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available is that it will not only give pedestrians a more concrete idea of air quality at micro level, but will also feed Solar Powered ‘Smart Benches’ important data back to local councils; with a view to ultimately helping them take a load off in Southwark to improve air quality in the capital. For Photograph © Strawberry Energy © Strawberry Photograph By Max Feldman those who think that solar power is a poor investment considering London’s infamously changeable weather, Strawberry Energy have announced that the benches are able to collect power without direct sunlight and the energy is stored for use at night. The leader of Southwark Council, Chancellor Peter John, said: “I welcome the arrival of these new Strawberry smart benches; they will help us to offer people in Southwark modern technology that responds to contemporary needs. Council officers have been collecting air quality data from the benches; this will help us to build a picture of the problem onsidering that be forming a pub quiz team any time in the Canary Wharf area back in and show us the way forward, here in soon, they’re just constructed to absorb 2015; however the design has changed Southwark,” he added. everything from solar energy and put it at the disposal of substantially since then, with the Mr Milisavljevic said: “We’re fridges to kettles are any pedestrian who fancies a bit of a sit addition of several new features. delighted to be working in partnership down. Alongside its standard duties as a with Southwark Council to extend the increasingly becoming ‘smart’ Southwark council has plans to install bench it also emits Wi-Fi, alongside network of smart benches in the borough C 29 of the smart benches, while nearby sockets for commuters to recharge and hope the addition of new sensors by being connected to the internet, it should come as no Lewisham is adding 25 of them. Other their phones. It also has sensors that will help the council and local residents locations include Islington, which has can read local temperature and CO2 have a better picture of air quality down surprise that the humble bench been trialling the benches since last year. levels along with more esoteric readings to a street level.” is joining the cyborg club in The benches, conceived and designed like NO2, O3, SO2, N2S, respiratory “We designed the benches with by Milos Milisavljevic, founder of the irritants, humidity and air pressure today’s Londoner in mind, providing

South-East London. start-up Strawberry Energy, have been and background noise, with the use of free, solar powered phone charging, WiFi in development for years and were a specialised app. The concept behind and air quality monitoring in a single, These so-called ‘smart benches’ won’t originally trialled by Strawberry Energy making this vast array of information sleek piece of street furniture,” he added.

delay two days before it was made public, despite having regular briefings with the One in seven Crossrail delays Crossrail Board. “I am extremely disappointed, operations being will cause losses frustrated and angry by the delay,” he said. Sir Terry Morgan, chairman of cancelled of over £20 Crossrail Ltd, said the firm had “raised concerns” about progress in July but had million still been working towards opening in s many as a seventh of operations Some £20m of new revenue will be December. in the UK have been postponed, missed because of the delay in opening Crossrail CEO Simon Wright a study suggests. Researchers Crossrail, transport bosses have said. explained to Assembly Members the fromA the Royal College of Anaesthetics Transport commissioner Mike Brown delay had been caused by a combination and UCL looked at 26,000 cases over said the loss was “manageable” but added of unfinished construction work and a seven-day period in March 2017. The it was “too early” to confirm what extra problems with testing. He said an data came from 245 hospitals around the theatre, equipment, and staff. But half of costs will come from the delay. electrical explosion at Pudding Mill Lane country. patients were not given any reason at all. He and other Crossrail bosses were in October 2017 meant tunnel trials While the researchers acknowledged that This is affecting the “health and welfare giving evidence at the London Assembly the figure could be lower during quiet of tens of thousands of patients every following Friday’s announcement the times of the year, they still pointed out year,” says Chief investigator Prof service will start in Autumn 2019.

that this problem needs addressing as Ramani Moonesinghe. “This is not good Europe's biggest infrastructure project is Photograph © TfL the health and welfare of the patient is at for patients. We need to find different already almost £600m over budget. risk. solutions,” she said. Mr Brown said Transport for London The operations included everything from However, NHS bosses looking at the (TfL) had been expected to make £20m heart operations and cancer surgery to overall number of operations done, from new fares by the end of March more complex abdominal cases and joint including minor treatment and day 2019 if the service had opened in replacements. They also looked at how cases, found that the cancellation rate December. Speaking about the possibility many people undergoing planned surgery, was much lower, with just 1 percent of of additional construction costs, Mr excluding those that came in via A&E, planned operations in England cancelled Brown said the transport group would be could not begin until February this year. had previously had their operations for non-clinical reasons. “making provisions within our own plans” “We started testing later than we cancelled. They found that 10 percent of “This report provides only a selective, once the amounts were known. would have liked and those tests have not the 15,000 people had previously seen limited snapshot of surgery in England,” TfL has already agreed to provide gone as well as we would have hoped,” he their operations postponed. An NHS England spokesperson said. £150m of extra funds to the project at a said. When fully operational the route, A third of cancellations were for clinical “where the NHS is funding more time when it is facing major challenges in to be known as the Elizabeth Line, will reasons including the patient not being routine operations and more people balancing its budget. Mayor of London run from Reading and Heathrow in the healthy enough to undergo the treatment. are undergoing treatment than the year Sadiq Khan, who was also at the meeting, west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in Other cases were due to lack of beds, before.” revealed he only found out about the the east. 4 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

big screen TV, it also hosts festivals, and even the annual rubber duck race TRAFFIC WATCH which KCW Today reported on in our London Home Football Traffic Watch previous issue. Known as the Grand Junction September 15, Chelsea v Cardiff City, Canal until 1929, the Paddington arm 15:00 of the Grand Union Canal opened in September 19, QPR v Millwall, 19:45 July 1801. It joined the Regent’s Canal September 20, Arsenal v FC Vorskla, Photograph © Michael A. Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph on the latter’s completion in 1820 with the formation of Browning’s Pool at 20:00 Little Venice. The canals were initially September 22, Fulham v Watford, used to transport goods around the city, 12:30 but ultimately fell out of use in favour QPR v Norwich City, 5:30 of the ever expanding railway network. September 23, Arsenal v Everton, That was up until 1998 when 16:00 Paddington Station became home September 26, Arsenal v Brentford, to the dedicated Heathrow Express service. The renewed interest in the area 19:45 created great ideas for the possibility of September 29, Arsenal v Watford, reinvigorating it for commerce, living, 15:00 and tourism. Today it is home to office Chelsea v Liverpool, 17:30 and residential buildings, and the once October 4, Chelsea v MOL Vidi, 20:00 her first rail journey in 1842, to Sir disused Canal is now enjoyed by people October 6, QPR v Derby County, 15:00 Alexander Fleming’s laboratory where on restaurant boats, and recreational Paddington’s October 7, Fulham v Arsenal, 12:00 he made the game-changing discovery leisurely cruises. In 2018, Paddington of Penicillin in 1928, Michael Bond's has become one of the largest and most Merchant Square For full sports fixtures see page 69 Paddington Bear in 1958, right up to significant regeneration and growth Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha the birth of Prince Louis at St. Mary’s projects in London. Hospital in 2018. ondon is a city with a rich This month, KCW Today visited history, and Paddington is Merchant Square, part of the no exception. Once its own redevelopment of Paddington which borough, Paddington became part of has now become one of the most SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT Lthe City of Westminster in 1965. The unmissable spots in London. Merchant KCW Today. See page 20 for details area has seen its share of historic events Square is a hotspot for events such from the arrival of Queen Victoria on as viewing sports and movies on a

allows for natural ventilation and greater technical AV and acoustics than it could Battersea Arts before. The Grand Hall can host up to 300 Centre Grand guests for seated dinners and has its own © Pixabay Photograph kitchen and adjoining bar. Standing up Hall re-opens or theatre style can allow for up to 600 Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall guests and up to 800 for a gig. has re-opened on the 6th of September “The re-opening of the Grand after a fire destroyed the venue in 2015. Hall marks a massive moment for us,” The opening takes place as part of the David Jubb, artistic director and CEO Phoenix Season, a five-month celebration of Battersea Arts Centre says. It’s the of risk-taking and renewal. The Grand first time the entire building has been all the way to Stratford in the east and Hall has been restored by award-winning fully open for the public to explore for Thames Tideway will prevent over 30 million tons of raw architects Haworth Tompkins and is 12 years… When the flames rose above sewage every year from seeping into the open for private and corporate events. the Grand Hall on Friday 13 March to create public Thames. Battersea Arts Centre contains original 2015 it looked as if all that progress “The new platforms are in such features from a 125-year history as might be lost. But due to brilliant and space on the river prominent places,” says lead architect brave firefighters, and the incredible Clare Donnelly of Fereday Pollard, it hosts product launches, weddings, London’s planned £4.2 billion Thames generosity of more than 6,000 people “opposite the Oxo Tower and the receptions, conferences, and meetings Tideway ‘super sewer’ will create acres of and organisations, the building was saved London Eye for example, so the design in a Victorian Town Hall building. The new public space on platforms built on new technical infrastructure in the roof and the Grand Hall is reborn!” became very important early in the the freshly cleaned up river. The project process. Our aim is to bring more will see seven paved platforms at the people to the banks but without barriers following places: Putney Bridge, Albert between them and the water.” Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Victoria and London’s sewer system was built Blackfriars Embankments, at the King in the 1860s by engineer Sir Joseph Edward Memorial Park in Shadwell Bazelgette and was built for a population and replacing the Heathwall Pumping half that of today’s eight million. Station in front of Nine Elms at The platforms will be covering shafts Vauxhall. that collect raw sewage before it makes Thames Water says the platforms its way into the river, diverting it instead celebrate the city’s watersports, arts scene, to the new Tideway Tunnel 60 metres as well as its ecology, all the while paying below, and onto a treatment plant in east homage to London’s industrial past. The London. 15.5-mile-long Thames Tideway sewer Building is set to begin sometime in will run from Acton in west London 2020 and will take two years to complete. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Heliport Hell for West London Boroughs Co. © Reuban Photograph

A study has found that residents of Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth and Hammersmith and Fulham’s health could be at risk from the noise of flights in and out of London Heliport in Battersea, where up to 80 helicopters are permitted to take off and land each day. The study, carried out by acoustics experts from London South Bank University, found that residents of the three boroughs who are living under the flight path regularly suffer noise disturbance that exceeds World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended limits. Now council leaders said the area was once industrial but has now been transformed with residential developments and are urging London that can be done to reduce operations at Previously, the government has advised residents in Fulham, and even further Mayor Sadiq Khan to act and relocate it. the site under planning laws. the group there was no statutory north in the borough, have long been London Heliport has a historic The Mayor’s current Draft London requirement for the heliport to prepare telling us, this heliport is a blight on their planning permission which allows it to Plan proposes that any new heliports an action plan, partly due to a lack of lives,” said Cllr Wesley Harcourt, H&F continue operating despite it now being are refused which adds to the problem data. So the noise study, by providing Cabinet Member for Environment. It in a densely populated part of the capital. of heavy air traffic at the Battersea site. new data, offers an opportunity to look leaves us little choice but to lobby for The original consent was awarded by the One solution suggested by the study is at developing a UK model for a heliport stricter regulations on noise levels and now-defunct Greater London Council in for the heliport to develop a noise action noise action plan. volume of flights, so that we can better the 1970s which means there is nothing plan to manage noise from helicopters. “The results of this study confirm what protect our residents’ standards of living.”

develop their operations. Kensington The enterprise hub, in Peabody’s Silchester development, has already and Chelsea attracted a range of businesses including IT companies, a hat designer, health care Enterprise Hub trainers, and accountants. “We’re really keen to make sure the open for business hub offers something special for local residents, and so have lots of special offers and discounted rates for local Freston Road in North Kensington is on people,” Sue Spiller, CEO of Sobus the its way to becoming a business enterprise community development charity which is zone following the launch of the Freston managing the space, said. “The hub offers Road Hub on Friday the 17th of August. great space for all kinds of businesses and The building offers low-cost space to rent has a lot to offer. We have recruited an and office facilities as well as support amazing reception team from the area to businesses, “both start-ups and as we are really keen to offer flexible job established” who are looking to grow and opportunities to residents from W10.” The Council has secured a grant of £110,000 towards the centre including desks and meeting rooms for hire. “There are limited working spaces for residents wanting to start their own business in North Kensington,” Cllr Ian Wason, Kensington and Chelsea’s Deputy Lead Member for Skills and Enterprise, said. “The hub will provide a mix of co-working, traditional office space and training rooms at affordable rates. "Having started my own entrepreneurial career in a co-working space like this fifteen years ago, I know how important these types of premises are in improving the chances of business success and creating employment." 6 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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It was the German scientist, Alexander Von Humboldt, who drew Blue Plaque: Bolivar’s attention to the ripeness of the Spanish colonies for independence Simon Bolivar. and that there was nobody to make this 1783-1830 happen.He made a vow to liberate his

Photograph © The Royal Collection Royal The © Photograph country, Venezuela. He returned there in 1807. The Latin American Independence movement was launched when the English Heritage erected a Blue Plaque Spanish Government was unsettled for Simon Bolivar at 4 Duke Street. following Napoleon’s invasion. The Marylebone. W1U 3EL. It portrays him Spanish colonies did not support as Liberator of Latin America He lodged Napoleon. After several meetings at this address in 1810. Bolivar succeeded in ousting the Spanish Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Government from Venezuela and Trinidad Bolivar Palacios Ponte Y independence was granted in 1811. It did STATUES Blanco, his name in full, was better not last. known as Simon Bolivar and colloquially Simon Bolivar went to Cartagena he was referred to as El Libertador. in New Granada where he published He was the son of of an aristocratic impressive political statements and family of Spanish descent and was called for a united revolutionary effort to born to wealth and position. His father, destroy the power of Spain. Thomas Coram Juan Vicente Bolivar Y Ponte, died This idea failed and he fled to Jamaica. By William MacMillan when Simon was only three years old There he wrote his famous. La Carta Brunswick Square and he lost his mother, Maria, six years de Jamaica which outlined a grandiose later. His uncle took responsibility for panorama from Chile and Argentina and him, managing his inheritance and he proposed a constitutional republic for he statue of Thomas Coram sits providing tutors. The young Bolivar was all Latin America. on a pedestal in Brunswick Square Goetze, the art patron, in St Mary’s then introduced to Simon Rodriguez, After many pitched battles and his outside the Foundling Museum. It Gardens in the Regent’s Park, and his who was to play a is based on a full-length portrait of last piece, a statue of Alcock and Brown significant part in his life. TCaptain Coram, which was painted at London Heathrow Airport in 1966, Significantly, Rodriguez and presented to the Thomas Coram to commemorate their flight across the was a disciple of Jean Foundation for Children, then known Atlantic in 1919. Just over a decade Jacques Rousseau, from as the Foundling Hospital, by William after that, he was beaten and robbed whom Bolivar learned Hogarth in 1740 to commemorate in Richmond, just before his ninetieth of 18th century liberal the granting of the Royal Charter by birthday in 1977, and died of his thought. Pienkowski © Janusz Photograph George II the year before. Coram is injuries shortly afterwards.To mark 275 depicted holding the Charter in his years since the first admission to the When aged sixteen hand, and Hogarth also makes several Foundling Hospital in 1741, the statue years, Bolivar travelled references to Coram’s maritime career, was brought to life with a recording by a to Europe to complete namely the sea backdrop and the great supporter of the charity’s work, the his education. He lived globe in the foreground to illustrate actor and writer, Simon Callow. Visitors in Spain for three years Coram’s seafaring life and his time as a can listen to the recording by swiping a and there he married the shipbuilder in Boston, Massachusetts, tag on the statue on their smartphones daughter of a Spanish while to the right, behind a curtain and logging into the Talking Statue nobleman, Maria Teresa can barely be detected the figure website. del Toro Y Alayza. They of Charity. Hogarth’s portrait is an Rather touchingly, affixed to the returned to Caracas, but honest depiction of an honest, rounded railings behind the statue, is a child’s she succumbed to yellow man, comfortable in his skin. The mitten, cast in bronze. It is, somewhat statue, however, is a rather lumpen surprisingly, the work of Tracey Emin, fever after a few months of portrayal, which is an unfair criticism, who one does not associate with their marriage. as the portrait was all the sculptor sentiment, but is a poignant and simple In 1804 Napoleon was had to refer to. It is inscribed with the totem. Roger McGough summed up approaching the zenith words ‘Pioneer in the Cause of Child the imagery in one of his poems: ‘When of his career, and Bolivar Welfare’. A plaque on the back gives one glove is missing, both are lost’ returned to Paris, under an account of his travels to colonial A temporary exhibition by Jodie further guidance from America as a shipwright and his return Carey’s extraordinary work finished his mentor and friend, to England to establish the Hospital. on 2 September, comprising three site Rodriguez. Observing the The sculptor was William specific pieces, the first of which, Sea, the rise to power of Napoleon, Bolivar legendary attack on New Granada, one McMillan and it was erected by the is an enormous raft of fragments of realised that one man can , indeed, governors of the charity in 1963. He fabric, all dipped in liquid clay and of the most daring attacks in military was an eminent sculptor, born in 1887 fired in wood-buring kilns. Drawing change the course of history. Bolivar history, the ascent of the Andes, the in Scotland, studying at the Royal inspiration from the eighteenth-century proceeded to study in depth works of the Battle of Boyaca was the turning point in College of Art, London from 1908 pieces of material left by mothers with great rationalist thinkers, among them, the history of Latin America. The bulk of to 1912, under Édouard Lantéri. He their babies as a means of identification, John Locke, George-Louis Leclerc, the Royalist army surrendered to Simon joined The Artists Rifles in World along with other tokens. Cord is a Claude Adrien Helvetius, Voltaire, Bolivar. War I and was commissioned into the floor-to-ceiling rough bronze casting of Rousseau and Montesquieu. The latter Bolivar, President and Military Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire rope that has been buried in the earth, two had an enormous influence on Dictator; and New Granada and the Light Infantry in 1915. He was elected while Found are plaster sculptures cast Bolivar’s political thinking, but Voltaire states, as we know them, of Latin an associate of the Royal Academy from rolls of fabric which were also remained the philosophical light. It America were born. Colombia, Panama, in 1925, a full member in 1933 and buried in the earth. Currently showing is interesting how Bolivar, a military Venezuela, Ecuador. Part of Peru was a Senior RA in 1962. From 1929 to is a deeply-moving and emotionally- man and liberator of many countries in 1941 he was Master of the Royal charged 12 minute film by Lily Cole, freed later and became Bolivia, named Academy Sculpture School. Amongst following two young mothers with their Latin America, faced his self appointed after the great El Libertador. his works are Triton and Dryads, a babies trying to get them adopted. challenges and never sought the lofty Simon Bolivar died of Tuberculosis memorial fountain to Sigismund Don Grant title of Emperor, but settled for El on the estate of a Spanish admirer. Libertador. Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

n the 18th August the liveable houses and flat plans. Is the Government published its skill of connecting hand, brain, drawing BRICKS AND latest Green Paper promising and paper being lost to ‘computitechts’? Oa ‘new deal’ on Social Housing. It reads Where layouts and furniture are mere with well meaning rhetoric but barely icons dumped into a master plan. There BRICKBATS scratches the surface of addressing the are many current and past excellent BY SQUINCH very many factors at the root of the exemplars. These can and should be UK housing crisis. There are countless studied, learnt from and celebrated. issues and problems that contribute to Others should be humiliated. Wake up the degree of crisis. If the delivery of architects if you want to help solve the more roofs over people’s heads is to be housing crisis. Developers, architects improved, whether affordable or private, and planners all need to deliver a better the Government needs to look further, considered residential product in both wider and deeper. social and market housing. With inadequate supply, prices Shortage of construction skills is stay too high. The planning process yet another issue, with ageing UK trade is too slow and creates a bottleneck. expertise and now, Eastern European Consents frequently take several years apprenticed tradesmen leaving Britain to negotiate. Planning departments since the Brexit vote. Innovation, are under resourced and under skilled. mechanisation, training, research and Planning committees are too often development are all lagging behind other preoccupied with short-term re-election. industries. The planning of towns and cities and the Long-term, consistent Government housing of the population require long- funding of Housing Associations coupled term vision. with allowing local authorities to borrow If you have need of major surgery, would to build social housing must be one part you have your life dependent operation of the solution. Most affordable housing determined by a committee of well being built at present is by way of a tax meaning but untrained local councillors? on market developers. If the Private Developers can make big profits; Rental Sector can attract major overseas they are also subject to changing market long-term investment at this time, then conditions, funders, shareholders and why can’t social housing for rent and share value. If the latter drops, funding intermediate ownership structures work is more problematic. Out of central too? London the proliferation of pitched Local authorities must take the roof Noddy houses on estates where the management and maintenance of layout appears to have been scattered by their building stock more seriously, an irritable toddler bored with Monopoly conscientiously and with better resource is a tragic lost opportunity, and appalling and commitment; one thing, post waste of land resource. The most Grenfell, that the Green Paper is starting common reason or excuse is “it’s what to address, but it will need money and people want” (I don’t believe it). The changing attitudes. Even with a much reality is, it is what developers know will higher rate of new build, the replacement get planning consent. A Morris Minor of existing housing stock will be pitifully Countryman was a characterful and slow. Greater investment, technical practical motor car in the 1950s, but the improvement and management of motor industry has moved on, advancing existing housing is an essential part of its product for the consumer. Not so, the solution. We have to look after what much of the house building industry. In we have got a whole lot better. spite of the National Planning Policy There are countless other contributing Framework (NPPF – Government factors to the UK housing crisis. One big Policy) promoting ‘good design’ and political hot potato is that of stamp duty ‘placemaking for people’, too and the upper rate bands. It was brought much of our new housing is in to look like the Tories were hitting mere product. the rich in lieu of the idea of a mansion The Housing Use the words “higher tax. A vote grabber. The outcome of the density” and people react in increased stamp duty rates has been a Crisis puzzle horror. Yet any historic city, substantial drop in actual revenue to town or village used land more the Treasury. Far worse, is that it has efficiently, with more character, stopped people moving home, limiting more sustainably and yes, work mobility and preventing the ageing more densely than most new population downsizing, thereby freeing suburban or regional housing up under-occupied family housing. This schemes. If we must use more in turn hits small builders, tradesmen green belt land, then we should and the whole supply chain relating to at least use it rationally. There materials and furnishings; a large chunk is little point in discussing of our economy. It is a simple obvious ‘sustainability’ if we use the key fact that people spend when they move resource of land wastefully. house, when they don’t move they Some developers or house don’t spend. If the Chancellor of the bashers don’t use architects, Exchequer wants revenue from a moving some do. As an architect, economy, he should bite the bullet and Squinch is appalled at the change stamp duty rates. It’s another inability of too many well- piece or even several pieces towards known architects to create good solving the housing crisis jigsaw 10 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

were of residential properties in England and Wales for £1 million or more, 300 of New home which were in Greater London, four in the West Midlands, and two in Greater Photograph © Zayane Photograph registrations drop Manchester. The single most expensive residential substantially sale in July 2018 was a terraced property in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for £18,500,000. The single cheapest was a terraced property in Henllys, Cwmbran, which went for England and Wales saw a “substantially” £6,120. The most expensive commercial lower number of new homes submitted sale was in the City of Westminster at for registration with the Land registry £117,450 while the cheapest were in compared last year. July 2018 saw 95,721 Haringey in London, and Stanford-Le- and Harvey Nichols fifth floor food hall. sales received for registration, including Hope, Thurrock, each of which sold for He is said to enjoy cooking as his biggest 72,275 freehold. just £100. Michelin Plated passion, creating new dishes based on 11,819 were newly built home sales Moroccan cuisine “with a mixture of for registration, 43 percent less than Chef gives free new culinary techniques and influences.” July 2017. However, July 2018 did see Once a week he gives the free lessons to an increase compared with the previous cooking lessons the children at the restaurant, though it months. is currently struggling financially. This Terraced houses remained the most to children also means the children have free lunch popular with 25,554 registered for sale on that day. in July 2018, up from June’s 23,363. ne of the youngest chefs to Many of the children attend Chelsea The second most popular type of home receive his first Michelin Plate Community Hospital School which is semi-detached with 24,964 up for when he was just 21 years old provides education for children and sale, an increase on 22,251 in June, and will give back to the community. Joseph young people at six hospitals all over 20,897 in May 2018. O Detached homes also saw a big Mortell, the head chef at Zayane is giving West London. free cooking lessons to children with Helping the children gives him, increase. 21,568 were registered for sale complex mental health needs from the Joseph Mortell “a lot of happiness,” in July compared to 18,518 in June and ages of 5 to 14. The children are treated making him feel that he is helping the 18,060 in May while there were 17,368 at Collingham Child and Family Centre. community. flats or maisonettes on sale in July. By Mortell has previously worked in clubs If you’d like to read more on Zayane, our comparison, June saw 15,678 and May in both Oxford and Cambridge as well as own Max Feldman has reviewed it on had 15,846. John Lewis’ head office, Harrods canteen page 52. The data also revealed that 526 sales

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recyclers. Cllr Gerard Hargreaves, Kensington Carnival Clean- and Chelsea Lead Member for Communities and Culture, said: “From up: 300 tonnes of the Council’s point of view, the biggest challenge is the clean-up. We know rubbish cleared what a jewel in the crown of the cultural life of the borough Carnival is and we Approximately 300 tonnes of rubbish want everyone to enjoy it. We also want were cleared after this year’s Notting Hill residents to be able to get to work on Carnival, roughly the equivalent of 25 Tuesday morning without disruption and London buses. The mighty clean-up was it’s a great credit every year to SUEZ completed by 200 cleaners supported by that the streets are clear in time. 30 refuse trucks and sweepers over the It’s a mammoth job and everyone course of Monday night. involved deserves credit for their hard This year, the RBKC Council work. This year has also seen a great made recycling a chief focus with a increase in recycling. We want this to be new stand on Portobello Green that a sustainable Carnival and I’m sure we allowed Carnival-goers to recycle their will build on the opportunities for more aluminium cans, plastic bottles and recycling and reducing the use of single leftover food. Awards were offered to top use plastic.”

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My own “note” lurks somewhere in the recognise when we fail to be what we back of my head, waiting for the moment aspire to be: better. We know we need to MARIUS BRILL’S I’m caught being me, and not being the evolve and evolution requires constant someone I know I really ought to be: failure to recognise the virtue of success. “To whom it may concern. Please excuse Unfortunately, the danger of the “note” MEMEING OF LIFE Marius’ thoughtless borderline racism will always be if we start to believe it and today; he suffers from the chronic allow ourselves to stop striving; as Sam Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... social pressures of his white middleclass did. background. Please will you also excuse Sammy’s parents, concerned for him from any punishment for cheating their child, gave in and encouraged on his wife. I’m sure you understand Sammy to do the same. Dyspraxia is, that he is merely a hostage to his selfish after all, a neurological disorder. Had genes vying for survival. Lastly, if you they looked deeper at neurological catch him picking his nose, please will findings, they would have discovered you excuse him as he is, after all, only a that brains, especially young ones, slightly evolved chimpanzee.” have a phenomenal ability to “rewire” In the last few years, with advances in themselves through familiarity and electroencephalograph (EEG) scanning, conditioning. It’s called “learning” or, if the brain and its workings have become you prefer, “the process of creating new the latest fodder for our universal “note”. synaptic pathways in the brain”. The Scientific American publishes a It seems counterintuitive to take the monthly magazine devoted to the brain, punishment, to run the race, to pound the Science and Self-Help sections through the stinking puddles rather than of bookshops are bursting with brain find an excuse, but tearing up your own books and you can tell when a subject “note” might just be the best thing you’ll has become truly ubiquitous; there’s a ever do. “Rough Guide” to it. As our understanding of the workings of the “normal” mind, and the chemicals that are released in the face of various stimuli, improve, lawyers (and Euclid on parents) are armed with an ever more Today though, the envy has gone. You sophisticated arsenal of mitigating and the block see, Sam has lived his life as if he always evidential factors. Today, a murderer By Derek Wyatt Noted had a note excusing him from any of its influenced by the brain-chemical surges potential adventures. Pushing fifty now, of pre-menstrual tension, despite it his circumference has been multiplied being an apparently “natural” part of It is just after seven in the morning and olidays are over. Back to the by pie; chronically obese, he suffers from body function, is not a murderer. Or, as I I am sitting by a pool looking out across grind, school, work, uni, the girl continuous vertigo, countless phobias may once have explained to the parents the sea to Corfu. The mercury reading is locked in the basement. With and, for most of his life, desperately of two of my son’s school mates, “He’s already hot enough to fry an egg on the summer, lazy days, late rising and endless unhappy singleness. Had he been born not actually an aggressive bully who tessellated stones. I have come to chill for H enjoys sticking smaller boys heads down a fortnight or so. sunshine, all still fresh in the memory, twenty years before, or to a less privileged the misery of the graft is all the more class, his dyspraxia would have just been toilets, he’s suffering from melatonin Last week, I handed in my thesis for obvious, the contrast more jarring; the called “clumsiness”, for which there was underproduction and struggling to my MA. It has been quite a journey. I post-vacation life is a depressing bitter no known note, and he would have been manage his teenage testosterone spikes.” signed up to be a part-time student two pill we all swallow. Unless you’ve got plunging the puddles with everybody And I could tell from their contrite years ago at King’s in The Strand. It has yourself a doctor’s note, in which case else, or at least behind everybody else. gawping that they truly understood that been a humbling experience given I was enjoy a few more days of the holiday This could just be the old nurture/nature he was just as much a victim as their own the oldest student by some forty years or vibe. debate. If you’re a nurturist you’d argue precious offspring. more. I studied International Relations For some, the note will become that: had Sammy got in the habit of But, if we cannot control the and for my thesis I looked at how Al- permanent. Not because they’ve been exercise, and practiced some coordination chemicals and processes of our minds Qaeda and ISIS have used social media sacked or contracted a terminal illness, exercises, at an early enough stage in his and bodies that effect our behaviour, are to propagate their messages since 1997. just because the back-to-work shock was life, he might have been spared such a we actually responsible for anything we And for those of you also of a certain age too much. If you’re going to make a life waisted life. Or if you’re a naturist, put do? (I am 70 next year) do not worry about changing decision, to jack it all in and some clothes on, it’s getting chilly. At what point might we be forced to the next generation or the generation pursue your dreams, it’s the second week It’s always possible that Sam was recognise that “my” brain, “my” rushes after that! My fellow students were after the holidays in which you’re most genetically “programmed” to end up as he of adrenalin or floods of pheromones, is simply brilliant; they were outstanding likely to do it. You’ve had just enough did. But I have a terrible feeling that it “me”? If, when healthy, we can’t or won’t, academically and wonderful members of time to think (and not enough time to wasn’t his genes or his dyspraxia that did take responsibility for our own brains the human race. They came from Korea, think again): bugger the drudgery, what’s for him, it was his “note”. (and by association our own minds) China, Malaysia, Japan, Afghanistan, the point? I honestly think we all have, or long then aren’t we in danger of losing our America, India, UAE, Singapore, France, So I’ll tell you about Sammy. At for, our own notes. The desire to have identities, our individuality, ourselves? Germany, Canada and some even from school Sammy had it made. We all some way, some thing, that excuses us for Perhaps the question shouldn’t be “why the UK. envied him. When we were splashing behaving the way we actually do, rather are we looking for excuses?”, but “why After Brexit is completed we will through freezing slimy puddles, than the way we know we should, seems do we feel so guilty in the first place?” only have soft power to extol. Our higher spattering our legs with foul smelling an almost quintessential human urge. So Before humanism, we saw evil, or vanity, education system is in the top flight mud, Sammy was warm in the library many advances in the human sciences get or stupidity, we did awful or idiotic and no other country, save America clutching his “note”, his cherished paper redeployed as steps towards that Holy things, but we had the ultimate “note”, but five times our population, has three prize that perpetually excused him Grail: The Universal Excuse Note. “The devil made me do it.” universities in the top ten of the world; from the cross country. In fact, having From Humanism to Phrenology, social Now, although we’re still reaching for Imperial, Oxford and Cambridge. We been diagnosed with mild dyspraxia, theories and the genome project, we excuses, albeit more “scientific” ones - so need to enable more students to come Sammy’s note was continually updated have quickly hijacked each philosophical, that we can act like the venal selfish here (not less) to experience our way of by his concerned parents, who excused sociological or scientific breakthrough animals that we actually are with some life. Putting a block on Indian students him from all sports for his entire school to furnish more excuses for our own impunity, the very fact that so many of was absurd, silly and short-sighted. If career. uncivilised conduct. us are looking for a “note” means we also we can manage to have prisoners on 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

