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He was working at St Clement’s Over two million documents have and decoration of Butterfly Rooms Church near Grenfell as an assistant been collected and processed onto the Friends of Chelsea for the hospital’s End-of-Life care Kensington goes priest when the fire happened. Grenfell legal bill special IT system the council purchased programme. to the polls The candidates fighting to join mounts to deal with the enormous scale of the and Westminster Butterfly Rooms are spaces where By Local Democracy Reporter Labour’s Pat Healy in the two-seat By Local Democracy Reporter information it was providing. family members can say goodbye to ward are Kasim Mohamed Ali, Labour, So far it has enabled 440,000 Bric-a-Brac Stall their loved-ones in private, away from Julia Gregory Samia Bentayeb, the Conservative Talia Shadwel documents to be manually reviewed the hustle, bustle and often stress of the party candidate, Callum Dorrington by lawyers, and more than 40,000 Needs You general ward. Hutton, the UK Independence Party documents have been provided to the The charity grants bursaries to other candidate, Angela Victoria Georgievski, The mounting legal and IT bill for public inquiry. projects that are deemed to be beneficial Five candidates will be battling Green party candidate and Alexandra Kensington & Chelsea Council over the The leadership team approved a to the development of the hospital. Mary Tatton-Brown for the Liberal Grenfell Tower tragedy has hit nearly £5 recommendation ensuring all future Whilst all the money is reinvested it out next month in a by- Democrats. spending from the council’s Grenfell back into helping the hospital with its million. Massey Photo © Nigel election in North Kensington. Voters will go to the polls on The amount covers the continuing budget on legal advice and the IT necessary projects, the Bric-a-Brac stall Thursday, March 21. costs of the council’s assistance to the package will be approved by Kensington is run by a group of very friendly, fervent Voters will go to the polls in At the time of the last census in 2011 ongoing public inquiry into the fire, and & Chelsea’s executive director of volunteers. Dalgarno ward following the there were 6,903 people living in the the criminal investigation. resource and assets. One volunteer, Clare Johnstone, said: northernmost ward in Kensington and The figure has been revealed in The director will monitor and report ‘the hospital has done so much for me, I resignation of Labour’s Father Chelsea. council papers following reports earlier back quarterly to the council. decided to give something back. Robert Thompson who moved It is also the third most overcrowded this week claiming the Met Police Council leader, Cllr Elizabeth You also get to know the patients and in the borough, with 81% of its residents request to the Government for more Campbell, said the council must remain he Friends charity, raise money interact with them.' to a new parish in Kilburn last living in flats, according to the 2011 funds to cover the force’s legal costs transparent about the spending and for Chelsea and Westminster They’re passionate about the work the summer. census. for the Grenfell investigation, were provide everything required by the Hospital, for the benefit of Charity does and are urging anyone who The deadline to apply for a proxy vote rebuffed. investigators. patients, their families and staff. has any unwanted items to donate them is Wednesday 13 March at 5pm. “I think we owe that to the survivors,” T as soon as possible. t the time he said he would have In March 2018 the council’s Celebrating their 25th anniversary to give up his role in Kensington Details are available at www.gov.uk/ leadership had approved an increase in she said. this year, the Charity relies on large Volunteer Nigel Massey said: ‘we are and Chelsea. register-to-vote. funding for the legal costs from £2.5m The figures come as the council works donations and supporters, but is also looking for readers to bring anything to £5m. on setting its budget, with proposals it dependent on its smaller entrepreneurial they like in. Please show your support in A Council papers show as of December hopes will close its 2019/20 budget gap fundraisers such as the Hospital’s book a small way.’ 31, 2018, the council had spent just over of nearly £20m without making vital shop and trolley service. Drop donations of cuddly toys, kids £3.6m on specialist legal advice. services cuts. One of their vital fundraising toys, jewellery, DVDs, china, hand It had also spent nearly £1m on a It has planned to earmark £50m schemes, the fortnightly Bric-a-Brac crafts, knitwear, jigsaw puzzles and specialist IT package. for the Grenfell Recovery Strategy stall that sells second -hand goods, are cooking things, off at the stall itself The legal team’s work has included over five years, to provide support calling on KCW readers to support the or alternatively they can be left at the providing nearly 14 million documents to the survivors, bereaved and wider charity and donate whatever unwanted Friends Shop or Office located by the to the Met Police. community. household items they can to the stall. escalators in the main entrance. Jewellery, cuddly toys, china, The stall in the main foyer is open kitchenware and new handmade knitted every other Wednesday from 10am-2pm baby clothes are all needed and every and most items are sold for less than the Strenuous efforts are made by TRAFFIC WATCH sale is a huge help for the charity and the bargain price of £5. hospital. Chelsea and Westminster hospital, Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster LONDON HOME FOOTBALL Since 2016, the Charity has been 369 Fulham Rd, Chelsea, London Today newspaper to ensure that the working on the expansion, development SW10 9NH. March 7, content and information is correct. Chelsea v Dynamo Kiev, 20:00 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster March 9, centres across London have been forced Today newspaper reserves the right QPR v Stoke City, 15:00 to close their waiting lists and for the March 10, Domestic first time in the middle of 2018, all four to report unsolicited material being Arsenal v Man Utd, 16:30 were forced to do so at the same time. sent through to the publication. March 10, violence on the Worryingly, nearly two-thirds of all referrals to support services were Personal views expressed in this Chelsea v Wolves, 14:05 rise in London March 13, unsuccessful for a period between 2017- Get in, London – newspaper are solely those of the QPR v Rotherham United, 19:45 18. The Ministry of Justice revealed in their most recent statistics that it takes respective contributors and do not March 14, we’re your Recent data has revealed that domestic an average of 20 months for a victim reflect those of the publishers or Arsenal v Rennes, 20:00 abuse has risen by over 60% in London to receive a pay-out from the Criminal number one! March 17, its agents. All materials sent to in under than seven years. The shocking Injuries Compensation Authority. Fulham v Liverpool, 14:15 figures have led Sadiq Khan to pledge London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has written Kensington Chelsea & Westminster March 20, £15 million to organisations that support to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid asking Today are at the suppliers’ risk. Fulham v Manchester City, 12:30 victims of domestic abuse, since recent him to reverse the cuts and provide the government cuts have pushed them to Reproduction in whole or in part of March 30, necessary support the sector needs. QPR v Bolton Wanderers, 15:00 breaking point. He said: ‘The number of people this publication is strictly prohibited April 1, The data, published in a report by killed by someone they knew in our without prior consent. Arsenal v Newcastle, 20:00 the mayor’s office, revealed that three- city is shocking … Support services quarters of victims are female and the April 7, in the capital do an amazing job, but The appearance of advertising in majority live in deprived areas. Over The UK’s Best The future is exciting. Tottenham v Brighton & Hove Albion, 16:30 the funding situation has left them at the same time period public funding breaking point.’ this newspaper, including inserts or April 8, Mobile Network Ready? for women’s services dropped by 50% Sarah Green, a co-director at the supplements, does not constitute Chelsea v West Ham Utd, 20:00 in 2017 due to government cuts, whilst End Violence Against Women Coalition, endorsement by Kensington, Chelsea demand for them rose by 83%. said: “We hope Sadiq’s renewed Full sports fixtures on page 60 & Westminster Today of the products Alongside this, whilst 15% of all commitment to ensuring support and sexual offences happen in London, the protection for abuse survivors, and The Trusted Reviews Awards is a readers’ choice awards, where readers of Trusted Reviews voted Vodafone as the winner of the Best UK Mobile Network of the Year category. or services advertised. city only receives 6% of the relevant tackling perpetrators, will make our city More details at vodafone.co.uk/network/network-improvements. 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Blue Plaque: STATUES Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike CH., DBE. 1882 - 1976 Photograph © Don Grant Photograph

Sybil Thorndike was honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque in 1998. It was erected at 6 Carlyle Square, where she lived from 1921 to 1932. of Windsor and next, toured the US She was an English actress in Shakespearean repertory for four who excelled internationally in years playing 112 roles. She played Shakespearean plays and made her name on Broadway in 1910 and came to in tragic roles. Often acting with her the Old Vic in 1914 where she stayed husband, Sir Lewis Casson, she proved for four years, taking leading roles in to be remarkably versatile, taking comic, Shakespeare and other classic plays. classic and tragic parts in her stride. She played Hecuba in Trojan Women by She gave her audiences sixty years of Euripides. masterful portrayals. She played male During her long career she acted roles e.g ‘the fool in King Lear’ and with Laurence Olivier in Uncle Vanya wrote a letter to the Zionist Federation appeared in films and television. at Chichester in 1962 and appeared by way of Lord Rothschild, containing In 1924 George Bernard Shaw with her husband in Arsenic and Old Imperial a single sentence, which has become wrote Joan of Arc for her which gave her Lace at the Vaudeville. She undertook known as the Balfour Declaration, and stardom. There were many performances, a demanding tour around Australia, Join us this spring in the Camel Corps which has caused much grief and the final one being in 1914. Sybil performing many taxing roles. suffering in the last hundred years. Thorndike had a commanding presence Her last stage appearance was monument The Memorial comprises a small- on and off stage and gave memorable in There Was An Old Woman at the garden that changed the world By Cecil Brown scale bronze sculpture of a soldier riding performances in her senior years. Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead a camel and mounted on a Portland John W. Thorndike, her father was which she founded and it opened in Victoria Embankment stone pedestal, itself with a bronze panel a Canon in Rochester Cathedral and 1969. Gardens on each of its four sides. Two list the her mother was Agnes Bowers. They names of the 347 men who died while Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson fighting in the Middle East between had two sons and two daughters who had four children. Their personal and he Imperial Camel Corps was 1916 and 1918, comprising 191 from all went on the stage. Sybil was born professional relationship was one of the founded in 1916 to fight in the Australia, 106 from the UK, 41 from in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and most respected known in theatre. When deserts of the Middle East and New Zealand and 9 from India. Of the educated at Rochester Grammar School asked, if she had ever considered leaving Africa during the First World two other bas-relief bronze panels, one for Girls. She trained as a classical him, she retorted, “Divorce, never! TWar against the Germans and the depicts two officers and a camel, and pianist part time at the Guildhall School Murder, often!” Turks, and during the Arab Revolt, the other, two men running. Below is of Music and Drama. Cramp problems which flared up in June 1916. The The silent film industry recreated a further plaque bearing a dedicatory with her hands ended her career as a Corps comprised 1,100 camel- some of her greatest roles, Joan of Arc and inscription that reads, To the Glorious pianist and she proceeded to the Central Macbeth. Later she acted with Laurence mounted infantry men, made up of and Immortal Memory of the Officers, men from Great Britain, Australia, School of Speech and Drama with Elsie Olivier and Marilyn Monroe in The NCOs and Men of the Imperial Camel Fogerty as her tutor. New Zealand and India. The Corps, Corps - British, Australian, New Zealand, Prince and the Showgirl, but the stage was working alongside Arab tribesmen, Indian - who fell in action or died of Sybil Thorndike then joined Ben really her life. with T.E.Lawrence in command was wounds and disease in Egypt, Sinai, and Greet’s Company and appeared in his Sybil Thorndike died of a heart most successful in taking the Red Palestine, 1916, 1917, 1918. 1904 production of The Merry Wives attack in 1976 aged 93 years. She Sea port of Aqaba from the desert It was officially unveiled in 1921 is buried in the south choir aisle of hinterland, which was defended by by Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Westminster Abbey. the Turks against attack from the sea Chetwode, who had been the first Words of J.B Priestley are engraved Treat yourself to a scrumptious brunch at by the French or British. Each man in commander of the Desert Mounted in white on the black, Belgian stone, a camel raiding party would carry six Corps, which included the Imperial The Physic Garden Café. Bookings available weeks’ frugal supply of food, a hundred Saint Joan or Hecuba, Camel Corps Brigade. The statuette great actress of your age, rounds for his rifle and a pint of water, was carved by a member of the Corps, from 10am for Friends of the Garden. which was meant to last him between Major Cecil Hew Brown. a Scotsman all womanhood your part, Photograph Photograph © Allan Warren wells. General Edmund Allenby’s great born in Ayr, who was educated at the world your stage. Call 020 7349 6464 push for Palestine began in October Harrow School and Exeter College, To each good cause you lent your vigorous 1917, with the British infantry seizing Oxford. He then studied art in tongue, swept through the years, the garrison town of Bathsheba, London and Paris, and began his the champion of the young. following a spectacular charge by the career as a painter. Although he was And now the scripts lie fading on Australian Light Horse, the cavalry and also a medallist, his main interest was the shelf, Don’t miss our upcoming Mother’s Day Kokedama-making classes, the camelry of the Desert Mounted equestrian sculpture, as he was an avid we celebrate your finest role. yourself; Corps. They then took Gaza, the rider and huntsman. He died of heart The calls, the lights grow dim, but not this Easter Egg hunt and British Academy of Floral Art workshops Mediterranean port of Jaffa, turning failure whilst out hunting with the east into the Judean Hills and towards part, Oakley Hounds in Bedfordshire in the Christian Spirit, the great the great prize of Jerusalem, which 1926. they took in December 1917. The then generous heart. chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, Don Grant Marian Maitland. 8 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Architecture News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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by Pocket Living who are delivering industrial revolution. With the growing & De Meuron © Herzog Photograph Communal roof terrace by Pocket Living at Victoria One Church Square by PDP Architects for Pocket Living at Victoria ‘compact’ homes for key workers at pains of the industrial age now behind c20%+ below market values. These are us [in this country at least, the school for first time buyers earning less than The Royal College of Art is pivoting to become relevant to the now £474,000; that’s 36 times more. The adds further to risk of tariffs and delayed pupils, a nursery, medical centre, retail, £90k/a and who do not qualify for social unveils plans for its biggest real revolutions taking place in the 21st downward trend in interest rates over deliveries. All of these factors, added to play and community spaces, as well as housing. Appropriately, for key worker Century, both digital and economic. that period has made mortgages more the risk, delay and unpredictability of a new 3.5ha public park. Overall, there provision, purchasers have to be living expansion in its 182-year The RCA’s stated aim is to affordable which in turn has encouraged the planning process, exacerbate the lack will be 44% green open space and there or working in the borough where the history. “transform the accepted paradigm of prices to rise. Yes, general inflation is of housing supply necessary to avert the will be a central energy centre. The scheme is located. Pocket Living have an art and design university”, with a part of the reason for increased purchase worsening crisis. disappointing reality is that the project evolved clever 38m2 one bed flats that ll across Britain, falling focus on placing artists and designers prices. The other big reason is the One piece of good news is that will take 12 years over 8 phases to are meeting the “generation rent gap”. applications are causing alongside scientists and engineers at the shortage of homes to buy or rent. In planning permission has at last been complete. That’s only an average of about Their developments are car free, have universities to ‘streamline’ their outset of their research rather than as an recent years, half of all central London’s granted for “Beam Park” for 2,900 300 dwellings per annum. 65,200 more generous cycle storage and shared car courses. Mainly this process consists of afterthought. The university is planned new properties and one third of Greater new homes, of which 50% are to be are needed to reach the Mayor’s target!! club space. Their purchasers have an A to run as a truly multi-disciplinary the ruthless culling and dumbing down London’s new stock has been bought by affordable. The site, a redundant Ford At the other end of the scale, there average income of £42k/a which would of art subjects which, obviously, don’t fit institution, dramatically striking into overseas investors. Some sit empty, some factory, crosses the border between are problems with smaller schemes preclude them from most properties in into the new concept of STEM subjects new territory for art institutions. For are rented. Tax changes have restricted Barking & Dagenham and Havering delivering any affordable content in London without the bank of Ma & Pa. as a cross between the Holy Grail and a example some of the new programmes investment from abroad in spite of the Councils. When Havering was accordance with planning policies. If The GLA have given a repayable silver bullet. A notable exception to this unveiled are focused on nano and soft fall in the value of the £ following the minded to refuse consent in 2017 and a small scheme can only provide 10 grant loan of £26.4M to Pocket Living to trend has been the venerable 182-year robotics, computer science and machine Brexit referendum vote. neither council had met their annual or even 20 affordable dwellings, it is continue their roll out. 700 more of their old Royal College of Art, which far from learning, materials science and the Developers and funders are now development plan housing targets, the unlikely that a Housing Association will compact one and two bed homes are on shuttering programs is embarking on circular economy; not exactly art student reluctant to commit to taking projects Deputy Mayor of London exerted his be able to economically manage that few the way. the largest expansion plan in its entire double-height hangar. The college, home five-year programme, which has been stereotypes. All of these planned re- forward when sales are slow and powers to call in the application and act history. The multi-million pound plan to 2,300 staff, will push its intake up dubbed the vaguely sci-fi sounding imaginings are only made possible by prices are falling back. There are as Local Planning Authority. Consent will see the full refurbishment of the to 3,000 students, with new privately GenerationRCA, over 70 per cent of the new building and campus designs desperate shortages of skilled labour was eventually granted under these College’s Grade-II listed Kensington funded scholarships opening access. The the £40 million it needs from private which provide the space for this more as so many building tradesmen are powers on February 7th this year. The SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT headquarters along with the opening drive behind the decision is grounded by philanthropy, including a one-off tech intensive future. Whilst many returning to Europe. 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GenerationRCA is being marketed as Art seems to be meeting the times uncertainty over ‘hard’ or ‘no deal’ Brexit station, 2 primary schools for 1,260 studios, robotics laboratories and a Of the 40 million needed for the an attempt to bring the institution back head on. 10 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Appeal Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk APPEAL FROM KATE HAWTHORNE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Written RTHOGRAPHY: the information platform, if we are not careful it will decimate the beauty and accepted way of precision of our language and erode writing words with the imagination and writing skills uphold one of the greatest inventions can do for young people in their future O of younger generations further. Too Word the proper spelling, according of all times ‘the written word’. Good careers. 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City last year, when it came just months unrecognisable plastic litter dominated after a decision to scrap the show’s at the estuary cleans. Going out with a traditional river pageant along the River Thames On the tributaries, volunteers found bang Thames too. pollution data that 78% of the items they picked up CUT DOWN ON By Local Democracy Reporter The threat to cut the were single-use with an average of 219 £125,000-a-year fireworks display finds the majority pieces of rubbish collected for every Talia Shadwell has hung over the show since 2017’s 100m surveyed. The four events on the THE PLASTIC terror attacks on Borough Market Thames Foreshore found that 86% of and Manchester Arena. That year’s of litter found is the litter items recorded were single-use Each home show was nearly cancelled last-minute, single-use with a higher concentration of items YOU USE A third of the wastes £840 a then went ahead, requiring significant found; an average of 1,402 per every food we buy is year on waste crowd safety, traffic and counter-terror 100m surveyed.

