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Don’t so ingrained in our imaginations, kids’ up against the wall when this revolution constantly assert inconvenient facts Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited exist. magicians try to disempower it with comes, thanks to a growing movement to are “fake news” and there are always “sizzling sausages” and “Izzy Whizzy disempower our language. “alternative facts” anyway. You simply 13 Features Ever since Genesis got oddly specific in Let’s Get Busy” whilst J.K.Rowling used Half a century ago Jacques Derrida, can’t rely on words anymore. dividing things into categories, heaven, Codum Latinus invocations, rather than the French-Algerian deconstructionist Political movements in other earth, “grass, the herb yielding seed, and anything that sounded like it might philosopher, believed we should strip countries, wanting to recreate the 15 Business & Finance the fruit tree yielding fruit,” and the possibly have a chance of summoning the power from words by pointing out popularity of such revolutionary frankly catastrophic decision to allow devil. their constantly slippery, endlessly linguistic anti-elitism are embracing this man “dominion over the fish of the sea, The magical belief that somehow different, meanings. He saw this as a paragon of meaningless wordage. So and over the fowl of the air, and over the “saying it makes it so” goes beyond art revolutionary act. Because language is, what if a lie appeared on a Brexit battle Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne 17 Business & Education cattle, and over all the earth, and over and conjuring, not just in the power historically, developed by the wealthy, bus, they were only words and what do Art Director & Director: Tim Epps every creeping thing that creepeth upon of prayer, and “positive visualisation” literate, educated classes, Derrida argued, they mean anyway? We’re not experts the earth,” humans have been obsessed but in the cold cash of advertising and clarity in speech promotes and prolongs and we’ve had enough of them. Acting Editor: Dr Emma Trehane 19 Business & Environment with justifying that supremacy through politics. The phrase du jour post-Brexit the rule of the elite. The many should Finally, reason has won. That Head of Business Development: Dr Emma Trehane systematic categorisation. was “a period of uncertainty”. Was it reject clarity and develop their own superstitious belief in the power of Business Development: Caroline Daggett, By the time the Victorians any wonder that the Conservatives gobbledygook. At this point it’d be great words, used by the expensively educated, rocked up we thought we’d nailed Politically Correct, liberal elite to terrify Antoinette Kovatchka, 20 Astronomy campaigned for re-election in a direct to give you a pithy Derridean quote this categorisation game producing response to that? “Strong and stable” to back this claim up. Unfortunately us plebs, has had its day. This baby can go Architecture: Emma Flynn the Dewey Decimal System, Roget’s was their simple substance-free mantra he practiced what he preached and out with the bathwater. Whatever that Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Education Thesaurus, the Oxford English used so monotonously, it was as if simply his writings were somewhere between means. Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 21 Dictionary, and most of the research saying it enough times would make it academic institutions that are still true. Like “Make America Great Again” Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward providing grants and jobs today. it was a phrase full of sound and fury, Bridge: Andrew Robson 24 Literature And every time we find and name signifying nothing. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Business: Owen Faulda, Prof. Hugo De Burgh something, we can divide it up into ever Of course words can have power finer grains and names: from atoms and as persuasive tools and information Douglas Shanks 25 Poetry molecules, genomes and bacterium to carriers, just not in themselves. Great SUMMER INTERNSHIP Chess: Barry Martin the Higgs boson “god particle”; as if we speeches have convinced people to Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, might one day peel back the final layer do extraordinary things. Religions are (PAID COMMISSION) Derek Wyatt of the universe’s onion and behold its founded on writings, and just the words 26 Dining Out ultimate secret. “Allah Akbar” have been co-opted to Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today is one Music: James Douglas The Victorian mathematician strike terror. Jokes, well told, can bring Crossword: Wolfe: Augustus de Morgan quickly spotted the forth involuntary laughter. But even in of the leading monthly newspapers in London. Dining Out: Piers German, David Hughes, 28 Travel & Lifestyle problem in all this, adapting Jonathan this world of technology and rationalism We are offering a 3 month internship to a Business Swift’s couplet: a belief persists that you can cut out the Lynne McGowan, Cynthia Pickard Development Graduate looking to build their portfolio “Great fleas have little fleas upon middle man as such, the agent of change, over the summer months; start June 2017. This is a unique Editorial: Ione Bingley, Max Feldman, their backs to bite ‘em, And little fleas and simply affect change with words 32 Events opportunity to work closely with a highly qualified and Owen Fulda, Monica Acheing Ogola, have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And themselves. the great fleas themselves, in turn, have dynamic team. 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The idea of a spell is that crime, graffiti, fly-tipping and the ASBO T: 020 7738 2348 M: 0771 591 0665 Sport: Owen Fulda Crossword, Classified & Public Notice certain words in a certain order have magnets would magically disappear. Or, 62 E: [email protected] Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros the power to make manifest or, at the as Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments very least, summon some slobbering kept repeating, “So it is written, so WWW.KCWTODAY.CO.UK 63 Chess & Bridge supernatural creature to make it so. It it shall be done.” Honestly, I’ve been goes against all our rational thinking to writing for over thirty years and I still 4 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

everyday goods and found food inflation Britain suffers Cases of Mumps was 1.4% during the month, up from Defensive barriers UK tops Europe’s Strenuous efforts are made by 0.9% in April. at the hands of Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster and Measles However it went on to claim that erected on drug death chart on the rise throughout overall inflation including non-food terrorists Today newspaper to ensure that items had fallen. This news comes as London bridges the content and information is London another study found a surprise pick-up in correct. Kensington, Chelsea & consumer confidence despite a predicted following terror pre-election slump. Westminster Today newspaper According to the BRC, processed London has witnessed yet another terror attack An official report by the European drugs reserves the right to report food prices showed the steepest rise in related incident on 2 June, as three agency has revealed that almost one in three drug overdose deaths in the unsolicited material being sent May, at 1.8%, up from 0.8% in April, armed men used a van and knives to kill seven and injure dozens more on Lon- continent are recorded in the United through to the publication. Photograph © UNICEF Photograph while fresh food inflation was 1.2%, up Kingdom. The report stated that the from 1%. It blamed the pound, which has don Bridge and at Borough Market. This Personal views expressed in this is the third terrorist attack in the United UK has Europe’s highest proportion of fallen about 16% since the Brexit vote heroin addicts, while separate research newspaper are solely those of the last June, increasing costs for businesses Kingdom in three months, after the first on Westminster Bridge that resulted in found a pattern of problematic use of respective contributors and do not that import goods into the UK. ‘legal highs’ such as ‘spice’ among poorer BRC chief executive Helen six deaths including the gunman, and the reflect those of the publishers or second at Manchester Arena on 22 May, communities.

Dickinson said: “With shorter stock Hall Alexander © Photograph killing 22. A total of 8,441 overdose deaths its agents. All materials sent to turnaround times, the impact of the mainly related to heroin and other opi- Europe has suffered an estimate of oids occurred in 2015, representing a 6% Kensington Chelsea & Westminster eighteen terror attacks in the past two increase on the 7,950 deaths across the Today are at the suppliers’ risk. here has been a dramatic rise years including an attack in Paris last 30 countries in 2014, with increases re- in reported cases of mumps, of 1,743, according to The Los Angeles Reproduction in whole or in part year that saw a death toll of 130 people, ported in almost all age groups. The UK tackle a range of tougher financial issues, particularly in teenagers and Times. Europe has seen an overall death the deadliest attack on French soil since accounted for 31% of those deaths, with with 30 percent using some or all of of this publication is strictly young adults across London, public toll of 278 over two years. T World War II. Germany in second place on 15%. the money to clear debts and a further prohibited without prior consent. health officials warned. Public Health Despite terrorism dominating Eu- A report released by The Global In addition, the number of people 22 percent repaying an outstanding England (PHE), alongside the NHS, are ropean agendas and increasing national Terrorism Index outlines heavily concen- mortgage The appearance of advertising in Photograph © Trussle Trust Photograph © Trussle addicted to legal medicines in the UK is investigating after nearly 450 cases were threat levels, the overall figures are but trated areas disproportionately targeted overtaking those struggling with heroin Families are also big beneficiaries this newspaper, including inserts or reported between January 1 and May 30 a small fraction of the frequent attacks by terror attacks within the Middle East, abuse, UK Addiction Treatment Centres with over one in five retired homeowners this year. This is an increase of 150 cases supplements, does not constitute that continue to take place in Middle Asia and Africa. The top five are Iraq, (UKAT) has warned. The company runs using money to help out relatives, compared to the same five month period East and North Africa. Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria. six addiction treatment centres across the including providing deposits to help endorsement by Kensington, in 2016. Across West London, The City While reliable statistics are difficult Evidence shows that 70 percent of global country, and reported that admissions for with a property purchase. They are Chelsea & Westminster Today of the of Westminster had the lowest infection to find, Iraq alone experienced 210 terror terrorism-related deaths occurred in prescription and over-the-counter drugs also making the most of the wealth for rate with only 8 cases, with 15 reported products or services advertised. related attacks in 2017, with a death toll these five countries. had risen by 22 per cent in the last two themselves with 32 percent using some in Kensington and Chelsea. years. or all of the money for holidays. This news comes in tandem with data that shows that cases of measles have also sky-rocketed in London and the arriers have been installed on Lon- don’s bridges after three terrorists South East last year, reaching the highest drove a van into pedestrians on London number since the last outbreak in 2012 London Bridge on June 3. (which saw 3,873 cases across England RUN ON B The incident, which was followed by pensioners and Wales). There were a total of 60 the van’s occupants going on a stabbing cases recorded in 2016 (there were 382 THE CLOUDS rampage throughout Borough Market, cash in in 2012) compared to just four in 2015. NEXT GENERATION DUOMAX SYSTEM FOR GREATER COMFORT AND ENHANCES GAIT EFFICIENCY. has led to 8 deaths with 48 other people on £1.2 million a day London and the South West were the injured, 21 critically. from their homes only two regions to record more cases of It has emerged that just 24 hours the viral infection last year. before the incident, the City of London The upturn in both mumps and Corporation had ruled out placing security measles can be traced to the falling barriers in the London Bridge area saying Property wealth boosted the retirement numbers of children undergoing the there were “no current plans” to install weaker pound has already started feeding standard of living for pensioners in MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) bollards on the historic structure. through into food prices, although food London by more than £110 million in vaccine. The World Health Organisation In March a man rented a 4x4 and the first three months of this year, more has set a target of 95 per cent, but price inflation this month is still well drove at speed along Westminster Bridge, than £1.2 million a day, new analysis vaccination rates have fallen to 91.9%. below the input cost price increases being mounting the pavement twice and hitting This recent fall has followed years of faced by retailers.” Despite the rising pedestrians before racing towards the from leading over-55s finance specialist broadly rising coverage since the MMR food prices, overall inflation fell, with Houses of Parliament. Security barriers Key Retirement shows. controversy, when the vaccine was linked the prices of non-food items 1.5% lower have long been in place near Big Ben and Its Equity Release Market Monitor to autism in a now-discredited paper in than a year ago. Parliament on Westminster Bridge but the shows retired homeowners made around 1998 by Andrew Wakefield. BRC credited heavy discounting in new barriers at three bridges in London £117,100 tax-free each on average by the wake of a “weak start to the year” serve to protect pedestrians from further by cashing in on their homes in the first three months of the year, with sales of and the fact that some businesses are GEL KAYANO 23 copycat attacks. still protected against currency shifts by Transport for London installed the equity release plans up by 43 percent over the same period of 2016. hedging contracts. Meanwhile, a separate barriers overnight on Westminster Bridge, Food Prices hit The detailed study, which also study from GfK found consumer Waterloo Bridge and London Bridge, completing work at around 4.30 am on analysed the reasons for releasing equity confidence increased in May, with ‘three year high’ June 5. These defences follow on the heels across the whole of the UK, found the the market research firm’s Consumer due to weak pound of a series of large bollards installed around main motivation for using property Confidence Index increasing two points the entrance to Buckingham palace imme- wealth was to fund home and garden to minus five. diately following the Westminster Bridge improvements with 62 percent using Food prices climbed at their fastest rate FASICRS TOEP WEITH ANY SHOE PURCHASED terror attack. some or all of the cash to revamp their for more than three years in May as the It follows the most recent Office for Following the recent Manchester property. weak pound pushed up import prices, National Statistics retail figures showing bombing the terror threat level was briefly The size of the payouts are having a sales outstripping expectations to rise by raised to critical by the government before new research shows. The British Retail *T&C: WHILE STOCK LASTS major impact on the standard of living Consortium measured the prices of 500 2.3% in April compared with March. being scaled back to severe on May 30. in retirement, enabling pensioners to 6 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 European News European News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

defendant “clearly endorsed the unseemly for the national offices of MEPs. after Syrians who all receive asylum due where asylum seekers are forced to fight Germany to fine content and made it his own” by liking The European Parliament has been to the ongoing civil war. for basic necessities such as blankets, a ‘Earliest ancestor comments. The Zurich court ruled that taken to court by EU journalists that Germany to In recent months, Angela Merkel has Greek Island of dry place to sleep, food and water. parents who fail the defendant had not been able to have filed complaints with the EU Court increased efforts to deport failed asylum Despite large amounts of funding to humanity’ prove that the comments he liked were of Justice demanding access to show how pause deportation seekers. At least 25,000 migrants in total Chios Struggling being made available by the EU, the found in Europe to vaccinate their truthful. It also said that the action of MEPs have been spending taxpayer’s of failed Asylum were deported last year, while more than to cope refugees still lack access to mental health “liking” the comments “made them money. double left the country voluntarily. with rising number of suicide care and psychosocial support. Many of children accessible to a large number of people”, Under the new plans, more money them come from Afghanistan, Iraq and and were thus an “affront to [Kessler’s] Seekers to will be given to voluntary returnees who cases Syria and have survived human rights honour”. make the decision quickly to leave. The abuses or have witnessed traumatising He was given a conditional fine of Migrants find Afghanistan government also plans to spend €90 war crimes. Parents in Germany who fail to seek 4,000 Swiss francs (£3,200; $4,100), million this year as part of reparations In one report, charities in Chios are medical advice on vaccinating their according to AFP. A lawyer for one of new routes into and reintegration programmes. said to be at breaking point, there are children could face fines of up to €2,500 the other people sued by Mr Kessler that Germany’s 16 regional governments will over 37,000 people on the Island and 39 (£2,175; $2,800). warned freedom of expression could be Europe be responsible for deporting migrants percent have witnessed a death on the

Health Minister Hermann Gröhe jeopardised if courts want to prosecute © Simalive Photographs whose applications failed. Island with 87 percent saying that it was Photograph © Natural History Museum History © Natural Photograph said it was necessary to tighten the law people over Facebook “likes”. Since 2015, 890,000 asylum seekers as a result of self-harm or suicide. because of a measles epidemic. The gov- have arrived in Germany. In 2016, Earlier in the year, a man was left in ernment wants kindergartens to report 280,000 asylum seekers arrived which is critical condition after self- immolation. any parents who cannot prove they have a drop of over 600,000 on the previous The 29-year-old man sustained burns on had a medical consultation. However, MEPs vote year, 85 percent of his body after the incident. Germany is not yet making it an offence The decrease is a result of the closure Charities and Aid agencies are struggling The charity Save the Children has found to refuse vaccinations unlike Italy. against the of the Balkan route and migrant deal to cope with the rising number of that anxiety, depression and aggression Under the plan, the children of par- ermany have temporarily between the EU and Turkey. reported suicide cases by refugees on the were on the rise with children as young ents who fail to seek vaccination advice publication of suspended the deportation of Migration had become a politicised Greek Island of Chios. as 9 years old cutting themselves, could be expelled from their daycare asylum seekers to Afghanistan issue in Germany after Merkel opened There are an estimated 62,000 attempting suicide and using drugs to centre. By mid-April this year Germany their expenses Gfollowing an explosion that killed at least the doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on cope. had 410 measles cases, compared with 80 people and injured more than 350 asylum seekers in 2015. mainland Greece and its islands The changes to EU funding is set 325 for the whole of 2016, the Robert Surging numbers of refugees are at- people in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. The move to deport failed asylum following the European border closures. to leave vital refugee services further at Koch Institute reported tempting to migrate through Morocco The explosions took place in the seekers by Merkel has been seen as an Charities in Greece say that many risk as charities prepare to withdraw key diplomatic area where embassies urope, not East Africa, might and into Spain, as the effects of Turkey’s attempt to win back conservative voters asylum seekers and migrants stranded services from the country’s hotspots such including the German embassy are have spawned the first members “one in, one out” policy make it harder to ahead of the September elections. The on the Island of Chios have seen as Chios. Charities on the Island have located. The attack damaged parts of the move comes after an asylum seeker killed of the human evolutionary family move into Greece and the Balkans from their mental health decline because warned that the withdrawal of services German embassy and other embassies in 12 people at a Berlin Christmas Market of the difficult conditions they live in will have a detrimental and inhumane around 7 million years ago, researchers Swiss court fines the Turkish border. E More than 3,300 migrants landed on the area. in December and a 16-year-old Syrian and insecurity about their future. The effect on people’s lives and urged health, have claimed. Studies undertaken on € Spanish shores in the first four months Afghans have become Germany’s refugee was convicted for 2 years in West conditions on the Island have been safety and human rights of displaced the teeth of a chimpanzee-sized primate man for Facebook of 2017, up from 1,063 in the same peri- second largest group of asylum seekers, Germany for planning a bomb attack. described by some charities as degrading, people must be the highest priority. that once lived in Mediterranean Europe X od last year, according to the UN’s Inter- suggest that the primate, known as ‘like’ national Organisation for Migration. Graecopithecus, may have been a hominin, 23 of 751 Members of the European The Morocco - Spain migration route not an ape as many researchers had Parliament voted against the mandatory has historically been a point of entry for previously assumed. publication of how they spend their drugs into Europe as well as for move- European apes were thought to have monthly €4,342 General Expenditure ment of people. Cooperation between died out 10 million years ago, leaving Allowance (GEA). The allowance is Spain and Morocco, including coastal apes confined to Africa where they split meant to cover the cost of office rent, patrols, has until now kept numbers into chimpanzees, gorillas and homo computers, telephones and other office largely at bay. sapiens. However the 7 million year old related expenses. However, just over a year on from Græcopithecus remains discovered in MEPs currently receive a €52,000 the EU-Turkey deal, which introduced Bulgaria (with another set discovered in lump sum, a 3.5 percent contributory measures to process refugees arriving in Athens) seem to indicate that European pension and an annual travel allowance Greece and send them back to Turkey, apes were able to survive far longer than In a landmark ruling, a Swiss court has of €4,264 among other expenses and numbers taking the route through North scientists previously realised. Researchers fined a man for “liking” comments on general living expenses. Africa to Spain have tripled. from the University of Tübingen used Facebook accusing an animal rights Under current rules, MEPs do In contrast, 7,043 migrants have We’re outsmarting cancer a micro-CT scanner to peer into the activist of being a “racist” and an “anti- not have to publish any receipts or taken the Eastern Mediterranean route jawbone of the Greek sample, and found Semite”. In the first case of its kind in justification of how the money is spent. to Greece so far this year, according to that the roots of one of the premolars are Switzerland, the Zurich district court on This lack of transparency means that the IOM figures, down from 156,267 over “fused” together in an unusual way that is European parliament administration the same period in 2016. by blocking its every move, Monday faulted a 45-year-old man for only known to occur in hominins, being hitting the “Like” button under what the does not have any information on any The Spanish route comes with its own dangers, with 51 migrants having extremely rare in modern chimps. judge deemed defamatory comments on offices used by MEPs. been killed crossing the Mediterranean Geological dating techniques the social media site. Four politicians from Germany, to Spain so far this year. right here in Chelsea. Belgium and Sweden have admitted suggest it was alive between 7.18 According to a court statement sent paying rent to themselves and 38 Sub-Saharan refugees are making and 7.25 million years ago, which to AFP on Tuesday, the defendant had politicians have admitted to paying their way towards Spain following the means Græcopithecus slightly predates accused Erwin Kessler and the animal rent to national political parties. The West African coastline, or via the more Sahelanthropus the oldest potential protection group he heads, Verein gegen European Parliament does permit dangerous route through the Sahara hominin found in Africa which is Tierfabriken (Against Animal Factories), MEPs to rent offices to themselves and Desert. At the beginning of June, 44 between 6 to 7 million years old. As a of racism and anti-Semitism in Facebook their national political parties as long as migrants out of a group of 50, including result the researchers are claiming that posts. certain conditions are fulfilled. women and children, were reported dead We’ve been improving cancer patients’ lives since 1909 our last common ancestor with chimps But the court also took issue with the The conditions include paying market by the UN Refugee Agency. Find out how you can help us to defeat cancer. may have been an eastern European. man’s decision to hit the “Like” button rent for the office and not indirectly Migration by sea from Libya is still These claims come at the same time under several comments from third financing the political vehicles of which ongoing, with concomitant huge loss of as the discovery of Homo Sapiens remains parties about Kessler that were deemed they are affiliated. The offices cannot be life. June’s summit in Taormina, Sicily, A Charity. Not for Pro t. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England. No. 534147 ICR.ac.uk/chelsea in a cave in Morocco which seem to inflammatory, and commented and used by other people or other purposes the island where the majority of refugees indicate that our species is a full 100,000 linked to some of them. other than European Parliament work. on this route land, has now ended with- years older than previously assumed. The Zurich district court said the The EU pays out €40 Million annually out any significant diplomatic progress. ICR_Kensington & Chelsea Today_260x160_Outsmarting-May-2017.indd 1 23/05/2017 16:51 8 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 International News International News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

to an incompetent government”. year ago and more than the combined As they consume the plastic detritus or the possibility the arms and military First Japanese Ebola virus Goldman Sachs paid $865 Million value of all the firms with a primary become entrapped in it and the turtles equipment ended up in the hands of IS, USD for government bonds that were listing in the UK, the world’s fourth- find it hard to lay eggs in polluted sand. or Iranian-backed militias, writes the abdication in over returns originally worth $2.8 Billion USD. The largest base for public companies. Since the 1950s, global plastic Financial Times. to the Democratic Republic of bank paid 31 cents on the dollar, far production has increased from 2 to 300 Amnesty International’s researchers two centuries Congo lower that what was considered to be a While the tech platforms’ huge increase million tonnes and continues to rise. on international arms control, Patrick Vadon © Michael Photograph fair value. in value may reflect rising profits, their “The clean up on Henderson and many Wilcken stated, “This audit provides The bank defended its action saying share prices have moved faster than their other remote Islands is not feasible. If all a worrying inside into the US Army’s that it brought the bonds in 2014 earnings. As a result, together they trade we ever do is clean up, that’s all we will flawed- and potentially dangerous system for a state-run oil company Patroleos on a price-earnings multiple of 34 times, ever do. We must change our behaviour for controlling millions of dollars’ worth de Venezuela SA with the hope that up from 26 times a year ago, close to The World Health Organization (WHO) and our consumption patterns,” Jennifer of arms transfers to a hugely volatile conditions in Venezuela would improve bubble territory. Lavers told KCW Today. has reported cases of the Ebola virus in a region.” and the value of the bonds would “Even if we did somehow clean remote location in the north of the Dem- On the contrary, the Pentagon increase. Nairobi to the port city of Mombasa. Henderson it’s estimated that 3,500 ocratic Republic of Congo (DRC). mentioned the report was overblown There have been 29 suspected cases and 3 Goldman Sachs claim that they The railway is the country’s biggest to 13,300 new pieces of plastic wash- bought the bonds from another broker infrastructure project since its up on the Island every day. Clean-ups and that problems with inventory have deaths reported within the remote loca- Tiny Pacific already been fixed. tion. The DRC is using new tools such as and did not interact with the Venezuelan independence in 1963. The Chinese- need to be paired with behavioural the GeneXpert, a rapid testing of pathol- government. Despite buying the bonds funded railway cost £2.5 billion and was Island found with change; cleaning up the ocean itself is ogies such as Ebola and classic ones to indirectly, Nicolas Maduro’s government built by the Chinese Communications not a solution to the plastic problem. specific issues, on the foremost challenge have already benefited and seen a surge Construction Consortium, which 38 Million Pieces Every one of us must make changes and of our time, namely climate change, and The Japanese parliament grants first respond to the outbreak of the virus. in reserves. have already funded a number of large sacrifices sooner rather than later.” commit to taking the kind of steps that Taiwan smashes Imperial abdication in nearly 200 years, Ebola first struck the West African region in 2014 killing more than 11,000 Venezuela only has $10.8 Billion construction projects in Africa. of Rubbish are needed to further this process of following concerns of the Emperor’s USD in reserves left and its reserves rose Asian taboo on declining health. people over two years. The company will run the system energy transformation,” Brown said. by $400 Million USD after Goldman In a rarely televised interview The potential for international and re- for the next 10 years, handing it over to Mayors National Climate Action Sachs purchase according to central bank gay marriage Emperor Akihito, 83, stated his worries, Kenyan operators once local staff is fully Agenda released a statement signed by “I am concerned it may become difficult data. trained. Individual U.S. 61 mayors across the country saying, Citizens in Venezuela have been for me to carry out my duties..as I have The railway took three and a half “We will continue to lead. We are protesting for two months over food, done so far.” years to build using Chinese track laying States and cities increasing investments in renewable Taiwan is to become the first state in medicine, electricity and clean water But the monarch faced logistical technology. The line stretches 472km energy and energy efficiency. We will Asia to legalise gay partnerships. Its shortages. It grows very little of its own declare “We’re buy and create more demand for electric problems with the Imperial Household (293 miles) but there is a 25 year plan constitutional court ruled that the civil