parole because of some tech wizardry I am sure we can find a solution for overseas students’ passports. It just takes Doctors’ DUDLEY SUTTON’S imagination. Dilemmas I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT In my thesis, given that ISIS took By Peter Burden complete control of Northern Syria and Iraq in 2014, an area bigger than Recently my wife was waiting for a breast England with a annual turnover of at screening at a mobile clinic when she least $2billion, I traced the reaction THE LESSON overheard another woman in an adjacent of the UNO, G7, G20, NATO, booth giving the year of her birth as By William Carlos Williams EU, Interpol, MI6 and a couple of 1932. At 85 the woman had already had international consortia which claimed to a good helping of life. At what point, my have them on their online radar screens. The hydrangea remains wife asked herself, should we say of the I have never read so much tosh. ISIS ceaseless quest for treatment, ‘enough’s pink cheeked nods its head the wanton the dancing used their social media output to recruit, enough’. a paper brain that to radicalise, to teach and to share their There are a lot of reasons for not version of the Muslim faith across the without a skull holding enfolds it trying to extend the life of every citizen world. They did this ruthlessly. Our as far as possible at whatever cost. response was frankly feeble. The prevailing practice of relentlessly a brain intestined a flower I came to the conclusion that we will deferring death has created two looming to the invisible root aloof not defeat either Al-Qaeda; now back cataclysms. The more obvious of these in business in Yemen and Syria, and where Flagrant as a flag is the overpopulation of the globe ISIS online, unless we do two things. beside the rose and acorn it shakes that seamy head and its resultant warming. The other The first is to create the equivalent of imminent crisis in the Western world is Bletchley Park (Enigma et al) and bring the vigorously expanding cost of caring thought lies communal or the world’s best together to become the for people who are old, non-functioning online response arm of the West. The with snaps it drily but still breathing as they become part second is we add a third force to our own the brooding worm from the anchored stem of an ever-expanding, non-contributing MI5 and MI6 and that is an MI7 which section of society. Closer to home, the True but the air and sets it rolling deals just with online terrorism. increasing average age of the British Here in Greece, there is much talk in population has been responsible for the bars and pools that their recession is triggering what might well be one of over. It is not. It has lasted a decade and the greatest economic and sociological it was imposed by France and Germany that must have influenced the decision of disasters in this nation’s recent history being pressed on patients when they are to save their own banking system. It has many of the ‘Leave’ voters. The evidence by the overwhelming ‘leave’ vote of old, statistically not necessary, simply to avoid been the most appalling experience for of the New Testament, for those to uninformed and fearful voters in the a negligence claim against the NHS its people. I read The Economist’s’ views whom this is relevant, is that Jesus would 2016 referendum, when 64% of people should a patient peg out without having about what exactly had happened. I will have been a Remainer. over 65 voted for Brexit. been strongly advised to submit to not detain you further save to commend To return to the case of the 85 year Ironically, this is the same section of sometimes very costly treatment. I turned their headline writers: one story had old woman who had come to the breast the population most likely still to follow down the chance of having the rest of my Greece-y Pole whilst another had Here’s screening clinic…. She had probably, traditional Christian thinking. Have they bowel removed and wearing a colostomy Looking at Euclid. The latter had me like my wife, been invited to do so by thought how Jesus might have voted? bag for the rest of my life. I thought I howling. the local health authority. The benefits would rather go sooner with dignity than Headline writers rarely make news. of their doing this are not obvious. The subject myself to that. As it happened, In the old Daily Telegraph, the headline NHS must be aware by now that they it turned out not to have been necessary, writer of the sports pages used to make should address the question of how much and I had saved the NHS several sure the top left story rhymed with the Jesus Would Have longevity an individual might reasonably thousand pounds. It occurred to me bottom right. I am not sure how many want, expect or demand as of right. And, that a way of the NHS saving its scarce Telegraph readers were aware of the fun Voted Remain it seems, so should society as whole. The resources would be to tell patients that the headline writer had, but it always broad assumption that everyone wants if they opted not to have an expensive brought a smile to my face. or has the right to live as long as possible operation, they would be awarded half In cricket, at least, when it was the It was a significant aspect of Jesus’s (irrespective of the cost) is one that the cost of the treatment. Obviously, I three day version, batsmen used to try teaching that we should aspire to non- needs to be challenged. We must learn haven’t done the complete maths, but and hit one thousand runs in May. tribal relationships with neighbouring to accept that we are all going to die, it could probably save the NHS a very This was rare. In 1981, there was no races; that we should look beyond local and there is no point being frightened significant amount of money, often on cricket at all in May, because of the groupings and embrace all races as of this. Of course, no one wants to leave treatments that were needless anyway, awful weather. But that did not deter siblings in a world family. The story of their children or surviving spouses, or for and if a patient did die as a result of not the great Pakistan batsman, Zaheer the Magi, even if apocryphal, in itself that matter their old friends but we must having it, they would have saved the Abbas scoring a thousand runs in June indicates the desirability of a world as a species acknowledge in a dignified NHS a great deal of money in ongoing for Gloucestershire. The Guardian sports which transcends national sovereignties. way the inevitability of death. In contrast care, and their family all the frustration headline writer ran a wonderful line: In his story of the man who stopped and to the 85 year old, the Radio 5 Live of dealing with a chronically ill, old Happy Days Zaheer again. helped the victim of a wayside robbery, newsreader, Rachel Bland, who died relation hanging on in miserable, often It has been a great sporting summer. Jesus identifies and praises the foreign recently, was 40 and mother of a two year deeply undignified conditions Lewis Hamilton could yet win a fifth Samaritan as not just equal to but better old. She had not been offered automatic world championship at Formula 1; Tiger than the indigenous Judeans who had scanning, so her breast cancer was too Woods, after endless operations and ignored the man they had found by the widely spread before it was discovered. mind games, may yet, in his Autumn wayside, robbed and beaten. Traditionally She died, though, with her dignity years, win another Major; England’s the Jews and Samaritans loathed each admirably intact. soccer team surprised itself in the World other, but Jesus never utters a word of For those, like me, whose bodily parts Cup and we are readying ourselves for disparagement against the Samaritan. He are becoming liable to wear and tear, the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. I is making the point to his listeners that there is an increasingly unlimited amount am not sure why so many countries will they must look beyond loyalty to their of treatment available for most ailments bother to turn up. It looks to me as if the immediate tribe, engage with and interact that will affect us. Sometimes, as I peterburden.net All Blacks will record a third win in a with those outside it. This seems like a have described in a previous piece (see row to keep the cup in perpetuity. clear indictment of the kind of tribalism KCW Today Feb 2018), treatments are www. 14 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk European & International NEWS

the greatest responsibility. Responsibility starts at the top, with the Tatmadaw INTERNATIONAL Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing. Five other military NEWS commanders are also named in the report: the Deputy Commander-in- BY MICHAEL A KOLAROV Chief, Vice Senior-General Soe Win; the Commander, Bureau of Special Operations-3, Lieutenant-General Aung Kyaw Zaw; the Commander, Western Regional Military Command, UN urges Major-General Maung Maung Soe; the Commander, 33rd Light Infantry War Crimes Division, Brigadier-General Aung Aung; the Commander, 99th Light Infantry Investigation in Division, Brigadier-General Than Oo. A longer list of names will be kept in the Myanmar custody of the UN High Commissioner violence; persecution and enslavement. In sources, including through 875 in-depth for Human Rights and can be shared addition, in Rakhine State, the elements interviews with victims and eyewitnesses, with any competent and credible body n August 27th, the United of the crimes against humanity of satellite imagery and authenticated pursuing accountability in line with Nations released the report extermination and deportation are also documents, photographs and videos. international norms and standards. of its fact finding mission present. Specialist advice was sought on sexual The report notes that civilian OIndependent International Fact-Finding “Military necessity would never and gender-based violence, psychology, authorities had little scope to control the Mission on Myanmar. The report said justify killing indiscriminately, gang military affairs and forensics. Only actions of the Tatmadaw. It also finds that Myanmar’s top military generals, raping women, assaulting children, and verified and corroborated information that “through their acts and omissions, including Commander-in-Chief Senior- burning entire villages. The Tatmadaw’s was taken on board. The Mission the civilian authorities have contributed General Min Aung Hlaing, must be tactics are consistently and grossly travelled to Bangladesh, Indonesia, to the commission of atrocity crimes.” investigated and prosecuted for genocide disproportionate to actual security Malaysia, Thailand and the United “The State Counsellor, Daw Aung in the north of Rakhine State, as well as threats, especially in Rakhine State, but Kingdom. San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto for crimes against humanity and war also in northern Myanmar,” the report “The crimes in Rakhine State, and the position as Head of Government, nor her crimes in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states. manner in which they were perpetrated, moral authority, to stem or prevent the States. “They are shocking for the level of are similar in nature, gravity and scope to unfolding events in Rakhine State,” the The report which is currently available denial, normalcy and impunity that those that have allowed genocidal intent report states. through the website of the Office of the is attached to them. The Tatmadaw’s to be established in other contexts,” the Myanmar government spokesman United Nations High Commissioner contempt for human life, integrity and report states. “Factors pointing at such Zaw Htay rejected the UN’s findings for Human Rights (OHCHR) found freedom, and for international law intent include the broader oppressive calling them ‘flawed’ because patterns of gross human rights violations generally, should be a cause of concern context and hate rhetoric; specific investigators had not visited the affected and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine for the entire population.” utterances of commanders and direct region in north of the country. The UN and Shan States that “undoubtedly The Mission also concluded “there perpetrators; exclusionary policies, report however explains that the Fact amount to the gravest crimes under is sufficient information to warrant the including to alter the demographic Finding Mission was never granted international law”, principally by investigation and prosecution of senior composition of Rakhine State; the level access to Myanmar. Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, but officials in the Tatmadaw chain of of organization indicating a plan for According to a report by The also by other security forces. command, so that a competent court can destruction; and the extreme scale and Guardian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate The crimes against humanity determine their liability for genocide in brutality of the violence.” Aung San Suu Kyi used her first public committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine relation to the situation in Rakhine State.” The Mission has drawn up a list of appearance after the report was published States include murder; imprisonment; While the Mission was never granted alleged perpetrators as priority subjects to talk to students about the merits of enforced disappearance; torture; rape, access to Myanmar, the team amassed a for investigation and prosecution, whom Gone With the Wind, and the differences sexual slavery and other forms of sexual vast amount of information from primary it believes had effective control and bear between fiction and non-fiction.

sex among consenting adults in private. announced. Activists and supporters countries where same-sex relations are The ‘crime’ was punishable by 10 years around the world have taken to social still criminalized, thought his number India Supreme in prison, and though rarely invoked, media to congratulate India’s LGBT can now be brought down to 71. Most of Human Rights Groups have long community on the ruling. these countries are in Africa, the Middle Court said that it had been used as a tool of A 2017 report from the International East and other parts of south Asia. The intimidation and harassment against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and report also said that homosexuality Decriminalises LGBT community. Intersex Association (ilga) listed 72 carries the death penalty in eight nations. Judge Indu Malhotra said she Gay Sex believes history owes an apology to the LGBT community for the state sanctioned ostracization they faces for the last century and a half. Justice DY In a unanimous vote on September 6th, Chandrachud said the state had no right the Supreme Court of India, headed to control the private lives of LGBT Bertron © Ludovic Photograph by India’s outgoing chief justice Dipak community members and that the denial Misra, ruled that section 377, a 157-year- of the right sexual orientation was the old colonial-era law which criminalises same as denying the right to privacy. “intercourse against the order of nature”. Although public opinion in urban The ruling overturned a 2013 decision areas has been in favor of decriminalizing which upheld the controversial law. same sex intercourse there is still very The has now ruled that discrimination strong opposition in rural communities on the basis of sexual orientation is a and religious groups from all religions. fundamental violation of rights. Celebrations were held outside the The ruling now effectively allows gay supreme court after the ruling was 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 European & International NEWS

which intercepts the communications of One might naturally arrive at the through Twitter that publishing, sending all of its citizens. The system, known as conclusion that one thing leads to or copying statements of mockery, satire Social Media ‘Deep Packet Inspection’ was provided another and that His Royal Highness and incitement, or anything else that to Irantelecom and intercepts web-based Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin would harm the public order through crack down on communications and archives them for Abdulaziz Al-Saud is influencing people the social media or any other technical Iranian law enforcement officials. at Twitter behind the scenes on the means, would be considered a crime ‘Propaganda’ There do exist a multitude of ways marching orders of the Crown Prince of of information. Anyone producing or to encrypt one’s data traffic and become Saudi Arabia to stamp out the influence distributing such material could face up invisible to Iranian censors and law of anyone speaking out against them to five years in prison and an $800,000 enforcement, and thus gain access to anywhere they have the power to do so. (£623,000) fine. blocked websites. So it is entirely possible Prosecutors have in the past used the At the end of August, Twitter, Facebook, for legitimate users to be caught up in Gulf kingdom's anti-cybercrime law to and Google had announced that they Stamping Out Dissent prosecute critics of the government. But this ban wave. Unfortunately, KCW Today They have in fact been stepping up had taken down a large number of the latest announcement emphasises that cannot independently confirm if all efforts to quash dissent at home. The accounts promoting ‘Iranian propaganda’ satire can now also get social media users accounts banned from the platforms were Saudi Public Prosecution announced with anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro- illegitimate users. into serious trouble. Palestinian themes. Iran currently bans its citizens from accessing Google, Facebook and Twitter and severely The Prince of Twitter throttles the speed of its citizens’ internet It is worth keeping in mind that Twitter's in an attempt to frustrate access to any second largest shareholder is Prince western media. Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al- According to cybersecurity firm Saud, who in 2011 invested $300 million FireEye Inc, which first spotted into the company and now owns 5.2% of the suspicious activity, the alleged it. If you don’t know who he is, or why propaganda campaign made use of this is particularly noteworthy (besides fraudulent social media personas spread the optics of a Saudi Prince owning across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, a huge stake in a company that’s now Google Plus, and YouTube. According cracking down on anti-Saudi propaganda to the companies the campaign was among other things) you should know Iranian-linked and pushed narratives that in 2017, the prince was one of many in line with the country’s interests with wealthy individuals arrested and detained content aimed at users in the United in the luxurious Ritz-Carlton Hotel in States, Britain, Latin America and the Riyadh. CNN and other outlets reported Middle East. that he was released after allegedly Iran also uses a monitoring system coming to a financial settlement with the installed by Nokia Siemens Networks Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman.

the article which The Wall Street Journal take care of their families." Bloomberg obtained and published a story on. After Amazon.com and Walmart that Journal’s story, Nasiripour asked the “Stop BEZOS” employes are infamously poorly paid, News Reporter public relations team at Wells Fargo if Act Introduced with full time workers being paid they would provide him with a copy of salaries which require them to receive Reassigned the memo for his own follow up story by Bernie Sanders federal assistance benefits to make ends in Bloomberg, however, a Wells Fargo meet. Sanders said his office had heard representative declined the request. from "many hundreds" of current and People briefed on the matter told CNN former Amazon workers who have had In a demonstrable display of news outlets Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) about how this led to a heated phone to rely on the Supplemental Nutrition caving to pressure from the big banks introduced legislation in the U.S. conversation between Nasiripour and the Assistance Program, Medicaid and they are meant to hold to account, an Senator on September 5th which Wells Fargo representative. other government programs to cover accomplished Bloomberg News Reporter Following the conversation, if made into law would tax giant their families' basic needs. There is no named Shahien Nasiripour who in march Nasiripour was ordered by Caroline corporations 100% of federal benefits official measure of a ‘living wage,” but wrote an article about Wells Fargo being Gage, the global executive editor for received by their employees in an effort the federal poverty level for a family of the “preferred financier for the U.S. gun finance at Bloomberg News to apologise to to force companies like Amazon and industry” which was published in March the Well Fargo public relations team for Walmart to pay their employees a four is $24,600. 2018. Nasiripour detailed the bank’s his conduct during the call. Nasiripour living wage instead of using taxpayer Bernie Sanders also held a relationship with the National Rifle did so, but tension between Bloomberg funds to subsidize the low wages paid Town Hall meeting in June where Association (NRA). and Wells Fargo remained. to their employees. he invited Jeff Bezos of Amazon, According to the article, Wells Fargo CNN reported, citing people familiar The “Stop Bad Employers by Doug McMillon of Walmart, Steve helped two of the biggest U.S. firearm with the matter, that later in March Zeroing Out Subsidies” Act, named Easterbrook of McDonald’s, and Bob and ammunition companies access Bloomberg News Editor-In-Chief John for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Iger of Disney to attend the town $431.1 million in loans and bonds since Micklethwait ordered Nasiripour to a the world’s wealthiest man with a net hall and face off against a panel of December 2012, when the gun control meeting with him in which he explained worth of nearly $170 billion whose their own workers to take questions debate was raging hot due to the school that Wells Fargo CEO, Timothy J. company has crossed the $1 trillion in and explain their business practices to shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Sloan had personally called him to market cap behind only Apple. them. He also explained that Wells Fargo complain about Nasiripour’s behavior. “In other words, the taxpayers The letters of invitation to the has had a long relationship with the That was when Micklethwait reassigned of this country would no longer be CEOs were signed by nearly two NRA, which it inherited from banks Nasiripour away from the Wells Fargo subsidizing the wealthiest people in dozen members of congress and which it took over. Wells Fargo created beat, and onto the Trump Organization. this country who are paying their predictably the workers faced off with a $28 million line of credit for the Since the incident, three senior workers inadequate wages,” Sanders nothing but the empty seats reserved NRA and operates the NRA’s primary banking reporters have left the news said at a news conference announcing for the CEO’s who failed to appear. accounts. organization. Hugh Son departed for the bill. "Despite low unemployment, Since then, Sen. Sanders has not given Following the publication of that CNBC, Dakin Campbell for Business we end up having tens of millions of up his struggle for the rights of poorly story, Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan Insider, and Laura Keller left for an as- Americans working at wages that are paid workers employed by multi-billion sent a memo to employees responding to yet-unannounced job. just so low that they can't adequately and trillion dollar companies to be paid 16 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

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classmates; my response is that we do not rank children. Of course when Never compare writing references, this will invariably be asked and so I will refer to a quartile your child to only. This measurement is immeasurable as the success of each class holds so another, especially many variables. The ugly phrase, ‘value added’ is actually the most relevant; CAMERON HOUSE SCHOOL not a sibling. and the question that should be asked 4 THE VALE, LONDON SW3 6AH is “how much has my child achieved?” rather than “how do they compare to Headmistress: Dina Mallett The most important aspect of their peers?”. Resist the temptation to T: 020 7352 4040 www.cameronhouseschool.org your child’s learning is how look at other children’s work on the wall in your child’s classroom; read your well he or she is doing for child’s only. Whether they are streets themselves, irrespective of the ahead or striving to catch up with their cohort, place importance on your child’s achievements of any other achievement not attainment. child in the class. Comparing siblings is an absolute no-no. The number of times parents So many times I have been asked have referred to a sibling as ‘the clever where a child is in comparison to their one’ or ‘not as clever as his sister’ is heartbreaking. Stating these comparisons is unfair and may put the so-called ‘less- able’ at risk of fulfilling this prophecy. Children should be taught to strive for their best rather than settle for the A Springboard for Life fact they will never be as successful as their sibling. I have never taught two siblings who were the same, yet the •A Soaring Start siblings I have taught may have shown equal promise, but perhaps in different •Challenging Curriculum curriculum areas. Remember to celebrate every success, •Established Excellence regardless of how big or small and ISI Report “Excellent" in all Categories regardless of how any other child has done. 18 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

also climbed by 0.5 percent from 66.4 in 2017. Students This rise is in spite of major reforms to GCSEs to make them more difficult, excelling despite including more challenging content and less coursework with a focus on exams harder GCSEs after two years. The traditional A* to G By Fahad Redha grade is out and in its place are grades 1 to 9 with 9, which is at the top, being harder to achieve than an A*. Over half a million 16-year olds received their results in late August and 732 of those taking at least 7 subjects took home a grade 9 on affected with an increase of 211 percent Despite changes to GCSEs to make every one. Increase in infant over the same period. Head teachers them harder, the number of students Girls are still outperforming boys are warning that they are being forced getting top marks has risen. All over the making up 62 percent, or more than class sizes to increase class sizes in a bid to cut UK the percentage of students achieving three fifths of those 732, according to of over 30 costs with some saying that they cannot an A grade, or 7 under the new grading the figures from exams regulator Ofqual. replace teachers. Some are also warning system, increased for the first time in That being said, boys are closing the By Fahad Redha that they are having to make teachers seven years to 20.5 percent. Those getting gap which is at its smallest level in eight redundant just to save money and that C, or 4 which is a “standard pass” has years. this is driving the increase in class sizes. The number of infants’ classes in England “These figures confirm the Tories’ “Thanks to with over the legal limit has almost failure to provide a high quality our reforms and doubled in size over the past seven education for all of our country’s the hard work of years, according to Labour. An analysis children,” Shadow Education Secretary teachers,” Schools of House of Commons research has Angela Rayner said. “This situation is minister Nick Gibb revealed that the number of children totally unsustainable. If Ministers really said, “education © Simon Green Photograph aged between five and seven that were in wanted to give every child the education standards are rising classes with more than 30 children has they deserve, they wouldn’t pack so many in our schools and increased by 91 percent. In 2011 there five, six and seven year olds into classes of pupils have shown were 43,130 children in classes with this size.” their abilities by more than 30 but this year that number The same study also predicts pupil achieving excellent has risen to 82,358. Every region in numbers to grow by 4 percent between results today, with so England had seen some increase except 2018 and 2026, warning that unless many pupils meeting for London. teacher numbers grow, class sizes will and exceeding the The West Midlands were most continue to increase. standards we expect.” Advertise with us

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magine how difficult it is for a in film reviews. ‘To cleave’ means to Shirley now Lorraine has gone’, and contained a made-up word that starts foreigner to learn and master both ‘split apart’ and to ‘cling together’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Knock, knock, knockin’ on with the letter ‘e,’ and having reduced English? The pit-falls, the and a children’s zoo does not comprise Karen’s door’ and ‘The ants are my friend’ the number of words from 3,128 to 360 Ipronounciation, the syntax, the tenses, compounds and cages full of kids. In the from Blowin’ in the Wind. Kenny Rogers’ questionable ones, they were reduced the homonyms, synonyms and acronyms English language, there would appear Country and Western dirge is almost further to a short list of six potential all conspire to confound the student. to be a word for everything, including an improvement with ‘You picked a fine mountweazels, and given to a drudge Denis Norden, that doyen of English the medial cleft or vertical indentation time to leave me Lucille; four hundred of lexicographers to ferret out the fake wordsmiths, one half of the BBC 4 on the upper lip, known as a philtrum. children and a dog with no wheels . . .’ one. It turned out to be ‘esquivalience’, programme My Word! with Frank Callipygian means having shapely What on earth did George Gershwin’s defined as ‘the wilful avoidance of one’s Muir, described this mental affliction buttocks, while petrichor is a pleasant, publisher think when he first read, cold, official responsibilities’, and the word has as psychosemantics, which highlighted distinctive smell of the first rain after and without the benefit of phonetics, the since been spotted on Dictionary.com, some of the perplexities of the English a long period of warm, dry weather. lyrics for his new song: ‘You say tomato, which cites Webster’s New Millennium dictionary. For instance, he noted that the Paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in I say tomato; you say potato, I say potato; as its source. Cartographers also use, words ‘vision’ and ‘sight’ are practically which the surprise end of the sentence tomato, tomato; potato, potato; let’s what they term as, ‘trap streets’ or ‘paper synonymous, although telling a girl that causes the reader to re-read the first work the whole thing out’. What’s this, towns’, to unmask plagiarists by copying she looks a vision would not get the same part. A good example of this would be George, clever or something? and re-printing fictional places. In 2001, response as calling her a sight. the famous line from the English writer A couple of friends who own a the Automobile Association agreed to Also, letting her know that she’s looking Hector Hugh Monroe (also known as brewery in West Sussex decided to call settle a case out of court for £20,000,000 cool is a far cry from informing her that Saki,) ‘the cook was a good cook, as their new strong stout Mountweazel, when it was caught copying Ordnance she is not hot. The gulf between ‘he’s cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.’ saying that ‘you know what a Survey maps, although the identifying good-looking’ and ‘he’s looking good’ is There is even a name for mishearing mountweazel is, don’t you?’ Well, no I ‘fingerprints’ were not deliberate errors, generally at least 20 years. He said that phrases, song-titles and lyrics; did not. In the 1975 edition of the New but rather stylistic features such as the there important distinctions between a ‘Mondegreen’ was coined in the fifties by Columbia Encyclopedia and you’ll find an width of roads. lady’s virtue and a lady’s virtues; a woman columnist Sylvia Wright, when she entry for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, Back to mis-heard words, a lady and child as opposed to a woman with misheard the second line of a Scottish a fountain designer turned photographer allegedly phoned the BBC to complain child; an Old Master and an old mistress; folk song ‘Oh, they have slain the Earl who was celebrated for a collection that she had just turned on the radio the difference between a large cat and a o’ Morray and laid him on the green’ as of photographs of rural American and the first words she heard were ‘. . . big cat; a maternity dress and a paternity Lady Mondegreen. An easy mistake to mailboxes titled Flags Up! Mountweazel, and tits like coconuts.’ Outraged, she suit; in America, there is a right to bear make. Rodolpho’s aria to Mimi in La the encyclopedia indicates, was born in immediately turned it off and rang arms, but what about the right to arm Bohème slightly loses it poignancy when Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die ‘at 31 Broadcasting House. It was pointed out bears? it comes out as ‘You’re tiny - and it’s in an explosion while on assignment to her she had tuned into Gardeners’ If we gave the name of Poles to frozen’. Gladly the cross-eyed bear is a for Combustibles magazine.’ Hey, wait Question Time and the panel were talking people who live in Poland, why were the frequently misheard hymn by children, a minute, that sounds a bit fishy! And, about feeding garden birds during the inhabitants of Holland not known as although grown-ups do no better with indeed it is. It was apparently an old long, cold winter months. She could Holes? Flammable has exactly the same ‘God-damned sinners reconciled’ from tradition for encyclopedia compilers have tuned into Quote Unquote and heard meaning as inflammable, which could Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Desmond to put in a fake entry to protect their Groucho Marx saying “Time flies like an lead to an overwhelming disaster, but Dekker and the Aces’ The Israelites is copyright. Word leaked out that the arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” never simply whelming, although the famously misheard as ‘Oh, oh, my ears recently published second edition of word underwhelmed is used liberally are alight’. Others include ‘I can see the New Oxford American Dictionary 20 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

Birmingham City University looks into come out and report it. These included this said, “into detention, but they are not footballer Rio Ferdinand who shared being asked what they have done wrong stories of his “racist abuse” and actress or why. The root causes are not being Tracy Ann-Oberman who experienced addressed,” she said. “We need to listen antisemitism including jokes about the to the children.” Schools must “change Holocaust. their entire culture” she argues, since “There was a joke that used to go around the hierarchical manner in which they about the Yids, how man Yids can you fit operate, which sees children put into in a mini? Six million but they’ve all got sets based on their abilities and grades, to be in the ashtray…things like that,” can encourage bullying. She added that she said. fears of cyber bullying are a “distraction” Olympic medallist and two-time as during her research children have told world champion diver Tom Daley her that "what bothers them is being face said that his experience with bullying to face, sat in a classroom with the same after coming home from the Beijing bully on a daily basis.” Olympics aged 14 almost kept him from The data supports her point, as the continuing with sports. “They took the poll asked 1,003 secondary-age children, mick out of what I was wearing on the and 51 percent were afraid to put their diving board, they would throw stuff at hands up while 40 percent said that me at lunchtime. It became a thing that they were picked on for their academic diving was becoming a burden,” he said. ability. Worryingly, 39 percent said that Since it was launched in 2011, the With 10 million children going back bullying had affected their grades, while Diana Award has trained as much to classes, the poll conducted for the 38 percent had missed school because as 28,000 pupils to be anti-bullying Bullying leaves Diana Award found that 40 percent were they were so afraid. Just over a fifth of ambassadors to combat abuse in 2,500 picked on to such an extent that it had students, 22 percent, said that it had schools around the country. Research children afraid to taken its toll on their grades and even become so severe that they were forced has shown that where they had been return to school left some afraid to put their hands up in to change schools. While there are introduced, they helped to reduce By Fahad Redha class. campaigns in place to combat bullying, bullying, according to Alex Holmes, Despite various laws and measures around 70 percent of parents still think deputy chief executive of the Diana put in place to deal with bullying in that head teachers had not done enough. Award. schools, experts are warning that it The anti-bullying campaign by the Diana “Bullying is something we haven’t has been “normalised” and is still a big Award was set up by Princes William got a grip on as a country,” he said. “It’s a lmost half of children were problem. and Harry in memory of their mother problem that we know won’t go away but worried about returning to school “The way it is being dealt with is by and has received support from over 20 there are things we can put in place that following the school holidays due children being put into isolation,” Dr celebrities who shared stories of their show you can make schools easier and toA bullying, a YouGov poll has found. Elizabeth Nassem, whose research at own in a bid to encourage students to happier places to be.” Take a subscription of KCW TODAY for 2018 and receive a copy delivered

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whenever you wear the green beret. After you’ve registered your interest you will receive an online application form. This is followed by the Naval Service Recruitment Test (NRST) © Crown Photographs that tests you on general reasoning and verbal ability, as well as numeracy and mechanical comprehension. You will then be interviewed to see if you are suitable for the role, after which you have to take medical and eye tests administered by MOD-approved doctors. This is followed by a 2.4km run on a treadmill that must be completed within a certain time. The Potential Royal Marines Course (PRMC) is the final part, a four-day introduction to life as a Royal Marine, your chance to show the instructors that you have what it takes. This will include a number of physical tests that are needed to progress.

For more information visit royalnavy. Do you have what it mod.uk takes to be a Royal Marine? By Fahad Redha

THE ROYAL MARINES are the planet’s most élite amphibious force, with their signature green beret recognisable the world over.

t’s not for everybody, but then again, it wouldn’t be so highly respected if it were. Taking on the most hostile environments and treacherous terrain there is no average day or an average Commando. You would Ihave to be able to adapt to any and every environment, all the while, maintaining the same state of mind and ethos as the rest of your unit. The Marines play a pivotal role in helping those affected by disasters, whether manmade, humanitarian, or naturally occurring. Their missions can be anything from providing aid to amphibious assaults, all the way up to large scale combat operations. From the coldest tundra to the hottest desert, the most hostile jungle and the highest mountain, adaptation is key. You can develop your military skills and go on to become a specialist, whether an armourer or mountain leader, the sky’s the limit. This is a team renowned for unity and brotherhood; the bonds made here can never be broken. As soon as a marine starts training they receive a starting salary of over £14,700. When they get their green beret, this rises up to over £18,000 and could climb as high as £48,000 as their career advances. Certain disciplines entitle the marine to additional pay on top of that. A typical marine would start basic training followed by 32 weeks at CTCRM Lympstone. After that they would join a Commando unit as a General Duties Rifleman which usually lasts for two years. After passing a specialist unit course and Command Course, they would then become Corporal. Passing the Senior Command Course and a specialist course and the marine becomes Sergeant. But as stated before, this is not for everyone. Aside from age, height, and weight restrictions, the Marines are looking for someone who is a real team player who can maintain a positive attitude in the face of adversity and can cope under pressure. Physical fitness goes without saying, but mental robustness is also a must. And don’t think it gets easy after that. You will feel cold, wet, and tired. But you will have a team unlike any you’ve ever known that will support you every step of the way. All of this will be done in the knowledge that your work matters and is making a real difference to the world. The challenge is matched only by the reward and that special feeling you get 22 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

Literature “And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

novelist Neil Gaiman and Japanese to consider the final four authors before to the New Academy, writing about literary superstar Haruki Murakami. announcing a winner in October. “how colonialism has changed the world Anniversary The New Academy prize in literature Announcing their finalists, the New and how those affected take back their was established after the scandal that Academy said Gaiman, whose works heritage”. Kim Thúy, who was born in rocked the Swedish Academy this year, range from the seminal graphic novel Saigon and grew up in Canada, is the when the husband of one of its members Sandman to the award-winning children’s final nominee. “Her stories paint the was accused of sexual assault and this title The Graveyard Book, was “a true colours of Vietnam and the scents and The New Nobel year’s Nobel was subsequently suspended superstar in the fantasy community”. flavours too, as well as the perils of exile due to “reduced public confidence”. Gaiman tweeted that he was “thrilled” to and search for identity,” said the New prize The alternative Nobel follows the same be on the shortlist. “Winning would not Academy. By Max Feldman schedule as the original award, but rather make me any happier than being on that The New Academy prize seeks to than a secretive and small panel selecting list makes me. So I don’t think of it as reward a writer who tells the story of the winner, the New Academy, made being up against opponents, just as being “humans in the world”, in comparison hile the scandal-ridden up of more than 100 Swedish cultural in glorious and honoured company,” he with the Swedish Academy members, Swedish Academy searches figures, asked Sweden’s librarians for wrote. who select the Nobel winner producing its soul after the cancellation nominations. Murakami, frequently a frontrunner “the most outstanding work in an ideal ofW this year’s Nobel prize for literature, The 47 names put forward were for the Nobel prize for literature, is direction”. a replacement award set up by a host of opened up to a public vote, with an “one of our most celebrated authors “The New Academy was founded Swedish cultural figures has unveiled a expert jury, chaired by editor and and translators” said the New Academy, to ensure that an international literary shortlist that includes British fantasy independent publisher Ann Pålsson, set whose work, which includes the novels prize will be awarded in 2018, but also Norwegian Wood as a reminder that literature should be and The Wind-Up associated with democracy, openness, Bird Chronicle, empathy and respect,” said the New “fuses pop culture Academy, which will be dissolved in with a fierce magic December, once the prize has been realism”. presented. The shortlist “In a time when human values are

is completed with increasingly being called into question, © Nobe Organisation Photographs two female writers. literature becomes the counterforce of The novelist oppression and a code of silence. It is Maryse Condé, now more important than ever that the whose works world’s greatest literary prize should be include Desirada awarded.” and Segu, is “one No Nobel prize for literature will of the Caribbean’s be awarded in 2018, with the Swedish most outstanding Academy tentatively planning to authors”, according announce two winners in 2019.