Photograph © Pxhub Photograph thrown away food management by police. At Southend-on-Sea, where the The free after-show fireworks are ver 60% of litter would disappear Thames meets the sea, just under half of fired from a barge stationed between from the Thames basin if we all items found (48%) were recognisably Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridges, with moved away from single-use single use, but the concentration of Avoid spectators usually gathering on Victoria Oitems say the Marine Conservation small pieces of litter increased further, single-use Embankment, Blackfriars Bridge, the Society and Thames21. with a huge 2,520 items per every 100m plastic City leaders are set to decide whether South Bank and Waterloo Bridge. A series of river cleans along the Thames surveyed. REDUCE to permanently axe the Lord Mayor’s Westminster City Council and TfL and its tributaries has revealed that more Of those 2,520 items, 560 (28%) Plastic litter annual fireworks show over counter- had earlier told the City the level of than 80% of litter found in the Thames, were unrecognisable small plastic items. KILLS wildlife terror security concerns this March. security and disruption caused were and 78% in its tributaries, was made up Both MCS and Thames21 are calling YOUR FOOD Gridlock in central London caused not worthwhile when the international of single-use items such as metal drink for a Deposit Return Scheme which cans, food packaging and plastic drinks’ by crowds and road closures meant attraction of London’s New Year’s Eve has been shown to cut not just plastic Most plastic Plastic marine the fireworks display represented a fireworks followed only a month later. bottles. pollution, but other materials too, such WASTE is reusable - litter often security risk, but it was unpopular with The long-planned artists’ Illuminated The events were run by the Marine as metal and glass. neighbouring local authorities and River Project set to light up the Conservation Society (MCS) and The urgent problem of wet wipes, so reuse it! starts inland transport bosses. Millennium, Southwark, London and waterways charity Thames 21 as part which often contain plastic, was also “High profile, mass spectator events Cannon Rail Bridges over the River of the Waitrose & Partners/MCS revealed in the report – making up 77 designed to draw large scale, predictable Thames from July has been presented as Beach and River Clean Programme. per cent of all items removed on the tidal crowds at defined times to London’s one alternative to the fireworks. The analysis also gives a snapshot of the Thames foreshore, and an average of Thames bridges require a significant Fifteen bridges over the Thames are source to sea pathway for litter and the 1,000 at the 4 cleans that took place. degree of protection to mitigate the risk set to be illuminated by 2022, finishing way it breaks down over time. materials such as plastics. Our Wasted food Wasted food of terrorist attack,” a report to the streets with Tower Bridge. The new proposal Metal drinks cans were commonly customers are very engaged in the issue and walkways subcommittee warned. is to use the illuminated bridges to found in the tributaries, but fewer of plastic pollution, so initiatives like costs you and is devastating The show represents an annual day create a light display following the Lord were found on the Thames foreshore. this help both customers and Partners your Council to the of medieval pageantry for the City, with Mayor’s Show and hold a celebration Wet wipes were found in huge get actively involved in addressing the money environment each newly-elected Lord Mayor rowing, event at Tower Bridge, in place of the numbers during the clean-ups on the problem and finding alternatives to riding or marching through the district pyrotechnics. Thames foreshore, whilst glass and single-use plastic.” in a tradition still going after 800 years. Such a light display could be But a flip-flop in mid-2018 saw the delivered within the existing fireworks’ Corporation declare the fireworks saved, budget in time for this year’s show, if then scrapped again as concerns were the Illuminated River Foundation is raised over the level of disruption. on board, the committee papers said. Nine Elms- The decision to cancel the fireworks Committees will see the proposal before REDUCE was said to have caused grumbles at the a final decision is made later in March. Pimlico Bridge options Cabinet Member for the Economy and the Arts, said: “We are determined to REUSE North End Road make North End Road a more thriving, & Design Architecture © Bystrup Photograph welcoming and sustainable high street Wandsworth Council’s seasonal market and we’re working with local people and businesses to make this happen.” ‘preferred option’ is NOT bags Great The Market Awards’ judging panel preferred by Pimlico residents RECYCLE praised its sustained growth seen in in Pimlico, right by the large housing British Market the ‘strong emphasis on place and local and Westminster Labour estate, Churchill Gardens, will bring END people’ and being ‘an exciting example Councillors huge, daily foot- and bike-fall through award of the local council working with the estate. It will also bring cyclists and Phoebe Eckersley community groups’. Westminster Labour Councillors have pedestrians straight on to a hugely busy OF THE Since 2014, H&F Council has responded to Wandsworth Council’s main road; Grosvenor Road. It will also collaborated with traders, businesses decision on its ‘preferred option’ for bring thousands of commuters through LINE FOR Fulham’s North End Road Market has and local residents in the North End the location of a proposed Nine Elms- an area of Pimlico that simply does not been named the best in the country at Road Action Group (NERAG) to boost Pimlico bridge. have the infrastructure to deal with this WASTE the Great British Market Awards. North Road and its market as a thriving In a report by The Evening Standard increase. The borough’s historic, 131-year-old shopping destination. and on the Bridge’s official website, The Mayor of London also backs seasonal market dates back to 1880 and They have previously launched the Wandsworth Council has chosen the our opposition to it. In December, the is one of London’s busiest; fighting off Trade for a Tenner Scheme where traders option linking Battersea Power Station Deputy Mayor for Transport,Heidi stiff competition for the Best Community/ can hire a space for one day at £10; on the south side to a landing point Alexander, reiterated that any such Parish Market gong this year. It scored receiving the next for free which makes by Churchill Gardens Estate, west of bridge should not go ahead without the the prize at the National Association of it cheaper for new businesses to join. Claverton Street, Pimlico, on the north backing of residents on both sides of the British Market Authorities (NABMA) Traffic-free seasonal markets and side. river, adding that TfL’s focus “is on new endofthelineforwaste.org AD.1222 KCW (2.19) conference which represents market reductions to the number of vacant Westminster Labour Councillors river crossings in the east of the city… operators. shops are other points from the North are completely opposed to the plans for where the river is a significant barrier to Counsellor Andrew Jones, H&F End Road re-design. this bridge. The proposed landing point those walking and cycling. 14 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

points out “parody account”. The only back Blair’, ‘Come on over D.Milliband’, from scratch, but this will not exception to this is @realDonaldTrump Soft Centre or even, at a pinch, ‘Come back, Sir Politics and happen: turkeys and Christmas MARIUS BRILL’S whose tweets are so consistently By Peter Burden Nick, all is forgiven.’ etc etc...... but some of our MPs nonsense, several accounts like @ Rugby: a love are trying. The new Independent niceDonaIdTrump simply tweet what a Group, which as we went to press Photograph © Rob C Croes © Rob Photograph MEMEING OF LIFE proper responsible diplomatic President Where have all affair has eleven MPs, is a virtual group should tweet – and it’s very funny. By Derek Wyatt not a political party in the old Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... The dictionary has a strangely sense. Its progress will be painful, unsatisfying definition of irony: “the the Flowers gone? but at the same time exhilarating. expression of one's meaning by using Celebrating those who once The shame is that it is too late language that normally signifies the to shape the Brexit debate. The The big tragedy for British Centre blossomed. I joined the Labour Party for two opposite, typically for humorous or PM has failed the nation again Ground politics has been the reasons, both of them were called Neil emphatic effect.” Much more clearly to This month.... and again and even now as the Can’t you take a evaporation of the LibDems. At Mrs Kinnock. my mind is: irony is a truth found in the clock ticks almost nothing is May’s emergency election in 2017 (called In 1984 and 1985, Neil helped me least expected place. ready for our departure. This joke? Jeez. through a spectacular lack of judgement) with a project I was working on with So some jokes work ironically: is frankly shocking. But we are the LDs appeared to have a lot to gain. Trevor Huddleston. We were trying “Apparently 50% of marriages end in where we are. The current Labour With both major parties still in thrall to to stop the British and Irish Lions divorce. But, the other 50% end in death leadership is of another place the politically correct perception that the 1986 tour to apartheid South Africa I - so you might get lucky.” Whilst others: and time and I resigned from the hen I was still young enough 38% of the electorate who put their cross threatened to sue the Lions’ organisation “A male blue whale produces 40 tonnes party in 2015. I have no party to be unable to tell the in the “leave” box in 2016 represented in the High Court if they went. Neil of sperm but only 10% makes it into the which speaks to me. I have not difference between pretension the ‘Will of the British People’ and helped me find a QC who would “guide” female. And you were wondering why known a time like this and it is and cool, Tom Stoppard came to give a stating in their manifestoes that they us pro bono. It worked, though we had W the sea tastes salty.” They’re just jokes. scary. talk at my university. His slightly RP/ would “respect” this myth, anyone who a nasty scare a few days before the case Can’t you take a joke?! My rugby is restricted to Czech fusion drawl made me think of did not wish to be counted in favour of opened. The judge insisted we made a The truth coming out unexpectedly watching Richmond struggle to his comparative linguistic knowledge our inevitable departure from Europe, deposit of £50,000 which was what the was never more spectacularly evident unwinnable seat of Sittingbourne and keep in the Championship (I coached so in the Q&A, my hand went up. had only the Lib-Dems or the Greens to Lions said they would lose if the tour than when, in the face of anti-Semitism Sheppey which though it was a new them many years ago) and watching Eventually he pointed at me. “Is vote for. was called off. accusations, Jeremy Corbyn was shown seat still carried, if the polls were to England whenever I can, though the there anything you think the English Nick Clegg, quite unjustly beaten Trevor was an Anglican monk kindly offering to teach English Jews, be believed, a 16,000 majority for the increase in ticket prices has caused language lacks?” I asked. The baggy eyes up over his failure to persuade his and his coda was chastity, poverty or “Zionists” as he called them, the use “sitting” Tory. I thought I needed to me to enjoy watching them play more gave me a once over. “A typeface for the Tory coalition colleagues to scrap all and obedience so he could not lay his of English irony. They “clearly have two understand how being a candidate in Dublin, Paris and Rome than at ironic,” he answered. university tuition fees, had seen the ROBERT KILROY-SILK is a novelist hands on the cash. Nor could I. What problems,” he said. “One is they don’t worked and then find a safe seat in 2001. Twickenham where a ticket is beginning “Cool,” I thought. pendulum swing from Cleggmania to whose self-published works are currently to do? It was all rather easy in the end. emerged yet, because neither in East want to study history, and secondly, Sometimes things do not go to plan. to edge towards £200 a person. It is Of course this was the early 90s, Supercastigation and gave up as leader available on Amazon. His first novel, Unbeknown to me the Archbishop Asia or America, the origins of most having lived in this country for a very It was clear during the final week of the too much for me as a pensioner. I like the internet still sounded like a dolphin of the LibDems after the 2015 election Betrayal, (Amazon ranking: 756,540) called a member of the royal family in emojis, is it a particularly popular or long time, probably all their lives, they 1997 campaign that things were moving to treat a group of friends, but a home clearing its throat and social media when their seats in parliament were cut about consensual adult incest, centres Sweden who then wired the court to tell understood form of wit. “Sarcasm”, don’t understand English irony either in our direction. I wish it was my game with a lunch or supper thrown in was a bunch of Bulletin Board System from 57 to just 8 by a public who had not on an 18-year-old girl who meets her them he would stand surety. It was the from the Greek σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) … So I think they needed two lessons, brilliant rhetoric at public meetings (all before or after or both costs over £1,000. nerds leaving earnest messages about appreciated the benefits of a coalition. 40-year-old father for the first time. killer punch and the Lions withdrew “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer,” which we can perhaps help them with.” one of them), or my specially targeted It’s no longer for me. packet protocols and chess moves. The Clegg was replaced, you may recall, by However, she’s unaware that he’s her from the case and called off their Tour. is a particularly vicious and decadent Which in itself was a masterclass in pamphlets. It was none of the sort. It Rugby was playing for Bedford and idea that, through this system, speech the hopelessly inept (though intensely father and they are immediately sexually In the Official History of the British form of irony, less suited to those more unintentional ironies. The most obvious was purely the brilliance of Blair and Bath for five and four years respectively. would be superseded by instant text as sincere) Tim Farron. In the event, a few attracted to each other. & Irish Lions published in 2016, the optimistic cultures. Indeed, for a while, is that irony is probably one of the most some of his team and the rather dull I would train twice a week and play the dominant form of communication hopeful remainers like me increased the If this appeals, you’ll be glad to hear cancellation of this tour warrants one Americans would employ the word well known aspects of Jewish humour; campaign led by John Major. It was on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It was in the developed world was unthinkable. LibDem’s representation by 50%, from that there are two more Kilroy-Silk miserable, meagre sentence. “Not” after a sarcastic comment just to the mocking of whatever has just been “our” turn. And on the night I came pretty full on except you had a day job. And although Stoppard was, no doubt, 8 to 12 (despite, as it happens, a small novels available for next to nothing on Later in 1985, Neil Kinnock had me make sure it was understood. The long said by repeating it as a question. “And home by 1,929 votes, the thirteenth most I am not sure I would have taken to the using “ironic” as a polite way of saying drop in the overall vote). Farron stood Mr Bezos’ digital shopping mall. shouting at my television as I watched running sitcom Frasier made hay with I need lessons?” Secondly, the idea unlikely seat in the UK to change hands professional game. I scored tries setting “sarcastic”, lacking a typeface for sarcasm down and was replaced by Vince Cable, Before he became a novelist, his barn-storming speech laying the American sarcasm naivety for years with that someone famous for having never in 1997. I held it again in 2001 and just records at Bedford (still unbeaten) and seemed a minor problem, writing was who seems since then to have pursued a Kilroy-Silk founded a now defunct ghost of Militant, Derek Hatton et almost every episode featuring a Crane knowingly cracked a joke could teach (by 79) in 2005. Bath (beaten once), gained a Blue at always in a long enough form for context policy of ‘least said soonest mended’, at political party, Veritas, a UKIP spin-off al at the Labour Party conference brother saying something sarcastic, irony, even if it were teachable, has both I was not sorry to stand down in Oxford in the centenary Varsity Match, to suggest intent. a time when there is an overwhelming whose core policy was opposition to in Bournemouth. Finally, I thought another character saying something verbal and poetic irony. And lastly, 2010 (on reflection I should have stood played four times for the Barbarians Indeed, one of the strengths of need for leadership from the centre. immigration. Its symbol was a flock of the party had come, albeit late, to its like “Really?” and the comeback being Corbyn’s vision of English Jews as being down in 2005 because in the critical and once for England. In my twenties spoken English is that any statement can Meanwhile Nick Clegg has abandoned purple and green spermatozoa heading senses. Having played a little with the a frustrated, angry or prim, “of course somehow still foreign, showed a truth votes I opposed the invasion of Iraq). I seemed always to be either training, be made to mean exactly the opposite his responsibilities completely and is north. SDP (I was at Roy Jenkins’ speech at not.” But as Twitter mostly a call and about the way he thinks in a place he I was exhausted. I had been working touring or playing. I played or coached through intonation and facial cues. We supping with the devil in California. Kilroy Silk was leader of the party the Oxford Union in 1981 when he response platform: statement leads to least expected it to and, for all that, was 14 hours a day sometimes seven days a in the USSR, Argentina, Brazil, the also have traditional sarc-signals like Sadly, the recently defected Labour from Feb 2nd until July 29th 2005. received a standing ovation) he had been troll, troll, troll etc. And even if, as completely ironically appropriate. week for 13 years. You are always “on” UAE, America and Canada, Australia any sentence that begins with “Nothing and Tory MPs of the new Independent Before starting Veritas (“We shall be introduced as the next Prime Minster Oscar Wilde said, “Sarcasm is the lowest The launch of The Independent Group, when an MP. Even on Valentine’s Day and across Europe. I loved it. would please me more than to…” Group need a far more potent rallying honest, open and straight”), Kilroy-Silk of Britain (heady days)! I had thought form of wit”; it’s the highest form of in honour of the newspaper that has when you have chosen a venue ten miles Over the weekend just gone, I The potential ambiguity of sarcasm is point than any of them can provide. had been a labour MP, a UKIP MEP a centre party free of the funding and trolling. done the most to support them, with from your constituency and given a false watched all three games in the Six also a classic facesaver. When you’ve just Even if a heavyweight like Dominic and presenter of BBC TV chat show, influence of the unions was a must. On Take this brilliant troll of an anti- antisemitism target Luciana Berger as name to book a table, there was always Nations on television. France, who said something stupid, cover it with, “it Greive joined them (and actually, Kilroy from 1986 until 2004, when reflection I still do. vaccination crusader from Twitter user helmswoman, was clearly just a matter a constituent somewhere who had the are having a miserable season, easily was just a joke… Of course I don’t want although he no doubt wishes them some he was sacked for publishing a tirade It seemed to me as the SDP faltered, ‘Brandon’. “I got vaccinated as a kid. As of time. most pressing problem and would come outplayed a desperate Scotland; Ireland a threesome with your sister.” Or better luck, he won’t), they are going to fumble against ‘Arabs’ in the Sunday Express. Neil had succeeded in making Labour a result, I’m now starting to go bald. My So do we need a typeface for up and spoil our evening. Over the past eventually took care of a resurgent Italy still make it all their fault: “Can’t you about without any feasible direction and electable again. If only it had been that balding has gotten so bad I may have to the ironic? I think the signalling of nine years, which have flown by, I have in Rome and Wales put England to the take a joke? Jeez.” not achieve much. As much as anything, easy. Anyway, in my own journey, I shave my head. I’ve also gained weight. “incoming” sarcasm or irony would helped some start ups, tried to save sword. England’s tactics were woeful in But, the faceless, incessant, short this reflects the distressing paucity of have found that, in the end, politics is Because of vaccines I have started aging somehow defeat the “unexpected” an organisation from going under and the second half. So, Wales look set for form of social media has meant we’ve leadership qualities among members of personal and after the 1987 election instead of dying as a baby.” aspect of it. We can’t have a typeface chaired a couple of charities including the Grand Slam (again) and seem better had to find new ways of communicating the current House of Commons. defeat I joined the Labour Party because In social media where brevity, for the ironic because where would be Royal Trinity Hospice and The Brain prepared for the World Cup in Japan all the things we used to do with body There are candidates for a centrist of the sheer bravery of Neil. When banter and wit is point scoring, sarcasm the pleasure of having to stop and think Campaign (my new charity). But, of later this year than any of the other Six language. The emoji was born to cover leader, but the fickle British public, we lost in 1992 I was watching events is the lifeblood. For every popular for a moment? Wait. What? Did he just course, I have found it hard not to keep Nation countries. a multitude of these, but we still have even the 29 million who, when offered unfold live on Sky News (then a new disseminator of wisdom there is a mock really say that? The little disconnect, the close to my two interests; politics and But fortunately, nothing is certain in nothing to denote sarcasm. Following the chance to express their will to leave service). I said to my wife when Neil account parodying them. But, with no meta-moment before we realise the truth rugby. rugby. Having been to six of the eight a piece of sarcasm with a facepalm Europe, declined to express that wish, admitted defeat in the early hours that I “typeface for the ironic” so many people is being amplified by the implied joke of The Political class aka as rugby world finals it will be difficult not or winky emoji is as tone-deaf as air will not forget and forgive, and rally was going to stand at the next election. quotation marks with your fingers to fail to tell the difference between the it all. ‘Westminster’ is fractured and failing. It to be in the Land of the Rising Sun in behind a figure plausibly big enough to peterburden.net She said I would feel a lot better in the no longer represents us. It is not about indicate you’re saying the opposite of sarcasm and the original that there will For years I thought Stoppard was coalesce the non-Brexit majority of the October and November! If only to be morning. putting plasters over the cracks. It is what you mean; all subtlety is lost. almost always be a response somewhere right. But then I thought he was population. hiding from the impact of Brexit..... www. And stand I did. I stood for the time to rethink the democratic process Possibly the sarcasm emoji hasn’t in any thread where someone helpfully cool too. We won’t be hearing the call: ‘Come 16 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