Photograph © UNICEF Photograph Law, which has been governing Japan’s food after the government nationalised cars and trucks. We will increase our for it to link landlocked countries South code violated constitutional guarantees royal line of succession, writes The much of the farmland then abandoned Still In” efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the agricultural plan, focusing on Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and on Paris Climate Agreement of freedom of marriage and equality Atlantic. The last emperor to abdicate create a clean energy economy, and stand Blackwood © Katie Photograph was in 1817. Parliament has now found exporting oil as its only source of eastern DR Congo to the Indian Ocean. for environmental justice. And if the between people. The ministry of culture a one-off legislation that only allows the revenue. The journey from Mombasa to Nairobi president wants to break the promises island off the coast of China tweeted current Emperor to abdicate the throne. Maduro has be lambasted by the previously took nine hours by bus or made to our allies enshrined in the the hashtag #loveislove and a rainbow- The government confirms that he will opposition who hold that he chose to twelve hours using the previous railway. Many U.S. states, cities and businesses historic Paris Agreement, we’ll build coloured heart. President Tsai Ing-Wen be succeeded by Crown Prince Naruhito, gional spread is minimal as the outbreak pay Venezuela’s global bondholders, over It now takes four and a half hours to say they will forge ahead with the U.S. and strengthen relationships around had pledged her support for marriage aged 57. is isolated and travel to the area takes feeding the country’s people. The move get from Mombasa to Nairobi, passing commitment to the Paris Climate the world to protect the planet from equality during last year’s presidential several days to reach populated areas. by Goldman Sachs to buy the bonds has through some of Kenya’s national parks. Agreement, even though President devastating climate risks.” election. caused further moral outrage and has A tiny South Pacific Island has been The DRC has a history of controlling Nairobi is the main station and passenger Donald Trump pulled out of the deal. The “need, capability, willingness been described as “morally indefensible” found with the highest density of The U.S. under President Barack Obama Martial Law cases of Ebola; the first reported case in terminal, it will also be the train and longing, in both physical and by critics. washed-up plastic in the world. pledged to reduce greenhouse gas the DRC was in 1976, an estimated 350 maintenance depot for vehicles, coaches Henderson Island, located 5000km psychological senses, for creating such under Duterte Venezuela’s opposition leader Julio and wagons. Travellers will pay 900 emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 kilometres from the current one. from the nearest human settlement, is US failed to permanent unions of intimate and The DRC is the most experienced Afri- Borges sent a letter to Goldman Sachs Kenyan Shillings for economy and 3,000 levels by 2025. an uninhabited Pacific island between exclusive nature are equally essential to can country in regards to Ebola control. CEO Lloyd Blakefein saying he was Kenyan Shillings for business class. “As of today, the United States Australia and South America. monitor $1bn of homosexuals and heterosexuals, given the It has successfully controlled eight Ebola outraged that the bank decided to buy The railway has been criticised for will cease all implementation of the the bonds calling for the case to be heard The discovery was made on a recent importance of the freedom of marriage outbreaks by using the same three step adding to the national debt which nonbinding Paris accord and the before the US congress. expedition by Jennifer Lavers of the Draconian financial and economic arms in Iraq to the sound development of personality approach: Identification and isolation of currently stands at 4 Trillion Kenyan Latin American leaders and University of Tasmania, Australia where burdens the agreement imposes on our cases, identification of any contacts of Shillings. The project funded by the and safeguarding of human dignity,” the international organisations have also she found 38 million items of rubbish country,” Trump said. cases, and monitoring for 21 days. Chinese Loans company is estimated court ruled yesterday. criticised Maduro for abandoning weighing 18 tonnes spread across its However in a letter titled “We Are Educating the community to understand to have cost over 1 Trillion Kenyan beaches. Two judges on the panel of 15 grand the importance of prevention, safe patient the country’s democratic values Still In,” filed on 6 June, hundreds of justices issued dissenting opinions and denouncing him as a hypocrite given the Shillings, a quarter of the total national Lavers research shows that an average transport, burial and household decon- leaders of states, cities, universities and another recused himself because his wife The President of the Philippines Rodrigo government’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric. debt. of 239 items of rubbish per square businesses pledging to continue their tamination have also been important in was a legislator who has campaigned for Duterte has declared martial law on the Goldman Sachs’s compliance staff is metre were found on the beach and 99.8 support for the Paris climate change preventing its spread. percent was plastic. gay marriage. southern island of Mindanao, following The World Health Organization and now reviewing the Venezuelan trade agreement.

She also found that Henderson Hundreds of supporters of gay rights Showalter © Julianne Photograph Islamist militant threats to civilians and Partners have already rapidly and effec- agreement after the furious response Former New York Mayor and U.N. Top tech firms Island, which sits on the Western edge who had gathered in central Taipei security forces on 23 May. tively responded to the outbreak. that the bank was helping to support Special Envoy for Cities and Climate According to The Telegraph, President Nicolas Maduro, as he is of South Pacific acts like a sink filtering Change Michael Bloomberg pledged hugged one another and waved rainbow the fighting erupted Tuesday after faced with accusations of human rights worth more than some of the plastics from the ocean as $15 million to make up for the U.S. flags after the ruling was announced. Philippines security forces raided a house violations. it passes by in current, the plastic then contribution to the climate agreement. Conservative social attitudes prevail in the city of Marawi thought to have top UK firms accumulates on the beaches of remote “The American government may The United States army has failed to across most of Asia, home to more than been the hiding place of Isnilon Hapilon, Goldman Sachs rarely visited islands. have pulled out of the agreement, but the keep track of $1bn worth of arms and half the world’s population. Cambodia leader of Abu Sayyaf. The attack was combined The labels on the rubbish reveal that American people remain committed to it quickly backed by members of another military equipment to Iraq in recent and Vietnam no longer ban same-sex criticised Kenya gets its many of the items came from Asia and and we will meet our targets,” Bloomberg extremist group. Europe with the majority coming from years, according to a declassified US marriages but still deny them formal for buying Venezuelan The top seven global tech firms have said. Abu Sayyaf and Maute have been South America. Department of Defence audit by recognition. As recently as May, two first new railway been quietly acquiring huge market Just days after Trump’s blamed for bombings, attacks against government bonds at The condition of the rubbish also Amnesty International. gay men were flogged in Indonesia’s values. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, announcement, California Governor government forces, and beheadings, shows that the rubbish is decades old Aceh province, the only area of that record low line since British Amazon and Facebook are the five most Jerry Brown met with Chinese President The recently obtained documents reports Al Jazeera. Both are known to with items found like toy soldiers, valuable firms in the world. And tencent Xi Jinping and signed an agreement to found that the Department of Defence country where Sharia is enforced and have pledged allegiance to Islamic State. popular in the 1970s. US investment bank Goldman Sachs has Independence and Alibaba, their Chinese peers are just work on reducing emissions. did not keep accurate records on the homosexuality is illegal. In mainland Martial law took immediate effect Marine animals including seabirds, come under attack by the Venezuelan behind. “It’s highly significant that the distribution nor location of supplies sent China, social pressure still means that and will last for 60 days, but the turtles, and fish are said to be under opposition party for buying government Kenya has launched its first major new In total the seven companies are now governor of California can meet with to Iraq and even Kuwait. most homosexuals conceal their sexuality president is prepared to extend it to a threat because of the rubbish pile-up. year, confirms Duterte’s spokesperson. bonds and, in doing so, “giving a lifeline railway line travelling from the capital worth $3.6tn, 40 percent more than a the president of China, talk about very Inevitably the concern lies with and marry people of the opposite sex. 10 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

misconception that writing popular Parliament fiction is not very hard (and when Ageing Scribblers considering works by hard-boiled old DUDLEY SUTTON’S Squared By Peter Burden pot-boilers like Ms Steel, they could By Derek Wyatt be forgiven for thinking so). Naomi I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT Photographs © Will Mayall Will © Photographs Campbell for a blink of an eye famously swapped modelling for novel-writing (although the real authorship of her not outstanding novel, Swan, is obscure. Elegy For Himself e Brits gave the biggest here are many instances of It is said that Ms Campbell may not by Chidiock Tichborne sigh of relief when the novelists continuing to practise be entirely to blame for the miserable Written in the Tower before his execution, 1596 Westminster Circus Act aka their art well after the appropriate quality of the work.) as the General Election ended at 10pm faculties have failed. They are, I imagine, It seems unlikely that Katie Price, the W T former Hashemite Kingdom or whatever on 8th June 2017. Of the many mistakes egged on by greedy agents, lazy My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; the PM made during this May-hem was publishers and pusillanimous editors, all she was before she became a best-selling My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; a) to call it, and b) to call it late allowing of whom know that, at certain levels, it novelist, had a lot to do with writing My crop of corn is but a field of tares; eight weeks of electioneering. is names, not content, that sell books, the novels that bear her name, although, And all my good is but vain hope of gain: At the start of the election she had leading to the apparently unquenchable cleverly, they’re written in a way that The day is past, and yet I saw no sun; suggests she might have done. a 24 points lead at the end it was down output of ‘novelists’ like Danielle Steel. And now I live, and now my life is done. to 3, 4 or 5 depending on which poll The late Anthony Powell’s earlier In the case of Prue Leith, who you trusted. The minimum time for an works merit the esteem in which they has made the leap to romance from election once it is called is three weeks. were held, and which I enjoyed, while gastronomy (where she cost me hundreds My tale was heard, and yet it was not told; She misfired, she changed her mind, acknowledging that he never possessed of pounds in wasted joints of overcooked My fruit is fall’n, and yet my leaves are green; she failed to cost her manifesto and she the scintillating brush strokes of beef as a result of hopelessly inaccurate My youth is spent, and yet I am not old; insulted OAPs. contemporaries like Evelyn Waugh, or roasting times in her famed Bible) I I saw the world, and yet I was not seen: As it is she is left marooned on Brexit the potent darkness of Graham Greene. can’t even contemplate what grisly My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun; Island weakened not strengthened by However, for a long time after he had inaccuracies abound in her works as And now I live, and now my life is done. the whole process. I doubt she will step manifestly lost his grip on story-telling a reinvented, self-styled ‘novelist.’ It’s down. But I do expect her to be faced rogantly. ”Just you wait here and I’ll show sports, do not attack shooting far more and had drifted into self-indulgent enough to know that she even recycled a I sought my death, and found it in my womb; with a vote of no confidence within Town and you what a hen looks like.” He proudly than hunting. I am not a huntsman but fantasy and hippy metaphysics of a type title from the magnificent self-publicist I looked for life, and saw it was a shade; her parliamentary party possibly before returned with an English partridge. I admit to looking very good on a horse that should have been confined only to (and derivative novelist, Jeffrey Archer), I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb; The Prodigal Daughter. recess in July. “There you are,” he said, “thats a hen.” provided it doesn’t move. If it so much as a close circle of understanding friends, And now I die, and now I was not made; It beggared belief given those aged Country stamps its foot I am found in a state of his publishers allowed him, perhaps even Interestingly, it was clear that Jeffrey, By Michael Daunt During the season the commercial My glass is full, and now my glass is run; over 60 vote most frequently that Mrs shoots are run six days a week with an total terror clinging around its neck. encouraged him, to carry on. taking a line from the parable put out by May could tell them on one day that if average bag of 500-600 birds per day. Since it was made illegal in 2015 it His final novel, The Fisher King, the well-known 1st century parabalist, And now I live, and now my life is done you were English you would lose your tax Because of the incompetence of the guns has attracted large numbers of partici- published twenty years after the last of Jesus Christ, believes that ‘prodigal’ free £200 winter fuel allowance but not if there are, pathetically, large numbers of pants and there are nowadays far more his twelve book oeuvre, Dance to the Music means ‘running away from the family you were Scottish. And then on the next, wounded who, despite the pickers-up, people hunting than there were before of Time (which was already showing before coming home a few years later to she said keeping the triple lock on the I write this as a countryman but I have a are not collected and are left to die a the ban. To overturn the ban would be signs of an uncertain grasp), had it been receive sympathy’ when it simply means annual increase in their pensions was to passion for London and usually come up painful death. The rearing of these birds madness as it would offend swathes of a presented as the work of a young profligate, or spendthrift. I wonder if Ms be ended. at least once a week to meet friends and does the countryside no good either as the population and achieve nothing. The unknown would have been rejected as Leith has made the same mistake? Take a subscription of KCW TODAY To add insult to injury they were see my sons. I lived in Chelsea for twenty the huge amounts of droppings poisons hunting with dogs act is a most classic unpublishable. It was a disservice to the Forgive me for my unprofessionalism, going to have to pay for what has become years but I have been explicitly told not the ground and makes it sterile. This is piece of British compromise. Two dogs then 80 year old Powell to publish it at but I haven’t checked. known as the “dementia” tax. Given this, to write about this as the subject of sex not shooting as I have always known it, are allowed to flush the fox which then all without, at least, far more rigorous for 2017/8 and receive how does anyone now think she can now is forbidden (do I hear sighs from my where a group of friends spend a joyous can be killed by a bird. Thus, nowadays, editing. I’ve often noticed that journalists whose hold the EU’s feet to the fire during the readers?) and there was a blissful amount day together dispatching a few pheasants many hunts carry a peregrine falcon or On a less literary level, and more images accompany their prose seem a copy delivered Brexit talks. She blew it. of that during the 60’s and 70’s. or partridges and, if a bird is wounded, an eagle to kill the fox which, if you be- recently, I was reminded of the dangers never to age. Take, for example, John The winners in this election were What mostly offends the town about do anything in their power to find it. This lieve to be true, I am sure that you would of ARAS [Aging Revered Author Harris of The Guardian, alongside whose Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader and the country are the sports of hunting and is a despicable occupation and has little also be found putting out food for the Syndrome] while tackling a recent work appeared for some 15 years the Name twitter. The losers were BBC News, shooting and thus I am sure you may be to do with the countryside or country- Loch Ness Monster. It is an extraordi- offering of Joanna Trollope. I used to image of a fresh-faced student apparently newspapers and pollsters (again). surprised to hear that, as a countryman, men. nary fact that, when a fox has been killed, like keeping in touch with my feminine qualified to write meaningfully about Corbyn may be some 1960s refusenik they offend me too. The so called sport of Hunting is, of course the main object it is often found with the teeth marks of side by reading Ms Trollope, who, while rock music (which he did well, but does Address and slightly batty but he has endeared commercial shooting is to me revolting of revulsion of the town and yet it is an eagle, having been ripped apart by the not as important a writer as she suggests less these days). Now that he writes himself by being himself. Pity his team as are the people, mostly townees, who far less cruel than shooting. There is no talons of a peregrine falcon. at BookFest appearances, nevertheless almost exclusively about politics, it seems was so lack lustre though top marks to take part. I can describe the men who wounding and the fox is despatched I would not dream of commenting wrote in her earlier novels with a depth he has finally agreed to an updated mug- Sir Keir Starmer and Barry Gardiner. participate perfectly: They dress up for quickly and cleanly. It has never ceased to on a hedge fund or the stock market and of detail and sufficiently tightly observed shot, in which he looks slightly older, but And as for Diane Abbott she must be the occasion as Edwardian squires, are amaze me that the League Against Cruel therefore, unless the townsman really insight that there was something to be more knowing. counting down, if she could count, to her something in the City and kill things at Sports, the RSPCA and various other or- knows about the countryside, he should gained, and admired in her novels. I applaud this sincerity, and have retirement. weekends. They know little, if anything ganisations, whose aim is to stop country leave well alone. But Daughters in Law, published decided (after a mere five years) to do the To the answer “And the winner is?” about the countryside.With shame I ad- some 23 years after her first hit, The same... The winner was clearly twitter. Millions mit that I was once hosting one of these Choir, lacks her earlier depth of vision of postings, lots of genuinely good days. My only excuse is that I needed the and shows a flabbiness of style, a discussions (not too much abuse), great money. It was a mixed partridge shoot clunky tendency for repetition and the polling information and cross referencing with about 90% French partridges and presentation of flat, banal characters, 11 month’s subscription and fast information. Both BBC News 10% English. In order to try and ensure manifestly products of research, not UK £ 46.00 (Tick box) and Sky News looked old fashioned, slow that the participants didn’t shoot each spontaneous, well-informed creativity. It Overseas on request with the data and following not creating other, I stood behind the gun in the mid- should be noted that every author needs stories. C4 with hardly any budget was dle of the line. He duly killed about six a confidante to let them know when their Fill out form with cheques made payable to: the pick. So well done to them. birds. My labrador and I picked them up art has drifted into the realms of the Kensington, & Chelsea Today Limited Across the pond the Trump Circus is for him and I laid them on the ground irrelevant, the unrehearsed and the self- and send to Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today, in free fall. He has already made America for him to see. “Oh good,” he announced, indulgent. 80-100 Gwynne Road, London SW11 3UW or email: [email protected]. a second rate country on the fly which “They’re all cocks.” “How do you know? An even more dangerous

peterburden.net Or telephone 020 7738 2348 to pay is some achievement given he has only “I enquired. “Do you mean to say that manifestation of ARAS can be By BACS or visit www.KCWtoday.co.uk to pay by PayPal. been in his job six months. Clearly the you don’t know the difference between a encountered when a writer has changed climate there is for change. cock and a hen partridge?” He asked ar- genres, perhaps sometimes under the www. 12 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Statue & Blue Plaque Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

were purchased by the Exhibition’s Royal Commission (on the advice of Blue Plaque: History of The Prince Albert) as part of the first step of John Logie Baird. Royal Albert Hall establishing the cluster of buildings that (1888-1946) By Max Feldman would become known as Albertopolis; this was more of a nickname than anything

Photographs © Don Grant Photographs else, luckily enough the Prince Consort wasn’t enough of a megalomaniac to rename South Kensington after himself. Albertopolis was a complex of public Victorian buildings initially John Logie Baird was honoured with he Royal Albert Hall is one of developed to house exhibits from the a Blue Plaque at 22 Frith Street. Soho. the jewels in South Kensington’s Great Exhibition and to further the London. W1D 4RP. It was erected by crown, having played host to study of art, science and industry. Today STATUES the London County Council in 1951. more virtuoso classical fanfares, sweaty the institutions located in Albertopolis T A full decade later the Hall opened mushrooms. He was one of Scotland’s finest feedback driven gigs and the occasional include The Natural History Museum, inventors and gave the world’s first debauched Chelsea Arts Club party V&A (formerly the South Kensington in March 1871, with an emotionally Soon however the Hall began to demonstration of a working television than anyone could count without Museum), Science Museum and Imperial overcome Queen Victoria’s only recorded break away from its role as strictly from this house. coming down with sympathetic tinnitus. College. The Royal Horticultural Society thoughts on the Hall on the day of its a home for classical music, hosting Baird was born in Helensburgh, Considering that the Hall is starting to (RHS) Gardens, built in 1861, stood to opening was that it reminded her of the The Coming Race and Vril-Ya Bazaar Dunbartonshire. His father, the gear up for its upcoming 150th birthday the south of the Hall until its closure British Constitution. Soon the Hall had and Fete in 1891, widely held as the Reverend John Baird, was a Church celebrations Kensington, Chelsea and in 1882. The foot tunnel from South become famed for its classical concerts, world’s first sci-fi convention alongside of Scotland Minister and his mother, Westminster Today have decided to look Kensington underground station was popular enough to lure household names bacchanalian balls hosted by the likes Jessie Morrison Inglis, was from a through the venue’s storied history also originally built to end at the site of like Wagner to personally perform on of the The Savage and Chelsea Arts wealthy ship-building family in Glasgow. and see how the album hall went from the south-east corner of these now lost its stage. However despite all of the Club. This set the tone for a whirlwind They educated their son at Larchfield year Baird made a three week series hosting Wagner to rocking with Led gardens. Hall’s grandeur there was a notable of different events throughout the 20th Academy and the West of Scotland demonstrating moving silhouette images Zeppelin. Albert had earmarked Gore House problem with its acoustics; the sheer size century as psychedelic rock and dope Technical College. He later progressed at Selfridges. The Albert Hall’s notably scenic as a potential site for a concert venue of the enclosed space coupled with the smoking became as common as genteel to the University of Glasgow where he Baird presented his ‘televisor’, as real estate was originally occupied by (which was to be named The Central reflection of sound from the glass roof classical; a contrast that remains firmly in read electrical engineering. He never it was called, to an audience of forty the rather ominous sounding Gore Hall) but tragically died before work above created a significant echo (leading place today (though perhaps with slightly actually graduated because World War I members of the Royal Institution in House which had been built in 1750. A could begin on it. The venue was to the Hall getting the reputation as the less hashish consumption than in the interrupted his studies. Poor health made 1926. A Times journalist reported that three-hectare estate that served as the originally intended to accommodate only venue where a composer “could hear 60s). The Albert Hall has developed from life difficult for the young Baird and he the picture was faint and blurred, but home of William Wilberforce, by 1851 30,000 people, which was eventually their own work twice”) which was only a monument to a fallen royal into one toughness and brutality of the Royal was declared unfit for military service it substantiated a claim that through Gore House was serving as a restaurant reduced to 7,000 for financial and finally resolved in the late 1960s with of the most integral parts of the capital’s Royal Tank Artillery Memorial by Charles Jagger and worked instead at the Clyde Valley the televisor, it is possible to transmit catering to the Great Exhibition in Hyde practical reasons, and today, due to the addition of multiple acoustic saucers, cultural heritage. at Hyde Park Corner, it has an inner Electrical Power Company making instantly the details of movement and Park when the house and its grounds modern fire regulations, to around 5,500. often referred to as the Royal Albert Hall Long may it remain so. Regiment strength that sums up the bond that munitions. such things as the play of expression on holds these brave men together. In 1922, Baird started thinking the face. Memorial It was sculpted by Vivien how pictures could be transmitted and Selfridges sold TV sets for the By Vivian Mallock Mallock and is influenced by a shelved received. The following year he moved first time in 1927 and in 1928 Baird maquette made in 1950 by George to Hastings for health reasons, rented sent a TV picture across the Atlantic Whitehall Place Henry Paulin, a Scottish sculptor, a workshop and built the world’s first and demonstrated colour TV for the who based the central figure on his TV set made of a hat box, scissors, first time. He set up Baird Television own son, and Mallock took up the darning needles, bicycle lights’ lenses, Company in the same year and made the ROM MUD, THROUGH reference and modelled him on one tea chest, sealing wax and glue! In 1924 first TV programme for the BBC. BLOOD, TO THE GREEN of Paulin’s grandsons, himself a recent he demonstrated to the Radio Times In 1932 the BBC inaugurated FIELDS BEYOND. So reads the veteran of the British Army. In front that a semi-mechanical analogue TV the first 30 line TV service using the inscription on the stone plinth of of the 2.5m high bronzes, mounted was possible by transmitting moving Baird mechanical system. Later a rival Fthis powerful dedication to the on an oval plinth, are two busy bronze images. The following year he succeeded electronic system replaced it, developed Crewmen who have served in the plaques, one showing the Comet and in transmitting the first TV picture with by the Marconi-EMI Corporation. Heavy Section and Heavy Branch the position of the crew members in it, tone gradation. He used the head of a Many engineers were involved in the Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, as well as the information that it was ventriloquist’s dummy, later progressing actual invention of TV, but Baird was the equipped with a 77mm high velocity Royal Tank Corps and Royal Tank to the human face belonging to William most prominent in introducing it into Regiment since tanks were first used gun and powered by a 600 horsepower Taynton, a young office boy. The same private homes. Several historians do say in combat at Flers on 15th September Rolls-Royce engine. At the rear of the that Baird was the first to produce a live 1916. It depicts five crewmen from a work is a further inscription, stating moving gray-scale TV image reflected Comet tank, which was issued to the that it was unveiled by Our Colonel from light, whereas others failed to do Royal Tank Regiment in 1945. Each in Chief of the RTR Her Majesty this. is wearing battle dress and berets, and The Queen on 13 June 2000, naming As so often happens with great had a dedicated role, whether it was the sculptor and original designer. inventions, they are received with Commander, Gunner, Loader, Hull Mallock has done a number of public scepticism. A news’ editor of the Daily Machine Gunner and Driver, and and private commissions, including Express once described John Logie Baird each man is looking to their left and one of Sir Winston Churchill, the last as a lunatic with a machine for seeing by Bain Grantham © George Photograph is holding a piece of equipment that portrait bust of her Majesty the Queen wireless. typifies his role. The Commander in Mother and one to commemorate Baird survived a 1000 volt electric the middle has a pair of field glasses, Samuel Franklin Cody who made the shock during his research and once while others hold a Besa machine gun, first flight in an aeroplane in the UK succeeded in shorting the entire electric a gun sight and a pair of headphones. from Farnborough on 16 Oct 1908. supply for Glasgow! Quite a character! Although individuals, the five men She also sculpted the Army Air Corps He died of a stroke in 1946. He is men make up a single fighting unit and Memorial at the National Memorial honoured by TV sets in nearly every the comradeship is palpable. Perhaps Arboretum in Staffordshire, which home in most lands and is one of the ten lacking the drama of Paul Day’s depicts a magnificent bronze eagle atop greatest Scottish Scientists listed in the royalalberthall.com /RoyalAlbertHall absorbing Battle of Britain Memorial on a Portland stone obelisk and plinth. National Library ‘Scottish Hall of Fame’. @RoyalAlbertHall Westminster Embankment, or the raw Don Grant Call: 020 7589 8212 Marian Maitland. 14 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Feature Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Graph: Dow Jones Indusrial Index Source: Market Watch. Prawn Free By Michael Daunt

there has been a massive re-distribution are they?) and let’s face it massive debt chart rose sharply around the end of taking place. The markets have been in wherever one looks. Does real money November and has stayed high. Each Beware all time the thrall of the central banks or the big exist anymore? HELP. In the old days bar is a daily unit of time. To understand global banks and asset managers and inflation was the bail-out card ….and this in better perspective it should be high stock they have been “passing the parcel” to the probably will be again. said that for most of the past 10 years the markets general public who have been complying This is when technical analysis comes volume has been of a similar level to the By Slim limply with playing their game. into its own. Value is in the eye of the pre November period. Quantitive easing (QE) was initially beholder but price is what people are So what, one might ask? Or with a applied to the bond markets but latterly prepared to pay. bit more thought why has the market not the central banks have got the hang of The big banks and investors are risen much further if there is such high manipulating stocks too. The trouble is getting out of stocks only because they volume? That is the correct question and that like any addiction how does one let know they will be able to buy back at it confirms the re-distribution that has go? lower prices in the future. Common taken place. tock markets are making new highs There are so many uncertainties in sense not rocket science. With the implied volatility, which at and there is a comfortable feeling the world today from Trump (what will The evidence is clear. In particular low levels have not been seen since 2008 that all is well with the world. Dig a he do next?) to Kim Jong-un (what since November 2016. The chart shown one has to be very cautious and expect Sbit deeper and one might find otherwise. will he do next?), to Brexit (what will is important because the volume which a major change of direction in the near Over the past three to six months they do next?), cyber-hacking (who is the vertical lines at the bottom of the future.

