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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. hotspots revealed flooding or a 1 in 200 chance of sea in the White City Opportunity Area,” A House of Lords spokesman flooding. Those with a low probability the website says. “We pride ourselves said: “Following an incident on the London’s parking ticket blackspots of flooding have less than 1 in 1000 on creating exciting and innovative parliamentary estate last night involving have been revealed. Westminster, chance or either a river or sea flooding by places for our customers, neighbours and two parliamentary staff, after leaving Hammersmith and Fulham, and comparison. retailers and this major investment in the Sports and Social Club Bar, an Newham, are the top three locations Hammersmith and Fulham has Westfield London reflects this. investigation is under way and the bar in the capital where motorists are most the highest with 96% of its new builds will be temporarily closed until that likely to receive a parking fine, according within FZ3. 402 were built in that period investigation is complete.” to a Freedom of Information request by and 386 fall under the risk. That places A senior MP has confirmed that comparethemarket.com. it close behind the highest in England; the notoriously cheap alcohol sold on Westminster issued a total of 125,727 Alcohol prices at Boston has 97.8% of its new builds the parliamentary estate was “clearly an Penalty Charge Notices, nearly double within FZ3. Within West London, issue”. Tom Brake, the Lib Dem chair of Hammersmith and Fulham’s, which Parliament bars Westminster had the second highest ‘under review’ following the House of Commons Commission, generated of £5.8 million in revenue percentage. 33.5% of its new builds were said that while there was no “direct in just three months, between July and bar brawl within FZ3, 189 out of a total of 565. financial subsidy” on booze in the palace, September 2017. Shaftesbury Avenue Across England, 1 in every 11 new builds pricing was being examined. was the number one hotspot, right in the in 2015/16 was located within FZ3, “Alcohol is sold in House of heart of the theatre district.

9,000 out of a total of 111,000 Commons bars, some catering venues Moore © Gavin Hammersmith and Fulham came “While all development in flood plains is and in banqueting and events, achieving second with 62,288 Penalty Charge subject to stringent flood risk assessment a gross profit margin of around 69%, this Notices, which generated over £3.3 in both design and construction,” profit of around a million a year helps to million in revenue. Box Junction, between Dan Montagnani, managing director offset the total cost of catering,” he said Talgarth Road and Butterwick, in the at Groundsure, said “this data shows in response to a question from Tory MP notoriously busy intersection by the that variation in the proportion of Philip Hollobone. Hammersmith London Underground, development occurring on the flood plain The Sports and Social Club Bar is was the borough’s fining hotspot. differs hugely from one local authority to known to be a favourite haunt of young Newham came third with 56,642 the next.” Booze prices in the myriad of bars within parliamentary aides and older members fines worth just over £2.2 million to the the Palace of Westminster are “under of staff who work on the estate. It borough with Temple Mills Lane, near review” following a brawl in which one previously hit the headlines after Eric Westfield Stratford, being the hotspot man was apparently glassed. Police were Joyce, the former independent MP street. called to a courtyard near the Sports and for Falkirk, was arrested, though not “Our parking fines hotspots have Westfield Social Club Bar at 6.30pm on Tuesday charged, following a late-night brawl revealed that motorists need to be extra following a brawl involving two men. there in 2013. vigilant when it comes to something expansion to as simple as parking their vehicle correctly if they want to avoid a hefty create jobs and Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) fine,” Simon McCulloch, Director at Council has secured £4 million for local comparethemarket.com said. “With affordable homes businessesMARKETING to ease the pressure from the & SALES Christmas on the horizon, £70 would go government’s hike in business rates. Westfield Shepherd’s Bush has further in a gift for a loved one than it UpWINTER to 2,100 businesses, the INTERNSHIP majority of announced expansion plans to make would in a parking ticket!” them being small or medium enterprises, it Europe’s biggest shopping centre. could(PAID benefit from Discretionary COMMISSION) Business The scheme, announced on the 5th of December, will add 740,000 sq ft of Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today is one retail and residential mixed-use space One in five new to create “a vibrant townscape and of the leading monthly newspapers in London. homes in West pedestrian quarter.” Several businesses We are offering a 3 month internship to an individual already in the centre will relocate to the looking for a career in Marketing, Sales & Journalism, extended area which opens in March. looking to build their portfolio over the winter months; London at risk of A flagship John Lewis will be moving in along with Currys, PC World, Space start January 2017. flooding NK, and Urban Decay will join as well as Primark. The latter will occupy two floors This is a unique opportunity to work closely with a highly over 70,000 sq ft, qualified and dynamic team. It is an opportunity for the © Dezeen In addition to the centre, which right candidate to get hands-on experience with sales has seen a major enhancement of and marketing, and build client relationships. Debenhams and a selection of luxury brands transform The Village with the An extension may be offered based on performance. onset of “Sandro”,”Claudie Pierlot” and Send CV and letter to: “Zadig & Voltaire”, Westfield London is taking on a £600 million expansion. Dr Emma Trehane “This, Westfield’s website says, will be a valuable addition to the community Joint Editor and Director of Business Development that lives and works in the White City KCW TODAY, 80-100 GWYNNE ROAD, Nearly a fifth of new homes in West Opportunity Area.” It is expected to London are built in areas with a high create up to 8,000 new jobs and will LONDON, SW11 3UW risk of flooding. Or the 4,426 new see the shopping centre comprise 450 T: 020 7738 2348 M: 0771 591 0665 builds registered between 2015 and shops, far more than the current 360, and E: [email protected] 2016,789, or 17.8%, are located in an extra 1,000 parking spaces over the flood zone three (FZ3) according to current 4,500. WWW.KCWTODAY.CO.UK Groundsure, UK authority specialising The scheme will also see the in environmental risks such as addition of 1,522 new homes, including 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

says an inquiry into such mental health provision is needed. The government Kensington & said the use of police custody for people THE Chelsea has been detained under the Mental Health Act had fallen sharply. CHELSEA awarded funding Under the Police and Criminal to plant trees in parks across Evidence Act 1984, officers have 24 hours after an arrested person arrives JEWELLERS the borough. at a police station to release or charge them. But data gathered by the College ‘Tis The Season of Policing showed 264 instances where people were held for longer when they The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced funding of £19,940 to plant were judged to be in need of mental 32 trees around diverse places of worship healthcare after being arrested. across ten London boroughs. Each place Some of the biggest forces returned of worship will work in partnership with no data, including the Met, West other faith groups in their area to hold Midlands or any of the Yorkshire forces special tree planting events in an effort to and the NPCC estimates the national annual number of cases to be potentially promote community cohesion. Among the listed places of worship is more than 2,000. The NPCC says mental the Al-Manaar Mosque in Kensingon & health services are not available quickly enough for detainees who need them. Chelsea, which will connect with places of worship across London in the likes of Officers often have to decide between

Barnet, Islington, and Redbridge. releasing people who could pose a risk to Shirley Rodrigues, the Deputy Mayor themselves or others, or breaking rules Stunning 18ct Christmas gifts starting from £395 set out in law by continuing to hold them of Environment & Energy said: “The Mayor wants London to be one of the in police cells beyond the 24-hour limit. greenest cities in the world and the Police forces have called for an inquiry A new gem in the heart of Chelsea. by the Care Quality Commission, the 20,000 new trees we are planting this The Chelsea Jewellers can be found in The Antiques Arcade, hospital regulator. season will play a small but important 151 Sydney Street SW3 6NT. We have a beautiful collection of A government spokeswoman part in improving our green spaces. Jewellery and offer a bespoke engagement ring service. “In addition to this we are also said: “Since we reviewed the use of offering 10,000 free trees to local police custody for Mental Health Act OPEN: Wed-Sat 10am-6pm community groups, schools and charities. detentions we have seen a 90% reduction in England in the number of people The Mayor is determined to protect and 07391 402723 │ [email protected] │ THECHELSEAJEWELLERS.CO.UK increase our trees, woodland and green being held in custody who should be in The Chelsea Jewellers, 151 Sydney Street, London SW3 6NT space and help London become the NHS care, and Wales has had similar world’s first National Park City.” success.” This new community project will add to the existing 41,000 trees that the Mayor planted last year. As part The age of the of his wider work on supporting green spaces, the Mayor has also created pipless avocado ‘Green Capital’ grants. These grants will amount to as much as £500,000, which has begun aims to help restore rivers, improve flood prevention and improve public access to green spaces.

UK Police disclose figures of ‘unlawful’ We all know the frustration of opening a newly ripe avocado only to fumble with detentions the oversized pip. Hospital Accident and for prisoners with mental Emergency departments even have a specific term for knife injuries obtained health issues by attempting to remove them: avocado hand. Four patients a week, according to Simon Eccles at Chelsea and Police chiefs in England and Wales Westminster Hospital. Now “avocado say they may be unlawfully detaining hands” could be a thing of the past. arrested people needing mental health Marks and Spencers will be the first care more than 2,000 times a year. The to sell the 5 to 8 centimetre, Spanish- figures covered the last three months of grown, cocktail avocados. They will stock 2016 and 21 out of the 43 police forces over the Christmas period exclusively at in England and Wales. £2 each. A regular avocado is £1.30. It Some people have been held in police is unclear whether what is gained by the cells for several days because there is absence of a pip makes up 70p of extra no hospital bed for them, the National avocado but Marks and Spencers assures Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says. It they are “smooth and creamy.” 6 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

Hammersmith and Fulham will be draft Transport Strategy to reduce car seeing its high speed broadband network usage in the capital as part of a bid to Car makers drive Wolf whistling expanding, with an additional 2,000 tackle air pollution and change travel in longest period and sexist remarks homes and offices receiving high end the capital. The hope is that 80 percent of could become hate crimes in internet access due to Hammersmith and journeys in London are made by either Fulham council reaching an agreement public transport, cycling, or walking by of UK industrial London with BT Openreach. 2041. growth in over 20 Engineers are undertaking the “My commitment to making London's The Metropolitan Police has revealed preliminary planning and survey work transport network one of the very best years it is speaking with other UK forces to that will enable the installation of in the world means it must be accessible assess whether it is worth cracking down additional fibre broadband street cabinets for all Londoners,” Mayor of London, on gender-based hate crimes after a throughout Hammersmith and Fulham Sadiq Khan, said. “I'm investing record pilot scheme was launched in the East over 2018, which will provide access to amounts in making London's stations Midlands last year. speeds of up to 80Mbps, which is over step-free, and the redevelopment of the The trial, led by Nottinghamshire famous Knightsbridge Tube station will © Vauxhall Motors © Vauxhall double the current UK average speed. Police, saw sexist incidents like street benefit millions of people every year. harassment, verbal abuse and taking Once the network is built, local residents Whether you're an older person, have a photos without consent recorded as hate and businesses will need to contact their disability, or use a buggy, our investment crimes, carrying tougher penalties for service provider to upgrade and take will make travelling around much easier offenders. advantage of the higher speeds available. and more convenient in this busy part of Police chiefs are now considering According to figures, 19 out of every central London.” rolling out the idea elsewhere in the UK, 20 homes in the borough can currently suggesting a harsher stance on everyday access ‘superfast’ broadband, while every sexism could stop it escalating into sexual business can order a dedicated ultrafast harassment or assault. Police believe service from a choice of providers. But halting misogynistic remarks could go the latest network extension will increase Westminster Britain’s car manufacturers are helping towards lowering serious sexual violence this figure still further. drive the country’s industrial sector to its crimes overall. Reference Library longest period of growth in more than 20 Assistant chief constable Mark “We are pleased the benefits of fibre to close for refurbishment years, according to government figures. Hamilton told MPs: “Issues such as on broadband will now be rolled out to even The Office for National Statistics (ONS) street behaviour that people feel should more people in the borough,” said Cllr be accepted as part of the interaction of Andrew Jones, the head of economic said cars made for export and two new Westminster Reference Library oil fields had helped grow industrial daily life actually has a detrimental and development and regeneration at will be getting some “much needed” production for the sixth month in a row damaging impact. Hammersmith and Fulham Council. refurbishment to improve the quality of in October, the longest unbroken period “Sexual harassment of a woman or services for both residents and visitors. of growth since 1994. a girl at a bus stop by a male might be “It is a key priority that this is delivered The official figures, which also include some things that some women feel they for our residents and businesses; and The ground floor of the library will output from mines, quarries, the North are just going to have to accept, that no we have worked hard to encourage reopen on the 5th of March 2018 while Sea and power plants, confirm the one’s going to do anything about it. additional investment as part of our plan other floors will open as works are manufacturing sector’s status as one of “But even if a crime hasn’t been to make this the best place to work, live completed. They are expected to continue the brightest areas in the UK economy committed the debate now is similar to and socialise in Europe.” to ten years. this year. However, there are fears for the hate crime incidents. These include essential work on the future as Britain’s economy is forecast to Dozens of women reported Kim Mears, Openreach managing floors, walls, and lighting. The IT desk grow at the slowest pace in the G7 next misogynistic crimes to Nottingham director for infrastructure delivery, added: will also be moved to maximise space and year, while there is also uncertainty over Police in the first few months of the pilot “…“This is good news for the borough. the study areas will be reconfigured to the outcome of talks with Brussels over scheme, the force said. Sexist offences Hammersmith and Fulham Council allow people to bring in their own tablet were reported at a similar rate to other the country’s future trading relationship should be congratulated for taking the or laptop. hate crimes. with the EU. initiative in order to make this additional Maintenance work will also be done Car manufacturers increased investment possible.” on the listed features of the building. The production by 6.3% in October compared majority of the wooden shelves will be with the same month a year ago, driven Hammersmith kept with the wooden panelling while by an increase in export turnover. Firms the stairs will be restored with the use recorded the highest ever value of exports and Fulham Knightsbridge of French polish to keep the historic of motor vehicle trailers last month, character of the building. worth more than £4bn. undertakes high station to become Westminster City Council hopes to The ONS also said Britain benefited prevent any permanent closure of any from increased production at two oil speed broadband step-free libraries and is continuing to ensure fields that started pumping in June, the that libraries remain as “a vital service new Kraken field in the North Sea, as that will expansion for residents.” Services will continue as well as the return of the Schiehallion Knightsbridge Tube station will become ‘benefit thousands’ normal in Charing Cross Library and field (110 miles west of Shetland) which step-free in 2020, making it easier for others around the borough. had been shut for refurbishment since elderly and disabled passengers, who 2013. might have difficulty using stairs or “Libraries play a vital role in our Still, some economists said the escalators, to travel. This will also help communities and we are committed to increase in monthly industrial production those with heavy luggage, as wells as ensuring the continued improvement for October was only modest, with parents or carers with buggies. of our library service for everyone,” growth of just 0.1% on October versus This follows on from the recent Cllr David Harvey, cabinet member for stronger expansion in previous months. completion of the major upgrade of environment, sports and community, The ONS senior statistician Kate Bond Street Tube station which became said. “As part of this commitment Davies said: “While manufacturing was the 72nd Tube station to become step- Westminster Reference Library will be relatively subdued overall in October free and bringing the Underground temporarily closing while essential works 2017 despite record production of cars closer to the Mayor’s target for 40% of take place. We are making sure the works destined for export, the longer-term the network to be step-free by 2022. are done as quickly as possible, so people picture is one of strong growth.” This would also help with the Mayor’s can return and enjoy the library.” 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Christmas Collection Days Your guide to household recycling and rubbish collections this Christmas

Normal rubbish and Will be collected on: recycling day: Week 1 Week 1 Thursday 21 December Thursday 21 December Friday 22 December Friday 22 December Free Christmas Tree Saturday 23 December Saturday 23 December Recycling Collection Monday 25 December Wednesday 27 December If you normally get an on-street waste collection, simply leave your Tuesday 26 December Thursday 28 December tree where you’d leave your waste.

Wednesday 27 December Friday 29 December Please make sure: Thursday 28 December Saturday 30 December • It is clearly visible Friday 29 December Sunday 31 December • It is not obstructing the pavement Saturday 30 December Saturday 30 December • All decorations and pots are removed. Week 2 Week 2

Monday 1 January Tuesday 2 January Please put your tree out for collection Tuesday 2 January Wednesday 3 January by midday on your Wednesday 3 January Thursday 4 January collection day (check the front page of Thursday 4 January Friday 5 January this leaflet) between Monday 1 and Friday 5 January Saturday 6 January Saturday 20 January 2018. Trees REAL Saturday 6 January Saturday 6 January will be collected in TREES the afternoon. ONLY Normal service will resume on Saturday 6 January 2018

Please ensure Please put all all items are these in your clean and dry recycling sack Paper, card Cans, tins and Plastic bottles, Glass bottles Cartons and cardboard empty aerosols pots, tubs and and jars (no lids) or bank: trays (no lids)

Any items not ticked on the previous page Nappies Electricals and Please don’t cables put these Wood Metal items in your DIY materials Shredded Clothes Hard plastics Soft plastics Food waste recycling sack paper and textiles Polystyrene or bank: (see left) Foil 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Wandsworth Christmas tree Christmas Trees will be collected London Home Football between the Tuesday the 3rd and recycling Monday the 16th of January. Those with Traffic Watch Compiled by Fahad Redha By Fahad Redha individual dustbin/sack waste collection will have theirs collected on the same day as their rubbish. If you have a front December 16 January 3 garden, place the tree there alongside Arsenal v Newcastle, 15:00 Arsenal v Chelsea, 19:45 your dustbin or sack. If you do not, place the tree near your home or rubbish bins, December 16 January 13 making sure not to obstruct access to it if Chelsea v Southampton, 15:00 Chelsea v Leicester City, 15:00 your rubbish goes in wheelie bins. This season, help the For more information, visit wandsworth. December 19 January 20 environment by recycling your gov.uk or call 020 8871 6000 Arsenal v West Ham, 19:45 Arsenal v Crystal Palace, 15:00

Christmas tree. Here is our Westminster December 20 January 20 guide to your local council You can take your tree in for free to one Chelsea v Bournemouth, 19:45 Fulham v Burton Albion, 15:00 of the borough’s collection sites. Any tree recycling services available this under 2m/7ft, can be collected as part of December 23 January 20 festive season. the normal refuse collection if presented QPR v Bristol City, 15:00 QPR v Middlesbrough 15:00 with a yellow sticker. They can also be Royal Borough of Kensington & placed in general waste bins. For larger December 31 January 31 Chelsea trees, a special rate bulky waste collection Fulham v Barnsley, 15:00 Chelsea v Bournemouth, 19:45 The RBKC will offer Christmas Tree is offered. For more information, call collection and drop off services from 020 7641 6180 or visit cleanstreets. December 26 February 3 Thursday the 4th to Saturday the 20th of westminster.gov.uk/christmas-tree Chelsea v Brighton, 15:00 Arsenal v Everton, 15:00 January. Collected trees will be shredded and composted. You can also arrange Lambeth December 30 February 3 to have your tree collected by calling You can leave them out on your usual Chelsea v Stoke, 15:00 Fulham v Nottingham Forest, 15:00 Streetline at 020 7361 3001 who will collection day or take them to one come within 48 hours. If your rubbish of the borough’s collection points. January 1 February 3 and recycling is collected outside, Alternatively, you can take it to Lambeth QPR v Cardiff City, 15:00 QPR v Barnsley at Loftus Road 15:00 leave your tree at the boundary of your Refuse and Recycling Centres. For more property so that it is visible from the kerb information, visit lambeth.gov.uk or call January 2 February 10 before 7 am and remove any pots and Lambeth’s Rubbish and Recycling Team Fulham v Ipswich, 19:45 Chelsea v West Brom, 15:00 decorations. at 020 7926 9000.

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failed to disclose the existence of the world. This will at the very least throw software. He also misled investigators things up in the air and aggravate old The EU to take How the US and destroyed documents, the court was wounds. told. Poland, Hungary, learned to stop “I’m sure, based upon common sense, that you viewed this cover-up as an Czech Republic worrying and opportunity to shine,” US District Judge Japan seeks Sean Cox told him during sentencing, “to to top court over microwave the climb the corporate ladder at VW. Your longer-range goal was to impress senior management.” migrant quotas bomb He added that Schmidt was a “key cruise missiles in The European Union’s executive will sue conspirator” in the scandal. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic After pleading guilty, Schmidt told response to North in the bloc’s top court for their refusal to the court “for the disruption of my life, I host asylum-seekers, two EU sources stated only have to blame myself... I accept the Korean Threat on December 6th. responsibility for the wrong I committed” Japan plans to acquire medium-range The three member states will be taken Schmidt led the Volkswagen’s air-to-surface missiles, expanding its to the European Court of Justice in the engineering and environmental office in strike capability to North Korea. The latest in a long-running battle between Michigan between 2012 and 2015, and announcement by Defence Minister Brussels and its eastern capitals over a claimed he had only become involved Itsunori Onodera comes amid regular controversial relocation system for mainly in the scheme in 2015, despite it having missile tests by North Korea and Syrian refugees introduced in 2015. been running since 2006. The US is developing defensives for increased tensions between the nations. Relocation involves the housing of The missiles will be deployed on refugees already in one EU member state stopping missiles that will use microwave technology. The Air Force developers Japan's fleet of fighter jets and have a to another. The temporary system was range of up to 1,000km (621 miles). introduced to help the bloc share out have been working with Boeing on the system since 2009 but since the tensions The Capital of The move has been seen by some as 120,000 refugees who had settled mainly controversial, considering that Japan in Greece and Italy in the summer of 2015. with North Korea are constantly growing it is difficult not to see this as timely. Israel: Jerusalem has traditionally limited its military The decision was forced through despite to self-defence. However conservative the objections of four member states. The technology is designed to be placed on a cruise missile and shot at or Tel Aviv? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed Since the quotas were introduced in in recent months to loosen the country's 2015, Hungary has not taken any action a target. It would then microwave the target’s military facilities and destroy all military restrictions, imposed in the wake to relocate or pledge the relocation of US President Donald Trump of World War Two. New laws introduced refugees, Poland has failed to do so since the electronics such as the computer in their missiles. campaigned on his ability to make a by Mr Abe will soon allow a broader December 2015, while the Czech Republic deal. Peace in the Middle East was the interpretation of what the constitution has not relocated anyone since last August. It is unknown when the Counter- electronics High Power Microwave “ultimate deal.” He has asserted with does, and does not, permit. At the time The countries have declined to shelter hubristic overconfidence that he will of writing, Japan's longest-range missiles asylum-seekers despite an overall drop in Advanced Missile Project, or CHAMP, as it is known, will be ready for use broker a peace deal between Palestine arrivals due to tighter borders and projects and Israel. Recently he announced that beyond the EU’s frontiers to discourage or whether it would be more effective than the anti-missile technology the the US embassy would be relocated from migration to Europe. Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They say the mainly-Muslim refugees US already possesses. The programme

Embassies are universally situated © United States Navy have no place in their homogeneous, is hoping to receive $200 million for development. in a country’s capital. Israel considers predominantly Christian societies and cite Jerusalem to be their capital but because security concerns given attacks by Islamist it has been so long disputed and there is militants in Europe. Their reluctance to so much tension, Tel Aviv is treated as a help host migrants from Africa and the Former VW kind of international capital and is where Middle East who came to Europe mainly all the embassies are located. No other in 2015 has opened a rift with many other executive country officially recognises Jerusalem as European governments. Israel’s capital and only a small number “The Czech Republic, Hungary sentenced for his of consulates are in the city. The city can reach just 300km. Mr Onodera said and Poland remain in breach of their is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths the new missiles would be for defence legal obligations”, said the European role in emissions ( Judaism, Islam and Christianity) and its purposes, with Japan still relying on the Commission. “The replies received were land is currently divided into the western United States to strike any enemy bases. again found not satisfactory and three scandal Israeli side and the western, occupied “We are planning to introduce the countries have given no indication that Palestinian side. Hence it is known as “a JSM ( Joint Strike Missile) that will be they will contribute to the implementation Oliver Schmidt, a Detroit court city without a country.” mounted on the F-35A (stealth fighter) of the relocation decision”. sentenced a former senior manager at Trump’s declaration has been seen as ‘stand-off’ missiles that can be fired Earlier this year in September, the ECJ Volkswagen to seven years in prison as a move against the Muslim world. beyond the range of enemy threats,” he dismissed a complaint from Hungary and over the emissions scandal. The scandal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a news conference. The JSM has a Slovakia that the quota system was illegal. dubbed ‘dieselgate,’ has cost the company said, “No one person’s personal ambitions range of about 500km. Japan also plans Around 32,000 people have been relocated $30bn (£22.5bn) after it was revealed should be allowed to alter the fates of to arm its US-made F-15 fighters with so far. that the car maker had installed secret billions of people. Any such move would the US-made Joint Air-to-Surface software in nearly 600,000 of its only embolden terrorist organizations.” Standoff Missile ( JASSM-ER), which cars, allowing them to pass emissions Palestinian Prime Minister Rami has a range of 1,000km. regulations. The software knows when Hamdallah said that it “destroys the Mr Abe’s move to water down the the car is being tested and puts the peace process.” The simple statement by country's anti-aggression rules have engine into a low-power mode allowing Trump that Jerusalem is the capital that faced opposition in parliament, but it to pass a test it would otherwise fail. “the Jewish people established in ancient government officials say Japan needs an Eight of the firm’s executives have been times” can be seen as a slight against the effective deterrent to North Korea, which charged with Schmidt being the second Arab world. has tested long-range ballistic missiles to be sentenced. He made a plea deal Regardless of whether the embassy over Japan. North Korea has long been that saw him given a seven-year sentence moves, it is a clear indication that the US seeking to mount a nuclear warhead on and fined $400,000. The German is on the side of Israel, a distinction that a ballistic missile, which has increasingly national was sent to the US in 2015 but is seen as directly opposed to the Arab raised international alarms. 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Statue & Plaque online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Green Plaque: STATUES Lord John

