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Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne 20 Reviews Art Director & Director: Tim Epps Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka Chinese New Year Business Development: Ana Sheppard 22 Architecture: Squinch Education Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 24 Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS Bridge: Andrew Robson 29 Half Term Activities Business & Finance Holly Mackay, Doug Shanks Chess: Barry Martin Lifestyle/ Weddings Opinion and Comment: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 30 Derek Wyatt Events Music: Geoff Cowart, 31 Crossword: Wolfe Dining Out: David Hughes (Editor) Dining Out Editorial: Phoebe Eckersley, Max Feldman, 38 Ellen Harper, Lynne McGowan, Health & Lifestyle Fahad Redha, 40 Education: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha Events: Fahad Redha 44 Arts & Culture Health & Lifestyle: Lynne McGowan, Fahad Redha, Phoebe Eckersley Motoring Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 50 Literature: Max Feldman Sport & Fitness Motoring: Fahad Redha 52 News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Arts Correspondent & Crossword & Bridge Picture Editor 54 Sport: Fahad Redha Chess Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros 55 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Environment Committee, said: “For too and Southwark. been woken up by one flight a minute, many people, including children, aircraft Communities currently living near according to the report. Heathrow noise is a major dominant intrusion into Heathrow are given 8 hours of respite Night flights could be removed and their everyday lives. a day with runway alternating. City restrictions on early morning flights consultation “It is not an acceptable price to pay operates six noise monitors close to the introduced, with flights before 7am for air travel. It isn’t right and must be airport and a mobile monitor that can be stopped. interrupts 25,000 challenged.” moved in response to complaints. Follow @LondonAssembly She added how the airport Respite areas could be extended and tweet about the report using flight expansion authorities ‘must prioritise the health with the North East, South and West #AssemblyEnvironment and and well-being of Londoners’. London boroughs claiming they have #AircraftNoise plan The Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise (ICCAN) eathrow Airport’s recent plans should act as a single point of contact to provide an additional 25,000 for Londoners with issues about noise flights a year could be cut short, pollution, according to Russell. according to a new report published by Residents concerns over plane Hthe Environment Committee. ‘stacking’: circling designated flight NOISE IMPACTS London City Airport hopes to paths when they cannot land, were increase their number of flights from addressed in the report with air 80,000 to 100,000 by 2021, meaning a traffic controllers recently introduced Heathrow Third Runway forty-five percent increase in journeys to increase planes’ altitudes over per hour. London. NATS claimed a rotation for Over Around At least However, the London Assembly departures and landing would reduce 950,000 140 740,000 Environment Committee’s Aircraft Noise this over flying and improve airspace Over million a year paper provides evidence on why there management. 750,000 475,000 London City Airport has been 76 a year should be a halt on air traffic growth, million detailing the current negative impact of recommended to collaborate with a year plane altitude and early flights. Heathrow in a joint time table which This gridlock comes at a time when prevents their respective flight paths Population With a Current With a Current With a the London airport has proposed a new overlapping and flying at low altitude. currently 3rd Runway passenger 3rd Runway aircraft 3rd Runway impacted numbers movements runway, enabling it to exceed 500,000 Air traffic should maximise the by noise* flights a year in the future.These would use of ‘continuous descent and ascent’ use new flight paths, meaning an flying to reduce low-level landing; additional 200,000 could be affected by as staggering 70-75 decibel noise the noise, according to the report. readings have been reported in London (*Based on TfL Study 2017 and use of 55Lden contour) Caroline Russell, Chair of the neighbourhoods, including Lambeth

Locals slam © TfL ‘disastrous’ £350m Victoria Coach Station move By Local Democracy Reporter Talia Shadwel

West Londoners are gearing up to protest against plans to shift Victoria Coach Station out of its central city location to nearer Paddington Station, which they are labelling “hellish” and a “disaster”. It has emerged Westminster City Council has already rejected Transport for London’s (TfL) proposal, said to cost more than £350 million, to shift the major coach hub to Royal Oak’ sidings. so far , and Bayswater councillor Emily Buckingham Palace Rd art deco building that we will need to adapt operations The residents and councillors warned Payne said a date in March had been is partially owned by both TfL and at Victoria Coach Station as the area at a packed meeting on January 22 that earmarked for a protest if TfL presses Grosvenor, with various leases for the is likely to change. “No decisions have if Victoria’s 14 million visitors a year on with the proposal. Westminster City transport body at the site due to expire been made on a location and we are shifted to their neighbourhood, it could Council (WCC) planner Graham King in sections over the next five to ten looking at a wide range of options cause pollution and chaos for Bayswater, told residents' issues could be escalated years. Grosvenor is eyeing development across London that ensure the city is Westbourne Park and Hyde Park areas to Greater London and Government opportunities for sprucing up the site, adequately served by coaches, while and swamp local roads and tube stations. transport czars, as the coach hub was which can’t be demolished because it allowing them to operate more efficiently Petitions against the Royal Oak both a national and international service. became Grade-II listed in 2014. and reduce both pollution and road proposal have gathered 500 signatures The land for Victoria Coach Station’s A TfL spokesman said: “We know danger.” 4 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

© TfL Seventy-two percent of Londoners could be frozen for use in the future. are likely to bin wine or prosecco; Whilst 24% of Londoners consider opening a full bottle and drinking only themselves wasteful, more than three one glass. quarters (89%) have claimed they want Spending money on clothes never to be less this year. worn also ranked high, with 67% New initiatives like taking reusable confessing to this. cups to coffee shops (39%) and Jack Webster, mobile expert from recycling (36%) are turning the capital’s Sell My Mobile, said: “We’re guiltily consumers more ethical. aware that in some scenarios we’re not See the full list of wasteful areas here: even doing the bare minimum to try 1. Opening full size bottles of wine/ harder. prosecco and drinking one glass - 72% “It’s easy to think that your 2. Spending money on clothing I individual actions won’t make much never wear – 67% difference, but the huge environmental 3. Overusing the central heating/ success that forced charges for single use having the thermostat set too high – carriers shows that we all have the power 61% to make a difference.” 4. Physically throwing money in the He pointed out that recycling gadgets bin (coppers, other coins, etc.)- 55% can make an average of £141, as well as 5. Showering for longer than I need freeing up drawer space. too - 51% 6. Throwing away food leftovers that I stop bypasses on the Northside. There is a clear case of “eyes bigger could freeze and use in future – 49% Consultations for these revised plans is than the belly” at play, with 49% 7. Using the dishwasher for a couple of New West open until 26th February. throwing away food leftovers which items - 41% TfL and Hammersmith and Fulham 8. Hoarding items London cycle Council have agreed to look into an that I could make opportunity for people to cycle and path money from (e.g. walk along the A4; running between © Sell My Mobile old tech/gadgets, Hammersmith Town Hall and the collectibles, etc.) - 39% Transport for London (TfL) borough’s gyratory. A segregated two- 9. Leaving the way cycle route could also be created water running whilst is moving forward with its along the A315. Councillor Stephen brushing my teeth - construction plans for the Cowan, Leader of Hammersmith and 37% Fulham Council, said: “We listened 10. Throwing West London cycle path, to residents and cyclists and have since recyclable items into worked very closely with TfL on their the dustbin - 32% making journeys safer and behalf to agree a safer cycle route along improving provision for King Street for riders of all abilities.” He has collaborated with the resident- Strenuous efforts are made buses. The 7km route will run led Independent Disabled People’s TRAFFIC WATCH by Kensington, Chelsea & through Kensington Olympia, Commission to review this scheme so it LONDON HOME FOOTBALL Westminster Today newspaper Hammersmith and Brentford remains accessible. Construction work on a cycle route February 9, to ensure that the content between Tower Bridge and Greenwich, Town Centre. Fulham v Man Utd, 12:30 and information is correct. begins this summer whilst construction February 9, Kensington, Chelsea & Nearly 60% supported the proposals work on routes between Camden and QPR v Birmingham City, 15:00 Westminster Today newspaper at a public consultation on Cycle Tottenham Hale, and Hackney and the February 10, Superhighway 9 in 2017. Isle of Dogs could begin later in the Tottenham v Leicester, 13:30 reserves the right to report Ben Plowden, TfL’s Director of year. February 13, unsolicited material being sent Strategy and Network Development, Tottenham v Borussia Dortmund, 20:00 commented on how London’s growing through to the publication. cycle network is ‘hugely important February 16, Personal views expressed in QPR v Leeds United, 15:00 for the Mayor’s Healthy Streets this newspaper are solely those Programme’. By 2024, the Mayor’s plan February 19, Londoner’s waste of the respective contributors aims for 1.3 million trips to be made by QPR v West Bromwich Albion, 19:45 bike every day, up from 0.7 million in 20% of weekly February 21, and do not reflect those of 2017. Arsenal v BATE Borisov, 17:55 the publishers or its agents. All February 21, Plowden said: “The route will food shop materials sent to Kensington encourage even more people in west Chelsea v Malmö FF, 20:00 Chelsea & Westminster Today London to cycle and walk and help us February 24, to achieve the Mayor’s Vision Zero goal Arsenal v Southampton, 14:05 are at the suppliers’ risk. February 24, of no deaths or serious injuries on the Twenty percent of Londoners Reproduction in whole or in part capital’s streets.” Chelsea v Brighton, 12:00 of this publication is strictly TfL has now published a report with February 27, weekly food shops ends up in prohibited without prior consent. responses to the issues raised during the Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth, 19:45 CS9 consultation. The research noted the bin, according to a new February 27, The appearance of advertising a 30% increase in retail spending from study. Most shockingly, this Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, 20:00 in this newspaper, including walking or cycling into town centres. March 2, inserts or supplements, does At Kew, the improved designs include equates to over £820 in a year. Fulham v Chelsea, 15:00 not constitute endorsement two-way segregated cycle lanes on the The survey carried out by March 2, Southside of Kew Bridge Road and Tottenham v Arsenal, 15:00 by Kensington, Chelsea & South Circular Road; ensuring cyclists Sell My Mobile spoke to over Westminster Today of the are fully segregated from traffic and 3,000 about the most common Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha products or services advertised. removes requirements for two bus ways they are being wasteful. 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

participating, serving up 100 free burgers each: the original Byron restaurant High Contactless Bush Theatre Byron celebrates Street Kensington, nearby Byron King’s Road, Byron Old Brompton Road, Byron donation wins ‘London return of B-Rex Earl’s Court & Byron Gloucester Road. In addition, there will be an all-day terminals Theatre of the burger with 500 event at the High Street Kensington raise £170,000 for restaurant (the very first Byron) with a

Capital’s homeless Year’ at Stage burger giveaway! make your own freak shake bar and live on 7th Feb throughout music. First launched five years ago in 2014, Awards West London the B-Rex was one of the most popular burger specials ever released by Byron. The B-Rex will also be joined by the A west London theatre has Cluck-osaurus Rex, or C-Rex (a chicken been awarded best London version of the burger) and a new herbivore cousin the Veggie-saurus Rex, or V-Rex theatre at the Stage Awards, (with bean patty, hold the bacon). The whole B-Rex family of burgers (B-Rex, after two years of taking steps C-Rex, Veggie-Rex) will be included in to improve the accessibility for the West London burger preview day. youth and community groups. T&Cs: One free burger (B-Rex, C-Rex or The Bush Theatre is a modernised Veggie-Rex) per customer for the first he Mayor of London, Sadiq 100 customers at Byron High Street cultural building which saw a £4.2m Khan, has opened nearly Kensington, King’s Road, Byron Old fifteen hundred emergency re-development; transforming a library Brompton Road, Byron Gloucester Road shelters for the third time this winter built by philanthropist John Passmore & Byron Earl’s Court. Dine in only (no T into a more accessible space. It has been as temperatures plummet below zero takeaway). Burger lovers will need to degrees. designed by award winning architects show a piece of ID (work pass, business Haworth Tompkins and holds a world- card, letter etc.) with their postcode to Faith and community groups have On Thursday Feb 7th, West London show they’re a West London resident or taken on six hundred sleepers and famous home for new plays, and an residents will be able to try the B-Rex worker. Thursday 7th of February only. City Hall and Boroughs have funded a internationally renowned champion of burger and the first 500 customers Burgers will be served up on a first come further seven hundred as part of Khan’s playwrights. will receive a B-Rex burger free! West first serve basis (sorry no rain checks or Rough Sleeping Innovation Fund. He Many have been given national Londoners will just need to show a piece cash value!). At the Manager’s discretion. has worked with them to implement recognition, nominated for nine Offie of ID with their ‘W’ postcode (letter, the ‘In For Good’ principle which Awards, four WhatsOnStage Awards, one business card, work pass etc.) to show they promises that when a homeless person Evening Standard Award and one Olivier live or work in West London. www.byronhamburgers.com joins an emergency shelter, they will Award. Five Byron restaurants will be @byronhamburgers maintain their spot until a support plan Arinzé Kene’s Misty production was is put in place to get them off the street a sell out; attracting more than 30,000 permanently. and first time attenders. Whilst Bush Approximately ninety one ‘TAP Theatre’s Iranian play, Nassim has toured London Contactless’ donation terminals seventeen countries. have been dotted across the capital In 2017-18, the Shepherd’s Bush since the initial thirty five rolled out theatre read seven hundred scripts, (a in November, taking an easy on-the- 50% increase on the previous year) in go £3 donation. This has raised more one of the country’s only remaining than £170,000 for London Homeless Literary departments. Theatre Charities Group so far, as part of Khan’s practitioners continue to work in the new initiative. Attic, Meeting Room and Writers’ In two months, Londoners used the Room spaces. donation points over 10,000 times and The auditorium has welcomed more raised more than £30,000, according to than 11,000 guests since April 2018 and the GOV website. over 30,000 production tickets sold, a Sadiq Khan commented on how the twenty three percent increase on sales city has positively responded to this: since the same time last year. “Londoners are playing their part too They have made it their mission to by referring any rough sleepers they see make theatre accessible to all, with to StreetLink, with over 5,000 referrals twenty percent of the main house tickets since our campaign began. being made available through the ‘Count “Together we will help thousands Me In’ ticket scheme. of Londoners this winter, but we must The venue has piloted a Community be clear that to truly end homelessness Associate Companies programme Government Ministers must stop and engaged with over seven hundred ignoring the fact that their policies are community participants since April last pushing more people onto the streets.” year. Locations of TAP include Curzon Eight hundred participants have Victoria cinema in Westminster, City attended workshops either at the Bush Hall, Jack’s Bar at Waterloo and Holy or in the local community and three Shot Coffee in Bethnal Green. hundred free tickets were distributed to Donate to the Mayor’s rough sleeping Community Groups. campaign via: www.gofundme.com/ The London playhouse will soon be endroughsleeping and view London’s under the direction of Lynette Linton TAP locations here: www.google.com/ with further details announced in the maps/d/viewer?mid=1_iv-CbHSHfy1hv- summer. 0NVXk0Qihe1mZ0eE_&usp=sharing www.bushtheatre.co.uk 6 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Architecture

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Housing Crisis on Hold?