Hunter, a novel which would capture the qualities they desperately hunger onto that makes the novels vision impossible public imagination and prove impossible him, loving Singer with a desperate to forget. McCullers was immediately The Heart is a for her to top. She was all of 20 when she neediness that is closer to a kind of catapulted to literary super-stardom after began it and 23 when she sent it to the religious mania than a friendship. For the novels release and never got over Lonely Hunter publisher, a fact that is less inspirational his own part Singer, who is unable to it. Beset by a series of strokes she was than agonising; people have been put on understand why these people seek him described by an otherwise sympathetic trial for witchcraft for less.Regardless out, idolises the absent Antonapoulos biographer as “sickly, paralyzed, alcoholic Much like Orson Welles, Carson of such jealous accusations of precocity, in exactly the same manner. McCullers and depressed” who passed away early at McCullers [nee Lula Carson Smith] Hunter is a remarkably accomplished evokes the inherent loneliness that age 50. She never wrote a book as good spent her childhood being repeatedly work. McCullers traces the hapless bleeds out of the unromantic reality of as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter again, but informed that she was a wunderkind par lives of five townspeople, all of whom small town life with a lyrical intensity then who does? Max Feldman excellence. Born in the 1917 in the rather are inexplicably drawn to a provincial Southern city of Columbus, deaf-mute named John Singer. Georgia, her future success was less There is the young Mick Kelly, prophesied than regally decreed by her a teenage girl who dreams rather overbearing mother. As a result it of making it big as a concert was something of a shock when Carson, pianist (McCullers had a real whose childhood idea of chit-chat was aversion to not appearing in haughtily informing her playmates ‘I her own fiction it would seem); shall be rich and famous’, decided at 17 Biff Bannon, the middle- that she lacked the necessary talent for class owner of a local cafe; her chosen profession of concert pianist. Jake Blount, a whiskey ruined Most children who crack beneath their communist and Dr Benedict parents ambitions tend to go off the rails, Copeland, the town’s African but whether through internal strength or American doctor who rails simply a lack of particularly enervating against the inequities of a racist options for debauchery in Columbus society, but is helpless against circa the 30s, Carson set herself to them. As they all interact with writing fiction and realised that she had Singer, they fail to notice his found her metier. pain or that he is mourning a After writing some short stories (the loss of his own: the banishment first, revealingly titled The Wunderkind, of his similarly deaf mute friend was about a child ‘prodigy’ who realises Spiros Antonapoulos to an that she lacks the talent to be a concert insane asylum. pianist. Wherever did this crazy kid get Singer’s deaf mute status her ideas?!) she started work on her first means that each of these lonely published novel The Heart Is a Lonely characters can place whichever 23 September 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

EPTEMBER’S POETRY So stands it when the morning light First steals upon the skies; PAGE turns its attentions to And shadow'd by the fallen night, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the The sleeping city lies. rise of the 19th Century Poetess. It stands with darkness round it cast, Touched by the first cold shine; Vast, vague, and mighty as the past, hilst William Blake, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Of which it is the shrine. SShelly were tackling philosophical themes on innocenceW and experience, the country versus the city, and 'Tis lovely when the moonlight falls idealism and revolution, there was a movement amongst Around the sculptured stone ladies of the self-made middle classes toward the Sister Giving a softness to the walls, Arts. Poetry, Painting and Sculpture were art forms that Like love that mourns the gone. appealed to the amateur genteel lady. As the female of the species there were of course conditions. In areas Then comes the gentlest influence primarily reserved for men, the poetess was required to The human heart can know, take into consideration certain social mores and concepts of The mourning over those gone hence femininity in her verse. Pastoral scenes and home, family, To the still dust below. marriage and faith were considered suitable subjects for women writers, and newspapers like the fashionable The smoke, the noise, the dust of day, Morning Post became littered with sentimental verse. As Have vanished from the scene; the popularity of the poetess grew, the marketplace soon The pale lamps gleam with spirit ray O'er the park's sweeping green. became saturated with small anthologies of poesy known as literary annuals and gift books. The Keepsake, Literary Sad shining on her lonely path, Souvenir and Friendship’s Offering were some of the most The moon's calm smile above, popular during the 1820s and 30s. The annuals contained Seems as it lulled life's toil and wrath collections of short stories, essays, etchings and poetry and With universal love. as their titles suggest, were designed to be bought as gifts rather than to be read by the purchaser. Past that still hour, and its pale moon, There were however, a number of poetesses who The city is alive; showed a real talent for writing poetry at this time, who It is the busy hour of noon, found ways to challenge the patriarchal values that were When man must seek and strive. imposed upon them, and who went on to have successful literary careers. The annuals provided poetesses with a way The pressure of our actual life to break through obstacles placed in the way by blatant Is on the waking brow; misogyny by offering up poems to editors to be considered Labour and care, endurance, strife, for publication alongside their male literary heroes. These are around him now. Sharing the page with a Wordsworth, Byron or Shelley meant there was an opportunity to be taken seriously as How wonderful the common street, a poet. For example, one of the most famous contributors Its tumult and its throng, to the Literary Annuals was Letitia Elizabeth Landon The hurrying of the thousand feet (1802-1838). The contents pages of The Keepsake from That bear life’s cares along. 1829 shows Landon published alongside a number of famous male poets of the day, including; Sir Walter Scott, How strongly is the present felt, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, W. Wordsworth, With such a scene beside; R. Southey, S. T. Coleridge, William Roscoe, Percy Bysshe All sounds in one vast murmur melt Shelley, Theodore Hook, J. G. Lockhart, T. Crofton The thunder of the tide. Croker, Mrs. Hemans, “and the authors of Frankenstein”. L. E. L. as she would become famously know, was All hurry on—none pause to look born in Chelsea to John and Catherine Landon. The Upon another's face: young and rather precocious child showed a flair for The present is an open book reading and writing from an early age. By 1820, Landon, None read, yet all must trace. had attracted the attentions of Wiliam Jerden, editor of The poor man hurries on his race, the Literary Gazette. He described her poems as ‘original His daily bread to find; and extraordinary’ and soon offered to publish her work. Scenes in London 1: The rich man has yet wearier chase, After publishing one of Landon’s poems under the single For pleasure's hard to bind. letter ‘L’, Jerden went onto publish 2 more but this time Piccadilly poem assigning the initials L. E. L. to the works. The public By L. E. L All hurry, though it is to pass fascination with who the mysterious L. E. L might be For which they live so fast— was a stroke of marketing genius. Edward Bulwer Lytton What doth the present but amass, once wrote that he and his friend would “rush every The wealth that makes the past. Saturday afternoon for the Literary Gazette, (with) an impatient anxiety to hasten at once to that corner of the THE sun is on the crowded street, The past is round us—those old spires sheet which contained the three magical letters L.E.L. It kindles those old towers; That glimmer o'er our head; And all of us praised the verse, and all of us guessed at Where England’s noblest memories meet, Not from the present is their fires, the author. We soon learned it was a female, and our Of old historic hours. Their light is from the dead. admiration was doubled, and our conjectures tripled”. As Landon’s popularity grew she had positioned herself to be Vast, shadowy, dark, and indistinct, But for the past, the present's powers recognised as a poet in her own right. Being the mistress Tradition's giant fane, Were waste of toil and mind; of your own volume of poetry gave Landon credibility and Whereto a thousand years are linked, But for those long and glorious hours she has been the subject of much critical debate up to the In one electric chain. Which leave themselves behind. present day. Compiled & Edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD 24 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

roving around analysing soil, geology and of course looking for evidence of water. Up above, in orbit are Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars MarsBy Scott Beadle FRAS Odyssey, Maven, and Mangalyaan all studying a variety of disciplines from atmospherics, pressure, radiation, climate, minerology, planetary structure etc. There are many more missions in the pipeline for the 2020/30 decade all leading up to the possibility of a manned mission and ultimately a colony on Mars. Elon Musk and his company Space X have an ambitious plan to be the first to the Red planet, to establish a secure base, then a viable colony and then further down the line, terraforming the planet! The latest discovery is very exciting as ESA’s Mars Express has used signals bounced through underground layers of ice to find evidence of a body of water buried below the south polar ice cap, using the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding Instrument, MARSIS. In the illustration below the 200km Right: Showing South Pole in summer with permanent ice cap square study area is indicated in the ©NASA/ Hubble Heritage Team left-hand image and the radar footprints Bottom: Context map: NASA/Viking, THEMIS background. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ on the surface are indicated in the Arizona University. © MARSIS: ESA/ NASA/ JPL middle image for multiple orbits. The greyscale background image is a Thermal Emissions Imaging System (THEMIS) own here in southern Spain, lines seemingly etched across Mars’ Wealthy Bostonian and astronomer from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiting the views of Mars as it made shimmering ochre disk, igniting Percival Lowell mapped in great detail spacecraft, and highlights the underlying its closest and brightest controversy over the existence of this planet girdling canal system and topography. A subsurface radar profile is approach in 15 years on 27th July, were extraterrestrial life. In 1666 Giovanni deduced that Mars was a dying planet, shown in the right-hand panel for one D of the Mars orbits. The bright horizontal spectacular, and as I write this, it still Cassini spotted the planets’ north and whose inhabitants were trying to stave dominates the southern sky, shining at south polar ice caps. In 1784 Sir William off the ever-encroaching desert. feature at the top represents the icy magnitude -2.1 in the constellation of Herschel determined that Mars had It was this doomsday scenario that surface of Mars in this region. The south Capricornus. an axial tilt similar to Earth’s, thus, it lead to books such as War of the Worlds in polar layered deposits, layers of ice and I’m observing with my old 105mm had seasons. It was also seen to have 1898. dust, are seen to a depth of 1.5kms. Vixen refractor, but although viewing an atmosphere leading to Herschel Up until 1964 Mars was still being Below is a base layer that is, in some conditions here are excellent, I can’t see speculating “its inhabitants probably promoted by authors, artists, filmmakers areas, even brighter than the surface much detail as there has been a planet enjoy a situation in many respects similar as earthlike, with an almost breathable reflections, highlighted in blue, while in engulfing dust storm covering most of to ours.” thin atmosphere, canals, water and edible other places is rather diffuse. Analysing the planet since May, nonetheless it’s still In the centuries that followed maps vegetation. the details of the reflected signals from worth watching as I get a much better were produced of surface features. The Since the first visit by Mariner 4 in the base layers yield properties that view here than from England, as I’m 30 Italian astronomer Schiaparelli sketched 1965 we now know that Mars is a very correspond to liquid water. Due to Mars’s degrees further south, so Mars is much lines and markings that he thought he beautiful, desolate place, a barren, hostile extreme temperature range from 30C to higher in the night sky. could see through his 220mm reflector world, yet more complex and fascinating -140C at the poles (Mean Temp. -63C), In the years before spacecraft probed and called them canali meaning than ever. It has been visited by many it is almost certain to have a very high the Martian surface, observers put eyeball channels or grooves. This was completely missions since then and this period salinity which acts like an antifreeze. to eyepiece and reached some outlandish mistranslated in English into ‘canals’ really can be called ‘The Reign of the A final point concerning the conclusions. suggesting an artificial construct, and Robots’, robotic autonomous craft. Some colonization of Mars. Science fiction Some saw vast areas of vegetation, thus furthering speculation as to the are Landers such as Opportunity and writers have long featured ‘terraforming’, others using telescopes glimpsed existence of Martians! its much bigger cousin Curiosity both the process of creating an earthlike or habitable planet in their stories. Scientists themselves have proposed terraforming to enable long term colonization of Mars. A solution common to both groups is to release carbon dioxide gas trapped in the Martian poles, to thicken the atmosphere as a blanket to warm the planet. Unfortunately there simply isn’t enough CO2 left to achieve this. Elon Musk has proposed exploding multiple thermonuclear bombs at each pole to melt the ice caps and release the carbon dioxide gas…ahem, I think that is a bad, very bad idea. Terraforming the inhospitable Martian environment into a place people could explore without life support is not possible without technology well beyond today’s capabilities. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the

rainbow.” Fleece Veedon © Photographs Kahlil Gibran.

OLOUR IS IMPORTANT. It has always been important,” says Adam Gilchrist founder “andC owner of Veedon Fleece, the purely bespoke, high end luxury rug design company. Since the company’s earliest inception colour interwoven with detail, quality and luxury have clearly become his raison d’être. “We have a fairly defined client base who are design professionals within the industry,who tend to create excellence on an international basis and are looking for something different.” At the high end of textile design, there is no counterpoint to luxury, especially in an industry where clients can call the tune to whatsoever they "We never have and We also hand wash the wool ourselves desire, and if the world is your oyster, never will employ to keep as much of the natural goodness. In our opinion, over processed wool is then the ultimate luxury is surely a weavers under the Veedon Fleece custom made, bespoke spoilt and therefore not allowed into carpet or rug. This is the haute couture age of 15, and 150 our workshops. Neither do we blend of carpet design. At Veedon Fleece the knots per square our best wool with less costly New art of the woven carpet reaches beyond Zealand wool. There is very little point in functionality and immediate visual inch is enough. trying to save a little on the ingredients satisfaction; it is a fully immersive Really it’s enough." when you are producing leading quality sensuous experience, which speaks of bespoke carpets. Our wool is so carefully superior quality and longevity. It is an sourced that we even developed the immersion in richness of tones and seven Natural Colours of Wool, un- texture; in sumptuous colours of the dyed natural colours, available from the subtlest aesthetic languages. This is Himalayan range.” quality and design at its best. Imagine It is perhaps this very clever plunging your senses into a custom made, Top: combination of blending that makes Slides commission, Veedon Fleece so unique. A precise handwoven carpet created from the finest Bannenberg & Rowell Design golden Muga silk, the softest pashmina, Left: understanding of colour palette and Hermione Skye selecting the finest yarns that helps or the ultimate luxury; a rug made from Top right: a blend of hand carded silk and wool. Damask commission create each one-off bespoke carpet in These rugs are the pearl in the oyster. Christopher Chanond the signature Veedon Fleece silk and wool Always striving for something better, so special. “It starts with silk highlights always looking for something special, it of the best quality antique carpets. It staunch defender of his ethical child in a Veedon or best Tibetan wool carpet took Adam Gilchrist over 10 years to is this exceptional Veedon quality that labour values which he has emphatically and continues to the point where some source the best quality Tibetan wool and allows the translation of any design, instilled and maintained since the outset. 60% of the design can be in silk. This the finest golden silk produced in the be it contemporary or classical, into a In part, luxury carpets are dependent on application works particularly well with mountains of Assam, to satisfy not only carpet that is literally fit for a king or the quantity and size of knots per square Veedon Fleece’s damask and especially their discerning clientele but their own queen. In fact designing for royalty is no inch. “Every tiny stitch is a hand tied when working with a single colour, strict quality control. But what exactly exaggeration, and though he keeps his knot,” explains Adam. “It can be done the silk reflecting the light to allow yet is Veedon Fleece? Where does the name little black book quietly under wraps, with child labour, however by the time another shade, superb en grisaille.” come from? “Through our development this is an international designer whose a weaver is 15 years old, they are half Adam Gilchrist has a certain cachet. of the yarns, it led to the creation of a clientele spans the ages, from rock stars, blind with the hands of a man. In the He has rich undertones in his thinking. unique fibre. It is so wonderful, we gave it heads of states, to fashion houses and early 1990’s we were the first to say no Some might claim he has vision, but our name Veedon as it really is a material press barons; add a sprinkling of super to child labour and it was not received not many people could apply their that we believe is second to none,’’ yachts, ‘we are on board three of the top well by the industry. We never have and imagination and aesthetic understanding explains Adam. 10 largest super yachts in the world,’ a never will employ weavers under the age with such dogged determination to travel Over the course of twenty-five years, dash of English aristocracy and Middle of 15 and 150 knots per square inch is to Tibet, source and actually produce together with his wife Clare, he has Eastern royalty, you have the picture. enough. Really it’s enough.’’ It should something of such luxurious quality from painstakingly sourced and developed Which brings us to the name Veedon be noted that it is not just the high their mind’s eye. He may not have drunk the most luxurious wool and silk Fleece ; an adapted title borrowed from knot count that contributes to making the rainbow but he has certainly captured combinations that can be found. Silk, Van Morrison’s 1974 studio album. Veedon Fleece the leading quality rug some of its magnificent colours in his combined with the best Tibetan wool is But Adam Gilchrist is no hijacker of producer from Nepal, but it is also the sumptuous carpets. hand carded and carefully blended before ideas. He is an original thinker in his quantity of the best quality wool which being hand spun and then dyed, creating own field, as well as an entrepreneur is used. There are ten different grades of Jane Duncan a carpet with a subtle lustre and patina of luxury and excellence. He is also a Tibetan wool. “We only use the best. www.jddesignlondon.com 26 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Autumn edition, 2-7 October 2018, Battersea Park, London Japonism and Its Influence on European Interiors

ondon’s chicest, and largest, and objects flooded in to Europe, eagerly antiques and period design event, collected by an entranced audience. The the Autumn 2018 Decorative art they found in prints, lacquerware, LAntiques & Textiles Fair (2-7 October at carvings, and the decoration of ceramics, Battersea Park London) The Decorative influenced the leaders of the Aesthetic Antiques & Textiles Fair, returns for Movement in Britain, the originators of its Autumn edition from 2-7 October Art Nouveau across the Continent, and 2018 at Battersea Park, London. More in more recent times, minimalism. All than 160 dealers from across the UK works displayed will be for sale. and Europe congregate at this important Whilst interior fashions have come time in the design calendar to offer one and gone, the Fair has long ploughed of the largest arrays of antiques, works its own distinct furrow, offering a of art and decorative objects on display, relaxed, exciting and beautifully-styled dating from the 17th century to around environment to inspire customers, new 1970. and experienced. Quite different to Launched in 1985, the Decorative any other antiques Fair in the UK, its Antiques & Textiles Fair is the foremost informal vibe and friendly atmosphere antiques event for the design trade. is renowned internationally, as is its It was the first major London fair to unique welcome to well-behaved dogs. combine formal and decorative antiques The thrice-yearly Decorative Fair dates with art and accessories for the interior are a firm fixture in the diaries of leading decorating buyer, and one of the earliest international designers and decorators antiques events to introduce post- and private buyers shopping for war and mid-century modern design, distinctive, unusual and individual items repurposed antiques and contemporary for their home. art, and has always offered industrial and salvaged architectural antiques. Opening Times: Fine examples of every interior Tuesday 12pm-8pm style can be found, from early country Wednesday & Thursday 11am-8pm Lot 1140: Impressive George IV silver gilt, Campana shaped furniture to post-war modernism, and Friday & Saturday 11am-7pm vase and cover by John Edward Terrey, London 1824. garden antiques. This year, the Autumn Sunday 11am- 6pm Estimate: £10,000-15,000 Fair will broaden its scope further Admission: £10.00 at the door (catalogue with the addition of a new section gives re-admission throughout the week), Jewellery, Watches & Coins: 12 September encompassing recent and contemporary or register at www.decorativefair.com to fine design and the decorative and join the mailing list for free tickets. Silver, Antiques & Fine Art: 13 September applied arts. Venue: Battersea Evolution, Battersea The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Park, London (the venue has no Clocks & Antique Furniture: 14 September Fair has announced this year’s concept postcode, for Satnav use SW8 4NW) will include showing visitors how to use entrance at Chelsea Bridge Gate. period design in their own homes, and at Transport: A free shuttle service from Viewing: Saturday 8 September: 10am-2pm each event, an eagerly anticipated Foyer outside the Sloane Square Hotel runs Stand at the entrance to the Fair creates regularly to and from the Fair during Monday 10 September: 9am-5pm a vibrant, commercially-styled ‘look’ opening hours. focusing on an aspect or period of design Enquiries: +44 (0)20 7616 9327 or Tuesday 11 September: 9am-7pm for sale from exhibitors. Using dealers [email protected] Days of sale stock, this Autumn the Foyer Stand will The Decorative Antiques demonstrate the influence of Japonism & Textiles Fair 2019 on European interiors. From the 1850s Dates: Winter Fair: 22-27 January when Japan opened its ports after 200 Spring Fair: 9-14 April years as a closed country, Japanese art Autumn Fair: 1-6 October 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

had formerly belonged to Bernard Michael Francis died in London in 2009 Michael Francis Hailstone, the English war portraitist, and was followed shortly after by Jo. at Lots Road and before him Charles Rennie Approximately 40 lots of Francis’s Mackintosh. works will be up for sale at Lots Road It was whilst working there, and Auctions on Sunday 30th September. making regular trips to Italy, where he Please keep an eye on lotsroad.com for shared a house with his supportive wife, forthcoming details. All proceeds will go Jo, that Francis’ work developed into a to the RAF Benevolent Fund.. mature style. Inspired by the Futurists, Born in 1922, artist Michael and Gino Severini in particular, he Lot 501: turned his attention to finding ‘new MICHAEL VINCENT FRANCIS Red Francis lived and worked in shapes to express (his) sensations’ and in in balance, 1958, oil on canvas, exhibited Chelsea for most of his adult doing so created work which critic Peter at the Art Exhibition Bureau. Lewis described as ‘pure geometric shape, £300-500 life, after a rural upbringing in constituting the basics of nature’. Hampshire. Francis’ talents were also recognised Lot 512: by his friend Mr Young, of Young’s MICHAEL VINCENT FRANCIS Self n 1941, at the age of 19, Francis Brewery, who commissioned him to Self portrait, 1946, oil on canvas entered the RAF and was to serve design a large number of pub signs. £200-300 until 1945 as a Spitfire pilot. His Iexperiences during this time were to a voice for the antipathy he felt for war shape him and to mould his attitudes and produced angry, heavy works with and opinions for the rest of his life. He elements of collage and realism. would always feel a sense of camaraderie One can detect in these post-war with those with whom he had fought works, a desire to make sense of the and yet, for conflict itself, he was left destruction and pain of conflict, but with a bitter distaste. gradually, via a ‘Journey of Discovery’, Pre-war, the young Francis had drawn as he termed it, Francis entered a new and painted, producing works mainly period of total abstraction, by which he in an academic, figurative style. After was able to ‘adventure into an unknown leaving the RAF, he joined the Slade world’. His works from this period, such School of Art and began a period of as Red In Balance brought him acclaim experimentation with abstraction. He and, in March 1961, he was featured on later said “One of my main aims has been the front cover of Apollo magazine. combining abstract and figurative so that In the early 1970’s Francis moved neither loses their power and vigour”. from the Rosetti Studios in Flood Street Through this duality of styles he found to another studio in Glebe Place, which

71 Lots Road, SW10 0RN 020 7376 6800 LOTS ROAD www.lotsroad.com AUCTIONS [email protected]

Charles II Chest, circa 1680 Ole Wenscher Chest, 1950’s Apothecary Jar, 17th Century Daum Decanter, 20th Century Estimated: £350-500 Estimated: £800-1200 Sold: £450 Estimated: £350-500

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Chief Justice and hanged Sir Walter Raleigh and Guy Fawkes. He took the The de Savary chair on top of his carriage when visiting Assizes around the country and sat on it way when he passed sentence”.

“I like older people too. They have real de Savary © Peter Photograph By Kate Hawthorne character, more personality, more history; they are better companions”. “When you look death in the eye twice you know that nothing’s going with you and life is but a thread. It’s a pretty tenuous thing we’re hanging LIGHTING at a small station, onto. I’m at a crossroads, I was 74 last in an area known for its July. Do I step away from the back ‘outstanding natural beauty’, a red breaking of greenfield start-ups, turning series 3, 1963 Jaguar XKE was waiting in something into a silk purse that’s a A long way from that, rehabilitating, the forecourt. The roof was down and the door held open by an impeccably dressed giving a new lease of life, a raison d’être, young man. “Please do get in” he said. I sustainability for the future, preservation? did. It was a wonderful English sunny All these are very positive, exhilarating, day and Jason, the driver, was taking me fascinating challenges. Or do I now to learn about the de Savary Way. enjoy the luxuries and pleasures of life, How did Peter John de Savary spending time with my children and become one of the world’s most serial grandchildren? Should I be a tourist? I’ve entrepreneurs? never gone anywhere as a tourist”. Leaving Charterhouse at 16, with “I can argue the case satisfactorily an O level in Scripture, Peter de Savary with myself either way. There’s no winner worked his way through multiple hotel, small enough to give guests are breathtakingly beautiful all year or loser in it, but I have to be realistic. I industries consuming new skills at exclusive private space. I gave it a cachet, round. There are around 38 of us and we won’t be here forever. If I take on new every opportunity; petroleum, shipping, made it into a club and a secret. Now sometimes spend our family Christmas projects they may not be completed. I’m property, import, export, club and everybody has clubs, but in the 70s they there. The teenagers swim on Christmas not a proponent of dithering and for the hospitality. were either seedy or sordid, nightclubs. and Boxing day jumping off the pier into first time in my lifetime and career I am At the age of 8 a skipper taught My idea offered super exclusivity with the freezing cold sea. It is a wonderful dithering.” him how to steer a boat, a love he the finest hospitality, a lifestyle of quality, Christmas.” “With age you have to take other later pursued by participating in the value, luxury and charm”. They have a hotel in South Wales things into account, think more about seventeen national Admirals Cup in “The world lacks hotels where owners which is very different to the Cary Arms others. How are your family are going 1981 and leading the British team for the are hands-on today. They are owned or their other resorts. to deal with projects they may not be America’s Cup Challenge in 1983. by corporates or investors whose sole “Last year we won Wales in Bloom interested in or qualified to handle or De Savary’s work has spanned nearly six purpose is financial gain, knocking out which was good considering Wales cause a headache. Will they be taken decades, three continents and many fields the soul, emotion or passion. Gone are has some beautiful gardens. It has 82 advantage of by advisers, huge fees from of industry including the regeneration of family owners who loved and cared bedrooms, and caters for 400 Christmas lawyers and accountants and so on.” industrial waste lands, shipping, oil and about them. It was their way of life, lunches. It is run by a Welsh girl, her We break for lunch at The Merry agricultural. not a job, or investment. Their devotion mother and her daughter, so three Harriers Inn, which is (literally) Peter’s Ventures include real estate, hotels, was evident in everything, the flower generations of women and they do a local, and the only inn in England with leisure amenities, golf, equestrian, arrangements or the gardens. Nowadays brilliant job”. picnic llama treks. Driver Jason is there restaurants, yachts, marinas, private investors strip out the herbaceous He is an avid supporter of doubling up on duties, laying out a new membership clubs and even castles. He borders. We’re becoming more apprenticeships believing the young need garden chess board and pieces. Multi- creates the vision and the infrastructure; homogenised, clinicalised, robotised, to learn projects and management skills tasking, another de Savary work ethic. engineering, permitting, construction, computerised, losing character, the slight to equip them in life and the work place. The Merry Harrier’s origins date back to furnishing and landscaping. Financing, eccentric experience, a touch of humour, “They need real experience, work the 16th century and is run by husband training, operational management, or the touch of sensitivity”. ethics. Work will take up a large and wife team, Sam and Danielle marketing and sales are all part of the de Today the de Savary’s own 7 proportion of their lives. There are not Page. The herd of twelve gentle and Savary turnkey formula. properties, one in Grenada. enough provisions to equip them for affectionate llamas live in the paddocks What is the key to this success? “My wife and I are passionate about this”. behind the Inn and will carry you and “Lots of hard work, persistence, lateral our hotels, making them into homes He cites a recent question on your picnic through stunning trails of the thinking and a passion for what I we would like to live in. We both love television’s University Challenge; Greensand Way. do,” says de Savary, “and focusing on and respect gardens, wild life, the “Which one of the following four Lunch, made from fresh local motivating others to play their part environment, tradition and history. universities has a course in Harry Potter?” produce, was interspersed with successfully. People are born with We care about people enjoying “ I said to my wife no university is rearranging garden furniture, discussions creativity. You can learn to be creative to themselves. It’s a major motive. A kind of going to have a course in Harry Potter, I with the staff about the garden’s watering a degree but if it’s not in your DNA you art form, the intangible ambience of the mean the next thing they’ll say is there system and directing builders and will be less creatively successful”. place. It’s very fulfilling when people say a course in James Bond. Guess what? landscape gardeners digging an adjacent “I started in 1976 with a large 5-star they love staying in our properties. Like There is”. trench. hotel just outside Cairo continuing with an actor may feel at the end of a play “I’m old fashioned, I like old cars, Peter de Savary creates the vision, locations around the world”. when they receive an ovation, that’s more old furniture, old paintings, old boats. I builds, renovates, motivates and “In 1979 I opened the first St James’s important than the money they get paid”. like old houses. The Domesday Book was masterminds its success. His hard work Clubs in London then Paris. In the 70s The Cary Arms in Devon is his written in one of my homes. I have an is ceaseless and admirable, his knowledge 5 star hotels were large and grand and I favourite. “It sits in Babbacombe Bay on old chair that belonged to the 1600s first-hand and formidable. It has come saw a niche for the affluent, chic boutique the South Devon coast and the views hanging judge Popham. He was Lord from doing it himself and it shows. 30 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT

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and borrowers aren’t asking about Welch © Clayton Photograph insurance options. n recent years we’ve become wary of “Many people don’t want to think answering the phone in case we hear about the possibility of losing their those dreaded words: “You may have income stream,” said Steven. “And if they been mis-sold PPI” do, they go for life insurance because it’s I much cheaper. But the reason for that is The mis-selling of payment protection insurance, along with the you’re much more likely to fall ill than subsequent claims bandwagon, have die, in the short term.” given all forms of payment protection The cost of critical illness cover will cover a bad name, but there is one depend on age, health and income, so a important area where cover could protect mortgage-holder should look for a policy you, your loved ones and your home: to suit their circumstances. mortgage payment protection insurance Someone working for an employer against death or critical illness. offering comprehensive sickness cover Mortgage protection consultant can find a cheaper policy because they Steven Miller of Clayton-Welch are much less likely to make a claim than Associates believes that only around 10- someone relying on statutory sick pay. 15% of borrowers nationwide take out Cost can also be reduced by taking out mortgage payment protection insurance part income cover, just for mortgage and (MPPI). With more than 15 years’ utility bill payments. experience in the mortgage industry, he PPI mis-selling exposed sharp believes this figure is too low. practices in the finance industry; it would “The average UK family only has a be another scandal if mistrust or lack of couple of months’ savings,” he said. “But information prevented homeowners from you might be waiting several months for protecting their most important and an operation and then spend two months valuable assets. recovering. Once your savings have gone and you can’t make your mortgage Clayton Welch Associates repayments any more, you’re at risk of www.clayton-welch.com repossession, whether you’ve been ill or T: 020 7917 9582

of a weekly vice that you could forego generation, but at a sharper and see how much you could save in 10 rate. years? If you buy a coffee a day for £2.50, Where someone born in the 1960s had you could save £912 over the year. If you a 45% chance of owning a home by the save that over 10 years, that would be Photograph © Robert Gardner © Robert Photograph age of 25 years old, a 27-year-old today is £9,250. Put that into a LISA and the only 25% likely, 8% lower than someone government would give you 25p for every born just five years earlier. pound”. Undeterred by this gloomy outlook, A LISA, or Lifetime ISA, is a longer- Rob Gardner, a serial entrepreneur, term, tax-free account that allows Brits campaigner and author, wants to give between the ages of 18 and 39 to deposit millennials a fighting chance. In an as much as £4,000 per year. In return, increasingly nebulous financial landscape, the government adds a free 25% bonus Gardner’s mission is to ‘demystify on top. Thus, for every £4,000 saved financial planning for everyone’ so that annually, the government adds another they can achieve a financially secure £1,000. future. Gardner acknowledges the According to Gardner, there is a laundry list of challenges that millennials trade-off for young professionals in face in today’s housing market, but London looking to buy their first house. owning a home is not a dream out of “You have to choose between being reach. His first piece of advice is to start Generation Rent and living in Notting saving: “Firstly, think about how much Hill or Kensington,” says Gardner, deposit you have saved” says Gardner. “or foregoing the zone 1 and 2 life “The average deposit as a percentage of and looking at places further out like For millennials, the prospect the house depends on where you live Croydon”. Around the UK, that may be around Exhausted by exorbitant rent, faulty Tips for of home ownership grows 10 or 15%, but sadly in London, it is electricals and curmudgeonly landlords, ever more elusive. Research by closer to 20% for young people. If you renting in zone 1 and 2 has lost its allure millennial home want to buy a flat for a million pounds, for many young professionals. Moreover, buyers the Institute of Fiscal Studies the deposit would be £200,000. as work habits pivot away from multi- from financial savings expert (IFS), a think tank, found Of course, first-time buyers would be storey office blocks to remote platforms, looking for a flat with a more digestible a flat in Notting Hill may soon become a Rob Gardner earlier this year that not only price tag, but Gardner stresses that relic of the past. Besides, Gardner notes, By James Billot have homeownership rates “you need an understanding of saving, an Englishman’s home is his castle; that investing and personal discipline. is one relic worth protecting. declined with each succeeding I have an exercise: what’s an example 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT

www.bni.co.uk) expecting and how to behave. My own approach clients you’ll be disappointed. to a networking meeting is to treat it a Finger in air, I would have bit like a cocktail party and enjoy the said that BNI is dominant panoply of guests, while behaving in such in London. BNI suffers in a way as to try and be a credit to my host. England from being perceived When I arrived in London I knew Anita. as didactic and a bit American. That was it. The guys where I trained I’m a big fan of BNI and God became a substitute family. John Handley Bless America (DT: despite is my firm’s senior tax consultant; my Trump). At first there may first big promotion thirty-two years ago be a whiff of soap about BNI. was to be allowed to carry his bags. The I wouldn’t worry; Amway networking events were for me social these days is exemplary. I had highlights, never a chore, and certainly ten years at BNI, a favourite never an invitation to hard-sell. Dave business-associate being, describes networking more succinctly, (approximated job description), “having friends in business”; it doesn’t London senior partner Laura work if your affections are superficial. Hurren. I’d urge anyone Don’t take business cards. There wanting to improve their is nothing so amateur as the pushy networking skills just to join networker demanding cards and dealing BNI and meet its superstar. them out like we’re playing poker. My group is Dave Clarke’s They never have time to follow up NRG Metropolitan. If you professionally; what’s the point? If you don’t know BNI, find a group don’t want to be invited back, spray cards and join it. If it didn’t work like it’s 52 card pick-up. for you, work on the reasons Bill, one of my oldest clients and why you failed in a system friends told me, in sadness not anger, where, with the right level about a great friend of his, Ben, he’d of commitment, it’s almost been meeting for lunch over the years. I get asked my views on networking as a impossible to fail. NRG Metropolitan Bill moved job so rang Ben to update Friends in sociable-enough accountant with some is very different from BNI, not through new details and set up lunch. Ben all but marketing credentials; minor successes, philosophy, but with different aims. put the phone down. “Get real. I was business haunting failures. Selling audit and tax is Many of us getting a lot out of NRG delighted to do business at the old place; By Douglas Shanks a slow business when change is the only Metropolitan have been with BNI and now you’ve nothing to offer”. constant. Networking similarly takes apply lessons well-learned. Even if you’re Ben, email Dave Clarke time to bear fruit; if you turn up to BNI The other thing I get asked is what [email protected] quoting KCW (Business Networking International. to expect from a networking meeting Today and I’ll pay for your breakfast.

