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constituencies). So why is the President every householder registered to vote part of the democratic fabric. elected by a college system where the every week or every month on local As it stands, it feels to me, as if both Parliament vote is weighted according to a state’s matters. Referenda would become more the United States of America and the Squared population? What about a third way, the commonplace. Petitions would become UK are facing inwards to the past. by Derek Wyatt most votes? The UK is no better. The Conservative Government elected in 2015 won 36.9% of the popular vote whilst Labour won 30.4% but the seat We are coming to the end of allocation was 331 to 232. In fact most of 20th century politics. our governments have never won 50%+1 of the vote. This is simply unfair. onsider. In America (see table) If we are to modernise the state we you have to raise from wealthy need to start with its election system. I supporters at least $1billion to retained my seat in Parliament in 2005 fight the Presidential election. If you by 79 votes after three recounts. How Matthew Berzun Charles Rivkin C win, they are richly rewarded. Trump, could I legitimately claim to represent unlike any other president before him, the whole constituency if I did not Donor Name Position Money foreclosed on all Obama’s appointments command 50%+1 of the overall vote? donated on the actual day of his coronation. Not It was unfair. It is time we moved to a Matthew Berzun Ambassador to UK $3,503,080 the end of the week or the end of the better system. Ambassador to Sweden month, to give him time to consider who A Martian looking down on the UK he should appoint, but on the day. He today would wonder how on earth one Charles Rivkin Ambassador to France $2,562,400 cleansed the stable. part of the two houses which pass Acts Assistant Secretary of State Very rich men, largely men, are now of Parliament is unelected. This brings Kirk Wagner Ambassador to Singapore $2,330,000 winging their way across the world to a huge shame on us. Efforts to properly $2,328,500 become Ambassadors in US Embassies modernise the House of Lords have Alan Solomont Ambassador to Spain with no experience in foreign affairs. failed stretching way back to 1906. Now, John Roos Ambassador to Japan $2,030,150 This is how it works in America. Is there we also have elected mayors bulldozing Nicole Avant Ambassador to Bahamas $2,008,550 no opposition in the land of the eagle to their way into our unwritten constitution. Eileen Chamberlain Ambassador to the UN $2,000,625 the way in which power is dished out like We do not need a parish council, a a deck of cards? Apparently not. borough council, a county council or a Donahoe In America, the President can be unitary authority. In this age of always on Don Beyer Ambassador to Switzerland $1,733,169 elected by just on 23% of its population communication we need to bring an end Don Gips Ambassador to South Africa $1,547,100 eligible to vote. In the land of the to county councils and borough councils Howard Gutman Ambassador to Belgium $1,541,050 internet this is simply undemocratic. and just have unitary authorities and America has lost the right to lecture the upgraded parish or village councils. Cynthia Stroum Ambassador to $1,481,487 world on the subject until it reforms its I live in Pimlico and have lived in Mark Gilbert Ambassador to New Zealand $1,429,750 Constitution. Hillary Clinton won the Dalston and Crouch End. These villages Eisen Ambassador to Czech Republic $1,264,900 popular vote (48% to 45.9%) but not the have no say over anything. Power belongs $1,136,613 Presidency. This looks odd this side of to the boroughs. In Westminster this has Bruce Oreck Ambassador to Finland the pond. resulted in uglification, beginning with Bob Mandell Ambassador to Luxembourg $1,121,250 There are already two elected houses a monstrosity called Millbank Towers Bill Kennard Ambassador to EU $1,052,405 in Congress; the Senate (2 per state and ending with whatever the Candy Denise Bauer Ambassador to Belgium $1,024,687 irrespective of the size of the population) Brothers are being allowed to put on the Beatrice Welters Ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago $1,019,323 and the House of Representatives old Chelsea site. (members are elected to districts like our The Internet of Things would allow Bill Eacho Ambassador to Austria $950,718

Concern about how the new runway can be built without breaching the Government may UK’s carbon targets has been building since Theresa May’s government gave ignore their own the scheme the go-ahead in October. Transport department documents © Charles Heddon Photograph climate advisors published at that time suggested aviation on Heathrow’s third runway emissions would be 15 per cent higher By Max Feldman than 2005 levels. In response the committee’s chair (Conservative peer Lord Deben) warned that emissions would have to be cut from other sectors in order to make up the distance. Newly published letters show that However a Department for Transport the UK Government may ignore the spokesman claimed the ministry Committee on Climate Change (CCC), agreed with the Airports Commission’s its official advisor on climate, and allow assessment that a new runway at emissions from aviation to soar at an Heathrow could be delivered without expanded Heathrow airport, relying this cap is maintained. Writing to a “carbon-traded scenario” involving breaching the Climate Change Act, on making up the difference through the Commons’ environmental audit a “future global carbon market”. This which requires emissions to be cut by purchasing widely condemned “carbon committee, transport secretary Chris directly contradicts the CCC who at least 80 per cent from 1990 levels by offsets” Grayling claimed that ministers “have have made it their policy that aviation 2050. The current planning assumption not taken a view on whether to accept” pollution should be controlled without “The commission considered several from the CCC would cap emissions the committee’s advice and went on to the use of international carbon credits, ways in which aviation emissions could at 2005 levels and limit the growth in note that a potential way of dealing with or paying for emission cuts in other be tackled. The government remain the aviation sector to 60% to ensure the skyrocketing aviation emissions is countries. open-minded on this issue,” he said. 4 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

First direct Royal Trinity Green Investment Strenuous efforts are made by freight train Hospice Trustee Bank Sale Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster from China to London By Polly Allen Today newspaper to ensure that By Natanael Mota Chair to Retire the content and information is correct. Kensington, Chelsea & As part of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s, Westminster Today newspaper One Belt, One Road plan to revive the The proposed sale of the government- reserves the right to report ancient Silk Road, the first direct train owned Green Investment Bank has been to London departed the Chinese city of the subject of a House of Commons unsolicited material being sent Yiwu on January 3 to arrive to London’s debate and widespread press speculation, through to the publication. amid fears it may be sold to Macquarie, Barking Eurohub freight terminal 15 Personal views expressed in this days later. an Australian investment bank. This conveyance has the advantage of Privatisation of Green Investment newspaper are solely those of the being cheaper than air cargos and faster Bank was announced in June 2015, respective contributors and do not than sea routes. With China being the driven by then Business Secretary, Sajid biggest exporter in the world, London Javid. However, it wasn’t until October reflect those of the publishers or has become the 15th European city to 2016 that Macquarie was touted as a its agents. All materials sent to join. potential buyer; a UK consortium fronted Kensington Chelsea & Westminster On January 19 Xi Jinping defended by SDCL (Sustainable Development Capital LLP) is another contender. Today are at the suppliers’ risk. globalisation and free trade at the World Derek Wyatt is set to retire in July 2017 However, the Green Investment Bank Economic Forum; China is the largest after six years as chair of Trustees at the Reproduction in whole or in part could be floated on the stock market exporting country in the world at the Royal Trinity Hospice. in an IPO (Initial Public Offering), of this publication is strictly moment. He helped secure Trinity's Royal something SDCL’s chief executive has name, starting the William Hoare prohibited without prior consent. agreed is “feasible and attractive once the annual lecture series and most recently The appearance of advertising in GIB’s portfolio has been built out”. originating the idea for the London Politicians opposed to the bank’s this newspaper, including inserts or Hospices Choir featuring song ‘The sale include Sir Vince Cable (former Living Years’. supplements, does not constitute Secretary of State), Michelle Thomson Derek has championed the adoption (MP for West) and Caroline endorsement by Kensington, of digital technology across the hospice.

Photograph © The Belt and Road The © Photograph Lucas (Green Party co-leader and MP Last year, he helped Trinity’s work with Chelsea & Westminster Today of the for Brighton). Thomson’s Commons the Royal College of Art and Harvard products or services advertised. debate, held on 25th January, emphasised University, leading to award-winning their cross-party concerns. digital design project, ‘Normalising Clive Lewis, Labour’s Shadow Death’. Business Secretary, has referred to Derek said “It has been a privilege Macquarie as “a -known asset and a joy to be the Chair of Royal Trinity stripper”, whilst Caroline Lucas spoke Prolific South Hospice over the last six years... Trinity of Macquarie’s “dismal and terrible will always have a special place in my environmental record”. Kensington heart." MPs want to see future profits from the Green Investment Bank ploughed architect’s last back into the UK economy. Since its launch in 2012 by the Coalition house New laws on Genetic analysis government, the Edinburgh-based bank discovered by local in planning has used £2.7bn of capital to access permission row corporate liability finds British roughly £12bn in funding. This has supported 98 green energy initiatives, By Ione Bingley discussed DNA is not so including wind farms, biomass projects By Natanael Mota and a Green Loan to Barking and Towering and historic with a unique British after all Dagenham Borough Council for low triple aspect and turret, 37 Cranley By Polly Allen LED bulbs in streetlights. Gardens marks the southernmost The UK government is discussing new entrance to London’s ‘second Belgravia’, laws increasing corporate liability for A major study of British ethnicity and South Kensington’s fiercely conserved individual fraud, false accounting and genetics has found the average UK 19th Century Smiths’ Charity estate. money laundering. This draws a parallel resident is only 37% British, or Anglo Residents including Robert Hughes to US regulations that enable corporate Saxon, claims AncestryDNA. had been fighting plans for the conviction even if unaware of criminal Following microarray-based construction of a modernist building activity by individual staff. autosomal DNA testing, it emerged including a large next door, “Corporate economic crime that Yorkshire is the most genetically believing it would be unsuitably undermines confidence in business, British area of the UK (41.17%). East sandwiched between this gateway to the distorts markets, and erodes trust,” said Midlands has the UK’s largest portion estate and potentially pose a threat to Justice Minister Oliver Heald. The of Scandinavian DNA (10.37%), and the pristine terrace of Georgian, listed move is backed by Theresa May and Wales has the most from the Iberian residences. consultation will run until March 24. Peninsula (3.24%). Furthermore, the £ Hughes following his own line of Earlier last year, research from average UK resident is 36.94% British research discovered that 37 Cranley PwC found that more than half of UK (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celtic) and Gardens was in fact the last house businesses reported economic crime 19.91% Western European. designed and built by the prolific in the last two years. The number of Many of the results point to London architect Charles Freake, the reported economic crimes among British geographic immigration patterns, such man responsible for shaping much of the businesses rose from 25% in 2014 to 55% as the 1.31% Finnish or Russian DNA South Kensington that we know today, in 2016. found in Scottish participants. £ including Britain’s most expensive street 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Eaton Square. the “perfect storm, losing tariff-free He hopes his surprise discovery will access to vital European markets while bolster the case for the protection of being undercut by imports from the US the environment from an “alien-looking and elsewhere” where he claims there neighbour”. are “lower animal welfare and food Kensington Society’s Chairman standards”. Delso © Diego Photograph Amanda Frame agrees there are no The imposure of potential tariffs in apparent grey areas to dispute the claim. excess of 30 percent for access to the “Freake’s career is very well recorded EU market are particularly worrying because he shaped so much of 19th for British sheep and dairy farmers Century London, but his building who currently export 90 and 80 programme had not been previously percent of their produce respectively linked to the time of his death in to the EU, according to the Commons 1884. Having pieced it all together, 37 Environmental Audit Committee. and holidaymakers, as part of a £2bn Cranley Gardens appears to be his final The National Sheep Association has investment. construction,” said Frame. publically expressed concerns that the Stonehenge The transport secretary said the Government was taking away the sheep could enhance the Stonehenge industry’s biggest export market “with no tunnel site by removing traffic. The concept has clear plan for how to replace it”. that could cause ‘irreparable been backed by its custodians, English NFU Cymru and the Farmers’ Union damage’ to the standing stones Heritage and the National Trust. The of Wales agreed that with 30 percent of 1.8-mile (2.9km) tunnel will run as part lamb currently being exported to Europe, receives go ahead of a 7-mile stretch of the A303, making “unfettered access” to the market would By Max Feldman the road a more effective link to the M3 be crucial for the sector to survive. and the M5 and speeding up journeys to Concerns have also been raised about Photograph © Roger Hughes © Roger Photograph and from the south-west. However the access to the seasonal European migrant plan is not without its detractors: Dan workers that UK farmers currently A tunnel is to be built under Stonehenge Snow, the president of the Council for rely on. The referendum and recently under plans announced by ministers, in British Archaeology, likened the plans to weakened pound have already seen a move that will reignite the controversy vandalism destroying ancient artefacts. the source of workers begin to dry up over improving major roads around the “We have recently started to realise that and many are worried that the trend is ancient site. the standing stones are just a beginning. set to continue unless the government Chris Grayling said he was taking a They sit at the heart of the world’s most implements a scheme to encourage “big decision” to transform the A303, one significant and best-preserved stone- workers from countries outside the EU, of the main arteries to the south-west age landscape. The government’s plans like Ukraine. and a notorious bottleneck for lorries endanger this unique site,” Used to weathering hard times, most British farmers appear to be stoic in the face of a bleak future. However, some see an opportunity for Britain to take back control of its farming regulations, Brexit: A shorten ever-lengthening supply chains and to give vital support to new and disaster or an small-scale farmers. “For too long, a bureaucratic system opportunity for which tries to meet the needs of 28 countries has held farmers back,” said UK agriculture Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs By Ione Bingley secretary Andrea Leadsom. “But now, leaving the EU means we can focus on what works best for the United Kingdom.” The Brexit negotiations present A Brexit of any outcome will result in a a crossroads for the British farming break from the subsidiary and regulatory industry, a turn outwards in favour Common Agricultural Policy. This of importing cheaper food produce will give the British government the from trade deals struck with large opportunity to take farming regulation scale farming countries, at the risk of into their own hands, but many are undercutting British farms, or a turn concerned that new trade deals will put inwards, using the reduction in EU British farms at risk. restrictions to promote homegrown EU subsidies currently account for produce and millennial farmers, at the 50 to 60 percent of UK farm income risk of higher prices in store. and while the government has pledged to match the £3.5 billion a year going to farms until 2020, what will happen after that remains unclear. Farmers have also expressed concern following Prime Minister Theresa May’s Photograph © Matt Facione Photograph Brexit briefing last month about the potential damage to their business from leaving the EU free market, as well as the threat of cheap foreign imports due to May’s push for international trade deals. 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the largely pro-remain audience at secures the identity of the informer so Summary of Davos of Britain’s desire to “act globally”, Hard Brexit: that they would not keep silence out of encouraging free markets, trade and Banks drift to Frankfurt, fear, although they can choose to reveal Davos talks globalisation. “We are a European their identity if they wish to do so. The By Natanael Mota country, and proud of our shared Dublin, New York administration will commit to resolve the European heritage, but we are also a By Natanael Mota cases in a maximum of six months. country that has always looked beyond It is not intended for corruption Europe to the wider world,” she said. cases involving the city council alone, As banks with stakes in the UK set but for the businesses working for the plans for a hard Brexit signalled by May administration as well. earlier this 17th of January, London Mayor Sadiq Khan reassured Wall Street Theresa May's “Global Britain" speech n January the World Economic names that London was still open for in January confirmed government plans forum gathered in Davos, business, echoing chancellor Phillip to leave the EU single market. Switzerland. Hammond’s remarks, “nobody wants to The finance industry has been the Domestic 50 state leaders were among the 3000 see Britain pulling up the drawbridge”. most direct in estimating the number I of jobs they may move from London present, the most noteworthy appearance Critics of the exercise say this means violence in being that of the first Chinese president banks are no longer on Britain’s “naughty operations to keep trading with EU to attend, Xi Jinping. His inauguration step” for market manipulation and ‘passporting’ rights. Russia keynote signalled Beijing's desire to take financial irresponsibility. According to Bloomberg, Standard By Marina Leiva the lead in international trade. Donald European Parliament President Chartered Plc and Barclays Plc are Trump who didn’t attend the WEF, has Martin Schulz said that European heads thinking of moving base to Ireland. also signed an executive decision to repel of state used Brussels as a scapegoat, Ireland has lower tax, similar laws Russia is considering an amendment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, in line failing to tell their citizens that they to Britain and its English speaking. its current domestic violence law. Under with Trump’s objectives of focusing in were responsible for the decisions made Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Citigroup the new legislation ‘moderate’ violence America. there. “This double game is destroying Inc. and Lloyd’s Banking Group Plc are will not be criminalised. Meaning that China is also exerting political the European spirit...What happens reported to favour Frankfurt, already unless there are serious long lasting leverage by calling for action on ... happens on the basis of a treaty that the home of Deutche Bank AG, the injuries that require medical attention, the Paris agreement (with the first was ratified by all 28 member states of European Central Bank and BaFin, a a fine will be placed instead of jail signatories being Jinping's and Obama's the EU.” Europe will also see two other derivatives trading regulator. sentences. Although, if there are two administrations) and its aggressive major political events in 2017; elections Lobby group TheCityUK estimates fines over one year the case could go to pursuit of green technology; aiming in France and Germany. 35,000 large bank jobs may be relocated. court. to invest $360bn on solar and wind The WEF also covered ‘fourth Major banks UBS, Morgan Stanley, This new law will be applied to all energy sources by 2020. The New industrial revolution’ issues, with Sergey Goldman Sachs and HSBC are family members, not only gender-based Silk Road initiative involving a more Brin from Google as one of the invited considering moving around 1000 jobs violence, but also harm caused to children integrated Eurasia, consisting of 60% of speakers to discuss how job disruptions each, whilst JP Morgan's CEO Jamie and the elderly. Ultra-conservative MP the population, 75% of energy sources by technology could be managed. The Dimon said before the referendum it Yelina Mizulina is behind the proposal, and 70% of the world’s GDP, became ‘fourth industrial revolution’ includes could be 4000 jobs for his own firm. known for drafting the banning of ‘gay a hot topic in discussion of the current not one but a group of technologies Executives will likely still wait for the propaganda’ law as well. balance of global power. China has also built on the previous digital revolution results of this year's national elections announced a direct rail freight service to such as artificial intelligence, the in Germany and France before taking London and according to a report by the Internet of Things and 3D printing. a decision. Experts expect The City to WEF, railway freight costs will approach Bill Gates featured in an initiative by survive and adapt, whilst also looking out that of maritime options in the future, Norway, Japan and Germany together towards faster emerging economies. despite there still being much work to with the Wellcome trust and the Gates “The UK is the leading exporter of Germany posts be done. China has recently become the Foundation to fund $460 million for the financial services globally, generating world’s second largest economy, which Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness a record high trade surplus in 2015 6.2 billion euro according to the IMF, has contributed to Innovations (CEPI) tasked with giving a of $97bn (£77.5bn) … around 40 39% of world growth in 2016. fast response to outbreaks of contagious per cent of the UK’s trade surplus in surplus in 2016 British PM Theresa May informed diseases. financial services is with Europe, ” said By Natanael Mota TheCityUK’s director of policy and strategy, Gary Campkin. “However, over the next 10 to 15 years, 90 per cent of global economic Germany’s government has posted a growth is expected to be generated budget surplus of 6.2 billion euros in outside Europe and these markets – 2016, explained by a strong economy and developed and emerging – must be a low borrowing costs. priority focus for the country post-

Photograph © Scott Thurmond © Scott Photograph Finance Minister Wolfgang Brexit.” Schaeuble said the surplus can be used to pay back existing Government loans. The government is debating Schauble's proposal against raising public investment, as defended by the Social Democrat party. Corruption “Money that the citizens have generated should not be hoarded by Mailbox the Finance Ministry,” said SPD head By Marina Leiva Sigmar Gabriel. Bavarian conservatives have asked for tax cuts instead. German gross domestic product ’s Mayor Ada Colau will be grew 1.9% in 2016, with household and setting a ‘corruption mailbox’ up for government spending growing by 2% people aware of corruption practices to and 4.2% respectively. It is currently anonymously tip off the City Council. Europe’s largest economy and has seen It will be an online mailbox that economic growth seven years in a row. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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outh Africa and Burundi have flooding and low light levels has created indicated they will withdraw from ‘Perfect storm’ a “perfect storm” of poor growing the Hague-based International conditions. Criminal Court at the African Union’s for European vegetables S Bad weather in Italy and Spain is annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. raises prices expected to greatly increase the price of The move comes following mounting displeasure towards the International by Maysaa Jankara vegetables across northern Europe after Criminal Court voiced by several African vegetable wholesalers have been forced to leaders who see an unfair bias in Hague- import lettuces from the US. based court towards pursuing criminal The damage to the vegetable market actions against Africans. Terrible weather conditions across is especially worrying for Britain that All of the ongoing trials at the ICC Europe have seen the availability of imports 50 percent of its vegetables and involve African suspects and nine of the vegetables plummet and sent prices 90 percent of its fruits. Crops such as ten situations under investigation involve soaring. tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, and African countries. The combination of cold weather, peppers are among those affected. Burundi and South Africa have both lodged their intentions to leave the ICC with the United Nations, while former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has also started the process of pulling the According to data from climate Action West African country out of the court. Network and The World Bank, Poland, Germany and Estonia are the most However, current Gambian President Epps Tim © Photograph Adama Barrow has hinted at plans to polluting countries in the EU, with reverse the decision. regards to producing power. All three countries have a long history of coal dependent power production, thought to be the deadliest air polluter. According to data released by the World Bank, three of the world’s most polluting coal power stations are in Poland that, in 2013, generated 85 percent of its electricity from coal. Photograph © Scott Thurmond © Scott Photograph Despite their recent commitments to renewable energy, six of the world’s most polluting power stations are located in Germany, 8 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

Edward Herero and US visa-free US radar to Snowden’s stay Nama tribes residency for monitor North in Russia ignored Cubans ends Korea’s missile extended by three more years at Germany-Namibia By Max Feldman tests By Natanael Mota reparations talks By Natanael Mota By Natanael Mota

Namibian Herero and Nama tribes are A $900 million dollar radar installation suing Germany for reparations after their arrived at the end of January to monitor conflict in 1904 descended into the first missile launch testing of North Korea. genocide of the twentieth century. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un The suit was filed on January 5 in said in his New Year’s message that the New York under the Alien Tort Statute country was nearing a test phase for of 1789. It was only by July 2015 that (intercontinental) missiles capable of German foreign minister Frank-Walter reaching the U.S. Steinmeier issued political guidelines U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter referring to the killings as a “war crime said that "If the missile is threatening, it and genocide”. Earlier that same year will be intercepted. If it’s not threatening, dward Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly the German equivalent of the House of we won’t necessarily do so...it may be Kucherena, said the former NSA Commons, Bundestag, had unanimously more to our advantage to, ... save our employee will be allowed to stay in agreed to recognise the Armenian interceptor inventory, and, ... to gather ERussia for another three years until 2020. Genocide, leading to Turkey’s recalling of intelligence from the flight, rather Snowden can also apply for Russian their ambassador to Germany. [intercept a missile] when it’s not citizenship from next year, despite Rising tensions over unfair threatening.” his desire not to settle in the country. treatment of the pastoral tribesmen In the final days of the Obama Snowden has been living in Moscow by German colonialists led to a war in Presidency, the outgoing since 2013. 1904, ultimately resulting in the killing ended the 20-year-old ‘wet feet, dry foot’ President Obama commuted 209 of eighty per cent of Herero and fifty policy that allowed Cuban migrants who Yemen conflict sentences, the more so on his last days percent of all Nama in Namibia. Lead by reach US soil to become legal permanent as President, such as in the case of General Lothar von Trotha, over 100,000 residents after a year. continues Chelsea Manning who was imprisoned people died in the conflict with 3000 In exchange, Havana has agreed to By Natanael Mota and sentenced to 35 years in prison for skulls being sent back for phrenology start accepting Cubans who are turned leaking state secrets. studies. Historians now argue that away or deported from the USA. Many Snowden was not included in these killings may have been a prologue Cubans in the US argued against United Nations Yemen Humanitarian Obama's pardon list, and his leave to stay to the Holocaust. The first imperial the change, by saying Washington is Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick told in Russia was announced shortly after. commissioner of Deutsche Sud-West Afrika rewarding a regime which has failed reporters at a press conference in Sanaa Trump has publicly called Snowden a was Dr. Heinrich Goering, the father of to address human rights concerns. that ‘estimates are that over 10,000 traitor and Snowden’s lawyers are trying Hermann and two of Joseph Mengele’s Thousands of other Cubans are people have been killed in the conflict to find asylum for him in the EU. teachers, Theodor Mollison and Eugen intercepted at sea every year by the US and almost 40,00 people injured’, as Fischer, carried out research on the coast guard before they can get a dry foot reported by Reuters. Herero. on land. Obama defended the change The conflict started in 2015 and Germany’s representative in the in policy by claiming that "With this is controversial due to the UK having Saudi Arabia deal, Ruprecht Polenz, said that only change we will continue to welcome exported 500 cluster bombs to Saudi reparations in the form of community Cubans as we welcome immigrants from Arabia between 1986 and 1989, some to invest in development are being discussed, not other nations, consistent with our laws." of which were reportedly dropped on direct compensations. “The expectations In a statement on state television, the Yemen. renewable of the negotiations were fraught with Cuban government praised the move Arm sales to Saudi Arabia are being such perspectives from the start”, he told as "an important step in advancing questioned in the US, the UK, France, energies German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. relations'' between the US and Cuba. and Spain, with civilian pressure to cease However it remains unclear where the trading. By Marina Leiva the relations between the two countries will go now, considering that President Donald Trump has taken a far harder The Gulf state’s plans to lean towards stance on immigration and shown a renewable energy sources comes along willingness to tear up previous policy with, as said by Oil minister Khalid al- agreements that he fail to meet his Photograph © Scott Riedle Photograph Falih, ‘significant investment in nuclear protectionist ideals. Until now, the so- energy’. called "wet foot, dry foot" policy applied It is linked to the country’s desire to solely to Cubans, tens of thousands move away from economic dependence of whom reached US soil last year, upon crude oil by 2030. including by land. Thousands of other By investing in alternative energy Cubans are intercepted at sea every year sources, Saudi Arabia could dedicate by the US coast guard before they can most of its crude oil production to get a dry foot on land. exports and less to domestic use. This Immigrants from other countries who all comes after the drop in oil prices led come to the US without a visa could be to the Organisation of the Petroleum arrested and deported. Exporting Countries which Saudi Arabia belongs to, agree on cutting down production in order to stabilise prices. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Holland will Secret EU report Trump’s First count all election claims Erdogan Days ballots by hand plotted purge By Max Feldman to prevent hacking before coup By Max Feldman By Max Feldman