hilst the Brexit fiasco continues, the ongoing crisis in housing the UK’s populationW fails to receive adequate government focus or funding. The National Health Service has a new ten-year plan which will inevitably have priority finance, as will education and policing as they are more newsworthy vote winners. Is it just funding or head-in-the-sand lack of understanding the roots of the crisis, even those within government’s control? The urgent delivery of sufficient, appropriate affordable and market housing for the wellbeing and pride of our population is a decades’ long problem needing action and remedy. If we are sick, accurate medical diagnosis of our illness is fundamental to curing the malaise. Without diagnostic understanding, prescription for cure is merely palliative, empty priorities for both the local authority years grown exponentially. Architects councillor dialogue has taken place. ministerial words. Nothing improves and site owner / developer to agree drawings illustrating layout, scale, This all has to be drawn together by the housing delivery from one government acceptable solutions. Now, lack of massing, materials and uses are of course planning consultant who has to aim to to the next. resources and often, pure arrogant essential to describe a proposal. This is illustrate how all of the above complies The planning system in the UK is obstinacy from some Local Authorities not enough. If a scheme is large, then as benignly as possible with the reams of broken. It is under resourced, under require pre-application submissions to an Environmental Impact Assessment Council policies (some of which will be skilled, underpaid and over bureaucratic. resemble what was once a full detailed will be required; a transport plan and contradictory). It is negatively preventative of sound application. This defeats the object, highways report to justify the proposal. The list of supplemental reports has long term planning. Democratic re- increases the costs and delays the If the scheme is smaller, it will still become endless and few local authorities election becomes the priority over the process it was intended to assist. There require an Environmental Performance have sufficient expertise to fully review future forward delivery of the housing are too many cases where, having paid Assessment, sustainable drainage the detailed information contained and urban places that society deserves. the fee, made the submission and held proposals, noise reports, daylight within these reams of costly expert Planning is the department of the meeting, the written response takes & sunlight calculations, flood risk reports. Thus, they become mere box “Retaining the Status Quo”. The crisis months to arrive. This is not good assessment (even if the site is on top of a ticking exercises. cannot be solved by the obstruction of enough in the real world. Regrettably, hill), structural and services engineers’ Many of the required reports would sound prescription. The planning system with some councils, there seems little reports and a construction management be better dealt with under building requires root and branch overhaul; point in using the pre-app process; better plan. Then, of course, there is the regulations, and other elements more funding for greater resource and to submit the full application and get ecological survey, the arboricultural controlled through planning conditions. expertise if proactive solutions are to on with the battle. Here is the issue; it survey, the landscape design, refuse The process needs to be overhauled be found. The current procedures and shouldn’t be a battle. All involved should storage and collection strategy. with the objective of clarity and policies are inefficient, obstructive, often be engaging to diagnose and hence, solve Archaeology, heritage, conservation simplicity. contradictory and are a key part of the the problem. If a site has redevelopment area reports and townscape analysis will It needs to be valued and resourcing problem. potential or an existing building has be of varying relevance. The applicant increased. It needs to be less subjective, It is rare good fortune to encounter scope for reinvention, then what is the will be expected to have consulted the more positive and predictive. When risk knowledgeable experienced development best outcome for all concerned? local crime prevention officer regarding is reduced, funding is more available and conservation officers. When It is unlikely to be a 4-year obstacle “Secured by Design” and submit a and less costly, whatever the project. positive dialogue happens, the process course littered with cost, risk and “Statement of Community Engagement” Uncertainty and risk inherent in the and outcome is infinitely better for all. uncertainty. That does make the to show that local consultation and planning system are the enemies of Conversation brings results. It should planning system seem like a perpetual solutions to the housing crisis. be the expectation and intention of all Brexit saga. involved. One major factor impacting on the Why do planning applications high cost of housing in the UK is the SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT frequently take years to resolve? The degree of risk that resides with the huge pre-application process was brought in expense of preparing a full planning KCW Today. See page 28 for details to formalise and pay for the essential application. 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accepted the Directorship of the London School of Economics and Blue Plaque: Political Science where he stayed for 18 years. He transformed it from a small STATUES Sir William college to a leading centre for the study of social sciences. wind when I went to Henry Beveridge During World War 11 he worked at see him for the second the Ministry of Labour for Ernest Bevin time, but he had certainly KCB who had invited him to be in charge of altered his pose since the the Welfare Department. Sir William first time I saw him. This 1879-1963 refused saying he wished to work with Photograph © Don Grant Photograph piece of interactive art was created by greyworld, an manpower. Bevin agreed. This led to him artists’ collective founded English Heritage has honoured Sir being chairman of various committees by Andrew Shoben, William Beveridge with a Blue Plaque and making reports. Professor of Public Art at 27 Bedford Gardens. Campden Hill. In 1942 Sir William wrote The Report at Goldsmiths College, London where he lived from 1914 to on Social Insurance and Allied Services, London University. The 1921. It was erected last year. known as The Beveridge Report. monumental sculpture Sir William was a progressive social In his report he paved the way stands in front of the reformer, politician and civil servant. He for post war success with a system of monumental Blue Fin is best known for The Beveridge Report universal insurance 'from cradle to grave', building, named after the supported by a comprehensive health 2,000 blue aluminium which was used as a basis for the Welfare fins that project from State of today. service, and benefits for the unemployed, the building’s facade and Henry Beveridge, an Indian Civil the sick, widows and family allowances. change its appearance as Service Officer and District Judge was All people of working age would pay one walks round it. It’s all Sir William's father. Annette Ackroyd, national insurance contributions. His mind-altering stuff. his mother was a scholar who founded arguments for a welfare state were well The statue was erected the Working Women's College in Queen received. in 2007 and immediately Square. London. Sir William was born Social Justice was at the heart of the gained fame around the in Rangpur, now Bangladesh. report and the creation of a new ideal world, helped by some Sir William was educated at society in the post war era. of the 5 million visitors Charterhouse followed by Balliol where Sir William joined the Liberal Party to Tate Modern at the after the War and was MP for Berwick time. greyworld have been he read Mathematics and Classics, building a reputation for gaining a first in both. Later he studied upon Tweed. He lost his seat in the innovative, fun, playful Law. Henry Beveridge was a humanist, General Election of 1945. In 1946 and interactive art in public places, from also a Positivist and Activist and a great the Labour Government introduced the sublime Garden of Light of 2017 admirer of the French Philosopher the Welfare State on the basis of the Monument to in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, Augustus Comte. Sir William was Beveridge report and the National with thousands of underlit daffodils influenced by his father's views all his Health Service was introduced in 1948. the Unknown to celebrate the quietly heroic work life. Sir William was elevated to the done by the Marie Curie nursing staff, When Sir William left University he House of Lords in 1953 as Baron Artist mostly at night, to a deeply silly scheme, worked at Toynbee Hall, a Settlement Beveridge of Tuggal in in the county of greyworld whereby anyone can commission their House in London. Having met Sidney Northumberland. own radio-controlled animatronic South Bank tail, from a husky to a foxy brush and Webb and Beatrice Webb, he developed a pink bunny to a red-hot Hellboy’s a strong interest in social reform and “The object of Government in peace naughty rear-end. In 2015 H M became an active promoter himself. and in war is not the glory of the rulers n Sumner Road, a cut-through Queen Elizabeth unveiled greyworld’s In 1908 he was invited to join the or of races, but the happiness of the from Southwark Street to the installation at the new London Stock Board of Trade and drafted The New common man” new-ish Tate Modern Blavatnik Exchange, in the heart of the city Unemployment Act of 1916; the first of Quoted from the Beveridge Report. Building, there is quite a larky of London. To borrow their own many of his papers on reform. Later Ostatue. An enormous bronze man description, ‘The Source is formed he became Permanent Secretary at the Sir William Beveridge died at home and stands on a stone plinth in a classic from a grid of cables arranged in a Ministry of Food, responsible for pricing is buried Thockrington in church yard on artist’s pose, holding a paintbrush in square, 162 cables in all, reaching eight and rationing. the Northumberland Moors. his outstretched hand. We are used to stories to the glass roof. Nine spheres In 1919 Sir William left the Civil seeing street performers in Trafalgar are mounted on each cable and are free Service, and was knighted. He then Marian Maitland Square pretending to be static ‘living to move independently up and down statues’, but, in this case, it’s a statue its length. In essence the spheres act pretending to be a person. He was like animated pixels, able to model designed to be articulated in a number any shape in three dimensions a fluid, of different stances, turning his head, dynamic, three dimensional television’. raising his arms and letting his loose- A whimsical inscription on the fitting clothes and scarf blow in the Monument plinth states Non Plaudite breeze. Can this be bronze? Surely Modo Pecuniam Jacite, which to those not. His movements are regulated by with a rudimentary knowledge of Latin two cameras, mimicking those of the means ‘Do not applaud, just throw visitors standing in front of the edifice. money’. Allegedly, the original caption The man himself stands 2.8m. tall, and read, Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit Altum his head, hands and feet are made from Videtur, which, as Latin scholars will silicon, and he is wearing real clothes surely know, translates as, ‘Whatever is impregnated with silicon and dyed said in Latin sounds profound’. One of to match the rest of him. It would be greyworld’s first ventures was to ‘tune’ most disconcerting to look at the statue a run of metal railings in Paris, so that in passing, look away, then look again, when one ran a stick along them, they only to find that he has moved in the played The Girl from Ipanema. How cool interim. Unfortunately, he appears to is that?. be rooted to the spot for the moment. Maybe he was frozen by a chilly north Don Grant 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

crime rates increased by just over 10%. has awarded around Opposition councillor Peter Buckwell £30 million to projects ‘Safest’ borough from South Richmond claimed: ‘we that support growth have [seen] a rise in the number of and community in London sees minor crimes, professional beggars, development in

pickpockets, shoplifters and anti-social London. The bid Council City Westminster © steepest hike in behaviour.’ presented a draft ‘to deter crime we need a daily visible scheme, which was crime police presence in our town centres. devised in close Our police do a great job but they need collaboration with additional resources.’ the Church Street Despite Richmond historically Local councillors created a motion, community and being one of the safest calling on the government and Mayor businesses. boroughs in London, its of London, Sadiq Khan to provide more The council will be seeking an funding and resources to the police. Council wins experienced workspace operator to crime rate has risen more Cabinet member for community collaborate on the project and manage safety, Councillor Liz Jaeger, who the new spaces early next year and the dramatically than anywhere proposed the motion said: ‘our local £1m Mayoral project is expected to be complete by late else in the city. police work so hard to keep us safe. But, 2020/early 2021. they can only work within the resources fund to transform Cllr Rachael Robathan, Westminster Since 2011, police forces across the they have, they are stretched.’ City Council cabinet member for country have lost £600m in funding, ‘the only way to fix the problem is Church Street finance, property and regeneration, said: causing national crime rates to rise by for the government and the mayor of Westminster City Council has won “This is a great opportunity to transform more than 6% in the last year alone. London to provide adequate funding. almost £1m of funding from the Mayor’s an underused space. We are putting local To accommodate these cuts the Our safety is in their hands.’ Good Growth Fund to enhance the new people’s views first and listening to how police forces of Richmond, Kingston, The motion was unanimously ‘community heart’ of the Church Street the community think we should improve Wandsworth and Merton were merged passed, with councillors from all parties area. the Church Street triangle, while last May, to form the South West Basic supporting the calls. The grant award for the Church supporting the local business community Command Unit (BCU) South West BCU commander in Street Triangle Project is matched by a with opportunities for new spaces.” The unit has been struggling to Chief Superintendent Sally Benatar council investment of just under £1m. This project is part of the Church fund much needed resources and is also said: ‘The metropolitan police is actively The project will provide new affordable Street Regeneration Programme, failing to fill a significant number of job recruiting police officers now; this work and community space, revitalise which is planned to deliver over 1,750 positions. will enable us to fill the vacancies we an underused public space and refresh new homes, improved green spaces, a The borough of Richmond has currently have on the South West BCU public toilet facilities for the market and strengthened commercial offer, increased consequently seen an almost 14% and allow us to continue to prioritise our visitors. pedestrian and cyclist accessibility and increase in crime, tailed only by preventative approach to tackling crime The project was one of 33 that bid ambitious health and wellbeing facilities Kingston, Harrow and Redbridge whose and violence.’ successfully to the Mayor’s Fund, which for local people. Are you looking at a fortune?

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excluded residents and small businesses we will approach each incident on a case Fulham Palace restoration New £400 fine as by case basis, and issue this maximum fine where there is clear evidence of underway after raising £3.8m H&F crack down abuse.” Last year, a two hundred pounds on fly tippers fixed penalty was introduced, alongside an extensive CCTV network. Since then, local authorities have Hammersmith and Fulham could see been given the power to double the fine tougher fines of £400 introduced for for those who dispose their waste on to people caught dumping their waste. unlicensed carriers. This new maximum fine is part of The ‘Reduce and Reuse’ pages of the the city’s zero tolerance crackdown on Hammersmith and Fulham Council crime. It is a major step in helping the website offers advice on the various council achieve its ambition of being the charities who take reusable and large greenest borough in Britain. items. Councillor Wesley Harcourt, H&F ‘Bulky waste’ collections can be Cabinet Member for Environment, said: booked with ten items picked up for “This new level of fine shows we will £25.65 at H&F. This covers household not tolerate people who indiscriminately electrical items; televisions, fridges, blight our borough with rubbish. freezers and similar items which exceed “Removing unsightly flytips is an 25kg. unnecessary burden on the taxpayer and Social network, Nextdoor, allows hopefully this fine will help us stamp it people to talk online, donate items out. and share the cost within their “However, to protect socially neighbourhoods.