he first living creature that I ever push net (see below to obtain one) and it nostalgia isn’t what it was, harking mean percentage, a moral tautology as by captured was a prawn. I caught is sometimes possible to achieve a couple back with weird empire-resonance And I wanna be Anarchist, Get pissed, definition the same percentage of more it in a drop net from the end of gallons of shrimps in two hours Anarchy in the to “sovereignty”, “choosing our own Destroy is already more, or whether the state ofT the Cobb in Lyme Regis. My aunt Almost any month will do but a calm UK destiny”, and other insularities. The when the only prize we’re getting is the should be burdened with a safety net; had a house there and I went to Lyme sea is needed even at low tide. Use a 6ft By Douglas Shanks statement “British values” belies the one for mediocrity. there are some moral absolutes, one regularly with my mother in the summer. span net and push it gently along the Elizabethan liberality that was the Average tenure for a government being Margaret Court is so utterly in In those days she had a lover; the actor sandy bottom with the water at about foundation of whatever greatness we had. minister is about 27 months. I shudder the wrong she should be pitied not Robert Newton. “Uncle Bobbie” loved knee level. Here is a small tip. The best Cameron’s own goal was to fail for how long our civil servants entrench bullied, and the other is the Welfare using the nets and I vividly remember place to shrimp is opposite the outlet to extend the franchise to truly themselves in their all but unanswerable State, incorporating investment in the walking slowly down the hill from from a sewer. Do not be put off. The As London unites, inspired universal to include all teenagers. I roles, tuned in to the mindset restricted nation’s education and health. One Theo’s Cottage to the end of The Cobb shrimps abound and are perfectly edible. by Manchester, with defiant bore everyone rigid on the subject of to one of the world’s most famous economic reality is that if we want to holding his hand. When we arrived Prawns, however, are a different matter. sang froid, in the shadow of “my girls”(particularly them); they had political half-miles, Whitehall. The fact deliver on these ambitions we need to Bobbie unfolded his deck chair and They only come inshore when the sea is the latest tragically mindless enough sense to vote at 12 never mind that their “democratic” masters appear follow Elizabeth Tudor, and open our watched as I lowered the net, with its warm enough and thus are only available 16, and most polls say 16 to 18 year olds intent either on self-destruction (the borders. The problem is and remains the foul bait of rotting fish, into the sea. He in the summer months. When I was a terrorist attack at London would have been plenty to reverse one Liberal Democrats, the party I’ve joined State, a self-perpetuating unaccountable then produced a bottle from his pocket boy and I fished with Uncle Bobbie from Bridge, and as one staggers of the greatest geo-political disasters in in the face of Trump’n’Brexit, but with oligarchy. We used to be able to rely and took an enormous swig. I thought the Cobb we never caught a great many in disbelief at the paucity of the history of the world. It won’t make whom I have little other than a tendency on the courts for protection. I refer you it was Lucozade and one day asked if I and a pint was a good catch. political leadership of any a scrap of difference to our pockets, to diversity in common), or in the case of to the weird gothic sophistry of the could have some. “Of course, dear boy,” Prawns like warm water and the ways of catching the prawns. The first water. You can actually see the prawns leaving the European Union; my own the larger parties, appealing to the worst judgment in Gaines-Cooper v HMRC if boomed Bobbie and handed me the ideal time to catch them is on the largest is to find a rock pool at low tide with coming towards you very slowly with colour, one can’t help feeling analysis is that by destabilising Europe as of the lowest common denominators, is you think I’m joking. bottle. It tasted disgusting, as it was, of Spring tide in late July and August. The plenty of overhanging seaweed. The the tide and one, or sometimes if you’re that the baby-boomers have let a whole, London primarily, but probably hardly a recipe for optimism, still less course, whisky but I swallowed it out perfect conditions are when the sea is prawns attach themselves to the seaweed lucky, two prawns will swim over the future generations down. the rest of the island, will become even generational self-congratulation. You want more money - of course I don’t of good manners. However, the drink dead calm and there is a blazing sun. The and it almost seems that they are net. Then it is lifted very slowly so as not more attractive for inward investment. Mrs Thatcher seemed at first to have mind finally caught up with him and shortly reason for this is that as the sea exposes sunbathing. At times they are so sleepy to frighten them. If it is lifted clumsily Trump’s latest obscenity, the populist But at what price? World peace? It’s an the right idea. No Harvey-Jones still To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes after playing the detective Mr Fix in the the rock pools in which the prawns live, that they will allow you to pick them they are lightning fast and will shoot exit from the Paris Climate Agreement, insane defiance of the facts to say that less a Jack Welch would tolerate the And the public gets what the public wants film Around the World in Eighty Days the sun warms them and the prawns from the seaweed by hand. However, backwards quicker than an Italian tank. has been trumped by May sitting on the the EU or EEC as was (and as probably cosy heavily manned (using that word But I want nothing this society’s got directed by Mike Todd, he died. He become sleepy and far less aware of any mostly the net is pushed under the Nothing is better for dinner than fence in silence. I’ve no doubt by the time should have remained) hasn’t contributed advisedly) civil service empires. The I’m going underground was only 51. I wept many tears for I possible danger. The net required for rock and then lifted up sharply through a net full of freshly caught prawns. you read this she’ll have been re-elected, materially to world peace since 1945. Thatcherite approach was to slash tax remembered him for his kindness and their capture sadly cannot be bought in the seaweed on which the prawns are Boil them in salted water and Robert but I’ve never hoped for a Conservative The fact that the nearly 30 states can’t and institute genuine economies, ie not Cometh the hour, cometh the May (spelt his love of prawning. a shop. It needs to be diamond shaped, hanging. It is a wonderful sight to see a Newton’s your uncle. defeat more. make up its mind over war is a fabulous simply cost-cutting. Sadly Mrs Thatcher “Mainwaring”). Bon voyage mes braves. However, those idyllic childhood the equilateral sides being approximately net full of translucent prawns thrashing One thing that isn’t her fault is bi-product. Look what happened to Blair wasn’t really a Thatcherite, and ended days had given me a passion for catching a foot to 15inches. I borrowed an old in the bottom. The second method is To obtain shrimp nets contact the democracy’s failure; where she might be when he struck out from the crowd to up associating herself with the worst prawns and shrimps. There is as much one from a friend and asked my local to wait until the tide turns and starts to following: wrong is claiming Brexit is democratic. keep Bush in some kind of order. negatives of this blimpish realm. Doug of Loxley and Little John Handley difference between prawns and shrimps blacksmith to make up the frame and flood. This method is colourfully referred Hastings Angling centre With hindsight, it always was an issue I cringe when I think ours was the What’s this got to do with tax? rage against the state from the offices of as there is between hares and rabbits. attach it to a shortened broom handle. to by my prawning friends as stalking E: [email protected] that was going to divide the young, who generation that sang: Well everything really. Forget whether DSC Metropolitan, trimmer-accountants Shrimps are easy to catch. On a sandy I sewed on the net myself using an old, prawns. Now you stand in a gully W: www.hastingsangling.co.uk have a future, and the old, for whom And I wanna be Anarchy, Know what I the higher paid should pay a higher to outlaws and the gentry. beach at low tide all that is needed is a coarse fishing keepnet. 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regarded as fair, insightful and balanced. Today, their determination leads them to set up in China. Both to evaluate and that the fundamentals of Chinese The magazine she ran was regarded as to spend over half their income on the invitations, and to find out what language and culture must not be lost. one of the best of its type.” The Business children’s education and give up their is going on in education generally, the More immediately, many parents want Stephanie is now working as a jobs at exam time to help their teenagers; Headmistress of Kensington Wade and their children to do senior school where freelance journalist. Her work has of China’s the government is always under pressure I recently took a whistle-stop tour of they can prepare for an international appeared in KCW Today, The Times, Education to improve schools and over the past few Chinese primary schools in China. The university. If this is impossible in China, Financial Times, The Independent, The Professor Hugo de Burgh, years investors have seen opportunities. former Head of Putney High Junior, then they will spend the money to send Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday China’s schools vary greatly, with some Mrs Wallace also got up to date on what them abroad; my Chinese asssociates’ Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Financial Chairman of Kensington of the world’s best, notably in Shanghai, parents who have seen Chinese primary children are at Eton, Stowe, Roedean and Adviser, FTAdviser. The CA (ICAS Wade School and, by all accounts, some very miserable schools expect when they relocate to others; and if the places at those schools Journal), Human Resources, Expat Investor, ones in the poorer provinces. Conscious London. are insufficient, then investors will Charity World, What House and Resident of the difficulty of resourcing good We visited a conventional state step in to buy schools. In this they are Abroad), The People’s Friend and numerous schools for all the 300 million children, school, three international schools, encouraged by the government’s outward magazines, mainly on pensions, property, investment office (OFCOM). Among law and personal finance. those bought has been Riddlesworth, the Among her other editorships was Norfolk public school attended at one a decade in charge of the barristers’ point by Princess Diana. magazine Counsel: the Journal of the Bar in But just as the international schools England and Wales and she also launched in China can only partially provide what Charity World, for charity trustees and parents want, so it is with schools bought professionals which is now part of here. Rightly they will remain English Charity Finance. schools, with Chinese children losing An honours law graduate of King’s out on their own culture and the English College London, she started her children not benefitting from a widening Stephanie receives her award from Headlinemoney Publishing Director, Helen Macdonald and Awards host Jeremy Bowen financial career as a researcher/marketing of horizons. specialist for a national independent Kensington Wade, intend to Memories, starting the literary tradition. in 1989. financial adviser ( Julian Gibbs incorporate the experience and Hawthornes’ Not to be outdone, her daughter Kate is BBC Middle East correspondent Associates) and subsequently a leading approaches of the best of English editor-in-chief of London’s ‘best monthly Jeremy Bowen presented Stephanie with life office, Lloyd’s Life. She then moved schooling, which is why the school Hatrick newspaper’ while her sister, Stephanie her award at a glittering ceremony in on to Insurance Age, Planned Savings and has worked closely with friends from has just received the ultimate accolade of front of 700 guests at a Grosvenor House Financial Times’ Money Management The Dragon, Cothill and Westminster an outstanding achievement award for dinner in May. This award tops more where she was deputy editor. schools in devising the English financial services journalism. than a dozen prizes she has received over A veteran of more than 35 years’ curriculum. he Hawthorne family is a highly Stephanie is a household name her working career for personal finance, experience, Stephanie says she has While dual culture is naturally not successful writing dynasty with among UK pension professionals and property and pensions journalism. absolutely no plans to retire but doesn’t his concern, education minister Nick mother of seven, Jennie, the until April 2017 was the longstanding The judges said of her work: “Stephanie’s expect to beat her mother’s record of Gibb is determined to get some of authorT of 17 books, including East End editor of Pensions World which she joined reporting on pensions has long been laying down her pen at 90 years old! the advantages of Chinese schooling into England, driving the initiative to introduce Shanghai Maths into 8000 primary schools. Chinese children learn mathematics better and faster than ours but this is not because of ‘rote’ learning; rather the opposite. Exactly how it works is the subject of the next Education Matters talks at Kensington Wade on 29th June 2017 (all welcome, see Kensingtonwade.com). Then there is language. The Department of Education has encouraged Chinese language learning, such that now 17% of state and 45% of e are all getting used to the the authorities have encouraged private the branch of a famous English public independent schools have some kind Advertise impact on us of China’s going schools and there are now 162,000. Of school, a primary claiming to be bilingual of provision. This is not only because from being one of the poorest them, 345 offer part of their curriculum and a Confucian school. The resources at Chinese is such an important language countries on earth to, by some measures, in English and are called ‘International all of them were overwhelmingly good, of business and international affairs, but W Private Schools’. Then there are 218 with provision for sports, drama, music because the nature of the language makes the richest in 30 years. Its investments abroad are greater than those of the Foreign Schools, similar to London’s and any number of extra-curricular learning it an intellectual exercise with World Bank and it has trading relations French, German, Japanese and so on; activities. The teaching styles varied: special cognitive benefits. with every single country. Now what we these are only open to foreign passport they were neither as Gradgrind as we In China, as here, independent have to get our heads round, especially holders. They include Harrow, Dulwich, are sometimes lead to believe, nor as schools are freer to experiment and try since there are many opportunities for Wellington and Wickham Abbey. imaginative as the best English schools new approaches, which is one reason with us British business, are the rapid changes There are also Confucian schools which attempt. What none of the ‘international’ why the Chinese Ministry of Education being initiated in governance, health, emphasise the classical Chinese canon of schools had really cracked though, is encouraging them, and why foreign welfare and education. Currently, literature, history and music. These latter insofar as we can tell, is how to deliver investment has been welcome, even if education is at a premium, so much so, are a foretaste of the future, because the a dual language education such that the foreign curricula are less liked. This is To put an advertisement in KCWToday that even our very new prep, Kensington authorities are insisting that the canon be advantages of both systems of education a very large market indeed for British Wade, has been asked to clone a school given more time in the state curriculum are maintained. The parents and the talent and experience and we should email: [email protected] in China. and is reducing the weighting given to investors – sometimes the same people – not lose out to the USA or Germany. For several thousand years education foreign languages. The ‘International opting for the ‘international’ models are If we localize our education products has been seen as the one sure door to Private Schools’ are to be prohibited from not necessarily getting what they want. successfully and make sure they are or telephone 020 7738 2348 advancement. While English parents teaching foreign curricula. And what do they want? It is relevant to a de-globalising world in tell small children about the enterprising Seeking variety in provision and the encouragement of creativity and which other languages and cultures must Jack and his Beanstalk, Chinese parents impressed by Kensington Wade’s model access to the wider world that English be respected, we can be the leaders. relate of the infant cross-legged on his of Dual Language schooling, several education is supposed to give, while the water buffalo, studying as he ploughs. local governments have asked the school high expectations of Chinese teaching www.kensingtonwade.com 18 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Education Business & Environment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

founder of MBA Connect, a student- Alongside the scholarship, students over 70 countries globally are recognised led group of experts who support and can boost their entrepreneurial as having ‘million dollar reefs’, those that Imperial mentor start-up businesses at Imperial ambitions through a variety of support generate over one million dollars per College’s new College Business School and across the schemes including the Enterprise Lab, square kilometer.

wider college. which fosters entrepreneurial activity “These million dollar reefs are like Roberts © Ed Photograph Explaining what inspired him by enabling collaboration between precious works of art. To have one in entrepreneurial to come up with the idea for the students, alumni and businesses and your backyard is of course a wonderful scholarship scholarship, he said: “The aim of an Imperial Innovations, a technology thing, but it needs to be taken care of,” By Owen Fulda MBA is to build a more rounded set commercialisation partner for Imperial said lead author of the report, Senior of business skills and expose students College London, which turns research Scientist at The Nature Conservancy to opinions and ways of thinking that and ideas into viable business and and Honorary Research Fellow at the challenge their own. Layer in these technology opportunities. University of Cambridge, Dr. Mark Business School, says the scholarship skills and new perspectives with the Other initiatives include the Imperial Spalding. recognises the value that such individuals existing traits of entrepreneurs, such College Advanced Hackspace, which gives “One of the key elements of the study can bring to the classroom, by enhancing mperial College Business School as vision and tenacity, and you have a students and staff access to a unique is to differentiate the value of many peer learning with real work and life has announced a new scholarship powerful toolkit for building impactful suite of prototyping technologies, in-water activities, such as diving and experience. She said: “Entrepreneurship worth £23,500 designed to attract businesses. The Imperial College workshops and labs to test business ideas, glass-bottomed boat trips, from what is at the heart of our teaching on the entrepreneurs to apply to its Full-Time ecosystem for supporting innovation and ACT Now, an incubator for social the authors call reef-adjacent values. The I Full-Time MBA as we seek to equip MBA programme. and entrepreneurship has played a big entrepreneurs. Additional support for latter are the often-overlooked benefits students with the knowledge, confidence The Entrepreneurship Scholarship, role in my time here and I look forward female entrepreneurs is also available that coral reefs provide: calm, clear and skills needed to succeed in business. which covers half of the fees for to seeing what the recipient of this through the Althea-Imperial programme. waters, stunning views, beautiful beaches The need for a scholarship aimed at Imperial’s Full-Time MBA, will be scholarship will accomplish.” and seafood. Reef dependency is far, far entrepreneurs has never been greater, as available to students applying to the The Entrepreneurship Scholarship To apply for the Entrepreneurship greater than most people imagine.” more MBA graduates seek to set up their programme which starts in September is to be awarded based on the Scholarship or see further information The study revealed that tourism is own businesses.” 2017. Rather than supporting would-be applicant’s entrepreneurial experience please visit: really only concentrated on 30 percent of She added: “We want to encourage entrepreneurs, the scholarship is aimed and aspirations. Applicants need to www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/ the world’s coral reefs, with the rest being people who have experienced the full at established entrepreneurs looking to demonstrate a strong track-record as programmes/full-time-mba/fees- too difficult to reach. Despite this, there life-cycle of a start-up to take advantage build the necessary skills to expand an an entrepreneur who has experienced and-scholarships/scholarships/ are valuable reefs almost everywhere with of the many benefits that an MBA brings existing business or develop a new one the “full life-cycle” of a start-up, from entrepreneurship-scholarship/ some 70 million trips undertaken each to growing their business, including Can global reefs take the heat? To apply for the scholarship, opportunity recognition through to year specifically to visit coral reefs. the opportunity to share expertise with By Ione Bingley candidates must have applied for the market entry, growth and maturity. The Imperial College Business School offers Sadly, human infrastructure brings other students and extend their networks Full-Time MBA programme, and successful candidate will have a clear a number of other scholarships to Full- with it additional stresses for the reef through Imperial’s dynamic start-up must answer two scholarship questions, desire to continue their entrepreneurial Time MBA students and further details on which it both directly and indirectly scene and links to industry in London.” found on the Imperial College Business journey with Imperial College Business can be found here: relies. In addition to human emissions The idea for the scholarship came School’s website by Friday 23 June. School and contribute to enterprise www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/ cientists have declared the Great exacerbating ocean temperatures, from current Full-Time MBA student Diane Morgan, Associate Dean activities and entrepreneurial life across programmes/full-time-mba/fees-and- Barrier Reef past saving after discharges from towns, industry and Byron McCaughey, who is also the of Programmes at Imperial College the School and wider College. scholarships/scholarships/ Australia’s Research Council found agriculture further degrade the water 8,000km of fresh damage this year. Back- quality; another key factor in coral death.

S © Matt Keifer Photograph teaching quality is an important factor in to-back severe bleaching events revealed Despite continued attempts to Students say whether students believe they are getting by aerial imaging in 2016 and 2017 left manage water pollution at the Great value for money. The study also shows a the coral little chance to recover and two Barrier Reef, the 2017 bleaching is university does wide variation in the number of teaching thirds of the reef remains badly damaged. thought to have been compounded by hours, with subjects such as history This phenomenon has been termed water quality issues from nearby land- not provide ‘value having an average of eight hours per © Bill Hastings Photograph mass bleaching and is by no means clearing and fertiliser and pesticide week, while medicine had 19 hours plus restricted to the Great Barrier Reef. run-off. for money’ many more working hours outside of the Bleaching is the coral response to stress And this is before the impact of the By Max Feldman classroom. and elevated sea temperatures are the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish, Students on medicine and dentistry primary cause. When the surrounding which has been plaguing the reef of late, courses were the most likely to feel they water becomes too warm, the coral will is taken into account. This particularly were getting value for money, while social expel the colourful algae that live in its destructive species makes the coral more studies and business students were the tissues, turning the coral a ghostly white. multiple coral reef areas around the 80 years. All of them occurred after 1980, susceptible to bleaching, weather damage most likely to feel they were not getting Coral is able to survive a bleaching event, world have now experienced bleaching and all but one coincided with El Niño. and the effects of climate change, and Student levels of satisfaction with good value. There was a strong sense that but if the stress factor continues, or is two or even three years in a row. “Though almost 50 percent of the has been blamed for half of all coral university “value for money” have universities were not doing enough to worsened, it will die. As of May 31, 2017, the ongoing April 2016 event was due to the 2015- decline over the past 30 years, according dropped for the fifth year in a row, explain how tuition fees were spent, with global coral bleaching event continues 16 El Niño, at least 30 percent of the to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park according to an annual study of student only 20% of students saying they had In hot water to be the longest, most widespread, and anomaly was due to long-term warming, Authority. attitudes. In 2012 53% of students across received enough information. The rapid global warming of ocean most damaging on record. It has affected and there’s definitely more to come in the UK rated university with “good” The HEPU-run study similarly temperatures is in part down to El Niño more reefs than any previous global the future,” said Lead Author of the Colour at the end of the tunnel or “very good” value; but this has since examines wellbeing and happiness, where events. El Niño is a climate cycle in bleaching event and has been worse in study and UTIG postdoctoral fellow, Coral is able to bounce back from the slumped to its lowest level on record of 14% of students reported life satisfaction. the Pacific Ocean with a global impact some areas such as the Great Barrier Kaustubh Thirumalai. brink as is evident from Mexico’s marine 35%. Students from England, who have As a result, students report lower levels of on weather patterns. The cycle begins Reef. Heat stress during this year’s event Looking at the model predictions for national park Cabo Pulmo. Just 15 years the highest tuition fees in the UK, had wellbeing than young people who aren’t when warm water in the western tropical also has caused mass bleaching in several the next 50 years, the researchers found after the area was suffering from severe the lowest opinions of value for money. enrolled at university, with homosexual Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along reefs that never bleached before. that the impact of climate change could overfishing, the reef once more hosts In Scotland, where there are no students and young women being most the equator toward the coast of South While El Niño is a natural weather amplify the effects of each El Niño, some of the world’s most pristine coral. tuition fees, 56% of students thought likely to report feeling of unhappiness. America. Normally, this warm water pattern increasing evidence suggests that leading to temperature records being There is some hope left for the Great university was good or very good value Nick Hillman, director of the Higher pools near Indonesia and the Philippines human-induced climate change from broken more often. Barrier Reef and coral worldwide for money, but this too was lower than Education Policy Unit, said the survey where many reefs are at risk. greenhouse gas emissions is increasing provided conservation efforts focus on last year. Among students from Wales, showed universities needed to “think In 2014, NOAA Coral Reef Watch the intensity of the El Niño events The 36 billion-dollar question preserving the complex ecosystems that 47% thought university was good and loans, wherein students do not a division of the Higher Education ever more deeply about how to respond warned about the prospect for a 2014- causing extreme warming. It is not just the coral that is feeling are still relatively healthy in many. For value and 42% in Northern Ireland. In make repayments until they are earning Policy Unit and the Higher Education to the individual characteristics of each 15 El Niño. While that El Niño never Investigating record-breaking the heat; reefs support a huge number regeneration to occur effectively after England, only 32% of students thought £21,000, whereas a significant part of Academy, tracks the views of students student…The survey shows students fully formed, it did help set off a multi- temperatures in Southeast Asia and of communities through employment bleaching, the reef must be allowed their university represented good value. Labour’s manifesto involved the repeal of about their time in higher education, want universities to provide information year global coral bleaching event. A worldwide last year, scientists from in tourism and fishing worldwide. enough time between warming events, The Conservatives and Liberal student fees. based on a sample of about 14,000 on where fees go, taxpayers to cover more subsequent extremely strong El Niño the University of Texas Institute for According to The Nature Conservancy, which can only be achieved with a Democrat parties have gone on record These finding are taken from the current students. of the costs and policymakers to provide formed the next year, spreading and Geophysics (UTIG) looked at the 15 coral reefs provide goods and services concerted effort to decrease global defending the current system of fees Student Academic Experience Survey, The report suggests that improving stronger arguments for future fee rises.” worsening the bleaching, such that hottest April temperatures over the past worth about $36 billion annually. And emissions and to manage water quality.

