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Kensington, Chelsea LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS century that has passed. lives across the world. Unperturbed & Westminster Today Contents Our Remembrance Day traditions by the lessons of history, we stumble KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0077 OCTOBER 2018 FREE can be traced back to 1919, when South into further wars. This is not to belittle 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, 100 YEARS African politician Sir James Percy the bravery of thousands of men and © Pixabay Photograph SW11 3UW Fitzpatrick suggested a period of silence women who commit their lives to the Tel: 020 7738 2348 to mark the exact moment the armistice armed forces with full knowledge of the came into effect. Shortly after, George personal danger they face. This selfless V issued a declaration that two minutes’ commitment is not to be disparaged. E-mail: [email protected] silence should be observed, igniting a Sadly, however, the “war to end all wars” Website: News tradition that has continued ever since. has done little to dampen humanity’s www.kcwtoday.co.uk 3 A report in the Manchester Guardian self-destructive instinct. Advertisement enquiries: Statue & Blue Plaque beautifully depicts the first time the But this is not what Armistice Day [email protected] country fell silent in remembrance: is about. Despite growing politicisation 8 “Everyone stood very still... The hush and controversy, its purpose is Subscriptions: AUTUMN GETAWAY SEE THE EVENTS SUPPLEMENT FOR ENJOYABLE AND INSPIRING ACTIVITIES deepened. It had spread over the whole commemoration not celebration. It is not [email protected] EVENTS • NEWS • BUSINESS & FINANCE • EDUCATION • HEALTH • DINING OUT Architecture MOTORING • ARTS & CULTURE • LITERATURE & POETRY • OPINION • SPORT CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS city and become so pronounced as to a glorification of dying in war; it is the ✱ CHESS BOOK OFFER ✱ 9 Publishers: impress one with a sense of audibility. It mourning for those who have done so. Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited News was a silence which was almost pain... So this year, a century after the 10 And the spirit of memory brooded over end of the First World War, it is more it all.” important than ever to pay tribute Opinion & Comment The remembrance poppy, meanwhile, to the victims of war. The passage of 12 finds its origins in the art that flourished time inevitably clouds memory and amid the horrors of war. John McCrae’s mollifies grief, and the Britain of 1918 European & International News poem In Flanders Fields immortalised is an unfamiliar place. But regardless Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne 15 his November marks 100 years the red flowers that emerged resiliently of political and social developments, Art Director & Director: Tim Epps Lest we forget: since the end of the First World from the chaos and desolation of the human cost of war remains the Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka Astronomy War. Though conflicts have the battlefields. The Royal British constant that underpins our tradition 16 Remembering the Fallen continued to rage through the 20th and Legion, founded in 1921, began its of remembrance. Modern society Architecture: Squinch T By James Warrington 21st centuries, the Great War remains ‘poppy appeal’ that year and ever since is of course entitled to challenge Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Business & Finance a bitter benchmark of the human cost millions of people have worn poppies our understanding and depiction of Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 17 of combat. Every year at 11am on 11 to commemorate the dead and to wars past, present and future. But Bridge: Andrew Robson Literature November, to mark the formal end of raise money for veterans, armed forces these debates should not supersede 21 hostilities in the First World War, the personnel and their families. remembrance of those who have died Business & Finance Stephanie Hawthorne, Holly Mackay country falls silent in remembrance of So what has changed since the guns and, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh Douglas Shanks, George Vines Events & News those who have been killed in battle. fell silent a century ago? In some ways, day of the eleventh month, they should Chess: Barry Martin 24 This year the commemorations take on sadly, very little has. Conflict continues not impinge on the silence. Opinion and Comment: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Lifestyle Derek Wyatt 25 buck and the applications keep pouring Music: Geoff Cowart, in. These new proposals are a big step Westminster toward consigning them to history.”

Crossword: Wolfe Events © BT Photograph 29 The proposal from the Ministry of Dining Out: Max Feldman, David Hughes (Editor) Council could get Housing, Communities, and Local Editorial: Evangeline Crouchey, Max Feldman, Education powers to clamp Government said the need for public Fahad Redha, James Warrington 33 call boxes had been shrinking for some down on phone time due to the rise of mobile phone Education: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha 41 Events technology. Despite this, local authorities Events: Fahad Redha boxes are fielding increased numbers of Health: Fahad Redha, By Local Democracy Reporter applications for the boxes, and are facing Dining Out increasing appeals to the Planning Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 46 Talia Shadwell Inspectorate over attempts to block Literature: Max Feldman, Don Grant Health them. Motoring: Fahad Redha 48 The report acknowledged local News, Online Editor, Max Feldman authorities’ concerns the kiosks were Westminster City Council has welcomed likened to a game of “whack-a-mole”. applications to the courts, says the cluttering high streets, making them Arts Correspondent & Travel 52 a proposal to hand local authorities long- The central London borough, which planning reform proposals will give them “less attractive” and posing pavement Picture Editor sought powers to limit the numbers of already has more than 1,000 phone the chance to rule just how many of obstruction. International Editor: Michael A Kolarov Arts & Culture phone boxes popping up around Britain. boxes, claims the kiosks represent an the kiosks its streets need. Its planning If the change goes through the Councils nationwide have complained proposal said it would not affect Sport: Fahad Redha, George Vines 58 advertising space grab in high profile chief Councillor Richard Beddoe said that the modern kiosks popping on locations like Oxford Street, Victoria the government was giving Westminster existing kiosks and their ads. It said Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros Motoring pavements alongside Britain’s iconic red Street and Baker Street. If the council a chance to take back “control of our the increasing demand for mobile Travel: Don Grant, David Hughes , 66 phone boxes are advertising hoardings had approved every application for pavements.” coverage and the 5G roll-out means Cynthia Pickard posing as call boxes. Edgware Rd there would be one phone “Until now arcane planning rules telecommunications operators are Sports However the telecoms companies box every 15 metres, it said. have left the council playing whack-a- increasingly needing to boost radio 68 setting them up say they are providing mole with the phone boxes popping up equipment on street level. Crossword, Bridge & Public Notice a public service by removing ageing The kiosks have flourished because across our city. These aren’t the popular, If councils are given increased 70 phone boxes off the streets, with some ageing legislation that promoted public historic red boxes we all love but ugly powers to refuse the kiosks, it would be replacing them with interactive display access to calling services, has meant local oversized advertising structures posing monitored to ensure they are balancing Chess kiosks that include services like free authorities presently only have the power as telephone boxes cluttering our iconic that against the demand for mobile 71 WiFi. Westminster City Council has to consider whether to grant the sites streets,” he said. network infrastructure, the report added. been lobbying for more control over its requested, and whether they can feature “Whilst we’ve had some success pavements after fielding applications advertising. refusing and removing these The proposal to remove the current for 300 phone boxes in the space of But Westminster, which has in monstrosities, telecoms companies can permitted development rights are open two years, which its planning chief has the past taken its fight over kiosk see the opportunity to make a quick to public consultation until January 2019. 4 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Our residents rightly expect the highest 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the through London just five days before standards of those in public office and it notorious pogrom carried out against King George V’s coronation. Westminster is clear from the report that Councillor International Jews in Nazi Germany in 1938. The New exhibition The collage, designed by young artist councillor Robert Davis breached the code of conduct. The Stars Voices of Kristallnacht event features celebrates Susanna Gomez Larrañaga, is located in planning process must be and be seen to head to Hampstead Arts performances of lesser-known pieces by the glass-enclosed atrium in King Street Davis resigns be impartial.” German-Jewish composers, as well as Shadwell Talia © Photograph Hammersmith and has been staged in association with over hospitality scandal The Guardian investigation revealed Festival declamations of witness testimonies. the Tate Collective. Davis was frequently entertained in Dame Evelyn Glennie, the world’s “There are probably many women expensive London restaurants and first full-time percussionist, also stars in suffragette and men like her who have done great received tickets to West End shows. the festival, teaming up with pioneering things in history that we don’t know From the beginning of 2015, while ensemble Trio HLK. At the other end about. That’s why this exhibition is so head of the planning committee, Davis of the musical spectrum, Wigmore important,” said Larrañaga. received at least 150 gifts from property Competition winners the Van Kuijk “We’re throwing the spotlight on developers, many of whom were seeking Some of London’s most “intimate and Quartet will perform chamber music by an extraordinary woman who stood up Tory councillor for Westminster planning applications from the Council. beautiful” spaces will host an eclectic Beethoven and Debussy. Notting Hill carnival, whose one million A new installation paying tribute to against the injustices of her time. People has stepped down after an David stood down as deputy leader programme of music and talks during the Musical events are complemented attendees generate just 300 tonnes of a famous Indian suffragette has been need to know her story. And you will internal investigation found following the revelations in February, but Hampstead Arts Festival in November. by a series of talks from high-profile Huge grot spot rubbish. unveiled at Hammersmith town hall. remember her face by the end of this hisA acceptance of hospitality and gifts continued as a councillor and retained his The festival, which boasts novelists and journalists. Writers James discovered The council described the car park The artwork celebrates the life and exhibition. It’s everywhere.” breached the council’s code of conduct. seat in the May local elections. He was international stars as well as local north Meek, Elif Shafak and Martin Wolf as a “hive of antisocial behaviour” after work of Lolita Roy, who moved to The installation is the latest in a series Robert Davis, formerly deputy leader first elected to Westminster Council in London talent, will take place over three will all appear in conversation with LBC discovering it in September last year. Hammersmith from Calcutta in 1901 of temporary exhibitions in the Borough and chair of the planning committee, 1982 and was chairman of the planning weeks at St John’s Downshire Hill, broadcaster Matthew Stadlen. under Tesco Outreach workers have since referred and was a prominent suffragette figure in aimed at making Hammersmith and faced criticism after a Guardian committee. At the time of his resignation South Hampstead High School Hall, Other events include new chamber drug users and rough sleepers away from both the UK and India. Fulham one of the leading destinations investigation revealed in February he had he was its longest-serving councillor Hampstead Parish Church and Burgh opera Kokoschka’s Doll, Verdi’s Requiem supermarket the site, which will now be fitted with a The exhibition is a photographic in the country for the arts. accepted hospitality and gifts The independent investigation, House. and a screening of Buster Keaton’s locked gate. collage of Roy and other images Andrew Jones, Hammersmith and 893 times in six years. carried out by Sir Stephen Lamport, This year’s programme, curated by Sherlock Jr. featuring live improvised More than 700 tonnes of illegally Kensington and Chelsea Council’s associated with the suffragette Fulham cabinet member for the economy Westminster Council launched an did not deem Davis’s behaviour to be director Eric Usadi, pays tribute to accompaniment. dumped waste has been removed from lead member for streets, planning movement, including the Rokeby Venus and the arts, said: “It’s great to work internal investigation into the gifts, many unlawful, but stated he “did not promote the centenary of the First World War. The Hampstead Arts Festival began in beneath a Tesco superstore in the worst and transport, Will Pascall, said: “Fly painting and the tea pavilion in Kew alongside the Tate to give one of our past of which came from property developers, and support high standards of conduct Renowned baritone Roderick Williams 2012 as a successor to the Hampstead and fly-tipping case the Council has ever tipping is unsightly and unacceptable Gardens, both of which were sabotaged residents, Lolita Roy, the recognition she and found his behaviour had breached through leadership and by example”. will perform a programme of songs based Highgate Festival. It aims to engage and seen. environmental vandalism. It’s an absolute by suffragettes. deserves in helping to win women the the code of conduct and damaged the In a statement Davis said he disputed on poems from the Great War era, while move audiences with unique events at It took Kensington and Chelsea disgrace that it goes on here in our After moving to Hammersmith right to vote.” Council’s reputation. Davis resigned the Council’s findings, but would be Christ’s College Cambridge Fellow some of north London’s most intimate Council one month and 35 loads of a so- Borough, or anywhere else in London. Roy became President of the London “This is another step towards on Wednesday 10 October following stepping down with immediate effect: David Reynolds will discuss his new venues. called ‘grab lorry’ to remove the rubbish “I was shocked by the scale of the fly Indian Union Society and campaigned making Hammersmith and Fulham an publication of the investigation’s findings. “I wish to draw a line under the matter. book The Long Shadow, which explores The Hampstead Arts Festival will run from a disused car park underneath Tesco tipping when I saw these images and I’m for both Indian and British women to international beacon for the arts while Council leader Cllr Nickie Aiken It is now time for me to move on to the complex legacy of First World War from 10-29 November. To see the full on West Cromwell Road in Kensington. pleased that our enforcement team has get the vote. She was involved in the giving residents from a wide range of welcomed the resignation, saying: "I the next stage in my life and for the poetry. programme and buy tickets visit www. The extraordinary build-up of dumped ensured the area has been returned to organisation of the Women’s Coronation backgrounds more opportunities to believe Councillor Robert Davis has next generation of councillors to lead In addition, the festival marks the hampsteadartsfestival.com. waste dwarfs annual clean-up efforts after normality.” Procession in 1911, a suffragette march experience the arts.” made the right decision to step down. Westminster.”

Port of London Authority’s Martin can be caused by a variety of reasons, Garside reminds us that the Thames CORRECTION from abduction by a stranger or family Will the cruise helps reduce this amount. ‘Over 4 million Battersea’s Fraser member to either choosing or being tonnes of cargo is transported between forced to leave home or care. OUR APOLOGIES to Mr Armen & Ellis join lose? river terminals – removing about 300,000 The partnership with Missing People Fight over new cruise ship Sarkissian and our readers for our lorries movements from the roads’ he coincides with the launch of the IPG’s incorrect reference to Mr Sarkissian search for terminal fuelled by air says. Plans devised by London’s Mayor ‘#nicevanman’ campaign, which seeks as the 'former United Kingdom aim to eradicate the most polluting road to challenge the negative stereotype of pollution concern ambassador to Armenia' (October missing children vehicles in the city by 2021. However, white van drivers. Find Every Child is edition, p.5). It should have read: this overhaul is not inclusive of the the first campaign designed to showcase river, leaving campaigners worried it 'former Armenian ambassador to the United Kingdom' what tradespeople across the country are will become ‘a wild west’ in terms of air . doing to give back to the community. Battersea-based plumbers Fraser & Ellis pollution. Fraser & Ellis is giving #nicevanman Ltd have joined a campaign to help Greenwich’s council approved the van stickers to customers who Strenuous efforts are made by locate missing children across the UK original planning permission of the new contribute to the campaign. In addition, The River Thames is set to host a new why the incidence of lung disease and Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster ahead of the company’s centenary next cruise ship terminal, however is now tradespeople who post a picture of cruise ship terminal causing an increase the increase in hospital admissions backing campaigners call for a ‘greener Today newspaper to ensure that year. of air pollution in a city where the levels were much higher in London than the the content and information is The plumbers’ merchant is the their van sticker on social media will be alternative.’ correct. Kensington, Chelsea & are already dangerously high. Toxic average for England. New research latest independent business to join entered into a competition to win a new In October, campaigners wrote to Westminster Today newspaper toolkit. fumes have long been labeled a cause for has highlighted that pollution (a Morgan Stanley, the owner of Enderby the campaign, which is the result of a reserves the right to report Paul Fraser, managing director of concern, contributing to unknown health combination of sulphur dioxide and Wharf, in order to raise their concerns. unsolicited material being sent partnership between the Independent Fraser & Ellis, said: “I was shocked to consequences for hundreds of thousands nitrogen dioxide) not only contributes to The company have acknowledged their through to the publication. Plumbing Group (IPG) and charity learn that 80,000 children go missing of people. problematic respiratory systems, but also letter and in response, a spokesman Personal views expressed in this Missing People and aims to improve the newspaper are solely those of the each year in the UK. Our aim is to work Granted planning permission in increases rates of dementia, alzheimer's said, ‘we can assure them that our new reach and visibility of appeals for missing respective contributors and do not closely with our customers, other local 2012, the proposal would facilitate 55 and heart disease. proposals will take these concerns into children. Worried about the health reflect those of the publishers or tradespeople and the charity to make giant cruise ships to dock in Greenwich’s account’. Although these words are its agents. All materials sent to Fraser & Ellis donated to the charity’s our community aware of children who Enderby Wharf each year. Without consequences this development will encouraging, the residents want these Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Find Every Child campaign and has now access to shore side power and with facilitate, Laura Eyres is one of residents plans that guarantee the pollution of our Today are at the suppliers’ risk. received a collection tin for its store. have gone missing in the area, therefore on-board facilities to run, the ships will fighting against it. She believes there is waters to be sunk. Reproduction in whole or in part The company will also display missing reinforcing the great work that the have to keep their engines running. Over ‘no justification for having these huge Cruise ship companies support the of this publication is strictly person posters in the shop to help Missing People charity does and their prohibited without prior consent. the three day period that the ships will ships sitting here right next to busy notion of being able to use shore side make customers aware of local missing vision of bringing missing children to dock for, they will emit the same amount residential areas and schools, belching The appearance of advertising in a place of safety or back together with power, with Viking’s newest ship already this newspaper, including inserts or children. Further fundraising campaigns of toxic No2 emissions as almost 700 out this level of pollution with all the having had the power connections fitted. supplements, does not constitute are planned for the rest of the year and their families.” lorries would if they ran their engines associated damage to people’s health that endorsement by Kensington, into 2019. constantly. have now been proven.’ With only 6 out of 490 ports across Chelsea & Westminster Today of the An estimated 140,000 people For more information about the Air pollution, a contributory factor It is well known that London roads the world having shore power available, products or services advertised. aged under 18 go missing every year, campaign visit www.the-ipg.co.uk/ to respiratory diseases, might explain create a huge amount of pollution but London would be leading the way. according to Home Office statistics. 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November 6, Tottenham v PSV Eindhoven, December 1, QPR v Hull City, 15:00 20:00 December 2, Arsenal v Tottenham, 14:05 Nov 8, Arsenal v Sporting CP, 20:00 December 2, Chelsea v Fulham, 12:00 November 10, QPR v Brentford, 15:00 December 5, Fulham v Leicester City, 19:45 November 11, Arsenal v Wolves, 16:30 December 5, Tottenham v Southampton, November 11, Chelsea v Everton, 14:15 20:00 November 24, Fulham v Southampton, December 8, Arsenal v Huddersfield, 15:00 15:00 December 8, Chelsea v Man City, 17:30 November 24, Tottenham v Chelsea, 17:30 December 13, Arsenal v Qarabag FK, 20:00 November 28, Tottenham v Inter, 20:00 November 29, Chelsea v PAOK Salonika, 20:00 Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha

on the Underground, serving more than 79 million customers every year. King’s Victoria Tube Cross St. Pancras is the busiest, with almost 100 million annual customers. station goes Deputy Mayor for Transport, Heidi Alexander, said: “Victoria Underground step-free is one of our busiest stations and one of the first major Tube stations encountered ictoria has become the latest by visitors to the Capital. station on the London “The provision of step-free access Underground network to offer marks a major milestone, as it provides Vstep-free access to passengers thanks to a greater access to the Underground as major upgrade project. well as vital interchanges between Tube Seven new lifts have been installed journeys and a seamless connection with in the station, allowing step-free access National Rail services. between Victoria and District and Circle “We are improving step-free Line trains, as well as from the street and access across our network and we are mainline station. Victoria is the 75th of determined to do all we can to ensure the network’s 270 stations to go step-free. our customers experience all London has The improvement comes as part to offer.” of a major seven-year upgrade project Alan Benson, Transport for All chair, that includes two new entrances, nine welcomed the renovations, describing new escalators, a new ticket hall and an the new lifts as “eagerly anticipated”. He enlarged southern ticket hall. The project added: “Using these lifts will open up has almost doubled the size of the station opportunities for people to enjoy and and is due to be completed later this year. contribute to vibrant London life where Victoria is the fourth busiest station previously they have been excluded.”