ulham Palace will unveil its new botanical garden for the spring of 2019. look at a public consultation on The next phase will include installing February 6th, after raising £3.8m the museum exhibitions; drawing on Ffor its restoration. the archaeology of the site, undertaking The ‘Discovering the Bishop of restoration work in the Great Hall, cross London’s Palace’ scheme started last passage and porch. March and will repair the Tudor It has received £1.88m from National Courtyard; recreating the gardens Lottery Funding trusts and foundations developed by Bishop Compton in the giving a total of £1.05m; £606,000 in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. donations from individuals, and £63,000 This hopes to give visitors greater from corporate donors. insight into the palace which housed Mariana Spater, Chair of Trustees Bishops for 1,300 years. They were at Fulham Palace, said how ‘delighted’ responsible for the Church of England they are to have achieved their target. overseas, including colonies in: America, The Trust is still, however, the Caribbean, Africa and India. fundraising towards the restoration of Work to make the historic landmark historic paintings to be hung in the and dementia treatments included. more accessible is also underway, with Great Hall, and for further brick repairs Professor Deborah Ashby, Director a new pathway being built through the in the Tudor Quadrangle. Imperial builds of the School of Public Health, said: “I North range of the Tudor Quadrangle Fulham Palace remains open daily believe that we will be in a very strong and shrubs planted, enhancing the during the restoration period new research hub position to improve health on both a local and global scale . and White City’s “By strengthening the public health science base, training the next reputation for generation of public health leaders, Lambeth Council dedicates extra and influencing health policies and bio-tech programmes around the world.” £1m to curb youth violence The facility’s development is a result Lambeth Council has pledged that they develop a strong vision for the south of the local council’s Industrial Strategy will dedicate an extra £1m for dealing London region. This report includes Partnership with Imperial. with serious youth violence in the an additional £0.5m for youth violence Imperial College is set to build a state- Councillor Andrew Jones, H&F borough. in 2019/20, and plans to spend an of-the-art School of Public Health in Cabinet Member for the Economy With recent statistics showing the additional £1m on preventing youth White City, providing the opportunity and the Arts, commented on how the South London district is close to having violence by 2020. to extend the already booming tech research centre will ‘bring the local the fifth highest crime rate in London, This is part of a strategy aiming industry. economy into the 21st century’. the local authorities are keen to develop to change how Lambeth Council and This medical hub will allow world “We aim to make the borough one of their approach. partners approach violence against health researchers to collaborate and the leading destinations in the country Between May 2017-2018, there have young people. work together in their first dedicated for the bio-tech, digital and creative been 38,138 crimes reported in the They have previously developed building, bringing cutting-edge research industries.” borough, according to Finder website. the ‘Tackling Violence against Young to White City. They will work on He did point out: “At the same The proposals were discussed at People’ initiative, using a public health pioneering new approaches to various time, we want to ensure that all public consultations, as part of the approach which addresses the risks strands of health care affecting the local residents benefit from the growth and Lambeth Local Plan which hopes to which caused violence in the first place. community; fighting infectious diseases development we’re seeing in H&F.” 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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industry, the vacuum manufacturers, the name away at Starbucks for the privilege banks and the other economic backbones of buying overpriced coffee and sell it MARIUS BRILL’S would actually relocate. They knew all to Google for the price of a Kardashian that and voted for it anyway because, butt shot. as Nigel Farage when faced with the Odysseus kept his name secret from MEMEING OF LIFE facts of a tanking economy said, that is Polyphemus in order to survive, only the “price for freedom”; as if it is better when the giant learnt it could he call Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... to starve as a sovereign Brit than break on his father, the sea god Poseidon, to croissants with the Europeans. You may wreak vengeance upon him. In this age go hungry, but it will be a democratic, of internet giants, like Odysseus, we try “English” or “A Kentish Man” or “Man free, British hunger. By far the best sort to keep our identities secret, making THIS IS ME of Kent” or some poor sod with a semi in of hunger there is. fake spam-magnet email addresses or Gillingham. I’ve had to nail my colours Our sense of identity is one of the sock puppets, but the gods of Google, to a mast I never wanted to, I’ve had world’s most powerful memes. In ancient Amazon and YouTube, they know who No one wants to look like to climb into bed with people that no times a rich mythology grew around we really are, what we really want, and one would do so willingly; Tony Blair, the idea that simply telling someone they’ve got the cookies to prove it. their passport photo. The George Osborne, Peter Mandelson and your name meant giving them power The history of Western civilisation tube-station photobooth is the plumber with the bog-brush hairdo over you. Unbaptised children were at has been a constant cycle between Charlie Mullins – in order to lie back risk of fairy kidnap leaving changelings individualism and collectivism. In actually designed to make you and think of Europe. in their place; Rumpelstiltskin was the Renaissance the individual was look as terrible as possible so And however dirty I feel, spare a disempowered by his name being celebrated, artists, pioneers, adventurers, explorers. But then the Enlightenment’s you’ll waste your money at discovery of scientific principles looked least three or four times before at unifying ideas, categorisation, one scientist’s results recreated exactly by you realise that every photo another; to science humans, like animals, is going to be heinous; there’s are all alike. This is the time the French and American Revolutions were fought never going to be a shot that as groups collected, identifying with © Sam McKechnie Photograph wouldn’t be improved by the their causes. Romanticism, a reaction to the Enlightenment, promoted the use of a bullet. The document individual again. The artist and poet’s that represents you clearly unique experience was elevated as a foil to the reach of science. As the demands a photo that displays Industrial Revolution spawned factories your inner psychopath. and mills, people proved more useful as groups. Organising principles like f course your documents aren’t socialism and capitalism were born. By your actual identity, but as we WWII fascism loomed as the ultimate head into our Brexit “Freedom subordination of individual free will to Of Removement” you and I will need the faceless collective represented by O one individual dictator. Wars are fought to be producing them far more often. As we set to isolate and differentiate as collectives, and the mentality of “a ourselves from the continent and those ministry for everything” lasted until who would immigrate here, identifying the 1960s when the hippy revolution ourselves will become more integral started prioritising individual experience to our lives. Never having to show again. The Vietnam War failed to inspire “your papers” was once a proof of the an entire generation to fight together. superiority of British society. Now it’ll By the 1970s individualism reached a be: “You say you’re British… prove it!” zenith in punk, when any conformity As if the bad teeth, sallow skin, beer was social death. But now, with the belly, aggressive demeanour and die- internet, the things that we thought hard stubbornness to never admit a made us individual have allowed us to mistake wasn’t proof enough anymore. collect as groups again. So if you are an Unaccustomed to having to identify opinionated middle aged, middle class, myself, like many I’m struggling to white bloke with an interest in sleight of work out who, or even what, I am. hand, good mystery fiction and liberal It’s no wonder that Britain’s favourite politics? There’s a Reddit group just Christmas present this year was a DNA for us stretching round the globe. The testing kit from the likes of Ancestry. cycle of individualism is falling away com. We’ve seen the way the world is again and we are being subsumed into going and we’ve got questions: Where collectives once more. are we from? Where can we call home? My 80s teenhood was devoted to Who are OUR people? Who’s that trying to start my own unique style nutter in my passport photo? thought for the poor Leavers. Not just discovered; in Jewish tradition, after trends fusing charity shop tat, but So called “Identity Politics” and the because of how hideous their bedfellows a series of infant deaths the next born now I watch my own children happily populist backlash that is taking the are, but for all the contortions that they is unnamed, believing that the Angel conforming to brands, following an West by storm, is forcing us all to take must now go through to justify the of Death cannot call a child who has urge to meld in with everyone else on sides, imposing a collectivism we would fallacies of their leaders’ retrospective no name; in Puccini’s opera, Princess SnapChat, Instagram and Twitter. never have imagined even five years ago. groupthink. They’re forced to rewrite Turandot must learn the name of her The collective is coming, but we must In the back of my mind I was always a their past and say that they knew we unwanted suitor to execute him, if she beware. It is in the collectivist periods European, despite being born in the UK, were being lied to; they knew that there doesn't, she must marry him; even Bilbo of history when all the world’s bloodiest but now I have to stand up and fight was never going to be £350 million for Baggins in The Hobbit, speaks in riddles conflicts are fought and, as Bertrand for it as fiercely as any Leaver believes the NHS; they knew that there would to Smaug, the dragon, to keep him from Russell said, “War does not determine they’re standing up for being “British” or be job losses; they knew that the car learning his name. Now we give our who is right, only who is left.” 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

all goods we send to the EU being held up by European customs and subjected The Votes with to automatic WTO tariffs or, in the case of agriculture and food, the automotive the Loudest and textiles industries, significantly © PxHub Photograph Voice have it... higher rates, or, indeed, to maintaining By Peter Burden the flow of skilled medical workers we will need in our hospitals when the post Brexit cash they were promised starts pouring in. One of the difficulties, even among How wise of Her Majesty to long-standing friends, is that it is often hard to guess correctly the point of view choose the uncontroversial of people with whom one engages in Sandringham Women’s discussion about the topic. I find myself watching carefully as people whom Institute as an audience for her one might have assumed didn’t want thoughts on our politicians’ Britain to turn its back on all its nearest neighbours, start wincing awkwardly behaviour in the current at the first hint of the views I hold. As national turmoil. an exercise in gauging reactions from Brexiters in general, I have spent some ‘As we look for new answers time talking to people who live among in the modern age,’ she told the bucolic beauty of South Shropshire, where I spend a lot of my time. them, ‘I for one prefer the I decided that it might help if I see hundreds of companies move their tried and tested recipes, like made my position clear by pinning to offices to Europe, to willingly know that the lapel of my tweed jacket (standard I am Brexit will mean a substantial hike in speaking well of each other attire at this time of year in Shropshire) taxes, is shameful. All those promises and respecting different points a small metal EU flag. Walking into embarrassed. that Liam Fox and David Davis made several rural pubs with as affable and I am embarrassed by what about how easy it would be leaving and of view.’ open a demeanour as I could muster, has gone on and is going on how simple a trade deal was and how my entrance, as soon as my flag was WTO was a walk in the park. How dare ow right she is; and how her spotted, was generally met with palpable in Parliament and the White they. advice resonates with my own hostility, in some cases, blank hate stares House on our behalf. As for the Prime Minister, it was bad annual resolution to cease or, from bar staff and some of the other enough that her predecessor thought a Hat least, to cut down my bad-mouthing punters; I sensed that I was getting an By Derek Wyatt referendum was a simple Yes/No exercise of others. It is vital, for the ongoing idea of what it might be like to enter a and would be over in a day, but sadly maintenance of national harmony that, rustic English boozer wearing a Jeremy she has no vision for the UK. Ramsay whatever the outcome of the current Corbyn mask, or with a non-white face. MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain impasse, both sides in the Brexit debate I was more aware than I have ever been were weak and feeble. This situation has should accept that there are alternative that for some of the population our It is a disgrace. The people representing made us a complete mockery across the points of view. unequivocal departure from Europe is us should be banished. They should be free and not so free worlds. The Prime Europhiles should listen to not up for debate; it’s a matter of blind utterly ashamed of their doings. At the Minister seems unable to comprehend leavers’ fears that the EU, as currently conviction that will not countenance any next election opportunity they should all how low we appear as a nation. constituted, is a far from perfect other perspective. be thrown out. Nothing more: nothing As for Jeremy Corbyn, he could not organisation, as well as to their concerns It is beginning to look possible that less. We will look back at the 1997 spell “Leadership” even if he tried. He about perceived corruption which, if so Brexit, even without a deal, will happen Election when the Tory government fell has allowed his own prejudices about far unproven, is at least plausible. There simply because those on one side of the through the ice, as just tokenism. The the EU, despite the promises and votes are undoubtedly legitimate anxieties debate are more polite and considerate next election both the Tory and Labour at the Labour Party Conference, to rule about accountability and the lack of than those on the other… that the parties will haemorrhage millions of the roost. He is no more a democrat legislative powers in the European noisier, more aggressive side, who votes. The public has had enough. than the late Fidel Castro. He is more Parliament. Even-handed Remainers politicians fear may foment civil unrest if In the White House, President interested in matters Cuban, Mexican or will acknowledge these shortcomings, they don’t get what they want, will win. Trump has lied over six hundred times Venezuelan than serving the people of while believing that Britain has an We should be genuinely afraid that in according to CNN research. He is an this country. He thinks that he will be important and responsible role to play the most momentous decision of our era, imposter. He has demeaned his nation. Prime Minister. He is in for a surprise. in encouraging European institutions the Trumpist tactics and oratory of the He might be impeached: he should be At the next election voters will spurn to develop in ways that will ultimately Leavers will prevail, despite all logical impeached. He is a scoundrel. He has both parties. We are in to sea-changing make them assets to world peace and objections, and the expressed support of given away all that America stands for. politics. international trade, with a significantly just 38% of the people. He prefers the company of Putin to the Of those that have come out of this greater impact than we could achieve on company of any other political leader well, thank you: Ken Clarke, Dominic our own. in the world. He is hard to fathom. He Grieve, Yvette Cooper, Kier Starmer It is noticeable that less consideration must not be re-elected. Anyone who and Caroline Lucas. Thank you for is offered to Remainers by committed shuts down the public sector knowing trying to shape the debate and to hold to Leavers and I am compelled to observe it will cost the Treasury more than he your principles. There will be no knight that the more avid the Brexiter, the more wants for his wretched Wall needs his or dame-hoods in the post but you know raucous and intolerant the demeanour. head examined. As for that Wall, it is a how grateful we all are. While stalwart Remainers appear mad idea. You can see, though, Trump This century will be the century generally to be more measured and trying to make it an Election issue in of Asia. In thirty years time we will less abusive in expounding their views, 2020: “Vote for me and I will build that be making things for the Indian and the Leavers stance is characterised by Wall.” He has no hope even in hell. Chinese economies. The world is moving impatient calls for MPs to ‘Just get on

peterburden.net As for both of our own major to a different place which we have failed with it!’, without explicitly offering parties, they are both a sandwich short to comprehend. I am sorry for my nation solutions to the crisis this will create on of a picnic. To threaten our standard and as sorry for my children and grand the Eire/Ulster border, to the problem of www. of living, to threaten house prices, to children who will inherit this mess. 14 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