Westminster City Council honoured for over 50 years til John died in 2009. the iconic Lord John shop at 43 Carnaby They had started with a market stall Street on 22nd November 2017. The in Petticoat Lane selling suede jackets Plaque was unveiled by Councillor and went on to own a national and Robert Davis, Deputy Leader of international chain of menswear outlets. Westminster City Council, Lauren Gold They drove Rolls Royces. and Bryan Bickell, Chief Executive of Warren, who died in 2016, was a property owners Shaftesbury. marketing genius who adored publicity, Lauren Gold said, became the face of the brand. David “This Plaque is in memory of David disliked being photographed, as he and Warren Gold, founders of Lord John suffered from a facial paralysis, but much of Carnaby Street. It is a huge honour enjoyed the business perspective, which and a deserved tribute to some of the he managed very successfully. They were most inspiring and legendary of men to a great team and an equal partnership. It come out of the sixties.” was a family business with Mother and Also present were Kenney Jones, younger brother, Harold involved. Terry Rawlings and members of the All Warren's designs were up to date Gold family. A large crowd had gathered and followed trends. The 'Mod Look' for the occasion. changed every week in the sixties! They In 1957 John Stephen opened the not only pioneered continental cut first fashionable menswear shop in suits that made Mods famous, but also Carnaby Street. It was an innovation in innovated bright shirts, hipsters, ski dell’Accademia, in Venice, and da Vinci retail and triggered a revolution in men's sweaters, corduroys and denims. noted that, in drawing the circle and fashion. Carnaby was at the centre of In 1967 the Golds commissioned Homage to square, he correctly observed that the sweeping changes which also embraced artists to decorate the three storey square cannot have the same centre art, music, morals and design. building with psychedelic murals. Leonardo as the circle, in other words, the navel, Crowds came from far and wide to ThusLord John became iconic and eye By Enzo Plazzotta but is somewhat lower in the anatomy. shop there and customers included The catching. 1921-1981 He also noted that the length of the Beatniks, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, In the 1970s popularity for this type outspread arms is equal to the height Cliff Richard, David Bowie and Lord of shop declined and Lord John with Grosvenor Square Gardens of a man. Snowdon. Carnaby Street has an iconic others were sold. The Raybrook Group The original sculptural concept was heritage. took Lord John who sold it to Next. eonardo da Vinci produced his by the Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta. Lord John was opened at 43 Carnaby Warren continued with Gold range drawing of the Vitruvian Man Sadly, he died before the sculpture Street by Warren and David Gold in clothing, a factory asset in Golders Green around 1490, and is based on the was finished, but it was completed 1963. It was one of the first retail brands which was a mainstream menswear store. correlation of proportions of an posthumously by his assistant Mark for men and an instant success which His son, Jamie, joined him. Lideal human male figure, using Holloway in 1982. Although born added much to the fame of Carnaby Warren and David Gold embodied geometry, as described by the Roman just outside Venice, he spent his Street. Through their foresight and vision the spirit of the sartorial Sixties as architect and civil engineer Vitruvius, working life in London, and produced the Golds became leaders in menswear. visionary entrepreneurs. who lived and worked in the first a number of recognisable bronzes The two brothers worked together Marian Maitland century BC. In his treatise De around the city. Many will have seen architectura, he described the human his flamboyant leaping ballet dancer figure as being the principal source entitled Jeté, flying off the corner of proportion among the classical of a building on Millbank between orders of architecture. The pen and Vauxhall Bridge and Tate Britain. ink drawing on paper, depicts a It was based on David Wall, the man in two superimposed positions, youngest male Principal in the history one with his arms outstretched and of The Royal Ballet. Less successful is legs together, and the other with his awkward Young Dancer, sitting on outstretched arms, but with legs a stool to adjust her ballet shoes, sited apart. Both are inscribed within a opposite the Royal Opera House in circle and a square. Using the navel as Broad Street. Homage is an ungainly the centre, a circle can be described, assemblage made of beaten bronze, which will touch both his fingers and that does not trasnslate easily to three his toes. He determined that the ideal dimensions, even from a distance, and body should be eight heads high. For one wonders whether it would have measuring from the feet to the crown been more ‘readable’, if fashioned of the head, and then across the arms out of flat metal. His other work fully extended, the latter measure include portrait busts of ballet dancers equal to the former; so that lines at Anthony Dowell and Antoinette right angles to each other, enclosing Sibley, cute quasi-erotic bronze nudes the figure, will form a square. The and some poorly-proportioned kitsch drawing, known as the Canon of horses. Proportions, is kept in the Gallerie Don Grant 12 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

communities”. Real life started to ape Vonnegut’s MARIUS BRILL’S narratives with the story of a geek called Doubting the Steve who was, by all accounts, one of Dowsers the loneliest men in the world. The sort By Peter Burden MEMEING OF LIFE of chap who always went the extra mile he used to point out that, “the extra mile Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... is such a lonely place.” For years he tried to find a cure for loneliness. He built machines that would play games with him, gave them friendly names, pretty Most people who listen to Radio 4’s designs and then, in 2006 he found Today programme have clear views about Only the it. The cure. It was the tiniest gizmo; its main anchor, John Humphrys. To you wouldn’t think it did anything at some, readers of the Daily Mail, perhaps, Lonely Don Grant Illustration all. It was a little box you could keep or members of Britain First (although in your pocket wherever you went, probably not many listen to Radio 4), and every time you felt a little pang of Humphrys is an archetypal BBC lefty, loneliness, you could take out the box placed there by the Marxist-Leninists and it instantly connected you with every who run the Corporation to torment other lonely person on the planet. You the Tories when they are in power and could share your misery, embarrassing to whip up demands for more money hey say no one wants to be on strength to go home for Christmas, moments, secrets, jokes and never, ever, their own at Christmas but, forgive our families, and give it one more be lonely again. Sadly, Steve died just five seriously, by 6pm Christmas go. years later but the iPhone and its clones Day who doesn’t? Yes, somewhere The worst thing about the “no one lives on. Now you’re never alone with a phone. Any moment you might be bored

T should be lonely at Christmas” meme Collier © Margaret someone must be having a perfect Family Christmas but it’s probably not you is the temporality of it all. The rest of or could just take a moment to smell the and, for many, the Family Christmas is the year? You can sling yer hook; feast roses, you’ve got the world of the lonely just a bitter breeding ground for passive your mince pies on the door you clingy in your hand instead with their status aggression, spite, petty vengeances, bastard. updates and their crazy kittens. Instagram bleeding bitten-lip tolerance and a timely In ancient civilizations, the worst the hell out of those roses. Go girlfriend. reminder why you no longer live with punishment short of death, was Of course even Steve didn’t think it these bastards. banishment. To be cast out. They was a real cure for loneliness, it was just Why we keep going back, like a cat recognised that one of the fundamental a brilliant distraction from the pain. But to eat its own vomit, is complicated: the needs of man is company. Even today the what a world it has unleashed. myth of seasonal good cheer is pretty most feared part of prison is isolation. It turns out our tech gods had feet of overwhelming, we’ve had a year to forget, Loneliness is such an aberration to the clay. They only understood the numbers, the human condition errs on the side of human condition it lacks an antonym. they took Forster at his word, “only optimism; hope springs eternal otherwise Most emotions have an opposite: sad/ connect,” and went no further. Educated how do you explain Marmite Chocolate happy, fearful/confident, love/hate but in bits and bytes with the the voices for specious causes when Labour are bars, or maybe it’s just because we are, at we have such a basic requirement to be of Vonnegut and Ayn Rand in their running the show. (These same listeners core, social animals. social we lack words to celebrate the joy heads, none of them had an inkling of may not have noticed that former labour But the stigma of being “alone at of good company. The closest we might real politics or philosophy or history, party researcher and Today editor, Rod Christmas” persists and it’s the word get is ‘a feeling of belonging’ but then none of them realised how powerful Liddle, after he’d been sacked by the ‘alone’ that’s causing mischief. It sneakily that doesn’t come without overtones of their machines were or how delicately BBC for dissing Barbour-clad pro- conflates two ideas that are more ownership and subsuming the individual. balanced western democracy and hunting protesters in his column in the mutually exclusive than we imagine: The novelist Kurt Vonnegut repeatedly academic leadership was. Now Twitter Guardian donned his grubby mac and being on your own, and being lonely. returned to the idea that loneliness was and Facebook are belatedly trying to shut wandered over to the House of Murdoch A physical state and an emotion. And the worst thing to afflict mankind. He the barn door. Erase the hate. Too late where he now thumps ancient tubs as though one could lead to the other, we’ve said “the most daring thing is to create too late. acrimoniously as any Katie Hopkins.) got to recognise that being on your own stable communities in which the terrible If you have the cash to get online To others, Humphrys has been does not necessarily make you lonely and disease of loneliness can be cured.” every voice is equal. Populism is the only an impartial but trenchant political being in company won’t stop you feeling Vonnegut’s influence should not be winner. Everything that made society interviewer, quick to spot an Achilles’ feel immeasurably isolated. In fact, if ignored. His strange concoction of war- reject Benthamite Utilitarianism two heel, a bogus argument, a well-disguised you’re Sartre, always a joy at dinner damaged cynicism, bittersweet humour, hundred years ago has been ignored. The red-herring or the subtle sidestepping parties, “l'enfer, c’est les autres,” hell is counter-culture, social comment, greatest good for the greatest number, of a question. For over thirty years on other people. misanthropy and science fiction was one right? And the greatest number should Today he has relentlessly harangued Personally I’m never lonelier than in of the great literary backgrounds to the know what’s good for them, shouldn’t public figures for obfuscating, sometimes the company of half-wits, which, up until nerdalescence of our present tech giants. they? Yup! Brexit, Trump, Daesh, Alt- downright lying, thereby providing last years referendum, I had believed Loneliness defined the eighties geeks, Right, Breitbart, Extremism… With an important service to the intelligent was a fairly limited set, so watching I’m banished by their peers, desperately social media it’s far easier to sway the listening public. He has a reputation a Celebrity… is like peering into the trying to code friendship into a mesh public than being chained to “traditional for being forthright and true to his own abyss. It’s chilling to watch the wretched of wires, cathode rays and silicone. The media” with their ombudsmen and fear standards of accuracy in reporting, with misery of those so desperate for love they 1985 Pygmalion movie Weird Science, in of being sued which actually meant they a particular emphasis on the misuse allow their abject failure to be exploited which two computer nerds create the check their facts. Feed them fake news, and manipulation of language. When for telly on the off-chance some viewer perfect woman with a back comb and feed them desire and stories and the lies stories of pædophilia were becoming might sympathise for a moment, or the a boobtube who might love them and that bolster their prejudices; the game ubiquitous, he questioned an interviewee cash fee will fill the void. You can see make them popular, reflected this well- has changed. who referred to victims of the crime the terror in the eyes of every contestant. recognised commonplace. So lonely no more. But this always as ‘survivors’, which etymologically And maybe part of the series’ success, The idea that loneliness was like on, interconnected world has not raised describes those who have come though in airing just before Christmas, is that a disease, and therefore only lacked a mankind. It’s connected hatred, spite, a life-threatening experience. He was watching the bleak, hopeless, attention cure, echoed through the development passive aggression, petty vengeances right to discourage the irresponsible use neediness of these lonely desolate of the internet from the very first and bleeding bitten-lip tolerance. On of hyperbole to make a bad situation individuals, and fearing that “there but ‘Bulletin Board Systems’ to today’s social media, on your phone, every day is sound even worse, but evidently for the grace…”, it gives us each the social networks; Vonnegut’s “stable Christmas Day. higher authority prevailed and he was 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

subsequently heard on air using the if the old broadcaster had been set up to erroneous term. There was a more open look like a romantic ass. clash when he queried the description The younger, thrusting Humphrys DUDLEY SUTTON’S of Thomas Mair, Jo Cox’s murderer, as a would have jumped on the scientist and terrorist. reminded him lack of scientific proof is I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT More recently, he’s manifestly slower absolutely no justification for denying than he was; his former terrier-like the many regularly occurring natural phenomena that still defy strict scientific teeth are less sharp; he finds it easier to When Icicles Hang By The Wall say ‘harrumph’ than to rejoin the battle. explanation, and yet undoubtedly exist. Nevertheless, he still does it better Science still can’t explain how hundreds than any of his colleagues, especially of millions of birds navigate around the When icicles hang by the wall, better than his deputy, Justin Webb. globe, and find their way back each year Webb’s appointment to the programme to their traditional breeding grounds, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail; was a clear case of old-fashioned BBC or how pigeons released thousands of When Tom bears logs into the hall, arrogance; he was brought in by a new miles from their home loft will always And milk comes frozen home in pail; editor who was cocking a leg to mark find their way back. To suggest that this When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, territory by replacing Ed Stourton with is mere coincidence would be ludicrous. - Then nightly sings the staring owl: one of his own favourites. Stourton, Another common occurrence which To-who, a far superior journalist, was deemed hubristic scientists won’t acknowledge too posh for the younger audience the is well known to millions of dog- To-whit, To-who - a merry note, programme has been trying to attract. owners throughout the world, that of a While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Webb’s frequent lack of grasp of the dog’s ability to sense when one of their topic being discussed and his fumbling human associates is coming home. I When all aloud the wind doth blow, efforts to keep it on track are frequently have seen it myself many time; first and And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, a source of irritation to regular listeners/ most inexplicably when I was living in And birds sit brooding in the snow, licence payers. This perhaps has sustained a flat on the third floor of 186, Fulham a continuing loyalty to John Humphrys, Road, below which was the first of the And Marian’s nose looks red and raw; partly because he’s been doing what Midnight Blue Jeans shops I opened in When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, he does for so long that he’s become a 1975. In the early 80s my then wife and - Then nightly sings the staring owl: comfort food for the mind and ear. I had been given a Jack Russell terrier, a To-who, The other week, though, he was subjected ‘breed’ whose intelligence has not been To-whit, To-who - a merry note, to some unkind mockery by scientist impaired by centuries of inbreeding like While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Professor Richard Wiseman from the most posher dogs. I frequently saw the University of Hertfordshire, who’d been dog become suddenly animated, before From: Love’s Labours Lost called in to discuss a report about water rushing off to stand expectantly and by William Shakespeare companies using dowsers, or water waggy-tailed by the front door ready to diviners, to find leaks. In the discussion, welcome my wife who’d been away all Humphrys was able to claim personal day. experience of the mystifying technique. Sticking my head out of the window He had called in someone to find a water and craning my neck, after a few minutes source when the well on the farm he I spotted my wife coming into view; she owned in his native Cymru had dried was ambling along a busy pavement two Take a subscription of KCW up. Using a pair of rods and whatever hundred yards up the Fulham Road, by instincts the dowser possessed, a good then full of roaring rush hour traffic. TODAY for 2017/8 and source was found which has provided There was no physical way that I, or water ever since. Humphrys had even science, could identify which would have receive a copy delivered grasped a pair of rods himself, and a allowed the dog to know that she was few years later, he was persuaded to coming; no sight, no sound, no scent. It try dowsing for a burst pipe located can only have been through a form of Name somewhere in a four acre field. He was telepathic communication, which most of flabbergasted when, walking around with the scientific community would pooh- a wire coat hanger, feeling a little foolish, pooh, just as the scientist on the Today Address he suddenly felt a sharp and invisible programme rubbished the evidence of force tugging the rods down towards the the excellent, consistent John Humphrys ground. They started digging at once, and on the Today programme last month. there, a few feet below, was a cut in the pipe, exactly where Humphrys’ rods had indicated.

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information. As if to shroud the audience in a Henry VIII and similar sense of mystery that once swept through Cheapside that November the break morning, Dr Lipscomb leaves the case with Rome on a knife-edge of uncertainty; what at The National Archives was the motive? Was the identity of the killer ever revealed? And why was this By James Billot death significant? These questions would remain unanswered until the end of the talk. hat do Donald Trump, Turning back the clock to 1517, Dr Vladimir Lenin, and Martin Lipscomb re-directs the audience’s focus Luther all have in common? to the university town of Wittenberg, Ostensibly, not much at all; one is a brash Germany. It is here that Martin Luther W launched his attack on the Papacy in his billionaire, another is an indomitable political beast, and the other is a pious 95 Theses by listing a series of Catholic monk. But they were outsiders. And they Church abuses, particularly indulgences. were outsiders who not only challenged Lipscomb was ambivalent as to whether the status quo, but defeated it too. Luther actually hammered the Theses 2017 saw the inauguration of a onto the door of the All Saints’ Church, President who had never once served in but as with any seminal moment in public office before; 1917 saw the return history, it is permissible to glaze over the of a Bolshevik exile who lead a revolution truth with a little theatre. against a tyrannical Tsarist monarchy, Luther’s message spread across and 1517 saw an unassuming German Germany at a prodigious rate. The monk trigger a widespread religious invention of the printing press ensured reformation across northern Europe that his translated version of the New against the Catholic Church. Clearly, Testament could extend beyond the there is something about the seventeen- reaches of Saxony. Luther’s vernacular year itch into a new century that enlivens language and use of woodcut images gave the avant-gardists. his message huge appeal and it did not It was 1517 and the subsequent take long before his message crossed into Protestant Reformation that was the English shores. subject of a lecture given by historian While Henry VIII’s official break and award-winning broadcaster Dr with Rome in 1533 was not a direct, or Suzannah Lipscomb. To mark the 500th inevitable, consequence of Luther’s 95 anniversary of Martin Luther’s reputed Theses, the foundation was certainly laid. consummate his marriage to Anne pinning of the ‘95 Theses’ onto the All Ironically, Henry detested Luther and Boleyn, the Pope’s refusal to grant Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, The denounced the monk in his book entitled Henry an annulment with Catherine National Archives invited Dr Lipscomb Defence of the Seven Sacraments in 1521. set the wheels in motion into what to examine one of the fundamental The book was so well-received by Rome Dr Lipscomb described as the “first turning points of the Reformation: that the young King was awarded the Brexit”. Facilitated by his wily Chief Henry’s VIII’s break with Rome. title of Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Minister Thomas Cromwell, Henry Entering into the lecture hall, visitors Faith) by Pope Leo X. became Supreme Head of the Church were met with a melodious euphony of Oh, how the hottest love has the of England and annulled his marriage to live Tudor music, which set the tone for a coldest end. Eight years later, Henry’s Catherine in 1533. wholly pleasant evening at The National relationship with Rome and the Papacy The impact of the subsequent draconian religious laws and it was Archives HQ in Kew. was deteriorating. The King yearned for Protestant Reformation on the everyday not until the reign of Elizabeth I who To a packed audience, Dr Lipscomb a male heir and after twenty years of lives of Englishmen and women cannot promised not to “open windows into opened her talk with the mysterious marriage to Catherine of Aragon, he still be understated. Across the country, men’s souls” that these laws were relaxed. death of Robert Pakington, a London did not have one. Consequently, Henry Henry launched a campaign of violent Henry VIII died on the 28th January merchant who, on a foggy November sought for special Papal Dispensation to iconoclasm and ransacking of Catholic 1547, but Protestantism and the Church morning, was shot and killed in 1536. annul the marriage from Pope Clement monasteries. The King weaponized of England lives on to this day. Dr The identity of the murderer was never VI. It was duly denied. religion in a way that was never seen Lipscomb dismissed the notion that known in spite of the ‘grete rewarde’ for Coupled with a desire to wed and before; the entire country had to swear Henry secretly remained a Catholic until an oath of allegiance to the King as his death, but there is no question that, at Supreme Head of the Church and a least privately, substantial portions of the failure to do so resulted in immediate country did. execution. Next year, The National Archives’ Soon, thousands of Catholic 2018 public programming season clergymen who refused to sign the oath opens with two talks in January. On perished including prominent figures the 26th, Lady Zahava Kohn discusses such as Henry’s Lord Chancellor, her personal experience of life in Nazi Thomas More. In response to these concentration camps in Surviving the targeted massacres, the death of Robert Holocaust. On the 31st, historian James Pakington in 1536 appeared to ignite the Evans tells the story of America’s earliest Catholic counter-insurgency against the immigrants in his lecture Emigrants: Why Protestants. His death was interpreted as the English sailed to the New World. martyrdom by Protestants. The remaining years of Henry’s reign For more information on What’s On at were blighted by a war with France the National Archives next year, the events and a war of religion within his own programme is available at: country. Tens of thousands of ordinary www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/ citizens died as a consequence of Henry’s visit-us/whats-on/events 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 ABC 2017 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

North Korea: dead on March 22nd, including a police 2017 saw the rogue state step up officer. On 3rd June, eight died in an Nits belligerent rhetoric, possibly in attack that rampaged from London direct response to Donald Trump’s hard- Bridge to Borough Market, a week after line promises of “fire and fury” in the Manchester was rocked by the bombing face of increasingly effective long range of Arian Grande’s pop concert on May ABC2017 nuclear tests, beginning with test firing 22nd. 22 died and 250 were injured. a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan on February 11th. Uber Ban: On September 22nd TfL made the Obituary: Ushock decision not to renew the Whilst 2016 still seems to hold ride-hailing apps licence to operate in Othe crown for the death of beloved the Capital, reportedly due to concerns reputation of Kensington and Chelsea As 2017 fades council. stars, the 2017 deaths of rock stars like about user safety. An estimated 3.5 Tom Petty (d.October 6th), Walter Beck million people use Uber in London and Hurricanes: (Steely Dan guitarist, d. September 3rd) around 40,000 people are licensed Uber into memory, Glen Campbell (d. August 8th) Malcom drivers. Whilst a legal appeal by Uber has Max Feldman takes a look at 2017 saw widespread devastation H across America, Mexico and Young (AC/DC founder member, d. granted a stay of execution, the future some of the ABCs of 2017: the Caribbean in the form of four November 18th). and Chuck Berry (d. of transport in the Capital hangs in the devastating hurricanes (Katia, Irma, 18th March) have had music fans from balance. Harvey and Josie) which lashed across every generation grieving and the deaths Article 50 Triggered: the Gulf one after the other. Many of key cultural figures like Hugh Hefner Vladimir Putin: On March 29th Theresa May Caribbean islands saw nearly all of their (d. September 27th) and Christine Russian President Vladimir Putin Aformally triggered Article infrastructure eradicated in hours and Keeler (d. December 6th) have given us Vupped the ante on the new Cold 50, starting the United Kingdom’s cities as far from the coast as Houston cause to re-evaluate the modern world War between Russia and America by that they helped shape. formally expelling all 755 American negotiations to decouple from the were ravaged by floods. European Union and beginning Brexit in diplomats working in Russia in response earnest. International Court of Justice: Paris Climate Agreement: to United States sanctions. On November 22nd the International Donald Trump formally withdrew Big Ben: ICourt of Justice finds Ratko Mladić Pthe United States from the Paris Worldwide Women’s March: The chimes of Big Ben fell silent guilty of genocide committed in Climate Agreement, in keeping with On January 21st the Women’s for what will be the longest period his campaign promises. The global March on Washington, a B Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian W in its 157-year existence on 21st August War; the worst massacre in Europe since community has widely condemned the demonstration aimed to promote decision. women’s, LGBTQ’s and other human for a four-year hiatus as repair work is World War II and sentences him to life undertaken. in prison. rights issues in the face of the recent Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip inauguration of Donald Trump, exploded Catalonia declares independence: Jerusalem: Celebrated their 70th (platinum) worldwide with over 678 marches taking After receiving 80% of the vote in Qwedding anniversary on November place across seven continents with Trump’s December 6th recognition Ca contested referendum that was Jof Jerusalem as the capital of Israel 18th, following the 96 year old Duke an estimated 5 million people on the widely decried as illegal, On October has plunged the region into chaos, due to of Edinburgh’s retirement from official peaceful protest that saw no arrests. duties on May 4th. 27th the Spanish province of Catalonia Palestine's shared claim on the territory. declared itself an independent republic With the Arab world reacting in fury, the I-phone X: powder keg region enters 2018 on a knife Refugees: The I-phone X was released on Donald Trump: Whilst 2017 has seen the effective XNovember 3rd, causing Apple edge. Trump trails headlines and Rdisintegration of Islamic State, stocks to skyrocket and bringing the Dostensibly impeachment worthy Kurdistan culminating in the capture of Raqqa (the company tantalisingly close to the first scandals behind him like confetti, early This province in Iraq voted to terrorist organisation now controls only company valued at $1 trillion dollars. 3.17% of Syria) it has had a shattering However, the £999 price tag and news of the failure of his proposed travel Kbecome an independent state on ban initially made him out as a paper September 25th with a 93.25% voting for human cost on the civilians caught in gimmicky features lead to a pushback tiger but in between the Twitter storms independence, after the referendum had the crossfire. According to UN figures which could see Apple wobble going he has had an unpredictable and volatile been repeatedly pushed back since 2014. released on March 21st more than 5.1 forwards. effect on world politics. The Iraqi government declared the result million refugees had been forced to illegal and sent in troops (who were met flee Syria with millions more displaced Yemen Cholera Outbreak: Energy: with no resistance), the Kurd Masoud internally. With the situation beginning On June 25th The World Health 21st April marked the first coal to stabilise in the region, almost 500,000 YOrganisation estimated that the Barzani stepped down after 12 years in Epower free day since the industrial power, with the dream of an independent have begun to return to their homes, a embattled state of Yemen had over revolution as gas, nuclear, wind and solar Kurdish homeland in tatters. heartening sign of a better 2018. 200,000 Cholera cases, which eventually surged to 771,945 cases of Cholera with took up the slack; renewable sources of energy generated more electricity than Las Vegas Shooting: Sexual Harassment: 2,132 death cases in the worst outbreak coal and gas in the UK for the first time Fifty-eight people are killed and October 5th saw the publishing of of the disease on record. At time of ever on June 7th L546 injured when Stephen Paddock Sa New York Times article alleging printing the crisis is still ongoing. opened fire on a crowd at a country decades worth of sexual harassment, France: sexual assault and rape committed by Zimbabwean President Robert music festival in Las Vegas, surpassing Emmanuel Macron was elected the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Mugabe FPresident of a divided France on the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated Weinstein’s fall marked the precursor to ZMugabe was taken under house May 7th, beating the far-right anti-EU by a lone gunman in U.S. history. a campaign to uproot sexual predators in arrest by his own military on November the Entertainment industry which has 15 in order to prevent his wife’s ascent leader Marine Le Pen by 66% to 33%. American actress seen the accusations and seeming career to power after the dictator’s eventual Grenfell Tower: Meghan Markle and Prince deaths of famed stars such as Kevin death. Initially refusing to step down, the June 14th saw the Grenfell Tower MHarry, announced their Spacey and Louis CK. 93 year old leader acquiesced after six Gblock engulfed in fire causing 71 engagement on November 27th, marking days, to bring to end a bloody 37 years in deaths, including one stillbirth, and Terrorism: power. the first time a royal has married an London saw three terror attacks over 70 injuries. 223 residents escaped American divorcee since Edward VII from the inferno. The resulting scandal Twith the ‘lone wolf ’ attack on abdicated his throne to wed Wallis brought irrevocable damage to the Simpson Westminster Bridge resulting in 4 people 16 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance NEWS