activities and promotions. Christmas ‘A Merry Marylebone Christmas’ will kick off on 14 November with the celebrations annual Christmas lights charity switch- on. In previous years the lights have to light up been switched on by big names such as Jennifer Saunders, Sophie Dahl and Marylebone Barbara Windsor. The celebrations will feature Santa in his grotto, reindeer, traditional fairground Marylebone is set to receive a sumptuous rides and fireworks. Visitors can also Christmas makeover this year as it enjoy a live performance from local prepares for six weeks of festive events, schools and professional singers, all while indulging in warming mince pies and mulled wine. The opening ceremony will mark the beginning of a six-week festive campaign in Marylebone Village, during which shoppers can benefit from discounts, talks, workshops and special seasonal drinks. The festive ceremony will take place between 3pm and 7pm on 14 November B on AMarylebone High Street, with the C switch-on at 6pm. CPG_CHRISTMAS18_KEW-AD-outline.indd 1 13/09/2018 17:58 8 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Statue & Blue Plaque Architecture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Concept design hand sketches A new Plaque: Sadie Crawford. BRICKS AND Images © Squinch Images STATUES 1885-1965 Photograph © L Hammelit Photograph BRICKBATS diameter and carved in stone. BY SQUINCH The sides of the cenotaph are not parallel, and Lutyens employed an architectural A Plaque was erected honouring optical device called entasis, Sadie Crawford at 143 Fountain which added a gentle bulge Photograph © Andrew Shiva Andrew © Photograph Road. Tooting. South London. It is or convex curve, as used in certain orders of Classical coloured blue and was unveiled in UK towns and cities are in columns that curve slightly June this year, having been funded by desperate need of more and as their diameter is decreased public subscriptions. Geoff Symons, from the bottom upward. local Tooting historian organised the better housing for all age Computer generated image Compact well resolved 60s townhouse plan, S.E. London The Grade I listed building fundraising. groups. The housing crisis is 11 metres tall and weighs Sadie Crawford rose from poverty 120 tonnes. Roman numerals and obscurity in Tooting where she a banjo player, who were well known is not new, so where do any denoting the dates of the worked as a scullery maid in service to throughout Europe in African American First World War MCMXIV solutions lie? become a Jazz performer of international show business. They were also pioneers and MCMXIX, are carved renown. It was an amazing achievement onto the ends, and the dates in recording and were among the first to onstruction industry productivity for a white woman to pioneer jazz and of the Second World War record music related to Jazz in Britain. is only increasing at 0.4% p.a. were added in on the sides of work in a man’s world so early in the Sadie joined The Dark Town Entertainers, compared to manufacturing at the memorial MCMXXXIX 20th century. and their show was where she met Adolf 3.2% p.a. (Office for National Statistics). and MCMXLV, but, other The Plaque was unveiled by her Crawford whom she married. C Most building projects are too bespoke than the wreaths, it remains great, great nephew, Stephen Willis, Adolf was an African American, a and traditional construction methods too unadorned and chillingly the Music Director of Abbey School, multi-instrumentalist, a saxophonist, slow. Cost, time and quality are impacted white. Lutyens and his practise waived and other family members together who had a long career performing in by site conditions, weather and skill their fees for the design of this iconic with friends were present. Leading Jazz Europe and South America. Sadie and shortages. structure. The Cenotaph Historian Howard Rye gave a talk and Adolph worked together as a vaudeville Sir Edwin Lutyens The memorial was unveiled by King For years, the concept of off-site a procession took place. Recordings of music hall double act called Crawford modular construction has been seen as a George V on 11 November 1920, to co- Sadie’s performances in the 1920s were Whitehall incide with a larger procession bringing and Johnson. She used the name Sadie potential panacea. It’s back in the news played. Streatham and Clapham High the Unknown Warrior to be laid to rest Johnson. They travelled to Russia, again. The principle is indeed seductive. residential architecture benefits from should make an important contribution resolving many construction complexities in his tomb in Westminster Abbey. School founded a scholarship in Sadie’s Roumania, New Zealand, Australia In essence, modular construction is a highly evolved plan forms that were to the housing problem. Perhaps a before they become a problem on site. It was also the second anniversary of name and Adrianna Forbes-Dorant, and France. The European Capital of factory finished box, a bit like a porta simply repeated to become terraces and creative government actually tackling In Japan such systems are more greatly he Cenotaph was designated the the Armistice with Germany which jazz pianist, was the first recipient. She Jazz was Paris and there they featured cabin for living in. Put several together crescents. Put these building blocks the housing crisis might encourage integrated with product selection data, United Kingdom’s official national ended the First World War. An annual played at the unveiling ceremony. as part of Gordon Stretton’s Orchestre to make a flat or stack them on top of together around a green space and a investment in the up-front factory thus making the whole process more war memorial for World War I, Service of Remembrance is held at Sadie was born Louisa Harriet Syncopated Six. Sadie also performed each other to make a house. They have ‘Square’ is formed; two terraces facing investment costs? efficient, faster and defect free. The although it started life in 1919 as the site on Remembrance Sunday, the Marshall and took the stage name Sadie with such great names as Seth Mitchell a factory built, finished interior that can each other (in good proportion) and a Alarmingly, nine out of ten quality and speed of building in Japan Ta temporary structure provided closest Sunday to 11 November each Crawford. She was also known as Sadie and Louis Armstrong. The brilliance of have any type of external cladding to street is created. It’s not rocket science. worldwide construction projects run makes the UK look decades behind. for the soldiers in the victory march year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh Johnson and Sadie Mozee. Her father, Crawford and Johnson step dances were suit the setting or planning context. The London, Bath, York and many others over budget, most often because of time The medium of the art of architecture to have something to salute. The day of the eleventh month. and the Francis Thomas Marshall died when Prime Minister David Lloyd George noticed. 1916 saw them touring with module becomes the building block, a bit are World famous for their quality of delays. It will be interesting to see if the is space. The art of communicating the memorial was unveiled for a second she was only four years old and her proposed that the monument should time on Sunday 10 November 1946 by the Dusky Revels, one of many black cast like overgrown Lego. urban ‘place’ and can be surprisingly Croydon towers are built in half the time idea is through drawing. As architect’s mother, Maria, married Louis Slade in be a catafalque, like the one intended King George VI, and the memorial is shows. This was run by Billy Dorsey and Being a factory controlled process, high density. The essence of this issue, is and on budget as targeted. work becomes increasingly computer for the Arc de Triomphe in Paris for now also used to remember the dead of 1905. They had one child which added was important for their double act. They standardisation and repetition is a that the building ‘brick’, ie. the ‘house’, Flat-pack construction, like Ikea based, the art of hand drawing is being the corresponding Victory Parade in later wars in which British servicemen to Sadie’s six siblings made a big family. continued to work together, but often necessity. Reduced wastage of material is repetitive and hence is capable and furniture, does have a place in speeding- lost. Advances in architectural software France, but the pre-eminent architect and servicewomen have fought. Annual The family members always remained appeared separately as saxophone players and recycling are proven benefits. appropriate for factory production. The up build times. SIPs (Structural technology are essential to progress and of his day, Sir Edwin Lutyens proposed remembrance services also take place at close to each other. in different bands. Off-site factory production requires important ingredients being the variety Insulated Panels) are already being improved productivity in construction. instead that the design be based on a the Cenotaph on other days of the year, Sadie escaped poverty through music When Adolph died in 1929 Sadie substantial up-front investment, but and detail of the exterior cladding and widely used especially in timber frame At the same time, there is a danger of the cenotaph, which, is, by definition, an including the Royal Tank Regiment on by going on the stage in her mid teens joined The Blackbirds and went to live holds the potential for greater application the refined evolution of the inside to suit construction. By itself, flat-pack is computer de-humanising architecture empty tomb, whereas a catafalque is a the Sunday following Remembrance and she developed a passion for black in America with them. She suffered a of R&D alongside computer controlled the lifestyles of our time. The long term currently used mostly for one-off houses. and hence, the spaces and places in decorated wooden frame supporting Sunday, which is the closest to Cambrai culture and its popular music. She spent breakdown and when convalescing she process which construction urgently strengths of the Georgian townhouse Its benefit over modular is ease and cost which we all live. Many young qualified the coffin during a funeral or lying in Day (20 November). On Anzac Day, two years in the chorus of the Empire state. The original, temporary, structure met Frank Mozee, an African American. needs. Conventional construction is sadly have been that it evolved at a range of of transport, but it is still dependent, architects are amazingly talented at 25 April, a Wreath Laying Ceremony Theatre London and travelled to St. was built of wood and plaster, but and Parade is held at the Cenotaph They married and settled in Washington. lacking in sufficient R&D. The negative different sizes (the original Belgravia albeit less, on erection time and greater working with this developing software. Petersburg and Austria. Luckily, she met the general public who attended the at 11 am, followed by a Service of There were no children, but there was side has been the cost of transport and masterplan contained properties finishing on site. The counter to this is that many of parade, regarded its purpose, not so Commemoration and Thanksgiving at Laura Bowman and her husband, Pete, a foster daughter, Lillian Brown. Sadie limitation on the width of ‘Pods’ which ranging from ambassadorial mansions The use of computers in design is them can only draw on the computer. much as a victory parade, but as an Westminster Abbey. The Combined made frequent trips to England to see are limited to c.3.3metres without special to workers’ cottages) and crucially, has catching up with other manufacturing Some firms of architects are now acknowledgement of the glorious dead, Irish Regiments Association her relatives. She died in Washington in load restrictions or, even more expensive, proved adaptable over time. Other more sectors, but it still has a long way to go in holding life drawing classes to redress and they returned in large numbers commemorate their war dead, which is 1965. police escort for wide vehicles. The recent eras of architecture hold exemplar actual construction. REVIT, a Building this unfortunate reality. Hand drawing even after the ceremony had taken now held on the Sunday in June that A difficult life to research, but other limitation has been the number of models of excellent house and flat plans Information Modelling (BIM) software connects eye, brain and pencil to paper place. The reason it became permanent follows the Queen’s Birthday Parade. a chance remark she made to a modules that can be stacked on top of that all involved could and should learn is now being used by many design firms and teaches one to observe, investigate was purely the reaction of the people The Belgian Parade at the Cenotaph Washington journalist, that she had each other. This is now about to change. from. as an interactive design tool. In creating and see. Seeing enables the brain to at the time, and not of politicians or has taken place yearly since 1934 on relations in Tooting, led to the discovery Modular construction design can and a 3-dimensional model of a building imagine and to create. If an architect can the military. The Portland stone version the Sunday preceding the Belgian In Croydon, less than half an hour must refine and evolve enjoyable flat and design, it enables architects, structural see better, then perhaps he or she may was exactly the same dimensions and National Day (21 July), Belgium being that Mrs Mozee, who claimed to have by train from Central London, work in the same location as the temporary the only nation that is allowed to parade been born in Cairo to an American is about to start on the two tallest house plans if it is to be a major part of and services engineers to construct a full- just imagine and create better spaces and one, and was built between 1919 and its troops in uniform and carry arms mother and an Egyptian father, was residential modular towers in the World. the housing solution. Architects must size computer model of a project. Hence places for our expanding cities. 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts. in central London. The War Widows actually Louisa Marshall of Tooting. At 38 and 44 storeys high, they represent create great compositions and elegant It was undecorated apart from a carved Association of Great Britain hold Sadie was inspirational and had an a giant leap forward. The modules are cladding options to equal their historic wreath on each end and a smaller their Annual Service of Remembrance amazing career, the first English woman being built in Bedford, not Germany, peers. Engineering and the design of carved wreath on top. The words ‘The at the Cenotaph on the day before to play and record Jazz. She did not China or Japan. The latter leads the pods has made substantial advances in Glorious Dead’ are inscribed twice, Remembrance Sunday. recognise boundaries and followed her World in pre-fabricated construction and the last few years. Research should aim SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT once below the wreaths on each end. Don Grant heart’s desire to play Jazz. 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audience at Drapers Hall were treated to Celebration for displays from several canine partnerships, which demonstrated some of the dogs’ Canine Partners training; opening and unloading the By Evangeline Cronchey washing machine, picking up dropped keys, crutches and credit cards, helping Photographs © Canine Partners Photographs their partners with their clothing, and to assist with getting in and out of bed. More than 1.2 million people in the UK use a wheelchair. Among the guests at the event was canine partner Tim Scott, who was involved in a terrible accident, leaving him as a “triplegic”. He sustained devastating injuries such as; multiple broken bones, 2 punctured lungs and a broken pelvis amongst others, ATTENTION ALL which meant he would need to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Tim calls his canine partner Elliott his “soul mate”. It is clear that Tim benefits from CAR COLLECTORS Elliott’s presence through his recount of an incident when his wheelchair rolled show again at their annual Carol 154 applicants are awaiting an assistance n Tuesday 30th October 2018, away from his car. Stranded, and with no Service on December 13th 2018, at St dog. There are 414 dogs already working Canine Partners UK hosted one else around, it was Elliott who lived Mary Abbotts Church, High Street with their partners across the UK. From a special day at Drapers Hall, up to his name, “assistance” dog, and Kensington. Allow these creatures to the selection of a puppy through to the London. The charity transforms the retrieved his wheelchair. light up your Christmas, the dogs really dog’s retirement, a partnership costs O The canine partnerships also provide lives of disabled people across the UK are the true stars of the show! Hosted by £20,000. While it isn’t possible to put by providing canine partners, specifically people with psychological, emotional the Founder of Draycott Nursing and a price on a person’s independence it is trained to meet their individual needs. and social benefits resulting in improved Care, Angela Hamlin; whom assistance possible to put a price on the training The charity helps adults who have confidence, social interaction and self- dog Hamlin was named after, in honour and development of a partnership. All a physical disability or conditions esteem. Alan Edbrooke suffers from of her continuous support of the charity. proceeds from the evening go towards 81 YEAR LEASE FOR SALE that affects daily lives and limits Parkinson’s disease, and with it comes Celebrities will be in attendance, as will Canine Partners UK. independence. anxiety. Alan describes how his partner, the charity’s patron, His Royal Highness IN CHELSEA The dogs can assist with tasks that Hamlin, anticipates the onset of a panic The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO. are physically difficult, painful or even attack and rests his head on his knee. In the midst of joy the festive season For more information: www. impossible for their partners. The The Canine Partners will be on brings, it is important to remember that caninepartners.org.uk/draycottcarols SECURE CAR STORAGE FOR UP TO 30 CARS Museum. world donned a pair of skates against Battersea Arts Battersea Arts Centre is now looking Get your the backdrop of one of London’s most for someone to replace Jubb. It describes impressive landmarks. PRICE: £ 4.5 MILLION Centre hunts for this as a “pivotal time in its history” skates on: Ice The rink boasts a sparkling 30ft as it hopes to make the centre a more Christmas tree, and visitors can watch new boss inclusive cultural hub. Artistic Associate rink returns to all the action from a viewing platform. ANNUAL OUTGOINGS as David Jubb steps down Shelley Hastings and Associate Artistic The Café Bar, run by Benugo, is offering Director Sarah Holding are also stepping Natural History seasonal snacks and hot refreshments. down next year after long tenures at the Every Thursday punters can also MINIMAL company. Museum enjoy Acoustic Lates 2018, a series of free Michael Day, chair of the Battersea acoustic performances from some of the Arts Centre board, described Jubb as “an UK’s best emerging talent. Last year’s CONTACT outstanding and visionary leader”. performances included Scottish singer- songwriter Kerri Watt and soul vocalist Battersea Arts Centre is looking for a “He has created an organisation that Cool customers can once again take to +44 (0)7836 336 698 Luke Burr. new artistic director and CEO following is loved and valued from Lavender Hill the ice as one of London’s most-loved The ice rink reopened on Thursday the announcement that David Jubb is to Rio de Janeiro and all points between. ice rinks returns to the Natural History 25 October and is open until Sunday 6 leaving next year “to grow children and He has moved hearts and minds, always Museum in South Kensington. January 2019. vegetables”. collaboratively and with humility and October saw the reopening of the To book tickets visit Jubb first joined Battersea Arts grace,” he added. iconic ice rink for the festive season www.nhmskating.com Centre in 1999 and has been artistic Jubb wrote on his blog that he hopes following last year’s success, when or call 08448 471 576. director and CEO since 2004. He wrote to write something about “creativity over 165,000 people from around the on his blog: “It’s time for me to bugger and change”, but admitted he might off and let someone else have a go at be distracted by all the box sets he has running this fantastic, optimistic and missed over the last 15 years. creative organisation.” Battersea Arts Centre welcomes over