says Tolhurst. “That’s why it’s important to take on the right capital, from the Not all capital is right partner at the right time, and this changes over the life of a business.” created equal: Taking on the right capital, as

SME leaders must find the opposed to any capital, is an important Tolhurst © Guy Photograph right capital to help their caveat. In 2012, the government sought to address access to finance issues for business grow, says mentor and SMEs by implementing new initiatives, SME champion Guy Tolhurst such as the British Business Bank, the Midlands Engine and the Northern By James Billot Powerhouse as well as promoting the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). These interventions, plus low interest rates and relatively slow macro-economic growth over the last decade, have made access to capital far easier for SMEs, So the legend goes that Lionel Messi but it has also caused confusion. “We could dribble a ball before his second now have a complicated financial capital birthday; Kobe Bryant could dunk landscape,” says Tolhurst. “When the at three, and Serena Williams picked government solved the access to finance up a racket at four. Child prodigies problem, they created another; a lack of abound, and Guy Tolhurst started his education and information for SMEs on first business at five years old. Selling financing options.” woodlice from his bedside table, Tolhurst their growth ambitions,” says Tolhurst. investment, you get a lot more than just To plug this knowledge gap and help took advantage of an unregulated isopod “But also to help them become capital: you get access to talented and SMEs learn from the paths taken by market and a tight network of family and responsible with the capital they take experienced people who are willing to their peers, Tolhurst launched Intelligent friends. However fine the margins were, on and get the right support along the support you along your growth journey.” Partnership’s 100 Stories of Growth Tolhurst’s woodlouse enterprise would way.” Some SME leaders are unaware Entrepreneurs have long been campaign this summer, which seeks to put him in good stead for posterity. Some of the funding options available to their hostile to the idea of selling equity promote successful SME growth stories 30 years on, the entrepreneur now runs business, particularly equity investment, largely because they do not want to and inspire others. Success, according three small businesses in and around according to Tolhurst. “One of the relinquish control over their business. to Tolhurst, is contagious and by financial services that facilitate capital current barriers is that only 10% of Tolhurst believes that this is a classic highlighting successful SME stories, this investment into thousands of businesses entrepreneurs are taking on equity misconception: “Just because you are allows the bug, as it were, to spread. around the UK. investment while 49% are taking on substituting equity for growth capital, For more information about Guy “I’m on a mission to help SMEs debt,” says Tolhurst. “I’m passionate it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily Tolhurst and his 100 Stories of Growth access the capital they need to realise about solving that because with equity going to lose control of your business,” campaign, visit: www.100stories.co.uk 32 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT

not prosecuted? I blame Sir Philip Green for caving in to those bastards in the Robin, Earl of House to keep his K. What makes me livid is that it took Sherwood PC the BBC and (adjective deleted) HMRC to get my blood to fighting temperature GCMG OBE when it’s the headline “Nazanin Zaghari- BDAC Ratcliffe has panic attacks in Iran jail” BBC: “HMRC block honours that’s causing me sleepless nights. Literally. I’ve just sent £50 to Amnesty for tax avoiders” International so tonight as I struggle for By Douglas Shanks breath thinking of her in jail I can say I did something; pathetic really but what else can you do? All these years defending the individual against the evil that is any h who gives a damn; you know state (and the UK is better than most), what I think. The title says it all. I’ve found myself defending an old- Avoid your tax like crazy; get fashioned smuggler for the first time. Oangry with the wasteful bastards and HM Revenue & Customs has self- avoid tax, but don’t give them a break evidently dropped the Excise but it’s still and evade. They only want your money around. If we add value to HMRC it’s to chase their own honours and fund because we close cases. We might be stiff former state employees’ retirements. (Our opponents but get the job done. I sense ultra-imprudent masters pay their own doesn’t work, or perhaps like communism caps many as talismanic captain, winner Excise still wistfully remembers the days pensions on a cash basis. The inspector it hasn’t worked yet. Give or take France, of Champions Leagues, alcohol and drug before defendant-accountants when the who’s making your life misery will have where it kind-of works. free, example to youth, hard-working duty-evader was strung up to encourage his pension paid by your children, for The honours system was a laughing socially-responsible modest charmer. I the others. most of their working lives.) stock long before it was destroyed by have no problem with Sir David Hoe The rant is back, but rusty: is My business has been hit with Lloyd-George. If Kissinger’s Nobel Peace but in the context of David Beckham Beckham’s knighthood really worth more “enablers of tax avoidance legislation”. Prize provoked “satire is dead” (Lehrer), David Who? Liverpool fans (with a copy than “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe If your accountant isn’t an enabler of tax is Sir Mick Jagger parody, irony or fearsome if unproven reputation for tax has panic attacks in Iran jail”? 4.5/10 avoidance he’s either an auditor or he oxymoron, or all three? Lord Coe (now evasion) might argue Beckham remains must try harder. isn’t adding value, which cancels down there’s a story) once told me London unanointed for his Argentinian nadir but to the latter. A regulator’s only tasks are winning the Olympics’ most important that didn’t stop Thatcher’s ennoblement. Doug of Loxley, Little John Handley, justification for regulation and funding intervention was David Beckham, Word is because he invested in a dodgy and Dave Scarlet are appearing in Carry their own remuneration. Regulation informal national ambassador, 100 plus tax shelter, presumably legitimate or why On Torching Whitehall

Excluding currency fluctuations, WPP’s North American sales growth dropped WPP: Decline by 3% due to intense competition and Female reduced client spending. Although and Fall worldwide sales growth rose by 10%, construction the agency warned that its profit margin this year will be lower than last year as leader to share it plans to spend more on revitalising growth. award-winning WPP’s results were announced only days after Mark Read began his role as vision WPP’s new CEO. The 51-year-old has at prestigious industry events already promised a different leadership style to his predecessor, Sir Martin Sorrell, who resigned in April over Monika Slowikowska’s industry. allegations of misconduct and scandal. company says she is honoured Monika, who is the founder and Going forward, Read and WPP managing director of Golden Houses WPP, the world’s largest face huge challenges in the advertising to have been asked to speak Developments, said: “It is a privilege advertising agency, experienced industry. As digital advertising grows, at a number of renowned to be able to speak at these renowned Internet and social media companies events. I look forward to sharing my a 7% slide in shares after including Google and Facebook are industry events this year. vision of the construction industry the company reported a fall chipping away at WPP’s market share. and joining other industry leaders in It will take a radical restructuring for Polish-born Slowikowska, anticipated to discussing the future and impacts within in profits during the second agencies like WPP to start competing be the only woman working at the level the sector.” quarter. effectively in the digital sphere, but with of sole director and owner in the UK Monika will make the first of four the ongoing public backlash against construction industry, has been named appearances at these industry-leading According to WPP’s second-quarter tech companies, this may provide the as a panel member at the prestigious events on 25 September 2018 at The results, the company performed poorly company with the necessary fodder to Inspire Summit, UK Construction Week, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester during in North America, its largest market. regain clients. London Build Expo and Construction the Inspire Summit. News Summit events. Monika will join a panel discussion, Monika, who was voted Best Woman where she will share her view on “How Contractor prize at the European Women to combat discriminatory behaviour in In Construction & Engineering Awards the workplace: Educate = Eradicate” SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT 2018 earlier this year, will discuss the Monika will also be joining the KCW Today. See page 20 for details future of construction skills Post- free to attend London Build Expo on Brexit, as well as many other challenges October 23, as part of a panel discussing currently facing the construction the London Skyline in 2020. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

September 2018 Unrivalled for its monthly The Decorative listings of Talks, Tours and Antiques & Textiles Walks, Opera and Music, Theatre, Film and Dance, Family Fun, and Business, the KCW Events Supplement offers the best of things to do, FAIR see and hear in London and beyond this September.

BUSINESS LCCI A one-day, practical workshop aimed at September 18 exporting companies who regularly receive AUTUMN BFS Advance: Speed-Dating (exclusive or handle Letters of Credit for the Deep Tech businesses) (L/Cs). The session will assist companies to 2-7 October 2018 WeWork Aldwych House negotiate the most favourable terms for L/ If you are a Deep Tech industry player in Cs, as well as helping them to reduce the Battersea Park, London need of funding or looking for support risks and costs associated with presenting to grow your venture then this event documents to the bank. can be another tool in your professional 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP toolkit to contribute to your success. At londonchamber.co.uk this event, you will receive face-time with multiple funders, share and receive contact information from funders that specialise September 27 in Deep Tech and gain exposure within Networking Made Easy – a short span of time. To attend the event, Young Professionals Network your business should qualify against these Central Working Victoria criteria: Deep Tech sector, B2B model and Westminster Business Council’s Young Working product, or at least a prototype as Professionals Network (YPN) brings a must. together young professionals from a variety 020 7841 10 67 of industries to network and attend career 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN development workshops such as on public businessfundingshow.com speaking and stress management. An evening of Informal Networking, Drinks September 18 and Canapes with our next instalment of Networking Event our Young Professionals Network. Putney Business Hub 020 3794 9443 6:00-9:00 pm Eccleston Yards, 25 Eccleston Pl, London, 020 3876 7556 SW1W 9NF Lahore Central Restaurant, 240 Upper westminsterbc.org.uk Richmond Road, Putney SW15 6TG For more information visit October 1-3 wandswothchamber.org/events United Nations Procurement Company ANTIQUES AND 20TH Mission September 18 See website for more information CENTURY DESIGN FOR Discover how delivering Social Value can The Enterprise Europe Network at INTERIOR DECORATION help you win more bids on construction LCCI is organising a United Nations projects Procurement company mission. The Grosvenor mission will visit Geneva and will offer This breakfast event, sponsored by opportunities for delegates to meet with Grosvenor, will focus on the bidding and key organisations in UN procurement. tender process for construction projects. 020 7248 4444 Specifically looking at what clients LCCI, 33 Queen Street, London are looking for, what individuals and EC4R 1AP organisations need to include and how to londonchamber.co.uk successfully complete the tender. 020 3794 9443 October 9 70 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 3JP Submitting Winning Public Sector westminsterbc.org.uk Contract Bids in the UK, Europe and Beyond September 26 Whether your objective is to bid Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce successfully for public sector contracts or Big Breakfast & AGM become part of the wider supply chain 8:00-10:30 am via established prime contractors, this 020 7978 5055 For a complimentary invitation email course will offer practical advice to help [email protected] and reference KCW Today Bread Central, Unit C, Molasses House, you develop the skills you need to submit Plantation Wharf, Battersea winning tenders. decorativefair.com 020 7616 9327 For more information visit 020 7248 4444 wandsworthchamber.org/events LCCI, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP September 25 londonchamber.co.uk Letters of Credit Training Course DF_KC&W 126 x 316 AUT18.indd 1 09/08/2018 15:08 34 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

back to the horrors of the battlefield. This Camden Scottish Country Dancing in London beautiful piece is set to Handel’s Ode for St Holborn Library Cecilia’s Day which will be played live. Come celebrate the leading role in history he Royal Scottish Country Dance 020 7863 8222 played by Camden's suffrage activists Society, whose patron is Her Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, Holborn, and campaigners for women's education T WC2A 2HT and access to the professions, as part of Majesty The Queen, is a worldwide peacocktheatre.com the Camden Vox programme; featuring organisation that exists to promote material from Camden Archives, banners and develop Scottish country dancing December 3 – January 15 from across London, and unique items and music. The Nutcracker loaned by relatives of radicals who fought Royal Opera House for equality. The London Branch was the first to be A Christmas treat for the whole family and 32 Theobald’s Road London WC1X 8PA formed outside of Scotland nearly 90 a classic with a special place in the hearts lovecamden.org years ago and runs dance classes to of ballet fans around the world. suit all levels of experience. In addition 020 7240 1200 Ends September 30 it holds an annual day of music/dance Bow St, London WC2E 9DD Money and Medals: Mapping the UK's giving dancers and musicians the roh.org.uk numismatic collections British Museum opportunity to develop skills. EXHIBITIONS Numismatics is the study of coins, medals, The Branch also holds dances banknotes and associated objects. The throughout the year including a Ongoing Money and Medals Network builds Burns Night Ceilidh with haggis Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo and develops relationships between UK supper, which next year will take Science Museum museums with numismatic collections. This place on Saturday 12 January 2019. Come face-to-face with a full-size display explains the project and showcases Most classes and dances take place at Park Walk Primary School, Chelsea and St. engineering model of BepiColombo, highlights of its work across the country the European Space Agency’s first ever so far. Columba’s Church Hall, Knightsbridge. In addition we hold a Beginners’ class in Richmond as well as a family class, held approximately fortnightly on Saturday spacecraft to explore Mercury. Standing 020 7323 8299 mornings in the Clapham Junction area, where young people, their families and over six metres tall, this Structural Thermal Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London friends can enjoy dancing simple country and ceilidh dances together. Model (STM) of the spacecraft was used WC1B 3DG to test BepiColombo’s resilience during its britishmuseum.org Whether you are wanting a more sociable pastime or just looking seven-year journey to Mercury; one of the for a friendly and fun way to get in trim, we can help. If you are a beginner, no most challenging planetary missions ever Ends September 30 special clothes are required, just wear something comfortable and soft, flat light launched. Leaving Today: the Freuds in Exile 1938 shoes. 0333 241 4000 Freud Museum Information about all our activities and locations can be found on the Branch Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 On Saturday 4 June 1938, Sigmund Freud, website www.rscdslondon.org.uk and the Branch’s social media pages. 2DD his wife, Martha, and their daughter No partner is needed to enjoy the fun, fitness and friendship of Scottish sciencemuseum.org.uk Anna left Vienna forever. On the same country dancing. day, Freud sent a note to his friend, the Classes begin on Wednesday 19 September 2018 Ends September 23 writer, Arnold Zweig. In it he wrote, Aftermath: Art in the Wake of briefly, “Leaving today for 39 Elsworthy World War One Road, London NW3.” Featuring original Tate Britain documents, letters and objects, many of October 11 to the market, join the Business Funding Marking the 100 years since the end of which have never been on public display Lunch with an Expert Show for an evening full of opportunities! World War One, this exhibition looks at before, this major new exhibition will Location TBC 0207 841 10 67 how artists responded to the physical and reveal the stories of Freud and his family’s The world of business is dynamic and the 1 Fore Street Avenue, London psychological scars left on Europe. Art escape and exile. Key items include the only constant is change. So, if you want to EC2Y 9DT was used in many ways in the tumultuous original documents required for Freud survive you need to change and innovate businessfundingshow.com period after the end of the war, from and his family to leave Austria and enter as the demand changes. However, there documenting its destructive impact, to Britain, Freud’s personal correspondence, are countless innovations, technological DANCE & OPERA the building of public memorials and as a including with celebrated figures such developments and shifting goalposts, which social critique. This fascinating and moving as Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells, and make it seem as though just maintaining September 20-29 exhibition shows how artists reacted to personal belongings. the status quo can be a challenge. Lest We Forget memories of war in many ways. 020 7435 2002 eventbrite.co.uk Sadler’s Wells 020 7887 8888 20 Maresfield Gardens, London To commemorate the centenary of the end Millbank, Westminster, London NW3 5SX October 12 of the First World War. Featuring three SW1P 4RG freud.org.uk Evening with Angels poignant works, Lest We Forget reflects on tate.org.uk WeWork Aldwych House the experiences of those who fought in Ends November 18 If you're an entrepreneur thinking about the conflict, and those who stayed behind. Ends September 23 Special Forces: In the Shadows using a business angel or private investor to Drawing on superb design and evocative Language Shift National Army Museum raise capital, pack your bag with business scores, choreographers Liam Scarlett, National Poetry Library The exhibition will look at the work of cards and attend this event. You will meet Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan have As languages die out at the rate of one these units through seven distinct areas: the top business angel networks in your created dance pieces full of unforgettable every two weeks, the National Poetry UK Special Forces, Making the Cut, sector, receive guidance on how to secure and haunting images. Library has launched its Endangered Training and Skills, Operations, Popular an angel investor from the industry experts, 020 7863 8000 Poetry Project with the aim of collecting Culture, Why the Secrecy? and Your learn how business angels can help aspiring Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London EC1R poems in as many of these languages as Reaction. A wide range of objects will be entrepreneurs, and understand the traits 4TN possible. For the Language Shift exhibition, brought together for the first time, from that help identify the right angels for your sadlerswells.com Kuper has created visual works which the compass that Paddy Mayne wrenched business. exist as equivalent worlds to the poems from an enemy plane cockpit, to a complete 020 7841 10 67 September 27-29 they respond to and collectively create a SAS Counter Terrorist Kit from 2007. 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN Remembrance: The Four Seasons visual map. These new works respond to Also included will be personal testimonies, businessfundingshow.com Peacock Theatre languages that feature on UNESCO's video and photography. A visual and musical feast of passion, world map of endangered languages 020 7730 0717 October 16 hope and remembrance. Wayne Eagling’s including Breton, Alsatian, Sardinian and Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 Funding for Science, Tech & Innovation first piece made specifically for NEBT Shetlandic. 4HT WeWork Moorgate commemorates the centenary of The 020 7921 0943 nam.ac.uk At this event, we're bringing together Armistice of 11 November 1918. Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank the best funders and advisers who can Remembrance is inspired by the whirlwind Centre, London SE1 8XX FAIRS & FESTIVALS help you to boost your science, tech or romance between the great Marie Rambert southbankcentre.co.uk innovative venture! No matter the stage of and the dashing playwright Ashley Dukes September 15 – 23 your company, if you're in a science or tech and the personal anguish created by their Ends September 28 London Design Festival sector or offering an innovative solution sudden separation as Dukes is called Suffragettes & Other Feminists in London Design Festival is an annual nine- 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Royal Albert Hall presents

LATE NIGHT JAZZ ELGAR ROOM | ROYAL ALBERT HALL Featuring the finest sounds of the London jazz scene. Thursday 4 October THE MGM MUSICALS Thursday 11 October JOANNA EDEN QUARTET Thursday 18 October THE JAZZ OF DUDLEY MOORE Thursday 25 October BAHLA Friday 16 November SONIC BREW* Monday 19 November ELLIOT GALVIN TRIO* Tuesday 20 November THE BOOM YEH* ...and more!

*EFG London Jazz Festival

ROYAL ALBERT HALL AND BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET PRESENT

28 – 31 December 2018 7 performances only

LONDONIST  ‘The biggest Nutcracker in London’ THE TIMES  ‘…wonder and spectacle’

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day festival that exists to celebrate and November 23 John Parnham’s Children’s Fun Fair in partnership with promote London as the design capital of Creative Quarter 2018 sponsoring the Pensioners Christmas Lunch the world. With over 300 partners across VariousVenues the city, operating in 9 Design Districts, in This year the V&A, Natural History 2017 the festival welcomed an estimated Museum, Imperial College London, audience of 420,000 visitors from over 75 Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal CHILDREN’S countries. 2018 will be the 10th year of the College of Music and Goethe-Institut London Design Festival at the V&A, and will welcome young people considering to celebrate this the museum is planning careers in the creative industries to a day a bumper festival programme of exciting of talks, workshops and behind the scenes and cutting-edge installations, displays and tours on Friday 23rd November. For more events by some of the world’s most exciting information, please visit: designers. discoversouthken.com 020 7242 6022 londondesignfestival.com FAMILY & CHILDREN FAIRS September 19-21 Ongoing Focus /18 Hackney City Farm EELBROOK COMMON Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour If you’re on a day trip from the country, 11 22 28 FULHAM/CHELSEA SW6 4SQ Welcoming interior design enthusiasts this quaint urban farm isn’t for you, but 295 391 424 from around the globe this event offers city kids enjoy meeting the goats, sheep, C3 N11 N22 th th N28 more than 100 experimental sessions that chickens and rabbits. There’s also a farm Wed 12 to Sun 16 SEP bring the latest design ideas to life. Love shop selling eggs, organic vegetables and colour? Celebrate its power with Journey other locally produced food. of Colour, a bespoke installation for an 020 7729 6381 unforgettable experience of light, colour, 1A Goldsmiths Row London E2 8QA PARSONS GREEN and movement. Design Centre, Chelsea hackneycityfarm.co.uk

Harbour is the world’s premier destination 14 22 414 FULHAM SW6 4UH for design and decoration excellence. Ongoing 424 N22 Home to 120 showrooms and over 600 of Explore the Galleries th th the world’s most prestigious luxury brands, Natural History Museum Wed 19 to Sun 30 SEP it is the largest of its kind in Europe. From dinosaurs to mammals, explore WEEKDAYS 2pm - EARLY EVENING facebook.com/johnnys children’s fairs 020 7225 9166 the amazing diversity of life on Earth. WEEKENDS 11am - EARLY EVENING Lots Rd, Fulham, London SW10 0XE Follow our planet's evolution and walk These Fairs are Token operated events dcch.co.uk beneath a 25.2-metre blue whale skeleton. NO CASH ON RIDES OR STALLS ACCEPTED Take a journey through the spectacular 1 TOKEN: £1.20 October 4 Earth sculpture and find out about the West Syrian Supper Club October tremendous forces that shape our planet. All the New 10 TOKENS: £10 Latest Rides! TOKENS ON SALE AT BOOTH TAB x TAB See scientists at work in the Darwin www.parnhamfunfairs.co.uk TELEPHONE: 07956 245531 The Syrian Supper Club started in 2012 Centre and enjoy the tranquil habitats of when four friends who loved Syria the Wildlife Garden. decided to do something to show friends 020 7942 5511 back in Damascus that they hadn't been Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 London TW10 5HS riders are expected to hit speeds of up to 15 forgotten despite the unfolding conflict. 5BD royalparks.org.uk miles per hour. What began as ad-hoc dinners in people’s nhm.ac.uk 0800 0722 110 kitchens turned into a hugely successful September 28 See website for how to get there. monthly supper club in the E5 Bakehouse September 15 Walking Tour: Hidden Stories of St queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk in Hackney, where guests are treated to ZSL Animal Training and Welfare Careers James's Park delicious Syrian cooking and a lovely Day Come for an enthralling guided walk October 23 evening in a pop-up restaurant. Keen to ZSL London Zoo through the oldest Royal Park, St James's. Nature Explorers: Wild Filmmakers raise even more, the Supper Club team This brand new, one-day event is aimed You'll discover the history of iconic Hyde Park has now expanded from Hackney to at students aged 13-18 who would like to locations such as The Mall and Horse Drop your young explorer off to spend South London, West London and Bristol! gain an invaluable insight into the work Guards Parade. You'll also find out how St the day becoming a wildlife film maker in Feast on mouthwatering Syrian fare in of zoo professionals that work in animal James's Park helped court a King’s mistress! Hyde Park. Children will make their own the gorgeous setting of Tab X Tab, all the care, training and welfare. Students on the The expert guide will tell you interesting mini wildlife documentary and follow in while raising funds for the Hands Up course will have the chance to meet zoo facts about how the park is managed before the footsteps of David Attenborough, Steve Foundation, to send to some of Syria's behaviour and training experts, animal ending the walk to see the resident pelican’s Backshall and Chris Packham! They’ll use most vulnerable. care specialists and an animal welfare daily feed. You'll also have the chance iPads to explore the hidden wildlife of the Westbourne House, London, W2 5RH officer. These professionals will not only to ask the very knowledgeable resident park, with lenses to make micro minibeasts syriansupperclub.com talk about their work and their careers, Wildlife Officer any questions you may appear larger than life. Work with a partner but lead students round a carousel of have. to hone your presentation skills and November 30 – December 2 practical activities designed to give a 0300 061 2350 discover Hyde Park in a whole new way. Amaze realistic impression of the life and work of London SW1A 2BJ Suitable for children aged 8-11 years Olympia zoo professionals and how to achieve this royalparks.org.uk 0300 061 2000 Amaze Expo, formerly known as Big career goal. royalparks.org.uk Boys Toys, is the innovation and luxury 020 7449 6200 Ends October 31 lifestyle exhibition launching at Olympia London NW1 4RY Ride the Slide at the Arcelormittal Orbit October 24 – November 3 London. Come explore the world's most zsl.org Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Under the Rainbow groundbreaking, state-of-the-art and London’s most exciting attraction, The Slide Polka Theatre innovative products and services from an September 23 at the ArcelorMittal Orbit opened in June Returning to Polka this autumn, Under the array of global manufacturers. There is Richmond Park Open Day 2016 and visitors have been snapping up Rainbow’s evocative music, puppetry and a something for everyone, even if you are Put the ever-popular Richmond Park tickets to experience the truly hair-raising beautiful transformative set gently tells the just window shopping, you will discover Open Day in your diary, this year with experience! Measuring 178m, The Slide story of one woman’s courageous journey. new and desirable cars, yachts, private jets, a WW1 twist! Find out more about the is the world’s tallest and longest tunnel As she crosses land and sea, she befriends holidays, fashion, beauty, art, technology organisations which work in and help the slide. Travel down the UK’s tallest public a turtle and a colourful bird of paradise, and more. park, discover the history of the park and artwork through light and dark sections as discovering a plentiful island that gives +91 80 500 40 777 its wildlife, meet the shire hoses, enjoy car London’s dramatic skyscape passes by. The her hope for the future. In Polka’s intimate Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith, and machinery displays, have fun taking Slide twists and turns 12 times, including a Adventure Theatre, children will feel part of London W14 8UX part in arts and craft activities for adults tight corkscrew section named the bettfeder’ the journey, with opportunities to interact amaze-london.com and children after the German word for ‘bedspring.’ It with the performer on her remarkable 0300 061 2200 ends with a 50 metre straight run to the journey, before she builds her new home on ground. In the exhilarating 40-second trip, stage. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 37 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

020 8543 4888 the globe and the personal stories of those 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London waging war on the superbugs. SW19 1SB 0333 241 4000 polkatheatre.com Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 2DD FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY sciencemuseum.org.uk

See website for dates Ongoing Dream Big: Engineering Our World 3D Meet the Neighbours Planetarium Show Science Museum Royal Observatory Discover the human ingenuity behind Tour the solar system and beyond and engineering marvels big and small. From meet our next-door neighbours in space! the Great Wall of China and the world’s Vote with the audience on which planets tallest buildings to underwater robots to explore in depth, before moving beyond and solar-powered cars, engineering plays to explore neighbouring stars and galaxies a crucial role in so many of our greatest far away in the depths of space. Packed innovations. Dream Big: Engineering Our full of spectacular sights and fun facts, this World celebrates the human ingenuity interactive show will be presented live by behind engineering marvels big and small. an astronomer from the Royal Observatory. Hear inspiring stories of human grit and 020 8858 4422 aspiration as the film reveals how engineers Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ push the limits of innovation to solve rmg.co.uk problems and create a more sustainable future for us all. Ends September 30 0333 241 4000 The Great British Seaside Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 National Maritime Museum 2DD Celebrating beach photography by some sciencemuseum.org.uk of Britain’s most popular photographers, featuring Tony Ray Jones, David Hurn and Ongoing Simon Roberts and new work by Martin Superbugs: The fight for our lives Parr at the National Maritime Museum in Science Museum Greenwich, London Antibiotics have enabled us to combat National Maritime Museum diseases that were once untreatable. But 020 8312 6565 bacteria have fought back, evolving into Park Row, Greenwich, London superbugs resistant to even the most SE10 9NF powerful antibiotics. This new exhibition rmg.co.uk explores how society is responding to the enormous challenge of antibiotic resistance, Ends November 3 featuring scientific research from across Purdah - The Sacred Cloth

The secret of London Wetland Centre An award-winning nature reserve in the heart of the capital.