supply is contributing to the price decline. London is Ultimately, the future of wool will Upcoming Rising levels depend on whether companies can find the number new uses for the commodity but as it meetings with of debt pose stands, little is being done to counteract one tourist the trend. the Westminster “large risks” to destination in Business Council China’s economy, Europe for the second according to the year running Train fares to rise Mentoring Meet Up 9th January 2018 IMF. in 2018 These sessions allow for London has seen a 24% rise in bookings ’ the sharing of knowledge In its first report since 2011 on China s © TfL from tourists in Europe, cementing its resilience to shocks and contagion, the status as the most popular city in the and business experiences, International Monetary Fund said it continent. still had concerns over imbalances in According to new data by The for mentees to ask industry the world’s second-largest economy, eDreams ODIGEO European Traveller professionals questions and Insights Report 2017, London has also with a stress test on China’s banks become the most popular city for UK essentially to create a platform found four-fifths were vulnerable. tourists (up from fourth last year) as the for dialogue to flourish. With new ‘staycation’ trend continues to grow. Beijing should put less emphasis good conversations, come on growth, beef up regulation, and A weak pound caused by the Brexit, ’ which led to a 10% decline in the good connections and good improve banks finances, the IMF said. currency’s value has encouraged travelers China’s “big four” banks had adequate to visit the city in spite of a series of mentoring partnerships. capital but “large, medium, and city- terror attacks. commercial banks appear vulnerable”, Evidently, terrorism has done little to 31st January 2018 the IMF said. dampen holiday bookings as both Berlin Rail commuters will be forced to pay an Making better use of London’s Kerb The stress tests covered banks and Paris also saw a 10% and 4% rise in extra £100 on average for a season ticket space.The future of Logistics and holding 171tn yuan ($26tn; £19bn) in holiday bookings respectively. as price changes come into effect next Deliveries total assets, and 27 out of the 33 tested “This data suggests that traveller year. Join Grid Smarter Cities as they discuss needed to raise more funds, despite numbers have remained resilient, with no Train companies have confirmed that a new way to manage Kerb space in our already complying with Basel III congested cities with ‘Kerb’, a brand new signs of a significant long-term impact fares will rise by 3.4% next year but is regulations on bank capitalisation. below the regulated fares increase of Intelligent Kerbside Management tool to the numbers visiting these major China has seen robust growth over 3.6%, July’s RPI measure. that gives hauliers and service delivery European cities for 2017,” the report recent years, driven by debt-financed said. A BBC analysis found that annual vehicles the ability to book previously season tickets for routes into six restricted kerb space through the investment and exports. But in order of England’s major cities, London, provision of bookable Virtual Loading to maintain high growth rates, and Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham, Bays. protect jobs and social stability, local British wool Manchester, would rise from £2,740 to governments had extended credit and £2,780. SME Cyber Security protected failing companies, the report 27th February said. reaches crossroads There has been some controversy ’ surrounding the price hike. Campaigners The Business Show 2018 China s debt has ballooned and have argued that the government Following Barclays’ removal of its is now equivalent to 234% of the should change from Retail Price Index Kaepersky anti-virus service, British country's total output, according to the to Consumer Price Index, the latter of firms are engaging in a number of IMF. “The apparent primary goals of which has remained unchanged at 2.6% internal checks to ensure that their own preventing large falls in local jobs and July. customers are not at risk. Cyber-security reaching regional growth targets have A spokesperson for Campaign for has become one of the most serious conflicted with other policy objectives Better Transport stated: “Current challenges facing companies around the such as financial stability,” the report projections show that the government's world, and as such, Westminster Business said. inflation figure will mean that rail fare Council and the London Digital The IMF acknowledged that rises are set to continue at a high rate for Security Centre will be discussing ways authorities were already taking steps the next few years. SME businesses can grow and innovate to contain the risks. But the Fund “Wages will have to go up by the through operating in a secure digital said China should adjust its economic same rate to help commuters keep pace environment. strategy further. “We recommend the British wool has seen a dramatic fall with rail fare increases. Instead, the 875,000 SMEs across the UK have authorities to de-emphasise the GDP” been affected by a cyber-attack over the in costs, and the trend is expected to government needs to retreat, freeze fares growth, said Ratna Sahay, deputy continue amid concerns that Chinese now, and use the Consumer Price Index last 12 months, with firms in London director of the IMF's Monetary and consumer preferences have changed figure for future increases.” worst affected. Capital Markets Department. leading to a fall in demand. According to the Department for Of those affected over a fifth of In the past fourteen months alone, Transport, 97% of passengers’ fares is SMEs hit by a cyber attack said that the “Implicit guarantees to SOEs the price of British wool has fallen by reinvested into railway infrastructure as a breach had cost them more than £10,000 [state-owned enterprises] need to be over 30%, largely a consequence of new means to improve daily transport life. and one in 10 said that it had cost them removed carefully and gradually,” she Chinese clothing trends. The pivot away Over the course of 2018, the rail industry more than £50,000. said. The IMF also warned against the from women’s knitted wool coats in aims to improve services further north, But despite those potential losses, rapid development of new financial China has had a huge knock-on effect in with more trains and better transport a survey of over 1,000 UK SMEs also products, which it said could “very the industry as British sheep farmers fear links between Edinburgh and Glasgow. showed almost half, or 49 percent, rapidly become large and popular and they will not see a return to 2010 prices. Closer to home, there has been heavy admitted that they plan to spend £1,000 potentially a systemic risk”. In response to this trend, British investment in Crossrail and Thameslink, or less on their cyber defences in the next The Fund says better co-ordination farmers are now rearing sheep for which has been making good progress. 12 months, while 22 percent said that among supervisors was essential to exclusively meat purposes. While sheep New fares are now available online and at they don’t know how much they contain the “grave” risks posed by wool is still used as a by-product, excess ticket offices. will spend. innovative products. 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

6th November time to plan. terms that the role of the court would Brexit Bulletin May faces the Confederation of end after its transition period. Compiled by James Billot British Industry 16th November The Prime Minister deals with a hostile Davis promises greater clarity “over 24th November reception as she tries to clarify to the the next few weeks” on the Brexit May describes a “very positive UK’s main business lobby what Brexit bill atmosphere” in Brussels means for British businesses. The CBI The size of the Brexit bill remains to The Prime Minister meets with President President Paul Drechsler compares the be a sticking point for both sides. The of the European Council and reiterates Brexit negotiations to a “soap opera” and E.U. is seeking concessions of up to £60 the promise that Britain will honour its demands greater clarity. billion, whereas the UK have only so far financial commitments. Tusk warns in a agreed to £20bn. Speaking to a group of tweet that while ‘sufficient progress’ was 9th November German business leaders in Berlin, Davis made, the possibility of talks moving into The Irish Problem stresses the need for the E.U. to put the next phase in December would be a A memo from the EU calls for Northern “prosperity ahead of politics.” ‘huge challenge’. Ireland to remain in the customs union and single market, which would entail 19th November 29th November a border between Northern Ireland and Philip Hammond states that the UK accept a large divorce bill worth the Republic. May is left stuck between a U.K. will offer a Brexit proposal up to €50bn Euros rock and a hard place. ahead of the December summit While the figure has not been confirmed, meeting on December 14th reports from Brussels indicate that the 13th November Striking a conciliatory tone, the Prime Minister is willing to substantially Brexit Secretary David Davis Chancellor of the Exchequer iterates raise their divorce bill offer to break the Here is your monthly Brexit agrees to a parliamentary vote on on the Andrew Marr Show that “it’s ongoing deadlock between the two sides. round-up: the final Brexit deal not about demands; it is about what After a series of terse exchanges with is properly due from the U.K. to the 8th December 2nd November lawmakers in Parliament, Davis suggests European Union.” Deal struck between UK and EU Bank of England raises interest that the government will offer a ‘take-it- A last-minute deal is brokered between rates for first time in 10 years or-leave-it’ vote on the final Brexit deal. 21st November the UK government and the EU, Citing Brexit-related constraints on the Immigration Minister Brandon allowing talks to progress into the next growth of the British economy, Carney 14th November Lewis warns that the role of the phase. May promises that there will warns that “the biggest determinate E.U. officials hint towards a new ECJ in UK affairs is still to be be no “hard border” in Ireland and the of our outlook is going to be those 2018 summit negotiated. rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK negotiations ongoing on Brexit." In After Davis admits to British lawmakers Lewis’ comments sparks a mini- citizens in the EU will be protected. essence, the BofE will closely monitor that the chances of a December Brexit media frenzy, highlighting that the European Commission President interest rates in direct relation to Brexit deal stood at 50%, E.U. officials suggest sensitivity of the issue. Hours later, a PM Claude Juncker describes the deal as the developments. that a summit in February may give more spokesperson announces in no uncertain “breakthrough we needed.”

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a number of key human development job requirements, leaving a vast number areas: child mortality has halved, those of graduates unemployed. with access to clean water has doubled, Youth unemployment is not a the number of people living in abject problem unique to Ethiopia. The World poverty has dropped by 20%, and as of Bank estimates that under-25s account last year, Ethiopia entered into phase II for 60% of Africa’s unemployed, a figure of its Growth and Transformation Plan, that is especially disconcerting when a a national five-year-plan seeking to push survey led by the same group in 2011 GDP growth above 11%. To achieve this found that 40% of those who joined goal, the government plans to expand its rebel or terrorist groups did so out of a physical infrastructure through public frustration at a lack jobs. In Ethiopia, spending. terrorism is nowhere near as rife as it Yet, the government’s dogmatic is in the neighbouring Somalia but a efforts to increase GDP growth risks latency remains. The Somalian terrorist the charge of parochialism. A more group Al-Shabaab presents a threat across Ethiopia’s fast-paced growth has serious concern for the government is the the East Africa region and there have stubbornly high level of unemployment been bomb explosions in the capital this defied Afro-pessimists, in the country, which has persisted since year that have been linked to the group. but a strong economy is not a panacea the 1990s. Currently, unemployment in The most effective deterrent that the to all of the nation’s woes Ethiopia is 16.5%, down from 26.4% Ethiopian government could employ in 1999. While this 10% decline is would be to, well, employ. There have By James Billot commendable, there are deeper-lying been huge levels of Chinese investment into major federal projects in Ethiopia. ‘No one can blame Africa Most notably, the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, a hydroelectric for the weather, but most of dam that will be the largest of its kind the continent’s shortcomings in Africa, has created over 6000 jobs in the country. By mobilising and training owe less to acts of god than Ethiopia’s unemployed youth towards to acts of man. These acts are public works programmes like these, the government can reduce the allure of not exclusively African… but radical groups. African societies, for reasons With projects as expansive as the Grand Renaissance Dam, it is easy to buried in their culture, seem lose sight of the fact that Ethiopia is especially susceptible to them.’ still a very poor nation, ranking 173rd out of 186 in the world. Contrary to his excerpt was lifted from the argument forwarded by the now- an article by The Economist in infamous Economist article, acts of God 2000 entitled Hopeless Africa. have played a particularly destructive It was jarring. Jarring not least because role in Ethiopia. Over the past century, T there have been seven major famines, the of the thinly veiled colonial attitudes reminiscent of Kipling’s ‘White Man’s most recent of which began in 2015 and Burden’, but the fact that it came from a its effects have lasted to this day. In spite publication as reputable, and mainstream, of the country’s capacity building and as The Economist. updated infrastructure, the government Much of the continent’s could not cope with the severity of the shortcomings were indeed caused by acts issues in the labour crisis, enduring three successive seasons of men, but the roots of fear, brutality, market that are yet to without rain. Such was the impact of and despotism in its culture trace back be redressed. the drought that approximately 8.5 towards its European predecessors, Paradoxically, million Ethiopians became dependent not its African rulers. Men like King it is sweeping on food aid. Earlier this year, Bill Gates Leopold II of Belgium, the orchestrator improvements in argued in an interview with CNN that of the ‘Congo Horrors’ or Lord Salisbury, education that the productivity of African farmers was the overseer of the Boer concentration have exacerbated less than one-fifth of their American camps, tore apart the very social fabric the unemployment counterparts, borne out of lack of of Africa and left the continent in a problem. To give a access to information. By reducing perpetual state of indigence. statistical snapshot, this information deficit, Gates asserted Eleven years after the publication the number of primary that Africa could replicate the green of the article, The Economist rebutted school enrolments revolution of the 1960s in South Asia its former stance and struck a far have quadrupled, and prevent future food crises from more positive tone in its 2011 piece three out of every occurring. Africa Rising. Citing a growing middle 2011, Ethiopia’s economy grew by an four children are now literate, and over Ethiopia has reached a critical class, cross-border commerce, and average of 10.5% per year (double that 150,000 Ethiopians graduate from juncture in its history. High levels of strengthening infrastructure, The of the regional average). Since 2011, university each year. This high number public and private investment remain Economist singled out Ethiopia as the Ethiopia has largely maintained this level of graduates is problematic for the integral to Ethiopia’s elevation towards continent’s success story. of GDP growth, averaging a slightly Ethiopian government. Ostensibly, a modernised economy, but the Ethiopia is Africa’s second most lower 7.6%. more graduates entering the workforce government, as with many others, must populous country with 102 million Ethiopian leaders have professed a is beneficial for the economy because find a way to exploit its young workforce. inhabitants located in the Horn of bold ambition to fully modernize its there is a greater supply of high-skilled It would be reductionist to liken the Africa. It is landlocked by six other economy by 2030, and according to labour in the market. However, in a issues facing Ethiopia to the continent as countries but its access to the Nile UN representative Eugene Owusu, this manufacturing-based economy like a whole, but what is beyond doubt is that ensures that it is not fully sequestered objective “is what drives everything Ethiopia’s, there is very little demand Africa is not a ‘hopeless’ continent. The from the global market. Between 2005 the government and people are doing”. for such high-skilled labour. As a result, future for both country and continent and the year of The Economist’s article in The country has made great strides in there is a mismatch between skills and appears bright, not bleak. 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Woman in Westminster Elizabeth Crowther-Hunt,

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here are approximately 50,000 Westminster-based businesses that contribute £55.7 billion toT the UK economy, more than the City and Canary Wharf combined. A staggering figure, particularly in an age of heightened uncertainty caused by Brexit and ongoing terror threats. Supporting such businesses is no easy feat, and it is a responsibility that falls on the shoulders of Elizabeth Crowther-Hunt, Chief Executive of Westminster Business Council. Westminster Business Council (WBC) is a non-profit organisation that offers valuable insights into business opportunities and provides companies with the connections they are looking for. Led by the ebullient Crowther-Hunt, the Council has built strong and extensive networks with over 12,000 enterprises across Westminster. Their service offers Enterprise UK where she continued to is through apprenticeships. On her Amid these sweeping changes while bespoke connections and 40 events a focus on the issue of social mobility. The arrival to office, Crowther-Hunt in office, it would be easy to overlook year for businesses to network, collect lack of social mobility in London is a was disheartened by the dearth of the fact that Crowther-Hunt is also a business intelligence, meet buyers and salient issue, and it is one that today’s employment opportunities for young mother. Having two children during her other partner organisations who can politicians are accused of passing the people and jumped at the chance spell as Ace in Southwark, Crowther- support growth as well as a mentoring proverbial baton on, but Crowther- to provide work experience for City Hunt wanted to send a message to other programme which has helped 600 Hunt is indefatigable in the face of such of Westminster and Westminster women that they could do both: “I got entrepreneurs. adversity. Her boundless energy derives Kingsway Colleges. In addition, she back into work quickly, but I still fed With a career spanning over four from a genuine zeal to help those that has taken a leading role in expanding my boys!” jokes Crowther-Hunt. As decades, Crowther-Hunt is well- have been rejected by the system, and her apprenticeships with the introduction a mother and a woman in leadership, equipped to offer such support. Before career path is a reflection of that. She is of the new levy by promoting colleges Crowther-Hunt is part of a very select becoming Chief Executive of the also unflappable, undoubtedly a necessary and training providers to encourage local niche, but it is a niche that remains Westminster Business Council seven trait in this line of work. If a plane were businesses to offer schemes. Thereafter, too select for Crowther-Hunt’s liking: years ago, Crowther-Hunt began her to be falling out of the sky, it would be a number of local businesses introduced “In virtually every industry, women career as Assistant to the Chief Executive Crowther-Hunt in the cockpit guiding it apprenticeship work placements, most are not breaking into the higher levels (or ‘Ace’) in the Borough of Southwark, to safety. notably broadband provider M24-Seven, of leadership.” In her role as Chief marking what she called “the full circle” Taking on the role of Chief Executive which placed a new apprentice in every Executive, Crowther-Hunt aims to in her career. A wry smile crosses her at Westminster Business Council was no department. It was a bold move that has promote gender equality and encourage face, knowing that the comment is a small step in Crowther-Hunt’s career. paid dividends for the business, which women to push for more leadership facetious one. During her tenure as “It was a complete revelation to me”, now employs 230 people with over positions through a series of Women of Ace, Crowther-Hunt oversaw a radical laughs Crowther-Hunt, “the first thing 30,000 clients. Westminster Business Leaders’ events. transformation in the way in which the I noticed is just what a big place for The proliferation of tech and The fact that, just a few miles down borough dealt with youth unemployment. business it is.” And it was not just the communications companies in from Portland House, there are now a Using her business acumen, Crowther- number of businesses operating in the Westminster has, however, masked record number of female MPs (208) in Hunt set up a business-led charity that area, but the diversity of industries in some underlying issues in the borough, Westminster, iterates that women are connected young people in Southwark which they operated too: technology, including childhood obesity and youth now forcing the issue. with companies on the other side of tourism, hospitality, finance, property, support. According to a recent study For Crowther-Hunt, having a the river by providing them with an retail, and communications are all part by Trust for London, a quarter of Year strong team is paramount. As new office, work experience, and training. of the wide assortment of businesses in 6 Westminster pupils are clinically challenges arrive at her desk each day, “The system had rejected them,” says the eight-square mile radius. Evidently, obese. Crowther-Hunt has worked with it is only with a proactive and well- Crowther-Hunt, “they were eminently there is more to Westminster than white local charities and businesses to raise organised team that these challenges suited to work but the opportunities papers and Whitehall. awareness of such issues. She dismisses can be addressed. The absence of a rigid simply were not there.” But in all these different industries, the notion that affluent boroughs like hierarchy at the Westminster Business Such was the success of the companies are often faced with the Westminster do not face their own Council encourages all team members programme that the borough became an same problem. “People lack digital socio-economic problems, “it is in the to flourish and, importantly, to act. The exemplar in London and the demand for skills to keep their business going,” better-off boroughs that the problem can final ingredient? Noise. And a lot of Crowther-Hunt’s services skyrocketed. says Crowther-Hunt, “there is a digital be more pronounced.” Perhaps no case it. “You are only going to change the Crowther-Hunt subsequently spent shortfall and most businesses suffer from better exemplifies this sentiment than in world by talking and collaborating,” says eleven years at the Prince’s Trust as it.” One way in which Crowther-Hunt this year’s Grenfell Tower tragedy, whose Crowther-Hunt, “we’ve attracted all the Executive Director, before moving to has sought to rectify this imbalance occupants reside in Kensington. noisy ones!” 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Astronomy online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

from afar arriving first”. How can we be so sure its interstellar by nature? Its path is the giveaway. It approached our solar system from the direction of the star Vega in the constellation Lyra, in a highly inclined trajectory well above the plane of the ecliptic. Diving down from above and behind the Sun, it passed well within Mercury’s orbit and relative to the Sun, at a very high speed (26.4Kms/sec). As it slingshotted past the Sun it was accelerated to a phenomenal 87.3Kms/ sec (196,000mph). The Sun cannot slow it down sufficiently for it to become a captured body of our solar system so it will continue on its altered hyperbolic trajectory, back into interstellar space. It passed under the Earth’s orbit on Oct 14th, above Mars’s orbit and the ecliptic Interstellar Visitor plane on Nov 1st and will pass above By Scott Beadle FRAS Jupiter’s orbit in May 2018 and Saturn in Jan 2019. Its current speed has slowed to Above: Interstellar Asteroid: Asteroid 11/2017 U1. NASA/Artists Impression Below: Asteroid Eros 33.8Kms. NASA/JHUAPL Below right: Asteroid Vesta 530Kms!

expected. 38.3Kms/sec but still plenty fast enough 11/2017 U1 came close enough to to carry it away forever in the direction the Earth to be discovered by the Pan- of the constellation Pegasus. STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii which Most importantly and surprisingly, surveys the sky searching for asteroids was the discovery during this brief that could pose a hazard to Earth. encounter of its size and shape. It is Theories on how our own solar believed to be at least a quarter of a mile system formed suggest that a large long(400mts) but only 40mts wide, a percentage of the early planetesimals ratio of 10:1, a ratio far greater than any were ejected into interstellar space, or asteroid or comet observed amongst sent crashing into the Sun through our local population. It is a cigar shaped encounters with the giant planet Jupiter. object rotating every 7.3 hrs composed If you look at the images of the Now look at interstellar object What’s left is just a small proportion mainly of rock and possibly metals but asteroids Eros and Vesta, you can get 11/2017 U1, our first detection of a of the original population. It is likely with a reddish hue due to the effects a good idea of the common irregular celestial object in our own solar system therefore that other planetary systems of irradiation from cosmic rays over forms of typical asteroids in the solar that originated somewhere else far, far evolved in a similar way. hundreds of millions of years. I This unusual object has been system that range in size from 50mts away in another solar system in our The space between stars has probably to 400kms. Rocks, boulders, mountains galaxy, the Milky Way. It looks very, very billions and billions of planetesimals wandering through the Milky Way, to small islands in scale. At the upper different, unlike any object seen before in roaming around independently, so unattached to any star system for end of the scale, gravity takes over and our own backyard. scientists have theorized it was inevitable hundreds of millions of years before its pulls asteroids like Ceres(1000Kms) into That there are quite often interstellar that we should be visited by some of chance encounter with our star system. a spheroidal shape and which are now visitors is not in dispute, scientists believe these interstellar wanderers. Now for the As our telescopes get bigger and often referred to as Dwarf planets. These they pass through all the time, but first time we have direct evidence of their more powerful and older systems like objects are mainly found in the asteroid usually are too small and too far from existence. Pan-STARRS 1 receive ever more belt between Mars and Jupiter or further Earth to be detectable. Surprisingly, it The team at the observatory chose sophisticated upgrades, we can be sure out in a region beyond the orbit of was an asteroid, as opposed to being the name “Oumuamua” which in the this won’t be the last encounter with an Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. a comet which most scientists had Hawaiian language means “messenger extrasolar visitor. 22 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

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Hindi, Tamil, Tibetan, Nepali, Tagalog, Korean and Persian. Taking a language Discover a World of Possibilities Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese, many of diploma at the Language Centre is an at the Language Centre, SOAS University of London which cannot be taken anywhere else in alternative route onto a SOAS language the UK as a regular evening class. Our degree. expertise extends to European languages In 2018, how far will a language take you? as well and we run classes in French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. The Language Centre also Classes are taught by experienced offers recognised postgraduate native speaker teachers, in a relaxed, interactive learning environment at our qualifications in Teaching