Wolf-Rayet Stars Senior Citizens By Scott Beadle FRAS

’m a senior citizen; for many of us, it’s an age of declining vitality, a time when we become less energetic, Imore sedentary. Not so for big stars, and I mean BIG. When a massive star becomes a senior citizen, it starts acting like a troublesome teenager: loud and aggressive, prone to sudden outbursts and apt to wreak havoc on everything in the neighbourhood. Astronomers call this last stage of stellar evolution a Wolf-Rayet star. Immense and luminous, Wolf-Rayet stars make our Sun seem dim in comparison. In fact, these stars radiate so much light and heat they expel their own outer gas shells in the form of a solar wind blowing at up to 11 million km/h. A Sun-like star lasting 10 billion years on the Main Sequence (i.e. as a stable, hydrogen- “burning” star) will eject between 316,000 and 474,000 tonnes of solar wind material every second. It sounds a lot, but in its 4.6 billion-year lifetime so far, the Sun has only lost 0.01 per cent of its mass this way. Whereas the Wolf-Rayet stage of a star’s life is short, typically less than a million years. Wolf-Rayet stars are large, Top: NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet. The Wolf-Rayet star WR 7 is the bright star showing diffraction spikes near the blue filaments ranging from 7 to 20 times the mass masses, it evolves into a luminous blue in the nebula's central area. © CFHT/Jean Charles Cuillandre/Coleum of the Sun, with surface temperatures variable then into a Wolf-Rayet star, Below: The Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 lying 15000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. up to 100,000 Kelvin, much hotter either way it ends up as a star with up to The dense nebula surrounding the star is the result of intense radiation pressure on its outer layers. than our Sun, these stars will cast 20 solar masses. © ESA/NASA/Hubble off approximately 1 solar mass every The new Wolf-Rayet star fuses 100,000 years a very significant amount. helium to produce heavier elements They are also up to a million times such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. brighter than the Sun. Throughout all these stages, the star Named after their discoverers continues to lose prodigious amounts of Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet of mass in its fierce stellar wind, a star in the Paris Observatory in 1867, it was the Wolf-Rayet stage can lose as much quickly realized these were no ordinary as half its mass, all of which is flung into stars and in fact less than 300 have been space to become raw material for new discovered in the entire Milky Way stars and planets. galaxy. As you will have realised Wolf-Rayet Of course, it’s important to stars don’t live quietly, so it shouldn’t remember a Wolf-Rayet star is only come as a surprise that they don’t die a ghost of its youth. It begins life as a quietly either. When a Wolf-Rayet star Main Sequence type-O supergiant some dies, it often undergoes a supernova 25 to 100 solar masses. For 90 percent of detonation. Some of these supernovae its short life span the type-O supergiant are sufficiently energetic to be classified burns hydrogen as fuel and slowly grows as hypernova. And some of these are a helium core surrounded by a dwindling accompanied by a gamma-ray burst outer shell of hydrogen gas. As the star as the core undergoes a gravitational ages, it leaves the Main Sequence and collapse into the most awesome object evolves into a red supergiant burning its in the Universe, a black hole: an object helium core, with temperatures rising to whose gravitational pull is so powerful 100 million K, it swells into a monster nothing, not even light can escape. (placed where our Sun is, its outer edge Fortunately, the nearest, V444 would be out by Mars)! Cygni, lies 3700 light-years away in Astronomers suggest that if the Cygnus The Swan, far enough even if type-O progenitor star was less than 35 it went off tomorrow, not to damage solar masses the red supergiant evolves Earth and its inhabitants, but certainly directly into a Wolf-Rayet star. But if close enough to be a spectacular day and the progenitor was greater than 35 solar night-time event. 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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has been more cautious on certain Q. America and Australia have blocked benefit from additional regulatory relief Mariya Gabriel regulatory incentives, stressing the investment from Chinese telecoms if it decides to co-invest with smaller European Commissioner for need to safeguard competition. But its companies like Huawei and ZTE due operators. amendments have not changed the clear to security concerns. Does the EU have Digital Economy and Society. direction taken by the Code towards an similar concerns surrounding Chinese Q. Finally: how can the Digital An exclusive interview with investment-friendly regulation investment in European telecom Economy and Society Commissioner The provisions on co-investment and infrastructure? encourage national authorities to take a KWC Today. By James Billot on wholesale-only operators are good pro-investment stance in 5G technology? examples in this respect. A. The European Union is an open Concerning intra-EU calls, most market economy. Competition from A. All in all, we are aiming to put in of the investments related to these foreign providers is welcome provided place a consistent and coordinated set services have been made a long time that competition is fair, without of tools and initiatives to support 5G ago. Therefore, it is difficult to see how subsidies or other interference by foreign investments and deployment in Europe. the safety caps for those calls would States, and their products fulfil the It is important to avoid earlier mistakes deter investment in new networks. requirements, including cybersecurity made with the 4G. These networks are about fast internet requirements. Several European telecom The 5G Action Plan and the connectivity, not voice calls, and their providers currently have supply contracts adoption of the European Electronic deployment is driven by different with Chinese manufacturers of telecom Communications Code’s new spectrum incentives, including the regulatory equipment. rules will ensure that bands for new incentives provided by the Code. This being said, the European 5G services are available by 2020 all Union is very sensitive to cybersecurity over Europe under the same technical Q. Some analysts say that the European Q. Further to this, the introduction threats, in particular regarding its conditions, supporting 5G deployment. Parliament’s amendments to the 5G of price caps on intra-EU phone calls critical infrastructures. That is why It will also provide incentives for the Action Plan, have replaced carrots could harm the industry’s revenue after the European Union has adopted the development of fixed and mobile very with sticks. Do you fear that last year’s roaming reductions. Do you think that Directive on Security of Networks and high capacity networks through a European Parliamentary amendments this is a necessary measure given how Information Systems in 2016. regulatory framework. such as regulating international calls much traffic is already going through The security obligations of telecom We are now working with Member and scaling back on some deregulatory unregulated messaging services like network and services providers have States to put in place the necessary measures will deter future investment? WhatsApp? been modernised in the European framework that will facilitate rapid Compared to the hands-off approach Electronic Communications Code deployment of 5G services. The 5G taken in other regions like the US, will A. Significant price differences continue agreed by the European Parliament Action Plan proposes a systematic this approach not create a further lag in to prevail between domestic voice and the Council in June 2018. The set of measures. It was endorsed by the EU behind other regions in terms of and SMS communications and those Code requires that telecom providers Member States in July 2017. By signing technological advancement? terminating in another Member State. appropriately manage the risks posed to the Tallinn Declaration on 5G, EU On average, the standard price of a fixed the security of networks and services. Member States agreed to deepen their [Note: we assume that references to or mobile intra-EU call tends to be three This includes the security of the network cooperation to deploy 5G across the regulating international calls and times higher than the standard price of a components. In addition, in September European Union. To date, 10 Member deregulatory measures refer to the domestic call. In some cases the standard 2017 the Commission proposed the States have developed a 5G strategy and European Electronic Communications price of an intra-EU call can be up to Cybersecurity Act, which introduces a roadmap, and have engaged to exchange Code, not to the 5G Action Plan] eight times higher than the standard Union-wide cybersecurity certification best practices. We now need to stimulate price for domestic calls. framework. Certificates under this and facilitate further partnerships A. I understand that you are We are in general not in favour of scheme will make it simpler for buyers to between market players and involve referring to the European Electronic using ex ante market regulation in a ensure their hardware complies with all public authorities. This will stimulate Communications Code. competitive market but I understand cybersecurity requirements. Our ENISA market take up for innovative use cases Starting from your last point, our the political pressure that built up agency has a more important role to beyond the traditional broadband expectation is quite the opposite. in the light of such price differences, play in all this. The proposal is currently markets such as the automotive sector, We believe that the Code will affecting mainly consumers placing such being negotiated with the European healthcare, smart factories, energy and boost investment and technological communications infrequently or having a Parliament and the Council and the public safety. advancement, along with other EU low volume of consumption. negotiations are expected to hopefully be In addition, the Commission policy initiatives. Our objective is that The legislative process produced a concluded before the end of this year. is supporting large scale trials and the implementation of the Code will balanced outcome since it is limited pilots through the 5G Public Private put Europe back to the forefront of to a safeguard cap which applies only Q. Regarding co-investment plans Partnership with strong collaboration digital connectivity and services, allow to communications charged based on over fibre. The new code proposes between the ICT “5G industry” and regaining the place of leadership Europe actual consumption and that still leaves relatively loose regulation on “wholesale multiple vertical sectors. An investment deserves. substantial pricing freedom to operators only” fibre builds, but would this of €200 million is foreseen to this end. However, technological advancement relative to domestic price levels in most not disincentivise companies from For example, the European Union has cannot be the sole objective of our countries. In addition, the measure is partnering to invest in full fibre identified Connected and Automated policy. We also need to ensure that new proportionate since it provides for a networks? Mobility as a flagship use case for 5G technologies remain affordable for our derogation mechanism, and the price take up. Several Member States have consumers. You mentioned the US as caps expire automatically after five years. A. Our aim is indeed to increase now agreed to join forces to deploy 5G an example of a “hands-off” approach Regarding the impact on industry’s investment in fibre and, at the same in cross-border corridors. These will to regulation. If you put prices in revenue, it will certainly be limited since time, to preserve competition in the be the precursors of uninterrupted 5G the picture, I believe that the market our market studies show that the volume market. To that end, we are providing coverage in major roads and railways outcome produced by the EU approach of such calls is very small compared incentives for different business models envisaged for 2025. is more balanced. 1 to total volume. Indeed, as you said, that are fit for this purpose, including The European Commission has put This does not mean that we are in many users have switched to alternative co-investment and wholesale-only. forward the need for close coordination favour of heavy-handed regulation. We messaging or calling services or they Depending on local circumstances, and joint work with our Member States are rather in favour of smart regulation, have subscribed to tariffs that are not certain market players may find one on the way ahead in order to achieve which intervenes only where necessary charged based on actual consumption. more appealing than the other. We do the objectives set in the Code and other and keeps its distance where the markets Indeed, : offers consisting either in a not have a preference on the business policy initiatives. work well. This principle is firmly certain number of intra-EU call minutes model as long as the objectives are met. embodied in the Code. It reflects the or SMS messages for a fixed monthly In addition, from a regulatory point fee, or in the inclusion of intra-EU position of both co-legislators and of of view, these models are not mutually 1 see the comparison with the US in the “Fixed broadband prices in course, of the European Commission. call minutes or SMS messages in the exclusive. A wholesale-only operator Europe 2016 report”, available at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/ It is true that the Parliament monthly allowance. with significant market power may document.cfm?doc_id=47094 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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question of degrees not categories. but generally the characters work as a His world is a savage refutation contrast [or lack thereof] to the real life of ‘the good old days’ performatively figures like Bette Davis and J. Edgar yearned after by cynical politicians Hoover that the novel distorts for its to shill repressive policies. The other purposes. It’s not exactly unusual for

implicit condemnation is the recognition a hardboiled novel to use historical © LAPD Museum Photographs that these same systems of oppression personages this way, but Ellroy is still stricture America in place, only merciless in his characterisations and with shiny new paint jobs to make them helps to put a cruel and upsetting flare palatable to modern sensibilities. His on a time that borrowed nostalgia has most recent novel, Perfidia, which serves painted serene and wholesome. Perfidia as the first book in a four-part prequel to is full of powerful men discussing the L.A. Quartet, is the novel that digs eugenics and social cleansing as casually the deepest into this theme. Beginning as they would discuss baseball scores. the day before the attack on Pearl Misogyny and race hate are deliberate Harbour, the door stopper of a novel features of the system and the only (a sadistic 787 pages) covers a period real difference from now is simply that of just 22 days, but what days they are. there isn’t any attempt to disguise it. America has never really reckoned with To really hammer this point home, (or acknowledged?) its wartime Japanese one of the most compelling of the four internment program, which saw the main characters is the whiskey-soaked Captain William H. Parker. In Ellroy’s hands he is ambitious to the point of corruption, violent, a slave to his This is America: appetites and willing to break any law to destroy anything he deems ‘subversive’. James Ellroy’s In reality he became L.A.’s most famous police chief and the founder “Perfidia” of the modern police force, a clear line By Max Feldman of continuity is drawn between this horrifically burlesqued world and our own. Perfidia was released in 2014, There are some authors whose hardly a halcyon era, but one in which the current state of the world would public persona are so outsized sound like the ramblings of a drunk that they can’t help but preaching the end of the world on a street corner. In 2019 in the world of overspill into their fiction. ICE and the wall and children kept in camps on the Mexican border, Ellroy’s enerally these writers are deranged vision feels more apposite than dead: the ‘great men of letters’ ever. Are there flaws? Of course there seem to have been a decidedly are, it’s far too long for one thing, his Gpre-#MeToo phenomenon. The hard- female characters frequently feel un- drinking lives and frequently unpalatable nuanced, cardboard Cassandras, who beliefs of authors like Hemingway or are so much sharper and verbose than Hunter S. Thompson are so blurred into the men that they scarcely feel real, their works as to be indivisible from through an earthbound Inferno. Ellroy forcible relocation and incarceration of even in Ellroy’s hyperreal world. In them. In many ways the pugnacious wrote experimental boundary pushing between 110,000-120,000 individuals addition, even though the unrelenting 70 year old crime writer James Ellroy novels disguised as genre fiction; the of Japanese ancestry in the immediate assault of his style is responsible for seems to be the last descendent of these lowest kind of high art. As the series aftermath of Pearl Harbour. This was the fever-dream atmosphere, the one- dinosaurs, roaring his defiance at a progressed, the writing style evolved nearly the entire 127,000 Japanese noteness of the tone can burn a reader meteor that has already rendered the from a ghoulish evocation of Raymond population of the continental U.S. and out. But Ellroy’s artistic vision is world unrecognisable. Ellroy is cueball Chandler to an increasingly stylised these innocent civilians were interned frightening in its intensity and it is work bald with a penchant for Hawaiian shirts staccato rattle that was purely his own. for nearly five whole years. About that deserves to be taken seriously as and ivy caps; he looks like he’s wandered The increasingly short sentences each sixty-two percent of those arrested were great, groundbreaking literature. Over out of one of his own stories. In person hit with the metronomic stutter of a naturalised American-born citizens; his career he has redefined what the the ‘demon dog of American literature’ machine gun, each one a crystalline the net was stretched so wide that crime novel can do and be and Perfidia is all irascible energy and screwball miniature portrait of chaos and moral individuals as far removed as 1/16th is a bold new step into uncharted bonhomie, delighting in wryly deliberate corruption. Yet despite this ratatat style, Japanese were sent to the camps. literary territory. Ellroy’s strength as provocation. In fiction, he is brutal. at his best Ellroy has more in common Ellroy presents this great shame in a writer comes from the fact that he After years of refining his art with, with Cormac McCarthy than Mickey America’s history as literal blood libel. is as besotted with the bad men and frankly, lesser novels, Ellroy exploded Spillane. Whilst crime fiction is usually Perfidia makes it perfectly clear that the nightmare world he conjures as he is into his own with the so-called L.A. a guilty pleasure excuse to wallow in the internment is less about national security appalled by it. This duality of tone has Quartet. A series of four interconnected lizard-brain atavism that flourishes in and more a savage public vengeance, created something caught between a novels set in Los Angeles between the the deep fissures of the social contract; which many of those in power used as laugh and a scream. For any who can late 40s and late 50s The Black Dahlia, Ellroy is less interested in investigating a cover to expropriate as much as they take it, Ellroy’s world is a dark mirror The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential personal darkness [though there’s could with the tacit support of their of the worst angels of our nature and in and White Jazz which combined real plenty of that] than the cruel and racist people and government. its bleakness and horror a wake-up call events like Bloody Christmas with underpinnings of American civilisation The story is split between the four to change our ways and make amends Ellroy’s cracked imagination to explode itself. To put it bluntly Ellroy’s L.A. is a central point-of-view characters and an whilst we still can. the hard-boiled narratives of Dashiell police state of a kind that would be quite entire galaxy of satellite rogues, many Hammett and James MacDonald familiar to citizens of Nazi Germany or of whom have appeared in other Ellroy into a frenzied mutant; like a trash- Soviet Russia. If it is better than those novels as older people. 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MAX Because so much of the story is tied up in the meta-narrative of the Feldman unstable Will (Fionn Whitehead who REVIEWS gives good doe-eyed terror, but not much else) feeling like he’s endlessly © Netflix Photographs repeating the same events being controlled by an outside force; the story effectively collapses in the final third, Black Mirror: with multiple endings, but not a lot of through line to make them feel fully Bandersnatch satisfactory as individual stories in their Director: David Slade own right. Whilst this issue can make Running time: n/a it seem that a perfectly serviceable story has been sacrificed on the altar of gimmick, there are many glittering diamonds in the rough which justify lack Mirror” has been running Bandersnatch’s existence as a work of since 2011, concurrent with art separate from its headline grabbing Charlie Brooker’s slow format. For one thing David Slade, who transformation from a pale angry man directed several of the most artistically “B impressive episodes of NBC’s deranged shouting at his television into practically the platonic ideal of The Guardian Hannibal, tastefully shows off with reading metropolitan elite. If Brooker several stretches of virtuosic filmmaking. has become less angry in his public Particularly worthy of praise are some persona, Black Mirror’s consistently plunging shots of Trellick Tower which bleak, give or take San Junipero visions of vertiginously evoke Ballard’s High-Rise technological apocalypse, indicate that and a LSD fuelled bacchanal pulses beneath his avuncular, newly bearded and shimmers with perfectly pitched exterior, his old misanthropy (whilst auteur flourishes that are just the right damned by panel shows regular success) side of deliberately showy. In addition still crackles and seethes. Will Poulter’s sardonic game design Each Black Mirror episode is guru Colin Ritman shamelessly steals practically a stand-alone film in itself, the show in every scene he’s in [whilst and its length coupled with the relentless sporting an obscure pre-Bad Seeds pessimism of the show’s quasi-luddite Nick Cave t-shirt of particular interest mission statement (humankind stands to this reviewer], most notably in a on such shaky moral foundations that sequence where he effectively serves as advancing technology can’t help but a conspiracy spouting White Rabbit to plunge us into a hell of our own making) Butler’s schizoid Alice. makes it oddly unapproachable in the The hundred billion credit question world of bingeable television. Whilst then is whether Bandersnatch marks shows like The Handmaid’s Tale can the birth of a whole new art form for verge on misery porn, there are at least Hollywood to viciously run into the consistent characters and an evolving ground; or is it just an interesting narrative to draw its traumatised viewer artistic cul-de-sac to be saluted for its base back in season after season. As ambition and quietly never referred every episode of Black Mirror takes place to again? I watched it twice, once in its own universe, what draws the alone and once with friends and the viewer on is the knowledge that things Netflix Kids which, bizarrely, riffs on to both the motifs of the story and second time was undoubtedly a better will be bleak and technology will be some of the same themes and anxieties the actual story itself. Whilst a experience, testifying to the format’s involved in some malevolent fashion; it’s as Bandersnatch, meaning that you, the straightforward run through the story potential future as a party game if not exactly ‘who shot J.R.?’. Resultantly viewer, dictate the direction of the will probably average out at around 40 nothing else. Whilst this is a bit of a first it sometimes feels that Black Mirror is narrative in the fashion of a “choose your minutes, the game has numerous paths for television and film (excluding the a show referenced [usually clumsily, own” adventure book. Brooker being which are designed so that once you aforementioned Puss in Boots, clearly the such as someone referring to a hard- Brooker of course, the proceedings are finish one you can jump back to your Velvet Underground to Bandersnatch’s to-use supermarket self-checkout as bolted into an iron maiden of post- previous choices and make different Bowie) video games such as The Stanley ‘like something out of Black Mirror’] modern medium awareness. To wit: the ones. It’s meant to be thoroughly Parable have gone much further with more than it is loved. As fears about main character of the film, the aptly explored in a single sitting; the film this kind of narrative exploration, so mechanisation and our own uncertain named Stephen Butler, is a twitchy remembers your choices and only repeats it’s not quite the revolutionary prospect future multiply like viruses, the existence young videogame designer attempting to the bare minimum of scene setting it’s being held up by some as. It’s worth of a show like Black Mirror to reflect follow his dreams in the urban hellscape footage each time you jump back. In noting that Bandersnatch itself seems such anxieties, feels almost dialectically of suburban London circa (a really addition choices made will unlock new to have a rather pessimistic take on the preordained. Still, historical inevitability rather niftily recreated) 1984. Stephen is paths for the viewer to explore after a viability of this form of storytelling, isn’t exactly the sexiest mission statement designing a “choose your own adventure restart, nested within each other like but considering the author has been on Netflix and so many people dip in game” called (wait for it) Bandersnatch Russian dolls. There are apparently dead since 1967 (with apologies to and out, often never bothering to watch based on a “choose your own adventure over seven million permutations that Roland Barthes) that doesn’t really every last episode. book” of the same name written by a the story can take, an absurd number matter. Bandersnatch is an interesting Even for Black Mirror agnostics, the fictional author who is most famous for that disguises the fact that the majority crossroads; a road barely travelled that newly released Bandersnatch has become becoming convinced he wasn’t in control of these permutations are functionally suddenly has a signpost slyly indicating something of a talking point, if only of his own actions and cutting off his identical. You will probably be able to a way through treacherous ground. You for its conceit. Bandersnatch holds the wife’s head with an axe. wind up practically all of the endings, have two choices basically: A. explore enviable title of the first interactive film If all of this sounds like it’s getting a give or take a couple in about an hour Bandersnatch yourself and see if it works aimed at adults on Netflix: it was beaten bit cute and meta, then congratulations and half to two hours, far from the for you. B. go insane and cut your wife’s to the punch by a thematically audacious on basic reading comprehension. The punishing 5 hours that some outlets are head off with an axe. Take as much time Puss In Boots movie, recently released on audience control feature is integral touting. as you need. 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Reviews online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