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey A new president’s first hundred days in planned to purge opposition forces in office are all important in establishing the military before July’s attempted coup, the tone and political direction of according to a secret EU intelligence report. their term. It is traditionally when a The European intelligence contradicts the president’s power is at its highest with Turkish government’s claim that Fethullah Photograph © Geert Wilders © Geert Photograph Gülen, an exiled cleric, was behind the plot the perceived public mandate to enact to overthrow the Turkish government. the kind of bold sweeping changes The report by Intcen, the EU that would be deemed too much of intelligence centre, concluded that the coup a risk once they are more established was mounted by a range of opponents to in the role (and more concerned with Erdogan and his ruling AK Party. “The the consequences of plunging approval decision to launch the coup resulted ratings and catastrophic mid-term from the fears of an incoming purge. It is elections on their long term chances of likely that a group of officers comprising re-election). However the rules have Gülenists, Kemalists [secularists], been torn up by Trump’s still shocking opponents of the AKP and opportunists electoral victory. According to a poll by was behind the coup. It is unlikely that The Border Patrol also notes that "far Gülen himself played a role in the attempt,” Washington Post-ABC Trump entered the White House as the least popular fewer Mexican nationals and single said the report, dated August, 24, 2016. adults are attempting to cross the border In a blow to Turkey’s claims that Gülen incoming president for over four decades utch authorities will count without authorization, while far more masterminded the coup, the European with an approval rating of only 45%, a by hand all the votes cast in families and unaccompanied children are March’s general elections, intelligence report noted that his Islamist figure that Trump himself has blasted followers were weak in the Turkish army, fleeing poverty and violence in Central ditching “vulnerable” computer software on claiming that the polls are D which until last July remained a bastion “rigged just like before” (referring to the America." to thwart any cyber hacking bid, said of secularism. “It is unlikely Gülen really Beyond even immigration, Trump’s interior minister Ronald Plasterk. polls which placed Hillary Clinton as had the abilities and capacities to take such certain to win the presidency). central concern seems to be his war on Plasterk told parliament that fears over steps. There is no evidence that the army, the mainstream media, going so far as to “the vulnerabilities of the software” used [which] considers itself as of Regardless of potential media bias, it seems safe to assume that Trump refer to them as one of the “opposition by the country’s election committee Turkey as a secular state, and the Gülenists parties” in a tweet. More than any other does not have to be especially worried “had raised questions about whether were willing to co-operate with each other aspect of his presidency, this outright about besmirching his reputation and the upcoming elections could be to oust Erdogan. The Gülen movement is hostility towards journalists seems to very disconnected and somewhat distant as a result began his presidency with a manipulated”. mark Trump out as almost unique. Time from the secular opposition and Turkish welter of controversial executive orders He insisted in a letter to MPs that will tell if the sheer weight of controversy army,” the report said. ranging from the intensely controversial “no shadow of a doubt should hang over created by the new President will be According to EU intelligence agencies, immigration ban for citizens of seven the results” of the parliamentary polls, enough to force a more conciliatory the military coup began after reports of predominately Muslims nations to the which some analysts predict could result approach from Trump, or whether a “far-reaching purge” began to circulate re-activation of the heavily protested in a five-party coalition.On 15 March, in the days running up to the attempted governing via tweet will become the Standing Rock Pipeline. Trump has also the Netherlands are the first of a year seizure of power of July 15. The expected norm in a new and unpredictable thrown the presidency strongly behind of crucial elections in Europe which purge drew in secular opponents of America. will be closely watched due to the rise Erdogan and galvanised sections of the his flagship election policy of building a of far-right and populist parties on the military opposed to Erdogan’s policies of wall along the Mexican border, though continent. The far-right anti-Islam MP, intervention in Syria and against the Kurds. has radically changed his rhetoric by Geert Wilders, and his Freedom Party “Erdogan exploited the failed coup insinuating that it might end up being (PVV) have been leading the opinion and the state of emergency to launch an the US taxpayer who ends up paying for Iran ‘nuclear deal’ polls for months, leaving prime minister extensive repressive campaign against the the wall rather than Mexico who will be opponents of the AKP establishment,” said downsized Mark Rutte’s Liberal party (VVD) made to ‘pay’ via trade tariffs. the report, dated five months ago. “The Ironically illegal immigration By Natanael Mota trailing in second place. A polls aggregate huge wave of arrests was already previously on Wednesday predicted Wilders would prepared.” across the southern border has fallen Iranian president Rouhani dismissed emerge as the largest party with 27-31 dramatically in recent years. According Trump’s desire to stop the ‘Joint seats, with Rutte’s party gathering just to Customs and Border Protection, Comprehensive Plan of Action’, also 23-27 seats; both far short of the 76-seat 415,816 people were caught trying to known as the ‘nuclear deal’. One of the majority needed. Such an outcome would enter the US illegally in the fiscal year reasons he gave that it was not solely presage a period of intense haggling to that ended last September. Of those, signed by the US and Iran, but by Iran form the next government. 408,870 were caught trying to cross the and the five permanent members of the Dutch officials are already on alert southern border. That national figure United Nations Security Council, China, for signs of possible cyber hacking is less than half the 1.1 million people France, Russia, the UK, the US, plus Photograph © Gobierno de Chile Photograph following allegations by US intelligence caught on average annually between Germany. agencies that Russia may have meddled 1980 and 2008. Border Patrol said the Iran’s nuclear programme has been in November’s US presidential polls to trends in people seeking to illegally cross downsized and monitored by the help secure Donald Trump’s victory. The the border correlates with the trends International Atomic Energy Agency, in Dutch cast paper votes, which are tallied in apprehensions. Apprehensions of exchange several sanctions against the by hand locally. However, historically the Mexicans trying to enter the country country have been. This will allow them regional and national collation of vote illegally are near a 50-year low, according to sell $70 billion worth of oil instead tallies are done electronically. to a study by the Pew Research Centre. of $32. 10 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Statue & Blue Plaque

Minster, and he worked as one of five masons at the Minster. Myers proved Blue Plaque: himself to be talented and gifted, carving George Myers and sculpting in stone and brick and was

Image © Stephen McKay Image probably involved in restoration work. 1803-1875 At this time Myers met Augustus Pugin, an architect and designer, famous for his work on the Gothic Revival.They met again ten years later which was to be most significant. Meanwhile Myers set up as a builder In 1999 George Myers, Master Builder, in Hull, specialising in factories, mills was honoured by English Heritage with and terraced housing. He prospered a Blue Plaque at 131 St Georges Road, and formed a business partnership with STATUES Southwark, London SE1 6HY. Richard Wilson. They had a builders’s Myers is best known for his work yards in Carr Lane and Paragon Street with the architect and designer Augustus and a wharf where the River Hull Pugin. He executed many major works flows into the Humber. They built a for him including Southwark Cathedral. memorial for William Wilberforce and a Myers was one of Britain’s greatest workhouse at Loughborough. Master Builders and his output was In 1837 Pugin commissioned them prolific. to build St. Mary’s Catholic Church Little is known of 19th century at Derby. This was a turning point builders’ firms, their owners and in Myers’ career. He followed Pugin managers; they were seldom indexed and to London and settled in St Georges did not warrant death notices. However, Road, Southwark. They formed a close through various references it has been friendship and Myers executed many possible to form a picture of Myers’ life. major works for Pugin which included Records relate that later in life, Cathedrals in Newcastle, Birmingham, gave him back the coin and asked his he applied to be a Freeman of the Nottingham and Southwark. Myers was name. Later, seeing this man’s name Carpenters’ Company and also of the essentially Pugin’s builder. They had a Thomas Guy on a list of bankrupts, he paid off his City of London. He stated he was great understanding and waived contracts By Peter Scheemakers debts and set him up in business again. born in 1803, the son of George Myers He also gave generously to the refugees and formality between themselves. Pugin Guy's Hospital Whitesmith. This is the only record of from the German Rhenish Palatinate, was renowned for his controversial or ‘Poor Palatines’, as they were called. his birth. His father’s name appeared ideas on architecture and famous for his If immigration is a hot topic now, the in Hull Directories so it is assumed he design for the architect, Charles Barry’s veryone has heard of arrival of 13,000 Protestants on British grew up there. In the 19th century it was Houses of Parliament. He also had Guy’s Hospital, but what soil, en route to the New World, stirred a prosperous port and had a museum, wealthy patrons, including the Earl of of the man, Thomas Guy? up an intense political debate. theatre and a library. Schools were good, Shrewsbury. He was a bookseller who Peter Scheemakers was a Flemish but there are no specific details on Myers’ Myer’s partnership with Wilson made a fortune selling sculptor, who learnt his skills from his education. dissolved in 1844. Wilson struggled on Bibles imported from the Netherlands, father, Pieter Scheemaeckers, and who The Architect G.G. Scott employed but eventually was declared bankrupt. and also investing in South Sea stock worked most of his life in London. He Myers and his Autobiography states Myers and Pugin both exhibited at Eto the tune of £42,000, a company first worked on a monument to the that Myers was apprenticed to William the Great Exhibition of 1851 and Pugin involved in the Atlantic slave trade. He Duke of Buckingham with two other Comins, Master Mason at Beverley died shortly afterwards. was notoriously frugal, in spite of his Flemish sculptors, Laurent Delvaux Myers carved the enormous wealth and was accused of and Pieter-Denis Plumier. His most effigy on his tomb paying his workers low wages, which famous work is probably the William which had been was put about by a rival bookseller, who Kent-designed memorial to William designed by Pugin’s also accused him of not supporting Shakespeare in Poets’ Corner in son, E.W. Pugin. charitable works. He was in the Westminster Abbey, as well as the one George Myers, habit of snuffing out candles during of the poet, critic and playwright John by that time, was a conversation, for which he could not Dryden. He was very much a classicist leading contractor. see the need for light. As for supporting sculptor, a style which was popular with His two elder sons charities, he was inordinately generous. landowners and city merchants. The were his partners and He gave money to almshouses in brass sculpture of Guy was made ten Tamworth, his mother’s birthplace, a years after his death in 1724, and was the firm was known town who he represented in parliament most likely taken from his death mask. as Myers and Sons. from 1695 to 1707. During this period, It depicts him in a livery gown and He moved to a large he became a governor of St Thomas’ mounted on a Portland stone pedestal property in Hospital and built three additional of a later date, with four brass bas- Road and supported wards. He then set about building Guy’s relief panels. One has the dedicatory charities by attending Hospital, leaving an endowment of inscription, another a cartouche bearing Dinners and Balls. over two hundred thousand pounds in the hospital’s armorial bearings, with He died in his will. He also gave an annuity of £400 the motto dare quam accipere (give than 1875 of a stroke to Christ’s Hospital, as well as making to receive). The other two have scenes of and exhaustion and provisions for the poor and the sick, healing and charity, featuring the Good is buried at West and bequeathing money for the release Samaritan, and Christ at the Pool of Norwood Cemetery. and discharge of people imprisoned Bethesda. In another courtyard at Guy’s for debt. There is a tale that one day he is a statue of Lord Nuffield, a massive Augustus Pugin said was gazing at the river over London philanthropist and supporter of the of George Myers, Bridge, when a stranger, thinking he Hospital, who, by 1957, had given away “He was a rough was contemplating suicide, pulled him £57 million. diamond, but a real back and pressed a guinea into his diamond”. hand. Guy set the man’s mind at rest, Don Grant Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Wikileaks, Julian Assange, case. “Normally a case like this would take Front Line two to three years to put together, we did it in eight months,” said Miller. “Lawyers Courage in Canada, Australia, Singapore, the rest By Kate Hawthorne © Gina Miller Photograph of the world were in awe that we actually and Ione Bingley did it.” On January 24, 2017 Miller won the appeal by a majority of 8 to 3. “Whenever EU institutions make new laws, those new laws become part of usinesswoman, philanthropist and UK law. The 1972 Act, therefore, makes transparency campaigner Gina EU law an independent source of UK Miller made a name for herself, law until Parliament decides otherwise,” Band a few enemies, with her True and ruled Supreme Court President, Lord Fair Campaign in 2012. The campaign Neuberger. called for a Code of Ethics and 100% However, the court also ruled that as transparency on all fees and holdings in the Sewel Convention was not law, the an understandable and uniform format Government would not have to consult across the UK pensions and investment the devolved powers before triggering industry. Article 50. Her tenacity resulted in text being Before the ruling, Theresa May inserted into three EU directives aimed had announced that both houses of to protect investors from hidden costs parliament will vote on the Great Repeal and fees. These will come into force in Bill, which will incorporate the existing 2018 despite the UK leaving the EU. EU legislation into British law, and the They will require every single company final Brexit deal once it has been put to aggregate and publish a Total Cost forward. of Investing, one number, so savers and Due to the result of the appeal, MP’s investors can finally see what they are voted on February 1 2017, 498 to 114, to really paying. give May the power to trigger Article 50 Her motive and aim is to translate and get the Brexit negotiations underway. the world and dialogue of wealth Although the vote has seen divisions management investment into something unmaking of international treaties, bono, have got their normal case load, and appear in the major parties. comprehensive, transparent and without requiring the approval of I’m still doing my day job, we worked accessible for clients to relate to. This parliament. night, days, evenings and we filed on the Brexit terror resulted in her and her partner being This meant that May and her 28th July. I spent most of the summer, During both cases not one public recipients of the Moral Leadership City Government would have the power to as did my team, reading the case law. figure stepped forward to back Miller in Champions Award that is given to a decide which laws inherited from the EU I even tried to read a case from 1610 her claims. Miller believes that this was company or scheme which promotes over the past 43 years to keep and which on Royal Prerogative in old English, down to the fear of appearing against the high moral aspirations in the City. to throw out. as we prepared ourselves for what the referendum result. Once again Miller has thrust “For example they could decide: government would come up with,” said “There was a fear that descended her head above the parapet, this working hours, maternity pay, Miller. after the vote, that you can’t speak up time single handedly taking on the environmental laws, just by themselves Miller and her fellow claimants won against or have a civilized conversation British government over Article 50 without Parliament and, to me, that is the case unanimously on 3rd November about Brexit, everyone was so terrified in a landmark case that has seen the most dangerous place we could be as 2016 with the three High Court judges and fearful of being seen as going against our government obliged to include a country,” said Miller. in agreement. The Government appealed the will of the people” said Miller. Parliament in Brexit negotiations. Miller’s argument centered on the the decision and the case moved to the “And that fear is going to cripple The backlash of Miller’s work constitutional rule that the Government Supreme Court. us as we move forward because what saw her website for the True and Fair cannot change or take away rights we really need is great minds and great Foundation, which helps and encourages granted by Act of Parliament and since The Appeal hearts. We need people who are experts transparent donations to charities, an Act of Parliament was passed to join The Supreme Court case was and who have got real intellectual rigour hacked twice and her investment agency, the EU, an Act of Parliament must be unusual due to the high number of court to stand up and talk, but if they’re fearful, SCM Direct , lose business through effected to leave. applications of a similar nature in the then the solutions that we’ll end up with fear of association. She has had a £5000 “The Royal Prerogative ends where High Court and the strongest cases were will be very poor quality ones. So I will bounty on her head and threats to throw domestic law starts,” said Miller. “When allowed to join Miller’s case with her carry on as much as possible because acid in her face. Was it worth it? we joined the EU we enacted the 1972 as the Lead Claimant. Miller was now bad things happen when good people do Act of Parliament. That act gave all UK backed by the devolved powers of Great nothing.” Article 50 citizens rights and only Parliament can Britain. While there are some who feel that Prior to the Lisbon Treaty and take those rights away.” “The Government allowed us to Gina Miller has caused an unnecessary Article 50, there was no exit formula have a stronger case and be adjoined by delay in her forensic approach to the for a member state to leave the EU. R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and triggering of Article 50, there are With Article 50 came the clause that a exiting the European Union the Trade Union,” said Miller. many who believe without her front member state can leave in line with its Miller, unhappy with the idea of a The three devolved powers argued line approach our ability to maintain constitutional requirements. purely executive-lead Brexit, brought around the Sewel Convention that states, accountability in our country’s matters It was on this point that Miller her case against to the High Court and if Westminster were to make a decision would be further diluted. brought a case against the Secretary was appointed lead claimant by Lord that would detriment the citizens of that of State, David Davis, for Exiting the Levenson on the grounds that her case devolved power, then those governments Miller insists that, while she is keen European Union. was the most “fundamental” and on the would be granted considerable input into to return to a quieter life after the abuse In the instance of Brexit, Prime strength of her team. Represented by the debate. and stress she received during the case, Minister Theresa May’s interpretation Lord Pannick QC and nearly totally self- For the first time in the history of the saw Britain exiting the EU using a funded, Miller was given just ten days Supreme Court all 11 judges attended she will continue to use her voice and process decided upon by her executive to file the case with her lawyers from the four-day hearing, which attracted the experience to support matters she feels government by power of the Royal Mishcom de Reya. highest number of journalists and widest lack the integrity, evidence, ethics and Prerogative, which concerns the “Bearing in mind my team were pro television coverage since the founder of honesty that they deserve. 12 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

journalist still retaking the A-levels he failed the year before: me. The Crisis in the MARIUS BRILL’S As Adrian’s star rose, as it was almost inevitable that it would, we saw less of each other. First at The Tatler and then NHS can never MEMEING OF DEATH The Sunday Times. The last time I saw be resolved him work a crowd was at his wedding as long as Governments evade Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... to our present Home Secretary Amber Rudd. I only say that because I know he the real cause. would be proud of the name dropping. By Peter Burden were generally creamed from his His greatest kindness, and biggest ‘anonymous’ meetings; by far Chelsea’s lie, was when I was being considered for Gill and Brill most star-studded gatherings. Adrian’s a post at the Sunday Times. I’m sure it genius was his charm. From rockstars wouldn’t have happened if Adrian hadn’t to choirmasters, a glittering cast rung the editor and said “He’s the best The parlous state of the mighty NHS would come after the Sunday morning writer I know.” has become a recurring and growing he time-bomb of substance abuse, meetings, enchanted by his relaxed wit, The next time we met up I thanked news item in Great Britain over the even when it was no more than his ability to put you at your ease and him. “It wasn’t exactly high praise,” last thirty years. As it is perceived at the youthful folly, finally caught up to make you laugh. Some were clearly he said, “you know I’ve got absolutely moment, it has an insatiable appetite withT many of the brightest last year as swapping one addiction for this other crippling dyslexia.” for quantities of money which can never a long furrow of celebrities began their entrancement. Of course when Adrian announced be delivered. Successive governments gardening careers pushing up the daisies. One afternoon I looked around he had both cancer and proposed to have been too timid to challenge the real But of all those beautiful and clever the table, which included at least two Nicola, I was hoping it was one of his reasons behind this insoluble impasse. things the one that hurt me the most was platinum selling pop stars and several spelling mistakes and he had actually They will not confront the fact that A.A. Gill. residents of Burke’s Peerage, and got a “racing car” instead. Or perhaps it people who make choices about their To many he was just the guy who declared that I wasn’t entirely sure if his was one of his poor taste jokes. But it behaviour, whether it’s binge drinking or did the funny restaurant reviews and commitment to meetings wasn’t more was that trusty, ever ready, cynicism that mountaineering, engaging in equestrian the acerbic TV commentaries for The about networking than battling demons. immediately pointed to the truth: there’s sports or smoking consistently dangerous Sunday Times. For a plethora of others he “You’re too young to be so cynical.” no inheritance tax on property passed to quantities of tobacco; activities which was all that was wrong with privileged Adrian chided me. a spouse. Adrian was dying. significantly increase the likelihood poshos, a crass, merciless, hateful man “And you’re not cynical?” I protested a I wrote to him, begging for him to of their calling on the intolerably who was as willing to mock the weak and little petulantly. tell me I was wrong, that it was just my overstretched resources of the NHS, vulnerable as anybody else. Personally “No,” Adrian replied archly, “I’m cynicism. should not be considered eligible for free I never stopped cringing at the endless experienced.” The silence was deafening. Barely a treatment. objectifying of his partner Nicola He was right. He had a knack for week after the announcement, he was The public’s idea of what it deserves Formby as “The Blonde”. And with a exposing phoniness. My cynicism, my gone. is unrestrained by any sense of self- clear predilection for intelligence and wit, willingness to see the worst in people Adrian wasn’t a brave journalist who determination or personal responsibility. maybe the hardest to comprehend was and wheedle out dark agendas, was a jumped in front of tanks, or a writer of A couple of tabloid papers have run his friendship with Jeremy Clarkson. But façade, a trick to make people think I was deep profundity, but he touched millions a story about a pensioner and his then again perhaps Clarkson is mostly a oldersmarterwiser than I was. But I was and worked hard to make sure every disabled wife from who have persona, in which case they had much in fresh out of school, he was fresh out of week he made them laugh, or angry, or been barred from their GP’s surgery common. rehab. disgusted or just think. And for that he on the grounds that they complain too A.A. Gill had a secret. He and Some of us were regulars at the table, deserves to be celebrated. “If there’s just much. Not enough detail is given to Adrian Gill were not exactly the same stars would came to twinkle, and I was one thing you should make the effort to show whether or not they are justified man. Adrian was a performer, and, as never less than a full fathom out of my do in an article,” he once told me “it’s to in their complaints (although most of an entertainer, he was one of the most league. I found myself being an Alan try and make someone laugh. At least the readers who commented online dedicated I have ever met. An actor Davies to his Stephen Fry. The idiot that once.” I always have. in the Mirror and the Express took beyond the scope of any from the only amplifies the shining light of the But now he’s gone I don’t much feel the view that they weren’t, and were RADA, I watched him gently create host. But then, I got to sit next to Lionel like laughing. obviously just idle, feckless moaners.) A.A. Gill when we were young, a Bart every week, who loved Adrian. Still, for you Adrian. It reminds me To some extent this perception was brilliant, compelling, raffish character, Think of it. The genius who wrote of the time I got arrested for stealing encouraged by photographs of the not and he committed to acting it every day “Oliver”! striking up a friendship with, helium balloons. The police held me for especially photogenic couple holding up for the rest of his life. Angry, bitchy, a part-time doorman and occasional a while and then they let me go. placards about limited disabled access to superior, a vile hobnobber who never airline flights, on the face of it, not the cared whom he insulted or hurt … responsibility of their GP. In fact Virgin, but everyone who knew Adrian would BA, even Ryanair make much of all that tell you he was something different, in they will do for anyone travelling with reality he was one of the most loving, big them in a wheelchair, which does suggest hearted, thoughtful and warm men you © Jonnohills Portrait that complaining is the default mindset could ever meet. of the couple. I first met him when I was a As a generally tolerant and puppy-excited 18-year-old, keen to compassionate nation, Brits habitually get into journalism. He was cool and defer to claims of alleged hardship by sophisticated in his late twenties and disabled people, which is as it should editing Artseen, an art magazine which be, but this doesn’t take account of the seemed to exclusively employ the significant minority who work their ex-inmates of Britain’s poshest drying disability (often self-inflicted by their out clinics. Though I fell short of the lifestyle choices) like a passe-partout, and employment criteria, he still sent me off demand that they have a right to almost to rip-up Rodin, argue with artists and anything they want. write for nothing. Regrettably, the perception of such My reward though was a seat at rights has been a growing menace among his table for Sunday lunches in Hasker the British public in general, particularly Street, with the great and the, well, where healthcare is concerned. Because trying to be good. 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itself as free at the point of delivery, pushed by NHS . health care has been turned into a de But according to the National facto ‘human right’ for many British; Health Action Party (NHA) the devil DUDLEY SUTTON’S and it is this, as well as the spectacular is in the detail of the exclusion clauses development in treatments and contained in the agreements patients subsequent demand for them, that has sign up to with these whizzo private GP I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT been gnawing away at the viability of the providers. “Once embarked on a private NHS. And yet, the public who are the route everything that follows, tests and single greatest cause of this decline are treatment, is private too. Lots of people never blamed. seem to see it as NHS queue jumping Klee/Clover Politicians do not have the courage to see the GP. Not so. It's the gateway from Walking A Line (Faber, 1994) by Tom Paulin to tell their electorate that their health to private healthcare,” says the NHA. is their responsibility, not the State’s. Doctaly charges people between £39 and Nightwatch after nightwatch £49 for a 15-minute GP appointment They dare not say candidly, and entirely Paul Klee endured truthfully that if people choose a sugar, during office hours and the cost rises to fat and gluten based diet, take no £69 for appointments out of hours, such ‘horribly boring guard duty’ exercise, drink excessively and smoke as before 9am and after 6pm. Doctaly at the gasoline cellar tobacco they will become ill, because the does not employ its GPs directly but and every morning takes a cut of their fee for their Doctaly idea that it is the state’s duty to salvage outside the Zeppelin hangar what they can from the results of this “pay to see GP” appointments. Patients self-abuse, and their right to receive as then pay for subsequent treatments they there was drill then a speech much as they need without paying for it receive. tacked with junk formulas has become unchallengeable. Patients choosing and booking he varnished wings Over to you Mr Hunt. an appointment through Doctaly’s website are asked to confirm they aren’t and stencilled numbers registered at the GP practice they next to gothic insignia choose. The BMA General Practitioners’ a private first-class Committee’s deputy chair Richard with lippy dislike Vautrey says that “the risk is a more fragmented service and patients having of their royal majesties remote consultations with doctors they and (Flying School 5 (Bavaria) don’t know and who won’t have full access to their NHS medical records.” he wrote home to Lily

peterburden.net It also prises patients away from their underfunded, overstretched GPs and it’s nice this spring weather into the hands of private competitors, and now we’ve laid out a garden www. rather than providing the proper public between the second and third runways funding their GPs need for their NHS the airfield’s becoming services. 650 GP surgeries have already been closed, merged or taken over since more and more beautiful 2010 and the Royal College of General Practitioners warns that up to a further each time a plane crashed Doctor! An 600 surgeries face closure by 2020. - and that happened quite often NHA’s Dr Louise Irvine is concerned NHS Uber GP that some GPs may be “tempted to fill he cut squares of canvas the holes in their funding, which is at from the wings and fuselage Service? an all-time low right now, by taking he never said why By John Furse on this (Doctaly) additional work. Dr but every smashed biplane Jackie Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee, says that looked daft or ridiculous the Doctaly scheme could “further halfjoky and untrue destabilise general practice…This sort - maybe the pilots annoyed him? A new app offers 24/7 medical of service is the slippery slope towards those unlovely aristos advice ‘in the palm of your privatisation of the NHS. It introduces the principle of topping up NHS services who never knew they were flying hand…so you can talk to a with purchased services if one has the primed blank canvasses GP when it suits you and your disposable income. If the more affluent into his beautiful airfield begin to do this in significant numbers, it family, wherever you are in the is only a small step to an insurance-based world.’. health service.” That’s because, by attracting more and is now the biggest cause of personal the cuts will amount to £40 billion, along The Babylon app allows patients to more of the public to privately provided bankruptcy in the US. “Don’t Get Sick with their ‘reconfiguring’ using private skip queues to see a GP, by allowing services and to private health insurance In America!’ will become ‘Don’t Get Sick ‘booking services’ like the Babylon app them to pay for medical care seven days schemes to cover their costs, this will In England!’. and Doctaly, is central to the breaking up a week. Supporters argue that the app, undermine the argument for universal In 1977 Thatcher pin-up Nicholas of what was once the cheapest and most which has been described as working taxation to fund the NHS’s provision Ridley declared to the Conservatives’ cost-effective public healthcare system like a ‘taxi booking service’, will take of universal, quality healthcare for all Economic Reconstruction Group in the developed world. NHS England’s pressure off busy GP surgeries and A&E regardless of income, a founding NHS “Denationalisation should not be current Sustainability & Transformation departments. Doctaly is another new principle. As in the US we’ll develop attempted by frontal attack, but by a Plans (STPs) for ‘reconfiguring’ a broken online ‘booking service’ who similarly a 2-tier healthcare system; a more policy of preparation for return to the NHS are intended to put it back together arrange same-day appointments with expensive, accessible private one for the private sector by stealth. We should again with the private sector pervasively NHS GPs charging for this private better off and a cheaper, less accessible fragment the industries as far as possible; embedded within it. This is the climax of provision of their services. Babylon and public one for the worse off, leading and set up the units as separate profit over 30 years of Ridley’s envisaged NHS Doctaly are part of a wave of hi-tech, many to put their homes at risk to pay centres.” The deliberate underfunding privatisation by stealth under both Tory DIY medical care initiatives being for their healthcare. Private healthcare of the NHS and GP services, by 2020 and Labour administrations. 14 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Environment Photograph © Biosci Thailand © Biosci Photograph