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Westminster School charges more Westminster than £37,000 per annum for Boarders and more than £26,000 for Day pupils. School to open The income will mean it can afford bursaries for all pupils in London branches in “who need financial support.” Harris Westminster is a sixth form that the Make your New Year’s Resolution a reality China school sponsors and does not charge fees. By Fahad Redha The schools in China will teach China’s Learn a New Language own national curriculum that will be at the Language Centre, SOAS University of London “augmented by aspects of a Westminster curriculum.” This would deepen a “cultural Easily accessible Central London location collaboration,” Westminster's head, Expert, experienced, native speaker teachers Fun, interactive, communicative classes Westminster School will set Patrick Derham, said. It would be a Courses begin 16th January - Register Now up six bilingual schools in step towards providing a Westminster education for all who might benefit from • World Languages: China. This, Westminster it, irrespective of means”. - Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic Dialects, says, will help fund bursaries Westminster joins Harrow, Dulwich - Qur’anic Arabic and Arabic Calligraphy, College, Malvern and Wellington - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, for disadvantaged students College, among others, in opening up - Persian, Kurdish, Sanskrit, Swahili, Twi, - Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Nepali, Tibetan, in London. It is one of the schools in China. While Westminster - Burmese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, biggest expansions of a UK will teach China’s national curriculum, - and many, many more. Wellington College teaches both the • European languages: French, Spanish school brand into China. They British and Chinese curricula. However, • All levels from Complete Beginner to Advanced • Assessments for non-beginners available by appointment are being formed with the Westminster did point out that it would maintain a “soft power” and that • Diplomas leading to BA degrees – funding available help of an education firm from 16 to 18-year olds would be offered Hong Kong, HKMETG. The International GCSE examinations based Enrol online or to find out more - on the English curriculum along with Check out our website: soas.ac.uk/languagecentre first of these, for pupils aged English A-Levels. Phone: (0)20 7898 4860/4828 or visit our office 11.00-18.00: six to 15, will open in 2020 in “The reason for opening the schools is SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG. that we’re quite excited about being able Also find us on Facebook at SOAS Language Centre Chengdu with the final being to influence education of Chinese pupils or on Twitter @soaslangcentre opened by 2028. in China,” a spokeswoman said. 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

cited as a factor, with students concerned up from 5 per cent in 2015, while political and economic shifts have left whether they would be accepted into Germany is third at 9 per cent (up from young people feeling lost and uncertain Interest in study study abroad programmes following the 6 per cent). about their future." abroad declining UK's exit from the EU, and if so, how Zainab Malik, research director for According to the study, 70% of those among UK students much it would cost them. the British Council's research service not considering overseas study said As well as suggesting new funding Education Intelligence, said: "Today's they could be encouraged to do so if By Max Feldman models, the report recommended students face a quickly transforming they could get help with funding, while better communication by institutions world and have to contend with other motivations included evidence to explain the benefits or opportunities instability on a number of fronts. it could improve job prospects (54%), around studying abroad in more detail. "The UK's place in an unpredictable opportunities for foreign language For those who did wish to study abroad, global environment remains undefined, training (43%) and the chance to make a love of travel and adventure, the the pound sterling remains weak and friends (37%). opportunity to experience a he number of British students different culture and the chance studying abroad has plummeted, to build their confidence

a British Council report has were found to be the key Bly © Robert found.T motivations. The United States A reluctance to leave family and remained the most popular friends and a lack of foreign language destination for studying skills have dampened the desire of abroad, followed by Canada, UK students to venture overseas, Germany and France. However according to a survey of more than 1,000 whilst America may still be undergraduates. the number one destination Just 18 per cent were interested of choice for UK students in some form of overseas study, down that want to go abroad, the from 34 per cent in 2015. The report proportion of respondents that by education organisation the British said they wanted to go to the Council said living costs abroad and US fell to 22 per cent, from 40 tuition fees were the biggest turn-off for per cent in 2015. more than half of those who said they The study said that this did not want to study abroad. This was is “most likely a symptom of followed by difficulty leaving loved ones, UK students’ reaction to the being happy in their life in the UK and a changing political context lack of confidence in foreign languages. in the US”. Canada is now More than a third said they believed the second most attractive the UK offered the best quality education destination, with 10 per cent of for their chosen subject. Brexit was also students choosing the country,

good reasons” it would now ask them to “review their © Pixabay One in six approach”.But it would also contact schools where schoolchildren unusually few pupils received are granted extra time in extra help, in case there exams, says report were candidates missing out. A report earlier this year By Max Feldman suggested independent schools were disproportionately likely to have pupils receiving extra time in exams, but the The number of pupils in England given Ofqual figures do not have a 25% extra time in GCSEs and A-level breakdown of state and private exams because of a special need has schools. almost doubled over five years. Whilst An Ofqual spokesperson watchdogs have been issuing warnings said: “The use of extra time about schools increasing likelihood in in GCSE and A level exams attempting to game the system, the has increased in recent years. latest figures show the numbers getting Disabled students are entitled allowances in exams are still continuing to a reasonable adjustment to rise, to the point where one in six of when taking their exams and it all GCSE and A-level candidates are is important that appropriate awarded extra time. adjustments are made for The exam watchdog, Ofqual, says it them. will contact schools with unusually high 164,390 in 2013/14. Schools can apply of pupils receiving modifications to their “We have looked at the proportion levels of pupils receiving extra time. to the Joint Council for Qualifications exam papers, such as using different of students at individual schools and Exam boards have hit back at the ( JCQ) to request extra time for a student coloured paper. However contrasting colleges in England who are given extra criticism stating that they have “robust on a variety on grounds. These include the general trend, the total number of time. Some have relatively high numbers procedures” in place to prevent students learning difficulties, attention deficit students using exam papers in Braille fell of approvals compared with the average, from receiving unjustified privileges hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or a to 1,130. and some have very few. and have drawn attention to tightened mental health condition . Ofqual said it was fair for pupils “We intend that centres which, regulations which require evidence In total, more than 390,000 exam with disabilities to receive a “reasonable without obvious good reason, make of pupils’ need. However despite this candidates were given a variety of extra adjustment” when taking exams but particularly high or low use of extra time Ofqual figures show that last year allowances because of physical, social, some schools were much more likely to are contacted and asked to review their 223,405 students were granted extra time mental or emotional needs over the exam have high numbers of pupils receiving approach. We are working with the exam to complete their exams, compared to season. There was a noted spike in cases extra help and if there were no “obvious boards to achieve this.” 26 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

Literature “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion” Arthur Koestler

of those few at the top. Finally the good into a blood crazed nightmare. Rubashov’s eventual death is never in guys were in charge, for potentially the Losing the final rags of his faith doubt but his journey towards the bullet Anniversary first time in human history, what could with the signing of the Nazi-Soviet is a heartbreakingly poignant one, that possibly go wrong? pact, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon has already outlived the monstrous Arthur Koestler, the Hungarian as a bitter renunciation of the system system which led to its creation. As long author of Darkness At Noon, was that he once looked to as humanity’s as there are fanatics who view the only one of those utopian intellectuals. salvation. The book follows Rubashov, way to spread their beliefs is destroy Darkness at A true believer in communism, he an amalgamation of the murdered those who lack them, Darkness at Noon enthusiastically wrote Comintern (the ‘Old Bolsheviks’, as he is arrested and will remain tragically necessary. Soviet organisation responsible for interrogated under the orders of the grey Noon spreading the revolution worldwide) and merciless ‘Number 1’ (neither the propaganda, even travelling to Spain country nor Stalin are named directly). hilst Hitler demanded during the Civil War as a Soviet agent He has committed none of the crimes the creation of “a Reich (meeting WH Auden at a “crazy party” to which he will later confess. By our to last a thousand years”, in Valencia). Having been exposed, he decadent Western standards, he is theW Soviets had something grander was imprisoned and fully expected to innocent. But in his own mind he knows in mind: the complete overthrow of be shot for his beliefs, only escaping that he is guilty. Why? Because his are the capitalist order to make way for a death due to an international campaign still the standards of a man who has new communist world with no paltry for his release. During his sojourns in dedicated himself unswervingly for forty ‘thousand year’ expiration date (one of the Soviet Union he even met some years to the program of the Revolution, the few times Hitler could be accused of of the titanic figures of the Revolution to the struggle for its abstractly not being ambitious enough). Before the like Bukharin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. conceived ends by any necessary means, Bolsheviks rose to power in the chaotic During the 1930s however his faith in however horrible. By allowing doubt aftermath of the two revolutions that the communist system began to waver as to creep into his mind and questions convulsed Imperial Russia in the bloody Joseph Stalin began to brutally tighten whether the Revolution might not after madness of 1917, these future potentates his grip on power. The apogee came all cost too much in human suffering, he lived the shadowy (and often murderous) when he began to see his old Bolshevik knows he is guilty. He understands that lives that are the lot of professional friends brokenly denouncing themselves such humanitarian heresy can only be revolutionaries, sustained only by their and each other for absurd and borderline punished by death. fanatical belief that their cause could inconceivable treacheries in Kafkaesque The book charts both his literally save the world. show trials. Those same legendary imprisonment and interrogation and Intellectuals disaffected with the revolutionary figures of Koestler’s also the external realities of the new monstrous practices that greased the acquaintance met their end via a bullet order he helped create that opened his hungry wheels of early 20th century to the back of the head for having the heart to this fatal poison of doubt. The capitalism looked towards the new born temerity to draw breath in the same book is an harrowing treatise of political Soviet Union as the only hope of a world as the paranoid monster who had disillusionment and a piercing character humanity enslaved by the voracious greed curdled the Revolution’s utopian dream study of what it means to be human. By Max Feldman From book to Annihilation film by Jeff Vandermeer Annihilation is the first in theSouthern Reach Trilogy (all three books stand There is only one thing more on their own) and is one of the most unsettling sci-fi novels of recent times. A satisfying than the pleasure biologist (played in the film by Natalie Portman) goes on a top secret expedition of seeing a fantastic film which puts considerably more than her life in danger. Reading like a modern day adaptation and that’s the smug HP Lovecraft, Vandermeer creates an indelible sense of mystery and existential The Black Hand pleasure of having already stakes that stays with the reader long by Stephen Talty after the book is laid aside. The film The Black Hand is based on the true read the book yourself and The Invisible adaptation is helmed by Ex Machina story of the Sicilian mafia’s initial bloody director Alex Garland and is being rise to power on American soil, along being able to dominate the Man touted as the most anticipated sci-fi/ with ‘The Italian Sherlock Holmes’: by H.G. Wells horror film of 2018. Not to be missed. Joe Pestrito, a NYPD cop (played by post cinema conversation with Release Date: 23rd February Wells’ famous 1897 novella has spawned Leonardo DiCaprio) who goes after informed comments that begin many adaptations and derivations from the ruthless gang in the early 1900s. As the canonical (1933’s classic monster the mafia’s activities spread far beyond with the phrase “Well actually movie hit) to the execrable (Hollow Man New York’s borders, Petrosino and the which saw a naked 2000 era Kevin Bacon all-Italian police squad he assembled in the book…”. The new year running around trying to rape people raced to capture members of the secret in a plot that had basically nothing in criminal society before the country’s sees many literary deep cuts common with the source material apart anti-immigrant tremors exploded into from the whole ‘translucent gentleman’ catastrophe. Petrosino’s quest to root out and cult favourites receiving aspect) but has been absent from our the source of the Black Hand’s power screens for over a decade. Johnny Depp would take him all the way to Sicily. their cinematic debut, so start is set to play Dr Jack Griffin, a scientist History is usually more bizarre then who discovers a potion that makes him anything fiction can manage andThe reading now to be the leading invisible, unfortunately side-effects Black Hand looks set to illustrate that include violent insanity… fact. light of 2018’s intelligentsia: Release Date: Unconfirmed Release Date: Unconfirmed © Paramount 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

HE SHEPHERD’S CALENDAR (1827) BY JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) is a month by month look at the scenery and activities of rural village life in the early nineteenth century. This Calendar of a country year offers a fascinating insight into a lost social history and the habits and customs of a long-vanished age. Clare’s closeness to detail and powers of observations about rural life have earnt him the praise and admiration of many high profile poets from Virginia Woolf to Seamus Heaney.T Derek Walcott, for example, in his poem The Bounty, describes Clare as “torn, wandering Tom, stoat-stroker in his county/of reeds and stalk-crickets, fiddling the dank air/lacing his boots with vines, steering glazed beetles” fondly conjuring Clare’s and offering an explanation as to why he has been granted the title the Poet’s Poet. So by way of demonstration and to mark the season ahead we present the reader with December and one of the truly great poems about Christmas….

And some to view the winter weathers Climb up the window seat wi glee Likening the snow to falling feathers In fancys infant extacy Laughing wi superstitious love Oer visions wild that youth supplyes Of people pulling geese above And keeping christmass in the skyes

As tho the homstead trees were drest In lieu of snow wi dancing leaves As. tho the sundryd martins nest Instead of ides hung the eaves The childern hail the happy day Christmas is come and every hearth The shepherd now no more afraid As if the snow was april grass Makes room to give him welcome now Since custom doth the chance bestow And pleasd as neath the warmth of may E'en want will dry its tears in mirth Starts up to kiss the giggling maid Sport oer the water froze to glass And crown him wi' a holly bough Beneath the branch of mizzletoe Tho tramping 'neath a winters sky That neath each cottage beam is seen Thou day of happy sound and mirth O'er snow track paths and rhymey stiles Wi pearl-like-berrys shining gay That long wi childish memory stays The huswife sets her spining bye The shadow still of what hath been How blest around the cottage hearth And bids him welcome wi' her smiles Which fashion yearly fades away I met thee in my boyish days Each house is swept the day before Harping wi raptures dreaming joys And windows stuck wi' evergreens And singers too a merry throng On presents that thy coming found The snow is beesom'd from the door At early morn wi simple skill The welcome sight of little toys And comfort crowns the cottage scenes Yet imitate the angels song The christmass gifts of comers round Gilt holly wi' its thorny pricks And chant their christmass ditty still And yew and box wi' berrys small And mid the storm that dies and swells 'The wooden horse wi arching head These deck the unus'd candlesticks By fits-in humings softly steals Drawn upon wheels around the room And pictures hanging by the wall The music of the village bells The gilded coach of ginger bread Ringing round their merry peals And many colord sugar plumb Neighbours resume their anual cheer Gilt coverd books for pictures sought Wishing wi smiles and spirits high And when its past a merry crew Or storys childhood loves to tell Clad christmass and a happy year Bedeckt in masks and ribbons gay Wi many a urgent promise bought To every morning passer bye The 'Morrice danse' their sports renew To get tomorrows lesson well Milk maids their christmass journeys go And act their winter evening play Accompanyd wi favourd swain The clown-turnd-kings for penny praise And many a thing a minutes sport And childern pace the crumping snow Storm wi the actors strut and swell Left broken on the sanded floor To taste their grannys cake again And harlequin a laugh to raise When we woud leave our play and court Wears his hump back and tinkling bell Our parents promises for more Hung wi the ivys veining bough Tho manhood bids such raptures dye The ash trees round the cottage farm And oft for pence and spicy ale And throws such toys away as vain Are often stript of branches now Wi winter nosgays pind before Yet memory loves to turn her eye The cotters christmass hearth to warm The wassail singer tells her tale And talk such pleasures oer again He swings and twists his hazel band And drawls her christmass carrols oer And lops them off wi sharpend hook The prentice boy wi ruddy face Around the glowing hearth at night And oft brings ivy in his hand And ryhme bepowderd dancing locks The harmless laugh and winter tale To decorate the chimney nook From door to door wi happy pace Goes round-while parting friends delight Runs round to claim his 'christmass box' To toast each other oer their ale Old winter whipes his ides bye The cotter oft wi quiet zeal And warms his fingers till he smiles The block behind the fire is put Will musing oer his bible lean Where cottage hearths are blazing high To sanction customs old desires While in the dark the lovers steal And labour resteth from his toils And many a faggots bands are cut To kiss and toy behind the screen Wi merry mirth beguiling care For the old farmers christmass fires Old customs keeping wi the day Where loud tongd gladness joins the throng The yule cake dotted thick wi plumbs Friends meet their christmass cheer to share And winter meets the warmth of may Is on each supper table found And pass it in a harmless way Feeling by times the heat too strong And cats look up for falling crumbs And rubs his shins and draws away Which greedy childern litter round Old customs O I love the sound And huswifes sage stuffd seasond chine However simple they may be While snows the window panes bedim Long hung in chimney nook to drye What ere wi time has sanction found The fire curls up a sunny charm And boiling eldern berry wine Is welcome and is dear to me Where creaming oer the pitchers rim To drink the christmas eves 'good bye' Pride grows above simplicity The flowering ale is set to warm And spurns it from her haughty mind Mirth full of joy as summer bees John Clare And soon the poets song will be Sits there its pleasures to impart The only refuge they can find While childern tween their parents knees Sing scraps of carrols oer by heart Compiled and edited by Emma Trehane MA Ph.D 28 December 2017/January 2018 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Brooklyn dive, Original Sin seems to gets a spring in its step via the judicious have gone to some effort to balance application of cava and lemon. Definitely Original Sin Bar © Warnink's 129 Stoke Newington High St their appeal with some ‘regular bar’ a drink to get an evening going; it’s sweet touches which helps keep the hipster fizz is expertly tempered by hidden edge N16 0PH alarm, generally on high alert around of the gin. Open: 6pm-12am Dalston, blessedly silent. Feeling a little Our next suspect was the Garland, festive (and more than a little cold) my the cocktail equivalent of sitting in front Website: www.originalsin.bar girlfriend and I decided to succumb to of a roaring fire, featuringadvoocat , temptation and bit into Original Sin’s amontillado sherry (no Edgar Allen Poe- (sorry, much like Eve, I couldn’t resist) style live-burial required), spiced rum, hen you think of the Garden festive cocktail menu. topped with ginger ale and cheerfully of Eden, Stoke Newington Generally, in 2017 a casual night’s garnished with candied ginger. The most probably isn’t what comes to drinking doesn’t feature a great deal of Christmassy of the three (which is saying mind.W However a notable lack of verdant advocaat, to the point where Microsoft something) you practically expect to hear jungle, pomaceously obsessed serpents Word’s spell checker maliciously denies sleigh bells jangling and Little Drummer and casual nudity (though that last one the alcohol’s very existence, but Original Boy pa-rum-pa-rum-puming along as is admittedly more likely to put in a late Sin’s three Christmas cocktails graciously you imbibe. Thankfully, for those who night appearance than the previous two) return the canary yellow booze to the would rather drive a spike through their aside, Stoke Newington is the home forefront of the liquor cabinet. All three ear than listen to Slade one more time, of the Original Sin Bar, and you don’t are derivations of The Snowball, but have the eclectic bar music doesn’t so much need a Tree of Knowledge to realise that been given a series of twists and tweaks skirt Christmas ‘favourites’ as tunnel means a night out in Dalston’s raucous by Ali Burgess, Original Sin’s owner and underneath them. northern neighbour can be a downright mixologist, that make them the perfect The Flight returns to solid ground heavenly experience. advocate for advocaat. All are seriously with Saint Nick, an unusual but delicious Original Sin lies coiled (last biblical creamy, seriously tasty and awaken the blend of Calvados, triple sec, fresh lemon joke, scout’s honour) a floor underneath Christmas spirit faster than an IV drip of juice topped with mulled Breton cider, Burger Bear (something of a big name eggnog. a dusting of cinnamon and, of course, amongst the fancy burger intelligentsia) The Snowball Flight (the three advocaat which usher you out of the on Stoke Newington High Street. cocktails are served together for the flight on a tasty high, whether you’ve The bar itself stretches along the side almost indecently reasonable price of been naughty or nice (though tasting of a long shotgun room, studded with £14; cheapness unheard of in London’s as it does perhaps Saint Nick has a leather backed booths with a free to play hipster heartland. Or anywhere else predisposition towards naughtiness). pool table in the back, and is positively in our pricey capital for that matter) Whatever your feelings on Christmas, smouldering with prohibition flavoured begins with The Snowflake; thankfully it’s a good excuse for fun and Original cool. Whilst many bars in this part of nothing to do with Donald Trump. The Sin can deliver that in spades. Though if town have a slightly try-hard feeling of Snowflake, putsWarninks advocaat on ice, you run a talking snake, maybe don’t let showily imitating some quasi-mythical mixed with gin and maraschino liqueur it talk you into anything…

A couple of popular creations the peacock and the jaguar, helping to Solerno The perfect add a conversational distraction if the to have arisen out of the kids ask to try some! Stockists & RRP: 70cl, UK For those looking liqueur include: Christmas drinks By Max Feldman Selfridge’s stores to mix things up (£66.99) and Selfridges online, & this Christmas, The Fresh Sicilian: Amathus Drinks in Soho (£54.00). why not try adding a little zest to 50ml Solerno Piper-Heidsieck Rare Rosé Champagne your Christmas 2 lime wedges squeezed Christmas is (or at least it should be) Florens-Louis Heidsieck presented his cocktails? Hand- 3 sprigs of mint one of the most sociable times of the first cuvee of wine to Marie Antoinette, picked from the Topped with soda or sparkling water year, and as a result of spending so much so if you have any difficult family slopes of Sicily’s Garnish with a blood orange slice and time with family and old friends, it members who can occasionally make Mount Etna, some mint. can often feel that one’s hands develop you feel like the guillotine could do with Solerno delivers a a life of their own and a quick trip to coming back into style, don’t do anything one-of-a-kind blood orange liqueur. feed the dog can end with a cocktail in Suitable for a refreshing drink in revolutionary, just split a bottle of the Blood Orange Margarita your hand that you apparently cooked Rare Rose Champagne and see if you the afternoon or a festive aperitif in the up one handed whilst opening the tin. evening, a Solerno cocktail is welcome at 15ml Solerno can’t overcome your differences like good Considering the spiritual connection citizens! any time of day. With a new chic bottle 35ml Milagro Tequila between Christmas happy times and design inspired by Venetian Murano style Stockists & RRP: Hedonism Wines, 20ml lime juice Christmas happy hour, KCWToday have glass, Solerno will certainly brighten up a £325 10ml Agave syrup assembled a list of some festive spirits to few drinks cabinets this Christmas. And Add all ingredients together to a help you get into the spirit: health fanatics, do not despair! You can Hibiki 21 Years Old shaker, and shake away! still get your daily dose of vitamin C and An award-winning whisky for an anthocyanins from the liqueur. Lastly, garnish glass with a blood Mexican Heritage Tin Patron Tequila: award winning present (if your family For those unfamiliar with the brand, orange slice Tequila might not immediately make don’t give out awards for presents get Solerno was first created by Master you think of Christmas, but that’s just a new family), Hibiki 21 Years Old is Distiller Lesley Gracie. Lesley has So why not sneak in a bottle or two into because you haven’t seen how they do a Christmas gift for those who want had over 25 years of drinks industry this year’s Christmas stockings? At just Christmas in Mexico! This limited to appreciate a fine whisky. Honoured experience and carefully chose £34.99, the Solerno spirit mix is available edition case adds an extra touch of the “Supreme Champion Spirit” at the only the best ingredients to create at popular shops like The Whisky vibrancy to the the ultra-premium Patrón International Spirits Challenge 2017 Solerno. Harvested in the dead of the Exchange and Master of Malt. Silver tequila, which is handmade in this July. It is characterised by a solemn, Mediterranean winter where the fruit small batches from 100% Weber Blue refined richness (but ‘solemn and refined’ flavours at their most intense, they are For more information about Solerno, Agave. It showcases Mexico’s colourful may not be words that describe it’s effects then blended under the watchful eye of please contact [email protected] and artistic heritage with two divine on a party!) perfect for giving Santa Lesley herself in Girvan, Scotland. T: 020 7580 8360 figures from Aztec and Mayan folklore, something to write home about! 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

The Game Bird Restaurant, Hotel © Stafford Stafford Hotel By David Hughes

itting in my plush blue velvet banquette, gazing round at a magnificent display of flowers I feel Sthe soothing contrast from the ritual crawl of commuter time traffic that I have just been battling with. From the opening of the front door, to the reassuring flight of waiters setting hock is a slightly more elaborate dish, that don’t like to wrestle with their game, my first drink in front of me it’s taken served with quails eggs, black pudding this is perfect, and very fine dining. less than five minutes to go from hectic beignets and a truffle mayonnaise, which For desserts we mixed up sweet and hubbub to pleasingly chilled out. This is all disappeared before I had a chance to savoury, M unusually taking the sweet what 5 stars are all about. even put in a bid for a taster. path with the Lemon Meringue Parfait, M was halfway through an expertly One of M’s favourite things is a good complete with a fabulous Basil Sorbet. crafted G&T when I arrived, and had Chicken Kiev; it’s a retro treat that has I was seduced by the cheese plate as it already had a glance at the menu. There never quite been away, yet somehow included warm mini Eccles cakes, an old are lots to tempt, but after a short debate still seems associated with the 70s, Lancashire tradition which has happily she chose the Smoked Ham Hock, when the great British palate somehow been revived. I had saved a last sip of the followed by Free Range Chicken Kiev. I crossed over from thinking garlic was the plate resides the sliced breast, parsnip excellent Douro red for this, and went plumped for the Dressed Crab and the a bit suspect to embracing it. This one and cabbage, in a dish the braised leg, from salty soft French cheese to currant eponymous The Game Bird which we is (unconventionally) a log shape, and and in a hip flask theBullshot , which rich Eccles in one mouthful. Everyone backed up with a couple of side dishes of stuffed with truffle butter. Once again, is a mix of jus and sloe gin. It’s all should try this blissful mix at least once Spinach and Peas & beans. my cunning plan to pinch a mouthful rather artfully arranged with a couple in their life. The simplicity of the crab is its was thwarted, but the reports were very of blackberries providing a bit of a strength: super fresh, and with a delicate good. Not your usual Kiev perhaps, but counterpoint to the Bullshot and is melt- The Game Bird at The Stafford Hotel, and unadulterated flavour that speaks of an interesting and successful attempt to in-your-mouth easy to eat. The legs were 16-18 St James's Pl, St. James's, the clean cold waters that surround the incorporate the truffle season. phenomenally succulent, and seemed London SW1A 1NJ best bits of our coast. The smoked ham The Game Bird arrives in 3 parts: on more like confit than braised. For those Reservations on 020 7493 0111

perfect with main course of pork. Beer and spirits are also available. Kung Fu: This restaurant is owned by Mr Han. Fu © Kung His Manageress, Kelly Jin , charming Oriental Buffet and courteous. I enjoyed meeting the Head Chef, Mr Rongle Deng, Mrs Restaurant L.T Ding supervises the Sushi Bar and 180-182 Earls Court Road. Wendy Wang is Quality Controller of London SW5 9QG. the Banquet. Take Away is available and parties T: 020 7341 0849 can be arranged in the private room. e-mail: kungfu_earl's_court@ All the staff are friendly, helpful and anxious to please. yahoo.com Marian Maitland