he will be able to effectively wield the Vice full power of this new imperial form Director: Adam McKay of the presidency he has re-defined by playing Bush like a five cent kazoo. Running Time: 132 minutes Cue evil laughter and implications that the Iraq war was nothing more than

an attempt to make money for the oil Annapurna Pictures © Photographs company he used to be the CEO of; a period of his life relegated to a two line summary by the film. If this seems a little bare bones, that’s exactly how the film plays it. We are never taken inside Cheney’s head; Mckay has either decided that the man’s inner motivations are so oblique as to be beyond comprehension or (and perhaps omedian cum-Late Night host more likely) he holds his subject in such Stephen Colbert famously contempt that he views any true attempt complained that ‘reality has at empathy and accurate representation Ca well-known liberal bias’; a blithe as somehow beyond the pale. This is an statement to be sure, but one which interesting position for a biopic to take, has become something of a rallying cry to say the least but, when you get to for all distressed by the truth-averse its heart-attack prone centre, in many populists increasingly in the driving ways Vice isn’t really a biopic. For one seats of our democracies. Certainly thing swathes of it are not particularly writer-director Adam Mckay’s recent interested in accuracy: Cheney was a filmography seems to hold this statement committed conservative even during his with the kind of reverence reserved for short tenure in Yale. The nihilistic view Holy Writ, but he’s far more interested that the man only wanted power for in the ‘liberal bias’ bit than the ‘reality’. its own sake; that he had funnelled his In the mid-00s Mckay made broad dammed-up alcoholism into a unslakable Will Ferrell comedies such as Anchorman drive for authority makes Cheney into and Talladega Nights so it was something a purely inhuman villain, something to of a blindside when he released The be jeered at. The reality is that all of his Big Short back in 2016. The Big Short endless push for more power was in the detailed the root causes of 2008’s service of a sincere and fanatical belief in financial crash and how certain bankers the plague, he is something of a blank fights and jail cells, he is snapped out American hegemony, a ghoulish neo- and analysts cynically made millions by canvas which his ideological enemies can of his downwards trajectory by his wife conservatism that has claimed the lives betting on collapse, which is not exactly project their fears against. If the liberal (Amy Adams in the first of a series of thousands in the name of preserving prime Will Ferrell material. Movies fear of the Trump administration is as of ridiculous wigs) Lady Macbeth, or the global status quo. This real true- about the machinations of the banking much of its boundless incompetence ‘Lynne’ as she’s called in this film, who believing Cheney is far more frightening industry tend not to be crowd pleasing as its agenda, then here is its polar threatens to leave him if he doesn’t sort than the version presented in the film. barnstormers, unsurprising considering opposite, an icily brilliant man who his life out. He does. The film jumps to The man who strove to demolish the the relative complexity of how to knows exactly how to get what he wants. 1969 when Cheney becoming a political American welfare state, give the CIA balance explaining economic theory to In Vice Cheney is presented as an oblique aid to a brash young congressman called endless power and authority, subverted a potentially uninformed audience and void with no real human traits apart Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell in torture regulations and set the Middle telling an effective story. Mckay dealt from a boundless hunger for power and wonderfully vicious form) and seemingly East on fire, did not do so simply for with this contradiction with gleeful sugary food, Christian Bale (who also becomes a Republican, exclusively due to self-gratification, but in the service breakings of the fourth wall: characters starred in The Big Short) doesn’t so much his new boss’s devilish charisma. After would talk directly to camera, Margot play Cheney as inhabit him like a suit questioning Rumsfeld as to what they of a coldly dispassionate world view Robbie appeared in a bubble bath to of porcine armour. Through a cunning actually believe in and seeing ‘Rummy’ that demands the most brutal kind of explain sub-prime mortgages and Mckay mixture of real weight gain and subtle break down into hysterical laughter and American superiority at all costs. That basically threw everything he’d learned prosthetics, Bale’s appearance mirrors slam a door in his face, Cheney is seen to he made money off his imperialism is from years of absurdist comedy at the the former Vice-President to an almost give up his implied inner-principles and undeniable, but that’s the tail rather than wall in the hope it would stick. The terrifying degree. His performance is no becomes the shady operator the 21st C– the dog. end result turned an ostensibly ‘boring’ Darkest Hour-style gimmick however, would come to know and fear. What Vice is more interested in, subject into a punky call to action Bale’s recreates Cheney’s mannerisms to Dipping in and out of Republican is establishing that the new version against a rigged system, nihilism with a tee: his slow growl of a voice, studded governments in increasingly powerful of America and the presidency that a heart. If occasionally facts were bent with the kind of pauses that would positions (whilst a series of increasingly Cheney created is the direct cause of the and distorted in service to the story and make Pinter sweat, the teeth baring grin inconsequential heart attacks are played present President’s rise to power. Vice entertainment value, then most deemed constantly flickering on the knifepoint of as the films funniest running joke) we is a Michael Moore documentary on it a worthy sacrifice for breaking down a smirk or snarl. He is like a pendulous see him gathering legal precedent for Trump’s America disguised as a Cheney such a complex issue and exposing such Great White slicing through the the so called Unitary Executive Theory; biopic, doubtlessly a worthy parallel to hidden venality. shadowy trenches of power. This is a a reading of the Constitution that draw. It’s a shame though; in making Vice is cut from the same meta- serious performance at the diseased effectively argues that if the President Cheney into a two-dimensional villain, cloth, but Mckay has amped up his heart of a mocking satire. does something it’s automatically Mckay’s allows the real meaning of his condemnation, attacking his subject with Due to the combination of what legal. Finally when he comes across a actions to slip away like smoke. As is, Torquemandian intensity. Vice would Mckay’s perceives as public indifference buffoonish yet charismatic George W. the film can come across like Soviet agit- be an unforgivably cruel hatchet job if to America’s political history and Bush (Sam Rockwell whose screamingly prop, full of inert montages of vultures it was about anyone apart from Dick Cheney’s own elusive nature, Vice has an funny take on the 44th President of and flames in case we’re too stupid to Cheney. Since his days as Bush’s puppet awful lot that it wants to fit in. Cheney’s America is sadly little more than a appreciate this is a bad man. Whilst Vice master, Cheney has become something inverse hero’s journey begins in 1963 four scene cameo) whom he realises he is certainly entertaining, Mckay doesn’t close to a folklore monster for today’s as a young, alcoholic Yale drop-out. can attach himself to and achieve the trust his audience to realise the horror liberals. A deeply secretive political Working as a blue collar telephone political heights his own anti-charisma of his story, so he dilutes a powerful operator who avoids journalists like line-man, frequently in and out of bar would never allow him to reach. In effect message by screaming it in our face. 22 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Chinese New Year

bobbing and jerking the big, wise, old the vibrant colour is for fire, head. Dragons are believed to possess one of the key elements and Raise the qualities of great power, dignity, wisdom symbolises good fortune and joy. and auspiciousness. The appearance So significant is Chinese red lantern of a dragon is fearsome but it has a New Year in Asia, a mass benevolent nature and is symbolic of exodus of people is prompted Celebrating imperial authority. Dragon Dance to migrate for family reunions patterns are choreographed according or go on holiday to escape Chinese New to the troupe’s skill sometimes up to them. Cities almost shut down Year 2019 20 people and often Kung Fu students. like on Christmas Day here, By Lynne McGowan Sequences are many and varied such but the celebrating lasts for 15 as ‘Cloud Cave’ and ‘Whirlpool’ days. Ancestors and deities are with ‘Dragon Chasing The Pearl’ honoured, homes are swept from demonstrating the dragon is continually top to bottom to make way for the new ou hear it first – bonk, bonk, Lion Dance with only two performers. in the pursuit of wisdom. year and windows are plastered in red bonk accompanied by the Mischievous and playful the capering Ah, but is it a dragon or in fact a paper cuts. Scarlet lanterns swing and sound of clashing cymbals and lion is more shaggy dog than ferocious lion. Confusion reigns with westerners cash tips in red envelopes are handed banging drums, a big red and green serpent. A mirror is attached to the Y watching parades as many times it is a out to workers and staff, bringing added dragon snakes its way down the street, head warding off negative energy happiness to the people. or approaching bad spirits and the Come on over to old China Town on procession will joyfully bob through the Sunday February 10 and celebrate the streets, bringing happiness to the people. new year of the pig, let your hair down Early accounts of the dances go back and your fire crackers off and watch the to the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century, dragon and lion dance. but why these carnival creatures made Happy Chinese New Year everybody! from bamboo, paper maché and fur and what is it with all the red. Legend tells of a terrifying beast called Nian who would descend from the mountains maiming all in his path and pillaging the village. One myth states once the villagers realized it was scared by a small child wearing red, they hung up red lanterns on New Year’s eve, fashioned a model monster and used fire crackers to chase the Nian away. Red is found everywhere during Chinese New Year,

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Communist Party. In many ways this fusion of old Chinese traditions with China: Fusing the their Western counterparts to create a uniquely Chinese hybrid set the old and new blueprint for China’s successes in the By Max Feldman present day. Whilst many countries are Halun © Jakub Photograph wracked with fear of change, China is constantly absorbing new technologies and ideas, but whilst it’s willingly in flux, the nation remains grounded in an unshakable core identity. The upcoming Year of the Pig takes hinese New Year is over three its name from the Chinese Zodiac thousand and five hundred years which the lunisolar calendar in part old. This puts it comfortably derives from the 12 animals that make older than theological whippersnappers it up which are ordered according to an C ancient folklore tale about a great race like Islam and Christianity and roughly at a par with bronze age peers between the animals decreed by the Zoroastrianism and Judaism. Few mythical Taoist figure, the Jade Emperor nations have experienced the vertiginous (for more on this tale see David Hughes’ social changes that China has gone Royal China article on page 37). Much through in the 20th and 21st centuries like the lunisolar calendar, the ancient

which ended with it emerged as one of Chinese Zodiac carvings on ceiling of Chinese religion Taoism, or Daoism the major players on the world stage. Kushida Shrine, Fukuoka as it is sometimes called, has endured China is often held up as one of the most millennia, even being tolerated, if not modern and forward looking countries endorsed by the Communist Party for on the globe so, as the Year of the Pig and months according to astrological move engendered. Worried that this most of the 20th century. However arrives, it’s worth considering the origins phenomena rather than using a popular fury might end up reflecting recently this has begun to change; of a different, unthinkably ancient, standardised system. China was one of on them, the government capitulated Taoism, the origin of many key aspects China. Whilst picaresque, this past has the last holdouts against the Gregorian and came up with a compromise: of traditional Chinese culture from Feng deep roots which hold up the glittering calendar in Asia, reluctantly making Whilst they would stick with the Shui, calligraphy and, less positively, skyscrapers of the present day. the switch significantly later than its old Gregorian calendar for, literally, day to traditional medicine, has been embraced The Chinese New year is based on rivals Japan (1873) and Korea (1896). day life, for traditional holidays they by the regime which has begun the lunisolar calendar which China used Whilst the move was undertaken by would rely on the otherwise defunct rebuilding decaying temples. Taoism is before standardising with the Gregorian the government to bring China in line lunisolar calendar causing the dates of famously a celebration of the blending calendar in 1912. This ancient calendar with the west, they were unprepared the holidays to always be in flux year of opposites: for modern China that is reckoned the length of days, weeks for the levels of civil unrest that the by year; a tradition maintained by the basically a mission statement.

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contrast M was dealing with a plate of Orient London, Deep fried Prawn with lemon Mayo. 15 Wardour St, W1 Chinese food sometimes seems capable of infinite mix-and-match, but in truth By David Hughes the two dishes were too far apart to be

good bedfellows, and I was more than London © Orient Photographs happy to stick to my own plate for a change. hinese New Year brings a flurry Our most charming of waiters then of colour and culture to an brought out the classic Crispy Duck. otherwise bleak bit of February, It’s not actually illegal to have a meal and even for those who have a regular down here that doesn’t include crispy C duck, but who wants to miss out on date with their local takeaway, it’s a chance to sample Chinese cuisine with a such a beauty? Pancakes get rolled, the bit more pomp and creativity. This year belt gets let out a discreet notch, and it’s the Year of the Pig, the optimist who’s another glass of Malbec is poured. This is determined and gentle. The 12 Zodiac a feast, and I need to pace myself. Next animals get their order from the speed at up comes an imaginatively presented which they made it to the Jade Emperors Dover Sole to share; the whole skeleton party, and Pig rolled up last after a is fried into a basket shape, the meat is cooked in 2 styles and presented with good snooze. I’m the opposite, a Rat, everything you need from shy teenagers snow peas, chilli, spring onion, deep so I turned up first, tricking the good out on a first date to would-be gangsters fried onion flakes and Jelly (or Wood natured Ox who had kindly given me a staring moodily and trying to look Ear) fungus. In a fit of optimism, we had ride most of the way. In Chinese culture tough. One or two even attempted a bit also ordered some special rice, scallops I`m apparently seen as a sign of wealth of Martial Arts posing, but they were and asparagus, and braised Morning and fecundity, but sadly I’m still waiting fooling no one. Glory. Fabulous, but no, we didn’t quite for that big National Lottery call. I’m having a bit of thing for finish. I think that dear old Pig would Pending my 5ft long cheque arriving Dim Sum dumpling at the moment, have approved though, and if he had (I’d like plenty of space for all those seduced by that slightly sticky outer dined like this himself I’m not surprised zeros) I thought I’d venture into that translucently reveals a pork mix, he was a touch late to the party; I could Chinatown for a look at what’s on offer. steamed veg or minced prawn. Dip-able, have used a good snooze myself. Chinese Orient London sits opposite the end of chewy, substantial yet slightly elusive tea provides a welcome pick-me-up Lisle St, right by the huge gateway, and flavours, you think you can eat a dozen, before we depart, and I’m thinking this one of the most popular spots for selfies. but after 3 or 4 you knows that’s never would make an ideal spot to enjoy the If you like people watching, here’s going to happen. By way of complete parades on the 5th.