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Often referred to as the ‘father of the string evening of celebrated concert works. quartet’, it was with opus 33 that Haydn Revered for his original arrangements truly mastered the form. This new concert and thrilling performances with the John series explores a different string quartet Wilson Orchestra, the esteemed conductor each evening. will bring three very different classical In the first quartet of the set, hear compositions to life. the music move from a brief Scherzo to a 020 7591 4300 slow, stately dance before climaxing in a Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London breathless Presto that demands technical SW7 2BS brilliance from the first violin. rcm.ac.uk 020 7591 4300 Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London October 26 SW7 2BS Orchestral Masterworks: rcm.ac.uk Symphonie Fantastique Royal College of Music September 29 A lovesick Berlioz composed his epic Lost Horizons presents Rob Corcoran and programme symphony in 1830 after the Necessary Evils becoming infatuated with the charismatic The Harrison Irish actress Harriet Smithson, and the Dublin troubadour Rob Corcoran has quintessentially romantic masterpiece has sailed the high seas of love, heartbreak and delighted concert audiences ever since. An excess, and (so far) lives to tell through his increasingly hallucinatory piece of musical gripping, visceral persona. His confessional, melodrama, the unique work is renowned yet toe-tappingly catchy songs are further for its psychedelic depiction of unrequited invigorated by the brilliance of his alt- love and delivers a concert experience quite country super-group, the Necessary Evils. unlike any other. After many years as a not-to-be-missed 020 7591 4300 live band they released their debut studio Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London album Inverse Alchemy to much acclaim in SW7 2BS 2017. Catch them while you can for a night rcm.ac.uk of live and authentic music at its very best. 020 7278 3966 September 18 28 Harrison St, Kings Cross, London MILOŠ – The Voice of the Guitar with www.lbhf.gov.uk/ner northendrdmrkt/ NorthEndRdMrkt northendrdmrkt/ WC1H 8JF Ensemble 7 harrisonbar.co.uk Cadogan Hall SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER Miloš returns to Cadogan Hall with October 5 Ensemble 7 in a performance which displays 9am-5pm • FULHAM SW6 Chamber Orchestra of Europe the extraordinary impact the guitar has had Royal College of Music on 300 years of world music. Composers The RCM is delighted to welcome include Bach, Boccherini, Granados, Falla, musicians from the Chamber Orchestra Rodrigo, Piazzolla, and Villa-Lobos, and Autograph MUSIC of Europe to the College for a week long the concert will end with a set of great Arpita Shah’s photographs portray women residency. Here violinist Mats Zetterqvist, works by George Harrison, John Lennon from the Muslim, Sikh and Hindu September 18 trumpet player Nicholas Thompson and Paul McCartney. The hottest guitarist communities in Scotland, who practice Passion and Power and Principal Clarinet Romain Guyot in the world, Miloš continues to top the tradition of head covering or veiling. Handel & Hendrix join together with RCM musicians in a the record charts and delight audiences Shah highlights the significance of the Richard Robbins (tenor) and Nathaniel performance of Brahms’ richly textured worldwide. His first three releases on The Purdah, the ‘sacred cloth’ , and its deeply Mander (harpsichord) perform arias of Symphony no 2. Yellow Label achieved major chart success personal meanings to the women she Monteverdi and Rameau in a recital that 020 7591 4300 around the globe and turned him into collaborated with as part of the project. explores the fraught relationship between Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London “classical music’s guitar hero” (BBC Music Her portraits seek to address the common politics and music of the Italian and French SW7 2BS Magazine) overnight. misconceptions around the tradition Baroque. rcm.ac.uk 020 7730 4500 of head covering and veiling through 020 7495 1685 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London representations of contemporary women 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London October 11 SW1X 9DQ who choose to practice this tradition. W1K 4HB Orchestral Masterworks: cadoganhall.com 020 7749 1240 handelhendrix.org Discovery Workshop Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA Royal College of Music October 4 autograph.org.uk September 20 Visiting conductor Martyn Brabbins Natalie Clein and Marianna Shirinyan A Night at the Opera takes some time out from the English St Peter’s Eaton Square Ends November 3 St Martin-in-the-Fields National Opera to introduce and direct British cellist Natalie Clein has built a Liberty / Diaspora An evening of well-known and much- this sweeping symphonic work. Making distinguished career, regularly performing Autograph loved arias and ensembles from operas the most of the full orchestral sound of the at major venues and with orchestras Liberty: A Universal Chronology of Black including Carmen, La Bohème and La RCM Philharmonic, this evening offers worldwide. Her playing has been praised Protest reinterprets defining moments Traviata. the chance to discover Shostakovich’s dark for its “astonishing range of colours of historical revolt and black struggle in 020 7766 1100 and brooding symphonic masterpiece, and wide variety of expressive styles” Africa and the diaspora, exploring what Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ Symphony number 10, composed in the (Gramophone Magazine). Together with unifies and defines these fights for freedom stmartin-in-the-fields.org wake of Stalin’s death and still every bit as the Armenian-born pianist Marianna and human rights. These images challenge compelling 65 years later. Shirinyan, Clein presents an all-Beethoven monolithic history-telling, featuring key September 24 – October 26 020 7591 4300 programme, focused on the composer’s first events such as the Alabama marches on Das Rheingold Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London three cello sonatas. Washington (Selma 1965), lesser known Royal Opera House SW7 2BS 020 7553 4039 resistance movements against colonial Antonio Pappano conducts the first rcm.ac.uk St Peter's Church, 119 Eaton Square, oppression in south-eastern Nigeria (The opera in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des London SW1W 9AL Women’s War 1929) and the more recent Nibelungen, with a cast including John October 25 stpetereatonsquare.co.uk Million Hoodie March in New York which Lundgren and Johannes Martin Kränzle. John Wilson conducts Ravel and Vaughan inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. Bow St, London WC2E 9DD Williams October 11 020 7749 1240 020 7240 1200 Royal College of Music Leonore Piano Trio Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA roh.org.uk The RCM welcomes BBC Proms St Peter’s Eaton Square autograph.org.uk favourite and alumnus John Wilson to the The Leonore Piano Trio brings together September 26 conductor’s podium to direct the RCM three internationally acclaimed artists Essential Haydn Symphony Orchestra in an unmissable (Benjamin Nabarro, violin, Gemma Royal College of Music Rosefield, cello and Tim Horton, piano) 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk whose piano trio performances under and view its incredible landmarks from the the umbrella of Ensemble 360 were met ground. But with The London Helicopter with such enthusiastic responses that you can literally leave the crowds behind they decided to form a piano trio in its and see the capital from a totally fresh own right. This concert marks the 100th perspective. These incredible London Anniversary of Hubert Parry’s death helicopter flights offer you unique views (7th October 1918) with a programme of iconic London landmarks and an including the composer’s first piano trio. experience you’ll never forget. This really is It will be flanked by Haydn’s characterful a trip of a lifetime that soars above all other trio in E major and Beethoven’s famous London tourist attractions. Archduke Trio. 020 7887 2626 020 7553 4039 The Pod Building, Bridges Court, St Peter's Church, 119 Eaton Square, Battersea, London, SW11 3BE London SW1W 9AL thelondonhelicopter.com stpetereatonsquare.co.uk Ongoing TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS Guided Walks See website for more See website for dates Guided walks and treasure hunts which Hidden London hope to enable you to discover new places London Transport Museum and look at London with new eyes. These Hidden London is London Transport walking tours are for those who love Museum’s exclusive programme of tours London and want to make the most of and events at disused stations and secret their time here, no matter whether it's a sites across London. Led by experienced weekend or a lifetime. Who knows, you guides, ready to share unusual and little- may love London a little bit more! known stories surrounding the stations’ londonguidedwalks.co.uk varied histories, these visits offer an exciting opportunity to explore locations Ongoing rarely seen by the public. London Duck Tours 020 7379 6344 Hop aboard one of London Duck Tours’ Covent Garden Piazza, London distinctive yellow vehicles and enter the WC2E 7BB wonderful world of amphibious travel. It ltmuseum.co.uk is far more exciting than just an ordinary sightseeing bus tour or river trip. See some Ongoing of London’s most talked about sights, The London Helicopter learn interesting facts about the city There’s no denying that London is one and be entertained by an action packed of the most stunning cities in the world. live commentary before the thrilling And sure, you could follow most tourists splashdown onto the river Thames! 40 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

through the Zoo with an experienced Ends September 30 guide, hear stories of how ZSL helped Sounds and Sorcery Celebrating Fantasia inspire Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking The Vault work, follow the friendship of Winnie the This summer the underground world of Pooh and Christopher Robin, discover the The Vaults presents a new immersive music history of the many Grade I and Grade concert experience inspired by Disney II listed buildings at the Zoo, and much Fantasia; Sounds and Sorcery. Arrive at more. your destination underneath Waterloo 020 7449 6200 station, collect your headphones at the London NW1 4RY door and step inside the tunnels. It's time zsl.org for a dance with a funky hippo, walk in a prehistoric wasteland, seek out the fairies September 26 in a magical forest and, if you dare, sneak Radical physics: Science, socialism and the into the Sorcerer's lair. paranormal. Lecture 020 7401 9603 The British Academy Launcelot Street, SE1 7AD The 1970s saw a resurgence of interest thevaults.london in the paranormal. In this lecture, Joanna Bourke explores the social life of September 11-23 paranormal science in Birkbeck College Trump the Musical! and its links to radical critiques of scientific Waterloo East Theatre norms and practices. From the perpetrators of Boris the 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, Musical! comes a new satirical, songtastic SW1Y 5AH extravaganza: Trump the Musical! 2020 britac.ac.uk Time to make Donald Great Again! But will Putin work his cyber magic once THEATRE more? And can King Nigel Farage the First of England get his trade deal? Ongoing 020 7928 0060 Bat out of Hell Brad Street London SE1 8TN Dominion Theatre waterlooeast.co.uk Meat Loaf has joined forces with the songwriter who helped make him a world- September 14 – October 13 class rock star, to create a long-awaited The Outsider stage musical featuring a host of his best- Coronet Print Room loved tunes. The very best of all three Bat The Outsider is the story of Mersault, a Out of Hell albums has been combined young French clerk in 1940s Algeria, to create a musical that no serious rocker disengaged from a world in which he will want to miss, with a futuristic plot doesn’t really fit. Following his unemotional twisty enough to satisfy the fussiest response to the death of his mother, and theatregoer. 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These painful merely as a ‘social problem’ or the popular lyrics by South Park creators Matt Stone of Eavesdropping (2016) and More states of mind can easily arise when we notion that alcohol only serves to provide and Trey Parker, and the mind behind the Eavesdropping (2017), Angel Theatre encounter challenging situations and us with a ‘hedonistic’ high, masks its hit musical Avenue Q, Robert Lopez. The Company returns to Barons Court Theatre difficult people. If anger is not recognized importance in the social fabric of many show follows the journey of two Mormon with Eavesdropping Again, the next early on it becomes a poison that destroys human societies both past and present. missionaries who travel to Africa to preach instalment of their verbatim theatre project. our happiness and can interfere with To understand alcohol use as a complex their religion. They share their scriptures Using the same concept as its predecessors, our relationships. This revealing series of social practice that has been exploited by with a small village in Uganda but find their company of actors covertly record real meditation classes will introduce several humans for thousands of years requires it difficult to interest the locals who have life conversations, which are then scripted methods for recognizing, reducing and cross-disciplinary insight from a wide much bigger things to worry about: AIDS, word for word and reinterpreted through finally removing this destructive habit range of science and humanities disciplines. famine, and local warlords. It features rehearsal to create a piece of theatre. Unlike from our mind, helping us to experience This conference will examine the use of hilarious songs like Hello, All American most plays which are either written or the peace and freedom that we all long for. alcohol in the human lineage and our Prophet, I Believe and I Am Africa. devised, Eavesdropping Again is unique Each session will include a combination of closest primate relatives, as well as its wider 0844 482 5115 in that it is neither! Each vignette is a teachings and meditation with an relationship to social contexts such as Coventry St, London W1D 6AS miniature work of art, offering the audience opportunity to ask questions at the end. feasting, sacred rituals, and bonding. princeofwalestheatre.co.uk a great insight into the world around us. Everyone Welcome. 020 7969 5200 07956 698617 020 7937 7567 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, Ongoing Curtains Up Pub, 28A Comeragh Road, 27-33 Earls Court Road, Kensington. W8 SW1Y 5AH Hamilton London W14 9HR 6ED britac.ac.uk Victoria Palace Theatre angeltheatrecompany.co.uk kmclondon.org The critically-acclaimed and multi-award- September 15-16 winning Broadway musical at London's September 13 History Tours Victoria Palace Theatre. King of Cats ZSL London Zoo 0844 482 5138 Kensington Central Library A visit to ZSL London Zoo is much more Victoria St, Westminster, London Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha A detailed introduction to the mighty than just a walk around the fascinating SW1E 5EA Panthera Tigris and why they should be exhibits; it’s a trip through time. The victoriapalacetheatre.co.uk If you have an event that you’d like listed protected. The talk covers everything from history tour is a fantastic addition to a trip in the next edition, please send any the fun to the macabre. You will learn truly to ZSL London Zoo. 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claims worth more than £12.6 million. In June, the Metropolitan Police ECHR Ruling: confirmed that the nine members Government

Photograph © Pxbay Photograph had been charged following a highly Murderers have complex fraud negotiation, which announces began in December 2012 after the HM no right to be Courts & Tribunals Service reported legal review allegedly fraudulent applications for legal forgotten costs made to the National Taxation on whether Team. The Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges in respect of four Misogyny should claims made between January 2011 and be classed as a Two half-brothers convicted 25 years between cyclists and drivers and parity of September 2013. ago for the murder of a famous German sentencing options where the outcome is No pleas were entered at Southwark’s hate crime actor have no right to require the media death or serious injury’, according to the Crown Court. delete their names from online reports of Department of Transport. the case, the European Court of Human The consultation document also seeks A review is to take place into whether Rights has ruled. views on extending new cycling offences The ruling in ML & WW v Germany to both the road and other public places. Law Society misogynistic conduct should be treated is the latest clash between Articles 8 It also considers whether any new as a hate crime, following Labour MP and 10 of the European Convention cycling offences should carry minimum voices concern Stella Creasy’s call to change the law.The on Human Rights (ECHR) over the disqualification periods. move was announced during a debate term ‘right to be forgotten’. Article 8 These measures follow the launch over threat on proposed legislation to criminalise stipulates a right to respect for one’s earlier this summer of a UK-wide upskirting in England and Wales. The ‘private and family life, home and initiative to help police crackdown on to judicial Law Commission will review how sex his correspondence’, whereas Article dangerous drivers who pass cyclists too and gender characteristics are treated 10 provides the right to freedom of closely in a two-pronged approach to independence in within existing hate crime laws and expression and information. Since the make our roads safer. whether new offences are needed. Ms Court of Justice of the European Union’s The Department for Transport is also Poland Creasy said it sent a message to “young watershed ruled in Google Spain, the looking at updating parts of the Highway women we are on their side”. balance has shifted towards Article 10 Code, including measures to counter On September 5th, MPs approved and freedom of expression. the dangerous practice of ‘close passing’ The Law Society has raised concerns The ML & WW case began which puts people off cycling, and would over threats to judicial independence the Voyeurism Bill, which would ban proceedings 10 years earlier when benefit other vulnerable road users like in Poland, adding to the international the taking of unsolicited pictures under convicted felons Wolfgang Werlé and horse riders. opprobrium surrounding new legislation someone’s clothing, known as upskirting, Manfred Lauber neared their release date In 2016, three pedestrians were killed in the country. in England and Wales. Proposals to from a life sentence for the 1990 murder and 108 seriously injured after being The Society stated that the country’s create a new criminal offence, which is of Walter Sedlmavr, a well-known involved in collisions with pedal cyclists. global reputation could be jeopardised if already on the statute book in Scotland, TV and film actor. Sedlmavr’s murder Cycling and Walking Minister Jesse it pushes through a law that will weaken will now be considered by the House garnered widespread media coverage, Norman said: ”In recent weeks we have the independence of its Supreme Court of Lords. Ms Creasy, the MP for which Werlé and Lauber argued announced a range of measures designed and potentially politicise the country’s Walthamstow, wanted to amend the judiciary. breached their privacy rights under to protect vulnerable road users such as draft law to allow judges to take into The recently implemented legislation Article 8. cyclists and pedestrians. These include account whether people convicted of However, their request to anonymise new measures to combat close passing, allows Poland’s president to determine hate crimes against women should get a archive documents was rejected after training for driving instructors, better how the Supreme Court is constituted. It tougher sentence if it was “motivated” by both Germany’s Federal Court of Justice collision investigation and £100 million will also result in nearly 40% of current and the ECHR ruled in favour of the in new investment through the Safer Supreme Court justices being removed misogyny or if misogyny was deemed to media. According to the ECHR, the Roads Fund. due to the drop in the retirement age be an aggravating factor. media reported the trial in an objective Now we are taking further steps. from 70 to 65-years-old. Justice Minister Lucy Frazer said the manner and that details about the These include a consultation on new Law Society President Joe Egan Voyeurism Bill was not the right vehicle murderers’ lives appeared during public cycling offences, further work on said: “Poland’s judicial system must for seeking such a change in the law but hearings. The ruling was unanimous. national guidance on cycling and walking remain independent of the government’s said she sympathised with Ms Creasy's infrastructure, and improvements to the legislative and executive branches. views. She said ministers would fund a Highway Code. Any erosion of the independence and review into the “coverage and approach” All these measures are designed to impartiality of the judiciary undermines of hate crime laws. the rule of law and opens the way support the continued growth of cycling Nottinghamshire Police, which Government for abuse of power. Measures that and walking, with all the benefits they has been recording misogyny as a hate bring to our communities, economy, politicise Poland’s courts must be halted to update road crime since 2016, defines misogyny environment and society”. immediately.’ safety laws to The consultation closes on 5 The President continued: 'An as “incidents against women that are November. independent legal profession and a motivated by the attitude of men towards government accountable to the people women and includes behaviour targeted protect cyclists are fundamental elements of a nation at women by men simply because they and pedestrians rooted in the rule of law. These pillars are are women”. intrinsic to the prosperity of a country Examples include sexual assault, Six solicitors and to its international standing.' indecent exposure, groping, taking A new consultation will examine a new The European Commission have already unwanted photographs on mobiles, offence equivalent to causing death by initiated proceedings against Poland in upskirting, online abuse, being followed careless or dangerous driving should be accused of fraud December last year under Article 7 of home, whistling, sexually explicit introduced for dangerous cyclists. the EU Treaty. Although diplomatic language, threatening/aggressive/ Road users would be kept safer efforts have been made to arrive at a under new government proposals that Six solicitors, including two part-time diplomatic solution between Poland and intimidating behaviour, and unwanted include changing the law and building judges, were among nine people who the European Parliament, the European sexual advances. However, not all hate better infrastructure. The proposed appeared in court earlier this month in Court of Justice also has the power to crimes are criminal offences according to legislation would ‘achieve consistency relation to allegedly fraudulent legal aid intervene. the legal definition. 42 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT LEGAL

because the vast majority of officers like me have done time on the front line and Bridging the we’ve done those jobs before,” says Jones. Borough Divide “It’s not like we just forget that when we As the Metropolitan Police go into management”. By his own admission, the trajectory reduces from 32 to 12 police of Jones’s rise through the ranks was Police ©Metropolitan Photograph units, Borough Commander far from linear. On two occasions, the bespectacled officer failed the sergeant’s Rob Jones has emerged as the exam, resulting in his removal from new face of the North West the police graduate scheme. Losing the scheme was a heavy blow to Jones, but it London Unit also illuminated important blind spots. Undeterred, Jones stayed with the Met and quietly worked his way up to the position of inspector and thereafter, was pon graduating from Oxford posted to Hackney as a duty officer. “I University, Jones trawled his developed enormous confidence from net through the open seas of doing that key role,” says Jones. “It unemployment, fishing out a school provided me with all the management U skills that I didn’t have before, which is of opportunities that stretched from one side of the Atlantic to the other: why I failed the sergeant’s exam”. a Masters course in America, a special Bookish and slender, Jones does not needs charity at the Bank of England fit the archetypal mould of a London and a graduate programme at the bobby, but there is an unbending Metropolitan Police. After some resilience about him. The Borough demurring, Jones picked the third option. Commander openly dissects his failures 22 years on, the Colchester local is set in a way that a tennis player might to become Borough Commander for the in their post-match interview with Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington Sue Barker. During the Olympics for and Chelsea, Westminster Police Unit, instance, Jones was posted to Newham, one of the 12 newly created Basic the Olympic Borough, for his first Command Units in London. BC job. “Here,” says Jones, “I became The Met’s planned merger of 32 staff officer to the last commissioner, Borough Command Units into 12 Basic which I found really hard and I did Command Units has caused quite a not stay in that role for very long, stir. In a bid to save £325 million by because I wasn’t very good at it”. It 2021/2022, the police body announced was another setback for Jones, but the that 20 police stations will be sold over officer moved into another branch of the the next four years as part of a radical Met, transformational change, before restructuring. This reduction, combined returning to operations with the new with 30,000 decline in police officers by skills that he had learned. “What has April next year, has done little to allay kept me in the Met for so many years,” fears about rising crime in the Capital. says Jones, “is that whenever I’ve had

As of February 2019, the nearest police a job that I haven’t been good at, the ©K&C Social Council Illustration station for residents of Kensington & Met is big enough for me to do other Chelsea will be in Hammersmith, an jobs that I really love and feel incredibly extra 1.5 miles away from the current fulfilled and privileged to do”. Kensington Police Station. Given that It may be shrinking, but the Met there has been a 9% rise in reported remains a broad church. When Jones first crimes in the Royal Borough this year interviewed to become a police officer, compared to the same period last year, what swayed his decision to join more but Jones, who will start his new role as than anything else was the sheer breadth Borough Commander next year, does not of people working there. “They were believe that a change in location presents just lovely and incredibly mixed, which a serious challenge: “When you look at is a real feature of policing,” says Jones. the BCU geographically, it’s really small,” “In my current position, I’ve got quite says Jones. “It is dense, but the distance a few people with PhDs who are PCs is much lower compared to other bigger and I’ve got people who were brought BCUs who have far less police officers”. up in foster care who came into policing What concerns Jones more is the with no qualifications”. In London’s recalibration of officers to the adjusted cultural mosaic, this level of diversity is police boundaries. “It’s important to have Budget cuts have had a depressing effect adds that there is a “powerful culture” unquestionably one of the Met’s most knowledge and understanding on the on morale and the relationship between inside teams, but this tight kinship can valuable assets. As police boundaries are ground…because they need to learn their on-the-ground officers, and management also create a mentality that “nobody redrawn, officers will be moving into new surroundings,” says Jones. “At the has become strained. Jones, who is tasked else is working quite as hard”. Before communities hitherto unknown, but moment, it is quite rare for emergency with integrating the officers in his Basic finishing, the Borough Commander is Jones, who speaks with the same boyish police officers to go somewhere if it is Unit, suggests that this problem is not a briefly interrupted by the mellifluous enthusiasm that he likely had on his first close, but not in their borough”. novel one: “Police officers are amazing, jingle of a Zimbabwean procession outing (‘puppy walk’) with the Met, says: Another serious challenge that but they are quite cynical and don’t really en route to its parent embassy next to “I’m excited about this role because it Jones faces is the high level of internal believe in their managers,” says Jones. Charing Cross Police Station. It is not has already gone live in two Boroughs… resistance to the merger. In previous “When you look at the staff survey, until the rhythmic drum beats of the We learnt a great deal from this pilot interviews with KCW Today, several they think that their own team is great, procession are punctured by the dull roar period… I believe it will go much officers voiced their displeasure at what but the further out that you go, they start of building works next door that Jones smoother, because we know where the they perceived to be a gutting of the Met. to think “they’re not that good”. Jones continues: “I find it quite frustrating barriers are”. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT LEGAL

“I was beginning to experience the Dr Johnson said “you are his lawyer you health, employment, social services and single-minded dedication to a cause,” are not his judge”. law and order committees. In 1994, at Sir Ivan says Lawrence, “the actual involvement When Ronnie Kray was sentenced a dinner in honour of 20 years service in the lives of people needing help, to life, he still retained respect for his as an MP, in the presence of Margaret Lawrence’s Life the joy of challenging misconceptions, counsel. Thatcher, Sir Norman Tebbit commented of Crime the independence of action within a “They had a sense of humour. I was that he did not know why Mrs Thatcher Sir Ivan Lawrence QC mysterious and wonderful world of standing for election in Peckham at the had not made Sir Ivan Home Secretary. tradition-hewn rules, the power of time, and Ronnie said: Sir Ivan, who would have liked the role, talks with persuasion and the successes that were “ Thank you for what you’ve done for responded swiftly it was because the Kray editor-in-chief to make life as a barrister so consuming, me, sir. We’ll keep our fingers crossed for brothers had said that they were hoping worthwhile and fulfilling.” you so you can become Home Secretary for their release if he gained office. Kate Hawthorne In his book Lawrence takes us and let us out early.” With the landslide success of New through the social history of the time. Labour, led by Tony Blair, in 1997, Sir “Everyone was smoking, and I was “He knows nothing; and he thinks he Ivan's political career ended and he lost Sir Ivan Lawrence has spent brought up in a ‘perpetual fog of foul knows everything. his seat in Burton air’.” That points clearly to a political career.” Today, Sir Ivan remains a 56 years at the Criminal There were no digital cameras, mobile George Bernard Shaw consummate worker, practising law, and Bar, 37 of them as Queen’s phones, emails, ipods or internet. A hard giving lectures and talks. What next, I drive was a batsman’s stroke, telephone Lawrence’s father manufactured brushes asked him? Counsel, alongside a career boxes were permanently ‘broken’, from a factory and made Ivan the firm’s “I have no thought of retiring, as in politics. He defended over and a ‘joint’ meant the Sunday roast. salesman. Here he learnt the art of cold- long as I get briefed in cases. I feel like a People had ‘bath’ nights, dentist visits calling, giving him the confidence to young man, there’s still plenty of life in 80 cases for the UK’s most were extractions with a pick, lavatories become a politician, and to stand up to me yet.” notorious criminal and murder were outside and refrigerators were the judges. Sir Ivan married Gloria Ogles in for the wealthy. Women were scarce in Following Oxford, Sir Ivan took April 1966. Rachel Lawrence, their trials and served as Member of parliament and professions other than an active part in politics standing as a daughter, was diagnosed with cystic Parliament for 23 years, under teaching. The contraceptive pill had not Conservative candidate holding regular fibrosis at three months and in spite yet been invented. ‘soap box’ meetings outside Shepherds of this became a successful criminal four UK prime ministers, In 1981 Sir Ivan was made Queen’s Bush station until his voice packed up. barrister. She passed away aged 45, on including the momentous rise Counsel. This made a big impact on the He took his soap box to Camberwell 6th September 2013 as did Gloria, Lady young barrister: Green when he became a candidate for Lawrence, on 4 October 2016. “There and fall of the Thatcher years. “to achieve the august rank, and Peckham and after two unsuccessful has not been one moment over the past 4 the right to have these letters after attempts for election in 1966 and 1970 decades years that I have been sorry that orn into a working-class family one’s name and to wear a silk gown in was elected as MP for Burton in 1974 Gloria married me, nor one day since the in Brighton in 1936, Sir Ivan court is not merely a high honour, it is holding the seat for 23 years. day we met that I have not been proud was the only child of Romanian recognition by some of the most senior His 18-hour days included balancing to have known her and thankful for my and Russian descendants. He read B and successful barristers and judges that his legal and political commitments great good fortune.” Jurisprudence at Christ Church, Oxford one has achieved a level of excellence between Parliament and the law courts. When I asked about coping with and in 1962 was called to the bar. He in an area of legal practise. It is the His practical experience as a barrister such loss I was told the sadness was very had no idea what chambers he wanted most cherished of all attainments in paid off assisting with law making issues welcome. Sadness being the catalyst, and to join, or what branch of the law he professional life; a mark of approval of at the House of Commons. essential essence, that keeps the love and wanted to pursue. After a dozen dock one’s peers.” Much was achieved during his dual memories ever close. briefs (a barrister who, prior to the During this era Michael Foot was careers. Tape recorded interviews were introduction of legal aid, was instructed elected, the Social Democrat Party was introduced in 1984 by Leon Britton in by an accused person directly without a created and New Labour formed under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. solicitor), he was ready. Blair. IRA activities were rife: bombings, Sir Ivan believes this to be the single There followed a relentless diet of murders, hunger strikes and violence most important rule change that any serious crime: manslaughters, rapes, gold were exploding in towns and cities across Home Secretary made during his time. smugglings, lorry hijackings, forgeries, the country. In 1985 he made headlines for the larcenies, receivings, fraud, woundings, Throughout his career Sir Ivan was longest speech in Parliament (four murders, amidst ceaseless cases of lesser a constant campaigner for the criminal hours and 23 minutes), on the Water offences. His infamous trials included justice system and for fees for barristers. Fluoridation Bill and in 1991 a major defending Ronnie and Reggie Kray, At trial his perceptive mastermind political contribution in the form of the Dennis Nilsen, Joey Pyle and Russell dismantled prosecutors’ cases. As in the National Lottery, was put forward by Bishop, who was acquitted of the Brinks Mat case: him in a Private Members Bill. infamous ‘Babes in the Wood Murders’. “Today is the five-hundredth “I’m very proud that 24 billion In his book, My Life of Crime, Sir Ivan anniversary of the day that Christopher pounds has been raised for good causes reveals; “There were so many bank Columbus discovered America. What and charities since the lottery began, robberies in those days I was fearful that has that to do with this case? Only I believe the national attitude towards if I went into a bank there may be a raid this. When Columbus set out he did charitable giving has been fanned by the and I would recognise one of my former not know where he was going, when national lottery.” clients, or even worse that they would he arrived he did not know where he In 1992 he was knighted and said; recognise me”. was, and when he got back he had no “Naturally I’m proud to be a knight His early career was spent acquiring idea where he had been. Does not that of the realm, who wouldn't be? It’s a My Life of Crime: Cases and Causes licences for public houses, nightclubs, accurately sum up the prosecution case very great honour. I am only sorry that with foreword by Michael Howard. educational and gaming establishments. against my client in this trial?” my parents didn’t live to see it.” In spite ISBN 978 1 84624 778 1 Evenings comprised of canvassing for In the 1983 Nilsen murder trial Sir of receiving this honour for political The 435 pages with quotations at his political career, or teaching trainee Ivan argued for a verdict of manslaughter services he is adamant that it is the law the beginning of each chapter concludes bookmakers and students law. due to diminished responsibility. “Did and making Queen’s Counsel that are his with: A ‘licence application’ for a restaurant Nilsen, a conscientious civil servant, with greatest achievements. earned him two pounds, a committal young men’s corpses hidden under his He was chairman of the Home The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, three pounds and a guilty plea or inquest floorboards, seem mad?” asks Lawrence. Affairs Select Committee, the Th’assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge. netted five pounds. His first trial lasted “The details of Nilsen’s extended killing Commonwealth Parliamentary four days earning him thirty-six pounds spree would imply that he was.” The jury Association, a member of the Foreign Geoffrey Chaucer resulting in his client’s acquittal. convicted Nilsen of murder. As the great Affairs Select Committee and served on (The Parliament of Fowls) 44 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT LEGAL

defence, health and education). There are significant opportunities for economic Drones under gains across all sectors, but the GDP uplift generated by drones is forecast to continued have the largest impact on the wholesale and retail trade sector with an increase of scrutiny © Don McCullough Photograph By Michael A. Kolarov 2.5%, amounting to around £7.7bn. But with a continuing spate of irresponsible drone use by members of the public, this potential growth could be severely cut by a heavy handed regulatory response which could n spite of new laws coming into impose unreasonable barriers of entry force drones continue to be misused to legitimate drone operators and stifle across the UK. In one instance a near their work prospects by prohibiting Icollision was reported involving a drone the use of drones in places where they at RAF Northolt, west London, on June would be most beneficial in commercial 11 after being deliberately flown close to photography or scientific research a light aircraft. In a separate instance a PC Charlie Everitt, from the UK group of people used drones to smuggle National Wildlife Crime Unit, told drugs into various prisons across the UK. the BBC’s Kevin Keane in an August There has also been concern raised about 31st report on the matter: “Breeding drones disturbing protected wildlife by wild birds, dolphins, whales and seals flying too close to them. these regulations is up to five years in Authority by November 30th, 2019 are all protected from harassment or Current laws make it illegal to fly a prison. or face a fine of up to £1000 pounds. disturbance by law that currently imposes drone weighing more than 250g without A Civil Aviation Authority Owners will also need to prove that they fines up to £5,000 or imprisonment for first registering with the Civil Aviation spokesman confirmed to IT news outlet understand the safety code to fly legally. up to six months on those who break it. Authority and passing online safety The Register that new laws do not repeal PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) “Irrespective of whether the offender tests. One may not fly a drone more than the existing 1,000ft height limit for conducted research which showed the is an egg collector, boat skipper or drone 500m from their own view. They may not consumer drones fitted with first-person- potential for Drones to increase the operator, the possible sentences are the fly within 50m of people or structures. view tech. GDP of the UK by £42 billion (or 2%) same. They may not fly within 150m of large Examples of popular drones which by 2030. According to a PwC press “It is therefore essential that drone gatherings such as demonstrations or weigh more than 250g includes the DJI release, the research estimates there will operators understand the law, research sporting events. Drones may not be Spark (300 grams), DJI Mavic Pro (734 be more than 76,000 drones in use across the legal status and behaviour of any operated within one kilometre of airport grams), Parrot Bebop 2 (500 grams). UK skies by 2030. More than a third wildlife they intend to film, and obtain boundaries, and they may not fly higher All of these drones and more have to of these (36%) could be utilised by the the necessary licences to keep on the than 122m. The penalty for violating be registered with the Civil Aviation public sector (including in areas such as right side of the law.”

the number of magistrates’ courts from Serious Sexual Offences units have been 300 to 150, reduced the police force by overcompensating for historic wrongs by Secret Barrister 20,000 officers, reduced the number of pursuing cases where the evidence simply Macmillan prosecutors, leaving a seriously under- isn’t there.’ He has a go at defending 376pp. £16.99 resourced CPS, with the police deciding the role of the solicitor, who is often not to send samples collected at the holding the dirty end of the stick and ISBN 978-1-5098-4110-3 scene of a crime for scientific analysis. lists what one has to go through in a A number of cases cited make for typical case, from reading and analysing depressing reading, particularly when a the evidence, examining the prosecution criminal is set free through lack of, or Schedule of Unused Material, holding a absence of, or the witholding of evidence conference and taking instruction from by the police or the CPS. the client, obtaining transcripts of the In a staggering 87 per cent of cases police interview, contacting and taking The sub-title of this book is audit trails show the disclosure of statements of witnesses, etc, etc, even Stories of the Law and How It’s evidence to defence lawyers from the before any appearance in court. The police or by the hassled, overworked hourly rate lingers around £16, out of Broken, so ‘breaking the law’ and understaffed Crown Prosecution which the firm must pay staff salaries, takes on another meaning. Service to be unsatisfactory. Statistics NI and pension contributions, rent, rates, litter the book: in 2016/17, the CPS admin, training costs, insurance and tax. Starting with an Opening Speech, the prosecuted 52,140 trials in magistrates’ Junior barristers earn a great deal less author eloquently sets the scene as a courts, of which, 33,371 resulted in a than that. junior prosecuting barrister in a criminal conviction, amounting to a rate of 64 This book is a provocative swipe court, before welcoming the reader to make sense of it all and decide who’s in per cent. The CPS prosecuted 14,979 at the Establishment, some of which the criminal courtroom. ‘To an extra- the right. The winner gets nothing. The trials in the Crown Court, roughly half evokes anger in the reader about terrestrial touching down outside a city loser gets locked up in a concrete box’. of which were successful, which means blatant miscarriages of justice due to Crown Court, our way of resolving He states that, although the number that you have a 25 per cent better chance understaffing, incompetence and the disputes where an individual is alleged of cases processed by the criminal courts, of being acquitted in the Crown Court. breakdown of the system. All is not to have breached our central social code is falling, it is estimated that more than Further on in the book the SB quotes doom and gloom, however. It is also would be unfathomable. Get two people half now involve sexual allegations, with the National Audit Office’s report achingly funny and he offers remedial with plummy accents, stick them in black the Criminal Bar Association warning that ‘in 2016, the backlog in Crown treatment to this ailing patient, which capes, shove horsehair wigs on their of a ‘tsunami of highly sensitive sex cases’ Court had soared to 52,000 cases, an is the Judicial System, and applauds heads, arm them with books of rules in the offing, with all the concomitant increase of 34 per cent in two years, with the police, the CPS prosecutors and weighing as much as a grown pig and problems of vulnerable complainants, roughly 100,000 cases passing through caseworkers, the defence lawyers, the use them as proxies to verbally joust in disclosure processes, lengthy procurement the Crown Courts each year’. Rather judges and magistrates, the vital court front of a bewigged sexagenarian in a big and review of ‘decades’ worth of faded, chillingly, he also states that ‘under- staff, the probation staff, prison officers, purple gown, while twelve people yanked handwritten Social Services and medical resourced and terrified of letting slip and, finally, the barristers. off the street sit and watch and try to records.’ Government cuts have reduced another Jimmy Savile, CPS Rape and Don Grant 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