Opening Times: Mon-Fri Lunch 11.30-4.30 This Oriental Buffet Restaurant, since its Mon- Thurs Dinner 17.30-23.00 recent launch, has flourished and become Fri Dinner 17.30-23.30 an established part of the Kensington Sat All Day 11.30-23.30. and Chelsea dining scene. Its popularity is not surprising as eating there is a most Price: enjoyable experience. Japanese and Thai dishes are laid out in both agreed all this was very good quality Mon-Fri Lunch £7.95 My friend and I were pleased to gleaming steel ware. They are sensibly and we would be pleased to come again. Mon-Thurs Dinner £14.95 escape from the busy Earl's Court Road presented with the Starters and mains You can go back to buffet for seconds, if Fri Dinner £14.95 and dive into the welcoming foyer, meet separately displayed. Rice, noodles and you wish! Sat All Day £14.95 a charming receptionist and descend several vegetables form their own groups. Desserts (included in the price) Sun and public holidays all day £14.95 a wide staircase into an exceptionally There are Stations for Japanese were delicious, fresh fruits beautifully spacious restaurant area. It is tastefully Sushi,Teriyaki style dishes and displayed, ice cream, jellies and Take Away furnished with items imported from Teppanyaki cooked foods, Chinese Dim wonderfully small, delicate pastries. We Mon-Sun & public holidays £7.95 China which are smart and comfortable. Sum and separate sea food Stations. managed jelly and pastries! Childen under 1.45 m in height: The music, thankfully, is muted and calm. I enjoyed fried crab claws with sea The wine list is moderately priced and Half Price! The murals showing scenes of China weed, followed by crispy beef, egg fried has a good selection of reds and whites. are attractive and there are some artistic rice and zucchini. My friend happily I imbibed the Faustino Rivero Joven, a Christmas and New Year touches with lighting and decorative indulged in spring rolls and satay chicken Rioja, which accompanied the beef main Kungfu hopes to open all over the features. which was followed by pork belly, fried course well. My friend had the Waddling Christmas and New year. A wide selection of Chinese, sprouts, stir fry mushrooms and rice. We Duck sauvignon Blanc which he found Please Check First 30 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining Out

and then the contented sips of Port or Sauternes as you finish a mince pie or a slice Christmas Wine of Stilton cheese. Memories are made of this Planning such an extravaganza, not to By Piers German mention keeping everyone happy, is always a challenge but for wine merchants like ourselves, it is one of our favourite times f ever there is of year. I think we get as much pleasure a time of year out of putting together our customers’ we push the requirements as we do from our own. boat out with what Knowing that ‘John Smith’ is going to I be enjoying that case of Château Léoville wine we drink, it is at Christmas. Barton 2000 he has stored with us for Traditionally a fifteen years is every bit as enjoyable as time when you gather friends and family recommending a case of Marquis de Calon together, the variety of wines and spirits 2010, that we recently bought a parcel of we call on to celebrate the festive season is because it blew us way when we tasted a enormous. Lunches, dinners, drinks parties, bottle. recovery lunches and lazy afternoons with a You may already have all your bottles glass in hand, all require something to suit lined up when it comes to what you will the occasion, and as hosts you feel honour be drinking this Christmas and New Year, bound to satisfy every taste and appetite. but if you are still mulling it over and feel Some of us are following long family unsure as to what will give you and your traditions of what should be drunk, while guests the most pleasure, without blowing From 7 January to 4 March, Park Terrace is proud others seek to break with the past and the budget, make sure you consult your to host the official Afternoon Tea for Cirque du Soleil’s introduce new pleasures and sensations local wine merchant. Rather like your latest show, OVO. doctor we know what to prescribe to ensure to our guests. So much of what we do at The themed Afternoon Tea will reflect OVO’s motif of insects Christmas is based upon reliving some the best Christmas and we will get as much by transforming our delicious Afternoon Tea of the simple joys that the festive season pleasure out of planning it for you as you into an edible ecosystem. has given us since childhood: crackling will from drinking it. Making wonderful log fires, crunching over frosty fields on a memories should always be this easy. To make a booking, please contact chilly walk, excited children ripping open [email protected] or call 020 7361 1999 presents, old relatives snoozing in their Have a very happy Christmas and armchairs after the Queen’s Speech. And an extremely fruitful 2018! 2-24 KENSINGTON HIGH STREET LONDON W8 4PT TEL +44 (0)20 7937 8000 FAX +44 (0)20 7361 1991 then there is the pop of that first bottle WWW.ROYALGARDENHOTEL.CO.UK of Champagne (followed by quite a few Burns & German Vintners Ltd. more!), the refreshing glass of white wine Chelsea, SW3 before you tuck into the claret or Burgundy 020 3011 5965 www.bgvintners.co.uk KW dert.indd ::

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These are a few of my favourite things! By Simon Copeland

Paloma Picasso Knot Bracelet for him Elsa Peretti mesh wide bracelet

ome people begin their For me, I don’t have to be asked twice to wander around some of the most glorious research for the fast emporiums of jewellery in town, just approaching Yuletide, soaking up all that sparkles. And I am sure sometime soon, we will acknowledge way back in July when that wearing fabulous jewels has amazing they turn the sprouts health benefits; rather like stroking our S favourite cocker spaniels lowers our heart on, whilst some tend to hide rate and restores our sanity. under a blanket of humbug And the choice we have at our fingertips in our amazing city is until Christmas Eve, and then mesmerising; just take a trip along reluctantly peek out to check Sloane Street, and the rainbow world of glitter beckons you in to have a taste. Kiki necklace Kiki disc ear rings what options are left for Great A mere hop, skip and an enthused jump back generations.

Aunt Maud’s stocking filler. away of course is the powerhouse of Now, I am forbidden by my fabulous style, romance and breathtaking beauty, client’s husband to highlight the piece I all wrapped up in a blue box. Tiffany wanted to put here, as its debut is being at 145 Sloane Street is where some of saved for December 25th, however, us go to pay homage and bask in the the stunning Velocity Pave Rose Gold life enhancing magic of simply walking Diamond Drop Earrings, inspired by through the door; how often do you see the London skyline emanate drama, and anyone emerge from its shining cocoon the Blossom Posy Diamond Pendant without a broad smile on their face? is in my humble view, Boodles at their That would be never! Of course, there fabulous best; an intricate and unique is so much to feast on whilst inside design, executed magnificently. and literally something for everyone to enjoy. I am convinced individual pieces here seduce you subconsciously to relish Boodles Velocity ear rings their beauty, but if you need a starting point, for her, check out the Elsa Peretti Mesh Wide Bracelet in 18K rose gold, and for him, the Paloma Picasso Knot single bracelet of black leather and silver. Then dip into the diamonds; you will be Kiki necklace making friends for life! tiffany.co.uk

Slightly further down the hallowed Kiki McDonough (kiki.co.uk) at 12 slabs of Sloane Street at Number 6, Symons Street is the perfect example of is the stunning new showcase for all perfectly on-trend pieces which appeal things Boodles; a beacon of British across the board, and are offered up in a craftsmanship and design with an acutely huge range of colours especially in her personal, but never overpowering level classic Cushion Cut Earrings, but the of expert customer service. If you aren’t clean lines of the Round Bangles show fully recharged to take on any challenge a simplicity of design which is utterly after a visit here, then it may be time to delicious, along with the corresponding review the challenge options. The team Disc Earrings to match. I am told, Kiki here are utterly on point in everything also has a subtle way of telling ‘them that they do; okay so the glass of champagne need to know’ your desires, through the helps to relax you, but it is clear they company’s website kiki.co.uk and the ‘know their stuff ’ and is why this family- Life Blossom Pendant ‘Drop A Hint’ option! run jewellers is such a success story going 32 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Fashion & Lifestyle

designs though still A lust for leather retaining the slick, Looking at luxury goods this season signature ranges. Smythson are By Lynne McGowan posh. Boasting several royal warrants the

© Aspinal company has been adorning the © Mulberry beautiful and best from Maharajas to film stars, Katherine Hepburn was a huge fan. It all began modestly with a pioneer Frank Smythson, who, in 1887 fashioned the world’s first portable diary named the ‘Panama hat of books’ because it was uncrushable. With meticulous detailing and crafted from quality hides Smythson do much, much more in chairman Iain Burton, a modern man leather than fancy arm candy. Just about with a vision. The company’s branding anything you can think of requiring a bag is deceptively historical but the business or box or a cover or case, this company is youthful and with a focus only on will provide the lustrous container to put products. Currently they are appealing to it in and personalised with your initials a younger market with more flamboyant to boot.

he global luxury leather market company that began by making macs. I is worth around €45 billion have affection for the brand mostly owed and the European big boys rule to having over-extended my Visa card itT with an iron fist in a calfskin glove. on a trench coat at a tender age of 21, Naturally, France rears the top quality the exact age of young draper Thomas veal herds, fattened on grass and not Burberry when he started the business bitten by insects and so controls the most in 1856. His invention was a lightweight flawless, calf leather hides. The Italians Gabardine revolutionising wet weather- and other fashion titans not to be out wear and still selling well, but it’s the smarted, often favour more composite handbags that boost profits and retail designs using smaller pieces of leather expansion. There is much to choose from and alternative skins such as lamb, deer this season from trendy Doodle totes or even ostrich. Mario Prada went as to compact cross body bags, punched far as pioneering a textured stamping brogue detailing, soft backpacks and The technique called Saffiano. Banner is as always effortlessly smart Leather bags have always had with the classic house-check. practical use but international travel Mulberry’s roots are in the West in the mid 1900s paved the way for Country and early growth flourished designer bags and the world’s first luxury as many founder stories do, from a designer handbag was commissioned kitchen table. This time it was back for a shy British company called HJ in 1971 and the kitchen belonged to Cave. They fabricated large trunks and Roger Saul whose Mum put in £500 their superb leather craft is said to have and his sister designed the Mulberry tree inspired both Louis Vuitton and Guccio logo. Mulberry is a traditional leather Gucci. company continuing to combine age- Burberry is another British company honoured workmanship with leading- though far larger and a major player with edge fashion. Standing out this season retail outlets worldwide, not bad for a are Bayswater back packs (I love the Mini version) and the Amberley satchels inspired by the country; equestrian tack with metro dash. Aspinal of London appeal to global A listers from Taylor Swift to Ivanka Trump with leatherwear cleverly priced not to over-extend the plastic. Aspinal is no ancient enterprise going back 200 years, merely 16 and founded by 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk © Bernard Tschumi Architects © Tschumi Bernard

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Courtauld Institute, holds an MA in Museum and Gallery Management from THE LECTURE CLUB the City University, worked in the Temple Gallery, London, Specialists in Russian Founded four years ago by Elizabeth Gee, Icons and he was a Curator at the V&A specialising in British Art Design and metalwork. He has written a book called Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Lectures take place in her spacious Kensington Art and the Icon Painting Tradition. ( published by Lund Humphries in 2008). He home with its welcoming and friendly is Guest Lecturer on overseas tours. His Lecture was on a complex academic subject covering a long period. It was atmosphere. well illustrated and delivered in a comprehensible way. We learnt that icons are part of the spiritual tradition of Russia and that early Christian painting adopts pre-Christian conventions. He explained how faces in icons have power and are he has organised lectures on Finance, Investment, Art, Style, Culture, Health not sentimental, but naturalised representations. He emphasised how the past gets and Marketing which provide the opportunity for guests to meet celebrity inherited to have a new cultural identity. In the East, Christ was an icon himself figures and experts in their fields. There is time for guests to meet one another and an act of iconoclasm is like a crucifixion. It is a spiritual way of participating and network. in the crucifixion. He told us that icons are not about the artist. They are sacred, S Dianne Mather's Lecture was very popular. She is an etiquette expert and religious objects and the human agency is irrelevant. They are part of the liturgical her subject was Do Manners Matter in Today’s Modern World? Also L.J Flanders, process. He pointed out there was no heritage of consciousness about icons and author of The Cell Workout gave an excellent Lecture entitled, Getting Fit in Your nobody cared. Andrew imparted so much and more fascinating information. Space. Doing It My Way, which was well attended. Andrew's Lecture was a good example of the high standard of lecturing It was a great pleasure and most interesting to meet the Founder of the achieved by Elizabeth Gee at her Lecture Club. We look forward to next year's Lecture Club, Elizabeth Gee who has thirty years of broad-based experience programme. in retail, publishing and beauty sectors. She is an expert in new business Marian Maitland development design and marketing. She founded the Children's Book Centre in Kensington which she developed Visitors pay £15 on arrival. Or £12 if booking via Evenbrite Booking Page.Wine into a leading bookshop of its kind. She quadrupled sales by adding toys, video is included. games and computers. She was thrilled to be invited to proofread books and Silver Membership Annual Fee is £100. This entitles the member to a advise on illustrations. minimum of 30 Talks per year. Access to a video Library containing past lectures Elizabeth introduced the baby clothing range, Petite Pierre to Uk and sold and a monthly update on all events. it to the largest chains. She also took the Uttam Brand clothing into House of 1% of all ticket sales support The Alzheimer's Charity. Fraser and she held promotions for Max Factor at Harrods, Harvey Nichols and www.thelectureclub.com Selfridges. As a keen private investor, Elizabeth feels strongly that finance should Twitter: @thelectureclub. be taught in schools. She originally started the Lecture Club to promote more knowledge and understanding of finance to young people. The Lecture Club. Last month I attended Andrew Spira’s Lecture, entitled Icons: The Sacred 9 Ilchester Place Art of Russia.1853 to 1917. I enjoyed meeting him. He was a student at the London W14 8AA

DANCE produced by John Coates which has magician Drosselmeyer is waiting to Angela Gheorghiu and Martina Serafin Ends December 14 transported a generation of children and sweep her off on a magical adventure. and conducted by Dan Ettinger and Fagin’s Twist their families into the wintery world of a 020 7304 4000 Plácido Domingo, star in The Royal The Place boy and his magical snowman. Bow Street Covent Garden London Opera’s production of Puccini’s thriller. Fagin’s Twist is the untold story of a Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT WC2E 9DD 020 7304 4000 notorious and complex villain. It imagines sadlerswells.com roh.org.uk Bow Street Covent Garden London Fagin’s youth, driven by greed and WC2E 9DD ambition in the face of overwhelming December 13 – January 6 Ends January 13 roh.org.uk poverty. The streets are a place of little Nutcracker Song of the Earth / La Sylphide comfort and fairy-tale endings are hard to London Coliseum London Coliseum EXHIBITIONS find in this piece of poignant coming-of- The magical Christmas ballet for all MacMillan's masterpiece and a beloved age dance theatre. the family, with exquisite dancing and classic, performed for the first time. December 13 020 7121 1100 Tchaikovsky’s glorious score played live. 020 7836 0111 Take Away Dreams 17 Duke’s Rd, Bloomsbury, London On a sparkling Christmas Eve in a frost- St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ES Marathon Kebab House WC1H 9PY dusted Edwardian London, Clara and ballet.org.uk One of London’s most famous kebab theplace.org.uk her enchanted Nutcracker doll discover shops is to be used as an art gallery for an a magical world, where she battles with Ends January 27 artist who paints portraits of passers-by Ends December 31 the Mouse King and meets a handsome Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella on pizza boxes. Cinderella stranger. As the air grows colder, Clara Sadler’s Wells 87 Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8AR Hackney Empire and her valiant Nutcracker take a hot Following the sold-out and critical 020 7485 3814 The classic rags to riches tale of air balloon ride across London to the success of The Red Shoes, New Adventures marathonkebabhouse.co.uk Cinderella will be told in true Hackney glistening Land of Snow where her return to Sadler's Wells this Christmas style by the award-winning pantomime adventure really begins. with one of our most popular and Ongoing team as they prove a new pair of shoes 020 7836 0111 beloved productions, Matthew Bourne’s Neon Icons really can change your life. St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ES Cinderella; a thrilling and evocative love No. 8 Dover St 020 8985 2424 londoncoliseum.org story set in London during the Second A brand-new body of work from Louis 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ World War, which forms part of the Sidoli, famed for his artistic exploration hackneyempire.co.uk Ends January 10 company’s 30th anniversary celebrations. of popular culture, highlighted by his use The Nutcracker 020 7863 8000 of aluminium and neon. The highlight Ends December 31 Royal Opera House Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London is a truly stunning piece of art based on The Snowman A young girl’s enchanted present leads EC1R 4TN a photograph of David Bowie, taken by The Peacock her on a wonderful Christmas adventure sadlerswells.com the world-famous photographer Terry Twinkling with festive spirit The in this beautiful classical ballet, danced O’Neill. The collaboration between Sidoli Snowman is now celebrating 20 to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score. January 15 – March 3 and O’Neill has produced an iconic piece consecutive years on the stage. Based The young Clara creeps downstairs on Tosca which, alongside five other original pieces upon the book by Raymond Briggs and Christmas Eve to play with her favourite Royal Opera House featuring Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe the film directed by Dianne Jackson and present, a Nutcracker. But the mysterious Three casts, led by Adrianne Pieczonka, and Elvis Presley, forms the centrepiece 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 37 EVENTS of a not-to-be-missed exhibition at Aston are on display including the Aston Martin alongside social documentary film and From January 7 Martin’s cultural hub. DB5 from GoldenEye, the ‘Wet Nellie’ photography, highlighting how the Cirque du Soleil – OVO 8 Dover St, Mayfair, London W1S 4LF Lotus Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved realities of life in the north of England Royal Albert Hall louis-sidoli.com Me, the Rolls-Royce Phantom III from captured in the mid-20th century Cirque du Soleil returns to London’s Royal Goldfinger, and the ‘Little Nellie’ Wallis continue to influence new generations of Albert Hall with OVO which comes to Ongoing WA-116 Agile Autogyro from You Only photographers, artists and designers. the UK for the first time for a five-week Ferrari: Under the Skin Live Twice. 020 7845 4600 run from 7 January – 11th February 2018. Design Museum 020 7836 4913 Strand, London WC2R 1LA Having thrilled more than 5 million The exhibition, created in collaboration 45 Wellington St, London WC2E 7BN somersethouse.org.uk people worldwide, OVO, meaning “egg” with Ferrari, offers an insight into the life londonfilmmuseum.com in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into of Enzo Ferrari, unique cars and rarely FAIRS & FESTIVALS a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, seen documents. Celebrating 70 years Ongoing where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, of precision design, from the launch of Brilliant minds in Hut 8 December 12 fight and look for love in a non-stop riot the first Ferrari car in 1947 to the latest Bletchley Park Battersea Choral Society Christmas of energy and movement. This follows car production. This ambitious display Formerly the Codebreaking Hut leading Concert Amaluna, which saw record-breaking will bring together early design models, the breaking of German Naval Enigma Holy Trinity success in London in 2015 and 2016. rare personal memorabilia and archival messages, today Hut 8 houses exciting The concert will include a programme of 020 7589 8212 material relating to Enzo Ferrari’s life. See interactive exhibitions helping adults and much-loved, traditional Christmas carols Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, some of the most famous Ferraris to be children alike to understand the different along with some splendid music and SW7 2AP seen on roads and racing circuits around methods the Codebreakers used to help festive readings. cirquedusoleil.com the world alongside early cars, wind them with their work. In addition, this Sloane Square, Sloane Street, London tunnel models and hand-sculpted models hut also houses the real Office of Alan SW1X 9BZ January 4 - 7 in both clay and wood. Turing, Head of Hut 8, recreated to how batterseachoralsociety.org The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair 224-238 Kensington High St, it would have looked in World War Two Start the year in style with a visit to the Kensington, London W8 6AG complete with the mug chained to the December 12-18 annual event in Mayfair which features designmuseum.org radiator. Olympia Horse Show around 40 quality specialists selling an The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood Olympia exciting range of the finest works of art Ongoing Dr., Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB Dressage, Show Jumping & Horse spanning the centuries. Browse among Bond in Motion 01908 640404 Driving. Each performance includes traditional and contemporary paintings London Film Museum bletchleypark.org.uk an equestrian competition along with a and sculpture, jewellery and silver, clocks Bond in Motion at the London Film variety of displays from around the World. and vintage watches, glass and lighting, Museum has installed a new display Ends February 4 0871 230 5580 period and Art Deco furniture, ceramics of original film cars driven by female North: Fashioning Identity The Grand Hall, Olympia Way, and oriental items and much more. characters starring alongside 007 in the Somerset House Hammersmith, London W14 8UX 01797 252030 James Bond franchise. Also included are Opening this winter, an exhibition olympiahorseshow.com The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor previously unseen costumes, props and featuring contemporary photography, Square, London W1K 6JP storyboards. 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mayfairfair.com and family to explore the grounds of Eltham Palace after dark. Embark upon January 10 – February 3 a winter fairy-tale of light, colour and London International Mime Festival sound. Strings of lanterns laced through Various Venues, see website for more the boughs of trees and fairy lights information twinkling behind leaves will lead you At The Peacock, Jakop Ahlbom’s five star along an enchanting garden trail into a Horror team returns with another movie- magical wonderland. Follow the trail and inspired masterpiece, Lebensraum, while at experience Eltham Palace's heritage in a the Barbican two large-scale shows from remarkable new light. Glimpse some of Belgium see the return of 2015 Olivier the pageantry of the Royal Household Award winners, Peeping Tom, and the as you wander through a time tunnel UK premiere of epic and extraordinary over the moat bridge, be inspired as the Toneelhuis/FC Bergman. Elsewhere there’s armour, heraldic banners and bunting exquisite object and mechanical theatre come alive to tell the story of Eltham's from France, 19th century stage magic medieval heritage. from Finland, a heartwarming Mexican 0370 333 1181 wedding and, as always, breathtaking new Court Yard, London SE9 5QE circus-theatre at the start of the year in english-heritage.org.uk which we celebrate the 250th anniversary of this artform, pioneered by Phillip Ends December 31 WINTER Astley in London in 1768. Investigate for families 23-28 January 2018 mimelondon.com/festival Natural History Museum Investigate for families. Get a feel for how Battersea Park, London February 1-4 scientists work by having a go yourself. Works on Paper Fair Come and explore hundreds of real London's diverse Art Fair featuring nature specimens that form the evidence some of the best Early, Modern and Museum scientists use in their work. Contemporary art on paper. Science Educators are on hand to help 01798 215007 you look closely at real objects using the The Workshop, Petworth GU28 9DG many tools provided. worksonpaperfair.com 020 7942 5511 Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 Feburary 15-18 5BD London Classic Car Show nhm.ac.uk Excel The London Classic Car Show is the January 20 must-attend event for any discerning Dino Snores for Kids ANTIQUES AND 20TH CENTURY classic car owner, collector, expert or Natural History Museum enthusiast. Now in its fourth year, Ever wonder what happens in the DESIGN FOR INTERIOR DECORATION London Classic Car Show has established Museum when everyone's gone home? itself as one of the UK’s best classic car The night begins as you set up camp in events right in the accessible heart of the one of the Museum's spectacular galleries, THREE TIMES A YEAR IN country’s capital. Experience over 700 including Hintze Hall. This action-packed classic cars in London this February. night is not for the faint hearted, and BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON 020 7069 5000 there will be plenty to learn and discover Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, during your stay at the Museum. London E16 1XL 020 7942 5511 thelondonclassiccarshow.co.uk Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 5BD FAMILY & CHILDREN nhm.ac.uk

Ends December 15 January 28 Living Nativity Travelling Stories London Zoo British Library Experience the magic of Christmas by Jump aboard and hear tales that have enjoying ZSL London Zoo’s Living sailed the seven seas with storyteller Nativity, a special event for schools. As Olivia Armstrong. Find out if you’re taller you journey through the scenes of the than the Klencke Atlas, one of the largest nativity you will meet the Wise Men and in the world, and become a storyteller their camels, see Mary in the stable and yourself and discover how to tell your own talk to the Shepherds as they tend their travelling tale. flock. Your class will then join Santa as he 0330 333 1144 tells you about the animals he meets when 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London he travels around the world. All the boys NW1 2DB and girls will receive a gift to take home bl.uk with them. For a complimentary invitation email 020 7449 6200 Ends February 4 [email protected] and quote London NW1 4RY The Snow Queen KCW Today zsl.org Polka Theatre decorativefair.com 020 7616 9327 Kai and Gerda are best friends. Not Ends December 23 brother and sister but as close as if they Enchanted Eltham Palace were. Together, with their friends, they Eltham Palace and Gardens reimagine the thrilling adventure of This Christmastime join with friends Hans Christian Andersen’s classic winter

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Soldier gallery looks at what it’s like Insight gallery examines the countries The National to serve as a soldier from joining-up and and cultures the British Army has training to daily life and returning home. encountered and interacted with. It has Army Museum: You can try out your marching skills with been created with the help of British four floors of interactive fun our interactive marching drill and crawl communities from around the world. under a Dingo Scout Car. Play Base for children aged 0-8. There Army gallery addresses fundamental is an educational soft play area styled he National Army questions such as 'Why do we have an as an army base camp. Inside, kids Museum in London tells army?'. It goes right back to the origins can tackle an assault course, drive an T of the army in the British Civil Wars. don a red coat and have a go at changing armoured car, get messy in the cookhouse the story of the British Army Don’t miss our display of British Army into one of the guards. and sort provisions in the quartermaster’s and asks questions about its badges where you can create your own store. The baby area includes a soft, rubbing. Battle gallery shows how the British padded space for the youngest visitors. role and purpose. The whole Army fulfils its most challenging task Play Base sessions last an hour and cost family can explore its 2,500 Society gallery explores the army – fighting battles. It covers the entire £4.50 per child. as a cultural and military force in our history of the army at war. There is even objects and interactives. everyday lives from toys, to games and a chance to climb into an interactive life- National Army Museum is free to enter. films. You can also pop on a bearskin, size tank. To plan your trip visit www.nam.ac.uk

Drive your family round the bend. In a tank.

Four floors of interactive exhibits, from a tank simulator to drumming and marching experiences.

