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www.kcwtoday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 • A truck driver killed 8 innocent people • Our place in the world diminishes exit for sewage is so bad that EDUCATION BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS Advertisement enquiries: SUPPLEMENT SUPPLEMENT SUPPLEMENT in New York just for the hell of it; a daily with some of the antics of our it could easily become blocked Bitcoin’s rise is more akin to gold, not stunning Hays Galleria, there will be classics from pop-up choirs. 17 Duke's Rd, Bloomsbury, 2 Bitcoin & the tulips. Gold, like Bitcoin, experienced approximately 64 festively lit German Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD London WC1H 9PY a similarly meteoric rise between 1999 November 2017 style wooden cabins, making this the dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk theplace.org.uk Cryptocurrency and 2011, where its value increased from perfect place to combine a magical and Parliamentarians £6k per kilo to £33k per kilo. Gold has CHRISTMAS MARKETS festive day out with Christmas shopping. December 9 November 18 – December 31 consistently remained at around that Riverside, Queens Walk, London North End Road Cinderella Bubble? level since. However, this comparison is Date TBC P crazy gun toting individual killed 58 in [email protected] SE1 2DB Wander on down the historic road to the Hackney Empire By James Billot deeply problematic because there are a Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair sounds of carol singers, the Fulham Brass The classic rags to riches tale of scarcity of resources that gold possesses Luxury boutique gifts return to the December 1-2 band, a Rock Cadohoir and a cappella Cinderella will be told in true Hackney and Bitcoin does not. Although there is Chelsea Old Town Hall on Kings Battersea Park's Pear Tree quartet belting out Yuletide tunes such style by the award-winning pantomime a finite number of Bitcoins in circulation Road in December of 2018 thanks Pear Tree Café as Jingle Bell Rock and Santa Baby. There team as they prove a new pair of shoes (21 million), there are very few checks to Clever Creations Events annual As the frosty evening draws near and is also eye-catching street entertainment really can change your life. and cause frankly a huge stink. n a brisk October morning in and balances in place to prevent more Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair. Do all your the candles start to glow, the Saturday from the acrobatic elves, roller-skating 020 8985 2424 1929, Joseph Kennedy decided FLY, YOU coins from being produced or ‘mined’. Christmas shopping in one go with over to get his shoes shined. He left Night Market will be a magical gathering satsumas, the snow balls, one-man band 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ Las Vegas - neither were connected to The valuation of Bitcoin therefore cannot 85 hand-picked quality exhibitors from for friends and family with carol singers and a visit from Santa. hackneyempire.co.uk Subscriptions: his office and walked down a few blocks correspond to the fundamental laws of LONDON LITERARY FESTIVAL all over the UK and abroad. O FOOLS! and festivities. Pear Tree Cafe will be lbhf.gov.uk before finding a boy offering a shoeshine supply and demand. chelseachristmasgiftfair.com service. As he took a seat and propped up But there is one obstacle in the putting on an evening supper with views November 23 and 24 POETRY INTERNATIONAL his feet, the shoe shiner asked Kennedy THE marshy swampland of the cryptocurrency overlooking the market and ice dusted DANCE Wild Card - Gianluca Vincentini November 17 – January 1 park, serving seasonal dishes such as Lilian Baylis Studio • It has taken 29 years for the parents what he did for a living. Kennedy told world that looms larger than any Winter Wonderland pulled pork sliders, pickled apple and red Ends December 14 Originally from Italy, choreographer and the boy that he was an investor, among BITCOIN other: government. It is often said that Hyde Park SOUTHBANK CENTRE other things. The boy stopped shining political power follows economic power, cabbage; turkey schnitzel brioche bun Fagin’s Twist curator Gianluca Vincentini is passionate Get into the Christmas spirit as Winter with cranberry sauce, melted brie and The Place about nurturing dance artists. Curious ISIS. Kennedy’s shoes and looked up. “An but in the case of Bitcoin, it is unclear Wonderland returns to London’s Hyde investor, eh?” said the precocious boy, CRASH radicchio. Look out for the Pear Tree Fagin’s Twist is the untold story of a about the entwined nature of movement [email protected] where the economic power actually lies. Park for the 11th year. Broadband falls over across the 13 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER “well, I’ve got a whole bunch of tips for Hatch handing out sausage rolls, hot notorious and complex villain. It imagines and emotion, Vincentini believes that Cryptocurrency poses a huge threat 020 8233 5400 you.” chocolate, mince pies and mulled cider. Fagin’s youth, driven by greed and dance can reveal the complexity of our IS NIGH to the sovereignty of a government London W2 2UH Kennedy politely listened to the because it does not want to lose its Lakeside Cafe, Battersea Park, London ambition in the face of overwhelming intimate connections to each other, and families of those 96 Liverpudlians HILLARY CLINTON boy as he recited a shopping list of hot SW11 4NJ poverty. The streets are a place of little without compromising entertainment. privilege as the monopoly issuer of a November 24-26 stock tips until his shoes were eventually 020 7978 1655 comfort and fairy-tale endings are hard to Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R legitimate currency. As the economist The Scandinavian Christmas Market shined. The 52-year-old stood up, Abba Lerner wrote: “The modern state peartreecafe.co.uk find in this piece of poignant coming-of- sadlerswells.com Come and experience the Nordic TOM HANKS brushed himself down, and paid the can make anything it chooses generally age dance theatre. Christmas atmosphere at the annual boy for his service (presumably for the acceptable as money…It is true that a December 2 020 7121 1100 Ends December 31 Scandinavian Christmas Market taking Publishers: shining and not the investment advice). simple declaration that such and such is Hammersmith PHILIP PULLMAN place on Albion Street in Rotherhithe Soon after, Kennedy walked straight money will not do, even if backed by the A fantastic opportunity to get into the between the Finnish and Norwegian back to his office, put his coat on his an exponential price rise.Sounds familiar, the Financial Times examining the most convincing constitutional evidence festive spirit and bring some extra sparkle killed at Sheffield Wednesday to gain Churches. desk, and promptly sold his entire stock doesn’t it? For those who can cast their financial crashes of the past one hundred of the state’s absolute sovereignty.” As to Hammersmith. There will be over 100 ANNIE LIEBOVITZ Albion Street, Rotherhithe London SE16 estate. The palace has had its portfolio. “When a shoeshine boy has minds back to the early 2000s, where years. In the article, Thaler refers to an of yet, no country taxes Bitcoin (part of stalls along a traffic-free King Street and ’ 7HZ Carols, tips,” Kennedy later remarked, “the stock George W. Bush controversially defeated excerpt from John Maynard Keynes The the coin’s appeal) and no state accepts it in Lyric Square offering seasonal gifts and • Texas massacre. Man fires at church market is too popular for its own good.” Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election General Theory of Employment, Interest as legal tender. Indeed, Japan may have scandimarket.co.uk food. The wintertime fun will be boosted Kennedy was proven right; a few weeks and Destiny’s Child released their third and Money, where Keynes finds that authorised Bitcoin exchange centres, by live music, carol singing and a visit span of time that it’s been a fixture. As a surveys began tracking reading and arts attempts reducing people to throwing Readings & later on October 29th, the Wall Street studio album to critical acclaim, there the share prices of ice companies rose but this move only improves its price November 25-26 from Santa. whole humans are uncomfortable with participation in 1982, when the literature the book across the room in frustration. his has been a dystopian Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited was also what soon became known as during the summer months because Christmas Fair Literature in Crash occurred, serving as the prelude to transparency, not its valuation. lbhf.gov.uk rapid changes in our cultures (and that’s reading rate was 57 percent. The same Add in the Amazon-created availability Chelsea Physic Garden some kind of justice. Yes that’s 29 years! 1930 Great Depression, the worst ever the ‘dot-com crash’. Over the course of sales were higher. But in an efficient We should not consider Bitcoin, or putting it mildly) and many fear that study demonstrated that women (50 of obscure and out of print books Music for economic crisis to hit the United States. the 1990s, a spate of new technology market, Keynes notes, these seasonal any cryptocurrency for that matter, as a Soak up the festive atmosphere whilst the age of the the internet’s all pervasive shadow is percent) are significantly more likely to which would previously have required ’ December 3 And that anecdote, ladies and firms emerged; in 1995, there were 1,000 price rises should not occur. In fact, the negative force in society. A key driving selecting unique gifts you won t find on causing us to lose touch with some of our read literature than men (36 percent). days trawling through strange smelling Curtain Up Christmas Market internet gentlemen, will be the segue into the technology firms but by 2000, there were share price of a company is supposed to factor behind its rise is, in essence, a the high street. Stay for a delicious lunch, Over 45 stalls offering: antiques, Christmas and congregation. 26 dead and at least pleasures and interests that don’t come Whilst general reading levels may second-hand bookshops to obtain and subject of this article: Bitcoin, the world’s 5,000. This dot-com boom created a reflect the long-run value of a company manifestation of the public distrust in a glass of something festive and select By Max Feldman with an Ethernet cable attached. have experienced decline however, there the argument could be made that the collectables, art, bric-a-brac, books, most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin hysteria in the media and wider public as and should not fluctuate on a season- government or banks. Through the use your own unique handmade Christmas One of the big ones is literature. has also been a (seemingly inexplicable) internet has, if anything, placed the jewellery, glass, handbags, vintage Tuesday 12 December 2017, 6.30pm day... is the undisputed market leader in the share prices soared. One notable example by-season basis. Keynes concluded that of Blockchain technology, Bitcoin users wreath created by the wonderful team of clothing, cakes and more. Christmas There is a broad feeling that people are upturn in book sales. This is not actually modern reader in the driving seat in a St Marylebone Parish Church, cryptocurrency world; nearly one in was the telecommunications company “the element of real knowledge in the can exchange in a peer-to-peer network volunteers using seeds and foliage from Market to be opened at 11.30 am by reading less and less and it’s the internet as contradictory as it sounds however. way that has never been possible before. every two users hold Bitcoin, and the Qualcomm, which saw a 2,619% increase valuation of investments by those who The Garden 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT hen the internet first without interference from these third surprise celebrity that’s to blame. Whilst this has long The rise of streaming technologies, Keeping the world reading should be second most popular currency, Ethereum, in its share price. Everyone was raging own them… seriously declined.” In 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, began to make its presence parties, who can slow or disrupt the St Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, Join us for a festive evening of music been one of the perennial concerns of once predicted to kill off physical more than just an educational program does not even come close, with a 20% about dot-com stocks. Even Alan other words, people who knew about exchange process. Bitcoin has become London, SW3 4HS year: not so much Animal and readings by Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE felt in the late nineties, the modern era (before the internet media completely, has in fact created folded away into a governmental Kensington, London W8 4HN market share. Today, it is hard to make Greenspan, Chair of the Federal Reserve, the value of their companies no longer immensely popular with immigrants, for 020 7352 5646 and Edward Fox, OBE, followed by 20 injured cultural commentators came up with came along people were pinning the a backlash of consumers preferring to budget. Literature has been one of the spoke favourably towards their high held a majority stake, just as with Bitcoin W it through the day without hearing example. Now, remittances can be sent chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk December 3 mince pies and mulled wine. all kinds of nicknames for it that are same blame on video games, television physically own a product. Since 2015 primary conduits for human thought at least a mention of Bitcoin. It is an valuation. today. People swarm towards the Bitcoin back to their families via Bitcoin without retroactively embarrassing (how anyone Belgravia Christmas Sunday and probably Morris dancing if you go consumer spending on books has gone since the printing press broke the unstoppable force and an immovable And then in 2000, it all came honeypot because they see that the price the huge transaction fees that banks November 27-28 was able to say ‘surfing the information Visit Belgravia’s Christmas markets far enough back) the sheer ubiquitous up £89m across the board last year which monied’s monopoly on thought. Ideas object all rolled into one. Or so they crashing down, when tech companies keeps rising, and that is reason enough. charge. Guildhall Christmas Market Above all else, there one matter which superhighway’ with a straight face will and see the elegant London district Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne nature of the internet seems to be doesn’t exactly fit with data predicting and concepts which have shaped human say. At the time of this article’s writing, lost nearly half of their value in the space It has become a case of speculating on But in spite of these benefits, we Get into the festive spirit with the sights be a mystery that future historians will transformed into a winter wonderland. making its presence felt. After years of humanity’s slow descent into illiteracy. progress have developed from the arts Bitcoin’s price is $7,368 (£5,578) per of twelve months. Just in the same way speculation, and we do not even realise cannot ignore the fact that Bitcoin is and sounds of the Guildhall Christmas be puzzling over for generations) but decline the nadir came when a 2015 The way that we process literature has, and humanities and just because the Elizabeth Street, Belgravia, SW1W Oh no it has not. coin. One year ago, it was $710 (£539) that we were blindsided by the Great There has been a tendency in incredibly volatile, and it has been known Market this November. one of them sums up the nature of the Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE Edward Fox, OBE survey by the National Endowment For if anything, been supercharged by the internet (a great leap forward all of its per coin. If you bought five Bitcoins for Recession of 2008 or the Tulip Crash the Bitcoin debate to liken the to lose 30% of its value in under a day. Guildhall, Gresham Street, London internet better than any other phrase: December 6-18 Arts provided the worrying data that (in internet’s ease of access. Cult reads that own) has shortened attention spans, $3,550 in November 2016 and left it of the 17thC, we cannot seem to cage cryptocurrency to other commodities. These rank fluctuations highlight how EC2V 7HH The worldwide web. Over the course of Dulwich Winterlights America at least) the percentage of adults previously would only have spread by there is no reason why literature could there for a year, a cool $36,840 would our inner Icarus. In 2000, excessive Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s CEO unsustainable Bitcoin’s growth is, and T Dulwich Picture Gallery Farm, more Dali meets George the 21st century, the internet has indeed who read literature, (any novels, short limited word of mouth, spread by people or should give up its pre-eminent place now be sitting in your bank account. optimism once again outstripped rational compared Bitcoin to the Dutch tulip aside from the Bitcoin evangelicals, woven itself around society, and much November 30 – January 3 Discover the Gallery’s historic building has demonstrated to us that our stories, poetry or plays), has fallen to a with goatees and berets, can explode into amongst the arts. Whilst not everyone Mazel tov. But the chances are, most expectation, and this is likely the case for mania of the 17thC which, in turn, led to most would agree that a sharp decline London Bridge City Christmas Market like a spider’s web, there is no escape three-decade low last year. In 2015, 43 and grounds lit up by a winter lights the public consciousness through the has their own novel in them (or at people did not buy Bitcoins in 2016. Bitcoin. a huge crash in the Dutch stock market. is foreseeable. Is a crash likely? Yes. And Back for a third year at one of London’s FREE ENTRY from it once you’re caught. percent of adults read at least one work wildfire of the web. ‘Difficult’ reads like least, not one worth reading) everyone trail. Create your very own festive family More probably, they are buying them In 2015, behavioural economist But Bitcoin proponents do not make the when will this crash happen? most prestigious locations, Tower Bridge. Email [email protected] The internet has changed practically of literature in the previous year. The Finnegan’s Wake are easily supplemented has been touched, consciously or photo at a giant magical frame, visit the Art Director & Director: Tim Epps now, and that is why there has been such Richard Thaler wrote an article for same comparison. Rather, they posit that Go and ask your shoeshine. Running along the Riverside from Tower to reserve your place. every aspect of human life in the short lowest percentage in any year since NEA by internet research, rather than solo unconsciously, by someone else’s. enchanted cottage where Christmas Registered Charity No: 208944 • The Brexit Ministerial team Bridge (up to the Courts) and in the storytelling awaits, and enjoy festive KEVIIs Christmas ad 126x154mm.indd 1 20/10/2017 10:31 Lucas. Parliamentarians are not listening to us Parliamentarian have now Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane representing us in Brussels- Messrs Fox, and that is the future of the building Johnson and Davies - have completely had three attempts to come Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane Consider some of the events which houses them. The Palace of lost the plot. Now they are saying it will Business Development: Caroline Daggett, in America and Britain this Westminster, as they are sometimes to a conclusion about what to cost us much more to leave. It is beyond known as, was designed by Charles Barry Antoinette Kovatchka, do and they do not like any 3 News year: a joke. Life-long Tory supporters are and Augustus Pugin following the fire Architecture: Squinch starting to tell me they will vote Labour in 1834 (brilliantly caught by the artist, of them. So in that fashion • The President of America, the at the next election Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Statue & Blue Plaque JM Turner whose studio was close by) 6 wealthiest and most powerful country in which completely destroyed the original of 19th century wonderment, Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS the world, no longer uses facts to back • Grenfell Towers was a dreadful, building but for the Great Hall. they just set up another Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward News his arguments and dishes a Military dreadful event where 80 were killed, and 7 widow; he has played 58 rounds of golf at Bridge: Andrew Robson 74 hospitalised injured, almost every committee. a cost to the US taxpayer (for security) of thing that you believe should never Business & Finance James Billot, Owen Fulda, 8 International & European News $23m and at this rate his four year term have happened, happened. Nonetheless, For over a decade it has been They are becoming relics in Stephanie Hawthorne will cost $92m total and absolutely wonderment at known that the building is front of us. Chess: Barry Martin 9 Feature Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Derek Wyatt 10 Opinion & Comment Strenuous efforts are made by Music: Geoff Cowart, James Douglas Wrap Up Literature Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Crossword: Wolfe 12 Today newspaper to ensure that Dining Out: Edward Burns, Max Feldman, London By Chloe Livadeas the content and information is up London Wrap © Photograph David Hughes 13 Poetry correct. Kensington, Chelsea & Editorial & News: James Billot, Max Feldman, Travel & Lifestyle Westminster Today newspaper Max Horberry, Chloe Livadeas 14 This display acts as Fahad Redha, reserves the right to report a reminder of how Education: Max Feldman, Don Grant, 18 Dining Out unsolicited material being sent Anna Kretschmer, Chloe Livadeas London’s most exposed through to the publication. Astronomy Marian Maitland, Fahad Redha 20 will be feeling the cold Personal views expressed in this Events:, Fahad Redha Arts & Culture this winter. newspaper are solely those of the Travel & Lifestyle: David Hughes, Lynne McGowan, 45 respective contributors and do not Cynthia Pickard 53 Health reflect those of the publishers or Health: Chloe Livadeas its agents. All materials sent to Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman Motoring Kensington Chelsea & Westminster I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton 57 Today are at the suppliers’ risk. Motoring: Don Grant, Chloe Livadeas, Sport Wrap Up London is aiming to provide puffer jackets, including Kindertransport and Glasgow. Fahad Redha 60 Reproduction in whole or in part over 18,000 coats to London’s homeless, at Liverpool Street station and Amy Running from the 13th to 24th of this publication is strictly News, Online Editor 62 Crossword, Classified & Bridge its impoverished families and the Winehouse at Camden Market. This November, the campaign is collecting & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman elderly, as well as refugees and victims of display acts as a reminder of how donations of coats from a number of prohibited without prior consent. domestic violence. London’s most exposed will be feeling Safestores at Clapham North, Kings Picture Editor: Max Feldman The appearance of advertising in 63 Chess This month it launched its volunteer- the cold this winter. 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input in the service. The Colour of Shahin Sadafi, Chair of Grenfell Wandsworth set St Paul’s Grenfell United, said: “Months on, uncertainty and distress are still what we feel above to be arts and Snow Tower Memorial anything else. Nothing significant has yet changed for the bereaved families and culture centre of Service survivors of the fire. & #Game4Grenfell “However, we hope that by gathering South London together to remember the tragedy, we Plans are underway to deliver a new can begin to heal our community with cultural district in Wandsworth as part the support of the whole country. United of a multimillion pound development together we can help light the way for to give the area an artistic centre that St Paul’s Cathedral will host what will undoubtedly be a long road honours its heritage. ahead.” Unveiled last month, the £12million the national Grenfell Tower Up to 80 people are thought to have project led by the developers Greenland Memorial Service at 11am died in the fire and the majority of the Group will mean people will be able to tower’s residents are now still living in visit a collection of restaurants, shops, Thursday 14th December, the temporary accommodation. parks and art spaces in what will be the six-month anniversary The announcement of this memorial new Ram Quarter. It hopes to create a service coincided with the news that of the tragedy. #Game4Grenfell raised £454,000 for WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2017 cultural centre and a tribute to the area’s history, which was once a market town. victims, almost £3,300 per family. showing at the Natural History Museum until May 28. The River Wandle, which runs the Two teams of celebrities and Photo detail: Stuck In by Ashleigh Scully, length of the development, will be open footballers played on the 2nd September USA Winner 11-14 Year Old Category to walk along for the first time. The on Grant road, at Loftus Road, under a developers are partnering with Paul mile away from Grenfell Tower. Those Winton and other landscape architects 500 free tickets will be distributed present included Mo Farah, Cheryl Cole to bring 2000 plants to the river bank, as around the community in north and the lead singer of Mumford and well as a row of restaurants. There are also Kensington. Survivors, bereaved Sons. plans to build three bridges connecting 1relatives and emergency services The money was raised through EU backs Councils wasting both sides of the Ram Quarter. Jon Snow unveiled the pop-up display of personnel who were at the scene on the donations and ticket sales. Residents and The artists Tania Kovats and Neville his famous tie collection at the Design 14th June will be invited. bereaved families were given tickets for Hammersmith millions Gabie will be creating exhibitions Museum in Kensington on Monday 6th Representatives from a range of local free. that honour the area’s heritage, with November. The exhibition Colour is My faith and cultural groups will also attend. The council pledged to double a big focus on the former Young Brand was also opened by the founder The event is planned to run with a the amount raised, meaning that and Fulham’s Brewery. There are also plans for a new of the Design Museum, Sir Terence lot of community engagement. Families an extra £454,000 is also going microbrewery which uses locally grown Conran, alongside the Channel Four of victims of the fire have been given a towards community projects in North special email address so they can have an glyphosate ban hops this autumn featured alongside a presenter. Kensington. new restaurant. Snow is renowned for his choice of Work of the 2,208 sq ft quarter began jazzy ties and socks, always brightening The European Parliament has voted to in October and is scheduled to open up the Channel Four News broadcast. He ban a potentially-harmful weed killer November 2018. selects his ties to coincide with his mood, FOR SALE: £550,000 that Hammersmith and Fulham council Research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance The area’s regeneration does not but is aware that “the tie should never stopped using in 2016, the first London (TPA) reveals that local authorities are stop at the Ram Quarter. Wandsworth distract from the news”. But it is still • Special Price for a Quick Sale • borough to do so. overpaying their staff by millions in has grand plans to become the arts and tempting for Snow fans to tune in The motion requested that the mileage allowance payments. culture capital of south London. These nightly at 7pm just to see what he is chemical glyphosate be phased out Employees who use their own cars for plans are on top of the Battersea Power wearing. completely across all member states business journeys are often reimbursed Station development, just up the road. Snow’s taste for vibrant fabric was within five years. for the extra expense. The HMRC has set Circus West Village, which opened sparked when he was volunteering in The World Health Organisation’s an approved amount of 45p for the first this summer, is seeing a number of Uganda in his teenage years. Struck by International Agency for Research 10,000 miles. The average council rate popups for community initiatives and the colourful, Kitenge fabrics worn by creative start-ups as part of the Battersea on Cancer labelled the weed killer as was 48.92p, and the highest rate is 69p. Ugandan women, Snow was inspired to Power Station regeneration. It’s also “probably carcinogenic”. Local authorities have spent a total insert a bit of colour into his own look. become a new place to wine, dine and Councillor Wesley Harcourt, H&F of £223 million in mileage allowance Victoria Richards, the textile designer shop on the bank of the River Thames. Cabinet Member for Environment, payments between 2016-2017. who created the majority of Snow’s ties, On top of this is the opening of Transport and Residents’ Services, said: Lancashire council paid out the most at the Village Hall situated beneath the was also present. The exhibition, which “We welcome the vote by the European nearly £6.9 million. This overspending Grosvenor Bridge railway arches. Its is located in the museum’s main atrium, Parliament to phase out use of this was first highlighted by the TPA in 2011, creation is in partnership with Battersea features a video exploring the design potentially harmful chemical,” and the Department for Communities Arts Centre, and part of a £6.8 million process behind the collection. There are “Our decision to stop using it was and Local Government advised councils investment from Battersea Power Station also stills of Snow reporting on such simple: regularly spraying chemicals to stop paying above the approved to give the area a sense of creative world events as Trump’s inauguration where our children play and pets are rate in 2012. Since then, only a few community. and the death of Margaret Thatcher to exercised is too high a risk, as is the councils have adopted this easy money- The Village Hall can host 150 illustrate his choice of design. Chelsea Cloisters, Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, potential for harm to insects and the saving method. people in the grand hall, and has many All exhibits on displays were made by wider ecosystem. John O’Connell, Chief Executive of other studios and spaces to host classes, Vanners Silk Weavers, one of the UK’s London SW3 3DW Harcourt went on to say: “As part of our the TPA, said: “It’s simply not credible last tie-making companies. performances, comedy and festivals. Its Luxury, one bedroom, first floor flat, fully furnished, fully equipped, drive to be the most environmentally for local authorities to plead poverty and aim is to create a village feel in a London Three new limited-edition designs, positive borough, we’re now using a raise council tax while paying over the space, by bringing the community crafted to Snow’s specification, are facing the street, 24-hours porterage, security, service charges include chemical-free alternative that is far kinder odds for basic expenses, especially when together in a range of activities to suit available to purchase in the Design central heating and hot water, long lease 93 years, ideal for rental to the environment and poses no risks to the government has been telling them to all. The Village Hall is currently already Museum Shop at £125. investment or pied-a-terre, near South Kensington, Sloane Square people, pets or vital wildlife like bees.” rein in these payments for the past five hosting events, but opens fully later in the The free exhibition is running until and the Kings Road, Harrods, shops and restaurants. The council’s decision triggered the years. year. 25th February 2018 from 10am- European Commission to drop proposals He went on to say: “Councils must Both developments will give 6pm at the Design Museum, 224-238 Please contact Mrs Flora Baker on 020 7383 5606 to extend the chemical’s licence for use, continue to root out wasteful spending Wandsworth a definite revamp, and give Kensington High Street. or 07774 265 264 / 07429 814 381 which is due to expire before 2018, for like this so that they can deliver tax cuts Londoners more of a reason to venture designmuseum.org/exhibitions/jon- another ten years. for hard-pressed residents.” south of the river. snow-colour-is-my-brand 6 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 Statue & Blue Plaque News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