Colour is fundamental to her work and Colour in Design specific colours help to delineate the from Health to Wealth patterns in the prints. “Certain colours make me feel By Jane Duncan happy,” explains Molly. “I think different shades are evocative of emotions.” Certainly her designs reflect a myriad n design the starting point, or of joyful emotions. Bright bold yellows point of departure, is the bringing and passionate reds, contrast with deep together of initial ideas and concepts, indigo blues and soft green hues. Iand colour is often the key for that Hand-blocking is a traditional craft inspiration. Colour informs; it speaks which holds its early roots in the Indian an unspoken language which crosses all sub-continent although printing designs cultural boundaries. It can persuade, onto fabric most likely originated in Hydrotherapy unit at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, designed by Jane Duncan cajole and even warn. And though China about 4,500 years ago. Indians the experience of colour is available to possessed an expert knowledge in the many, it could be said that it is when it the world’s first scientific study of the secrets of natural plant dyes, which is applied with aesthetic intent that it is effects of visual art and live music took included the use of metallic salts, then given its true value. The evolution place and the results published. A part of allowing it to both create colour and of colour and its application is well the research included a colour study by adhere to fabric. A series of combinations documented from the earliest theories artist and researcher Jane Duncan and of dying and resist stamping enabled of Isaac Newton’s Opticks (1704) and Indian printers to create uniquely Photographs © Molly Mahon © Molly Photographs scientist, Professor Jim Nobbs of Leeds the discovery of the colour spectrum in University The Effects of Colour and complex designs, coveted from Southeast daylight, through to the development Design in Hydrotherapy, (J Duncan, Royal Asia and palaces of Mughal emperors to of Goethes Theory of Colours (1810), we College of Physicians 2003), and The the capitals of Western Europe. have continued to explore colour and its Effects of Colour and Design in labour and At a time when technological meaning, its application and its effects. delivery. ( J Duncan, Elsevier Optics and advancement in design techniques is The development of colour theories Laser Journal Special Edition 2011). Both booming, it is interesting that a parallel however was not limited to scientists. studies used commissioned artworks by return to natural processes is equally The artist Kandinsky in his 1912 Jane Duncan (a mural in hydrotherapy evident. The renowned hand-block essay ‘on the spiritual in art’ introduced and a screen in the labour and delivery designer Marthe Armitage, has been the concept of emotional values of colour rooms), to investigate if the colours printing wallpapers and fabrics from as a language. Kandinsky suggested and designs had any positive effect on handmade linocuts since the 1950s and that ‘in general colour was a means of patients. The colours in the hydrotherapy much of her work inspired Molly with wielding a direct influence on the soul. mural correlated with stimulating action her own creative processes. Further Colour is the musical key. The eye is and movement, and the presence of the inspiration came from visits to Tobias the hammer. The soul is the pianoforte screen evidenced a lowering of labour and the Angel a shop and workshop in with its many chords’. Kandinsky was by 2.5 hours and requests for analgesia southwest London run by Angel Hughes not alone in proposing that colour and reduced by 7%. who also specialises in producing hand- form constituted a language of effects. Beyond health, the importance of block prints and fabrics. Molly recently Rudolph Steiner and the philosopher colour in design and technology has began her own workshops in Daylesford Annie Besant believed colours were developed far beyond the mere creation in Gloucestershire and also plans to open interpreted as ‘thought forms’ in auras. of dyes, paints, inks and digital colours. a pop up shop in Sydney Street SW3, Many early investigations into responses Technology also enables colour data to (8-17 Sept ) and a coffee shop in Notting to colour have also supported attitudes to be used to improve product quality and Hill. Further exposure has come in the synaesthesia; a condition associated with safety in sectors not primarily associated form of support from Helen Cormack non-discrimination between the senses. with colour, such as food and drink, owner of Tissus d’Helene, who specialises In healthcare and architecture agriculture, chemicals, pharmaceuticals in artisan fabrics and wallpapers and is there is a growing evolution of the and medicine. Whilst in the fashion based in the Design Centre at Chelsea understanding and importance of colour and textile industry we use colour to Harbour. For Molly, it would seem that and design to support the built and predict the forecasting of future trends design holds an intrinsic value that is healing environment. Early scientific and this is of increasing value to design shaped simultaneously by colour and investigation into the physiological companies. From cars to clothes, homes by hand. “Design has passed through a effect of colour is recorded in the late to hotels the colours of the future affects grey period, now people are experiencing nineteenth century by Charles Fere who us all. the joy of colour and pattern which is first tabulated the effect of colour on According to the Pantone Colour uplifting and happy.” muscular action on humans in 1887. Institute the consultancy behind the If colour is your passion then head to One of the earliest examples of the Colour of the Year there are 72 colours in the Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour practical implementation of colour for eight colour palettes which they predict for FOCUS/18 and experience The health and safety was at the outbreak of will be everywhere in homes in 2019. Positive Power of Colour, where global World War II. Millions of inexperienced Amongst the highlights are Cravings and shades of camel, pair perfectly with influencers, established designers, luxury men and women entered industrial and Classico, which come from opposite deep teals, grey flannels, burgundy reds brands and emerging talent will be jobs, as a result the accident rate rose sides of the colour spectrum. The shades and caviar blacks. gathering from Sept 16-21. rapidly. Faber Birren, an artist by in Cravings are intended to tempt the However, in spite of modern If you are an art or design student training, devised a colour-coding system eye, “as well as the taste buds with spicy advancements in colour technology or simply interested in increasing in an attempt to lower the accident reds, sweet flamingo orange and rich there is a renaissance in handcrafted your knowledge about colour and rate. Accidents fell sharply after his purples.” Allusions to ‘fetish foods’, such design particularly in the textile industry. design, look up the Society of Dyers and colour coding was introduced. The US as peppers and chocolate, are tempered Molly Mahon began her textile business Colourists www.sdc.org.uk. The SDC is a Navy also recorded a 28% decrease in by the warmth a neutral Cappuccino at home using traditional wooden professional Chartered Society, and the their accident rate after taking up his shade and a grassy green shade. Think hand-block printing to create colourful world’s leading independent, educational recommendations. Birren’s colour safety bright red statement furniture and all the stationary and fabrics. Inspired by her charity, with an international network of codes became internationally recognised goodness of maximalist joy. The hues of designs popularity, her business has courses, competitions and activities. and are still applied in industrial and Classico skew towards more elegant tones successfully grown and now includes commercial buildings today. At Chelsea with a nod to style fundamentals. This is a range of furniture, lighting and Jane Duncan and Westminster Hospital (1999-2002) the palette where “a graceful swan white" accessories featuring her patterns. www.jddesignlondon.com 46 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

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The coat that Harry wore By Lynne McGowan

The honeymoon is over, the first sniff of autumn is in the air and it’s back to business for ‘the firm’.

ime to finally hang up the dress, but let us look back and take a closer look at the coat. EnchantingT though the bride’s exquisite apparel was, her groom’s inky, cavalry uniform duplicated for his best man and downsized for the pageboys was fascinating for many. At first glance dashing military attire, but throughout the ceremony and in photographs afterwards, details of the coat’s subtle splendour slowly emerged. The dense regimental lacework detailing the sleeves, those odd looking flaps running down the front, and the entire garment cut from doeskin-er-doeskin? Wanting to pay tribute to his first regiment The Blues and Royals and to fellow personnel he served with in Afghanistan, Prince Harry decided to don the full regalia with gold crowns on each shoulder depicting rank of Major. This explains plenty about the Prince and his innate humility especially as he was entitled to marry in a general’s uniform. Personal ties and connections together with the strong family atmosphere created within the regiment made the B&R’s his preferred choice. Tailored to the cavalry with its wide curved opening, the frock coat was made out of doeskin (nothing to do with a deer) cloth compactly woven from fine merino wool and brushed to a smooth suede like finish. Pilot’s Wings adorn the Prince’s left chest for flying Apache helicopters in the Army Air Corps. That the Prince wore ribbons instead of an aiguillette (gilded cords with tagged stitches were used for the groom, brother Wanting to pointy ends) is notable; ribbons are and pageboys. The Prince’s intricately pay tribute garnered from achievements rather than detailed sleeves from cuff to elbow took honorary titles. Pinned to his breast one week for a skilled seamstress to to his first was the Maltese Cross with four arms figurate and the front piece or ‘ribbon’ regiment standing for prudence, temperance, fastening made of black mohair hides The Blues justice and fortitude. It goes by the tiny invisible hooks instead of buttons. grand title: Star of the Grand Cross Knight Three fittings were needed to create and Royals, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Prince Harry’s outfit; Dege & Skinner Prince Harry and is awarded by the Queen for her already held a pattern from others but grandson’s good works in representing it still took six weeks. He requested decided to her here and beyond. William Skinner make the uniform don the full The uniform was worn in ‘undress’ less structured inside the silk lining so regalia with due to the less formal wedding at St. it would be cooler to wear. The pageboy George’s Chapel, and with a distinctly uniforms were miniature replicas with gold crowns Ottoman Empire appearance has roots scaled down lacework on the cuffs. Gold on each in Hungarian national costume. It looks monogrammed initials of each boy on very similar to the Royal Scots Dragoon the shoulder straps was Prince Harry’s shoulder Guards uniform worn by Zsar Nicholas idea. All was kept under wraps and the depicting II, Prince Harry’s distant relative. In staff sworn to secrecy until the Princes fact, the double-ribbed lace used on the and pageboys leapt from the limos into rank of Major. sleeves is called Black Russia and the 150 the glorious sunshine and the watching meters requiring an incredible 65,000 world. 48 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk DESIGN & TEXTILES SUPPLEMENT

of Manchester, whose research suggests that a group of what we would call professional embroiderers worked on the tapestry. Eight basic colours of thread are used in the tapestry, brightly coloured dyes were more expensive, and so wine, salts, bark, plants and insects were commonly used to create colour, which was then used to colour the thread. Thread was most commonly made of wool which was washed and spun with a spindle. The employment of embroidery can be dated back to ancient Egypt, with Tutankhamun’s tomb revealing one of the oldest surviving examples of embroidery. Many cultures around the world believed embroidered clothes to be a show of wealth and status throughout history. Although the tapestry clearly depicts the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, parts of it are still shrouded in mystery. One scene that has baffled historians shows a man and a woman, captioned UBI UNUS CLERICUS UND ÆLFGYVA, which can be translated to ‘Where a certain cleric and Aelfgyva’. It shows a man and woman standing together, with the man Museum. The reaching out towards her face, yet lack The Bayeux tapestry has been of clear facial expression in both figures shown outside makes it unclear what the scene is trying Tapestry Bayeux on a couple to depict. The cleric’s body language By Beth Lindsay of occasions to encourages speculation, as his movement display patriotism could be interpreted as romantic, but during times of also violent. It has been said that the he Bayeux Tapestry is due to conflict. In 1804 identity of this Aelfgyva must have been Tapisserie © Musée de la Photograph travel to England on loan from Napoleon put it well known at the time, as viewers of the Bayeux Museum, located in on display in Paris tapestry were expected to understand the Bayeux, Normandy in 2020, leaving in anticipation story and context of her appearance from T just one vaguely captioned scene. France for the first time in 950 years. of his impending While it hasn’t been decided for sure, it invasion of England. In a scene during the depiction of has been suggested the tapestry will be During the French the Battle of Hastings captioned HIC relocated to the British Museum when it historical sources, and gives historians Revolution it was confiscated to cover HAROLD REX INTERFECTUS EST makes its visit. An important historical key insights into not only the events military carts. It returned to Paris in (‘Here King Harold has been killed) an document and artwork, the tapestry of 1066, but also of elements of social 1944 during World War Two. History Anglo-Saxon soldier is shown with an holds an significant place in the history history. also speaks of Hitler’s deputy Heinrich arrow in his eye. Experts are torn as to of England-France relations as it displays The 70-metre-long tapestry tells the Himmler’s interest in the tapestry whether this soldier is, in fact, Harold or the link between our two countries. tale of the struggle for the throne after in August 1944, which he called an whether one of the other dying soldiers While famously labelled a ‘tapestry’, the Edward the Confessor’s death on the ‘Aryan masterpiece’. The Normans were around him is more likely to be the king. design was embroidered onto the cloth, 5th January 1066. Edward’s brother-in- descended from the Vikings, and a However, historian Chris Dennis argued thus making it an embroidery. A tapestry law Harold Godwinson was crowned perfect example of what the Nazis felt in an article for The Historian that the is woven on a loom, while the Bayeux King much to the outrage of the other to be a ‘master race’. An artwork created reason for the ambiguousness is that design was sewn onto a linen ground claimants to the throne, one of whom by people who belonged to the ‘superior’ William the Conqueror potentially did material. was William Duke of Normandy. race was incredibly valuable to them. not want to be implicated in Harold’s It is not the first time Britain has William declared that Edward had Fortunately, British code-breakers were death, due to the weakness of his own shown interest in displaying the tapestry. promised him the throne prior to his able to notify the resistance, who drove claim to the throne. Scholar Maggie In 1953 a request for a loan in order to death, and Harold Godwinson had away the Nazis when they arrived at the Kneen said on Good Morning Today, be displayed for the Queen’s coronation allegedly promised to aid his rise to the Louvre to steal the tapestry and take it “From what I believe the actual arrow was rejected, and in 1966 a second throne. The Battle of Hastings, now back to Germany. was a Victorian addition”, thus bringing request was denied. The news of France’s on most schools’ history curriculum, It is believed that the tapestry was the generally accepted theory of the change of heart has caused an element of raged for just one day on the 14th made in Winchester or Canterbury, due nature of Harold’s death into question. excitement among British scholars who October, resulting in Harold’s death to the typical English needlework style, Whether you’re a historian or just are hoping they will be able to uncover and William’s coronation on Christmas which differed according to various areas someone who vaguely remembers some of the mysteries surrounding it. Day 10 weeks later. The tapestry gives a of England. However its length and learning about the Battle of Hastings While there are plenty of theories about detailed account of this battle, conveying size suggests it was custom made for at school, the arrival of the tapestry in the origins of the tapestry, its first written the chaos of battle in a way that can the Bayeux church. It is been suggested England will surely bring a huge piece record was in 1476, 400 years after it was be understood and enjoyed even if that William the Conqueror’s Queen of history right to our doorstep. Also thought to have been commissioned. you can’t read Latin. At the time of its made the tapestry as a gift with the known as the first ever comic book, The fragility of the 950 year old tapestry, commission, this would have meant that help of her ladies in waiting, but it is seeing the tapestry in reality, rather than justifies France’s reluctance to move the illiterate masses could learn about also a widely accepted theory that it was from photos, will surely spark an interest it and historians and scientists will be France’s victory over Britain. embroidered over a period of ten years in the history of Britain and bring the conducting tests to discover if the loan While it is thought that the tapestry by skilled nuns from noble families. In events of the past to life. will still be possible. It also offers original was initially displayed in the Bayeux 2012 a new theory was brought to light For more information on the tapestry, information independent of other Cathedral, it now resides in the Bayeux by Alexandra Makin from the University visit: www.bayeuxmuseum.com 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Travel & Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photograph © Eastbury Hotel Photograph

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ecently acquired by Peter & Lana de Savary, this is a warm, happy and welcoming hotel infused with a homely and personal touch and exceptional service. The hotel has been completely refurbished and Rrestyled in 2018 with a selection of 22 guest rooms, all individually styled for ultimate comfort and relaxation. Looking out over the hotel’s pretty walled garden, is the award-winning Seasons restaurant, boasting 2 AA Rosettes for culinary excellence and offering a perfect blend of traditional and innovative cuisine. Every table comes with a perfect garden view and there is a delightful terrace for al fresco dining. Under the guidance of Executive Chef, Matt Street, menus change seasonally; fresh herbs are picked from the kitchen garden and the very best ingredients come from a trusted list of local suppliers. Open throughout the day for hotel guests, local residents and passing visitors the restaurant offers a wonderfully intimate dining experience in a relaxed and informal setting. Matt Street comments, “Using the freshest, locally sourced ingredients, our aim is to provide you with a dining experience that rivals any other you may have had on your travels. Whether you feast on our seasonal seven course tasting menu, enjoy an indulgent afternoon tea, or order traditional fish and chips from our house menu, you can be sure of exceptional food served with exemplary 5 star service.” Sherborne is at the heart of Dorset surrounded by glorious, quintessentially English Countryside. With undisputed beauty, characterful villages and many scenic places of interest, this unspoiled landscape is devoid of crowds of tourists. It remains one of England’s undiscovered secrets. www.theeastburyhotel.co.uk T: 01935 813131 50 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Dining Out

Cambodia Tourism today By Cynthia Pickard Photographs © Cynthia Pickard © Cynthia Photographs

he tour bus draws up beside a long line of other coaches outside the notorious Tuol Sleng GenocideT Museum in Phnom Penh, formerly a school that was converted into a prison and torture centre by the Khmer Rouge. Am I a wimp because I shrink back from getting upset again? Maybe, I don’t want to subject myself to studying the locations of suffering, the horrific implements used, the photos of mutilated bodies. At the War Remnants Museum in Hanoi I was shocked by the figures in a chart showing the huge financial and human cost of the Vietnam War, and I was eventually defeated by the horrific images of disfiguring injuries suffered by the victims of napalm. There is a debate to be had about what constitutes misery porn. I go and sit in a nearby café and instead contemplate the rationale of tourism in less developed countries like this with a horrific history to impart. Groups of 40-50 pile out of each coach, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Europeans are steered in an organised manner towards facilities set up to successfully cater for their needs. Moving from smart air-conditioned hotels to large restaurants that serve good quality interesting local dishes, guided tours of palaces and museums and gift shops, any type of visitor attraction that will help to support the economy. We’re informed that the visit to the ‘Killing Fields’ is a more meditative and respectful experience, so I agree to go. Understandably, the locals don’t come here much. How much sadness can a person stand? It seems at first a peaceful place, a slow walk in a rural area, but when you read the informative signs describing the way the trees themselves were used in the horrific slaughter, and take in the ragged remnants of clothes or bones and little heaps of babies’ teeth or the glass monument containing thousands of skulls, you are moved The coach drops us at Angkor. We prevent identification of the places they for sale. No thanks! In a market café I beyond belief; Nazi concentration camps tourists walk along a path through visited. settle for my favourite dish, Amok, curried come to mind. woodlands, past a band of landmine That said, Cambodia is a fascinating fish in a banana leaf. So is it ‘good for us’ to visit these victim musicians, until the first temple mix, a monarchy, with a communist Our guides are full of fascinating historic horrors, does it help us to looms up majestically in front of us. But government and a Buddhist population information about Cambodia as well understand what is basically impossible before we can begin our exploration, we as well as a French colonial past, hence as first hand stories of family members to understand? For those too young to must wait while each member of the the ubiquitous baguettes. Attempting killed or having suffered under the Pol have followed the news during the Pol group insists on posing to have their to escape the coach tours, I fall in love Pot regime. The people we meet smile Pot era, Gap year kids perhaps, do they photograph taken. Have we come to see with the pervasive scent of lemongrass, and help us and are thoughtful, one need to know what went on in order to these amazing monuments or merely for the sculptures in the National Museum, wonders how anyone could have harmed empathise with the many Cambodians these people to prove that they have been the boat-trip to a floating village on such charming people. They say that all living a subsistence existence? Using here, smiling in front of them? Without Tonle Sap lake watching the inhabitants that Cambodians want now is to survive money is a new experience for many their presence, does a photograph mending their fishing nets or relaxing in peace. Hopefully they will be able to, farmers; unscrupulous lenders can descend to the status of a mere postcard, in hammocks. In Siem Reap, the despite the insecurity of nepotism and wreck their lives purely because they without meaning when they return backpackers’ paradise, I wander down corruption in the current government, don’t understand the implications of the home? By then, the close-ups taken by Pub Street where cheap clothes, fried up and with any luck some of the tourism interest system. the posers and selfie-stickers might even snakes, tarantulas and insects snacks are income will filter through to them. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Travel & Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

that every eye is drawn to makes your arrival at the table that little bit more of The Ivy an event. I am so bewitched by this little bit of panto I’m tempted to ask her to Kensington take me to half a dozen tables just for the Brasserie fun of it. By David Hughes It’s a hot night, and a bit sultry

too, so it’s a craft beer for me and a Brasserie © Ivy Kensington Photograph glass of Journeys End Chardonnay from ot long ago there was a TV Stellenbosch for M. The craft beer arrives documentary all about the in a frosted glass half an inch thick, very transformation of one of the blokey but very welcome. The first glass Nmost iconic of London’s restaurants. The of Chardonnay is rapidly replaced by a new owners felt that it was beginning second; South African wine has come on to look old and a bit tired as opposed to in leaps and bounds in the last few years. loveably historic, and the ghosts of so After a few minutes people watching many famous actors and celebrities that it’s time to get into our starters. Ham used to haunt the shadows and sprinkle a hock croquette might seem a slightly little stardust had taken a rather extended offbeat choice for a warm night, but it holiday. Frank Sinatra might have sat at was very well executed: crunchy outer, a table 2, but then again that might have nice salty tang to the ham, with delicate been legend, and by now there’s nobody slices of apple and celeriac to provide a and you are not Alan Delon. The Beef £10 extravaganza of chocolate bomb with left to ask. So they decided a refit was in combination of sweet and tart flavours. Shin had great, concentrated flavour, but a shortbread and ice cream interior that order, and more than just a lick of paint Picked white crab with avocado and perhaps a shade dry for those brought up melts under the poured hot raspberry and a few new lampshades. radish perched on a slice of watermelon with a well-stocked gravy or sauce boat. sauce. It’s a delightfully messy sugar rush In came a whole new menu and a combines archetypal English ingredients The minute steak with thick cut chips & that would no doubt shock the calorie revamped team, and the transformation with a touch of the exotic, but they garlic butter was delicious, but even I, a counters, but only a wild optimist would of the original Ivy in Covent Garden has complement each other very well and it’s committed meat eater would have liked choose this as a slimming aid. been the springboard for the subsequent a lovely refreshing dish. to have seen a bit of greenery on the Life’s too short; get one, and damn expansion into Chelsea and Kensington, The bluesy French jazz starts to plate. the consequences! including the smart & glamorous girls creep into my consciousness, it’s a sleazy, And so to desserts, a Lemon Posset in dresses approved by the management indolent sound that seems to be on a that was not set in the traditional style who stand by the greeter like pampered bit early for the clientele in tonight, but more like a creamy lemon curd, The Ivy Kensington Brasserie Lippizaner horses waiting to strut but I try to get in step. Should I be in and perfect for dipping the poppy seed theivykensingtonbrasserie.com gracefully through the restaurant to show Kensington, or loitering around the Left shortbread into. What fun; egg and 96 Kensington High Street, you to your table. Somehow this works, bank in Paris, puffing on a Gauloise? soldiers reinterpreted for pud. The child- London W8 4SG and following in the wake of somebody Reality check; the mains have arrived, like delight goes on with The Crown, a reservations on 020 3301 0500

Polpo e Patate, Pollo alla Cacciatora La Mia Mamma or Parmigiana di Zucchini, this dish The Grannies Take Over made with the alternative cheeses of mozzarella and parmesan. By Cynthia Pickard There’s a YouTube channel called Pasta Grannies that has taken

off in a big way, again showing Pickard © Cynthia Photographs footage of sturdy 90 year-olds actively kneading pasta dough and While Jamie Oliver was travelling producing an exquisite variety of around Italy learning about regional shapes and dishes. family dishes from the Nonnas, the At the end of such a meal I ancient grandmothers of Italy, for his crave something light and fruity, no latest TV show (and book) Jamie Cooks such luck here, the only fruit is that Italy, a new Italian restaurant La Mia contained within the customary Mamma opened on the Kings Road tot of limoncello. There’s a choice bringing the Mammas and their home of more ricotta and cream based cooking all the way to London for us to puddings, one including coconut experience. and chocolate and another topped Regional Italian cooking gives us a with a token slice of orange. Most new dimension not offered in standard impressive is a deconstructed Italian restaurants. La Mia Mamma version of the famous Sicilian is going to focus on the cuisine of a Canolo, a crispy pastry sandwich different region every three months, huge selection of Antipasti to share. There in Sicily. We sat back for a while with containing, yes you’ve guessed it, yet importing a Mamma to cook and are slices of a meatloaf, a polpetonne of some very acceptable Sicilian wines, a more sweetened ricotta cheese. impart her secrets to the chef. On my meat and ham, aubergine lasagne, potato full-bodied red and a crisp dry rose. All From September the next Mamma visit, Sicilian Mamma Lidia Romeo cake, a ham frittata, ricotta with pistachio around us the restaurant was buzzing will present a menu from Puglia and from Siracusa was in residence. She and balsamic, a lovely caramelised with Italian voices, both of other diners Campagna. Don’t expect to stick to your was preparing her arancini, rolling and aubergine caponata served with and the very charming and informative diet here. In the way of all Mammas, they filling the rice balls with a Bolognese stracciatella, a creamy burrata mix. There’s staff. can’t believe that you eat enough, and it’s and cheese mixture, then frying them sweet pepper and onion peperonata and We bravely attacked our generous their job to remedy the situation. up and bringing the finished product fried courgette. When you’ve worked plates of pasta, mine spaghetti, so good to our table. Mamma Lidia insisted she your way through those, you probably that I guessed it was homemade, with La Mia Mamma understood no English and summoned a don’t really need anything else to eat. gamberoni and grated courgette, my 257 Kings Road, London, SW3 5EL waitress to find out how we liked it and There’s quite an emphasis on guest’s twists of fricelli covered in yet T: 020 7351 2417 to translate our compliments. homemade ricotta and pistachios in these more ricotta and pistachios. We never got Mamma’s Menu from £28-£38 per The Mamma Menu kicks off with a recipes, the ingredients used extensively around to sampling the main courses, person 52 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Dining Out

Koshary Kitchen By James Billot Koshary Kitchen © Koshary Photograph hen Ramy Amir started writing his dissertation on the rise of street food in theW UK, few could have imagined that he too would one day be contributing to this rise. Besotted with the capital’s diverse and multi-cultural cuisine, the savvy food entrepreneur sought to bring about popular dishes from his native country, Egypt, to the streets of London. Thereafter, Amir graduated from Regent’s University and established Koshary Kitchen, named after Egypt’s national dish. Evidently, he found a receptive market: what began as a university pet project has since transformed into a fully-fledged catering and takeaway company. The menu combines traditional elements of Egyptian cuisine with the carb (cauliflower rice, spiralized zucchini well-seasoned and a good match for prices are reasonable, and the service more carnivorous elements of its English and lentils). We only arrive at the point the macaroni, which was substituted would be ideal for office lunches, palatial counterpart. According to Amir, meat of betrayal when a selection of six for the rice. The mini meatballs were soirées and even hungover students. seldom features in the Egyptian diet and toppings, ranging from prawn to merguez also impressive, though the portion was Overall, Koshary Kitchen is an exciting instead, rice, lentils and other carb-heavy to chicken are then offered. sparser than the chicken. new addition to an already vibrant food foods form the basis of most meals. That The KCW Today office opted for The proliferation of the food delivery scene in the capital. theme is largely honoured in Koshary two classic dishes, one with a chicken industry has thus far allowed Amir to Kitchen’s menu, which allows diners to topping and the other with meat balls. keep Koshary Kitchen agile. Avoiding Koshary Kitchen choose one of three bases: 1) classic Both dishes had a punchy tomato the heavy fixed costs associated with a www.kosharykitchen.com (white rice, pasta and lentils) 2) whole flavour, accentuated by a pipette’s drop restaurant, Amir reinvests any surplus 101 Pentonville Road, London N1 9LF grain (brown rice and lentils) and 3) low of garlic on each one. The chicken was into new ingredients and dishes. The 07507 275 370

mundane vegetable taste lush and exotic. For our Zayane mains I sprang for the By Max Feldman Lamb Tagine served with prunes, roast almonds, © Zayane Photograph sesame seeds whilst my deceitful tablemate dove in with the lemon and Zayane, a Moroccan restaurant that ginger marinated whole claims pride of place on Golborne Seabream which came Road, has been open for over a year; with a serving of dill mayo pretty good innings for the unforgiving potato salad and sautéed ‘restaurant-eat-restaurant’ world of samphire. The seabream Notting Hill fine dining. On ducking was mouth wateringly through the door, the interior is cosy flavourful and soon became and almost akin to a cafe [admittedly a battleground between my there aren’t a lot of cafes decorated in guest and I, as we fought swirls of oceanic blues, fuming orange to claim as much of it as accented with silver and terracotta but possible. Thankfully full perhaps there should be]. One look at on warfare was just about the menu however dispels any concerns avoided by later arrival of that Zayane doesn’t pride itself as a my Lamb Tagine which serious establishment. Moroccan cuisine truly proved the strength is somewhat in vogue in Notting Hill, of the modern twist on so the modern twist on offer here helps Moroccan cuisine that set Zayane out from the pack. Head Zayane have achieved. Chef Josh Mortell has created a menu To call the West London [well two menus to be precise the full enshrined in the journalistic code of his suspicious knowledge had its origins restaurant scene competitive is a bit like manger of the dinner option alongside a ethics. At least that’s what we tell people] in the fact that he’d been well and truly insinuating that Siberia gets a bit chilly ‘working brunch’ that we didn’t try] that my guest had already ingratiated himself briefed by our waitress, who would soon in winter, going by present form however fuses seasonal British ingredients with with the charming staff and barely had I prove herself indispensible as a guide Zayane should be sticking around for a unique spices imported from Morocco, sat down before I was bombarded with for our staid palates. We began with good while the end result being exciting Moroccan recommendations for our order; delivered Roast Artichoke Hearts which can only cuisine that is tangibly rooted into new with the confidence of a man who has be described as revelatory. One doesn’t Zayane traditions. spent the majority of his life in a soukh. really look at artichoke as a flavour 91 Golbourne Road, By the time I arrived [to be Considering that I knew for a fact that sensation but Mortell had outdone Notting Hill W10 5NL constantly 5 minutes late is actually grew up in Malvern, I soon gathered himself in making the borderline T: 020 8960 1137 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