Free Admission OPEN TO PLAY Sloane Square | nam.ac.uk Royal Hospital Road | Chelsea | SW3 4HT 40 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS fairy-tale. Let your imagination soar as a Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 dusty attic is transformed into the Snow 9NF Queen’s icy palace, and follow their epic rmg.co.uk JOHN SPRINGS NEW WORK journey of self-discovery, as they try to save Kai from the icy spell of the Snow December 13 Queen’s cold kiss. Can Gerda melt his Meet Me in St Louis (U) heart before he forgets her forever? Barbican 020 8543 4888 One of the most joyful and exuberant 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London of the classic MGM musicals, this SW19 1SB period family story set at the time of the polkatheatre.com 1904 World's Fair, was shot in glorious technicolor as a wonderful tonic to the February 13 grim background of World War 2 reality. Chinese Tales & Ribbon Dance Judy Garland is at her best as literally the British Library girl next door, whilst also giving some of Celebrate Chinese New Year at this her greatest screen singing performances fun family workshop. Join artist and including The Trolley Song and the festive performer Jih Wen Yeh as she weaves classic Have Yourself a Merry Little fascinating stories and performs a Christmas. Directed with verve and style beautiful ribbon dance. Then take part in a by Vincente Minnelli who would soon ribbon dance workshop for all the family. become Garland's real life husband. 0330 333 1144 020 7638 4141 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS JOHN SPRINGS PAINTINGS, AND INK AND CHARCOAL NW1 2DB barbican.org.uk bl.uk DRAWINGS will be on display and for sale during January December 14 and February 2018 at the Kulm Hotel in St Moritz, in the Swiss FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY Star Wars: The Last Jedi Engadine valley where he is artist in residence. Rich Mix John Springs is an artist and illustrator. He has exhibited Ongoing In Lucasfilm’sStar Wars: The Last Jedi, Internationally and illustrated for many publications, including Franklin: Death in the Ice the Skywalker saga continues as the the Telegraph, and KCWToday for which he is well known for National Maritime Museum heroes of The Force Awakens unlock age- his iconic Dandy illustrations. (Displayed in the Altitude Bar at This exhibition explores the mysterious old mysteries of the Force and uncover the hotel). fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew on shocking revelations of the past. Most of the work on display is entirely new, inspired by the their final expedition; a mystery that still 020 7613 7498 alpine scenery. remains unsolved today. 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London For further information or to view his work please visit 020 8858 4422 E1 6LA Johnsprings.com richmix.org.uk

min Digital presentation SAMURAI​ WOMAN​​​ Ends January 7 Barbican John Akomfrah: Purple Presented here in a digital restoration PAM GLEW'S KIMONOS Barbican by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, A new commission by British artist and this Egyptian classic was recently voted AS MODERN-DAY ARMOUR filmmaker John Akomfrah for the Curve. the greatest ever movie from the Arab His most ambitious project to date, world. 1881, Thebes – burial place of the Purple is an immersive, six-channel video Pharaohs. The Horabat mountain tribe installation which charts the incremental have lived for generations by stripping shifts in climate change across the planet artefacts from a tomb known only to and its effects on human communities, themselves, and selling them on the black biodiversity and the wilderness. market. When the current chief dies, his 020 7638 4141 two sons learn for the first time about the Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS trade, and are thrown into moral chaos: barbican.org.uk reveal the secret to the authorities, or preserve what the tribesmen consider to Ends January 28 be their natural heritage? Basquiat: Boom for Real 020 7638 4141 Barbican Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS The first large-scale exhibition in the barbican.org.uk UK of the work of American artist NOCTURNES BY PAM GLEW Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960­1988). One January 21 9​ December 2017 - 15 February 2018 of the most significant painters of the Silent Film and Live Music: Variety 20th century, Basquiat came of age in (PG), with live musical accompaniment The Exhibitionist Hotel, 8-10 Queensberry Place, SW7 2EA the post-punk underground art scene by Stephen Horne and Barbican, Cinema Known for playing with our notion of the identity of women in society, idols, in Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s. 1 patriotism and cultural heritage, Pam Glew’s latest exhibition reignites her Since his tragic death in 1988, Basquiat A key work of German silent cinema dialogue around themes of sustainability vs waste, light vs dark and beauty has had remarkably little exposure in the and an international smash on its release, vs deconstruction using her familiar stitch, paint, bleach and dye UK, where there is not a single work in a E A Dupont’s movie is an audacious to potent effect. public collection. melodrama, filmed in the legendary Using the Kimono as a symbol of strength, Pam Glew is introducing the 020 7638 4141 Berlin Wintergarten Theatre. Starring two Samurai as the ‘Woman Warrior’ where ghostly images of female faces appear Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS of the era’s biggest stars, Emil Jannings through the layers of the fabric. barbican.org.uk and Lya De Putti, the film immerses us in a world of acrobats, clowns, jugglers, For information contact: www.theexhibitionisthotel.com January 4 dancing girls and barkers of the period. www.attollo-art.com [email protected] Egypt 1969 Dir Chadi Abdel Salam 102 020 7638 4141 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 EVENTS

27 Jan- 4 Feb 10am-4pm Heralding Spring at Chelsea Physic Garden

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Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS St Luke’s Church The Royal Opera returns to the 5 Sloane Terrace, London SQ1X 9DG barbican.org.uk The majestic St Luke’s Church is the Roundhouse with Monteverdi’s great late cadoganhall.com perfect setting for this festive affair with work, in a new production directed by MUSIC carols led by Icosa Chamber Choir, John Fulljames starring Christine Rice December 22 and celebrity guest readers, BBC's and Roderick Williams, sung in English. The Bach Choir Ends December 30 Emily Maitlis and actor John Nettles. Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH Cadogan Hall Salome Mulled wine and mince pies will follow. 020 7304 4000 Start your weekend of Christmas Royal Opera House All proceeds will go directly towards roh.org.uk celebrations in style with a selection of Malin Byström takes on the title role supporting intensive care patients at some of the best carols old and new, and in Richard Strauss’s searing opera, as Royal Brompton Hospital. January 12 of course plenty of opportunity to stretch featured in the V&A exhibition Opera: Sydney Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 Joshua Bell and the Academy of St the vocal cords and join The Bach Choir Passion, Power and Politics. 6NH Martin in the Fields in singing your favourites. 020 7304 4000 rbhcharity.org Cadogan Hall 020 7730 4500 Bow Street Covent Garden London Celebrated violinist Joshua Bell stars 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London WC2E 9DD December 20 as soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and SW1X 9DQ roh.org.uk The Tallis Scholars a new work by Edgar Meyer, before cadoganhall.com St John’s Smith Square directing the Academy in Beethoven’s December 17 Inspired by the great British choral exuberant Symphony No. 2. January 26 Animal Christmas Crackers: Concert tradition, the 32nd Christmas Festival 020 7730 4500 Piccadilly Chamber Music Series Launch Foundling Museum at St John’s Smith Square features Enjoy the story of dancing mice, cats and some exceptional choirs, ensembles fauns in Berio’s Opus Number Zoo, and and solo musicians in December. The discover the fate of the duck escaping Tallis Scholars return on December 20. from the hungry wolf in Prokofiev’sPeter Tickets from £14 and David Titterington and the Wolf. The Waldegrave Ensemble embarks on a festival-long journey brings together some of Britain’s top through the organ works of Bach on the young chamber musicians who share a magnificent Klais Organ for each of the passion for making music accessible and free, 45-minute recitals. fun. 020 7222 1061 020 7841 3600 Smith Square, Westminster, London 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, SW1P 3HA London WC1N 1AZ sjss.org.uk foundlingmuseum.org.uk January 10-21 December 18 The Return of Ulysses Carols by Candlelight Royal Opera House 42 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS

St James’ Church, Piccadilly TALKS & TOURS Beethoven Piano Trios (and more!) Friday Jan 26 2018 at 7.30pm Ongoing St James’ Church, 197 Piccadilly London Duck Tours London W1J 9LL Hop aboard one of London Duck Tours’ Tickets £28, £20 and £15 distinctive yellow vehicles and enter www.piccadillychamberconcerts.com the wonderful world of amphibious travel. It is far more exciting than just Box Office: 0333 666 3366 an ordinary sightseeing bus tour or river ‘A life-changing trip. See some of London’s most talked January 26 about sights, learn interesting facts The Piccadilly Chamber Music Series experience for about the city and be entertained by an St James Church the children.‘ action packed live commentary before Set in the heart of London’s West End, the thrilling splashdown onto the river the series provides a new platform for Teacher Thames! some of the UK’s most outstanding 020 7928 3132 musicians and a new opportunity for 55 York Road, Lambeth, London Londoners to hear some of the world’s SE1 7NJ greatest chamber music masterpieces londonducktours.co.uk performed in an inspiring setting. Piccadilly Ongoing 0333 666 3366 War Paint: Brushes with conflict 197 Piccadilly, St. James's, London National Army Museum W1J 9LL Explore why artists and soldiers have piccadillychamberconcerts.com painted scenes of conflict, in the museum’s first temporary exhibition at the new January 30 museum. to create records, report news or Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer, commemorate events. But above all, war Under the Apple Tree Sessions paintings are personal perspectives on war Cadogan Hall and its vast impact on people and places. With 24 albums, Grammy, Oscar and War Paint features over 130 paintings and many other awards between them sisters objects exploring the complex relationship Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer share between war and the men and women that kind of transcendent musical bond. who map, record, celebrate and document It’s as deep, haunting, knowing and it. beautiful as the Alabama woods they 020 7730 0717 once called home. Both sang as soon as Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London they could form words, but music is the SW3 4HT only language they have ever needed to nam.ac.uk communicate with and understand each other. Ends December 31 020 7730 4500 Hidden Traces 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London The Place SW1X 9DQ A sound journey discovering the streets cadoganhall.com around The Place. This self-guided tour for all ages traces the many identities of this February 13 Help inspire more ever-changing neighbourhood throughout Tosca the past decades and into the present. Handel & Hendrix 020 7121 1100 Let yourself be drawn into a journey young people… 17 Duke’s Rd, Bloomsbury, London throughout 17th-century Europe. WC1H 9PY From Rome to Paris through Vienna, To donate text MOUS11£5 or MOUS11£10 to theplace.org.uk Lucie Chabard will explore how great composers such as Froberger, Frescobaldi, 70070 or email [email protected] December 14 and Louis Couperin inspired each other. Stewart Lee, Tania Chen & Steve 020 7495 1685 Beresford perform John Cage’s 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K ‘Indeterminacy 4HB Founded in 1997, Mousetrap that use theatre as a catalyst Foyle’s handelhendrix.org Theatre Projects is a theatre to learn new skills, challenge Once upon a time, Steve Beresford played Tania Chen the Folkways CD of February 23 education charity providing young minds, broaden horizons Indeterminacy, by John Cage and David Red Priest: Handel in the Win disadvantaged young people and raise aspirations. Each year Tudor. On it, Cage told ninety stories, Foundling Museum and those with special needs we open theatre doors to more each one minute long, and, in another Red Priest will take you on a whirlwind opportunities to live richer lives than 13,000 young people room and unable to hear Cage, Tudor tour through the music of George and help them fulfil their who without our support played the piano and tapes, originally Frideric Handel. Their programme potential. We achieve this would not be able to attend. released on two LPs in 1959. Tania liked includes sonatas, chaconnes and virtuoso through education programmes the recording very much and immediately variations, transcriptions both sublime suggested performing the piece. Steve and tempestuous and an audacious suite suggested Stewart Lee to read the stories. drawn from his most celebrated work, Stewart agreed. The three of them have Messiah. www.mousetrap.org.uk Charity No. 1053434 now performed the piece, trimmed to 020 7841 3600 thirty or forty stories, randomly selected, 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, many times. In their version, everyone can London WC1N 1AZ foundlingmuseum.org.uk 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 EVENTS

hear each other. 26 Upper Mall, London W6 9TA Hampstead Theatre The Open House is Will Eno’s wildly 020 7434 1574 williammorrissociety.org Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, 1961. subversive and darkly hilarious take on 107 Charing Cross Road WC2H 0EB One of Britain’s most notorious double the archetypal family drama. Son and foyles.co.uk THEATRE agents, George Blake, is serving a 42- Daughter have come home to celebrate year sentence; that is, until he strikes up their Mother and Father’s wedding December 18 Ongoing an unlikely friendship with Irish petty anniversary but the atmosphere is strained Winter’s Tales with Jamie Glover, Hans Hamilton criminal, Sean Bourke. Both men are and the dog is nowhere to be seen. Just Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales Victoria Palace Theatre eccentric outsiders, and each sees the as they hit stalemate, things start to take Coronet Printroom The critically-acclaimed and multi-award- possibility of escape, and not just from a very unexpected turn… The Open Actor and director Jamie Glover, winning Broadway musical, will open prison, through the other. But once on House unites the talents of Michael Boyd, known for his extensive stage and at the end of 2017 at London's Victoria the outside, can their mutual dependence former Artistic Director of the RSC television work, reads much-loved Hans Palace Theatre. survive the mounting pressures they face with multi award-winning Will Eno, Christian Andersen classics incuding The 0844 482 5138 from MI5, from the KGB, and indeed one of America’s leading contemporary Emperor’s New Clothes and Thumbelina. Victoria St, Westminster, London from themselves? playwrights. Recommended for ages 6+. 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Trial by Laughter will have its European premiere of Into the Numbers mother, in a production of astonishing cut, cloth, and colour of monochrome world premiere at a unique one off gala by multi-award-winning American physicality that defies characterisation. clothing. performance in the historic surroundings playwright Christopher Chen. 020 7638 4141 020 7747 2885 of the Great Hall, Guildhall, London, on 0844 847 1652 Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN Friday 15 December. The cast is led by 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, London barbican.org.uk nationalgallery.org.uk Miles Jupp as William Hone and Michael SW10 9ED Palin as the Lord Chief Justice Lord finboroughtheatre.co.uk January 22 Ellenborough. Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha Mapping escapes in World War II: Guildhall Tickets January 18 – February 17 Dr Barbara Bond Gresham Street, London, EC2P 2EJ The Open House If you have an event you’d like listed, Royal Geographic Society ticketmaster.co.uk Coronet Printroom please send any information to: fahad@ Barbara investigates MI9’s wartime kcwtoday.co.uk escape and evasion mapping programme Ends December 31 including how maps were smuggled to The Snowman, Birmingham Repertory prisoners and how they helped orchestrate Theatre Production some of the most famous escapes in Now in its 20th hit year, this enchanting FOOD & DRINK history. stage show of Raymond Briggs' classic Available 020 7591 3000 book, The Snowman, tells the story of a on site 1 Kensington Gore, Kensington, London boy and his magical snowman's wintery SW7 2AR wonderland adventure. As a friendship rgs.org is kindled, the two embark on a starry- skied journey to the North Pole, where February 10 they meet dancing penguins, Ice Princess, Key Speakers: 4 Saints In 3 Father Christmas and escape the clutches Photographers Gallery of Jack Frost. An afternoon of discussion exploring 020 7863 8222 the varied themes and contemporary The Peacock, Portugal Street, Holborn, understandings of 4 Saints in 3 Acts - A WC2A 2HT, London Snapshot of the American Avant-garde, peacocktheatre.com the first exhibition worldwide to focus on the photographic dimensions of this Ends January 7 ground-breaking American modernist Alice in Wonderland opera. Rose Theatre Kingston 020 7087 9300 Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London W1F discover a magical world of wonders in 7LW this spectacular new stage adaptation of thephotographersgallery.org.uk Lewis Carroll's timeless books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. March 14 Featuring gorgeous music and strikingly ‘Endlessly insightful’ ‘Fascinating… a treat’ Morris in Oxford: Politics and Design imaginative designs, puppetry and Time Out Walking Tour projections, Alice in Winterland is brought Sunday Express William Morris Society to life on the Rose stage by a talented cast Available daily: 9.30am - 4.30pm (April-October), 10am - 4pm (November-March) This day long walking tour of Oxford of over 30 actors. Nearest tube station South Kensington will include some of the places most 020 8174 0090 associated with Morris as a designer and 24-26 High St, Kingston upon Thames maker, and his later political engagement KT1 1HL Call: 020 7589 8212 /RoyalAlbertHall with the city. Lunch and any admission rosetheatrekingston.org @RoyalAlbertHall charges are extra. Full joining details will royalalberthall.com be confirmed a few days before the event. 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Left: Reclining Nude. 1919. MoMA. Below: Woman's Head (with chignon)1911-12. Merzbacher Kunsttiftung.

Still in search of a style of his own, Kisling, two of the poet Max Jacob, and Modigliani he saw two retrospectives that greatly a fine, angular, Soutine-like portrait of Tate Modern impressed the twenty-two year-old: Jean Cocteau. He was not called up for Paul Gauguin at the Salon d’Automne military service when war broke out due Until 2 April 2018 in 1906 and Paul Cézanne in 1907, of to ailing health, but stayed in Paris. He Admission £19.70 which The Beggar of Leghorn and The ended his relationship with Hastings, Cellist, painted two years later, are good started another with a Canadian, Simone www.tate.org.uk examples. Picasso introduced him to the Thiroux, with whom he had a child, but Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, refused to acknowledge paternity, then who he admired greatly and who, turn, met and fell in love with a nineteen year- encouraged him to take up sculpture. old art student Jeanne Hébuterne, who his is Tate’s Big One for the These elongated heads owe as much gave birth to his daughter in Nice. When autumn/winter season. Alexei to Brancusi as they do to ‘primitive’ he returned to Paris in May 1919, Jeanne Modigliani is a favourite with the art from Africa, Egypt and Oceania, was pregnant again, but Modigliani was public,T probably because he represents which was all the rage in and around the becoming seriously ill and in January everything an artist living in Paris at the first decade of the Twentieth century. the following year, he died of tubercular time of Picasso should be. He ticks all Geometric, tapering features, punctuated meningitis. Jeanne, nine months the boxes: often penniless and sometimes with half-moons and circles lend both pregnant was distraught and killed starving, he adopted the role of the serenity and elegance to these strangely herself by throwing herself out of a fifth tragic bohemian figure, unrecognised attractive sloe-eyed, mask-like faces. floor window. He did not quite die in and misunderstood during his short life, Jacob Epstein, visited him in Paris, as hair, was not, and his first and only solo the romantic bohemian tradition, alone handsome, pugnacious, promiscuous, an did Augustus John, who purchased show, at the Galerie Berthe Weill in Rue and unloved. Large crowds gathered alcoholic and drug addict, wracked with two heads, which paid for a trip back Taitbout just off Rue La Fayette, was as his coffin passed and mourners at tuberculosis and dying desperately young. to his family in Livorno. Included in closed by the police on the grounds of his funeral included Picasso, Brancusi, This exhibition brings together 100 the exhibition are a number of drawn indecency. Some of his finest portraits Chaim Soutine, Fernande Léger, Gino works, forty of which have never been and painted caryatids, both angular are of his friends and dealers, including Severini, Maurice Utrillo, André Derain shown before in the UK. It is also the and voluptuous, but the main thrust in Paul Guillaume, whose sculpted baby- and Jacques Lipchitz. largest show devoted to the Italian artist the show is his series of nudes, some faced features appear in several paintings, At £25, the exhibition catalogue is ever assembled in Britain, with portraits, reclining, others sitting, but all sensual, and his dealer and patron, Léopold an excellent buy with well-written essays sculptures and a large series of nudes. In alluring and deeply erotic. Some are Zborowski, who looked after him when appraising this important and influential post-Dreyfus France, he would introduce professional models, others probably his health declined and arranged for artist, and numerous illustrations and himself as ‘I am Modigliani, painter mesdames de la nuit, and his mistresses, him and Hébuterne to go to the French a thorough chronological timeline. As and Jew,’ as though to underline his including Jeanne Hébuterne, an Riviera. He also arranged for nine of his a diversion in the Exhibition, there role as a double outsider. When he first eccentric Welsh woman Nina Hamnett paintings and some 50 drawings to be is a simple 8-minute virtual reality arrived in Paris with a modest amount of and Beatrice Hastings, the feisty included in the Exhibition of French ‘experience’, entitled The Ochre Atelier, money from an uncle, he rented a studio South African-born English poet and Art 1914-1919 at the Mansard Gallery depicting his untidy studio, with a near Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, journalist. They were all thoroughly in London, alongside Derain, Matisse, cigarette burning in an ash-tray, paints, where he mingled with such artists as modern girls, from their hairdos to their Picasso, Utrillo and Vlaminck. brushes, his palette and easel, a bucket on Picasso, André Derain, Francis Picabia, make-up. Earlier, he shared a studio with Diego the floor catching drops of rain, and, out Juan Gris and Kees van Dongen, the Nudity had been common currency Rivera, of whom there is a powerful of the window, smoking chimneys over Fauvist painter, whose influence can in art for centuries, but the depiction portrait in the exhibition, as there are les toits de Paris. Charmant. be seen in some of his early portraits. of female body hair, particularly pubic of Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Moïse Don Grant 46 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Ferrari: Under © Ferrari The British the Skin Museum Design Museum Participates in an Until 15 April 2018 Unique Collaboration. Admission £18 designmuseum.org

xactly twenty-seven years ago, the year after Enzo Ferrari died at the Forte di Belvedere, high on a Ehill overlooking Florence, there was an exhibition called L’Idea Ferrari, which sported nine 6m. air-conditioned glass cubes, arranged in clusters of three on the battlements of the former summer home of the Medici family, each containing an iconic car. It was the first sanctioned exhibition of the Modena-based car firm, with its blessing and that of its parent company, Fiat. The designer was an Italian architect Pierluigi Cerri of Gregotti Associates in Milan, who, the year before, designed the Fiat exhibition at the Design Museum, when it was in Shad Thames. This exhibition follows the same pattern, combining history, design and motor racing, but with the added all- pervasive presence of celebrity. Ferrari always had ‘glamour’, right from the 1950s, attracting film stars, musicians, footballers and sportsmen, from Elvis Presley, Bridget Bardot, Sammy Davis Jr, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Usain Bolt and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Peter Sellers, John Lennon, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, David Beckham, Floyd Mayweather, Cristiano Ronaldo and Hugh Grant. As the years have passed, the cachet of owning, or being seen in one, has become paramount, and as the clientele has become more uber-bling, so have the cars, culminating in the latest from Maranello; a LaFerrari Aperta, on loan from, who else, but the braggadocio cook, Gordon Ramsay. The cars from the 1950s and 1960s had more than a restrained veneer of class, and reeked of quality. It all aspects of automotive manufacture Nick Mason and David Piper, who winning five World Championships for was the racing that brought the beast out are covered, from sketches to working maintain the breed by racing their Ferrari up until 2004, having already in them, pumping red-hot blood round drawings, from models to a full-size, cars on racetracks, which is what they secured two, driving for Benetton in the veins; as Enzo himself admitted, it hand-crafted clay mock-up and from were designed to do. The cars in the 1994, where he deliberately drove into was building and selling cars that allowed wind-tunnel experiments to engine parts. exhibition, some ranged nose-to-tail on a Damon Hill, when the Englishman was them to race, not the other way round. It could be argued that Bugatti combined banked track, are all restored per sodomia, about to win the Championship, and He was nearly fifty when he built his engineering with art, as witnessed by so there is little sense of them having had in 1995. The German’s crash helmet is first car, having raced and managed Alfas the extraordinary attention to detail previous lives. amongst a display which also includes before and after the war. The first car to in any Bugatti, whereas Ferrari weds Two of the most beautiful Ferraris those of Alberto Ascari and Mike bear his name was the tipo 125, built in engineering with advanced technology. ever built are on display; the 250 GTO Hawthorn. One of the most appealing 1947 followed by the 166 MM, named Even the building that houses the model from 1962 and the 275 GTB4 exhibits is a full-size wooden ‘former’, after the Mille Miglia, the thousand mile wind-tunnel at Modena was designed from 1967, the former with a history of around which panel-beaters in the 1960s race around Italy, which it won in 1949 by Renzo Piano. There is a temptation to successful competition, taking the GT used to sculpt aluminium panels, which with Biondetti at the wheel, and Bonetto over-restore classic cars, to the point that Championship three years running in the would sit happily in any art gallery as a coming second. It then went on to win they would never have had so many licks hands of such drivers as Stirling Moss, stand-alone piece of sculpture. At £18, Le Mans in the same year, this time of paint or such shiny chromium spokes Innes Ireland, Mike Parkes, Masten this is quite a hefty admission price, with Luigi Chinetti, Ferrari’s American when they came off the production line Gregory, the Rodriguez brothers, Roger matched only by the £39.95 for the agent, at the wheel of a privately-entered fifty years ago. Squeaky-clean seems to Penske, John Surtees, Graham Hill and exhibition catalogue, but maybe this barchetta. Ferrari were on their way. be the order of the day, with patination David Piper, who was still competing perpetuates the belief that the Ferrari The show will appeal to petrol- erased and painted over and no scuffs until recently. Michael Schumacher’s F1 lifestyle choice is exclusively for the rich. heads, as well as students of design, as to be seen. There are some owners, like car from 2000 is on the front of the grid, Don Grant 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

ruler and his faith by having an image of © Ferrari the King on the obverse and his God on The British the reverse. Indian Ocean Traders looks at trade and travel across the Indian Museum © British Museum Ocean from 200 AD to 1650 AD. India Participates in an was a great trader and producer. Courtly Unique Collaboration. Cultures looks at objects of court life in the Mughal Empire. Quest for Freedom explores how people across the world won freedom from Imperial Rulers. ast month the outcome of five The British presence started in India years work on a project between with the East India Company and later three museums came to fruition. the British Government took over and The British Museum (BM), The India became part of the British Empire. L Independence was granted in 1947. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Museum (CSMVS) and Dr Hartwick Fischer, Director of the the National Museum of Delhi have all British Museum said, contributed to that project. “The first of its kind, this project This year 70 years of Independence important moments establishes a dialogue between objects, Of India has been celebrated by festivals in the history of cultures, institutions and the public to and events in a three year cultural India. The themes are provide a rich and new perspective on exchange between India and UK, then set in a wider moments in Indian history. organised by India/UK.2017. global context so This is an entirely new venture for The project has been a complex that we can explore the British Museum which hopes that operation involving meetings across three connections between by presenting its treasures in the context continents, on line meetings, calls and India and the rest of world cultures, it will encourage all e-mails. The idea was jointly conceived of the world over a museums to engage with the new rich by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director of million years up to developing world”. CSMVS and Neil MacGregor’s History the present day. The British Museum is being of the Modern World in a Hundred Objects. The first theme realistic. In order to deal with demands The result of the project is an is Shared Beginnings for restitution of objects, the major Exhibition entitled India and the World; where stone age tools encyclopaedic museums need to co- A History in Nine Stories, running across the world are operate with other museums. This is an currently in Bombay, which will move collections. These are displayed next to compared. States and Faiths show how excellent beginning for joint exhibitions toWWAd01-086 Delhi next Chelsea year. It Paper showcases 260x160mm.qxp_Layout the iconic 1 08/12/2017 works on 11:13 loan fromPage 1the British some rulers attempt to have religious and loans. most important objects and works in Museum. The objects are grouped and conformity, whilst others tolerate multi Indian art from museums and private placed in nine themes representing faiths. Coinage shows the bond between a Marian Maitland