maker’s power. In the words of the great historian of cartography, John The Age of Harley, ‘Maps create empire.’ Maps are Why does the ‘essential for the effective pacification, Surveillance civilization, and exploitation of new tax year territories imagined or claimed, but Capitalism not yet seized in practice. Places and start in April? Shoshana Zuboff people must be known in order to be Profile Books controlled. An early map of the United Ask the Pope… States bore the motto Order upon the By Holly McKay £25.00 692 pps. Land. With astonishing audacity, ISBN 978 1 78125 684 8 Google mined people’s data without permission or compensation, through Gmail, whose messages and address books they plundered and absorbed into their system; Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Shopping and Google News, all rendered information about people’s whereabouts, behaviour, brand preferences, interests and political Every year there’s a flurry of of the sun. It was unsustainable. And so, in the decade that Queen If you want a scary read, put views. If Google is found guilty of activity in the financial press violating a consent agreement with the Elizabeth I smashed the Spanish down that Stephen King Federal Trade Commission in the US, and accountants get unusually Armada and an entire colony of settlers vanished in Roanoke, Pope Gregory horror and pick up this the agency could fine Facebook up to animated around 5th April, the $40,000 per violation per day. With XIII made the dramatic move to alter weighty tome by the Professor 87 million users involved, the social end of the tax year. It’s our last the fabric of time. Or rather, he altered the instrument we use to measure Emerita at Harvard Business media bully could be looking at a fine chance to use ISA allowances, that could theoretically reach trillions of the fabric of time. It was out with the School. Her findings about dollars. to make any pension shatterproof ruler of Julius Caesar’s ‘Julian calendar’, and in with the solar- knowledge, power and data Google realised early on that the contributions or to attempt to internet allowed market research to powered spirit level of the ‘Gregorian in the digital age are truly be conducted on a massive scale with offset capital gains. calendar’, which would keep time more shocking. virtually no outlay, and that was where neatly aligned to the seasons. the true value lay. Cambridge Analytica, he internet behemoths, Google, owned by a reclusive billionaire and ver wondered why the tax Who are these Europeans telling us Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Trump supporter Robert Mercer, had year starts and ends on such a what to do? quickly realised that they had boasted of its application of personality- seemingly random date? As ever In something which sounds all too access to a new kind of asset, namely based ‘micro-behavioral targeting’ in there’s a reason behind the random and familiar to modern ears, the Brits were T Eit’s a much more colourful story than having none of this strange European ‘behavioural surplus’, which could be the Brexit ‘Leave’ and US presidential traded for profit. The methods they were elections campaigns. One mastermind- you might expect. A far cry from the Catholic nonsense and held out until using to harvest the data, known as turned-whistleblower, Chris Wylie, grey suits which dominate financial news 1752. By this stage we were 11 days ‘surveillance capitalism’, were beneath let it be known that the source of the these days, our tale involves pioneering out of kilter with the rest of Europe. underhand. Eight years ago, the company’s secret efforts to predict and popes and trendsetting angels. So, are Deciding that it was about time we German Federal Commission for Data influence individual voting behavior you sitting comfortably? caught up with the rest of the world, Protection announced that Google’s was none other than Facebook. ‘We our defiant forebears faced a financial Street View operation was actually a exploited Facebook to harvest millions Medieval New Years dilemma: If we move to the Gregorian cover for collecting data from private of people’s profiles.’ These psychological Over 500 years ago, the tax year started calendar and in doing so lose 11 days of Wi-Fi network names and unencrypted profiles of somewhere between 50 on New Year’s Day. The thing is, New the year, what happens to the 11 days of Not all family lawyers are the same. personal information, including credit and 87 million Facebook users were Year’s Day, then called Lady Day, fell taxes we’re owed? information, passwords, messages, sold to Cambridge Analytica for their on 25th March instead of 1st January. The solution these boardroom boys Specialising in one area of law keeps our solicitors on top of the e-mails, records of online dating, cloak-and-dagger shenanigans.This is We were a religious lot back then, so the of the past came to was to quite literally ever changing legal landscape. Technical excellence and years of first day of the year corresponded with drop 11 days from the calendar; so 2nd browsing behaviour, porn, medical Pokémon Go was unveiled in 2015 to stuff. a scholarly, well-researched, technical experience combine to give our solicitors the upper hand in gaining details, location data, photos, and both the Wall Street Journal, with a declaration Zuboff makes the point, somewhat book; in fact, 126 pages of notes at the the day the Angel Gabriel told Mary September that year was followed by audio and video files. By 2012, there that the game would not include ads, effusively, that our everyday experiences, back are a testament to the painstaking to paint the manger blue: you’re having 14th September, and then push the tax the best outcome for clients. were multiple investigations in twelve but revenue would accrue through distilled into data, have become an research carried out by the author, but a boy. That meant the start of the New year end out from 25th March to 4th countries, including most of Europe, ‘microtransactions.’ It became the most asset through the most profitable she does ramble on a bit, bashing the Year fell 40 weeks before Christmas Day. April. As always, tinkering with tax is North America, and Australia; Google downloaded and highest-grossing app and highly capitalised businesses in point home like a tent-peg with some All accounts, including debts and an unpopular move and riots ensued, led had been found guilty of violating in the US within a week. Within days history used to predict and channel fanciful slices of prose cutting into the rents, had to be settled by so-called in part by those who felt outraged that laws in at least nine countries. They of the launch, an ‘unprecedented pattern our behavior, whether it be on-line hard facts. financially-important “quarter days”, their lives had been shortened! denied doing anything wrong and was faintly discernible’; Bars, restaurants shopping, socialising, working or voting. Having dealt with Google and which also included Midsummer One final change came in 1800 when defended themselves by saying that it and shops across the States were offering She sees their predominance as a threat Facebook, she goes off-piste and turns on 24th June, Michaelmas on 29th the goalposts moved by yet another day. Visit our website to see our client feedback. It also was a mistake made by a single engineer discounts and two-for-one deals to to personal freedom and democracy. her attention to online gambling September, and Christmas Day on 25th The change from the Julian to Gregorian working on an ‘experimental’ project, Pokémon players, who were unwittingly She quotes George Orwell’s views on and technology addiction, Edward December; a fun way to spend the hours calendar meant 1800 was no longer a contains a wealth of knowledge about family law. that had inadvertently made it into walking into stores they did not even euphemisms in politics, war and business Snowden’s revelations about the hidden between presents and Xmas lunch. leap year, but the money-grabbers in Street Views’ software. Well, they would, know they wanted to visit. Deals were as instruments that ‘make lies sound complicity between state security Time for change in the Papal States. power didn’t want to miss out on the www.tmfamilylaw.co.uk | Tel: 020 7377 2829 wouldn’t they? Google was unrepentant struck with MacDonald’s, Starbucks and truthful and murder respectable.’ In agencies and the tech companies. Then Up until 1582, all these dates had been extra day’s taxes. The newly updated and refused to co-operate with any other retailers in ‘sponsored locations’ to industry jargon, two popular terms have she meanders around totalitarianism marked according to Julius Caesar’s start date, 6th April, has been with us Thomas Mansfield Solicitors Limited investigations. direct players to their doors, and profits been coined as euphemisms implying in both Hitler’s Germany and ‘Julian calendar’, which had been ever since. Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW3 6RD Recently, the Commission nationale soared. A BuzzFeed reporter advised worthlessness, namely ‘digital exhaust’ Stalinist Russia, the Berlin Wall and around since 45 BC. And although it And so, to summarise, the tax year de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), Pokémon players how much data the and digital breadcrumbs,’ which are, its demolition, subprime mortgages, did a reasonable job of splitting up the starts on the 6th April as a result of the French data protection watchdog, app was collecting from their phones, in reality, informational by-products tracking and listening in through year into months, each year was about religion, our dislike of Europe and the /ThomasMansfield fined Google a record €50m for ‘failing and suggested that ‘with its surging of on-line activity that become the smartphones. It’s enough to make you 10 minutes too long… just like every greedy behaviour of tax collectors. Isn’t “Excellent” to provide users with transparent and popularity, (it) may soon make it one of, inputs to prediction algorithms. She paranoid. Anyone will tell you. children’s party. After the course of a it good to see how much mankind and @ThomasMansfield understandable information on its data if not, the most detailed location-based also makes the point that Google millennium and a half, this added up to civilisation have moved on since the use policies’. social graphs ever compiled.’ Clever discovered the source of every map- Don Grant the Julian calendar being 10 days ahead medieval times! 18 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Finance Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

take sides on a case unless he’d read Secretary really a candidate to lead the damningly by their Lordships as “an all the papers and attended every court Conservatives? Might you when you abuse of power”. In more general terms session. The problem with a free press, consider the incompetent incumbent… “urgent action is needed to curtail and even parliamentary freedoms, is that These columns have focussed on the extensions of HMRC powers that are they come at a price. The grandstanding iniquitous Revenue’s unconstitutional either unnecessary or being misused”. As London’s No.1 HMO specialist

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The closest Sir Sir Christopher Christopher came to admitting trepidation Benson in his career was a By Max Feldman momentary pause when he found himself facing down an interrogation by schoolchildren as part of his role as High Sheriff Before sitting down with Sir of Wiltshire; many of Christopher Benson, I looked through a whom questioned him ? self-employed? ut The Ultra-Low recent book about him entitled Send For relentlessly for close to o Benson. Best known for his starring role an hour. Education is g in in the redevelopment of the docklands extremely important to Free! t Emission Zone r over the Eighties, his career has been Benson, and he recounts a t dauntingly prolific: Starting off as a with horror the falling s (ULEZ)

sailor he rose to being hand-chosen literacy levels that have The Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) as the first chairman of the company begun to plague British will come into existence from 8th April formed to plan Crossrail. He later schools. Some of his 2019 in London and FSB (Federation departed due to the chaos caused by charitable work has for Small Businesses) are keen to see governmental micro-management; a enabled him to assist the that the Mayor ramps up his efforts harbinger of the delays to come perhaps. plight of less fortunate to communicate the scheme to small He served as the chairman of Boots children; he served as businesses. the chemist from 1989-1994 and was the President of the Recent data showed that over 4 out deeply involved with the beginnings of Coram Foundation ? of 10 (41 per cent) respondents were the project to rebuild the Royal Opera along with his 25 year r unfamiliar with the tighter emissions House. On being knighted in 1988, he much ‘lost its way as actively been lost’. field has never fazed him. For instance stretch as President of the National u e standards they need to achieve to comply elected to take a dolphin as his heraldic In his words the insistence of slavishly in his position as a chairman of the Deaf Children’s Society. This is clearly n with the ULEZ, and nearly a third (31 arms, as nearly all of his companies had following building quotas rather than Britain-Australia Society, in 2013 he close to Benson’s heart, he is deaf in e per cent) of businesses were unaware that taken it as his logo. The sheer variety of simply identifying which buildings an embarked on a quest to have the first one ear himself and his eyes light up r p the Ultra-Low Emission Zone comes the scheme to small businesses and

his roles can elide the fact that much of individual area needs, has seen genuine governor of Australia, Arthur Phillips when describing the importance of e into force in April. demonstrate what the impact could be the face of 21st century London has that planning to wither away. He was part immortalised in Westminster Abbey the charity’s work and local initiatives r

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developers who were summoned required to accomplish it. Yet in under and Westminster. growing? “We are highly supportive of the non-evident. A born raconteur, charmingly self- by Margaret Thatcher to offer their a year a plaque was unveiled only feet When asked about his take on the Mayor’s Diesel Scrappage scheme and “At a time when small firms are deprecating, he summed up his not for opinions on how the system could be away from the Tomb of the Unknown Brexit negotiations he seems almost look forward to further detail on the being left in limbo as to whether there sale biography as simply an effectively improved, which concluded with a won Soldier. Protecting the legacy of our astounded at how poorly the government HammersmitH implementation, many of our members will be a ‘deal’ or ‘no deal’ Brexit; small incredibly detailed CV, some mean feat over Prime Minister announcing ‘we’ll shared past has often been a concern for is pulling together, describing the & fulHam will benefit from the scheme so it is firms are remaining cautious when for such a expansive life. He likens his change it’ ‘....and yet tick tock tick tock, Benson, whilst he had much to do with current state of the House as closer to vitally important that it is opened up as a making investment decisions such as multi-disciplinarian nature to that of a here we are’ he concludes with a wry transforming the Square Mile into a city ‘a rowdy beer garden’ than the oldest means Business matter of urgency. investing in newer vehicles and the ‘a pinball, always on the move’ rather grin. of the 21st century, he funded numerous parliament on earth. After a career Wednesday 3 April • 9am-5pm “We are in little doubt that huge Mayor must recognise this fact. A well- than strategising his long term plans. It is often held that business can archeological rescue digs to preserve spent identifying problems and solving Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, W6 9JU swathes of the FSB membership executed Diesel Scrappage Scheme for When asked his opinion regarding be something of a straight line but the archaeology of the past from being them, Theresa May could do worse than are unaware that the ULEZ will micro businesses must be easy to access. London’s still growing housing crisis, he Benson’s own slaloming path puts paid disturbed by his projects; in a single year Sending for Benson to help slice through grow your Business in HammersmitH and fulHam impact their business. The Mayor There must also be greater support for doesn’t mince words, declaring that the to the aphorism. Arriving at an entirely gifting a full £500,000 to the Museum the Gordian knot of Brexit: there’s very must focus on hard-hitting business those who need to retrofit their heavier Town Planning Act of 1947 has not so new position with no experience in the of London for that purpose. little he hasn’t done! focussed campaigns that communicate vehicles such as coach companies.” 20 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Business & Finance Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