The Arts Centre has had a tough few 160,000 visitors and puts on over 800 © NHM Photograph years after a fire in 2015 caused serious performances each year. In November damage to its Grade II* listed Victorian it will unveil a new co-working space building near Clapham Junction station. called the Scratch Hub, which will offer Despite this, the organisation has hot-desking and meeting rooms to local secured a £26m investment to create businesses and entrepreneurs. more performance spaces and to renovate Applications for the position of the fire-damaged Grand Hall. It has also artistic director and CEO can be made agreed a 125-year lease on the building, via the Battersea Arts Centre website. which was formerly Battersea Town The deadline is 12pm on Monday 26 Hall, and has merged with Wandsworth November. 12 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

distance bomber parent who rarely gets teenager. promotion involves a c.70% cut in salary. that the gaff was blown. The members to pay salaries that will attract top-class flight clearance so tends to store up The term “splendid isolation” is one Without resorting to clunky metaphors themselves have never had the courage brains and talent to replace the rows of MARIUS BRILL’S complaints to carpet bomb a month’s John Major has used several times in his Settle the about monkeys and peanuts, it is clear (or the potential self-destructiveness) to second-rate wannabes that currently worth of problems in explosive, eye- attacks on Brexit. It, in fact, refers to the that if the Lord Chancellor’s department put to the electorate the case for raising occupy the green benches of Parliament. streaming, outbursts. 19th century British government practice Judiciary and wishes to attract legal minds of the members’ pay. Perhaps they thought MEMEING OF LIFE Being alone is never actually about of avoiding permanent alliances with then pay the highest calibre, and that is fundamental (rightly, as it happens) that the public being alone, it’s about not being with other European countries; particularly to the correct administration of the law, were just too short-sighted to appreciate Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... others. The times change, the technology during Lord Salisbury’s premiership Lawmakers they must offer salaries that in some way that significantly higher salaries would changes, the aspirations change, but the from 1885-1902. Historian Harold By Peter Burden reduce the drop in income that it will bring in a significantly higher calibre urge, and the history, repeats itself from Temperley summarised it as, “Non- probably entail for appointees. of politician. The actuality is that many turned out, was exactly the same number one generation to the next. Being alone intervention; no European police system; It has been loudly said that most who could have made useful members as my present, real, adoring poetry- is an act of glorious selfishness, only every nation for itself, and God for us all; judges do not accept their appointment of Parliament have not had sufficient “I Vant To Be reading fans. really possible in the narrow vision of an balance of power; respect for facts, not with an eye to financial advancement, income from external or private sources Now my youngest child has entered adolescent mind, because it tries to deny, for abstract theories; respect for treaty t is proposed by the Senior Salaries rather with an understanding that it to encourage them to forego their careers Alone” the teen trials. And she wants to and by that prove, you have an integral rights, but caution in extending them ... Review Body that the people who is their duty to take the job, but it is elsewhere and devote the amount of time England not Europe... Europe’s domain interpret our laws should receive unreasonable to expect such ‘elevation’ required to forge and reform the nation’s extends to the shores of the Atlantic, a pay rise of 32%, a raise from £181k to create a significant drop in their laws. “Alone now, there is nothing but England’s begins there.” I standard of living. The Nation should not The judiciary must have their pay rise, peterburden.net to £240K. This is due, it was reported, my breath. Of course we had an Empire to to low morale within the judiciary. begrudge this pay rise. to maintain the exemplary standards of fall back on, so we held all the cards in ‘Low morale’ sounds like an unsubtle However, it isn’t only the interpreters the British High Courts. The Legislature, www. I scream and that turbulent fury trade agreements, but by not getting euphemism for ‘grumpy about their of the law who must have wisdom, too, must be provided with the resources that rages from my mouth, involved, by withdrawing our political wages’. But, although they have strong knowledge, integrity and talent. These strength, we allowed European countries Binder Alexander © photograph justification for being grumpy about attributes should also be present in Is silence. In the darkness.” to escalate their posturing and military what they are paid, it was inevitable those who create the law; the legislature, Marius Brill (Aged 14) peacocking. Aspirant empire builders, that every other body representing composed of the elected members of our inequitably vicious that we have had to Russia, France, Germany, Austria- public sector workers would leap on this parliament. initiate daily monitoring of all arrears. Hungary, even Belgium went through conclusion with a cry of, ‘Me Too!’ I While the law in England has for Pure rage Not only are spouses being served a series of treaties, agreements and don’t want to go into the cases of nurses, centuries been a profession with a clear By Doug Shanks bankruptcy notices but children. We have alignments trying to leverage their own junior doctors (who if they are any structure and hierarchy and a broadly live cases of agreed payment plans being o, whilst wiry, post-pubescent, me might. By the turn of the century when good will one day be rich consultants), identifiable scale of remuneration flagrantly ignored by HMRC whose was wondering if Faber & Faber a Britain vs Germany naval arms race or educational support workers; all of corresponding to knowledge and talent, unqualified and under-supervised field was going to recognise my genius; began, politicians started to realise the whom unquestionably do useful work, this has not been the case for members of officers feel empowered to intimidate. fat, middle-aged, me would happily country was dangerously exposed by its other than to say that the function of the the House of Commons. Is it necessary to destroy families in the S lack of European allies. In 1898, Colonial Being a member of the Commons, interests of collecting a few quid, to put the gun I was clearly looking for, judiciary isn’t comparable to that of any It’s all gone fascist; government by to the temple of that spotty youth and Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, who of them. It requires an enormous amount the primary legislature, is a calling which elected dictatorship. Non-elected kick the proprietor in the teeth while end his tortuous self-obsession whilst tried twice unsuccessfully to negotiate an of knowledge, specialist legal knowledge, was for centuries a largely ‘voluntary’, peers taking completely irresponsible their business is failing? What is the simultaneously sparing the world his alliance with Germany, said, “We have as well as general life knowledge, unpaid activity. Although in 1911, David sideswipes at the woefully under self-employed person supposed to do? awful poetry. And, you know, juvenile had no allies. I am afraid we have had no unbiased, informed judgement, and a Lloyd-George introduced the notion supported and undermined judiciary, MPs don’t see votes in what is seen as an me would have thanked the wrinkly old friends ... We stand alone.” great deal of difficult work, as anyone that MPs should be paid (£400 pa, naming those the courts have in their irrelevant largely middle-class section of git with the Glock because, “yeah, I’ll be By abandoning involvement in who has read a judge’s summing up will equivalent now to £159,000 pa, twice best judgment awarded injunctions. the community. We should all get jobs. dead and then they’ll be sorry… and then Europe, Britain had no skin in the game. attest. The interpretation of the law is a the current salary), he had no wish to see What was he playing at? A has-been On the state. If we do, who’ll be creating someone’ll publish my poetry and the It was unable to broker peace and the vital and mighty responsibility, and those ‘caucus-fed, professional politicians’. This, massaging his confessional? Surely not the wealth to pay the tax to pay the world will mourn the loss of my depth bristling European powers were getting who possess the wisdom, erudition and though, was at a time when legislation what the ancient freedoms of speech wages? Amazon? Starbucks? Apple? and potential.” ready to prove their superiority. As any experience to do it well are, frankly, very was far less complex or extensive than it in Parliament were designed to do. If A client of a friend of a colleague But somehow future me shouted loud GCSE history student will begin their rare. is now. In the 21st century, professionally taxpayers must interpret good from bad (so clearly allegedly) made a material enough through the temporal ether to ubiquitous 20th Century essay, “There Judges are appointed largely from trained, pragmatic career politicians are avoidance surely peers and MPs should but unintentional error with his VAT convince teen me to bury my cheerless were many causes of the First World the ranks of Queen’s Counsel practising exactly what we need, and the romantic be held to account. The Hain/Green return. HMRC are arguing that this is an odes in a Woollies notebook at the War…” But first among them was a at the Bar, where, if they have sufficient idea of single-issue ideologues bumbling arguments have run dry. The good- intentional error. It is agreed the original back of a cupboard. And though I was policy that came to be known as the talent, they will probably be earning amateurishly through the massively natured anti-rugby-tour firebrand will error wasn’t intentional, but it was almost certainly anticipating a time when “Splendid Isolation.” three or four times the £181K currently increased complexity of law-making be marginally less tarnished than the intentional that the taxpayer did intend the world would finally recognise my This month, a hundred years after the on offer for the very full-time job of today is completely anachronistic. It is buccaneering villain. Like it or not Hain to file the return, so the mistake will virtuosity and cry out for my youthful guns fell silent, when the death toll could sitting in the nation’s High Court. There manifest in the handling of the self- was at best negligent over his failure attract significantly higher intentional insight, I can now only be grateful that it finally be tallied, we will remember the are no directly comparable appointments imposed Brexit crisis that the current cast to disclose his connection to Telegraph error penalties. Sophistry: intend equals went no further than beneath a shoe box 40 Million soldiers and civilians killed within the public sector where such a of politicians is hopelessly, pathetically lawyers Gordan Dadds. Surely he didn’t intentional. Hello Kafka; goodbye British of multi-coloured Kickers. in the war and by the flu, famine and inadequate. The array of light-weight, use privilege to breach an Appeal Court fair-play. Rediscovering that blank verse is not disease that followed in its wake; the war vacillating people around Mrs May’s injunction without reading the court That’s why Hain has ultimately to just acutely embarrassing, it’s a painful to end all wars. So why are we forgetting cabinet table could not demonstrate papers? If he had, he’d have known he be wrong. Populist politicians (even reminder of how difficult and angst what got us there in the first place? this more clearly. While a few rich men, was conflicted by his consultancy to that unelected ones) are interfering with ridden and confusing and troubling Yes, we’ve all wanted to do a Greta © Pixabay Photograph like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Al ‘Boris’ reputable firm. the rule of law. Our system is designed becoming a teenager can be. But if Garbo and get some time out. We’ve Johnson (who makes far more money as Just when we needed a tough to protect the individual from populist the pain of post-adolescence is like be alone and she stomps up to her role as part of a larger community. The all wanted to storm up to our room and a journalist than he does as an MP) cause judiciary to stand up to flagrant vengeance; Hitler relied on populist permanently having fillings drilled, being bedroom but not, fortunately, to write temptation to indulge in a “splendid lock the door. But, when we leave and disproportionate mayhem from outside Whitehall abuses, a random peer plays support. Can it really be coincidence a parent of teenagers is unceasing root nauseating poetry (I don’t think) but isolation,” when you feel misunderstood prioritise ours needs, we ignore how the tent. the legal equivalent of air-guitar. I the cakeshop was finally allowed their canal treatment. to be alone with all her peers who have or treated unfairly, is partly to punish intrinsic we are to the framework, the Thirty years ago, Mrs Thatcher gasp at relatively junior government deeply offensive prejudiced views (after When 14-year-old me stomped up also disappeared, phones in hand, to those you are leaving and partly to try to stability, the unit that as social animals undoubtedly recognised that the terms employees (most in HM Revenue & failing in all the lower courts) because to my bedroom to be alone it wasn’t be “alone” too. You’re never alone with prove independence. Both, of course, core we are all a part of. of employment for an MP were far from Customs, because that’s my trade) the Supreme Court was leant on by a actually to be alone. Yes I wanted to a phone! Except, you’re always alone adolescent impulses. No one, thankfully, will remember adequate to attract truly able people into threatening tax debtors. People on PAYE government that needs those recently physically create the separation I felt with your phone. The teenage bedroom Kids need to grow up and feel my teen poetry, and policy during Parliament. She attempted to address cannot be asked to have much sympathy acquired DUP votes? from the parents who were failing to has, since its invention, been the human independent. What’s wrong with a bit of Britain’s “Splendid Isolation” is historical this by fudging the matter of expenses, with those who can’t budget to save 30 understand my vast emotional intellect, cocoon from which, hopefully, a butterfly alone time? marginalia in comparison with what so that at least the members could bulk to 40% of their net income. The self- The Metropolitans exhort you to enter I wanted them to feel guilty for their will eventually eat her way out. And as Nothing…. when you’re talking about followed, but on the eleventh hour of out their puny salaries with specious employed might counter that feeding the Greenwood and join Little John shortcomings, but mainly I wanted to be hard as it is to be an adult and end a kids. the eleventh day of the eleventh month, claims. Tony Blair’s administration chose their family when business is poor Handley, Dave Scarlett and their pal with my pen, a spiral bound notepad, and sentence with a preposition, it is harder But of course, I’m not. The problem we will remember. At the going down not to alter that position and it wasn’t takes priority over tax, and not paying Ranting-Doug of Loxley my entire, imagined, future audience of still to transition from a constantly comes when an entire nation behaves of the sun and in the morning, we will until the Daily Telegraph were alerted their mortgage isn’t a realistic option. adoring poetry-reading fans. Which, as it hovering “helicopter parent” to a long like a moody, depressed, anxiety-ridden remember. by someone from within the House The revenue collection has become so [email protected] 14 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Opinion & Comment European & International NEWS

Sir Philip Green. The idea to vote.) How is that truly democratic? first commercial cargo ship to traverse It is much worse in America, where the passage unescorted when it delivered Judge and that a parliamentarian can between 50 and 55 per cent of voters INTERNATIONAL New Shipping nickel from the Canadian province of be Judged disagree with our top judges turn out to vote which means the Route North of Quebec to China.The voyage was made by Derek Wyatt President only secures something like NEWS in 26 days, more than two weeks less seems outdated and puts the 28 per cent of all votes cast. This does Canada? than the 41-day equivalent by way of the legislature at issue with our not seem a sensible way for the greatest BY MICHAEL A KOLAROV Panama Canal. country in the world to operate its According to BBC Toronto, in 2017 independent judiciary. You political system. But there is no appetite a total of 32 vessels made the journey, wonder whether the average for reform. It is possible that a new economically but only one of those was a cargo ship. In the UK, there are parliaments for viable shipping lane could be opened up The others included adventure yachts, It has been a strange month. Brit cares what other nations Scotland and Northern Ireland and an to the tune of billions of Rand over due to global warming and retreating dedicated icebreakers, a cruise ship, and the years, leaving it in its present state. now think about this concept. Assembly for Wales, but nothing for South Africa’s polar ice. The route would go across the a tanker. In 2016 this was just 18 vessels England. We only have super mayors, Eskom maintains that it is entitled to the north of Canada and according to trade and 16 in 2015. 90% tariff increase, but has said that it is In America, the Trump hurchill said democracy was or not. Try as some of us might to work Eskom ‘Entitled’ minister Jim Carr “will in a matter of a Obstacles remain to be overcome willing to settle for an increase of 15% the worst form of government for an English Parliament, there is no generation, probably be available year should the Northwest Passage ever strategy of replacing judges annually. This prompted sharp criticism except “for all those others that appetite for it. Four lower houses with round”. become a viable trade route because there to 90 percent and protests from the public who already who support his party is have been tried from time to time.” He equal rights brought together with This is excellent news for shipping is an ongoing disagreement over access to have difficulty paying for electricity in C to take on President Trump either as an overarching Senate which would firms transporting goods from China the passage. Canada claims sovereignty, may have had a point. But some of the almost complete. The most Tariff Increase the impoverished naRegulator had earlier practices in both America and the UK an Independent or more likely as a have foreign policy, some aspects of or Japan to Europe or the east coast of while the US and others consider the in October been granted an increase of public was the appointment now seem rather quaint. It is time for a Democrat. Having to be rich in order to Treasury, the Environment and Major the United States as the new ice free passage to be international. There is also In October, South Africa’s embattled 4 percent. Eskom said it would need to refresh. stand seems to me to be an affront to the Infrastructure schemes might serve us all passage would cut thousands of miles off a lack of available ports and search and of Judge Kavanaugh to the power company Eskom said that it is further increase the cost to consumers Take the funding of political parties very nature of democracy. better. But alas.... journeys that currently travel by way of rescue capabilities in the area which must entitled to an electricity tariff increase at least tenfold in order to reach a Supreme Court. No matter in America. To run for election at what In the UK a government is formed, President Trump’s way of running his the Panama or Suez canals. be overcome before the trade route could of 90 percent to recoup severe financial sales overestimate of 118 billion South ever level you need to raise billions of but not on the basis of the majority of country has been unpleasant for some In 2014 the Nunavik became the ever come into large scale use. that the FBI did not consider losses, which stem in large part from its African Rand (£6,293,015,381 pounds dollars. Now you, the candidate, must the votes cast. That’s not how it works. of us to witness. Brexit has showed us role in a massive nationwide state capture sterling). all the evidence. You wonder not have personal access to this funding, The citizen does not yet have the option what a callow group of parliamentarians scandal which saw President Jacob Zuma According to South African instead you help create or it is created for of casting more than one vote. If he or we have. The democratic processes in whether the average American resign in February over his links to the publication Business Day, Eskom you a PAC. A PAC is Political Action she did the result would favour smaller both countries need re-invigorating. We scandal. currently owes around R387 billion cares what other nations now Committee. They can give up to $5,000 parties. Ergo, that is why neither Labour need to use the might of social networks State capture is defined as a type of in debt. This amount is set to rise up to a candidate, but they can spend as or the Tories support the sensible notion to make it possible to poll people on think about such a broken political corruption in which private to R600 billion within the next four much as they like on buying air time or that no single MP should be elected policy. Indeed, we should be able to have Northwest_passage.jpg Photo: interests significantly influence a state's years. The power supplier has also been system. sending pamphlets out or employing unless they have secured 50% plus one of a much greater participatory political by regulation, legislation, and enforcement crippled by consecutive wage disputes hundreds and hundreds of people to elect the votes cast. Almost all of the elections using them more frequently. But to do policies to their own advantage. and corruption scandals which have led him or her. in the UK since 1945 have seen a party this we need politicians to remember South Africa’s National Energy had to industrial action, including sabotage to In the UK, Lord Hain, under Michael Bloomberg is probably take power with less then 50% of votes that power corrupts and absolute power been bailing out Gupta linked companies the already unstable electricity grid. Parliamentary privilege, outed the only US citizen who can afford cast (never mind that many choose not corrupts absolutely.