CDP in 2016. high carbon assets stranded,” said Erik Lucas, former Labour leader Ed The movement does appear to be Solheim, Head of UN Environment. Miliband, shadow frontbencher Clive Pressure on stock gaining traction with the commitment “The success of the Portfolio Lewis and former climate change exchange of 28 members to the UN Environment Decarbonization Coalition is a clear secretary Caroline Flint also signed the to recognise Finance Initiative’s Portfolio signal to both governments and letter. Decarbonization Coalition (PDC), who companies that climate change, and the Already facing the harsh reality of climate change risk control over $3 trillion in assets between corporate response to it, is critical to excess human emissions and quickly By Ione Bingley them and have pledged to decarbonise shareholder value and investor interests becoming a world leader in clean a total of $600 billion by designing going forward.” energy, the Chinese president Xi Jinping investment portfolios with a smaller In December, coordinated by announced at this year’s financial summit climate change impact. Labour’s shadow international climate in Davos, that China invested $88 billion “We are seeing significant change secretary Barry Gardiner, an in renewable energy in 2016. international collaboration among international alliance of 100 MPs from Also exploring other innovative ways leading asset owners to push on climate 34 countries wrote a letter to the world’s to fund their low carbon transition, The issues,” said Lance Pierce, President of stock exchanges to encourage them to People’s Bank of China has proposed the here has been mounting CDP North America and one of the factor in the financial risks of climate mandatory disclosure of climate-related pressure on the financial sector PDC organizers. change. financial risks as part of reforms to make to recognise and factor climate “Climate change is requiring Gardiner believes that transparency its banking system sustainable. changeT risk into investment ratings in a transformational changes in the economy measures must be put in place to The G20’s Task Force on Climate- move that would monetise the impact in order to safeguard assets and supply provide investors with the information related Financial Disclosures co-chaired of climate change, encourage corporate chains, and presents a significant to take into account environmental by former New York Mayor Michael environmental responsibility and economic growth opportunity. The developments and for the financial Bloomberg and Bank of England safeguard the global economy against US renewable energy sector employed markets to respond appropriately to such Governor Mark Carney has also destabilising climate-related issues. 769,000 people and the solar industry risks. recommended full and standardised Organisations like CDP, formerly the grew 12 times faster than overall job “The risks climate change poses to disclosure by companies and investors Carbon Disclosure Project, have been creation in 2015. Investors are realizing our financial systems are clearer than of financial risks and opportunities from lobbying for greater transparency from they can reduce carbon, reduce risk and ever. The world’s financial systems are climate change in a recent report of companies about their vulnerability to generate steady financial returns as well only just beginning to focus on the threat recommendations. climate change and their environmental as jobs.” to pension funds and other investors “The challenge is that investors impact in the hope that potential By withdrawing capital from carbon- from stranded assets and supply chain currently don’t have the information investors will use this information to intensive companies and technologies risks,” said Gardiner. to respond to these developments,” capitalise on sustainable development and re-investing that capital into carbon The letter calls on the stock Carney and Bloomberg co-wrote in and help to decarbonise the global efficient companies of the same sector, markets to “promote the adoption of The Guardian. “This must change if economy. investors provide a strong incentive for climate-related reporting guidance and financial markets are going to do what Backed by 830 institutional investors other companies to follow low-carbon disclosure for all listed companies under they do best: allocate capital to manage with assets of $100 trillion, CDP puts initiatives. [their] jurisdiction” and to “commit to risks and seize new opportunities. these insights at the heart of strategic “Investments with more carbon implement best international practice in Without the necessary information, business, investment and policy decisions. translate to higher risk, not just from reporting requirements for sustainability market adjustments to climate change More than 5,800 companies disclosed potential carbon fees or pricing, but also and climate-related risks”. will be incomplete, late and potentially environmental information through from shifts in technology that can leave Green party co-leader Caroline destabilising.” 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and inflation, and their translation into higher corporate revenue and stronger Franklin- Trump and the pricing power. It was also hoped that Christoph markets stocks would get a boost from higher By Max Feldman repurchase activity thanks to the policies Contra Mundum that encouraged companies to repatriate cash held abroad. All of this led to a © Franklin-Christoph Photograph surge for the dollar and yields for the US Treasury at a time when (going by both the mainstream and social media) because the pen is too short without it When Donald Trump managed to Trump’s imminent ascension seemed to (hence the term “pocket”). Not only does overturn all expectations to become the have the rest of the world ready to jump it make the pen feel different (and fun) but 45th President of the United States, off a cliff, financially things were looking hen, over forty years ago, it draws on the quality of the machined the initial reaction in the business surprisingly bright. my manic creative alter-ego acrylic (always fitting very neatly). world was markedly different from the The Dow jumped above 20,000 on James Douglas, tied to me histrionics that greeted the news in the Trump’s first week in office but fell back by bonds so strong, such that no opiate Praise for this innovative family company wider world. Trump’s acceptance speech below that psychologically important W level on Monday amid the backlash or antipsychotic can break (from bitter sits well in an article about tax, because at the Hilton Hotel on November was experience), began tentatively to write, he if it were a British company (rather than conciliatory in tone and notably pro- from Trump’s immigration policy. Going would get into mood by meditating on the American), it would attract possible use of growth in content. It calmed markets forward, investors want to know if the choice of pen; never realising that one day the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). that had been concerned about some of U.S. will remain a safe haven or if this that would provide the perfect introduction However it would be wise to read the his campaign rhetoric, especially when post-election dynamic will change. A lot depends on how thoughtful and to a sensible discussion on tax, and the small-print very carefully, because HMRC it came to the imposition of prohibitive sensitive Trump is in implementing iniquitous organs of state emanating from takes a most un-British, punctiliously import taxes on China and Mexico, the policies that might have knock-on the Treasury, in particular HM Revenue & negative attitude to detail. It’s worrying dismantling of the North American Free market effects and he has not done much Customs, and the insipid craven, clearly- that the courts don’t stand up to HMRC Trade Agreement and the cancellation of to build confidence in his lightness of about-a-mile-from independent, judiciary. and apply the concept of equity which bilateral trade agreements. Inspired by James’ conclusion to his I had thought was enshrined in our touch in regard to controversial issues. Having sold off sharply in the run-up Compendium article (October 2016) “go gloriously unwritten constitution; there The markets seems to be prepared to to the acceptance speech, Dow futures no further than www.franklin-christoph. have been some truly shocking decisions. give Trump more of the benefit of the erased an 800-point drop and the S&P com”, I picked up my brand new Franklin- Anyone who understands anything about doubt than many of his other critics, but 500 Index climbed off its limit-down Christoph 45 XLV Amber Michael the contribution of liberal enlightened this will only last so long. The markets level, starting what turned out to be Masuyama Needlepoint, which with the thinking to the development of British (US and elsewhere) are eager for the steel nib option is a helluva lot of pen culture will feel alarmed by the decision an impressive market surge that set reassurance that would come from a for £100. With mature technology like in Flix Innovations Ltd v HMRC. The records for the major indices. 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A the significant potential of the U.S. election. If on the other hand Trump individual nature of the range. Masuyama technical immaterial deferred element economy, bought risk-on assets such doubles down on an aggressive series of hand-grinds all Masuyama nibs himself, of the shareholding meant that HMRC as U.S. stocks. Concurrently, they sold trade wars and hawkish protectionism it’s and will redo the job (or anyone else’s nib) was able to withdraw EIS relief on the risk-off assets such as: Gold, Bonds, Yen entirely likely that the current economic for about £50 www.mikeitwork.com. grounds that Parliament intended the etc. Markets internalized expectations for merry-go-round might shift into Franklin-Christoph competes on price letter of the law to be applied. No it didn’t. policy-induced improvements in growth rollercoaster. and quality with the Mercedes of pens Parliament definitely intended innovation Pelikan. By offering steel nibs (every bit as like Flix’s system to be allowable for good as gold) you can get world-beating EIS. You may recall the much-discussed quality at entry-level prices. concept of immoral tax avoidance being The range of nibs is huge (including taxpayers taking advantage of loopholes 18 karat gold) emphasising that this is a that Parliament didn’t intend. You might writing instrument, a street-weapon of be forgiven for wondering where the Miller © John Photograph choice for the discerning tax accountant or fundamental concept of equity in law has music correspondent. gone, where the letter of the law is applied Quirky individual original styling does over the spirit. It should worry you that the not compromise traditional attention to courts are clearly rubber-stamping revenue detail which is exemplary. The 45 has its spin. And you might like the way the cap-thread below the nib section, neatly courts apply one rule for the taxpayer, and a disguised as a banding embellishment, so it quite different one for the revenue. EIS is a never gets in your way. great relief in theory. In practice you’ll find The build quality means that the it’s a great relief when you get it. translucent and transparent models make At least my feelings of righteous fabulous eye-droppers, flamboyantly indignation have been soothed by the splashing ink around the barrel, cartridge- pretty Franklin-Christoph with which I’ve free. The pen is delivered with a very pretty penned these thoughts. branded leather zippered case which you’d be wise to use if eye-dropping, although www.franklin-christoph.com neither of my Franklin-Christophs has ever www.mikeitwork.com blotted or leaked a drop. 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Financial Paper Weight By Max Feldman

rowing up in the modern world, one of the earliest concepts drilled into us is the inherent Gvalue of money. The belief in the fact that these pieces of paper and metal have a value dramatically greater than their constituent elements, is one of the central pillars that keep our civilisation viable, and it requires an unconscious cognitive dissonance to successfully pull this off. Whilst coins were initially made of precious metals such as gold or silver (valued by their rarity) the leap to physically valueless paper money was the moment when human concepts of economy and wealth began to shift towards the modern view point. notes from circulation, an In Europe banknotes originally served Paper bills were first used by the issue that was even further as glorified I.O.U.s rather than being Chinese, who started carrying folding compounded by the fact that viewed as currency in and of themselves. money during the Tang Dynasty (A.D. by the 14th Century paper This began to change around the mid 618-907) a full five hundred years before had been officially decreed the 17th century, however, when bankers it was adapted in Europe. Initially only only legal tender in China. began to issue greater numbers of notes used in the form of privately issued bills However, China soon fell than the total values of their reserves of credit or exchange notes, eventually victim to extremes of inflation; under the correct assumption that they paper currency had spread to such an in 1380, one guan was worth wouldn’t have to redeem all of their extent that even the coins traditionally 1000 copper coins but by 1535, issued banknotes at the same time. As placed over the eyes of the deceased were one guan was valued at merely these receipts were increasingly used in replaced with bank notes. Centuries later 0.28 of a copper coin. Naturally the money circulation system, depositors the traveller Marco Polo reported on something had to give and began to ask for multiple receipts to be how “This paper currency is circulated China’s panicking leadership made out in smaller, fixed denominations everywhere and no person, at the peril of eliminated paper money for use as money. The receipts soon his life, refuses to accept it in payment”. entirely in 1455 and wouldn't became a written order to pay the However just as Europe finally began In Europe such tales were met with adopt it again for several amount to whoever had possession of to realise the advantages of moving away disbelief and derision and Polo remarked hundred years. However they had still the note. These notes are credited as the from exclusively using coinage, China’s with amusement that whilst Western left their mark on the economic system: first modern banknotes. Whilst Chinese reliance on paper money had ironically alchemists had struggled vainly to the word “cash” was originally used to emperors were able to turn paper into led it to the brink of financial collapse. turn base metal into gold, the Chinese describe a form of currency commonly money, we’ve since used it to create the Bank notes were printed continuously emperors had simply turned paper into used in the Tang Dynasty, called kai- basis of our entire civilisation; not bad for with no effort made to withdraw old money. yuans. a stack of paper. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Legal online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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equivalent to 5 C-grade GCSEs to Level of the best in the world for all manner 7 which is Masters/Postgrad level) are of subjects. Or conversely it is perfectly likely to expand significantly over the acceptable that the relative isolation next few years as they become more from one’s peers at a key time for making familiar to employers, school leavers long-term friendships and connections Photograph © Royal Navy © Royal Photograph and (perhaps most crucially) to parents. that comes with an apprenticeship Currently the relatively low levels of 18 compared to a university experience is year olds in high level apprenticeship enough of a stumbling block to dissuade programs mean that they are far less a decent percentage of young people. competitive than equivalent university However the university experience is not courses. for everyone and every year hundreds A long held bone of contention of students who are not psychologically for students is that anyone studying suited to the realities of the self- humanities related subjects generally motivated and mostly unsupervised receive under six hours of student- nature of higher education drop out of teacher contact time a week in exchange courses that they were never particularly for their £9,000 a year fees, this stands suited or drawn to beyond a feeling that in stark contrast to the full work-day going to university was the expected monitoring that apprentices are subject next step for a young person in their to. Whilst waking up bright and early situation, rich or poor. In coming years every day for work might have been this number should hopefully decrease viewed as akin to a forced labour march as the idea of taking an apprenticeship on some campuses ten years ago, 2016 over a university course becomes less A Study in has seen student satisfaction levels drop stigmatised and people realise that they as a full third of students have claimed have a legitimate crossroad fork in their Apprenticeships that they don’t believe that their course lives once they finish their A-Levels. By Max Feldman offers anything like value for the money Perhaps you might go straight into an they’re paying and more than quarter apprenticeship at a FTSE 300 company © Stockhub Photograph have complained that they feel that the for the job you’ve always aspired to, or n the Middle Ages, apprenticeships feedback they receive from their tutors is maybe you don’t have much of an idea were one of the central building poor or scattershot. of what you want to apply yourself in blocks of British civilisation. Richer Regardless of these studies, it must and a few years studying Chinese and Imembers of the peasant class would be said that universities still offer a great making new relationships is just what’s dispatch their progeny to live with opportunity for a young person to get appropriate; unlike either the 1990s the families of members of the craft a greater sense of what they want out or The Middle Ages both options are guilds who would teach their children of life; be it from studying Chemistry available and as valid and respectable as everything they knew. Whilst to modern or Keats, and Britain is home to some each other. eyes this might seem closer to forcing your child into living with a cult than giving them an all-important leg up into the working world, apprenticeships drinking snakebite. The twin blows of were all important for anyone who had an uncertain job market in an extremely aspirations to be more than one of the uncertain world and the fact that peasants from Monty Python’s Holy increases in university fees have left Grail. In 1563, The Statute of Artificers student debts at a level that almost equals made it illegal for anyone to “exercise a small nation’s GDP has somewhat any art, mystery or occupation except he put paid to this cultural attitude and shall have been brought up therein seven apprenticeships have returned from life years as an apprentice”. Anyone who support to become a more than credible was under the poverty line who was still alternative to finishing three years of eager for an education would be forced competitive liver damage with nothing to attend one of the far less prestigious to show but a Liberal Arts degree and free institutions in Tudor England; such £27,000 worth of debt. as the University of Cambridge (oh Companies have begun to the shame!). By the early 20th Century demonstrate a real hunger for there were over 340,000 apprenticeships apprenticeships, BAE Systems offer granted a year which were much fought higher-level apprentices over £34,000 over by aspirational parents and students. on their completion, which is more When David Cameron unveiled than they offer those starting on its his 2015 flagship policy to create three graduate schemes. 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settle into a disk whirling around the star’s equator. The grains then coagulate to form rocks, which coalesce under the relentless pull of gravity to form asteroid sized bodies. These planet embryos quickly sweep up the remaining dust along their orbital paths. As long as gas is available, the more massive embryos bulk up and become Jupiter-like worlds. Smaller or slower forming embryos end up as terrestrial bodies like Earth, Mars, and Venus. But the planet formation process in our galaxy appears so robust that a dust disc around a star at the end of its life can also produce planets. In fact the first exoplanets discovered ie;(beyond our solar system) were second generation planets in orbit around the pulsar PSR B1257+12! Astronomers have also predicted that late-in-life planets could be born from the mergers of white dwarfs an inevitable outcome of the evolution in some binary systems. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre propose that Earth- sized planets could form out of the shredded white dwarf debris. They would be tough little planets with tarry surfaces of carbides or even diamond. The atmosphere of a carbon planet Above: will not become some benign tropical Artist's impression might include nitrogen, ammonia, Death’s Debris, paradises at some new but perfectly © Lynette Cook carbon monoxide, methane, and other extrasolar.spaceart.org balanced, habitable distance from our Below: hydrocarbons. Oceans of ammonia mixed Life’s Renaissance now seriously bloated star, they will Ant Nebula with metals and organic material. © NASA The death of a star, already have been reduced to cinders However first, second, third the rebirth of planetary life before entering their final death spirals generation of stars and as their orbital velocities slow and the planets all face ultimate By Scott Beadle FRAS gravitational tug and friction from the destruction. tenuous gases in the Sun’s ballooning In Arthur C atmosphere drag them back. Clarkes 1955 short So, that’s it then, a sun-like star’s story The Star he In December I wrote a piece about evolution into a red giant would render describes a voyage to a visual snapshot of the end of our Sun the inner region of the solar system a supernova remnant using the Helix Nebula as an example of uninhabitable. Yet all hope may not be where they discover a the likely evolutionary track of our own lost. The habitable zone will expand lone surviving planet star’s demise. along with the star. This will warm far from the exploded As their parent stars inevitably age once-frozen planets and their moons, star. An intelligent race, and burn out, every inhabited planet bringing a brief spring time after a foreseeing the coming across our galaxy faces the ultimate 10-billion-year winter. Under the warm apocalypse, creates apocalypse – the destruction of its system glare of the awakening giant star, a frozen a vast archive of its and the likelihood of being reduced to a moon’s icy top layer will melt quickly into civilization for future cinder. liquid water, Ancient craters will dissolve visitors to find. Yet the emerging view of what into the warming seas. After being in Perhaps such is the happens to planets at the end of a star’s hibernation for all of its star’s main fate of extra-terrestrial life has more complexity than scientists sequence lifetime, the moon’s new-born civilizations scattered once thought. What’s more, the ever – oceans, laden with a carbon-rich broth, across the galaxy. shifting fortunes of survivability in the could spring to life. This zone could The conditions for universe suggest one planets apocalypse remain habitable for 1 billion years. planetary birth, survival, may be another’s genesis According to some theories, life on and rebirth seem Roughly 5 billion years from now our planet may have begun within a common throughout a the sun will go through a late life few hundred million years after Earth cosmos that ironically, crisis. Fusion reactions will migrate to cooled down from its fiery birth. This is indifferent to a hydrogen-rich shell surrounding an suggests newly inhabited planets could maintaining planetary inert core of helium. The Suns internal exist around many red giant stars. Once paradises for very long. temperature will spike, and our star will frozen, carbon rich moons like Saturn’s Never the less, the expand into a red giant. The Suns outer Titan would thaw out and become fundamental physics layers will reach escape velocity and peel incubators for the first stages of life. of the universe seems off into space. As the Sun loses mass, Observations of dusty discs adept at rebuilding the planets’ orbits will widen to conserve surrounding young stars as well as entire planets from the the solar system’s angular momentum. detailed theoretical simulations have ashes of a stars death Earth will migrate out to Mars’ current strengthened the conventional wisdom seems adept at orbit and the red planet will move about how planets form around new- rebuilding entire planets proportionately farther out. born stars. from the ashes of a stars Unfortunately, Earth and Mars First tiny grains of interstellar dust death. 24 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Literature

passed the copyright of her new novel to Egerton in exchange for a one-off payment, meaning that all the risk (and all the Pride and profits) would be his. It has been calculated that Egerton Prejudice subsequently made around £450 from just the first two By Max Feldman editions of the book alone./ In fact the novel that would truly establish Austen as a household name didn’t even carry her name on it, simply crediting the book to “The Author of Sense and Sensibility” espite the fact that the title (which had itself only been credited, fairly dismissively, as “by sounds like a three word a Lady”, Austen would never be officially credited for any of summary of Donald Trump’s her novels during her life). Despite its nameless author Pride Ddomestic policies, Pride and Prejudice and Prejudice would be met with near immediate success has become one of the world’s most (spurred on by three extremely favourable reviews in influential beloved books, frequently reaching near periodicals). The novel’s combination of wit, humour, romance the top of lists of “most-loved books” and wry social commentary firmly established Austen as one of among both literary scholars and the the genre’s leading lights. Even so, the novel was not without general public. Since its publication its detractors; Charlotte Bronte described the novel as being “a on January 28th 1813 Prejudice has carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden…but with no open sold over 20 million copies, making country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck” and in 1898 it one of the most popular novels in a deeply unimpressed Mark Twain would expound that “Every the English literary canon. Despite its time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig Jane Austen wildfire success, Austen only made a up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” (not particularly) grand total of £110 Disregarding the fact that Pride and Prejudice has to shoulder in profits (which was negotiated down the guilt of indirectly spawning the execrable film Pride and from the £150 she initially asked for) due Prejudice and Zombies, the regard for the novel has only grown to the consequences of her unfortunate over its two hundred year publishing life. Austen wrote with an decision to sell the book’s copyright to eye for realism and the more mundane aspects of everyday life Thomas Egerton of the Military Library. that set her apart from the rather more florid and deliberately Austen had previously published Sense dramatic traditions that Romantic writing of the day tended and Sensibility on a commission basis, towards (considering that no-one gets poisoned or locked in a whereby she indemnified the publisher tower by a wicked uncle, Pride and Prejudice stands out from against any losses and received any its peers as practically a kitchen sink drama by comparison). profits, less costs and the publisher's Anyone whose experience with Pride and Prejudice begins commission. Not suspecting that Sense and ends with Colin Firth in a wet shirt should do themselves and Sensibility would go onto to sell a favour and dip into Austen’s classic. Mark Twain can’t be out its edition (and make her £140) she right about everything after all

Professor but the manuscript was rejected breakfast on Sunday morning I took the by many publishing houses including manuscript of Jane Eyre to the library Smith, Elder and Co. However, George and began to read it. The story quickly Smith, a young gentleman who had just took me captive.’ Turning the final sheet

Photographs © Tim Epps Tim © Photographs taken over as publisher from his father later that night Bronte’s publisher said at Smith and Elder saw something ‘My literary judgement was perfectly impressive in Bronte’s works. In August satisfied’; the rest is literary history! 1847, Smith wrote suggesting that if In December 2016 Editions Des she wrote something in three volumes it Saints Pres, an independent publishing “would [be met] with careful attention”. house based in Paris, saw an opportunity It is clear Bronte was up to the challenge to present Jane Eyre to admirers of the as by October the same year she had novel in a new and unique way. The sent Smith the 824 page manuscript of publishers have reproduced this fair copy Jane Eyre. Shortly after receiving the manuscript in three beautifully bound manuscript George wrote that ‘After hard back volumes and presented in a deluxe slipcase. The limited edition facsimile of the manuscript (only 1000 copies have been printed) is revealing in that it demonstrates just how determined Bronte must have been to become a successful To Charlotte Bronte enthusiasts, Jane published author. It’s Jane Eyre Eyre is one of the greatest novels of the elegantly hand written (Manuscrit) nineteenth century written by a women. with very few corrections. Jane Eyre is the tale of a young orphan Revisions that have (3 Volumes Dans un Coffret) who suffers a number of unfortunate been made are noted as events before she takes up a governess being mainly centred Hardcover position in adulthood, only to fall in on Bronte’s portrayal of Published: 2 Dec 2016 love with her employer, the dark and Jane’s encounters with impassioned Mr Rochester. The novel is Rochester’. The books Éditions des Saints Pères only rivalled in popularity by writers like also contain etchings by Jane Austen. ISBN-13: 979-1095457305 Edmund Garrett from Charlotte Bronte’s first attempt to an 1897 edition of the £249.00 become a published author was with The Novel. ET 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

ANTE ALIGHIERI (1265- 1321) is the subject of this month’s Dpoetry page and Circle 2 Canto V of Inferno, the first part of his greatest work The Divine Comedy. Here Dante explores the fine line that exists between love and the power of and disastrous lustful desire. It is in this circle that the adulterers and carnal sinners are cast by Minos, where famous lovers such as Cleopatra, Dido, Paris, Helen, Tristan and Achilles are alluded too, and whose misguided desires had often led them and their lovers to death.