all sectors and company sizes in over 130 countries. It is the only business Business organisation with UN Observer Status. What’s in a ROLLS ROYCE & BENTLEY SPECIALISTS • ESTD 1977 Membership ICC United Kingdom is the representative Name? office of ICC in the UK and works with Lost in translation Listings British business groups worldwide to represent the voice of British business at inter-governmental level; the United Here is a selection of some Nations, G20 and World Trade organisations that could help Organization. iccwbo.uk you as you do business in here are numerous myths and London. Arab-British Chamber of apocryphal stories surrounding Commerce (ABCC) the marque Rolls-Royce, but abcc.org.uk oneT that is verifiable is the naming of BNI one of their models Silver Mist, in line BNI is a 26-year-old business and British Argentine Chamber of with other silver items, like Ghost, Cloud, professional organisation that allows Commerce Shadow, Spirit, Spur and Wraith. The only one person from each trade or baccnetwork.com Silver Mist followed the same fate as an profession to join a chapter. With over Irish liqueur named Irish Mist, which 6,866 active chapters, and 139,971 Australian/United Kingdom had disastrous sales in Germany, mainly members, it is the most successful Chamber of Commerce due to the fact that ‘mist’ translates as business referral organisation in the australiachamber.co.uk manure, shit or crap. The phrase ‘one world. can’t polish a turd’ comes to mind, in bni.eu Brazilian Chamber of Commerce this case, even a silver one. London Chamber of Commerce your Chamber is influential in helping for Great Britain The Mitsubishi Starion is a name British Chamber of Commerce Membership is corporate and members to create the right business environment brazilianchamber.org.uk that has caused much merriment in the The Chamber of Commerce Network exists have access to over 200 networking for local companies to flourish. Through motoring press. Mitsubishi says that the to support and connect companies, events a year, marketing and business membership you have the ability to use The China Chamber of Commerce name is a contraction of ‘Star of Orion’, bringing together firms to build new opportunities, tenders, free business, our “business voice”, the opportunity in the UK (CCCUK) but a more cynical element thinks it relationships, share best practice and legal and HR advice, a range of exclusive to meet key stakeholders, network chinachamber.org.uk was a simple Engrish mispronunciation foster new opportunities. Through or discounted business services. The and do business with many other local of a ‘stallion’, an animal associated practical on the ground support they also main type of membership is called businesses that you won’t find anywhere The Danish/UK Chamber of with power and speed. At the end of help firms trade locally, nationally and Premier Plus. When you join, you gain else. Commerce Ltd a commercial made in 1990, a horse’s globally, including specific support for access to a huge range of professional, wandsworthchamber.org ducc.co.uk head appears, with the voiceover naming international trade. independent, affordable services, all the beast, Starion, in the same way the britishchambers.org.uk focused on supporting businesses in Westminster Business Council The French Chamber of Commerce name Mustang might evoke strength and London. Westminster Business Council is London's in Great Britain potency. AMC produced a car in the Business Funding Show londonchamber.co.uk premier business connections team, (Chambre de Commerce Française de 1970s called a Gremlin, something that Back for its fourth year, the Business offering valuable insights into business Grande-Bretagne) one really does not want in a motor car, Funding Show takes pride in being the Kensington & Chelsea Chamber of opportunities, provide companies with ccfgb.co.uk which is almost as strange as Plymouth only funding exhibition in the UK & Commerce the connections they are looking for, naming their two-door fastback a EU. ​The goal of BFS ’19 is to educate The Kensington & Chelsea Chamber of and foster great business relationships. German-British Chamber of Barracuda, which, according to the SMEs about the available funding Commerce is a dynamic and independent WBC has developed strong and extensive Industry & Commerce dictionary, is a ‘ray-finned fish known options and ease the process of obtaining business network committed to help networks, being in touch regularly with (Deutsch-Britische Industrie und for its large size, fearsome appearance capital, while showcasing the best members' businesses grow and to sustain around 12,000 enterprises. Its service Handelskammer) and ferocious behaviour.’ opportunities for both founders and a successful business community in delivery includes regular bespoke events grossbritannien.ahk.de Two more Japanese SUVs, the investors. the Kensington and Chelsea borough. which allow businesses to network Mitsubishi Pajero and Isuzu Big Horn, businessfundingshow.com The Kensington & Chelsea Chamber with distinguished business guests, The Italian Chamber of Commerce and caused loud guffaws in Spanish-speaking of Commerce promotes and supports meet buyers, and be introduced to Industry for the UK countries, as a pajero literally translates The Clubhouse both locally based businesses and partner organisations that can provide (Camera di Commercio e Industria Italiana as a wanker or tosser, and a big horn is The Clubhouse was founded in 2012 organisations and those working within information and services which support per il Regno Unito) not unconnected to the aforementioned ‘testicle’ in Latin. It shares the same SUVs Mysterious Utility Wizard MU, optimism, Skoda must surely get a by Adam Blaskey who was frustrated the borough through networking business growth. italchamind.eu activity. On the subject of pajero, the US root with cholecystitis, an inflammation of which is indeed mysterious, while prize for naming their rather mundane with meeting important clients in events and representation at local Retail westminsterbc.org.uk computer company Wang came up with the gallbladder. Renault were in trouble Subaru called their five-door estate saloon Rapid. Fiat produced a sexy little uninspiring, unproductive places Forums and other London events. The Japanese Chamber of a strap-line, which had their English again for naming their electric supermini Gravel Express and Honda came up limited-edition 500 in metallic green around London. This ignited the idea kccclondon.org SOME OF THE Commerce & Industry in the cousins chortling over their keyboards. concept car Zoé, with a 23-year- with Life Dunk for their boxy little with alloy wheels, and Diesel badges to create a better way to do business and INTERNATIONAL United Kingdom ( JCCI) The memorable line was ‘Wang Cares’. old French lady called Zoé Renault wagon. Mitsubishi went for Delica plastered all over the bodywork, interior to fill the gap between a co-working London Southside Chamber of CHAMBERS OF jcci.org.uk Two other names from Nissan that did petitioning to have the name changed, Space Gear, a supremely ugly van, while and seats. The only problem was that it space or serviced office and meeting in Commerce COMMERCE IN THE UK: not quite catch on in England were the as it would potentially make her life a Peugeot christened one of their less than was a commercial tie-up with the jeans hotel lobbies, members’ clubs or coffee Whether you want to win new Spanish Chamber of Commerce in gloriously archaic Gloria and Cedric ‘nightmare’, with jokes a-plenty about attractive offspring the Tepee. Mitsubishi manufacturer ‘Diesel’, and more than shops. The Clubhouse is now London’s customers, increase your company The Council of Foreign Chambers Great Britain saloons. Toyota unfortunately named her having a breakdown or going in for ambitiously named one of their cars, the one owner subliminally filled their car leading business members club, offering profile or extend your network of of Commerce in the UK (Cámara de Comercio Española en Gran one of their models Previa, which is a service. However, the judge found Charisma, and a more uncharismatic up with the wrong fuel, as they were innovative, design led flexible meeting contacts, London Southside Chamber of An informal group of chief executives Bretaña) an obstetrics term for a blockage in the no evidence that it would cause her car one could not imagine. Honda exclusively petrol-powered. and workspaces across four locations in Commerce opens up those opportunities of foreign chambers based in the UK. spanishchamber.co.uk birth canal, known as placenta previa, ‘certain, direct and current harm’, and went for HR-V Joy Machine for a small The Mitsubishi Lettuce takes some central London. for its members locally, nationally and There are currently around 40 members when the placenta is too low in the dismissed the case, citing the fact that SUV, which could easily send out the beating, followed closely by Mazda’s theclubhouselondon.com internationally. Although it mainly in the council whose main role is to Swedish Chamber of Commerce uterus, and is pushed up against the Renault had already used other womens’ wrong message, and Fiat came up with Bongo Friendee, Carol Me Lady and represents, businesses in Wandsworth, promote trade and investment between for the United Kingdom (SCC) cervix. They may have been trying to call names like Clio, Dyane or Mégane, the ironic name Uno Start, which were Scrum Wagon, Nissan’s Homy Super Federation of Small Businesses Southwark and Lambeth, any business their respective countries and the UK. scc.org.uk it praevia, which in Latin means ‘going without any protestations. In 1971, Ford notoriously difficult to fire up in the first Long, Suzuki’s Every Joypop Turbo and As experts in business, the FSB offers its on the South side of the Thames is cfcc.org.uk before.’ Speaking of medical matters, introduced the Pinto car into Brazil, only place. If Vauxhall had checked out the the Toyota Deliboy, but one of the most members a wide range of vital business welcome to become members. Turkish/British Chamber of who would want to drive around in Ford to experience a lukewarm reception, Spanish for ‘does not go’, they might puzzling names to come out of Japan, is services including advice, financial londonscc.co.uk International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TBCCI) Probe? until someone pointed out that pinto is not have called one of their models the Honda That’s. What’s that car, Jim? expertise, support and a powerful voice Commerce tbcci.org It is not just the Japanese who mis- Brazilian slang for ‘small penis’. Nova, and General Motors actually It’s a That’s. It’s a what? It’s a That’s, that’s in government. Its aim is to help smaller Wandsworth Chamber of ICC is the world’s largest business fire when naming their cars. Renault Far eastern manufactures do not called their 1990 electric concept car the what. businesses achieve their ambitions. Commerce organisation representing 45 million named one of their models Koleos, which necessarily have a monopoly on weird Impact, which brings to mind crumple- fsb.org.uk As the business hub of Wandsworth, companies and 1 billion employees from Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha means ‘sheath’ in Greek, but also means names, but Isuzu named one of their zones and insurance claims. For sheer Don Grant 22 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23 Astronomy Astronomy online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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hotographers of all skill levels have submitted pictures of the heavens for the Insight Investment Astronomy PPhotographer of the Year 2019 competition run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in order to take home the top prize of £10,000 and see their image take pride of place in the accompanying exhibition, which opens at the National Maritime Museum on 13 September 2019. The competition has several main categories, such as Skyscapes (astronomical subjects like the Milky Way or stars alongside earthly scenery), People and Space (photographs of the night sky with people or a human interest element) and Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year (for entrants under 16 years old). There are also two special prizes including The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer, awarded to an amateur astrophotographer who has taken up the hobby in the last year and has not entered the competition before. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Thursday 12 from Earth meant that communication September, and an exhibition of the winning images will open to the public delays of 4.5hrs to send a message and New Horizons at the National Maritime Museum the Space Probe Extraordinaire a further 4.5hrs to receive its reply, following day, Friday 13 September 2019. allowed little margin for error when By Scott Beadle FRAS travelling at a relative speed to the Sun Above: of some 58,000km/h as it was passing Galaxy curtain call performance © Tianhong Li Pluto. Below left: The complexity of Pluto and The Grace of Venus © Martin Lewis Charon proved to be way beyond our Below: expectations. The degree of current Comet C2016 R2 Panstarrs the blue monoxide comet he entire history of human rotating comet tails existence is just a tiny blip in activity on Pluto’s surface was simply © Gerald Rhemann our solar system’s 4.6 billion- astounding. Pluto’s atmosphere was blue. yearT history. No one was around to see Its vast heart shaped nitrogen glacier the planets forming and undergoing called Sputnik Planum was the largest dramatic changes before settling in known glacier in the solar system. There their present configuration. In order to was evidence of past presence of running understand what came before us, before or standing liquid volatiles on its surface; life on Earth and before Earth itself, something only seen elsewhere on Earth, Top left: scientists need to hunt for clues to that Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan. Both Pluto & Charon 2015 that process have survived to this day, mysterious distant past. dwarf planets could have an internal Credit: NASA/JHAL/SWR, National Optical Astronomy Top right: asteroids, comets and other small bodies Those clues come in the form of water-ice oceans today. And there are New Horizons passing Pluto and Charon hold material from the solar system’s asteroids, comets and other small still many years of further data to be Credit: NASA/SWRI Artists impression Right: birth. If we want to know where we objects. Like detectives sifting through analysed. Ultima Thule KBO 2014 MU69 come from, we must study these objects, forensic evidence, scientists carefully Even as New Horizons was powering Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI and Ultima Thule 2014 MU69 is a perfect examine these small bodies for insights past the dwarf planetary system, NASA candidate. about our origins. They tell of a time scientists were already hard at work New Horizons is not finished yet, when countless meteors and asteroids identifying its next target a further 1.6 as it speeds away at over 50,000km/h, rained down on the planets, burned up billon kms onwards, on the inner edge The wonders and mysteries of Kuiper NASA scientists are already studying in the Sun. shot out beyond the orbit of of the Kuiper Belt. Using observations Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to a rendezvous with another Kuiper Belt Neptune or collided with one another made with the Hubble Space Telescope multiply, as the space probe beams home object (KBO); so far, they have achieved and shattered into smaller bodies. in June 2014 the science team discovered new images of its January 2019 flypast. the highest navigational precision by a Indeed, the solar system’s birth was an object that could be reached with the Ultima Thule is about 30kms in diameter spacecraft ever. It takes 6 hours and 9 a very sustained, violent event. From available fuel, designated 2014 MU69 and the latest images support the theory minutes at the speed of light, for radio distant icy comets to the asteroid that but now known as UltimaThule (which that it is a contact binary conjoined by a signals to reach Earth and yet they ended the reign of the dinosaurs, each means “beyond the known world”), it narrow bright collar. can still navigate their craft to within space rock contains clues to epic events was to become the most distant flyby in Our solar system as we know 3/4000kms of a 30km object over 6 that shaped the solar system as we know history and the first close-up look at a it formed from grains of dust; tiny billion kms away; an extraordinary it today, including life on Earth. solar system object of this type. particles of rock, metal and ice, swirling achievement. New Horizons was launched from Ultima Thule belongs to a class in a disk around our infant Sun. 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A Mindful Helping children to observe and recognise their emotions helps them Education to be self-aware, to address feelings By Donal Brennan, as they emerge and also see their fleeting, transient nature. The children Headmaster, St Anthony's gradually learn how best to respond Ivy House, appropriately to jubilation, frustration, School for Girls Hampstead Outstanding disappointment, jealousy, envy and Provider ACHIEVE Tel: 020 3869 3070 anger. Feelings flow through them AT ST. ANTHONY’S SCHOOL naturally without becoming obstacles www.stanthonysgirls.co.uk that impede their learning and development. Guiding children to recognise their patterns of behaviour supports them to 11362-APG-St Anthonys School for Girls-Ad refresh.indd 2 30/11/2018 13:09 gradually modify and change habitual, repetitive behaviours that do not bring Schools should, satisfaction to their relationships. unquestionably, be sanctuaries Growing children’s awareness of their own thoughts, emotions and senses of empathy where heart-felt, supports their understanding of what non-judgmental, present care. Over-exposure to social media and other people are experiencing and helps virtual realities prohibits our children develop a strong sense of empathy. moment awareness is from being truly attuned to their needs An education embedded within the witnessed in the interactions and emotions. principles of mindfulness will ensure that the children of today, who will between adults and children. Teachers at St Anthony’s School for be the adults of tomorrow are better Working with an attitude Girls bring a mindful, calm and caring prepared to cope with the unexpected. approach to their bright, airy classrooms. of mindfulness for best They will adapt to new circumstances Through repeated encounters with by minimising impulsive, reactionary practice in schools should curious and encouraging teachers, the responses, instead developing creative children learn to trust the value of their be at the forefront of all and emotionally intelligent solutions Academic excellence insights and opinions. They grow in to the problems of everyday life as education policy, planning and confidence and courage, able to verbalise well as the increasingly complex global complex thoughts and feelings when in the heart of London curriculum delivery. challenges they face. they are met with an attitude of respect AGES 11–18 | CO-EDUCATIONAL | DAY & BOARDING and authentic interest. hildren should inhabit learning The teachers have created safe and A generation of young people spaces which are peaceful, happy non-judgmental listening spaces using “The sixth-form provision places that inspire and motivate ‘Talk Points’, ‘Talking Assemblies’, ‘Talk who will have learned to be “Pupils are confident, is exceptional. them and their teachers to explore and Partners, ‘Big Questions’ and ‘Critical kind to themselves, respectful self-assured and Students are prepared C Thinking Challenges‘ to ensure that the develop to their fullest capacity; places to others and committed to successful learners.” extremely well where individual temperament, learning children come to believe that what they for their next steps.” style, strengths and weaknesses are say truly matters. social justice for all will build Ofsted 2018 Teachers and parents practice being respected. model. Shining the light of objectivity a mindful society benefitting Ofsted 2018 Too often today, young people are their ‘best selves’ at the school. This on tensions and arguments gives our exposed to impatience and aggression, model of behaviour and communication children a balanced, calm view of their everyone. scrutiny through excessive testing, is used to guide the children as they problem. The children are helped to WWW.KPS.CO.UK childhood is accelerated and living learn how to develop relationships, negotiate their way towards the best To find out more visit in the ‘now’ is high-jacked by over- work in harmony with others and form result for both parties in their exchanges. www.stanthonysgirls.co.uk stimulation, crammed schedules or a fruitful long-term friendships. 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You will definitely find language Check out our website: soas.ac.uk/languagecentre She revealed the growing sisterhood study, whichever language you choose, a Phone: (0)20 7898 4888 or visit our office 11.00-18.00: at Stemettes which could possibly aid SOAS University of London has been SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG. rich and rewarding experience. a centre of excellence in language study the issue of female retainment in the Also find us on Facebook as SOAS Language Centre Put a spring in your step towards for over a hundred years and we offer sector: or on Twitter @soaslangcentre a new skill in one of our spring-term “Some of the girls won’t have gone classes in an unrivalled variety of world courses at SOAS. into STEM, but they know they have a languages and at all levels. See Advert for full details. network and know they are not alone.” already in STEM via a series of panel the sky and having a crash’. 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For ninety-five percent have increased “There’s quite a limited reach on what example, there is data visualisation interest in the sector, according to the next-generation science can do, if you only have one type where people work on charts or graphs website. of Science, Technology, of person doing it; we still need a lot of so people can envision what the Stemettes seems to be in line with Engineering & Mathematics movement in the sector.” information means.” society’s progress, Hanson Robotics A child prodigy who completed According to Imafidon, technology has recently created a 14" AI robot By Phoebe Eckersley a Computing A-level at aged eleven needs to be adopted across schools in “Little Sophia”, coding companion and obtained a MSc. in Mathematics the same way as English or the Arts and teacher for ages 7-13. It includes and Computer Science from Oxford are taught, so children can ‘identify’ tutorials through Hanson’s AI Academy at 20, Imafidon loved exploring how with the syllabus. By focusing on the to introduce children, especially girls, algorithms could be used to solve creativity and innovation of building to coding and STEM in a ‘fun, safe and problems. She had the realisation that something new, rather than simply interactive way’ in light of the gender An independent co-educational school for children 3 - 13 years tatistics have shown the number ‘all the things I had been playing or giving them technology to play with, the gap. of women working in Science, tinkering with could actually be used next generation can ‘regain a sense of Stuart Young, Head of Physics at St Technology, Engineering and for employment’; debunking gendered agency’. James Senior Girls’ School, has also told Mathematics (WISE) industries is at a expectations that kinaesthetic ability is “We need to help girls get a sense KCW Today about his school’s STEM S exclusive to boys. of ownership over something they are dismal twenty-five percent, according to opportunities with Years 8-10 children OPEN MORNING the WISE Campaign. Imafidon claims ‘there is not a part doing, rather than telling them they collaborating with EDF and Bright Whilst the gender-gap is on the of life that STEM does not touch’ must solve a problem.” Futures. Thursday 21 March gradual decrease, women remain with science and art working hand in “This messaging does not inspire Fifty-five percent of the Kensington underrepresented making up less than hand. 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your body produces is counteracted by Mindfulness relaxation and downtime. When the Help your child get human body becomes stressed, it releases better GCSE grades in the school adrenaline to heighten senses and create more energy, faster reactions and deeper breathing. To restore the body’s natural Tassomai is an intelligent learning program that helps students prepare for exams in curriculum GCSE science and other core subjects. Students answer multiple choice quizzes (written by energy, a chemical called Cortisol is By Ellen Harper subject specialists) on their mobiles and online. released. When a person is experiencing stress every day, the body makes more Cortisol than it can properly release, “Within an hour I remembered more through Tassomai than I n a world that shows no signs of had with 10 hours of revision from a textbook.” slowing down, stress and depression which can infringe upon the brain’s levels are growing at an incredible ability to function properly. However, rate. An increase in handheld technology “mindfulness” can retrain the way the Tassomai organises a student’s revision and learning I for them, identifying strengths and weaknesses and tailoring allows us to disconnect from our amygdala (the stress centre of the brain quizzes to each user. immediate reality and simultaneously that instigates the release of adrenaline) reminding us of global atrocities, makes responds to and deals with stress. “My son is drowning in GCSE hell right now, but switching off almost impossible. As intervention at an early enough age. as an efficient treatment for mental Whilst teachers and parents set the Tassomai is his science lifeline, he loves it.” social media seeks to constantly compare Last month the Department for illness. With schools across the country model for what adulthood looks like, us to one another and distract us from Education launched one of the largest beginning to adopt “mindful” practices it is believed that they should practice The more a student uses Tassomai, the better what is going on around us, mental mental health trials in the world, which into the classroom, Claire said ‘studies “mindfulness”. If those who spend a their results. health problems continues to grow. included up to 370 UK schools. As on students and “mindfulness” have lot of time around children learn how pressure mounts on children to succeed found pupils are less anxious, less at The World Health Organisation to control their stress, it will have a recently said that depression is soon academically, schools throughout the risk of depression and have greater “My son aced his science GCSE and it was entirely beneficial impact. going to overtake cancer and heart UK have started teaching “mindfulness” metacognitive awareness; the ability to down to the Tassomai subscription.” Whilst teachers and pupils alike are disease as the most prevalent illness programmes. Training teachers to step back from thinking and noticing working overtime to meet deadlines, globally. Alongside this, children as execute “mindfulness” sessions for how their mind is working.’ She said that 98% of parents and teachers using Tassomai said young as six years old are suffering school pupils, has seen great results in although “mindfulness” is ‘not a silver pass exams and work to the curriculum, they’d recommend it. from high levels of stress. Claire Kelly, the improvement of children’s mental bullet and is not something that will learning becomes even more difficult. who works with charity mindfulness in wellbeing. When Transport for London just cure you’, one of her organisations Society needs to look inside itself and at the education system and realise that “Easily the best revision package I have used in schools said ‘the average levels of anxiety introduced a stress-management long-term goals is that ‘when they do hit 15 years of teaching.” for a teenager today is equivalent to the programme in 2010 which included difficult times, they have got something changes need to be made. Until then, level of them being hospitalised in the “mindfulness”, days off sick due to stress, to resource themselves with and maybe “mindfulness” may be the most efficient Subscribe online at www.tassomai.com 1950s.’ The Mental Health Foundation depression and anxiety fell by more than take the edge off the difficulty.’ means of managing teacher, parent and stated that 50% of mental health 70 per cent.’ Throughout human history, we have pupil stress levels. or call 020 3380 7968 problems are established by the age of Mindfulness is recognised by The evolved to deal with stress. In a life- See: www.mindfulnessinschools.org pay monthly - no long term contracts - start straight away 14 and 70% have not had appropriate National Institute of Clinical Excellence threateningTP_GEN_125mmx158mm_HC_AW.qxp_Layout situation, the adrenaline 1 for31/01/2019 more info 14:54 Page 1

Since the five-year contracts with the 20 institutions who previously ran Parliamentary the programme are ending this summer, Inspiring achievement with values Parliament re-opened applications to For A unique performing Studies to be new universities this year. In a collaboration between arts and academic education rolled out Parliament and select higher education For young people with outstanding talent in Acting, across 24 Universities institutions, the programme will cover ‘ What feels like a lovely country girls’ school, Musical Theatre, Dance or Commercial Music By Ellen Harper all aspects of UK Parliament, focusing in 700 acres, is actually a 25-minute hop Co-educational day & boarding mainly on the House of Commons and school from ages 8 – 19 House of Lords. from Clapham Junction.’ Tatler Schools Guide Outstanding academic education It aims to cover topics such as: offering GCSEs and 23 A Level options the structure of Parliament, the legislative process, the role of select committees, the role and work of MPs performing schools in the country we are and Parliament’s relationship with the no results factory. We believe a school public and the Executive; providing must be judged by the full range and students with a sense of why cultures, et in beautiful parkland in Reading, depth of achievements of its students. traditions and informal relationships are just outside London, we are a school At Leighton Park we develop young of importance. Sthat inspires Achievement with Values, people who understand, cherish, and Parliament will provide practical Character and Community. make a difference to the world which and vocational teaching about the work, Leighton Park is known for they inherit. processes and business of Parliament and excellence in Creative STEM (Science, the universities will manage and assess Technology, Engineering and Maths), the course. coming runner up in the national The Speaker of the House of STEM Innovation Awards. Music is Commons, Rt. Hon. John Bercow said: a longstanding strength, reflected by ‘There can be no better time to learn our status as a Yamaha Flagship Music about politics; how Parliament operates, Education Partner, the only one in and to hear from the people who work Europe. HOLIDAY COURSES The success of our approach is Visit us at one of our regular www.tringpark.com/associated-courses there, than right now when the topic is demonstrated by UK Government opening mornings, including on on everyone’s mind.’ 12th March and 2nd April. www.tringpark.com A course, to be adopted by 24 UK league tables, which place us in the top Contact information: [email protected] or tel. 01442 824255 Universities, teaching students about For more information visit: 100 schools in England for the academic Registered charity no. 1040330 Photo: Amit Ghelani how British Parliament works, will run www.parliament.uk/get-involved/ progress made by our Sixth Form www.leightonpark.com/visitus between the 2018/19- 2023/24 academic education-programmes/universities- students. 0118 987 9608 years. programme/students-and-parliament Despite being among the top 32 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 Literature Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