making progress on an issue that has tiger bones may only be used in persisted for far too long in our society… qualified ‘hospitals’ by qualified ‘doctors’ Google and, yes, here at Google, too.” China Legalises recognized by the State Administration Take a subscription of KCW TODAY Employees Anger at the firm reached boiling Tiger and Rhino of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In point after a New York Times article 2010 the World Federation of Chinese Walkout in alleged that one high profile executive Products Medicine Societies issued a statement for 2018 and receive a copy delivered received a $90 million payout after saying there was no evidence of any Protest he left the firm. The payout was made medical benefits to be derived from tiger despite what Google considered a In October China moved to legalises the bone or rhino horn. “credible” allegation of sexual misconduct use of tiger and rhino parts in traditional Name According to the statement, the made against him. The executive in Chinese medicine. Already the world’s animal products may only be obtained question is Andy Rubin, famously known top consumer of poached body parts from farms. But conservationists say this as the “creator” of the Android mobile from endangered animals in Africa and Address n November 1st, Google move may open the floodgates for a surge operating system. Rubin denies the Asia has legalised the use of the animal’s in illegal activity and threaten vulnerable employees around the world allegation. body parts for ‘medicinal purposes’. walked off the job in protest animal populations. Presently, the trade Google’s official and then unofficial The government announcement in illegal wildlife and plant products is and solidarity with women who have reversed a ban imposed in 1993 and O motto was “Don’t be evil” until this year worth up to $70-213 billion annually experienced harassment in the workplace. when it was removed from the company’s declared that harvested parts may be Telephone and email according to the US based non-profit The employees are demanding extensive code of conduct. Google changed its used in ‘medical research’ and traditional organisation Poaching Facts. and decisive changes in how sexual official motto to “Do the right thing.” healing. Rhino horn is currently worth misconduct allegations are dealt with at The statement explained that $60,000/kg on the black market and Google. The demands are: powdered forms of rhino horn and has many uses from traditional Yemeni SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT ENJOY AND DONATE The walkout gathered more support • An end to forced arbitration in cases of dagger handles to its than was initially anticipated with harassment and discrimination. a park in New York designated as a • A commitment to end pay and main consumers in 11 month’s subscription gathering place for the event being filled China and South Asia UK £ 46.00 (Tick box) opportunity inequality. to capacity. Thousands of employees • A publicly disclosed sexual harassment where powdered rhino Overseas on request from every Google office in the world transparency report. horn has been used including Montreal, New York City, • A clear, uniform, globally inclusive in Chinese medicine Fill out form with cheques made payable to: London, Berlin, and Singapore. process for reporting sexual misconduct for more than 2,000 Kensington, & Chelsea Today Limited Google chief executive Sundar Pichai safely and anonymously. years to treat fever, Cronchey © Evangeline Photograph and send to Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today, has told staff he supports their right to • Elevation of the Chief Diversity Officer rheumatism, gout, and 80-100 Gwynne Road, London SW11 3UW or email: [email protected]. take the action. to answer directly to the CEO and make other disorders despite Or telephone 020 7738 2348 to pay “I understand the anger and recommendations directly to the Board there being no evidence By BACS or visit www.KCWtoday.co.uk to pay by PayPal. disappointment that many of you feel," of Directors. to show that it has he said in an all-staff email. "I feel it • Appoint an Employee Representative any healing properties as well, and I am fully committed to to the Board. whatsoever. 16 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Astronomy Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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f you’re a sports fan there’s a good chance that you have placed a bet on a sporting event at some point Iin your life. Many consider it occasional and fun, often bringing an interest to an event you would otherwise not have watched. However, for many, gambling on sports has become a chronic issue, frequently leading to debt and depression. The latest figures published by The Gambling Commission how that the total gross gambling yield (GGY) of the Great British Gambling Industry amounted to £13.9 billion from October 2016 to September 2017, marking a 0.7% increase from the previous period dating from April 2016 to March 2017. This follows a trend as the industry also saw a 1.8% increase from the period dating April 2015 to March 2016. The watchdog has found that more than 106,000 people are employed by the promotions can be seen as subliminal as a public health emergency”. He also each other. Similarly, ‘Be Gamble Aware’ gambling industry in Britain, with as indoctrination, leading to normalisation unveiled a list of proposals including offers help and advice about potential many as 8532 betting shops, 649 bingo of gambling and betting behaviour. a ban on the use of credit cards when gambling problems, tips on how to halls and 152 casinos. The total number Another issue surrounding gambling placing bets, as well as allowing banks stay in control and how to self-exclude of gaming machines in Great Britain as in sports is the prominence of betting to block gambling transactions for yourself from gambling. They also offer a of September 2017 totalled a whopping companies featuring as the main shirt problem gamblers. This has already been helpline and live webchat for anyone who 183,928. sponsor for football teams in the UK. implemented by two mobile only banks, feels they need help. These figures give us a startling For the Premier League 2018/19 season, Monzo and Starling. ‘Be Gamble Aware’ have also indication that the gambling industry is 9 out of the 20 teams were sponsored Many consumers begin their launched a popular campaign which constantly evolving, and in particular the by betting companies. These teams experience of gambling after being aims to help consumers stay in control online, or remote, sector. The culture of include Bournemouth, Burnley, Crystal exposed to one of the many televised of their gambling. The campaign titled gambling is changing rapidly, with many Palace, Everton, Fulham, Huddersfield, promotions. Promises of enhanced ‘When the fun stops, stop’ is featured on now choosing to place their bets online Newcastle, West Ham United and odds and free bets are often enough to many popular advertisements for betting through devices such as smartphones. Wolverhampton Wanderers. The entice new customers to sign up and companies, and can also been seen on This has seen a shift in the market as figures are even more startling in the begin gambling. Consumers will often advertising hoardings and billboards. the remote sector now amounts to a Championship with a whopping 17 out begin gambling with no intention of While most betting companies only whopping £4.9 billion, or 35% of the of 24 teams featuring a betting company developing a habit, however after seeing feature the campaign as a small message A cluster of young stars, one to Space Telescope (green & blue) reveal angles as the stars orbit around each other total GGY. What this means is that, as their main shirt sponsor. The effects the sheer number of events they can on the bottom of the screen, ‘SkyBet’ Star Clusters thick clouds where the stars are forming. every 3.7 days. for the consumer, placing a bet has of this is extremely worrying as these bet on, they soon become embroiled in have gone to the extra measure of two million years old, located High energy radiation in the form of Other bright X-ray sources may also never been easier. On the other hand, promotions allow gambling to become the 24/7 world that is online gambling. creating an advertisement which solely Westerlund 2 about 20,000 light-years from X-rays, however, can penetrate this cosmic show evidence for collisions between the number of betting shops in Britain normalised, as football fans are exposed During the World Cup, it was estimated focuses on the campaign, emphasising haze and are detected by the Chandra stellar winds in massive binary systems decreased by 3.2% from March 2017 to advertising week in, week out. This is that viewers were exposed to 90 minutes that betting should only ‘enhance the Earth. X-ray Space Telescope (purple). (two stars in orbit around each other). to March 2018, another indication that also extremely worrying for young people of gambling adverts, confirming opinions excitement’ of that sport, not ruin it. It is named after Swedish astronomer The brilliant blue stars are all the culture of betting is transitioning to and children who are constantly exposed that children were being bombarded with While it is encouraging to see a major Bengt Westerlund who discovered the foreground, much closer, lying between us online versions. If you have access to a to betting companies by wearing, or adverts encouraging them to gamble. betting company such as ‘SkyBet’ put he cluster resides in an intense grouping in the 1960s, and is comprised of and the star cluster. smartphone and a bank account you can seeing their favourite team’s jersey. These promotions also have an adverse this campaign at the forefront of their breeding ground called Gum 29 in about 3,000 young stars. Westerlund 2 has become regarded as open a betting account and begin to bet Such is the issue of gambling effect on recovering gamblers who advertising, there is still a long way to the constellation Carina (the Keel). The long pillars of gas and dust are one of the most interesting star clusters in freely on a number of different markets, advertisements, Labour’s deputy leader, are keen to kick their habit, but have go before the UK gambling industry is Originally Carina was part of a much T a light-year in length. Strong winds and the Milky Way galaxy, it contains some of from football, to virtual sports and online Tom Watson, has stated that gambling difficulty due to the volume of gambling doing all it can to help problem gamblers larger constellation called Argo Navis, radiation from massive young stars destroy the most massive stars known. casinos companies will be banned from promotions and advertisements. and prevent problem gambling from located in the southern skies, it was said by all but the densest nearby dust clumps, Meanwhile I’m heading back to In recent years there has been a stark advertising on television during live With all that being said, what is being developing. the ancient Greeks, to be the ship sailed leaving these pillars in their shadows, England, a fierce tempest blew my trusty increase in the number of gambling sports, if Labour wins the next general done to tackle gambling addictions by Jason and the Argonauts in search of many pointing back to the clusters centre. old Newtonian telescope into a dying advertisements and promotions that election. The statement came as part and what is being said in regards If you are affected by gambling you can the Golden Fleece. An incredibly massive double star Prickly Pear (the Cochineal beetle is consumers are exposed to. A report by of a ‘crackdown’ aimed at tackling the to increasing volume of gambling seek help from the following services: Argo Navis was a very big constellation, system called WR20a is the bright yellow killing them all in southern Spain). My Jim Reed on the Victoria Derbyshire epidemic that is gambling addiction in advertisements? Companies such as too big for modern astronomers and point just below and to the right of the car is playing up with 800kms to get to programme indicated that ‘some 95% the UK. The Gambling Commission ‘Gamcare’ and ‘Be Gamble Aware’ GamCare was divided up by the International cluster. This system contains stars with the ferry on time, in Bilbao. of TV advertising breaks during live estimates that as many as 430,000 have taken the initiative to tackle the GamCare.org.uk Astronomical Union masses of 82 and 83 times that of the But when I look at a picture like the UK football matches feature at least people suffer from a serious gambling alarming trend of gambling addictions (IAU). It now comprises four Sun. The dense streams of matter steadily star formations of Westerlund 2, I think, one gambling advert’. The report also problem, with as many as 2 million ‘at in the UK. ‘Gamcare’ offer free support National Gambling Helpline: constellations Puppis (the Poop), Vela (the ejected by these two massive stars, called who the hell cares? Just gaze at it with found that one in five of the commercials risk’. Speaking at the party’s Annual and treatment via their helpline, netline 0808 8020 133 (Open 8am to midnight) Sails), Pyxis (the Compass) and Carina stellar winds, collide with each other amazement, an utterly bewitching picture; broadcast across 25 matches were for Conference in Liverpool, Watson stated and even online forum, where problem (the Keel). and produce copious amounts of X-ray after all that’s where you came from and betting firms, rising to one in three in that, “Problem gambling is Britain’s gamblers can discuss their issues and Be Gamble Aware Data in visible light from the Hubble emissions, this collision is seen at different that’s ultimately where you’re going, enjoy. some games. The sheer volume of these hidden epidemic and we must treat it share their gambling experiences with Begambleaware.org 18 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Finance Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

CEO Marcus Gover. well, for example. But it is more than just Market leaders such as Tesco, negative screening today; many funds UK Corporations Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrison’s, Marks and Ethics & profits look for positive traits in companies Spencer’s, Aldi and Lidl have all signed too.” Ethical investment is an active, aim for plastic can go hand © PXhub Photograph up to the campaign. We have already values based approach; therefore, it is reduction by 2025 seen a positive social reaction to the in hand not so well suited to lower cost passive/ By George Vines introduction of 5p bags, but the next step By Stephanie Hawthorne, tracker solutions that are much more in will focus on making 100% of plastic vogue now, especially for auto enrolment recyclable, reusable or compostable award-winning freelance pensions. That said, pension provider by 2025. These market leaders will journalist NEST has an ethical pension fund. be hopeful that they can influence “It is one world. And it’s in our consumers to change their habits If you are interested in ethical regarding plastic usage to make a real care. For the first time in the impact in the battle against plastic usage. investments, here are a few oor air quality in many of our Prime Minister Teresa May has history of humanity, for the towns, thousands of workers put on things to take into account: weighed in on the crisis, vowing to first time in 500 million years, the streets by the collapse of such eradicate avoidable plastic waste in firms as Carillion and BHS and mounds • Look at the charges, due to the one species has the future in Britain by 2042, as part of a ‘national P specialist nature of these funds, the of plastic everywhere; nearly everyone the palm of its hands. I just plan of action’. Incredibly there were in Britain is affected by environmental, fact that they may be smaller than 162,000 respondents to recent ‘call for mainstream funds and the extra Sea of Plastic. Paintings by Tony Common. Forward by William Boyd. Published by Handheld. Available at the on-line shop at Peter social and governance issues. Most hope it realises that that is the Lavery.com or from Baar & Bass Chelsea, Daunts Books and Lutyens & Rubinstein, Notting Hill. price 14.99 evidence’ from the Treasury, the largest people want to change this so our may even change the world. responsible manner can give companies governance, the charges may be higher. case.” response for a call for evidence in the children and grandchildren can inherit a Most investment houses and pension a competitive advantage and also makes University of Ghent, found that the Encouragingly, more than 40 UK Treasury’s history. Responses came from cleaner, greener world. providers offer ethical options on their them more likely to treat shareholders • Check that the fund’s objectives match hat is the view of Sir David average person who eats seafood will corporations including Coca Cola, 162,000 members of the general public They are no longer content to leave standard products these days and there well. Other funds focus on the new your stance on ethical investing. Attenborough who feels that consume up to 11,000 pieces of micro Nestle and supermarkets across Britain as well as representatives of 222 diverse it to investment managers just to make are even some specialist banks such as industries of the future, developing action must be taken regarding plastic every year. have vowed to cut their use of single organisations, including manufacturers, money. A clear majority of the public Triodos Bank and Charity Bank which solutions for a world with scarce • Ethical funds, like other funds, may the world’s plastic crisis. As the world’s population grows use plastic in order to create a more environmental groups, retailers and wants their money to do good; only 39% accept cash deposits. resources and looming climate change change as different views emerge on T recyclers. If you are adventurous, you might concerns. companies so you should regularly review Around 8 million tons of plastic year on year, so does the amount of sustainable environment by 2025. The of UK investors are only concerned about reaches the sea every year, which is plastic used. We are in the heart of a charge is being led by sustainability In response to the call for evidence, whether their investment makes money, wish to look for a unit trust or bond. Darius McDermott, managing the fund, its underlying investments and causing devastation to the world’s plastic pollution crisis that will spiral campaign group ‘WRAP’ who have Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip 47% want to both make money and Initially, ethical trusts screened director of London based Chelsea the performance. oceans. Shockingly, it is predicted that out of control if action is not taken now. launched the ‘UK Plastics Pact’. Hammond said, “We are determined make a positive difference to the world companies to avoid nasties such as Financial Services, says: if we continue to use plastic at the rate With the plastic crisis at the forefront “Together, we have a once-in-a-lifetime to be the first generation to leave the according to a recent YouGov poll. alcohol shares, arms, tobacco, gambling “One of the barriers is that for a long But for the discerning investor, profits we are, there will be more plastic than of numerous environmental campaigns, opportunity to rethink and reshape the environment in a better state than we One way of doing so is by investing and pornography. But today it is not just time, it was assumed that because funds and principles can certainly go hand in fish in the sea by 2050. And it’s not just what are UK corporations doing to future of plastic so that we retain its found it. By tackling the scourge of ethically, at a profit! You can do this negative screening; many funds look for of this ilk tend to avoid certain sectors hand. the animals who are being affected. A make sure that they are doing their bit to value, and curtail the damage plastic plastic waste, we can secure a cleaner, with your banking, savings, mortgages, positive traits in companies too. Acting altogether, they can underperform, if Check ethicalinvestment.org.uk for a study conducted by researchers at the reduce plastic usage? waste wreaks on our planet,” said WRAP greener future for our country.” pensions and investment. Your money in an environmentally and socially tobacco stocks or oil companies do very directory of ethical specialist advisers.

investment, removing the risk of one’s today instead of over £13,000 after all told KCW Today. to 2017 Office of National Statistics from Brexiteers in her own Conservative ship literally sinking. fees. More than half of 236 surveyed data. U.S. companies comprised a third Party over the prospect of temporarily Is the sky falling The only thing I know about stock Brexit regulatory companies have developed contingency of all inward FDI in 2016, the data keeping the U.K. in the customs union The lessons of the 17th century hold true markets for certain is that crashes are plans, which include adjusting supply show, while the Netherlands, Germany, for too long. in? today. impasse chains outside the U.K., cutting jobs and By Holly Mackay a case of ‘when’ not ‘if ’. It’s all part of France, Japan, Switzerland, Luxembourg Most of the stock market returns in 2018 the cycle. It may happen in between me Photograph © Trendnet.com entangles foreign investment relocating operations overseas, the CBI and Spain were among 10 countries that Auto and aeroplane manufacturers have come from 5 tech firms. Amazon, writing this and this paper going to print. survey reported. made up a quarter of all FDI in the U.K. on a limbo By Dave Sebastian But companies are reluctant to Automobile and aerospace industries, Facebook, Google, Netflix and Apple. Our protective body armour for this These five stocks alone have contributed disclose what exact strategies they are International precaution, domestic both of which rely on vast supply chains fact is having enough of cash buffer to employing amidst the Brexit impasse, ambivalence in the EU, are among those taking the about 80% of US stock market returns prevent us from being forced sellers when Trying to work out what 2019 holds Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Under the so-called hard Brexit,the U.K. largest hit because of Brexit, Kirkegaard this year. Not even Zuckerberg’s Senate things are in the doldrums. But if we can said. is not an easy job. Even if we ignore Peterson Institute for International would be able to strike independent appearance could dent investors’ ardour assemble this cash buffer, then trying to oreign companies in Economics in Washington, D.C., told trade deals by leaving the EU’s customs Almost half of every UK-produced the dreaded ‘B’ word, attempting to for long. call the right time to invest is pointless. KCW Today. union and single market. The caveat: vehicle’s components are imported from digest trade wars, sky high technology I talk to lots of people who have bet Impossible. I hold in my head the fact the United Kingdom “Most firms are likely to take a Production costs could rise as London or through the EU, Kirkegaard added, valuations and stock market wobbles is heavily on tech stocks. Or maybe your that stock markets have done better than are in the crosshairs of wait-and-see approach and not really and Brussels impose tariffs on each and a “vast majority of [U.K.] car plants not a simple task. Where is the global “pension” is in fact in property. Do you cash 9 times out of 10 over any 10 year publicly publish or make clear what other under World Trade Organisation will, over the next five to 10 years, close” economy headed? And in these new buy familiar high street retail brands period since the East India Company uncertain regulations as the their contingency [plans] are until they regulations. if London withdraws from the customs times of certain uncertainty, how can we because the familiarity is comforting? If was sailing the seas. Some crashes along F absolutely have to,” Kirkegaard said. The scenario has sent cautionary union and single market. U.K. prepares to leave the “There will be reputational risks for waves among London’s trading The EU in July agreed to remove the protect ourselves from the bumps in the the answer to any of these is Yes, then the way is just part of the voyage. suddenly declaring, ‘Well, I’m not going partners. David Malpass, U.S. Treasury 10% tariff on Japanese cars and 3% on road ahead? are you like an investor, harbourside in This column is hard learnt; I rode European Union in March Perhaps the most effective seatbelt the 17th century, backing one voyage to invest in the U.K. because of Brexit undersecretary for international affairs, most car parts in exchange for duty-free the 2000 tech boom all the way up. Well EU imports of cheese and wine from is diversification. But when economists Imagine speaking to the owner of a 2019. and other things.’” said on 16 October that a hard Brexit and keeping your fingers crossed that it done me! And all the way down. Not Japan. With Brexit, the U.K. risks losing on telly talk about this, it can get lost in Amidst the brewing uncertainty, don’t could jeopardise global financial stability, ship four hundred years ago. He needs comes home? so well done me. I have tried to time The predicament: expect foreign manufacturers to make and that the U.S. will “closely monitor” Japanese FDI in automobile production, other techno-babble and lack meaning. I money to raise a voyage and if you back the market and bought crazy mining Companies have yet to figure out which high-risk investments in the U.K. any developments in Europe, Bloomberg de Ruyter said. think it useful to look back at the history him, you get the promise of a share of the Meet Chicken Licken stocks at the top and sold them at the new regulations to brace for, as it is still time soon, Alex de Ruyter, director of the reported. The German company BMW Group, as this core investment idea has held spoils when the goods are returned and In addition to little diversification, bottom. It’s a mug’s game and I’ve learnt unclear which Brexit model the U.K. is Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham U.S. businesses in 2016 contributed which manufactures Mini cars, plans to constant for centuries. sold. Sounds great. Until the ship sinks another key thing I see is people my lesson. No-one can predict what pursuing. Brexit has negatively affected City University, told KCW Today. £308.1 billion in FDI to the U.K., shut its Oxford plant for a month after on the voyage home. trying to time the market. I have had the future holds. Not even Nobel Prize eight in 10 U.K.-based companies in “It’s really hard to plan for ONS data show. The U.S. Chamber of 29 March 2019; the official Brexit date What’s opium got to do with tech Backers of these voyagers demanded investors write to me for three years winning economists. So we diversify. their investment decisions, according to a something,” de Ruyter said. Commerce, the largest business lobbying to minimise the impacts of potential Confederation of British Industry survey “[Companies] are a bit reluctant to start organization in the U.S., declined to shortage of car parts, The Guardian stocks? a better way to get ‘on board’. The now, predicting the next crash as they sit We choose some sensible funds which released 21 October. spending money on, say, inventories and comment for this article. reported. The Dutch East India Company was new entity of the Dutch East India in cash as the markets march up. These assemble many different investments. formed in 1609 to trade in the Indian Company was organised as a ‘joint stock are the Chicken Lickens. What does this Brexit, for companies, means losing warehouses.” The Norway model, which would Other foreign carmakers in the And we stop making like Chicken Licken. hassle-free access to the EU market. U.K. include the Japanese company Ocean and bring riches back to London. company’ giving passive and less involved U.K. consumers, in return, could see a keep the U.K. within the EU’s customs hesitancy mean? Hurdles that could entail include tariffs Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and U.S. car The glittering prizes included cotton, supply shock if foreign companies decide union and single market, is a softer investors the opportunity to invest small By way of example, if I had kept Holly is the founder and CEO of on goods trade between the U.K. and the to pull out of the U.K. market, de Ruyter alternative, at the cost of relinquishing manufacturer Ford Motor Co. Foreign silk, spices, tea and opium. Presenting amounts and to be able to buy and sell £10,000 in cash instead of backing the boringmoney.co.uk where you can find EU, as well as the restrictions on cross- said. London’s say in decisions made in aeroplane manufacturers include U.S. great potential riches, but also almost these holdings to others. Hundreds of FT100 from January 2015, waiting for tips, ideas and investor reviews of ISAs, channel immigration that could impede At stake are £1.56 trillion in foreign Brussels, analysts said. But Prime headquartered Boeing Co. and French unpalatable risks. voyages could be backed with one single the sky to fall in, I’d have about £10,300 pensions and investments. staffing in the services sector, analysts direct investment in the U.K., according Minister Theresa May faces criticism company Airbus SE. 20 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Feature Literature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