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per cent of world universities”.Charles telescope in Australia. Heymann, the University of Reading’s BE OPEN is a global cultural and Private Schools head of corporate communications, London children social initiative to foster creativity and could lose their welcomed the clarification over how discover stars innovation supported by the Russian universities can present global rankings. © Concrete Photograph philanthropist, businesswoman and charitable status “It now needs to investigate every with BE OPEN entrepreneur Yelena Baturina and her if they fail to sponsor state single other UK university which claims international team. Their mission is to it is in the top 1% in the world, rather harness creative brainpower through schools than waiting for individual complaints foundation a system of conferences, competitions, to be made,” he said of the ASA. Mr exhibitions, master classes and cultural Heymann said that Reading was in the events. leading independent top 200 of the Times Higher Education “Discovery in a Week is a project that schools in the UK could and QS rankings. “Like dozens of Students from 15 London schools have not only introduces young people to the lose their charitable tax other UK universities in recent years, been searching for undiscovered stars as fascinating world of astronomy, but by 100status if they fail to sponsor state schools, we judged this put us in the top 1% part of the Mayor’s Fund for London producing real scientific results, also gives under the Conservative education plans. out of an estimated 20,000 institutions Discovery in a Week initiative. More them a rewarding educational experience Private schools must sponsor an academy internationally,” he said. “We accept, than 20 London schools have already that broadens their intellectual horizons, or set up a free school, as part of Prime though, the ASA’s view that this been involved in the project as a whole. while fostering a keen interest in Minister Theresa May’s plans to create could not be proved given no league The scientific programme, scientific research to last for years to the “world’s greatest meritocracy”. table assesses every single university designed by Noosphere, the charitable come,” said Yelena Baturina. In the Manifesto, Theresa May worldwide.” organisation founded by Russian Last year’s Discovery in a Week identified education as a long standing The rankings take into account philanthropist Yelena Baturina, in project identified four new stars, which social injustice where “if you are at a state going ahead with a formal investigation factors such as research publications association with the Mayor’s Fund are now officially named after pupils school you are less likely to reach the or ruling. and citation, the views of academics and for London and supported by the BE from the Hammersmith Academy: top professions than if you are educated British There are many different university employers and levels of international OPEN creative think tank, was devised Reynolds V1, Hamed V1, Mousa V1 and privately”. rankings, including for individual engagement. Cambridge, Oxford, UCL to introduce young people from across Mousa V2. The findings are recorded in Failing schools would also be banned Universities subjects as well as for institutions, and and Imperial are all in the top 10, but London to the fascinating world of the International Variable Star Index, from accepting any more pupils and local challenged over the results are often used as evidence of there has been an overall downward astronomy. where they are classified as W Ursae councils would be banned from creating international status. The challenge over trend for UK universities. There are 76 norms, in frequency of several indicators; The Discovery in a Week projects Majoris eclipsing binary variable stars new places at schools that had been rated “top 1%” claims how such rankings are used in marketing UK universities in the international Private School drinking to intoxication and of using bring together PHD astronomy in the Centaurus constellation. All “inadequate” or “requires improvement” will have implications for many other rankings, but the compilers say 51 of marijuana, stimulants such as Adderall, undergraduates from the UCL Physics the young astronomers have received by the education regulator, Ofsted. universities. Southampton uses the claim them are in a lower place than last year. Alcoholism cocaine, and club drugs such as ecstasy.” and Astronomy department to mentor certificates from the International The manifesto suggested that over Universities in the UK are being “In the top 1% of universities worldwide” However London has among the Between 19 and 24 per cent of London primary and secondary school Astronomical Registry documenting one million pupils in the UK attend challenged over marketing claims to on its website, Liverpool says it is in highest concentrations of top universities, women in the older cohort were found to pupils. The children have also been joined their stars. substandard schools and for many students that they are in the “top 1%” of the “top 1%” and Queen’s University with four universities in the top 50 and have some form of addiction, compared by pupils from Moscow, and professional “We are absolutely delighted that so children particularly in the Midlands the world’s universities. The University Belfast describes itself as “In the top one 17 in the overall rankings. with 23 to 40 per cent of men by the age astronomers, to discuss and exchange many London schools are now taking and the North of England a good school of Reading is going to have to take down eople who go to the best private of 26. “These rates were three and two thoughts and ideas during weekly Skype part in the project – one which we feel remains out of reach. such a claim after a complaint to the schools are more likely to end up times as high respectively, as compared conferences. is instrumental in promoting astronomy “This is wrong. We want a country where advertising watchdog. with drug and alcohol addictions to national norms,” said Prof Luthar. As part of the programme, there are amongst school children and helping everyone has a fair chance to go as far as University rankings are increasingly in later life, new research has suggested. ”Among the younger cohort by the age of three showcase Discovery Days. The them to take a first step in potentially their talent and hard work will allow.” influential for recruitment, particularly P first took place on May 19, the second selecting it as a future career,” added “Privileged” students who live in affluent 22 years, rates of addiction were between “The greatest injustice in Britain today is for overseas students. In the new World areas and attend elite schools are at a 11 and 16 per cent among women; close on June 8, and the last will be on June Baturina. that your life is still largely determined University Rankings, the top three are high risk of turning to cannabis, cocaine to national norms, but 19 to 27 per cent 30th at City Hall. Selected children from not by your efforts and talents but by US universities: MIT, Stanford and and ecstasy, the group of researchers among men, or about twice as high as the London schools have been working Since 2008, Noosphere has been where you come from, who your parents Harvard. Cambridge is the highest claimed, as well as being more prone to national norms,” she added. together to learn more about astronomy, implementing its educational projects are and what schools you attend”, stated ranked UK university, with three other Make the Most of Summer alcohol abuse. Under closer analysis, the researchers looking for new stars by analysing across Russia, India, Bulgaria, Romania Theresa May. UK universities in the top 10 of this Girls from top schools are said to saw a pattern in that participants pictures produced by a powerful and Austria. Conservative plans were to build global league table. be three times more likely to suffer from with higher rates of addiction had all a new online map, to allow parents to But the Advertising Standards Learn a New Language drugs and alcohol-related problems than attended the best schools. Publishing compare the quality of teaching, results Authority has been examining a their less privileged peers, even in cases the study in the journal Development and and the curriculum to help “support complaint about how university rankings at SOAS, University of London, where they performed “exceedingly well” Psychopathology, Prof Luther suggested their decisions” over which schools they are used in marketing. A description of in school and were highly thought of by part of the reason behind the findings choose to send their children. It remains the University of Reading as being in the Language Centre in July or August teachers and friends. might be that pupils at these schools to be seen if these plans will now be top 1% worldwide had been challenged Boys from the same backgrounds experience more pressure on them to carried out by the coalition. by a complainant, who said such a figure • Easily accessible central London location were said to be twice as likely as other achieve. • Expert, experienced, native speaker teachers could not be substantiated and could be male students to becoming addicted to They tended to abide by a “work hard misleading. • Fun, interactive, communicative classes • Courses begin 3rd July - Book Now! drink or substances in early adulthood. play hard” mentality, and often had more The advertising watchdog says that Studying the habits of two groups of money, which helped to buy alcohol and this has been “informally resolved”, • 1-week intensive courses students in affluent communities in New source both prescription and recreational with the university agreeing that it will • 2-week semi-intensive courses England in the US, researchers from drugs, as well as fake IDs. remove the claim, without going ahead • Weekday evenings, or evenings and Saturday “Not all of these students were • Levels from complete beginner Arizona State University (ASU) assessed with a formal investigation or ruling. But teenage participants when they were from wealthy families but most were; the Advertising Standards Authority World Languages High school seniors, then again annually as parents typically had advanced has been examining a complaint about • Arabic (Standard and Levantine), Calligraphy • Chinese • Japanese across four college years, and from the educational degrees and median incomes how university rankings are used in • Burmese • Korean • Thai • Kurdish • Persian • Turkish • Hindi age of 23 to 27. much higher than national norms,” she marketing. • Urdu • Tamil • Sanskrit • Swahili “We found alarmingly high rates of added. A description of the University substance abuse among young adults “And without question, most of the of Reading as being in the top 1% Check out our website: whoM we initially studied as teenagers,” parents wanted their kids to head off worldwide had been challenged by a www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/ said Professor Suniya Luthar, a professor to the best universities, as did the kids complainant, who said such a figure T: +44 (0)20 7898 4888/4828/4595 of psychology who led the research at themselves. “Parents of such children could not be substantiated and could be E: [email protected] ASU. “Results showed that among both could also be lulled into a false sense of misleading. 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Marlowe gets a job as OW THAT JUNE a riverboat captain for Anniversary an ivory company in IS UPON US it is the Belgian Congo and time for summer is given the mission sun, celebration and fun. of sailing up river to N pick up a mercurial Hurrah!!! Let us leave behind, Heart of Darkness agent of the company for just one moment, politics, By Joseph Conrad named Kurtz of whom terrorism and Trump, and some rather unnerving rumours have begun instead turn to the wonderful, s Britain tosses in the to spread downriver. outrageous and scandalous life wake of the recent Needless to say things of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of election, Max Feldman do not exactly work out, which should come as Rochester. Some light relief is is navigating some decidedly no surprise to fans of needed! A Apocalypse Now. Conrad darker waters as he steams into the Heart Of Darkness reportedly based much HENRY WILMOT, Rochester’s And for fear the English her Secrets shou’d know, of the novel on his father was a man held in high esteem Signior Dildo For a Gentleman Usher took Signior Dildo. Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness is by Charles II, not least for his part in by John Wilmot, The countess of the Cockpit (who knows not her Name) [45] only 40,000 words long; a novella so slim organising the future King’s concealment She’s famous in Story, for a Killing Dame: that I picked up my first copy as a free 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647- 1680) When all her old Lovers forsake her I Trow give-away that came with a newspaper. in an oak tree before escaping to the Trans. Jack Lynch However according to Harold Bloom continent after Oliver Cromwell’s defeat She’l then be contented with Signior Dildo. those 40,000 words have been dissected Red Howard, Red Sheldon, and Temple so tall own experiences of working as an officer on the Roi des Belges in 1890, of the monarchy during the English Civil and analysed more than any other Complain of his absence so long from Whitehall: [50] where he sailed up the River Congo into the hinterland of the Congo War. This period had seen the rise of the work of literature “that is studied in You Ladyes all of Merry England Signior Barnard has promis’d a Journy to goe, Free State, claiming the novella was “experience… pushed a little (and Puritans and a ‘spiritual authoritarianism’ universities”. Unless he eavesdropped his Who have been to kisse the Dutchesse’s hand, And bring back his Countryman Signior Dildo. way across literature departments the only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case”. Regardless of the that led to heavy religious indoctrination reality of the novel’s contents, it is one of the most powerful and almost Pray did you lately observe in the Show Doll Howard no longer with his Highness must Range, world over it’s unclear how he estimated both in Great Britain and the USA. that, but it feels justified. Heart Of psychedelically surreal condemnations of imperialism in the western A Noble Italian call’d Signior Dildo? And therefore is profer’d this Civill Exchange: Just think of the Salem witch trials! Darkness is a work of smoke: seemingly canon. Images like a becalmed French battleship spastically shelling the The Signior was one of her Highness’s Train [5] Her Teeth being rotten, she Smells best below, [55] jungle itself in what is seemingly an effort of war against the very land solid and dense, until you reach out to And helpt to Conduct her over the Main, And needs must be fitted for Signior Dildo. itself, will stay with a reader for far longer than the short length of the pin it down and it dissolves wraith-like It is not surprising that the next But now she Crys out to the Duke I will go, tale. St Albans with Wrinkles and Smiles in his Face around your empty hands. As Conrad generation felt the need to express I have no more need for Seignior Dildo. Whose kindnesse to Strangers, becomes his high Place, himself describes it (through his narrator It is not a book without controversy however. Whilst the book clearly themselves through scandalous At the Signe of the Crosse in Saint James’s Street, Marlowe): “To him the meaning of condemns the mechanisms of colonialism, the book does not portray its In his Coach and Six Horses is gone to Pergo, an episode was not inside like a kernel African characters as similar in mind or soul to its European characters; behaviour, drunkenness and sexual When next you go thither to make your Selfes Sweet, [10] To take the fresh Air with Signior Dildo. [60] but outside, enveloping the tale which (though Marlowe does argue that “they are not inhuman” and much of misconduct. The Restoration period By Buying of Powder, Gloves, Essence, or Soe Were this Signior but known to the Citizen Fopps the narrative rails against European hypocrisy for arrogantly asserting brought it out only as a glow brings out a You may Chance get a Sight of Signior Dildo. He’d keep their fine Wives from the Foremen of Shops, their “remote[ness] from the night of first ages”) leading Chinua Achebe (1660-1785) was full of libertines, and at haze, in the likeness of one of these misty You’l take him at first for no Person of Note to denounce Conrad as “a bloody racist” in a famous 1975 critique of the the forefront was Lord Rochester. As a But the Rascalls deserve their Horns shou’d Still grow, halos that sometimes are made visible by Because he appears in a plain Leather Coat: For Burning the Pope, and his Nephew Dildo. the spectral illumination of moonshine.” novella. The issue is murky at best and lends yet another layer of queasy courtier to Charles II’s Restoration court, But when you his virtuous Abilities know [15] That’s not to say that it’s some uneasiness to a story that is already steeped in them. It seems foolish to it would not be wrong to assume that Tom Killigrews wife, North Hollands fine Flower, [65] try and put a precise meaning on the events of the novel, but both the You’ll fall down and Worship Signior Dildo. At the Sight of this Signior, did fart, and Belch Sow’r, experimental mess where the plot can John Wilmot was a man of some class, only be unravelled on the fifteenth savagery and oppression it portrays will perennially feel uncomfortably My Lady Southesk, Heav’ns prosper her for’t, And her Dutch Breeding farther to Show, familiar to its readers; whether you live closer to the Congo river or the learning and social standing. Indeed he reading; on the surface Heart Of Darkness First Cloath’d him in Satten, then brought him to Court; Says welcome to England, myn Heer Van Dildo. Thames. With Heart Of Darkness Conrad opened the way “into the heart was, however, his legacy leaves a very is disarmingly simple: A seaman named But his Head in the Circle, he Scarcely durst Show, He civilly came to the Cockpitt one night, of an immense darkness”. different story and his poetry, not a lot So modest a Youth was Signior Dildo. [20] And profer’d his Service to fair Madam Knight, [70] to the imagination. At the age of 13, reported that just 33.4% of adults had their library usage decline the most over decrease in the proportion of working The good Lady Suffolk thinking no harm, Quoth she, I intrigue with Captain Cazzo used a public library, compared with the decade, from 46.3% to 31.4%, while adults using public library services Rochester attended Wadham College, Had got this poor Stranger hid under her Arm: Your Nose in myne Arse good Seignior Dildo. Library use 48.2% of adults in 2005/2006, when the according to the report, library usage over the last two years, from 33.4% in Oxford, where it was said the young Lady Betty by Chance came the Secret to know, This Signior is sound, safe, ready, and Dumb, survey began. This marks a drop of 30.7% in the five most deprived areas of the 2013/2014 to 31% in 2015/2017. The boy ‘grew debauched’. Despite this And from her own Mother, Stole Signior Dildo: As ever was Candle, Carret, or Thumb: in England over the decade, and is the first time the country “remained reasonably stable”. proportion of non-working adults has black mark against his name, Rochester The Countesse of Falmouth, of whom People tell [25] Then away with these nasty devices, and Show [75] government department has highlighted “Proportionate use of libraries in remained stable, with 37.1% using a Her Footmen wear Shirts of a Guinea an Ell: How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo. has fallen a “significant decrease” in the proportion the most deprived areas of England library in the last year. The report also became one of the greatest poetic satirist Might Save the Expence, if she did but know of adults who used public libraries. In is strong, demonstrating the role showed that more adults from the black known to the world. Count Cazzo who carryes his Nose very high, dramatically comparison, the proportion of adults these unique public services play in and minority ethnic group (45.6%) have How Lusty a Swinger is Signior Dildo. In Passion he Swore, his Rivall shou’d Dye, over the last decade visiting heritage sites, museums and improving life chances through literacy, used a public library service in the last Therefore, in the name of fun, we urge By the Help of this Gallant the Countesse of Rafe Then Shutt up himself, to let the world know, By Max Feldman galleries increased over the decade. learning and access to knowledge for year than adults from the white ethnic Against the feirce Harris preserv’d her Self Safe: [30] Flesh and Blood cou’d not bear it from Signior Dildo. [80] you all to take great pleasure in the The report reveals that although those communities with the most to group (31.6%). She Stifl’d him almost beneath her Pillow, A Rabble of Pricks, who were welcome before, declines have been seen across all gain,” said Mark Taylor, spokesperson As libraries close all around the UK; following. A satirical poem written by So Closely she imbrac’d Signior Dildo. Now finding the Porter deny’d ‘em the Door, demographic groups over the last decade, for the Chartered Institute of Library according to the monitoring website Rochester in 1673, aimed at the ladies Our dainty fine Dutchesse’s have got a Trick Maliciously waited his coming below, he proportion of adults visiting the largest declines are for the “urban Professionals. Public Libraries News 72 libraries and of Charles II’s court renowned for their public libraries in England has prosperity” group, down from 57.3% to “By law, our libraries are there for five mobile libraries have come under To Doat on a Fool, for the Sake of his Prick, And inhumanely fell on Signior Dildo. social climbing and their love for the fallen by almost a third over 37.8%, and the “wealthy achievers” group, everyone in the local area that wants to threat since May, libraries’ campaigner The Fopps were undone, did their Graces but know [35] Nigh weary’d out, the poor Stranger did fly [85] theT last decade, according to a new down from 50.9% to 33.5%. use them and these figures strengthen Desmond Clarke said “It is irresponsible ‘Italian device’. The Discretion and vigor of Signior Dildo. And along the Pallmall, they follow’d full Cry, government report, although usage in By contrast, adult library users in the the case for rapid modernisation of of the Library Taskforce not to have That Pattern of Virtue, her Grace of Cleaveland, The Women concern’d from every Window, the country’s most deprived areas has “hard-pressed” group fell by just seven library services across the country by properly researched the reasons for such Has Swallow’d more Pricks, then the Ocean has Sand, Cry’d, Oh! for Heavn’s sake save Signior Dildo. remained stable. percentage points over the same period, extending opening hours, improving a ‘significant’ decline in library usage The Department of Culture, Media from 40.9% to 33.5%. digital services and the availability of and not to have put in place an effective But by Rubbing and Scrubbing, so large it do’s grow, The good Lady Sandys, burst into a Laughter and Sport has measured the public’s Considering England geographically, ebooks, and investing in books, buildings plan to attract back adult users. The crisis It is fit for just nothing but Signior Dildo. [40] To see how the Ballocks came wobbling after, [90] usage of libraries in England since a similar pattern is seen. Adults in the and good design.” facing public libraries should be at the Compiled and edited The Dutchesse of Modena, tho’ she looks high, And had not their weight retarded the Fo 2005. In the 12 months to May 2017, it least deprived areas of England saw The DCMS report also revealed a very top of their agenda.” by Emma Trehane MA, PhD. With such a Gallant is contented to Lye: Indeed ‘t had gone hard with Signior Dildo. 26 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Dining Out Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Though tempted by the idea of White pea and Parmesan risotto, pea purée and restaurant gets very booked up for dinner, distilled throughout the UK from Misty column still of the mid 1820’s facilitated The perfect G&T Before we even get to describing asparagus tempura with strawberry and spinach, was, as all of the other dishes, not so difficult to bag a table for lunch Isle of Sky Gin to Plymouth Gin. The a cleaner, drier spirit to emerge as the the food, there are several points to be rhubarb jam, I decided on the more artistically presented and equally well mid-week. renaissance sprang as early as 1999 and ‘London Dry’ style, flavoured not only Favourite London Dry Gin admired here; the incredibly well-trained robust Périgord goat’s cheese wrapped in received. There are calls for The French Table and friendly staff who, importantly, can a walnut and truffle crumb with beetroot Plates were certainly generous to be awarded a well-deserved Michelin was credited to Martin Miller’s gin with juniper but subtle botanicals like Fever Tree or Thomas Henry tonic targeting ‘the millennials’ who embraced cassia, angelica and orris root. Charles make suggestions and answer all your hummus and delightful sweet pickled enough, but not so that we couldn’t find star. It has already won Surrey Chef of a cocktail conjuring a vision of colonials Tanqueray was one of the first maverick Un-waxed Sicilian type lemon queries about the dishes, the offer of baby carrots and beets. My companion space for a pudding. 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Guacamole & whilst not losing its pokey blend of of light on the service and advice front by Marcel Ott is the epitome of what London WC2H 7LH home-made nachos heavily dusted with spices. Despite having a crust of crushed now throws his winning smile at us dedication to the vines and a refusal to Open 7am-11:15pm Cayenne are soon replaced by the first of Andean chilli lime sea salt the Stone bass both. Desserts? Hmm, there goes all the compromise can achieve. Today Marcel’s our choices, a scallop salad. is comparatively mild, and both plates are willpower. Mango and a coconut and principles are upheld by his descendant T: 020 7666 0902 It’s a simple dish: 3 fat scallops sat lime sorbet gets me a bonus point on As I look out of our office window, easily cleared. Jean Francois Ott and its distinctive perched on a bed of mixed leaves and the five a day... almost. Sampling a bit Chelsea is bathed in sunshine and the Reservations: opentable.co.uk Crispy Tiger prawns with cayenne bottles can be found in restaurants herbs, but an honest and clean tasting of my partner’s chocolate and pistachio street is busy with fashionably dressed mayo looked smaller than they should, from Club 55 in St Tropez to Dinner By David Hughes beginning. Cuisine from this region does doughnuts with ice cream I have no people making their way to the Flower but then you realise why. Only the main By Heston in Knightsbridge. The single not have the traditions of European part of the body is used, with most of the excuses for, but I loved the toasted and Show at the Royal Hospital. vineyard wines, Clos Mireille in particular, haute, and doesn’t need the complication. tail discarded, so you are left with very caramelised pistachios, and they went It is a time of year when the character are so well made they can be drunk Next up comes the Black lime & meaty bites for your tenner. brilliantly with the dessert wine and of Chelsea shines through, with all the three or four years after release and still Now for a bit of a a perfect macchiato. The desserts held local shops producing stunning floral burst with the ripe fruit and hint of finale, the lamb cutlets. lesser appeal for the loved one, but a Pico displays that make the walk to work a Despite the glamour of numerous film Mediterranean minerality for which it is premieres, and the hosting of a multitude We top up with an with a botanical edge earned the double real pleasure. Surely only one thing could famous. thumbs up. make my day more perfect and that has of Hollywood stars on the red carpet, excellent glass of Rioja: Of course, the single vineyard wines Leicester Sq is not the first place you not too much oak, a Leicester Square Kitchen joins to be a chilled glass of rosé. a growing line of South American are not cheap but the great news is the would think of for high end food. Things slight syrupy edge with Rosé wine has undergone a estate now produces a second wine restaurants that have sprung up in Soho might be about to change though. well-defined fruit. A Hughes © David Photographs renaissance of late; twenty years ago, named BY.OTT for around half the in recent years, and is a worthy addition. Approaching LSK it’s the obligatory wooden square inlaid it was viewed with disdain by many; price which means everyone can share The rise has partly been fuelled by our earpieces and dark suited gentlemen, with a sizzling granite some would have muttered that “It’s not in the joy of what we consider to be increasingly cosmopolitan tastes, but but as soon as you hit the entrance the block announces the a proper wine” and would never have the finest rosé on the market today. also by the lively bunch of Mexicans, warmth of the staff envelopes you, and arrival of the meat. It’s paid more than £5-£6 for a bottle. But Whatever your taste in rosé might be Brazilians, Columbians, Chileans and times have changed and so has rosé, sales the whitewashed brick walls, cool upbeat prepared medium-rare, we recommend you seek out the wines Latin jazz and light open spaces bode the rest that call London their home. We keep growing as customers seek out the of Domaine Ott; the essence of summer so you have the option to are lucky to have so much local talent on latest fashionable label. Wines such as well for the evening. leave it on the block for captured in a bottle! There’s something about being at the our doorstep, and that they are keeping Whispering Angel, Brad and Angelina’s a bit more of a cook, or alive and updating the Latin American Château Miraval or even Majestic’s Burns & German Vintners Ltd, beating heart of the tourist trail that says rescue the plump cutlets “let loose a bit” even mid working week, culinary traditions. Minuty are being dunked in ice buckets Chelsea, SW3 in their prime. Leicester Square Kitchen doesn’t have all over London and beyond. T: 020 3011 5965 so we fall easy prey to a couple cocktails It looks perfect as it ’ the blowsy vibe of the rest of the Square, At Burns & German Vintners we www.bgvintners.co.uk to start. I plump for a fruity La Paloma arrives, but I m a shade (I’m calling it a thirst quencher) followed and it can’t be long before the word is taste a host of rosés each year to ensure disappointed that the out, and the smart crowd move in. 28 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Travel & Lifestyle Travel & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

we were staying on Manhattan Island shock, I’ll just walk everywhere, how addressed at the Cheeto Mussolini. Docent, who will offer you an insider’s New York State itself where the real estate probably long could it possibly take walking in a During my visit there was a notable perspective on the park’s history, design, wouldn’t be that much more expensive straight line” in much the same fatally feeling of tension and action in the air things and landscape. of Mind