It drives them: hope of rest to solace them Of whatsoe'er to hear or to discourse Is none, nor e'en of milder pang. As cranes, It pleases thee, that will we hear, of that Circle 2, Chanting their dolorous notes, traverse the sky, Freely with thee discourse, while e'er the wind, Canto V Stretch'd out in long array; so I beheld As now, is mute. The land,[1] that gave me birth, Spirits, who came loud wailing, hurried on Is situate on the coast, where Po descends By their dire doom. Then I: "Instructor! who To rest in ocean with his sequent streams. From the first circle I descended thus Are these, by the black air so scourged?" "The first Down to the second, which, a lesser space 'Mong those, of whom thou question'st," he replied, "Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learnt, Embracing, so much more of grief contains, "O'er many tongues was empress. She in vice Entangled him by that fair form, from me Provoking bitter moans. There Minos stands, Of luxury was so shameless, that she made Ta'en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still: Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all Liking be lawful by promulged decree, Love, that denial takes from none beloved, Who enter, strict examining the crimes, To clear the blame she had herself incurr'd. Caught me with pleasing him so passing well, Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath, This is Semiramis, of whom 'tis writ, That, as thou seest, he yet deserts me not. According as he foldeth him around: That she succeeded Ninus her espoused; Love brought us to one death: Caina[2] waits For when before him comes the ill - fated soul, And held the land, which now the Soldan rules. The soul, who spilt our life." Such were their words; It all confesses; and that judge severe The next in amorous fury slew herself, At hearing which, downward I bent my looks, Of sins, considering what place in Hell And to Sichaeus' ashes broke her faith: And held them there so long, that the bard cried: Suits the transgression, with his tail so oft Then follows Cleopatra, lustful queen." "What art thou pondering?" I in answer thus: Himself encircles, as degrees beneath "Alas! by what sweet thoughts, what fond desire He dooms it to descend. Before him stand There mark'd I Helen, for whose sake so long Must they at length to that ill pass have reach'd!" Always a numerous throng; and in his turn The time was fraught with evil; there the great Then turning, I to them my speech address'd, Each one to judgment passing, speaks, and hears Achilles, who with love fought to the end. His fate, thence downward to his dwelling hurl'd. Paris I saw, and Tristan; and beside, And thus began: "Francesca![3] your sad fate "O thou! who to this residence of woe A thousand more he show'd me, and by name Even to tears my grief and pity moves. Approachest!" when he saw me coming, cried Pointed them out, whom love bereaved of life. But tell me; in the time of your sweet sighs, Minos, relinquishing his dread employ, By what, and how Love granted, that ye knew "Look how thou enter here; beware in whom When I had heard my sage instructor name Your yet uncertain wishes?" She replied: Thou place thy trust; let not the entrance broad Those dames and knights of antique days, o'erpower'd "No greater grief than to remember days Deceive thee to thy harm." To him my guide: By pity, well - nigh in amaze my mind Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens "Wherefore exclaimest? Hinder not his way Was lost; and I began: "Bard! willingly Thy learn'd instructor. Yet so eagerly By destiny appointed; so 'tis will'd, I would address those two together coming, If thou art bent to know the primal root, Where will and power are one. Ask thou no more." Which seem so light before the wind." He thus: From whence our love gat being, I will do "Note thou, when nearer they to us approach. As one, who weeps and tells his tale. One day, Now 'gin the rueful wailings to be heard. Then by that love which carries them along, For our delight we read of Lancelot,[4] Now am I come where many a plaining voice Entreat; and they will come." Soon as the wind How him love thrall'd. Alone we were, and no Smites on mine ear. Into a place I came Sway'd them towards us, I thus framed my speech: Suspicion near us. Oft - times by that reading Where light was silent all. Bellowing there groan'd "O wearied spirits! come, and hold discourse Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue A noise, as of a sea in tempest torn With us, if by none else restrain'd. As doves Fled from our alter'd cheek. But at one point By warring winds. The stormy blast of Hell By fond desire invited, on wide wings Alone we fell. When of that smile we read, With restless fury drives the spirits on, And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, The wished smile so raptorously kiss'd Whirl'd round and dash'd amain with sore annoy. Cleave the air, wafted by their will along; By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er When they arrive before the ruinous sweep, Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, From me shall separate, at once my lips There shrieks are heard, there lamentations, moans, They, through the ill air speeding: with such force All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both And blasphemies 'gainst the good Power in Heaven. My cry prevail'd, by strong affection urged. Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day I understood, that to this torment sad We read no more." While thus one spirit spake, The carnal sinners are condemn'd, in whom "O gracious creature and benign! who go'st The other wail'd so sorely, that heart - struck Reason by lust is sway'd. As, in large troops Visiting, through this element obscure, I, through compassion fainting, seem'd not far And multitudinous, when winter reigns, Us, who the world with bloody stain imbrued; From death, and like a corpse fell to the ground. The starlings on their wings are borne abroad; If, for a friend, the King of all, we own'd, So bears the tyrannous gust those evil souls. Our prayer to him should for thy peace arise, On this side and on that, above, below, Since thou hast pity on our evil plight. Compiled and edited by Emma Trehane MA, PhD. 26 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining Out

Kambucha, too sweet for Squirrel my taste. Eat for Health The bowls in South Kensington are huge, the © Squirrel Photographs smoothies By Cynthia Pickard are large and filling, there’s no danger The healthy food café trend is taking of leaving over our high streets. Having tested a Squirrel few of them, I am now increasingly keen feeling the to seek out some more original dishes in need for this genre. I’m quite capable of slinging a chunk together a load of raw veg into a bowl of gateau myself and after a while have got over afterwards. my initial enthusiasm for the discovery of The mashed avocado on sourdough. So I was formula keen to try the all-day fast casual dining the menus have been put together by an sourdough, this one came embellished created here at Squirrel really seems offerings at Squirrel in South Kensington in-house nutritionist. But what we want with strips of smoked salmon, a creative to work. The venue is decorated with and to find out if their thoughtfully to know is, it may be good for you but touch but our favourite was ‘Guac recycled wood and fun ephemera. There’s researched, nutritionally balanced cuisine how does it taste? Also will they be able ‘n’ Roll’ – on a bed of brown rice and a wide variety of drinks and salads, soups can compete within their highly themed to compete in the midst of so many other chicken with cherry tomatoes, black and snacks all freshly made from scratch Treehouse concept and if it will give delicious styles and nationalities of eatery beans, avocado and pickled red onion all to eat in or take away, it may be doing me the exciting dining experience I’m in this area? mixed up in a lime jalapeno vinaigrette you good, but don’t worry, it tastes good looking for. Opening at 7am on weekdays makes topped with baby spinach leaves, a very too. Squirrel has been open since summer this a great breakfast drop-in venue for successful combination. 2016. The eatery boasts forest features commuters but we braved the crowds of The refreshing Glowing Squirrel Squirrel: such as a ‘Fallen Oak’ coffee station, a enthusiastic diners at lunchtime. From Smoothie blends avocado, lemon, ginger 11 Harrington Road, bespoke re-fillable ‘Drinking Well’ and the choice of punningly named salads and apple juice while the Super Squirrel South Kensington, SW7 3ES a 21-foot long oak tree service counter and ‘grain bowls’, we chose a seasonal is a sweeter choice, blueberries, bananas, www.wearesquirrel.com where customers can choose their special of ‘Thai Me Up’ with prawns, red acai, beetroot, chia and oats. Intrigued by E: [email protected] dishes. The credentials of their seasonal cabbage, red pepper, edamame beans, the idea and subsequently impressed by ingredients cannot be questioned, Fair carrot, mint, toasted cashews and a it, a Turmeric Latte, made with almond Opening Hours: Trade, ethically sourced, free-range, bespoke Thai dressing which really held milk and enhanced by ginger and pepper, Monday-Friday: 7am-9:30pm organic, sustainably sourced, these are this mixture of raw ingredients together makes a really fresh new alternative to Saturday: 8am-9:30pm all the buzz words that we welcome and well. I wanted to test their avocado on coffee. We also tried out the bottled Sunday: 9am-9:30pm

the restaurant an edgy, modern mood well-suited to its contemporary cuisine. Seated next to the window, as is my

Photograph © Kiru Photograph preference to facilitate people watching both inside and out, we surveyed the beautifully illustrated and expansive cocktail list. However, being the beginning of the week and keen to stay off the sauce at least until Wednesday, we opted for an abstemious pot of jasmine tea. As we took our time over the menu, which was refreshingly different from your classic London Japanese, the tea arrived, beautifully presented and loose leaf, which, like bread quality, I always crispy rice cubes with tuna tartare. This truffle. Simple yet effective with classic take as a good sign in any restaurant. was proper Japanese comfort food, big flavours done in a clean, Japanese style. With a rare offering of three different crispy cubes of deep fried rice topped Top marks. edamame bean variations on the menu, with soft, buttery tuna, utterly delicious. Being in a Japanese restaurant we we decided to kick off proceedings with My date, a self-confessed meat lover, felt it would be downright irresponsible an unusual chili and garlic version. This had never tried one of life’s truly great to not try at least one sushi dish so we was a good idea in theory, but the chili things, wagyu beef, so I ordered us a opted for a traditional dragon roll that Kiru and garlic sauce made the pods a bit steak to share and the black cod for the turned out to be good, but not mind- By Ione Bingley slimy and it went all over your fingers so mains. blowing. I would say in this case, stick with what Cooked to perfection, sliced into And finally, though stuffed to the you know and go for the plain salt. meltingly delicious slivers of delectable, brim, we found space for a decidedly While our first amuse bouche was juicy steak and accompanied by three unjapanese, but sumptuously oozy, loaked in black lacquer and somewhat disappointing, morale was delightfully different dipping sauces, the chocolate fondant and a boule of, nestled behind the Kings Road raised again by the spicy miso soup that wagyu went down an absolute treat. definitely worth writing home about, on quiet and picturesque Chelsea was, hands down, the most delicious The black cod was also very good and handmade coconut sorbet. Green, you could be forgiven for C miso I’ve tried. came with an incredibly ingenious radish With a spacious interior, dependable overlooking the stylishly understated, We then moved on to melt-in- ‘brush’ used to coat the fillet in its tasty food and a great bar, I’d recommend this neighbourhood Japanese, Kiru. the-mouth bite-sized spoonfuls of miso yaki dressing, then to be crunched one for a big, boozy dinner with friends. Stepping into its surprisingly salmon with crispy seaweed, which were down for a palate cleanser. light and airy interior ones eyes are delicious, but definitely needed the The real star of the show for me was 2 Elystan St, Chelsea SW3 3NS unavoidably drawn to a huge, blue mural umami sauce that came with them. a mushroom and watercress side salad T: 020 7584 9999 of a smoky eyed Japanese girl that gives For our final starter, we went for topped with generous shavings of black Tasting menu from £60 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

botanicals that would not be out of Seedlip place in a more flavoursome gin, and at the Lancaster London this makes a very acceptable G&T substitute for a couple of rounds. The

Photographs © Lancaster Photographs By David Hughes Lancaster serves it with a whole segment of pink grapefruit which also imparts a Non Alcoholic cocktails? citrus edge. ‘Garden 108 & Elderflower Make mine a double! Tonic’ very clean and refreshing, and showcasing the accompanying cucumber It’s usually a lot of fun going out for exceptionally well. The elderflower Cocktails as it’s as much a concept as a gives a sweet edge, but not cloyingly range of drinks. In most people’s minds so. It would also go well at a garden the word spells hotel lounge bars, or party by the river, I thought. Now I just plush banquettes in well-appointed clubs, need a big country house with a river at with only the likes of Del Boy thinking the bottom of the garden. ‘Spice Sour’ that a drink bearing a slice of fruit and a served in a martini coupe, containing paper umbrella looks good in a pub. In fresh lemon, white wine shrub and star

Rosé. The nine-course menu will be The Food of available from 10-14 February 2017 Love priced at £38 per person including a Island Grill’s Romantic complimentary drink on arrival. What’s more, the hotel will be offering a surprise Valentine Feast gift for diners to take home! By Cynthia Pickard Elsewhere in the hotel, hearts will be fluttering in the Lounge Bar as loved-up guests settle down to enjoy the HeART Afternoon Tea. This culinary r the love of food? Either artwork will be delivered to your table way if you want to treat sealed in a charming case with an array your Valentine to a night to of sweet and savoury treats including rememberO on the most romantic day of aphrodisiac oysters with salmon caviar, the year, Lancaster London’s nine-course exquisite heart-shaped white chocolate Valentine’s tasting menu would be a and strawberry macaroons, and Love You great way to set the evening on the right honey éclairs. The HeART Afternoon track. With their philosophy of using Tea will be available from 10-14 sustainable, seasonal and, where possible, February 2017, starting from £40 per locally sourced ingredients, the hotel’s person. award-winning Island Grill restaurant In Lancaster’s luxury Nipa Thai will be offering all you lovers a sequence restaurant, guests who choose to enjoy the 20s and 30s the moneyed folk who of nine exquisite sharing dishes. the Set Menu of truly authentic Thai drank cocktails still dressed for dinner, The seductive menu consisting of cuisine on Valentine’s Day will be treated and the idea of cocktails being something three starters, three mains and three to a complimentary glass of pink bubbly. a bit special still exists. coquettish desserts offers the perfect They will experience an exotic dinner Cocktails have a varied history, from opportunity to share a selection of from the team who have once again making a drink that society ladies would intriguing dishes with your Valentine. been awarded the Thai Select Premium find less brutish, to escaping detection in These include Lancaster London’s Award. Speakeasies during the Prohibition. Often excellent smoked salmon Up to you to decide if any of these brewed out in the woods, Prohibition-era dotted with avocado mousse, beetroot represent the love of food or the food of alcohol was generally very rough drunk and toasted sourdough. A zingy love! neat, so many fruity combinations were Gressingham duck salad will be followed dreamt up that made things a bit more by pan-fried sea bream, potato gnocchi Lancaster London, Lancaster Terrace, palatable. But what if you don’t want to in a beautiful sauce of confit tomato, London W2 2TY get sozzled, but still want to join in the watercress and keta salmon salad. Reservations on 020 7551 6000 or fun? The choice used to be just mineral There’s roast fillet of pork and a surprise visit www.lancasterlondon.com water or Mocktails, essentially just a savoury tart. To finish, some suitably blend of fruit juices. pink decadent desserts will include That made things a bit boring if you dark chocolate fondant with Baileys’ didn’t drink alcohol, were the “designated Chantilly cream and raspberry sorbet; driver” for the night, or just taking a and strawberry panna cotta with fresh break from drinking. Why not, thought berry compote, black pepper tuile and Ben (proprietor of Seedlip) distill some anise. The lemon hits first, followed candied rose petals. Look out too for of nature’s finest botanicals in a copper by a warm and spicy finish. One of the the lesser-known names on the English pot still and make a proper non-alcoholic best Seedlip combinations ‘Seedlip cheese board; Waterloo, Olde Sussex and spirit as a base for some new cocktails? Garden & Apple Soda’ quite sharp, with Kentish Blue. Right now he has two principle offerings, a semi-sour, almost cranberry edge to The food menu will be accompanied ‘the Spice 94’ and the ‘Garden 108’. the raspberry. Too little of the intriguing by speciality cocktails such as the Love It was a nice treat for my system to lemon curd component seems like a Potion Martini, Pomegranate Juice, start the evening off with 5 different missed opportunity. ‘Seedlip Garden Strawberry Vodka & Chambord Black drinks that even most doctors could & Apple Soda’ a bit light to qualify as a Raspberry Liqueur or how about a recommend. Don’t write in, if I’m wrong cocktail for me, but an undoubted thirst Passion-fruit Martini? Or with your I’ll buy you a quintuple brandy and we quencher. Very much a summer day mains, try the Australian Little Yering can see who feels best in the morning. drink on the terrace. 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re you racking your brain to think of something different andA meaningful for this special day? A mere suggestion of showing you ‘like’ someone or a full expression of ‘love’?

Perfume is such an obvious choice but nowadays it can be blended with so many unusual and beautiful hues as well as being packaged in such glorious vessels that will be kept long after the perfume is used. Tucked away on the 6th floor of Harrods is the Salon de Parfums. If you excite the senses of the most discerning and prices are upwards of £50 and can don’t know it, you should visit simply perfume buyers. It includes brands such be much more. But it’s wise to remember to be intoxicated with heavenly scents as Thomas Kosmala, Liquides Imaginaires that the thought behind the gift will from the moment you step out of the lift. and Dead of Night as well as the more be appreciated for far longer than the It is a luxurious and intimate sanctuary well known houses such as Dolce gift itself especially when the exquisite of scent providing the finest and rarest Gabbana and Elie Saab and not to forget bottle will be left on display long into the of fragrances or a bespoke scent of the exquisitely bottled Bond No 9 range future. your choice. Here you can find truly that has named its perfumes after New exceptional perfumes, creams and candles York streets and districts such as Park for everyone of every age and sex. Avenue South, Madison Avenue and Salon de Parfums, There is a fragrance gallery that Soho. 6th Floor, Harrods, Brompton Road, has scents chosen for their ability to Of course, the cost reflects the venue SW1X 7XL and online. 30 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Fashion & Beauty

the bleakness of the late 70s, hailing a new beginning and fresh expectations. 80s Wham! Dayglow lycra and spandex ruled as aerobic workshops pioneered by Jane Fonda flourished. Movies like Fame, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing heralded hat I most admire about this energised era together with fashion trend revivals is groundbreaking science fiction movies their perfect timing. Only like Bladerunner and Back to the Future. emerging confidently in the knowledge Talking Heads cried Stop Making Sense, W Culture Club put androgyny firmly on the vast majority of those original clothes from the first wave have been safely stage whilst Michael Jackson thrilled disposed of. This smooth tactic ensures in red leather and the Eurythmics sang no-one has anything worthwhile left to sweetly of their dreams. salvage from the back of the wardrobe Precarious times tip folk back to the and has to begin again. Those wide church and designers are no different, slouchy trousers and Joan Collins’ jackets this season they are embracing faith and that hung sadly for decades have long its powerful iconography. Back then it since departed for the local charity store. was Madonna rattling her rosary beads If it’s back to the 80s, it’s back to the and the Wag Club celebrating acid house shops. with Virgin Mary sweatshirts. This No fashion era has been so openly season’s offerings can be sized up as Back derided and mocked like the 80s. Was to the Future with a heady time-travelling it for the diamante Dynasty excess, the mix of mystical and unearthly; celestial pyjamas, back to the office for men’s sports shoes. Accessory-wise we have circus of glam metal bands with their eye sophistication if you will. shirting and banker pinstripes. Think hugely practical handbags the size of liner and bouffant mullet hair cuts or was Fashion designers are serially Prince with billowing purple rain parkas, a man’s wallet, clinking crucifixes and it for the tasteless audacity of it all? criticized for re-inventing ideas from the populist blue collar workwear boiler voluminous, asymmetric earrings; the Back here in 2017, again we have a past, but they borrow and then create suits and jazzed-up denim in contrast bigger and crazier the better. republican celebrity President of America their own silhouettes and lines. This to ruffles and chiffon layers. Space age So, time to unwind the bunting, and yet another woman Prime Minister time it’s 80s inspiration but with 2017 metallic is here, kitschy acid yellow, flat uncork the Prosecco and celebrate this both burdened with the mandate of deconstructed layering, cuts on the bias, out fuchsia and finally ‘Be prepared’ brand old/new era with its timeless making their countries great again. Yes, paneling and uneven hems resulting in khaki for the unexpected and calmer images and themes, jump back to the 80s it’s time to shake off the tiresome taupes slanting asymmetry. Sleeves and skirts palette. then leap forwards into 2017 and gear and repressed neutrals and again embrace are slit and slashed, waists are corseted, For the feet it’s 80s again with cone up with broad shoulders and a grin to the 80s look with kitschy nostalgia and folded over or cinched with wide belts. heels, backless mules and (horror of match: it may be a rocky ride but never baggy trousers. Major signature looks for clothes horrors) white ankle boots; kitten heels dull. The much maligned but colourful, are big, boxy David Byrne size jackets, are back too but 2017 kicks in with explosive 80s happened as a reaction to the boudoir is given an airing in floppy platform loafers and Trump golden Lynne McGowan

BEAUTY TIPS from the Beauty Editor For an extra special Valentine’s look! Photograph © Patrick Mc Cormick © Patrick Photograph • Add 2 drops of Rosemary essential oil to a bowl of warm water. Soak a flannel in it and lay it over your face for a few minutes. So refreshing!

• Pinch your eyebrows between a finger and your thumb working from the nose outwards and then pinch your jawline working from the centre upwards. Repeat several times. Great for bringing a glow to your face.

• Rub, in a circular motion, the rims and lobes of your ears with your thumb and forefinger. Brings even more of glow!

• Greatly enhance your moisturiser by adding a squeeze or few drops of the Bach Rescue Remedy.

• Lastly, blend concealer under your eyes, apply a dash of blusher to your cheeks, sweep mascara over your lashes, shine your lips with gloss and you’re ready to go!!! 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Fashion & Beauty online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE britishmuseum.org - @britishmuseum 020 7611 2222 wellcomecollection.org Ends 26th February @ExploreWellcome You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 25th February - 4th June V&A America After the Fall: Painting in the This major exhibition focuses on the 1930s significance and impact of the late 1960s, Royal Academy through key pieces of music like A An eclectic mix of famous paintings from Change is gonna Come, the Paris protest a transformative decade in American in May 1968, the Woodstock Festival of 1969 and objects relating to fashion, film, history. One highlight is Grant Wood's iconic American Gothic, which has never design and politics. been displayed beyond the USA. Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL Burlington House, Piccadilly, 020 784 2000 W1J 0BD vam.ac.uk @V_and_A 020 7300 8000 34 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events

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Ends 1st March Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line British Library Learn about cartography’s far-reaching use in everyday life; see a selection of Nazi war propaganda and previously unseen Ministry of Defence educational charts. 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB 020 7412 7332 bl.uk - @britishlibrary 1st March- 3rd September The Art of the Brick South Bank, Upper Ground Following a successful show in 2014 at the Old Truman Brewery, LEGO® artist Nathan Sawaya returns to London, this time with DC Comics as his theme. Paul Nash Tate Britain Sawaya has used almost 2,000,000 LEGO bricks to create sculptures of Road, SE1 9PP 4th March Undressed: A Brief History classic DC figures, such as Batman, 033 3247 0620 Sigmar Polke: V&A Wonder Woman and The Joker. aotbdc.co.uk Pour Paintings on Paper The evolution of underwear design from Corner of Upper Ground and @artofthebrickdc Michael Werner Gallery the 18th century to the present day, Sigmar Polke spent roughly 15 years with over 200 examples highlighting working on his Pour Paintings, large- innovation, fashion and luxury. scale works using iridescent paint and Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL powdered mica. See them up close and 020 784 2000 WESTMINSTER ABBEY INSTITUTE enjoy the work of this important post- vam.ac.uk @V_and_A war artist. 22 Upper Brook St, Mayfair, Ends 12th March W1K 7PZ Hair by Sam McKnight 020 7495 6855 Embankment Galleries michaelwerner.com Trace hairstylist Sam McKnight’s @_MichaelWerner_ 40-year career through photographs, magazines, and original catwalk outfits Ends 5th March from Westwood and Chanel, as well as Paul Nash commissioned wigs and hairpieces. Tate Britain Somerset House, Strand, WC2R The most comprehensive exhibition 1LA of the work of the Official War Artist 020 7845 4600 of 1917, including landscapes of the somersethouse.org.uk English countryside, early drawings, @SomersetHouse surrealistic paintings and his works on the horrors of war. Millbank, SW1P 4RG 16th-26th March 020 7887 8888 LCF School of Media and tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain Communication Degree Show @Tate London College of Fashion 9th March-18th June at House of Vans The American Dream: Pop to the Students from LCF’s Media and Present Communication department present British Museum their graduate degree show. An all-encompassing tour of American Arches, 228-232 Station Approach SPRING 2017 EVENTS: INTEGRITY art over the last 60 years. Featuring artists Road, SE1 8SW To Book (free): www.westminster-abbey.org/institute such as Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Wayne 020 7514 6000 Thiebaud and Kara Walker. events.arts.ac.uk @LCFLondon Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG 020 7323 8181 Ends 19th March www.westminster-abbey.org britishmuseum.org @britishmuseum Gavin Turk: Who What When Where How and Why Ends 12th March 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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festival. Charity No: 222879/SC038262 RHS Registered Belvedere Road, South Bank, 3rd March-11th June SE1 8XT Deutsche Börse Photography 020 7928 3232 Foundation Prize bfi.org.uk @bfi The Photographers’ Gallery Photographers from across the world 21st February-18th March compete for a £30,000 prize, awarded Ruud van Empel to the best contemporary work or Beetles + Huxley exhibition of the past year. The Dutch contemporary photographer 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW is profiled for the second time at Beetles 020 7087 9300 + Huxley. His work, using digital thephotographersgallery.org.uk manipulation and referencing Dutch @tpgallery Old Masters, is even more engaging up close. 3rd March-11th June 3-5 Swallow Street, W1B 4DE Roger Mayne RHS Botanical Art Show 020 7434 4319 The Photographers’ Gallery Preview Thu 23 Feb, 6–9pm beetlesandhuxley.com @Beetleshuxley The first retrospective of British photographer Roger Mayne (1929- SHOWS Fri 24–Sat 25 Feb, 10am–5pm 22nd February 2014) since 1999, featuring images of Screening: Bagdad Cafe London, Sheffield and Nottingham, (Out of Rosenheim) plus his installation piece, The British at Royal Horticultural Halls Goethe-Institut Leisure. St James’s Park London Victoria This German film was an unexpected hit 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW Free Entry, Preview £5 to all on its release 30 years ago. Find out why 020 7087 9300 rhs.org.uk/londonshows the story of a Bavarian housewife stuck thephotographersgallery.org.uk in an American roadside cafe has such @tpgallery broad appeal. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 37 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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orchestra of the Philharmonic will be performed by In the Steps of Maria Alexandrova (Bolshoi Theatre), Tyler Angle (NYCB), Davide Dato the Russes (), Marlon Dino Russian Ballet Icons (Bavarian State Ballet), Matthew Gala Series Golding (), Dmitry Haegeman © Marc Photograph Gudanov (Bolshoi Theatre), Isaac Sunday 12 March 2017, 7pm Hernandez (English National Ballet), London Coliseum Maria Kochetkova (), Liudmila Konovalova (Vienna Organised by Ensemble State Ballet), Ekaterina Krysanova Productions (Bolshoi Theatre), Lucia Lacarra (Bavarian State Ballet), Sarah Lamb (The Royal Ballet), Vladislav Lantratov ergei Diaghilev set early (Bolshoi Theatre), Svetlana Lunkina 20th-century Paris ablaze (National Ballet of Canada), Steven with his , McRae (The Royal Ballet), Sasha and his impact on the world of Mukhamedov (), S Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet), dance can still be felt today… Evgenia Obraztsova (Bolshoi Theatre), The Guardian Natalia Osipova (The Royal Ballet), Ekaterina Osmolkina (Mariinsky Theatre), Xander Parish (Mariinsky Ballets Russes…the most Theatre), Tamara Rojo (English National sensual, daring and fashionable Ballet), Iana Salenko (), Vladimir Shklyarov (Mariinsky dance company in the world… Theatre), Jacopo Tissi (La Scala), Ivan The Daily Telegraph complemented by contemporary works dazzling German choreographer Xenia Vasiliev (), Edward from choreographers David Dawson, Wiest. In addition to international Watson (The Royal Ballet), Zenaida ‘In the Steps of the Ballets Russes’ Gala Alastair Marriott, Gerald Arpino, Jean- ballet stars and principals of the major Yanowsky (The Royal Ballet) and celebrates the glittering legacy of this Christophe Maillot, paying homage to ballet companies, there will be a unique students of the Vaganova Academy. legendary company. Much-loved favorites the spirit of innovation and creativity appearance in The Fairy Doll by final from the heady days of Diaghilev such that were such a hallmark of the great year students of the legendary Vaganova Tickets £25 - £145 as The Firebird, The Scheherazade, Le Russian impresario. The programme Academy. (plus booking fee) Spectre de la Rose, Petrushka, L’après-midi also features the world premiere of the Box Office d’un Faune, La Chatte and others will be exciting new work Theatrum Vitae by The programme accompanied by the +44 (0) 20 7845 9300 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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National Army Museum) of experts, including Professor Margaret can purchase direct from contemporary A National Army Museum talk Boden FBA, Research Professor of designer makers selected from the best in exploring Mata Hari’s wartime role as a Cognitive Science at the University of Desire the UK. spy. Hari, real name Margarethe Zelle, Sussex, will discuss. Jewellery and Desire offers visitors a choice of around was executed by the French in 1917, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 90 individual jewellers and silversmiths but Dr. Julie Wheelwright will fight her 5AH Silversmithing who have been selected for their superb corner in this daytime lecture. 020 7969 5200 and innovative craftsmanship and have a Stewart’s Grove, SW3 6JJ britac.ac.uk @britac_news Fair genuine passion for the work they create. 020 7730 0717 returns to Chelsea Visitors can see and purchase from an nam.ac.uk - @NAM_London 22nd February exciting range of both emerging British as Revolution Old Town Hall talent as well as more established designer 20th February LSE makers. The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 Exploring the continuing appeal of Exhibitors include jewellers and Their Role in the First World cricket in South Asia, particularly India's nybody walking along the working in gold, silver, platinum, War dominance in the sport. Panel includes Kings Road should just palladium, aluminium, bronze, copper, Royal Geographical Society Dr. Parvathi Raman, Senior Lecturer in take a moment to count titanium, cellulose acetate and glass and During WWI, 10,000 Chinese men were Social Anthropology at SOAS. their blessings. incorporating gemstones, seaglass, buttons, hired by the British government to fill Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE A pearls, glass, enamel work, silk threads and the labour gap left by those fighting the 020 7405 7686 For the most part the Kings Road has beads into their work. war. John de Lucy, whose grandfather lse.ac.uk/Events @LSEpublicevents escaped the look of the UK’s High Streets Silversmiths include Jen Ricketts who transported some of the men, takes and is not being taken over by yet another creates intricate hand-pierced functional up the story of these forgotten 23rd February chain store or lookalike outlet stacked with silverware of city skylines and Brett Payne employees. A Personal Journey more of the same old boring products. with his range of hand-forged candlesticks 7 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR Through Good and Evil It is refreshing therefore that the and tableware. 020 7591 3044 JW3 Jewish Community Centre Desire Fair should be staged here annually, Anyone celebrating a special occasion, rgs.org @rgs_ibg Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands providing an opportunity for those seeking maybe a birthday or anniversary, may also like to speak to many of the makers about talks to Lisa Appignanesi about his more individual items than can be found commissioning bespoke pieces of jewellery 21st February genre-defining book, East West Street: On on ‘just another high street’. Away from the or silverware. Are We Ready for Robot the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against world of bar coded items and discounted sales lies a wealth of individual creativity. Opening times for the event are 10 Relationships? Humanity, which won the Baillie Gifford Welcome to the world of the ‘true’ designer am-6 pm Friday, 10 am-5 pm Saturday British Academy Prize for Non-Fiction. maker. and Sunday. Admission is £6. For further What will happen to robot-human 341-351 Finchley Road, NW3 Chelsea Old Town Hall will be the information contact the organisers on relationships as our technology becomes 6ET venue for this event from 3-5 March. 01622 747 325 or visit the web site at more sophisticated? And can a robot 020 7433 8988 Desire Fair is a mixed media jewellery www.desirefair.com. Venue: Old Town really stop you feeling lonely? A panel jw3.org.uk @jw3london and silversmithing event where visitors Hall, King’s Road, London, SW3 5EE

