robin enriching youth entry and the numbers their target groups! there after he had left, and when accused tournament with just .5/9 points. In the of females enjoying an expanding The Nielsen survey for chess players he admitted it was his and signed a post-tournament commentary, Yu stated, comradeship. Long overdue, there is and fans has 60 questions and takes declaration admitting his folly. Speaking ‘Maybe there is a little more pressure more to be done and recent success and about 10-20 minutes to complete. Chess. to Chess.com, he stated, ‘I simply lost my or something’. Pressures of a mental gains should not allow and generate com is supporting FIDE in this project. mind yesterday. I confirmed the fact of kind that prove detrimental to a player’s complacency. Women’s netball, once In looking for survey rewards on offer using my phone during the game. What ability abound in chess and although considered unattractive for sponsorship the punter has the option of entering could I say more? Yes, I was tired after many are known, there hasn’t really been support and wider media coverage, a raffle for a 2-hour online masterclass the morning game and all the Facebook any concerted attempts to rationalise and has of recent note bounced right to the with Vladimir Kramnik, and 10 lucky activity of accusers also have a known interpret their effects and where possible top of the sporting world’s attention winners need to be found. The rub in impact. At least what I committed provide remedial advice. WIM Alexey and promotion! Even darts once all this, however, is that you are given yesterday is a good lesson, not for Root has examined 2 researched-based considered the dullest sport to watch, the option of completing your survey me; I’ve played my last game of chess reasons for the pressure Yu perceived and unless a player, has hit the bull’s eye anonymously, but to compete in the already!” their possible effects on her lack-lustre with media television coverage and raffle you are obliged to give your email Born in the Soviet Ukraine, the result. Yu won the recent U.S. Women’s sponsorship galore! One reason being address! A giveaway approach I assume Latvian GM has since 2007 represented Championship with 9 wins and 2 draws, the development of individual player’s for the less understanding amongst us! the Czech Chess Federation, and and no losses, putting her performance character and mannerisms by the media This month’s chess puzzle is taken previously fronted for Bangladesh. He rating at 2663! The invitational rating and projected colourfully into the from the recent inaugural U.S. Senior was also the oldest player in the top for the Junior competition was 2445, and spectator’s mindsets making the latter Championship Tournament hosted by the 100 FIDE rated players at 53rd with only one player in the match was lower participate and be part of the event. St. Louis Chess Club USA, Round 1 an ELO rating of 2686. 6 years ago his than hers; Atulya Vaidya with 2299. So why is it that women’s chess has for between Alexander Goldin, White and rating was 2518, and had been that for The latter had previously won the 2018 decades been the poor aunt Sally to the Joel Benjamin, Black. Benjamin has nearly 10 years until it leapt 200 pts. U.S. Junior Open. Yet Vaidya finished chess game? In essence, Women’s chess moved his Queen from 20.....Qd7-Qf7. raising suspicions. Although a formal ahead of Yu, which was not predicted by needs to develop this aspect as above too, in order to strengthen his defence of the punishment from FIDE has yet to be the pre-match ratings. This and further instead of the distant, undistinguished King’s side and also double up on the f issued and Rausis’s stated intention of analysis by WIM Root into the possible characteristics and uniform personages file. What was White’s response that led having played his last game of chess is psychological causes looks at pressure we are presented with as a general to a lively game and ultimately a win for noted, a similar case in 2015 resulted in from chess fans and gender stereotyping rule, and which do nothing to attract White? the player, Gaioz Nigalidze, a Georgian which researchers have found play key sponsorship by those who are outside the Answer upside down below.

GM, being banned from the Dubai roles. The latter has ‘extreme leverage’ chess club. 1-0. sec.

Open Tournament after he was found on women who perform 50% worse than The ivory tower approach we 2m.:43 Benjamin: sec., 12m:34 Goldin:

using the toilet as a prep room for his expected ,’ ...when they know they are still encounter is out of date and out ! short running time Benjamin’s with

current tournament game, and analysing playing against men and are reminded of of keeping with the zeitgeist of the moves, few next the in fall will Bishop

his position using a chess engine. He the stereotype that men are considered colourful and eventful times that we live Black the and h4,Kg7.48.Qd7+......

was banned from playing tournament better and more gifted at chess. For in. This is a hangover, I would suggest, g4,Rb5.45.Qd3,Re5.46.Rxe5,Bxe5.47.

chess matches for three years, but was a fuller account of cause and effect of the Soviet/Russian state hold that Re1,Rd5.42.Qb7,Rg5.43.Qe4+,Rg6.44.

also stripped of his GM title! So be affecting women’s chess, see Alexey they had over chess mannerisms, its Qf5+,Kh8.39.h3,Rxb2.40.Qc8+,Kh7.41.

warned, the toilet is not the prep room Root’s article ChessBase, 21.7.2019, and organisation and its global appearance. Qxf5+,Kh8.37.Qc8+,Kh7.38.

for your chess challenge using your the accompanying wealth of comments Soft politics breathing under our very Qf3,Rxd6.35.Qxf4,Rxd4.36.

phone, especially if you’re seated on the from a mixed bag of male and female noses! In an apparent attempt to Ng5,h6.32.Nf7+,Kh7.33.Nxd6,Rf6.34.

pan with your trousers up! mind sets. confront this denouement with ‘open’ Nf3,Nf4.29.Qb3,Kh8.30.Kh1,Re2.31.

However, Rausis pointed to the Women’s chess has in the past year understanding and a widening of d5,exd5.26.Qd3,d4.27.cxd4,Rae8.28.

negative effect on him from ‘all the become the centre of attention and a commercial involvement, be it east Rg5,Nxe7.24.Rxg6,Nxg6.25.

Facebook activity of accusers... a known widening understanding through debate or west, FIDE has launched a survey g6.22.Be7,Nd5.23. 21.Rf1,Q Answer: impact’, is in kind picked up with the and opportunity, not least due to the to understand its potential chess 64 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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