if the street were literally paved from misguided manner as a moth might that gave some of the many bars we © Pexels Photograph By Max Feldman solid gold. One thing that does carry consider that it won’t take it too long to stopped off at a notably bacchanalian to do in Contemplation at the the 9/11 across from imaginary New York is the fly all the way to the sun if it just sets atmosphere, not that they particularly Memorial tall buildings; being from London and out early enough in the morning. This needed the help. New York is home New York https://www.911memorial.org/memorial as such imbued with a certain arrogance impulse must be quashed if you don’t to some of the finest dive bars on the City Cost: Free of charge and open from 7:30 about our fair capital’s place in the world want your legs to disintegrate before planet and they get the combination of By Owen Fulda a.m. to 9 p.m. (“Oh so Paris has some of the most the end of the third day, depending sleazy decor and cheap yet immensely beautiful boulevards in the world huh? on what you’re looking for in a trip to varied drinks down in a way that the 10 Finished just in time for the 10th ew York is one of those cities anniversary of 9/11, these 30-foot that exists as much as an idea ew York is one of the world’s waterfalls sit on the footprint where of itself as a literal physical most vibrant and cultured cities, the Twin Towers once stood. The pools place. People who will never travel and as such there’s never a bad are each nearly an acre in size, and they N time to visit. Be it as a solo traveller, New further than the edge of the village in N are said to be the largest man-made which they were born will have a firm Yorkers are amazingly gregarious and waterfalls in North America. Edging mental image of towering skyscrapers, © Chen Siyuan Photograph nowhere near as impatient as the movies the 9/11 Memorial pools at the plaza angry cab drivers yelling some variant of would have you believe, or as a family level are bronze panels inscribed with “FUGGEDABOUTIT” and possibly it’s a metropolis not to be missed. As the names of the 2,983 people who were grimy steelworkers sitting on girders with anywhere, it’s advisable to avoid the killed in the terror attacks at the World hundreds of feet in the air depending height of summer when the Big Apple Trade Center site, in Flight 93’s crash in on whether their imagination runs more can become stiflingly hot, and the depths Pennsylvania, at the Pentagon, and the towards the early twentieth century. of winter when the icy Atlantic wind six people who died in the World Trade Much like L.A. and Vegas, New whistles down the long, dead-straight summer or autumn ( aka ‘fall’ if you want Swarovski crystal chandeliers and Marc Center bombing in 1993. An emotive York’s borders on the mythological as avenues. There’s an incredible amount to to fit in). The famous cherry blossom Chagall paintings, both of which can be experience to say the least and one very much as geographical. New York used to see, do, eat, drink in the City That Never esplanade is a must see, typically mid seen from outside later in the day. Daily much worth doing. be a city on the edge where poverty and Sleeps, so narrowing the options down April to May. The bonsai museum and guide-led tours explore Lincoln Center’s crime rubbed shoulders with the cutting to just 10 listings was tricky to say the the Japanese garden are also amazing. iconic campus where a spectacular range Ginny’s Supper Club at Red edge of art and fashion intelligentsia, least... but here goes! Bonus info: Admission is free on of artists have performed, including Rooster Harlem streets not paved with gold but with Tuesdays! Luciano Pavarotti, Mikhail Baryshnikov, www.redroosterharlem.com/menu/ blood and breathless thrills. However Boogie Down with Hush Hip Hop Leonard Bernstein, and Renée Fleming. Cost: Prix Fixe $25 gentrification’s remorseless march means tours Baseball game at Yankee Stadium that no city can exist in a vacuum and www.hushtours.com/ www.mlb.com/yankees Treat your tastebuds to Escape from the hustle of the city during the mid to late nineties the efforts Duration: 4 hours Duration: Approx 3 hours ‘Chef ’s Table at Brooklyn Fare’ outside and make your way to Red of then-Mayor (now borderline racist Cost: $75 for adults, $58 for seniors and Cost: From $20 upwards www.brooklynfare.com/pages/chefs-table Rooster to enjoy a few drinks and crotchety old man) Rudy Giuliani’s children Cost: $330 awesome DJ curated jazz, african and ‘aggressive policing’ tactics helped to Regardless of whether you’re a diehard soul house music before making your literally clean-up (part of his program Born in New York City in the late baseball fan or someone who doesn’t The six week advanced booking to dine way downstairs to their best kept secret, apparently included an army of unusually 1970s, Hip Hop culture is now so know your pitcher from your backstop, at ‘Chef ’s Table at Brooklyn Fare’ is more Ginny’s Supper Club. Their classic focused ‘squeegeemen’) New York, tightly woven into the fabric of the Big taking in a New York Yankees game is than worth it. With a tasting menu that Harlem speakeasy vibe lends itself rendering it almost unrecognisable from Apple that you can’t help but feel the an experience that no trip to the city that changes daily and a 20+ course meal, perfectly to creating memorable days the city portrayed in films like Mean indelible mark it has made on the city. never sleeps should be without. Tickets this exclusive spot is definitely worth the and nights of celebration featuring the Streets or Taxi Driver or any number of But if you want to dig a little deeper to most games are amazingly cheap, hefty prix fixe at $330 a person. Seated at legendary music of Harlem and Chef gritty films not necessarily directed by into the fascinating subculture, you although the food and beer prices will a kitchen counter with 17 other people, Marcus Samuelsson’s world renowned Martin Scorsese. need to converse with New Yorkers make up the difference! The stadium you will not only experience an intimate cuisine. Reservations are essential if you Well does it have an M&Ms World? I Manhattan you’ll be doing quite a lot of pubs back in Blightly seem incapable who have really walked the walk and occasionally holds concerts too, Paul dining scene, but also get blown away by want to enjoy dinner, which includes didn’t think so you cultural peon” and walking without indulging in ambulatory of replicating. Stepping into a dimly lit talked the talk. And that’s where Hush McCartney played in 2011 with special Chef Cesar Ramirez’s dishes. The menu seemingly traditional options like fish so on) but even the most frothingly masochism. A complete trip around the hole in the wall full of regulars nursing Tours NYC comes in. They offer seven guest Billy Joel so if you can’t stand is seafood-centered and the courses are and grits, jerk chicken but each features patriotic citizen might have to notice Metropolitan Museum of Art (a true drinks like they were lifelong grudges varieties of walking and minibus tours baseball you might prefer to check out a served omakase style. Just a heads up, if a modern twist. Just thinking about it is that Manhattan’s skyscrapers make embarrassment of riches which contains is one of the true pleasures in life and with titles such as the ‘Boogie Down gig. For true fanatics, the Yankees Inside you are one to Instagram everything you making me hungry! London’s business centre look like a some of the finest treasures of antiquity whilst by all accounts these flea-pits are Bronx Tour’, the ‘Birthplace of Hip Experience allows guests to meet a eat, please do not come here. Pictures of slightly overambitious Jenga set at best. ever looted from an ancient tomb) could far fewer and far between then they used Hop Tour’ featuring the graffiti wall of player on the Yankees roster along with a the food are not permitted! Stroll across Brooklyn Bridge Photograph © David Shankbone © David Photograph Manhattan towers over you, almost probably put years on one’s if it wasn’t so to be, the fact that any have survived gave fame and breakdancing lessons. Tour guided stadium tour. The experience will www.freetoursbyfoot.com/walking-the- to the point where looking upwards fascinatingly appointed and a quick walk me an immense feeling of inner well- guides include such as legendary emcees however set you back a cool $675 and Walk ‘The High Line’ brooklyn-bridge/ can create a sense of vertigo. Terrible through the tangled paths of Central being (the morning after this feeling had Grandmaster Caz, Kurtis Blow and you’ll need to book at least a month in www.thehighline.org/visit/#/tours Cost: Free screenwriters the world around have Park could extend into the better part of transmuted into a great amount of both Roxanne Shante who will rap exclusive advance. Cost: Free! described how their Pseudo-Woody a day if you let the rambler within you inner and outer pain but such is par for ‘freestyles’ for you while showing you the Celebrated in song, glamorized on Allen scripts feature New York ‘as a stretch their legs. the course). famous places where Hip Hop lives. Immerse yourself in the Lincoln Not everything in New York costs celluloid and immortalised in poetry, character in its own right’ and whilst I’m If said rambler left Central Park and Even if you keep within the relatively Centre for the Performing Arts money! Once a railroad track carrying the postcard-perfect Brooklyn Bridge loath to agree with man-bunned hipsters onto Park Avenue they would encounter small confines of Manhattan Island, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens www.lincolncenter.org/visit freight trains, this elevated space has stands as one of New York City’s most who use the word “synergy” in casual a rather gaudy black and gold edifice there is far too much to do over the www.bbg.org Cost: $25 been transformed into one of the city’s recognizable symbols, not to mention a conversation, whilst in New York you can that screams ‘headquarters of an evil course of a week, considering the frankly Cost: Free entry on Tuesday. Adults $15, top attractions, a 1.5 mile landscaped magnificent feat of engineering. Upon indeed practically feel the energy of the corporation in a bad film from the 1980s’ alarming quantities of museums, fusion Student/Seniors $8, Children U12 free. This massive and somewhat fortress- “walking park,” with curving walkways, its completion in 1883 it became the place crackling inside the girders of the which is effectively exactly what it is. restaurants, theatres and nightspots. This like, white travertine-clad complex picnic tables and benches, public art first roadway to connect Manhattan great steel and glass behemoths looming Trump Tower squats over New York as doesn’t even feature in the remaining city Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has incredible contains 23 theaters, as well as the installations, and views of the Hudson and Brooklyn, which were then separate over you in a way that many of the other a perpetual reminder of how the Big four boroughs like the current hipster architecture, rare plants, flowers, and Juilliard School, the New York City River and the Manhattan skyline. cities. A walk across its promenade, a great cities of the world can’t quite touch. Apple’s least favourite son has taken the Mecca of Brooklyn. If you’re going to meticulously cared for gardens. World Ballet, the Film Center of Lincoln Running from Gansevoort Street in the boardwalk elevated above the roadway, Visiting the city now, the gap Considering my own personal love wheel of American democracy (and is make the jump across the Atlantic it’s famous Cherry Blossom Esplanade, Center, and the New York Philharmonic Meatpacking District (at the Whitney shared by pedestrians, in-line skaters, between the pop-cultural vision and the of walking it was easy to look at the using it primarily to pull donuts on the essential to have some kind of a plan of Japanese and Rose Gardens are located Orchestra, making the Lincoln Center Museum of Art) to West 34th Street, and cyclists, takes about 40 minutes and actuality is almost immediately apparent, simply numbered grid that makes up White House lawn) and this fact seems what you want to do or the sheer variety at this beautiful Brooklyn Landmark. one of the most concentrated places for the High Line somehow manages to delivers exhilarating views. Also check especially as someone who was just Manhattan’s street system and think to have lit a fire under New York’s mood. can end up swamping you: Perfect for macro and plant photography. the performing arts in the nation. The host about 5 million visitors a year and out Brooklyn Bridge park, exploring its starting school around the time that “I don’t need to jump on a subway that The streets teams with anti-Trump It’s a city that never sleeps and unless Free on Tuesdays and Saturday before largest hall, the Metropolitan Opera still feel like a wonderful retreat from vibrant vistas, rich ecology, and expansive Giuliani’s clean-up was beginning. To looks like it was specifically built to graffiti and no bar toilet is safe from you’re going to forego rest as well there’s noon. The stunning 52 acre gardens are House is notable for its dramatic arched the hubbub of the city. Free guided piers this special waterfront park really ramp up that cognitive dissonance make a germaphobe go into anaphylactic (appropriately) scatological invective no way that you can see all it has to offer. perfect for a relaxing stroll in spring, entrance as well as its lobby’s immense tours are available, led by a High Line provides.

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July 18 – 23 Ongoing My First Ballet: Cinderella Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty The Peacock Theatre British Library Everyone’s favourite rags-to-riches story, 1895, the trial of Oscar Wilde. 2017, in a beautifully adapted ballet version for the pardoning of gay men by the ‘Alan children aged three upwards. Cinderella Turing Law’. How far have we come in is tormented by her stepsisters and she 122 years? Personal testimony. Public can only dream of attending the Prince’s protest. Art and culture. This exhibition glamorous ball. Abandoned to an tells the story of love, legislative change evening of drudgery, she is visited by her and the battles for equality experienced Fairy Godmother who transforms her by gay men and women in the UK. 50 into a glittering Princess who shall go to years after the Sexual Offences Act the ball. partially decriminalised homosexuality, it 020 7863 8222 looks at the build up to this monumental Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT step, its impact, and asks what challenges sadlerswells.com still remain. 0330 333 1144 DUSTIN June 21 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, 21CC, Double bill: The Ballad of the London NW1 2DB Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic bl.uk Mother I 43 Percent HOFFMAN The Place Ongoing The Ballad features Lucy and Raedie, Sensational Butterflies a mother and son who both REALLY Natural History Museum love the singer Sia. They love her music, The exhibition includes a kaleidoscope BFI SOUTHBANK her videos and especially her hair. This of colourful species ethically sourced high-energy performance exposes the from Central and South America, Africa inherent narcissism that is at the center and Asia. Follow the trail through a BOOK NOW FOLLOW US June 2017 of motherhood and how this becomes tropical habitat of flowers, vines and 020 7928 3232 bfi.org.uk/southbank a burden to the child embarking on foliage. As butterflies fly overhead, you'll bfi.org.uk adulthood. It shares something of Lucy pass chomping caterpillars, glistening and Raedie, past and present. It discovers chrysalises and busy feeding stations. Image: Midnight Cowboy their new dynamic. 020 7942 5511 020 7121 1100 Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London artist who had sold some of his paintings 17 Duke s Rd, Bloomsbury, London SW7 5BD DANCE Britten’s String Quartet No. 2, conceived ’ SilkDustin St, Hoffman London 2017-06 EC2Y KCW Today 8DS 260x160mm.indd 1 British Museum Michelangelo and Sebastiano del to New York's Metropolitan 02/06/2017Museum 13:09 WC1H 9PY nhm.ac.uk as an overt tribute to Purcell. Alston is barbican.org.uk An all-encompassing tour of American Piombo. Their 25-year friendship and of Art, he never became a household theplace.org.uk June 13-July 2 juxtaposing these two pieces to make art over the last 60 years. Featured artists artistic partnership is laid bare through name. This exhibition explores the Ongoing Taj Express a dance that gets under the skin of the Ongoing include Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Wayne drawings, paintings, sculptures and effect of mental illness on Lench s vivid June 23 – 24 Robots ’ The Peacock richness and nobility of Purcell, reaching Sounds of the City Thiebaud and Kara Walker. letters. work. Border Crossings Origins Festival Science Museum The Merchant dynasty return to into darker places before reaffirming ’ London Transport Museum 020 7323 8181 020 7747 2885 020 3228 4227 presents VOU, Are We Stronger Than From the dawn of mechanised human The Peacock with the internationally hope for humanity. Lyrics and languages, hubbub and Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monk s Winston? forms to cutting-edge technology ’ acclaimed musical, Taj Express, in a 020 7863 8000 stillness, heritage and science have all britishmuseum.org nationalgallery.org.uk Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent, The Place fresh from the lab, Robots reveals the stunningly vibrant celebration of the Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London inspired 100 illustrators to produce a BR3 3BX In February 2016, Cyclone Winston hit astonishing 500-year quest to make glitz and glamour of Bollywood. EC1R 4TN collection of striking artwork that reflect Ends June 18 Ends June 25 museumofthemind.org.uk Fiji. It was the worst recorded tropical machines human. Focusing on why they 020 7863 8222 sadlerswells.com their relationship with sound in our Howard Hodgkin: The Japanese House: Architecture and storm in the history of the South Pacific, exist rather than on how they work, Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT diverse and multi-layered cities. Absent Friends Life After 1945 June 17 & 18 killing 42 people and causing tens of this exhibition explores the ways robots sadlerswells.com June 17 020 7379 6344 National Portrait Gallery Barbican Summer entertainment for the whole thousands to flee their homes. mirror humanity and the insights they Kevin & Karen Dance-The Live Tour Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E Dive into the expressive world Domesticity and everyday objects family at Apsley House This is a response to the disaster offer into our ambitions, desires and June 14 – 16 New Wimbledon Theatre 7BB of Howard Hodgkin, a leading are given a new appreciation at the Apsley House from Fijian dance company VOU; an position in a rapidly changing world. Dance Overture 17 Strictly sweethearts Kevin and Karen ltmuseum.co.uk British painter known for his Barbican s exhibition, created in Commemorate the Battle of Waterloo impassioned cry from the front line of 0870 870 4868 ’ New Wimbledon Theatre Clifton tour the UK for the very first distinctive brushwork and unusual conjunction with the Japan Foundation. anniversary weekend and re-live the climate change. Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London Overflowing with energy, this exuberant time with their sensational new live Ongoing portraiture. The stand-out piece is a life-size replica drama and grandeur of the Napoleonic 020 7121 1100 SW7 2DD display of jazz, ballet, contemporary show; a sultry, hip-swinging journey Queer British Art 1861–1967 020 7306 0055 of the 2005 Moriyama House. War. Come face to face with 17 Duke s Rd, Bloomsbury, London sciencemuseum.org.uk dance and musical theatre combines through the Waltz, Cha Cha, Fox Trot, ’ Tate Britain St. Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE 020 7638 8891 Wellington's troops in the midst of the WC1H 9PY dynamic young dance talent with the Tango and Salsa. Presenting the first exhibition dedicated npg.org.uk Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS campaign and learn how the battle was theplace.org.uk Ongoing work of emerging and established 0844 871 7646 to queer British art barbican.org.uk planned. Into the Unknown, A Journey through choreographers, many of whom are 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London Featuring works from 1861–1967 Ends June 25 Apsley House, 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park June 27 – 29 Science Fiction alumni of the college. An inspirational SW19 1QG relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans Electricity: The Spark of Life Ends June 25 Corner, London, W1J 7NT EDge 2017 Tour Barbican night out for all aspiring young dancers. and queer (LGBTQ) identities, the show Wellcome Collection Revealing the past english-heritage.org.uk/apsley The Place Uncover the mysterious lands of Jules 0844 871 7646 June 17 marks the 50th anniversary of the partial The story of electricity in all its guises, Museum of London Go beyond the expected and stimulate Verne and Ray Harryhausen where 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London Trip the light decriminalisation of male homosexuality from Frankenstein s monster to the use A display of archaeological artefacts seen From July 12 your mind with an evening of bold Science Fiction narratives first took root. ’ SW19 1QG The Place in England. of electrotherapy. through the eyes of a conservation team. Soul of A Nation: Art In The Age Of performances. Immerse yourself in Venture on an odyssey into our solar An evening of two solos by 020 7887 8888 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE 020 7001 9844 Black Power the energy and skill of 13 exceptional system, with vintage artwork promoting June 16 – 17 internationally touring dance artists, Millbank, Westminster, London SW1P 020 7611 2222 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN Tate Modern dancers as they perform unusual work by Soviet visions of space alongside Tangent, Chacony, Gypsy Mixture dealing in turn with the impact of the 4RG wellcomecollection.org museumoflondon.org.uk Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on a collection of new and award-winning immersive work by Soda_Jerk. Visit a Sadler s Wells digital and migration on the body. tate.org the vital contribution of Black artists to ’ choreographers. Experience an evening gallery of aliens, and stand alongside Chacony, Alston’s newest dance, is Followed by a screening of In London Ends June 25 Ends June 28 a dramatic period in American art and of dance as it explodes on stage in front iconic spacesuits from a galaxy of inspired by the powerful Chaconne of by All We Can Do Is Dance, featuring Ends June 18 Michelangelo and Sebastiano Scaling the Citadel: history. of you. blockbusters including Star Trek and Henry Purcell. Every bit as powerful but London-based dance artists inhabiting The American Dream: Pop to the National Gallery The Art of Stanley Lench 020 7887 8888 020 7121 1100 Interstellar. much more stringent is the Chacony from the fast moving, ever changing landscape Present Two megastars of High Renaissance Bethlem Museum of the Mind Bankside, London SE1 9TG they call home. 17 Duke’s Rd, Bloomsbury, London 020 7638 8891 Rome are shown side by side: Though Lench was a formally trained 34 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Events Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk tate.org Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN teeming with life, where insects work, Mughal manuscript in the British Ends July 9 bac.org.uk eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look Library collections. Calligraphy, You Are Looking at Something That Ends August 13 for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement, animation and music come Never Occurred Hokusai, beyond the Great Wave June 29 – July 2 movement. This follows Amaluna, which together at this London premiere Zabludowicz Collection British Museum Festival of Speed saw record-breaking success in London performance and screening. You Are Looking at Something That Experience the beautiful and sublime Goodwood in 2015 and 2016. British Library Never Occurred brings together 14 work of one of Japan’s greatest artists. An intoxicating mix of cars, stars and 020 7589 8212 0330 333 1144 international artists who work with 020 7323 8299 motorsport royalty come together over Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London photography. It spans a 40-year period, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London four superb days for the Festival of SW7 2AP NW1 2DB from 1977 to the present day, and traces WC1B 3DG Speed. The largest event of its kind in www.cirquedusoleil.com/ovo bl.uk how artists have used the camera to blur britishmuseum.org the world, the Festival gathers together boundaries between past and present, the planet’s rarest and most glamorous FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY June 23 fact and fiction. Ends August 18 cars. Rosemary's Baby 020 7428 8940 People Power: Fighting for Peace Goodwood House, Chichester Ends June 25 The Regent Street Cinema 176 Prince of Wales Rd, Belsize Park, Imperial War Museum PO18 0PX Insight Astronomy Photographer of the A young couple move into an apartment, London NW5 3PT Learn what it really means to be a Year only to be surrounded by peculiar zabludowiczcollection.com pacifist by exploring over 300 objects August 27-28 Royal Observatory, Greenwich neighbors and occurrences. 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Internationally acclaimed Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ thelondonnottinghillcarnival.com Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ Mahtab Hussain: You Get Me? director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs) draws iwm.org.uk rmg.co.uk Rivington Place on multiple accounts to create her urgent, From January 7 2018 Mahtab Hussain’s photographs explore hypnotic production on the Olivier stage. Ends August 27 Cirque du Soleil – OVO June 22 the critical question of identity among 020 7452 3000 Where the Thunderbird Lives: cultural Royal Albert Hall Dastaan young working-class British Asian Upper Ground, South Bank, London resilience on the Northwest Coast of Cirque du Soleil returns to London’s British Library men. You Get Me? addresses the SE1 9PX North America Royal Albert Hall with OVO which Led by world renowned tabla maestro contested political terrain of race and nationaltheatre.org.uk British Museum comes to the UK for the first time for Sarvar Sabri, five musicians of different representation, respect and cultural Discover artefacts from the people of a five-week run from 7 January-11th musical genres, backgrounds and faiths difference. Ends July 16 the Pacific Northwest Coast, whose February 2018. Having thrilled more provide the backdrop for a poetic and 020 7739 7855 She Who Sees the Unknown: Ya'jooj culture spans 9,000 years, and immerse than 5 million people worldwide, visceral film. It explores the traditional 69 Rivington St, London EC2A 3AY Ma'jooj yourself in their legends and legacies OVO, meaning “egg” in Portuguese, is a Persian calligraphy known as Nasta’liq, autograph-abp.co.uk The Photographers’ Gallery passed down through the generations. headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem based on a ghazal from a 16th-century Researching dark goddesses, monstrous The Thunderbird, one of the Northwest London Map Fair. June 17-18, Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore. Coast Peoples’ most important spiritual figures, takes centre stage. With rarely seen items from both sides at Kensington Palace, in an acclaimed Rose Theatre Kingston 020 7323 8355 of the conflict, from a first edition of the exhibition that tells the stories behind Now in its fourth year, Ignition is West Great Russell Street, WC1B Communist Manifesto to anti-Bolshevik the looks. London’s Dance Festival. The line 3DG propaganda, this is a unique chance to 0844 482 7799 up for the Choreographers’ Platform britishmuseum.org understand the lesser-known personal Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, includes Kathak, Contemporary, Neo- stories behind the events that changed W8 4PX classical and Dance-Theatre allowing the Ends August 28 the world. Also on display for the first audience to experience an exciting array People Power: Fighting for Peace time, from the British Library’s own FAIRS & FESTIVALS of new choreography. Imperial War Museum archive: Lenin’s handwritten application 020 8174 0090 Take a journey from the First World for a Reader Pass. Ends June 18 24-26 High St, Kingston upon Thames War to the present day, exploring how 0330 333 1144 M.I.A’s Meltdown KT1 1HL peace movements have influenced 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London Meltdown is one of the UK’s most rosetheatrekingston.org perceptions of war and conflict in this NW1 2DB anticipated music events each year, as an major exhibition. From conscientious bl.uk iconic artist curates their own personal June 21-24 objectors to peace camps and modern- festival, revealing their interests and House & Garden Festival day marches, Fighting for Peace tells Ends September 3 influences through a series of one-off Olympia the stories of passionate people over the The Art of the Brick gigs and performances across 10 days. With everything from beautiful past one hundred years and the struggles South Bank, Upper Ground 020 3879 9555 furnishings, kitchens to bathroom, floor they have endured for the anti-war cause. Following a successful show in 2014 at Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London coverings to lighting and furniture, Over three hundred objects including the Old Truman Brewery, LEGO® artist SE1 8XX the focus will follow British heritage paintings, literature, posters, placards, Nathan Sawaya returns to London, this southbankcentre.co.uk and craftsmanship from emerging and banners, badges and music reveal the time with DC Comics as his theme. established brands. breadth of creativity of anti-war protest Sawaya has used almost 2,000,000 June 15 – 18 020 7385 1200 movements, reflecting the cultural mood LEGO bricks to create sculptures of Art Basel Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX of each era. classic DC figures, such asBatman, Pace Gallery 020 7416 5000 Wonder Woman and The Joker. 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RODERICK GILCHRIST MEMORIAL LUNCHEON LOTS ROAD AUCTIONS To auction Chelsea Academy hand-made Postcards emarkable in many ways and also much remembered for his marriage to his late and adored wife Patricia. s the school year draws to a close Lots Road Auctions and Chelsea RAs a teenager in the 1950s, Patricia had suffered polio. She was sketched by Pietro Annigoni when Academy have teamed up to host a postcard auction on the 22nd of June at the well-established auction house on Lots Road, Chelsea SW10 0RN. he was first commissioned to paint HM Elizabeth II. The reason for this sketch, is that despite the polio and being paralysed from the waist down, she was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in TheA postcards will be on display for a few days before the sale with all of the England. proceeds going directly to Chelsea Academy. The auction will have both students Their first son Adam, born in 1959, was the first child to be born of a wheelchair bound polio victim in of Chelsea Academy and local businesses, charities and residents submitting their the UK and despite spending two months in an incubator, is still alive to this day. Six years later a second artwork, which will then be passed through a panel of experts, including Sir Alan son, Luke was born. Parker, with about 50 or so pieces going under the hammer. With two sons and a wheelchair bound wife, Roderick had his work cut out. But with a huge capacity Nick Carter, Senior Auctioneer at Lots Road Auctions told us “Chelsea for work, his Guildford based legal practice flourished, specialising in commercial conveyancing. Still Academy approached us with the idea for a postcard art sale and together today, many landmark buildings in Guildford and London have his careful attention to detail bestowed we are organizing a great Auction. We feel this is a fantastic way to celebrate upon them. This, remember, was long before the advent of computer-based push button technology. Chelsea, its history, its sights, its sounds and most importantly its people. Charity In the 1970s, his midnight blue Alvis was often seen driving along Chelsea’s ultra fashionable Kings Auctions are always a lot of fun, so if you have never been to an auction before Road, although most of his leisure time was taken up by nature, walks and holidays on the west coast of and are curious how it all works, this is the perfect way to introduce yourself to Scotland. He eventually returned to Lancashire to take up partnership in the ‘family’ practice on the Fylde the experience, and also contribute to a great cause.” Coast, opening a second office in Garstang. Chelsea Academy was established on Lots Road in 2009 and has over a 1000 The Bleasdale Beagles, along with further study into the Scottish Heraldry and the early clans of the students between 11 and 18 years old. The students at Chelsea Academy have Highlands in particular became subjects of keen interest and study. He became a FRSA Scot and also a been eagerly creating their pieces of art and the school firmly believes that art, good friend of the Kilmartin Museum which is situated in an area first granted to distant ancestors of the music and drama helps students to understand themselves and others and are Gilchrist family, back in the 12th Century. integral to a well-rounded education. The school feels these subjects help equip Ever resourceful and diligent, his capacity for work, life and nature knew little bounds. His love of his young people with the skills, character, and confidence needed to lead fulfilling late wife Patricia never waned till his death of a broken heart aged 82 on the 17th of March. lives. In his honour a feast was held at the Inn at Whitewell, situated in the picturesque Trough of Bowland. The sale will take place on the evening of June the 22nd and everyone is A large gathering of family and friends from London, Surrey and as far afield as Australia, sat down to an encouraged to come, view the art and participate in the auction. lunch deserving of a Michelin star, to remember and celebrate his life. Roderick would have been delighted RODERICK MUNN RENSHAW to see so many of his friends entertained in such style. GILCHRIST FRSA SCOT If you would like any more details about the event please contact : Chelsea Academy at 020 7376 3019 or: 6TH DECEMBER 1934 – 17 MARCH 2017 HE MAY BE GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN. [email protected]