of creativity that he really begins to warm rigour and geometric aesthetic of chess. world champion of the day, Alexander mystery and infinite aesthetic profundity to his theme. “I think it’s fascinating in Hence Etant Donnés contains a piece Alekhine. of its intellectual and iconic ethos. “Everybody has this country. We punch so much above “All chess players of chequered Lino , representing a The banner of the chess expert One example stands out...Barry has our weight in terms of how we’re seen chessboard, concealed underneath the artist is now held aloft by the author of encountered many of the greats in person the ability to be or what we do creatively, whether it be are artists, but centrally placed nude body....Duchamp’s this anthology of columns from KCW and across the board. After one game the record industry or theatre industry or game of chess against the nude model Today, Barry Martin, who not only has during the 1993 world championship creative” orchestral sector,” he says. “All of these not all artists are Eve Babitz has achieved iconic status, the distinction of writing the world’s against Nigel Short on stage in the things are fantastic adverts for what we while Duchamp’s very last work, Reunion, largest chess column each month, but Savoy Theatre, Grandmaster Yuri Darren Henley do as a country.” chess players!” from 1968, featured a game 13 of chess has also gained a world chess ranking. Averbakh, former Soviet Champion and CEO of Arts Council England For Henley, creativity is at the heart By Ray Keene OBE against avant-garde composer John Cage, In Duchamp’s time, such ratings had arbiter in the Kasparov v Short world of everything we do, and he rejects the where every move on the board set off a not been invented, so Barry is the only championship, congratulated Barry 15 talks to KCWToday supposed dichotomy between artistic and musical tone! artist on the planet who has achieved this on his stout resistance against the then about the benefits scientific pursuits. “It [creativity] should Duchamp’s love of chess was accolade. world number two. Barry’s reaction was be absolutely central to everybody’s life, infectious. Not wishing to be left behind The world’s greats, from which the to point out how the pawn structure of creativity and I believe everybody has the ability in the mental arms race to demonstrate illustration of world champion Magnus triumvirate resembled a Patte d’oie an to be creative,” he says. “Some people the altitude of their intellectual Carlsen, which adorns the front cover of artistic formation from Le Notre’s 17th will be better at it, or more used to it, or credentials, no less a cohort of twentieth this book, has been selected. On the back century French garden design! And flex those creative muscles more often in century artistic greats, than Ernst, cover, we see Barry in play against a vital talking of pawns, Barry’s insights into the their lives, but everybody has some level Thus spake Marcel Duchamp, Picabia, Man Ray, Calder... all jumped on link to the chess art traditions of the past, relationship between Staunton pattern of creativity.” the most influential artist the band wagon to depict chess motifs in his opponent being Marcel Duchamp’s pieces, pawns and Masonic Symbology “Whether it’s deciding what to wear their work. At an exhibition devoted to widow, Mme Teeny Duchamp herself. are worthy of a new Dan Brown novel. arren Henley leads by example. in the morning or deciding the colour of the twentieth century, Dada and Surrealism at the Pompidou Teeny, of course, was a close spectator So, in this book, prepare to follow a Tour The man in charge of supporting scheme of your house, these are creative outranking even Picasso and Centre in Paris 2005, the undoubted star at the John Cage Reunion manifestation d’Horizon, a veritable Smörgåsbord of arts and culture initiatives across decisions that all people make.” was Duchamp himself, but so extensive of 1968 at Toronto, and therefore an chess information, artistic connections England has writing credits on more Being creative in any discipline, Dali in the scope of his effect were the homages of his epigoni, that the essential part of the action and of the and inspirations combined with a Dthan 30 books and his latest, Creativity: artistic or otherwise, is what helps society on subsequent generations Exhibition metamorphosed into a display history of chess art, a tradition which mentally stimulating journey throughout Why It Matters, is a paean to the creative advance and can reap economic benefits, of chess art rather than Dadart. To top extends right back to the Ancient Greek the diverse ramifications of chess, art, arts and their positive impact in society. he says. But the arts also have a positive of aspiring Raphaels, Titians, it all, the major constantly re-looping vase decorator Exekias who depicted culture and its place in the canon of Henley, it seems, has caught the writing impact on the individual. “We know Leonardos and Michelangelos. filmic image was that of Entr’acte, Ajax and Achilles facing off over a board civilised virtue. bug. that people who are creative, who enjoy where Duchamp plays chess against game during the Siege of Troy. (see our The former Classic FM boss has working alongside creative people or n popular estimation, Duchamp André Breton on the roofs of Paris. The front cover this month). all the characteristics of the peripatetic meeting creative people or seeing creative himself largely abandoned art difference was that Duchamp was not There is one further arena in which writer battling to finish his books around things happen, they live happier and for chess after completion of his merely a utiliser of chess images, but Barry scores heavily, and that is in the a day job. He travels up and down the healthier lives,” says Henley. “It helps Large Glass, though initiates are fully also a Master of the game itself. He had dimension of reviving the mystique with their wellbeing, it helps with their I tied at chess with a world championship Ray Keene OBE country every week, and spends long aware that he continued to produce art and wonder of chess. It is all too easy hours on the train planning his next sense of place in the world and it helps throughout his career, though art with a candidate and represented France for those engaged in the rough and International Chess Grandmaster book. them to create things.” heavy inclination towards the intellectual in the chess Olympiad, along with tumble of chess combat to overlook the Chess Correspondent of The Times But Henley has no ordinary day job. In The Arts Dividend: Why Investment Since 2015 he has been chief executive in Culture Pays Henley cites the example of Arts Council England, the charity of Hull, which was UK City of Culture charged with developing and investing in 2017. Aside from the economic in arts and culture. Originally the idea that the arts are the preserve of the mention of libraries his eyes light up. benefits garnered through tourism brainchild of John Maynard Keynes, the metropolitan elite. The government’s “You have this network of fantastic and investment, he says, the city has organisation has grown exponentially latest Taking Part survey, which records buildings up and down the country in benefitted from a huge cultural legacy since its genesis in post-war Britain and the public’s involvement with cultural really good locations, staffed by very and a new global reputation. He also has developed into an arm’s-length body activities, shows the gap in engagement knowledgeable people. They are all talks about GPs prescribing arts activities linked to the Department of Culture, between higher and lower socio- digitally connected now and they have as an alternative to medication or Media and Sport. economic groups has been gradually space to do things,” he says. therapy. His message is clear: culture is Over the next four years Henley widening over the last four years. “I think there’s a really interesting not a luxury, but a worthwhile investment has £1.45bn of public money, as well The organisation has also faced model of how a library can work both with tangible benefits. as roughly £860m from the National censure for being too London-centric, digitally and physically. They are like For Arts Council England, the focus Lottery, to invest where he sees fit. though areas outside London now giant knowledge warehouses, and they is now on the future. The organisation The charity divides this sum into receive 60 percent of its total budget, can share that knowledge with all sorts of is currently preparing its next 10-year separate streams of funding. A portfolio up from 54 percent in 2012, suggesting people.” strategy, beginning in 2020, and it is is reserved for core artistic organisations, Henley and his team have taken this For Henley, the inequality within holding public consultations to help from small regional institutions to criticism on board. the creative arts can be tackled in part shape its proposals. famous national museums and galleries. “The demographic disparity”, says through education, a theme he explores Though the role is a significant Over the next four years funding ranges Henley, “begins in childhood, as children in his book The Virtuous Circle: Why change from his long tenure at Classic from £160,000 for Hoot Creative Arts from wealthier families gain more Creativity and Cultural Education Count. FM, Henley seems thrilled with the in Huddersfield to £99 million for the exposure to the arts. What you have is “I believe very strongly that creating challenge he’s been given. “It’s great to Royal Albert Hall. In addition, anyone a series of people who are essentially things is an important part of a young get up in the morning and know we’ll can apply for grants for a specific artistic cultural insiders, in that they have a person’s creative journey,” he says. An make some decisions today that will project, and there is a development fund shared set of experiences,” he explains. education is not complete, he claims, if it change people’s lives; you don’t get that aimed at organisations in need of growth. “If you come from a tougher socio- does not incorporate creativity. in every job. So I’m very, very happy what Unsurprisingly, deciding who economic background you don’t get This is the principle at the centre I’m doing now,” he says. should receive the money, and exactly those experiences, and I think one of the of the Tri-borough Music Hub, a music As the interview draws to a close, how much they should get, is the most things we should do with public money education programme working with Henley resists questions about whether difficult aspect of Henley’s role. “We is ensure that we bring a more level schools in Kensington & Chelsea, he has ambitions beyond Arts Council have a challenge all the time to take the playing field. I believe very passionately Hammersmith & Fulham and England. He’s taking a break from money we have and make sure we enable that creativity and the arts, as well as Westminster. While the programme is writing and is focused on the 10-year as many people as possible to benefit buildings like museums and libraries, can currently limited to music, Henley says strategy, saying he hopes to remain as wherever they are, whoever they are,” he and should be a part of everybody’s life.” the Arts Council is developing other chief executive to see it through. “Unless says. Henley talks fluently and confidently cultural education hubs designed to you know something I don’t,” he says One of the major priorities for Arts about his work, but it’s obvious which promote creativity in children. with a smile. Council England is challenging the topics excite him the most. At the It’s when Henley alights on the topic James Warrington 22 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23

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it best to beat a retreat from the and cheerful (and possibly as mythical as any memory of ‘good old days’) world that encroaching forces of totalitarianism. Zweig was so engrossed in and the petty monstrousness of the regimes that would Wilfred Owen; Anthem For Doomed Youth Anniversary Fleeing first to Britain in 1934 he was fatally blight the 20th century with idiot hate. The outcome of the game might be unnerved by the rapidity of the German clear, but the moves are something to see. Max Feldman by Wilfred Owen, Photograph © Penguin Photograph Selected Poems advance and crossed the Atlantic first courtesy of The Literary Estate of Wilfred Owen to the United States and then Brazil. tefan Zweig was born and "The world is Whilst there he wrote the short novella a nd The Folio Society flourished within the environs of Chess (or The Royal Game depending on reduced to the a bourgeois, patrician Europe that the edition) sent it to his publisher and Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems, What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Swas irrevocably destroyed by the carnage then two days later, arguably the most narrow one-way of the World Wars. Born in Vienna to a famous writer in Europe committed traffic between commemorates the centenary Only the monstrous anger of the guns. wealthy Jewish family in 1881, he lived suicide hand in hand with his wife. what seemed to be a charmed life. As Chess comes then, with quite some black and white, of his death, 4 November, and Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle a callow 19 year old he submitted an baggage. Even without knowledge finding the unsolicited poetry essay to the Neue of the circumstances of its creation the end of World War I 1918. Can patter out their hasty orisons. Freie Presse, and found himself invited to the elliptical nature of the narrative triumphs of Wilfred’s war poems have No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, the office of its literary editor, Theodor insinuates the shape of a greater life in the mere Herzl. Herzl informed the young man, meaning. Chess takes place on an ocean achieved canonical status with Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, - with some gravitas, that he was going liner, where the narrator, a cultured man movement to and to publish the piece. This began a chain phrases from works such as who appears to possess some of Zweig’s fro, forward and The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; of good fortune for Zweig which saw own characteristics, becomes fascinated Dulce et Decorum Est, Anthem him release best-seller after best-seller by the presence of the world chess back of thirty-two And bugles calling for them from sad shires. and move in the most refined circles of champion who happens to be aboard. for Doomed Youth and Strange the pre-war intelligentsia, with many The champion is an idiot savant, a man chessmen" What candles may be held to speed them all? encounters with figures as diverse and who besides from his apparently innate Meeting. titanic as Sigmund Freud, Richard talent, has no inner life but contempt for Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Strauss and Thomas Mann. Much of his his fellow man and an unconstrained, Celebrated as one of literature was concerned with recapturing yet almost somnambulant rapacity. The Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

Britain’s greatest poets, this Poems Selected Owen Wilfred Folio Society's the © 2018 Neil Bousfield from Illustrations what he referred to as the ‘Golden Age narrator and his passengers bribe the The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; of Security’, a pre-war Vienna which in champion for the right to challenge special production, limited Zweig’s eyes was civilisation epitomised. him, but are hopelessly overmatched Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, Zweig relentlessly chased this until a small insistent man begins to 1,250 copies worldwide, ephemeral past in his works, writing to advise them. Soon the stage is set includes forty-two of his And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. witty and urbane portraits of comfortable between this reluctant prodigy and existence, living a resolutely un-populist the bruteish champion. The novella is poems, commissioned and apolitical life. Sadly for him and under a hundred pages so to give further millions of others early 20th century summary risks rendering reading “Chess” illustrations by Neil Bousfield The Folio Society’s Wilfred Owen’s Selected Europe had rather different ambitions redundant, but within this game of Poems, introduced by Owen Sheers, illustrated by and, after the Anschluss between Nazi chess is contained what might as well and is introduced by poet and Neil Bousfield is available exclusively from www. Germany and Austria, Zweig thought be the final conflict between the bright playwright Owen Sheers FolioSociety.com

of comparisons, like you and the last person to win a gold was TO BE HONEST, I had not really in the Animal Kingdom by Gerald Thayer and examine: the first being damage We are bananas will produce enough A R Thompson in 1948, a deaf-and- A Museum considered what happened to our country’s and his father Abbott Handerson, who caused by moths to the rubber outer skin Charles Saatchi saliva in your lifetime dumb artist, who was leading light at the great cultural institutions during either was an American painter and amateur of a British airship, and the second was to fill two Olympic-size Chelsea Arts Club? at War of the World Wars. In February 1916, naturalist. The scientists and Keepers in when considerable quantities of beetles, Palazzo Editions swimming pools. He The sub-title of the book is ‘All Karlyn Shindler the Government announced that several the departments of Zoology, Entomology, Nebria brevicollis, were discovered in the likes this fact so much, he the truth you don’t need’, and one gets London museums would be closed for the Geology, Botany and Mineralogy were airship’s envelope. The department was also 200 pages. £16.99 Editions © Palazzo Photograph tells us three times. I was the feeling that some of the ‘facts’ are Published by Natural History duration of the war, much to the shock and all called on to use the Museum’s vast sent a policeman’s truncheon, which was ISBN 9-781786-751072 told by my brother that unprovable, like British cows moo Museum indignation of MPs and writers of letters collection to come up with the answers worm-eaten; it was worried about termites there are more nutrients in regional accents, with a less than to the editor of The Times. The British to questions posed by the military, but attacking some ambulance stretchers. in a cornflakes packet a scientific approach to his research, £16.99. 320pp. Museum, except the Reading Room, The many were either seconded to government They also had to deal with mites attacking than in the cornflakes, relying instead on anecdotal evidence. ‘1 ISBN 9780565094614 Science Museum, except to students, departments or joined the armed forces, war stores of oats, weevils infesting army and here it is in black in 5 adults believe that aliens live among and the Tate Gallery were all closed, but leaving gaping holes in the world of biscuits, disease-spreading flies, leeches, and white, so it must be us’ is just plain silly as a hypothesis, a bit the National Gallery and Victoria & science. By October 1914, 750,000 men lice, wood-boring marine molluscs, rats true. Also, did you know like ‘eight out of ten owners said their cat Albert Museum remained open, while had enlisted in Lord Kitchener’s New in the trenches of the Western Front and acts facts facts. Reading this book that Indian housewives prefers Whiskas’, which was not a Saatchi the National Portrait Gallery had already Army, of which 30 were Museum staff, and mosquitoes. With the threat of compulsory is a bit like being bombarded own more gold than the and Saatchi copyline. One chapter is closed to the public. The Natural History a further six were loaned to the War Office. rationing in late 1917, the Museum by a saloon-bar bore after a pub IMF, the USA and UK entitled ‘Eskimos buy refrigerators to Museum was also scheduled to shut, with In November 1914, William Pycraft debated whether eels, whale meat and gulls’ quiz. The title comes from the fact combined, amounting to keep food from freezing,’ and starts ridicule being heaped on the government was summoned to Margate, where the eggs might soon be on the menu. Dolphin F by the press, pointing out that the £50,000 lifeboat had set off to rescue the possible meat was certainly on the menu for the that mankind shares fifty per cent of $950 billion? Snakes kill off with the sentence ‘Firstly, don’t call the same DNA as a banana, and that at least fifty thousand Eskimos Eskimos. It is considered an saving to the nation by closing Museums survivors of a sinking Zeppelin. Eager Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord seven billion of us consume a billion people each year, with insult, and the correct term is Inuit.’ and galleries, would pay for the war crowds awaited the return of the rescuers Mayor of London, after a bottlenose was of them annually, with the average dogs accounting for Then, further on, explaining their for nearly 15 minutes. As a centre for with their ‘prisoners of war’ and great was stranded at Battersea Bridge. Pigs and Britain (sic) eating a hundred bananas twenty-five thousand hunting methodology, he refers them as scientific research and learning, the Natural the disappointment when they learned chickens thrived in the Museum’s gardens, a year. The book is divided into 48 deaths. Or that more Eskimos. History Museum was paramount, and the supposed Zeppelin was nothing more large parts of which had been taken up chapters, each with exactly two pages than half of the entire Let me leave you with a few more was suddenly inundated with enquiries than a dead whale, a common torqual, with allotments. Just as the final chapters of text and a photograph, some with human race has been factoids about our planet: about three- from the armed services and government Balaenoptera physalus, to be precise, which were being written on the end of this most enticing titles like ‘The record for the killed off by mosquitos quarters of the Earth is covered in departments on a vast range of topics, he concluded died as a result of swimming horrendous war, an influenza epidemic, most stolen book? The Guinness Book you will find more insects than Earth’s that carry malaria? Where does he get water, and yet we have only managed to most of which needed urgent answers. into the path of a mine. In November or ‘Spanish ‘flu’ had reached Britain by of Records,’ ‘More Monopoly money is entire population. He starts off three these facts? Beneath the Nile runs a vast explore five percent of what lies beneath The construction of enemy airships and 1916, fragments of a wrecked Zeppelin June,1918. At the end of this detailed and printed annually than real money,’ and times with the word ‘bewilderingly,’ and underground river that holds six times the waves and we have created more the development of camouflage using were sent to the Museum for analysis, one fascinating book by a scientific associate ‘Doctors’ poor handwriting causes 7,000 then informs us that more photographs more water than the far more famous accurate maps of the surface of Mars protective coloration were just two element being ‘gold-beaters’ skin’, which is of the Museum, laid out like a four and a deaths a year.’ Did you know that the were taken in the past year than in the waterway. Croquet, cricket, baseball, than our own ocean floor. Much of the areas where the Museum aided their animal membrane used by goldsmiths to half year’s diary, sixty-eight men went to world’s ants weigh more than all the entire history of photography, and that polo, rackets, lacrosse, pelota, tug-of-war, sea is so deep, in the Mariana Trench, for research and experimentation. Parties of separate sheets of gold leaf. Often made war, and 13 of them died. A simple bronze people on the entire planet? That is, of there are now more active mobile phone softball and one-handed weight-lifting instance, that if Everest was placed at the soldiers of all ranks had been regularly from cows’ intestines, it was said that it plaque was placed in the Central Hall in course, because they outnumber us by subscriptions than there are people. have all disappeared from the Olympic bottom, it would not reach the surface. attending the Museum for instruction took 250,000 cows to make one gasbag for 1921, a fitting memorial to their sacrifice. 1.4 million to one. He goes on to tell us Dealing with mind-boggling facts has schedule, but how many people knew So there! and demonstration of camouflage based one Zeppelin. The Keeper of Entomology that within one square mile of rural land inevitably painted Saatchi into a corner that painting was part of the Olympics, Don Grant on a book called Concealing Coloration was sent two separate specimens to identify Don Grant 24 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 EVENTS LIFESTYLE online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

elves will be on The new app reflects a growing Chelsea unveils hand to help you appetite for chess. The World Chess make the most of Easy mates for Federation (FIDE) estimates 605 million your day. Keep an people worldwide play chess regularly,

2018 dates for © Cadogan Photograph eye out for Santa chess players making it the most popular sport in the its iconic festive and his friends, By James Warrington world for participation. This is expected including real to increase by 400 per cent during the celebrations reindeer on Duke championship. of York Square. Roman Sidorenko, founder of Pure As per the annual app, said: “Good sex has a lot in common tradition, the day with a good game of chess: it’s as will culminate passionate, tense, uncertain and exciting. Chess players can now Saturday 17th November 2018 with Santa and “Together with World Chess we his ‘special helper’; meet up for a quick game wanted to create an app that lets people ith the festive period a local child be spontaneous in their desires,” he just around the corner, with a stranger thanks to a nominated by their added. Cadogan announces its friends or family new dating app launched two seasonal highlights: The Christmas World Chess CEO Ilya Merenzon W and in particular ahead of the World Chess said: “Our goal was to find a way to Lights Switch On, on Saturday 17th need of a Christmas November on Sloane Square, and connect millions of fans and make chess treat, turning on the Championship in November. social again. We chose to partner with Chelsea’s Christmas Shopping Event on Christmas Lights. Saturday 1st December. The Lights Switch he championship organisers “Pure” because we want to create an On celebration features a whole host World Chess have partnered on-demand experience, where finding of activity and entertainment for all to with dating app “Pure” to create an opponent doesn’t take forever. We enjoy: Chelsea will once again become ‘Mates’ in a move it describes as “taking want everyone to spend less time on the sparkling heart of London’s festivities T their phones and more in front of their the exploration of connections between as it welcomes back its magical lights. chess and sex to the next level”. chessboards”. Sloane Square will host the official The app allows users to create a The app is free and available on the switch on, at 5pm on Saturday 17th Saturday 1st December, 2018 offers, delights and surprises throughout Claus. Festive entertainment will bring profile and find someone nearby who Apple Store and on Android. November, which will see Duke of York the day; the perfect opportunity to buy joy to shoppers from Pavilion Road, to shares their passion for pawns. The The World Chess Championship Square, Pavilion Road, Sloane Street On Saturday 1st December, visitors gifts for loved ones and treat yourself. Duke of York Square and Sloane Street, profile and any conversations are only is a 12-game match held to determine and King’s Road light up, marking the to the iconic shopping destination of Duke of York Square will be hosting in addition to wreath-making classes, active for an hour, encouraging users to the world champion. This year’s match start of the season. With a line-up of Chelsea will be able to soak up the festive a special festive edition of its gourmet complimentary horse and carriage rides, make their move quickly. The messaging is between reigning world champion unmissable entertainment from 2pm- atmosphere among its world-class shops market, offering seasonal fine delicacies roast chestnuts and mulled wine. A full service boasts end-to-end encryption and Magnus Carlsen and challenger Fabiano 5pm on the stage at Sloane Square, there and restaurants during a very special from artisan traders, and even Santa may map of activity will be published in early automatically deletes conversations once Caruana, and will take place in London will also be carol singers and performers Shopping Day. Over 70 shops and be spotted back in the area, doing his November and available from www. inactive, ensuring full discretion for chess between 9 and 28 November at The across the neighbourhood. Christmas restaurants will be presenting exclusive own bit of Christmas shopping for Mrs inchelsea.co.uk. addicts looking to play away. College in Holborn.

