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KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM kcwAND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHStoday LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0068 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2017/18 FREE NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE OPINION EDUCATION ARTS & CULTUREBENJAMIN EVENTS FRANKLIN LIFESTYLE DINING OUT POETRY LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT CROSSWORD BRIDGE CHESS 2 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0067 NOVEMBER 2017 FREE EDUCATION 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS SW11 3UW SUPPLEMENTS NEWS Tel: 020 7738 2348 POLITICS OPINION LIFESTYLE DINING OUT ARTS & CULTURE POETRY E-mail: [email protected] LITERATURE MOTORING Website: SPORT News CROSSWORD 3 BRIDGE www.kcwtoday.co.uk CHESS Advertisement enquiries: [email protected] 11 Statue & Blue Plaque Subscriptions: [email protected] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Publishers: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Opinion & Comment Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 12 14 Features 16 Business & Finance Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 21 Astronomy Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 22 Education Antoinette Kovatchka, Architecture: Squinch Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 26 Literature Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward Bridge: Andrew Robson 27 Poetry Business & Finance James Billot Chess: Barry Martin Dining Out Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 28 Derek Wyatt Music: Geoff Cowart, James Douglas 31 Fashion & Lifestyle Crossword: Wolfe Dining Out: Piers Gorman, Max Feldman David Hughes, Marian Maitland 34 Events Editorial: Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, Max Horberry, Fahad Redha, Education: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha 45 Arts & Culture Events:, Fahad Redha Lifestyle: Simon Copeland, Lynne McGowan Health: Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, 55 Health Max Horberry, Fahad Redha Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton 60 Motoring Motoring: Don Grant, Fahad Redha News, Online Editor Sport & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman 61 Picture Editor: Max Feldman Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA PhD 62 Crossword & Public Notices Political Editor: Derek Wyatt Sport: James Billot Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros 63 Chess & Bridge 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk e Brits can be proud of the one of every two people in the world first is that we have not invested enough legacy in computer science will have a smart phone. The refugee in technology in our security services and The Internet & and mathematics that we have crisis in the Middle East over the past the second is our politician have been Things leftW the world. Just seventy seven years six years has changed the way Oxfam, almost completely out of the loop with ago, Winston Churchill had to make the Save the Children and the Red Cross regard to how quickly ISIS has been able By Derek Wyatt hardest decision in his war-time position work because every fleeing family has a to populate the dark side of the internet. as Prime Minister. He had to let the Nazi smart phone. They needed batteries for Propaganda is not new to warfare. bombing of Coventry continue even them as much as they needed food, water, But the way ISIS has used the net is. though the team at Bletchley, thanks to clothing and tents. They have caught the West with their the incredible genius of Alan Turing, Into this good news story has come collective trousers down. On a typical day Thirty five years ago a young had broken the Enigma code. Churchill two developments. One is technical and ISIS when at the top of its game would could not let the Nazis know that they one is scary. post over 4,000 messages a day mostly man called Tim Berners-Lee had mastered it and so the bombing The first has been the arrival of an in English, but (I do not have all the went on and on. More recently, a lad for App called WhatsApp which was bought evidence yet) much of it in Arabic. Just (now Sir Tim) did something Wanstead, who went to what was then by Facebook for a mind boggling $4bn pause and understand that fifty per cent quite extraordinary. Newcastle Polytechnic, has completely in cash, $12bn in Facebook shares and an of young people in Saudi Arabia uses transformed an ailing company called additional £3b worth of stock to its two Twitter and you will see how clever they This genius invented a new Apple. His name is (Sir) Jonathan ( Jony) founders. WhatsApp is different because have been in crafting bespoke messages. Ive and it has been his design genius the messages you exchange between say The use of the internet, especially the language for the internet and which has given us the iMac, the iPod, your families or your netball team are use of the dark net, demands a sensible called it the World Wide Web. the iPlayer, the IPhone, the iPad and the confidential to those groups. The coding response from our political leaders. In iWatch. He may have been helped a little is such that there is no back entrance. 2009, when an MP, I suggested that since What’s more instead of by Steve Jobs. WhatsApp has begat a number of lesser we gave the world the BBC World Service The origin of the internet as we now rivals but the one we should focus on is and the British Council in the 1930s copyrighting it for himself or call it was way back in the 1950s when Telegram. maybe we could offer a safe sanctuary for his company (compare how the leading academic universities in Telegram created by two Russians, how the internet works: a kind of Which? America involved in nuclear research now living overseas, is the site most used marries Citizen’s Advice with some Bill Gates created Microsoft) were connected confidentially by by ISIS. It too has no back entrance additional bells and whistles. I still think ARPANET. This was an early packet which means our security forces struggle that is one of the answers as the internet he released it free to the world. switching network which used the to break the codes. This has given ISIS becomes a less safe place and more If there has been one single language TCP/IP and thus created the virtual control of its messaging across recently I have been trying to persuade technical foundation of the internet. the world. When the ISIS caliphate the Cabinet Office that we should make compelling gesture which has Fast forward to today and it is clear was declared in Mosul back in 2014 it a stab at it. the internet is the most ubiquitous was also declared across the Telegram simply changed the world invention the world has ever seen. SomeKensington, network Chelsea and amongst Westminster others. Today We were blind- of the statistics are mind blowing. Over126w x 154hsided by their technical competence and Derek Wyatt is studying for an MA at it has been Berners-Lee’s 3bn people use Facebook. There are overDeadline 24thit has June taken 2106 three years to catch up. King’s College, London where his thesis profound generosity. 2.4bn iPhone’s in circulation and by 2020 This tells us a couple of things. The will be on: How ISIS has used the Internet. KCW Today Quarter Page more than 4,000 jobs. Westminster City Council’s cabinet More than 1,750 gave its approval for the Church Street scheme, the authority’s largest new homes regeneration scheme to date. With construction centred around 1,750 new on the way for homes of all types. This will include new Westminster homes for current social tenants affected ORDER, ORDER by the regeneration, an additional 600 new affordable homes and homes for On December 4th the go-ahead was private rent and sale. Book your tour today given for 1,750 new homes, more than Beyond housing, the Church Street half of which will be affordable in the master plan, which outlines the future heart of Westminster together with a of the area over the next 15 to 20 years, new “cultural quarter” in a development with the plan envisaging “a major that it is claimed will create more than expansion in open space and a boost for the local economy.” “Church Street delivers the council’s number one priority of affordable housing. The construction of new homes is supported by the creation of a greener © Westminster © Westminster Council environment and more leisure and retail opportunities. Church Street is one of the strongest and most vibrant communities in Westminster with a strong sense of community cohesion, and these plans aim to build on and support that. This is an area which people will be proud to call home.” “It is also great news that thousands of jobs will spring from this major work, whether from the construction itself, or the leisure and retail areas being created alongside the housing. As ever, we will keep talking to residents of Church 020 7219 4114 Street to ensure their voices are heard as work proceeds.” 4 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News flooding. affordable homes. One of the men, aged 57, was arrested FZ3 means a high probability of “The precinct’s new shops, homes and on suspicion of causing grievous bodily Parking Ticket flooding. Places in these areas have a 1 businesses will be a valuable addition harm and affray, and was taken to a in 100 or greater annual chance of river to the community that lives and works central London police station.