and Jinn female figures of Middle- Ends June 17 June 19 Soloists: Nancy Cole, Malachy Frame, SW7 2BS Edmund Clark: War on Terror and Joe McElderry - Gloria Eastern origin, Allahyari’s work for Light WESTMINSTER ABBEY EVENTS Kirsty Hopkins. rcm.org.uk Syria: A Conflict Explored. A series of the Media Wall considers the effects Battersea Arts Centre New Wimbledon Theatre Holy Trinity Sloane Square, Sloane free pop-up events as well as talks and of digital colonialism and refiguring Inspired by Edward Snowden’s This summer, No.1 and platinum selling Street, London SW1X 9BZ July 18 panel discussions will examine how art as a feminist practice, while devising revelations about state surveillance, SUMMER HOLIDAY artist Joe McElderry releases his long batterseachoral.brownpapertickets.com Devendra Banhart can challenge understanding and change a narrative through magic and poetic- Theatre Ad Infinitum conjures an awaited new album Saturday Night at Hackney Empire social attitudes to war and justice. speculative storytelling, re-appropriation Orwellian future where a totalitarian ABBEY ANTICS the Movies. The album includes iconic June 27 Devendra Banhart has confirmed a 020 7416 5000 of traditional mythologies, collaging, regime monitors the thoughts of its songs from stage and screen and will Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jing headline show at Hackney Empire on IWM London, Lambeth Road, London also feature Joe’s hotly anticipated new meshing, scanning, and archiving. citizens through implants. 020 7223 TUESDAY 25TH JULY - THURSDAY 24TH AUGUST Zhao performs Tan Dun July 18th in support of his latest album, SE1 6HZ 020 7087 9300 2223 single, Gloria, available this March. To Cadogan Hall Ape In Pink Marble. iwm.org.uk 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London W1F Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN celebrate the release of his fifth studio Opens with Manuel de Falla’s Danza 020 8985 2424 7LW bac.org.uk album, he will embark on a national tour ritual del fuego, a work brimming with 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ June 19 thephotographersgallery.org.uk of one night concerts, The Gloria Tour, pure excitement as a tale of a young hackneyempire.co.uk A Passage to India: Shipboard Life June 8, 15, 19 performing tracks from the new album, gypsy girl’s frantic dance to lure the The British Library’s India Office Ends July 23 RCM at Cadogan Hall ALL EVENTS along with some special guests. ghost of her jealous dead lover is TALKS Private Papers include fascinating Space Safari Outstanding RCM musicians return to ARE FREE 0844 871 7646 illustrated. Next Maestro Tan Dun accounts of the lives of passengers and Royal Observatory Cadogan Hall for a series of concerts 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London conducts Crouching Tiger Concerto, a June 13 crew on board East India Company A planetarium show for under-7s. All exploring themes of Austro-Hungarian SW19 1QG work inspired from his Oscar-winning Radical Technologies ships. Researchers at the University of children must be accompanied by an music. score. Foyles Southampton have been working with adult. Join Ted the Teddy Bear on a 020 7730 4500 June 21 020 7730 4500 Autonomous drones, driverless cars, the British Library to explore these journey throughout the Solar System, 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London RCM Brass Ensemble 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London 3d printing, bitcoin, smartphones: unpublished and little-known diaries, looking for the Great Big Bear in the sky. 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Discovery © Ione Bingley Photograph Show 2017 Zone. The Kew Gardens By Ione Bingley exhibit, dedicated to their careful conservation efforts he Chelsea Flower Show took worldwide, place on 23rd - 27th May this year displayed some and it was absolutely roasting, the of the 2000 humansT trapped inside full body tree suits new vascular posed a serious safety concern should their plant species perspiration slide them right off their stilts. that had been They can’t have been the only hired gold medal for his Japanese emperor’s been a nostalgic step too far. discovered recently and extolled the modest entertainment on the brink of expiration; garden. On a refreshingly different tack, and success that their conservation efforts were the sun was relentlessly beating down on Another stand out creation in the crowned best in show by the judges, was enjoying globally. two fuzzy pandas, who may have pulled Artisan Gardens was the romantic M&G’s Maltese quarry-inspired garden. Holding up impressively in the heat, the short straw, at the Silk Road Garden as Broadland Boatbuilder’s Garden. Nestled While the carefully considered, sparse and arguably the most instragrammable of they roamed between the rhododendrons amid the marshland flora of Lowestoft foliage was tricky to spot on first glimpse, the displays, were the irresistible Easigrass of their bubblegum pink enclosure. was a beautiful replica of the 900-year- on closer inspection the Mediterranean Animals. Childish delight was to be had at Shadier oriental fare was to be old oak boat discovered on the Norfolk wildflowers and grasses peeking out the synthetic, though you’d never know it, discovered among the Artisan Gardens Broads in 2013. Adding to the seaside zen from between the limestone blocks were grass menagerie complete with fuzzy bear with the peaceful Gosho No Niwa (No Wall, were feathery reeds, meadowsweet and an elegant comment on the triumph of family, buffalo and 12 foot tall giraffe ready No War) garden standing out, leaves and loosestrife that swayed above some well- hardy plants over adversity in harsh arid and waiting for photogenic cuddles. The branches above the rest. The tasteful oasis thought-out fenland foliage, including the environments. Easigrass team also pulled off the tough was flanked by yellow and purple-leaved rare crested buckland fern and early marsh Inside the enormous Great Pavilion task of incorporating the organic into the acers and backed by an irrigated, spongy orchid. were some truly weird and wonderful inorganic with their new Easi-Hybrid moss wall. A waterfall was cascading into Boats appeared to be the order of the offerings including Morrice and Ann Innes’ Living wall to stunning results. a crystal clear pool, surrounded by pines, day with another tethered to a buoy in glorious rainbow cornucopia of potato which rippled beneath a turquoise and the Welcome to Yorkshire Garden. The salty cultivars, and the Carnivorous Plants glass teahouse, cue ‘No Wall’. Despite coastal wildflowers and forageable plants society spread. As it turns out, carnivorous being more restrained than some of his were undeniably lovely, but the bucolic, plants are not restricted to the clammy The Flower Show was a glorious day out in wackier creations, the designer Kazuyuki painted centerpiece looming out from the tropics, they can in fact be found lurking the sunshine, let’s hope for the same next Ishihara enjoyed yet another well-earned cutout ruins of a Celtic church may have in the New Forest, waiting for their next year.

What are your favourite places? Where can we see your work? Sloane Square, Peter Jones, Chelsea I have a major exhibition showing over Town Hall, Kings Road and down to 100 of my works, entitled Above and the River with little streets and mews Beyond. Some of these literally feature around are some of my favourite spots. views from above, where you are able I love catching the sunrise and sunset to admire the landscape, and beyond. Photograph © Nadia Avdeeva © Nadia Photograph from Cheyne Walk Embankment, Albert In fact the beauty of nature is beyond Bridge and Battersea Bridge, where you limits, uncontrollable and beyond human can see me painting in the summer. understanding. It’s a title that can be I have a great passion for the English taken literally or in a more philosophical coastline: Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, way. Suffolk, Norfolk, Devon and Dorset. I am enthusiastic about the exhibition There you enter a different dimension; because both my traditional and colours and smells are so vivid that you contemporary works will appear on the Damien Hirst (British b. 1965) 'Spin Painting’ (War Child), 1995, acrylic on arches, signed and numbered 51/250 (15 x 9.5cm). feel almost a part of nature itself. The same walls. Now I have developed a Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000. At auction 11 July. coast of England features in a number vision and a medium to connect them. of my paintings to be showcased at Critics report that the result is Bankside. extremely exciting.

Tell us about your method as a landscape artist Above and Beyond: Natalia Avdeeva 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design I like to experiment with both traditional Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, and contemporary methods of landscape 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JH plein air painting, adding my own vibe, T: 020 7928 7521 experience and adrenalin to create M: 07895 409 717 What is it about Kensington and something original. 20 June-2 July. Open: Daily 11am-6pm 11 July at 11.00 Chelsea that inspires much of your As a Russian artist, I am expected www.nataliaavdeeva.com Natalia Avdeeva work? to be traditional in the way that I paint My journey in the UK began in landscapes but I enjoy experimenting Events Viewing: 9 – 11 July Interview Kensington and Chelsea, when in with non-traditional methods. I use oil 20 June Vernissage Gala Evening By Monica Achieng-Ogola 2005 I decided to leave St Petersburg paints that are quite figurative, subtle and 6pm-9.30pm Exhibition Preview where I was working to pursue the arts detailed. But I have been experimenting 21 June Behind The Scenes Artist’s Specialist: James Nurse [email protected] Natalia Avdeeva is a familiar face on at Heatherley School of Fine Art in to create something modern and Exhibition Tour 2pm-3pm the streets of Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea. I have worked in Chelsea ever contemporary, using a print machine, to 23 June Working in Oils Group often seen with a sketchbook and easel. since then and now have a studio on the create limited edition prints, combined Demonstration 2pm-4pm Kings Road. A determined and charming Russian with oil and acrylic paints. The societies 28 June Art meets Fashion collaboration Chelsea has a unique character full I belong to might not recognise my with Siah Howard 6pm-9.30pm +44 (0)20 8992 4442 • 1 Colville Road, London W3 8BL • chiswickauctions.co.uk artist, she spends most of her time outside, of interesting and creative artists. I have contemporary work as landscape art, but 30 June Finissage painting and drawing Chelsea’s streets, met some incredible people that have my clients have been requesting me to Gala Evening 6pm-9.30pm parks, bridges, river and iconic cityscapes. really inspired me. create more of these innovative paintings. Facebook/Instagram: @nataliaavdeevaart 42 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Canaletto and the Art of Venice

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n Ascension Day, every year, the Doge of Venice casts a ring into the sea, saying, O “Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique domini” ( We wed thee, oh sea, as a sign of true and everlasting domination). This ceremony was originally established in 1000 AD and symbolised the maritime domination of Venice. Pope Alexander III gave it a sacramental importance in 1177 AD, by casting a ring in the sea and bidding the Doge to repeat this act on every Ascension Day. with splendid atmospheric effects and Canaletto was accused of using The Medieval state of Venice, a great strong colouring. Good examples are a camera obscura in his work. The Republic and a huge commercial power Venice: The Bacino di S Marco on Ascension Exhibition makes it clear from the dominated the seas from the Adriatic Day (1733) and Sposalizio di Mare displayed infra red images resulting to Constantinople with its fearsome (Marriage of the Sea). from their expert research, alongside navy. The city was a thriving centre for Canaletto painted the Grand Canal his drawings that this was not true. It is trade with the merchants controlling the of Venice and its monuments. From a set extremely interesting to see this evidence. especially lucrative spice trade. of twelve paintings, the perfect balance of Works by Canaletto’s contemporary However, as with all great powers composition is noticeable in The Mouth artists are on view, these include in Cubism and Surrealism, but carved truly tiny pieces, one Very Small Figurine, rather dull Thumb on the Fourth Plinth in Venice lost political prestige together of the Grand Canal Looking West to the Sebastiano, Marco Ricci, Francesco Alberto out his own unmistakable style in both which is very, very small, measuring a Trafalgar Square simply does not possess. with military and naval power. It moved Carita, and in The Grand Canal Looking Zuccarelli, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, sculpture and painting. There are few of few millimetres in height. There is a His drawings and paintings are into a hedonistic era and became famous East from Campo San Vio towards the Pietro Longhi and Rosalba Carriera. Bacino. A good luck token showing the Magi his etiolated and spare works that could story that, after the end of the Second equally idiosyncratic, with overworking for tourism, entertainment of all kinds; Giacometti masked Carnivals, gambling and gondola He also painted several views of was discovered in the frame of the Tate Modern have been done by anyone else; they World War, he travelled by night train upon overworking in the drawings, or trips complete with hoods for privacy. San Marco and Piazza San Marco latter’s famous painting Winter; A Until 10 September 2017 scream out Giacometti. from Geneva to Paris, taking with him overpainting and repainting in a whirl Admission £18.50 There were seven opera houses in the city looking East towards the Basilica and conservationist’s job is never dull! The first gallery contains no fewer his most recent work contained in six of activity in the painting, somehow and several theatres. Most significant of the Campanile shows his mastery of The Royal Collection and Canaletto tate.org.uk than two dozen heads in both bronze match-boxes. culminating in his lifelong pursuit of all, it was part of the Grand Tour and composition and light and likewise, owe much to Joseph Smith, merchant, and plaster, and a more disparate range After his experiments in teeny-weeny, trying to represent visual perception, or attracted rich and famous tourists. They Piazzo San Marco looking West towards collector and later British Consul in of faces one would be hard pushed to he embarked on larger scale works, and it ‘rendre ma vision,’ as he termed it. He bought pictures from the local artists. San Geminiano is remarkable in the Italy. He commissioned and collected imagine. His influences are referenced is these for which he has become famous liked to engage with his models and Venice never lost its allure for artists. way it shows how little these scenes Canaletto’s work and helped him sell his from Oceanic to Cubist and from and instantly recognisable. Walking personal relationships were key to his Into this hedonistic city of grand have changed since Canaletto’s day. It is paintings to the Grand Tourists. Thus Egyptian to African primitive art. The Woman, Walking Man, Pointing Man and modus operandi, using his wife Annette, tourism, Giovanni Antonio Canal was to his monumental scenes. The figures delightful to see that some of his later many works came to Britain. Smith’s second room has an array of sculptures his many versions of Woman of Venice, his brother Diego and his last mistress born in 1697. He became known as blend with the landscape and are not views he straightens the odd campanile collection was mostly bought by George secondary to monumental buildings. This n the same way that it is said ranged on a long white shelf, including have become, quite rightly, iconic works Caroline as sitters, both for graphic Canaletto which could mean Little and moves buildings to open up the view III and came into the Royal Collection, free rein style was known as Capriccio; and sometimes changed topography for making it the most important collection owners begin to resemble their The Couple from 1927, in plaster, and place him rubbing skinny shoulders and plastic works. He once said that he Canal. His modest house can be found in a cramped courtyard off the Calle scenes were painted from imagination artistic effect. He was, doubtless, a great of Venetian art in the world. dogs, Giacometti must be one of depicting a woman and a man pared with the greats of modernist painter- was sculpting not the human figure but de la Malvasia in San Marco. He was and monuments could be moved to master of sunlight, shadow, cloud effects Canaletto was elected to the Venetian Ithe few artists that resemble their work. down to the very tribal basics of breasts, sculptors. He holds the record for the ‘the shadow that is cast’. Amongst his unmarried and lived modestly. In his different settings; for example, Colleoni, and the play of light on buildings. Artists Academy in 1763 and appointed Prior With chiselled angularity, mad hair and genitals, mouths and ears. The pairing highest price ever paid for a sculpture at friends were Jean Genet, Henri Matisse, youth he was apprenticed to his father, the equestrian statue by Andrea del should have an ‘artists’ licence’ as poets of the Collegio dei Pittori. He painted hooded eyes, he is a Giacometti. of male and female figures, which are auction when a cast of Pointing Man was the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, who a theatre scenery painter and studied Verrochia, is not on a crowded canal side have a ‘poets’ licence’! until his death in 1768, always having the This retrospective is the first in the numerous, emphasise his great, lifelong sold for over $140m in 2015. One of the described his work as ‘always mediating under Luca Carlevarijis and was later but set in a romantic landscape with Canaletto also produced drawings, beauty and grandeur of his home city in UK for 20 years and it has got a bit over- subject, along with life and art. There most attractive pieces in the exhibition, between nothingness and being’, recommended to the collector, Stefano ruins. many of which are on display. Some were his mind. excited with the sheer amount of work are two Disagreeable Objects, which are is the lolloping Saluki entitled simply surrealists André Breton, Man Ray and Conti. Canaletto travelled to Rome with On display are some excellent preparatory sketches for his paintings Marian Maitland. on display; over 250 pieces of sculpture, particularly disagreeable and comprise Dog, which was carved in 1951 and cast Georges Bataille, Igor Stravinsky and his father and painted many monuments monumental paintings of Rome which and others are great works in their own drawings, paintings, photographs and brutish, club-like phalluses, or phallic in bronze in 1957. He rarely sculpted Samuel Beckett, who commissioned him there. are very detailed and accurate. They right. The central stretch of the Grand This Exhibition is curated by Lucy publications. It does, however, mark clubs, with uncomfortable sado-sexual animals, apart from his brother Diego’s to sculpt a lone tree for a production of Canaletto’s work is the subject of a include The Arch of Titus where the Canal is a beautiful composition and Whitaker and Rosie Razzall and is light shines through it and The Arch of him out as an important figure in 20th spikes protruding from one end. At one Cat who ‘passed just like a ray of light,’ Waiting for Godot. In a way, he summed splendid Exhibition now running at the do not miss The Piazetta looking towards supported by lunch-time talks and Septimus Severus which seems to send Santa Maria della Salute. evening events. In September Exhibition Century art, not as mighty and diverse as end of the scale, he produced charming, between objects, and a couple of horses, up the Parisian Left Bank demi-monde Queen’s Gallery which emphasises the diversity of his work and finally dispels a a radiance of light into the sky. The It is not so well known that Canaletto On Screen will broadcast a documentary Picasso, but a towering influence in the and sometimes amusing, portrait busts, none of which is in the exhibition. The café society intelligentsia, drinking and long lasting myth about his technique. Pantheon is majestic as it catches some was a successful printer who financed film based on the Exhibition. interwar years and on into the post-war like Spoon Woman, and at the other end, Nose borders on the ridiculous, with philosophising with Sartre and Simone His early pictures were painted from light in the shade. These paintings evoke and directed the Pasquali Press. He was (exhibitiononscreen.com) period in Paris. Picasso mocked him for edgy and challenging works, like Caught the organ in question being extended de Beauvoir in Les Deux-Magots and nature. The Stonemason’s Yard is a fine a long passed glorious age. a skilled etcher who showed sensitivity the repetitive nature of his work, while Hand, Woman with her Throat Cut and to beyond mere Pinocchio proportions, Les Fleurs, and chain-smoking eighty example of an early painting. In scenes Canaletto’s large scale landscapes in this new medium. Also when he lived Visitor information and tickets: Giacometti accused the Spaniard of Point to the Eye, which exude more than bursting out of its cage in an organic Gauloises a day. of family groups going about their daily showing ceremonial pageantry and in England he painted famous London www.royalcollection.org.uk producing mere decoration. He dabbled a whiff of cruelty. In the middle are some and probing way that David Shrigley’s Don Grant tasks the style is very free compared fading traditions are innovative works monuments and stately homes. Tel: +44(0)30 3123 7301 44 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Left: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, yellow limestone, the exterior contrasts Princess of Wales By Charles Phillips sharply with Stirling’s acidulous colour Far Left: BRICKS AND play found in the interior courtyard. Like Queen Charlotte, by Allan Ramsay many notable postmodern buildings, Bottom Left: BRICKBATS the imagery is rich in references; from Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach By Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. keyhole shaped openings, to a rarely seen BY EMMA FLYNN Scala Regia with a ramped floor, gold- leafed terminus and ancient Egyptian aura. Completed nearly two decades after the first designs were published its reception among architectural critics suffered from the fact that the heyday Mies van der of postmodernism was already over. Amongst the readers of Time Out Rohe + magazine, No. 1 Poultry was voted the fifth worst building in London. While James Stirling: it still divides opinion, the building was designed with an acute consciousness of Circling the both its historic surroundings and Mies’ earlier design. Today it is recognised as Square a masterpiece of the post-international style and has recently been awarded Grade II* listed status. Its distinct image means it is still often photographed as a symbol of the new London. he Royal Institute of British Describing the exhibition, RIBA said, Architects (RIBA) presents a “the design history of the two schemes major new exhibition, Mies van spans three decades of the mid-20th der Rohe + James Stirling: Circling the century, a highly transitional period in SquareT. Comparing the design methods the history of architecture where the Enlightened Princesses: of two of the most highly recognised movements and influences of pop art, Caroline, Charlotte, Augusta and architects of the 20th century, this high modernism and postmodernism co- the Shaping of the Modern World. exhibition offers a renewed examination existed and collided. Intended to replace of their iconic architectural schemes an eclectic block of listed buildings, both Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, London W8 4PX proposed for the same site in the city of schemes became subjects of passionate 22nd June 2017 to 12th November 2017 London. debate, and high-profile inquiries. This Commissioned by architectural debate distracted attention from the architectural ideas and ambitions of both he Age of Enlightenment was dominated by men which makes the contribution of three patron and developer Lord Peter architects and patron.” German Princesses remarkably interesting. Palumbo, Mies van der Rohe’s unrealised Marie Bak Mortensen, Head of A new Exhibition will be jointly presented by Historic Royal Palaces and the Yale Center Mansion House Square project is Exhibitions, said: “Through the display for British Art and will reveal their extraordinary story which took place during the Georgian era in explored alongside its built successor, T James Stirling Michael Wilford & of rarely-seen working drawings and England. This is the first time the lives of Hanoverian wives has been the subject of an exhibition. newly-restored presentation models, The three enlightened Princesses were Caroline of Ausbach (1683-1737), who married George II. Associates’ newly listed No. 1 Poultry. this exhibition returns the focus from Her eldest son, Frederick, born 1707, was Prince of Wales, but died in 1751. His eldest son George, Presented together for the first time, the the controversy back to the buildings born in 1738, became Prince of Wales, so she was not a mother of a King, but a grandmother. Augusta exhibition offers a unique opportunity themselves. With the distance of time, of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772) was Princess of Wales during the lifetime of her husband, Frederick, Prince to draw comparisons between the it encourages reflection on each project’s of Wales, becoming Regent and Dowager Princess of Wales following her early widowhood in 1751. methods and designs of two architects, contribution to its own epoch, as well She was the mother of George 11. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818) married George III and to trace the continuity in purpose as their place in the continuum of and was the mother of George IV and William IV. and approach that unites two seemingly architectural change and history in the These three Princesses were well educated, cultured and had enquiring minds being interested in dissimilar architectural creations. City.” a variety of subjects. They were Protestants which was just as well, because the Hanoverian Dynasty Mies van der Rohe, one of the most The exhibition, designed by Carmody was subject to Jacobite uprisings. They were Patrons of the Arts and Sciences, advocates of British prominent architects of the 20th century, Groarke Architects, features newly manufacturers and had a noticeable influence on the Monarchy of today. They promoted the health designed his proposal for Mansion restored models and materials, on loan and advancement of medicine for women and charities were enthusiastically supported by them. They House Square at the very end of his to the RIBA by Lord Palumbo from his entertained cultural leaders and intellectuals, and theatre and concerts were part of court life. Guests at career, between 1962 and his death in private collection, along with significant Kensington Palace included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Isaac Newton, George Frideric Handel 1969. The classic Miesian glass tower items from the No. 1 Poultry archive and many statesmen and prime ministers. Gardens were designed with flowers and plants from many of 19 storeys and accompanying public that provide an intimate insight into countries and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are a legacy. Augusta had visions of a theatrum square and underground shopping the workings of the Stirling office, from naturum containing all the plants known on earth. They put pagodas in gardens and introduced the centre would have been Mies’ first initial sketch ideas to his famous ‘worm- kangaroo to England. The London Foundling Hospital was their inspiration and they understood and only project in the UK. However, eye’ axonometric views. Additional illegitimacy as a social problem which needed addressing with compassion. following one of the great architectural highlights in the exhibition include a Over 200 objects will be on display drawn from the Royal Collection, the Yale Center and and planning show-downs of the 1970s, detailed site model of the Mies scheme, Royal Collections from Denmark and the Netherlands. There will be personal possessions, scientific the scheme was finally aborted in one of the most impressive architectural instruments, a pocket book and many other items. Fine art will be on display with works by Hans 1985. Lord Palumbo then approached models ever made, on display for the Holbein, William Kent, Allan Ramsay, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough James Stirling, fresh from his success at first time in over 30 years. This is and Johan Zoffany. Stuttgart with the Neue Staatsgalerie in accompanied by items from seminal The Exhibition will be divided into five themes namely, Cultures of Learning: Powerful Conversations, 1984, to conceive an alternative vision architectural figures such as Philip The Court as a Stage, Royal Women: Mothers of the Nation, Promote and Project and Political Gardening. for the site. Sterling’s proposal was Top: equally contentious and challenging; Associates’ No. 1 Poultry was finally Mies van der Rohe. Johnson, Berthold Lubetkin and Peter These three princesses made a marked contribution to the Georgian period of English history when Mansion House Square project. completed in 1997, two years after Carter. the arts, science and reason flourished. still requiring the demolition of the 19th Above: century neo-gothic listed building on Stirling’s untimely death. James Stirling Marian Maitland No 1 Poultry. the apex of the site. Further impacted The final, realised design is a Both courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects Mies van der Rohe + James Stirling: by significant archeological discoveries postmodern building, employing the Circling the Square, is on at the Booking is advisable. made during the building’s construction, use of bold, perhaps unsubtle, forms Architecture Gallery, Royal Institute of T: 020 3166 6000 James Stirling, Michael Wilford & and colours. 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Bottom left: choreography from the opulence of the Mayerling. disciple, David Bowie. VU would have solo albums, so when you hear Barrett- dancing was excellently choreographed © ROH. Photograph Alice Pennefather been rediscovered sooner or later, but opening ballroom scene to the fire power Left: era Floyd being referenced, this is it. and the setting never short of sublime, BALLET of Rudolf ’s sadistic obsession and drug Symphonic Variations. (CLASSICAL) Bowie was the first and most important While Pink Floyd and The Velvet but Jane Chapman’s stunningly fueled love scenes that end with murder © ROH. Photograph Tristram Kenton celebrity fan, after Warhol. Underground emerged from the flamboyant harpsichord stole the show. BY ANDREW WARD Below: and finally suicide. Marguerite and Armand Given it was the Summer of Love, underground scenes in London and Handel would surely have loved the Zenaida Yanowsky as Marguerite MUSIC one thing unsurprisingly the albums do Natalia Osipova danced Mary © ROH. Photograph Tristram Kenton New York, The Beatles evolved their music; I hope he would have supported Vertsera with tumultuous power and line. BY JAMES DOUGLAS have in common is drug referencing. own Psychedelic Art Rock from early the exquisitely presented feminist She had an erotic force between Rudolf With VU&N (better known as the commercial and critical Pop success. It sentiment. I’m sure Hendrix would have. and herself right until the very end with banana album) this is at times brutal, is remarkable that an album as widely Mayerling a fatal last draw of his obsession in the rather than idealised flower-power, acclaimed as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts The ballet that put the male bedroom scene. In the early stages of the confronting the harsh reality in Sunday Club Band should also be globally the dancer on the map! ballet Osipova should have had a slightly Morning, I’m Waiting For My Man “feel highest selling album of the sixties. Bach goes more youthful slant to the role prior to sick and dirty, more dead than alive”, While it still stands up as a major work being seduced by Rudolf. and standout track Heroin. The Velvet in its own right, Sgt. Pepper is of critical to Paris Sarah Lamb’s portrayal of Countess 1967 The Underground was to go on to produce note as we see The Beatles moving from St John’s Smith Square Larische was sublime. As Rudolf ’s three more seminal albums, but it is the Psychedelic Folk of Rubber Soul to Tuesday 4 July 2017; 7.00pm story ballet like no other. Like ex-lover, Lamb was sophisticated yet with fast use of petit allegro. Ashton put that can turn like a top. Summer of Love the first that gets most of the accolades. Abbey Road’s Progressive Hard Rock. Sgt. all geniuses Kenneth MacMillan conniving in her ability to orchestrate his own stamp on the “British style” Symphonic Variations is simply a While Nico contributes lead vocals on Pepper is a genuine milestone with songs Orchestra of the Age of was ahead of his time. He created Mary Vetsera becoming the younger and that of The Royal Ballet with over masterpiece of classical ballet. Created turns 50 only three songs (including her glorious embedded in the nation’s repertoire Enlightenment Mayerling in 1978. It was the first full- mistress. After the brothel scene in Act 70 ballets created for the company. in 1946, Ashton wanted pure dance with Dietrich-hamming I’ll Be Your Mirror), including She’s Leaving Home, Lucy In A 2, Lamb puts her hand on Osipova’s The Sky With Diamonds, and that most William Christie conductor length ballet to have the lead role danced I myself know only too well what the juxtaposition of stillness alongside by a male dancer. Daring indeed at so shoulder, finger by finger, after telling her Ashton wanted and insisted upon as he movement to transport the audience beguiling of closers A Day In The Life, Campra Suite from Les fêtes many levels. Sex, drugs, guns, prostitutes, fortune and saying her romantic dreams rehearsed us in his ballets back in the on a journey of tranquility. Vadim which established a Prog Rock hallmark, death, murder, suicide, affairs, all makes would come true. An eye catching detail 70s and 80s. If he didn’t see his beloved Muntagirov danced the lead role with the epic finale. vénitiennes for a right royal evening of psychotic that defined her performance as one épaulement he would stop the rehearsal sublime classicism. He has the height Fischer Suite No. 7 in G minor complexity that is based on a true story. of her best as an actor and a dancer in and, with cigarette in hand, physically and classical form that Ashton loved. The ballet takes the audience into the an epic story ballet. Marianela Nuñez, twist the upper back until he had the Marianela Nuñez and Yasmine Naghdi from Le Journal du Printemps fascinating, yet stifling, life of the high Francesca Hayward, Zenaida Yanowsky line he so craved. During this time The danced with assurance and classical Op. 1 society Austro-Hungarian Court in the and Alexander Cambell all gave superb Royal Ballet performed Ashton’s works, line. Sophie Fedorovitch’s designs of a Handel & 1880s. David Wall was the first Crown performances and played their part, as alongside that of MacMillan, virtually country green canvas with black curved Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Prince Rudolf. Memorable performances did the whole company, in making this every week of the season. However, lines provides the perfect backdrop for Hendrix in BWV1069 in the lead role by Wayne Eagling and revival one to remember for years to The Royal Ballet has moved on and the six dancers to weave the geometric Stephen Jeffries back in the early 80s will come. done brilliantly well with today’s great patterns around the stage, interspersed London Rameau Suite from Les indes choreographers such as Wheeldon and with statuesque poses giving a sense of 25 & 23 Brook Street Mayfair galantes McGregor defining the style of today. contemplation and stillness. One can Effy and Litha Efthymiou Steven McRae danced Oberon only imagine how excited Ashton would Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D with superb line, fast turns and batterie have been to have such talent to work Rituals to Mould Her With BWV1068 that makes this role fiendishly difficult with on his creative palette. Jane Chapman, Esme Patey- to perform even for today’s top male The evening ended with Ashton’s To be honest, I found myself a few words dancers. Coached by Anthony Dowell, Marguerite and Armand. Created on Ford, Harriet Parker-Beldeau short and thought it’s been a couple of McRae had all the nuances up his Fonteyn and Nureyev, the ballet was the 19 May 2017 months since I gave that lovely bloke sleeve with the mystical rascal looks perfect backdrop for Zenaida Yanowsky’s Richard Heason’s work at SJSS a plug. and demeanour that make the role so final performances with The Royal Every now and again I have an evening Two minutes into the website www.sjss. different to others. Due to injury, Sarah Ballet after 23 years as a dancer. Much that makes the monthly chore of writing org.uk and I was bloody glad I did. Lamb was unable to perform the dream admired, Yanowsky’s powerful height and these words (into presumably a vacuum) Bach goes to Paris is based on the partnership. Akane Takada did her line combined with artistry will be sadly worth the considerable effort; such was premise that Bach visited Paris, which best as Titania but it felt like a matinée missed but remembered with reverence. the privilege attending this evocative he didn’t; he never left Germany. It performance on an opening night. Roberto Bolle started nervously but soon The Velvet Underground: she provides a useful entrance to the and esoteric event, as the guest of one of postulates that Rameau is as great a Valentino Zucchetti also did his best but found his feet after a couple of misplaced The Velvet Underground & Nico labyrinth. Oddly enough, her debut the circuit’s real stars, Master of Music Baroque influence. Bach is the second was miscast in the role of Puck. Ashton pirouettes. He remains one of the world’s and the banana album are the only ones (harpsichord and fortepiano) Pamela most important person to walk the would never have had Oberon and Puck leading male dancers but the evening Pink Floyd: produced by Andy Warhol. Nash. planet (after you know Who), and I look standing at the same height. Puck is a will be remembered as one of Yanowsky’s The Piper At The Gates of Dawn While the banana album and Sgt. I first met Pamela chatting to her forward to being forced to revise my role for a small, dazzling, darting dancer farewell performances. Pepper are their band’s most famous daughter, together with rising opera opinion. be hard to beat. The Royal Ballet’s recent The Beatles: works, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn star RCM alumnus Sofia Larsson, in See you there. This will be a fabulous revival of this epic drama was engaging Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club isn’t Pink Floyd’s. Even some Pink Floyd the elevated ambience of another very evening at a magical location. to say the least. Where would The Royal fans might be surprised to know that The special evening, the live-recording of the Ballet be without Kenneth MacMillan Band Dark Side Of The Moon is their eighth premiere of the exquisite John Joubert and his ballets? Ashton studio album (or ninth, if you count Jane Eyre: An Opera in two acts; now Edward Watson’s long supple limbs he greatest year in rock? Someone Relics, which you should). For all their available on conductor and ESO director and acting skills stand him in good stead Programme. once suggested whatever’s your fabulous work over decades, the first is Ken Woods’ website for a paltry £22: for portraying the sadistic, cynical depths Vadim Muntagirov takes fifteenth. We can’t celebrate still fresh and in the pink, featuring live www.kennethwoods.net the role requires over this marathon of centre stage everyT album’s fiftieth but three of the staples Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Pamela had a nightmare drive from a ballet with Rudolf taking centre stage most iconic works of art in any medium Overdrive. With its Space Rock her north-west base, so I was pleased for nearly three hours without a break. The evening started with Ashton’s deserve a nod. Pay attention and I’ll leave referencing, and psychedelic lyrics, Piper I’d gone large on location. We met up Not surprisingly, at 41 he struggled with iconic piece, The Dream, created in 1964 you in peace until 2022 (The Rise and Fall clearly prophesises Progressive Rock, at Home House; I think the Hendricks some of the technical demands of the to celebrate the 400th anniversary of of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from but inevitably much of its fame rests & Tonic coincidence was lost on us. The opening solo as well as the series of saut Shakespeare’s birth. Ashton created the Mars) and 2023 (Quadrophenia). around the fact that it was the only Floyd drinks in the tent, rendered pleasingly de basques and tours in the tavern scene work on two young dancers, Anthony Taking them in order of their album on which Syd Barrett was the cosy by the heavy spring showers, but this did not take away from what was Dowell and Antoinette Sibley. Ashton’s release, and as it happens in ascending creative driver. Barrett’s appearance on heralded what was to prove a splendid a superb performance as Rudolf. works do not feature as regularly as they order of their relative commercial the equally divine sophomore A Saucerful evening. I write in the shadow of the Mayerling has a huge cast of used to in the late 70s and 80s whilst he success, The Velvet Underground & Nico Of Secrets was probably even less than latest pitifully mindless terrorist attack characters… nearly 30 in all that was still alive. All the more important provoked perhaps Rock’s most famous implied by his credits on a handful at London Bridge. Rituals to Mould make up the royal court including the that his works are danced in the Ashton saying, Brian Eno’s “while only 30,000 of tracks, a courtesy to a lost hero. Her With’s theme of female suppression coachman. The story is complex but style with fluid use of the upper back and bought the album, they all formed a Barrett would only ever make two other inspired by 1,500 year old Iberian texts told brilliantly through MacMillan’s pure classical line and form, combined band”, including the band’s foremost relatively obscure (although brilliant) seem sadly all too relevant today. 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Saatchi Gallery, then in St. John’s Wood, 20th Century & organised by the charity’s founder, Brian Contemporary Art & Design, ‘A massive Eno. 11th July at Chiswick Auctions,