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Christian Dior named the (Dior was notoriously superstitious) the perfume as a tribute to the heroism of show positively dazzles with stars. his sister Catherine, who was captured in Before launching himself into action with the French Resistance during fashion, Dior wanted to be an architect the war. and this first leaning is evident in the Collaborating with Dior since the careful, structured aspect of his designs. 1950s, Swarovski is sponsoring the The white Junon dress demonstrates a exhibition, which opens on the 2nd of love for the theatrical, boasting large February. Their education programs overlapping petals of navy tulle and is like the Swarovski Waterschool have saturated in sequins. Another star is a helped many children living on rivers sumptuous red silk organza ball gown and the foundation works to support worn by the model Stella Tennant’s conservation, culture, encourage grandmother Emma Tennant for her creativity and promote global wellbeing. ‘coming out’ in 1955 boldly launching SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT KCW Today. See page 14 for details 28 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 LIFESTYLE online: www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS

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All truly great thoughts are As a Carnatic vocalist herself, Swati psychological benefits, improving your The inspiration of the setting of native Welshman to be called the ‘Prince London SW11 5TN conceived while walking. wandsworthchamber.org/events has a wonderous musicality and fresh The BP exhibition mood (endorphins!). countless timeless classics, you will of Wales’, Owain Glyndwr. He led a expressiveness in her performances that is visit Wordsworth’s village of Grasmere, revolt against Henry IV and remains a Friedrich Nietzsche Dog walkers especially will November 13 not to be missed. understand the added joy of having an Beatrix Potter’s home of Hawkshead and prominent figure of the 15th century. Investment Conference 020 7613 7498 I am Ashurbanipal excited furry companion join them on a the inspiration for Arthur Ransome’s This walk boasts a remote and unspoilt Cocoon Networks London 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London But the beauty is in the good long walk. 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This If I could not walk far and fast, NORTHERN ENGLAND offer, this walk travels from Oxford to 5-18 days enchanting stage show of Raymond I think I should just explode Pangbourne, walking through Chiltern One of the most famous walks in the November 16 Briggs' classic book, The Snowman, tells the Cleveland Way Hills, Abingdon and Wallingford. world, it includes three National Parks, The 2018 Wandsworth Business Awards story of a boy and his magical snowman's and perish. 10 to 11 nights Allowing you to not only admire the 190 miles of footpath and gorgeous Dinner wintery wonderland adventure. As a Charles Dickens Starts with a path from Helmsley architecture of historical towns and English scenery. You will pass grassland, The Roehampton Club friendship is kindled, the two embark on Castle to Rievaulx Abbey, takes you cities, but also to enjoy the landscape woodland, bog and beach, meaning that This night to remember promises to offer a starry-skied journey to the North Pole, 8 November 2018 – eandering leads to perfection. past views of Sutton Bank over the surrounding the area. you will experience every natural habitat guests an unforgettable evening as we where they meet dancing penguins, Ice 24 February 2019 Princess, Father Christmas and escape the Any lover of literature knows Vale of Mowbray. The walk ends at the www.macsadventure.com England has to offer. celebrate the finalist and winners of the 2018 Wandsworth Business Awards in clutches of Jack Frost. that Lao Tzu romance behind coast, at the seaside towns of Whitby, www.thewalkingholidaycompany.co.uk association with McDonalds. 020 7863 8222 Logistics partner Shakespeare’s Way the idea of a good walk. Any Jane Scarborough and Filey. 020 84804 2000 Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT, M 4 to 16 nights Hadrian’s Wall Path Austen book you pick up will include www.celtictrailswalkingholidays.co.uk Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5LR London several walks, either in the gorgeous Follows the route that Shakespeare may 4 to 10 days wandsworthawards.biz/gala-dinner peacocktheatre.com spring time or in the crisp winter. Mary Northumberland Coastal Path have taken on his journeys between Follows the monument from the Yellan deals with the horrors of Jamaica 3 to 5 nights his home in Stratford-upon-Avon and Roman’s four century rule of England, November 20 November 27 – December 22 Inn by spending hours walking in the Walk between three castles on the the Globe Theatre. Follows the Thames and was built by Hadrian, who became Networking Event Carmen surrounding marshlands. 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SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Wallsend and travels to Solway. WC2E 9DD Perhaps it is our need, in a society Antrim Glens and Causeway Coast www.thewalkingholidaycompany.co.uk November 27 roh.org.uk so used to efficiency and speed, for Coleridge Way Starting at Cushendall, you will travel Enterprise Europe Network: Ten Year Book through the glens of Antrim and along Anniversary Celebration December 2 everything to have a purpose and an 4 to 7 nights For further walks visit: now Relief of Ashurbanipal hunting immediate reward. On a more cynical Follow in the footsteps of Samuel the coastlines, before finishing your www.nationaltrust.org.uk Garden Room, Devonshire Club For you I long the longest on horseback. Nineveh, Iraq. note, perhaps it is an inability to take an Coleridge as you visit the places where walk at Portstewart. Passing the Giants www.ramblers.org.uk It’s been ten years since the Enterprise by Luke Brown Dance Assyrian, 645–635 BC. Rich Mix interest in anything that isn’t on a screen. some of his most famous poems were Causeway is one of the highlights www.english-heritage.org.uk Europe Network (EEN) started supporting of this walk, an area of about 40,000 www.nationaltrail.co.uk small and medium sized businesses A double-bill of autobiographical stories Walking allows us to listen to what’s written. Different versions of this trip are told through raw and exhilarating dance interlocking basalt columns, a result of an www.walkingenglishman.com with their international ambitions and going on in our own heads, rather than available, depending on where you decide collaborations. It has proved to be an 30 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 EVENTS EVENTS online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

theatre. Brown’s theatrical recreation sadlerswells.com upcoming NASA and ESA solar missions, flowersgallery.com of real-life romance is both brutal and The Sun: Living With Our Star tells the beautiful. With intimate storytelling and January 19-20 story of humankind’s dependence on, and Ends January 6 intricate choreography; the evening blurs Manon ever changing understanding of, our star. Surreal Science: Loudon Collection with the lines between fantasy and reality in London Coliseum 0333 241 4000 Salvatore Arancio Westminster Abbey & an honest, and often comical, search for a The young and naïve Manon is torn Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 Whitechapel Gallery happily ever after. between two lives: privilege and opulence 2DD On encountering an exquisitely rendered 020 7613 7498 with the wealthy Monsieur GM, or sciencemuseum.org.uk glass jellyfish and other invertebrates St Margaret’s Church 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London innocent love with the penniless student by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the Celebrate the E1 6LA Des Grieux. Wanting it all will be Ongoing Natural History Museum at Harvard richmix.org.uk her downfall. Aristocrats and beggars, The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution University in 1998, Dutch art collector courtesans and harlots fill the stage to take Science Museum George Loudon began an extraordinary Christmas story December 3 – January 15 you from a gambling den in 18th-century Explore the extraordinary lives and collection of scientific objects. These The Nutcracker Paris to a desolate Louisiana swamp, and deaths of Tsar Nicholas II and his family 19th century teaching models and Royal Opera House share with you one of British ballet’s most and go behind the scenes to uncover illustrations were created for handling and . A Christmas treat for the whole family and dramatic stories. Famous for its expressive the science behind one of the greatest contemplation in the pursuit of knowledge a classic with a special place in the hearts choreography and acting demands, Manon mysteries of the 20th century. Rulers of of the natural world. The collection now of ballet fans around the world. features some of the most challenging roles a sixth of the surface of the Earth, the contains over 200 objects, crafted from 020 7240 1200 in ballet. last imperial monarchs of Russia, the unexpected materials including lost-wax Bow St, London WC2E 9DD 020 7836 0111 Romanovs, enjoyed lives that glittered with casts, minerals, velvet, ivory and glass and roh.org.uk St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES unimaginable wealth and power but the extends to strikingly-illustrated books, eno.org family mysteriously disappeared in 1918. prints, drawings and anatomical specimens December 4 – January 27 0333 241 4000 from taxidermied animals to bisected New Adventures – Matthew Bourne’s EXHIBITIONS Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 human skulls and papier-mâché flowers. Swan Lake 2DD 020 7522 7888 Sadler’s Wells Ongoing sciencemuseum.org.uk 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London Swan Lake returns with a fresh look for The Sun: Living with our Star E1 7QX the 21st century. Retaining the iconic Science Museum Ongoing whitechapelgallery.org elements of the original, Matthew Spectacular interactive experiences, unique Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo Bourne and award-winning designers Lez artefacts and stunning imagery shed fresh Science Museum Ends January 27 Brotherston (set and costumes) and Paule light on humanity's relationship with our Come face-to-face with a full-size Mantegna and Bellini Services Constable (lighting) will create an exciting closest star in the Science Museum's latest engineering model of BepiColombo, National Gallery re-imagining of the classic production. exhibition. Set at the centre of our solar the European Space Agency’s first ever A tale of two artists and brothers-in-law, nd Thrilling, audacious and emotive, this Swan system, the Sun's brilliant light shapes spacecraft to explore Mercury. Standing Mantegna and Bellini tells a story of art, Sunday 2 December Lake is perhaps best known for replacing our sense of time, our health and our over six metres tall, this Structural Thermal family, rivalry, and personality. Andrea 4.00 pm An Advent Liturgy, Westminster Abbey the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing environment. People have tried to harness Model (STM) of the spacecraft was used Mantegna’s brilliant compositional Sunday 16th December male ensemble, shattering convention and its power and uncover its secrets since the to test BepiColombo’s resilience during its innovation and Giovanni Bellini’s 5.45 pm Christmas Meditation featuring Benjamin Britten’s taking the dance world by storm. dawn of civilisation. From golden solar seven-year journey to Mercury, one of the atmospheric, natural landscapes were A Ceremony of Carols, Westminster Abbey 020 7863 8000 religious artefacts from the Nordic Bronze most challenging planetary missions ever groundbreaking, no one had seen 6.00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols, St Margaret’s Church Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R Age (dating back to 1400 BC), to details of launched. anything like it before. Following their 0333 241 4000 respective careers in Padua and Venice, Sunday 23rd December Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 and Mantegna’s fame as court painter to DN&C_CaninePartnersCarolService2018_KC&WTAW_FinalAW_181022.indd 1 22/10/2018 11:39:32 4.00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols, Westminster Abbey, 2DD the powerful Gonzaga family in nearby Tickets required sciencemuseum.org.uk Mantua, Mantegna and Bellini is the first- 71 Lots Road, SW10 0RN ever exhibition to explore the creative Monday 24th December 020 7376 6800 Ends November 18 links between these artists. It is a once in Christmas Eve Special Forces: In the Shadows a lifetime opportunity to see in London LOTS ROAD www.lotsroad.com Noon Crib Service, Westminster Abbey National Army Museum rare loans of paintings and drawings from [email protected] 4.00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols, Westminster Abbey The exhibition will look at the work of around the world by two of the most Tickets required these units through seven distinct areas: influential artists of the Renaissance. 6.00 pm First Eucharist of Christmas, St Margaret’s Church AUCTIONS UK Special Forces, Making the Cut, 020 7747 2885 11.30 pm Christmas Midnight Mass, Westminster Abbey Training and Skills, Operations, Popular Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN Tickets required Culture, Why the Secrecy? and Your nationalgallery.org.uk Reaction. A wide range of objects will be Tuesday 25th December brought together for the first time, from Ends February 24 Christmas Day the compass that Paddy Mayne wrenched Life in the Dark 10.30 am Sung Eucharist, Westminster Abbey from an enemy plane cockpit, to a complete Natural History Museum 11.00 am Choral Matins, St Margaret’s Church SAS Counter Terrorist Kit from 2007. Leave daylight behind and put your senses 3.00 pm Evensong, Westminster Abbey Also included will be personal testimonies, to the test in this illuminating exhibition. video and photography. Meet the creatures that thrive at night, 020 7730 0717 in pitch-black caves and deep in the sea. Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 Enter the worlds of nocturnal animals and 4HT discover how they find their way around Concert nam.ac.uk their environment, hunt, mate and evade Thursday 13th December predators. Venture into the shadows of a Ends November 24 bat cave where intriguing characters dwell 7.00 pm Christmas Concert supported by John Lewis & Partners Edward Burtynsky: The Human Signature in the rocky underworld. Take a deep Festive choral works performed by the Abbey Choir with Flowers Gallery breath and immerse yourself in the beauty readings and traditional carols for all to sing An exhibition of new work by Edward of underwater bioluminescent display and Tickets £15 - £38 Burtynsky. These works, created in get up-close to the weird and wonderful Box Office: St John’s Smith Square collaboration with Jennifer Baichwal life which flourishes in the darkness. sjss.org.uk | 020 7222 1061 Armchair, late 19th century Table Lamp, Victorian Bruno Mathsson Chair, 1930’s David Linley Lamp, 20th Century and Nicholas de Pencier, stem from the 020 7942 5511 Estimated: £150-250 Estimated: £150-250 Estimated: £400-700 Estimated: £300-500 artist’s ongoing Anthropocene Project; a Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 multidisciplinary investigation into human 5BD impact on the planet. The Anthropocene nhm.ac.uk Westminster Abbey is open daily for visiting except Project debuts this fall with simultaneous Sunday 23rd December, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Sundays. museum exhibitions at the Art Gallery FAIRS & FESTIVALS of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, a feature-length documentary November 9-28 OBJECTS OF ALL AGES, FOR THOSE AT ALL STAGES. film, and a book. 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you’ll be fully immersed in the pursuit to November 29 – December 7 December 4 conquer some of the longest and highest THE LECTURE CLUB London Art Week A Christmas Cocktail crossings for a full 2-3 hours. Safe to say Professional Using a creative, holistic approach AUTUMN be informed PROGRAMME Various Venues – See Chelsea Old Town Hall the hustle and bustle of everyday life will Science Tutor website The annual Christmas fair to raise money be sent on its merry way… A bit like you to stimulate students to think outside of All Lectures 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm. £15 Entrance on the door From Ancient sculptures for Save the Children. will be down a 50m zip wire! Friendly or pre-book online for £12. Wine and Refreshments included. to Old Master drawings 020 7361 2220 instructors are ready and waiting to and post-Impressionist Chelsea Old Town Hall, King's Rd, propel the youngsters into a leafy world the box whilst enjoying NOV 14TH paintings, London Art Chelsea, London SW3 5EE of canopies too, including bridges and zip Week offers visitors the savethechildren.org.uk wires that guarantee a family vibe across the learning process. TOKS ARUOTURE - NURSERY INTERIOR DESIGNER chance to see, and buy, the tree tops. ‘Nursery Interior Design Trends For Millennial Parents’ extraordinary works. For Ends January 6 01603 895500 seasoned collectors as well The Natural History Museum Ice Rink Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ as those simply curious to Hailed as a London institution, the iconic goape.co.uk NOV 27TH learn more about art, London Natural History Museum Ice Rink will be Art Week dealers are always returning for the 2018 festive season. Set Ongoing • Professionally worked with top tutoring agencies in London ANDREW SPIRA - CHRISTIE’S EDUCATION on hand and delighted to against the stunning backdrop of one of Hackney City Farm since 2013. share their knowledge and London’s best-loved landmarks, skaters can If you’re on a day trip from the country, ‘Egon Schiele: The Ecstasy Of Anxiety’ expertise. Talks and events take to the ice at the enchanting rink from this quaint urban farm isn’t for you, but • Specialising in age 10 - 16 year old students, with extensive are scheduled throughout Thursday 25 October and throughout the city kids enjoy meeting the goats, sheep, International experience in one to one sessions and the week, delivered by winter period, until Sunday 6 January 2019. chickens and rabbits. There’s also a farm DEC 5TH SPECIAL EVENT * * some of the UK's most The Café Bar, run by Benugo, will be open shop selling eggs, organic vegetables and homeschooling. distinguished art historians for seasonal treats, providing a place to other locally produced food. SIPSMITH - TASTING & TALK • Prepared many students for scholarship entrance examinations at and curators. There is no stay warm out of the winter chill. Visitors 020 7729 6381 Together we ‘The First Copper Pot Distillery tent: Visitors have the luxury to the Café Bar can watch all the skate 1A Goldsmiths Row London E2 8QA some of the most academically rigorous schools in London. In London In Over 180 Years’ of discovering masterpieces action from a perfectly-positioned viewing hackneycityfarm.co.uk within beautiful gallery balcony. The Café Bar is open daily as a • Excellent success record, with great references and DBS available spaces, all situated within place to unwind after a skate around the November 22 can inspire on appointment. VENUE: 32-33 Abbotsbury Close, London W14 8EG walking distance. shimmering ice rink. Kids in Museums Takeover Day LECTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST SCHEDULE ON londonartweek.co.uk 0844 847 1576 Kids in Museums Takeover Day features WWW.THELECTURECLUB.COM Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD a multitude of creative activities for the your child FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @thelectureclub November 30 – December 2 nhmskating.com under-5s, their families and carers. Curated Amaze by the Museum’s neighbours, St Josephs Parveen Madher BSc. MSc. MPhil. Olympia FAMILY & CHILDREN primary school, the children have worked in learning T: 07769 354 037 world champion since 2013, Magnus Amaze Expo, formerly with poets, musicians and storytellers to Carlsen, and challenger Fabiano Caruana known as Big Boys Toys, is the innovation See website for dates devise the creative content for this event. E: [email protected] to determine the World Chess Champion. and luxury lifestyle exhibition launching Go Ape 020 7730 0717 at Olympia London. Come explore the Battersea Park Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 science www.parveenmadher.com The 12-game match, organized by FIDE and World Chess, will be played in world's most groundbreaking, state-of-the- For the fully-grown Tarzans and Janes, you 4HT London between 9 and 28 November 2018 art and innovative products and services won’t even feel like you’re in the city, as nam.ac.uk with a prize fund of over 1 million euros. from an array of global manufacturers. The College, Holborn, 12-14 Southampton There is something for everyone, even if Row, London, you are just 'window shopping', you will WC1B 4AP discover new and desirable cars, yachts, worldchess.com private jets, holidays, fashion, beauty, art, technology and more. Carols, Readings November 10-11 +91 80 500 40 777 Independent School Show Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith, Battersea Evolution London W14 8UX and Music for Hear from the sector’s brightest thinkers, amaze-london.com discussing the trends and choices that will Christmas affect your child’s future. December 1-2 0203 301 0299 New Youthquake Christmas Market Battersea Park, London, SW8 4NW (NYQxMAS) schoolsshow.co.uk A 32-stall market and nano-festival for traders, performers and young creatives November 17 aged 16 to 30 from West London and An independent co-educational school for children 3 - 13 years Portobello & Golborne Market Christmas beyond. Explore emerging makers and tree lights switch-on brands, buy unique Christmas gifts, Saturday 17 November 5pm to 5.45pm discover fresh musicians and performers, Tavistock Square Performances by Imperial tune up your bike for free, and much more! College acapella group Techtonics and the Tavistock Square W11 Barlby Primary School choir. The switch rbkc.gov.uk/newyouthquake OPEN MORNING will be thrown by the winner of an art Tuesday 13 November 2018 contest that was open to all schools in the December 2-23 borough with assistance by the Deputy Vintage 1940s Christmas Grotto Mayor. Bletchley Park Paul Lucian Maze, The Changing of Sentries 09.00 - 11.15 am Original painting located at King Edward VII’s Hospital Tavistock Square W11 Step back in time at Bletchley Park and rbkc.gov.uk/ourmarkets experience a 1940s style Christmas Grotto. To book a place, please visit Father Christmas will be at home in 10 December 2018, 6.30pm www.thehampshireschoolchelsea.co.uk/open-day November 23 the Library in the Mansion throughout St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT December. Every child will receive a Creative Quarter 2018 Join us, and our special guests, for a festive evening of music This year the V&A, Natural History present and enjoy festive crafts and music and readings, followed by home-made mince pies and mulled wine. Museum, Imperial College London, while you wait. Tickets must be booked Pre-Prep and Prep School: 15 Manresa Road, London, SW3 6NB Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal 24 hours in advance and time slots to visit College of Music and Goethe-Institut the Grotto will be allocated on arrival at Free entry, donations welcome on the evening Early Years: 5 Wetherby Place, London, SW7 4NX will welcome young people considering Bletchley Park. careers in the creative industries to a day 01908 640404 To reserve your place please email 020 352 7077 of talks, workshops and behind the scenes The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood [email protected] or call 020 7467 3923.  [email protected] tours on Friday 23rd November. For more Drive, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, information, please visit: MK3 6EB In support of our Veterans Grants Appeal discoversouthken.com bletchleypark.org.uk