particularly involved brainteaser, but it’s the printed word is sacrosanct should go 25% increase of income from audiobooks In an art deco grand hotel, tourists and due to the historian’s nightmare that has without saying, but there is a constant and an 8% uplift from exports. Income travellers, the famous and infamous, mingle in the 1920s, stopping over in the 1970s World Book Day arisen from the fact that Spain still used half articulated belief that circles the from fiction and non-fiction also rose, EVENTS and 2040. Sneak behind closed doors to and all that’s fit the Gregorian calendar whilst England drain of the popular zeitgeist that books by 3% and 4% respectively. However it’s witness their intimate stories, guided by the Westminster Abbey & has the Julian calendar; Shakespeare will eventually be a casualty of the not time to pat ourselves on the back MARCH time-spinning groom and the artful maître to print actually died 10 days after Cervantes ravening beast that is the internet (which quite yet, whilst this growth in sales and d’hôtel. With 12 acrobats and musicians, St Margaret’s Church By Max Feldman died, on 3 May of the Gregorian hopefully is not the one prophesied reading can only be celebrated, there are and an original score by Éloi Painchaud, calendar. in Revelations). The basic fear is that storm clouds on the horizon. A recent Cirque Éloize show off their trademark Whatever date you choose to eventually people will be so welded to survey of authors’ earnings revealed a BUSINESS blend of circus and drama in a place that Celebrate Holy Week celebrate it, half-term notwithstanding, their screens that books will be left to 42% drop over the last decade, with never sleeps. March 6 it is a holiday far more worthy of your moulder on remaindered shelves, but the median annual income now below 020 7863 8222 & Easter with us Go for growth: Exploring business Portugal Street, Holborn, London WC2A time and attention than say Lumpy this is not borne out by the actual figures £10,500. Whilst books are selling, opportunities abroad Rug Day (May 9, America) or the more themselves. publishing companies are taking the 2HT hilst even the most fevered Battersea Arts Centre peacocktheatre.com mysterious Answer your Cat’s Question In 2017 book sales passed the 5.7 lion’s share. The written word can only patriot would have to admit If you have ever considered exporting, Day (March 28, America again). World billion mark with 2018 seeing further exist if authors can afford pen and that Britain is still part of the importing or manufacturing overseas, but March 7 Book Day serves to remind us that gains. Far from turning away from paper (or laptops and electricity for are unsure where to start, then this event is world at large, as a nation we have often Great Big Dance Off W we should not take our literature for the printed word, there was a surge of that matter). Whilst there’s plenty to for you! New Wimbledon Theatre taken something of a laissez faire attitude granted, but is it really as under threat physical sales that saw a 31% rise in celebrate on World Book Day, there’s Lavender Hill London SW11 5TN The regional finals for the Great Big towards the rest of the globe. Planet as we are sometimes led to believe. That hardback book sales income, as well as a plenty we need to turn the page on. wandsworthchamber.org Dance Off. Primary Schools from across Earth is nice enough to visit on holiday, the region come together to perform the but you wouldn’t want to live there. As March 6 dances they have been practicing back at a result we’re frequently somewhat out Futurebuild Matchmaking school. Who will take the trophy back to of step with the global calendar. To wit, ExCel London school? Who will progress to the National each year we celebrate World Book Day EEN has organised a free matchmaking Finals? on the first Thursday of March, over six © Pxhub Photograph event at Futurebuild 2019, the world’s Come and cheer them on! weeks before the rest of the planet. It’s largest exhibitions for sustainable 0844 871 7646 still the same event that the rest of the construction. Participants will be able to 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London hold pre-arranged, one-to-one meetings world celebrates; we just have it early so SW19 1QG with potential international partners. They atgtickets.com that it doesn’t clash with half-term. can also find out more about innovative For the broader earth, World Book developments in the world of construction. March 9 Day takes place on April 23. The date Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, Macbeth Westminster Abbey was chosen, somewhat morbidly, for the London E16 1XL Hackney Empire fact that it’s the shared death date of londonchamber.co.uk The witches have a prophecy: Macbeth Palm Sunday both William Shakespeare and Miguel will be king. But royalty comes at a price. Sunday 14th April De Cervantes. The pair of literary titans March 21 The cost of power is betrayal, murder and 8.00 am Holy Communion died on the same date, 23 April 1616, Women in Business London Networking revenge. Follow Verdi’s Macbeth in a blood- Swan, Shakespeare's Globe 10.30 am Blessing of Palms, Procession and Sung Eucharist* but bizarrely, not the same day. This soaked journey to the throne and watch a 3.00 pm Evensong* might sound like the beginning of a Enjoy wine and small bites whilst guilt-ridden Lady Macbeth descend into overlooking the River Thames and mixing the depths of despair in English Touring Maundy Thursday with other female professionals. You will Opera’s new production. Sung in English Thursday 18th April hear from our guest speaker Ms Sunny because of changes in the radicalist with English surtitles 5.00 pm Sung Eucharist with the Washing of Feet* Crouch. OBE, DBA Hon Chairman, Visit make-up. 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What DANCE & OPERA Celebrated Japanese choreographer Saburo Saturday 20 April Dostoyevsky is to be Done? had a deeply inspirational Teshigawara brings his hypnotic dance 8.00 pm Vigil and First Eucharist of Easter* effect on a yong man named Vladimir Ends March 7 reimagining of Dostoevsky’s novel to the Easter Day Illych Ulyanov, so much so that he Akhnaten Coronet for its UK premiere. Death of the Author is a feature Moscow Gallery, Tretyakov Perov. Vasily © Photograph Sunday 21st April carried a picture of Chernyshevsky in London Coliseum 020 3642 6606 where we look at the lives of his wallet (a privilege not extended to Akhnaten is a mesmerising work whose 103 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3LB 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.30 am Sung Eucharist* any members of his family) even before text draws on ancient hymns, prayers the-print-room.org famous authors and how their and inscriptions sung in their original 3.00 pm Evensong and Procession* he changed his name to Lenin. Lenin Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian. The March 31 *Services sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey experiences impacted their even named his most famous manifesto opera’s unique mood will transport you What Is To Be Done? in tribute, and it’s Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2019 writing, this month to the ancient world through music that London Coliseum safe to say that Dostoyevsky’s beliefs and combines Glass’s characteristic minimalist The programme will be accompanied by St Margaret’s Church Fyodor Dostoyevsky Lenin’s differed rather radically. voice with stylised movement and the English National Ballet Philharmonic Stevenson however wasn’t put off so squad, where he served almost a decade In 1865, a widower lumbered with choreographed juggling to visualise the Orchestra under the direction of Valeriy Good Friday much as dreadfully fascinated, like a as an inmate in a prison camp and as a rhythms of his score. his brother’s debts, Dostoevsky began Ovsyannikov and performed by the Friday 19th April mouse staring at a swaying cobra, saying conscripted soldier for his membership developing a novella attacking nihilist 020 7845 9300 principal dancers of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, To paraphrase a rather different of Crime and Punishment: of the group of writers and intellectuals St Petersburg in the form of “the London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, 10.30 am Choral Matins and Litany Russian author, ‘all Dostoyevsky “Henry James could not finish it; it known as the Petrashevsky Circle. And psychological account of a crime” the London WC2N 4ES Grand Opera Paris, Berlin Staatsoper, Easter Day protagonists are unhappy, but each nearly finished me. It was like having an although by the end of the next decade murder by a university dropout of a local londoncoliseum.org New York City Ballet, Ballet of Monte Sunday 21st April unhappy protagonist is unhappy in their illness”. As the 20th century progressed he seemed to be back on track, newly moneylender, on the strength of “half- Carlo and others, and will be another Ends March 9 11.00 am Sung Eucharist own way. Fyodor Dostoyevsky did not his reputation grew as his claustrophobic married, editing a magazine with his baked” notions “floating about in the unforgettable event, setting new standards Cirque Éloize: Hotel in the ballet experience! write happy novels, his worldview proved narratives tripped along the twitching brother, this new arrangement was air”. In a letter to his friend Milyukov, The Peacock unpalatable to both authorities, Tsarist nerves of that blood soaked century. cut short in 1864 by the closure of the he guaranteed the story’s “originality” For visitor opening times, see and Soviet. He spent large swathes He was born in Moscow, in 1821, magazine and the deaths within the and “power to grip”. That novel would westminster-abbey.org/visit-us banned in his own country and out and spent much of his life on the space of a few months of both his wife be Crime and Punishment, the bane of of favour in the world at large. Henry wrong side of Fate and Power. By the and brother. Henry James and his ilk. James Joyce SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT James decried his novels as “baggy end of the 1830s, he was an orphan. 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Cupid’s Elite COMMUNAL LIVING IN LONDON Match-Making By Ellen Harper © Pxhub Photograph for Men: The Gohring David © Photograph Echelon Scene By Phoebe Eckersley

Digitised dating has put Cupid’s foot on the accelerator. Our capacity to find a new partner has exploded with left/right swiping, Tindering; reducing love and dating to a process of elimination.

he language of love consists of new verbs; “ghosting”, “emoji” etiquette and other colloquialismsT which describe the transitional dread where someone is trying to pursue or determine the changing dynamics and ups and downs for a year, receiving at least six matches of life means upholding this standard is for the former and twelve for the latter. not always conducive in the long-term. VIP members are interested in a ‘global As long as there is communication and search’, aided by Jacqueline’s upbringing

Photograph © Echelon Photograph an understanding of these changes, across London, Toronto, and New York. however, monogamy is achievable and “Some of my clients might be the focus for all of her clients. splitting their time between different Opportunities for gay men are cities. filtered; having to work out whether the “[For example] have a gentleman in Renting in London, has postcodes and spreading throughout running a rental service that operates which offers tenants all the perks of ‘other person is gay, ‘after a relationship’, New York who travels between there and London. The concept of warehouse as the divide between a smart hotel and community living, at a cheaper price. and ‘share the same values’ before even London, so he could ultimately relocate.” become an arduous task. Five living was intended to provide creative student digs. They offer all-inclusive Landlords with empty buildings get approaching them at a bar. These clients are entitled to unlimited interested tenants to one spaces for artists to live and work rent, bills and expenses at around £850 them looked after and paid for whilst Burns uses a proactive approach, introductions with other members and together. per month; removing the stress of in between owners or purposes. From working with Echelon clients from the get top priority with matches when they empty property, selling your Joining together creative minds, finding and paying for a whole property. empty office blocks in Canary Wharf first consultation to matchmaking for a join The Echelon Scene. The capital is soul to live in a shed at the end in an environment which encourages The biggest benefit to this kind to a warehouse in Stoke Newington, year and keeping in touch every week. moving towards a new understanding of the sharing of ideas and an artistic of living, is the community residents guardianships provide people with a Her home visits and profiling one-to- matchmaking as ‘more glamorous’ and of someone’s garden and never community of like-minded people have participate in it. Fitness, cooking and comfortable and often unique place to one sessions enable her to understand ‘similar to investing in a personal trainer getting good value for money. popularised warehouse living. art classes are open to tenants in all live with sociability. A great way to meet their energy, character, values and or buying a house’. With up to 15 bedrooms and massive locations, allowing them to meet more a diverse group of people, learn new state of their romantic circumstances. businesses and need someone who will ‘brings things back to basics’. “It is not a 9-5 job because I’m communal areas, residents socialise people and become a part of a thriving, skills, gain new knowledge and expand Compassion is faltering in the face of the match their structured routine. She said: “I enjoy the depth of what I working with busy people and in he Office for National Statistics with, provide for and look after one sociable network. Zafar Bhunnoo, social circles; guardianship living is an data economy. Her Canadian dual-citizenship do, meeting people and getting to know different time zones. found that in 2017, 5% of British another. April Warren, an ex-warehouse Chief development officer of co-living exciting concept. Whilst all the tenants That there is an underlying has seen her create ties between New their stories.” “I’m waking up and speaking to citizens experienced loneliness tenant said ‘you are forced to bond with company Spaces Life believes his are diverse in their interests and desires expectation for a large proportion of gay York and Toronto, as well as London, The entrepreneur has noticed a clients in Asia, first thing.” and the majority of these fell into the the people you live with. As it’s such a company are making great steps towards everyone involved wants the same men to fulfill a promiscuous identity building an elite empire of daters at just gradual difference in the way gay men A large proportion of the clientele T big space you always have neighbours combating loneliness in the city. Zafar outcome; to create a community within 16-24 age category. It also found that and engage in hook-up culture is the age of twenty-nine. respond to questions about what they are are business owners with high disposable ‘young renters with little trust and and friends in your shared living area.’ says that whilst many of their tenants their home and become included in a something Jacqueline Burns, Founder The perceived importance to find an looking for, naturally hearing more ‘yes’ income, leading large teams, so sense of belonging to their area’ were Cooking, cleaning, eating and partying don’t ‘have their own physical social reliable support network. A lot cheaper of The Echelon Scene matchmaking, has ‘equal’ partner within high achieving to marriage since legalisation in 2014 Jacqueline does not reveal surnames most likely to suffer from loneliness. As together; gardening, reading, drawing networks’, the community they aim to than warehouse living and co-living noticed throughout her career, and this gay couples can sometimes negatively and starting a family. and a confidentiality agreement is London attracts so many young people, and watching television, artists can create changes this. He says ‘we’ve got spaces, guardianships offer the added is something she is looking to change. impact on the length the relationship “Some of my clients have come out paramount. often moving far away from friends, fight the high living and studio costs by about a hundred people living around privilege of protecting empty buildings She created the first global, will last, compared to straight where later in life but they are comfortable with “If there is someone in the top family and solid social networks; it combining them into one. Owned and London Bridge within a five minute from becoming derelict and destroying matchmaking service for eligible gay there has been a tradition of acceptance themselves and in a positive frame of income which can be the case for a can be a hub of loneliness. It can feel cared for by the tenants themselves, they walk from one another and then we’ve London landscapes. Government men, between 20 and 60, last year, after for being good at different things. Often mind for dating.” lot of clients, I would be careful about isolating, as people with their own turn them into eclectic and beautiful got six other live communities across research into guardians in London leading a Gay and Lesbian division at they are attracted to someone who is There are intricacies where only disclosing their exact profession; unless agendas hustle and bustle around one spaces meaning they have become London.’ To accommodate this reality, found the majority of people living in a previous agency. Her interest dates equally passionate about their job, but in a matchmaker who has been in the I’m sure the match is ‘in it’ for the right another, barely interacting; terrified of the latest ‘hipster’ trend. The tenants the company organise meet-ups and guardianship properties did so ‘chiefly back to focusing her postgraduate a completely opposite creative role. industry for eight years might pick reasons. making eye contact with a stranger and hand-select any newcomers, ensuring all drinks events so residents can expand in order to move to be closer to their degree in Psychology at Westminster on ‘Homosexual gentlemen that I meet, up on, now, often Jacqueline uses gut “I would tell them about all the other scared of creating any real connection. residents are like-minded individuals, their social circle and get to know other workplace, to attain more affordable relationship longevity. look after themselves physically, and instinct. “Pairing someone who runs parts of the matches’ personality and Community living spaces, that have creating a community based on shared people who are also looking to expand housing costs, or because they wanted a Burns’ works with men seeking long- generally, have a high level of sociability at one hundred miles per hour with their shared and complementing values.” begun popping up all over London, experiences, congenial personalities their immediate community. larger space.’ term monogamous relationships who and seek those on an equal level playing someone equally passionate is key but are aiming to return community values and a desire to create. Rooms are Whilst joining together new people have not had the opportunity to connect field,’ according to Burns. This focus of perhaps with a more grounded, calming To inquire about The Echelon Scene, back to city-dwellers, whilst helping approximately £550 a month. in the city, co-living spaces also deal with others because of their busy, active equality within gay relationships can energy,” she said. please write to Jacqueline Burns email: “newbies” make friends. Some companies are buying in on with the issue of too many empty and Spaces Life: www.spaceslife.com lifestyles. Some clientele are working sometimes hinder men from maintaining Members can invest £7,500 for a [email protected], or call Warehouse spaces are currently this idea; purchasing and decorating derelict buildings in London. Living as a Global Guardians /Umbrella Guardians: in investment banking, or run multiple a monogamous relationship. 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It is beneficial for patients as it What is the average recovery plied their charms for many years, and even today, you aA hip replacement. avoids cutting any muscles, causes less time following a hip can pass from the tawdry to the stylish in a heartbeat, The procedure has pain, and allows patients to mobilise 5replacement? but it’s never cheap. Pop stars and the famous often Who is the typical hip more quickly. “There are many stages to recovery after hang out in Mayfair, but unless it’s a big star on previously had a reputation for replacement patient? At present, the UK is lagging behind hip replacement. Firstly, patients must 1“In the UK, the average patient age is 67. social media whose fan base will camp out all night being a painful, major surgical the USA, Australia and many European be able to go up and down stairs before for a glimpse of their idol, you seldom see more of an My oldest patient was 101 and did well countries as relatively few UK surgeons they can be discharged from hospital. eyebrow raised. When it comes to eating it’s the same; operation with a long recovery for five years after her operation. My have learnt how to do anterior hip Many anterior hip patients tell us that mature chefs and the big names predominate, and it’s period. In consequence, many youngest patient was in her teens, and replacement. I was fortunate to be in they were walking without aids within much harder to find a Hipster trendy than a Michelin if we hadn’t replaced her hips, her life contact with many of the world’s leading a few days. My aim is for patients to star. Mayfair diners like discreet class, whether it be people are anxious about the would have been quite awful. Around hip surgeons in the early 2000’s and, understand that it takes time for their lunchtime relaxed and easy or an evening of Tasting prospect of hip replacement, one in eight have hips that are slightly through them, realised that it would be a tissues to heal and, if we have not used Menu pomp. misshapen. In such cases, prolonged good idea to learn the technique. I have cement to secure the implants, it takes Lady H and I are out for a bit of relaxed lunchtime and the impact that it may vigorous exercise can make the hip been using the anterior approach for over time for the bone to attach securely. indulgence, so we’ve popped along to Camillo Benso have on their daily life. deteriorate prematurely. Andy Murray is ten years and have undertaken nearly I tell patients that they should be in Blenheim Street. It’s just a few metres away from an extreme example of this.” two thousand cases to date.” walking normally by 5-6 weeks, walking New Bond St crowds, but far enough from the action However, is this still correct long distances, without a limp, by 3 to unwind, so we sink into viridian green velvet seats in 2019? How long is a hip replacement What is the typical hospital stay months and be unable to remember and get glasses of wine ordered up while we look at operation? following a hip replacement? what their bad hip felt like by 6 months. the menu. It’s an easy choice for Lady H, Salt Cod & Professor Richard Field, 2“This is dependent on the complexity 4 “Twenty years ago, it was normal for Driving takes anything from 10 days Crispy Polenta being a particular favourite, and it does Consultant Orthopaedic of the case, the severity of damage, patients to spend ten days in hospital to 5 weeks; depending on which hip not disappoint. In fact it’s so good, she immediately and whether bone cement is used to post-surgery. Nationally, we are now is replaced and whether the car is orders another glass of wine to celebrate. I’m on the Surgeon at The Lister fix the components. The actual surgery down to just under five days, but in automatic or manual.” Beef Carpaccio and Black Truffle, and the meat is delicious. I would no doubt have had a less steady hand if I’d shaved the truffle myself (dishing up about double as I’m a real fan) and could have wished for a Diabetes soars in bit more punch from the mustard, but it was a subtly accomplished dish. Kensington & We are in familiar territory with the mains; Calves Liver & Onions with a side of spinach for her, and the Chelsea Turbot with black olives, capers and baby vine tomato for me. I also ordered a Zucchini Fritti as a side, which was finely shaved and very light, but the real star of the The number of people show was the turbot which was for me the dish of the diagnosed with diabetes in day. Flavoursome, great texture, and a great interplay between the flavours. This is the kind of cooking that Kensington and Chelsea has elevates a relaxing lunch into “mmm, let’s spend the rocketed from 9,880 to 10,165; The leading research charity is urging whole afternoon here!” Regrettably we had plans, but people to use their Know Your Risk I was sorely tempted. Lady H was very pleased with increasing the borough’s online tool; spreading awareness about her liver, but could have stood a little more brevity diabetes population by 4.83%. the symptoms of Type 2 diabetes which on the onions. You can’t criticise generosity though, can be easily missed or symptoms go and it’s a proper dish of the people, not some strained Recent statistics from unnoticed and how to reduce it. Those reinterpretation or “deconstruction” Diabetes UK show there are over forty should also take up a free Blissfully well fed, we could have almost skipped NHS health check, according to the desserts. Did I just write that? The angel of the left 3.8m people diagnosed, whilst charity. shoulder was about to get a talking to by the other one 1m are living with Type 2 Rosenblatt, added: “Early diagnosis from the dark side. “C’mon fella, this is no time to means that fewer people will experience ignore your sweet tooth; forget your futile New Year’s diabetes and have not received diabetes-related complications such as resolutions and take another look at that menu.” I diagnosis across the country. sight loss, amputation, kidney failure, didn’t even have to count to three; the devil had won stroke and heart disease, because they again, and I ordered a Caprese to share. Not billed as This means the total has reached could seek support to manage their flourless, it nonetheless had exactly that texture and 4.7m, with one in ten people in their condition effectively as soon as possible.” flavour, so perhaps there was a small nod to the angels forties having Type 2. By 2030, this Age, family history, ethnicity after all. Lady H had a large grappa with her coffee, population will rise to 5.5m. and obesity could contribute towards convinced she would have no trouble at the Roz Rosenblatt, London Head at someone’s development of the disease, Pearly Gates. Diabetes UK, said: “Even though the with those from African-Caribbean, David Hughes older people get the more likely they are Black African or South Asian descent to have Type 2 diabetes, it is never too four times more likely to develop Type 2 Camillo Benso reservations on early to know your risk so that you can than white people. 020 7629 8889 make changes to prevent or delay it.” Info: www.riskscore.diabetes.org.uk 48 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Health HealthKC W Today March 2019