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There are several Royal China restaurants in the group, but this one is the oldest and celebrates its 23rd anniversary this year. The frontage and for the fact that the essence of Chinese reception won`t knock your socks off, but eating is the panoply of delights on offer. once inside its spacious and lit in a way Sautéed Prawns with Cashew Nut that would be garish elsewhere, but here is one of those staples that’s quite hard just seems to emphasise that funky cum to really get wrong, but also quite slightly intense image that sometimes hard to elevate from the norm, and I’d seems to be ascribed to the Chinese. The give this one a good 8 out of 10. It’s a décor and lighting is mirrored in many familiar dish that provides a seafood- a Hong Kong Dim Sum restaurant, and and-nuts combination that is little used the authenticity extends to the prompt in anything other than Asian cooking. service: polite, efficient and to the point. Having said that, how long before If you are looking for obsequiousness someone comes up with Cod & Walnuts and “is-everything-all-right-sir?” every as their new USP? Heston, I’ve just had 5 minutes you have come to the wrong an idea… place. M also chose from familiar territory Happily its speciality is the Dim by going for the stir fried Beef in Black Sum, and you will see in the review Bean Sauce. The spicy glutinous sauce above that I have rather caught the bug. and crunchy veg allied themselves to Choose the Shanghai Pork Dumplings, some feisty Chinese meal, it’s also a Minced Pork & Shrimp, or the shell delight to find clean flavours that don’t shaped Prawn and I predict you, too, will rely on MSG to bolster up their appeal soon be hooked. Made fresh each day by an expert team who really understand Bookings (except on Saturday and this Canton speciality, I could easily have Sunday lunchtimes when its first come confined myself to this menu alone but first served) on 020 7221 2535 40 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health & Lifestyle

“Complementary therapies have become one senior clinician, commend these for many an essential part of the wider therapies to become part of mainstream package of care for those being treated health care. for cancer. As a support for conventional Photograph © PxHub Photograph treatment these sorts of therapies help Massage. so many people cope with their life- There are many different types of changing illness; the benefits can’t be massage therapy and, in common with disputed.” Broadly, complementary mind/body therapies, massage can help treatments fall into the following groups: to relieve tension and stress and relax body and mind. The research shows Mind/Body therapies such as it can also aid the lymphatic system, meditation, art and music therapy, helping to filter germs and disease. hypnotherapy and deep relaxation. Research has shown that deep Western Medical Acupuncture relaxation, for example, has a positive is accepted as evidence-based medicine effect on blood pressure and digestion and is available on the NHS. It is a and reduces the stress hormones in popular treatment in cancer centres; the body which can help the immune among many benefits, it helps relieve system. While the research continues it the nausea and sickness of certain year and for good reason, as evidence is clear that anything which supports a chemotherapy drugs. Integrating from research recommends it, and where person’s psychological experience, such the evidence goes so does medicine. as feeling less anxious, can have a direct Complementary therapists now complementary Complementary therapies help patients impact on how the body responds to work alongside clinicians in many to reduce the stress and anxiety that treatments. hospitals including UCLH in London therapies into comes with cancer treatment; and where they are considered an essential anything that helps someone feel Energy-based treatments such as part of the multi-disciplinary team cancer treatment they are coping better will improve Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Acupressure providing support to cancer patients By Simon Hatchard-Parr MA their overall sense of well-being. The and Reflexology are increasingly undergoing medical treatment. This is role of the therapist is central: having available in hospitals and cancer care only the barest overview of the subject. someone skilled and caring provide centres. Gold standard research, funded There is an ever increasing body of ew research is showing that their undivided attention for your by the National Lottery, was recently research information available on how certain complementary therapies physical, emotional, psychological undertaken at a major NHS Hospital complementary therapies are helping help people cope better with the and spiritual needs can be a real help and showed compelling statistically cancer patients. side-effects of surgery, chemotherapy while undergoing conventional medical significant results which will do much to N care. Fiona Kiddle, a Macmillan dispel the attitude that such treatments Simon Hatchard-Parr MA and radiation. The number of hospitals and cancer support centres where such Cancer Information Nurse at Cherry offer little more than placebo. The 020 3031 6075 treatments are available grows year on Lodge Cancer Care in Barnet says: findings, described as ‘spectacular’ by www.sanctushealing.com

‘wonderful journey’ which has helped approach’ adopted by the trainees so at Vauxhall’s charity runs sessions for unveil the truth behind an illness the women can make more informed women’s emotional wellbeing and Cancer research, historically redolent with fear: decisions: sexual health. homelessness and “I feel very privileged to have been “We’re always led by what a woman Fifty three percent of homeless able to contribute towards the unpicking wants. people have experienced chronic prison pregnancy of this once mysterious and lethal “We help her to make that clear to pain and nearly a quarter have been disease.” other people that are supporting her.” diagnosed with arthritis, according to a peer-groups His Nature Reviews Cancer paper is Their ‘Birth Charter’ has been Groundswell research study. groundbreaking in its examination of implemented across four UK prisons “If anyone needs to go to A&E and triumph in New genetic mutations and lack of exposure including Peterborough, outlining they’re on methadone … the doctors to infections revealing how these can standards of care women should receive always take too long to sign it over. Year's honours cause cancer developments in children. during the process of pregnancy or “People in our circle aren’t very good By Phoebe Eckersley Diana Parkinson, has also been separation.This work has lead to their at hanging around .. they just go off and honoured for founding the Birth partnership with the Royal College of discharge themselves.” Companions charity; which formed Midwives. Rogers’ HHPA initiative can cover off the back of a campaign about It provides recommendations costs for hospital visits and health the shackled experience of a pregnant where there are ‘no specific standards’ information which crucially aids the woman at Whittingdale Hospital. for female prisoners, according to 28% of homeless people who turn to She reached out to a UK antenatal Parkinson, highlighting her pioneering opioids as a way to manage the pain Professor Melvyn Greaves of the teacher to offer prisons assistance where attitude honoured in the New Year’s list. themselves. It is because ‘we still speak Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has their language’ that his peer advocacy women have often been left alone, Her team supported 115 women in been honoured for his vital work for role at Groundswell has tapped into the with 36% of those receiving their care prison from 2017-2018, according to the leukaemia research, along with Dennis community’s needs and been awarded an showing signs of perinatal anxiety or charity’s Impact Report. Rogers, for spearheading a mentor- MBE. depression. “We’re often there to hold a woman’s scheme which bridges the gap between “I never dreamt ever that I’d get The experience can be traumatic hand, mop her brow and encourage her.” the homeless community and medical something like this. because women often have difficult Dennis Rogers, 58, spent ten years experts, and Diana Parkinson for “Even if it encourages one homeless collaborating with midwives to create a familial relationships and their differing living on the street fighting a battle person to see there is change, it can new framework for supporting pregnant crime profile to men sees them locked up with alcoholism which eventually led happen.” women in prison more sensitively. for ‘a lot less minor crimes’, according to to rehab. He has used this experience Parkinson. to spearhead the Groundswell charity’s Please see the Birth Companions Where children were once excluded “The women talk about how they feel Homeless Health Peer Advocates website www.birthcompanions.org.uk, from clinical trials, Professor Melvyn like we’re family to them. (HHPA) scheme to help others sleeping Groundswell’s schemes: Greaves has been knighted for his “We’re there for that individual rough, receive medical attention where www.groundswell.org.uk thirty-five year dedication to exploring woman; as a pregnant woman or new doctor’s have avoided engaging with and Melvyn Greaves paper: the causes of childhood leukaemia. mother, not as a prisoner.” them. www.nature.com/articles/s41568-018- Greaves commented on his She pointed out the ‘trauma informed Like Diana Parkinson, his work 0015-6 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk HealthKC W Today & February Lifestyle 2019

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tumour could be analysed at the time of diagnosis or surgery and the biology of the tumour could guide the

Photographs © ICR Photographs therapeutic strategy to treat the patient, thereby eliminating any chances of the tumour coming back. It has now been implemented in the laboratory for a clinical trial, differentiating between benign and cancerous tumours based on their lipid composition. “Cells have the ability to get fatty acids either from the environment; the Dr Rachel Natrajan food or diet, but they can also synthesise these themselves,” explained Dr Poulogiannis. He pointed out that measuring the tumour’s metabolism could help doctors decide whether to alter a patient’s diet, if they find it could play a role in the success of a cancer treatment: “A therapy may only work when we deprive a patient from dietary fats.” “If cancer cells rewire their

Dr George Poulogiannis metabolism, they can evade the immune response.” For example, some cancer drugs work better in the ketogenic diet of low carbohydrates and high protein, according to Poulogiannis. How cancer cells consume and process these fats is central to his work and this new tool could bring him closer to finding out the key nutrients which fuel cancer growth. Poulogiannis could generate a fresh hypothesis for Chris Bakal developing targeted therapies and improving drug efficiency.

Dr Rachel Natrajan is Team Leader knife technology which demonstrates structures captured by the robotic of the Functional Genomics Team at the the importance of diet in affecting the machinery are ironic in their ICR. Cancer survival body’s response to cell invasion. The use extraordinary visual beauty, delicate Her latest research interrogates the rates increasing of 3D ‘mini tumours’ to investigate the folds and vivid colours which contrasts function of particular genes in breast By Phoebe Eckersley genes driving aggressive cancers and to their deadly nature. cancer cells which might be driving microscopic imaging for understanding Bakal pointed out that whilst cancer more aggressive types. By targeting the shape-shifting nature of cancer cells is a very multifaceted disease, each these alterations, this has potential to were also showcased. cancer ‘probably metastases’, only in improve the effectiveness of treatment or New research by Chris Bakal, ‘slightly different ways’ which means identify new treatments for these forms head of the Dynamical Cell Systems targeting this ‘very consistent pattern of breast cancer. tatistics have shown fifty percent Team at the ICR aims to understand the across nature’ could be a breakthrough Natrajan’s laboratory mimics the body’s of cancer patients will survive for ‘metastasis’ process; where cells change for cancer research. conditions by taking a patient’s biopsy at least ten years or be cured but shape in order to spread around the He later showed the lattice light sheet and growing a miniature tumour three researchers at the Institute of Cancer body, turning the disease from being microscope, used in his laboratory which dimensionally out of the patient’s cancer S curable to incurable, Bakal told KCW reveals details of cellular structures that cells.This 3D technique reflects the Research (ICR) are determined to make further progress through their Today. are not visible using normal light. It cells structure ‘more accurately’ than discoveries. To study cancer cell shape, his team uses laser, ‘Bessel beams’ to interrogate 2D and by altering the genetic code of The ICR headquarters in Kensington uses technology to remove one gene at proteins within cells and work out the the cells in each mini tumour, they can is one of the world’s most influential a time. Using robotic microscopes they drug molecules which might block their see how each gene affects the cancer’s cancer research organisations. It is the then take millions of pictures of these activity to defeat cancer. development. top academic research centre in the UK, cells, which are analysed with image “We’re interested in those which a charity and postgraduate college. processing algorithms, breaking down Dr George Poulogiannis is the Team promote growth when you lose the KCW Today visited the ICR to talk what is going on and highlighting genes Leader of the Signalling and Cancer particular gene via mutation.” to some of their researchers about their researchers should be looking at. Metabolism group in the Division of The ICR researchers can then look for work in advances in cancer treatments. Bakal said: “You can think of the Cancer Biology. drugs that might treat the cancer by The team of biologists, chemists and body like a maze that cancer cells have His research on ‘intelligent knife stopping this gene from promoting computational scientists use state- to go through by squeezing through technology’ could ‘revolutionise the way growth of the cancer. of-the-art equipment to develop holes, twisting around corners, or we diagnose and treat tumours’. This institution recently announced targeted therapies for those who do not stretching across gaps. His collaboration with Professor Protein Dickkopf 3 (DKK3) influences successfully respond to standardised “We found hundreds of genes that we Zoltan Takats’ team at Imperial College tumour progression. Dr Fernando Calvo, treatment think are going to be very important for using this electro surgical equipment from Spain has identified this invasion Chris Bakal, George Poulogiannis regulating cell shape. may reveal more about cancer sub-types, of signalling pathways activates YAP/ and Rachel Natrajan were the three “For some genes we can then develop aside from its current application for TAZ proteins which promote cancerous scientists who took the time to take a drug to target it, and freeze the cancer identifying whether a tissue is cancerous growth and blocking this could prevent us on a tour of the ICR laboratories. cells in their tracks.” or not. pro-cancer signalling and subsequent Their pioneering work included smart These electrifying microscopic This means a sample of a patient’s cell corruption. 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Health & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Occasionally I am wheeled off to another department for more thorough testing, Praise an MRI or a scan. for the NHS! ‘What would you like for your By Cynthia Pickard breakfast? Porridge? I’ll bring you some

honey. Fruit salad? I’m taking the order Pickard © Cynthia Photograph for lunch. Now I’m taking your order for dinner’, can I think about food that far into the future? The family rallies round in the most t comes as a revelation to me that wonderful way, I see more of them in after the initial surprise of a trip by a week than in a normal month, they ambulance to Kingston Hospital via do everything for me, bring me what I the mayhem of Accident and Emergency I need from home, take away the rest. In (with its injured parties sometimes normal circumstances, I suppose I am handcuffed to policemen,) and with my not so conscious of how much they care. personal varied discomforts, I ended up Going home day approaches. I feel I having such a positive experience. Someone has vacated a bed in my should make a bit more effort than my ward, porters wheel in 87 year old Mary usual slow shuffle round the corridors. I and slot her into the spare space that’s find a staircase and realise I had better come free. She’s had a fall. Bright as a give climbing it a try. Instant cramp in button, smiley and chatty. ‘This is all both legs at the attempt, I’m shocked new to me,’ she says, unfamiliar with the at how fast unused muscles can become constant procedures of the ward. ‘I’ve useless. I need to practice going up and never been in hospital before, no, gave down, someone is waiting to take over birth to all my kids at home.’ my bed. Here in Kingston Hospital the staff Patients in this ward are mostly in a widow too?’ I love the consideration, kindness are so well trained, not only in the their 80s and 90s, a game bunch who How is it that I feel relaxed and and humour of my multicultural nurses, service they give patients, but also the soon form a community. One confused happy? Constant attention. The daily assistants and orderlies. In everyday life support and consideration that they give patient asks, ‘How do we pay for this ward round brings the reassurance one is not used to being on the receiving to each other, to make the hospital run food?’ Perhaps she imagines she’s staying of my delightful Italian doctor, end of so much attention. I would like so smoothly. in a hotel. An elderly lady walks past regular monitoring of blood pressure, this well padded Ugandan to envelop me every two minutes telling me how much temperature, heart rate, the giving in the embrace of her goodwill and look Kingston Hospital. better I look followed by uniformed of pills, injections, blood sugar level after me forever. I accuse her of being First Acute Trust in London to be rated assistants to bring her back from her tests. ‘You’ll feel a scratch’, more a vampire disguised as a nurse for the Outstanding by CQC for wanderings. A patient asks me, ‘Are you phials of blood going off for analysis. quantity of blood she takes from me. Overall Quality and Leadership.