John Parnham’s Children’s Fun Fair in partnership with 23 February London Natural History Society: series, Discovering People. Dramaturg Adam Brace about her Birding Trinidad & Tobago from the 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR varied career, including acting for TV Asa Wright Nature Centre 020 7591 3100 and film, performing at the Edinburgh Burgh House rgs.org @rgs_ibg Festival Fringe, and releasing her own Martyn Kenefick, an expert on book. Caribbean birds at the Asa Wright 2nd March 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Nature Centre, will discuss Trinidad Computing for the 020 7478 0100 & Tobago’s 482 bird species, and the Future of the Planet sohotheatre.com @sohotheatre centre’s conservation efforts. Royal Society NORMAND PARK New End Square, NW3 1LT Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng 8th March LILLIE ROAD 020 7431 0144 FRS presents his findings on computer- The Value of Heritage and the Heritage www.burghhouse.org.uk/ driven sustainability initiatives, and of Value FULHAM SW6 7ST @BurghHouse1704 related research goals. Museum of London 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, on behalf of Gresham College th Fri 10 to 24th February SW1Y 5AG Simon Thurley CBE muses on the 28 74 190 Michael Wood: Fritz Lang 020 7451 2500 financial value placed on heritage 391 430 N28 th N74 N97 Sun 19 FEB and the Life of Crime royalsociety.org @royalsociety sites and objects. Beyond counting OPEN EVERY DAY 12 Noon to early evening British Museum the monetary cost, how else should Michael Wood, author and Professor of 3rd March we measure the assets in our historic Comparative Literature at Princeton, Biased Science environment? speaks about the theme of crime in three Royal Institution 150 London Wall, of Fritz Lang's films. A sociologist, a psychologist, an Barbican, EC2Y 5HN astrophysicist and a gender balance 020 7001 9844 This Fair is a Token Great Russell Street, operated event WC1B 3DG manager reflect on moments of gresham.ac.uk NO CASH ON RIDES OR STALLS ACCEPTED 020 7323 8181 unconscious gender bias and racial bias @GreshamCollege that affect us all. 1 TOKEN britishmuseum.org £1.00 @britishmuseum 21 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BS THEATRE 12 TOKENS 020 7409 2992 £10.00 1st March rigb.org @ri_science 3rd February-29th April TOKENS ON SALE Discovering People: Travesties AT BOOTH Shappi Khorsandi 4th March Theatre Royal Geographical Society Jessie Cave: In Conversation Tom Stoppard’s play transfers from the Comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi Soho Theatre Menier Chocolate Factory for a 12-week discusses how geography has shaped her Writer, performer and creative Jessie West End run. Patrick Marber directs, www.parnhamfunfairs.co.uk • Tel: 07956 245531 life. Part of the popular ongoing talks Cave talks to Soho Theatre’s Associate and Tom Hollander and Freddie Fox are 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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among the cast. Andrew Scott takes the title role in the 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, unforgettable Shakespearian tragedy, W1D 7EZ playing opposite Juliet Stevenson as 0330 333 4809 Gertrude. nimaxtheatres.com @NimaxTheatres Almeida Street, Islington, N1 1TA 8th February-4th March 020 7359 4404 Caravan Shorts almeida.co.uk @AlmeidaTheatre The Vaults (Venue: Caravan) A selection of quirky 15-minute plays, Ends 21st February commissioned for Vault Festival, Dubailand performed to a maximum audience of Finborough Theatre nine people. The glittering Dubai skyline hides a Leake Street, SE1 7NN dirty secret: its migrant labourers are 07598 676 202 exploited on a daily basis. Find out vaultfestival.com @VAULTFestival what happens when privileged ex-pat Jamie meets one of the labourers on 14th February-4th March the 88th floor of an unfinished tower Flew the Coop block. New Diorama Theatre 118 Finborough Road Lost Watch presents a play based on (above the Finborough Arms), the true story of Silesian translator Rosa Earl’s Court, Rauchbach and Horace ‘Jim’ Greasley, a SW10 9ED British Prisoner of War. Their unlikely 0844 847 1652 romance caused Jim to escape and return finboroughtheatre.co.uk @finborough to the prison camp 200 times. 15-16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, 25th February-29th April NW1 3BF Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead 0207 383 9034 Old Vic newdiorama.com @newdiorama 50 years after Tom Stoppard made his name with this witty play, the Old Vic 15th-19th February revives it with a stellar cast, including Scenes From an Urban Gothic David Haig, Joshua McGuire and Daniel The Vaults (Venue: The Cavern) Radcliffe. Vault Festival continues with this one- The Cut, SE1 8NB man piece of physical theatre, performed 0844 871 7628 in total silence, showing our character's oldvictheatre.com - @oldvictheatre struggles to adjust to nightmarish city life. 28th February-25th March Leake Street, SE1 7NN I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard 07598 676 202 Finborough Theatre vaultfestival.com @VAULTFestival Halley Feiffer’s black comedy, which won a Outer Critics’ Circle Award in 2015, 15th February-17th April explores the theatrical world through Twelfth Night ambitious actress Ella and her playwright OLD TOWN HALL National Theatre father. Dare she read the critics’ reviews (Venue: Olivier Theatre) of her off-Broadway debut? Shakespeare's romantic comedy of 118 Finborough Road mistaken identity hits the National just (above the Finborough Arms), after Valentine’s Day, starring Tamsin Earl’s Court, SW10 9ED Greig as Malvolio (in an additional twist, 0844 847 1652 CHELSEA Malvolio has become a woman). www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk Upper Ground, London @finborough SE1 9PX 020 7452 3000 28th February-1st April nationaltheatre.org.uk - @ a profoundly affectionate, passionate 3-5 March NationalTheatre devotion to someone (-noun) Admission £6 • 90 Exhibitors Royal Court (Venue: Jerwood Theatre 10am - 6pm Friday 16th February-1st April Upstairs) A Midsummer Night’s Dream Playwright Debbie Tucker Green (whose 10am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday Young Vic name and play title is always presented A new production of Shakespeare’s in lower case brings yet another arresting classic comedy sees director Tim Hill- drama to the Royal Court, this time focusing on three couples. READER Gibbins team up with renowned designer Admit One FREE OFFER Johannes Schütz. Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS 66 The Cut, Waterloo, SE1 8LZ 020 7565 5000 For free admission for one adult to the Desire fair, please complete and hand in on entry to the show. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. 020 7922 2922 royalcourttheatre.com @royalcourt youngvic.org @youngvictheatre Name (Ref: KCWT) 1st-2nd March 17th February-8th April Wanna Dance with Somebody Email Hamlet Camden People’s Theatre Almeida Running Dog Theatre presents a CIF_Desire_Chelsea17_316x126.indd 1 16/01/2017 14:31 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

show about social anxiety, dance Ends 16th April and theoretical physics. Expect a The White Devil mixture of music, live comedy and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre THE LECTURE CLUB storytelling. (Venue: Sam Wanamaker SPRING 58-60 Hampstead Road, London, Playhouse) be informed PROGRAMME NW1 2PY A Jacobean revenge tragedy is ND 020 7419 4841 transformed into a dystopian nightmare. FEBRUARY 2 DAMIAN CULHANE: cptheatre.co.uk - @camdenPT Directed by Annie Ryan, the play will be “HOW TO THRIVE UNDER STRESS - WHAT YOU NEED performed by candlelight. TO KNOW ABOUT SUPERFOODS” 1st March-17th June 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT ST Stepping Out 020 7401 9919 FEBRUARY 21 ANDREW WAUCHOPE EX UBS: Vaudeville Theatre shakespearesglobe.com “THE GREAT INVESTMENT DISTORTION” A revival of the musical comedy, directed @The_Globe TH by Maria Friedman and starring Amanda FEBRUARY 28 GERALD RATNER: Holden, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Ends 21st October “THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF GERALD RATNER” Tamzin Outhwaite. Dreamgirls TH 404 Strand, WC2R 0NH Savoy Theatre MARCH 7 MICHELLE MCGRADE: 0330 333 4814 It’s taken 35 years, but the Tony® award- “THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER OF INVESTING” nimaxtheatres.com winning musical about a Motown- @nimaxtheatres esque girl group has finally crossed the MARCH 14TH PROFESSOR NICK LOWE: pond. Starring Amber Riley as Effie “FACE AND SKIN REJUVENATION WITHOUT SURGERY” 8th-25th March White. Made in India Strand, WC2R 0ET APRIL 18TH CARRIE BROOKS – Soho Theatre 0844 871 7687 LIFE COACH - AGEING WELL “TIME OF OUR LIFE!“ This new play, written by Satinder dreamgirlswestend.com Chohan and directed by Katie Posner, @DreamgirlsLDN APRIL 25TH MICHAEL MORRIS FRANKS, is set in a Gujarati surrogacy clinic. It PARTNER WILLIAM STURGES LLP: “MR TURING I PRESUME” explores issues of motherhood and birth through the eyes of three very different women. VENUE: 9 ILCHESTER PLACE, LONDON W14 8AA 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE LECTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST SCHEDULE ON 020 7478 0100 WWW.THELECTURECLUB.COM sohotheatre.com @sohotheatre Compiled and edited by Polly Allen FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @thelectureclub

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War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917-1918 Estorick Collection 39a Canonbury Square Until 19 March 2017 Admission £6.50

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of paint, the delightful 1918 Asiago plateau . the over on patrol their aerodrome Carline British Scouts leaving Sydney Painting: Estorick Collection hasA opened its door after five months with an absorbing and fascinating exhibition of a forgotten part of British military history at the end of the First World War. Unlikely though it may sound, Italy asked Great Britain for military help, when the Austro-Hungarians went sweeping down towards the Adriatic coast, which included the great port of Trieste. Having first declared neutrality, Italy started secret talks with Vienna and London, seeking complicated offers of territory in exchange for support.They then declared war on Austria, which, with Germany’s fire- power, came raining down on an ill-prepared army. Caporetto in Slovenia is a rugged, mountainous 1916, and then, a chance meeting with gun in a bomber. He tried painting area, of no agricultural value, yet, despite Ernest Brooks and William Joseph the Hon. Evan Charteris, the biographer watercolours at those heights, struck by Brunell, who covered the events on the their inability to follow through and of John Singer Sargent, who was a the beauty of the mountains and sunsets, exploit their success, Caporetto was Italian frontline. Brooks had been a staff captain at the RFC, secured him a but the water froze, in spite of him trying soldier, and a brave one at that, in the a significant victory for the German commission as a second Lieutenant and to warm it up with his breath. This and Austrian troops, and the greatest Second Boer War, and wanted to get in he took up flight training. At the time, sounds like the equivalent of driving on the action ‘at the sharp end’. Brunell defeat in Italian military history. Some 35 trainee pilots were losing their lives a D-type Jaguar down the Mulsanne 20,000 German and Austrian soldiers had no military training, and was more every month, but after just 21 hours Straight at 180 mph whilst doing a quick interested in the civilians caught up were killed or wounded, but no fewer flying solo, mostly in obsolete deathtrap pencil sketch of the passing countryside. than 13,000 Italians were killed, 30,000 in this complicated conflict, as well fighter-bombers like the BE12, he was Flying at high altitudes for anything up as the interaction between the British wounded and 265,000 captured by mid- posted to Northern France over the to 2 hours led him to suffer from oxygen November. Worse was to follow, with a troops and their Italian counterparts, Somme. On his third mission, he was starvation or hypoxia, which brought around whom there had been animosity, further 350,000 Italian soldiers deserting shot down by German planes, taking a on severe headaches, eye-strain and by November 1917. They also captured disrespect, as well as curiosity, humility machine-gun bullet wound in his leg. respiratory problems. and humour. His pictures of the Austrian 2,000 Italian mortars and at least 3,000 He managed to stagger away from the Carline had many admirers, including guns alongside an additional 3,000 prisoners are, if anything, sympathetic, wrecked plane which crashed behind Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, C R W as Brunell said, ‘like a crowd whose machine-guns during the battle. It was British lines, before it exploded in flames. Nevinson, Henry Lamb and Paul Nash, a wake-up call for Britain and the allies. football team have lost the match’. After two and a half months in hospital, who observed that after the hostilities After the War, Brooks was appointed If Italy were neutralised, as Russia had he was reassigned to a Reserve Squadron, ended, painters such as themselves, were been, Austria could free up their armies a royal photographer, but he was less which flew a number of different aircraft, war artists without a war, and found than discreet about allowing a photo he and send men to France and Flanders. camouflaged by his old art teacher, it difficult to make a living. There are Transporting 200,000 British soldiers took of the Prince of Wales in his bath Tudor-Hart, including the fearsome and many fine drawings in this exhibition, to be widely circulated, and another of and their weaponry across France to Italy, unstable single-seater Sopwith Camel. and a number of oil paintings, made was a logistical nightmare, but it was him dressed in a kimono and a wig after However, Carline immediately mastered from sketches and studies done ‘on the appearing in a play. He was reprimanded achieved, along with five squadrons from this temperamental machine and was wing’. One powerful ‘grounded’ painting the Royal Flying Corps. Amongst the and stripped of both his OBE and BEM, posted to Italy in February 1918, where depicts Austrian Prisoners being driven as well as losing his royal warrant and his pilots was a young artist called Sydney the Central Powers were less than 20 towards the Italian line; dark, angular Carline. reputation, which is a great shame, as he miles from Venice. Astonishingly, he figures leaning forwards, while being was an astounding and long-serving war After a period at the Slade, where managed to combine flying at up to supervised by a singular, mounted guard he met the art historian, Roger Fry, he photographer, having taken over 4,400 20,000 feet on patrol with doing charcoal with a whip. Alongside this show, the pictures, many of which are held by the studied under Percyval Tudor-Hart in sketches whilst steering with his knees, Estorick are displaying a collection of Paris. 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Diana: Her Fashion Story Kensington Palace. Opens 24th February. 2017. Collection Royal The © Images The White Garden Kensington Palace. Opens in Spring and Summer 2017

carpet of forget me nots, enhanced with tulips and scented narcissi, will adorn the SunkenA Garden at Kensington Palace in springtime, to celebrate the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. In summertime the reflective pool in this historic garden, so loved by the Princess, will be surrounded with white roses. The planting will develop into a more exuberant style, with ornamental grasses gracefully flowing through colourful cosmic daisies and clouds of gaura, making the scene symbolic of her life and its changing styles. The Sunken Garden was originally planted in 1908 and is 18th century in style. It was modelled on a similar garden in Hampton Court Palace. The garden Emanuel and worn for the Engagement has always had rotational planting which portrait by Lord Snowdon and Victor was much admired by the late Princess Edelstein’s iconic, ink blue velvet gown Diana and discussed by her with the famously worn at the White House gardeners. when she danced with John Travolta. The new Fashion Exhibition in the Also on show a blue tartan suit, designed Stuart Pigott Galleries of Kensington by Emanuel for a trip to Venice, will be Place will replace the existing Exhibition, displayed for the first time. This is a rare Fashion Rules. It will trace the evolution article of day wear which was purchased of Princess Diana’s early style from by Historic Royal Palaces at auction. demure, romantic outfits for her first Princess Diana’s relationships with public appearances to the elegant designers are revealed in the Exhibition glamorous style, which she developed and some of the sketches they made herself as she grew more confident in her for her during the design process will roles as a member of the Royal Family, be on show. At first she was guided future Queen, Ambassador, Icon and towards established British Designers mother of two sons, the eldest being like Murray Arbeid, Bellville Sassoon destined for kingship. and Gina Fratini, all of whose designs The Exhibition will trace how were traditional. Later Princess Diana Princess Diana learned quickly how to sought a more youthful and personal use her image and beauty to connect style. Catherine Walker advised her how with the people. She became an enduring to develop an elegant tailored look and fashion icon and many women wanted to helped her with a streamlined modern emulate her looks. Copies were made of version of clothes for her public life. her clothes and the people claimed her as After Princess Diana was divorced her their Princess and loved her. clothes reflected independence and Eleri Lynn, Curator of the freedom. Exhibition, said, “Diana was one of the In the 1990s Princess Diana century. myriads of flowers left at the gates of most photographed women in the world, remained loyal to British designers Princess Diana was not only a fashion Kensington Palace when she tragically and every fashion choice she made was notably Jacques Azagury who favoured icon, but a tireless supporter of many died. closely scrutinised. Our Exhibition low cut neck lines and short skirts. She Charities. She did not shun difficult Marian Maitland explores the story of a young woman also approached the European designers causes and was Patron of the Leprosy who had to quickly learn the rules of including the Italians Valentino and Mission, and the National Aid Trust. Admission is included in the Palace and Royal and Diplomatic dressing, who, Versace and the French Couture Houses She was also Patron of Centre Point, the Gardens Admission ticket. in the process, put the spotlight on the of Dior, Lacroix and Chanel. This English National Ballet and the Royal Booking: UK 0844 482 7799 British Fashion industry and designers.” resulted in an international flavour to Marsden Hospital, and frequently hosted Outside UK +44 ( 0 ) 20 3166 6000 The Exhibition will range from her style, with a simple silhouette and charitable events at Kensington Palace. e-mail: [email protected] exquisite and glamorous ball gowns to an effect in the details and was about As we remember Princess Diana Kensington Palace. the chic suits designed by Catherine superbly cut materials worn with colour twenty years after her death, the flowers State Apartments. Walker for the Princess. Highlights co-ordinated accessories. This was the in the new White Garden celebrate her Kensington Gardens. include the pale pink blouse designed by look that defined fashion in the late 20th life and evoke the iconic memory of London. W.8 4PX 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in Collection Royal The © Image the Punjab and London Victoria and Albert Museum. London SW7 2RL 14th January -2nd April 2017

decorative mosaic panel on the original facade of the V&A Museum, which is now a grand thresholdA for its cafe, shows a portrait of bearded John Lockwood Kipling. The terracotta panels visible on the exterior front of this Museum are also the work of Kipling. He was born in 1837 and died in 1911. The V&A Museum, in collaboration with the Bard Graduate Center in New York, have presented, for the first time, a splendid Exhibition which rescues this talented, ‘ex-employee’ Kipling, from obscurity. It is curated by Julius Bryant, Keeper are on display of craftsmen in their of Word and Image at the Museum and workshops. The bracelet on display of Dr. Susan Weber, Director of the Bard enamelled gold set with diamonds is Graduate Center, and it is supported by finely crafted, as is the purple silk prayer the Friends of the V&A. mat. The sword and helmet are also Indian designs were much admired by impressive for their craftsmanship. A the British and Kipling was an active and notable exhibit is the fine painting of keen campaigner for the preservation the opulent, rich pageantry of the Delhi of Indian Arts and Crafts which were Durbar held to celebrate Queen Victoria Hammond John Trust. © National Image under threat from industrialisation. becoming Empress of India. He was also an artist, teacher, designer, The next section deals with Lahore journalist, conservationist and a colonial where Kipling made a collection of servant in the days of the British Raj. architectural sculpture; an example on The V&A owes much to him as he was display is an 18th century bay window instrumental in its foundation collection made of deodar wood. He encouraged and selected many objects in India for his students to document local buildings it. He also designed furniture for Royal and their studies of monuments and residences. He should not have been mosques are exhibited. There is excellent overshadowed by his famous, literary son, soundscape filming of Lahore by the Rudyard, or by William Morris, another students of the National College of famous 19th century designer. Arts. Do not miss the important bust Kipling was apprenticed in of Buddha on show for the first time in the potteries and then became an sixty years. architectural sculptor and designer. He The final section shows Kipling’s visited the Great Exhibition in 1851 design work of furniture for the Duke of which he found inspirational. The V&A Connaught’s residence at Bagshot Park purchased many pieces which he had and the Durbar Hall at Osborne in the admired. In the early 1860s Kipling was Isle of Wight, Queen Victoria’s Summer employed at the V&A, which was then Palace. These are displayed through called the South Kensington Museum, films. and he produced architectural decoration contributed much to the Gothic revival worked together with his son. This impressive Exhibition, with for the building under Godfrey Sykes’ of Bombay's architecture. The Exhibition is sensibly divided its paintings of memorable buildings direction. Kipling then travelled to Lahore, into three sections. and events, countless beautifully crafted Kipling went to India in 1865, at the capital of the Punjab, where he was The first section gives a good treasures and soundscape presentations a time when the British were seeking Principal at the new Mayo School of impression of a thriving city and shows us a world of vibrant colours, the to assert the values of Empire. He was Art (now Pakistan’s National College exhibits the dramatic painting of the great Heritage of Indian Art and the active in exporting Indian crafts, which of Art). He gave his life to Indian Art opulent Indian Court Pavilion designed sun, which has now set on a great, past were copied and made in England and and Design and recorded craft traditions by the East India Company for the Empire. then marketed back in India. He spent which were declining. He collected much Great Exhibition. The Gothic revival Marian Maitland. ten years in Bombay (now known as architectural material for the Lahore was much in evidence in Bombay and Mumbai) where he taught in the Sir Museum and the V&A’s collection. In Kipling contributed to its architectural Admission is free. J.J. School of Art. He and his students 1893, Kipling returned to England and decorations. Several of his drawings Information: vam.ac.uk/kipling 48 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

experience that transports the visitor to another time; that last day in service.