Hirst created 250 Spin paintings over 1 Colville Road, London W3 8BL. © V&A Photograph explosion of the course of a few hours with Hughes T: 020 8992 4442 energy’ creating an equal amount of his ‘ghost’ [email protected] Damien Hirst’s Spin Painting paintings. Each work was numbered, stamped, dated and timed. The example offered for auction offered for auction in July is number 51/250 stamped War Child and is dated and timed 21 June 1995 16.34. The works were then sealed in individually decorated boxes curated massive explosion of by Eno and sold at the Pagan Funwear energy, full of life, fashion event attended by the designer colour and optimism’ Stella McCartney and musicians such as Bjork and members from U2 and Oasis. is how Damien Hirst, one of Buyers were not told whether they ‘A were bidding on a Hirst or a Hughes Britain’s most commercially successful contemporary but each box was designed by Cally on Art Island, sprayed by Brian Eno and artists, describes his Spin manufactured by Tinsley Robor. The Paintings. Hirst first started presentation box, titled Antennae #1, such a famed band, Pink Floyd were One Of These Days with but a couple of experimenting with spin art in 1992 also included a Polaroid by Brian Eno; always oddly anonymous. With even steps to the right. The system still has at his Brixton studio and the works’ a signed wallpaper designed by David Pink Floyd: These John Peel famously claiming that “They a few kinks to work out where songs elongated lines stretching out to the edge Bowie; a compact disk containing the Mortal Remains could have joined the audience at one of will suddenly shift years into the future of the painting embody energy, life and a original music from the catwalk; and an Victoria and Albert Museum their own gigs without being recognised.” seemingly apropos of nothing but the refreshing sense of optimism. instruction manual on how to recreate Rather than serving as a stumbling conceit remains shockingly original One such work is offered in the 20th the entire fashion show on your dining Until 1 October 2017 block however, the band’s obsession with and engenders near total immersion. Century & Contemporary Art & Design room table following an ‘exotic’ meal no Admission: £20-24 deflecting attention from themselves Considering the general length of sale at Chiswick Auctions on the 11th of less. (they only ever feature on one of their Pink Floyd compositions however the July. An original Hirst, it is one of 250 The version to appear at auction this www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/ own album covers twice and in one of snatches of choruses from such epics as paintings produced for a charity auction July shows a colour burst of blue, the pink-floyd those occasions they are too small to Comfortably Numb, can’t help but leave in aid of War Child. Both Hirst and colour of the sky on a clear day, overlaid see) means that they instead relied on one crying out for more in a way that was British artist, Patrick Hughes, created art on radii of citrus yellow and is offered By Max Feldman the visual; with surreal album artwork, less of an issue for the Bowie exhibition, during a fundraising event held at the with the original box and its contents. berserk backdrops and gigantic leering considering the late David Jones general puppets resulting in the kind of material appreciation for the length of the average archives that exhibition curators would attention span (Blackstar and Station To through Hemmings’ first by Benjamin Britten to play the crucial t’s hard to not approach the V&A’s cheerfully slit throats for. Station’s title tracks notwithstanding). twenty-five years, up to juvenile lead (Miles) in Britten’s opera of multimedia extravaganza du jour As you enter the exhibition (naturally, Much like Pink Floyd themselves Blow Up and Other Exaggerations through the back of a replica tour By David Hemmings the filming of Charge, The Turn of the Screw. Hemmings speaks without a leaden feeling of cynicism. however the exhibition’s incredibly strong and the early stages warmly of Britten, without any of the Pink Floyd: These Mortal Remains van; it’s that kind of vibe) the size and start begins to tail off towards the end, I ambition become quickly apparent. Over with a particular acceleration taking place Part One: From Child of the very publicly usual muttering accusations. He admits feels like a fairly transparent attempt 350 objects of Floydian arcana have to Charge played out drama of his that the composer lost all interest in him by the V&A to follow up 2013 eye- after the not-particularly amicable split relationship with the as a singer as soon as his voice broke, wateringly successful David Bowie been gathered together and the sheer from resident bass-player genius/difficult American actress, Gayle but the young man’s career path now exhibition by taking what was successful breadth of imagination in the displays bastard Roger Waters, who assumed that Hunnicut. Hemmings lay clearly in the theatre. Developing about David Bowie Is (Rock N’ Roll! should delight obsessives and wrestle his exit would spell the end for the band was a naturally talented his acting skills at the Arts Educational Sex Appeal! Rebellion! Costumes! grudging respect out of scoffing Johnny he viewed as his own and was furious actor, an exceptionally Trust school, he started appearing in TV Experimental words and music beamed Rotten-types; the exhibition even goes as they carried on as, what he termed “a warm human being dramas from the age of 15, setting him into distractingly bulky headphones!) and so far as to recreate the Sex Pistol’s (in) spent force”. It’s certainly true that the and a very beautiful up well for his early performances in simply switching the focus onto a new famous DIY “I Hate Pink Floyd” t-shirt. remaining two albums put out by this This actually proves a rare moment of woven themselves into the very DNA of version of the band A Momentary Lapse Anyone who witnessed David young man. He was Michael Winner’s ‘quickies’ of the early Rock behemoth, an approach that will acknowledgement of the band’s tendency Pop Culture and rock music, along with of Reason (which could have been more Hemmings emerge from relative also pleasingly short 60s. be bound to start showing diminishing to provoke extreme opinions; the band serving as building sites of millions of accurately named “A Momentary Lapse obscurity into more or less global on vanity (a serious Acknowledging entirely the returns once all of the usual suspects are members were heavily involved in joints. Seeing them celebrated on their of Talent”) and The Division Bell lead stardom on the British release of lack in the pursuit and significance of Blow Up in his life, he out of the way and the V&A are reduced planning the exhibition and as a result it own terms rather than as the backdrop to some of the more uninspired rooms Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up on retention of stardom) offers some insights into the making of to eulogizing Gerry and The Pacemakers. notably errs on the size of hagiography. to Hollywood’s idea of a student’s dorm, of the exhibition (though the “Division March 16th 1967 must have wondered and genuinely self- the picture, and working with Antonioni, Whatever reservations that one may However, considering the reticence of it’s hard not to revel with a newfound Bell” room does feature a replica of from time to time over the next forty deprecating, happy to one of the most important Italian have about the exhibitions central conceit the principal band members and their appreciation of the band’s power and the enormous steel heads seen on the years what on earth had become of him. tell innumerable stories directors of his era. Nor does Hemmings however, is unlikely to survive first willingness to build a wall (pun sadly place in history. album cover. As far as this reviewer is Blow Up went on to win the Palme d’Or against himself with wit disguise his interest in romance and/or contact with the embarrassment of riches intended) between themselves and their This is all backed up by the music concerned, every exhibition could stand at Cannes that year, while Hemmings and flashes of elegance. sex, and the many complications this led to be found in These Mortal Remains.The audience (one of their tour programmes pumping through the Sennheiser to include some gigantic steel heads). played Mordred in the Hollywood This was a boy to throughout most of his life. His early choice of Pink Floyd as the rock elder from 1974 attempted to gather some headphones, following the trail blazed Despite all this griping however by production of Camelot with Richard born of a disgruntled days in the theatre, rep and films are told statesman of choice is potentially more personal info on the band members via a by David Bowie Is the musical backdrop the time the exhibition comes to a close Harris, before going on to take a lead carbon-paper salesman with breathtaking verve and frankness, of a dicey proposition than David Bowie questionnaire, with hilariously deadpan changes depending on where you are with the footage of Pink Floyd’s only role, Captain Nolan in Tony Richardson’s who would much rather and he admits that when stardom arrived, (or the Sixties’ love fest that made up the results: “Personal likes: ‘Not much.’ ‘Too standing in the exhibition meaning that reunion to date at Live 8 in 2005 it’s outstanding and significant Charge of the have been a professional he wasn’t even half ready for it; but that recent Records and Revolutions exhibition personal’.”) It’s the artwork by the band’s you can dive from the deranged music hard not to feel a deeply emotional pang Light Brigade released the following year. musician. Hemmings wasn’t going to stop him extracting very for that matter) considering that longstanding visual team Hipgnosis hall psychedelia of the Syd Barrett years at seeing the wizened members sharing He was still just 25; it could be said that Snr passed on his ounce of enjoyment from it. impression of Prog-Rock as one of the that takes centre stage, with an entire (which includes a heart breaking picture an appropriately awkward group hug this was the best role of his career. enthusiasm and a love A warm, funny book, rich in the most deeply nerdy genre remains firmly rather stunning room dedicated to their of the once elfin musician turned hairless (which one member had to be corralled This book, the lightly re-edited first of singing to his musical detail of its time, Blow Up, Part One in place (if you disagree with that try work. The flying pig over Battersea and fat, when the shattered Barrett into). Even as elder statesmen of Rock half of his autobiography which was son, to the point where is published by Wigmore Books in putting on Atom Heart Mother at a party Power Station, the businessmen shaking coincidentally stumbled into the band they were more comfortable letting originally published in 2004, a year after Hemmings was asked to paperback at £10. and see how far you get). In addition to hands as one is engulfed in flames and when they were recording Shine On You their art do the talking. Regardless of he’d died while filming in Romania, join choir of the Chapel the fact that such an exhibition runs the the immortal prism of Dark Side Of Crazy Diamond, a tribute to their fallen your feelings towards Prog, These Mortal takes the reader on a fascinating journey Royal, Hampton Court Available at book shops or direct risk of only appealing to anorak- clad Palace, then picked from www.wigmorebooks.com true believers, there is the issue that for The Moon: These are artworks that have leader) into the furious driving bass of Remains should tickle you pink. 50 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and unknowable the monster is. Any any kind of oversight gets laughed out of MAX these flaws, it did have visual flair galore (regardless of his late career fumbles clarification detracts from this mystery the airlock, and by the time that anyone Feldman Scott remains a formidable visual stylist) and contextualises the Xenomorph in The Bioshock realises that tearing up the genetic REVIEWS and a not-so secret weapon in the form a way that is the kiss of death for such Collection blueprint might have some slightly of Michael Fassbender’s enigmatic a shadowy predator) there is a serious © 20thC Fox Photograph Available on Playstation 4 hazardous side effects on mental health, android David, who seemed to be issue to be found in the notably dodgy events had long since waved goodbye to dreaming of considerably more than CGI which brings the monsters to life. Price: £24.99 the point of no-return. Games © Irrational Photograph electric sheep. Looking simultaneously ponderous and The gameplay is a lot closer to Alien: Covenant Wisely, for Alien: Covenant; half unnaturally skinny, these CGInemorphs Survival Horror than the bombastic Director: Ridley Scott sequel to Prometheus, half Alien prequel, arrive in a juddering third act genre shift run-and-gun of the series finale Bioshock Running Time:123 Minutes Scott doubles down on these two to thriller which threatens to derail the Infinite which helps to build the tense strengths producing a visually masterful entire film. By 2017, the argument over whether feeling of entrapment and danger that (with one extremely notable exception) Prior to this stylistic shift, Covenant video games can ever truly be art is comes from being trapped fathoms below palette which a returning Fassbender gets quite effectively presents itself as practically an art in itself. Positions are the surface in a city crawling with the o say that Ridley Scott’s 21st to chew on like a rabid dog. Perhaps it’s something closer to a Hammer Horror as thoroughly entrenched as World War genetically deranged. Whilst the combat century output has been uneven just the lowered expectations caused by feature, full of genuinely unsettling One dug-outs and (to cruelly extend this fantastically immersive and ridiculously, come before it. certainly still holds up today, it’s the is like observing that Donald Prometheus, but Covenant despite some and a phantom Bill Paxton is shouting imagery (a floating severed head with tortured metaphor) internet think pieces psychopathically unfair, System Shock The game traps you in the art-deco atmosphere of the city and the various TrumpT might be a little temperamental: notable flaws manages to be a competent “GAME OVER MAN” from action rain pooling in its eyes is a particular are the Pals battalions getting torn apart 1 and 2 were the kind of games that battlefield of an immense secret undersea stories (found in dozens of audio logs) Only an idiot (or a Republican) would and entertaining piece of space horror movie heaven (sadly this second point highlight), all mad science and (rather in the horrifically spelt no man’s land you could get 28 hours into before city (Rapture) in the final spasms of that are the real draw: The history of attempt to argue that particular toss. In with the occasional spark of genuine does not actually take place). unexpectedly) a fevered homoerotic of online message boards. So with the discovering you didn’t level up hand an apocalyptic civil war, it’s up to you Rapture is a sad and complex one and between his few successes (Gladiator, inspiration. Set ten years after the events Whilst the first 40 minutes or subtext that leads to one of the best proviso that this sally will change no- to hand combat enough to beat a to fight your way through the insane it’s the drive to uncover the truth behind American Gangster and to a lesser extent of Prometheus, Covenant traces the (mis) so contains some positively brutal scenes in the whole film. Covenant can one’s mind if it’s already made up, I will specific boss and now you would have surviving inhabitants and try to both the screams that propels you through the Martian) there is a curdled sea of fortunes of the crew of a spaceship encounters with these albino aliens come across as a mash-up of fan-favorite state that the Bioshock series managed to start again. There are no records of escape and find out exactly what the hell game. It also doesn’t hurt as well that the mediocrity made up of tripe like Exodus: transporting 2,000 hypersleeping human (rather cutely referred to in the scenes from the entire Alien franchise, some narrative wizardry and emotional the amount of discs snapped, nervous is going on. The city itself is something central storyline has one of the all-time Gods and Kings, A Good Year and of course colonists to a potential new home world. promotional materials as ‘Neomorphs’) as though Scott was so stung by the hammer blows that would have been breakdowns and marriages destroyed between a Boschian nightmare and a 50s great twists, one that is unfortunately Prometheus: the Alien spin-off that wasn’t, After the ship is caught in a solar flare including an incredibly bloody medical negative reaction to Prometheus that he impossible for any other medium to during System Shock’s reign of terror, so New York take on Metropolis, the depths so good that the final hour of the game which combined the dubious thrills of the 12 man crew are awakened to make bay sequence that would almost be attempted to Frankenstein a sure-fire achieve. With the release of the newly when the gaming world was first faced of the sea constantly pressing in around struggles to match it (a lesson that later watching an unlikeable team of scientists repairs and thus come across a mysterious slapstick (splatstick?) if the feeling of hit exclusively by cinematic cannibalism. remastered PS4 collection, it’s as good with Bioshock, the new game by System you creates a suffocating atmosphere games would do well to learn from). make progressively worse decisions with distress signal emerging from a nearby menace wasn’t so intense, once the El As a result Covenant feels like three a time as any to plunge back into the Shock’s auteur/sadist in chief Ken Levine, and environment that ranks amongst Rapture is a city that every gamer owes an overly generous dollop of achingly planet. Quite why anyone ever answers Classico black skinned Xenomorphs separate films roughly sewn together dark waters of the series, beginning with it reacted with both glee and a worry that gaming’s all-time best. As you progress it to themselves to visit at least once, and boring cod-philosophy about the origins a mysterious distress signal in uncharted show up everything comes to a grinding with the stitches regrettably clear to the the first in the series: 2007’s Ayn Rand they were slipping back into an abusive through, one of the central reason for the the whale-like diving suited Big Daddies of humanity (spoiler: We were apparently space is unclear as the entire science halt. Beyond the fact that giving the naked eye. Scott’s still striking command inspired nightmare, Bioshock. relationship. However luckily for blood outbreak of screaming mutated maniacs are as iconic to this generation as Lara created by a giant race of albino baby fiction genre posits that nothing good Xenomorphs a definitive origin story of visuals and a bravura performance The original Bioshock traced its lineage pressures the world over, Levine had becomes clear: the discovery of a deep Croft and Mario were to the previous men; the Alt-Right must be so proud) has ever come of doing so in the history is an actively destructively bad idea, by Fassbender make Covenant worth back to the 90s cyberpunk series System mellowed in the intervening decade and sea substance that can be used to reshape one. Bioshock is as deep and dark as the all the while not actually including any of the universe, with Covenant’s stop-over (the name Alien is a clue: Part of the the price of admission, but this Alien is Shock which (in keeping with the style whilst the finished product bore some the human genome into any shape that Mariana trench, but there are lights in of the Xenomorphs that most assumed proving no different. Soon hybrid aliens strength of the original story is how little just too familiar to aspire to the titanic of gaming at the time) was functionally aesthetic similarities to its origins, it was you can think of. Since the city runs on that darkness which signposted a path would be the stars of the show. Despite are ripping out of crewmembers orifices anything is explained and how foreign heights of the original. impossible. Deeply atmospheric, a different beast than anything that had Randian principles, the idea of enforcing that gaming is still following today.