not public knowledge during the first Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) Blue Plaque: Consultations round of consultations, which closed in Council has secured £4 million for local May. businessesMARKETING to ease the pressure from the & SALES STATUES Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons DL are reopened The announcement of the reopening government’s hike in business rates. 1847-1917 of the consultation, which will run until UpWINTER to 2,100 businesses, the INTERNSHIP majority of was himself a on Heathrow 19th December, coincides with the year them being small or medium enterprises, soldier, serving with anniversary of the government’s decision could(PAID benefit from Discretionary COMMISSION) Business 13th (Kensington) to expand Heathrow over Gatwick. This expansion plans would mean an extra 700 flights to and Battalion London Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today is one from the airport a day. Regiment, but was following new ’ of the leading monthly newspapers in London. wounded in January A Blue Plaque erected by English to an optician and found he had a The government s sustainability We are offering a 3 month internship to an individual 1915 and spent four Heritage, in 1916, honours Sir Joseph mechanical mind. He invented and sold evidence appraisal claims that building a second months convalescing, Nathaniel Lyons DL. It can be seen at small gadgets, a microscope, binoculars, runway at Gatwick would have less of a looking for a career in Marketing, Sales & Journalism, during which 11a Palace Mansions Hammersmith compass all in one sold well at the Royal negative impact on the surrounding area. looking to build their portfolio over the winter months; Road West Kensington London W14 Jubilee Exhibition in Liverpool in 1887. The news of the consultation follows period he painted start December 2017. a group portrait of 8QN and it refers to him as a 'pioneer of He also invented a scientific device for a recent local demonstration where mass catering'. He lived there from 1894 viewing glass slides. members of the protest group; No his own platoon, This is a unique opportunity to work closely with a highly The Kensingtons at to 1895. Sir Joseph rose to be Managing Third Runway set up a number of red Laventie, which caused Sir Joseph is well known for having Director of J. Lyons Company through cardboard planes in Ravenscourt Park. qualified and dynamic team. It is an opportunity for the a sensation when it was been the Managing Director of J.Lyons luck. Isadore Gluckstein, Montagu Victoria Timberlake, the group’s co- right candidate to get hands-on experience with sales & Co. This company transformed Gluckstein and Barnett Salmon, heads Chair, said: “There is deep and heartfelt first exhibited in 1916, and marketing, and build client relationships. Hammersmith Road with their huge of Salmon & Gluckstein Tobacco opposition to any further expansion of and was praised for its An extension may be offered based on performance. ‘stately presentation factories and offices, never seen on that merchants wished to expand into Heathrow.” of human endurance, scale before. Food was manufactured and catering and asked Sir Joseph to “Seven hundred extra flights each Send CV and letter to: of the quiet heroism prepared in large kitchens in Cadby Hall join them and to use his name. They day can only bring more misery to the which was the HQ of the Lyons Empire. considered it beneath their dignity to hundreds of thousands of Londoners of the rank and file.’ ’ Dr Emma Trehane He went back to the This company under Sir Joseph s use their own in catering. Sir Joseph was living under current flightpaths, as well distantly related to consultation for Hammersmith as new misery to communities overflown Joint Editor and Director of Business Development Western Front as ’ an official war artist, Isadore Gluckstein s and Fulham residents to have for the first time.” KCW TODAY, 80-100 GWYNNE ROAD, fiancée. their say on the plans for a third If the plans are given the go-ahead, spending over seven LONDON, SW11 3UW months in France, producing many They set up runway at Heathrow has reopened in construction of the runway would begin A early 2021, to be completed by 2025. charcoal, pastel and watercolour a trial tearoom light of new evidence. T: 020 7738 2348 M: 0771 591 0665 24th East works, mostly portraits of ordinary in the Newcastle The Department for Transport, who For more information on the E: [email protected] Jubilee Exhibition is running the consultation, released new consultation phone 0300 123 4797 or soldiers. He was concerned about Karalfy © Imre Photograph WWW.KCWTODAY.CO.UK Surrey Division the censorship of his paintings by in 1887 which evidence regarding noise, CO2 emissions visit www.gov.uk/dft/heathrow-airport- By Eric Kennington the Department of Information, and was immediately and air pollution. This information was expansion. Battersea Park he resigned his commission with successful; so a the British, but was taken up by private company the Canadians as a temporary first was formed to lieutenant in France, Belgium and run that business. The Kensington Care Home Germany. He had been unhappy They exhibited in his is a Grade II listed sculptural about his status as a war artist, citing Glasgow, Paris, curiosity, partially hidden in other painters like William Orpen Crystal Palace and For enjoying later Battersea Park, commemorating, and Muirhead Bone as being afforded White City. A public Recently as it does, the 24th East Surrey more privileges, like having one’s company was formed refurbished TDivision who fought on the own car and driver, and Orpen being with Sir Joseph as life in beautiful Western Front in the First World given the rank as major. Kennington Chairman for his War, and engaged in such battles worked with neither salary nor entire life. He was surroundings as Loos, Vimy Ridge, Messines, expenses, remarking bitterly that also Chairman at the Passchendaele, the Somme and ‘Bone had a commission and Orpen Strand Palace Hotel Delville Wood, with 4,865 men from where he introduced Come and see for yourself the stunning had a damned good time.’ When it ‘ all ranks killed, 24,000 wounded a successful no result of our refurbishment came to his first commission in stone, ’ and 6,000 missing. The fine Portland he paid the £300 for the stone, and tipping policy. Take a stroll through our beautiful gardens, Stone sculpture comprises three the resultant sculpture was unveiled A man of many admire the view over afternoon tea in the infantry soldiers standing atop a in October 1924. He befriended T parts, Sir Joseph was conservatory and take a look at our en-suite circular plinth, itself carved with E Lawrence, for whom he illustrated an accomplished bedrooms leading onto the new patio. There’s inscriptions showing the twenty The Seven Pillars of Wisdom and management started up Lyons Teashops, water colourist and exhibited his work nowhere quite like The Kensington. badges of the Division’s constituent produced a bronze bust of him, which followed later by the iconic Lyons Corner at the Royal Institute. He wrote novels units, inscribed by another, which is now in St Paul’s Cathedral. He also Houses. Dining out was now available and detective stories. Holder of a Royal To experience The Kensington for yourself, itself stands on two circular steps produced two Gill-like bas reliefs and affordable for the masses. Previously, Warrant, he catered for Garden Parties at call us to arrange a visit and the whole edifice is encircled by for the London School of Hygiene catering for them was abysmal. The first Buckingham Palace. He was a member a hedge. The style of sculpture was and Tropical Diseases, but due to the tea shop opened at 213 Piccadilly and of the Territorial army and was created 020 3603 8964 avant-garde at the time in the early was much in demand by office workers Deputy Lieutenant for the County of prominence of male genitalia, it was Lines are open seven days a week. We may record or monitor our calls. 1920s, depicting three soldiers in full repositioned above the entrance to the and those at leisure. Each customer had London. King George V knighted him kit, with a large serpent entwined library, after he refused to add a piece a fresh brew in pleasant surroundings. for public service. round their legs, based on real people; of loin cloth to cover up the offending Later came shops in Queen Victoria Sir Joseph was a kindly, gregarious For Living a trooper from the Machine Gun organ, a bit of prudery harking back Street and Chancery Lane and then in man and generous to charities. Corps, a Sergeant from the Royal to the 1640s, when Pope Innocent X hotels. He was married to Psyche who Sussex and the poet Robert Graves of went about chopping off the penises Joseph Nathaniel Lyons was born managed the Pavilion Theatre in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who later of ancient Roman statues in the in Kennington. His father, Nathaniel, Whitechapel Road. wrote his outstanding memoir from Vatican’s collection, and replacing was an itinerant salesman of cheap Sir Joseph died in the Hyde Park the trenches, Goodbye to All That. them with metal fig leaves. watches and jewellery. His mother was Hotel. He is buried in the Cemetery of The sculptor Eric Kennington Don Grant Hannah Cohen. The young Joseph was the United Synagogues in Willesden. educated at the Borough Jewish Schools Q318284 OCT17 BPR 02553 in East London. He was apprenticed Marian Maitland 8 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 International & European NEWS Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Left: Design Museum, London and vote on articles of impeachment, Right: and, if approved, an impeachment trial Etihad Museum, Dubai If Trump is is held in the U.S. Senate. Technically speaking, the House impeaches; the impeached, what Senate tries an impeached official. happens? The problem is that even though By Marshall Auerback Trump’s popularity is declining, he still has a substantial base of support in the country (around 35% approval ratings) There were also awards in soft power, and with both chambers of Congress in celebrating the change in people’s hearts. the hands of the GOP, the threshold to Best Soft Power Cultural Activation Award secure a conviction is going to be pretty went to Davis Museum at Wellesley high. That of course could change if the College, Art Less: The Davis without n an interview earlier this if the special independent prosecutor, Immigrants from Wellesley, US. Canada’s October, Tennessee Senator Robert Mueller, ultimately uncovers Toronto International Film Festival won Bob Corker confirmed what unmistakable evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, in which Best Soft Power Cultural Organisation many others have said privately: award. Best Soft Power Cultural District I case impeachment on the basis of treason award went to Watts Tower Arts Center Donald Trump is unfit for office. could well come into play. in Los Angeles. Alternatively if more members of www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum www. Corker actually went further, the Cabinet were to concur with the tiff.net www.wattstowers.org assessments of Senators Flake and THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE METRO suggesting that the President’s Corker, (particularly if led by the “big BASIL STREET, KNIGHTSBRIDGE Exhibition of the Year was awarded to East/Africa and Asia. The winners Climate Smart Award went to the antics could lead us on to 3”, Generals Kelly, Mattis or Tillerson), Leading Culture Infinity Mirrors at Hirshhorn Museum were London’s Design Museum, North Climate Control at Manchester Museum the path to World War III, they could remove Trump under Article in Washington DC, in the US. Museum America’s Tippet Rise Art Center in and the Best Museum Late Night indicating that it was only a 25 of the Constitution which outlines procedures for the removal of a president Architecture of the Year went to Museum Fishtail, Mexico’s Casa Wabi in Puerto Experience went to Rubin Museum of coterie of 3 Cabinet members, Planning a Christmas Party? Destination of Art, Architecture, and Technology Escondido, the Etihad Museum in Art in New York. The Rubin Museum of deemed “unable to discharge the powers in Lisbon, Portugal. Museum Shop of the Dubai, and Thailand’s MAIIAM Art focuses on art from the Himalayas John Kelly (chief of staff), Rex and duties of his office”, lack of mental Awards Year went to the Walker Art Center of Contemporary Art Museum from and neighboring regions including India. Tillerson (Secretary of State), fitness being a legitimate criterion. Discreetly tucked away behind Harrods, The Knightsbridge Metro offers Minneapolis, US. Restaurant of the Year Chiang Mai. www.museum.manchester.ac.uk If Trump is impeached, then the and James Mattis (Secretary of a smart yet informal atmosphere, ideal for festive get-togethers and after was given to Fotografiska in Stockholm, rubinmuseum.org Vice President, Mike Pence, takes Defense), who work to prevent work drinks for up to 60. The Leading Culture Sweden. Digital Museum Experience of the designmuseum.org tippetrise. over. What then? President Pence? Year went to London’s British Museum org casawabi.org etihadmuseum. 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North America, South America, Middle designmuseum.org now, as the longstanding investigation warrior, which means loads more www.thelevinhotel.co.uk into Trump’s possible links with Russia incarceration (including for marijuana). reached a new stage: Court records He’s keen to privatize Social Security Speaking to over 3000 Communist Party grip on the Party. unsealed on October 30th, saw the and hostile to universal healthcare. delegates at Beijing’s Great Hall of the In a global climate where western indictment of Trump’s former campaign In short, a Pence Presidency would Xi Jinping People, Jinping laid out his vision for the governments have been plagued by As tensions ease, manager, Paul Manafort, as well as a usher in a new cultural war, but one country, asserting that it was time for political uncertainty and rampant campaign advisor, George Papadopoulos which transcends sexuality, religion cements his China to become a “mighty force”. instability, this continuity in China’s U.S. and Turkey who pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. and “family values”. Echoing the UK’s Welcoming a “new era” for China, the leadership certainly provides a sharp about his contacts with Russians. Brexit divide, America’s culture wars leadership at the leader asserted that it was now time for contrast. reissue visas Papadopoulos’s guilty plea is far more are also linked with shifting economic the nation to take a central position in immediately ominous to the president circumstances, including globalization 19th National world affairs in political, economic, and and his inner circle than the charges and immigration. environmental terms. The U.S. government announced last against Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates. This is the kind of agenda that would Congress “China’s international standing has week that their embassy in Ankara, He clearly has a wealth of information set the stage for highly polarizing risen as never before,” declared Jinping, Turkey will partially re-issue visas after on the campaign and Mr. Trump’s inner Congressional elections in 2018 as well but warned that a great deal still had it was provided with assurances over the circle. And much more important, he is as the 2020 Presidential elections. And to be done in “ridding” the Party of safety of its staff. already providing it. while America retreats into its own corruption. While denying that these assurances Impeachment, then, is no longer a far- modern day civil war, it would likely be Perhaps the most significant story were made, the Turkish embassy have also fetched liberal fantasy. On what grounds too distracted to exert genuine global to have unfolded from the week-long promised to reissue visas in Washington. could it occur? The U.S. Constitution leadership on any pressing foreign policy session was Jinping’s unveiling of five The visa embargo between the two addresses the Congressional power of issue, whether that be North Korea, new Standing Committee members. nations lasted for nearly a month after impeachment in Article 2, Section 4: global terrorism, or climate change. All five members are too old to be the arrest of a veteran U.S. employee in The President, Vice President and In short, impeachment will open up a At the 19th National Congress considered for succession, which has Istanbul. It sparked a bitter feud between all civil Officers of the United States, Pandora’s Box of longstanding festering of the Communist Party of cleared the way for Jinping to extend the leaders of both countries, where shall be removed from Office on grievances on both sides of the political his leadership beyond the next National Turkish President Erdogan accused the Impeachment for, and Conviction of, divide, the spillover of which would be China last month, President Congress in 2022. U.S. of breaking a longstanding Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes felt globally. Those harboring hopes Xi Jinping was confirmed for His speech was seen as an alliance between the two nations. and Misdemeanors. for Trump’s removal might find they 28 Basil Street opportunity to pack the Politburo, the The recent measures put in place by If an official is accused of “high crimes get something far worse (albeit, less Knightsbridge SW3 1AS 020 7589 6286 www.thelevinhotel.co.uk a second five-year term as the Communist equivalent to a cabinet, with both governments mark a tentative step and misdemeanors,” or “treason”, the impulsive and more predictable). Be Party’s General Secretary. his own supporters and to strengthen his towards improved diplomatic relations. House of Representatives may deliberate careful what you wish for.

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yesteryear. Season of yellow fruits and tensions between Lady Catherine de amok. wistfulness. It’s autumn-time and the Bourg and the not vastly socially inferior, While no major revolution took MARIUS BRILL’S nostalgia is high. We hanker for the Where Class if somewhat poorer Elizabeth Bennett, place in Britain, elements of plutocracy DUDLEY SUTTON’S good old days of black and white and rhymes with Arse although the Bennetts were probably crept in with the Victorians, allowing knowing where we were. None of this By Peter Burden richer than 90% of the population. great brewers and financiers to I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT MEMEING OF LIFE spectrum crap, no shades of grey. The As the British population became morph into aristocrats in a couple of biggest computer game this season is more immersed in the social upheaval generations, followed by a growing Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... Call of Duty: WWII with all-embracing The English, or perhaps even the British, of industrialisation, under the tight- meritocracy, created by the grammar immersive action bringing the past back believe that they are more preoccupied lipped primness of Victorian Britain, schools which allowed clever working Dea Ex Machina by John Updike to life like never before. Yes, you can be with ‘class’ than most other nations. many more finely tuned bands of status class children to reach the upper levels maybe we could do things differently a brave Tommy biffing the evil Hun. It’s They probably are among those of the within society emerged, each with their of the middle-classes through academe My love is like Mies van der Rohe’s but conflict, it seems, is as human as all so much easier than trying to cope ‘West’ but historically all nations, peoples identifying mores and argots. and scientific prowess. However, an The Good Fight halitosis. It is the perpetual state of man. with today’s reality of indefinites and or tribes have always been subject to This perceived English obsession with increasingly egalitarian nation has “Machine for living”; she The last few years have shown that it’s infinitely variable social mores. A hand identifiable social hierarchies. In today’s social class and all its manifestations has retained a monarchy and the concomitant Divested of her underclothes, simply something that people are more on a knee, is it a comforting gesture or India, despite the far-reaching social been a well-mined source for the nation’s acceptance of the rump of an aristocracy, comfortable with than concord. sexual assault? Accepting a hug from a modernization of the last fifty years and novelists well beyond Ms Austen; by with the bizarre result that even today, Suggests efficiency. a member of an established aristocratic he last time I was roughed up I suppose that when there is us and friend’s kid, is it affection or paedophilia? the efforts of the Mahatma to dismantle Thackeray with a strong streak of cynical Her supple shoulders call to mind was when I grazed myself on them, we understand our place in the A sunny day, is it blue skies or global the cruelly rigid caste system it still wit; rustically by Thos Hardy, whimsically family, of limited intellect and rendered some sandpaper. The jury’s out on universe. A recent poll for the Joseph warming? Where are the boundaries, applies. Indian caste has even been by E M Forster; with a shocking lack of penniless by the bad judgment and A set of bevelled gears; profligacy of his forebears, still has a whether I’m a lover but I know I’m not Rowntree Foundation found that people what’s the truth? We have Google so exported to the United Kingdom, where prescience by H G Wells; insouciantly by Her lower jaw has been aligned T immigrant members of lower castes have P G Wodehouse, waspishly by Waugh recognizable ‘status’ within Britain, albeit a fighter. In my vocabulary, “punch” is a on low incomes are more concerned we know everything, we have Google so cocktail, “slap” is shoddy cosmetics, “hit” about immigration than jobs. Maybe we know nothing, we need to remember claimed they are heavily discriminated and endlessly by Powell. manifested by no more than an inherited To hinge behind her ears. safe and understated taste, still seen in the is an iTunes chart topper, and “knock because we know who we are through nothing, we make our own memories and against in employment and education by Wells was so sure of the immutability, Her hips, sweet ball-and-socket joints, out” is one of the rounds on X Factor. focussing on who we’re not. We can’t just oh, it was grand back then! other Hindus. Several cases of this have indeed the inexorable growth of modern Sloane Ranger, and a distinctive Violence is not only not an answer it’s a know what we are for, we must know Except it wasn’t. Still. At least the been highlighted in the last few years, Victorian class distinctions that in the way of speaking English. Are padded to perfection; stupid bloody question in the first place. I what we are against. Position through squalor was closer to universal than it is prompting Conservative government Time Machine, his hypothesis is that It is idiosyncratic and, some might say, disarmingly quaint of the British that Each knee, with its patella, points am what Brietbart would call a snowflake opposition. And anything that doesn’t now. proposals to make ‘caste discrimination’ over a period of hundreds of thousands nothing more than a particular way of and a soggy one at that. I try to avoid overtly express the paradigm of conflict But in the end what we can be sure illegal. However, their resolve has of years, with different diet and social In just the right direction. speaking English can still nudge open conflict in the same way I avoid charity or competitiveness is odd and suspect. of is the fight. Perhaps it is the only weakened in the face of strong opposition conditions, the servants below stairs in certain doors or earn at least temporary Her fingertips remind me of bucket swingers, straphangers’ armpits It’s no wonder then that the EU appears thing we understand. It’s how we got from Hindu leaders and businessmen, an upper class household had mutated acceptance in some generally exclusive and Birmingham. I don’t like it, it makes so dubious to Brexiteers. Unless you are here. When there isn’t a fight we find who do not accept that this is a Hindu into an entirely different species from A digital computer; situations. Variously described as Received me nervous and anxious and far from in opposition to all of it, within there someone’s pint to spill. Our species’ problem; they claim that the caste their socially elevated employers. It is Pronunciation, Posh, the Queen’s, Oxford She couldn’t be, my well-tooled love, the adrenaline rush of Fight or Flight it are no clear sides, no distinct rivalry, no evolutionary imperative is to survive system which divides the population a preposterous idea, like Orwell’s 1984 or BBC, it can also, not unreasonably, simply makes me nauseous. and that’s done in battle. Forget the of the sub-continent into several layers (where Winston Smith is the exception) straightforward goal scoring, no lines to evoke ridicule and hostility. You could Until recently I had thought tanking pound, inflation, poverty and of occupational categories was either which takes no account of the resilient A millimeter cuter. be drawn, nobody knows their MEPs describe it as Upper Class, but for the myself pretty human in my disdain social injustice let’s have a punch up. We invented or vastly reinforced by the independence of ordinary people, or what they stand for and, maybe more fact that with their characteristic (and to want parties of extremes and enemies British colonial rulers of India in the and ignores the powerful instincts of for disagreement and hankering for importantly, what they stand against. some extent genuine) self-effacement, the harmony. I considered myself evolved For anybody wondering why the citizens of different skin colours and odd dress 18th and 19th centuries, to assist them underdogs to rebel against persistent exploitation, like the French in 1789, the British upper-classes have abandoned the having no need to prove myself through of the developed world are voting for sense. We want sectarianism. We want in their government of a huge, unwieldy Russians in 1917, and the Irish in 1922. term; the late Princess Diana, for example physical prowess or even chuggalugga polarised politics, why Catalonians are to know there is us and them. The population. Nor did these novels take account of (undoubtedly an aristo) was deemed by pint scoring. But I’m starting to realise desperate to express their difference to good guys and the enemy. And when Whether or not this is true, there’s no the paternalistic liberal traditions of the them to be a middle class icon, upper I’m not evolved at all. My avoidance Spain, why Austria voted for a wing our radiated mutant descendants look doubt that the British were accustomed Take a subscription of KCW to a rigid and long-standing class system British Whig aristocracy. middle classes at a stretch. of conflict makes my genes one of our so right their reichsadler will only fly in back at the conflicts of the 21st century back in Blighty. Even the iron-age Orwell, who had always been But absurd and unfair as it may seem evolutionary tree’s billions of dead circles, or why the US would vote for a murmuring “never again” they’ll know Celtic tribes that came to occupy much obsessed with distinctions of class was that this accent ascendancy still applies, TODAY for 2017/8 and branches which would, through the man as transparently divisive as Trump, that the guiding political polemic of the of Britain during the last millennium more effective in depicting the Russian it could be that this residual, harmless generations, have become, inexorably don’t. Conflict is us. It’s our dramas, it’s modern era was not Das Kapital, Mein BC were socially stratified as labourers, switch from Tsar to Stalin, with all the expression of deference is more desirable receive a copy delivered ineffectual and unmatable had my our stories, it’s what makes us us. Kampf or Wealth of Nations, but Nancy peasants, artisans, warriors, chiefs and crass brutality that entailed. But over than the utter social dominance by kids not also had a mother who is Every November we remember the Mitford’s Noblesse Oblige in which she religious (Druids). Subsequent Roman time, the Soviet Union, while continuing the rich or the intellectually superior more competitive than an elbow at the dead, and we remember the conflicts epitomised dichotomy and neatly defined Name and Saxon invaders who had pushed the to understand the value of the survival of that prevails in other cultures. It is this Harrods sale. that killed them. And though we everything in life as “U” and “Non-U”. Celts to the fringes had their own social the strongest, morphed into a meritocracy characteristic pragmatism in the British, It’s true that after two world wars Give peace a chance? Go on, I’ll fight murmur “never again,” stone me if I don’t structures, with downright slaves at the in which higher status tended to be and their talent for subtle compromise some deluded fools started to think you for it. Address detect an unspoken guilty yearning for bottom of the heap. achieved by those with talent. that gives their society far more fluidity The Normans arrived and added Conversely when old-fashioned than is generally perceived, and a their feudal structures to those of the industrial capitalism let rip in C19th US, great deal more texture than the flat, Anglo-Saxons, which allowed very possession of wealth became the single if admirable, egalitarianism of other little room for social manoeuvre, and most important signifier of status in what northern societies. even by Chaucer’s time (late C14th) his has broadly become a simple plutocracy, Canterbury Tales show that there were still with only a faint vestige of British strict demarcations between the nobility, aristocratic qualities. 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somewhere in the earth’s core. S THE WINTER TAKES HOLD AND THE NIGHTS DRAW IN some light relief is required and so this month’s poetry page offers some enchanting Characters in a Kafka story act with Poems, Rhymes and Hums from creator of that famous little bear of Hundred Acre Wood. Winnie the Pooh an;d his famous animal entourage was the creation Anniversary a kind of dream logic to the bizarre of A. A. Milne (1882-1956), a resident of Chelsea and soldier in the Great War. He had fought at the Battle of the Somme and his poem From a Full Heart, situations they are placed in and The included here, was published in The Sunny Side in 1921. It is hard to imagine that the moving and enchanting stories and poems of Winnie the Pooh and his Metamorphosis is no different. When friends were penned between two World Wars that saw the destruction and devastation of so many lives. However, long after these Wars the tales from Pooh Gregor does not unlock his door to Nox Andrew © Photograph Corner remain a staple of childhood, passed on from generation to generation and it could be argued, offer some of the most gentle messages of love, loyalty and friendship go to work in the morning (namely in modern times. These lines from Us Two, for example, show how one can overcome fear through love, adventure and good friendship. “Let’s frighten the dragons,” I said to his month Anniversary is because he’s now a monstrous insect Pooh./“That’s right,” said Pooh to Me./“I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh,/And I held his paw and I shouted “Shoo!/Silly old dragons!”, and off they flew. The imagery maybe undergoing some changes with A stuck on its back) an inspector from simplistic but the message is one of love and friendship and something positive to take with us into the cold months ahead. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. his work appears nigh on immediately So to all of our readers, happy dragon hunting this October from all the team at KCW Today Franz Kafka has (rather depressingly T to examine his ‘illness’ with all the when you think about it) become inevitability of a nightmare. Gregor’s something of a patron saint for modern family never question that the gigantic living. His alienated writings of skewed beetle currently occupying Gregor’s room social conventions and hallucinogenic From A Full Heart Us Two is their mutant son (you’d think “maybe persecution (that you feel somehow In days of peace my fellow-men Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh, the hideous monster in the bedroom ate you might have deserved) deeply affects Rightly regarded me as more like There’s always Pooh and Me. our son?” would be floated as a possibility readers because there’s something primal A Bishop than a Major-Gen., Whatever I do, he wants to do, before transubstantiation, but there you in his narratives that resonates almost And nothing since has made me warlike; “Where are you going today?” says Pooh: have it). If anything, this rubbery logic subliminally with the existential dread But when this agelong struggle ends “Well, that’s very odd ’cos I was too. increases the narcotised terror of Kafka’s that comes with urban life. Considering And I have seen the Allies dish up Let’s go together,” says Pooh, says he. narrative and adds a subtle note of farce the long shadow that Kafka casts over The goose of Hindenburg—oh, friends! “Let’s go together,” says Pooh. which helps the pitch dark narrative literature, it’s amazing how few of his I shall out-bish the mildest Bishop. breathe. It’s easy to be surprised by the stories he actually completed, with “What’s twice eleven?” I said to Pooh. sly humour that Kafka injects even into canonical works like The Trial tailing off When the War is over and the Kaiser’s out of print, (“Twice what?” said Pooh to Me.) his darkest works, considering that the when Kafka lost interest. I’m going to buy some tortoises and watch the beggars “I think it ought to be twenty-two.” man’s modern reputation isn’t exactly The Metamorphosis, perhaps his most how late or hungover you are when for his parasitic and uncaring family, his sprint; “Just what I think myself,” said Pooh. that of the class clown. When Kafka first famous work, is unusual in that Kafka you finally jerk awake, spare a thought transformation is a brutal vision of the When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe, “It wasn’t an easy sum to do, set down The Metamorphosis in 1915, he was actually able to finish the damn for Gregor Samsa: he’s not just late literally dehumanising aspects of low I’m going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe. But that’s what it is,” said Pooh, said he. delivered a tale that would encapsulate thing (albeit with an admittedly elliptical for work but he’s also inexplicably level competitors in the rat race. The “That’s what it is,” said Pooh. the neurosis of the new century. The fact ending) even if the auteur of anxiety transformed into a gigantic insect fact that it is he who is punished with I never really longed for gore, that those concerns are still as valid as disparaged the story as “extremely overnight. This would be bothersome transformation rather than the grasping And any taste for red corpuscles “Let’s look for dragons,” I said to Pooh. they were over one hundred years ago is repulsive” and “nauseating” (though for anyone, but as a Kafka protagonist/ family who lives off him, is, of course, That lingered with me left before “Yes, let’s,” said Pooh to Me. both a sign of Kafka’s skill as a writer and admitting that he was “not unhappy with victim, Gregor meekly accepts his grotesquely unfair, but ‘the good guy The German troops had entered Brussels. We crossed the river and found a few- of how little things have changed. it”). change in physical circumstances gets rewarded’ is so far down on Kafka’s In early days the Colonel’s “Shun!” “Yes, those are dragons all right,” said Pooh. Get yourself a copy and bug out. Waking up for work is never with a placidity that borders on the list of artistic impulses that it’s smashed Froze me; and, as the War grew older, “As soon as I saw their beaks I knew. Max Feldman Three Cheers for Pooh particularly pleasant but no matter masochistic. As the primary breadwinner through the ground and is hovering The noise of someone else’s gun That’s what they are,” said Pooh, said he. 3 Cheers for Pooh! Left me considerably colder. “That’s what they are,” said Pooh. (For who?) For Pooh - When the War is over and the battle has been won, “Let’s frighten the dragons,” I said to Pooh. (Why, what did he do?) I’m going to buy a barnacle and take it for a run; “That’s right,” said Pooh to Me. I thought you knew; Censoring When the War is over and the German Fleet we sink, “I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh, He saved his friend from a wetting! I’m going to keep a silk-worm’s egg and listen to it And I held his paw and I shouted “Shoo! 3 Cheers for Bear! Schools think. Silly old dragons!”- and off they flew. By Max Feldman (For where?)