vitriolic. Richard Newton kept his nerve who latched onto the number 45, and has two prints, one from 1798 with which began to proliferate on badges John Bull farting at a print of George and on doors. The object on display is III, with William Pitt shouting, ‘This a Worcester porcelin teapot, with 45 is Treason, Johnny,’ and the other with contained in a cartouche at the base of the two severed heads of Pitt and the the spout. British Museum © British Photographs King on a platter. It seems likely that he Hislop’s co-curator, Tom Hockenhull, would have faced prosecution, but sadly is in charge of The Department of died of natural causes shortly after their Coins and Medals, which is home to publication, aged only 21. Hogarth is one of the world’s finest numismatic represented by a wonderfully busy scene collections, comprising about one in Hudibras encounters the Skimmington, million objects, so it no surprise than which apparently was a folk custom many of the objects in this exhibition, practised all over Europe and known come from his own department, some as charivari, which was a mob-scene more interesting than others. A 1937 and noisy procession that acted as a florin, bearing the head of George VI, corrective to moral behaviour, in this case has been stamped with a crude (back- adultery by a shrewish wife. Cruikshank to-front) swastika using the letter ‘L’ is represented by a Bank Restriction Note, and the word NAZI, possibly because produced in oppostion to the Bank the King’s elder brother, Edward VIII, of England’s draconian laws, making was an alleged pro-fascist sympathiser. forgery a capital offence. His mock A 1903 penny has been defaced with forgery includes a line of bodies hanging the suffragette slogan ‘VOTES FOR from a gibbet, Britannia devouring an WOMEN’. Bank notes were also a infant, four ships transporting convicts, target for political dissent in the form of a noose in the hidden messages at the printing stage. In shape of a pound a parliamentary democracy, it is hard to I object: Ian sign and the chief imagine a world without free speech, so cashier’s signature button badges are hardly at the cutting Hislop’s search replaced by Jack edge of dissent, and yet there is a large Ketch, the notorious collection of badges, mostly American for dissent seventeenth century from the period since 2007 on display. British Museum executioner. Far more interesting is the so-called Until 20 January 2019 During the Strangford Shield, a third century Reformation, Roman copy from the twelve-metre Admission £12 objects were high gold and ivory statue of Athena, produced to subtly that once stood within the Parthenon. conceal Catholic Phidias was the most important sculptor mpish is rather an overused word to support in defiance in classical antiquity, being employed by describe Ian Hislop, but elfin and of Protestant the Athenian statesman Pericles to work elvish don’t quite cut the mustard, so legislation, one on the Parthenon. The copy is about Imaybe Puckish will have to suffice. So, elaborate example a tenth of the size of the original, and the Puckish figure of Ian Hislop features being the Stonyhurst Phidias flouted convention, and secretly heavily in video clips all over this small Salt, a cellar made sculpted not only himself, but Pericles but nearly perfectly-formed exhibition of silver-gilt, rock as well, as warriors in a mythical battle of objects of dissent, subversion and crystal and adorned between the Greeks and the all-girl satire, peering at objects, drawings and with rubies and Amazons. The writer Plutarch suggested manuscripts through a large magnifying garnets, which, that the sculptor was betrayed through glass. Although sometimes the reasons to the cognoscenti, professional jealousy by a fellow artist for producing such objects were deadly represented because of his friendship with Pericles, serious, some with extreme prejudice, Christ’s purity and and, in another Draconian measure, he most display an extraordinary sense drops of blood. was thrown into prison, where he died of the ridiculous and ingenuity in the The radical Whig after an illness. Peckham Rock. Banksy face of such oppression. Hislop was politician John Amongst many fascinating commissioned by the British Museum to Wilkes published objects, there are three that are worth go behind the scenes of this bastion of and publisher of the satirical magazine a magazine called the North Briton, highlighting: a Roman oil-lamp the establishment and ferret out ‘objects Le Caricature, in which he lampooned and in issue number 45 contained an depicting Queen Cleopatra having of dissent’, that he could assemble into an King Louis Philippe. He was taken to attack on King George III’s speech intercourse with a crocodile; a Zippo exhibition of around a hundred objects court and he defended his right to draw in Parliament, which Wilkes called lighter from the Vietnam war, with the that would endorse his belief that there the King as a pear. The French for pear, the ‘the most abandoned piece of inscriptions, ‘Let me win your heart was subversive material that challenged poire, is also slang for an idiot, but he ministerial effrontery ever attempted and mind or I’ll burn your god damn the official version of events. Luckily for lost his case of libel brought against to be imposed on mankind,’ and the hut down,’ ‘we are the unwilling led by him, there was. It has long been asserted him and was fined 2,000 francs and ministers responsible were ‘the foul the unqualified to do the impossible for that history was written by the winners, a six-month prison sentence, but the dredges of (Lord Bute’s) power, the the ungrateful,’ and fighting for peace is but this show unearths the protestors, the image of the King as a pear appeared in tools of corruption and depotism.’ He like fucking for chastity’; an artwork by downtrodden and the activists, and gives graffiti all over Paris and elsewhere in was immediately slung in the Tower, but Banksy secretly installed in the British them a voice. France. After depicting the future King released under ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ Museum, with a mock caption, for three Some of the prints are old friends, George IV of England as a drunken, as he was an MP. After printing more days before it was ‘discovered’, but only like those of James Gillray, George pox-ridden, gluttonous gourmand, with seditious material, he was expelled from after an on-line admission, challenging Cruikshank and William Hogarth, gambling debts and stinking breath, in A Parliament and, had he not been unable the public to try and find it. This is the while their French counterparts, Charles Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion, to attend his trial, he would have been ultimate, and funniest of all the protest Philipon and Honoré Daumier, produced Gillray’s palm was greased to the tune of imprisoned and sent to goal, instead of objects, trying, and succeeding, to dupe some audacious work in the face of £200 a year to produce prints in favour which he legged it to France, where he the very institution in which it now even more stringent censorship laws. of government policy and attacks on the remained for four years. When he arrived hangs. 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Christ Buddhist-like figure showing his interest in the Far East. Wallace’s taste was certainly eclectic and he had a fondness for curiosities; several pieces came from Africa. He liked 17th century Dutch paintings and also

collected French contemporary Art and Collection Wallace © Photographs 17th and 18th century sculpture. He even added the rare bell of St. Mura, made at Kells which was famed for its art and monastic life. Hence the Book of Kells. Sir Richard Wallace was a very private man. It is uncertain why he left France for England. Maybe for the safety of his collection? Before leaving he erected fifty cast iron drinking fountains in the city of Paris, designed by the sculptor Charles-Auguste Le Bourg. They became known as Wallaces and some survive today. One is re-erected in front of Hertford House. Sir Richard was very involved with the English and French people in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and assisted them greatly. He received a Baronetcy from Queen Victoria for this and the Legion d'honneur. When he received his inheritance, Wallace married Julie Amelie Charlotte The Wallace Castelnau, who may have worked in a perfumier shop. They had been together Collection for years and already had a son, Edmond. Edmond broke his father’s heart by taking a mistress and having four children with her. He became estranged from his father when he refused to desert this family. So, Edmond only inherited he Wallace Collection has secured a property in France. Sadly too, he £1.2 million for a new Exhibition predeceased his father and Sir Richard’s space which will open later this dream of the Collection passing down year. The Museum will inaugurate the from generation to generation, died with T him. expanded galleries by celebrating the Bi-Centenary of Sir Richard Wallace's Dr. Xavier Bray, Director of the birth. The Exhibition will display twenty Collection, said of Sir Richard Wallace, objects only, thus emphasising their “He has always been brushed aside to importance and giving them a place of remain the ghost behind the scenes. For equal importance in the Collection as the happening. fine restaurants. His ancestors had long many years people attributed the strength works of Watteau, Fragonard, Rembrandt Sir Richard was actually the son of been keen collectors and enthusiastic of this Collection to the Marquess of and Titian etc. Mrs Agnes Jackson and was given her about France. Hertford and his ancestors, but, there The Wallace Collection is a National maiden name, Wallace. When he was The fourth Marquess was a keen is a reason why it is called the Wallace Museum and its home is Hertford about seven years old she deserted him collector too and the young Wallace Collection. He was an extraordinary House in London’s West End. This in Paris. This may have happened during became his agent acquiring much man, an astute collector with a brilliant remodelled red brick mansion, so very a visit to Richard Seymour-Conway knowledge himself and gradually eye. Really we are only just discovering noticeable in Manchester Square, was (the future 4th Marquess of Hertford). influenced his mentor’s purchases. In how much he did. We want to restore his one of the London properties belonging Several rumours abound, but it seems fact, Wallace became the leading light reputation.” to the Hertford family. It houses an that Richard Seymour-Conway's mother, in forming the magnificent Collection Dr. Bray also said he did not think outstanding array of French furniture Maria, the Marchioness of Hertford was which bears his name. In that Collection that Sir Richard would like to see his and porcelain from the 18th century, entranced by the handsome boy and was the viewer can see his attraction to works closed in and not lent out. He Medieval and Renaissance treasures and convinced he had a strong resemblance Medieval and Renaissance Art and how might consider a less strict interpretation a magnificent collection of arms and to her elder son. She took him into her his interest encompassed Venetian glass, of the Bequest. The terms make it armour. home and it became accepted that he was ivories, Italian maiolica, sculpture and difficult to host new Exhibitions because The first four Marquesses of Hertford the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess armour. An important part of Wallace's if you have to borrow you have to lend. and Sir Richard Wallace, known as of Hertford. No DNA tests in those own acquisitions was the Collection Dr. Bray is aware of the repercussions of the son of the fourth Marquess, were times! of Comte de Nieuwerkerke, who was lending. renowned connoisseurs and collectors The Marquess left his Collection and the former Surintendant des Beaux-Arts Sir Richard Wallace returned to Paris and they formed a very fine Collection. further inheritance to Richard Wallace. during the rule of Napoleon III. Arms where he died in the Bois de Boulogne in Sir Richard Wallace’s widow, Lady The truth remains hidden, but the wealth were also acquired from the Collection of 1890. He rests in the family grave at Père Wallace bequeathed the Collection to of art treasures was in safe, caring hands. Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, the academic Lachaise. the Nation in 1897. This was, indeed, a Nobody could have been more suitable, father of this special field. From the Marian Maitland very generous gift. illegitimate or not. Allegra sale in Paris Wallace acquired a Sir Richard has remained an Sir Richard’s upbringing and pair of gold wine cups made of kingfisher Richard Wallace: The Collector enigmatic figure with mystery education was influenced by France feathers, precious gems and pearls; opens in June 2019 surrounding his illegitimate birth and more than England. He grew up in Paris nobody could resist them, quite divine! Hertford House, Manchester Square, he later suffered personal tragedy. His surrounded by art dealers and auction He also acquired a rock crystal sculpture London W1U 3BN huge inheritance was an extraordinary houses in an area renowned for opera and representing the Good Shepherd, a wallace collection.org 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Plus One Gallery: Paul Cadden By Max Feldman

ven if you’ve never seen a Hyperrealist artwork, you’ll know one if you see one. Hypperealism Eis an art movement that takes Photorealism’s dedication to reproducing reality as a mere starting point. Spurred by the development of digital editing programs, Hyperrealism allows for both a crystalline sharpness of image coupled with incandescently saturated colour beyond what prior artists could have dreamed of. The end result is that the artwork is able to bring reality into a focus which seems almost hallucinatory in its depth of field, and shattering in power. One of the most respected artists working in the genre is Paul Cadden, whose pencilled drawings are of such detail that they verge on the uncanny. Blurring the boundaries between

Top: Fragment Pencil on paper 38 x 54 cm Left: Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere Pencil on paper 47 x 74 cm Right: Almond Pencil on paper 72 x 48 cm

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photography and drawing his work and emotive subtext. He is represented creates lush, vibrant vistas out of the exclusively by the Plus One Gallery in mundane through transitory settings London, which have many of his most and the urban environment. Cadden evocative works and greatly benefit from doesn’t so much reflect reality as simulate being witnessed in the flesh. an entirely new one, building a vibrant universe from passing moments that in Plus One Gallery is currently following the real world would pass unnoticed. up their 2013 exhibition, with their His black and white work achieves second collaboration Hiperrealisme intensity generally unseen in pencil work, opened 21st June at the Museu del Tabac, which allows him to infuse his art with Andorra. This exhibition focuses on the emotional, social, cultural, and political three major themes within the genre; themes in their margins. Talking about Still Life, Urban Landscape and Human his own work Cadden surmises “My Figure, and features work by the most hopes through my art are to transport the highly respected hyperrealist artists viewer into another space which is always including Pedro Campos. This must-see there but on reflection, is often missed. exhibition will close 30th September Through an accurate representation 2018 and is a fantastic opportunity to of ‘reality’ I aspire to give the viewer a view the best in Hyperrealism today. For new emotional perspective in which we more information please email rosie@ can appreciate an affinity for everyday plusonegallery.com or call the gallery on situations as we deal exclusively with how 020 7730 7656. people appear, when in reality people are more than what we see.” Plus One Gallery Cadden’s work has a subtlety that is is located in the Piper Building, belied by the stunning detail of his art, by Peterborough Road SW6 3EF taking the ordinary and intensifying it, Open Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm he creates imagery pregnant with social by appointment only. 56 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

with a white drill suit, cork helmet and pipe-clayed Love is Blind white shoes. By William Boyd There is more than a passing whiff of the travelogue- adventure story in Boyd’s past books, with Africa Penguin Viking being the backdrop for An Ice Cream War, Brazzaville 370pps. £18.99 Beach and A Good Man in Africa, Vienna providing the setting for Waiting for Sunrise, while Berlin was ISBN 978-0241-29593-9 one of the locations in New Confessions and Sweet Caress. He fleshes out his believable characters, from the likeable, but slightly drippy, Moncur, his ghastly tyrant of a father, the temperamental and tempestuous virtuoso John Kilbarron, known as ‘the Irish Liszt’, his malelovent brother Malachi, the crabbit and dodgy illiam Boyd is a master story-teller, stepping son of his employer, Calder, who Moncur suspects of in the large footprints of Sir Walter Scott fiddling the books, and the beautiful and seductive in the nineteenth century, Robert Louis Russian soprano, Lika Blum, with whom he falls StevensonW in the Victorian era and John Buchan in the passionately, and dangerously, in love. Mr Boyd has early twentieth century, all, as it happens, Scotsmen. the workings of a grand piano at his fingertips, with Boyd’s romantic thriller tells the story of Brodie knowledgeable references to the fall, hammers, dampers, Moncur from the Borders, one of nine siblings of rockers, jacks and whippens and an awesome repertoire the drunken, tub-thumping, hellfire-and-brimstone of music that is played throughout the book, with minister Malky Moncur of the local kirk, who terrorises tonics, rising sevenths, falling fourths, and G flat majors and bullies his children. Moncur junior was working to D flat minor ninths. The plot unravels in some in Edinburgh as a tuner for a piano manufacturer, but surprising ways, which kept this reader on his toes, and decided to spend a couple of days with his brothers there is an all-pervading and ominous threat, which and sisters, before taking up a job in Paris, working for does not let up, in the same way the posse relentlessly the same piano firm, but in the French capital. After a pursued Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Mr Boyd particularly vehement attack on him through his father’s seems to have left his humour at the back door, as there sermon, based on a text taken from the Book of Baruch are few laughs, except, earlier on, between Moncur and in the Apocrypha, an lesser-known deuterocanonical his brother Callum. However, there is plenty of drama, addendum to some bibles, he leaves the unhappy house with a heart-stopping duel, quite literally, with pistols with no regrets. Boyd shifts effortlessly from finely- at dawn in a meadow outside St Petersberg, where tuned English to lallams, and then French, describing to next, whether it be Geneva and Nice, St Petersburg, such events could be covered up. There is a modest and a vibrant fin-de-siècle Paris in complete contrast to or Biarritz, Edinburgh and Nice again, then back to tasteful amount of sex in it, for which Mr Boyd would the rather dour aspect of Auld Reekie. There are Geneva, Vienna, Graz and Trieste. By the time he not even get a mention at the Literary Review’s Bad Sex mini-spoilers at the beginning of each of the seven reaches the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of in Fiction Award. chapters, by announcing where young Moncur is off Bengal, we are nearly into colonial Graham Greeneland, Don Grant

Ivon Hitchens House by Lake oil on canvas 20 x 30 c.1940. British Art Fair Courtesy Jonathan Clark Fine Art Moves To Saatchi Gallery

The British Art Fair will take place at the Saatchi Gallery from 20 September to 23 September 2018. The fair is a new incarnation of the well-regarded 20/21 British Art Fair and will continue to focus on Modern British art. Over 30 years, the 20/21 British Art Fair has built up a consistent following of collectors and a roster of dealers whose knowledge of this field is unparalleled. The new owners, Robert and Johnny Sandelson, whose Interest in modern British art has been consistently A second special presentation mounted by Piano parents showed at the first British Art Fair in 1988, strong over the last few years with highlights such as Nobile will show the works of Anthony Caro and are moving it to the heart of the Royal Borough, the the sales of the private collections of David Bowie and the writer and critic John Golding. The pair worked Saatchi Gallery. Leslie Waddington and record-breaking auction prices together accommodate the principles of American Some 50 galleries will present Modern and Post- for artists such as Francis Bacon attracting headlines. Abstract Expressionism to a British context had a War British art over all three floors of the Saatchi Long-time followers of this once-niche field are being notable effect on the history of Modern British art. Gallery. Some of the artworks include pieces by David joined by collectors and buyers moving away from the Piano Nobile’s presentation will show these two artists at Bomberg, Lynn Chadwick, Alan Davie, William more unpredictable contemporary market and more the moment they arrived at their full creative maturity Gear, Elisabeth Frink, Terry Frost, Wilhelmina Barns- gallery and institutional shows on the field are taking in the early seventies. Graham, Patrick Heron, Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, place. To reflect the increasing serious interest in “I’m delighted that we have special projects that Victor Pasmore, Bridget Riley, William Scott, Richard Modern British Art, the British Art Fair will this year allow visitors to explore Modern British art in depth Smith, Graham Sutherland, Keith Vaughan and many mount focused special projects of single and dual artist as well as the strong selection of galleries”, says Robert more. The new venue has attracted the participation presentations to complement the gallery stands. Sandelson. “The Saatchi Gallery is one of the world’s of some of the leading galleries in the field including The first of the special exhibitions is a centrepiece on most visited museums and I know that our dealers are Richard Green, Robin Katz, Offer Waterman, Jonathan Ivon Hitchens with over 25 works from all periods of greatly looking forward to having works installed there. Clark, Osborne Samuel and The Mayor Gallery some the artist’s career on view. The presentation is mounted Modern British art is a deep, strong and time tested of whom are returning to the fair whilst others are by Jonathan Clark, the noted Hitchen’s specialist and market where there are both blue-chip names and regular exhibitors. (For a full list see: www.britishartfair. dedicated to the memory of Victor Sandelson (1928- artists whose work will only be appreciated more over co.uk). 2017), the father of the fair’s new owners. time.” 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Mitski heads to the Empire MUSIC American female singer-songwriter Mitski is turning heads with her gritty and insightful indie hits. And now, ROUND UP armed with songs from her fifth album, BY GEOFF COWART Be the Cowboy, she’s heading to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on September 26. Support from EERA. 7pm. Tickets £20. www.02shepherdsbushempire.co.uk

Curtain falls on Spiritualized to blast off the Proms as fans in Hammersmith Veteran noisemaker Jason Spaceman look to future is counting down the return of his After eight weeks and more Czigány quartet Spiritualized project with a gig at the Hammersmith Apollo on September 21 than 90 concerts, an incredible and a new album, And Nothing Hurt. Proms season has drawn to a that the annual festival holds on to its group on September 20 includes the Spaceman wrote and recorded the roots while continuing to build new Lobkowitz quartet by Haydn and Ligeti’s album entirely in his east London home; close. The festival notched up audiences with brave programming. First String Quartet. Not to be missed. a process he described as ‘maddening’. 42 premieres and 90 debut 1pm. www.ram.ac.uk “We’d been playing these big shows and I really wanted to capture that sound appearances across venues in Still looking for an orchestral we were making but without the funds,” west London as the Proms thrill? he told KCW Today. “So I bought a laptop. And with a bit of trial and lot of succeeded in expanding its Look no further than the Royal error…” The album may be the last from programmes and developing Philharmonic Orchestra. They return to Spiritualized, according to Spaceman, so Cadogan Hall on September 26 with a helmets at the ready 7.30pm. Tickets new audiences. Bravo! programme of Germanic masterpieces: from £41. www.eventim.co.uk Beethoven’s Leonore Overture, Bruch’s ne of those debuts was handed Third Violin Concerto and Brahms’ Second to the impressive young Calidore Symphony. Barry Wordsworth will String Quartet. Formed in conduct with Esther Yoo starring on Subterania returns to rock O2010 in a Los Angeles music school, the violin. 7.30pm. Tickets from £15. www. Biffy Clyro Ladbroke Grove sharply-dressed group performed the cadoganhall.com first lunchtime chamber music Prom at The Subterania Club has returned to Cadogan Hall. They didn’t disappoint Ladbroke Grove. Some neighbours may with one of the best premieres of the Chamber music season Mon the Biffy for acoustic not be pleased, but thanks to former festival; composer Caroline Shaw’s Third resumes at Wigmore Hall Mean Fiddler boss Vince Power it returns Essay: Ruby. The Sloane Square recital night at Royal Albert Hall to his second new west London venue showed how the Calidore are making After a short summer break, high- following Nell’s Jazz and Blues club in Explosive Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro a name for themselves and Shaw, and profile chamber music concerts return West Kensington. Next up at Subterania are unplugging their guitars for one their performance of her third instalment to Wigmore Hall. The first recital seems is a performance from veteran Irish night at the Royal Albert Hall. And utilised the spacious acoustics of the most intriguing as superb California- band Aslan on Saturday (September 15). fans,who have coined the enthusiastic Cadogan Hall to show off its dizzying born jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman The rockers emerged from the working refrain ‘Mon the Biffy’! can catch them riffs and meditative, expansive lines. teams up with Norwegian violinist Ola class areas of Finglas and Ballymun in on September 24 when the group will A few days later at the Royal Albert Kvernberg on Tuesday (September 11) Dublin’s Northside in the mid-Eighties. play a rare acoustic set as part of their Hall, the arrival of storied Finnish for a night of daring duos. 7.30pm. 7.30pm. Tickets £27.50. www.subterania. MTV Unplugged tour and album conductor John Storgårds and the BBC Tickets from £18. net launch. 7:30pm. Tickets £66. www. Philharmonic set tongues wagging. It It’s followed by a two-night stand royalalberthall.com also offered one of the most striking from tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist/ and unusual of pieces tackled during composer Thomas Adès as they perform the Proms The Symphony in One Schubert’s legendary song cycle Movement by German composer Bernd Winterreise on Monday and Wednesday Alois Zimmermann. It dazzled as it (September 17 and 19). 7.30pm. Tickets disintegrated, fractured and built back up, from £18. only to fall apart yet again. And against Meanwhile celebrated harpsichord a mellifluous Seventh Symphony from player Mahan Esfahani returns to Sibelius and the Liszt’s sweet orchestral Wigmore Hall on October 1 for an arrangement of Schubert’s Wanderer evening of music by Bach, including his Fantasy in C, complete with the quick- Italian Concerto. 7.30pm. Tickets from fingered Louis Lortie at the piano, it £18. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk stuck out like a glorious and complex sore thumb. In just these two concerts, the Proms And there’s more chamber showed off just how far it’s come in music on offer giving young artists, female composers and unusual works a greater audience. at the Royal Academy of Music as the But with the BBC offering up next year’s London-based Czigány Quartet perform TV rights for the Proms in a ‘competitive a free lunchtime recital. The challenging Jason Spaceman tender’, classical music fans are hoping programme from the up-and-coming 58 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

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BlacKkKlansman Director: Spike Lee Running Time: 135 minutes

ased, as the opening credits pronounce, on “some fo real, fo real shit,” Spike Lee’s BBlacKkKlansman is a riotous mess of contradictions: a true story that seems too outrageous to actually be true, a period piece that’s also a red-alert bulletin on current affairs, a very funny comedy about the very unfunny business of white supremacy. Dramatising the exploits of a black cop who managed to bullshit his way into the Klu Klux Klan, Lee has, for the first time in forever, in person, which means that Stallworth hides his badge from Patrice (Spider- to propagate a romantically distorted tapped right into the turbulent spirit of needs a white face to go with the voice Man: Homecomings’ Laura Harrier), image of the slave-holding South. the cultural moment, making a rat-a- on the line, a Christian de Neuvillette the college activist he meets while Later, it finds room for a scene of the tat zeitgeist entertainment that feels as to his bigot-whispering Cyrano undercover at a black-student-union Klansmen hooting and hollering through timely as breaking news. Yet he’s also de Bergerac. He finds him in Flip meeting. Lee, never afraid to stop his a screening of Birth Of A Nation, that made his most accessible and narratively Zimmerman (Adam Driver), a Jewish movie cold for some Greek chorusing, monstrously racist proto-blockbuster, satisfying movie in more than a decade, narcotics officer with his own heritage to stages a fiery speech by one-time Black which helped revive the KKK and folding his righteous fury into a crowd- conceal from the marks. For months the Panther Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins) which, as Lee reminds us, President pleasing package with the help of two insinuate themselves into the Klan’s as a moment of political awakening: Woodrow Wilson reportedly described producers Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, ranks; a sting operation that Lee wrings faces, isolated in close-up against a black as “history written with lightning.” who lobbed their own charged cherry for some suspense, as during a scene of backdrop, stirred by his call to action. With BlacKkKlansman, Lee cooks up bomb, Get Out, into the multiplex last Flip trying to fast-talk his way out of a But BlacKkKlansman is never cut-and- the counter-programming, his own year. lie-detector test, but also for plenty of dried in its dialogue; it uses the lively, brand of popcorn agitprop: brisk, fun, as BlacKkKlansman takes place in 1979, belly laughs. nuanced discussions between Ron and aspirationally (and crucially) mainstream though the time period is never specified Washington, a former running back Patrice to ask big questions (“It’s a racist as the milestone movies it excerpts. He’s on screen, through dialogue or date and a regular on HBO’s Ballers, shares system,” she insists when he suggests bottled plenty of his own lightning. And stamps. It’s a pointed omission, a way a certain movie-star authority with his that maybe black cops can make change his penmanship hasn’t been this clear in for Lee to underline that the America famous father, Denzel, who Lee cast from the inside), as well as to commune ages. he’s depicting, where white cops harass as the titular civil rights icon of his last with the imagery and attitude of the era’s and murder black citizens, where white biopic, Malcolm X. But he has a quieter blaxploitation classics. Lee, as usual, has supremacists complain of their own charisma, appropriate for a character overstuffed his joint with ideas, genres, supposed social disadvantage, where constantly modulating his energy for tones, and jukebox ear candy. the ideological tendrils of hate groups different crowds. Most undercover cop The storytelling can be uneven, The King extend into the political sphere, looks movies are, in one way or another, about especially in the final stretch, when Director: Eugene Jarecki an awful lot like the America of here identity. The Departed, for example, Lee seems to run into the limitations Running Time: 107 minutes and now. Not that we can’t ballpark turned its duelling-mole premise into of his real-life material. (No amount the year through context clues, like a statement about class, about faking of wailing Terence Blanchard guitar the ostentatious fashion choices, the your way up or down the social ladder can stop the climax from feeling, well, In his new documentary The King, warm hum of the Motown music cues, to fit in. BlacKkKlansman treats the anticlimactic.) And there are times when filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight, and the very 1979 afro sported by Ron espionage games of Stallworth’s scheme the writer-director gets too on the nose The House I Live In) uses the life of Elvis Stallworth ( John David Washington), as a metaphor for the different masks he with the already exceptionally apparent Presley as an allegory for the lifespan of the first black officer of the Colorado has to wear as a black man in America; contemporary echoes, playing on MAGA America, and the death of its eponymous Springs Police Force, who successfully how he plays a part not just for the KKK, and cracking a wink-wink gag about the dream. As a group of savvy diners puts infiltrated a local arm of the KKK by but also for his colleagues at the station, country never being stupid enough to it in one of Jarecki’s many stops on his masquerading as an aggrieved kindred some of whom are only a pointy hood elect someone like David Duke to the cross-country tour in Elvis’ Rolls Royce: spirit in the white power movement. His away from being unofficial Klansmen presidency. Yet BlacKkKlansman for all its the nation’s ‘about to overdose’. America’s memoir is the basis for the screenplay themselves. Lee, riffing on the tensions indulgent… Spikiness, is held together life cycle, Jarecki warns, is currently Lee co-wrote with Charlie Wachtel, of white cop/black cop buddy comedies, by the force of Lee’s messaging. He’s entering the bathroom with a book on David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott. recognizes the imbalance in the central the polemicist as insult comic, wedging the morning of August 16, 1977. “I’m fluent in both King’s English relationship: “You’ve been passing as truths between each karate chop to the That premise seems like a stretch on and jive,” Stallworth reassures his a WASP,” Ron reminds Flip, who can (skin)head of racist America. paper, and at times Jarecki himself seems superiors, and that chameleon generally afford to ignore the intolerance What this film understands is to be floundering, asking a member of adaptability, coupled with his slightly he’s gone undercover to combat. (For cinema’s capacity to speak to a mass his crew, “What do you think I’m doing nerdy nasal voice, comes in handy when whatever else it’s about, BlacKkKlansman audience, sympathetic to ideas and with this movie?” To help him figure it the rookie cop answers, on a whim, a exhibits an unexpected interest in Jewish hungry for inspiration. It opens with a out, he drafts a disparate group of Rolls call for new members, making phone American identity.) clip from Gone With The Wind, still passengers and confidants, from political contact with “the organization.” Of There’s even an element of subterfuge the biggest hit of all time if you adjust strategist James Carville to musician course, joining the Klan requires meeting to the film’s romantic subplot, as Ron for inflation, and a movie that continues John Hiatt (who starts weeping almost 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

immediately upon entering Elvis’ car) Kutcher shows up to pontificate on what to Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin it must have been like for Elvis to have Searching to actor Ethan Hawke. The “Elvis = that level of fame at such a young age, as Director: Aneesh Chaganty America” equation may have started as a a crowd of sightseers yells to him. Mike murky metaphor, but Jarecki manages to Myers jumps in to offer the Canadian Running Time: 102 minutes flesh it out by the end of the film, even if, perspective, equating his home country Gems © Screen Photograph at times, the viewer gets so sucked into to the responsible type that stayed the tragedy of Elvis’ life that the parallels, home and kept house (keeping peace like footage of a Trump rally to represent and democracy intact, he points out) the fall of the U.S. can seem like a jarring while America went off to become an It’s difficult to make an internet-paranoia intrusion. And the frequent references to attention-seeking pop star. A multitude thriller without sounding like a hysterical King Kong don’t really work. Elvis wasn’t of more or less talented musical guests, scold, and as a result even harder to make dragged into public life via captivity, but Nicki Bluhm And The Gramblers, M. one that doesn’t make you seem like a was a very willing participant. Still, the Ward, The Handsome Family, underscore militant Luddite. But regardless of this overall merging of the two stories offers the tremendous, undeniable impact of potential dent to directorial hipness, deeper insight into the fall of both the Elvis’ groundbreaking music, even if his the mini-boom of first-person internet King and the country as a whole. personal legacy is more questionable. thrillers has, if nothing else, found a As a few of the many talking heads As we enter Elvis’ bloated, drug- way to plug audiences directly into that point out, America was, at its conception, addled years in Vegas, a multitude of paranoia, making it feel more immediate seen as a grand experiment in democracy, ever-expanding sequined jumpsuits and justified. The technique, cleverly at a time when most countries were only exacerbate the fact that the King is used by the new thriller Searching, is a ruled by monarchs. The then-surprising now coasting on his previous legendary cousin of the found-footage style; instead there even close to all night. As David goal was to show that the people could status, a shell of his former self, now of everything captured via in-movie attempts to track down his daughter, he actually rule themselves. Like the young representative of much of what rock recording devices, the “action” unfolds discovers that he may not know her life Elvis, this credo was rebellious, rock ’n’ music was rebelling against in the first entirely through real-life screens. In the as well as he thinks he does. roll, and extremely attractive. Then, that place. When Jarecki ties it all back to the Unfriended series, it’s mostly confined It’s that fear, of gaps between idealistic platform was corrupted by current state of the U.S. with a similarly to whatever the lead character sees parents and children widening enough excess, drugs, and money, particularly via bloated Trump showcasing the worst through his laptop; Searching fudges a to swallow the kids up, that Searching corporations and capitalism, a fate not tendencies of not just America, but little with some local-news streaming, exploits with canny skill; technically so different than Elvis’. By the end of humanity in general, it’s a stark lesson. surveillance cameras, and a few other it’s more thriller than horror movie, but his life, the star had fallen far from the Elvis achieved a skyrocketing success images that aren’t necessarily being for some parents it will constitute an perfect icon of the young Elvis stamp to previously unseen in pop culture, and watched by David Kim ( John Cho) 102-minute nightmare. Soon David is the caricature of the rejected old Elvis then became his own victim by letting in real time. It also switches between in regular contact with Detective Vick stamp. it get away from him. As Jarecki proves two computers, including one that may (Debra Messing), who has been assigned Eventually, Jarecki’s road-trip with this extended, sometimes bumpy, induce unexpected sighs of nostalgia to his daughter’s missing-person case; trace of Elvis’ journey (with the Rolls but still worthy metaphor, it’s the same as the near-forgotten Windows XP she forms a slim support system along ironically breaking down a few times with the U.S. The King doesn’t really home screen emerges out of the cultural with his brother, Peter ( Joseph Lee). along the way) leads us to Hollywood, have an ending, as it remains to be seen elephant graveyard. But the effect is the If anything, Searching is even more where Presley, steered by Parker, almost if the country can possibly rebound from same, as a mystery develops less through stripped-down than an Unfriended completely sold out in a series of its current state, or if America’s dream traditional action than by process. movie, which (so far) have made mini- increasingly execrable movies, just as of democracy will die young, just like its Searching gets to that process a bit ensembles out of group-chat situations. America’s main exports switched from most famous entertainer, a victim of its quicker than most. Its speed during the For much of this movie, it’s just David agricultural to entertainment. Ashton own short-sightedness and excess. obligatory things-are-normal setup is and his computer. This gives John Cho aided by the ways screen-sharing can a too-rare chance to hold the screen on efficiently deliver exposition, making his own, and he makes such a natural, it somehow both more direct (through empathetic Everyman that the movie access to search engine use, glimpses of may well provoke frustration that he chat history, and old photos) and subtler hasn’t had more of these opportunities. Photograph Photograph © A20 (sparing the actors the awkwardness of Messing and Lee are effective, too, explaining their characters’ relationships but it’s Cho who brings to mind the to each other). A heartbreaking (yet unforced gravity of a 50s Hitchcock lead, quick) progression through 16 or 17 if a Hitchcock hero had access to instant years’ worth of computer files makes it messaging and Excel grids of witness immediately clear that David and his interviews. wife, Pamela (Sara Sohn), love their The movie itself has a little in daughter, Margot (played as a teenager common with mid-tier Hitchcock by Michelle La), and by the end of the gimmick pictures like Rope or Dial M sequence, it also establishes that David For Murder. It also resembles some and Margot haven’t recovered from kind of interactive video mystery party losing Pamela to cancer. game, providing the audience with an Through their brief iChats and video avatar, a barrage of potential clues, and calls, David tries to dote on Margot everything they need to attempt to solve without actually broaching any topics the case themselves. This keeps the movie more serious than how she might do on honest. There’s no reason to use this her school tests or whether she forgot technique on a mystery story if it’s not to take out the garbage. When she going to play fair, and to some extent, curtails one conversation in order to get limits its impact, despite its affecting back to an all-night study group, he’s father/daughter relationship. Ultimately, disappointed, if not especially surprised. there isn’t room for a close look at the But then he misses a call from her later Internet’s ‘heart of darkness’, or a real in the evening, and the next day she’s rumination on parenting challenges. 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accounts for the cost of its recommended diet, and creates a food system that does Social media and UK children can’t not consign those on lower incomes to depression afford healthy the risk of diet-related illness.” By Fahad Redha The report calls on the government to help with this “crisis” by not only eating increasing benefit payments but offering By Fahad Redha universal free school meals and food epression is the world’s leading vouchers for mothers on low incomes. cause of disability worldwide. “t cannot be right that 50% of This can have serious effects on a households in the UK currently have Dperson’s life including under achievement insufficient food budgets to meet the in school, under-employment, and poorer government's recommended Eatwell quality relationships and physical health. Nearly 4 million UK children are ‘too Guide,” lawmaker Sharon Hodgson, All of this is not to mention its risk poor’ to eat healthy. A worrying report chair of the Children's Future factor for self-harm and suicide. by the Food Foundation has found that Food Inquiry committee, said in a With 88 percent of 18 to 29-year olds many households struggle to afford fruit, statement. “A healthy diet, which we using social media, there has been much vegetables, and other foods vital for a know is important for our health and to look into in terms of its impact on healthy lifestyle. development, should not be unaffordable mental health. The results are mixed. It The poorest fifth of families, according to so many people.” can be a good source of social support to the report, would need to spend 42 but on the other hand it can also be percent of their after-house income on used for social comparison, potentially It found that for every 10 percent food to meet the government guidelines, highlighting a person’s inadequacies and increase in a positive experience, a person almost four times what the richest 20 insecurities. saw a 4 percent decrease in depression percent of British families must spend. A study published in Depression and symptoms. Meanwhile, a 10 percent This, the report says, increases the risk of Anxiety looked at 1,179 full time increase in negative experience on social obesity and diabetes and widens the gap university students in the country. media resulted in a 20 percent increase in in health inequality. Participants answered a survey asking depression symptoms. “The government's measurement of questions about depression symptoms “The authors conclude that negative household income highlights the fact including questions which ask how often experiences are more influential on that millions of families in the UK in the past 7 days a person felt hopeless, depression symptoms than positive cannot afford to eat in line with the worthless, helpless, or depressed. They experiences,” the study said, “which government's own dietary guidance,” said also had to provide an estimate of might be to do with the tendency for Anna Taylor, executive director of the the percentage of their social media people to focus more on the negative Food Foundation, in a statement. experience that was positive and the aspects of self, others and the world “It's crucial that a coordinated cross- percentage that was negative. around us (called negativity bias).” government effort develops policy that