BRICKS AND However it is not just our historic © ENV Images infrastructure projects that are providing BRICKBATS a gateway to time travel. Our more recent tunnel constructions are also BY EMMA FLYNN helping to reveal the layer cake of history that is hidden below the city’s streets. The construction of London’s newest railway project, Crossrail, has given archaeologists a unique chance Tunnel Tours: to reveal some of the city’s most Subterranean London opens historically important sites. The new railway runs east to west through to the public some of the capital’s most significant historical areas. As a result, Crossrail has undertaken one of the most extensive archaeological programmes ever seen in the UK, unearthing archaeological finds from almost every important period of London’s history. Over 100 archaeologists have found more than 10,000 items from 40 sites, spanning

Image © Transport © London Image 8,000 years of human history. The finds uncovered so far include prehistoric animal bones, Roman remains, human remains from the infamous Bedlam psychiatric hospital and remnants of Britain’s industrial past. he was the In a major new exhibition Tunnel: The world’s first subterranean railway Archaeology of Crossrail, at the Museum network. Remaining one of the of London Docklands, opening on largest in existence, today it transports 10th February, the complete range of T archaeological objects unearthed by around four million passengers a day on over one hundred miles of underground Crossrail will be exposed to the public track. While this impressive network is for the first time. The wide variety of regularly experienced by residents and items on display will reveal the stories visitors alike, there is another landscape of Londoners ranging from Mesolithic of buried beneath the surface toolmakers and inhabitants of Roman that remains inaccessible to the public. Londinium to those affected by the Crisscrossing the tube network is a Great Plague of 1665. These finds were web of abandoned stations, military discovered in locations as diverse as tunnels, historic , sewers and suburban Abbey Wood in the south hidden rivers. For years many of these east, through Canary Wharf, across to subterranean spaces have been closed Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road to the public but as the trend for more and ending in Westbourne Park and unusual urban adventures grows, we are Acton. The artefacts will be displayed finding more and more of these spaces Clapham South deep-level shelter has the capital’s communication network alongside the story of this great feat of reopening. over a mile of subterranean passageways flowing for over 75 years. Extending engineering; the largest infrastructure This year the London Transport that reveal the extraordinary stories for 6.5 miles, the network linked six project currently underway in Europe. Museum is putting on another round of those who sheltered here, from sorting offices with the mainline stations A rare opportunity for the public, this of its hugely popular Hidden London Londoners seeking refuge during the at Liverpool Street and Paddington. year we are invited to explore the spaces tours, which sell out in a matter of days. Blitz, to hopeful Caribbean migrants At its peak, the service operated for 22 beneath our feet. We are encouraged to Their disused underground sites include arriving on the Empire Windrush, and hours a day, employing over 220 staff discover a secret subterranean past and Churchill’s secret station, Down Street, even thrifty visitors to the Festival of and transporting more than four million unearth the amazing stories of the people the Piccadilly line station used by the Britain. letters invisibly below ground every who are connected with it. From tours of Cabinet during the Second World War. This year another rare site will be day. All of this happening deep beneath London’s most intriguing underground Located in Mayfair between Green Park opening to the public. Located deep the streets of London, hidden from spaces, to an exhibition of one of the and Hyde Park Corner, Down Street beneath the streets of the capital, public view. In fact, these tunnels were UK’s largest excavations projects, had a short life as a working station London’s secret 100-year-old Post Office so clandestine in their early days, that a hidden world will be uncovered. from 1907 to 1932, but became critical railway is officially opening its (lift) they were even used to hide the Rosetta Subterranean London is open for to winning the Second World War doors. Known as Mail Rail, the Royal Stone during the First World War. visitors. when it was covertly transformed into Mail operated a narrow gauge railway, Now, through a series of new interactive the Railway Executive Committee's a subterranean network of automated exhibits, this history, the stories of the Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail opens bomb-proof . On the tour the trains, to ferry post between sorting people behind the railway, will all be on the 10th February and runs until visitor is taken on a journey through offices. The service began in 1927 and revealed. the 3rd September at the Museum of a of narrow tunnels where the ran until 2003, when the project was no These tunnel tours are thrilling not London, Docklands. nation’s railways were coordinated and longer considered viable due to escalating just because of their hidden nature, the The Postal Museum and Rail Mail Prime Minister running costs. Opening once again as unusual spatial experience of heading opens later this year. Sign up on their took refuge secretly at the height of part of the new British Postal Museum deep beneath London’s surface, but website postalmuseum.org for updates. the Blitz. Another of the subterranean and Archive, a section of the network through the exposure of a world locked Hidden London Tour tickets are on sites available to tour involves a descent has been resurrected. An operating train in the past. These constructions, sealed sale now through the London Transport of 180 steps to one of the eight deep- will transport visitors through the hidden at the point of closure, are frozen in Museum. More tickets will be released level shelters that exist across London. history of Mail Rail deep underground. time. Layers of historical artefact buried later in the year. Sign up on their website Opened to the public in July 1944, Mail Rail’s pioneering tunnels kept with them, they create an immersive www.ltmuseum.co.uk for further details. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

s one of the twentieth-century’s said of Jacob Epstein, ‘I do not like his of letters to Henry Lamb, to Jacques and most distinguished and work and he is a Jew and you could not Gwen Raverat, his brothers Gilbert and Stanley Spencer: intriguing painters, Spencer’s say a worse thing about a man than that.’ Sydney, and his sister Florence, known Looking to ‘autobiography’A is a welcome insight into His desperately frank views are shocking as Flongy. His eldest brother Will was a complicated and sometimes troubled to us today, but were not at odds with a boy prodigy at the piano, and used to Heaven mind. Misunderstood, rejected, eccentric, the prevailing sentiments of the time. He take a great interest in the diminutive Edited by John Spencer ordinary, other-worldly, tangled in love, quotes what his friend Jacques Raverat Stanley, who was only 5 foot 2 inches tall. self-obsessed, acclaimed, naive and said about of the Protestant, that they Because he walked slowly when he was Unicorn Press honoured, his life was spent sheltered are ‘mean, unforgiving, hate the poor to by himself, people in the village used to ISBN 978-1-910065-59-4 in Cookham, ‘holy suburb of Heaven’, get drunk and think soap is a virtue’. A laugh at him. One lady from the village apart from a period of war service in great deal of his journals are rambling called out to him, ‘Hurry up , Stanley, 368pp. £30 Salonika in the First World War. Later, and repetitious, but his love of nature, you’ll be the last up when the trumpet on a cultural trip to China, he said, ‘I home and the surrounding countryside sounds at the Resurrection.’ feel at home in China because I feel that comes across in spades. This first volume He went on a painting trip in 1911 Cookham is near,” Spencer told Premier deals with his childhood, his time at the from where he wrote, ‘I am in Somerset Chou En Lai in 1954, whose peasant Slade, his period as a medical orderly at doing watercolours, for one month communes enthralled him. There is no the Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol and which (thank the Lord) will end next record of the Premier’s response, which his time on active service in Salonika. At week, when I shall return to Cookham, may have got lost in translation. He kept the Slade, his contemporaries included my paradise.’ This was his true love, his journals throughout his life, containing Mark Gertler, C R W Nevinson, Paul birthplace and its inhabitants the subjects both his notes and sketches. This is Nash, Edward Wadsworth, David of many of his religious paintings, using the first of three volumes, edited by his Bomberg, his future brother-in-law Cookham High Street as the backdrop grandson John Spencer, publishing his Sydney Carline, and Dora Carrington. for The Betrayal and The Resurrection, abridged journals for the first time, and He travelled from his home every day to whose portrayal of everyday life with giving us an insight into how he thought Gower Street, and earned the nickname ordinary people in a spirit of redemption and worked. It has been a mammoth ‘Cookham’, which is how he signed was greeted with shock in some circles. task, distilling over 2 million words into many of his letters. He was taught by This an absorbing account of his life, one volume of, say, 150,000 densely- the legendary Henry Tonks, who said sometimes suffocating in its detail, set words, with two other books on the of him, ‘ In some ways he has shown sometimes mundane, particularly his blocks. signs of having the most original mind routine chores at the War Hospital, but In a letter to Richard Carline, brother of anyone we have had at the Slade and always revealing about his slant on life of Sydney, subject of an exhibition at the he combines this with great powers of and his art. Estorick Collection at the moment, he draughtsmanship.’ He wrote hundreds Don Grant

other-worldly view of sci-fi comics and those that find mega-cities, irradiated Future Shock: 40 mutants, interstellar space fleets reducing years of 2000AD whole planets to rubble and psychopathic The Cartoon Museum robots just a little bit nerdy. They have an enormous following, which extends into 35 Little Russell Street big budget feature-length movies, such London WC1A 2HH as Judge Dredd, with Sylvester Stallone, fan-made films viewable on-line, and, Until 23 April 2017 naturally, computer games. Admission £7 There are 80 works on loan from collectors and artists on display, some by the originator of Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog, Carlos Ezquerra, as well George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty- as artists such as Dave Gibbons, Brian Four in 1949, and the dystopian vision Bolland, Mike McMahon, Ian Gibson, of a totalitarian state, cancerous with Henry Flint, David Roach and award- censorship and the manipulation of winning ‘proper’ artist Simon Davis, language, seemed far-off enough in the Whether one likes this genre, or not, the future as to be unimaginable. standard of artwork is extremely high, By the same token, few could have with meticulous attention to detail in foreseen that the weekly British science both pen-and-ink and gouache. Comics fiction comic 2000 AD, launched in stretch back over many decades and have February 1977, would outlive its own their roots in Hogarth, Rowlandson and sell-by date. Who would have thought Gilray, with the advent of the British that a bunch of futuristic fantasy Graphic Novel emerging in the seventies. characters like lawman Judge Dredd, There is an homage to Dan Dare from mutant bounty hunter Strontium Dog, The Eagle in a 1970s reinvention, a infantryman Rogue Trooper and 50th- futuristic yarn spun for the post-war century everywoman Halo Jones would children, brought up on Dandy, the endure into the twenty-first century? Beano and Hotspur. He was our only 2000 AD was the brainchild of writers contact with aliens, rockets and outer Pat Mills and John Wagner, and over the space, other than Journey into Space on past forty years, they have been joined the wireless in the fifties. It is over thirty by a galaxy of other writers, like writers years since Orwell’s grim forebodings Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mark Millar should have come true, or maybe they and Grant Morrison. They, in turn, have have. On a bright cold day in April, the inspired an asteroid belt of artists, whose clocks may still strike thirteen. Who work this show celebrates. The world can knows. be polarised into those that revel in the Don Grant 50 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

entrance from the top of the stairs… I’ll deux and solo in the final act showing have to treat myself to centre seats next she has arrived as a ballerina. Vadim BALLET time”. Messel was a master of his trade Muntagirov danced Prince Florimund BY ANDREW WARD with costumes that fit the fairytale scenes with consummate ease. He is now every as well as the forest scenes before the bit a noble prince and superb partner too. final wedding scene with the opulence He danced the melancholy solo in the fit for any Royal wedding. Cattalabutte’s Act 2 forest scene with a seamless adagio costume in the prologue was perhaps the quality and stunning lines that Ashton exception to the rule as it stood out as created on Anthony Dowell. To have a The Royal being distinctly odd… perhaps Messel tall long-limbed dancer command the had something up his sleeve as this was stage on his own with adagio ’s Sleeping the character in the ballet who got it so ballet is mesmerising and a thing of wrong by forgetting to invite Carabosse sheer beauty! Muntagirov has it all… Beauty… dancing to the christening party. well nearly! Dowell tilted the upper body Unusually for The Royal Ballet, this and head more at the start of the renversé on the world’s production will see 25 performances by en dedans pirouette from arabesque. In Act 10 different casts for the principal roles 3, Muntagirov soared to even greater stage! Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund heights with a stunning masterclass of being performed over a four month male virtuosity: double cabrioles both period. A stroke of genius from the en avant and en arriere; double tour en director? With 2016/17 season’s roster l’air with height and precision soft of 20 principal dancers, 13 first soloists landings. The audience gave Lamb and 18 soloists all wanting to have their and Muntagirov the most deserving share of the big stage you can see why rapturous applause. Other performances The Sleeping Beauty is a win win result to note: Francesca Hayward and for the management, dancers, box office Alexander Campbell stood out in the Act and audience alike! Everyone has a part 3 Bluebird. She turned and tweeted with to play in this epic masterpiece with so fluttering delicate charm and composure many roles on offer. whilst he dazzled the audience with his The opening night lead roles were darting series of brisé voilés en diagonale; danced by Sarah Lamb and Vadim Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Yasmine Naghdi Muntagirov. Lamb danced Princess and James Hay gave a fresh and dynamic Aurora with the assurance and precision account of Ashton’s Florestan. we have grown to enjoy and expect The company is on top form with from a ballerina on the world stage. Her the corps de ballet being in fine fettle. At balances, extensions and exquisite timing every level the dancers are performing in the Rose Adage kept the audience at with a sense of pride and belief that they the edge of their seats with excitement. have earnt a place on the world stage and In Act 2, Lamb showed a softer more want to keep it that way. Sleeping Beauty vulnerable side to her portrayal of the is a long ballet but would be even longer role dancing with her prince in the if the whole company were not stepping dreamy vision scene whilst still showing up to the mark. They certainly did on the fleeting virtuosity in the solo moments. opening night! Lamb has the stamina for this role as she builds her command of the stage In repertory until 14 March: roh.org.uk. saving the best to last with the pas de Live cinema relay 28 February. very major international ballet well bringing new life to this classic company has it’s own production dance that sets the scene before Princess of this iconic classic The Sleeping Aurora performs the Rose Adage with EBeauty. The Royal Ballet’s production her four suitors. Wheeldon cleverly celebrates 70 years since it was first updates the dance with the challenging danced by Margot Fonteyn in 1946 to steps expected of today’s male dancers reopen the Royal Opera House after including grand jetés and tour en l’air. He

the war. It is part of the staple diet of embellishes the steps, including By Bill Cooper © ROH. Photographs classical ballets, alongside , balancés in all directions with beautiful Nutcracker and , that defines a port de bras, that give the movement a . So how does The Royal fluidity and sense of joy and radiance Ballet fare with one of its signature that clearly engages the dancers and the productions, The Sleeping Beauty? audience alike. Ashton’s contribution, as Marius Petipa, the father of classical a master of classical ballet, is sublime; ballet, created this four act (actually a particularly Prince Florimund’s Adage prologue and 3 acts) masterpiece in 1890 Solo in Act 2 and The Florestan in the last to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuously delicious act. Both dances remain as challenging score. The Royal Ballet version takes as the day he added his brilliance to the on a feast of choreographers to help production. it (with what at times feels like a 12 Oliver Messel’s original designs adorn course menu) keep the pas d’action alive. this timeless classic with splendor and Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and a staircase on stage right that sets the more recently Christopher Wheeldon evening with a sense of grandeur for join in the mix with their own recipe most, but not all, of the audience. The of choreography. Sleeping Beauty is one Royal Opera House’s horseshoe shaped of the few productions that can handle auditorium does not lend itself to major the phrase “too many cooks spoil the elements of the set being either side of broth”. Wheeldon’s rendition of the the stage. One audience member said Act 1 Garland dance flows and molds “I would have liked to have seen the 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

By Myself still relatively fresh, Edgar blaring, wondering how many of the Hayward Gallery) and occupying a 21- Broughton’s solo work was naturally to previous evening’s useful tips for self- acre site that sits in the midst of (CLASSICAL) the fore, but the majestic opener from By improvement our always good-humoured London’s most vibrant cultural quarter Myself, Arabesque/All Fall Down /Speak senior partner Simon Noakes would on the South Bank of the Thames. The Down the Wires which also opened the take.) site has an extraordinary creative and MUSIC set, was the only solo piece from that Day one includes two concerts, a architectural history stretching back to BY JAMES DOUGLAS album. Three seminal band tracks from dance session and Q&As with Louis the 1951 Festival of Britain. Building By Myself (Poppy, Evening Over Rooftops, de Bernières. Day two includes a vocal on this rich heritage, Southbank Centre and Hotel Room) reduced me to tears, workshop, children’s participatory offers an extensive artistic and cultural and to pleading for the fourth, which concert, talks and a finale concert. programme including annual and one- was of course Green Lights. Over half An all-female group, The Brook off themed festivals and classical and Edgar Broughton the set was devoted to unpublished work Street Band is named after the contemporary music, performance, dance, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire including On The News, The Sound Don’t London street where composer George visual art and literature and spoken word Come, Six White Horses, and There’s A Hole Frideric Handel lived. Formed in events throughout the year. So there you 17 December 2016 In It indicate the forthcoming album will 1996 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo are: be every bit the tour de force that is By (granddaughter of the renowned cellist Myself. How fabulous that this genius of William Pleeth), the band rapidly www.southbankcentre.co.uk established itself as one of the UK’s leading Handel specialists. If you’re planning on going, do let Boris Berezovsky me know if you want to meet up … I Royal Festival Hall, wonder if Zaks Burgers still taste that good? I imagine they’ve moved from the Southbank Centre stall in car park …. Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op.106 Image © Richard St. Clair Browne Imrie Clair Browne St. © Richard Image www.zaks.uk.com www.brookstreetband.co.uk (Hammerklavier) Fryderyk Chopin: Southbank Three Impromptus Op.29, Op.36, Op.51 Centre Sergey Prokofiev: Just across the water, the major festival in March is the Women of the World Piano Sonata No.8 in B flat, Festival (WOW). This year sees many Op.84 influential women gather to seek solutions to the problems that threaten 28 February 2017 7:30 pm women’s rights, boasting a star-studded ou should never meet childhood mid-era proto-punk hard rock should line up including writer and activist heroes in mid-life? I first saw the manage to reinvent himself as a bard. Angela Davis. By a somewhat arcane Edgar Broughton Band, aged Quite simply one of the best live acts coincidence I’m pretty sure Angela Davis fourteen, watching spellbound as in there is, and ever was: Edgar Broughton. was the inspiration for the divine Sister Y www.edgarbroughton.com Angela from Inside Out by the Edgar particular they played Green Lights then recently released on their fifth seminal Broughton Band, the best protest album Hall Festival © Royal Image album Oora. When I interviewed Edgar of them all; my favourite (and John Broughton for Rokpool.com forty Lennon’s). years later, Edgar sang Green Lights The Brook Street If like me you’re wondering what accompanying himself on proprietor/ Band the Southbank actually is, here’s some editor Robin Smith’s acoustic guitar. love: Handel Festival background from the WOW release: Personally invited by one of my life’s Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest greatest heroes (a love of whose music The Chapel, Park Lane, arts centre, comprising three iconic was shared by John Lennon and David Norwich NR2 3EF buildings (Royal Festival Bowie, and who is even name-checked Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and by Stephen Fry) I was delighted to 22 and 23 April 2017 attend Edgar Broughton’s solo concert supporting Family, whose farewell Handel seems to be cropping up a lot concert was a surprisingly robust if recently … The Brook Street Band is emotional event in front of a packed launching its inaugural Handel Festival, Shepherd’s Bush auditorium. a 2-day event in Norwich. I try to erase Edgar Broughton really is a memories of UEA. The only thing I remarkable rock phenomenon. In the learned was reading and writing are like I imagine Berezovsky will sell out band’s heyday, the first half of the trying to eat while throwing up. I hated so I might be wasting your time and seventies, they were considered senior every minute of it, but did meet mega- mine plugging this event, but I assure members of the hard rock underground, charming and thoroughly gorgeous you I’ve sent off my plea for a press occasionally charting, and cited by the ex-wife Anita, wonderful mother of plus one. (All offers to join me will be cognoscenti as amongst the greatest acts. our children, so manage to focus on the rigorously considered). I doubt you need Interestingly they frequently supported positive. to be told what an important part of Pink Floyd, and I found myself praising The thought of Handel in a suburban the Southbank’s International Piano the solo work of Gilmour just a couple Swedenborgian Chapel in Norwich has Series this is. If you do, I’d just go: you of months ago. Edgar Broughton’s had me researching B&Bs. (Having a won’t get many opportunities to see performance the other night was even horror of provincial hotels, the legacy the Hammerklavier performed by an better, that huge voice dominating an of away-jobs as a trainee, waking up international superstar. If I don’t see you intimate and appreciative venue. With at three in the morning curiously there, we can always catch up at Zaks in 2011’s highly acclaimed solo outing thirsty, fully clothed, shopping channel N’arch. © Southbank Centre Image 52 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

MAX One, just two hours after the shooting; Jackie Jackie, still plainly in shock, breaking the Feldman Director: Pablo Larrain news to her children. Larraín provides REVIEWS no reliable sense of passing time, letting Running Time: 100 minutes the sleepless hours bleed into sleepless days. Mirroring Onassis’s own life pre and post assassination, the cameras

Photograph © Summit Entertainment Photograph press uncomfortably close to Portman’s sleepless face, whilst Mica Levi’s Whilst sitting down to watch Jackie cacophonous score relentlessly snarls it’s hard not to question whether the and sooths. This score is Jackie’s secret world really needs another film about weapon, full of lonely horns and paranoid the Kennedy assassination. Considering strings it’s about as far from Hollywood that the only period of history that schmaltz as it gets and key in helping has received more extensive theatrical Jackie to stand on its own as a great coverage than America circa 1963- movie instead of just more Oscar bait. 73 is the Second World War, it’s easy This being said Jackie doesn’t to cynically pre-judge the film as yet completely sidestep its genre’s another raking over of Baby Boomer sentimental traditions. The horror of arcana as yet more self-congratulatory the early scenes eventually bleeds into hagiography. However in the hands agonizing over funeral plans along of Director Pablo Larrain, Jackie with rather familiar references to the manages to avoid most of the pitfalls King Arthur stories (the Broadway hit of contemporary Hollywood biography Camelot is played twice, which feels a where Gibson presents the theatre of war filmmaking. Rather than attempting to tad lazy considering the aforementioned Hacksaw Ridge as a cross between The Last Judgement lazily summarise the life of Kennedy first quality of the There Will Be Blood-tinged Director: Mel Gibson and the most fevered imaginings of lady Jackie Onassis (Natalie Portman) original soundtrack and perhaps one Hieronymus Bosch. Intestines coat the the film revolves kaleidoscopically too many speeches about legacy, as Running Time: 139 Minutes ground like gossamer and the sights around one shattering incident (no prizes Jackie works out her fears and anxieties of decapitations, eviscerations and for guessing what) and its immediate in conversation with a priest ( John disembowellings are only hidden by an ever-present curtain of reeking smoke el Gibson’s career as a that twitches prissily over the action, filmmaker has not been overly both adding to the hellish atmosphere marred by subtlety; The Passion and mercifully hiding the excesses from of The Christ re-imagined torture porn view.

M Searchlight © Fox Photograph as catnip for the Bible belt, the savage Hacksaw Ridge never tops (or Aztec manhunt of Apocalypto probably really makes any attempt to top) that works better without the English first encounter, instead it focuses on subtitles and now Hacksaw Ridge, a Doss’s hallucinatory attempts to help film which takes the phrase “war is hell” the wounded, encountering elaborate terrifyingly literally. Gibson’s filmography suicides, tortured men and accidental presents humanity as drowning in a deaths that could be passed off as unused churning sea of violence and brutality, woodcuts of a particularly visceral edition only finding meaning in the trials of of Dante’s Inferno. Gibson’s maximalist those rare souls whose saintly endurance symbolic style is almost certainly not for redeems them and the world around everyone. For him subtext is something them. As a result the real question is why exclusively for the film theorists; If you it’s taken Gibson until now to make a can shoot something as a direct allegory war film as the genre seems gift wrapped for Christianity (like soldiers washing aftermath, veiling Camelot’s horrific Hurt, exceptional), an anguished Bobby for his singular world view. the blood off themselves in symbolic climax through the extremely subjective Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), and a loyal Hacksaw Ridge is based on the real baptism) then you take that imagery and eyes of Jackie herself. confidante (Greta Gerwig). But if the life story of Desmond Doss (Andrew you ram it down the audience’s throat. There is a slight problem of cognitive screenplay by Noah Oppenheim (weirdly Garfield), a World War II-era medic There is something to be said for this, dissonance in that Portman looks just primarily known as the screenwriter of who was the first conscientious objector something this bold and unashamed different enough from Onassis that Young Adult tosh like The Maze Runner to win the Medal Of Honour. We are tends to be closer to The Fast and The there is feeling of the uncanny valley, and Allegiant) can get a little on the introduced to Doss in his poverty- Furious rather than bleak meditations on compounded by Portman’s notably nose (as opposed to straight through the stricken rural childhood nearly killing warfare, but it’s likely to turn off as many arch performance. However as the forehead), it also takes the Kennedys’ his brother with a rock during a fight, as it turns on. The film is unarguably film unspools it becomes clear that her existential crisis in the wake of JFK’s establishing both a connection to moving and Andrew Garfield notches potentially alienating performance is murder seriously; like anyone else, they violence that Doss clearly has to battle to up another great performance on his belt actually powerfully representative of just wanted to know that they mattered, suppress and also to the biblical figure of (the parallels and opposites between his Onassis’s disconnection and alienation that they made some mark on the world. Cain, metaphysically raising the stakes roles in Hacksaw Ridge and Silence are following the assassination of her As a result much of the film is as much of his rejection of violence. That the rather fascinating), not everything works; husband (it’s more than worthy of its about media control as anything else, film then takes over an hour to actually the assertion that Doss’s capacity for Oscar nod). The film’s first hour is a with the devastated Jackie attempting get to the conflict might sound strange sin needs redemption is hard to engage blisteringly disorienting whirl following to plot a way to enshrine her husband’s on paper, but that hour crackles with with if you’re not burning with the same the passage of events minutes after legacy whilst hiding her own deep pain. violence from every corner: From Doss’s theological fervour as Mel Gibson (not the gunshot as a crystalline series As a result we get an unusual view of the World War One veteran father to Doss’s something to be aspired to generally) and of vignettes: Jackie cradling JFK’s cold politicking behind the rise of the brutal hazing at the hands of boot camp the scenes Doss spends with his fiancée haemorrhaging head, trying to keep it JFK legend that society is still ensnared co-conscripts who respond to his refusal are syrupy to say the least. Despite these intact, as the motorcade races down the in today (personally I’d take RFK any day to train with a rifle with Neanderthal problems Mel Gibson’s interpretation highway to safety; Jackie, adamant about of the week) along with an insight into menace. However the film only truly of the horrors of war is a powerful and remaining in her drenched clothing, the broken woman under the surface, comes into its own when the soldiers are primal piece of art. watching as Lyndon Johnson ( John it’s that second insight that makes Jackie first deployed in the battle of Okinawa, Carroll Lynch) is sworn in on Air Force soar. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield). He has Silence come from the Portuguese colony of Director: Martin Scorsese Macau with his fellow padre Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) to minister to Running Time: 161 minute Japan’s persecuted Catholics and to find out what really happened to the head of the last Jesuit mission, Father