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on, while others, like Nude Against the Light (again), painted a decade later, are Pierre Bonnard: awkward and lumpish. Marthe’s round, spoon-like face pops up in Dining Room The Colour of in the Country, (1913), The Window Memory from 1925, almost as an afterthought Tate Modern on a balcony, and, of course, in the many depictions of her à toilette. She was, by all Until 6 May 2019 accounts, petite, timid and misanthropic, Admission £18 understandably, and not at all popular amongst his friends. tate.org.uk Matisse and Monet had enormous respect for Bonnard, although Picasso was less than generous with his praise, stating that he was ‘not really a modern mmerse yourself in the gloriously painter; a decadent, at the end of of an colourful world of Pierre Bonnard old idea. . . . That’s not painting. Painting and bask in the warm sunny can’t be done that way. Painting isn’t a Iafternoons on the Côte d’Azur or gaze question of sensibility.’ Matisse countered out of the window at the lush garden by saying, ‘Yes! I certify that Pierre from the coolness of the dining room. Bonnard is a great painter, for today and Sit with him and his family around the for the future.’ Bonnard was a private kitchen table spread with a red checkered man, self-sufficient, partly reclusive tablecloth. Some of his works display and apparently straight. Photographs a seeming lack of structure, as though of him could be mistaken for a bank- he had forgotten something and just clerk or a solicitor on holiday, with a painted it in as an afterthought, like the thick, worsted suit, owlish glasses and top of someone’s head or the glimpse of tie. This appearance was deceptive, a nude figure in a mirror or through a as, approaching fifty, he entered into doorway. A tall, blond young girl, Renée another clandestine relationship with the Monchaty, was the model for The Bowl of beautiful wife of the Bonnards’ family Milk, painted in 1919, with the sunshine doctor, Lucienne Dupuy de Frenelle, streaming into the room and the young who also acted as his model. He used girl holding a small bowl. Only then does photography, not just for reference of the viewer see the cat at the bottom of Marthe posing nude in the garden, or the frame, a dark smudge slinking across the floor. Young Women in the Garden has his lover Renée in the shade, centre Top: Nude Crouching in the Tub 1918 canvas turning to face the viewer, with an Oil paint on canvas almost unnoticed face insinuating itself Paris, musée d'Orsay Photo © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. at the extreme right of the composition. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt This is Marthe de Méligny, who was Left: about to supplant Renée as his mistress Still Life with Bottle of Red Wine 1942 and become his companion, model and Oil paint on canvas 650 x 540 mm wife for the next fifty years. Three weeks Private Collection after Bonnard switched allegiancies and Right married Marthe in 1925 after thirty years The Bowl of Milk 1919 of living together, Renée killed herself. Tate He started the painting of them both in 1921, fiddled with it until 1925, then it was abandoned until 1945 and finally finished the following year, three years after Marthe died. He rarely painted from life, relying mainly on drawings, on a bed, but also of his mother and notes and photographs, to paint onto the children of his sister Andrée and unstretched canvases pinned to the walls, brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse, playing but mostly from his memory. He would in a pond. As well as his and Marthe’s, take copious notes and do numerous there are other portaits by Cartier- pencil drawings on his morning walks, Bresson, Besson and Brassai in the before returning to his modest studio in exhibition, including a couple by André the house. Ostier of the painter in his studio.This Bonnard never took on anything is the first major exhibition of his work that might be considered challenging, in twenty years, and includes over 100 unlike his contemporaries, Picasso and enamelled bath for ages, while Bonnard landscape and not at the enticing figure of his greatest works from around the Matisse. His subjects were steeped in etched the tranquil scene in his memory, of Monchaty, possibly as Eve, sprawling world. Five paintings, including The Bath the domesticity of everyday life; food or, afterwards, when she was towelling on the ground in a state of complete and The Dining Room have been divested and wine on the table, a bowl of fruit, herself down. Although there is an abandon. Curiously, although he never of their frames and hung unframed, to a view through an open window to a inherent voyeurism in these canvases, painted en plein air, there is a fold-up create a sense of how they might have verdant landscape, and, of course, his Marthe would have been compliant and easel behind the tree he is leaning on. looked in his studio. The effect this has nudes, which he depicted over 380 times, would willingly pose for him, standing Some of his nudes are sublime in their is to highlight how dreadful some of the many of them in the bath. Luckily, his against the light in her bedroom, or lighting and composition, like Nude other frames are, and how they diminish wife had an almost pathalogical fondness lying provocatively on a bed. In Earthly Against the Light from 1908; a gloriously a picture. If the month of February is for bathing, possibly as a cure for a skin Paradise, started in 1916, Bonnard is executed painting, singing with colour proving too grey and depressing, then ailment or the tubercular laryngitis that standing bolt upright, naked under a tree, and light, which brings to mind Ken step into a pool of sunshine at Bankside. she suffered from, and would lie in an but preferring to gaze out on the lush Howard’s contre-jour pictures a century Don Grant 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

measuring the passage of time. When someone approaches the device, the arms seamlessly switch out of the clock mode and point at the would-be predator in a slightly intimidating way, before becoming a clock once again. The presentation and graphics are squeaky clean, although some of the captions are virtually impenetrable, particularly on the subject of Cognitive Sensorimotor Loops and how they can be made to repel external forces. In the shop upstairs, there is a range of kitchen and tableware, bathroom accessories, stationery, some produced by former students of Professor Yamanaka fashion, and books, all beautifully made, and exquisitely priced. One expects to pay a few hundred pounds for an authentic ‘cutting edge’ Japanese knife, but I was not prepared for the cost of a pair of Ryoun Yamanose spectacles.

Left: Archer on a Boat © Shimizu Yukio Admittedly, the rims are made of forged Above : Clockoid © Nishibe Yusuke and moulded carbon steel, by hand, rendered black by grazed rapeseed oil, which he then raises, aims and shoots, with different elements of bamboo, immediately selecting another arrow; coated with urethane resin, for the shades of Legolas in Lord of the Rings. temples and tips. Hand-crafted silver The Clockoid is an extraordinary piece screws and pearl oyster nose pads, bring of precision engineering, combining the cost up to an eye-watering £3,840, time-eternal and time-dynamic, digital with another pair of goggles, that would and analogue. It comprises multiple sit happily on Elton John’s honker, arms rotating in a horizontal plane, costing a lachrymose £6,000. with an hour, minute and second hand, Don Grant

on half a dozen or so white undulating tables, on which there are a variety of Prototyping in objects, drawings and videos, covering three main topics, namely AM, Bio- Tokyo Likeness Robots and Prosthetics, in Japan House which are various interpretations of Kensington High Street the ‘expanded human body.’ They range from ‘Running Specific Prosthetics’ for Until 17 March 2019 the lower limb, utilising ‘Selective Laser Sintering’, to a ‘Ready to Crawl’ examples of robots, resembling myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes, etc) where all the parts, apart from the motor, were produced together, including all the inner cogs, outer frame and legs. These, and other innovative designs, are by n the Christmas edition of Private the world-renowned design engineer Eye, there is their annual double and the University of Tokyo Professor page Gnome Christmas Giftmart, Yamanaka Shunji. He replicates protozoa featuring such indispensable items as a with intricate lightweight skeletons CONTEMPORARY COLLABORATIONS I called Radiolaria, Kagemusha, or water ‘Solar-powered Trouser-press’, which The current display is the third in a series of Contemporary can only be used outside in daylight bears, which are tiny animals which Collaborations, showcasing works by emerging artists, who explore hours, a ‘Driverless Suitcase,’ and an phylogenetically sit between worms and the relationship between historic and modern works of art. The artist HS2 StairLift, which can shave up to 10 arthropods in the tree of life, and Tokage, can choose any object from RYA’s large collection of naive, primitive seconds off your upstairs journey time. which is a form of lizard. and folk art, and display it within a modern context by referencing Best of all is the one that states, ‘Can’t There is a beautifully-constructed material, texture and aesthetics. This collaboration, curated by Erin afford your own 3D Printer? Simply skeletal automaton, or karakuri ningyo, Hughes, will occur three times a year, and the artist’s work will occupy print one out with this incredible 3D called Archer in a Boat, which comprises the gallery window for a month, in this case, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Printer Printer. Problem solved.’ In real traditional Japanese craftsmanship with with An Unusual Arrangement. She is a sculpture student at the Royal life, the 3-D printing process is known ingenious engineering, made out of a College of Art, which is currently expanding its operations with a as ‘Additive Manufacturing’ (AM), and number of different woods, including £108m flagship building across the road, developing a campus and is now used extensively by designers boxwood, cherry, oak, ebony and hinoki cultural quarter designed by Herzog & de Meuron and scheduled to and engineers to produce prototypes, ( Japanese Cypress), depending on open in 2021 which combine practicality, aesthetics, the function and characteristics of the texture and tactile sensations. Previously, specific part. Although not a working Robert Young Antiques 68 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11 3AG producing prototypes involved cutting, model, there is a video alongside, T: +44 20 7228 7847 [email protected] trimming and bending. The exhibition showing the archer plucking an arrow in the Gallery downstairs is displayed out of his quiver, notching it to the bow, 46 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

his ice house, built in 1780, forgotten. It is likely that there are demand for ice to put in drinks, ice is the earliest known large further buried structural remains which cream and frozen desserts. Norwegian An archaeological scale, commercial ice store may include wooden door frames,'soak ice was favoured, because it was much discovery from andT it has been designated a Scheduled aways' and a wooden roof. cleaner than ice from the Regent's Monument by Historic England. There The ice was lowered in from the canal. Ships carrying ice were unloaded are plans to give the public access. top via a shaft and taken out via an at Regent's Canal, the ice was the pre- Archaeologists have revealed it gives a ascending passage-way with further professionally weighed and sent by barge refrigeration age link to London’s ice trade with Norway doors for good insulation. The ice was to the commercial store house. By Marian Maitland in the 18th century. insulated with straw to discourage William Leftwich, a pioneering There are written records for the further melting. Workers entered the ice merchant and confectioner, created construction of an ice house dating void from a small corridor near the top the ice trade with Norway. In 1822 he to 1780 B.C. in Terqa in Northern to chip off blocks when needed. chartered a vessel and shipped 300 tons Mesopotamia, following an order from The blocks were insulated with straw of ice from Norway's frozen fjords. the King Zimri-Lim. Ice pits were again and loaded onto horse-drawn David Sorapure, Head of Built Far underground from the discovered in China in 7th century BC, carts for delivery to restaurants, taverns, Heritage at the London Museum of but there is evidence of their use as far wealthy homes and hospitals. Ice was Archaeology ( MOLA) worked with light and warmth of the day, back as 1100 BC Ice houses also existed used in hospitals for numbing and Great Marlborough Estates in the in the dark, dank bowels of in the time of Alexander the Great in preserving. There was medical activity in excavation site and he said, 300 BC and in Rome during the 3rd Harley Street at the time. Confectioners, “There has always been an the earth, Archaeologists have century AD pastry cooks and fishmongers were big understanding that there was an ice discovered a long forgotten The newly discovered subterranean customers. house here somewhere, but, we weren't structure is shaped like an inverted egg, This commercial ice store was created sure where”. ice house. It came to light 9.5 metres deep and 7.5 metres wide. by Samuel Dash whose family had links Danny Harrison, Senior MOLA during the building of a Three months of careful excavation with the brewing industry who may Archaeologist, explained the significance passed before the high standard, intact have encouraged the idea. Generally of the recent discovery, saying, new development at the rear brick void was revealed. The principal speaking, aristocratic and big homes “What this one does and why it is of houses in a James Nash features have survived, i.e. an opening would have had an ice house from 1600. significant is it bridges the gap between at the top, a red brick-lined cavernous They could be above or below ground or ( the time when) ice was only for the Terrace, numbered 16,18-25 chamber, an entrance passage, ante covered with earth. Big structures were wealthy to a kind of mass availability and 26 in Park Crescent West, chamber and evidence of internal used for hanging meat and preserving of ice you get from the 1830s and 40s chambers. It was previously exposed perishables. and this occupies that fifty year space. South of Regent’s Park. in 2015, then appears to have been In Georgian times there was a big Eventually it is ice for everybody.” Photograph © MOLA Photograph 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

fascination in physical and imagined principles of musical counterpoint is was unintentional, too. Another piece, Fausto Melotti: space, illustrated by his slashed, vulvic referenced in the geometrical sculpture Sculpture C (Infinite) comprises a 2m. canvases in a series called Concetti he produced in the 1930s. There is high stainless steel rod on a bird-foot Counterpoint Spaziali, with Melotti’s intricate and certainly tension in his work, but there base, atop of which is a cross-member spare use of materials within a space. is also a sense of balance and geometry, ending in a curlicue, which could be a Estorick They both studied under the Symbolist which jogs alongside his interest in, bass clef, or simply the letter ‘C’? Melotti sculptor Adolfo Wildt at his Accademia and knowledge of, music. He was at the himself defined infinity as ‘a zero in Collection di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, along epicentre of the Milanese intellectual reverse,’ and ‘Infinity contains infinite Until 7 April 2019 with another sculptor, Luigi Broggini, scene, mixing with musicians, poets infinites. Infinity is a singular plural of Melotti Fausto © Fonazione Photographs who designed the famous six-legged dog and other artists, who were open to a itself.’ Admission £7.50 for Agip’s Supercortemaggiore brand of wider avant-garde influence,including He was immensely prolific, www.estorickcollection.com petrol. the doyens of European abstraction, producing hundreds of sculptural Before he went to Brera to study Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. He works, mostly metal, but also working By Don Grant sculpture, Melotti initially studied did a series of beguiling ceramic Little in plaster, marble, clay and terracotta, physics and mathematics at the Theatres, of which only one is on show, bas reliefs, ceramics, jewellery, works on University of Pisa, and then graduated Orpheus, alongside two drawings of the paper and canvas, as well as architectural in electrical engineering at Milan hapless musician, sketched twenty-odd projects, all of which are catalogued on The flyer for this exhibition Polytechnic. He also studied the piano, years before. Most of the sculpture the Fondazione Fausto Melotti web-site. and his knowledge of the mathematical on show ismade from metal, namely His first solo exhibition was in 1935 opens with the line, ‘The nickel-plated iron, at the Galleria di Milione in Milan, harmonious and delicately- brass, iron, stainless displaying 18 pieces in plaster, clay and steel, nickeled brass metal, and in the catalogue he wrote, poised work of Fausto Melotti and copper. One ‘Art is an angelic, geometric state of (1901-1986) is revered in Italy, absorbing work, In mind. It addresses itself to the intellect, The Swamp, depicts not to the senses.’ Whether one agrees yet surprisingly little-known in a little boat with with that sentiment or not, he certainly the United Kingdom.’ a painted piece of pushed the boundaries from his early fabric as a sail, afloat references to Roman and Etruscan his is perfectly true; he is rarely amongst coils of figurative art, through to modernism shown here, and, indeed, this brass and skinny and abstraction, and on a path towards is the first institutional show reeds, which sway geometrical compositions, with the toT be dedicated to his work in Britain. gently as visitors walk human figure also making a comeback. Harmonious and delicately-poised past. His three iron He died in 1986, aged 87, and the are two ways of describing his work. spheres in Sculpture Venice Biennale awarded him the Leone Whimsical and lightweight could be A (Pendulums) from d’Oro the day after he died. One of his another. Or dainty and precise. A couple 1968 were also more charming works is his brass L’amico of years ago, there was an exhibition minutely swinging leone from 1960, with a disc-like face at the Mazzoleni Gallery in London in unity, as visitors on a spindly body, with a pair of brass entitled ‘FONTANA/MELOTTI: walked past on the balls trailing at the end of his chain tail, Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries’, wooden boarded leaving the visitor wondering whether which juxtaposed Lucio Fontana’s floor, but maybe that Melotti was being ‘playful.’ 48 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

equated to laziness rather than inequality. Thomas Kennington opened Seen and Heard: the New English Art Club in 1885 and Dress Portrait: Victorian Children in the Frame. painted many compelling images of poor Molly Goddard Guildhall Art Gallery. Until 28th April 2019 children. Referring to the new genre, Katherine Pearce, the Curator, said and Sarah “I think what drives Victorian artists in general is not so much Edwards sentimentalism, it’s actually Chelsea Space emotionalism. They're more interested in 16 John Islip Street investigating feelings not just for its own sake. SW1P 4JU Writers of social novels contributed Until 1 March 2019 to the new concept of children. For example, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations by Charles