Photograph © Universal Pictures © Universal Photograph For Bear - The Captains and the Kings depart— "I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he, He couldn’t swim, It may be so, but not lieutenants; "I'm never afraid with you." But he rescued him! Even in our current fervid atmosphere Dawn after weary dawn I start (He rescued who?) of Twitter storms and public shaming, The never-ending round of penance; So wherever I am, there's always Pooh, Oh, listen, do! censorship used to be taken a bit more One rock amid the welter stands There's always Pooh and Me. I am talking of Pooh! seriously back in the bad old days. 17th On which my gaze is fixed intently— "What would I do?" I said to Pooh, (Of who?) Century Puritan pamphleteer (try An after-life in quiet hands "If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True, Of Pooh! saying that fast three times) William Lived very lazily and gently. It isn't much fun for One, but Two, (I'm sorry, I keep forgetting). Prynne’s pamphlets on the moral failings Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," Well, Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain of the Anglicans saw him undergo a When the War is over and we’ve done the Belgians says Pooh. ( Just say it again!) (slightly) toned down version of the ear proud, Of enormous brain - slicing scene from Reservoir Dogs along I’m going to keep a chrysalis and read to it aloud; (Of enormous what?) with being branded on the cheek with When the War is over and we’ve finished up the show, the letters SL, standing for ‘Seditious Well, he ate a lot, encouraged by our social media society. LaRue claims that this upturn has also With the internet, children have I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow. ’ Libeller’. Whilst such brutal punishments There is nowhere where these culture been paired with a higher proportion more exposure to the wider-world than And I don t know if he could swim or not, But he managed to float are thankfully a thing of the past (though wars rage more intensely than within of successful bannings than in previous ever before and a parent attempting Oh, I’m tired of the noise and the turmoil of battle, On a sort of boat Now We Are Six perhaps the SL brand could be brought the school system, where reading lists years. Whilst the central battleground is to keep their child wrapped in cotton And I’m even upset by the lowing of cattle, (On a sort of what?) back as a one-off for crimes like ‘misuse are battled over as though they were increasingly over depictions of LGBTQ wool will have a difficult time doing so. And the clang of the bluebells is death to my liver, When I was one, Well, a sort of pot - of the Presidential Twitter account’), and theological doctrine. issues and their appropriateness in Censoring based on knee-jerk outrage, if And the roar of the dandelion gives me a shiver, I had just begun. So now let’s give three hearty cheers! despite the fact that authors no longer Every year, the US Office of educational materials for children, there anything, is doing children a disservice, And a glacier, in movement, is much too exciting, When I was two, (So now let’s give him three hearty whiches?) run the risk of having their ears shorn, Intellectual Freedom (OIF), a part of has also been a growing campaign to as learning about social issues in a And I’m nervous, when standing on one, of alighting— I was nearly new. And hope he’ll be with us for years and years, observers have noticed a definite upswing the American Library Association, ban older books in which the then managed environment is less confusing Give me Peace; that is all, that is all that I seek… When I was three, And grow in health and wisdom and riches! in trends towards censorship. tracks when parents and administrators contemporary depictions of racial and alienating than if they come across Say, starting on Saturday week. I was hardly me. In the past censorship was generally “challenge” books by trying to remove issues are seen as offensive to a modern it unexplained in the wider world. With 3 Cheers for Pooh! When I was four, applied from the top down on a sliding them from schools’ curricula and libraries. audience. Even books as beloved (and the rise of aggressive intolerance like (For who?) I was not much more. scale between dictatorial information In 2017 it recorded 323 attempts to ban anti-racist) as To Kill A Mockingbird the Alt-Right all over the world, it’s For Pooh - When I was five, control and Mary Whitehouse style books in America alone (about 50 more have recently seen schools remove them imperative that children today get to 3 Cheers for Bear I was just alive. prudishness, but increasingly the pressure than last year) including books with from their curriculum (admittedly in grips with the world at large and our (For where?) But now I am six, to ban and suppress comes from public young transgender characters and a series Mississippi) after complaints from parent place in it. After all does anyone really For Bear - I'm as clever as clever. outcry enhanced and refracted through by actor/comedian/accused serial rapist groups angry about the use of racial slurs want to be the one to silence Atticus 3 Cheers for the wonderful Winnie-the-Pooh! So I think I'll be six the prism of the lynch mob atmosphere Bill Cosby. The OIF Director James in the narrative. Finch? Edited and compiled by Emma Trehane, PhD ( Just tell me, somebody - WHAT DID HE DO?) now and forever. 14 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Travel & Lifestyle Travel & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Edward Steichen first exhibited in rubbish to a quit-whilst-you-are-ahead 6 MOMA New York in the 1950s. out of 6 clays within an hour. Depicting scenes of life from birth A 5* Hotel, Before dinner, it was time to take in a to death, work and play, joy and sadness, bit of a history. Cowdray is a big, 16,500 universal themes wherever we come a Country House acre estate, but within sight of the main from. Surprisingly the whole village of house is what’s variously referred to as Photographs © Cynthia Pickard © Cynthia Photographs & a Bentley ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ House © Cowdray Photographs Clervaux allows itself to be taken over By David Hughes The Ruins , The Castle or the Old and rented for corporate events, when House’. Originally built as the home even the street names can be changed to of the Montague family, it succumbed suit the client. The call came in around 9pm from to a big fire in 1793 which largely Harvest in Grevenmacher in the ’ ’ destroyed the main body of the building. Moselle district provides a good excuse a number I didn t recognise. I d just The secured remains offer a fascinating to attend the annual Grape and Wine got a new phone, and the unfamiliar glimpse into medieval life, with a revived Festival; competing brass bands, the beeping meant I’d nearly missed working kitchen, crenelated battlements election of a Wine Queen, and vintners’ and artist’s studio halfway up the stands for tasting local white wines and it. Would I, the caller asked, be ok surviving tower. sparkling Crémants. Shun the chip stalls to drive the Bentley tomorrow? I Returning to the main house, it and save yourself for barbecued fish and paused, gave it due consideration, was time to don my smart shirt and meats at glass-fronted BistroQuai 3 on get stuck into dinner. Cowdray is an the Moselle River; a great spot to watch and came out with my leisurely excellent source of local produce and The the impressive firework display. Day reply in less time than it takes to Stafford’s Executive chef James Durrant cruises ply the river down to Schengen. blink an eye. It was a yes, of course. and master sommelier Gino Nardella Medieval Echternach in the now had a chance to properly strut their Mullerthal region is famed for its Whit One likes to help out. nattered about sex, religion and the stuff, and I was looking forward to seeing Tuesday pilgrims’ Dancing Procession. price of Brexit by the time we hit the what could be offered to the tired and Nearby is Heringer Millen, the jumping left in the half light, a cup of tea Wandsworth one-way system, but the weary traveller. off point for biking and hiking trails. plonked pointlessly at the bedside smooth comfort of the car had elicited They were off to a good start with They think of everything here, if as M drifted gently back to sleep. It little response. It has a kind of relaxed a couple of glasses of Möet and some you’ve forgotten your own, the ‘Test had been like watching a patient going and effortless charm that will no doubt delectable canapés, but on moving into I ’ into an Op, just feeling the effects of the ByLuxembourg; Cynthia Pickard the real Europe! Centre’ provides free hire of walking iron out the worries of writing out a a beautifully set dining room, I ll admit boots and equipment, even binoculars. anaesthetic “have a nice timmmrmph cheque for £137K for the base model, to being just a little disappointed with The restaurant serves a popular zzz” she murmured. “I will”, I said, before not that you are suffering much at this the blandness of the Orkney sea scallop Luxembourgish meal, ham, salad and creeping out to my cab and rest of the level. Rear leg-room is less than a Range ceviche starter, however the burnt apple, chips. waking world. The rendezvous was to area. The Old Town gets festive with Rover, the boot’s a bit more cramped radish and cider vinegar did provide As a Brit I feel at a Luxembourg feels truly European, be at The Stafford in St James Place at ‘ the Winterlights Festival and on 6th and there’s no “Flying B” mascot on the some support, and the 2016 Luguna Le a place where the nations are united. 07.30 hours where we were to report for ’ disadvantage not being able December the annual St Nicholas Parade. bonnet, but somehow these things are Creete Veneto was a joy. After this slight Perhaps some of our political opinion breakfast. Overlooking the valley is www. not much of an irritation, and as I find dip it was pure bliss all the way. to slip seamlessly into fluent makers should spend a few days here to This is a little earlier than I usually Casino-Luxembourg.lu a modern a bit of space on the dual carriageway I A plump Cowdray Estate partridge experience what being part of a larger get my butler to bring in the bacon & French, German or a couple of art centre, a venue for children’s plant my right boot to see how all that with salt baked celeriac, hispi cabbage, community really means. It seems eggs, but we had quite a busy day ahead events, workshops and free entry to torque copes with a full load. There is horn of plenty (a black chanterelle other languages, and certainly a shame for us to lose sight of the of us, and we would be treading the deep exhibitions such as the exciting video a relentless shove in the back, and the mushroom that the French know philosophy of retaining membership of pile carpet of The Stafford to celebrate not Luxembourgish, while work of Mikhail Karikis, a UK based dials quickly move into license baiting as Trompette de la Mort) with truffle the Family of Man. the recent tie up between this august artist. Claudia Passeri’s neon sculpture, territory. 5 up and fully loaded, it barely Madeira sauce, paired with a 2011 Paul everyone here addresses us so P.S. I am very impressed by Luxair establishment and Cowdray Park. There the sound-waves of words from the notices. de Albas from Ribera del Duero had who, unlike other airlines, unfussily was a small group of us going on this easily in English. Communist Manifesto and a line from Arriving at the rather lovely Cowdray everyone smiling, and with good reason; provide a free sandwich and drink on a fact-finding trip, and the guest list read Kurt Cobain, hangs over the tables of Park feels like arriving on the set of it was a beautifully cooked and hearty flight of just over an hour from London like the cast of an Agatha Christie novel: Downton Abbey, with a line of staff to plate, allied to a ravishing and aromatic beautifully presented dishes at Cafesino, ’ uxembourg isn’t merely a town City Airport. writers, bloggers, a Princess, a CEO and greet you, take bags, and solicitously ask red. I ll be ready for a few more of these the centre’s restaurant. a long blond with a mysterious smile. ’ but an authentic country, a Grand I’m struck by how clean and well after your journey. I m sure the welcome before the season’s over. Duchy no less, measuring 82 by Lots more information at OK, that last one might have been me in would be the same whatever we had In defiance of the old rule of thumb

organised this prosperous country is; Hughes © David Photographs 57 kilometres at the widest part. Its www.visitluxembourg.com a wig, but it was still a fascinating mix. travelled down by, but I have to say, it that says a dessert wine should be a L The Stafford is wonderfully tucked touch sweeter than the dish, we were population is only 590,000, 115,000 of did feel good casually stepping out of a whom live in the capital, however 48% away up the far end of St James’ Place, bright red Bentley. After the arduous task poured a Domaine M Chapoutier 2014 of the population are foreigners and at but just yards from all the action. The of checking into a room thoughtfully from Rousillon, the French part of least 70% in the capital made up of 170 Victorian grandeur of the building is provided with a half-full decanter and Basque country, designed to showcase different nationalities. 180,000 people nicely offset by the up-to-date service the finest of everything, it was time to the deconstructed/reconstructed Black also commute in from surrounding and relaxed ambience, and after meeting get active. Forest; a chocolate tube stood on end countries every day to work. there’s plenty of space for the neat pastel everyone and polishing off a light Cowdray is the spiritual home of containing bitter chocolate mousse, The capital city is spread out amongst coloured houses, excellent infrastructure breakfast of smoked salmon, 3 cups of English Polo, and besides holding the cherry jam, kirsch, cherry sorbet and a wooded areas and is divided into the old as well as culture and history. A 4 euro coffee and a Danish, it was time to head prestigious Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup touch of Chantilly cream. Clever, but not and the new, the up and the down, in day ticket will allow you to travel by bus off to say ‘hello’ to my Bentley for the tournament, they also try to bring as so clever that it lost sight of what it was a next couple of days. the distance the prosperous skyscrapers and train anywhere in the country. A 13 ’ many new people into the sport as homage to. of the banks, financial and European euro Luxembourg Card provides entry There s nothing like the smell of finest possible. I hit the scales a little too ’ institutions of Kirchberg. In a deep to more than 60 tourist attractions with calf leather and a handcrafted interior to heavily to be included in this group The Stafford s Game Bird restaurant will bring a smile to one’s face at this hour. valley through the city centre I look travel included. ’ (polo ponies are a small and agile lot, be reviewed more fully next month, but down on the grey roofs of Grund, the Luxembourg has a healthy number Just in case you forget, there s also a big and prefer their jockeys to be the same) for those who want to get to the head of UNESCO Old Town. One flank of of castles. A chair lift ride offers views B in the middle of the steering wheel so went for a short tour of the Estate the queue, reservations can be made on the chasm is full of openings leading to of Vianden castle, a gem from the 9th to remind you that this is the real thing. before coming back for the buffet lunch. 020 7493 0111 the Bock Casemates; miles of unique century and the medieval streets of the We had the V8 diesel version (a first Oh dear, more calories, and more Cowdray House can be contacted on fortification passages hewn out of the surrounding village and the river Our. for Bentley) of the 4x4 Bentayga, with a disapproving looks from the ponies. 01730 814 522. The house is only rented rock in the 18th century. Above, historic 12th Century Clervaux castle in the grunty 429bhp and a hugely satisfying Thankfully guns aren’t so fussy, so out as a whole unit in 24hr blocks as pedestrianised streets lead to the Grand Ardennes region houses the important 664ft lb of torque; sufficient to produce the afternoon’s shoot of clays and targets individual rooms cannot be booked. Polo Ducal Palace and the 17th century Family of Man photographic exhibition; 0-60 times of 4.6 secs and a 168mph top went much better. I can not thank the tuition, shooting, and deer stalking are Cathedral, the many bars restaurants and the moving works by 273 photographers speed for those in a hurry. very professional and relaxed instructors all available without needing to book the shops of the old Marché-aux-Poissons from all over the world collected by Being a lively group, we had already enough here; they took me from fairly house. 16 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Travel & Lifestyle Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Our research team has worked collection, which has been inspired Selangor © Royal Photographs keep you going 10. NEW HORIZONS and Inner Calm. Partner Open Age also offer a couple Royal Selangor closely with the Royal Selangor design Guinness Trust Estate, Cadogen Street, SW3 2PF. T: 020 7590 8970 by the bold luxury of the Art Deco Bus: C1, 11, 19, 22, 137, 211, 319, 452, 360 Another impressive partner is GLL’s of exercise classes at Central Library in team to develop successful ranges over By Lynne McGowan Tube: Sloane Square (7min walk) movement of the early 1930s. The DAY CLASS NAME AGE COST TIME Better providing quality community, Phillimore Walk W8. 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It has given us an opportunity s a positive upside to the recent with two swimming pools, two dance Wormwood Scrubs, but if you’d rather and a superb alignment for the V&A’s to introduce some different product negative press I was delighted studios, sports hall, gym, spa and coffee stay indoors Age UK Kensington & Licensing for the Victoria & exacting standards. It is interesting to see types, such as the wine cooler, hip flask to learn about this community shop, this is a showcase development. Chelsea runs an Exercise at Home how some designs are enduring and have and tray; all very desirable. We have 15 Albert Museum, London. spiritedA programme with many of the Here you can do it all including project for the over 55’s. continued to be successful year after year. also refreshed the best-selling William venues based in the same ill-fated North Swimsanity and Swimming for Disabled ith more than 20 years of Morris collection with two new pieces; a Kensington area. 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Join us on a special train to celebrate the Approx.Timings Depart Return This day trip provides a unique opportunity Approx.Timings Depart Return Festive Season in style. London Victoria 10:30 17:20 to visit either the picturesque market town London Victoria 08:45 21:55 Eastbourne 13:00 14:30 of Sherborne in Dorset, join in with the Staines 09:35 20:50 Our train travels from London Victoria to the Hastings 15:00 15:10 Christmas carol service in the Abbey or visit Woking 10:05 20:15 Sussex coast crossing the North and South the Yeovil Railway Centre. Basingstoke 10:55 19:30 Downs and passing through the beautiful Fares Adult Junior Family Sherborne 13:15 16:50 countryside of the Weald. It will be hauled The special train will be hauled by a Black Premier £209 £139 £626 Yeovil Junction 13:25 16:30 by Black 5 No. 45305. First £139 £90 £413 5 steam locomotive No. 45305. It starts from London Victoria Station and picks up Fares Adult Junior Family This is a wonderful way to enjoy a leisurely Standard £99 £70 £303 more passengers at Staines, Woking and Premier £259 £175 £780 lunch whilst appreciating the scenic views Basingstoke. First £169 £112 £506 from your carriage window. Standard £109 £76 £332 Take a break prior to Christmas and treat yourself to a memorable day out with a difference.