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reinforced his rightful claim to the candlelight compositions revealing his Monarchy. He became a serious collector. knowledge of Caravaggio and his use of His Courts were sumptuously furnished chiaroscuro. Note the religious authority and decorated with valuable acquisitions. that emanates from the painting. Again They echoed the lavishness of French the themes of Art and Power come to Palaces such as Versailles known to him mind. during his exile. A great work of Paolo Veronese, In the exhibition Charles II: Art The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine and Power, we see some fine pieces of Alexandria, is on display. Before illustrating the King’s love of luxury, her Martyrdom she was mysteriously pomp and ceremony. Republican married to Christ, symbolising pious © Royal Collection Trust/ © HM Queen Elizabeth II. 2017 © HM Queen Elizabeth II. Trust/ Collection © Royal England under Oliver Cromwell had souls’ betrothal to God. Also Titian’s been very austere. Madonna and Child in a landscape with Observe John Michael Wright’s oil Tobias and the Angel is displayed. This painting of the Coronation, with all is an exceptional work. Observe the its grandeur of the restored Monarch, richness of her ultramarine mantle and resplendent in Parliamentary robes over the precision painted foliage and flowers. the Garter Costume, together with King They symbolise her purity. Edward’s Crown. Notice the new Orb Charles II loved drawings which were and Sceptre by Robert Vyner. Charles not so popular at that time in England. commissioned much new regalia. He would have seen many during his The work by Wenceslaus Hollar exile. Leonardo da Vinci’s Bearded Man depicts Westminster Abbey, scene of in Profile Confronted by a Grotesque Profile the Coronation, well. The Choir of the is in the Exhibition. Abbey, with its deep tiers of seats in There are also tapestries and furniture. the transepts, is filled with spectators Do not miss a side table covered with watching this great occasion. silver sheets and chased with the Some spectacular Altar Plate of the crowned cypher of Charles II. Silver Abbey is on display, including an Alms furniture was very popular during the Dish of silver gilt by Henry Greenway, late 17th century. with its sunken centre revealing the It is interesting to see Peter Lely’s Last Supper in which Charles’s crown paintings of Barbara Villiers. She was is placed near Christ. The Royal Stuart the King’s mistress for many years and Arms appear on the rim. This piece was bore him several children. Peter Lely was used at later Coronations and Royal appointed Limner and Picture Drawer at Weddings. the Court. A very famous Coronation present The Reign of Charles II led to a resurgence of the Arts and to Patronage of them. Possession of great works glorified the restored King. His Royal Charles II: Courts could now take their place on the European stage. He lived a Art ’and Power flamboyant lifestyle; he loved beautiful Queen s Gallery. women, yachts, theatre, horse racing Buckingham Palace. and his patronage of them gained him the support of the country. He was 8th December 2017-13th May keenly interested in Science and used 2018 it to improve his navy and army so he could take his place with pride among the European states. He set up the given to Charles II is also on view, Observatory at Greenwich and founded ngland was no longer a Monarchy namely, The Exeter Salt. It was created by the Royal Society. after King Charles 1 of England, Johann Haus. It is a silver gilt table salt I particularly liked, in the exhibition, Scotland and Ireland was executed in the form of a tower with cylindrical Antonio Verrio’s The Sea Triumph of Ein 1649 at Whitehall Palace. This brutal corner turrets resting on a chased Charles II. The King wears classical act marked the climax of the English mound supported by dragons on ball armour and is driven through the water Civil War. feet. Furthermore, it is encrusted with by Neptune in a high shell backed The following period was known almandine garnets, turquoises, sapphires, chariot, accompanied by three females as the Interregnum, and England was, emeralds, rubies and amethysts; a bearing crowns, embodying his three de facto, a Republic, ruled by Oliver fitting, elaborate gift for a restored kingdoms. Above his head Fame carries Cromwell. Charles II had been It included the Crown Jewels; much of King. It was presented, surprisingly, by a scroll inscribed thus, Imperium Oceano proclaimed King of Scotland, but this collection was sold or melted down the once Parliamentary stronghold of Famam qui terminet astris. Putti carry the Cromwell defeated him at the Battle of by Cromwell’s Republican Government. Exeter, maybe for propitiation and in Royal Arms and beyond Minerva and ’ Worcester in 1651. Charles was deposed Charles II had a single minded purpose; recognition of the King s power. possibly Venus look upon the British from the Scottish Throne and fled to to have the surviving pieces returned to The Exhibition includes several Fleet. Europe, France, the Dutch Republic and their rightful, legitimate owner, himself, famous paintings, either acquired by, or The exiled and restored King Charles the Spanish Netherlands, into exile. as King. He was successful with many restored to Charles; these include a work II sought power through Art and the Oliver Cromwell died in 1658; a of the treasures. His father had collected by Pieter Bruegel The Elder, entitled display of wealth; an idea pioneered by political crisis led to the Restoration of numerous old masters and contemporary 'TheSlaughter of the Innocents and Orazio ancient Kings, leaders and Pharaohs long the Monarchy, and Charles II returned works which remained the basis of the Gentileschi's The Sibyl. Old Testament before his time. by invitation. He arrived in London, Great Royal Collections of the Louvre Prophets were often represented as Sibyls Marian Maitland triumphant and was publicly proclaimed. and Prado Museums. and this is one of a series of twelve. ’ Charles I, his father, had amassed During the Restoration Charles On view is Charles de La Tour s Saint Tickets and Visitor Information: an amazing collection of art, greater II held the firm view that possession Jerome. thought to have been purchased www.royalcollection.org.uk ’ than achieved by any other Monarch. of great art represented power and by Charles II. 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expressing what some of these people have gone through. “I need to explain Healing London’s myself with art,” says Salim. “I’m a shy person. I can’t explain myself, but I refugees talk with my art. Some paintings are with art therapy aggressive, some are happy, but I tell my by Max Horberry story.” Giving people like Salim the power to express themselves on their own urrently there are 65 million terms means they have the space to people displaced around the express feelings around the traumas world, 22 million are seeking they have suffered without letting those asylum in other countries. According to experiences define them. While talking C about trauma can be beneficial for some, the Red Cross, approximately 119,000 refugees are living in the UK. Many for others it can run the risk of more arrive with an array of traumas and the deeply embedding the trauma. Some asylum seeking process can aggravate need to forget, others cannot. Either way, these issues. the art can allow them to focus on what Across London there are a small empowers them. number of groups that help asylum Often asylum seekers have left their seekers and refugees heal and develop. home country because they have a set The New Art Studio (newartstudio. of values they cannot live without. They org.uk) provides a space for art therapy. have been persecuted for these. Yet Every week, asylum seekers and refugees focussing on those values can emphasise can take a full day to paint and draw at their strength. Zahra celebrates female their own pace. If they need guidance strength in her paintings. She says it in their work, whether technical or makes her feel free. “You draw just one emotional, that is available to them. line,” she says, “and it makes you happy. Some work alone, others talk and share. It’s coming out from your inside. The Salim paints in bright colours. He anger, the depression, the anxiety--it comes from North Africa and one day he comes out from your hand and leaves it decided he couldn’t live in fear anymore. and it makes you feel relaxed and happy.” “Every morning when I would go to Some paint memories, good and bad; work,” he says, “I would tell my mother the scenic Kurdish mountains they miss, I’m not sure if I’m coming back. There the small figure in a darkness they once were bombs in the cars and at anytime were. Others paint from the imagination. they could explode.” Salim (who asked The art provides an opportunity for that his name be changed for this article) an internal dialogue, taking them to saw friends and family killed. One of their darkest places and their best his cousins was walking down the street paint portraits of women’s faces, showing friends, cousins, his grandmother. Dead, ambitions. After each day of painting and two people shot him point blank. the strength in their femininity. was the reply. they are invited to show their work on “Like the Mafia,” he says. “That’s why I Eight years have gone by and Zahra He spent 12 years worried about the wall and open up that dialogue . said No, this is not life.” He left and 12 still doesn’t know whether she will be his family’s safety and they had spent it It’s a vulnerable place in which to put years went by before he saw his family granted refugee status or sent back. The worried about his. “Imagine your mum,” themselves but allows them to tell their again. He spent those 12 years living in stress of this uncertainty can take a heavy he says. “She misses you. Sometimes I story, be heard and have the group bear uncertainty, not knowing whether he toll on individuals who have already ask myself, am I selfish? She’s feeling witness. It provides a community, a safe would be sent back or whether his family suffered traumas. Panic attacks and sick, always crying. She’s waiting.” space, a sense of purpose and progress. were alive. flashbacks can get worse and living in Many asylum seekers are unable to be in When Salim got his British passport When he thinks of his home country, this purgatory, there is no room to move contact with their families for reasons of he felt like a human again. Now at the he says he thinks of his grandmother’s on with their lives. They are stuck in a safety. If knowledge of their whereabouts age of 44, he says he wants to be an artist farm. He remembers the bright yellow narrative which defines them as a victim falls into the wrong hands, they might be and sell his paintings. “I want to do more sunflowers. He likes to use yellow in his and an asylum seeker. Many have gone hunted down or their family threatened. art. I believe in myself.” He smiles and painting. It makes him happy. through experiences that have tested They often have to cut all ties and grieve says “remember my name.” He also wants Arriving in an unknown country as their faith in humanity and they are left for a family and home lost. to go back to his home country for a an asylum seeker can be terrifying. The to wait, at the mercy of strangers. Salim said he feels powerless. “I think period to spend time with his mother to effects of trauma can make an unpleasant Disillusionment and loss of faith are I am safe but my parents are not safe. I make up for the lost time. Zahra feels at experience unbearable. Zahra (whose not forms of trauma typically recognised, feel a little bit selfish.” Friends and family home in London. She comments on the name has also been changed) came over but these are just as significant as any have died and he has been unable to do respect she sees. On the bus, in the street, from Iran with her 1-year old son. On other, says Renos Papadopoulos from anything about it. It is understandable she says, people are respectful. “I feel arrival in the UK she was taken to a the University of Essex and Director that many refugees and asylum seekers very peaceful here.” Understandably she detention centre. Out of her mind with of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and suffer from survivor’s guilt. They question worries about her son. “He is my future, I fear, she didn’t sleep, worried she would Refugees. Losing your home and cultural why they have the right to survive am scared for him. He is my life.” be beaten, tortured, even raped by the support system can lead to total despair.. while their family members remain in Art cannot change the past nor guards. “I lost my identity,” says Salim. “Even peril or have died. Stuck in National predict the future. Yet giving people like Yet despite how intimidating it now I have this problem, it’s my home Asylum Support Service (NASS) Salim and Zahra authorship over their might be, it would be worse still to go but if I go back I feel like a stranger.” He accommodation, far out in the suburbs, narrative and a trusting space in which back. Zahra was politically active in has become stuck between two countries not permitted to work, with only £36 others can bear witness to those stories Iran, defending women’s rights. This and the longer he stays in the UK the a week, it can feel as if it were all for can make them feel human again and got her into trouble with the repressive more of a home it becomes. nothing. A sense of worthlessness and gives them a power they perhaps felt they government. If she were sent back she When Salim eventually visited his hopelessness takes over. Weeks and didn’t have before. The New Art Studio would be imprisoned and tortured. “The home country, once it was safe to do so, months blur into each other. These is not alone in what it does but groups same as before,” she says, “and now if I go he was shocked. “All my brothers have are often educated people and after like them only scratch the surface of a back home they will kill me.” Her voice grown up, have kids. My mother is an old everything they’ve been through, this problem that is playing out across the cracks as she completes the sentence. woman. It is like travelling to the future, lack of purpose can be harmful. world and demonstrates how effective a She remains stoic. Zahra says she likes to like time travel.” He would ask after Words can seem inadequate when blank canvas and a safe space can be. 50 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

art. When you’re in a play or a band, it’s voice of Clara’s mysterious godfather, Chris Gunning, the British composer still a collaborative thing. Drosselmeyer, with period costumes of the famous Martini tune, winner of 4 MUSIC “When everything comes together conjuring up a fantasy world for 70 BAFTAS for ‘best music’ for his Film & and you think of an idea, a joke or dancers and the orchestra. TV scores including La Vie en Rose, 2007, routine that connects with people, it’s Tickets from £35. and Agatha Christie’s Poirot starring ROUND UP incredible. It’s the most amazingly www.royalalberthall.com David Suchet: 1989 (40 episodes), was BY GEOFF COWART satisfying experience hearing an arena in the audience to see his compositions full of people laughing at something For piano lovers the Wigmore Hall hosts performed by harpists Isabel Harries, you’ve thought up. It’s a tremendous Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov on Dina Nimax, Bianca Ben and Nia Evans buzz.” January 17 performing Schubert on a The performers’ tutor and mentor, “My priority is always funny first. Viennese instrument by Conrad Graf, Skaila Kanga, was appointed the Then if you have the time and the Chopin and Liszt on a Parisian Erard distinguished title of Professor Emerita of experience to refine it to the level where and scenes from Stravinsky’s dazzling Harp at the Royal Academy of Music in maybe the odd phrase does get through Petrushka on a Steinway. There is a pre- 2010 and has been the Principal Harp of Music & to people; well, that’s as good as it can concert talk at 6pm ahead of the 7.30pm the Academy of St Martin in the Fields get really.” recital. since 1971. Comedy December 23, 27, 28, 29 and 30. Tickets from £15. So, the next time you want a break Tickets £35. www.academymusicgroup. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk from the shoppers and noise in the West Round Up com/o2shepherdsbushempire End you know where to go. There is more comedy at Hammersmith Free concerts Event Apollo on January 13 with legend Chevy Chase. The formerSaturday Night and solace for Live, National Lampoon’s and Fletch star The Salvation employs his trademark zany humour as shoppers Army he looks back over his illustrious career. in the heart of Oxford Street Regent Hall Oxford Street Tickets from £29.75. By Kate Hawthorne www.eventimapollo.com The Hall is one of the oldest centres in

Four harpists performing on a stage London having been founded by the is not what you expect to find just founder of the army, William Booth The Sixteen, The a few feet away from the mania of in 1882. William Booth bought the Oxford Street’s wall-to-wall traffic and building on Oxford Street in 1882. Since Snowman and Christmas shoppers. then, The Rink as it was known, (it used Tucked away in the middle of to be an ice rink) has had many major The Nutcracker London’s busiest street, opposite John internal improvements. Most recently in Christmas is in full swing at Cadogan Hall in Sloane Square. On December 18 and 19 the acclaimed choir and period- instrument orchestra The Sixteen return for a survey of more than 400 years of choral music.Tickets from £16. Two afternoon screenings of Howard Blake’s classic animated filmThe Snowman will follow on December ill Bailey larks about at 20. The Mozart Symphony Orchestra conducted by Philip Mackenzie will the Empire perform during the film. It’s rounded off Hammersmith with Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals. Ages four and over. comedian Bill Bailey brings Tickets from £15. B www.cadoganhall.com a special preview of his new show to the O2 Shepherds The Royal Albert Hall plays host to four Bush Empire for five nights. performances of The Nutcracker between December 28 and 31. For the first time Lewis, is the Salvation Army’s Regent the summers of 2015-2017. Christmas Larks! is a sneak peek of ever, the Birmingham Royal Ballet brings Hall. This 550-seater auditorium T: 020 7629 5424 Larks in Transit! Bailey says his new lark the magical show and Tchaikovsky hideaway from the crowds, with its bar Email. [email protected]. is a ‘compendium of tales and the general score to the stage. Simon Callow is the of refreshments and array of charitable www.regenthall.co.uk. shenanigans’ of 20 long years of touring. works, offers free concerts to everyone on The show promises to deliver more of a Friday lunchtime. Services offered. the hijinks which place Bailey at the The hall is known for its music, its brass Range of support services for homeless top of the stand-up pile, including band which tour internationally, their people aged 18+, primarily rough musical virtuosity, surreal tangents and choral music and as a venue for visiting sleepers, hot meals, clothing offered. Briggs © Raymond his trademark wit as he tackles politics, artists and orchestras of up to 50 and 60 Advice, signposting, recreational activities philosophy and the pursuit of happiness. players. and individual key work appointments. He also promises to fashion a symphony The Royal Academy of Music’s Harp The present officers are Majors Richard from a ringtone while telling the real department, under the eye of London’s and Caroline Mingay, who succeeded story of Old McDonald and reimagines celebrated harpist Skaila Kanga, selected Major Dawn and Major Graham Mizon the Stars and Stripes. this fine venue to celebrate works by in 2017. “There’s nothing quite like live composers Benjamin Frankel, Lowell comedy,” Bill says with a twinkle in Liebermann and Chris Gunning. The For more Christmas carols, services his eye. “It’s a singular experience. I programme included sonatas for the and new year festivities and don’t think there is anything that quite cello and harp, flute and harp and a harp performances please look at our Events matches up to it in all of performance quartet. section on page 33. 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

keep dancing. She danced with exquisite intensity and dynamic fluidity that BALLET was clearly rubbing off on the young BY ANDREW WARD members of the dance company. She has a flair of getting inside the head of a choreographer and translating their © Sian Trenberth Photography Trenberth © Sian thoughts and intentions into movements that speak a universal language for all audiences to engage with and understand. A special partnership has formed since Podesta and Galeazzi formed a working collaboration to create new works in 2015 called M&T In Motion. All the dancers raised the bar with Galeazzi at the helm, but one dancer stood out as something very special considering her young age… watch out for Beth Meadway… a star in the making. Her sleek long front of an audience. No mean feat as legs extended and wrapped around at it takes professionals years of training all angles with her slender figure and everyday to gain the skill of picking up artistic flair looking to engage and excite and remembering the steps created for many audiences in the future. Bravo to you and on you by the choreographer. Darius James who set up the company in Putting To Be Judged into context… 1986 and as Artistic Director he brings having 4 days to create a 20 minute piece outstanding productions, by innovative is what is expected at The Royal Ballet. choreographers, to theatres around the Fenton’s dancers come in all shapes and UK. sizes but it does not worry Fenton. She www.welshballet.co.uk relishes the challenge to make everyone look good and engage each dancer in the creative process in order that they can Ballet Cymru: find their own inner truth and expression Vanessa Fenton as they move on stage. The piece felt as if Sensational it were taking the audience on a journey Dance Company: of reflection with a desire to be noticed and loved for being oneself. To Be Judged The piece was atmospheric and Vanessa Fenton is a talented danced with clarity and assurance. At he Welsh are renowned for choreographer who started life in the times the dancers huddle in tight groups rugby and singing but not theatre as a dancer with The Royal Ballet. giving a sense of safety in numbers when ballet. Rethink the unthinkable! So what’s so special and different about suddenly one dancer would take a leap of Ballet Cymru at The Sadler’s Wells was Fenton than most other choreographers faith like a bird’s first flight and perform T who have emanated out of The Royal a solo with searching looks of hope for sensational at so many levels not least because it was a full evening of dance Ballet ranks? She is the only one who future happiness knowing they will be that entertained from the moment the has a dance company with amateur judged as a success or a failure. Vanessa curtain went up. Ballet Cymru is a small emotional journey of discovery starting dancers… adults with day jobs including Threapleton-Horrocks and Claire company of just nine young dancers. with vulnerability, misunderstanding, lawyers, nurses, graphic designers, school Smith danced with a sense of purity and Talented Australian choreographer, Tim confusion and denial in the first act. teachers all with a passion to dance and dynamic that was pleasing to the eye. All Podesta, created a piece called Shadow This is followed by a clearer, more perform. the dancers should be congratulated on Aspect starring guest principal dancer of open and seductive feel that embodies Fenton’s latest piece for her company an interesting and engaging performance The Royal Ballet, Mara Galeazzi. and encapsulates a sense of clarity and of adults is To be Judged. It is a short worthy of a paying audience at Siobhan Shadow Aspect has a simple yet resolution in the second act. There was piece created on nine dancers who have Davies Studios. complex theme that runs through the something for everyone as the evening given up a month of Sundays with the evening. “Shadow Aspect refers to the progressed with every permutation for all reward of being able to perform in vanessafentondancecompany.co.uk unconscious aspect of the personality 10 dancers with male on male partnering that the conscious mind does not identify interspersed with group dances and in itself. In short, the shadow is the females dancing and partnering each dark side where individuals are defined other. It was stimulating both visually and bonded by their mutual feelings of and artistically as the dancers wrap isolation.” says Tim Podesta. The piece around themselves and the choreography, certainly had a dark theme that was at speed and at times juxtaposed with pushing the boundaries of classical ballet slow sensuous adagio interludes with and the dancers alike. In essence it was high extensions and twisting and turning a journey of discovery where one finds bodies enraptured in the moment. out who you really are and where your Jean-Phillipe Goude’s score had true sexual orientation lies. Challenging a contemporary edge with electronic subject matter but it was performed with pulsating noises of crackling rain or fire an innocent beauty. In the words of Swiss as well as sections of the score attracting psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, your attention with people’s voices and “To know yourself, you must accept your singing mixed in for good measure. Not dark side. To deal with others’ dark sides, speaking French made it even more you must also know your dark side.” intriguing and perhaps the audience The choreography has so many layers thinking naughty thoughts with a bit of that change, intertwine and wrap around je ne sais quoi or je ne regrette rien! the dancers to the point of confusion at Galeazzi has not lost her roots and times in the first act. It was all part of the clearly has the desire and technique to 52 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

residents who live in the houses and havens away from the stress and bustle apartments that overlook them. The of life in the city, some are great for BRICKS AND Open Garden Squares Weekend held in entertainment, fountains, street food, June each year does at least provide culture, art, music, sport and exercise. BRICKBATS public access to hundreds of these private Many allow sanctuary for wildlife, plants, or secret spaces for less fortunate people flowers and peace, and safer, greener BY SQUINCH to enjoy. routes to walk from station or bus stop Some of our squares are little more to home or work. Few urban spaces are than traffic islands. The proposals for more wonderful than St James’s Park enhancing the pedestrian area of Sloane as a walk from Buckingham Palace to Square in Chelsea were mismanaged Trafalgar Square, Victoria Street to Pall by the local council and high-jacked Mall. How special are the many and

© Grosvenor by residents and celebrities who feared various entertainments along Southbank? traffic diversions through their nearby Less known, The Inns of Court are a streets. It remains unchanged as a space world class sequence of squares, gardens that is capable of major public realm and courtyards with controlled but improvement but is little more than a none-the-less public access; the peaceful traffic roundabout. atmosphere a complete contrast to the Belgrave Square is a doughnut with pollution and noise of The Strand. a huge, elegant private garden with trees, London’s squares and parks are, above tennis and sculpture at the hole in the all, brilliant meeting places that are a hub middle. The ‘dough’ is a sea of tarmac, for inclusivity and diversity that fulfil a parking and speeding cars. Ideas are fundamental and essential purpose of any afoot to transform this vast footprint into great city. a greener, more pedestrian friendly and Sadiq Khan has responded to

reinforcing the notion that Mayfair is exclusively the domain of the wealthy London Squares, in our society. Yet, it is less than two hundred yards from the popular, crowded the Future? shopping on Oxford Street. The Royal Parks are handing back the management of the Square to the Grosvenor Estate. The Estate has recently carried out a wide ranging public consultation on Grosvenor Square is most ideas, wishes and dreams for the future of this potentially great open area. They are poignantly remembered by seeking to “reimagine and rejuvenate this many as the setting of the anti- unique space for all who visit it now and in future”. Grosvenor Square is on course Vietnam war demonstrations for change. of the 1960s. The character and use of most London squares is determined by the he presence of the modernist use of the buildings that surround American Embassy and the them. Some are tourist attractions or active public amenity space. Let’s hope Grosvenor’s consultation saying, “I am security provisions introduced in centres of nightlife. Some have been this succeeds. determined to make London one of recent decades have further determined transformed or even created by recent The Localism Agenda brought the greenest cities on Earth”. He has T major developments such as Granary in by Cameron’s government aimed just introduced a new pollution charge the unwelcoming and imposing character of this central, five acre public open Square at King’s Cross. Individual for community engagement in on older cars with mixed response. space. The American Embassy will move buildings such as Somerset House, the positive change; yet in many instances Meanwhile, like so many cities around next year to its new home South of the frontage of the Natural History Museum Neighbourhood Forums are little more the World, London suffers from no-go Thames at Nine Elms. The US navy and Festival Hall have created inclusive than negative obstacles to change, areas of unacceptable, unhealthy levels of buildings on the North side and the and diverse activity with fountains, inclusivity or diversity. air pollution. Canadian High Commission on the East open-air exhibitions and street food London boasts a huge variety of So what of the future for Grosvenor side of the square are being converted markets. However, many garden squares parks, squares and green spaces; some Square and so many other urban open to unaffordable apartments further are for the exclusive use of the fortunate large, some small. Some provide quiet greener spaces ? 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

MAX some visual flair, but he’s fighting a Churchill biopics losing battle against the film’s primary and from the Feldman marketing point: the casting of a rubber- prime minister’s REVIEWS faced Gary Oldman as the wartime own self-curated Features © Focus leader. Struggling to emote beneath a public and political prosthetic death mask, all of the acting persona. is diffused by the ‘uncanny valley’ effect Ultimately, the of the prosthetics. On top of giving film’s heightened Darkest Hour Oldman an unnecessary mountain to artificiality betrays Director: Joe Wright climb (are audiences so unimaginative its simplistic Runtime: 125 Minutes that unless Oldman looked identical hero worship. to Churchill they’d be confused about The moment who he was supposed to be playing?) the is a fanciful, hilst it’s fashionable to entire enterprise reeks of Oscar-bait. dramatically complain about swarming It’s fitting then that the pleasures obscene sequence multitudes of superhero of the film are plastic, too, as Wright in which Churchill films infesting multiplexes like Day Glo offers his trademark visual similes to successor, Viscount Halifax (Stephen escapes his chauffeured state car and W the story of Churchill’s first month Dillane). While the vilified Chamberlain decides to ride the Tube for the first insects, there is actually another genre of film holding our silver screens to ransom as prime minister, leading up to the gets an unusually sympathetic portrayal time in his life, surrounded by ordinary that I find to be even more pervasive and mass evacuation of Allied troops from in Darkest Hour, Halifax gets handed commuters, who let him know what they risible: the achingly mannered prestige Dunkirk. (The latter also figures in the role of scheming aristocratic villain, think about the Nazis and stop short biopic. The King’s Speech set the mould Wright’s second feature, Atonement, and an interesting choice considering that of taking turns to sit on his knee. It’s for this kind of hack hagiography that of course, in this year’s terrific, maxi- Churchill wasn’t exactly a working class the sort of stuff that would make Frank smooths over any rough edges in the minimalist Dunkirk.) hero. As the Nazis are kept off camera, it Capra retch. (Screenwriter Anthony pursuit of the golden formula that keeps Set in May and early June of 1940, would seem that the House Of Lords are McCarten also wrote the mawkish the producers of turgid work like Victoria Darkest Hour begins with the downfall of the next best thing as villains go. Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of & Abdul or The Imitation Game in fur Churchill’s predecessor, the terminally ill Wright’s staging is often eye- Everything; this is the scene where it coats and Rolexes. Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup), catching, guaranteeing that the film really shows.) Perhaps someday we’ll There’s nothing wrong with mining remembered today for his attempted remains unflaggingly watchable even get a warts-and-all portrait that doesn’t the past for dramatic inspiration, but appeasement of Hitler. Reluctantly in its plodding stretches. But it never pretend as if the only bad thing that like so many of its kind, Darkest Hour appointed to the premiership by King transcends the obvious: Churchill is Britain’s wartime Prime Minister ever offers nothing new to say about the life George VI (Ben Mendelsohn, one of a performer, politics is theater, the did was make his secretaries cry. Because of Winston Churchill beyond the bland the films few genuine bright spots), powerful can feel isolated, etc. And what can a movie really say about the and obvious. Director Joe Wright (who Churchill begins putting together his while Oldman is barely recognizable in tough decisions and responsibilities has never been one to go for a simple Cabinet, making sure to include both Darkest Hour, his Churchill is well-worn: of leadership, superficially a theme of camera angle when he could use seven Chamberlain and the former Prime the same funny, bullheaded, difficult Darkest Hour, if it refuses to be tough on unusual ones instead) succeeds in adding Minister’s close friend and presumed orator familiar from half a dozen other leaders?