is robot assisted, it can overcome any AI in healthcare: human error; the patients movement the rise of robotics in which you cannot predict.” It is designed to eliminate unwanted rehabilitation and surgery tremors or movements in the surgeon’s Photograph © No Isolation Photograph By Phoebe Eckersley hand which complements and assists their skills, rather than replacing them. The device ‘simplifies’ the set up of the Rapid diagnostic operating room; proving groundbreaking for greater ease and speed in operations for the delicate eye organ. It can be data-driven future is on used for robotic surgery under local healthcare’s horizon with ninety anaesthetic and surgeons have been breast care service percent of NHS jobs set to trained on its usage, which was not requireA digital skills in the next twenty possible in the 2016 trial. Bupa Cromwell Hospital offers an end-to-end care pathway for years. She did, however, point out the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence importance of training to get everyone the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer (AI) could save 5.7m hours of GP’s time on board with the evolving computer across the country, according to a recent technology. report led by Dr Eric Topol, founder of This medical trial is sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of the University of Oxford and funded by Medicine and cardiologist at The Scripps the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Fully integrated service under one roof with rapid access Research Institute. Centre with support from Oxford Artificial intelligence is a sub- University Hospitals NHS Foundation Appointment with breast consultant, mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy category of computer science where Trust. (if required) all take place on the same day machines are programmed or simulated No Isolation is a new start up helping to imitate human intelligence in terms reconnect the chronically ill with their Led by breast consultants and supported by a dedicated breast care nurse specialist of decision-making, speech-recognition, peers, through their AY1 Robot. This Expert multi-disciplinary cancer care on-site in the event of a cancer diagnosis photo manipulation and other is a ‘distance learning avatar’ which visualisation applications. means the child can engage with the Service available to everyone, whether using health insurance or self-funding Rehabilitative robots, dissection teachers and school friends from home. devices for eye surgery and Virtual It helps reintegrate children back into Reality (VR) are some technologies the classroom after suffering a prolonged Call our appointments team on being trialled across UK surgeries, illness like cancer, anxiety and cerebral 020 7460 5700 or email in a new, more holistic, approach to palsy, to name a few, which has kept [email protected] healthcare. Dr Jasmina Kapetanovic, them out of education. from the University of Oxford and The robot sits in the classroom and to discuss your healthcare needs Oxford Eye Hospital, Professor Robert Physical Sciences at the University of This has also been used in palliative the child can remotely control it through bupacromwellhospital.com/breast Stone of the University of Birmingham Birmingham. care by Professor Stone and his Human an app; turning it around with a swipe and Harriet Gridley of No Isolation He is interested in using Virtual Interface Technologies Team (HIT); of the iPad and able to see the teacher start-up, spoke to KCW Today about Reality (VR) to support patient collaborating with palliative care or friends through the robot’s camera. their developments in robotic surgical recovery after a traumatic injury. VR specialists to create VR locations which Emotion can be adjusted through the procedures, interest in the rehabilitative is an interactive, computer-generated can be edited easily and meet the needs app and expressed in the robot’s eyes and capabilities of this new technology and experience taking place in a simulated, of myriad healthcare issues. Some also make its head flash if they want to how it could reintroduce chronically ill sensory environment through a headset patients can get very mentally fatigued ask the teacher a question. children into educational settings. and cycling machine. by absorbing themselves in the headsets, Harriet Gridley, Head of Business The Royal Marsden Hospital is Virtual environments are now being so Stone and clinicians adjusts the Development UK at No Isolation, the world’s first institution dedicated found to achieve the same psycho- number of features in the experience. said: “This compassionate technology to cancer diagnosis, research and physiological effects of enhanced For example, a medieval catapult is something which enables human education. It has performed over three wellbeing in naturally restorative is added to the Wembury VR for those contact, rather than replaces it. thousand robotic procedures, with environments. recovering from gastro-intestinal illness. “The [child’s] friends would not fourteen surgeons qualified in this type In a new software called Virtual This encourages them to improve their know how to interact with them; it is of surgery. Wembury, Professor Stone digitally lung capacity by breathing longer into really difficult even as adults to support Their Robotic Surgery Fellowship recreates views of Devon for patients a Spirometer which catapults virtual someone going through a difficult will train up to thirty multi-disciplinary in a headset or television screen. Other stones in the headset. illness. surgeons in robotic surgery over the next computer-generated environments Jasmina Kapetanovic, Clinical “But because it’s through this friendly ten years, transforming the UK’s current include the Northern Lights and Research Fellow and Fellow in interface, it makes it really easy and surgical training programme. mountain views. Vitreo-Retinal Surgery, specialises in lowers the threshold for human impact.” Professor Vinidh Paleri, Consultant At present, the technology is Opthalmology, and is interested in how The initiative created by the Head and Neck Surgeon at the hospital available in seven hospitals including the robotic system can assist in precision Department for Education is on its claimed the da Vinci robot used at their Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham and eye surgery. second edition; the child user did practice reduces a twelve hour operation Belfast City. It is a self-contained She works closely with Robert not want to be seen so the start-up for open surgery of the neck or head to process of ‘plug and play’ and requires MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology, introduced a screen on the bot and in two hours. minimal staff training, funded by The at the Oxford Eye Hospital who is the second, LED eyes were introduced He said: “Patients can be home in Royal College for Defence Medicines. carrying out the second trial of the because the classmates wanted to know three days rather than two weeks, and He said: “We put a patient at Torbay Robotic Retinal Dissection Device; how their friend was feeling. They can they are saved from having visible scars.” Hospital on the Motor-Med Virtual acting as a mechanical hand for precision pick a variety of expressions. Open surgery has also seen surgeons Beach cycling and I lost track of how surgery. It has been developed using Harriet Gridley, Head of Business retire early due to wrist, shoulder, or many miles he did; his smile was Preceyes BV, Dutch medical robotics Development UK at No Isolation, back problems so the robot allows incredible. firm established by the University revealed how the start-up’s commitment surgeons to have a longer working life, “His wife said ‘thank you for making of Eindhoven. Coupling the motion to helping people out of loneliness means according to the hospital. his last days worthwhile’.” controller used by the surgeon and they could create products for first-time Bupa Cromwell Hospital registered office office 164-178 CromwellCromwell Road,Road, LondonLondon SW5SW5 0TU,0TU, UnitedUnited Kingdom.Kingdom. BupaBupa Cromwell Cromwell HospitalHospital TradingTrading Companies:Companies: MedicalMedical ServicesServices International Limited, registered in England and Wales number 01416977 • Cromwell Health Group Limited, registered in England and Wales number 05687373. Professor Robert Stone, is Chair Professor Stone claimed that ‘once microsurgical instruments, the manual parents or ‘perhaps people in the city International Limited, registered in England and Wales number 01416977 • Cromwell Health Group Limited, registered in England and Wales number 05687373. in Interactive Multimedia Systems [VR] becomes mature and widespread; and robotic create a hybrid system which are more lonely than anyone else’ within the College of Engineering and then it will become prescribable’. 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narrative in a tightly claustrophobic corridor, possibly a hotel, with more symbolism than Cancer scientist captures moment Dorothea Tanning one could shake a mahlstick at. Two pre-

Photograph © ICR Photograph Tate Modern pubescent and partially undressed girls, one of metastasis & wins national image Until 9 June 2019 with her long hair standing up on end, as though blown by a whirlwind, the other with competition Admission £13 an inordinately high forehead, are standing tate.org.uk on a landing with a giant sunflower, at the top researcher has been crowned the winner of the Science and Medical Image of the stairs. One door is left partially open Competition held by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) for capturing the and both girls have their eyes tight shut. The transformative ‘metastasis’ process of cancer cells infiltrating blood vessels. deeply disturbing The Guest Room, painted a AThe remarkable yet terrifying sight is called ‘extravasation’ where cancer cells decade later, takes the theme of awakening spread from blood vessels into the tissue; a process which has been historically sexuality, or even possible sexual abuse, a step challenging to examine in the laboratory. nearer, with a very young naked girl, more Dr Maxine Lam, Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Tumour Lolita than Alice, standing with her back to Microenvironment Team at the ICR, has however, used cutting-edge technology to a door, and another blindfolded girl on the capture the beautiful image of a cancer cell dividing and invading healthy tissue. other side of it. A sinister dwarf in cowboy She said: “It was a big shock to win the competition because when we take boots and his face covered in cloth like a images like this in the lab we do not really think about them as artistic. crude elephant mask, is turning towards her, “Pictures like this are helping us to better understand how cancer spreads and while, in the bed, a child is snuggling up to ultimately to find new ways to stop that spread to benefit people with cancer.” his retrospective exhibition of over It shows the ‘penetrating horror of metastasis, as if it were a flying bullet or a 100 works by the experimental a broken doll, and a shadowy figure lurks in piece of shrapnel’, Ross Lydall, Health Editor of the Evening Standard newspaper Surrealist American painter, sculptor, the background. Above the bedroom scene and a judge for this year’s competition observed. This is a key moment in a cancer printmaker,T writer and poet, Dorothea are billowing silver-grey drapes, like storm cell’s life cycle. Tanning, is well-overdue, there not having clouds. We are told she liked to read Gothic PhD student Patricia Pascual Vargas, was the runner up with her entry showing been a show for over a quarter of a century, horror novels; maybe she read M R James’s a time-lapse image of a very aggressive type of triple-negative breast cancer cell, having had her first solo exhibition in a short story called Whistle and I’ll Come to You, sensing its environment during this process. public gallery in Britain at the Camden Art My Lad, from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, She used a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope to capture the cells Centre in 1993. Partially neglected, partially in which a don on holiday in Norfolk, making contact through structures called focal adhesions. overlooked in favour of many of her male encounters a shuffling figure in white that Dr Chris Bakal, Head of Dynamical Cell Systems and Tumour counterparts, she deserves her place in art eventually rises from the spare bed in his Microenvironment Teams at the ICR revealed that cancer is often made fatal by its history, and not simply because she was room and thrusts into his face ‘a horrible, an ability to spread around the body. a woman, but she was an extraordinarily intensely horrible face of crumpled linen’. “It is incredibly valuable to be able to image this process over time to give us the talented and innovative artist, with a career Family Portrait is another bizarre See all the stunning images on the shortlist for this year’s insights into cancer biology that we need to discover new treatments. as varied as it was long. Central to her life was composition, with an oversize man, his eyes ICR Science and Medical Imaging Competition at: “Our winners have used cutting-edge imaging technology to create measurable, the Dadaist and Surrealist painter Max Ernst, obscured by spectacles reflecting the light, single-cell imaging in 3D environments, to provide a vivid picture of exactly how who she met while he was still married to the seated at the dinner table, with a young girl ICR.ac.uk/imagecompetition cancer cells metastasise.” carnally enthusiastic American art collector seated alongside, and a diminutive woman and socialite Peggy Guggenheim. Previously feeding a large furry dog. Dogs are another Ernst had been the lover of the British recurrent subject, with their faces being sion and anxiety”. Increasingly, studies Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, but humanized, and once one starts looking, Sleep deprivation are showing links to Alzheimer’s, some he took up with Peggy Guggenheim in New one sees dogs’ faces everywhere in her work. types of cancer and memory loss. York, after she had helped him flee the Nazis Top: Birthday 1942 Oil paint on canvas 1022 x 648 mm As she moved into the sixties and seventies, There are many causes of sleep loss: Below: Family Portrait, 1954 Oil paint on canvas 910 x 765 mm and its in France, and while she was organising her Courtesy of Tate Modern she changed from the meticulous attention anxiety, loneliness, depression, night- Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This All © DACS 2019 to detail demanded by the Surrealists, to a debilitating time light pollution, working for too Century gallery in New York, Ernst met much looser, figurative style altogether, with long hours, alcohol, caffeine consump- Tanning at a party. He then asked himself sumptuous flesh tones of predominately female effects tion, lack of exercise – to name but a few. round to her studio, where her bare-breasted, nudes. Of her work she said in an interview, By Simon Hatchard-Parr When sleep deprivation becomes a pat- self-portrait was on an easel. He suggested ‘I’d be satisfied with having suggested that tern, the medication available through that she entitle it Birthday, as that was the there is more than meets the eye.’ She turned GPs can become a subtle and addictive ‘birth’ of her involvement with Surrealism. her considerable talents away from painting danger and doesn’t address the cause. They played chess, fell in love and went to to an unusual genre, that of ‘soft sculpture’. Complementary therapies work for some Insomnia; very few of us have live in Arizona. Three years later, they were Five of these were installed in Hôtel du Pavot, and not for others. married in a double wedding with Man Chambre 202, on loan from the Pompidou not suffered from the insidious Some simple changes you can make Ray and Juliet Browner in Hollywood and Centre, which is both disturbing and playful effects of long and sleepless are: Go to bed at the same time each day they remained married for 30 years, until at the same time. Two of the figures are and avoid daytime naps. Make sure your nights. It’s one of the most his death in 1976. Tanning was brought bursting through the walls, while others bedroom is dark enough, quiet and cool. up in a Lutheran household in Galesburg, have become anthropormorphised furniture. self-medicated conditions Avoid all stimulants in the hours before Illinois, where ‘nothing happened except Apart from her visual artistry, she was also with millions of pounds spent In the UK alone, it’s been estimated addressing this problem. From research, bedtime, including computer screens, the wallpaper’, which may explain the motif a fine poet and writer and in 1994, Tanning phones, etc. Make the decision and act annually on over-the-counter that sleep deprivation costs the economy it is evident that teaching deep relaxa- of oppressive scenes of puritan domesticity won the Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy over £30 billion a year in lost revenue. tion techniques, meditation and forms on it, to begin some sort of practice that bursting to break free. of American Poets, an annual prize of a cool sales. We know that disturbed The impact of this on all generations, of stretching therapies such as Pilates, gives your mind and body a time of deep Birthday is the first painting one sees $100,000 awarded to a poet ‘in recognition or insufficient sleep results in despite the findings from sleep clinics, Yoga and Tai Chi, bring relief to those relaxation once a day - and this doesn’t as one enters the exhibition, and it is a of outstanding and proven mastery in the mean a nap! Deep relaxation can begin impairment in cognitive and universities and research, is yet to be who suffer anxiety and stress, which are dramatically engaging one, with layers of art of poetry.’ Her first memoir was entitled seen as such by industry, our education causal factors. to clear our overstressed bodies and to intrigue, symbolism and unexplained motifs. Birthday and was published in 1986, followed motor performance and a gen- system or government. Perhaps the vast Long-term sleep loss has been reset the rhythms that underpin our Doors, both open and closed, are recurring up with a second in 2001 called Between eral lowering of many of the economic impact will finally catalyse the studied for many years with the results health and well-being. It is up to each features in her compositions, representing Lives: An Artist and Her World. She died aged person to find out what helps them to body’s systems. The evidence government to act. giving new insight into conditions that both the unknown and a possible portal to 101, having produced her second collection of Sleep deprivation is common are associated with older members of the have a good night’s sleep and what habits the subconscious mind, leaving viewers to poems, Coming to That, which was published shows that chronic sleep dep- amongst teenagers and university stu- population. The NHS states that studies to discard. make their own interpretations. At her feet in 2011. What a remarkable life and what rivation can lead to illness and dents. The long hours of study resulting show ‘regular poor sleep puts you at risk is a strange creature, identified as a winged a remarkable body of work, well worth the psychological disturbances. It in lack of sleep lead to poor academic of serious medical conditions, including Simon Hatchard-Parr, MA lemur, and her dress is decorated with sea- thirteen pound ticket., and a fine catalogue performance and often this leads to obesity, heart disease and diabetes with 020 3031 6975 weed. Her most famous painting is probably for £30, featuring selected short stories and is an unchecked epidemic on a depression and psychological problems. chronic sleep debt maybe leading to [email protected] Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943), which Tate poems. global scale. 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through their understanding and respect of the landscape and environment. He was an excellent draughtsman and watercolourist, and recorded views of the Alps and Swiss lakes, as well as Venetian buildings and fauna he encountered en route. He was a great supporter of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood including William Holman-Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and John Everett Millais, into whose arms his wife would run after their own marriage fell apart, and it was later annulled. He was also, however, the greatest supporter of J M W Turner, whose work he was captivated by and praised to the rafters. Everybody knows about his unconsummated marriage to the beautiful 19-year-old Effie Grey, and the reasons for that. Not necessarily. In Marriage of Inconvenience, the author Robert Brownell maintains it wasn’t the pubes that put him off, or even Top left: his new bride having her period on Allegory of Fortune; Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Chuch plans. their wedding night. There were other Niccolò de Lutero) (Italian (Ferrarese), Beyond the Ideal Nude devotes itself possible reasons that involved the The Renaissance Above: to far from idealised nudes, both male Raphael, The Three Graces, Royal Collection and female, with Hans Baldung Grien’s fact that Ruskin had been duped into Nude Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II marrying her for his money (to save her Left: Witches’ Sabbath presenting a coven of The Royal Acaademy: Sackler Agnello Bronzino, St Sebastian, © Museo father from impecunity), and he wanted scary old hags, and a seriously gruesome Nacional Thyssen-Bomemisza, Madrid shot of her. It is true that he claimed that Gallery painting of Christians being impaled on the wedding night he had discovered Until 2 June 2019 on thorn bushes, entitled Martyrdom that his bride’s ‘person’ was ‘not formed triptych depict heaven and of the Ten Thousand from the workshop to excite passion’. On the contrary, ‘there Admission £16 the descent into hell, The Fall of Hans Leu the Elder. Saint Jerome were certain circumstances in her person www.royalacademy.org.uk of the Damned, with dozens is featured as a stark naked wooden which completely checked it’. Maybe she of naked humans falling into sculpture by Donatello, who is scourging had body odour, maybe she didn’t. We the abyss, to be consumed by himself with a stone, to try and take Top: Study for a spray of dead oak leaves shall never really know what happened ghoulish demons, monstrous his mind off carnal thoughts. He would Collection Guild of St George. in a Scottish bedroom a hundred and trolls and reptilian ogres. have had trouble in the final gallery, John Ruskin: The Left: Detail from the St Gotthard pass (1855) seventy years ago. Away from Christian called Personalising the Nude, where Collection Guild of St George. What we did know about him, subjects, the next chapter is patrons began to commission works of Power of Seeing at least, until quite recently, was that Humanism and the Expansion art that incorporated nudes. Isabella he publicity material surrounding Two Temple Place on Turner’s death, as a Trustee to his of Secular Themes, which is d’Este Gonzaga, Marchesa of Mantua, this exhibition uses Bronzino’s estate, he burned all his erotic sketches arguably more interesting, was a powerful patron of the arts, and London WC2R 3BD portrayal of Saint Sebastian as a on a bonfire, as he wanted to preserve as it deals with adultery, she was in the habit of commissioning Until 22 April 2019 rather beautiful young man with a shock superseding human feet the painter’s reputation. This is also T drunkeness, debauchery, the best painters around to paintings of ginger hair, and a red cloak draped under scrutiny. Ian Warrell, Turner lust and calumny. In this for her famous studiolo, her private Free admission on God’s ground’; ‘Being over his nude torso, coyly looking out expert at the Tate, has since done a section is a print by Hans Baldung study. Mantegna had already painted Photographed; Victorian of the frame with a wistful expression, while strange creatures, fresh from massive amount of forensic research Grien of Aristotle and Phyllis, with the mythological Pallas and the Vices Church Statuary;The which contains more than a hint of a starring roles in a Bosch nightmare, are and pieced together the 30,000 sheets a voluptuous Phyllis riding the old (Minerva Expelling the Vices from the English Constitution; The pout. He seems particularly unconcerned creeping towards them up the shore, one s there a modern-day equivalent to of paper torn from sketchbooks that Greek philosopher bareback around a Garden of Virtue) in 1502, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame by the arrow sticking out of his rib-cage. remarkably penile. Of all the hundreds John Ruskin, the Victorian writer, were not destroyed at all, as put about courtyard as a means of a humiliating following year, she got Pietro Perugino by Victor Hugo’, which Sebastian was a popular subject at the of willies on display in this exhibition, artist, art critic, social commentator, by Ruskin himself, but are now safely punishment, with his pupil Alexander to paint another allegorical scene called ‘I believe to be simply time and he was usually depicted naked, only one is in a state of arousal, in polymath and prissy aesthete? Brian stored at Tate. So, another Ruskin the Great looking on. Hans Baldung Combat between Love and Chastity, the most disgusting book lashed to a tree, and pin-cushioned with Nymph and Satyr by Marco Dente, and it I Grien’s tutor was Albrecht Dürer, whose which represents the the duelling forces Sewell might have ticked a couple myth debunked. It looks as if the written by man.’ Don’t sit arrows. Classical legend holds that he naturally belongs to Pan, who is spying of boxes, but he was no painter. The notoriously prudish Ruskin, who The Men’s Bathhouse is a curious mix of of libido and restraint, represented by on the fence, John, tell us did not die from being shot, but was on the naked nymph Syrinx. Pisanello’s ubiquitous Grayson Perry, who has a worshipped Turner, couldn’t actually gay posturing and simmering sexuality. Venus and Diana, who, unlike most what you really think. nursed back to health by Saint Irene of drawing of Luxuria is modern in its political agenda and views on absolutely bring himself to destroy his work. There The posing pouch of a man lounging of the other protagonists, are partially He was a visionary, Rome. It was only when he returned to pose, with the model, unusually, staring anything and everything, could be are a sprinkling of Turners in the show, on a water stand-pipe at the left of the clothed. The canvas is full of lustful and championed art-for- tell Diocletian, the Roman Emperor, directly at the viewer. Artists at that a contender, but lacks the scholarly both drawings and watercolours, and woodcut is at exactly the same height as scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. all education and not just the error of his ways, was that he was time, tended not to paint directly from gravitas. It seems that Ruskin was not one large oil, Venetian Festival, on loan the faucet, (or dare one say, cock?) which As with most of the exhibitions in of Parliament, ‘the most effeminate and for the educated elite, the economy, then clubbed to death. There are three the naked female form, but to use only admired and reviled in not-unequal from the Tate, but the majority of works surely is no co-incidence. the Sackler Galleries, this is a scholarly effectless heap of stones ever raised by rural revitalisation, and he founded the other depictions of Saint Sebastian, by androgynous male models in an early measures, he was also better known for are by Ruskin himself, on loan from the Artistic Theory and Practice features exercise of just about the right size, man’; Wagner’s The Meistersingers, (he Guild of St George, which was primarily Donatello, by Martin Schongauer and by attempt at gender fluidity, or they could two unconnected matters, that may or Ashmolean in Oxford and the Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinarily with around 90 works on display from may have a point there); Renaissance an attempt to revive a healthy rural Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, work from memory. Titian’s demure may not be true. Library at Lancaster University. One detailed anatomical drawings of the around the world, all produced in a mere Buildings of Venice; Lawyers; Making economy, intended for the ‘iron workers whose saint is sporting a Kevin Keagan and sensual Venus Anadyomene has just In the middle of this busy exhibition unexpected highlight, was a collection human body, showing dissected muscles hundred and thirty year window, from Money; King’s College Chapel, of Sheffield’, in a somewhat patronising mullet, and who looks as though he emerged from the sea and is wringing in the 18th-century gothic estate office of minerals Ruskin presented to his and sinews of the neck and shoulders. 1400 to 1530, in Europe. Many works Cambridge (can this be right?); Palladio; manner. The Ruskin Collection emerged was posing for a centre-fold, with one her hair while casually glancing over built by William Waldorf Astor, there People’s Museum, including purple There are three books about human are on loan from the Royal Collection, A Railway Station, ‘the very temple from this and has been absorbed into carefully placed arrow in his thigh. her shoulder, unaware, of the viewer’s are two amusing boards, entitled Fifteen amethyst, quartz, haematite, opal and proportions on display, one of four by and the exhibition is curated by the of discomfort’; The Railways Around Museums Sheffield, and they have The Dream of Raphael by Marcantonio presence. Things Heartily Loathed by John Ruskin, other semi-precious stones and crystals. Dürer pubished after his death in 1528, Senior Curators at the J Paul Getty Dieppe, as being ‘beastly, blockheady, loaned a large part to Two Temple Place Raimondi, no stranger to erotic The exhibition has been divided assembled from his letters, lectures and As this exhibition demonstrates so ably, showing a Figure of a Woman in Motion. Museum and the Royal Academy of loggerheady, doggish, loggish, for the two hundredth anniversary of his compositions himself, shows two into five galleries, each focusing on a books, which show him up as being a there is more to Ruskin than pubes, a Cesare Cesariano produced one on Arts. The hefty catalogue has 400 pages, hoggish-poggish, filthy, fool-begotten, birth. Some of the issues he addressed naked women asleep in the foreground, different theme, starting with The Nude bit of a pompous prig. They include Iron bonfire of the vanities and Whistler’s the Vitruvian Man, while Francesco with over 250 illustrations, published by swindler-swallowed abominations of are still with us, like pollution, grimy while all hell breaks loose across the and Christian Art, featuring Dürer’s most Railings, ‘which always means thieves farthing for a far-flung paint-pot. di Girogio investigated Human Getty, but is a hefty £48. modern existence’; Cycling, ‘or any cityscapes and melting glaciers, and water, with more naked people fleeing celebrated engraving of Adam and Eve. outside, or Bedlam inside’; The Houses Don Grant Proportions as the Basis for Don Grant other contrivance or invention for using art to make individuals happier for their lives from the conflagration, Two panels of Dieric Bouts’ original 54 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