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dishes. Kazeem served an excellent Pinot Prices of food and wine are very Grigio and looked after us well. reasonable, with lunch for £7.95 and The starters and mains, created by 12 Dinner for £14.95 and Takeaway at Chefs encompass the Cuisine of China, £7.95 Photographs © Kungfu © Kungfu Photographs Japan and Thailand. The sizzling prawns, © Pig's Ear Photograph crispy duck in pancakes, beef dishes Opening Hours: and soft shell crabs are delicious and Mon-Friday: Lunch: 11.30-16.30 the sauces excellent. Fresh fruit salad, Mon-Thursday: Dinner: 17.30-23.00 artistically displayed with sweet delicacies Friday: Dinner: 17.30-23.30 are the perfect desserts. Children will Saturday: All Day 11.30-23.30 love the jelly babies and the chocolate Sunday and Bank Holidays: fountain. All Day 11.30-23.00 Kung Fu is the name given to a deadly form of martial arts. Patrick Ellis Kungfu hopes that, “the food will give a good 180-182 Earl’s Court Road. kick, with maybe a chop (lamb or beef ) London SW5 9QG and the fruit punch bowl will provide the T: 020 7341 0849 The Launch was attended by Her perfect punch!” E: [email protected] The Launch of Worshipful, the Mayor of the Royal Marian Maitland Facebook: kungfu earls court Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Kungfu: Oriental Councillor, Marie Therese Rossi, Mr Han, the Proprietor, Mr Patrick Ellis, Buffet Restaurant specialist marketing consultant and his of the bar, we soon got to grips with charming wife Norma, Ms Kelly Jin, the menu, which was very much what Manageress, other VIP guests and the The Pig’s Ear you’d expect for a gastropub, with plenty Press were also present. 35 Old Church St, of meats for a cosmopolitan carnivore ungfu was launched on 3rd ’ The Mayor s arrival was heralded to get to grips with. I started with November, in the Royal Borough Chelsea SW3 5BS by an arousing drum beat and a large, the crispy lime and chilli squid with a of Kensington and Chelsea and dancing Chinese Dragon. In Chinese Menu: thepigsear.info relish (£8.50), which like all good squid promises the ultimate eating experience. K Mythology the dragon is a symbol of an 020 7352 2908 proved compulsively edible, but proved It is conveniently located near the higher auspicious power. somewhat forgettable. In contrast my Earl's Court Tube Station and in easy The guests enjoyed the convivial Reviewed by Max Feldman friend sprang for the warmed salad distance of the prestigious shopping atmosphere of this smart, modern of avocado, smoked bacon, Portobello centres in the King’s Road and restaurant with its comfortable mushrooms and baby spinach with crispy Michelin-starred private dining with Brompton Road. It is not far from the seating. Service was both friendly and croutons (£7) which was a delight; the Victoria and Albert Museum, also the impeccable, and helpful advice given t is a truth universally acknowledged, avocado in particular was fantastically complimentary Champagne cocktail reception Natural History Museum. about choice from the array of delectable that a hungry man or woman in creamy (I am very particular about my possession of a not particularly avocado, considering that as a millennial When entertaining 10 or more guests in the private rooms little more eclectic. A Condrie by growers expansive fortune, must be in want of a I have exchanged the possibility of home I ownership for it) and along with the such as Etienne Guigal from the Rhone decently priced unpretentious place to eat of Outlaw’s at The Capital. The Art of Valley will not only be a conversation and drink around the Kings Road. It is above average bacon it’s definitely worth piece, but should stifle dissent from those even more universally acknowledged that your seven pounds. Dinner Party with strong opinions! Furthermore, it they are not likely to find it, considering For our mains I tucked into Slow Let our award-winning team take care of your guests, has good acidity which will please the the High Street’s transformation from Roasted Pork Belly and crackling menus masterminded by Nathan Outlaw from £62 per Wines Sauvignon drinkers and enough viscosity © Burns & German Photographs the home of punk to neo-capitalist with Dauphinoise Potato, fennel seed, By Edward Burns to appease the Chardonnay drinkers. playground. Truisms are made to be roasted carrots and Red Wine Sauce person and no room charge. Next comes a red with main course. broken however, and so I took a notably (£17) that could have turned Morrissey The general rule of thumb is the lighter spiky-haired friend of mine to a historic into a raging carnivore, guarding the When it comes to hosting a dinner party, the dish, the lighter the wine you serve. Chelsea pub, The Pig’s Ear, to see whether meat from the roving grasp of my Available November 2017 - January 2018 most of my friends prefer the safe option In terms of the intensity spectrum wine they’d been able to avoid succumbing to jealous companion with the steely eyed of bringing along chocolate or flowers. can go from the light elegant Pinot the creeping menace of gentrification. determination of a man fully prepared to Simply mention this to Laura when enquiring: As I try to have a theme to pairing the Noir all the way to the heavy and rich At first glance The Pig’s Ear is stab his dining companion with a fork. wine and food I am serving, this allows Amarone. Personally, I would avoid going practically the platonic ideal of a My associate, realising that his 020 7591 1202 / [email protected] me to avoid the awkward situation of too heavy particularly if it is a school gastropub; rather than overcommit attempts had been baulked, went for feeling obliged to open their gift bottle night. A Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot to pointless gimmicks the pub is all the seared bream fillet, roast fennel and with a food course that does not match. blend from Bordeaux usually ticks most hard wood, chandeliers, barstools and capers with cherry tomato and anchovy of the boxes and is a region synonymous When hosting I like to plan the menu intimidatingly large clutches of esoteric cream sauce (£18) which he was fiercely with quality. first before thinking of the wine. Usually spirits. It is, in a word, retro, but the protective of, so I could only sneak small Finally, the question of what to serve the food I prepare in Summer is quite kind of retro that dances right on the tastes when he was otherwise concerned at the end of the meal. If serving cheese, different from food in the winter, with his wine. Thankfully this was a you can happily keep going with the red, edge of mildly eccentric. In a world however, I tend to match both in four fairly regular event. As such I can report although personally a glass of slightly of high concept tourist traps where stages. novelty trumps comfort, (and value for back that it was delightfully flavourful The first stage is the aperitif, and chilled Tawny Port such as the excellent money), The Pig’s Ear’s lack of pretension and rich and going by his doleful look at Champagne is always top of the list. 20-year-old by Grahams, really hits the is definitely a point in its favour. The his finished plate, I sensed that his only However, in the Summer, there is slightly spot. If serving a cream or fruit based regret is that there wasn’t more of it. more flexibility such as serving a Bellini, dessert, a glass of Sauternes, which is dining area is an informal collection Aperol Spritz or even a glass of rosé is now often considered an aperitif in France, of tables spaced around the bar (along Once we were done we discovered acceptable. During the Winter months, would be delicious. with a fancier room upstairs for those that the Pig’s Ear must be haunted though Champagne really is your best My last piece of advice is to always hankering for a more refined dining by some kind of ghost as we found choice. assume that your guests will consume experience) which provides a lively ourselves propelled as if by magic to the The second stage is a white wine to more than you (or they!) expect, so make atmosphere, though the temptation to bar where we remained for quite some pair with your starter. As everyone will sure your wine rack is well stocked! repeatedly hit the bar whilst waiting for time. If you’re prepared to risk that kind be drinking the same wine, you can avoid the food to arrive can prove practically all of ghostly intervention then the Pig’s 22-24 Basil Street, Knightsbridge, SW3 1AT the possibility of some of your guests Burns & German Vintners Ltd, encompassing. 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stunning Hays Galleria, there will be classics from pop-up choirs. 17 Duke's Rd, Bloomsbury, approximately 64 festively lit German Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD London WC1H 9PY November 2017 style wooden cabins, making this the dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk theplace.org.uk perfect place to combine a magical and CHRISTMAS MARKETS festive day out with Christmas shopping. December 9 November 18 – December 31 At 0915hrs in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Riverside, Queens Walk, London North End Road Cinderella lying on my left side, I found myself having an in-depth Date TBC SE1 2DB Wander on down the historic road to the Hackney Empire Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair sounds of carol singers, the Fulham Brass The classic rags to riches tale of conversation with my consultant as to the nature of dark matter Luxury boutique gifts return to the December 1-2 band, a Rock Cadohoir and a cappella Cinderella will be told in true Hackney and dark energy. Not a subject that I would necessarily advise Chelsea Old Town Hall on Kings Battersea Park's Pear Tree quartet belting out Yuletide tunes such style by the award-winning pantomime Road in December of 2018 thanks Pear Tree Café as Jingle Bell Rock and Santa Baby. There team as they prove a new pair of shoes during a colonoscopy, still, at least he was talking about what’s to Clever Creations Events annual As the frosty evening draws near and is also eye-catching street entertainment really can change your life. out there, as opposed to what’s in there! Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair. Do all your the candles start to glow, the Saturday from the acrobatic elves, roller-skating 020 8985 2424 Christmas shopping in one go with over Night Market will be a magical gathering satsumas, the snow balls, one-man band 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ ’d decided against sedation, so I could read my astronomy magazine while he 85 hand-picked quality exhibitors from for friends and family with carol singers and a visit from Santa. hackneyempire.co.uk all over the UK and abroad. carried out the procedure. He asked me did I know anything about dark matter Above: The mighty Coma cluster of galaxies was instrumental in the early formation of the concept of dark matter. and shows the beautiful and festivities. Pear Tree Cafe will be lbhf.gov.uk and energy and could it actually be in the room. Before I could answer (No) he galaxy NGC4911 embedded deep within it. (NASA/ESA/ Hubble Heritage Team) chelseachristmasgiftfair.com putting on an evening supper with views November 23 and 24 said “I want you to fart.” Well I think that that was as near an explanation of dark overlooking the market and ice dusted DANCE Wild Card - Gianluca Vincentini I November 17 – January 1 energy as we were going to get at that point. park, serving seasonal dishes such as Lilian Baylis Studio As yet no-one knows what it is and given that he ordered me not to speak Winter Wonderland pulled pork sliders, pickled apple and red Ends December 14 Originally from Italy, choreographer and again I was left to dwell on dark matter of the cosmic kind. Astronomers might Hyde Park cabbage; turkey schnitzel brioche bun Fagin’s Twist curator Gianluca Vincentini is passionate Get into the Christmas spirit as Winter be more confident about their picture of the Universe were it not for dark matter. ’ with cranberry sauce, melted brie and The Place about nurturing dance artists. Curious Observations show that the Universe is populated with some unseen form of matter; Wonderland returns to London s Hyde radicchio. Look out for the Pear Tree Fagin’s Twist is the untold story of a about the entwined nature of movement and plenty of it. Park for the 11th year. Hatch handing out sausage rolls, hot notorious and complex villain. It imagines and emotion, Vincentini believes that Dark matter is so named because it doesn’t interact at all with light, and is 020 8233 5400 chocolate, mince pies and mulled cider. Fagin’s youth, driven by greed and dance can reveal the complexity of our therefore invisible to us. The only way that dark matter influences the Universe London W2 2UH Lakeside Cafe, Battersea Park, London ambition in the face of overwhelming intimate connections to each other, around it, is by its mass exerting a gravitational pull on visible matter or on light, and SW11 4NJ poverty. The streets are a place of little without compromising entertainment. it’s this influence that allows us to say that it must exist, and in fact to measure how November 24-26 020 7978 1655 comfort and fairy-tale endings are hard to Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R much dark matter there is. By studying the rotation curves of galaxies, astronomers The Scandinavian Christmas Market peartreecafe.co.uk find in this piece of poignant coming-of- sadlerswells.com can glimpse how some dark matter is distributed. Come and experience the Nordic age dance theatre. Newton’s Law of Gravity says that stars revolving about the centre of a galaxy Christmas atmosphere at the annual December 2 020 7121 1100 Ends December 31 should slow dramatically the further away they are from the galactic centre. But the Scandinavian Christmas Market taking Hammersmith rotation curves of galaxies are ‘flat’, meaning the stars in an individual galaxy orbit at place on Albion Street in Rotherhithe A fantastic opportunity to get into the a steady velocity, independent of how far from the galactic centre they are. The most between the Finnish and Norwegian festive spirit and bring some extra sparkle logical explanation for this is that massive spherical halos of dark matter surround the Churches. to Hammersmith. There will be over 100 visible matter in galaxies. Albion Street, Rotherhithe London SE16 stalls along a traffic-free King Street and 7HZ Carols, In the 1930’s American astronomer Fritz Zwicky found ten times the mass of in Lyric Square offering seasonal gifts and visible light in the Coma cluster of galaxies about 300million light-years from Earth. scandimarket.co.uk food. The wintertime fun will be boosted Adding up all this mass, and calculating the total gravitational pull of all the visible by live music, carol singing and a visit Readings & galaxies, he was able to deduce “the escape velocity” of the cluster. But when he then November 25-26 from Santa. analysed the velocities of the galaxies in the cluster he discovered they were moving Christmas Fair lbhf.gov.uk far faster than the escape velocity; so quickly in fact they should have been flung Chelsea Physic Garden Music for Soak up the festive atmosphere whilst apart, thus confirming in his mind that there must be some invisible matter within ’ December 3 the cluster that we couldn’t see, holding them together. selecting unique gifts you won t find on Curtain Up Christmas Market Every model of the cosmos is constantly being refined, and the current model the high street. Stay for a delicious lunch, Over 45 stalls offering: antiques, Christmas known as the ‘standard cosmological model’ suggests that the Universe is composed This image from Hubble indicates that a huge ring of dark matter likely exists surrounding the centre of the galaxy CL0024+17 (NASA/ESA) . a glass of something festive and select collectables, art, bric-a-brac, books, Below: A purple haze shows dark matter flanking the Bullet Cluster (X-ray: NASA/CXC/M. Markevitch) your own unique handmade Christmas of 5% baryonic matter, 27% dark matter and 68% dark energy. Baryons are a class of jewellery, glass, handbags, vintage Tuesday 12 December 2017, 6.30pm subatomic particle consisting of three quarks, and are the building blocks of atoms. wreath created by the wonderful team of clothing, cakes and more. Christmas St Marylebone Parish Church, The most well-known baryons are protons and neutrons. Combine these in various volunteers using seeds and foliage from Market to be opened at 11.30 am by 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT quantities and you get the nuclei of all chemical elements. These baryons make The Garden surprise celebrity up most of the mass of the ordinary matter in the Universe (you, me, trees, plants, 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, St Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, Join us for a festive evening of music buildings, planes, moons, planets and stars etc) and so we call this ordinary matter London, SW3 4HS Kensington, London W8 4HN and readings by Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE ‘baryonic matter’. 020 7352 5646 and Edward Fox, OBE, followed by So, do we have any idea what dark matter is? Ideas abound, MACHO’s (Massive chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk December 3 mince pies and mulled wine. Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects), such as gas and dust, black holes, neutron Belgravia Christmas Sunday stars or brown dwarfs, may account for some of it, but there just aren’t enough of November 27-28 Visit Belgravia’s Christmas markets them to account for the required additional mass. Guildhall Christmas Market and see the elegant London district Of non-baryonic dark matter, two basic types exist; hot dark matter (HDM) and Get into the festive spirit with the sights transformed into a winter wonderland. cold dark matter (CDM). The ‘temperature’ in each model refers to the particles’ and sounds of the Guildhall Christmas Elizabeth Street, Belgravia, SW1W Market this November. velocities. Neutrinos represent the likeliest HDM candidate but recent observations Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE Edward Fox, OBE have largely discredited the HDM model. Guildhall, Gresham Street, London December 6-18 The current best guess for most of the cold dark matter are WIMPS (Weakly EC2V 7HH Dulwich Winterlights Interacting Massive Particles) such as axions, massive neutrinos, and photinos. Dulwich Picture Gallery Because they interact so weakly, and not at all with radiation, detecting WIMPS is November 30 – January 3 Discover the Gallery’s historic building incredibly difficult. London Bridge City Christmas Market and grounds lit up by a winter lights FREE ENTRY There is a long way to go before we know the exact identity of dark matter, one of Back for a third year at one of London’s trail. Create your very own festive family [email protected] the century’s greatest astronomical mysteries. most prestigious locations, Tower Bridge. photo at a giant magical frame, visit the Email Running along the Riverside from Tower to reserve your place. 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The Snowman St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ES The Peacock londoncoliseum.org Twinkling with festive spirit The Snowman is now celebrating 20 consecutive years Ends January 13 on the stage. Based upon the book by Song of the Earth / La Sylphide Raymond Briggs and the film directed London Coliseum CHRISTMAS AT by Dianne Jackson and produced by MacMillan’s masterpiece and a beloved John Coates which has transported a classic, performed for the first time. WESTMINSTER ABBEY generation of children and their families 020 7836 0111 into the wintery world of a boy and his St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4ES magical snowman. ballet.org.uk Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT CELEBRATE THE CHRISTMAS STORY sadlerswells.com Ends January 27 Matthew Bourne's Cinderella December 13 – January 6 Sadler’s Wells Nutcracker Following the sold-out and critical London Coliseum success of The Red Shoes, New Adventures The magical Christmas ballet for all return to Sadler’s Wells this Christmas the family, with exquisite dancing and with one of our most popular and Tchaikovsky’s glorious score played live. beloved productions, Matthew Bourne's On a sparkling Christmas Eve in a frost- Cinderella; a thrilling and evocative love dusted Edwardian London, Clara and story set in London during the Second her enchanted Nutcracker doll discover World War, which forms part of the a magical world, where she battles with company’s 30th anniversary celebrations. the Mouse King and meets a handsome 020 7863 8000 stranger. As the air grows colder, Clara Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, and her valiant Nutcracker take a hot London EC1R 4TN air balloon ride across London to the sadlerswells.com glistening Land of Snow where her adventure really begins. EXHIBITIONS SERVICES 020 7836 0111 rd Ongoing Sunday 3 December Bond in Motion 4.00pm An Advent Liturgy by Candlelight London Film Museum Sunday 17th December Berlin Science Bond in Motion at the London Film 5.45pm A Christmas Meditation: Museum has installed a new display Readings and music for the Christmas season Fiction Festival of original film cars driven by female rd characters starring alongside 007 in the Saturday 23 December James Bond franchise. Also included are Noon Crib Service erlin has always been a city 4.00pm Service of Lessons and Carols – Tickets required Imperial War Museum of popular culture, highlighted by his use Bwhich has felt unstuck in time: previously unseen costumes, props and This exhibition examines the British of aluminium and neon. The highlight November 14-20 November 16 overflowing with reminders of the storyboards. Over 100 individual items Sunday 24th December arrival in Helmand province, Afghanistan, is a truly stunning piece of art based on The Society of Fulham Artists and Christmas Fair past, yet forever pushing forwards are on display including the Aston Martin Christmas Eve in 2006 and the decisions that shaped a photograph of David Bowie, taken by Potters Autumn Exhibition Royal Trinity Hospice into its own reading of the future. DB5 from GoldenEye, the Wet Nellie 4.00pm Service of Lessons and Carols – Tickets required the way the conflict escalated, exploring the world-famous photographer Terry Fulham Library Last year the Christmas Fair raised As a result it’s the ideal place Lotus Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved 11. 3 0 p m Christmas Midnight Mass – Tickets required the impact this period had on those who O’Neill. The collaboration between Sidoli For sale selection of work by member over £31,000, which funds a Trinity Me, the Rolls-Royce Phantom III from to hold a festival celebrating the th were there and the lessons learnt from and O’Neill has produced an iconic piece artists (2D and 3D) twice a year for six Nurse for nine months. Come and do Goldfinger, and the Little Nellie Wallis Monday 25 December cutting edge of modern science Christmas Day this deployment. On display are newly which, alongside five other original pieces days, usually in June and November. your Christmas shopping here. Over 40 WA-116 Agile Autogyro from You Only fiction film; a genre that much like 10.30am Sung Eucharist acquired objects, photography and video featuring Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe Exhibition Hall, Fulham Library, 598 exciting stallholders (over half of which Berlin, repurposes its past to offer Live Twice. 3.00pm Evensong and audio interviews, most of which have and Elvis Presley, forms the centrepiece Fulham Road, SW6 5NX are new for this year), selling beautiful bold new insight into our future. 020 7836 4913 never been displayed before. of a not-to-be-missed exhibition at Aston Christmas gifts for all the family, The Berlin Science Fiction Film 45 Wellington St, All are welcome, but to ensure your place 020 7416 5000 Martin’s cultural hub. FAIRS & FESTIVALS Christmas cards and decorations, fashions Festival will celebrate its debut at London WC2E 7BN at services marked ‘Tickets required’ apply online: Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ 8 Dover St, Mayfair, London W1S 4LF for both men and ladies, jewellery, toys, www.westminster-abbey.org/events/christmas Berlin’s world famous Babylon on londonfilmmuseum.com iwm.org.uk louis-sidoli.com Ends November 30 gadgets, beauty products, books and 17th and 18th November 2017. Coronet International Festival much, much more. Royal Trinity Hospice Continuing the confluence of old Ongoing CONCERTS Opens November 8 Opens November 15 Coronet Printroom depends on local support and dedicated and new, the Babylon Cinema first Brilliant minds in Hut 8 North: Fashioning Identity Ferrari: Under the Skin Throughout November, the Coronet’s fundraisers. Bletchley Park opened in 1929 for silent movies, th Somerset House Design Museum first festival of international work will St Luke’s Church 194 Ramsden Road Formerly the Codebreaking Hut leading Tuesday 5 December with an orchestra pit and a cinema 7.0 0pm Schütz The Christmas Story Opening this winter, an exhibition The exhibition, created in collaboration take over the building, presenting theatre, London SW12 8RQ the breaking of German Naval Enigma organ which are still used in the Tickets £12 – £45 featuring contemporary photography, with Ferrari, offers an insight into the life dance, music and art from all four corners royaltrinityhospice.london present day, with three screening messages, today Hut 8 houses exciting fashion and multimedia work, sitting of Enzo Ferrari, unique cars and rarely of the map. areas which selected films will interactive exhibitions helping adults and Thursday 14th December alongside social documentary film and seen documents. Celebrating 70 years 020 3642 6606 November 18-22 be spread out across the historic children alike to understand the different 7.0 0pm Christmas Concert supported by John Lewis photography, highlighting how the of precision design, from the launch of 103 Notting Hill Gate, London Motorcycle Live venue. methods the Codebreakers used to help Tickets £15 – £37 realities of life in the north of England the first Ferrari car in 1947 to the latest W11 3LB NEC Birmingham Whilst well-known franchises them with their work. In addition, this captured in the mid-20th century car production. This ambitious display the-print-room.org The organisers of the UK’s biggest bike hut also houses the real Office of Alan Box Office: St John’s Smith Square like Bladerunner 2049 might get www.ssjs.org.uk | 020 7222 1061 continue to influence new generations of will bring together early design models, show, Motorcycle Live, have announced the most of the column ink, science Turing, Head of Hut 8, recreated to how photographers, artists and designers. rare personal memorabilia and archival Remembrance Sunday 14 shortlisted machines in its Ace Builds’ fiction is in the middle of a it would have looked in World War Two Westminster Abbey is open daily for visiting except 020 7845 4600 material relating to Enzo Ferrari’s life. See Horse Guards Parade custom showcase competition. Voting notable resurgence and what complete with the mug chained to the Saturday 23rd December, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Sundays Strand, London WC2R 1LA some of the most famous Ferraris to be A two-gun salute will be fired on Horse will now open to the public, with the four better place to get clued in to radiator. somersethouse.org.uk seen on roads and racing circuits around Guards Parade, one at the start of the two most popular machines going on display. the future of the futuristic than a The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood the world alongside early cars, wind minutes silence at 11:00am and one at the 0121 780 4141 city that’s as otherworldly as the Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB Opens November 9 tunnel models and hand-sculpted models end at 11:02am. National Exhibition Center, Halls, Festival’s subject matter? 01908 640404 Neon Icons in both clay and wood. 020 7930 3070 Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1NT By Max Feldman bletchleypark.org.uk www.westminster-abbey.org No. 8 Dover St 224-238 Kensington High St, 4 Whitehall Place, Westminster, London motorcyclelive.co.uk www.berlinscifi.com A brand-new body of work from Louis Kensington, London W8 6AG SW1A 2AX Ends November 26 Sidoli, famed for his artistic exploration designmuseum.org royalparks.org.uk November 27 Afghanistan: Reflections on Helmand 24 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT BUSINESS & FINANCE

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Gold, like Bitcoin, experienced her new book Art as Jewellery; From November 18 cards and adverts for tempting treats in Novemer 9 - December 12 Bitcoin & the a similarly meteoric rise between 1999 Calder to Kapoor, and jewellery designer The Time Travel Club - Time Travellers our collection. Find out about festive Picturing Prince: Photographs by Steve and 2011, where its value increased from Andrew Prince present an illustrated talk, ahoy! Tudor feasts, Victorian Christmas in the Parke Cryptocurrency £6k per kilo to £33k per kilo. Gold has A Portrait of Jewels. The National Archives workhouse and Christmas experiences Proud Central consistently remained at around that 020 7839 9060 Set sail on a voyage following the journeys during the Second World War. Then A collection of rare and intimate prints to Bubble? level since. However, this comparison is ’ 8 King St, St. James s, London taken by ships in the 18th century and create your own Christmas cards or coincide with the recent launch of Parke’s By James Billot deeply problematic because there are a ’ SW1Y 6QT beyond. decorations inspired by National Archives acclaimed photobook. The exhibition will scarcity of resources that gold possesses christies.com Drawing on an exciting collection of records. reveal the unique collaboration between and Bitcoin does not. Although there is captured letters storytelling and creative The National Archives, Bessant Dr, Kew, artist and art director, while illustrating a finite number of Bitcoins in circulation November 27 activities will be used to explore journeys, TW9 4DU Prince’s flamboyant persona and playful (21 million), there are very few checks RCM International Festival of Viols: the variety of cargoes carried, and characteristics, culminated in an image of n a brisk October morning in and balances in place to prevent more Concert With Hille Perl documents found on board ships. December 7 gender fluidity and sexual expression. 1929, Joseph Kennedy decided FLY, YOU coins from being produced or ‘mined’. Royal College of Music This session is designed for children Polka Youth Theatre 020 7839 4942 to get his shoes shined. He left The valuation of Bitcoin therefore cannot Virtuoso viola da gamba player Hille Perl aged 7 to 11 (younger siblings welcome). Polka Theatre 32 John Adam St, London WC2N 6BP his office and walked down a few blocks correspond to the fundamental laws of performs in RCM’s 11th International Adults do not need to book for A unique opportunity to get expert drama proudonline.co.uk O FOOLS! before finding a boy offering a shoeshine supply and demand. Festival of Viols. The programme features themselves. training and develop new performance service. As he took a seat and propped up But there is one obstacle in the key works of the Baroque era alongside The National Archives, Bessant Dr, Kew, skills, for everyone aged 9 – 14 who November 10 his feet, the shoe shiner asked Kennedy THE marshy swampland of the cryptocurrency contemporary pieces by Martha Bishop TW9 4DU enjoys theatre and performance. Dino Snores for Grown-ups what he did for a living. Kennedy told world that looms larger than any and Lee Santana. 020 8543 4888 Natural History Museum the boy that he was an investor, among BITCOIN other: government. It is often said that 020 7591 4300 November 18, January 20 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London Enjoy a night of music, food, science and other things. The boy stopped shining political power follows economic power, Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London Dino Snores for Kids SW19 1SB cinema at the Natural History Museum's Kennedy’s shoes and looked up. “An but in the case of Bitcoin, it is unclear SW7 2BS Natural History Museum polkatheatre.com sleepover, Dino Snores for Grown-ups. investor, eh?” said the precocious boy, CRASH where the economic power actually lies. rcm.ac.uk Ever wonder what happens in the 020 7942 5511 “well, I’ve got a whole bunch of tips for Cryptocurrency poses a huge threat Museum when everyone's gone home? FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London you.” IS NIGH to the sovereignty of a government December 12 The night begins as you set up camp in SW7 5BD Kennedy politely listened to the because it does not want to lose its ’ Battersea Choral Society Christmas one of the Museum s spectacular galleries, Ongoing nhm.ac.uk boy as he recited a shopping list of hot privilege as the monopoly issuer of a Concert including Hintze Hall. This action-packed Franklin: Death in the Ice stock tips until his shoes were eventually legitimate currency. As the economist Holy Trinity night is not for the faint hearted, and National Maritime Museum November 18 shined. The 52-year-old stood up, Abba Lerner wrote: “The modern state The concert will include a programme of there will be plenty to learn and discover This exhibition explores the mysterious Sing-A-Long-A Frozen brushed himself down, and paid the can make anything it chooses generally much-loved, traditional Christmas carols during your stay at the Museum. boy for his service (presumably for the acceptable as money…It is true that a along with some splendid music and 020 7942 5511 shining and not the investment advice). simple declaration that such and such is festive readings. Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London Soon after, Kennedy walked straight money will not do, even if backed by the Sloane Square, Sloane Street, London SW7 5BD back to his office, put his coat on his an exponential price rise.Sounds familiar, the Financial Times examining the most convincing constitutional evidence SW1X 9BZ nhm.ac.uk desk, and promptly sold his entire stock doesn’t it? For those who can cast their financial crashes of the past one hundred of the state’s absolute sovereignty.” As batterseachoralsociety.org portfolio. “When a shoeshine boy has minds back to the early 2000s, where years. In the article, Thaler refers to an of yet, no country taxes Bitcoin (part of ’ November 29 – December 15 tips,” Kennedy later remarked, “the stock George W. Bush controversially defeated excerpt from John Maynard Keynes The the coin’s appeal) and no state accepts it From January 7 Living Nativity THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS TRADITION FOR ALL THE FAMILY market is too popular for its own good.” Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election General Theory of Employment, Interest as legal tender. Indeed, Japan may have Cirque du Soleil – OVO London Zoo Kennedy was proven right; a few weeks and Destiny’s Child released their third and Money, where Keynes finds that authorised Bitcoin exchange centres, Royal Albert Hall Experience the magic of Christmas by later on October 29th, the Wall Street studio album to critical acclaim, there the share prices of ice companies rose but this move only improves its price Cirque du Soleil returns to London’s Royal enjoying ZSL London Zoo’s Living NUTCRACKER Crash occurred, serving as the prelude to was also what soon became known as during the summer months because transparency, not its valuation. Albert Hall with OVO which comes to Nativity; a special event for schools. As 1930 Great Depression, the worst ever the ‘dot-com crash’. Over the course of sales were higher. But in an efficient We should not consider Bitcoin, or the UK for the first time for a five-week you journey through the scenes of the economic crisis to hit the United States. the 1990s, a spate of new technology market, Keynes notes, these seasonal any cryptocurrency for that matter, as a run from 7 January-11th February 2018. nativity you will meet the Wise Men and And that anecdote, ladies and firms emerged; in 1995, there were 1,000 price rises should not occur. In fact, the negative force in society. A key driving Having thrilled more than 5 million their camels, see Mary in the stable and gentlemen, will be the segue into the technology firms but by 2000, there were share price of a company is supposed to factor behind its rise is, in essence, a people worldwide, OVO, meaning “egg” talk to the Shepherds as they tend their subject of this article: Bitcoin, the world’s 5,000. This dot-com boom created a reflect the long-run value of a company manifestation of the public distrust in in Portuguese, is a headlong rush into flock. Your class will then join Santa as he most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin hysteria in the media and wider public as and should not fluctuate on a season- government or banks. Through the use a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, tells you about the animals he meets when is the undisputed market leader in the share prices soared. One notable example by-season basis. Keynes concluded that of Blockchain technology, Bitcoin users where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, he travels around the world. All the boys cryptocurrency world; nearly one in was the telecommunications company “the element of real knowledge in the can exchange in a peer-to-peer network fight and look for love in a non-stop riot and girls will receive a gift to take home every two users hold Bitcoin, and the Qualcomm, which saw a 2,619% increase valuation of investments by those who without interference from these third of energy and movement. This follows with them. second most popular currency, Ethereum, in its share price. Everyone was raging own them… seriously declined.” In parties, who can slow or disrupt the Amaluna, which saw record-breaking 020 7449 6200 does not even come close, with a 20% about dot-com stocks. Even Alan other words, people who knew about exchange process. Bitcoin has become success in London in 2015 and 2016. London NW1 4RY market share. Today, it is hard to make Greenspan, Chair of the Federal Reserve, the value of their companies no longer immensely popular with immigrants, for 020 7589 8212 zsl.org it through the day without hearing spoke favourably towards their high held a majority stake, just as with Bitcoin example. Now, remittances can be sent Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, at least a mention of Bitcoin. It is an valuation. today. People swarm towards the Bitcoin back to their families via Bitcoin without SW7 2AP Ends December 31 unstoppable force and an immovable And then in 2000, it all came honeypot because they see that the price the huge transaction fees that banks cirquedusoleil.com Investigate for families “DAZZLING” object all rolled into one. Or so they crashing down, when tech companies keeps rising, and that is reason enough. charge. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Natural History Museum say. At the time of this article’s writing, lost nearly half of their value in the space It has become a case of speculating on But in spite of these benefits, we FAMILY & CHILDREN Investigate for families. Get a feel for how Bitcoin’s price is $7,368 (£5,578) per of twelve months. Just in the same way speculation, and we do not even realise cannot ignore the fact that Bitcoin is scientists work by having a go yourself. coin. One year ago, it was $710 (£539) that we were blindsided by the Great There has been a tendency in incredibly volatile, and it has been known Ongoing Come and explore hundreds of real per coin. If you bought five Bitcoins for Recession of 2008 or the Tulip Crash the Bitcoin debate to liken the to lose 30% of its value in under a day. Dragon Babies - Gamelan for 3-5 year nature specimens that form the evidence 13 DEC 2017 – 6 JAN 2018 $3,550 in November 2016 and left it of the 17thC, we cannot seem to cage cryptocurrency to other commodities. These rank fluctuations highlight how olds Museum scientists use in their work. there for a year, a cool $36,840 would our inner Icarus. In 2000, excessive Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s CEO unsustainable Bitcoin’s growth is, and ballet.org.uk/nutcracker Registered Charity 214005 Southbank Centre Science Educators are on hand to help now be sitting in your bank account. optimism once again outstripped rational compared Bitcoin to the Dutch tulip aside from the Bitcoin evangelicals, Let your Dragon Babies shake, rattle and you look closely at real objects using the Mazel tov. But the chances are, most expectation, and this is likely the case for mania of the 17thC which, in turn, led to most would agree that a sharp decline gong in this music-making session for many tools provided. people did not buy Bitcoins in 2016. Bitcoin. a huge crash in the Dutch stock market. is foreseeable. Is a crash likely? Yes. And toddlers aged 3 – 5 years old. Bring your 020 7942 5511 More probably, they are buying them In 2015, behavioural economist But Bitcoin proponents do not make the when will this crash happen? little ones to experience the sounds of Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London now, and that is why there has been such Richard Thaler wrote an article for same comparison. Rather, they posit that Go and ask your shoeshine. 26 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT

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as such, KCW Today has provided a recap 12th October phase of Brexit talks. for 80 minutes and do what this book. Nor do you need to consider of all the significant happenings over the EU Chief Negotiator Michael Barnier Although EU leaders agree that it takes to win. Every time yourself an incarnation of Sir Richard BREXIT past month. strikes a positive tone. “insufficient progress” has been made in Leader on the you have the ball in your Branson. If you’re simply aiming to ’ By James Billot With “political will”, Barnier stated that areas including citizens rights and the hands you’re going to want 3rd October ’ become a better version of yourself while May’s infamous Conservative Party “progress is within our grasp” within the UK s financial obligation to the bloc, Tusk Pitch: to run the opposite over.” understanding the facets of leadership, Conference speech. next two months. approves internal EU preparations for new Succeed in Business The foreword to Leader then this book will be of use to you in talks. Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. There are Falling letters off the back wall, an 13th October Leadership with the Wisdom on the Pitch is written by many aspects. incessant cough, and a prankster handing Hammond blunders in Sky News 25th October none-other than Sir Clive As Quinnell explains, there are many few other words in the English the Prime Minister a P45 made Theresa Brexit Secretary Davis faces Brexit of Rugby Resilience. ’ interview. Woodward who famously types of leader both on the rugby pitch language that can trigger such May s keynote speech one to forget. In a plea to stop fighting within the Committee in Parliament By Scott Quinnell and Paul led England to World Cup and in business. You may not consider a cataclysmic reaction amongst 9th October Conservative party, the Chancellor Davis is pressured by rebel Tory MPs glory in 2003. It alone is yourself a leader but unbeknownst to May outlines contingency plans for oversteps his mark by describing EU and Labour party members to guarantee Boross imperative reading. “As a you, others perhaps might do so. Equally the vast swathes of the British Brexit negotiators as “the enemy.” Hours a Commons vote on Brexit before the leaving the EU without a deal. metaphor for business, rugby there are many various ways in which to population as this one. It is a later, he apologizes on Twitter for a “poor UK leaves the EU in 2019. Davis denies Reviewed by Owen Fulda The Prime Minister announces that the really stands out to me”, he choice of words” . “fudging” the commitment by suggesting lead people, and extricate the best from word that can turn a dinner UK are prepared to leave the talks without writes. “Few other sports them, while simultaneously helping them a deal, gaining public support from that the vote could happen after this date. party into a debate hall, a debate 17th October carry the unique challenges to grow and flourish in the workplace or prominent Brexit hardliners including Irish PM Leo Varadkar attacks the 31st October of rugby, including the ever- on the pitch. hall into a bull pit, and a bull pit Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and internal divisions in the UK Government. Davis suggests that Brexit divorce terms present threat of physical “Leaders don’t only celebrate the big into the Houses of Parliament. Brexit Secretary David Davis. Speaking to the BBC, Varadkar argued will favour EU. injury. In business the threat that the UK government was proving Davis remarks to a panel of British victories, they celebrate anything and Party politics has degenerated 10th October cott Quinnell’s second book is titled of failure equally causes everything that represents a step in the May fumbles in LBC Radio interview. difficult to negotiate with because “people lawmakers that “the withdrawal into tribal warfare, leaving the Leader on the Pitch because that’s leaders to lose composure right direction,” writes Quinnell. Wise LBC host Iain Dale asks Prime who want to leave the European Union in agreement, on balance, will probably exactly what he was during his star- and make hasty decisions, Conservative Party in a state of Minister May if she would vote to remain Britain don’t really seem to agree among favour the Union in terms of things like words in a climate of Brexit-fueled crisis. Not since the Corn Laws in the EU if there was another Brexit themselves what that actually means.” money and so on”. It is a sign that the UK studded career. He represented Wales on and the end result isn’t economic paranoia, which can make it is willing to compromise on its divorce S referendum, to which May responds: no-less than 52 occasions with one of his because the decision is tough to keep your eyes on the prize in of 1846 has an issue divided the 19th October bill. “I voted Remain, for good reasons at German Chancellor Angela Merkel many career highlights being the crucial wrong but because it was the treadmill-like world of business. The party so deeply. the time but circumstances move on.” emphasizes the joint responsibility of 1st November try he scored in Brisbane during the made under pressure.” small victories add up. Her opaque answer draws ire from the Britain and the EU. Parliament pass a motion to release secret 2001 British and Irish Lions tour. The parallels drawn You may be sceptical of this genre n government, lines have been drawn hardliners. Merkel states that although talks studies on the impact of Brexit. Not content with solely playing rugby between rugby and the world of books, I’ll admit that I was too. But in the sand between the hard-line are “not sufficient to enter into a A Labour-led motion is passed forcing union to the highest level, Quinnell of business in Leader on the this book isn’t jammed with cringe- Brexiteers and the quasi-remainers. 11th October second phase”, they were nevertheless the government to release studies into Pitch are succinct and easily This division is no better reflected, or Philip Hammond announces that he will also represented Wales in the 1995 worthy sound-bites, Quinnell and Boross I not budget for a ‘no-deal’ Brexit until the “encouraging”. Importantly, Merkel the impact of Brexit on 58 sectors of the Rugby League World Cup. He says digestible. Quinnell and co- genuinely know the subject of leadership perhaps amplified, than in Theresa May’s stresses that the negotiations are a shared British economy. Sir Michael Fallon also own cabinet. Spurious leaks, imprudent “very last moment”. that the toughest game of rugby he ever ’ author and keynote speaker inside out. Whether you’re intending Directly contradicting May’s earlier claims responsibility between Britain and the EU resigns as Defence Secretary in wake of played was the quarter-final against Quinnell, it s fair to say, was born a Paul Boross fortunately do not try to to expand an international franchise, gaffes, and public breaches of the party sexual harassment cases brought against that the government was preparing for a with the “ball in both courts”. Western Samoa. When he retired in warrior and a winner. “When we cross blind the reader with science, or technical line over the past month have only served him. planning to start your own company or to fuel the chaos. no-deal Brexit, the Chancellor would not 20th October 2005 Quinnell continued his battle with that white line we’ve got to be nasty,” rugby tactics for that matter. simply plotting to captain your team to Keeping up with the day-to-day Brexit do so for the “sake of sending a message” EU Council President Donald Tusk gives Negotiations were resumed in Brussels on dyslexia in order to change both his and said Quinnell on the Sky 1 show School In fact by no means do you need to be victory in a pub quiz, there’s something to the EU. developments can be an onerous task and green light to preparation for second November 9th for a two-day session. his children’s lives for ever. of Hard Knocks. “We’ve got to be horrible a rugby obsessive to benefit from reading you’ll take away from Leader on the Pitch. 28 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT EDUCATION

experience + passions/interests = dream inevitable gaps and breaks, I argue that concept of personal branding as a tool job. In this formula, no two people can it is even more important to maintain a to develop his self-confidence, internal SUPPLEMENT Coaching possibly be alike and the individual must personal brand and an understanding of positioning and career path. We probed Corner: be ruthlessly honest in defining and what one stands for and can bring to the and discussed the following: Personal Brand: developing a unique positioning. For the table, than ever before. Peter Drucker more experienced professional, it is less may have been a sage or early pioneer in • What would he like to be known for? Cliché or Tool? formulaic and more about their truly sensing that “successful careers are not • What words would he like to be used to By Ellen Miller unique or “1 in 10,000” skill combined planned in advance. They develop when describe him? with their passions and sources of energy. people are prepared to ask themselves • What does he love/hate doing? William Bridges, in his interesting tough questions and have rigorously • How would he like to be remembered, book, Creating You & Co, has a similar assessed their unique characteristics.” and for what ? formula called D.A.T.A, an acronym He goes on to say that, “workers must for Desire, Abilities, Temperament be their own CEOs....it’s up to you and Assets. I believe that these types to...cultivate a deep understanding For both the client and for What is your Personal Brand? of formulae lay the foundation to of yourself, not only strengths and me, the breakthrough came in What do you want to be developing a Personal Brand. weaknesses, but values and where you can So what is personal branding and make the greatest contribution.” defining and articulating what known for? how do we define it? A simple Google William Bridges in Creating You & is compelling and authentic My coaching clients, search yields the following response: Co, echoes Drucker in many ways, but Personal branding is, for some takes the idea of “learning to think about him. across a broad spectrum, people, a description of the process like the CEO of your own career” a few Great brands are authentic from postgraduate and whereby people and their careers are steps further and defines a practical path marked as brands. It has been noted that towards finding ideal work situations in and true to themselves; a MBA students, to seasoned while previous self-help management the contemporary, post-industrialised Personal Brand is no different. professionals, hesitate in techniques were about self-improvement, workplace. He recommends that the personal branding concept suggests individuals: Recommended Reading answering these questions. instead that success comes from self- Robbins, Anthony, (1991) Certainly it may be a packaging. • Discover the unique mix of resources Awaken the Giant Within, Personal Branding is exactly what it that they bring to the new workplace London, Simon & Schuster predictable response from sounds like: promoting and packaging • Develop an eye for markets and Ibarra, Herminia, (2003) yourself as a viable product that serves to students, but from the others search for the best places to apply their Working Identity, create an impression about who you are is more surprising. It has resources. Boston, Harvard Business School Press and, by extension, your accomplishments, • Combine personal data and made me think about how the your services, and what you can offer a opportunities into a viable product. Buckingham, Marcus (2007) ; concept of personal branding company. Moreover, if crafted correctly, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, your personal brand will elicit as well as In a recent session, a client embraced the London, Simon & Schuster can be used as an effective impart an emotional connection in the minds of others, that will differentiate coaching tool. you. The concept of Personal Branding regularly ask clients to submit their was originally formulated by Tom Peters CVs and biographies and share in 1997. However, it is only in recent their career aspirations in order years that its application has proven to mutually scope the coaching goals. I effective for job seekers. The essence I question and probe, then listen and of Peters’ view can be summed up by, create space. I often ask them to dream “A personal brand is your promise to about ideal jobs and describe to me span of time that it’s been a fixture. As a surveys began tracking reading and arts attempts reducing people to throwing the marketplace and the world. Since where and what that would look like. whole humans are uncomfortable with participation in 1982, when the literature the book across the room in frustration. everyone makes a promise to the world, Literature in A next step often involves a drilling rapid changes in our cultures (and that’s reading rate was 57 percent. The same Add in the Amazon-created availability one does not have a choice of having or down of skills and competencies which putting it mildly) and many fear that study demonstrated that women (50 of obscure and out of print books not having a personal brand. Everyone the age of the clients possess or those characterised by the internet’s all pervasive shadow is percent) are significantly more likely to which would previously have required has one. The real question is whether jobs they seek. It is often only after this causing us to lose touch with some of our read literature than men (36 percent). days trawling through strange smelling someone’s personal brand is powerful internet rather mechanical step that clients begin By Max Feldman pleasures and interests that don’t come Whilst general reading levels may second-hand bookshops to obtain and enough to be meaningful to the person Advertise with an Ethernet cable attached. have experienced decline however, there the argument could be made that the to be more introspective and search for and the marketplace.” Peters has also more. Following this self-searching and One of the big ones is literature. has also been a (seemingly inexplicable) internet has, if anything, placed the gone on to define what a personal brand understanding of their unique values There is a broad feeling that people are upturn in book sales. This is not actually modern reader in the driving seat in a is not; an interesting way to arrive at a and skills, individuals can begin to work reading less and less and it’s the internet as contradictory as it sounds however. way that has never been possible before. philosophy or definition of brand! hen the internet first towards defining and creating a Personal that’s to blame. Whilst this has long The rise of streaming technologies, Keeping the world reading should be began to make its presence been one of the perennial concerns of once predicted to kill off physical more than just an educational program Brand. ’ with us • It s NOT what you say about yourself. felt in the late nineties, It may seem obvious to state that the modern era (before the internet media completely, has in fact created folded away into a governmental • It’s NOT an extension of your cultural commentators came up with everyone has their unique strengths, or W came along people were pinning the a backlash of consumers preferring to budget. Literature has been one of the employer's brand. all kinds of nicknames for it that are in marketing-speak “USPs”, but, it is not same blame on video games, television physically own a product. Since 2015 primary conduits for human thought • It’s NOT your presence in the social To put an advertisement in KCWToday retroactively embarrassing (how anyone always obvious how to make the most of and probably Morris dancing if you go consumer spending on books has gone since the printing press broke the media. was able to say ‘surfing the information them and how this can be an essential far enough back) the sheer ubiquitous up £89m across the board last year which monied’s monopoly on thought. Ideas • It’s NOT something that you can ASK superhighway’ with a straight face will part of the coaching journey. email: [email protected] nature of the internet seems to be doesn’t exactly fit with data predicting and concepts which have shaped human for. be a mystery that future historians will The first step in business coaching is making its presence felt. After years of humanity’s slow descent into illiteracy. progress have developed from the arts • It’s NOT something that you are be puzzling over for generations) but to work with clients to understand where or telephone 020 7738 2348 decline the nadir came when a 2015 The way that we process literature has, and humanities and just because the entitled to. one of them sums up the nature of the they have come from and hope to go. survey by the National Endowment For if anything, been supercharged by the internet (a great leap forward all of its • It’s NOT a perk. internet better than any other phrase: In this discovery phase, getting clients Arts provided the worrying data that (in internet’s ease of access. Cult reads that own) has shortened attention spans, • It’s NOT about the power alone. The worldwide web. Over the course of to articulate and identify their strengths America at least) the percentage of adults previously would only have spread by there is no reason why literature could • It’s NOT a gift that someone can give the 21st century, the internet has indeed and unique selling points is critical to who read literature, (any novels, short limited word of mouth, spread by people or should give up its pre-eminent place you. woven itself around society, and much identifying job opportunities and career stories, poetry or plays), has fallen to a with goatees and berets, can explode into amongst the arts. Whilst not everyone • It’s NOT permanent. like a spider’s web, there is no escape goals. three-decade low last year. In 2015, 43 the public consciousness through the has their own novel in them (or at from it once you’re caught. I have devised a working formula. percent of adults read at least one work wildfire of the web. ‘Difficult’ reads like least, not one worth reading) everyone Given the challenges of contemporary The internet has changed practically Simply stated, it is academics + of literature in the previous year. The Finnegan’s Wake are easily supplemented has been touched, consciously or careers, with their extended duration and every aspect of human life in the short lowest percentage in any year since NEA by internet research, rather than solo unconsciously, by someone else’s.

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The of excavated material. It is suitable for be properly housed. Well, this has all The Importance post graduate work as a deep knowledge changed with the building of the New testament of ancient languages is important. It Museum, and the questions arise again. of Archaeology in of the encompasses both the humanities and The Greeks accused the Museum of sciences. further destroying the marbles in the Education spade Remember that in learning about 1930s by invasive cleaning. In addition to By Marian Maitland the long prehistoric period, material the recommended water and soap, copper never is the only evidence available. In later chisels and carborundum were used on lies times of literacy, records are mostly from some of the sculptures over a period Architects Photograph © Tschumi Bernard the Clergy, Bureaucrats or the Temple, of 15 months. The British Museum and deeds and contracts of aristocrats; held an internal enquiry and as a result magine if Howard Carter all of which have little connection with the Keeper took early retirement, the had never lit up a dark ordinary people whose writings would Assistant Keeper resigned, and all the tomb and revealed the never have reached libraries, so were craftsmen concerned left the Museum’s never preserved. Archaeological evidence world of the ancient Egyptian employ. Dr Ian Jenkins, deputy keeper of I is vital for a balanced study of history. Greek and Roman antiquities, recently Pharaohs, if Schliemann had Our attitudes to Archaeology have came clean about the damage caused, never gazed upon the face of changed since the antiquarianism of remarking that ‘The British Museum the 19th century. It now embraces both is not infallible, it is not the Pope. King Agamemnon, if linear B maritime and rescue archaeology and Its history has been a series of good had never been deciphered and crucially, conservation. English Heritage, intentions marred by the occasional if we knew not of the many UNESCO and other organisations cock-up, and the 1930s cleaning was have contributed enormously to such a cock-up’. prehistoric cultures. Suppose the preservation of many great sites In the centuries since the Parthenon Museums of the world did not worldwide. functioned as a temple to Athena, the house countless treasures. If University College London, Institute site continued to be used in a religious of Archaeology, my Alma Mater, is now capacity, serving as a Catholic church, Archaeologists had not given us the largest and most highly regarded then a Greek Orthodox Christians the wisdom and aesthetics of the centre for Archaeological, Cultural, and then, a mosque. It was built on the Golden Age of ancient Greece, Heritage and Museum Studies in the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and world. The Scholars and Professors 438 BC, acropolis simply meaning ‘high we would be less enriched. collaborate in seminars, in local Societies, city’. The New Museum is a splendidly developing countries and perception of light building, 25,000 sq m. of glass Archaeology is of paramount the global environment.. to preserving the famous carvings of and steel, built, as it is, over a massive importance in Education because it is Yes, indeed Archaeology is important the Acropolis for future generations. archæological site as work-in-progress, the study of ancient civilisations through in Education. Ancient sculptures and friezes, which from where one can look up and see the the scientific and disciplined examination The testament of the spade never lies. had managed to survive for thousands of Parthenon itself high on the hill, at the years despite war, turmoil and a massive same time looking down through the explosion in 1687, when the defending glass floors at the excavations. There is Turks used it as a gunpowder store a very healthy educational programme, during a war against the Venetians.The right from kindergarten age, through surviving originals are now on public elementary stages, where the Parthenon display in a protected and controlled Gallery is used to encourage students environment, halting the damage. to explore and interpret the building At various points in the exhibition and its sculpture, to junior and high the name of Lord Elgin crops up, and school students, as well as programmes unsurprisingly, not in the most glowing for overseas and independent school of terms. He is variously described visits. Separate courses and seminars as a thief, a plunderer and a briber. are available for teachers, using the Certainly, he removed half of the thousands of artifacts that are on display, surviving sculptures from the Parthenon, touching on gods, ancient civilisations by negotiating with the Turkish forces and architecture. The designers have who, in 1802, ruled Athens again. The had to work with plaster casts of the British Museum’s stance is that they original sculptures and friezes, so there biggest financial crisis to hit Greece in were purchased legitimately through the are enormous gaps in authenticity, but Acropolis recent times, with a tightening of belts proper channels, and, had they not been not in content. Children are taught to Speak the Truth • Live Generously • Aim for the Best and budget cutbacks meaning that there shipped to the UK when they were, they familiarize themselves with local history Museum, were reductions in the amount that would have been destroyed, pillaged or and the sources about it by learning St James Senior Girls’ School is an independent day school for girls aged 11-18, based in Kensington Olympia, and accommodating a two-form year could be spent on publicity, with strikes ruined by pollution and acid rain. They about the history of the Acropolis, group. We offer an education which nurtures and enriches the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual development of our pupils. Our happy, united Athens plaguing many of Greece’s museums regard themselves as being custodians recognize the notion of the past and perceive the passing of time, while atmosphere provides the ideal environment for every girl to discover her own unique combination of strengths and talents and to ‘be the best she can’. By Don Grant and archaeological sites. Added to to the world enabling 6 million people that, the drop in visitor numbers from to visit the Museum in London each realising the importance of material Open Events 2018 just shy of 2m, in 2009, its first year of year, many of them to see the Marbles culture and the value in studying it. hen I was a child, I am operation, to just over a million in 2013, However, Lord Byron attacked Elgin Support material includes models of School in Action embarrassed to say that I has made many question the spending in stinging verses, lamenting, in Childe the Acropolis Rock and its monuments, Visit us on a normal school day and hear an address by the Headmistress and presentations by the girls. thought the Elgin Marbles €130 million when the country was Harold’s Pilgrimage how the antiquities digital tablets with rich visual and Tuesday 23rd January 9.00am – 10.45am was some sort of Scottish game one still in financial melt-down, although of Greece had been ‘defac’d by British literary material, videos, a game with W it has recently shown signs of recovery. hands’. Keats, on the other hand, resources about the Acropolis history, Wednesday 2nd May 9.00am – 10.45am played in the schoolyard. In some senses, they have become a bit of a However, the New Museum gained some wrote a sonnet to celebrate Seeing the equipment for video recording, writing To book: 020 7348 1748 | [email protected] | www.stjamesgirls.co.uk game between the British and Greek ground the following year, remaining the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum, and design. In other words, a full and ST JAMES governments, with clear and cogent most popular museum in Greece, with and in Germany, Goethe hailed their comprehensive programme of learning Earsby Street | London W14 8SH Senior Girls’ School arguments on both sides as to whether over 150,000 visitors. The most popular acquisition as ‘the beginning of a new and entertainment. One suspects, Registered Charity No. 270156 they should be returned or not. The archæological site was the Acropolis age for Great Art’. The British also however, that playing a game of Elgin New Museum project was conceived, with just under 2m visitors in 2014. maintained that, were they to return marbles would not go down too well in built and opened in the midst of the The Museum has also been integral them, there was nowhere for them to the current climate. 32 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

feeling of unity with a group of people Support, 25% to Koestler Trust and 50% who are so often marginalised and to the artist. The Koestler detached from the rest of society. Ian Dixon, member of the Perrie Trust: The exhibition was held by the Lecture Committee that focuses on the Moving works of art Koestler Trust, a charity which aims to mental health of prisoners, says that the Trust © Koestler Images “help offenders lead more positive lives use of art in prisons “Dissipates violence, New course guide from immobile artists. by motivating them to participate and brings back self-respect and gives out now! By Chloe Livadeas achieve in the arts”. It has since grown offenders contact with the outside world from the 200 entries at its beginning in rather than rotting away on the inside”. Join us for our Autumn open day: 1962 to over 7000 pieces in 2017. The Koestler Trust also has a Wednesday 15 November Behar Loshi, who works for the Trust, mentoring programme that encourages 10am - 7pm n Thursday 21st September to said: “It’s a natural human instinct to ex-offenders into a career in an aspect Wednesday 15th November express yourself. I’ve been inside as well of art where they show promise. A study The Koestler Trust exhibited and if you have something to do, writing has shown that mentored offenders are Oworks of art from offenders, detainees, or painting, it does download feelings less likely to reoffend and unemployment secure patients and ex-convicts at the instead of keeping them to yourself. fell from 50% to 33% in the sample Southbank Centre. “Keeping to yourself in a small group. The pieces ranged from art to music confined space isn’t helpful.” • Evening and weekend short and writing and presented a very potent The works are curated by British The free exhibition Inside opened at insight into the minds of prisoners. sculptor Antony Gormley, creator the Southbank Centre on the 21th courses to suit your lifestyle. The artworks often portrayed the of The Angel of the North. Gormley’s September to the 15th November darker corners of the mind of someone involvement marks the 10th anniversary 10am-11pm. confined and were extremely personal, of the Annual Exhibition, which aims to sometimes uncomfortably so. Am I open up a dialogue in the UK about our Koestler, beyond The Exhibition: • Fully equipped, state-of-the-art laughing or am I Screaming Inside? is an prison system. Exhibition of work by Young Offenders intricate and up-close portrait made Loshi said: “It’s about education at the Supreme Court in Parliament studios and facilities close to from coffee and conveys a very loud, raw and awareness. People who visit see Square, 9:30am to 4:30pm, opened 5th of and desperate psyche. a bit more than what you read in October until 7th December. Regent’s Park. Confinement is a prominent theme the newspapers, this is first-hand throughout. One piece, a detailed replica information.” A sale of Fine Cell Work in St Peter’s of a prison cell no bigger than a shoebox, their unit. Gormley said: “In the words of one Church, 10am to 4pm on Friday 8th gives off a particularly claustrophobic There was a strong sense of disbelief prisoner, ‘in our minds we can always be December. • Design and create under the and suffocating feeling. that the exhibitors are not practising free’. I want this work to say something It is easy to see how the process of artists, since the works are as good as any to all of us outside about what it feels Open House Christmas sale at the guidance of professionals. creating some of these works could be other art exhibition inside the walls of like to be a detainee, inside.” Koestler Trust Headquarters next to therapeutic; a rare outlet for those with the Southbank Centre. Some of the artwork is for sale, with Wormwood Scrubs, 6pm to 9pm on few channels beyond the four walls of But mostly the exhibition gave a 25% of the proceeds going to Victim Thursday 14th December

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WC2B 4BA Granary Building, those looking for a way to One-to-one piano tuition EC2Y 8DT programme coming to the department As head of the Junior department, 1-10 Keeley St, London 020 7831 7831 1 Granary Square, Kings focus their writing activity See website for dates at ages 5 and 6. It is a big commitment Miranda is of course in charge of citylit.ac.uk Cross, London N1C 4AA and get new ideas, advice 020 7628 2571 WC2B 4BA Learn the greatest secrets gsmd.ac.uk for a tiny person, but Miranda tells me auditioning prospective students. Again, 020 7514 7000 on all aspects of fiction and of playing the piano in a 020 7831 7831 that often for her students the buzz she says, it’s not only about grades. citylit.ac.uk Chelsea College of Art arts.ac.uk/csm poetry writing will be given. formidable setting with Art Direction 61 Westminster Bridge Master piano instructor City Academy and excitement of doing what they love, “It’s about musical potential. 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Ballet Taster among like-minded peers, keeps them whether they are good at communicating Key Concepts in Science: On this course the tutor Photography SE1 7HT 49-51 Shoe Lane, See website for dates going. “I’ve never had a student come to their musical ideas, whether they're able Chemistry will take you through the (16 to 18 year olds) 020 7450 1889 London EC4A 3BL If you’ve always fancied me, in my time here, and say to me, I can’t to communicate their passion for music various stages of working as December 18-22 morleycollege.ac.uk 020 7127 0717 November 7-December 5 trying a ballet class, but not handle it, I need to stop”, she adds making.” She does make adjustments in This course is for anyone who a professional Art Director, Specifically designed for londonpianoinstitute.co.uk sure if it will be for you, The Department’s rigorous and varied her language for the youngest students, wants to find out more about from creating concepts to young learners, the course Blu Top Ice Cream take this Ballet Beginners Department at the RCM, a Saturday organising an advertising will be fun and informative, Learn to Make Ice Cream Chemistry for fun or for London College of Fashion Taster. 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Sparks perform in over 100 concerts a year, and is patchy. “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t January 27 methods applied to past English National Ballet See website for dates 020 7514 7400 delivers musical opportunities for all, Francis is keen to develop comfortable, for free, on-demand musical education,” An opportunity to learn the and present practices, the Adult Ballet Workshop: The Ceramics & Glass arts.ac.uk from early years, through to working in assured performers. she explains. And she’s very eloquent as course aims to be insightful, Nutcracker programme is a world leader basic skills of forging. Tuition dementia care. It also provides musical Performance, is of course a key to why music matters. “Music is such thought-provoking and December 29 in research and practice. WMC-The Camden College is provided at beginner level opportunities for local schools, and element in a musician’s life; how do the an important art form. It is a form of structured around the hot balanced. Learn extracts with Kensington Gore, Acting and Drama 153 Great Titchfield Street, English National Ballet Kensington, London streams very talented students towards young students cope with its sometimes- communication, and our students live in working of metal. (Mixed Level) Compiled and edited by London, W1W 5BD dance artists, and explore SW7 2EU nerve-wracking demands? Miranda talks an ever-changing, more demanding world Kingston School of Art at From April 2018 Fahad Redha applying for the Junior Department 020 7665 4350 Tchaikovsky’s enchanting 020 7590 4444 Acting and Drama (Mixed ‘ ’ ’ Knights Park, Grange Road, themselves. of each student’s journey as a performer. in terms of communication. 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City of Westminster College Until December 8 020 7581 1245 comments about her love of teaching the department’s system of informal All of these things are so vital.” Art History for Beginners Beginners or advanced, The ballet.org.uk music. Begins November 16 Place has the perfect class for you. Develop your skills Lambda ow do you know if your child It’s that love for music which drives This ten-week course will the Department’s students, too, and helps introduce you to the wealth in a friendly and inspiring Shakespeare Short Course Arts and Crafts for all levels! is musically gifted? 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If you are making a large gift there are also contemporaries’ (Critic John Hayward world’s 7000 languages are endangered The Bank of Mum and Dad will lend lending, CML 2015) inheritance tax consequences but there’s outlining the purpose of the National and likely to die out within the next over £6.5bnn in 2017, up from £5bn in • In 2016, a third of prospective Making gifts to your family usually no Inheritance Tax to pay on small Poetry Library when it was founded in century, along with a number of poetic 2016, providing deposits for over 298,000 homeowners received financial help to buy If you are lucky enough to be in a position gifts you make out of your normal income, 1953) traditions. Southbank Centre’s National mortgages, and helping others to purchase from friends and family; in 2017 that figure to help out your children or grandchildren such as Christmas or birthday presents. The National Poetry Library, housed on a particular theme and can be on for all ages. Recently we had the likes Poetry Library believes it is vital to homes worth £75 billion. According to jumps to nearly half (42%) with the money for a deposit, decide People you give gifts to (other than on the 5th floor of Southbank Centre’s hand to offer advice to young poets. We of Anne Carson and Arundhathi capture this poetic activity for future Legal & General research, the Bank of • BoMaD assistance has risen from an whether you wish to make an outright gift your spouse/civil partner) will be charged Royal Festival Hall, is the largest public welcome visits from schools and teachers, Subramaniam run workshops as part of generations and launched the Endangered Mum and Dad is now on a par with the average of £17,500 in 2016 to £21,600 in or loan. Inheritance Tax if you give away more than lending library of modern poetry in the running weekly sessions for school our Poetry International Festival which Poetry Project to collect and preserve 9th largest mortgage lender, the Yorkshire 2017, an increase of 23% If you plan to make a loan, don’t be too £325,000 in the 7 years before your death. world. Containing over 200,000 items, groups, and have a section for children’s celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. poetry in languages which are under Building Society, in the UK (up from no10 • Millennials are the biggest recipients of informal about this. It is always good idea You can give away £3,000 worth of gifts it collects and lends every style and form poetry with over 4000 children’s books as Alongside the workshops and the threat. We’ve so far received submissions last year) and will be involved in 26% of all BoMaD funding; 79% of BoMaD funding when you lend money to family, to record each tax year (6 April to 5 April) without of poetry, in every format, as widely as well as a designated Room for Children. lending services, the Library holds in a number of languages including property transactions that take place in the goes to people under the age of 30. it in writing together with their proposed them being added to the value of your possible for free, for everyone. Last year we welcomed 32,784 visitors regular events and runs seasonal Alsatian, Breton, Faroese, Kristang, UK market this year. • BoMaD will fund less purchases in repayment plan. Additionally, it is a bit estate. You can carry any unused annual Founded on the belief that poetry to the Library of which 13,693 were exhibitions, free and open to the public. Shetlandic and Tuamotuan. Commenting on the research, Nigel 2017 than in 2016 (a 2.5% decrease from gruesome to think about this but if the exemption forward to the next year, but is for everyone to enjoy and is a great children. We hold regular events for Our next exhibition, Darkness Visible, More submissions are welcome! Wilson, CEO of Legal & General, said: 305,900 to 298,300), but only because borrower died before he or she had repaid only for one year. way to understand the world around us, children including our weekly Rug launches on Friday 17 November and is Please visit: www.southbankcentre. “The Bank of Mum and Dad continues overall housing market transaction volumes the loan, you need documentary evidence Each tax year, you can also give away: membership is free and open to all and Rhymes on Friday mornings, a free an immersive installation created by artist co.uk/blog/endangered-poetry-project to grow in importance in helping young are down. to claim the money back from their estate. • wedding or civil ceremony gifts of up to there is also an e-loans service so anyone session for under 5s that features poems Sam Winston who spent some time in for more information. people take their early steps onto the • 76% of BoMaD assistance goes towards Some parents and indeed grandparents £1,000 per person (£2,500 for a grandchild around the country can access our poetry and songs alongside our resident puppets, his studio living, writing and drawing in housing ladder. The intergenerational the deposit; just 4% goes solely on are lucky enough to be sitting on big or great-grandchild, £5,000 for a child). for free. Firebird and Federico. We regularly invite complete darkness. The exhibition will Southbank Centre’s National Poetry inequality that creates the demand for mortgage payments. pension pots but tread extremely warily • payments to help with another person’s The Library is an incredible education both established and up and coming feature a newly commissioned dark room Library is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11am- BoMaD funding continues to widen; here before cashing them in to provide living costs, such as an elderly relative or a resource. Alongside the collection, our poets as part of Southbank Centre’s which is completely covered in text that 8pm and is free and open to all. Please younger people today don’t have the same Equality Street? money for your family. You may think you child under 18. specialist staff can help you find poems Festival offering to run poetry workshops has been written by the artist during the come and visit! www.poetrylibrary.org.uk opportunities that the baby-boomers had, Intergenerational unfairness is not the are rich with hundreds of thousands of • gifts to charities and political parties.