Photograph © Summit Entertainment Photograph Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have renounced Christianity. The year is 1639, just shortly after the failed Meditations on the nature of faith, uprising of Catholic peasants called the particularly of the Christian faith, Shimabara Rebellion, and well after have somewhat fallen out of favour in Christianity had been officially outlawed mainstream Hollywood productions as a foreign influence following a brief with the turn of the 21st century. As a and unlikely period of popularity and result the slack has to a large extent been acceptance. The Japan that Rodrigues taken up by the home-grown propaganda enters is so alien that many characters machines responsible for tripe such as affirm that faith of any kind will by God’s Not Dead, less films than a series of necessity wither and die in the "swamp" straw men and ideological bullet points of the Japanese homeland. Surrounded cynically put together to put divinely by the physical and mental tortures of inspired bums on seats in the lucrative the oppressed and hidden Christians, bible belt. Whether Hollywood’s move Rodrigues finds himself torn between away from the mysteries of faith can the ideological firmness of his religious right side of funny instead of infuriating). be put down to a general turn towards convictions and the growing knowledge Frustrated by the decline of jazz in the atheism in mainstream art, or simply (and temptations) that all it would take La La Land face of commercial reality (“I guess the the kind of natural wax and ebb that to stop the violence and misery would be Director: Damien Chazelle joke’s on…..history” he complains about other non-God related genres are subject for him to renounce his own faith. Running Time: 128 minutes a famed jazz haunt that has rebranded to. Given Silence’s uncompromising Whilst things are certainly less as a ‘tapas and tango’ bar) and hung on examination of the limits and limitations bombastic than much of Scorsese’s the legends whose careers he covets, of faith in extreme adversity however, back catalogue (sadly there’s no mass Sebastian is so stubbornly committed it seems that Martin Scorsese didn’t crucifixion scenes set to Layla) that he musical, once one of the to “real” jazz that he can’t hold down get that memo or considering that he doesn’t mean the most rollicking of the central mainstays of classic a job playing standards at a swanky has been attempting to make it for over great American directors has completely Hollywood, hasn’t so much restaurant; he’s a cousin to both the 25 years, perhaps he received it all too surrendered the aggressive qualities of his been killed off by modernity as much as maniacally driven drummer of Whiplash clearly. style. Silence resists the pictorialism and T sweep of a conventional historical drama, guillotined by it. Barring the occasional and Oscar Isaac’s hopelessly principled Silence, Martin Scorsese’s long- Broadway adaptation (The Phantom Of Llewyn Davis. But there’s a glimmer of in-the-works adaptation of Shūsaku even as it can’t resist some of the genre’s The Opera take your bow! Or rather, something more beneath his cynicism, Endō’s same-titled novel about a Jesuit oldest tropes. (The padres, for instance, don’t) the Hollywood musical is a and Mia and Sebastian are drawn to each priest searching for his former mentor all speak with Portuguese accents of museum piece that seems as prehistoric others’ respective passion. La La Land in Shogun-era Japan, is a truly religious varying consistency, with the amusing as anything in the Natural History traces their salty-then-sweet courtship piece of filmmaking, in that it looks exception of Liam Neeson who doesn't Museum to modern eyes. This is why by season, watching as it evolves from for meaning in the contradictions even make the attempt.) La La Land, which certainly seems to be mutual dislike to flirtatious antagonism and absurdities of faith, instead of its In fact, a lot of the casting in Silence a relatively frothy bit of cinema on the to head-over-heels romance. Hanging on assurances. One might call it a movie of could be seen as suggestive, at least in surface, is in some ways quite a bold film. the horizon though is the fear that the dark ironies or a black comedy without how it relates viewer expectations to Bringing Westerns back as more violent, pairs parallel dreams and frustrations will jokes or even the anti-Goodfellas, as the Rodrigues’ futile search for guidance. Its brutal genre pieces is one thing, but shatter the fledgling couple two films complement each other in treatment of Rodrigues’ spiritual turmoil asking audiences to forget decades worth Director Damien Chazelle’s first unexpected ways. Submitting his camera alternates between mystical affirmation of cynicism is quite another. As a result film was the crackling, tension-fuelled to primeval landscapes, and foregoing his and droll subversion. In its superb coda, La La Land approaches its romantic Whiplash and the dynamic visual style usual ‘Marty’s Favorites’ playlist in favour central story with a certain degree of (and jazz obsession) helps testify that his of an almost instrument-free ambient ironic remove, but make no bones about first feature was not a fluke. With La La soundtrack that qualifies as film music it: La La Land is a big-hearted traditional Land Chazelle took the Whiplash theme only in a conceptual sense, Scorsese love story disguised in Millennial of unfairly measuring yourself against presents a world that is daunting in its Sarcasm and is likely to make audience the greats of the past and expanded it mystery, cruelty, and symbolism. As the adverse to that kind of nonsense roll their to fill the picture’s entire universe. The purest exploration of the director’s great

eyes hard enough to whirl them out of setting might be 2017 but the characters Catholic themes completely free of New Pictures © Paramount Photograph their heads. and even the city itself are striving to York influences, it’s inevitably something Luckily the two leads Mia and recreate some idealised version of history, of a challenge. Sebastian are played by the eminently that might not even have existed the way First conceived while the director likeable Emma Stone and, the admittedly they imagine it. La La Land is something was in Japan for the filming of Akira rather more erratically charismatic Ryan of a Marmite proposition, its froth will Kurosawa’s Dreams (i.e. right between Gosling, both of whom manage to be be offputting to some and its refusal Last Temptation and Goodfellas), Silence charming enough to keep La La Land on to go all in on its musical heritage (the is an anti-spectacle, a complete about- an even keel. No small feat considering middle third of the film is effectively face from the lavish period decors and the film somehow finds a way to the that in less capable hands the film has song free) and only one genuine costumes of earlier Scorsese movies former through the latter. Having walked the potential to put the Hindenburg to showstopper of a song is in danger of like Hugo, Gangs Of New York, and The and sat alongside Rodrigues as he has shame. After a chance encounter Mia alienating musical obsessives. La La Land Age Of Innocence. Filmed in Taiwan, it wrung his hands in doubt and watched and Sebastian’s romance begins in a time- is a fun, bittersweet ride that ultimately limits its view of 17th-century Japanese others die horribly while trying to figure honoured Hollywood tradition: naked is probably badly served by the hype life to far-flung villages, tiny huts, and out whether it would be worse to betray dislike. In an act of cosmic matchmaking, swirling around it. If you can manage to walled compounds, effectively alternating his faith or their own, Silence delivers a Mia keeps running into the struggling forget every word in this review and go in agoraphobic and claustrophobic couple of cosmic punchlines, making it jazz pianist Sebastian; (Gosling manages with no expectations then so much perspectives. Its protagonist is the one of the few Scorsese films to redeem to tightrope his cranky charm just on the the better. emaciated and unkempt Father its protagonist. 54 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Victorians Decoded at the Guildhall Art Gallery © Guildhall Photograph By Max Feldman

egardless of what the new President of the United States Rmay have to say about it, the march of technological progress and globalisation have made the world a smaller place. Victorians Decoded at the Guildhall Art Gallery set its focus on the first time that mankind utilized technology to hack the terrifying size of the world down to a more manageable size: the successful construction in 1877 of a telegraph cable between demonstrates how the Victorians fittingly is reputed to be haunted. cable were also counterbalanced by an Britain and the US. The Atlantic cultural attitudes towards distance and Rather less hair-raisingly (but no less explosion of codes and secret messages. Telegraph Company was a joint communication were permanently interesting) is the Great Grammatizer, Whilst the Victorians might have felt American and British project, established altered by the new global reality sparked a machine constructed by Alexandra that they were standing at the precipice in 1856 with a working capital of by the cable’s completion. Bridarolli which breaks down messages of an unknown future, modern audiences £350,000 that would prove wholly The exhibition is divided into written by the public into eccentric can see the new realities explored in insufficient. The first successful cable four sections: Distance, Resistance, poems and codes, reflecting how the new Victorians Decoded as the uncertain connection came in the summer of 1858, Transmission and Coding, each focused possibilities opened by the completed beginnings of a newly connected world. on the fifth attempt, but not before the on a different aspect of how Victorian loss of hundreds of miles of expensive culture was affected by this first move cable. towards a more globalised world. Many he gave many talks and guided walks It was used to transmit a message of the contemporary artists set out to around the Royal Borough, and he between Queen Victoria and the capture how rapidly the world was was an ardent critic of bad planning US President James Buchanan. The changing, as in William Lionel Wyllie’s and inappropriate developments, also occasion was a PR triumph but an Scene on the Lower Thames, with its working for the Cadogan Estate on engineering disaster; the cable was looming sailing ships and squat steamers areas of survey. He was a life member too weak, and failed within weeks. vying for space on the river. “Art itself of Chelsea Arts Club, from where he Increasingly murderously expensive was transformed as telegraphic systems launched the Whistler Society, and attempts followed until Isambard were established,” explained Caroline was instrumental in commissioning Kingdom Brunel’s monster iron ship, Arscott, professor of 19th-century a statue of the American artist, who the Great Eastern, then the biggest British art at the Courtauld. Perhaps founded the Club in 1891 on the ship in the world, finally got the job the highlight of the expedition is Edwin north side of Battersea Bridge from the done in 1866, enabling a message to be Landseer’s Man Proposes, God Disposes, an sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby. He was transmitted at a rate of approximately astounding (and unnervingly bleak) study also a member of the London Sketch one minute for each eight words. Whilst of the aftermath of Sir John Franklin’s Club, where he hosted a number of the first of the expedition rooms features 1845 ill-fated arctic expedition which Designers’ and Architects’ Nights samples of the transatlantic cables, the features two positively demonic looking for many years, giving one of his majority of the exhibition is made up polar bears feasting on the remains of David Le Lay 1945-2017 famous and erudite Black and White of an emotive selection of Victorian-era the unfortunate explorers. The painting Lectures during the evening. He was paintings (including work by Edward holds pride of place in the Resistance a churchwarden of Christ Church, John Poynter, Edwin Landseer, James section (which focuses on the immense orn and educated in Jersey in Chelsea, and a member of the Reform Clarke Hook, William Logsdail, William difficulties that the sheer distance BJanuary 1945, David went to Club. He will be remembered as a jolly, Lionel Wyllie and James Tissot) that presented the cable engineers) and rather Canterbury School of Architecture smartly-dressed and polite gentleman, and then the University of in the true sense of the word, although Westminster, formerly the Regents he could have a ready wit and an Street Poly, in 1967, opening his own acerbic tongue if challenged, but that practise in 1970. He was an inveterate made for a more exciting exchange. clubman and was a member of 21 He met his lifelong partner John institutions. At the centre of his Thacker while studying in Canterbury, life was Chelsea, where he lived for having been together for 53 years, many years and was Chairman of and we offer him and David’s family the Chelsea Society for 22 years our sympathy for the loss of a one-off until 2009, when he was given an Chelsea character. honorary role. During this period, DG 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Cuba: a rum place to visit

by Derek Wyatt © Michael Petit Photograph

lying to Cuba from the UK is becoming easier. Virgin flies direct and BA should be adding it to its Fservices shortly. The Fidel Castro years are over and Raoul, his brother, is trying his best to modernise the country. There will be huge celebrations in 2019 when the country celebrates 60 years of the Marxist republic. Arriving in Cuba can be a trial.

ou will need a special addition to your passport which will set you back £30 and can only be purchasedY in London. You should carry your health insurance policy as there are random checks at customs. You will need a first degree in patience at the carousel for your luggage to appear and a second degree in murder! We waited ninety minutes before it arrived. Should this happen to you, make sure you have spare Cuban Modern Art, the Museum of the bottles of water, ask for them on board, Republic next door, a tour of Havana in and some games for the children. Be an open top bus, a pleasure ride in one of wary, too, of taxi scams. Always ask the the many splendid Cadillacs ($50) plus price before setting off and use the taxis a visit to Fusterlandia to see a Gaudi- parked at the airport. esque village designed by Jose Fuster, Raoul has allowed a thousand Schmidt © Reinhart Photograph badly in need of renovation, but amusing restaurants to flower. If only it was nonetheless. that easy. In Havana, there is not Unlike the rest of Central America much evidence of a service culture. the US dollar is unwelcome. You will There are not enough qualified chefs. need Euros or Sterling in plenty or risk The infrastructure creaks every day, the local exchange scams. The currency sometimes every hour. Water goes on of Cuba is different depending on who and off. There is not sufficient gas for the you are. This is confusing. Locals trade in ovens and stoves. Toilets cannot flush. MN$ (pesos) whilst others and visitors Wines cannot be chilled. The air con in Cuba or more likely another Central trade in CUC$. A merger of currencies fails. Waiting for an hour to be served is opens at eight and closes at three the American country (we spent another has been proposed, but action has been not unusual. And still you are left with next morning. It buzzes. You can learn week on the Pacific coast in Coast Rica) slow. You can expect to lose 12-15% bills of mouth-watering proportions. flamenco, listen to a TED style talk, or a Caribbean island. of the value of your US$ if you try and Something has to give otherwise tourists dance, buy locally designed jewellery, Plan. Book your restaurants before exchange them in hotels or restaurants. will think twice about coming. art or photographs or just hang out. you arrive (you can always unbook them). There are a few ATMs but they run out This would be a great shame because Whatever, you have to be patient as you Book your entertainment too. Several quickly especially over weekends. There Cuba is the most wonderful place to will have to queue for at least 30 minutes of the very best modern restaurants like are also a small number of banks but the visit especially its capital Havana. It has to get in, so carry water. The queue O’Reilly 304 and Dona Eutimia were queues to change currency are long. We a rich Spanish architecture which under starts early and finishes late. We stayed booked out so you either joined a long exchanged currency at the airport. The the brilliance of Eusebio Leal Spengler, two hours. There are plenty of taxis to queue or missed a treat. As big Jazz fans use of debit or credit cards is slight. a town planner with nerve and verve, has take you home and the smart thing is we failed to find reservations at either Over the Christmas holiday, a visit to gradually seen its restoration (with help to have pre-booked dinner next door up Jazz Cafe or Jazz Club la Zorra . We a much warmer environment is becoming from UNESCO) especially in the old three floors of winding staircase to eat stayed at the Santa Isabel Hotel in the a habit for more and more of us in the town. outdoors. old part of the City. It is an oasis of calm UK. Cuba is definitely worth the struggle Above all else it has music. Live music Havana is not your average city break and breakfast on the terrace was a daily because it challenges us in so many ways is everywhere. It goes with the rum. It weekend. On the other hand after a week joy. It can be difficult to book a room - no graffiti, no rubbish, no advertising, punches above its weight. At Fabrica de your patience may have been tested to with a balcony there but do keep trying hardly any crime, high levels of literacy, Arte Cubano, which is a new arts centre the limit. We tried six days which was and the odd tip helps. It was fun sipping good health facilities and rum cocktails in an impoverished area, you can hear two days too long. So, if you decide to mojitas whilst watching the city go by. to help the music go down. Put it on jazz, salsa, fusion, garage and more across visit, combine it with another destination We can recommend: the Museum of your bucket list. its three floors and umpteen bars. It 56 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel

speciality leaf teas including Black Chai West Wales and Decaffeinated Assam. Cafés, Castles and Walks Barmouth is a popular seaside resort of grey stone buildings with an Cynthia Pickard amusement arcade and ice creams,

souvenir shops, cafés and pub. It’s also Pickard © Cynthia Photograph a good starting off point for walks to locate nearby archaeological remains y heart soars as I cross the and the Welsh Coast Path. From here a border into another world, a stunning journey along the Mawddach layered landscape of hills rises Estuary leads to Dolgellau then onwards Mup ahead. I feel so at home walking in to the attractive port of Aberdovey the mountains and along the wide sandy where we are told there is a good seafood beaches, I wonder if I were a Welsh restaurant; further south one reaches woman in a former life. Aberystwyth. We have spent a week in Corris, Returning home, eastwards through a thriving village of 600 people the glorious Welsh hills we take a within sight of the 893 metre peak of break at Hay-on-Wye, famous for its Cadair Idris, ten minutes drive from bookshops and annual Literary Festival, Machynlleth and the famous Centre for there’s also another castle, more cafés, Alternative Technology www.cat.org. antique shops, a Thursday Market, as uk which has possibly attracted many well as fashion and gift shops, a specialist believers in The Good Life to relocate map shop and an upmarket here. Mountain-biking, www.bikecorris. style hardware shop. The gem in town co.uk, underground exploration and is The End at 20 Castle Street, a crafts are all available here. www. trees, fording streams to reach the slate mulled wine and mince pies while Santa wonderfully curated idiosyncratic curio corrismineexplorers.co.uk and www. quarry and returning along the banks of handed out presents to the children. shop, next door to a great greengrocer. kingarthurslabyrinth.co.uk the river via fields of omnipresent sheep. When the sun shone we headed There is superb walking from here in the At the village’s heart are the Corris It does rain in Wales, so this was the to Harlech to walk along the absurdly Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. Institute, a community centre, and Adam day to take the Tallylyn narrow gauge wide and long sandy beach with its Hay Bluff is close by and the Offa’s Dyke and Andy’s lively shop and café stocked railway www.talyllyn.co.uk from the views across the dunes and golf links to Path can be joined from the ruins of with a comprehensive selection of vegan nearby coastal town of Tywyn. A brass the peaks of Snowdonia. Then up the Llanthony Priory. and vegetarian products. Wales may not band rang out carols from the station winding road to Harlech Castle and Driving back towards London, the be renowned for its gastronomy but it platform as we boarded the Santa the Cemlyn Tea Shop to look down on hills die away making way for the flat excels in cafés and pubs. Special, with a whistle and a cloud the castle, coast and mountains beyond landscape of England. I’m sad to leave Corris is the starting point for a walk of coal-flavoured steam, we were off, and to sample a real Welsh Rarebit and and vow to visit Wales more often to to Aberllefenni, up through the towering chugging along to the Dolgoch Falls for choose one of the wide selection of acquire my ‘fix’ of this landscape. Photograph © Ione Bingley Photograph

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mouthful of 2015 Foundstone Shiraz, have to be too slavish to this concept to A great escape, Orestone Manor, and let the mix of salty, caramelised appreciate the benefits. Choosing the Maidencombe, Devon By David Hughes scallop partner the crunch of cauli, and best local suppliers becomes a two way knew I was in good hands. contract. A good supplier will always Next up we chose the Monkfish pick out something special for you if with Sugar Snap and the Venison with he knows you have top chefs who will Kale, Celeriac Puree & Blackberry. enhance his reputation for quality, and Manor © Orestone Photographs My medium rare venison leaned more front of house manager Jo, along with towards the rare, but trust in your chef: the team in the kitchen, clearly know the

Hotel, situated on a slight rise best farmers and fishermen on this strip from the car park, a little quirky, of the coast. a little historic, quite individual, Do I need a dessert? Is this a and on the doorstep of Torquay. Even valid question? I’m not moving from A this table until I’ve gone through the joint owner and chef Neal D’Allen admits that thoughts of Fawlty Towers card, though I might need a couple of can spring unbidden to mind, but fear minutes breather. We split between not, this place has not succumbed to the sweet and savoury, and agree to share, likes of a Basil or Manuel. which goes slightly awry when I realise It does in fact deserve that oft touted, I’ve gone way over 50% of the Assiette but rarely achieved, Ad man’s favourite of Desserts. An enticing chocolate “exceeding expectations”. The rooms are fondant, some stunning jelly, yep, it’s all all individually designed, many with sea sinful stuff, and I still had some designs views, some with hot tubs, and range on the cheese, but M had the port, and from the Horsley Suite’s Edwardian the Vin Santo was happier with the elegance, to our Room 4’s reimagined sweet stuff. I suffered a brief, baleful 70s Rock chic. Reading up in advance look as she cast her eyes over my nearly of our trip I also noted a restaurant that empty plate. Breakfast would be less scored lots of rosettes and stars, as well indulgent tomorrow! as coveted mentions in the Conde Nast After another blissful night’s sleep it Johansens and Michelin guides. was time to contemplate Our first chance to sample what the Torquay amusement hall. Actually, I have the return to London. Orestone had to offer was perhaps a to confess, the initial pile soon went, and This place is definitely little unusual as the kitchen technically it took several trips to the change hut worthy of an entry in had closed. Thick fog on the way down, to acquire more strange key rings that I anyone’s little black book, and some commitments in town had know what to do with. and makes a perfect short conspired to delay our arrival until after Being at the heart of the English break at this time of year, 10pm on a Sunday evening, but I have Riviera, Torquay and surrounding area longer when the weather to say a couple of large drinks and two enjoys a bit of a favourable micro climate. perks up. As well as the rounds of hearty sandwiches soon put the It’s not so noticeable at this time of year, beautiful nature and dreary motorway trip behind us. so it’s perfect for gadding about without shoreline on your doorstep, After a great night’s sleep, and the queues, and you still get the full Orestone Manor also has thankfully without the need to behave benefit of that convivial blast of warmth quite a bit of history for like an ancient Rocker, it was time to when you get back to the hotel. those who are interested, throw open the curtains of the wonderful After a pre-dinner G&T it was time but it wears it lightly so bay window and take in the sea view. to put some of the restaurant’s claims if he knows what he is doing, it should you don’t feel you are in some kind of It was a bit grey on this occasion, but to the test. M started with the Crab come out optimum for the dish. Meat living museum. A recent innovation is the air was so clean and fresh I just Martini and I went for the Scallops. and game in season at this time of year offering gift vouchers which can be set concentrated on how much good all that The crab was a generous portion, and pair well with fruit, and the blackberries against anything from an afternoon tea wonderful ozone was doing me. Time the strategic addition of mango sorbet were an inspired choice. The Monkfish to a short break; an excellent idea, and for a Full English breakfast to start our proved a perfect match. There’s no point was also beautifully cooked and they can now be booked online. day. Absolutely delicious, and a great in adding something that barely shows presented, and the crunchy sugar snaps insulator for a brisk trot along the coast its hand, and this was a confident dish. an excellent foil to its lightly adorned Reservations and enquiries: and a chance to pit a pocketful of 2p Baby cauliflower florets, with scallops? flavour. Everything is sourced very local 01803 897511 pieces against the slot machines in a Oh yes, that worked too. I savoured a to the Manor, and I don’t think you www.orestonemanor.com

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with a view is not the order of the day, Start: Grange in Borrowdale, grid ref delicious restaurant options are easy to NY253174 come by. Afternoon stroller: Hard hiker: Gifted to the National Trust by Photograph © Ione Bingley Photograph For stunning views over Derwent- Beatrix Potter, this idyllic fell-top tarn water, don your boots and head up to offers one of the most iconic views in the top of High Seat and Bleaberry the Lake District, the path around it has Fell, rocky outcrops that serve as a been made accessible for buggies and magnificent viewpoints. The walk is mobility scooters, which makes it a haven full of contrasts from the shores of for walkers of all ages and abilities. Those Derwentwater with views to Catbells with more walking experience should try and the north-western Fells. The open this short steep approach to the tarn past fellside between the two summits is often Tom Gill Beck. wet under foot so it is best to complete this walk after a dry spell or when the Distance: 1.6 miles peat is frozen hard. Location: Tom Gill to Tarn Hows, The narrow roads flanked by pretty Coniston cottages and rolling, wild fells (hills) Distance: 9 miles Start: Car park at Tom Gill (at Glen Walk England’s decked with heather and bracken and Location: High Seat and Bleaberry Fell, Mary Bridge), grid ref: SD321998 adorned with shimmering streams that Keswick green and trickle down from dizzying heights into Start: Keswick, grid ref NY267234 Stargazer: the district’s eponymous lakes are scenes A view described by John Ruskin as pleasant land of a pre-industrial England of old. Weekend rambler: one of the three most beautiful scenes By Ione Bingley A huge area of topographical delights, You’ll climb Castle Crag, the site of in Europe, Friar’s Crag is a promontory tarns (mountain lakes) of myriad sizes a hill fort some 2,000 years ago, which, jutting into Derwentwater looking and rambling routes of every distance, though small in stature, offers some of out towards Derwent Isle and the the Lake District is without doubt best the finest views you will ever see. Take a surrounding scenery. On a clear summer eaving the industriscapes of experienced by foot. Its varied landscape moment to pause at Peace How, a small night, the open space and lack of light England’s northern cities behind lends itself to the enjoyment of every summit bought for the benefit of the pollution makes this a perfect spot for and entering into the Lake kind of walker, from the hiker to the nation in 1917 as a place where soldiers stargazing. District, it is hard to believe that the stroller. returning from the front line could find L some tranquillity. Distance: 0.75 miles gloriously green pastures enclosed by The quaint villages and towns stacked stone walls and peppered with scattered through the region offer a range Location: Friar’s Crag, Keswick picturesque sheep could exist in the of accommodation options from B&Bs Distance: 4 miles Start: Lakeside car park, grid ref: modern world. to boutique hotels and, if a sandwich Location: Borger Dalr, Borrowdale NY265229

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With these trains we expect to recreate the early days Approx.Timings Depart Return With these trains we expect to recreate the early days of Approx.Timings Depart Return of steam rail tours in the 1980s when travelling over the London Euston 07:10 22:48 steam rail tours in the 1980s when travelling over the Settle London Euston 07:10 22:05 Cumbrian Fells was the icing on the cake in the main line Watford Junction* 06:41 22:27 & Carlisle Railway was the icing on the cake in the main line Watford Junction* 06:40 21:50 steam calendar. We have a high-speed journey down the Milton Keynes 07:54 21:39 steam calendar. We have a high speed journey down the West Milton Keynes 08:00 21:15 West Coast Main Line to Carnforth, hauled by a blue Class Northampton** 07:45 21:53 Coast Main Line to Carnforth hauled by a blue class 86 electric Northampton** 07:40 21:30 86 electric locomotive. We then enjoy a circular steam tour Rugby 08:28 21:11 locomotive. We then enjoy a circular steam tour outwards via Rugby 08:25 20:38 from Carnforth outwards via Shap to Carlisle and back via Nuneaton 08:47 20:53 Shap to Carlisle and back via the Settle and Carlisle line. Nuneaton 08:45 20:20 the scenic Cumbrian Coast line. We return from Carnforth to Crewe 09:38 19:55 We return from Farington Junction to London behind our blue Crewe 09:45 19:15 London behind our blue electric locomotive. Preston 10:26 18:51 electric locomotive. Preston*** 10:30 ------Carlisle 12:40 14:06 Carlisle 12:40 14:40 Premier Dining includes full English breakfast, light lunch and a four course Premier Dining includes full English breakfast and a four course dinner silver dinner silver served at your seat. Fares Adult Junior Family served at your seat. Fares Adult Junior Family First Class includes morning coffee with a Danish pastry and afternoon tea First Class includes morning coffee with a Danish pastry and afternoon tea with with scones, jam and cream, along with a selection of sandwiches. Premier £249 £175 £760 a savoury dish followed by a selection of fancies and cakes. Premier £249 £175 £760 Standard Class includes a reserved seat usually at a table for four. First £159 £112 £486 Standard Class includes a reserved seat usually at a table for four. First £159 £112 £486 Tables for two can be guaranteed in Premier Dining and First Class for a supplement Standard £109 £76 £332 Tables for two can be guaranteed in Premier Dining and First Class for a Standard £99 £76 £312 of £22 per person (subject to availability). A buffet car is available and serves tea, supplement of £22 per person (subject to availability). A buffet car is available coffee, snacks and light refreshments. and serves tea, coffee, snacks and light refreshments. *Passengers from Watford Junction will travel to Milton Keynes by service train to join our train. **Passengers from Northampton *Passengers from Watford Junction will travel to Milton Keynes by service train to join our train. **Passengers from Northampton will travel to and from Rugby by service train to join our train. ***Passengers boarding at Preston will return to Preston by service will travel to and from Rugby by service train to join our train. train from Blackburn. Visit railwaytouring.net or phone us on 01553 661 500 14a Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1JN

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stopping tau protein from growing at the genetic level through a gene therapy drug The Cure for compound, they could stop the growth of Alzheimer’s tau tangles, and even decrease the size of may be on the horizon the build-ups in both mice and monkeys. “We’ve shown that this molecule By Ione Bingley lowers levels of the tau protein, preventing and, in some cases, reversing the neurological damage,” Dr. Timothy Miller, of the David Clayson Professor of Neurology told PsyPost. “This compound is the first that has been shown to reverse tau-related harmaceutical researchers have damage to the brain that also has the discovered a drug that could halt potential to be used as a therapeutic in and even reverse the loss of brain people.” Pfunction from diseases like Alzheimer’s To test the gene therapy, the and ALS, according to a study published researchers used genetically modified in the journal Science Translational mice to produce tau protein. The mice Medicine. that received the gene therapy lived The new drug compound stops and longer, and built better nests than mice even reverses the build up of something that had the tau protein, but didn’t tau in the brain.” called tau protein, which can clog the receive the gene therapy. Miller is leading a test of the gene brain and cause neurological decay, a The tests on monkeys showed similar therapy for people with ALS, and there symptom associated with Alzheimer’s results, and also showed how trials could disease, researchers at the Washington work. The scientists injected either the are other ongoing studies to test the gene University School of Medicine in St. gene therapy, or a placebo, directly into therapy for Huntington’s disease. Louis discovered. the spinal cord of the monkeys two “This is a promising new approach In healthy brains, tau protein weeks apart, in a similar way to how to lowering tau, but we have to test helps the brain by passing signals human trials will be conducted. whether it is safe in people, and whether between neurons, but the tiny protein “The monkey study showed us that it actually lowers tau, as it is designed cells can become entangled, blocking lower tau in the cerebrospinal fluid to do, before we get to the question of communication between neurons and correlates with lower tau in the brain,” no non-invasive way of measuring tau whether it has any effect on the disease. leading to neurodegenerative conditions said Miller said. “This is important if levels in the brain. This correlation tells But everything we’ve seen so far says that like dementia. we’re going to evaluate this treatment us that we can use levels of tau in the this is worth investigating as a potential The researchers found that by approach in people, because there’s cerebrospinal fluid as a proxy for levels of treatment for people,” Miller said. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Helping you take care of yourself World class clinical care in west London Kensington’s Bupa Cromwell Hospital offers an exceptional healthcare resource for Londoners. Whether using private health insurance or ‘self-funding’, our world- renowned services are available to everyone, and just a five minute walk from Kensington High Street, Earl’s Court or Gloucester Road.

