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MOTORING SUPPLEMENTS 2 March 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0069 FEBRUARY 2018 FREE NEWS 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE SW11 3UW OPINION EDUCATION © CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ARTS & CULTURE Tel: 020 7738 2348 HEALTH EVENTS LIFESTYLE DINING OUT POETRY E-mail: [email protected] LITERATURE MOTORING Website: SPORT News CROSSWORD 3 BRIDGE www.kcwtoday.co.uk CHESS Advertisement enquiries: 8 Statue & Blue Plaque [email protected] Subscriptions: 9 News [email protected] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Publishers: #wherenow? 10 Opinion & Comment Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 12 European & International News 13 Business & Finance 17 Business & Education Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 18 Education Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane 23 Feature Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 24 Literature Antoinette Kovatchka, Architecture: Squinch 25 Poetry Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 26 Astronomy Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward 39 Dining Out Bridge: Andrew Robson Business & Finance James Billot 40 Travel & Lifestyle Chess: Barry Martin 43 Arts & Culture Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Derek Wyatt 54 Health Music: Geoff Cowart, Crossword: Wolfe 59 Sport Dining Out: Piers Gorman, Max Feldman, Upstream David Hughes, 61 Editorial: James Billot, Max Feldman, 62 Crossword Owen Fulda, Kate Hawthorne, Fahad Redha, Emma Trehane 63 Chess & Bridge Education: James Billot, Max Feldman, Kate Hawthorne, Events: Fahad Redha Travel & Lifestyle: Lynne McGowan, Cynthia Pickard Including: Health: Editorial team Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman Events Supplement p27 I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton & Motoring Supplement p31 Motoring: David Hughes, Fahad Redha News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Arts Correspondent & Picture Editor: Cover Picture Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA PhD Political Editor: Derek Wyatt 1956 was the last year April Fools' day fell on an Easter Sunday. Sport: Owen Fulda, Fahad Redha Because of the peculiar dating of Easter against the Gregorian Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros calendar it is a rare event. The next time will be 2029 and then Upstream: Don Grant 2040. It will not occur again this century. 020 7738 2348 March 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk We have plundered our North Sea Parliament Square oil revenues. Norway decided to only use the interest from her oil sales. Now her sovereign fund is bigger than her economy. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a child of politics, Hills © Jonathan Illustration has risen without trace. He remains the current favourite after Mrs May to be the next Prime Minister of this country. Goodness, how the pound will suffer. He 2 is minuscule in political terms, much like P those others who week in week out the BBC has given a platform to, whether on the Today programme or Question Time. Nigel Farage, an unelected UK politician, has been on Question Time over thirty Derek Wyatt on times. What is the BBC thinking? It is supposed to be neutral. It is time the the current state licence fee gave the chance for a rival to BBC News which currently costs the of politics licence fee payer upwards of £700m a year; Sky’s budget is under £100m. I think an ITN-Sky News merger could est it be forgotten, London easily give the BBC a run for its money world is marching to the tune of elected which did not receive 50% of the nation’s voted 60% to Remain; only five especially on radio. mayors with huge powers. We are not. vote. For the Mother of all Parliaments boroughs all at the periphery of In the middle of the greatest crisis We are giving mayors at the most free this looks like we have not advanced this great global capital voted against. the nation has experienced since Suez, ice creams with cherry toppings. Our much since the first reform bill of 1832. L democratic deficit is worrying. The PM We can bury our heads in the Brexit The turnout was almost 70% the highest which marked the beginning of end since the 1950 general election. London, of Britain as a global power, we have cannot reduce the size of the unelected sands but most of us, however we voted, especially its financial and creative no published plans on how we aim to House of Lords. How do you think this just want this Government to grow up centres, is the reason why the rest of the remain important in world affairs. India looks to someone in China or Russia? In and to give us a vision, properly costed, country depends so heavily on us. These rightly is asking for our veto at the the 2017 General Election turnout was of a caring society; a newer version of facts were lost, as indeed were hundreds 69% that is 31% did not vote. Of those Beveridge which includes Housing and United Nations. We will be shunned byKensington, Chelsea and Westminster Today and hundreds of others, as the UK went Europe. China thinks we are a basket 126w x 154hthat did 37% voted Conservative and a resolution about how we look after our to the polls on 23rd June 2016. case and unusually because she is worriedDeadline 24thjust June under 2106 30.5% voted Labour, yet this older generation. If not, Corbyn will be Twenty one months on from this about the mental state of the President of gave the Tories 330 seats whilst Labour elected on a landslide greater than Blair extraordinary day, still no-one has a clue the USA, and Russia wants President Xi onlyKCW Todayhad 262. Quarter So wePage have a Government in 1997. what the Conservative Party wants to Jinping to have a third term. do. We have statements galore, we have Since 1945, only London and the endless visits and posturing, we have had South East of England have been a plus some of the worst falsification of facts I on the Treasury’s balance sheet. Actually have ever seen in my life by the Leavers. that is not entirely true. Thanks to the Given the final national vote was 52%- Cambridge Science Park with its one 48% you would think that the Leavers thousand plus companies of the highest might take into consideration how close order, the East of England has also been the vote was. a plus over the past twenty years or so. ORDER, ORDER Our people did not trust the political No other region or country which makes establishment in 2016 otherwise there up the UK has been in regular year-in- would have been a deciding majority year-out surplus despite £bn and £bn Book your tour today one way or the other. Our newspapers of direct state funding or sponsoring especially the Daily Mail, the Daily of overseas companies like Sony or Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Nissan. There is something wrong at the Sunday Times have pushed the Leaving core of what makes the UK tick. The argument week after week after week. quality of its Education needs a major The Government that we fund even overhaul. Remind me which political tried to stop the official statistics being party published their vision for the whole released. of Education in the general elections of The official figures state that we are 2010, or 2015 or 2017? in for a very hard time. Lest anyone has In the forthcoming London elections not noticed we have been having a hard in May I think it is possible that the time since 2012. Homeless numbers are Conservatives will lose Westminster, up dramatically; something by which we Wandsworth and Barnet. This would ought to judge ourselves as to the kind of be unprecedented and a political time society we are. The NHS simply cannot bomb for the Prime Minister. Just when cope with the demands of an ageing we want a period of quiet introspection population. Our trains are a national so we can finesse Brexit for the best deal disgrace but funded as ever by us. there will be clamours for her to stand There is no social housing being built down. You really could not make this up. to a standard any of us who own their And just remember, Boris Johnson is the homes would live in. That is how much only MP from a London borough in the we care: We want to build a baseline Cabinet, though some say, but I could home for families (see Grenfell Tower) not possibly comment, that he is in the 020 7219 4114 which frankly we ourselves would Cabinet but not of it. not accept either for ourselves or our The point is our electoral map is children. woefully out of date. The rest of the 4 March 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News contribute in Westminster’s share of Park, and Paddington NHS areas saw the Council Tax (which is the lowest in six practices closed. This means that Voluntary tax to the country). For 2018/19 this is £833 NHS increased there are 5,652 patients per surgery, up for Band H properties. However, any from 5,388 in January 2017. The Brent help homeless voluntary amount would be up to the demand closes NHS area saw two GP practices close or contributor should they choose to take merge, bringing the area to an average of says Westminster part.