some bigger mortgage lenders including Halifax and Nationwide have now Mortgages for the eased their maximum age limits slightly. Halifax's age limit for mortgages is now over 50s 80. Existing customers at Nationwide By Stephanie Hawthorne with retirement income can borrow up to the age of 80, with a maximum age at maturity of 85. Metro Bank has no age limit for residential mortgages but looks A third of babies born today can expect at each case individually. to celebrate their 100th birthday. People Hodge Lifetime offers a 55+ today are also working longer, currently Mortgage exclusively for over-55s which one in 10 people aged over 65 are is a standard mortgage where you pay employed and more likely to want to the interest on the loan each month and borrow money, move house or downsize. retain 100% ownership of your property. The mortgage market is also witnessing Small building societies are often more a marked evolution from the ‘traditional flexible. Cumberland Building Society route’ of individuals buying their first by factors including low supply of new If you are looking to move after the age doesn’t have an upper age limit for homes in their 20s, trading up in their homes and higher house prices, greater of 50 or to remortgage, your options are borrowers, either at the time you apply or 30s and 40s, paying off debt in their 50s student debt, persistent low real income limited as many lenders will not lend the time the mortgage is due to end. and 60s and then entering older age with growth and challenges in saving for a when the term of the mortgage expires Market Harborough Building Society little or no mortgage debt. deposit. after the age of 70 or 75. will consider lending up to the age of 85, As people are living longer, As the home ownership life Quite a number of high street names where you have a proven income, either borrowing into older age is likely cycle shifts, the time of life by which will lend on a mortgage with the term private pension or earned, and sometimes to move from niche to mainstream mortgages are paid off is shifting too; finishing by age 75 but then there is a combination of both. This could be on within the next decade. The amount of the ILC-UK research has shown that a question of affordability. Once you an interest only mortgage with the sale of mortgage debt held by over 65s is set over six per cent, or 1.42 million people are over 60, a reduced term makes a your property as the repayment vehicle, to increase by more than £19 billion aged 35 to 64 will not have paid off their mortgage a very expensive proposition. as long as there is sufficient equity in the by 2030 (from £20.1 billion to £39.9 mortgage before retirement given the At one time equity release was the only property. billion). current term of their loan. option for people looking to borrow in It is often helpful to use a mortgage Since the financial crisis, home Obviously, it is best to aim to pay later life. Here the interest rolled up and broker such L&C Mortgages or John ownership amongst 20-29 year olds off the mortgage before retirement as paid back on death or when you moved Charcol if your requirements are a has fallen from 53% to 38%. For many people’s income drops then but into a care home, often not leaving little bit of out of the ordinary. Do your those between 30-39 years old home worryingly million people are in danger much over for your children – one homework, show proof of income and ownership has fallen from 73% to 65%. of having their home repossessed because leading provider in this market is Key outgoings to demonstrate you can afford Today, many first-time buyers are delayed they have an interest only mortgage and Retirement. the mortgage and then that shiny new from stepping onto the property ladder not sure how they can pay it off. The market has now changed. Even house will be yours. 38 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT

their way in and out of the dining area. The menu, created in partnership with the former Head Chef of the Delaunay and Chefs at ‘The Wolseley’ will offer a wide selection of fresh, Photographs © Auriens beautifully presented and healthy foods. The restaurant itself spills out into a magnificent garden designed by Chelsea Flower Show winner, Andy Sturgeon, dotted with herbs, plants, and trees that have health-giving properties. Above all else, what distinguishes the apartments is the sense of community that it provides for its residents. In other super-luxury blocks, amenity space is only in the region of 10%, but at Auriens, it is 46%. With a curated plethora of activities, like-minded residents can spend as much time with one another as they want. A pet grooming parlour, hairdresser, gym, yoga room and a cinema are all included as part of the extensive Auriens amenity package. For vivacious perennials there are more than plenty of activities to indulge in, both inside and out of the building. On the doorstep is Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea, gateways also to the culturally exciting city of London with all its world-class events and facilities.

Why should it be Perennial premium living such a stressful for later life process to find By James Billot the right home for my parents nglish novelist Aldous Huxley once wrote that ‘the secret of when they should genius is to carry the spirit of Ethe child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm’. It is one be enjoying the of life’s great enigmas that children grow up believing that they can best part of their accomplish anything but by the time they reach adulthood, they feel the KAREN MULVILLE complete opposite. Now more than available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, Culford Gardens, just off the King’s What is particularly striking about lives? ever, millennials lament the challenges and 365 days a year. Road. The studio provides prospective the Auriens team is the sense of duty that they face in today’s world: student It is important to note that while residents with the opportunity to that they hold towards revolutionising tuition, housing prices, and even Auriens has these healthcare options see how they would live there, and and pioneering a new age in later-life employment. Where has the enthusiasm available, they definitely do not view it how family members can benefit. It care. By creating a gold standard for gone? And where is this childish sense of as a care home. They understand that serves as a showroom for all the latest later living, the founders hope that this curiosity that Huxley describes? a great challenge for Britain’s older Their mission commenced; to bring every resident has their own needs, technological developments at Auriens. will create a trickle-down effect into the Perhaps the answer to these questions population. The ongoing housing crisis high quality older living care to London. and the level of bespoke service that is For instance, circadian lighting, a system wider market so that everyone, not just lies not with the millennials, but with the has been further exacerbated by a On April 20th 2017, after several years, provided serves to reinforce its reputation that mimics the colour and intensity of the residents of Auriens, will benefit. For perennials. Perennials, a group of later- complete dearth of premium older living the mission became a reality. On this in providing the ultimate hospitality natural light, is configured into every now, twelve apartments in the Auriens lifers who still enjoy the buzz of city care, and this was a problem that British day, the Council of the Royal Borough experience. Throughout the entire Auriens apartment in case residents development have been listed for sale, life, are becoming a force to be reckoned property developers Karen Mulville of Kensington and Chelsea granted development, practical design is cloaked are unable to be outside as much as with the remaining 43 expected to be with. They are part of a demographic and Johnny Sandelson encountered on permission to Sandelson and Mulville to in chic aesthetic. Every piece of furniture they would like. Motion sensors can be released in late 2019 or early 2020. trend, but not an economic cycle; harking behalf of their own parents. Mulville develop ‘a high quality residential home has been designed in consultation with installed into every room to detect a fall Unsurprisingly, demand for these limited from the baby-boomer generation of the and Sandelson scoured London for elderly people’. Situated in the heart occupational therapists and The Helen or lack of movement, and a prototype is number of properties has been high, so post-War era, perennials are now striding hoping to find suitable high-quality of Chelsea, overlooking Dovehouse Hamlin Centre for Design at the Royal being developed to map movements to watch this space… en masse into their post retirement years. home care providers in London to offer accommodation for their parents, but it Green and a stone’s throw from the College of Art. However granular, detect mobility issues. 18% of the British population are now the ultimate in care to their residents. proved to be a fruitless endeavour. This King’s Road, Auriens was born. the level of detail is quite remarkable; The form and function emblematic of For bookings and appointments at the over 65, 2.4% of which are 85 and over. With over 20 years of experience, created struck a nerve with the pair. “Why”, Auriens not only provides state-of whether it is the firmness of a sofa the Auriens style is by no means limited new studio, please email: By 2045, the Office of National Statistics and led by Angela Hamlin, former Mulville questioned “should it be such a the-art hospitality but healthcare too, as cushion or the arthritic-friendly kitchen to their residences. In the restaurant, [email protected] predicts that over one quarter of the Deputy Matron of King Edward VII stressful process to find the right home much or as little as required. They have handles, no stone is left unturned. tables that clip and unclip negate any T: 020 3870 7970 population will be 65 or older. Hospital, there is certainly no shortage for my parents when they should be partnered with Draycott Nursing & All these features can be viewed unwarranted attention towards residents Studio: 18 Culford Gardens, Chelsea, And yet, this ONS figure poses of expertise in this department. A team enjoying the best part of their lives?” Care, one of the most well respected in- of Draycott nurses and carers will be at Auriens’ recently opened studio at or family members trying to navigate London SW3 2ST 40 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 BUSINESS & FINANCE SUPPLEMENT EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

broader anti-trust sentiment growing in is a voluntary rate that is separate to the Prince Charles Cinema barbican.org.uk Basquiat (1960­1988). One of the most which opens up new creative possibilities. Washington. For instance, Facebook’s Government’s statutory rate of £9 by A full screening of Disney’s Frozen with significant painters of the 20th century, For this presentation, RCM professor NEWS role in disseminating Russian-backed London’s Living 2020, Khan asserted that not enough was lyrics on screen. The Singalonga host December 1-10 Basquiat came of age in the post- Jonathan Pitkin is joined by pianist Kate content during the 2016 U.S. presidential being done to close the ethnic pay gap. will guide you through this interactive London International Animation punk underground art scene in Lower Ryder and engineer Andrew MacPherson election has come under intense scrutiny Wage rises to Describing the gap as “shockingly and screening, showing you how to use your Festival (LIAF) 2017 Manhattan in the late 1970s. Since his to present a new work for this recent as part of the Mueller investigation. unacceptably large,” the Mayor free prop bag, warming up your singing Barbican tragic death in 1988, Basquiat has had addition to the keyboard family, in What will stop Facebook estimates that 120 fake £10.20 an hour promised to “make London fairer”. It voices and teaching you some dance The UK’s largest animation festival remarkably little exposure in the UK, the context of an emerging corpus of Russian-backed pages created 80,000 is estimated that the median wage for moves. So, get your little ones dressed up returns for its 14th year with the best where there is not a single work in a repertoire. the tech giants? posts that directly reached 29 million white groups is £16.23 per hour but only as their favourite character and come and international and local shorts and features, public collection. Free but ticket required. Americans, drawing the ire of several London mayor Sadiq Khan announced £13.46 per hour for all black, Asian, and enjoy Sing-a-Long-a FROZEN where you including International Showcases, 020 7638 4141 020 7591 4300 prominent politicians of both parties. last Monday that the London Living minority ethnic groups. the audience are the stars. Adults only. special children’s screenings and the Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, Along with Google, Facebook has largely Wage would rise from £9.75 to £10.20 The objective for Khan and the 020 7494 3654 ever-popular The Best of the Fest. Local barbican.org.uk London SW7 2BS managed to avoid accountability for the per hour. London Living Wage Foundation 7 Leicester Pl, London WC2H 7BY and international guests include the rcm.ac.uk content that they distribute. This lack of More than 1,500 businesses including over the next twelve months will be to princecharlescinema.com world’s most adventurous, innovative MUSIC accountability is particularly problematic encourage more and more businesses to and ‘impishly perverse’ filmmaker David November 20 UBS, Lush, Ikea, and the National ’ when considering Gallery have pledged to sign up to the pledge their support to the new living December 14 OReilly, the team behind Barcelona s November 20 “Hip Hop, People, Places and Things” the level of control that these companies voluntary rate by 2020. Heathrow has wage rate. Only then, Khan believes, that Star Wars: The Last Jedi Punto Y Raya Festival exploring pure Telemann: A Celebration Grandmaster Flash have in their respective arenas: Google also become the first UK airport to join London will become a more prosperous Rich Mix form, colour, motion and sound and Royal College of Music Under the Bridge has 88% of the market share in search the UK Living Wage Foundation. city. In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Female Figures a timely panel discussion A celebration of German composer Under The Bridge will host one of the advertising and Facebook has 77% of The London Living Wage has proven Skywalker saga continues as the heroes and screening about the onscreen Georg Philipp Telemann in the 250th first ever interactive history-of-hip hop social media traffic in the U.S, effectively to have been an effective measure put of The Force Awakens unlock age-old representation of women. anniversary year of his death. Musicians block parties, told by the pioneer of Hip making them monopolies. Until new in place by Khan. Over the course of mysteries of the Force and uncover 020 7638 4141 from the RCM’s Historical Performance Hop music himself. Demonstrating the regulatory measures are put in place, his mayoralty, there has been a 50% rise shocking revelations of the past. Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Faculty and the Universität Mozarteum original breaks, from the original 70s these tech giants will continue to amass in the number of businesses paying the 020 7613 7498 barbican.org.uk Salzburg come together to perform a records and the original records sleeves more and more power. As Woodrow London Living Wage. In the past twelve 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London selection of his most important works. shown live on screen. Showing you the Wilson warned during his presidency: “If months alone, 470 new employers have E1 6LA December 13 020 7591 4300 amazing history of Hip Hop, the places, he share prices of tech’s ‘big 5’ monopoly persists, monopoly will always signed up. richmix.org.uk Meet Me in St Louis (U) Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, the people, the breaks and techniques that companies all surged this month sit at the helm of government.” The announcement comes off the Barbican London SW7 2BS started it all while cuttin’ and scratchin’ following the release of back of a KPMG finding that 21% of the November 29 – December 3 One of the most joyful and exuberant rcm.ac.uk your favourite tunes on the turntables for earnings reports that surpassed U.K. workforce are still being paid less Finland: Independence Day of the classic MGM musicals, this one huge live, visual block party. T Barbican period family story set at the time of the November 23 020 7386 3327 expectations. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet than voluntary rates. According to the (Google’s parent company), Facebook, Mayor, there are over two million people Celebrating the centenary of Finnish 1904 World's Fair, was shot in glorious Music and Ideas: Developing Repertoire Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1HS and Amazon all saw significant increases Global Merger in London alone who are “struggling to independence with a season of films technicolor as a wonderful tonic to the for New Instruments underthebridge.co.uk in their share prices. Currently, these make ends meet”. curated by the Midnight Sun Film grim background of World War 2 reality. Royal College of Music companies occupy five out of the & Acquisition Although the London Living Wage Festival, Finland’s coolest film event. Judy Garland is at her best as literally the The Magnetic Resonator Piano is an November 24 top six spots for the world’s most Founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers girl next door, whilst also giving some of electronically augmented instrument Sacconi Quartet valuable companies by market activity slumps in Mika and Aki Kaurismäki, the festival her greatest screen singing performances capitalisation. Alphabet reported its is located in the village of Sodankylä, in including The Trolley Song and the festive highest revenue earnings since 2012 and Q3 from the last recession showed that the heart of Finnish Lapland, some 120 classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Amazon sales have increased Low income while inequality remained stable, pre-tax kilometres from the Arctic Circle, where Christmas. Directed with verve and style by 34%, making its CEO Jeff Bezos earnings fell by an average of over 10%. audiences watch films 24 hours a day, as by Vincente Minnelli who would soon the richest man on the planet with an Amid political uncertainty and natural Protections for low income families in the summer sun never sets. become Garland's real life husband. estimated $90 billion. disasters across the world, global merger working families the last recession could be reduced in the 020 7638 4141 020 7638 4141 The long-anticipated release of & acquisition activity slumped in the next downturn which could come in five Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Apple’s iPhone X on November 3rd led third quarter of this year. will be hit barbican.org.uk years, Andrew Hood, a senior research to record highs in its share price for the Between July-September, there economist at IFS and author of the Silicon-Valley based firm. Apple reported were only 3,774 deals worth $667.1bn report said. THE LECTURE CLUB Ends January 7 a sales growth of 12% to $52.6bn, with reached. This figure represents a 24.2% Low income working families will be Ministers face pressure in Parliament John Akomfrah: Purple AUTUMN shares rising by 2%. Many commentators drop in value from 2016, with 739 fewer among the worst hit when the next to slow the deployment of universal be informed PROGRAMME Barbican have suggested that Apple could become transactions. big recession hits. This is following a credit, being rolled out as a replacement A new commission the first trillion-dollar company. North America’s M&A activity was weakening of their finances by welfare for six in-work benefits including tax All Lectures 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm. £15 Entrance on the door by British artist and

This surge in the tech market has particular hampered by catastrophes spending after the 2008 financial crash. credit and housing benefit. or pre-book online for £12. Wine and Refreshments included. filmmaker John Akomfrah significantly contributed to wider growth and a stagnation in regulatory reform. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, (IFS) a Thousands of families have had to for the Curve. His most TH in the US stock market, which has risen Compared to Q3 in 2016, there was leading tax and spending watchdog, said seek support from food banks, leading NOV 7 DIANNE MATHER - ETIQUETTE EXPERT ambitious project to date, by more than 20% this year. On his Air a 32% decline in transactions with a that planned reduction in tax credits will to an increase in debts due to council tax “DO MANNERS MATTER IN TODAY’S MODERN WORLD?“ Purple is an immersive, chiefly affect households where at least Force One jet, President Trump was notable drop in inbound deals. and rent payments. Debt charities say six-channel video one adult face cuts in hours or lower NOV 14 TH CHAMBER CONCERT | DOUBLE BASS & HARP quick to attribute the importance of his However, four of the top ten deals that this is caused by cuts in payments of installation which charts wages. Tax credits are there to boost the role in the market’s surge: “The reason that occurred globally involved U.S. firms universal credit. “THE GIRLS IN A MAGNESIUM DRESS” the incremental shifts our stock market is so successful is in some capacity. The largest deal of the income of low paid workers. in climate change across “When governments change the because of me. I’ve always been great quarter took place between two U.S. Ideally, in a recession, tax credits tax and benefit system,” Hood said, NOV 16 TH ALPESH DOSHI - M PARTNER, FINTRICITY the planet and its effects firms: United Technologies Corporation increase to replace a part of a family’s on human communities, with money, I’ve always been great with “they should consider the impact on “DISRUPTION WITH TECHNOLOGY – A CONTINUOUS JOURNEY“ jobs, that’s what I do.” acquired airplane-parts maker Rockwell lost income and help keep workers and the support the system will provide to biodiversity and the While this claim is contentious, Collins for $29.9bn. their children out of poverty. Figures households when the next recession hits.” NOV 22 ND ANDREW SPIRA - CHRISTIES EDUCATION wilderness. there has been an increased intertwining In spite of Brexit uncertainty, a weak 020 7638 4141 “ICONS: THE SACRED ART OF RUSSIA FROM 1853-1917’” between the affairs of tech companies pound and a lack of economic fallout Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS and Washington. President Trump from the vote have encouraged firms to NOV 28 TH L.J FLANDERS | AUTHOR ‘THE CELL WORKOUT’ has been very outspoken in his disdain take advantage. In fact, US firm Vantiv’s barbican.org.uk “GETTING FIT IN YOUR SPACE – DOING IT MY WAY” towards Amazon, accusing the company acquisition of UK Worldpay scored the

of ‘doing great damage to tax-paying highest valued deal of the quarter in Ends January 28 Basquiat: Boom for Real retailers’ in a tweet in August this year. Europe. VENUE: 9 ILCHESTER PLACE, LONDON W14 8AA The President also accused Bezos of This Q3 deceleration in deal-making LECTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST SCHEDULE ON Barbican avoiding ‘internet taxes’, which do not may not extend into Q4. Large amounts WWW.THELECTURECLUB.COM The first large-scale exist. of capital and a forecast for a high FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @thelectureclub exhibition in the UK of While these attacks may seem number of deals suggest that there could the work of American personal in nature, they also reflect a still be a strong finish to the year. artist Jean-Michel NarolService2017KWTct17NALAW171030 copy.indd 1 30/10/2017 14:07:54 42 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