David Adjaye: Don McCullin Making Memory. Tate Britain Until 5th May. 2019 Until 6 May 2019 Photographs © Don McCullin The Design Museum. Admission £18 tate.org.uk

eople of all nations feel the need There should be a warning to come together with collective thoughts to remember an event before entering the Don Por a famous person from the past. They McCullin retrospective at create memorials and buildings for holding evocative ceremonies. These Tate Britain, stating, Brace! memorials immortalise heroic figures Brace! This extraordinary and crystallise past events in our minds. We hope they are everlasting. photographer has covered The same sunlight that shone on most major conflicts in the so many heroes and the unfolding of human dramas still shines through the world for the past sixty years, columns of ancient temples and the including the Berlin Wall in stained glass windows of cathedrals,as it rises and then sets. Remembrance is 1961, Biafra, Cyprus, Republic much needed in the world today, where of Congo and Vietnam, all in the atrocities of war, genocide, and the brutality and inhumanity of man to man the sixties, and Cambodia in are still with us. Top: the seventies, along with the 1960s. A couple of years earlier, he Asante umbrellas and the National photographed the Finsbury Park gang The very bricks and stones of Cathedral of Ghana memorials and buildings turn into Troubles in Northern Ireland. called The Guv’nors in their Sunday Right: feelings and even into abstract religious The Sclera Pavilion Suits, arranged on various floors of thought. There is joy in creation and a derelict building. This, he claims, © The Design Museum hrow in Iraq, Beirut and most art is the work of an individual, Bangladesh, and with a is the picture that launched him as a but cathedrals, where memorial services section on the East End and professional photographer, when he are so often held, were built by collective the industrial northern landscapes of showed it to The Observer and they effort. T asked for more of the same. He went Britain, one has a heady mixture of The Exhibition, Making Memory, at poverty, social injustice and suffering all to Berlin on his own accord and took the Design Museum, explores the role of over the globe. some remarkable shots, which led to him monuments, buildings and memorials in Virtually all the photographs on being sent to Cyprus by The Observer to the 21st Century through seven projects display are black and white gelatin silver cover the civil war between Turkish and by Sir David Adjaye, the celebrated prints from film, printed by him in Greek Cypriots. Cyprus was to become British-Ghanaian Architect. It reveals his own darkroom, although there are an independent, non-aligned republic how he uses architecture to remember a couple of colour spreads and covers with a Greek Cypriot President and a stories of triumph and of failure. He of the Vietnam War from The Sunday Turkish Cypriot Vice-president, but brings to our attention that memorials Times. talks broke down and fierce fighting need not be fixed in one place, like In a limited edition, large-format broke out, which McCullin was able to plaques, statues and buildings of the book called Indecent Exposure, looking at what others cannot bear to St John’s Gospel. The abject misery of capture with stark realism. past, but can be open spaces. Gerald Scarfe once drew McCullin see, is what my life as a war reporter homelessness is still with us, although He then worked for The Sunday The Exhibition opens with large as a rapacious cathartid figure in a is all about.’ He sees his job as to stir we think there is a safety-net in this, the Times, and Harold Evans its editor- photographs of past memorials which tree, focussing his long lens right the conscience of those people who can fifth largest economy in the world, in the in-chief, placed him alongside Robert include Stonehenge, the Pyramids, the onto a starving African child, with help. In the case of starvation, he felt Twenty-first Century. Capa, Larry Burrows and Philip Parthenon, the Cenotaph and Nelson's by President Obama in 2016. living space, not just a memorial. “ I really hope the Exhibition is the underlying message that he was a sense of powerlessness, but it ‘doesn’t After years in war-zones, he gave Jones-Griffiths, as one of the greatest Column. In another room the display reveals I liked the Sclera Pavilion which a vehicle for dialogue and discussion capitalising on people’s misfortunes do to let it take hold.’ If photographers that all up after he suffered, what they war photographers ever. His studies in Sir David Adjaye’s seven selected the project for the National Cathedral of was a contribution to the 2008 London about what constitutes a monument and in times of war or famine. Current like McCullin had not pointed their used to call, shell-shock, and retired to Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Iraq, projects are displayed in separate rooms Ghana in Accra. The viewer sees several Design Festival. It is no longer there, but a memorial in the 21st Century.“ thinking then was that, wherever there cameras at a starving mother and child a cottage in Somerset, from where he are heart-stoppingly poignant in their with models, videos and photographs. open, hanging Asante umbrellas, full the model shows it was an exploration The Exhibition reminds me of a was strife, there was McCullin, snapping in Biafra, we would be none the wiser walks and takes landscape photographs unflinching candour. Aged 83, he now This is a good idea as they would of colour. The Cathedral will have an of form and space. Its oval shape and remembrance service for the dead of away for the glossy colour supplements. about what was really going on in far- of the Levels; all quite bleak, mostly in wanders around England, going to not be together in reality. He has no undulating roof to reflect their shape. curved ceiling suggest the human eye. two World Wars which I attended in Later on, Scarfe regretted doing the flung pockets of the world. These days, winter, with leafless Rackham trees, and posh events, like Glyndebourne, Royal signature style, but uses the aspects of In this project, religion, democracy It was made of 1,400 strips of tulip an isolated place called Silent Valley drawing, as he felt that all McCullin was with the proliferation of mobile phones skies that could have been painted by Ascot and the Goodwood Revival anthropology and ethnography for each and local traditions are symbolically wood cladding wooden walls. It was in Yemen. There was no monument trying to do was to tell the truth. This and satellite cameras, we are used to Constable. He also drives up to Glencoe Meeting, as well as more popular places one. Some of his memorials are already intertwined. The architecture located on the South Bank and designed or building, only rows of crosses raises an important question about the seeing images beamed in from anywhere and Rannoch Moor in Scotland; eerie like Eastbourne, to watch a brass band completed, others are yet to be built. reflects Christian principles. It will to take away the vision of the world, representing the fallen. A lone soldier role of the war photographer, a term he on the planet, live, but in the Sixties, it enough places at the best of times, resolutely performing in a downpour. He Notice how the Youruba statue, accommodate 1,500 people. encouraging those who entered to slow played the Last Post as the sun set amidst hates. He prefers ‘photojournalist’, or was mainly the printed press who were but rendered chillingly unwelcoming professes to love the eccentricities of the by Olowe of Ise, inspired the tiered A further room shows plans for the down and understand the world better. the darkening, volcanic hills of Arabia. just plain ‘photographer’. He certainly providing the information. through McCullin’s lens. Even so, English, and happily snaps away, looking exterior of the Smithsonian National UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning There are three further display Marian Maitland does not see himself as an artist. ‘I The images are relentless in their raw these landscapes, and his still lifes, are like an old buffer with a Brownie, but Museum of African, American History Centre, designed in collaboration rooms where the viewer can investigate don’t belong to the world of art,’ even graphic power, from battlefields on the a welcome change from the war-torn still taking uncomplicated compositions and Culture and dominates the room. It with Ron Arad as memorial artist proposals for the Coretta Scott King and The Design Museum though some of his arresting images other side of the world, to the poverty images of the previous galleries. of everyday life, a million miles away illustrates how the architect’s design of and Gustafson Porter and Bowman as Martin Luther King Junior Memorial, 224-228 Kensington High Street hang in famous galleries and museums and deprivation so close to home; it is His early works include from his own brand of Goya’s Disasters the Museum uses anthropology, history landscape designer. It will be located the Mass Extinction Observatory and London W8 6AG all over the world, including this one. embarrassing, and within living memory photographing protests in London of War. and sociology to investigate form and in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Gwangju River Reading Room. T: 020 7148 1787 ‘You have to bear witness. You cannot for many visitors. ‘The poor you will against fascism, the Bomb and the purpose. This Museum was inaugurated Westminster Palace. It promises to be a Sir David Adjaye said, [email protected] just look away.’ He adds, ‘Seeing, always have with you,’ said Jesus in the Cuban missile crisis in the early Don Grant 56 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and misery, the exhibition, is devoted to Winter Night MAX not just to get his heroine back into Harald Sohlberg: source of life, of in the Mountains, a series of preparatory cosmic limbo, but to alter the rules of murder, of genius sketches in oil, charcoal, pastel and Feldman her ordeal: The film’s twist is that while Painting Norway and idiocy, and watercolour, culminating in a large REVIEWS the day is the same, the world itself Dulwich Picture Gallery all that fills the canvas, finished in 1914, which he is…different. Her relationships have madhouses.’ regarded as his most significant work, changed. So, too, has the identity of the Until 2 June 2019 Well, you said and now hangs in The Museum of Art, baby-masked killer stalking her and her Photograph © Universal Pictures Admission £16.50 it, Harald. Even Architecture and Design in Oslo. In friends. Munch wrote the same gallery, there are two earlier Happy Death Last time around, it was Groundhog ‘This painting scenes from Røros; Night, Røros Church, Day, naturally, that got self-consciously is the work of a and Night, depicting the smelting works Day 2U name-checked. Here, someone ne is tempted to wheel out that madman,’ about and chimney in the background, and a lampshades the convoluted fun with an old chestnut about naming ten The Scream, his graveyard, with broken crosses in the ost sequels are time warps: It’s apropos Back To The Future 2 reference. famous Belgians; most people Expressionist foreground. The only sign of life is a the audience that gets stuck Fans of the first Happy Death Day can come up with half a dozen, although painting lighted window in the clerestory right at in a loop, experiencing the might complain that the sequel loses Otwo of those usually mentioned, are depicting angst the top of the Church nave. Msame premise all over again. So it should some of the simple pleasure of the characters from fiction. On the other personified. One work that is completely outside come as no shock that Happy Death Day original, cluttering up its borrowed, hand, name some famous Norwegian His best the style or content of anything else on 2U finds a way to zap sorority girl Tree enduring premise with too many literally feminist allies. ACLU legal director Mel painters, and you will most likely get works are display is a pen and ink drawing called (Jessica Rothe) right back into the live- loopy complications, the way Robert Wulf (Justin Theroux in full ’70s smarm) Edvard Munch, followed by a long uninhabited The Assailant, in which a very frightened die-repeat cycle she escaped at the end Zemeckis once chased a resonant On The Basis of sees himself as an advocate of Ginsburg’s silence.Visitors to the Dulwich Picture landscapes, young girl scurries along a path in the of 2017s horror-comedy sleeper Happy sci-fi comedy with a less soulful, more cause, and to a large extent, he is. Yet he Gallery will recall an exhibition of figurative work, however, displays an relying on soft, crepuscular views over woods, and is about to be set upon by a Death Day. Tree, naturally, is livid, and complicated rollercoaster ride through Sex can also be hugely condescending, and Nikolai Astrup’s work exactly two years inconsistency in his work, that makes the countryside, mountains or water, Magwitch-like figure hiding behind a as she storms into the same morning multiple timelines. But Landon’s first is disinterested in treating Ginsburg as ago, and have the advantage. Well, one re-examine his other output. framed by trees and foliage, displaying tree, with a long, saurian neck and evil campus routine she suffered through film honestly could have used some an equal. There’s a limit to his allyship, now there’s a third name to add to the His series of paintings and pen and the great depth, scale and the power of in his eyes. Other views through trees ad nauseam the last time around, her complicating; it didn’t do nearly enough Avoid the extended edition of this. one he never thinks to examine, because list, namely Harald Sohlberg. Without ink drawings of mermaids are a sorry nature. His views of the 17th-century are a great deal less menacing, including volcanic exasperation is funny, sure, but with its Scream-on-repeat conceit. The Check out the director’s cut of that. he’s already cast himself as a hero on the descending to the soft underbelly of collection of badly-drawn, half-fishy- copper mining town of Røros, where he Fisherman’s Cottage, an evocative it also threatens to mirror our own. After best thing about it, by leaps and bounds, Take a machete to the Star Wars universe. The history of movies is right side of history. Similarly, the film Nordic stereotypes, what we see here female figures, bobbing about in the lived with his wife for three years, are painting of a summer night, and Sun all, didn’t the first film already push the was Rothe’s inspired comic performance; littered with recommendations on the zooms past the many law firm interviews is another lugubrious and melancholic water, usually with a moon behind their painstaking in their graphic fiddling of Gleam, in which the patches of sunshine déjà vu factor to its limit? We weren’t just the multiple shades of frustration she best way to watch them. When it comes in which Ginsburg was flatly rejected, Norseman, beset by Symbolism, heads. Like the moon, Sohlberg waxes brightly-coloured timber buildings in through the trees make almost figurative constantly reliving the same plot points brought to Tree’s existential crisis. to the new biopic On The Basis Of Sex to focus on the one interviewer who and haunted by dreams, visions and lyrical about these strange mythological the mainly peopleless town, with every patterns on the path. The Country Road as its frozen-in-time main character; we Happy Death Day 2U smartly keeps improving the viewing experience could seems to be genuinely sympathetic to her emotions. Love, death and sex are not creatures that, because of their mystery plank of wood picked out in vivid detail. is a classic Sohlberg composition, with were also stumbling once more through the focus on its lead’s manic-neurotic be simple: Just skip the first 30 minutes. struggles... before noting that, of course, far behind. What we have, then, is a and passion, were particularly popular How different from the later, and looser, the setting sun framed by a tree each energy: bellowing a gloating The film’s opening act traces the fraught he can’t actually hire her, because what fairly competent painter straddling the with the Symbolists. ‘She will be a paintings of the Rondane mountains, side, and a line of unwired telegraph “Ha!” as the killer tumbles Harvard Law School experience of would the wives of his employees say? turn of the nineteenth century, and passion, passion is what she will be, of which he said on his first encounter poles, receding down the hill, with a down a flight of stairs, On The Basis Of Sex emphasises the using his native Norway as his muse and for then she is mine; this will be the with them, ‘I was overcome by a gush of or grinning like a lunatic future Supreme Court Justice Ruth tiny slash of orange sky reflected in the limits of faux alliance, by pointedly model. His landscape oils of summer picture’s essence, its core.’ he wrote. emotion greater than I had experienced during a slapstick variation Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones, distant river. These landscapes are by far demonstrating what a true male ally nights are moody, eerie and convincing, ‘She will illustrate the all-powerful before,’ which had the effect of reducing on the Phil Connors suicide serviceable if not exactly thrilling). It’s the best works in the exhibition, which an impressive journey unimpressively looks like in Ginsburg’s husband, each with a magical quality that evokes passion, the purpose of life, that on him to ‘a solitary and pitiful atom in an coincides with 150 years since his birth montage. Martin Ginsburg (a charming Armie Photograph © Focus Features both the unique light at sunset and the which everything depends, the source endless universe.’ In many ways, this retold, relying on overly familiar biopic in Kristiania, re-named Oslo in 1925. tropes about the difficulty of being a Hammer). nature that dominates the scene. His of sorrow and joy, life and death, wealth The final gallery of this 90-works Don Grant not-bad sequel feels more keyed to Rothe’s expressive woman in the man’s world of the 1950s. Director Mimi Leder (returning shtick. Landon barely seems It also primes the audience for a far to the big screen after three seasons to be trying for horror more simplistic female-empowerment of work on The Leftovers) and first- There is no F in Art (is there?) anymore;probably the right story than the one we actually get. On time screenwriter Daniel Stiepleman Eli Castelli. Sven Dali Press. £7.99. ISBN 978 1 5272 2915 0 move, given how little The Basis Of Sex is ultimately less about (Ginsburg’s real-life nephew) have suspense he seems capable one woman blazing a trail for herself crafted a film that occasionally veers of wringing from the hide- and more about the slow, pointed toward hagiography, but stays just on and-seek murder scenes, deconstruction of an entire sexist social the right side of that line. . There’s a most of which take place order. prickliness to the older Ginsburg’s the Phil Connors redemption plan, in the same few hallways of a curiously After its messy opening act, the film staunchly serious personality, which This quirky little book is both challeng- people like them and probably wouldn’t watching a selfish person Groundhog Day empty and boringly nondescript leaps ahead to 1970 and zeroes in on one manifests in her at-times combative ing and annoying, witty and clichéd, know their Arshile Gorky from their El herself into basic human decency. Maybe hospital. (For all this series borrows particular case that would eventually relationship with her teenage daughter vacuous and profound. The author uses Greco.’ Maybe El Bosco, Hieronymus Tree’s screamed-to-the-heavens “Not from Wes Craven, it could stand to take help launch Ginsburg’s work as the co- Jane (Cailee Spaeny), who’s coming quotes, aphorisms, maxims, truisms and Bosch’s name in Spanish, would make a again!” is the proper response to a sequel better notes on his mastery of tension founder of “the Women’s Project at the of age amidst the burgeoning radical adages to bombard the reader with the finer point, but it is a good joke, never- that’s pushing its luck by pushing the and release.) Not that the comedy is American Civil Liberties Union”. An feminist movement and can’t always latest isms as regards art and money, theless. reset button on what was already sort of more sophisticated: the addition of a unmarried Denver man named Charles understand her mother’s more measured and is it art in the first place? She asks If one can hack a way through the a rerun. disapproving dean (Steve Zissis) and a Moritz (Chris Mulkey) is unable to approach. It’s a compelling, if too neatly questions, but is not prepared to come up rhetoric with a palette knife, she seems Thing is, more of the same isn’t supporting posse of lab geeks spikes the take advantage of a caretaker tax credit resolved, look at cycles of feminism and with her own answers. “Can money buy to admire Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol entirely what this new film offers. The genre blend with a new dose of broad to help him hire a nurse for his ailing the conflicts between them. cultural appreciation?” she poses, and and Damien Hirst for their self-pub- happy surprise of Happy Death Day 2U Revenge Of The Nerds tomfoolery, which mother, because the deduction is limited On The Basis Of Sex builds to an then tells us that over 900,000 artworks licising tricks and vast sums of money is that it does find ways to tweak the is basically subtraction by addition. to women and widowers. It’s a sex- effective courtroom climax which argues are housed in warehouses in Geneva their work attracts, but then questions formula of its predecessor, to break the Nonetheless, Happy Death Day 2U at based discrimination case in which the that slow-and-steady legal change called Freeports; some never to be seen the motives of the people who buy it. cycle of franchise redundancy. As it least knows what it has in Rothe, the victim is a man, not a woman. And it is just as important as flashier social by the public again. She could have She gets distracted by the labels, or wall turns out, Ryan’s the one responsible for scream queen as delightful screwball gives Ginsburg an unexpected opening revolution, especially when the two work added that, among the holdings in one descriptions, next to works of art in these chronological record skips, for his star. And if a baldly sentimental to challenge the centuries of legal in tandem. The film never quite loses its duty-free warehouse, a Syrian dynastic Tate Modern, and goes slightly over the could not have done that. ‘What an interesting point, which had own predicament and Tree’s. The culprit: tearjerker subplot actually lands, it’s precedent that have established rigid glossy biopic sheen; be prepared for some family called Nahmad, own between top by concluding that the curators and Personally, I find some captions in never occurred to me.’ Another quote a very 1980s weird science project, a because of the honest feeling the actor gender roles as the natural order of the groan-worthy jokes about the wackiness 4,500 and 5,000 works of art them- interpretive teams who wrote them were galleries overarching in their vaunted that caught my eye in this funny little machine called the Quantum Cooling invests into Tree’s new moral dilemma. world, not a form of discrimination. of a neighborhood being renamed selves, by the likes of Monet, Matisse, the real artists, including one explain- and fatuous prose. Who put the ‘con’ book, published by Sven Dali (ged- Reactor. It seems safe to say that no Putting this premise through another While the 50s opening act offers “SoHo” and the impressive abilities of a Renoir and Rothko, worth somewhere ing Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII, 1966 in Conceptual art, she asks, and then dit?), is by Robert Mapplethorpe, outré one was asking this series to explain iteration would almost certainly be the easy “look how far we’ve come!” newfangled machine called a computer. between $3 and 4 billion, including 300 (commonly known as Bricks in the pop- proclaims, ‘In the context of Concep- photographer: ‘When I work and in my the mechanics of its magical gimmick. overkill, but when did a slasher franchise satisfaction of retro sexism, the 1970s But though it goes down easy, On The Picassos, worth at least $1 billion. She ular press). In trying to explain modern tual art, isn’t Charles Saatchi the Artist art, I hold hands with God.’ Maybe that But in Happy Death Day 2U, returning quit while it was ahead? With Rothe on portion provides no such easy outs. Basis Of Sex is smarter and subtler than makes the point that some people only art in another book, art historian Susie and Damien the Entrepreneur?’ and, should read fists? writer-director Christopher Landon board, it wouldn’t be so bad, doing the One of the film’s strongest through- it looks,or, anyway, how its first act buy art ‘because they know that other Hodge, called hers Why your five year old bang on cue, the great ‘artoholic’ adds, Don Grant uses goofy time-travel mumbo jumbo time warp yet again. lines interrogates self-proclaimed male makes it look.