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and effective use of sharp tools on hard chronic conditions that require long- purely technical skill. Pairing anatomical materials. Chefs and chemists exchange term treatment. The bedrock, he says, is models with actors, for example, more The Artistry tips on weighing and measuring a doctor-patient relationship founded effectively recreates the challenge of St Anthony’s according to exact instructions. Other on trust and integrity. Beyond this, the interacting with a patient while carrying of Medicine collaborations have involved practitioners care process should be tailored to the out invasive procedures. He has also School for Girls Medical maverick Professor in fields as obscure as lacemaking and individual. pioneered an inflatable operating theatre Roger Kneebone discusses puppetry. It is hoped students will But Kneebone’s ideas are not that creates a convincing environment learn from these unorthodox experts, without their obstacles. First, he must without the need for expensive School Anthony's © St Photographs the power of performance and can do so away from the stressful challenge the scepticism many doctors equipment. St Anthony’s School for and intimidating environment of the feel towards performance. “They feel Simulation also allows Kneebone and how doctors can harness laboratory or the operating theatre. wary of performance or feel it somehow to invite people from outside the world Girls is the sister school to St artistic talent in their work. These partnerships will, Kneebone diminishes the value of what they do of medicine to experience a taste of the Anthony’s Boys, Hampstead. hopes, become a key part of medical or is somehow inauthentic,” he says. operating theatre, without the need to training. Aside from practical skills, it “But I think that’s a misreading of what let them loose on real patients. This, it We are an Ofsted Outstanding By James Warrington can also help doctors to deal with the performance is about.” seems, is where his work on simulation school where academic psychological elements performance, Moreover, his concept of the bespoke and performance meet. such as anxiety and recovery. “It’s not grants the patient greater agency in their “If you think about surgery as excellence is achieved in a enough to read about it; you’ve got to treatment, challenging traditional power performance then it makes sense not experience it,” he says. dynamics. It also raises questions of how only to look at what performers outside safe, familiar and spiritually formulating their own opinions as they • Extra-Curricular infused by Christ’s Gospel in order these idealistic concepts could be realised surgery do, but also to invite those grow. We encourage the girls to have an We offer a broad, varied and exciting that each of our girls is able to develop hat do surgeons have in confident environment. in an already strained health service. performers in to see what surgeons do,” individual voice. range of extra-curricular activities, which fully as individual well-adjusted to the common with close-up Kneebone is unfazed by these he says. “You can’t really do that except he social, moral, cultural and Our curriculum combines traditional are prepared in response to the children's wider community. St Anthony’s School magicians, puppeteers and concerns, however, saying his ideas could by simulation.” for Girls is an environment where tailors? A lot, if you ask Professor Roger be implemented without too much For Kneebone, the scientific and spiritual development of children methods with current pedagogical interest. W is the most integral part of our research and advances in technology. Our Catholic life is at the forefront of all that Kneebone. The unassuming former disruption and, crucially, without large artistic hub of South Kensington, packed doctor has devoted the last 15 years of investments of time and money. “I think with world-class institutions, is the ideal role as educators at St Anthony’s School individualised learning programme will • Sport motivates us. Daily we are guided by the T words of St Anthony. his career to academia, researching how it’s often a question of reframing what is location for his work. “It’s a fantastic for Girls. We deem it our duty to help prepare the girls for entry into the finest The girls play netball, hockey and football the seemingly incompatible worlds of already there rather than changing things opportunity to look at what experts in shape young minds into morally and senior schools, matching the success of and swim termly. The skills for team science and the arts overlap and what can radically,” he says. these institutions have in common, rather ethically responsible individuals, to St. Anthony’s Boys. The girls follow a sports are embedded from Reception and Actions speak louder than be learned from their similarities. Aside from his work on performance, than what separates them,” he says. inspire children to seek the opportunities broad curriculum. Arts, Sports, Music the girls have the opportunity to play at We meet in a bustling common room Kneebone leads the Centre for Ultimately, linking seemingly in life that will lead them to become and Drama share equal importance with team level against schools. words; let your words teach at Imperial College’s South Kensington Engagement and Simulation Science unrelated professions is at the heart of valued members of society. English, Mathematics and Science. and your actions speak. campus, though Kneebone is not a at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Kneebone’s work. As a former doctor, Academic success is achieved through • Rhythmic Gymnastics lifelong denizen of prestigious academic where he is developing new forms of his research is focused on improving the hard work and determination. The girls A discipline, an art and a creative institutions. He began his career as a simulation to provide student doctors skills of surgeons and medical staff. But • Art The commitment to St Anthony’s Way trauma surgeon in war zones in southern with realistic experience of procedures his ideas resonate beyond the world of are guided to challenge themselves in The girls enjoy weekly art lessons sport. All girls have termly rhythmic will reap its rewards when our girls, our Africa, before spending 17 years as a and operations. medicine, and you can’t help but think the classroom, the sports field and in the covering the major disciplines, from gymnastics and opportunities to perform alumni of the future play their part as GP in Wiltshire. His work developing Too many simulations, Kneebone about how they could be applied to your creative arts arena. Stimulating learning painting and printing to clay. Girls at competitive tournaments. adults, going forward to affect change, a national training programme for GPs In addition, Kneebone believes a says, fail to recreate the stresses and own profession. After all, performance, opportunities builds the children’s are encouraged to work at their pace making a positive contribution to society caught the eye of Lord Darzi, who focus on performance could lead to complications of real life, and he wants in whatever form it may take, is a skill we confidence so they can articulate their and each child’s completed art piece is The education is offered in a caring through their academic abilities and invited Kneebone to join his research a more personalised form of medical to focus on human experience as well as all need. thoughts and questions with ease, celebrated and displayed. supportive and Catholic environment moral and spiritual beliefs. programme at Imperial in 2003. care, one he describes as “bespoke”. He “I’ve always been interested in has collaborated with Savile Row tailor education and I became increasingly Joshua Byrne for almost a decade, and interested in looking at the skills of frequently uses this profession as an surgery that experts don’t even know analogy. A tailor, Kneebone explains, they have,” Kneebone says of his move does not merely present the customer Achieve at St. Anthony’s School to academia. He now leads a Master’s with a prescribed list of options. Instead, in Surgical Education, encouraging he works carefully to understand what surgeons in training to engage with the the customer needs and adapts his CAMERON HOUSE SCHOOL humanities and social sciences. product accordingly. But it is in his role as director of the 4 THE VALE, LONDON SW3 6AH This, says Kneebone, is what doctors Centre for Performance Science that Headmistress: Dina Mallett Kneebone carries out his most innovative should aim for. “The whole process of cross-disciplinary work. The centre, bespoke is to work out what somebody T: 020 7352 4040 www.cameronhouseschool.org which is a joint venture between Imperial wants and to guide them to a solution and the Royal College of Music, that’s best for them,” he says. “It’s not researches the art of performance, and about limiting choice, but shaping choice Kneebone is looking at how professional and aligning it to the needs and wishes performers can teach doctors valuable of an individual person.” skills. He compares medical practice to the Surgery, he explains, is not something idea of the ‘workmanship of risk’, a term that can be learned from a textbook. coined by furniture designer David Pye While theoretical knowledge is vital in in 1968. Pye talks about ‘risk’ not in the medicine, procedures can only be carried usual meaning of exposure to danger, an out with the help of human performance. unhelpful term for medical practitioners, “We tend to think of medicine as but rather in the sense of uncertainty. an applied science and we think of Unlike identical products churned out A nurturing, caring and stimulating environment for girls to flourish surgery in terms of skills, manual skills on a factory production line, handcrafted particularly, but those only make sense objects will each emerge unique, and if there is performance,” he says. “It’s the creator can never be entirely certain A Springboard for Life Scholarships and bursaries available www.stanthonysgirls.co.uk through performance that patients what the finished product will look like. experience care.” This, says Kneebone, is similar to clinical And who better to teach performance practice. than performers themselves? 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he world seems to be KS4 and KS5 for students in the UK The Power metamorphosing into one global and overseas, and also offers short-term metropolis with air-conditioned How online support to students who are trying to re- of Outdoor shoppingT complexes, vast leisure centres, education is engage with education, regardless of their and learning being driven down an circumstances. interactive superhighway. Is this right? School Wey © Photographs Learning The natural world of wind, rain and sun revolutionising By Donal Brennan School Anthony's © St Photographs is being denied to our children as they Immersion in language Headmaster St Anthony’s experience the world from behind layers modern schooling School for Girls in Hampstead of glass and perspex. This is perceived to Online teaching can also offer a more be progressive, but I challenge this and focused approach to learning. Away say that it is the opposite. Children need from the distractions of the classroom, to splash in puddles, reach to climb trees, pupils can concentrate on their studies and poke about in ponds with sticks. The virtual school and reap the rewards of tailored tuition. They need to walk and run in both the This is the ethos behind Quoralexis sun and rain. They need to sense the When twelve year-old Lilian Hardy (www. quoralexis.com), Wey Education’s elements and understand what it means attended open auditions for the ensemble developing service for learners of for the wind to blow through their hair, of Matilda, she never expected to be English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or rivulets of rain to pour over their faces, offered the lead role. Yet before she and English as an Additional Language or feel the earth beneath their fingernails. we walk in our neighbourhood; and we resources can be accessed by looking, knew it she was walking out in front (EAL). At St Anthony’s School for Girls, facilitate our children in being connected listening and inhaling the scent-laden air of hundreds of people in a West End Quoralexis uses interactive classes our children avail of Golder’s Hill Park, to their environment. of the natural world that has transcended theatre. to immerse students in the English our garden for physical activity, play and How do we reclaim the natural world over time? Despite her success, however, Lilian language, and pupils can communicate experience a closeness to nature. Free of for our children? Release our children We are at a crossroads in human doesn’t intend to pursue a career in buttoned-up shirts and ties, the children from their overheated classrooms and impact on the world. Today’s children theatre. “I love acting but I don't think InterHigh, is also developing an become one with the elements around take them out into their neighbourhood; need to understand what it means if I want to do it full-time as I'm also online school offering a selective them. go to the park, the woods or to the the perma ice is melting; if the habitats interested in photography, hairdressing education. Infinity Education (www. There are benefits: rosy cheeks, riverbank. Pushkin describes the subtle of badgers are under threat; and how and English literature,” she says. infinityeducation.org.uk) provides increased heartbeats, and a determination differences in the seasons; Wordsworth swallows follow their traditional But fitting in studies around a hectic excellent teaching in a flexible to run, jump and climb more. An talks of the beauty of the world; Hughes migratory route. If our children learn schedule of rehearsals and auditions is environment, with smaller classes and increased sense of robustness and describes in detail creatures of the natural to walk in the footsteps of previous no mean feat, as Lilian soon discovered. more support for individual students. well-being is evident. The desire to eat world; and Seamus Heaney transports generations of people who respected Like thousands of other students she The school is ideally suited to students a hearty lunch is obvious. The children us to the ploughing fields of his youth. the natural world, then we will not be decided to try online education and aiming to achieve top grades at GCSE show a commitment in the class, a Why not take our children out into these reading these headlines of Armageddon joined InterHigh (www.interhigh.co.uk), and A Level before studying at leading confidence during performance and a sensory havens of stimulation where for planet Earth. a virtual school for pupils between the universities in the UK and abroad. It competitive spirit on the playing fields. mental maths, non-verbal reasoning, They will believe it is a world worth ages of 8 and 19. is exceptional independent teaching We have opened our windows and doors; critical thinking and topic-learning fighting for. “I joined InterHigh after Matilda for fees well below those of traditional because I was interested in trying out independent schools. online lessons,” she explains. “Home- educated people often like flexible learning styles and being able to pick and Tailored teaching for everyone Queen Anne’s School choose subjects. I don’t think learning has to be formal; it happens just as well Online education doesn’t end with virtual An independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11-18, by living life and paying attention to schools. Wey Education is also using what’s around you.” its technology to help other education located in Caversham, Berkshire Lilian’s experience resonates with a providers deliver high quality teaching. wide range of students for whom online Thanks to the flexibility and convenience study has made education more enjoyable of online teaching, education can now and achievable. The traditional classroom extend beyond classroom walls. time in ages I had hope: I knew my son through voice or text, and even turn environment can be overwhelming for When Harrison Honey was would be having an education.” their device screen into an interactive pupils for a variety of reasons, from diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Harri went from strength to strength. whiteboard. With constant monitoring The right choice for illness to behavioural difficulties. Others Syndrome (CFS) in Year 7, everyday Initially he began to re-integrate by and instant feedback, students can simply want to get ahead, or their tasks became almost impossible. The taking his online lessons in the school develop their language skills more parents are looking for a more affordable condition, which causes severe fatigue library. Now he is back in school for 12 quickly than ever. alternative to traditional schooling. and affects concentration and memory, hours and coping well. The number of children being Whatever the motive, more and more left Harri struggling to speak, think In addition to catering to individual educated outside school is on the rise, your daughter’s future students are turning to online teaching and even walk. The effect on his entire teaching needs, Academy21 helps and with tailored, flexible and cost and resources. life was devastating, and naturally his schools, local authorities and other effective services online, it’s easy to see InterHigh is at the forefront of education suffered. public bodies such as children’s homes why. this digital education revolution. From After missing almost three years to provide education for pupils with humble beginnings in 2005 the online of schooling, Harri’s condition was complex behavioural, medical and mental school now has roughly 1,300 pupils beginning to improve. His mother, health issues. With online classes, lesson based in the UK and abroad. The school Alison, knew mainstream school would libraries and an innovative Learning Wey Education is the AIM provides an accredited UK curriculum be too overwhelming, and felt home Management System, Academy21 Open Morning delivered with flexibility, so students can tutoring would put too much pressure supplies alternative, high quality teaching listed holding company of an manage their own timetables and have on Harri. A friend recommended to numerous organisations and pupils. education group that offers ‘Excellent’ direct access to teachers at all times. Academy21 (www.academy21.co.uk), Wey Education’s offshoot Wey Independent Schools Inspectorate 2017 Friday 16 November After lessons InterHigh offers a range and after a trial period he enrolled on the ecademy (www.weyecademy.com) is five unique services, using of clubs and societies, and pupils can programme. also pioneering the B2B approach to state of the art technology to interact in the common room or on the With the flexibility and support of education. The ecademy works with Full and weekly boarding school’s own social media platforms. It his online tuition, Harri was able to learn schools and organisations to provide a deliver tuition and resources to Paddington to Reading in An extensive transport network, options available combines all the benefits of a traditional without compromising his treatment broad range of resources, from individual educators and pupils. just 26 minutes including a London service brick and mortar school with the and recovery. “When I approached subject teaching to specialist vocational www.qas.org.uk/bookanevent flexibility of home schooling. Academy21, I was convinced this was courses. 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Harding, called Convo which will be and for the education departments at Q. What does it take to get to the top of Q. What sacrifices do you have to make Tri-borough performed in the RAH on 7th March James Burke the London Symphony Orchestra and your profession? What did for this profession? (life on the road etc) 2019. Convo charts the evolution of from Academy of St Martin Academy of St Martin in the Fields. you do when you felt it was too hard A. Touring can be tough these days. I Music Hub communication through music and will and wanted to give up. How did you have a young family at home, and going By Stuart Whatmore feature almost 1200 performers from 27 in the Fields shares his views Q. How do you feel that studying music overcome this? away for weeks at a time can be stressful primary schools, 8 secondary schools, on the importance in music has influenced your overall A. There’s that saying that, “success is for everybody. And even when not and 4 SEND schools; all performing education in general? 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration”, touring, a ‘normal’ musician’s schedule alongside three TBMH choirs, their Folk Music Hub TriBorough © Photographs education Has it enlightened you in other forms of and I think there’s a lot of truth in that. means working many antisocial hours Ensemble and Youth Orchestra. This education for example? You need a lot of man hours, but you also - lots of late nights, early starts for “out need the passion in order to achieve your of town” dates, and whilst everyone else is going to be an epic event featuring A. Studying music has massively of St Martin in the Fields Academy © Photograph animations, live music coding on a big influenced my overall education. I was full potential. Deep down, I always knew is enjoying a weekend or bank holiday screen and takes the audience on a involved in so many extra-curricular it was what I wanted to do. Growing off you are normally just carrying on sensory journey including Morse Code, activities thanks to my musical education; up, having to choose between the obliviously. id you know that there is a silent film and much more (tickets via mixing with people from other schools, football team or clarinet lessons had its an organisation in our area www.royalalberthall.com). from other areas and backgrounds. It difficulties. My parents were always there, Q. What improvements do you think that exists just to make sure also helps across the board with so many gently pushing against any thoughts I could be made to the curriculum to that children and young people have Alongside all this, the Hub is also other subjects. Artists, writers, musicians had of throwing in the towel. support more Art Education in schools? D A. I’m not too sure about the specifics outstanding music education in and out entering into a phase of development and composers have had huge influences of school? If not, well there is and they with the start of a new sister charitable on so many historical and political Q. Were your talents as a musician of the current curriculum, but in my are called the Tri-borough Music Hub arm to help raise funds and help events. something you knew from an opinion, access is the most important (TBMH). This article explains who they provide financial support for their early age or did you grow up in a musical thing. Make music part of everyday are and what they do, but the key thing future ambitions. The charity is being Q. Are there any benefits that the family that influenced you? life, whether that be playing, singing for anyone who doesn’t know them is established to address the challenges general educators/teachers could learn A. My parents weren’t particularly or listening. And not just classical that they are actively seeking to raise of drawing in additional funds and to from this? musical, but were encouraging to music obviously - everyone should be their profile, and for new audiences to help financially future-proof the service A. I think that learning an instrument anything I’d show an interest in - sports constantly exposed to the huge variety of support them in their mission to increase to supplement the core DfE funding. gives you two major tools from an and music in particular. The choices musical genres that are outthere. Music representation and inclusion in music The new charity, named the Musical James Burke is Principal Clarinettist for early age; creative learning and self- at primary school were piano, violin is a vital part of our education, and education. Boroughs’ Trust, is in the early stages of the world-renowned chamber orchestra assessment. I’m sure these are things that or clarinet. We didn’t have room for a something that I’m so glad to have at the In every geographical area of England development, but it is hoped that funds Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and any educator or teacher would want to piano in the house, and I think my mum centre of my life! there is a Music Education Hub that is raised will help support the TBMH to Co-Principal at the BBC Symphony instil in any pupil. When playing, you are wouldn’t have been able to put up with funded by the Department for Education extend their work and at the same time Orchestra. He trained at the Guildhall given instructions and techniques to use, beginner violin practice for too long, so (DfE), through Arts Council England be able to increase the organisation’s School of Music & Drama, where he is but you have to find your own voice and clarinet it was! I didn’t even know what The Academy of St Martin in now Clarinet Professor. He also gives it was when they signed me up for the (ACE), and their role is to have a public profile. They are actively seeking way of expressing yourself. Being self- the Fields and Music Director strategic overview of all music education people that may be interested to support masterclasses and orchestral and chamber critical and never settling for anything term’s lessons. But I did love it, and I did based learning that happens in and out their future ambitions to address needs, coaching sessions there and at other top remotely “average" is the only way to progress quickly at first. Joshua Bell perform at Cadogan of school for children aged 5-18. Darren particularly those of disadvantaged young music institutions including the Royal improve. Hall on 19 January. Book at www. Henley (interview on page 20 of this people who have so much to gain in their College of Music, Southbank Sinfonia, cadoganhall.com. See below issue) is the CEO of ACE and recently personal and social development from gave a keynote speech with the TBMH music education. at the Royal Albert Hall. The TBMH has also just come to The TBMH is the lead organisation the end of a highly successful two- that oversees the delivery of music year project funded by Youth Music education in Hammersmith and Fulham; which focused on improving music Kensington and Chelsea; and City provision from birth to 5 year olds in of Westminster. The TBMH delivers a range of Early Years’ settings. One Open Days an extensive programme of musical of the outcomes of this was Musical learning in and out of school, working these opportunities by benefitting from children find routes into making music. Development Matters which is a brand- with schools, pupils, the teaching working alongside an actively engaged The TBMH is a music-specific new free guidance document that has Acting | Performance | Design | Production workforce and the community. To give group of Strategic Partners; the Royal service focused on high quality outcomes been written to help raise the profile of some context to their reach, each year Albert Hall, and Royal College of inclusive of all learners, but they also music in early childhood and to support 29 November 2018 they work with almost 90% of all 166 Music, and a varied and diverse group recognise the numerous benefits that those working with young children. BA Contemporary Theatre and Performance *New for 2019!* state-maintained schools in some way of ‘Delivery Partners’, all of whom are music can bring to everyone from all Musical Development Matters forms BA Acting and Performance *New for 2019!* either directly teaching in the school, signed up to the Hub’s inclusive music backgrounds and in all circumstances. part of the ongoing legacy of the project BA Costume for Theatre and Screen organising performance events for the approach. Partnership working is at the They are proud partners of the emerging and is currently being promoted via BA Production Arts for Screen pupils, supporting the teachers, or sign- core of what they do and they work hard Cultural Inclusion Manifesto with a a range of EY and music education BA Theatre Design posting them to opportunities with the networks across England. to create exciting pathways, opportunities specific focus on supporting access to Book now and fi nd out more: TBMH’s quality-assured list of partners. and progression routes that mean all music for all pupils and this chimes Outside of school hours the Hub runs children can benefit from learning music with the overarching themes of all The Music Hub is actively arts.ac.uk/wimbledon a varied programme of weekly activity they want to learn. their provision; Inclusive, Exceptional, *No Audition Fees! for more than 600 pupils including a Importantly, the TBMH is a Local Inspiring, Progressive, Sustainable. looking to raise its profile in range of choirs, orchestras, ensembles, Authority service which delivers Reflective practice is at the heart the community. To help with Saturday centres; and linked to these everything as part of a shared-services of the TBMH’s team, led by Stuart are high-profile performance events in agreement on behalf of the three Whatmore, Head of the service. The this they now have a back- professional venues. Amidst a hectic councils. They are part of the Children’s approach of the team is to be honest catalogue of all photos from performance programme, the recent Services School Standards team, about what they don’t know, learn stand-out events have been the Battle meaning that they have direct access together and move forward with events on their Flickr account; of the Bands at Bush Hall with celebrity to work with school headteachers, ways that are realistic, accessible and all films held on a Vimeo judges including Gareth Malone and governors, classroom teachers and are practical. The support received by the Guy Chambers; choirs performing in able to connect activity across multiple three Local Authorities, the RAH and account; and use of Twitter@ the London Jazz Festival with beatboxer services that benefit the children. The RCM, allows there to be a proactive TBMHMusic. and musician, Bellatrix; and in the Royal TBMH works closely with a range network of creative and critical thinking Albert Hall alongside Canadian band of teams including Special Education that is forward-thinking. Collectively For more information 2018 New Directions project with and internet sensations, Walk off the Needs, Safeguarding, Early Years, and these partners and the TBMH have about the Music Hub visit: BA Theatre Design and Lyric Hammersmith Earth. so on; all part of joining up the dots commissioned a brand new work www.triboroughmusichub.org or email Photo © Connor Harris / We Are Kilter They are able to offer the pupils all of provision, and ultimately helping from emerging composer, Charlotte [email protected] 40 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 EDUCATION EVENTS online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Tchaikovsky's music. of the most stunning cities in the world. 0333 241 4000 Roman Vishniac Rediscovered spanning France, Germany and England 020 7841 3600 020 7304 4000 And sure, you could follow most tourists Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 The Photographer’s Gallery between the 17th and 20th Centuries, 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, and view its incredible landmarks from the 2DD An extraordinarily versatile and innovative including works by Couperin, Bach, London WC1N 1AZ WC2E 9DD ground. But with The London Helicopter sciencemuseum.org.uk photographer, Vishniac is best known for Quilter, Britten topped off with some foundlingmuseum.org.uk roh.org.uk you can literally leave the crowds behind having created one of the most widely classic Bergman and Coward. and see the capital from a totally fresh Ongoing recognised and reproduced photographic 020 7553 4039 December 31 January 26 perspective. 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Who knows, you Above: Pair of Chinese porcelain Wucai dishes decorated with carp Kangxi six celebrating women working across the film The Foundling Museum Chekhov's play The Three Sisters but is not may love London a little bit more! character mark and of the period. Estimate: £10,000-15,000 crafts. Underwire is a BAFTA-recognised November 22 A special family concert following the a narrative portrayal of the whole story. TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS londonguidedwalks.co.uk Below: Production made Darth Vader Helmet from Star Wars. festival that’s been running for nine years, Canterbury Cathedral Girls' Choir journey of a little elf from European Instead, MacMillan delves into the inner Estimate: £15,000-25,000 and is committed to spotlighting and Eaton Square folklore. Join accordian and piano duo lives of the characters and displays their See website for dates Ongoing platforming women in film. Rich Mix Founded in 2014, Canterbury Cathedral Duoende for a magical melodic adventure, hidden thoughts and feelings through a Hidden London London Duck Tours hosts Underwire Film Festival for the first Girls’ Choir perform various services and exploring music from many different series of solos, pas de deux and ensembles. London Transport Museum Hop aboard one of London's Duck Tours Hidden London is London Transport distinctive yellow vehicles and enter the Museum’s exclusive programme of tours wonderful world of amphibious travel. It and events at disused stations and secret is far more exciting than just an ordinary sites across London. Led by experienced sightseeing bus tour or river trip. See some guides, ready to share unusual and little- of London’s most talked about sights, known stories surrounding the stations’ learn interesting facts about the city CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIR varied histories, these visits offer an and be entertained by an action-packed exciting opportunity to explore locations live commentary before the thrilling rarely seen by the public. splashdown onto the river Thames! 020 7379 6344 020 7928 3132 Covent Garden Piazza, London 55 York Road, Lambeth, London WC2E 7BB SE1 7NJ LONDON ltmuseum.co.uk londonducktours.co.uk See website for dates November 29 – December 2 Antiquarian & second-hand books for sale Festive Horse Drawn Carriages Rides The Idler Philosophy Retreat at Richmond Park Gladstone’s Library This Christmas, experience Richmond Park The Idler Academy like never before with a ride around the The Romantic Movement: a four-day Saturday 1st December park in a six-person Park Brake drawn by philosophy retreat at the residential majestic Shire Horses. Enjoy the sounds Gladstone’s Library with Tom Hodgkinson of hoofs and bells, revel in the crisp air and Dr Mark Vernon. On this philosophy and watch the wildlife up close while you retreat, you will explore poetry and the 10.30am - 4.30pm snuggle under a blanket and have some importance of imagination, inner life and sloe gin and a mince pie to truly get into existentialism, the impact of the Romantic the festive spirit! The 90-minute experience movement on politics and science, and begins at Holly Lodge, Richmond Park, also have space and time to consider what Holiday Inn where you'll be met with refreshments. this might mean for you now, in areas like Asian Art: 8 November You will take your place in the carriage London Bloomsbury psychology and religion, mythology and embarking on a 60-minute ride through the environment. Vintage Fashion & Textiles: 8 November Coram Street the park in all its winter beauty! 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class rock star, to create a long-awaited machine inventor from Yorkshire, and then stage musical featuring a host of his best- a real Viennese Count. But Jeannie is no loved tunes. The very best of all three Bat pushover. She knows her own mind, she Out of Hell albums has been combined to is a stickler for the truth, and she hates create a musical that no serious rocker will scroungers… want to miss, with a futuristic plot twisty 0844 847 1652 enough to satisfy the fussiest theatregoer. 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, London Welcome to the future, where young Strat SW10 9ED will do anything for love, including risking finboroughtheatre.co.uk the wrath of Falco, the despotic leader of the dysfunctional, post-apocalyptic world. December 6 020 7927 0900 A Concert for winter 268-269 Tottenham Court Rd, Fitzrovia, Shakespeare’s Globe London W1T 7AQ A Concert for Winter is Shakespeare’s dominion.theatre-tickets.com Globe’s free annual showcase which encourages residents of Southwark to Ongoing perform a song, poem or dance on the The Book of Mormon stage in celebration of the past, present Prince of Wales Theatre and future of the borough. The theme for The Book of Mormon has book, music and this year is journeys and the theatre is lyrics by South Park creators Matt Stone working with a number of local Southwark and Trey Parker, and the mind behind the nurseries, schools and community groups hit musical Avenue Q, Robert Lopez. The on performances that will commemorate show follows the journey of two Mormon the journeys that they, their families or missionaries who travel to Africa to preach others have made. their religion. They share their scriptures 020 7902 1400 with a small village in Uganda but find 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT it difficult to interest the locals who have shakespearesglobe.com much bigger things to worry about: AIDS, famine, and local warlords. It features December 7 – January 26 hilarious songs like Hello, All American Sweet by Lynne Nottage Prophet, I Believe, and I Am Africa. Donmare Warehouse 0844 482 5115 In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending Coventry St, London W1D 6AS time with the people of Reading, princeofwalestheatre.co.uk Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. During the following November 17 – January 6 two years, she dug deep into the forgotten Dick Whittington heart of middle America, finding a city Lyric Hammersmith divided by racial tension and the collapse This year Dick Whittington will be getting of industry. Sweat is the Pulitzer Prize- the full Lyric treatment. You can expect the winning play that Lynn Nottage wrote usual mix of live music, crazy characters, following her experience. Her tale of awesome adventure, singing, dancing, friends pitted against each other by big ROYAL BROMPTON villainous baddies and heroic goodies with business, and the decline of the American a little bit of feline flavour chucked in for good measure. To mark the 10th year of Dream receives its UK premiere at the panto and Lyric’s unique Panto Ensemble Donmar, directed by former Donmar CAROLS BY training scheme it will throw open its Resident Assistant Director Lynette doors for a very special performance Linton. of Dick Whittington full of fun, guest 020 3282 3808 performances, entertainment and festivities 41 Earlham Street, London, CANDLELIGHT to help us celebrate in style. WC2H 9LX 020 8741 6850 donmarwarehouse.com Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL FEATURING: lyric.co.uk January 2-26 The Dame 18 December, 6.30pm ™ November 24-30 Park Theatre FATHER CHRISTMAS MY CHRISTMAS ‘THE SNOWMAN ’ AND Ralegh: The Treason Trial A lost world of seaside entertainment, ™ piers and promenades is brought to life AT THE HALL ORCHESTRAL ADVENTURE ‘PADDINGTON BEAR ‘ Shakespeare’s Globe 4 St Luke's Church 22 November – 22 December 15 December 20 December The air is alive with the silence of a when seasoned Pantomime Dame Ronald 8 Roy Humphrey returns to his Northern 5