Royal College of Music Baroque arias for voice and cello Published at the end of the composer’s distinctive yellow vehicles and enter Idler Dinners: Chris Donald and John W8 7RG It is said that Haydn traded his ‘best Barbican career in 1641, the collection is regarded the wonderful world of amphibious Brown of Viz and Lucy Cooke HEATHERLEY’S ART COMPETITION manuscript’ for a pair of razors, resulting Celebrated Italian coloratura mezzo- as the composer’s most significant travel. It is far more exciting than just Idler Academy November 22 in the unusual nickname of the opening soprano Cecilia Bartoli makes a welcome anthology of liturgical works since the an ordinary sightseeing bus tour or river Each month at the Elgin in Maida Vale, Cromwell and communications "CHELSEA LIFE" quartet in this concert. An RCM string return to the Barbican, on this occasion Vespers in 1610. The event features a stellar trip. See some of London’s most talked The Idler magazine will bring together The National Archives quartet joins forces with the Sacconi with renowned Argentine cellist Sol cast, including sopranos Lucia Martin about sights, learn interesting facts a great collection of writers, speakers The legacy of the Reformation was Quartet for Shostakovich’s pieces for Gabetta (who performed in the First Caron and Emmanuelle De Negri, about the city and be entertained by an and musicians for an evening of fun and not simply a transformation of the string octet, which he began writing at Night of the Proms in 2016) accompanied countertenor Carlo Vistoli, tenors Cyril action packed live commentary before feasting. Editor Tom Hodgkinson and religious landscape of England, it also the same time as his First Symphony. by the Cappella Gabetta ensemble led by Auvity and Reinoud Van Mechelen, and the thrilling splashdown onto the river Idler Academy director Victoria Hull presented the opportunity for change 020 7591 4300 concertmaster Andrés Gabetta. basses Marc Mauillon, Cyril Costanzo, Thames! will be the hosts. The ticket includes and progression in other areas, such as Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, 020 7638 4141 and John Taylor Ward. 020 7928 3132 dinner and a glass of wine or craft ale. government and the development of the London SW7 2BS Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 4141 55 York Road, Lambeth, London November sees the Academy welcoming printing industry. rcm.ac.uk barbican.org.uk Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS SE1 7NJ the duo behind the legendary Viz comic, Bessant Dr, Kew, TW9 4DU barbican.org.uk londonducktours.co.uk founder Chris Donald and publisher John December 8 December 6 Brown, and zoologist Lucy Cooke on the November 22 Unsound Dislocation: London Carol Concert December 18 Ongoing unexpected truth about animals. The Great Brompton Quiz with Clive Barbican St Mary Abbots Church Carols by Candlelight War Paint: Brushes with conflict The Elgin, 255 Elgin Avenue, London, Anderson Unsound, one of the world’s foremost In aid of International Children’s Charity St Luke’s Church National Army Museum W9 1NJ St Columba's festivals of electronic and experimental Hope and Homes for Children, the The majestic St Luke’s Church is the Explore why artists and soldiers have idler.co.uk A night of friendly competition, music returns to the Barbican on 8 concert will bring together current and perfect setting for this festive affair with painted scenes of conflict, in the museum’s humour and delicious food, with Clive AN OPEN EXHIBITION of paintings on the theme of CHELSEA December as part of its Dislocation series. new supporters plus local establishments carols led by Icosa Chamber Choir, first temporary exhibition at the new November 16 Anderson asking the questions set by including works by Ken Howard OBE, RA, Nicola Hicks MBE, Curated by Unsound artistic director, and residents over music and celebration. and celebrity guest readers, BBC's museum; to create records, report news or Inaccessible: Film and Q&A with the guru quizmaster Rich Warren and a live Richard Colson and many other artists, Mat Schulz. Unsound Dislocation: There will be performances from the Emily Maitlis and actor John Nettles. commemorate events. But above all, war BMC’s Mary–Ann Ochota music round devised and performed in aid of the Student Bursary Fund for those in need. London explores geography and identity very talented London Suzuki Group Mulled wine and mince pies will follow. paintings are personal perspectives on war Snow+Rock and Cotswold Outdoor by celebrated pianist, Jeremy Limb. November 12-16. 75 Lots Rd, London SW10 0RN though three sets including Unsound- and Deutsche Bank Singers, plus guest All proceeds will go directly towards and its vast impact on people and places. To celebrate Cotswold Outdoor joining All proceeds will go directly towards Monday-Thursday 11-4pm T: 020 7351 4190 commissioned works, a world premiere, speaker TV broadcaster, Journalist and supporting intensive care patients at War Paint features over 130 paintings and Snow+Rock in their High St. Kensington supporting intensive care patients at There is a prize of £1000 to the best painting chosen by the judges. and audio/visual collaborations. Together Strictly Come Dancing star, John Sergeant. Royal Brompton Hospital. objects exploring the complex relationship store, and their partnership with the Royal Brompton Hospital. The School President Nicola Hicks MBE will present this to the winner. these works take the audience on a 020 7937 5136 www.rbhcharity.org between war and the men and women BMC, Mary-Ann Ochota’s screening her Pont Street, London, SW1X OBD journey through Arctic Russia, Poland, Kensington Church St, Kensington, Sydney Street, Chelsea, London, who map, record, celebrate and document new BMC TV film; Inaccessible. BMC rbhcharity.org/brompton-quiz The Prize-Giving Reception, Auction and Raffle will be held on Thursday Brazil, the UK and beyond. London W8 4LA SW3 6NH it. Hill Walking Ambassador Mary-Ann November 16th 6.30-8.30 by ticket only (£10). 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Chelsea Physic Garden 66 Royal Hospital Road London SW3 4HS 020 7352 5646 44 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk powered by a focus on practical learning, 7 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London The Taming of the Shrew 0844 482 5138 it does with panels, workshops and talks W12 8LJ The Sainsbury Theatre Victoria St, Westminster, London Cézanne Portraits demonstrate the throughout the day highlighting the latest bushtheatre.co.uk Beautiful Bianca, desperate to fly the SW1E 5EA National Portrait Gallery techniques in digital newsgathering and nest, cannot marry until her 'shrewish' extraordinary storytelling. Ends November 25 older sister Katherine does. Fiercely Ends January 20 Until 11 February 2018 020 7393 7000 The Busy World is Hushed independent Kate can think of nothing Cell Mates Admission £20 painterly skills 30 S Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London Finborough Theatre worse... The Taming of the Shrew remains Hampstead Theatre E14 5EP The European premiere of a new play by a classic and has been adapted for Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, npg.org.uk of the man, the acclaimed American playwright Keith screen, opera, ballet and musical theatre, 1961. One of Britain’s most notorious ’ whether with Ends December 31 Bunin in his UK debut, The Busy World including Cole Porter s Kiss Me, Kate, the double agents, George Blake, is serving a Hidden Traces is Hushed. Hannah, a widowed Minister 1967 film of the play starring Elizabeth 42 year sentence; that is, until he strikes a knife The Place and Bible scholar, finds her faith at odds Taylor and Richard Burton and the 1999 up an unlikely friendship with Irish petty A sound journey discovering the streets with that of her long estranged gay son, romantic-comedy film loosely based on criminal, Sean Bourke. Both men are or brush around The Place. This self-guided tour Thomas. the play, 10 Things I Hate About You. eccentric outsiders, and each sees the lthough Cézanne himself said for all ages traces the many identities 0844 847 1652 155 Talgarth Road, London, W14 9DA possibility of escape, and not just from that he was more interested in of this ever-changing neighbourhood 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, London lamda.org.uk prison, but through the other. But once on ‘capturing a moment in time’ throughout the past decades and into the SW10 9ED the outside, can their mutual dependence and the physicality of paint than in any present. Ends December 2 survive the mounting pressures they face A finboroughtheatre.co.uk underlying personality of the sitters for 020 7121 1100 The Lady from the Sea from MI5, from the KGB, and indeed his portraits, it is impossible not to detect 17 Duke's Rd, Bloomsbury, London November 18 – December 3 Donmar Warehouse from themselves? the persona beneath the application of ’ WC1H 9PY Marnie Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper s daughter, 020 7722 9301 oils and the layering of colours. How can theplace.org.uk London Coliseum is trapped in her marriage and longs for Eton Ave, London NW3 3EU one not? He is possibly better known Daughter. Liar. Wife. Thief. She has been the sea. When a former lover returns from hampsteadtheatre.com for his still lifes and landscapes, but, December 11 running for so long, no one knows the years of absence, she is forced to decide throughout his career, he painted around (1885-86). Photo Ole Haupt, courtesy Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Glyptotek, courtesy Ny Carlsberg Photo Ole Haupt, (1885-86). Hat in a Bowler Self Portrait Cézanne, Paul An evening with HRH Princess Michael real Marnie, least of all herself. Marnie is between freedom and the new life she has two hundred portraits, including twenty- of Kent at ZSL London Zoo a compelling psychological thriller set in made for herself. six selfies and twenty-nine of his wife ZSL invites you to celebrate the launch England during the late 1950s. A young 0844 871 7624 Hortense Fiquet. On this evidence, it of HRH Princess Michael of Kent’s new woman makes her way through life by 41 Earlham St, London WC2H 9LX has to be said that she was not exactly book A Cheetah’s Tale, in which Princess embezzling from her employers, before donmarwarehouse.com a ‘looker’, underlining his dictum about Michael discusses her life in Africa and she moves on and changes her identity. Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha not painting people to make them more him in a bowler hat, her lifelong passion for cheetahs, inspired When her current boss Mark Rutland Opens December 6 important, or children to make them are striking in their by the orphaned cub she raised as a young catches her red-handed, he blackmails Hamilton If you have an event you’d ‘cute’, or women to make them idealised modulated form and girl. At this event you will also hear first- her into a loveless marriage. Marnie is left Victoria Palace Theatre beauties. Certainly, Hortense, with her geometric simplicity. hand from Dr Sarah Durant, a Senior with no choice but to confront the hidden The critically-acclaimed and multi-award- like listed, please send expressionless oval face, was no beauty. For those who wish Research Fellow here at ZSL, who uses trauma from her past. winning Broadway musical, will open any information to: In many of her portraits, she resembles to purchase a souvenir the results generated from her research to 020 7836 0111 at the end of 2017 at London's Victoria three kicks in a mud wall. There is no which is more than ’ facilitate on the ground conservation. St Martin s Lane, London WC2N 4ES Palace Theatre. [email protected] levity in any of his portraits, even those just a calendar, one- 020 7449 6200 londoncoliseum.org of his son, Paul, and he was ferociously size-fits-all bowler London NW1 4RY autocratic in his studio, allegedly hats are available in zsl.org November 28,30, December 1,2,4,5,6,7 shouting at his sitters if they so much the gift shop at £55 Measure for Measure FOOD & as moved. Many of his more familiar DRINK each. THEATRE The Sainsbury Theatre Available paintings are on display, including the Few of his Ends November 25 Defying categorisation as a comedy, on site visually robust Woman with a Cafetièr subjects were famous, The Slaves of Solitude tragedy or history, Measure for Measure from Musée d’Orsay, the charming Boy although he did a Hampstead Theatre is one of the Bard’s great ‘problem’ plays. in a Red Waistcoat on loan from the double portrait of 1943, Henley-on-Thames. Miss Roach A darkly comedic study of morals, power National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Alexis Reading is forced by the war to flee London for trips and justice in disguise. Believed DC and the deeply expressive Man with a Manuscript to the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding to have been written in 1603 or 1604 Crossed Arms from the Guggenheim. Emile Zola, the critic, Gustave Geffroy, who had written a house, which is as grey and lonely as and originally published in the First There are four portraits of his favourable review in the prestigious Le Journal, and Ambroise its residents. From the safety of these Folio of 1623 where it was listed as a maternal uncle Dominique, done in the Vollard, who staged his first major exhibition in 1895. The new quarters, her war now consists of a comedy, Measure for Measure’s continuing style called manière couillards, from the latter took over a hundred sittings, during which Cézanne thousand petty humiliations, of which the popularity lies in the balance Shakespeare French couilles, translated as bollocks insisted that he remained as motionless as an apple. Even so, most burdensome is sharing her daily life successfully strikes between black humour and meaning ‘ballsy’ or coarse, which the portrait remained unfinished, declaring that he was ‘not with the unbearable Mr. Thwaites. But a and raw tragedy. employed the use of a palette knife, displeased with the shirt front.’ Later in his career, he started breath of fresh air arrives in the form of 155 Talgarth Road, London, W14 9DA rather than a brush, and was pioneered by painting peasants or artisans, some anonymous, from the a handsome American Lieutenant and lamda.org.uk Gustave Courbet before him, although area surrounding Aix in the Provençal countryside, notably National Gallery Self Portrait Cézanne, Paul things start to look distinctly brighter... not in portraiture. The curator John the Gardener Vallier, the Man with a Pipe, who is recognisable Until, that is, a seeming friend moves November 28 – December 2 Elderfield from MOMA in New York from the two-figure Card Players series, and Man in a Blue into the room adjacent to Miss Roach’s, The Suicide states categorically that Cézanne was the Smock, who also appeared in the background of two of those upsetting the precariously balanced Arts Ed most important portrait painter since compositions. One of his last works was a Self-Portrait ’ ecosystem of the house... Sam s life is on a downer. Jobless, his Rembrandt, some two hundred years with Beret, an enfeebled man in his sixties suffering from 020 7722 9301 benefit payments stopped and forced with before. Certainly, the Dutchman was diabetes, which compares to the defiant, almost challenging Eton Ave, London NW3 3EU his girlfriend Maya to share her mother's the greatest ever portraitist, but there glare with which he holds the viewer, in his bowler hat, hampsteadtheatre.com cramped council flat, it seems like his only must have been a few challengers on the ‘Endlessly insightful’ ‘Fascinating… a treat’ painted in the mid-1880s. This is not a particularly uplifting alternative to a crap, depressing future is a way, with earlier painters like Jan Van show, as it comprises mainly unanimated sitters with blank Time Out Sunday Express Ends November 25 very final opt out. But as one door closes, Eyck, Raphael, Hans Holbein, Anthony expressions, in various ‘un-poses’, but it does demonstrate Of Kith and Kin several more open and those around him Available daily: 9.30am - 4.30pm (April-October), 10am - 4pm (November-March) Van Dyck and Diego Velasquez, not to the extraordinary painterly skills of the man, whether with a Bush Theatre are keen to highjack Sam's fatal resolution Nearest tube station South Kensington mention late pretenders from the modern knife or brush. In rejecting a portrait of Cézanne’s friend, the Daniel and Oliver are about to have their and use it to their own benefit. era like John Singer Sargent. Cézanne journalist and critic Antony Valabrègue, at the Paris Salon first baby. With their best friend, Priya, 020 8987 6666 was a colossal influence on successive of 1866, one jury member exclaimed that the portrait was acting as surrogate, they’ve turned the Cone Ripman House, 14 Bath Rd, Call: 020 7589 8212 /RoyalAlbertHall generations of Post-Impressionists, with not painted with a knife but with a pistol. Those vituperative study into a nursery and the bottles are Chiswick, London W4 1LY @RoyalAlbertHall whom he was categorised, Cubists and words may have come to haunt that man later in life. One can sterilised. All that’s missing is the bundle artsed.co.uk royalalberthall.com Fauvists, and being cited by both Matisse only hope so. of joy they’ve been pining for. 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something to do with his humble origins in, what is now, Belarus. He drew heavily on the French Old Masters, like Chardin Red Star over and Courbet, whom he would see during his regular visits to Le Louvre, and he Russia provides a convenient link between Tate Modern, Blavatnik modern expressiveness with previous Building, Level 2 classical trends. In turn, he influenced a number of figurative artists such as Until 18 February 2018 Lucian Freud, Leon Kossof and Frank Admission £11.30 Auerbach, all three of whose work act as a prelude to the Soutine exhibition. tate.org.uk William de Kooning and Francis Bacon also professed to being strongly influenced by his work, particularly the latter, with his vivid and raw carcasses of animals, that he would keep and paint he sub-title of this densely- in his studio, throwing buckets of blood illustrated exhibition is A over them to keep the appearance of Revolution in Visual Culture fresh meat. He painted numerous works 1905-1955T , and is taken from the in that series, in an individualistic style enormous and comprehensive collection Gustav Klutsis Raise Higher the Banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin! 1933. © Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Pompidou, Georges Centre © Musée National d’art Moderne, Boy Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) Page of the graphic designer and historian more concerned with colour and shape Purchased 2016. The David King Collection at Tate. rather than representation, inspired by David King, who died last year. It is a Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox, which had remarkable achievement, amassing, as he hung in Le Louvre since 1857 and with did, over a quarter of a million artifacts by which he was familiar. Russian and Soviet artists and designers Soutine was not so much as using from the overthrow of the Tsar and caricature when he portrayed his subjects, the October Revolution of 1917, with but employing emphasis, or distortion, Viktor Bulla’s chilling photographs of the when drawing faces, hands, arms or body, Russian Provisional Government troops so his Cagnes pâtissier possesses a small opening fire on Bolshevik-led protestors head, protruding out of a voluminous in Petrograd in July of that momentous white chef ’s jacket, with sharply sloping year, to the death of Stalin (not the shoulders and a pair of enormous pink recently-released film) in 1953, and bat-ears. One can imagine some of the appointment of Nikita Khrushchev his faces made out of plasticine, with in 1955 as Party Leader. These were pinched chins, wide cheeks and eye- turbulent years and the exhibition sockets made by poking a child’s finger in explores how the use of art in the form of posters, leaflets, photographs, books El Lissitsky Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge 1920. (Printed 1966.) the face. During the Second World War, Purchased 2016. The David King Collection at Tate. being Jewish, and a so-called degenerate and periodicals informed and educated artist, he was forced into hiding from the new society. The Bolsheviks devised the Nazis in occupied France, but died highly-decorated ‘agitprop’ trains, which in 1943 of a perforated ulcer at the age travelled across the vast country, carrying of 50 on the operating table back in speakers, film shows and a printing press Paris. Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau churning out pamphlets proclaiming attended his sparsely-attended funeral in the policies of the new government. Montparnasse Cimetière. Another word for it might be propaganda. The merchandising people in the After the October Revolution, art Courtauld Shop must have struggled was everywhere in the form of street with what to stock, and titillate the performances and pageants, with posters depicting heroic workers gazing into the hotel employees, and caught the eye of Paris. visitors. Laughingly, they came up with middle distance, being hung in public an American collector, Albert Barnes, Most of the portraits are of adolescent a valet’s ostrich feather duster for fifteen Soutine’s squares, factories and even in peoples’ who already owned scores of works by boys, although there are some chamber- quid, a household bristle brush and a bar Nina Vatolina Don't Chatter! Gossiping Borders on Treason 1933. Soviet School The Nightmare of Future Wars-Workers of the World Unite. 1920s. homes. Purchased 2016. The David King Collection at Tate. Purchased 2016. The David King Collection at Tate. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and dozens of maids. The first thing that strikes one on of carbolic soap for £12 and a desk bell, Propaganda was hard at work, right Portraits: Cooks, works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, entering the gallery is the prominence of also for fifteen quid, and none of these from the outset, with ‘enemies of the and by Pablo Picasso. In fact, he bought the uniforms, whether they be the pillar- is a joke. Because he painted a rather of Nikolai Yezhov, a Soviet secret police recently renovated and now stands in Joachim von Ribbentrop the Nazis; Stalin people’ being erased, crossed out and cut Waiters and over fifty works by this penniless young box red of the bellboys or whites of the creepy Page Boy at Maxim’s with his hand official under Joseph Stalin, who was head the Russian Exhibition Centre, Moscow, was present, but not involved in the out of photographs. The most famous Russian Jew, who upon receiving an pastry cooks. There are four paintings of outstretched (giving or receiving, one of the NKVD, the People’s Commissariat on an even higher art deco plinth. signing. Two years later Germany bombed picture of Lenin, by Grigorii Goldshtein, Bellboys. enormous sum of money from Dr the same red-haired man, either a maître is not sure) with two snowman lumps for Internal Affairs, at an athletes’ pageant Also within the six pavilions was a vast Moscow and Great Britain and the USSR The Courtauld Gallery addressing the soldiers of the Red Army ‘ Barnes, ran into the street in Paris, hailed d’hôtel or a valet de chambre, ranging from of coal for eyes, they obviously had a in Red Square in 1937, and yet another mural by Alexandr Deineka based on joined together and formed the Great in Teatralnaia Square, Moscow about to Until 21 January 2018 a taxi, and told the driver to take him disdainful arrogance many viewers will eureka! moment, and offer up limited from the same date shows him defaced. Stakhanovites, or ‘shock workers’, who Patriotic War’ against Hitler. A series of fight the Polish army in 1920 in Petrograd to Nice for a holiday, where he booked recognise, even now, from a night out edition bottles of Maxim’s champagne at Before he was executed for anti-Soviet set records for productivity. During the photographs by Dmitri Baltermants and Admission £10.50 at a sort of barricade, with Leon Trotsky himself into a smart hotel. Soon, with the in Paris, to mere arrogance. The same £50 each. For a mere four pounds, one activities in 1940, he became a political World’s Fair, more than 20 million people Yevgeny Khaldei depict scenes from the and Lev Kamenev on the right of the www.courtauld.ac.uk help of his dealer, Léopold Zborowski, he man, but in four different guises and could buy a set of hotel room keyrings, ‘unperson’. visited the Soviet pavilion, which was war, the most poignant being Khaldei’s frame. The same photograph was used transformed himself from a disheveled, poses. The Pastry Cook of Cagnes depicts numbered 221B, 101, 237 and ‘mystery In 1937 at the International built opposite the German one, designed seminal shot of Soviet Soldiers Raising the in 1933, but puff! both these figures had uncouth and unwashed bumpkin, into a a shy, awkward boy, nervously clasping room’ number 568. This could be those Exposition of Art and Technology in on a grand scale, by Albert Speer. This was Flag over the Reichstag, May 1945. There been airbrushed out of history. The same young gentleman clothed in silk shirts his hands in his lap, while another wags in merchandising having a bit of a Paris, the Soviet Union built six enormous at the height of the Spanish Civil War, are some stark and simple graphics by technique was used to promote Joseph mall, but perfectly formed could and ties, Saville Row suits and fedoras. pâtissier has a more confident hands- laugh, with references to George Orwell, pavilions designed by Boris Iofan, which and Spain’s pavilion housed the greatest Nina Vatolina from the 1940s, including Stalin: in one photograph, he appears apply, not just to the exhibition He attracted rich patrons, like the on-hips stance, but still retains an air of the room in Kubrick’s The Shining, and was dominated by a colossal stainless anti-war statement ever painted, Picasso’s Fascism-The Most Evil Enemy of Women with Sergei Kirov, Nikolai Antipov at the top of Somerset House, interior designer Madeleine Castaing vulnerability. No-one is really certain the room number in The Graduate. I am steel sculpture by Vera Mukhina entitled Guernica, which was still fresh in the and Don’t Chatter! Gossiping Borders on and Nikolai Shvernik in Leningrad in but the subjects of the twenty-one and her husband, who welcomed him why Soutine was attracted to menial not sure why 221B is included, as it was Worker and Collective Farm Woman. This memory. Treason, very much along the lines of S a suite of rooms in a lodging house in 1926. By 1949, both Nikolai’s had been 75-ton, 24m. high piece was the world’s In 1939 the USSR signed a Non- our own propaganda campaign, Careless portraits, which comprise Cooks, Waiters to their summer home in Lèves, near workers in the catering side of life, in ‘vanished’. Some ‘enemies of the people’ and Bellboys. Chaim Soutine’s Bellboy Chartres, France. Through them, Soutine the same way van Gogh and Cézanne Baker Street, not an hotel, but who’s first welded sculpture, comprising a Aggression Treaty with Nazi Germany, Talk Costs Lives.The same sentiment, but had an even shorter shelf-life. Dynamo is possibly one of his most well-known held his first exhibition in Chicago in used characters from rural France, rather bothered, other than me? worker holding aloft a hammer and with Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav lacking the British sense of humour. sportsmen are seen carrying a portrait images, along with other restaurant and 1935, when he was quite a name back in than the great and the good, but it maybe Don Grant the kolkhoz woman a sickle, and it was Molotov representing the Soviets and Don Grant 48 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

dutifully dispatched by soloist Kristóf the music of The Beatles and The Beach Baráti. While even the tricky formulas of Boys. The ensemble’s first London gig MUSIC his Symphony in C could not upend the comes hot on the heels of performing talented ranks of the Mariinsky when Pet Sounds at the Brighton Festival, they were in such imperious form. and the evening will feature a back- ROUND UP Adam McGinlay, general manager to-back celebration of the 50-year-old Photographs © British Museum © British Photographs BY GEOFF COWART of Cadogan Hall, said the Zurich Beatles’ classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts series was unique in the UK with its Club Band, followed by no less than the ability to showcase some of Europe’s Magical Mystery Tour album. Members lesser-known orchestras. Over its 16 of the Psychedelic Love Orchestra have concerts, the series features other Russian worked with Nick Cave, Stomp, John orchestras, as well as those from Basel, Martyn, Belle and Sebastian, Oasis and Gergiev thrills, Brussels, Hannover, Stuttgart, Prague, the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Linz, Flanders and Dresden before it Tickets £17.25. bushhallmusic.co.uk Skrotes surprise concludes next summer with the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra. & the Psychedelic “I’m happy that London’s classical Putting the jaga in jazz music scene is so congested,” McGinlay Love Orchestra is said. “Because it gives us the chance to The impressive present orchestras who don’t normally percussive energy forged ready to get fab get to perform here.” Asked to pick between Abreu and a highlight he singled out the Czech Ledoux freed de Patta fter recently picking up his baton National Symphony Orchestra. to unleash a barrage of