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This is the seventy fifth Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in raising respect for chess, ‘ .. with 1 Rotten tonsils unknown after set of five. CHESS his decency, openness and nobility!’ Wolfe Cryptic Crossword (6) 8 He states that ‘chess rose to a new 4 Embellishes a party Royal Navy By Barry Martin L. Saunders of SW15 is last month’s level; there were no more scandals and simulates initially. (6) 9 10 winner, congratulations. 9 Spirit fashioned from a downhill aid. (4) there are incomparably more good Please let me have any comments or 10 Cellars age when mixed for big tournaments around the world’. I was suggestions you may have and remember, production. (5-5) the official artist for the Riverside if you haven’t totally finished the whole 11 Still may be interfering with broadcast. Championship in 2000 and as well as crossword still send it in as the first correct (6) 11 12 Kramnik hangs making direct drawing studies of the or substantially correct answer picked 12 Musical piece made by Sony about at random will win a prize of a bottle of two contestants as they played on stage variable speed. (8) up his Rooks and and exhibiting my chess works, I can Champagne kindly donated by Lea and 13 Bidet robe could be wrapped around Sandeman. Send your grids either by post fiancee. (5-2-2) vouch for the dignity of the two players 13 14 15 rocks the World to Wolfe, at KCW Today 80-100 Gwynne 15 Right time to regret. (4) who also wore suits and ties almost the Road London SW11 3UW, or scan it in 16 In the beginning mud is really earthy whole time they played. There was an air and send by email to wolfe@kcwtoday. bog. (4) Chess Board of respect that both players exhibited. co.uk. 17 Coleoptera not switched on could be However, on reflecting on Kramnik’s www.leaandsandeman.co.uk/Fine-Wine. said to scurry away. (6,3) 16 17 18 19 comments on why he is stepping 106 Kensington Church St, London, 21 The more intelligent went ahead. (8) down, recent tournaments have shown W8 4BH. T: 020 7221 1982. 22 Lego is made to hold belief in myself. 20 he former world champion, very poor results including the recent (6) Contact Sandor. Vladimir Kramnik who Tata Steel Tournament, Wijk aan Zee, 24 It would be unassertive if I’d fenced 21 22 23 about. (10) successfully defended his title Holland, where 14 of the world’s top 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 25 Sounds what happened in the classroom three times, and created history by players competed including Carlsen, D M F S D F L H 9 10 T is stretched tight. (4) being the only chess player to have Giri, Nepomniachtchi, Ding, Anand R O O T O U T U P R A I S E 26 A cairn rebuilt to ease pain. (6) beaten Garry Kasparov at the highest and included Kramnik. Carlsen exerted E S L R O I B A 11 12 27 Flashing light on street dress. (6) 24 25 level, has announced his retirement his multi-flex chess muscle prowess yet S H A C K L E D E E P R E D S I A E N E L from top professional competitions. again after his successful world defence 13 14 15 Y A C H T S M A N D I T T O In an interview on Russian YouTube, against Caruana, and finished first with he explained that following the Berlin 9/13 pts. Kramnik’s poor performance A U S T N Down 16 17 18 19 26 27 C A M P B E D M A H J O N G 1 Provide accommodation for three Candidates Tournament 2018, he saw him regulated to 13th Position U E E O I months. (7) became aware that ,“....the outcome of with 6 losses, 2 wins and 5 draws! An 20 21 22 23 24 F L A I R W H I P P E R I N 2 Amin back to being a fool. (5) his games had ceased to bother him unusual position for him and possibly F G N N N A A 3 Look for business when lawyer loses 8 Angry before good manners mixes 18 At that point theatre may recreate its as much as before!” He had lost his reflecting that prior to the match “, ...I 25 26 27 L A R I A T S C H E C K U P alternative. (7) different species. (13) meaning. (7) appetite and this reflection was a sign told myself that the tournament would I E C I I R I A 5 Morning in squirrels home miles away. 14 Rods final arrangement for fish 19 Angler sounds like a deep crack. (7) telling him it was time to retire from be my last, and the sporting result 28 29 N E S T L E D S P O U S A L (6) stabilizer. (6,3) 20 A police force in charge of low ph. professional competitive chess. His wasn’t important; I simply couldn’t rated players may be placed against top Sinquefield along with the United States 6 Take on nag possibly riding one. (9) 16 Island created by Irish revolutionaries. (6) K T E E E S H M future plans, he explained, would be concentrate during the games! There rated players in the draw, and venerable Chess Federation announced that The 7 Work license may be golden (7) (7) 23 Better in a shout down. (5) in the field of writing books and the was a constant battle between my brain, aged players pitched against the very Cairn’s Cup would open with a $100,000 ‘moral duty’ to engage in the creation which just didn’t want to switch on, young. A carnival spirit pervades the commitment to Women’s programs. of a new generation of Russian chess and the urge nevertheless to force it to air during this competition and players The C Cup has a first prize of $40,000, ADVERTISEMENT With Andrew Robson talents similar to the way that Mikhail strain itself!” Kramnik’s ‘moral duty’ praise the hospitality and friendliness 2nd place $30,000, and 3rd $20,000. Andrew’s Top Ten Conventions Botvinnik and others had helped him, to help develop a new generation of that is one of its characteristics amongst The competition brought together some When bidding a slam, possession of all-bar-one of the four aces is a must Dealer North North-South Vulnerable but he wouldn’t rule out however, one Russian chess talents has, as he outlines, the many. of the top 10 women’s players in the (assuming no void). Almost as important is the king of trumps, and this further match with Garry Kasparov’. a futuristic outlook and we look forward, Following on from the recent FIDE world, and is the strongest women’s is the “fifth ace” in the modern form of Blackwood, “Roman Key Card The 2000 World Chess Championship to his imaginative contributions in this and President’s announcements that tournament ever held on U.S soil! It Blackwood” (RKCB). Also included in the responses to RKCB is the Tournament held in London at The direction. However, high Russian talent women’s chess is being given a Grand was an exciting and unique tournament queen of trumps, for you would not wish to bid a slam missing an ace ♠ (+%$" Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, as shown by that country’s younger chess Prix cycle and that their (FIDE) that had 25 out of 45 games finishing with decisive results. The ferocity across and the queen of trumps (unless you had ten or more trumps). ♥ between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir exponents is very much in evidence and requests for tenders to host forthcoming So Four Notrumps, when preceded by a suit bid, asks about those five *+" Kramnik concluded with the latter seen in recent results. The latest 7th1 FIDE major tournaments, the Isle of the board, however did not diminish aces. The responses are: ♦ lifting the title from the invincible Tradewise Gibraltar Masters Tournament, Man was announced as being successful or inhibit a strong sense of comradely ♣ )# 5 shows 0 or 3 of the “five aces”; ♣ Garry, and in doing so created world January 22nd-31st had a rising star of in its bid to host the inaugural FIDE togetherness amongst the 10 players. 5♦ shows 1 or 4 of the “five aces”; *%# history! the Russian contingents in 20-year-old Grand Swiss Tournament Oct 7th - Valentina Gunina from Murmansk 5♥ shows two of the “five aces” without the queen of trumps; ♠ '&# ♠ * ! Kasparov the greatest player, many Vladislav Artemiev, who won outright 21st 2019. The prize fund is $400,000 won top spot with a clear 7/9 pts and The Oxford and 5♠ shows two of the “five aces” with the queen of trumps. N believe, of all time was expected to with 8.5/10 pts. 7 wins, no losses and with $32,500 as a special women’s $40,000, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russia ♣ ♦ ♥ & ♥ '%$# Cambridge Club, an Over the 5 and 5 responses, the 4NT bidder can ask for the queen of WE continue his reign, but fate decided 3 draws! This was in a field with such prize. 160 players are expected to take 6.5/9, 2nd and Irina Krush, 3rd 5.5/9, exclusive private members trumps by bidding the next suit up (not the trump suit); partner jumps to ♦ &%$ ♦ (' otherwise. It was also the last time stars as Aronian, MVL, Nakamura, part; 105 determined according to USA. Other players in this historic Club in central London, is six of the trump suit with the queen (or bids a side-suit king), and signs ♣ S ♣ that Kasparov was in contention for So, Adams and 3 times winner of this the Grand Swiss Regulations, plus 15 inaugural tournament included former off in five of the trump suit without the queen. +) '& "! more nominated by FIDE. A further Women’s World Rapid Champion, Nana recruiting for a staff the title as he didn’t come back to competition our own Nigel Short, who ♠ ) challenge again. Kramnik considers on this occasion finished 75th! Probably 40 participants to be nominated by the Dzagnidze, 4 times US Women’s dining room assistant. ♥ South’s 2 response guaranteed five cards, so North correctly jumped to ♥ () ! that match to be his most notable an all time low for this newly elected organisers, including top female players, Champion, Anna Zatonskih, amongst 4♥. This excited South into bidding RKCB. North’s ♠5 showed two of achievement, followed by his leading vice-president of FIDE. Vladislav world’s best young players, local players others. Monday to Friday 11am – the “five aces”, and West led ♣Q to the good 6♥ contract. ♦ *+"! part in uniting the chess world from Artemiev as winner collected £25,000, etc. FIDE stated they were grateful for The puzzle is taken from The Cairn’s ♣ ♦ 3pm, £10.20 per hour plus Declarer won A and led to dummy’s J (correctly starting on the ♣ ($ the schism prevailing at the time, in Murati Karthikeyan, India 8/10, the Isle of Man’s organisational team, Cup, St.Louis, between Elisabeth Paehtz, staff fund. Uniform side-suit before drawing trumps, as he is likely to need to ruff the suit what had become a divided world chess 2nd £20,000, Nikita Vitiugov, David “..for the perfectly prepared application, white versus Alexandra Kosteniuk, ♦ ♣ ♣ ♥ provided. good). East won A, and led 4. Declarer won K, cashed K, then led system at the top level. He feels his Howell, and David Anton Guijarro and is confident about an excellent black. After 26.....Rad8. What did white ♦5 to ♦Q and ruffed ♦3 with ♥Q , East discarding. He could now cross contribution helped to establish a clear equal third 7.5/10 collected £11,000. organisation of the event’. They went play that appeared correct, but opened ♥ ♦ ♦ Please apply in writing to AJ10 drawing East’s trumps, follow with K and established 4, classical qualification system that had Alongside Vladislav’s sensational win, on to say ,“...that it will probably be the up a can-of-worms giving Black the with CV to Richard Fisher, and claim his slam. become unclear and confused, given the leading female player was Tan strongest Swiss System tournament in advantage? the divergent chess politics that were Zhongyi who collected £15,000. The the history of chess”. Answer upside down below:

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♠ ♥ voted one of the best tournaments, and St. Louis Chess Club. On the 5th %&)) ! %&)) " calls it! Nxh5!.28.Bh2,Bd4.29. Nd5?, 27. ANDREW’S FAVOURITE CONVENTIONS: He lost his title to Anand, whom he as well as having the Masters it has 4 February at the World Chess Hall of (6) Roman Key Card Blackwood #''(&)) praises for making a huge contribution separate amateur tournaments. Lower Fame, St. Louis, Rex and Dr. Jeanne 64 March 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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