challenging ideas articulated in a film around the sky and the mansions of an elaborate homage to Mexican popular Coco that is, paradoxically, one of Pixar’s less the posthumously famous tower in the culture and art; Frida Kahlo, voiced by Director: Lee Unkrich challenging high-concept creations: a distance. The macabre premise might Natalia Cordova-Buckley, gets some of somewhat formulaic, busily animated suggest a childhood fascination with the the movie’s weirdest and most memorable Runtime: 109 minutes adventure with a relentlessly tear jerking gross and morbid, but the execution is gags. finale and a structure that brings to mind Pixar craftsmanship at its most polished, The dead themselves are some of the Disney’s 90s Renaissance period. for better or worse. Among other things, most slapstick characters to emerge from The afterlife imagined by Pixar’s new As visualised by director Lee it features the studio’s most extensive Pixar’s rigorous, on-model animation animated filmCoco is a labyrinthine, Unkrich (Toy Story 3) and lead writer use of realistic camerawork, with a style life-sized candy skulls with bodies of luminous necropolis crisscrossed by string Adrian Molina, the land of the dead is convincingly simulated handheld camera rattling bones that piece themselves back lights and papeles picados, a place both breathtakingly stratified: an impossible sometimes peering over Miguel’s shoulder together like push-puppet toys whenever strange and all too familiar. Its currency is cityscape of cobblestone and cable cars, as he shoves his way through a crowded, they get knocked over. Their clattering memory; its exit visas are family photos, where chimerical Day-Glo alebrijes zip wondrously lit afterlife that doubles as adds an element of chaos to what is without which the skeletal dead can’t otherwise a stubbornly cross the orange marigold-petal bridge organised film, with a between worlds to see their living friends third act that combines and relatives on Día De Muertos. In the familiar Disney and city of the dead, there are still haves and Pixar tropes, including a © Disney/Pixar have-nots, rich and poor, bureaucrats and twist that adult viewers border agents. The deceased, we learn, will be able to see from are mortal too; they die when they are a mile (or at least an forgotten by the living, fading into a hour) away. One might greater beyond. argue that Coco could At a glance, this musical fantasy of stand to be weirder and departed family members peering back more self-indulgent; on our world seems like an oversweet the alternate reality it interpretation of Pixar’s sentimental creates is entertaining themes, not to mention the perfectionist and expansive. But animation studio’s preoccupation with then it wouldn’t be memory. (See: Up, Inside Out, Finding a Pixar film. It is Dory) But Coco teaches a salient point: In impeccable, time-tested the dead, we see ourselves. Their world craftsmanship, not bears more than a passing resemblance experimentation, that to ours, and to the plight of families drives Coco, both in separated by borders, because our its most familiar beats anxieties about death mirror our worries and in its most moving about own lives. It’s one of a handful of moments. 54 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Book Reviews

Walter Greaves The Old Swan, Mortlake dates, taking in the building of the 1765? Embankment and sewers by Sir Joseph The Making of a Bazalgette, and the arrest of Oscar Wilde Modern Estate in the Cadogan Hotel for ‘acts of gross Cadogan and Chelsea indecency’. The story of ‘Chelsea in Two World Wars’ is ably told by John Unicon Pulishing Group Simpson, the world affairs editor at the 208 pp. £50 BBC, with some extraordinary photos and graphics from the archives. Other ISBN 978 1 910787 43 4 chapters include those featuring retail, the Chelsea Flower Show, fashion on the King’s Road, architecture, the arts t might appear to some as a vapid and a glimpse into the future role of the puff of ‘vanity publishing’, but this Cadogan Estate by Viscount Chelsea. He sumptuous volume tells an absorbing lists the achievements of his father, the Istory spread over 300 years of property eighth Earl Cadogan, who succeeded to management in one of the most famous the title and inherited the estate in 1997. and fashionable districts of anywhere in 1673, Chelsea Physic Garden was of books and manuscripts, prints and including the establishment of Cadogan in the world. Cadogan owns 93 acres of run by the Worshipful Company of drawings, coins, antiquities, mathematical Hall, the development of Duke of York London, a smallholding compared to Apothecaries, where they grew their instruments and specimens of plants Square and the Saatchi Gallery, as well as the Grosvenor Estates, which has 300 medicinal herbs, to the time when he and animals, were sold to the nation his discreet philanthropy. acres, mostly in the dark blue squares on bought the Manor of Chelsea in 1712 for £20,000, a tiny fraction of their true Cadogan is freeholder of both Harvey the Monopoly board, worth at least £10 for £7000, which included the four acre worth. Most of these formed the nucleus Nichols, which pays £3.5 million a year billion, and the Crown Estates, which Garden, and, by way of thanks to the of what is now the British Museum. in rent on its 30-year lease, and Peter spans 265 acres, worth, who knows, Apothecaries who had trained him as John Julius Norwich, who wrote the Jones, which pays a fixed rent of just anything in excess of £6 billion. The botanist, he rented the four acre site to history at the beginning of the book, £6,000 a year in perpetuity, which must Cadogan story really takes off with the them in perpetuity for the modest sum omits to mention that the remainder of rankle a tad, but probably not as much as appearance of Sir Hans Sloane. He was of five pounds per annum. Sloane had no his collection formed the basis for the the five pounds that the Physic Garden a physician, a botanist, an entrepreneur sons, but one of his daughters Elizabeth Natural History Museum. The two sisters cheerfully hands over each year to the and an avid collector of plants, curiosities married into the Cadogan family, while continued to lease and develop land Estate. and antiquities. Sloane himself imported her older sister Sarah married George stretching from Knightsbridge down to One small niggle about the book the bark of the Peruvian tree Cinchona Stanley, represented today by the just south of what is now Sloane Square, is the minute point size used for the as a cure for malaria, and the active Sloane Stanley Estate, another Chelsea with the help of a young architect Henry captions, which, when printed in gold, ingredient, quinine, is still used to save landowner, particularly along the King’s Holland, and a landscape gardener, make them difficult to read for anyone millions of lives. He also imported cocoa, and Fulham Roads. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. The text over the age of, say, fifty. from which he made hot chocolate and After Sloane died in 1753, at the continues down a conventional ‘historical’ a small fortune. From its beginnings remarkable age of 92, his collection path, with a plethora of names and Don Grant

thing”. He explained that, “after spotting They exist because of human experience at; Hardback £9.99. Paperback £8.99 and a few one liners in my first stage play, and the quirks and illogical facets of the various cheaper offers on line). It is great Wisdom and Commanding Voices, I thought it would be English Language. for those with humour; those without fun to devise them ‘neat’ to stand alone This book would make an excellent will have discovered humour when they Wordplay in their own right...... I am constantly Christmas present. (Reasonably priced read this book. Marian Maitland By Robert Eddison. surprising myself with eureka! moments”. Publisher: Filament Robert, apparently, has recorded every single original thought he had since Publishing Ltd. 1997! His aphorisms deal with over a Publication Date: October. hundred and fifty subjects. Celebrity Stanley Johnson, father of 2017. Boris Johnson, was guest speaker and he “In hard times, banks ISBN: 978-1-912256-26-6 and Robert indulged in witty repartee, which they both visibly enjoyed, as did the guests! Stanley has a razor sharp serve their customers with mind, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice, ridden a bike from London to Afghanistan and is now appearing in little interest” Wisdom and Wordplay was launched at I’m a Celebrity! Get me out of here! in the Institute of Directors Pall Mall on Australia. 25th October. 2017. Appropriately, there Stanley said of Robert’s book, “A was an aura of humour that evening. superb collection. One snappy aphorism Christopher Day, Director of is worth a thousand flabby platitudes!” Filament Publishing, introduced Robert Gyles Brandreth, Editor of the Oxford Eddison, saying how much he admired Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, wrote “Dress to kill and you will his work and his latest book. Guests were ‘ the foreword, stating, “These are real addressed by Robert, who really is living gems. Bravo to the best aphorist of our humour’. He is a national journalist, time”. have no admirers” playwright, speaks several languages and Wisdom and Wordplay took a week to is well known for his lectures and tours write, but years of hard work. This book abroad. He read Modern Languages and is witty and deep. It is sensibly arranged Law at Cambridge, was a consultant at in six sections: Wordplay, Reflection, Dark the Foreign Office and held a European Humour, Off Centre and Wisdom. Scholarship. An Aphorism is a pithy observation “Guilt gives pleasure its He said, in a whimsical and slightly which contains a general truth or a professorial way, statement of scientific principle. They “Originating pithy one liners is my appear frequently in the classical authors. seasoning” 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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The group exercise has exploded in than your average local gym? SEAL physical training taken to an Getting fit popularity since being founded in Los I’m being facetious, but there are extreme. It’s group exercise, done in By Owen Fulda Angeles in 2000 to the extent there are genuine misgivings about this fitness classes where the workout itself is a now 13,000 CrossFit gyms, or "boxes" regime. From healthcare professionals competition. There are typically time worldwide. Pretty impressive numbers, to professional sports people and social trials where participants strive to perform but there have been numerous allegations commentators, shots have recently been the exercises faster than their workout “CrossFit means understanding that that the group exercise regime may not fired at CrossFit from all directions. companions. fitness is a journey, recognising where you be all that it seems. The New York Times magazine took “The warm-up is usually inadequate. are on that path, and understanding how In a world where religious affiliation issue with CrossFit and other extreme It could be jogging around a little bit to move forward on that path as long as is declining at a rapid rate, people are fitness programmes, likening them to in the parking lot followed by a little life allows you to.” turning to gyms and other fitness groups nothing more than labour camps you pay dynamic stretching, which can cause CrossFit is a Millennial phenomenon: as a way of bonding and filling a void. a king’s ransom to join. “Why not join injury by itself,” said a former fitness but there’s nothing technologically Admittedly any activity which keeps a roofing crew for a few hours instead? instructor, describing a CrossFit gym she advanced about it. High-intensity, full- people fit, healthy and living a positive Surely there’s a tunnel somewhere that attended. “Good CrossFit instructors,” body movements that obliterate the lifestyle can’t be intrinsically negative. So needs digging,” sniffedTimes columnist she said, “will assist in picking distinction between weight training and why does CrossFit seem to have more in Heather Havrilesky. appropriate weights for members, but the cardio workouts, supposedly leaving you common with Scientology on some levels The CrossFit workout is like Navy competitive nature can result in amateurs feeling stronger, quicker, more agile and pushing themselves too far.” fitter than you ever dreamed possible. CrossFit does not take kindly to In addition to its comprehensive criticisms about its workout regimen. fitness regime, CrossFit claims to offer Recently, it sued the National Strength a supportive community, which aims and Conditioning Association (NSCA) to ensure that people do not exercise for publishing a study by Ohio State ‘together alone’. The tight-knit, almost University researchers, led by Steven insular nature of this community, as well Devor, an exercise physiology professor. as some of its more extreme practices, This is a brand that seems highly have led followers and detractors alike to motivated in protecting its reputation. characterise it as a cult. Media opinion that is deemed hostile However it’s impossible to argue to CrossFit is often met head on, and with the brand’s success. The number aggressively. As one commentator on a of advocates have grown CrossFit from Gawker forum put it: "Beware, once you a tiny startup to a behemoth that has write about CrossFit, a PR person will surpassed the growth of well-known contact you, to let you know it's spelled fitness franchises. As of 2017, the brand incorrectly, hence the capital 'F'. They'll generates some £3 billion in annual then barrage you with testimonials via revenue while CrossFit Inc. rakes in an Twitter and every other social media © CrossFit estimated £80 million profit annually. account you own...in 5, 4, 3, 2...." 58 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health

hunting gene. The same could be done malnutrition. A world in which the rich How we will for HIV, Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis and can make their children taller, stronger muscular dystrophy. and live longer will make economic © Crick Institute © Crick one day alter our Additionally, edited DNA could divides greater and more conspicuous. be designed to be inheritable. This This, combined with the disconcerting DNA and wipe would forever change the human aspects of gene drives, gives off an image species. Certain diseases would become not far from that of eugenics. Thus it out major diseases completely extinct. This could be is important to make the distinction By Max Horberry extended to other elements in the world. between enhancements and the Mosquitoes cause 1 million deaths therapeutically necessary. per year. Imagine introducing a gene Giving someone green eyes would that makes them sterile. Or imagine be an enhancement whereas removing Imagine a world in which we computer. Except it is a RNA, a chemical introducing a gene that means they can Huntington’s would be a therapeutic messenger, targeting a particular moment no longer be hosts to infectious agents. necessity. It is not, however, as simple as could eliminate hereditary in the DNA, breaking it and changing This process of using gene editing to it may seem. For example, some people diseases, make humans it. So similar to the concept of “cut and quickly introduce a particular trait into a have a gene alteration which essentially paste” is it, that this process is known as whole population of organisms is called means they are immune to heart attacks. immune to heart attacks and gene editing. a gene drive. It is as awe-inspiring as it Do we owe it to the world to spread this wipe mosquitos off the face of While trying to understand how is terrifying. What if someone were to gene, making us all immune to heart bacteria fight a viral infection, the process weaponise this? attacks? Does that count as therapy or an the earth. What about a future for gene editing was discovered. Now The other element that has people enhancement? where you could choose the it is conceivable that we could get to a simultaneous excited and nervous is As with artificial intelligence, point soon where we can edit a single the idea of using editing not simply to regardless of whether we like it or not, sex, eye colour and height of letter in the 3 billion base pairs of the make edits that would help with health the future is drawing near and it will your baby? human genome or insert brand new and survival, but to make enhancements arrive one day. Jennifer Doudna of genetic information. Sickle cell anemia, to humans. Using gene editing on an CRISPR says that it is only a matter t CRISPR, scientists such as for example, would only need a single embryo we could give that child stronger of a decade before we see gene editing Jennifer Doudna are working letter change and the editing can even be bones or decide on their sex, eye colour come into clinical use. Doudna has on a way to manipulate DNA. done outside the body. or height. The thought of a generation called for conversations to begin now ThisA is how it works: they create a In a few decades, claims Doudna, we of designer humans is strange. There is around the morality of gene editing and damage in the DNA, more specifically will be editing embryos and completely also the factor of who would have access how we will approach it in the future. a double strand break in the double eliminating certain diseases. Huntington’s to it and be able to afford it. It would So many medical progresses have been helix. Normally if there is a break in the disease is an inherited disease that kills make vaster an existing divide between met with doubt and scepticism. In Vitro DNA, it repairs itself, but they convince brain cells and results in deterioration in rich countries, whose populations tend fertilisation was hugely controversial the repair processes to make the change motor skills. It is possible that via gene to be healthier and live longer, and and now it is common place. Maybe in to the DNA as they desired. Imagine it editing we could seek out and remove poorer developing countries, where decades to come we will find it odd that like the “cut and paste” function of your the degenerative gene. Imagine a cancer- populations are more likely to suffer from we were nervous about editing our genes

time of writing, which involves social 1-3% increased odds of being small for New robot interaction with human users. It also Traffic pollution gestational age. integrates previous research in the areas In September 2017, it was reported invented of human-robot interaction, artificial risking unborn that air pollution is responsible for an to help disabled and elderly intelligence, robot design, and human- estimated 40,000 deaths annually in centred design. babies’ lives the UK and in 2015, it was estimated By Fahad Redha “The robot has been designed to By Fahad Redha that nearly 9,500 were in London alone. be highly social. It can communicate Five days into 2017, London exceeded through a variety of modalities, such as its annual air pollution limits at Brixton A prototype care robot has been unveiled speech, gesture and facial expression. The “Only policy makers have the power to Road. Other ‘pollution hotspots’ include to help with the “more mundane care” robot has a range of sensors including a protect women and unborn babies,” says Putney High Street in West London, of elderly and disabled people, including 360 degree camera, RGBD depth sensor, the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Oxford Street, Kings Road in Chelsea those suffering from conditions such microphone and laser scanner.” said Researchers from Imperial College and the Strand. as dementia. This would free time for TCD. London found that traffic pollution is human carers to focus on more personal Enterprise Ireland has given the team a putting the lives of pregnant women and parts of the job. The robot could also contract to commercialise the technology their babies at risk, health experts warn. © Flickr perform tasks that humans currently with pilots planned in 2018. The study, published in the BMJ, set out don’t have the time to do. This includes to investigate the link between exposure checking on whether someone is safe to air and noise pollution from road without taking away their privacy. traffic during pregnancy and birth weight The robot, named Stevie, is designed to outcomes, low birth weight (less than resemble a human (to some extent). It 2.5kg) and being born small, relatively has arms, a head, and wheels. This, the speaking. inventors say, will “help people realise Using national birth registers, the that they can speak to it and perhaps ask researchers looked at over half a million it to do things for them.” full-term births in Greater London Stevie can do many things between 2006 and 2010. The mother’s autonomously including reminding home address at the time of birth patients to take medication. If a room was recorded, with average monthly sensor detects that they have fallen contractions and traffic-related pollutants over, a human operator can control the and road traffic noise levels being robot and call the emergency services if estimated. necessary. Increases in traffic-related pollutants, Stevie was invented by engineers at particularly PM2.5 (harmful levels of Trinity College Dublin (TCD). It is fine particles) were linked with a 2-6% in the active development stage at the increase in the odds of low birth rate and 020 7738 2348 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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wins and no losses! Another and Ding Liren was pitted against him. CHESS high profiled program,Stockfish , Unfortunately, Ding Liren’s ding-a- finished 3rd behind the two ling was seriously out of tune in this By Barry Martin finalists in the second of confrontation with a 67-25 end result in the qualifying rounds. The favour of the master. Carlsen had already CCRL 40/40 stats list as from smashed Liren’s hopes with 13 rounds November 2017, and who still to go and we will have to see how are the recognised ranking Liren faces up to this humiliation in Cornucopia of authority has Houdini as the near future. Carlsen now plays with number 1, with an ELO rating the same intensity of success in rapid chess of 3137, and Komodo 5 at 5th and blitz competitions as he manages in 3049. Stockfish 2.2, 4th 3058, classical timed games, and seems to have and the great Rybka 4.1 6th defeated the dragon that opposed him 3039. Fritz 13 (now 16) 9-10th in shorter timed matches up until fairly veritable cornucopia of chess 2967. Chess base released recently. Obviously, I have selected the tournaments at the top level have Komodo 11 and Houdini 6 in following game from one of Carlsen’s deluged us recently as we race May and October respectively devastating wins over Liren in this headlong towards the Christmas period. this year, two of the strongest recent St Louis tournament, Champions A has further commented woefully that, commercial programs. An indication of The FIDE Grand Prix has just Showdown, where Carlsen was Black and finished in Mallorca; the European Team “As usual, it seems there is no consensus the technological advances can be seen Liren White. White castled on move 22. Championships held in Greece was won among top players, and the mantra of in the Zappa and Rybka programs that 0-0,....,thinking it would be a safer place by Azerbajan in the Open section, and every player for himself/herself holds ran on only 8 processors when they met for his King to move to. Black’s next Russia, a clear winner with no losses in true once again”. The former European in 2007. Houdini and Komodo now use 44 move however, rejuvenated a sense of the Women’s Championship section; the Chess Union President, Silvio Danailov, processors each! All of the games played anxiety in the White camp! What was it? Chinese Chess League, April-December, a vocal critic of FIDE said, “After in the two computer championships Answer upside down below: ’

a 12 team double round robin event Iran and Saudi Arabia what s next, the can be found on their websites, and for ’ immediately! Queen the featuring most of the strongest Chinese Democratic People s Republic of Korea?” further information and insight ICGA

players, and more with the London Less reported in the chess journals, has a quarterly academic journal under its loses 28.Nxc3, if or 28.Bxc3,dc+. if Since

Classic, taking place at the Olympia but of great importance is the continuing name and it invites authors to contribute 0-1. resigns. White 28. 27.Rfe1,Rc3.

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11th December, and the King Salman the chess computer world. The TCEC, contributed to vol 39, no 2, 2017 an essay 24..... with Bishop and pawn loses now

World Rapid and Blitz Championships (Thoresan Chess Engine Competition) entitled, Don't Fear Intelligent Machines: but threat, Bishop the blocking 24.Ne4,

with a $ 2,000,000 prize fund taking the unofficial Chess Computer World Work With Them. Magnus Carlsen (the Queen! the loses and d3+ to leads e2

place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from Championship recently concluded new Garry Kasparov) has been in action to retreat a since Queen, the attacking ’ 23.exd5,Bf5, 22.....d5! Answer: 26th-30th December. The latter stirring at the end of November, whilst the again in the Champion s Showdown up protests from a number of quarters ICGA, (International Computer Games Tournament, St. Louis, November 2017 when FIDE awarded the tournament Association), 23rd World Computer to Saudi Arabia. GM Anna Muzychuk, Chess Championship 3rd-7th July 2017, Ukraine, is joined by other top players took place in Leiden, Holland, with Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates in condemning this decision, citing Komodo taking first place,Jonny 2nd, with Andrew Robson human and women’s rights concerns. Shredder 3rd and Chiron 4th. For the She went on to say, “Despite the record layperson, aspects in the developments ’ A defender who can anticipate how the declarer is going to play a hand is a dangerous prize money, I m not going to play in of chess programs as displayed in such defender indeed. Accurate anticipation is in part a product of experience and Riyadh which means losing two world tournaments have decisive effects in intuition, but there are certain situations that can easily be learnt. titles”, and, “To risk your life, to wear the the way such programs are used in Take a situation in which declarer has a repeatable finessing position. If he takes a abaya all the time? Everything has its chess analysis at tournaments by chess winning finesse, he is sure to want to repeat the finesse. Look at the diamonds on this limits and headscarves in Iran was more journalists and commentators. These month’s deal. than enough”, referencing the world programs, and there are many, are used ♠ (&$ "&' $%'# !&' $('# championships held in Teheran earlier to analyse every position a game goes Dealer South ♥ North-South %# ♠ this year and commented on previously through at tournament level, making ♦  Vulnerable (+)" ♦ in KCW Today. All women, foreigners comparisons between the different lines ♣ )$# "#$$  "#$$ ! ♠ )'" ♠ % ♠ and locals alike are required to wear the and variations each program offers up N "#$$  "#$$ ! ♥ ) '& ♥ $"! abaya, a body-covering garment, in Saudi when consulted. Grandmasters and WE "#$$ "#$$ "#$$ ♦ '% ♦ * &! Arabia. their seconds in training sessions will S ♣ ('" ♣ * ! Even our Nigel Short has come also consult these oracles to see which ♠ positions are better at any given time *+#! in for criticism, who, “has blasted the ♥ (*+ idea of holding championships in such leading to a win, loss or draw against the ♦ $# (1) Showing his delayed (i.e. three-card) countries but is the first to sign up for favourite lines of their opponents. The ♣ ’ +&% support, and offering a choice of games. the King Salman World Rapid and programs analysis will also throw up Blitz Chess Championships”. Magnus previous games in comparison, which for Declarer won West’s ♥J lead with ♥Q, and led ♦5 to dummy’s ♦J. Say East wins ♦K Carlsen has also signed up with most chess journalists is a godsend, since in a - and returns ♥3. Declarer wins ♥K, plays to dummy’s ♦Q, cashes ♦A, and concedes top players also doing so. Susan Polgar nano-second they will have at their finger ♦2 to East’s ♦10. East plays ♥6 to declarer’s ♥A and declarer crosses to ♠A, cashes tips; who did what, when, and where ♦4, then returns to ♠KQ. Nine tricks. did that lead to? Much chess analysis However, anticipating that declarer will repeat the diamond finesse, East published in newspapers, magazines (smoothly) ducked ♦J at Trick Two (key play). Declarer crossed back to his ♠Q, and and books owes a great deal to the led ♦6 to ♦Q. This time East won♦ K – and led ♥3. Declarer won ♥K, crossed to development and analysis chess programs ♠A, and cashed ♦A hoping for an even split. are capable of bringing to ongoing live It was not to be. West discarded a club, so dummy’s diamonds were dead (for the games, and re-evaluating the great games lack of an entry to return to them after conceding the fourth round). Declarer was left of the past. hoping that the missing spades were splitting 3-3. He cashed ♠K then ♠Q but, when The TCEC final started on the 20th East discarded a club on ♠Q, was unable to make any more tricks apart from ♥A. He November and has Komodo and Houdini was down one. facing each other over 100 games. The Footnote: Playing against this wily East, declarer should have taken the precaution latter had an explosive beginning as of ducking the first diamond altogether. Now try defeating 3NT! after 16 games it took the lead with 4 ANDREW’S TIP: As a defender, duck when declarer takes a repeatable finesse. 64 December 2017/January 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement January Sale 1.5% sales fees • 7% let fees 1.5%

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