gently immerse us riff and pounding backbeat goading By the time Sedaris moves to Chicago members’ and friends’ lives, what he Fans of Me Talk Pretty One Day will In Spades into his nocturnal its predatory protagonist into action, Theft By Finding in the mid-80s, the entries become listened to on NPR that day, there’s especially enjoy the last third of Theft By The Afghan Whigs netherworld, we’re but then suddenly at the two-minute David Sedaris more familiar as they grow in their also something historically interesting Finding, when Sedaris’ writing becomes pushed right in mark, the song blossoms into a wistful keen observations and Sedaris’ razor wit about reading present-tense accounts of more essayistic and he spends time in Sub Pop by staccato shocks lament for the one who got away. Taking © Sub Pop Photograph emerges to tie them together. By book’s events that go down in history books: France learning the language with the of harmonium a different route to a similarly fraught end, Sedaris’ entries read like mini essays. There’s the brief entry in 1983 that reads, help of a sadistic teacher. Late in the and operatic destination, Toy Automatic is a survey of At first glance Theft By Finding looks They’re often as enjoyable as anything in “There is a new cancer that strikes only book there’s an unusually extended vocal gasps, like a shipwrecked relationship that makes like a cash-in. In this first of two books, Holidays On Ice and Me Talk Pretty One homosexual men. I heard about it on the episode of the spiders living in his and Back in their nineties hey-day, the strobe-lit flickers you feel like you’re actually standing essayist David Sedaris prints selected Day, the last published book that can be radio tonight.” Then there’s the entry Hugh’s country home that’s as laugh- Afghan Whigs were way ahead of the of an image alongside Dulli on some wind-battered diary entries made between the years matched to Theft By Finding’s entries. from September 12, 2001, when Sedaris out-loud funny as Sedaris’ best work. curve on what would become two of that take you a shoreline. 1977 and 2002. But like much of For fans of those collections, there’s describes the previous day of watching Diary entries shouldn’t be this good, the most dominant tropes in 21st- few moments In Spades clocks in at just 10 songs Sedaris’ deceivingly simple prose, the much enjoyment to be had in tracing the the World Trade Centre and Pentagon but considering Sedaris’ output, it’s not century rock’n’roll: an open embrace to process into in 36 minutes, but feels as expansive and enjoyment in Theft By Finding comes not timeline of events depicted in Theft By being hit by terrorist attacks on the news surprising that this collection is a worthy of R&B on one hand, and widescreen a fluid moving substantial as a double-album statement. from its very basic conceit but its sharp Finding with their eventual appearance while in Paris. addition to his name. Springsteen-sized epics on the other, picture. “We’re And that’s thanks in large part to coolly observations and bone-dry humour. It’s in published a far-sightedness that made them coming alive in paced, multi-sectional songs like Arabian easy to read the diary pages contained in essay form. outcasts amongst the staid grunge of the the cold,” Dulli Heights and Light As a Feather, where Theft By Finding as Sedaris’ first draft to October 1990 period. As a result whilst many of their declares, like a Dulli masterfully ratchets up the tension some of his most celebrated works, the is especially competitors sound immediately dated, monster whose before unleashing his fevered howl at just initial observation, joke, or insight that auspicious, the Whigs shotgun wedding fusion of eyes have flickered the right moment (while reminding us will later be fleshed out, put down here in as Sedaris biting guitar rock and slinky soul feels open after a long that the Whigs are the rare rock band that the present tense. dashes off a current in a way that Pearl Jam could hibernation. can pull liberally from 70s Blaxploitation Sedaris writes in the introduction few sentences only dream of. And yet, you’d be hard- that the early years: 1977 to 1983: “were Like its 2014 funk without sounding like they’re about meeting Book Group Brown © Little, Photograph pressed to find a band today that actually predecessor, In making a jokey porno soundtrack). The the bleakest. I was writing my diaries a man named sounds like the Afghan Whigs. Because small army of string and horn players, Spades is closer in scope and spirit to album’s dramatic arc is completed by two by hand back then. The letters were Hugh, then a no band has a frontman quite like Greg the most resounding instrument we Dulli’s other group, the Twilight Singers, late-game pleas for redemption; though small and, fuelled by meth, a typical few days later Dulli, who possesses such a distinctively hear throughout emanates from Dulli’s than to the Afghan Whigs’ 90s-era the melodramatic, string-swept closer entry would go on for pages, solid walls applies to Macy’s raw rasp of a voice and such a particular ravaged throat. As ever, Dulli spends output, which isn’t exactly a surprise, Into the Floor feels like overcompensating of words, and every last one of them Santaland. And lyrical POV, the thought of trying to the majority of In Spades teetering on given that this reformed line-up is in the wake of the devastating piano complete bullshit. I’ve included very little while Sedaris’ emulate him is probably why artists don’t that shaky precipice where romance essentially the Twilight Singers with confessional, Dulli’s best ballad since of that time in this book.” It’s true that diary is mostly cover hip-hop songs more often: it feels turns to rancour, and pillow talk leads original Whigs bassist John Curley. The Black Love’s Prince-flavoured closer these early pages are more illuminating focused on the less like an act of musical homage than to restraining orders. But like a master branding is pretty much immaterial at Faded. This is a familiar Dulli mind trick: than entertaining, as we see both a things he finds intellectual property theft. genre filmmaker, he’s always got a couple this point; what matters really is that play the bastard for a whole record, and glimpse into his past (as in the apple interesting, As a result, even though the Afghan of new tricks up his sleeves to keep us Dulli can still pull off his louche lover- then elicit our sympathies for being such picking and hitchhiking he describes overheard Whigs’ second post-reunion album on our toes. Opening track Birdland man act with conviction, and surprising a hopeless fuck-up. Vicious cycles like in his first collection Naked) and the conversations, after 2014’s Do to the Beast bolsters honours his tradition for slow-burning, poignancy. 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class health advice and education service Hughes David Set up to deliver the highest cushions, more reminiscent of offering, building on the now Ford Focus RS look from some angles, © for the local Chelsea community. quality treatment and building on the a boutique hotel lobby than familiar,A but once cutting edge but from others the Civic holds its own. internationally renowned expertise of a clinic. The chic interiors There are other benefits by having a styling of the previous generation. This new model has a bigger footprint, HCA UK, the new centre boasts cutting cover four floors, including an centre of excellence such as HCA Sydney so head and leg-room in the rear are Photographs edge cancer diagnostic and treatment airy chemotherapy treatment Street on one’s doorstep. Local residents Initially launched in 1972, it’s hard to marginally increased, and there’s the facilities, including one of the UK’s first suite, and spacious, reassuring are invited to open educational evenings believe that in the early years the humble usual full range of electronic driver aids digital PET/CT scanners, exposing users consulting rooms, many with hosted by HCA London specialists Civic was just a reliable old thing for across the range. to 50 percent less radiation than standard views across Chelsea. who advise on how to maintain your bumbling around in, and the sort of car Habitual Townies, Vicars and the scanners. The centre also features an “The whole of the centre personal health. Consultants at the most the local vicar would not find too shouty. thrifty would do well with the 1.0 litre, but those with redder blood in their veins onsite blood laboratory for rapid analysis on site, the centre also includes one has been desiigned to the highest clinical recent event addressed the subject of The previous Civic’s USP was a clever as well as a pharmacy and 15 consulting can still make a very sensible choice with of the best dermatology departments and hotel services standard to make sure skin cancer, how to spot melanomas and and adaptable rear seat that could be rooms. in London as well as providing that patients feel they’re receiving a five folded out of the way to make a second the 1.5 litre. Hard-core sports enthusiasts how to prevent them during the summer HCA Sydney Street prides itself on ophthalmology, gastroenterology, plastic star treatment within our centre of which boot, but how often did buyers use it? will have to wait until later in the year weather. the multi-disciplinary, holistic care it surgery, colorectal, rheumatology, we’re very proud,” says Martin. Not enough thought Honda, so the for the Type R, but expect a fair bit of is able to offer its cancer patients with haematology and GP services. While the building is intended to fuel tank that used to live under the compromise with this version. access to psychological support, hair Managing the centre with over 13 deliver the highest degree of diagnostics For more information : front seats has gone back to its more and image services, nutritional advice years experience working in a specialist and treatment, Outpatient Sister Alma Search HCA Sydney Street traditional home to make way for a new List prices for the 127bhp 1.0 litre start and complementary therapies. With cancer hospital is Martin O’Brien Roberto believes that the exceptional To book an appointment call: sportier driving position and a lowered at £18,335 and top out at £27,480 for the the capacity to perform minor surgeries “We’re looking to provide a very work carried out by the team ensures that 020 3131 7213 1.5 litre Prestige.

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By Don Grant somewhere to rent, is still there with its Photographs strange mix of art-deco/neo-mughal- gothic architecture and colouring, and the road seems a lot less busy than it n the late summer, the Grant was. Ice-cream was a great favourite, family would take two or three both in the hotel bar and in the dazzling weeks holiday, usually in Italy, as it neon-lit gelateria in Finale Ligurie, where Icoincided with the Italian Grand Prix at we used to go and promenade in the Monza, the fiendishly fast, banked track warm evenings. We used to put 5-lira thirty kilometres outside Milan. The trip aluminium coins on the track and wait would start early in the morning, with in the bushes until a train came along dad loading up the car with everything and flattened them into anamorphic from a picnic table and chairs, to a ovals. On the other side of the track was Rolls-Royce GT1 stove, clothes and towels for five, maps an outdoor movie theatre with bench diagnostics for and books, his typewriter, toys, a picnic seating, and dad took us there to watch Rolls-Royce hamper with plates, knives and forks. American westerns dubbed into Italian. Phantom What would not fit in the boot would It mattered not when a train rattled and Ghost. go on the roof-rack, wrapped up in a past in the middle of the film in an O tarpaulin and secured by a terrifying and the twin engines would splutter for that weekend and then drive us down Winston Link tableau, with passengers Full body off device called ‘an octopus’. No matter how and fart into life, with a clattering of to the coast. We only managed to get sitting at tables lit by little table lights restoration. tight it was fastened, it would always pistons and billows of blue smoke. The to the race twice, once in 1955, when and bats flitting between the audience come loose and start flapping. We would noise was deafening as this improbable motor racing was dominated by the and the screen. With his gravelly Italian set off for Lydd in Kent and board an flying machine gathered speed down the Silver Arrows, driven by Fangio, Moss, voice, Alan Ladd will never seem the Bentley GT antiquated Silver City Bristol Freighter, runway, fishtailing until it hauled itself Karl Kling and Piero Taruffi. Fangio same. and Flying Spur Latest ODIS diag- which took two cars and their passengers. into the air, and soon we were flying and Moss had the streamlined versions, The little house dad finally settled The front of the aircraft opened up past Dungeness and out over the sea, their last appearance in a GP after the nostic software. on was only yards from the sea, the Access to technical like two giant clam-shells, and the cars shining like a Ken Howard painting. 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One fore-arm was 100 years of involvement with rolls-royce bumpier D-roads the German’s Ferrari being catapulted much browner than the other, as it spend through the Jura to into crowd on the second lap, killing most of its time leaning out of the car and bentley Pontarlier and across himself and fifteen spectators. The day window, and he usually wore a straw hat. Partners Peter Eatenton and Larry Hawkins have been involved with the Swiss border at before, we were shown around the Ferrari He was not interested in sitting around Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors since leaving school and starting their Vallorbe. He would camp by Taffy, who was handsome, in the sun, and would seek out the apprenticeships at Rolls-Royce Motors in 1967. try and make it to charming and relaxed with us two dappled shade of a beach-bar drinking In 1977, after 10 years at the factory, including maintaining the British a welcoming family teenage boys. 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Royal Ascot 2017 OYAL ASCOT takes place from the 20th to 24th June 2017, featuring six world-class races, Gatland’s Lions the finest fashion and plenty of schmoozing, and of course an appearance from The Queen Dan McMillan Equine poetry in motion Rherself. A poem entitled Royal Ascot; A World Like Nowhere Else has been specially commissioned, must take the © By Owen Fulda and written by Henry Birtles (known as The Racing Poet) for this year’s flat racing centrepiece. game to All Photograph Spinning on its own Axis, where seas of silk lap graceful shores, Dating back to 1711 when it was founded by Queen Anne, Blacks A world like nowhere else exists Royal Ascot week now attracts over 300,000 visitors to if they want respect Where quintessential currents run and elegance and power converge, Berkshire during the five days, making it Europe’s best- By Owen Fulda And tales of timeless greats are spun and showstoppers emerge attended race meeting. There are eighteen group races on A world for all to celebrate; light years away from ordinary offer, with at least one Group One event on each day, with the A world which deftly radiates its realm; and bows to the extraordinary Gold Cup on Ladies’ Day, Thursday June 22. Where earthly rigours found outside and lived outside are left outside The Royal Enclosure is without doubt the most exclusive And wishes wished are realised through all the finer tastes this land will grant area from which to watch the racing. To gain admittance you he extent to which the Lions are missing one of their true world To let its spell enchant; to walk its walk once through those golden gilded gates need to be proposed by someone who is already a member class stars in Billy Vunipola is To gaze at beauty styled and beauty stitched on graceful form adorned and has been for four years. Not everyone is allowed in, becomingT more evident in the lead up to To know that bay imperious Horse immortalised and cast in bronze is Yeats and memberships are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. the first Test match with New Zealand on June 24. Warren Gatland’s men That headlines here accomplished render sporting moments starred Until 1955, divorcees were not permitted, and still to this laboured to an opening tour victory over This Kingdom...smiling Green Coats kindly guard; this universe beyond three centuries old day anyone with a criminal record or those who have been the New Zealand Provincial Barbarians, Such elements, such pieces of a jigsaw wrought to mould this multi-coloured globe declared bankrupt are barred! So in theory, you shouldn’t but then succumbed to a 22-16 defeat by A blazing beacon to the most majestic sport of all where heroes rise and heroes fall, meet too many politicians or bankers. the Blues, the weakest of New Zealand’s Super Rugby franchises. Featuring the And Royal Ascot’s world stands tallest of the tall World-renowned luxury picnic hamper makers Fortnum legendary Sonny Bill Williams and & Mason have teamed up with Royal Ascot this year to coached by Tana Umaga (infamous create exclusive hampers specifically for visitors to the much- spear tackler of Brian O’Driscoll back anticipated annual event. The hamper for two includes Prawn in 2005), Blues showed a cutting edge that the British and Irish Lions were and Lobster Cocktails, Scotch Eggs (invented by Fortnum’s drastically lacking. in the 1700’s), sharing plates of Smoked Salmon and salt- Gatland spoke of his attempts to aged Glenarm Beef, an array of salads and a British Cheese persuade Vunipola to travel with the Plate. Desserts include Sherry Trifle Strawberry Jellies and a squad but was forced to admit defeat. “I spoke to Billy and he just felt he couldn’t jar of Splendid Sweets. give us 100 per cent,” Gatland said. “His Chargrilled Broccoli and Artichokes with Tahini & shoulder was popping out during games Lemon Dressing, Burrata with Basil Pesto and Heritage Tomatoes, and Grilled Miso Aubergine with Quinoa and outcome of the series would almost Coles is captain of the Hurricanes but ball centre and invites 14 other blokes certainly have remained the same. But he has not made an appearance for the to pile in behind him. “I don’t know Tofu are some of the dishes packed within the Fortnum’s as one door closes, another one opens. Super Rugby title-chasers since March what Warrenball means,” protested his Ascot Vegetarian Hamper. A choice of the grocer’s own red Anyone who watched Vunipola’s cousin 18. assistant, Rob Howley, who has coached or white wine accompanies both wickers. Taulupe Faletau in Bath’s last few games While the Lions had good cause to alongside Gatland for much of the past Although you will be able to catch all the action live on of the season will be aware the Welsh plead jet-lag mitigation for Saturday’s decade. “Have we played that over the No8 is hitting form at the right time. placid opener against the Provincial last few years? I’m not too sure.” TV, if you do long to experience the races it’s not too late to Despite being just two games into Barbarians, against Blues there was no Lions will need to improve their pick up tickets. Ticket prices start at £37, while hospitality their intensive 10 match tour schedule, excuse. They had an entirely new XV on discipline over the next few weeks if they packages can be bought from £269 per person and car injuries are already mounting for the the field, 11 of them on Lions debut. The are to have hope of overcoming the All Lions. 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What the Kiwis really respect, unsurprisingly as the Christchurch Flat race season is and nowhere more so than at Epsom, biggest surprise in the Derby since Snow money. In 2013, The Queen watched he was adamant that he was not right. match, going over in the left corner, only though, is a team that takes it to them. based Super Rugby side have won all where the most intense racing rivalry Knight’s success at 50-1 in 1974, and the her horse, Estimate, triumph in the Gold If someone is not 100 per cent right for the TMO to decide Stephen Perofeta Fast and edgy and unrelenting, that is 14 of their domestic games this season, bubbling nicely of the last quarter-century was renewed first for a horse at a double-figure price Cup. A dedicated racehorse owner, she in terms of their commitment, I fully had dragged his foot into touch before he how they play the game down in the with a points difference of +250. These By Owen Fulda at the Epsom Derby on a hot Saturday since High-Rise at 20-1 in 1998. has attended every Royal Meeting during understand and respect that decision.” got the ball down. It would have been a southern hemisphere. The Blues were the six warm-up matches provide a steep afternoon in early June. On one side, This was O’Brien’s fourth Derby her reign and the Royal Procession is /No man, as we all know, is bigger brilliant moment for Payne, who is both first of the Super Rugby big-hitters to learning curve for the tourists, and there’s John Magnier, the head of the Coolmore success in the last six years and his sixth always an iconic moment to herald the than his team, particularly when he a New Zealander by birth and a former line up against the Lions, a step-up from no doubt the players have the nouse to Stud racing and breeding syndicate in all, one more than Sir Michael Stoute’s start of every race day. has not yet worn the jersey. But Billy Blues player, but it was not to be. the conventional provincial opposition. get to grips with the nuances of the game based in County Tipperary. On the (current) total of five between 1981 and Melbourne Cup winner Michelle V? Not the Saracen tank who has been Fortunately for the tourists, it is not There were eight current or former All in New Zealand. other, Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum, 2010, and just one behind the all-time Payne is set to be one of the big draws at steam-rollering all-comers this season. just themselves suffering from various Blacks in the Blues squad, but it is only All the talk has been of the Lions’ It takes an unthinkable amount of the ruler of Dubai and the man with record of seven wins in the Classic. Ascot this summer, on board Kaspersky in What a massive hole his absence leaves muscle strains and knocks. The All going to get harder from here on in. overbearing schedule bogging them money to compete at the pinnacle of the most extensive global bloodstock O’Brien’s seven-time Group 1 the Queen Anne Stakes. Payne created in Gatland’s planning. Sadly, though, the Blacks are in grave danger of losing Gatland was irked by claims this down and sapping their legs, but international Flat racing, and those with operation the sport has seen. winning filly Minding, was due to run history in 2015 as the first female jockey Vunipola setback recalls the premature one of their leading world-class players, week, that he is a one-dimensional coach more minutes on the pitch also equals the resources and inclination to do so are But both trainers were left to rue at Royal Ascot but connections revealed to win the Melbourne Cup, and is injuries which undermined the Lions hooker Dane Coles, for the Test series whose sides only play one way, in a style an enhanced understanding of new used to getting their own way. Racing what might have been as the 2017 flat she’s had a setback that will rule her out looking forward to racing at the Royal last expedition to New Zealand in 2005; after a further delay in his comeback. 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world. The cause of the dispute was the magazine aims to to help American attributes Short’s current triumphs were E V N T I M I Down 0-1. Qc4. 33.Kg2, Qxc3.

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18 19 20 seductive by the tournament’s organisers. world of present day chess, both at home are playing a much greater role in his C H E E R U P R A K I N G 2 Beginning on the idleness of slobs ends 7 Speaking in one language, debate 18 Held outside school often on a stick. on Bishop the guarding station its off

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K G V M T R E L 5 Cut back two dimensional unbalanced (10) 24 Dig up buzz in a river. (6) certain angle, far, far, away’. I guess if many. It is however welcome and should the recently concluded Russian Team 23.... 23.gxf5,Qg3+.24.Kh1,Rf6). (not 27 28 23.Kg2. Qh4. 22.g4? 21....,Qh5! S K E W E R E Y E S O R E S stance. (8) 16 A kept sow cooked for Achilles joint. 27 Employees are right now initially you’re lying down on the floor with a add and entice many more readers to Championship, Sochi, between Evgenly 6 Wide lure presentations sent out on the (4,4) working to do this. (4) pair of binoculars, anything is possible! chess. The World’s number 1 women’s Najer 2679 v Shakhriyar Mamedyarov The upshot of the director’s harangue champion Hou Yifan, who declined to was that the girl should go away and attend the Tehran Championship over CLASSIFIED ADS PUBLIC NOTICE buy a pair of trousers as her dress the compulsory wearing of head gear, Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates
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The Council will not entertain representations where the writer requests that his dress statement that the players felt good West - deterred from leading a club in the light of North’s 3 bid - led East may be partly caused by his ELO rating ♥J, so West continued with ♥ ♥ ♥ identity remains anonymous. Copies of all representations will be included in the (Ref: RJO.JSH.MIL30401.8) in. Perhaps all black costumes, down encouraged with Q. East overtook with A, cashed 109, being nibbled away of late with only then switched to ♦2. South won ♦J, led ♣6 to ♣A, cashed ♠A, crossed back to ♦Q, and WORRIED ABOUT BEING papers presented to the Licensing Sub-Committee and will therefore pass into the to the floor trousers and skirts, arms Capacity: 16pts. now between himself and his cashed ♦AK. Dummy’s last three cards were ♣KQ5, but West had correctly kept ♣J98 AN EXECUTOR? public domain. Representations must relate to one of the four Licensing Objectives: covered, up to the neck tops, with hats ♠ Solicitors for the Executor nearest rival the World nos. 2 Wesley and discarded all his spades (though if he had held K he would have been “squeezed” the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public or scarves as head coverings according ♠ ♣s). South led ♣10, covered by ♣ We can relieve you of the burden, and So; the smallest difference Carlsen has - forced to let go of K or discard down to two J and nuisance and the protection of children from harm. In the case of an application for Name of Executor: to your predilections. Sounds great! ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ give you all the help you want: whether seen since taking the World’s number won with dummy’s Q. K was cashed but, at trick 13, West beat dummy’s 5 with 9. a provisional statement, please note that representations will be restricted once a Richard John Ostle Of course, there should also be chess Down one, without the option after the heart lead. it’s just obtaining the grant of probate statement has been issued. tournaments where competitors could one spot in 2011 in the World’s top ♣, ♣ ♥ for you, or dealing with the whole If North had not bid 3 West would probably have led 3 rather than K. In that Date before which notice of claims wear the most outlandish, vivid coloured, rankings. Carlsen has stated on several case declarer, expecting ♣J to be with the opening leader, would have played ♣4 from process all the way through to It is an offence liable on conviction to a fine up to Level 5 on the standard scale must be given (Two month’s and one provocative outfits they deemed to don! occasions that the Nos.1 World ranking dummy, won the first trick with ♣10, and made 3NT easily. production of final estate accounts. under Section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003 to knowingly or recklessly make a day notice at least to be given): Now that’s a tournament I would like is of more importance to him than When asked why he bid 3♣, North replied “I was hoping South would bid 3NT”. In that We are Probaters. Call 0845 034 7344 or false statement in connection with this application. 9 August 2017 to see! This would certainly take chess being the World Champion! The case why didn’t North simply bid 3NT himself - surely it would be an easier contract than check our website www.probaters.com ♣ out of the shadows, and make for a new World’s Senior Team Championships, 5 ? lively embrace of the world’s attention, Crete, ended with the nos.1 ranked ANDREW’S TIP: When you know the correct contract, bid it! 64 June 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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