for the London Symphony Arriving in April 2018, soloists Pavel soulful keyboard riffs. Hall © Cadogan Photographs Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle has Kolesnikov and Barry Douglas will tackle The band certainly stolen the classical music spotlight in the Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 and excelled in making A 5, respectively, under the baton of Petr every lick count. From capital. But LSO’s outgoing principal 31 cms high and is 40,000 years old. is a cornerstone and obligatory in Islam. conductor Valery Gergiev was in no Altrichter. classic mid-century jazz Living with Gods: People, Places He is half man and half lion and is the Pilgrimages to St James de Compostela mood to be cast in a shadow. “The Czech NSO never fail to deliver. to an inspired take on oldest example of belief in supernatural are a well known example. Stevie Wonder’s Keep on and Worlds Beyond beings. This belief was prevalent in many The world has countless festivals Running, they switched The British Museum. 2nd November 2017-8th April 2018 societies, for example the centaurs in celebrating myriads of beliefs on a it up to launch headfirst ancient Greece. Maybe hybrids help regular basis. Objects are on view from into a blender of cosmic Reviewed by Marian Maitland people find their own place in nature on the Roman Saturnalia, Christmas, krautrock without ever a higher religious level to transcend it. Kumbh Mela and Siberian Ysyakh. These losing their nimble (Stadel Cave. Baden-Wurlettemburg. festivals are living manifestations of faith. rhythmic attack. ince the birth of the human race, Germany). The theme of sacrifice is discussed Mankind has always had an Light was enormously significant in with objects associated with animal Iceland’s grand awareness of its own ‘divinity’; its belief. If light came from the sun or a sacrifice in Greece and human sacrifice Torrini on tour soul, and the belief in a ‘higher power’. lamp, it represented hope, goodness and in Aztec societies. All to please the Gods. Despite just having had a baby this Norwegian polymaths Jaga Jazzist drop S The Ibeji Figures from Nigeria, made summer, the superb Icelandic singer by Royal Festival Hall on November Fear, insufficiency and inadequacy is the summer season; there are echos of in us all and is what turns us towards the Greek myth Persephone here. in wood, represent spirits who persist Emiliana Torrini is hitting the road next 19 to unleash their compelling attack ‘Divinity’. It is what gives us a reason for Do not miss Alan Betson’s after life and are believed in by the month. Her November 10 appearance of jazz, rock, hip hop, reggae, polka, striving, protects us from the animal side photograph of the sun lighting up the Yoruba people of West Africa. They are at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire sees electronica, classical or choral music. of our natures and provides rationality. inside of a passage tomb at New Grange cared for as living persons and they give her rekindle a fine partnership with Throw it in a blender and the Ninja Tune Humans are bound by cosmic laws. Co. Meath. This tomb is about 5,000 protection during birth, in life and death. Colorist, the talented Belgian ensemble veterans sound as perplexing as they The sun rises and sets, stars shine, rivers years old. A painted textile from Tibet, known founded by Aarich Jespers and Kobe appear on paper, and have long proved to run with life-giving water, tides of The theme of light occurs again in as a Thangka, depicts the wheel of life. It Proesmans. Tickets from £20.70. www. be a musical law unto themselves. They mighty oceans rise and fall. These laws the object, Mosque Lamp from Aleppo. is used for teaching and as a devotional Returning with his Mariinsky They perform at the edge of their seats, o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk will be joined by Sinikka Langeland, are considered the will of God, and by Syria 1300-1340. It bears a calligraphy object. This one depicts the world Orchestra to Cadogan Hall, Gergiev and their energy and animation is always performing songs from her haunting conforming to them many obey that private faith of an individual. Religion inscription from the Qur’an epitomising embraced by the demon, Mara and is helped kick off this season’s Zurich special. They seem to relish playing in A magical Sgt Pepper anniversary new ECM recording, The Magical Forest, will. Without them chaos and confusion can provide strong bonds in societies, Allah ‘as the light of the heavens’ and indicative of temptation, death and International Concert Series with a bang. London,” McGinlay added. Looking All you need is love. Specifically, the playing with a stellar ensemble featuring would reign. thus making for a better life. Belief and likens light to a ‘glass lamp in a niche’. impermanence. Three segments show They brought an all-Russian programme further ahead, he promised orchestras magical sounds of the Psychedelic soloists Arve Henriksen (trumpet) and The Deity has taken form in man’s Faith are expressed in a variety of ways. In the Bible, God ordered “light to higher realms of existence and three of Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov for a from India and Canada for the 2018-19 Love Orchestra who play Bush Hall on Trygve Seim (saxophone), and the voices consciousness from a yearning to The Exhibition, Living with Gods: drive away the darkness”. In many beliefs show the suffering of animals, ghosts spellbinding two-night stand on October Cadogan Hall season. November 12. Part of spreading their of Trio Mediaeval. Tickets from £15. understand the purpose of his life and People, Places and Worlds Beyond, is ‘darkness’ is not unnaturally associated and hell. The outer wheel reveals how 8 and 9. www.cadoganhall.com cosmic messages of love is by playing serious.org.uk/events/nordic-matters place in the universe. Philosophy, sacred part of a fourth collaboration Project with fear. your actions influence your future lives. The rich tone from the Russian writings in Sanskrit, the ancient wisdom between the BM, BBC and a book by Fire is a frequently recurring theme Buddha is there showing the path to orchestra wallowed in the warm Yellow and gold fever of the Middle and Far East, the great Neil MacGregor, former Director of in beliefs across the world and much liberation by pointing to the moon. acoustic of Cadogan Hall to produce £3 doesn’t get you far on a night out in philosophers and teachers of the Western the British Museum. Jill Cook is the used in ritual. It is depicted in the object, Religion, sadly, due to human frailty an otherworldly sonic effect. Gergiev, a London. But it was certainly enough to world, have all offered answers, but not Curator. John Studzinski, Chairman of Tiles from a Parsi home shrine. We see the and error, can lead to wars, fanatical flurry of warbling hands and commands, check out The Skrotes, one of the hottest always understood by all cultures. the Genesis Foundation has generously constantly burning fire of Ahura Mazda, behaviour and cause a spiritual crisis in oversaw the orchestra’s startling precision bands from Brazil playing their first-ever However, those of Faith and Belief supported the Exhibition for which he is God of the Zoroastrians. In this religion man. and expansive beauty to produce playful London gig at Chalk Farm’s Spiritual continued to acknowledge a ‘higher owed much gratitude. fire is a visual symbol of purity. No ritual Observe, the stark, evocative, exhibit, performances of Rimsky-Korsakov Bar. And they wasted no time in showing power’ and therefore man continued This Exhibition explains how people takes place without it. Notice it appears The Lampedusa Cross made from pieces favourites, Scheherazade and the Suite what the fuss is all about. to maintain various belief systems believe through everyday objects of faith in the centre of the object and prayers of the boat wrecked off the coast of from The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Squeezing onto the bar’s tiny stage, throughout the ages. Notice how in the and gives perspective on what has made are directed to it. In Greek mythology Lampedusa. Italy. It is a reminder of But it was not the work of the master the daring trio of Chico Abreu (bass), midst of all disasters, human minds turn belief a part of human behaviour across Prometheus stole fire for humanity. tragedy and eternally of hope. that stole the show. It was the work Igor de Patta (piano) and Guilherme to the ‘Divine’ which in turn creates the world and throughout the centuries. Objects associated with Pilgrimage of his pupil and fiery young upstart Ledoux (drums) deployed their courage. The objects are arranged in themed are on view. This is an important ritual Stravinsky that allowed the Mariinsky inimitable cosmic samba jazz punk Mankind has a need for religion, beliefs showing their use in ritual and in beliefs worldwide. Pilgrimages The British Museum. to find another gear. Their Firebird with a killer instinct. Weaving their way religious practice. be it in the form of an historical, ‘ ’ to Canterbury are examined in the Gt. Russell Street. Suite sent ripples across the hall with its through a 90-minute set, they swerved organised, authority or accepting a series All exhibitions have a star object and exhibition, also to Sarnath in India. London. WC1B Tel. phone: vibrating, pulsing sheets of sound. And from Beastie Boys’ funk to Tropicalia here we meet Lion Man. He is wrought of doctrines about God, man and the ’ Buddhists and Hindus go on pilgrimages. 020 7323 8181 packed with energy and delivered with punch as they boggled minds and bodies universe, as found in Hinduism, or in the in ivory from a mammoth s tusk, stands For Muslims the pilgrimage to Mecca E-mail: britishmuseum.org zeal, a fiendish Violin Concerto in D was with a purposeful sense of rhythm. 50 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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rom the moment the curtain rises The reinvented Hastings Pier you know you are in for a treat. Both children and adults alike has won this year’s Stirling can enjoy an entertaining afternoon or Prize, the most important Fevening of dance with this spectacular production. It’s not so much a ballet annual award for architecture rather a creative spectacle with plenty of in the UK. stage craft to keep all ages on the edge of their seats with excitement. ffectionately nicknamed The Created in 2011 on The Royal Ballet Plank for the simple clarity of Christopher Wheeldon, has played his the idea; a vast, open boardwalk trump card producing a blockbuster stretching out over the sea. A complete dance show that will become the new A Nutcracker the world over. Alice has absence of the clutter associated with the evolution of nineteenth century piers already had international success with to provide ‘attractions’. At Hastings, companies from Germany to Australia the architects, dRMM, have created an The success lies in its flexibility performing this thrilling production. expansive, open, public space perfect for that will allow all manner of So what is the secret to Alice’s contemplating the panoramic seascape, events; markets, concerts, success? Wheeldon, ever the master for relaxing and imbibing the fresh sea choreographer, has played his cards air. The success lies in its flexibility that exhibitions, fairs, exercise right and brought together an ace team will allow all manner of events; markets, classes, anything that pure of artistically creative people. Under concerts, exhibitions, fairs, exercise space can deliver. Even the his watchful eye, Wheeldon has the classes, anything that pure space can simple joy of play. genius of making sure that each of deliver. Even the simple joy of play. the creatives, costumes, sets, lighting, It is refreshing to hear how its music, story and of course dance come rejuvenation has been realised. together with their own brilliance to Originally built in 1872, the pier was deck riding above the sea. Painstaking work collectively as a partnership in this popular in the Edwardian era, especially restoration and strengthening of the production. In no particular order: Joby for the notoriously risqué Joy Wheel original nineteenth century ironwork Talbot’s commissioned score is alive with which allowed ladies to expose their structure provided the platform after flavour and caricature themes to match ankles and men to relish the treat. It decades of neglect, storms and fires. the characters and dance on stage; Bob was removed in 1914. Consumed by fire There is one simple built element, clad Crowley’s designs are colourful and set in 1917, it later provided illumination in scorched timber in a zigzag pattern the scene with fairy tale splendour; Jon for floodlit bathing in the 1930s and a reclaimed and recycled from the previous Driscoll and Gemma Carrington’s video hippy haunt in the 60s. Following storm fires. It houses a Memories Room with projections are simply dazzling; Natasha damage in 2008, it closed, and was all but interactive multi touch table screens Matz’s lighting design is cleverly done destroyed by a second fire in 2010. The enabling exploration of the history of the with just the right amount of light and then corporate owners were nowhere to pier. Also, the Birch Room, named after shade and tones of colour to mesmerise be found, so the local council compulsory the original engineer, as an education the audience whilst keeping the action White Rabbit. The first of many twists Cuthbertson, the lead role of Alice was last decided to afford the luxury of purchased the burnt-out skeleton for £1 hub for schools and local workshops. and turns, as they bound into a rabbit danced with innocence and assured investing in a full-length narrative and promptly gifted it to the Hastings Broad full width steps rise-up to a roof for all to see; and Nicholas Wright’s Pier Charity. The Charity began crowd top café and observation deck giving libretto keeps the story alive with twists hole and mysteriously fall into Alice’s technique by Yuhui Choe. Matthew Ball ballet and a choreographer to deliver funding and sold 3000 shares for £100 even more expansive views of the and turns that Lewis Carroll would no Wonderland! Perhaps a less known fact danced The Knave of Hearts with lyrical it. Christopher Wheeldon has created each and with other donations raised well seascape and changing activities on the doubt have added in Alice 2 if he lived in is that Lewis Carroll, the author of the smooth fluency and precision. Alexander a box office hit that is being performed over half a million. This created a sense Plank. Proof that sometimes, less is more. the modern world. book back in Victorian times, suffered Cambell danced The White Rabbit by a growing number of major dance of ownership amongst the community This is a project conceived and All this would not have happened from a rare neurological disorder that with zest and bounding leaps. The Mad companies the world over. The Royal and provided the drive to ultimately commissioned by its community, driven without Wheeldon coming up with a causes strange hallucinations and affects Hatter danced by Calvin Richardson has Ballet is currently celebrating Kenneth achieve the bulk of the £14.2M necessary and shaped by the community, hand in master plan and executing it in fairy tale the size of visual objects, which can make all the hallmarks for the role but it was MacMillan’s legacy marking the 25th for reconstruction, from the Heritage hand with worthwhile public and crowd proportions. Act 1 starts in Victorian the sufferer feel bigger or smaller than created on Steven McRae whose skills as anniversary of his death. Much revered Lottery Fund funding. Now it can be enjoyed in diverse Oxford at a garden party, but the action they are; a huge theme of the book and a tap dancer, as well as a classical ballet for his creative genius, MacMillan An RIBA Competition was held that and inclusive ways by the community very quickly gets a whole lot more now Wheeldon’s dance production. dancer, are hard to match anywhere in will be remembered for centuries to attracted entries from around the World. in which it stands. Recognition through interesting when Jack, playing with Alice, Alice is full of characters and the world especially in Alice’s World! come. Wheeldon is, like MacMillan, London based de Rijke Marsh Morgan the Stirling Prize will further promote is accused of stealing a jam tart and has Wheeldon cleverly choreographs with Clare Calvert has the task of playing and a choreographer whose work will be won the competition and straightaway the pier, attracting more visitors to to leave the party. Alice is upset but superb stage craft, dances and theatrical dancing the role of The Queen of Hearts, performed for many many decades to began meeting with local people and Hastings and adding to the prosperity of Lewis Carroll comes to the rescue and drama for the likes of The White Rabbit, originally created on Zenaida Zanowsky, come and probably centuries too. stakeholders to shape the future of the this seaside town. A worthy winner and takes a photograph of Alice to console The Mad Hatter, The Knave of Hearts which she did with confidence and Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures pier. Instead of an iconic edifice at the outcome of brave vision. her. Jack goes under the camera cloth and The Queen of Hearts to name humour. in Wonderland is a fairy tale dance end, they conceived a simple, huge, free Congratulations Hastings !! and to Alice’s surprise emerges as a a few! 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technology and digital initiatives? Is it Salter went on to say: “We are feel as if they are visiting the beach, or particularly in cities like London, where proportions of people wouldn’t like to go being invested in? Is it even trusted? absolutely clear that Pepper is not here attending a wedding on the other side of housing developers are desperate for in an autonomous car. The future of Meet Pepper, a friendly robot to replace any of our people, but to the world. Driverless sites. Livadeas said this is just because “they adult social care: developed by the Japanese company complement and help the existing staff VR can also be a cognitive aid to Cars; are an unknown quantity, people don’t how will technology change SoftBank. Pepper is already a member of we have to deliver a better service by someone with dementia, by creating What will the Loss of Labour trust them”. staff in coffee shops, banks and hospitals freeing up time for them to deal directly virtual cues of their past, such as a The UK has 3 million people employed the support services landscape? across Belgium, Canada and Japan. with people.” childhood home, in ‘reminiscence future look like? as drivers Safety When used in the care sector, these Pepper’s main duties will initially therapy’. Such an experience has been By Chloe Livadeas By Chloe Livadeas “Those people could just get dumped “Accident statistics have been coming humanoids can assist in basic daily tasks, be raising awareness to help progress linked with the slowing down of on a scrapheap and people who own the down for years but they’ve levelled such as helping someone take their the face of social care, showing the cognitive decline. transport companies are the ones who off now and without a step change in tablets, and can be programmed to suit community the potential for widespread The headsets value in the care sector actually make the money.” technology, they’re not going to get any the needs of whoever it is they are caring use of similar humanoids in the near also goes beyond the comfort of the And it’s not just drivers who could lower.” for. They can play tunes, display videos future. individual. The data from their use can take the hit. The automotive sectors are Our current system of driving causes and can be uploaded with personalised The robotics market is starting to be analysed for the purpose of spotting a huge industry that employs a lot of 25 million crashes annually, and is the content to help with individuals’ shift from industrial use. By 2019, the the onset of dementia by taking the people, from manufacturers to suppliers. 9th biggest cause of death, costing 1.3 reminiscences. International Federation of Robotics user through daily tasks and measuring “If you’re going to get a whole load million lives every year. Numerous trials and studies have forecasts sales of 37,500 assistive robots, behaviour and detecting patterns. of new players in the marketplace for Fully autonomous cars will been underway in the UK on the use of targeted specifically to support the care There may be some wariness of the care robots, and Paro the robotic seal, of people who are older or who have development of technology in a sector making new cars, you could end up significantly reduce accidents. another Japanese venture, has even been disabilities. This is an emerging market which must operate with human warmth with the likes of Vauxhall going out of used by the NHS for the benefit of projected to have strong growth over the and empathy. The knee-jerk thought The technology for driverless pretty massive changes if you think about business because they can’t compete with Insurance dementia patients. next 20 years. of you or your loved ones being under how our society is built around cars at Apple.” The legality of autonomous cars remains Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Another very different kind of the care of cold, faceless robots, or else cars is currently racing away. the moment, not just infrastructure but an unanswered question: if one has an are the first local authority to buy and assistive technology currently taking off spending the days hooked up to a screen the way people live their lives as well.” Increased agency accident, whose fault is it and who pays? use Pepper. in social care is virtual reality (VR), an is definitely troubling, almost dystopian. Autonomous cars can give mobility to “The insurance market is looking Cllr Lesley Salter, executive councillor audio-visual simulation that gives less Anything that removes people he UK government has so far Urban landscape those less able to drive or without the carefully into this to see how it’s going to for health and adult social care, said: able care home residents the chance to from the equation of social care is invested over £100 million in It’s predicted that autonomous vehicles finances to own a car. affect them. echnology is revolutionising every “Robots may seem like something from explore the world again. This has been uncomfortable, as it’s supposed to be just the technology and 2017 saw a will drive car ownership right down, If an elderly person no longer has a “Very slowly people are starting to other aspect of our lives, when the distant future, but the technology is proven to reduce feelings of isolation and that: social. But there is great possibility number of trials taking place across the making a lot of the current infrastructure licence or the confidence to drive, the discuss legislation. The technology is will it change social care? T here and we strongly believe that Pepper depression in users. and scope for care enhancement through country. no longer necessary, completely changing low cost of the service driverless cars going ahead pretty quickly and these The mounting pressure of an aging can have a positive impact on social care The company Reminiscience technology, both in terms of research Companies such as Google, BMW, the architecture of towns and cities. could incorporate car travel back into kinds of discussions are lagging behind.” T population means the resources currently as we continue to transform our services developed 360 videos, tailored by opportunities and improving the quality Tesla, Audi and Uber are all pushing for It will mean no more need for their daily lives. at our disposal are shrinking. Using and make sure they are fit for the future.” collecting information from families and of life of care users, as long as people’s autonomous vehicles. driveways, garages and city centre car The school run could even go ahead The government is aiming for digital initiatives to ease the weight on Pepper can also simply offer company, care staff. minds are open. Automotive engineer and accident parks. without parents. the UK to be first in the race for already overstretched services has the but this is still up for debate. There is For people who are no longer reconstruction consultant, Alexis Once people are dropped off at their The technology will be there but driverless cars. Whether or not potential to drastically improve what the anxiety around care robots being unable able enough to even go outside, the www.reminiscience.co.uk Livadeas, laid out what life could look destination, the cars will take themselves whether it’s acceptable or not to people is UK can offer those in need of support. to substitute human warmth, but going experience can give a renewed feeling www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/ like once autonomous cars hit our roads. to huge stores outside of town. This a different matter. humans can keep up with the So how far has the sector embraced on to replace workers all the same. of energy, allowing an elderly person to robots/pepper “It’s going to potentially make some would free up much needed space, Current surveys show large advancement remains to be seen.

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back-row for being. Everyone makes mistakes, he of England’s best players will travel Exeter and he made a mistake, he’s atoned for it and to Australia. Currently, the ECB have will vie with we’re expecting him to follow the team’s Ashes Preview stated that Stokes will not be travelling Bath’s Sam culture which he will. By James Billot with the team “at this stage”. England set for Autumn Underhill for a “We’re dealing with young humans Australia’s Vice Captain David spot. and they make mistakes but he wants to Warner has also faced backlash from International battles “I went up play for England, he understands he’s the media for likening the upcoming and had a chat to done the wrong thing and I don't think Ashes series to “war”. The comments at Twickenham him (Haskell) on he’ll do it again. drew heavy criticism from former By Owen Fulda Saturday,” Jones “We had a look at Marland (Yarde) England players including Geoffrey said. “We had a in regards to Denny (Solomona) and the Boycott, Michael Vaughan, and good chat and at number of tries that Denny has scored Marcus Trescothick who dismissed the moment he’s is far superior to Marland and we want the comments as “pathetic”. Warner, just not playing a try scorer on that wing so Denny gets who had recently earned himself the well enough, but the nod.” nickname of ‘The Reverend’ for his good the door’s not “He’s (Simmonds) done really well for behaviour, subsequently apologised for shut on him. Exeter. He’s a good young player and the comments. We know he’s what I like about him more is his work On the field, England’s longstanding a great player off the ball. He runs very good support batting woes have yet to be rectified. and has been a lines, he’s very good defensively. Since the retirement of Andrew Strauss great servant for “Of course everyone likes to talk in 2012, Alastair Cook has opened with English rugby, about the tries he’s scored but that’s a eleven different partners. James Vince nearly 80 caps small part of his game. He’s got good s both sides finalise their and Gary Ballance are both vying for and I’m sure he’ll acceleration and he might add something preparations for the first the coveted number 3 position, but after have plagued Australia’s seam attack; impressive strike rate of 55.3, lower than regain his form.” to our backrow. He’s also one of the Ashes test match on the 23rd a summer of low to mid-level scoring Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood are the career strike rate of his compatriot ead coach Eddie Jones is week ban that expires before England’s Eddie Jones has also called up players who could possibly play six, seven November at the Gabba in Brisbane, it is and persistent injuries, there is still no both recovering from injury, and James Shane Warne (57.4). Lyon’s track record free to pick Dylan Hartley first match against Argentina. Joe Marler A Pattinson has been ruled out due to a in Australia is already strong, and if the uncapped duo fly-half Marcus Smith or eight so it gives us that utility value." the Australian hosts who head into the obvious choice. It will be left to the and Nathan Hughes for the was given a three-week ban for striking and back row Zach Mercer with both series as firm favourites. experienced Joe Root and Alastair Cook long-standing back problem. crafty off-spinner can bring this level of Hautumn Internationals after controversial Will Rowlands with his elbow and being included in apprentice roles. Tom England face Argentina at Twickenham Although going into the series as to bring stability to a fragile batting These problems notwithstanding, form into the series, the hosts will be a disciplinary hearings in which misses the Tests against the Pumas and Dunn is the only other uncapped player on Saturday November 11, Australia the victors, it is the English side that have line-up. captain Steve Smith enters the series very difficult team to beat. Northampton claimed the England Australia. in the party with Jones recalling Denny following Saturday and then Samoa on been the subject of largely negative There are chinks in the Australian in fine form averaging 51 this year, Collectively, the calibre of each squad captain is being unfairly targeted by Exeter's Sam Simmonds has earned Solomona after he was sent home from November 25. Wales play the Aussies media and public attention. Fuelled armour too, albeit few and far between. but the current stand-out player in the is perhaps not as high as in previous officials because of his record that a call up to the England squad ahead of their pre-season training camp for late- first, then Georgia followed by the All by the ongoing Ben Stokes debacle, For one, Australia’s first-choice wicket- side is off-spinner Nathan Lyon. Lyon years, but rest assured that it will still includes 60 weeks of suspensions. the autumn Internationals but there is night drinking. Blacks and lastly South Africa. The where the all-rounder was caught keeper Matthew Wade has been short of is coming off the back of a record- be a blistering contest. For English fans Hartley was cleared of his latest no place in the 34-man party for James So what assurances has Jones received Scots take on Samoa first at Murrayfield, on CCTV punching another man runs this summer, which has opened the breaking tour in India, where the bowler preparing their schedule for a nocturnal charge of striking the head of an Haskell or Marland Yarde. Simmonds that Solomona won’t transgress again? before daunting back-to-back encounters outside a nightclub, the situation position up to the likes of Peter Nevill produced his greatest ever figures of 8-50 Winter, coverage starts at 00:00 (GMT) opponent, while Hughes received a two- earns his call up after impressing in the “None,” replied Jones. “He’s a human with Australia and New Zealand. remains unresolved as to whether one and Tim Paine. In addition, fitness issues in Bangalore. Since 2015, Lyon has an on 23rd November.

governing body has a high-performance assault on Olympic medals than it has Four crews will centre in Hendon, used by the athletes been for over a generation. Richard pilot the 3008DKR of the world-class programme: the men’s Kruse has moved up to world number Peugeot prepares from the 6th till foil and sabre teams. four after winning gold in the Men’s the 20th of January. But according to Statista, a statistics Foil at the Cairo World Cup in October. for final Dakar Alongside them will © Peugeot Photograph portal with more than 18,000 sources, The London fencer, 34, defeated former be teams competing the number of participants plummeted world champions Alexey Cheremisinov race in everything from from 27,600 in 2014/15 to just over of Russia and another Italian, Andrea By Fahad Redha motorcycles to lorries 10,000 a year later. These figures may go Cassara, en route to the final. though these are very someway to suggesting why UK Sport different from the decided to slash fencing’s funding to zero Did you know? Months after taking the wraps of its new one that collects your in December last year. Fencing burns over 450 calories an hour. race car, Peugeot has announced that bins every week! The Over the next four-year cycle, leading More than swimming or jogging. 2018 will be its last entry into the Dakar route will take them up to the Tokyo Games in 2020, the It strengthens the thighs, calves, bottom race. The French firm has little to prove, through Peru, Bolivia, sport will receive not a penny to match and stomach while developing cardio- winning the gruelling 5,739-mile race and Argentina, across the £3.1 million it received from the vascular fitness and coordination. four years on the trot between 1987 and sand dunes, mountain National Lottery, via UK Sport, to Fencing improves mental agility: it 1990, as well as both the 2016 and 2017 passes, and deserts, via prepare its campaign for Rio in 2016. develops fast and accurate decision- races. In total, it Peugeot has 19 Dakar 15 stages of stunning Where some sports had their funding making under pressure. victories to its name, in cars as well as scenery and extreme raised and others saw it reduced by It is a lifelong sport which can be bikes, as well as 148 stage wins, making weather. a relatively small percentage, fencing taken up at any age between 7 and 70. it the most successful team of all. Now, it This legendary race shared its bad news of zero funding with Young fencers naturally have speed is completing testing for what it says will began in 1977 when Medals have however been relatively few archery, badminton, weightlifting and and agility. The age brings in better be its final race. Thierry Sabine got lost and far between in the sport since. The wheelchair rugby. anticipation, timing and tactical skills. The 3008DKR Maxi, specially built riding a motorcycle The noble art of painful statistic is that Britain has taken The 11 Olympic and Paralympic Ballet was initially based on fencing for the race, is powered by a 3.0-litre in the Libyan desert only one gold medal in the Olympic sports ‘thrown under the bus’ in funding steps and positions while modern boxing twin-turbo engine. It has been widened during the Abidjan- fencing ‘ ’ is a sport struggling for fencing since the very first modern cuts last year did have a positive meeting matches started as a substitute for by 10cm on each side to help stability, Nice Rally. He returned to France the race was moved to South America, hours of LeMans victories, and to this Games in 1896. That went to Gillian with UK Sport chair Katherine Grainger fencing bouts! while the suspension has had “detail captivated by the landscape, promising to already the setting of the Baja 1000, an day, its 905 holds the record of the fastest recognition Sheen, a 28-year-old dental surgeon in August. It follows a campaign they improvements” to help drivability. share his fascination with as many people equally demanding, though much shorter car ever on the Mulsanne Straight. It also ’ By Owen Fulda from London, in the foil in Melbourne launched in June to challenge UK Sport s Dream Fencing runs a seven week Currently, the car has been testing in as possible. He came up with a route that race. Each stage of the rally covers 500- still has held the Pikes Peak hill climb in 1956. ‘no compromise’ approach to funding. beginners course at its branches in Morocco, Portugal, and France and has would take competitors from Europe, 560 miles a day, making it a real test of record since 2014 when Sebastian Loeb But how many people in the UK They would like to see a “tiered support Fulham and Richmond at a cost of £100. covered more than 18,000 km (11,250 continuing to Algiers, across Agadez, car and driver alike. broke the 9-minute barrier, running in Fencing has a proud Olympic tradition actually take part in fencing on a regular structure” that would guarantee every Go to www.dreamfencing.co.uk/ miles) in preparation. But changes to the before concluding in Dakar. “A challenge While many manufacturers have just 8 minutes and 13 seconds. in the UK dating back over one hundred basis? British Fencing has almost 10,000 Olympic and Paralympic sport a base- en/pages/where/dream-fencing-club- rules will not favour it. As its competitors for those who go,” he called it, “a dream had success in this race, few have had All of this makes it more of a shame years to when our men’s épée team won members while roughly 25,000 more take level of funding. fulham get lighter, the Peugeot has become for those who stay behind.” as much as Peugeot. But its motorsport that it has decided to bow out of racing consecutive silver medals in the 1908 part recreationally. There are in the region The irony is however, that UK fencing Or call 07581 782 848 for more heavier, though it has been given leeway In 2008, due to political instability accomplishments extend well beyond in Dakar. It will be a while before any London and 1912 Stockholm games. of 400 fencing clubs in the UK and the may actually be more primed for an information. in other areas. and fear of terrorist attacks in Dakar, Dakar. In the 1980s, it claimed two 24 other team can catch up. 62 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Crossword, Classified & Bridge Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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(4) Photograph of Jan Timmans © Barry Martin 9 10 technological advances, and the player, and the same I C E P I C K T R A V A I L 31 I judge when cross. (5) world before the storming of goes for Viswanathan Anand, Vesilin the one who had captured the public’s P E V I A N S A 32 Difficult if the Shard lost its point. (4) 30 31 32 T ’ ’ 11 12 our mental barricades by the computer, Topalov, and of course Magnus Carlsen . (world s) imagination more than anyone P O T T A G E G E T A W A Y are Jan Timman’s recently published Of the included players, Alekhine is else’, and holds little back about the L L R E A O S 13 14 15 book which has won the English Chess the only player Timman never personally inner machinations that propelled E L E V E N S E S C O R F U Down Federation’s Book of the Year Award, knew, having died 5 years before the world chess, ‘in those days before the A E L K I ’ 16 17 18 19 1 French instrument initially heard on entitled, Timman’s Titans: My World Chess author was born. Neither did he play computer . The fact that Timman was N U M E R A L T R A N S I T ’ ’ Radio Norwich. (4) five. (7) Champions, and Google s Deep Mind against Euwe, Botvinnik or Fischer, but there playing in the world s top chess O I T O R 7 Herb left after the lid was put up. (4) 20 21 22 23 24 2 Frilly skirt made of our fur? (8) and latest AI GO-playing program, played many hard fought games against tournaments and winning against the T A S E R O L D M A S T E R 14 Your aunt's brother in America? (5) 23 Every direction said to be forever. (6) 3 Acute one may be grave if spoken with AlphaGo Zero, which trained itself to the remaining 6 World Champions, and best, at the time when world chess was E Q U K I E E 16 Basket put credit to fish. (5) 25 Head south over time and again 25 26 27 this. (6) B R U M M I E C Y N I C A L 18 Drainage required to be cultivated for tenderize. (6) play GO, ‘from a blank slate’ and after 3 gives fully annotated games from these dominated by Russian and Eastern bloc O O P R K O H A 4 Fail men that hold illness. (7) this flower. (8) 27 Female horse shuffled five hundred days trashed AlphaGo with 100 encounters. countries gives his book a uniqueness 28 29 5 Hawk in married description of pitiful 20 Extreme silly with path in middle of pages. (4) consecutive wins to zero. AlphaGo the He discusses colourfully the many beyond most others covering the period. O N T H E G O E G O T I S T ’ K E T N Y K E E person. (8) my solace (8) 29 Bunch of firewood may be held previous Google AI program famously different facets of the protagonists He was one of the very few Western 6 Garden entrance with French cake. (6) 21 Reportedly fragile period any one of together by it. (4) beat Lee Sedol, the South Korean playing strategies and their even more players able to compete at this level and grandmaster and world champion in colourful personalities. Into this mix at that time. I have personally always 2015. DeepMind, London states that Timman drops some of the lesser thought highly of Timman, having had CLASSIFIED ADS Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates this advance in the learning process is known ‘secrets’ that have attended many a warm encounter with him on KCW Today ‘ with Andrew Robson profound with applications across the world play. 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(6) Two of the “five aces” (including ♥K) plus♥Q. decisive games) was the 22nd ECCW Of Jan Timman s book,Timman s Swift Tournament in 1989, a Bessel Kok Answer upside below. .

’ 1-0 Qc3,Qa4.27.Qxf6,Qd1+.28.Bf1...

(7) Is this right? (see text) tournament. NONA Batumi, Georgia, Titans: My World Chess Champions, publ. production,where Kasparov s mentor first constructed in 1865 Rf1,Ne8.24.d6,Kg8.25.Rxf6,Nxf6.26.

were the top seeds and despite an early New in Chess, The English Chess and regular second Nikitin is highly Pimlico/Westminster 22....Qa6.23. King! Black the to pinned

South’s actual choice of 6♥ seems reasonable, but West found the devastating defence relapse in round 2 went on to score Federation judges said that, “What lifts visible at the big party on the evening completely refurbished is that f6 on Rook Black the onto

of leading ♣A and following with a second ♣. East ruffed; down one. 11-14 and won the cup on tie breaks. this book is the grandmaster author’s before the last round, plying Tal with

close to Thames restaurants After four rounds of bidding, South knew his partner’s hand very accurately and They were also the 2014 and 2015 affectionate and intimate descriptions copious amounts of liquor. ‘It wasn’t attack the up opens importantly and

and cinema www.leaandsandeman.co.uk/ should have counted the tricks available to his side. His partner’s hand was known to winners. Odlar Yurdu, Azerbaijan of the personalities of the world hard to guess what was going on.... also but Queen, Black the attacks d5!...

Ideal for professionals Fine-Wine. be of the type: ♠Axxx, ♥Qxx, ♦x, ♣Axxxx (or better, given his jump 3♥). South could came 2nd and Bossa Nova, Belarus, champions”. Kasparov beat Tal quite easily the next 20.....fxe4.21.Rxf6,Rxf6.22. win! decisive 106 Kensington Church St, a to leading ultimately favour White's

count twelve tricks, and should have bid the twelve trick contract that avoids the risk 3rd. The ECCT was initiated to allow The book has 10 chapters, each day. Kasparov drew with Ljubojevic in London, W8 4BH. in centre the loosens which and Black

of the opponents trumping; 6NT. This contract would have made easily by flushing chess club teams from all European devoted to a World Chess Champion, the overall competition, but had to beat T: 07749 648 356 T: 020 7221 1982. by unexpected entirely was that sacrifice

out ♣A early. countries, both East and West, to meet from Alexander Alekhine to Garry Tal to do so!’ Timman’s chapter on ; 19.Nxf6, Bxf6.20.Nxe4!,... a a Bxf6.20.Nxe4!,... 19.Nxf6, ; E: [email protected] Contact Sandor. Answer ANDREW’S TIP: When partner has revealed his hand very accurately, play the on a regular basis and compete for the Kasparov, with Euwe, Botvinnik, Tal is both adulatory as a chess player hand in your mind during the auction in order to choose the final contract. coveted title of European Club Chess Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, and World Champion, ‘... he had been 64 November 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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