and drinking too much are just a few of the contributing factors. Lead researcher Olive Oil is Dr Christina Chrysohoou, said diet and exercise were key to improving sexual ‘better than capacity of middle age and elderly men. “Men that follow a Med diet, particularly Viagra’ at consuming lots of olive oil, see their risk of impotence reduced by up to 40 reducing per cent in older age." She added that small lifestyle changes could prove more impotence, claims beneficial for those looking for a long- study term solution. While Viagra, created in By Max Feldman the 1990s and now available over the counter without prescription in the UK, has helped the sex life of millions, the Scientists from the University of side-effects include headache, back pain Athens says just nine tablespoons of and visual disturbance. the popular condiment is enough to “Viagra does not improve something reduce impotence by around 40 per cent. long-term. It can only produce a short Olive oil has a wealth of health benefits effect on sexual capacity." including keeping blood vessels healthy and maintaining circulation throughout the body. A study of 660 men with an average age of 67 found that those that adopted a Mediterranean style diet, rich in fruit © Pixabay Photograph and vegetables, legumes, fish and nuts, as well as olive oil, had far fewer erectile issues. This is due to the fact that olive oil helps to increase testosterone levels, low levels of which are one of the most significant factors in erectile dysfunction. According to the NHS, one in five British men over 40, the equivalent of 4.3 million men across the UK, are affected by the issue. Tiredness, anxiety, 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

days, recovering in the comfort of your dementia. Every year in which they Get back to living own home on a tailored rehabilitation Study confirms were followed up saw 18 in every 1,000 Recover faster from joint programme. develop it if they had 0 or 1, compared So what is it that makes the with 8 in 1,000 if they had 6 or 7. This replacement surgery difference for the patient? Joint link between means that for every healthy heart replacement techniques are improving all characteristic, a person reduces their risk the time, and the most important factor heart health and of dementia by 10 percent. is the surgeon’s knowledge and skill, This is not surprising. These so finding a surgeon you trust and feel dementia factors have all been known to impact By Fahad Redha whether or not somebody developed it, Healthcare stories are not comfortable with is a good place to start. particularly a form known as vascular always good news, but if you're Your surgeon will tell you what the dementia. This is one type that is known chance of success is going to be, as a Research from the University of Bordeaux and other research centres in to have much of the same risk factors one of the many thousands joint replacement prosthesis doesn’t France has confirmed that keeping the as heart disease. The causes of other of people in the UK suffering feel or behave exactly like a real human heart healthy reduces your chances of types, including Alzheimer’s, are not from ongoing knee or hip pain, joint, especially knee replacements. It’s getting dementia later in life. Over 6,000 as clear cut but can include these same important that you are fully informed people aged 65 or more were assessed characteristics. there can be light at the end of by your surgeon before the operation to into whether they had 7 “healthy heart” One of the main limitations of this the tunnel; joint replacement avoid dissatisfaction afterwards. characteristics. They were then followed type of study is that other factors may In recent years improvements have up for up to 16 years. The study saw have also played a role and affected the surgery can make a big included better pain relief after the the participants in three French cities results. While the researchers did take difference. surgery, and developments in surgical followed to determine the link between steps to remove the impact of these, it techniques that mean less swelling, a cardiovascular health and the likelihood is difficult to be certain that they have ortius Joint Replacement’ at faster recovery and less time in hospital. of developing dementia. been completely cut out of the equation. Another limitation is that some people Bupa Cromwell Hospital is one This means you have more time to spend The characteristics were whether they of the few dedicated private smoke, had a healthy body weight, took may not have been accurate in reporting getting back to the things you love doing, their diet or physical activity habits. joint replacement centres in London, whether it’s walking, hiking, playing regular exercise, had a healthy diet, blood ‘F pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. Some participants were also lost to where patients can choose to undergo an tennis, playing with grandchildren or follow-up and they tended to have worse operation through their private medical Researchers discovered that the more simply living a life free from daily pain. of these healthy characteristics people health suggesting that the results are insurance or pay for it themselves. If you’re suffering from hip or knee had, the lower their risk of developing more representative of a healthy group of Situated in the heart of Kensington, pain, just pick up the phone to speak to dementia. people. Given the age of the participants, ‘Fortius Joint Replacement’ at Bupa one of our team about joint replacement. Of the participants, 7 percent had this may reflect behaviours and habits Cromwell Hospital offers leading You can see any one of our hip or knee 5 to 7 of the healthy characteristics, 57 they already had over a longer period of orthopaedic surgeons, excellent nursing surgeons, and know that you’ll be in safe percent had 3 or 4, and 36 percent had 0 time. care, assisted robotic technology and hands. to 2. 11 percent of them, or 745 people, But adopting these healthy heart an enhanced recovery pathway for the developed dementia. The more healthy behaviours is likely to bring benefits highest standard of clinical care. You Tel: 020 3195 2442 heart characteristics a person had at the at any age, hopefully the results would can be out of hospital after only three www.fortiusjointreplacement.com start, the less likely they were to develop encourage more people to take them up.

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is known about the upcoming eighth generation or C8 Corvette but if these prototypes are anything to go by it is not a bad idea to get our hopes up. So why would GM mess with a formula that has worked so well for so long? After all, front-engined sports cars from the Mazda MX-5 to the Ferrari 812 Superfast are far from dull affairs. And the current king of the Corvette pile, the ZR1 is no slouch. With 755bhp on tap from its supercharged 6.2-litre V8 it can sprint to 60mph in less than 3 seconds and continue on to a top speed of 212mph. This is well into Ferrari, Lamborghini, and McLaren territory but for much less money. Well, some have said that this car reaches the limits of what a front- engined car is capable of. And since the Lamborghini Miura was unveiled to the been the Chevrolet Corvette. America’s had an inline 6 engine) under a long world in 1966, most cars to bear the title Mid-engine sports car was launched in 1953 in bonnet sending power to the rear wheels. of fastest production car and most major response to the popularity of European But now, threescore and five years after lap record holders have always mounted to make the two-seaters including MGs and Alfa the original, that is all about to change. their engines between the cabin and rear Romeos brought home by returning A mid-engined Corvette is equivalent axle. Lamborghini’s engineers were just Corvette great troops. Harley Earl’s original design to a sequel to the Half Life series, or experimenting and working behind the initially failed to capture the heart of flying cars; something that is always boss’s back. The Corvette on the other again the public the way that its counterparts just a few years away. In the 1960s a hand will have the blessing of GM. By Fahad Redha from the other side of the Atlantic had prototype was made years before the Nothing else is known about the done. But since then it has been a staple Lamborghini Miura hit the scene. powertrain for the C8 and we can only of the American car scene, with only the Though it hasn’t been confirmed officially speculate about the car’s performance. Mustang and the Jeep being more iconic. by General Motors, it is now certain that But if the current crop of American ther than a couple of trucks Named for a class of American this is finally happening. sports cars, the Dodge Hellcat, the and the Volkswagen Type 1, battleship, the formula has largely A number of prototypes have been Shelby GT350, and the Tesla P100D, better known as the Beetle, remained the same: a front-mounted spotted testing in both America and are anything to go by, then God bless Othe longest running car nameplate has pushrod V8 engine (though the original Europe that are unmistakable. Little America. an impressive feat given the 650kg of Prices have yet to be announced but already started taking orders on it. While batteries on board. we aren’t expecting something close to the Audi, Jaguar, Tesla, and Mercedes are Mercedes rocks But this is not an AMG performance the Jaguar I-Pace which starts at over all clean sheet designs, this car is based car, it’s a Mercedes and it’s the inside £60,000. However, since this car is the on a current production model. down to electric that counts. The interior, Mercedes says, EQC it is likely that a larger, and pricier, As we’ve stated before on these avenue “pioneers an avant-garde electro-look” EQE and EQS are on the way and it is pages, there is now plenty of choice for By Fahad Redha while the cockpit is “driver-oriented.” possible that the former will be priced the consumer looking to green and few Up front you have a pair of touch close to the Jaguar and the latter will be segments of the market are left standing. screens, one for the driver’s instrument around the Tesla Model X at £80,000. Rumours have begun to spread that and another on the centre of the Mercedes is also bringing a battery the next generation of the Audi R8 dash. Reviewers have highly praised powered version of its Sprinter van, supercar will have only batteries and Mercedes is never a firm to let innovation the current generation of Mercedes’ making it one of a small number of electric motors. If this is true, it will pass it by. It often likes to be the first to a infotainment system as one of the best commercial vehicles to go green prove yet again that when the oil runs new piece of technology having invented around and we would expect no less from Meanwhile, BMW is set to launch out there is still a place for enthusiasts, airbags and emergency auto-braking. this one. the production version of its iX3 and has even if it will sound a little different. Now that its competitors are all working on electric cars it was just a matter of time before the German brand joined the fray. The EQC is the production version of the concept car we saw in 2016 and is part of a new EQ brand of electric cars similar to BMW’s i3 and i8. The SUV goes head to head with Jaguar’s I-Pace, the Tesla Model X, and the recently unveiled Audi E-Tron. Promising 450km (280 miles) of range, it is more than a match surpassed only by the Tesla’s 300+ miles. 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otter that swam in the Test, so now The inordinately high temperatures Shakespeare’s whining school-boy. From the there are no otters at all. He is critical this summer had two detrimental effects ‘creeping like a snail unwillingly to of the way ‘corporate fishing’ is going, on the river; unlike most other water school.’ In others, it was all bustle and Riverbank guaranteeing each rod four of five fish to courses, chalk streams don’t rise and burble, flying over a waterfall into a deep Part 8 the people who can afford to fish there, fall as the rain comes and goes. Instead pool with whirling eddies and back- paying hundreds of pounds a day for the the water soaks through the soil into currents. Downstream, the river slows By Don Grant privilege; ‘Trout fisheries also persecute porous chalk aquifers beneath and is only again, forming other dark pools. It was the pike, culling coarse fish by electro- surrendered gradually through springs. into such a pool that I lowered myself. It

What Luke Jennings did for fishing in his seminal book Bloodknots, Roger Deakin did for wild swimming in his absorbing book Waterlog, about our island race’s affinity with water and one man’s quest to swim in every kind of water, from his own moat, to the broads, fens and dykes in his surrounding Suffolk, then further afield to the ponds, tarns, lakes, lochs, rock pools and finally, the open sea.

His inspiration was John Cheever’s classic short story The Swimmer, in which the hero, Ned Merrill, decides to swim the eight miles home from a party on Long Island via a series of his neighbours’ swimming pools. One sentence in the story stood out for The Angler who caught something, by H.M. Bateman Deakin and worked on his imagination. ‘He seemed to see, with a cartographer’s eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved fishing, even removing such essentials to However, domestic and agricultural was colder than I had expected, no doubt across the country.’ the ecology of natural chalk streams as demands on the water upstream, have because the air temperature was in the He goes on to quote D H Lawrence in brook lampreys and bullheads. Besides all the effect of lowering the water level 30s, but it was a glorious feeling being his poem The Third Thing: this, they cut and remove the weed that downstream. The second effect is that, fully submerged in the slow-moving would naturally hold up the flow and because the fish are transported in a tank stream. I had casually asked Mr Penny Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, maintain the depth of water, as well as in the back of a truck, they suffer badly the riverkeeper whether anyone ever oxygen one, harbouring the invertebrates that provide from the heat in transit and die through swam in his river, and, far from being but there is also a third thing, that vital food in the rivers’ ecosystems. On lack of oxygen, so the riverkeeper had sniffy, he was most enthusiastic and told makes it water one short stretch of the Test above to put a hold on fresh stocks. As there me where the best pools were. In fact, and nobody knows what that is. Whitchurch, the owner deployed over were fewer fish rising, and the sun was when one is touching the bottom, one sixty different traps for stoats and beating down relentlessly, I put down my is disturbing nymphs and other insects, Deakin linked the passion to swim to weasels along the banks, which tend to rod, took off my kit and slithered down which the fish are quickly onto, and once our body’s mystical sympathy for water: be manicured of their natural cover with the bank and into the cold, clear water. the river has settled down again, they ‘When you swim, you feel your body strimmers to accommodate the fastidious Swimming in a river is unlike any other may be more inclined to rise. A couple for what it mostly is - water.’ He delves new breed of angler. What is at stake is kind of swimming. Ponds and lakes have of weeks later, I went into a pool on a into the deeply eccentric and mystery- the very resource that, left alone, would their own appeal of languidness, soft different beat and was surprised how enshrouded Houghton Fishing Club, create and sustain the wild trout: the water and tranquility, and, as Deakin forceful the current was. In a matter who meet in the Grosvenor Hotel in natural chalk stream’. calls it, ‘cold, polished water.’ The sea is a of seconds, I was being carried yards Stockbridge on the River Test, which The river where I fish in Hampshire contest between oneself and a constantly- downstream and no matter how hard I they bought in 1918, halfway down the is stocked with both brown and rainbow moving setting, and can range from the tried to swim back to my point of entry, main street, which is as wide as one in a trout from a fishery near Salisbury, gentle lapping of the Mediterranean I could not swim faster than the flow scene from the Wild West. He describes although the Environment Agency in to the voluminous Atlantic rollers and the best I could do was to maintain slipping into the river five minutes England and Wales now requires all thundering onto a beach in Andalucia my position. Luckily, there was a gravel down a waterside path, and into the farmed brown trout stocked into rivers south of Cadiz. Keats described it in his shoal near the bank, and I was able to clear cold stream. ‘Long Pre-Raphaelite and some lakes to be infertile (triploid), sonnet Bright Star, ‘The moving waters walk back, clamber out in a suitably tresses of water buttercup belly-danced for the protection of their species. at their priestlike task/Of pure ablution undignified manner and sit in the sun to in the current. I anchored myself on the Farmed trout were originally obtained round earth’s human shores.’ dry, with a glass of pale, flinty Provençal weed, buoyed by the racing stream, then from wild broodstock and all of the The river I fish lazily meanders rosé through which I could view the swam two hundred yards downstream genes present in farmed strains of brown through meadows and corn-fields, riverscape. Rosé-tinted glasses, I’d say. to a peaty bay where the cattle come to trout have also been derived from this past mighty plane, oak and ash trees, drink.’ He notes that the Houghtonians, wild ‘master library’ (the brown trout dreaming willows and lines of rippling or Lords of the Fly, record their catch as genome). However, there are very few poplars, babbling over gravel and rocks, In From the Riverbank Part 7, the river in diligently as any trainspotters. 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followed by the other pair in the third Pacific Terrific: hour. Sleeping was difficult; after a shift, Youngest crew in history the crew would boil and desalinate litres of water and find the appetite for 4,000 row the Pacific Ocean calories each, which was “difficult when By James Billot you’ve only got the same seven things to eat”. Sleep eventually came, when it did, it was often interrupted by the piercing shriek of the boat’s VHS system, alerting our days into their 2,400-mile the crew of an oncoming vessel. This journey across the world’s largest would result in a frenzied radio call to ocean, Cazz Laner, Megan the vessel’s captain requesting that they FHoskin and Eleanor Carey, the Pacific divert course or risk turning a shipping Terrific rowing crew, might have felt the lane into a maritime theatre of conflict. slightest tinge of regret at how events In the second month, however, the were transpiring. The London trio had only noise that could be distinguished departed from Monterey, California in from the sound of their oars skipping relatively temperate conditions, seizing The storm across the ocean’s surface were the on the small window of opportunity that zephyr-like spurts of grey whales that they had before blue skies turned grey. soon followed, guided the crew towards the finish line. In a bid to escape the howling onshore with 30 knot 62 days, 18 hours and 36 minutes after winds, the crew rowed south, but the leaving the shores of Monterey, the storm soon followed, arriving in the form headwinds Pacific Terrific crew arrived safely into of 30 knot headwinds and 35-foot waves. and 35-foot Honolulu, Hawaii, achieving two world “We had to put down the parachute records in the process: the first three- anchor and hunker down in this tiny waves. member crew to row the Pacific Ocean cabin,” says Megan Hoskin. “Three of us and the youngest three-member crew to were in a space the size of about six- row any ocean on earth. A remarkable foot by three and we had to stay there feat, though what was perhaps more for nearly four days while these waves remarkable was that the three remained were crashing over us”. To most, the friends for the duration of the race. idea (much less the reality) of hunkering “You’re in a 24-foot space with two other down in a floating coffin for four days basically an airtight hatch,” says the (the other two were rescued). When it people for a long period of time,” says while a storm terrorised the ocean would 34-year-old. “If the boat flips, it should was safe to return on deck, the crew’s Hoskin, “so you have to learn to be kind, be a rather frightening ordeal, but not pop right back up”. day divided into four three-hour shifts: tolerant and forgiving of things”. A noble for Hoskin. “You actually feel remarkably Out of the six crews that started the one pair would row during the first sentiment, and one worth remembering safe because the cabin on the boat is race, only four made it through the storm hour, then one member in the second for all long-distance journeys.

which has been won by the likes of Sir Viv Richards, Sir Ian Botham and Natalie Sciver Graham Lloyd. Sciver, widely recognised Aston Martin as one of the world’s greatest women wins Walter players, claimed the award for a second begins hunt for time after following her debut win in Lawrence Trophy 2014. She has represented England in the next GT 53 One-Day Internationals and 50 T20 Internationals and, along with two of her superstar 2017 World-Cup-winning team mates, By Fahad Redha gained the accolade of being named as one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of The Year in the 2018 edition. Photograph © Tom Rogen Tom © Photograph It has been another fruitful summer for the 26-year-old, which has included ODI series wins with England over South Africa in June and New Zealand Aston Martin is relaunching its AMR be judged on a range of criteria that in July, plus a Vitality T20 Tri-Series Young Driver Academy for 2019. The includes pace, consistency, technical triumph over both countries. Sciver also programme aims to “fast-track young feedback, and fitness. The judging panel captained the Surry Stars to victory talent” with the winner set to receive a also wants to evaluate their ability in the Kia Super League in August. full Junior Factory Contract in 2020. to manage the strategic, teamwork, In Finals day at Hove, she was named The last scheme took place in 2015 commercial, and public relations aspect Player of the Match after her unbeaten with the winner, Ross Gunn, becoming of the role. The winner will be able to 71 and 2 for 21 were pivotal in the the team’s reserve and development demonstrate “the most potential to England and Surrey all-rounder Natalie semi-final win over last year’s champions, driver for the FIA World Endurance develop their talent for the future.” Sciver has won this year’s Walter Western Storm, by 9 runs. She then Championship which includes the 24 “Winning the Aston Martin Lawrence Women’s Award after scoring led her team to a thumping win in the hours of Le Mans. Racing Academy in 2015 was a massive 180 not out from 98 balls for Surrey Final, scoring 40, as Surrey Stars beat “This fresh initiative aims to fast milestone in my career,” Ross Gunn Women against Derbyshire Women Loughborough Lightning by 66 runs. track talent within the Aston Martin said. “To have worked in a manufacturer at Spondon CC on May 27. In the Her attention will shift towards Racing customer network to factory environment was invaluable for my ECB Women’s County Championship the ICC Women’s World Twenty20, status and is set to run through 2019,” development and has significantly raised Division 2 match, Sciver’s colossal knock, which takes places in the West Indies in the company says. my level as a competitor both on and which included 33 fours and 1 six, set November. For now, Sciver will be going The academy will include drivers off the track. I wish all those aspiring up a crushing 354-run win, in which she home with a silver medallion and a £500 aged 17 to 25 and is open only to those candidates in 2019 the very best of luck also took 3 wickets for 6 runs. cheque, which will be presented at the competing in partner and customer and assure them that it will be well worth The Walter Lawrence Trophy is an Walter Lawrence Trophy Dinner in The Vantage GT cars in recognised the hard work, effort and sacrifice they award for the season’s fastest century, Long Room at Lord’s on November 6th. championship. Those taking part will will need to achieve their goal.” 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 69 Sports online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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DISCLAIMER Andrew’s Top Ten Conventions With Andrew Robson For a convention to be worth playing, it must be simple to learn, easy to remember, and frequent in occurrence. Strenuous efforts are made by KCW Today Over the next ten months I will be outlining ten of my favourites (in no particular order). We begin with Landy, my preferred defence to an opposing opening bid of 1NT. It is very important to be able to show newspaper to ensure that the content a hand with both majors. There are many conventional defences to 1NT on the market, but most, such as the popular Asptro (where 2♣ shows Hearts and another, and 2♦ shows Spades and another), have no bid that explicitly shows both majors. and information is correct. KCW Today In the Landy convention, a 2♣ overcall over their 1NT shows at least nine cards in spades and hearts, and about nine or more newspaper reserves the right to report points (this can be shaded with five-five shapes). All other bids are (refreshingly) natural. To 2♣, responder merely bids his longer major at the two-level, unless he has an unexpectedly good hand, in which case he unsolicited material being sent through to can bid 2NT or naturally at the Three-level (technically, a 3♣ response is an artificial strong bid, but I wouldn’t bother, too easily the publication. forgotten). The only important response to remember is 2♦, what responder bids with equal length in the majors. This enables opener to bid his longer major. Personal views expressed in this ♠ Dealer West +'&% "&' $%'# !&' $('# newspaper are solely those of the ♥ ( '" Neither Side Vulnerable ! ♣ "#&& ♥ respective contributors and do not reflect ♦ *&! ♣ ! $$%#&& ♠ *)" ♠ ( $! those of the publishers or its agents. All N ♥ +% ♥ &# materials sent to KCWToday are at the WE ♦ +)" ♦ '% S suppliers’ risk. Reproduction in whole ♣ ( %$ ♣ *+" or in part of this publication is strictly ♠ # ♥ *)$! prohibited without prior consent. ♦ ($# The appearance of advertising ♣ )'&# in this newspaper, including inserts West would have easily made 1NT, especially on the likely spade lead from North (winning the first eight tricks with, in order, ♠J, ♠K, ♠10, ♠A, ♣K, ♣Q, ♣10 and ♣A). But North’s 2♣ bid, Landy, got his side to the excellent 2♥ contract, West leading ♦Q. or supplements, does not constitute Declarer won ♦A and led ♠5 to ♠4, ♠7 and East’s ♠10. East led ♦10 to dummy’s ♦K, ♠2 was trumped with ♥3 and ♣8 led to East’s ♣Q. East cashed ♦9 and switched (belatedly) to ♥2 to ♥6, ♥Q and ♥A. Declarer trumped dummy’s ♠8 with ♥J, trumped endorsement by KCW Today of the ♣2, trumped ♠9 with ♥K, trumped ♣5 with ♥9 and also scored ♥10. Nine tricks and part-score made plus one. products or services advertised. The difference between the opponents making a part-score and your side making a part-score is highly relevant at all forms of scoring, but especially Duplicate Pairs. ANDREW’S FAVOURITE CONVENTIONS: (1) The Landy Defence to an opposing 1NT opener. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 71 Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and is tied to some of the criticisms CHESS made of FIDE that under the last two elected Presidents many of the elite By Barry Martin world tournaments have been played in Eastern European countries, so western sponsors have been reluctant to come forward under the Russian hegemony Chess vibrancy is of influence it has had in FIDE’s affairs. This state of affairs doesn’t look likely in the air to change much from the election of the new President in October, since two of hess vibrancy is rippling the the three main candidates have direct nation’s air as we move into experience of Russian support. The autumn, with anticipation of Sinquefield Cup book is retailing at $50. the forthcoming London setting of the You can also buy the Sinquefield shirts C and Cup Jacket variously priced from World Chess Championship due in November at the Holborn venue of what $45-$75! The current tournament’s GMs was the old purpose built college of the were also asked if a book was written Central School of Arts and Crafts. I about them individually who would they was a visiting tutor there in those days ideally like to do it. Their comments and it was a very fine building with make interesting reading; some of which a wonderful carved marble interior, aren’t repeatable in such a column as this! setting it apart from the modern boxed Following several upbeat notes, it art schools that followed. Another was with regret that I heard the co- founder of Chessgames.com Daniel groundbreaking event likely to provoke the proceedings by stating that their son A celebratory picture of Shreyas with Freeman has passed away aged 51 years. global tremors is the Chess Olympiad due at the age of three could recognise the Julian Simpole, his chess tutor and GM His co-founder Alberto Artidiello, who in October in Batumi, Georgia, which flags of 190 different countries, could Raymond Keene appeared on social purchased the domain name in the on its own is highly significant and this speak English fluently by the time he media, when Shreyas and his family mid-1990s, also passed on in 2015. One year is doubly marked with the election was in upper kindergarten, knew the joined together at the Keene mansion contributor in an online eulogy said he of a new President for FIDE. Global multiplication tables up to 16 times by in Clapham for an evening of complete was always looking for innovations and attention within and without the chess the age of six and was placed in higher joy following the announcement by the enhancements to add that little bit extra fraternity has already intensified with the pupil bands because of his phenomenal Home Secretary that the family could that made this place (the website) even three main camps up for election raining mental powers. For his age he can play now stay in England! Well done to all more interesting and engaging. May missiles down upon each other,now that long end games in chess that usually who campaigned on this petition. this unique site stand, and with the help Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is finally out of the daunt younger players, particularly The following puzzle is taken of his friends and colleagues, continue picture and out of the race. playing against seasoned grandmasters as from the 6th Sinquefield Cup 2018 to develop as a permanent and vibrant The Kremlin finally realised that he has been in international tournaments. with Fabiano Caruana versus Hikaru legacy to one of the great lovers of chess. Kirsan was a loose cannon and did not It is gratifying to see his appearance Nakamura in round 4. Caruana and I found this chess website over the years serve their purposes any longer! It has recently with Chess Base India YouTube Carlsen met for what was their last to be one of the most user-friendly and been the custom that the President of channel analysing his best games with classical chess game encounter before reliable, access-wise online sites; not FIDE makes the first move in the WCC IM Sagar Shah. He answered questions their WCC encounter in round 7 in this just up to date with chess news and event, so London will get a glimpse of from Indian viewers and other world tournament and the world press was game analysis, but with its good design the new incumbent. This President may viewers about his chess and in reply also there in their droves. The game ended in features, easy to view and exuding a love be highly recognisable in the shape of our asked for their generosity in contributing a draw, neither gaining a psychological for the game. Unlike many other sites own Nigel Short GM as he is one of the to the victims of the terrible Kerala advantage from it going into their which can be too mechanical, and in three contestants. Good luck Nigel! And floods, adding, “Your contribution historical making championship. some cases, of poor visual design. I hope just to whet the brain’s chess appetite, a matters!” Black has just moved his white Chessgames.com can and will continue dessert will be served up in London in It is gratifying to note chess bringing squared Bishop to , 44.....Be8, to protect as its loss would be sorely missed by December, with the final leg of the Grand people together at times of need when his h-pawn which is under attack on many! Chess Tour trilogy. At present Caruana a deserving cause beckons, some of h5. In doing so he has taken away the On the good news side, Nihal Sarin is riding high with several stage wins whom are not necessarily chess devotees. protection it afforded for his pawn on became the 53rd GM of India on the already on his tour of this annual event Another young boy of Indian descent e4, which proved to be a fatal mistake. 14th August. From Thrissur in Kerala now in its 6th Year! and also a chess prodigy, Shreyas Royal Can you see how White used this to his (the Indian province suffering flood To commemorate the previous 5 who has lived in this country since the advantage over the next few moves to devastation), Nihal scored his 3rd norm years of this event the St. Louis Chess age of 3 with his family has now been take the game? required to achieve the Grandmaster Club, now in its 10th year and which given an extension of their visa to stay Answer upside down below. title at the Abu Dhabi Masters 2018

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Cup: Celebrating Five Years 2013-2018 Government for Shreyas father’s work He has a phenomenal memory and aged 45.gxh5,Bxh5. ....Be8. 44. Answer: it includes such luminaries as GM visa which had expired and which had 10, he performed in the World Junior Maurice Ashley, GM Yasser Seirawan, created considerable condemnation by championships for under 20 years of WGM Jennifer Shahade, GM Alejandro leaders within the chess community. John age. In one game Nihal rated then 2076 Ramirez, WGM Tate Abrahamyan. The Cleese the actor retorted with a tweet was pitted against a much higher player press release states, ‘The Sinquefield Cup, about the Government’s myopic vision LATE NEWS Tadeas Kriebel 2428 Elo. In the post hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club, concentrating on money earnings over game conference with chess masters, is now ingrained upon the chess world’s talent! A special clause in visa regulations Result of the 6th Sinquefield Cup Nihal confounded his audience with his landscape’, and ‘It had been decades since should be implemented, relating to tournament just in: recall of the game, not only remembering an elite grandmaster event had been held families with ultra talented children who Aronian, Carlsen and Caruana, the entire game move by move, but also in the USA’. So who could have thought will/would/could contribute hugely to tied for first place, and decide not the variations, ideas and plans behind just six years ago, that a Chess Club in British Culture, sport, etc. and who wish to have a playoff and therefore all each of his moves, and also astonishingly St. Louis, Missouri, would not only end to stay in Britain, should be adopted into three share first place! those of every one of his opponents! His that drought, but also revolutionise the the respective legislation and made law. chess world? This statement is significant overjoyed parents further illuminated 72 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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