Photographs © Guildhall Art Gallery © Guildhall Photographs Dickens. They made Politicians and public aware of the plight of poor children. Studies of children in the Exhibition are thought provoking. Some are

from the Guildhall’s own collection, Edwards © Sarah Photograph others are on loan from major British collections such as Tate Britain and the Royal Academy. Augustus E Mulready’s Remembering Joys That Have Passed Away (1873) is particularly evocative. It shows a young bare headed boy with a little girl, in the In the early 19th century children snow, gazing wistfully at a large poster were regarded as small adults and of a pantomime, with a ‘last night’ notice appeared in artworks as props on a stage stuck to it. In front is a box labelled ‘pipe set. They were merely an extension of lighters. 4 boxes for 1d’. families dominated by a Patriarch. There Theophile Emmanuel Duverger's was no interaction between the figures Alone is a remarkable study of childhood. and the children had no individuality. A small boy sits in a chair stuggling to Gradually the perception of children tie his boot lace. The other boot lies on Molly Goddard’s BA fashion show at changed with a social revolution . Many the floor.. He is by the window and the Somerset House in 2015 took the form new Laws and Acts were passed for light shines on him to help him with his of life class at a posh girls’ school, with the benefit of children. They were now task. a well-upholstered, middle-aged, male treated with empathy and began to I liked James Clarke Hook’s Word nude model surrounded by girls in tulle have rights to a carefree childhood with from the Missing. It is a good example of frocks who had been to the student ball freedom to learn, explore and play. The interaction between the figures. A boy the night before, had not slept, and went much needed Acts passed to alleviate the stands at the edge of the sea holding up a straight to class. It was a sensation. She brutality in the Victorian age, especially bottle in which there is a note. A smaller was on her way. Her unique approach, to the poor, included The Mines Act girl rises up to have a closer look. The in collaboration with her mother, the of 1842 which banned all boys under viewer wonders what the note said and photographer and set designer, Sarah ten years and all women and girls from one can sense the children's imagination Edwards, ensured she was included in working in the Mines. In 1848 the working full time. ‘Vogue’s Most Unforgettable Fashion Public Health Act was passed which Thomas Webster's The Frown is an Shows Of All Time and Alix Browne’s established a Central Board of Health intriguing study. It shows a row of young Runway: The Spectacle of Fashion’, as hildren have not always been in response to the cholera epidemic. boys sitting against a wall. They are all well as winning the prestigious Vogue encouraged to express themselves In 1851 Henry Mayhew published very individual. one wears a white apron Designer Fashion Fund in May 2018. and used to be under strict London Labour and London Poor after and the light shines on him as he cries. Her dresses are bold, voluminous and discipline in school and at home. In interviewing child workers. The Others interact with each other as they fun, sometimes using tens of metres C Elementary Education Act was passed in talk, no doubt plotting mischief! Set a of fabric in a single item. One such Victorian times, many from poor families worked from an early age , in 1880 to make school compulsory up to little back is a child wearing a dunce's dress, in shocking, shocking pink, was appalling conditions for endlessly long the age of ten. hat. The artist has immortalised his pent worn by Jodie Comer as the insouciant hours. There were further reforms, help up childish anger in his frown. assassin Villanelle in BBC’s Killing Eve, Artists have a long tradition of from charities and philanthropists. The My First Sermon by John Everett standing in Place Vendôme in Paris in painting children and the Exhibition children now had a voice. Millais is very touching. It reveals a black Balenciaga boots. She also dresses Seen and Heard: Victorian Children in A new genre of art developed. young girl dressed in red with a perfectly Rihanna in a similarly spectacular style. the Frame gives a visual narrative of Idealised works were filled with scenes straight hat, sitting bolt upright with her Her mum’s photographs capture the how attitudes to children of all classes of happiness at home and children feet on a hassock. It is hard to tell what texture, transluscency and volume of changed dramatically during the playing. Queen Victoria had nine she is thinking. The same girl is painted the fabrics, as well as their exuberance. Victorian Era. This Exhibition brings children and they were in the public eye. again a year later, with her legs hanging Apart from a couple of sample frocks together Art and Social History for the Family life values were promoted which down and her hat beside her. She is from Molly’s archive, the exhibition first time. led to concern for children of the poor. asleep. comprises black and white and colour Fifty paintings, which include There was a cultural wind of change in Marian Maitland photographs stuck to the walls, with a works by John Everett Millais, Thomas the treatment of all children. few in frames. Yet another quality show Webster, Augustus E Mulready and A genre of painters of poverty arose. The Guildhall Art Gallery from Donald Smith and his team at James Clarke Hook, explore the City merchant Charles Gassiot bought Guildhall Yard Chelsea Space, within a sugar-cube’s changing conception of childhood in many works of this type in the 1840s. London E.C 2 5 AE throw from Tate Britain. Victorian times. At this time poverty was sometimes T: 020 7332 3700 Don Grant 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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car,” he said, “and now I think that we 100 years of the Winged B have done it.” By Fahad Redha Reviewing the car for The Tatler, Captain W. Gordon Aston would write: “never in my life have I known a vehicle in which such a prodigious performance scoring more victories. Bentley’s first was linked to such smooth unobtrusive win was in 1924, during the second quietness.” ever edition of the race and was the first The company changed hands British manufacturer to do so. Driving multiple times in its history, first being for the ‘winged B,’ Woolf Barnato took bought by Rolls Royce in 1931, Vickers home the trophy in 1928, 1929, and in 1980, and finally its current owner, 1930. Its next win would not come until Volkswagen in 1998. While many 2003. people to this day lament that such an W.O Bentley founded the company iconic British marque is owned by the to “build a fast car, a good car, the best Germans (ignoring that the cars are still in its class.” He had put his ambitions developed and engineered here) this has on hold during the First World War, propelled Bentley into the 21st Century. but when peace returned, he decided The Continental GT was the to pursue this dream. An £8,000 birth-child of that creation. Despite contribution from the Commission of its negative reputation as a footballer’s Awards to Inventors didn’t help either. car, this 200mph brute is a true Bentley W.O. was initially opposed to racing for the modern age, combining high- at Le Mans. “I think the whole thing is performance with luxury. Along crazy,” he said. “Cars aren’t designed to with the 4-door Flying Spur and stand that sort of strain for twenty-four convertible GTC, the new generation The 10th of July 2019 will building high-performance hours.” But when he saw his own car, the of cars have been joined by a reinvented mark 100 years since Walter luxury cars. 3 Litre, setting a lap record and finish Mulsanne. The latest to join the stable fourth with Frank Clement and John is the Bentayga, the first SUV in the Owen (W.O.) Bentley started Duff in 1923, he changed his tune. company’s history, such is the time we one of the most well-known he company has also made His final creation was the 8-Litre. live in. a name for itself on the race The power and torque provided by the In addition to a range of events, British brands of all time. track, winning the 24 hours straight-six allowed this car to pass Bentley will celebrate its centenary with Over the years the brand of LeT Mans six times. This makes it one 100mph, regardless of what body the a special edition car. Look out for it at of the top manufacturers in the race with owner had chosen. “I have always the Geneva Motor Show in March, and has been synonymous with only Jaguar, Ferrari, Audi, and Porsche wanted to produce a dead silent 100 mph raise a glass to the winged B.

Speed 8 Nobody said a list of the greatest The Five Bentleys of all time had to be road going production cars. The company’s Greatest Bentleys triumphant return to Le Mans came in the form of the Speed 8. While the car of all time had some input with Audi (most notably By Fahad Redha the engine), it was a British company, Racing Technology Norfolk, that was responsible for its design, development, and manufacture. In 2003 the V8 To celebrate the brand’s powered machine took home the top centenary, we list what may spot, beating even the Audi R8, the single most successful Le Mans car of all be some of the most iconic time. models from the past Brooklands 100 years. There have been two cars to bear this title but it is perhaps the later car that The Blower Bentley deserves its spot in this list. The 2-door No list would be complete without this the Blower. This was thanks to the price. coupé launched in 2008 was built in supercharged car. W.O. was originally At a time when the average salary was limited numbers, just 550 by 2011. The opposed to using forced induction, £468 and the average house cost £1,891, 6.75-litre overhead valve Rolls Royce preferring instead to increase the the Continental cost an eye watering V8 is a dinosaur of an engine. Yet with engine’s size, he was overruled. He £6,928 including tax. Right above. a pair of turbochargers it makes 530 said that it would “pervert the engine’s horsepower and 1,050 newton metres design and corrupt its performance.” He Continental GT (744 lb-ft) of torque. No other petrol was proven wrong and the “Blower” as You may scoff at this car even being powered V8 in any production car has it came to be known has since become mentioned but it has done something made more torque. This allows the 2.6 something of a legend. even Rolls Royce has failed to do. It tonne behemoth to reach 60mph in just has brought a great British marque into 5 seconds and keep going to 184mph. R-Type Continental the 21st century. No company can rely Today’s Bentley Continental GT owes that could cruise comfortably at over solely on tradition for ever to survive. It Only time will tell what the company a debt to the original from 1952. The 100mph with four people and their must attract a new generation and the has in store for the future. But if the fastback shape is one of Bentley’s most luggage. This was practically unheard “footballers’ car” has done exactly that recent concepts are anything to go by, iconic and recognisable and helped to of at the time. Only 208 cars have ever and helped to ensure the brand’s long the next century will be just as exciting inspire the new car. Here was a machine been built, making it almost as rare as term success. Left above. as the first. 020 7738 2348 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk adRocket

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series of fast timed games, where there CHESS are already Rapid and Blitz World Champions; Carlsen being a World By Barry Martin Champion in all three of these!. In the past, World Championships of 24 games at Classical time have tended to be the norm. This and other even longer Championships have been reduced Puzzles deeply in game numbers and this in part has been through financial considerations. wo recently published chess books However, Carlsen’s inability to defeat that come highly recommended Caruana in the Classical section of catch the eye, as does the World their World Championship match has Champion’sT monthly blog which given some commentators reason to explains his thoughts and feelings about question the validity of bestowing a his recent defence of his World Title World Title for Classical chess, when match against Fabiano Caruana. He also the tournament has been won with faster responds to those carping comments time controls. One venerable chess hero, from ex-world champions! Vlastimil Hort from Czechoslovakia The first book titled, Oleg Pervakov’s who has just celebrated his 75th. Industrial Strength Endgame Studies, by birthday, ‘... was one of the world’s best Sergei Tkachenko published by LLC players’ and a World Championship Elk and Ruby Publ. House 2018, and Candidate said in a recent Chessbase a snip at 14-95 euros, is a favourite interview when asked why he liked of world players such as Anish Giri, to play Chess 960 these days replied, a contributing editor to New in Chess “No theory! Pure creativity”. The last magazine, who states “I like solving World Championship match (Carlsen- puzzles!”. Pervakov, a famous chess Caruana) would also probably have gone composer, has 100 of his best studies, differently if they had played Chess 960, from elegant short studies with 6 fewer draws! His take on the match was

moves to ‘romantic grotesques with that the games were of high quality.

many pieces on the board and over 30 ‘ However, with the current rules, it

moves deep to find the solution, and might indeed happen that one of the material. surrender

! Black has to to has Black ! zugzwang

in all the games there is spectacular finalists can keep or get the crown comments on the WCC London Mutual Be8!

play by both sides!’ The monthly puzzle without winning a single game. This tournament. Following some negative Ka5.10. 8.Kb5.9.Bd7+, deficit! material a

is taken from Pervakov’s book and I is absurd! The rules must definitely be comments from several former World despite Domination 7.Bxf6,Kxa5.8.Bd4!

include the variation possibilities he changed. Otherwise, all deceased World Champions, including Kasparov, at the on. so and Ne4+.11.Kd3.Nd6.12.Bxf6

notes which provide clarity, innovation Champions will turn restlessly in their tournament’s conclusion for the Classical Nd2+.10.Kc3, Kxa5.9.Bd4, Kb5.8.Bd7+,

and mental exercise. What more would graves!’ section, he notes, “As planned I pushed 6...Ne4.7.Bxa1, after knight a versus

one want after the excesses of the libido The new President of FIDE Arkady quite hard as Black already in game 1, Bishops 2 of win theoretical a claims

and diversions of the festive season Dvorkovich whose mission has already and generally throughout most of the White Kb5! Bd4! (5...Nd5.6.Bd7++).6.

leading into this New Year ? The second set right from wrong in the world chess first half of the match I remained very 5...Kc6 5.Bh5? not But point! the That’s

book of equal mental nourishment is arena, has still a long way to go. I can optimistic. His (Caruana’s) play in game 5.Bg4!! 7.Kxb2. and 5.Bh5!,Kc6.6.Be8+

Carlsen v Caruana FIDE World Chess thoroughly recommend the Keene 6, outplaying me with Black, changed 4...f5, good: no is Waiting pretty! looks

Championship, London 2018. Co-authors, and Jacobs World Championship book the psychology significantly, despite always corner the to Moving 4...Ba1!!

Raymond Keene OBE and Byron Jacobs, to both general readers and strong the boost I got from finding a far from time each draw a and Kb5 Kxa4.7.Kxb2,

first published by Gloucester Publishers players of all chess grades. It gives a obvious fortress to hold the game” He 4.Bh5?,Na4.5.Be8+Kb4.6.Bxa4, material.

! Black has to surrender surrender to has Black !

Ltd. London, in the Everyman Chess complete appraisal and in-depth analysis goes onto explain why he went for a zugzwang

Series. This comprehensive analysis of the games played and the World draw in game 12, when the adverse Mutual 8.Kb5.9.Bd7+,Ka5.10.Be8!

of all the 12 Classical games and Championship historical context which criticism levelled at him at the time was deficit! material a despite Domination

three Play-Off games that decided the last tournament was part of. that a win was plausible if he had pushed Kxa5.8.Bd4! 7.Bxf6, on. so and Bxf6

the championship in Carlsen’s favour Magnus Carlsen in his blog for it. ‘ Putting the title on the line in Ne4+.11.Kd3.Nd6.12. Nd2+.10.Kc3,

is further elucidated with a complete game 12 was never a tempting option. Kxa5.9.Bd4, Kb5.8.Bd7+, Ne4.7.Bxa1,

History of the World Chess Championship, The margin of error is smaller in a single 6... after knight a versus Bishops 2

an overall profile of the two contenders, game, and with Black, Caruana had of win theoretical a claims White

and an analysis of the Berlin Candidates already shown impressive prep in several Kb5! Bd4! (5...Nd5.6.Bd7++).6. Kc6

2018 match which decided who would games. I somewhat underestimated the 5... 5.Bh5? not But point! the That’s

go forward to challenge Carlsen for strength of my position and never saw 5.Bg4!! 7.Kxb2. and Kc6.6.Be8+ 5.Bh5!,

the World Title. The two authors have a clear path where I could play for a 4...f5, good: no is Waiting pretty!

been thorough with their analysis of win without much risk. I thought his looks always corner the to Moving

every game played over the 12 rounds plan Bd4 would equalise. Accordingly 4...Ba1!! time each draw a and Kb5

of Classical chess, and are not shy of I offered a draw after 30 moves as Kxa4.7.Kxb2, Na4.5.Be8+Kb4.6.Bxa4,

commenting adversely where better planned, to reach a four game play-off. 4.Bh5?, or Kxa5, Ba1.5.Bxf6, 4.Bd8?

moves could or should have been made Had I seen the Nd3-threat preventing either with anywhere get doesn’t

by the two combatants. Bd4, maybe I would have played on. He White 4...Na4+. fork the to Due Kxb2?

The concluding chapter asks the was getting low on time and after a long 4, Kb5.4.Kb3!Not 2...Nc3!.3.Bf3+,

question, “Are 12 Games Enough?”. think, accepted.’ Now you know! perishes. pawn white the and Ka4,

The idea being that the 12 games played The following very well annotated Bc3.4.Be2+, Kb5.3.Kc2, 2.Bf3+?, for

at classical time limits, with 6.5 points game from the excellent Industrial early too It’s 2.Kc2! saved. be cannot

deciding the winner, doesn’t give enough Strength Endgame Studies Pervakov book, Knight the and 1....Bf4.2.Be3, not But

room for the Classical Time Chess follows. What was White’s first move attack! double a Allowing 1...Bxb2!

Model to be ‘properly’ exploited by the that eventually decided a win for White, draw. a and Be5 Kd3, Bxb2.2. Bxa6? 1.

two players. At present a tie with 12 and which alternative move would have not But knight. imprisoned the capture draws giving 6 points to each player tips decided the game a draw? to Threatening 1.Kd3! Answer: the championship over into a play-off Answer upside down below. 56 February 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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