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the result is fatal cardiac arrest with no income growing from £6000 to nearly apparent cause. £2 million, CEO Gill Raikes, grants all “These unusual conditions affect her success to the expertise of the doctors young people and have devastating that she works closely alongside. consequences. They are often called the “The people that come to the silent assassins because they leave no charity come because of those amazing trace for the pathologist at the autopsy,” doctors, so our whole world is very much says doctor and genetic cardiologist at around the patients,” says Raikes. “The the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust, donor base is quite small, but it’s very Jan Till. passionate, people give because they’re Behind locked doors, ‘robots’ sift reduced to tears, they don’t know how to through DNA samples from unfortunate say thank you, and the way to say thank victims who have succumbed to their you is to give to the charity which will unexplainable fate, searching for known then hopefully do something dramatic gene sequences that code for these with their money.” silently fatal diseases and could hold the Much of the charity’s success has key diagnosis to these tragic incidences. also been down to the innovative If the genetic code for one of these fundraising events that they have held terrible diseases is found, then the rest of with their largest yet, an all-star comedy the family members can have their genes showcase called 100 Hearts, taking tested and prophylactically treated if place this month and a talk at the Royal necessary, saving many lives. Geographical Society by renowned heart The Royal Brompton and Harefield surgeon Professor Sir Magri Yacoub charity has been instrumental in the taking place in March. success of the laboratory. Raising “The hospital’s mission itself is to be enough money in donations to buy a the very best hospital for heart and lung The spotless, unassuming genetics first class gene-sequencing machine conditions and diseases and my one big Royal Brompton and genomics laboratory at the Royal worth £250,000, the lab has now been ambition is to be here for the hospital to Brompton Hospital is quietly becoming a accredited by the NHS to be part of the do what I can in places where the NHS hospital lab world-class genetics testing hub for rare UK’s genetics network. The charity is simply can’t.” says Raikes. and fatal diseases. now halfway to raising enough funds to “We are raising £750,000 for the searches genes Diseases so stealthy that they can put the lab at the forefront of genetic genetics and genomics so instead of for clues to ‘silent assassin’ lurk secretly in the genetic code for years research internationally. being just an ordinary diagnostic lab, it diseases without showing any symptoms. Like Having overseen the exponential now has the ambition to be world class a time bomb, there is no way of telling success of the Royal Brompton and and it will be. Whatever they want I’m By Ione Bingley when they will go off, but for many Harefield charity with its there for them.”

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when noticeably there are the onset of K complexes and sleep spindles (these Sleep, perchance are characteristic shaped movements in to dream the electrical trace). In deep sleep the these days do we really need rhythm, more rolling and slow is called delta wave sleep. These non- REM to waste our time?! sleeps precede and interweave with periods of REM sleep where there is atonia (body paralysis that prevents us acting out dreams-though fortunately hy sleep? While many of not the diaphragm for breathing!) during the body’s functions can be which the rhythm returns to a more restored by ‘rest’, sleep is waking state form. Recently, it has been necessary,W especially deep sleep which proposed that memory consolidation is always addressed as of primary may be reflected in these patterns; for importance after a period of sleep example, the K complexes allowing restriction. Certainly poor quality or memory to replay from the hippocampus not enough sleep is associated with (deep in the brain) to the neo-cortex health problems. It may be the cause or (the frontal lobes); while, in deep sleep, the effect though and determining this whole hog and actually have contralateral maintenance and upkeep, so not the delta waves reflect downscaling in is helpful in finding solutions to the paddle paralysis during their one-sided surprisingly we have our own sleep the hippocampus, effectively cleaning problems. brain sleep! Apparently, the scientific jury biological mechanisms. Of course, the slate for new memory acquisition. There has been a lot of exciting new is out whether frogs sleep! Hibernators, through most of our nasty, brutish and Sleep spindles are still a mystery, but research in this relatively young discipline such as some bears, hedgehogs, bats (who short lives in earlier history we were not they may well represent local neuronal over the last 10 years, but first let’s only spend a small percentage of their able to lie abed; thus, sleep would have plasticity (where the brain cells undergo address a fundamental question: what lives awake) and marmots may spend been taken in snatches or where safety modification to form memory) in the is sleep for? An interesting approach is months unarousable, though hibernation was perceived for a while. neo-cortex. via the bio-sphere. We see extraordinary is not strictly sleep. All this to illustrate Apart from the obvious advantage in Sleep is a necessary part of our variability. Not surprisingly unicellular some of the huge differences in the reduced energy expenditure what else lives. In theory it is a spontaneous and and simple multicellular organisms may use of what sleep researchers have thus is the human and particularly the brain refreshing experience. Try telling that not exhibit sleep equivalence but flies, termed only ‘adaptive inactivity’. In other achieving in sleep? We can determine to someone with a sleep problem that for example, die of sleep deprivation. words, there are few generalities and from surface electrodes (placed in precise appears intractable! There are approaches Rats do also. Birds, on the other hand sleep has been adapted to the advantage positions on the head) the different that help, however, and those that have may go weeks without sleep per se during of each organism. levels of sleep. Normal healthy sleep difficulties should seek professional help. their migrations. Dolphins allow one As humans, we have the most comprises an initial stage one where the side of their brain to be in a state of deep sophisticated brains with 20% of trace is not markedly different from the Dr Tony Hughes sleep while they swim; some seals go the our metabolism being spent on its waking state, going through to stage 2 GP at www.sleeptreatment.co.uk

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he Coys auction at Olympia Historic Automobile Fair & Auction will see over 70 fineT historic automobiles go under the hammer. Access to the auction is included in all general show tickets. Visitors to the Champagne Preview on Friday 17th February (6-9pm) will be able to enjoy an exclusive preview of the cars going to auction To book your tickets please visit www. olympiahistoric.com.

Founded in 1919, Coys auctions are synonymous with fine vintage, classic to the town of our birth, and the great example of Britain’s most exclusive pre- broad spectrum of the highest investor and speciality cars. Coys auctions are facility that is Kensington Olympia war sports manufacturer. quality motor cars available in the world headline events in the classic car world, for the Historic Automobile Fair and At the other end of the spectrum today. and are led by a team of experts who Auction.” is the very last Star in a Reasonably The Coys auctioneering team, who have established close associations with Chris Routledge Priced Car from the BBC television will be present during the event, are the foremost collectors and dealers. Coys, CEO show Top Gear, this example being the well known round the globe, which Consequently, Coys source the most last ever in the fabled Clarkson era. includes Chris Routledge, who is a exceptional cars, with carefully researched There are a number of very interesting The list of celebrities who used this very well-known figure in the world provenance that gives discerning and cars that will feature in the auction, vehicle is extraordinary, including pop of international auctioneering and demanding buyers the confidence to including a very rare 1936 Lagonda, impresario Simon Cowell through television, and his face will be familiar to choose a Coys auction event to source which is the actual example that was to internationally distinguished actor many of the auction attendees. He will their next investment. launched new at the 1936 Olympia Benedict Cumberbatch, with all proceeds be accompanied by the up and coming “Coys was founded in Queens Gate Motor Show, so not only are Coys of to the Motor Industry Benevolent Fund star of the international auction world, Mews, South Kensington, in 1919, and Kensington returning to their spiritual charity. Guy Newton, who will also be featuring it is with great emotion that we return home, the Royal Borough, so is an The sale will offer an enormously at the event. 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 65 Motoring online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

B C Ecclestone leads Alan Brown in a wheel-to-wheel duel around Clearways at Brands Hatch April 1951. Photograph © Guy Griffiths.

dispirited, he left motor racing for a While he was reading the cheque, the including Ron Dennis, the po-faced Bernie Ecclestone number of years, before managing the new owners stabbed him in the back, and boss at McLaren at the the time, who By Don Grant Lotus Formula Two team,comprising they then, rather patronisingly, made him begrudged Bernie from trousering Graham Hill and the outstanding Jochen chairman emeritus of an organisation £3 billion, while he only got a few Rindt. After Rindt died at Monza in that he had formed and shaped over hundred million. ‘The problem with 1970, having postumously won the more than 40 years. Ron,’ the author Tom Bower quotes World Championship, in a questionably- In was in 2014 that the Germans Ecclestone, ‘is that he has an inferiority engineered Lotus, he abandoned the prosecuted him for paying a German complex. And that’s with good reason. ariously called ‘The F1 Supremo’, sport once again, only to return, having banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, a £29 He is inferior.’ Two others who gained or ‘The Godfather of Formula bought the Brabham team,with which he million bribe in 2006 to sell Formula enormous wealth merely by doing One’, Bernie Ecclestone has been won a clutch of races, with such drivers One to Donald Mackenzie, the chairman nothing and standing with open hands Vin the driving-seat of a multi-billion as Niki Lauda, John Watson and Nelson of CVC, the private equity company who are his daughters Tamara and Petra, who pound sporting empire that attracts a Piquet. Encouraged by this, and the bought control of the sport in 2006, for have turned the conspicuous display larger audience globally than any other growing interest in the sport, particularly over £1 billion, less than its true value. of wealth into an art-form, with the sport, other than the Olympics and the with TV rights, he formed the Formula He stood trial, but it emerged that the latter’s marriage in Italy to the quiet World Cup. Yet, the fizz has gone out One Constructors Association with a German was blackmailing Ecclestone and unassuming art dealer James Stunt, of F1 motor racing and audiences are lawyer chum, Max Moseley . not to disclose alleged tax evasion in running up a bill for Bernie of $12 turning off in their droves, beaten into The money poured in, and Bernie Britain. Bernie settled for £64 million, a million, including bottles of Chateau submission by two-horse races weighed thought that by donating a million sum that he should never have paid, as Pétrus at a few thousand pounds a pop. down with rules and regulations. He had pounds to Tony Blair’s Labour Party, he was out-manoevered by the lawyers, Anyone who has seen a cavalcade of a brief career as a driver himself, buying he could influence the government’s something he now regrets. Maybe now two blacked-out Mansory Rolls Royces, a 500cc Cooper-JAP Mark V and racing proposed ban on tobacco advertising, is the time for the deal-maker to step like anthracite house-bricks, a brace of it at Brands Hatch in April 1951, with one of the major sponsors of F1 teams down gracefully, and see whether the blacked-out Range Rovers groaning moderate success, dicing against such and races. They managed a stay of new American owners can resurrect a with overweight minders and a £3.1 legends as Les Leston, John Cooper, execution for eight years to ‘cool off ’ and one-time great spectator sport. He pulled million black Lamborghini, leave their Stirling Moss and Peter Collins and find other sponsors, which, ultimately, off some amazing deals in his career, grade-II listed house in Chelsea to go winning the final. He then bought an they did most successfully. This is what including one in which he managed to shopping in Knighstsbridge, must have ailing F1 team Connaught, and tried Bernie was good at, namely, making get substantuially more money out of been impressed by Stunt’s modesty. Each to qualify for the British Grand Prix, deals. At 86, one would have thought Vladimir Putin to stage a Grand Prix at vehicle has a personalised number-plate but failed to make the cut. He then that immortal vanity would show some Sochi, in eye-to-eye bargaining, literally, with the suffix UNT and passers-by will managed a talented young Welsh driver flaws, but, when he sold his rights for than he was offering. doubtless use their own versions of word- Stuart Lewis-Evans, who was tragically £3 billion to Liberty Media, he assumed He has made himself, the teams play. It would seem that money can buy killed at the Moroccan Grand Prix, and, that he would kept on as chief executive. and individual drivers extremely rich, you everything, except good taste. 66 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Motoring

a member of the Falkirk and District From the Back Motor Club. He was, by trade, a dentist, and was quite wealthy. I didn’t like him Seat and his wife was a nervous, bird-like Part 39 creature, who, I gleaned from feigning sleep in the back of the car on the By Don Gtant drive back to London, didn’t like ‘it’. He, on the other hand, seemed to like ‘it’ a lot, as he was continually flirting with my mother, much to everyone’s embarrassment. Once, in front of us all, he poked a stick of celery down her ample cleavage, and proceeded to eat it, he past is not so much a foreign with bosomy relish. I assumed our hosts country, as a river one swims had performed ‘it’ at least once, because they had an introspective daughter about up from where it meets the sea, Groves Raymond by Painting Alps. TR2 in the Triumph in a Reece Dad and Peter back up through the lazy, meandering my sister’s age, who had a sadness that T enveloped her like a cloak. Why my curves, then the fast-flowing stream between tilting rocks, and higher, to its parents liked this man, with his spivvy, very beginnings in a gin-clear, gurgling pencil moustache and watery, lecherous spring. Childhood memories are pretty eyes, was a mystery. He owned, at various unreliable, a bit like ferreting about in times, a 1951 Ferrari Superleggera, an a dark room full of filing cabinets with Allard J-2, and a Morgan Plus-Four just a torch. The mind is selective, to special, which he raced and rallied, with the point of blotting out unpleasant an attractive coupé body based on his moments and focussing on the sunnier Italian GT car, which became known as times. I thought I knew my dad pretty a Moganari. And I still didn’t like him. well, given that he had been in and out He also had a 1902 Panhard-Levassor, of my life for nearly twenty-five years. which he drove in the Veteran Car Run However, after his death, a number of to Brighton. One year, whilst going things came to light that upset the flow round a corner, one of his passengers and equilibrium of memory. It was my fell out, hit his head on the kerb and sister who first brought one of them to died instantly. All at 6 mph. His widow my notice, when she was going through sued the dentist, and won considerable old family photographs and papers. damages. This may have led him into There was my dad at his wedding, in serious financial difficulties, for the next a smart, double-breasted suit, a dark snippet I heard from under the blanket, clipped moustache, a slightly bashful, yet was that he had been charging the NHS triumphant look and a somewhat racy for the services of an anaesthetist, when tie. His bride was on his arm, blonde and beautiful in a thin cotton dress. Just funny and creepy always had cars on test, or others that a minute; blonde? She was certainly at the same time. had just come back from a rally, covered beautiful, but our mum was never blonde! He mesmerised in mud and dirt, which attracted a lot That was definitely not my mother. dad, and got him of attention, particularly from young What on earth was going on? ‘Eba! Who to sit on the stove boys and not so young boys, who would is this woman? Are you not our mother?’ in our kitchen, stand around saying ‘Cor!’ and ‘Gosh!’ In The lady in the wedding photo was telling him he those days, the Monte Carlo Rally was indeed not our mum, but a beauty called was feeling no a big event, and there would be various May. Although details are a bit hazy, it pain. He tapped updates on the radio in the evenings, transpired that she was killed in a road two half-crowns charting the progress of the British accident a few months after the photo together three contingent by the likes of Raymond was taken. My father was driving a times to ‘wake Baxter and Peter Dymock from a snowy Morgan three-wheeler when it was hit him up’, at which mountain top somewhere in the Alps. by a truck, driven by a drunken driver. point dad leapt We used to crowd round the wireless Dad was unhurt physically, but was so screaming into in the kitchen next to the famous stove, traumatised, he was hardly able to speak the air with and wait for the crackling broadcasts. for months. His sister’s husband Mac his trousers The nut-brown bakelite cabinet was a finally persuaded him to go to a dance, completely shrine in the corner of the room, the and there he met Eba, who, even then, all the time, he has been doing it himself, singed. Eba doused his scorched arse parchment-coloured dial tantalising had an inveterate shoulder to cry on, and and without the use of drugs; he was with calamine lotion upstairs. That was us with mysterious names; Hilversum, presumably, one thing lead to another, using hypnosis. probably why I never liked him. That, Breslau, Athlone, Beromunster. Sitting and they got married. It wasn’t an earth- One winter at our house, he tried and the celery. He was found guilty in our pyjamas, dressing gowns with red shattering slice of family history, but it is to hypnotise all of us, except my sister of fraud, sent to jail for four years and braid around the lapels and pockets, and just an odd thing not to know, and why Simone, who was regarded as being struck off. His wife used to come and tartan slippers, washed and scrubbed, had no-one ever thought to mention it. too young. He started with me, but I stay with us while she visited him in ready for bed, my brother and I were Our parents had some odd friends, resisted and wouldn’t be soft-talked into chokey, and if she was a miserable old allowed to wait up for the reports to mostly to do with motor racing. Every this twilight state. My brother Gregor crow before, having the ignominy of come in, having already listened to Top year we went to a haunted Elizabethan was successfully ‘knocked out’, and he a husband in clink, made her look as of the Form and Journey into Space. There house with an enormous inglenook made him do a very girly little dance, though she had been drinking vinegar. would be great excitement when we fireplace with bench-seats in Halstead accompanied only by a great deal of In the late forties and fifties, we lived heard dad’s car mentioned, as we pored in Essex, either for Christmas Day or sniggering from his disloyal siblings. in a little house in Willifield Way in over maps and a list of competitors, for New Year’s Eve, which was owned He succeeded in getting my mother to Hampstead Garden Suburb. For years, imagining him slipping and sliding up by a friend of dad’s from before the regress to her childhood, speaking in a the only car in the street was parked and over the Col de Turini on his way war in Scotland, where they competed very high-pitched voice and then writing outside our house, until a taxi driver down to the French Riviera and glory. in rallies, races and trials, and he was her name, which was both hysterically moved in a hundred yards away. Dad 020 7738 2348 February 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 67 Motoring online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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The Six Nations Championship is Saturday 11th February 2017 without doubt the world's greatest WEEK 2 Italy v Ireland at Stadio Olimpico, Rome 2:25pm rugby tournament. Each year the Wales v England at Principality Stadium, Cardiff 4:50pm collective fans of six proud nations Sunday 12th February 2017 France v Scotland at Stade de France, Paris 3:00pm – England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales – share in the passion and excitement of this feast Saturday 25th February 2017 of rugby. Some of the rivalries in this WEEK 3 Scotland v Wales at BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2:25pm Ireland v France at , Dublin 4:50pm tournament date back more than 140 Sunday 26th February 2017 years, which simply adds to the sense England v Italy at Twickenham Stadium, London 3:00pm of occasion.

Scotland and Ireland will get the Friday 10th March 2017 2017 Six Nations Championship WEEK 4 Wales v Ireland at Principality Stadium, Cardiff 8:05pm underway with their Saturday Saturday 11th March 2017 afternoon match in Edinburgh on Italy v France at Stadio Olimpico, Rome 1:30pm 4th February. Later that same day England v Scotland at Twickenham Stadium, London 4:00pm England and France will meet for 'Le Crunch' at Twickenham. The Saturday 18th March 2017 following day Italy take on Wales WEEK 5 Scotland v Italy at BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 12:30pm in Rome. France v Wales at Stade de France, Paris 2:45pm Ireland v England at Aviva Stadium, Dublin 5:00pm www.six-nations-guide-co.uk All kick-off times GMT 020 7738 2348 DecemberApril/May 20162011 / January 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 69 Sport online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

England and France) fight it out for it's the game of the season. Or not. skill and vision. If a team wins a line- pole position. It is likely to be Ireland As I have written before, if the game out they are likely to retain possession England’s bubble or England's championship as both is a game open to all then it is time for eight to ten minutes unless they to burst? Wales and France are rebuilding whilst to open up the Six Nations to twelve play aerial . Where's the fun in By Derek Wyatt Scotland have lacked consistency. Now nations. Let's have relegation and that? Let us have all players standing they must learn to win away from home promotion from two leagues of six. We 10 metres back from set play. Give the if they are to progress. are not quite there just yet. But this three quarters a chance to score from This season somehow the fixture of season sees the start of the a second tier first phase ball. all fixtures could be the last one as it is Six Nations involving: Georgia, Russia, Brain trauma or concussion, as it is between Ireland and England in Dublin. Romania, Spain, Germany and Spain. wrongly called, will have a devastating he six nations tournament is Imagine St Patrick's Day on 17th Bravo. Finally, if tentatively, the game is impact on the future of the game at stuck. The same nations (usually March, when half a million do just that on the move. school if the laws are not changed. Scotland and Italy) fight it out and march through the city. It will be Already, in response to this, World forT the bottom of the table whilst any of followed by a day of respite to resolve all Three things currently bedevil the Rugby introduced a hurried amendment the other four nations (Wales, Ireland, our hangovers and then on Sunday 19th game: to the tackle law on 1st January which Far too many players are playing was badly needed. So head tackles are for countries they were not born in. out. But it is the recommendations We have Samoan brothers playing for regarding being knocked out which different countries. The All Blacks and are not fit for purpose. Put simply the Wallabies have done this for thirty anyone who is knocked out should go years or more but now it has become the off and stay off until he or she has had flavour of the month in the northern a brain scan. Of course, the scan is not hemisphere too. Pity. A three year much use unless you have a baseline to playing qualification is absurd. It seems measure it. So, let us have compulsory to me that either you should be born scanning in time for Rugby World Cup in the country you play for or have its 2019 in Japan. passport. World Rugby will pass on this As for this year's Six Nations, it is one, but they have to move to at least probably time for England's bubble five years for the good of the game. It to burst, but despite a slew of injuries is doubly ironic that Bill Beaumont, they still look the best, though Ireland Chairman of World Rugby, has a son are not far behind. In the second tier who is being stopped from playing in the Georgia or close rival Russia should back row for England by two Southern edge it. In the Women's Six Nations Hemisphere players who qualify just France and England look the strongest. because of residency. It is so encouraging to see women's The game is too brutal. It is more sport finally being given the coverage it about bish, bash and bosh than speed, ought have been given two decades ago.

3rd February 2017 Women’s Six Nations ROUND 1 Scotland 9th February - 12th February Ireland Broadwood Stadium 6.35pm 4th February 2017 Rugby Matches 2017 Italy v Wales Stadio Comunale Pacifico Carotti 2pm 4th February 2017 England v France Twickenham Stadium 7.35pm

11th February 2017 ROUND 2 Wales v England 11:30am 11th February 2017 France v Scotland Marcel Deflandre 8pm 12th February 2017 Italy v Ireland Stadio Tommaso Fattori 1pm

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the publication, and other publications and radio were regular, and for example CHESS within this generic grouping, would be the only known recorded consultation to include, possibly inside the back cover, game Bobby Fischer appeared in, was By Barry Martin a travelling pull-out chess wallet-type partnering Barden against the English board with slip-in pieces, since this book Masters and Peter genre comfortably fits into a largish Clarke. The game was unfinished after 8 jacket pocket to be carried around with hours and adjudicated a draw by former In with the new, you. The inclusion of the travelling world champion Max Euwe. This was chess set would be invaluable on such recorded in 1960 and broadcasted in and right on with excursions. The book is lucidly written, 1961 on BBC's Network Three weekly logically laid out and easy to understand. radio chess programme. His promotion the old Its contents present the game of chess as of the game led to some of our first an empirical understanding developed by Grandmasters, and Michael he lead up to the recent festive the authors over years of practice which Stean. He actively sought potential season and the New Year many players will recognise, having been chess talents from primary school age, has seen a plethora of top in similar situations themselves. They and for example recognised in 1980 notch tournaments, nationally and successfully marry this with the study the exceptional promise of the then T side through exploring chess openings, 8 year old Michael Adams, amongst internationally and, like Christmas food, have provided a rich intake of chess middle and end game theory. Both many others he chaperoned to high 1 mixtures to digest: from the London authors have championship wins under professional ranking. Brian Walden Classic, Hastings, World Blitz and their belts. Julian Simpole was trainer said,“ has done more for Rapid Play Tournaments to the stunning to Luke McShane and David Howell British Chess than anybody since our success of Susan Polgar's Webster for example, and Julian Hardinge was famous ”! He, Barden College's team win in the USA's successful against such world class was offered an OBE in recognition of Collegiate Competition. However if one players as Paul Keres and Dr. Jonathan his contribution to English Chess but digs a little deeper into the past, it is Penrose. declined to accept it. Puzzles taken from surprising how many chess competitions Chapters in the book have titles the two mentioned publications follow have taken place, particularly in England that arouse human sensibilities and yes, with the answers upside down at right. and how well endowed they were with feelings! For example, The Emotions, cash prizes. I was reminded of this or The Simple Life, and, Sting Like a Puzzle: 1. recently when realising that the reporting Computer, Float Like a Man, which I Taken from the Simpole and of these events included many dedicated particularly liked, and from which I have Hardinge book, Chapter 10, about writers, often players themselves, and drawn one of the puzzles for this article. the contributions or not that who are owed our deep thanks through Likewise, I have extracted a puzzle or their commitment. Leonard Barden is a two to be included in this article from computers are having on our thinking writer who has written continuously for Leonard Barden's Chess Puzzle Book, An and understanding, says ‘...the over 60 years about chess in the national Evening Standard Chess Book, published computer’s contribution to our tactical newspapers for example; a subject I will in 1977 by Faber and Faber Ltd. in understanding is huge’, and openings return to in this article. recognition of the huge contribution he are conducted more sharply now, 2 A newly published book, Chess, A has made to chess and English chess in ...with King exposing pawn thrusts particular. The publication is a collection Guide for the Club Player, by the two that would have shocked most of the Julians: Julian Simpole and Julian of 300 of the best chess puzzles from his doyens of chess in Schlecter’s time!’ Hardinge, with a foreword by GM chess column in that newspaper which Raymond Keene, offers many useful he began in 1956 and which continued It continues, ‘ ...they are strict task aspects, not least the long experience until July 2010 when the owners, masters, punishing sloppy thinking,.... both authors have had playing chess at a mistakenly in my and many others’ but encourage us to re-evaluate our high level, and which they bring for the opinion, decided to kill off chess entirely approach to the assessment of any benefit of the reader. This publication from its publication. position’. The puzzle presents a makes it easy to dip in and out of the He still writes for The Guardian, problem though, where the computer is having written for many other pages and chapters without a brow- seen to be ‘not infallible’. The example beating or self-mugging inquisitorial publications including The Financial style, where one is required to re-read Times and has 18 books on chess in by Eric Hallsworth and first seen in dense text just to get back up to speed. print. Last year there was praise for his Chess 2010 showed that the major I spent a rewarding lunch during the unstinting 60 years of chess contributions computer programs of that time, had New Year’s holidays doing just that, to the The Guardian and which some analysed the following position as whilst consuming half a dozen oysters are saying is the longest running column white winning, with Black to move. and several glasses of champagne in in world journalism, a world record! Can you find Black’s move that refutes my favourite restaurant, The High He knows about hardship through their summations? Road Brasserie in Chiswick. Unlike the the tough times he had to endure to

majority of instructional chess books achieve his position, coming from a 3

this tome is not shy in expressing the working class background. He acquired Puzzle 2. mate! Rxc4 2. 1.....b3. If mate. Bc2

Answer: 1. Rb3!!, ....if 1...... PxR. 2. 2. 1...... PxR. ....if Rb3!!, 1. Answer: .

authors’ emotional frustrations and state a taste for chess whilst sheltering in a Taken from Barden’s 1977 classic 3 of pain that some of their former games, school bomb shelter in World War 11 puzzle book, and composed originally mate. 2.Rxc4 1....Qxe4. if or mate,

annotated in the book, gave them, and during a German air raid, and went by A. Ellerman, White mates in 2 Rxc4 2. 1....Kxe4. if Or, f6. on Rook

of course, conversely the highs that on to read Modern History at Balliol Black’s on pin the mate,with Rxf6+,Nc6 moves against any defence. 1.... if or mate, 1....Rxe5.2.Qb6 If mate).

winning games and sequences gave to College, Oxford. He represented

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them.These inclusions put the reader England in 4 Chess Olympiads. He is a 2. Puzzle 3. evident.” self perception, human

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