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Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London s Jeannie i With readings from Finborough Theatre N4 3JP g parktheatre.co.uk e Supported by It is 1936 in a “wee one-eyed” town in R Scotland. Jeannie is a drudge for her mean Felicity Kendal & Huw Collins Call: 020 7589 8212 controlling father, but dreams of a different life. When she receives a large inheritance, Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha royalalberthall.com/christmas she seizes the opportunity to finally escape to the glamour and sophistication If you have an event that you’d like listed of European travel. During her stay in in the next edition, please send any rbhcharity.org/brompton-carols Vienna, she encounters Stanley, a washing information to: [email protected] 46 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Dining Out Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

dread (if you start feeling shooting moustached mixologists to attend to meal itself should be good enough to Hawksmoor pains however, either call a doctor, or the quite serious business of getting you distract you from the details of your 11 Langley St, London possibly look into alternative methods drunk enough to accept what you’ll be neighbour’s home life. The cuts of meat of mortgage payment). Hawksmoor is paying at the end of the evening. are of the kind of quality that could WC2H 9JG all about incredibly large steaks and Whilst I would love to be snarky tempt a vegan, and come in portions big Closes: 11pm unfortunately the prices are on the same about them based on the twin facts of enough to verge on the intimidating. scale. If you’ve got some walking around their extravagant (if unfortunate) facial There is something oddly reassuring in a www.thehawksmoor.com money however (perhaps you’ve just won hair and the fact that they self applied restaurant that sets itself to do one thing Photograph © Hawksmoor Knightsbridge © Hawksmoor Photograph T: 020 7420 9390 big at one of nearby Leicester Square’s the term ‘mixologist’ without even the and do that one thing well. Hawksmoor ghastly casinos or perhaps, more likely, barest hint of irony, but regrettably for does some damn fine steaks and cocktails you’ve just robbed a bank) then you my ego if not my palate, they seriously and anyone with a particular weakness o start with, let’s put the cards could certainly do a hell of a lot worse knew what they were doing. They for either should find themselves able to on the table: when the bill than be tempted into Hawksmoor Seven kept a steady stream of delicious and overlook the slight seating issues. Due to Feel festive at Baglioni Hotel London comes at the end of your meal Dials’ subterranean dining room. The adventurous cocktails flowing to our the… mildly prohibitive pricing however, you might find your vision start to restaurant shares the space with a bar, table, whilst they might have made the a prospective diner who is relatively With the festive period drawing closer and London looks forward to its magical T next morning a fair bit more challenging ambivalent about steaks might want to flickering lights and mulled wine across the city, Brunello Bar and Restaurant at blur with a feeling of not-so existential complete with the requisite ludicrously than it would have otherwise been, they think about dining elsewhere. For those Baglioni Hotel London is also getting ready to welcome guests across Christmas and were exactly what the doctor ordered (if who like their food bloody however, New Year’s Eve and shower them with the Italian hospitality we are celebrated for. said doctor didn’t really see the point of a Hawksmoor offers a rare treat. Christmas Eve Dinner | £90 per person functioning liver). Hawksmoor, whilst not helping 24th December 2018 | 18:00 – 23:00 The restaurant itself occupies a Christopher Wren rebuild London, 3 Courses with Aperitivo Italiano, a glass of prosecco & traditional panettone. pleasant, rather cosy room, in an oak- has become the kind of chain that lined, expensive restaurant kind of a way, other chains resent and complain about Christmas Day Lunch and Dinner | £125 per person 25th December 2018 | 12:00 – 21:30 which, unfortunately, has a tendency behind its back (two incredibly contrived 4 Courses with Aperitivo Italiano, a glass of Ferrari sparkling wine & traditional panettone. to sit patrons just a little closer to each metaphors in one). It’s successful and other than they might be hoping for. it’s high quality enough that its status New Year’s Eve Dinner | £175 per person Presumably this is because the monthly as a chain is forgiven and forgotten by 31st December 2018 | 18:00 – 00:30 rent on a space that size in the West hungry gourmands. Whilst Hawksmoor 4 Courses with Aperitivo Italiano, a glass of sparkling wine and traditional panettone. End is equivalent to the yearly combined dabbles in seafood, the main attraction is, Champagne at midnight and live entertainment throughout the evening. GDP of Eastern Europe; squeezing in and always will be, its astoundingly vast TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLY as many heads as possible is a matter quantities of thick and juicy steaks in all FOR RESERVATIONS AND MORE INFORMATION Menus include 20% VAT, excludes discretionary Tel: +44 207 368 5742 | Email: [email protected] service charge of 12.5% and beverages. of survival rather than aesthetics, but their forms. Hawksmoor Kensington is the final result does mean that you the newest outpost in this carnivorous might be unlucky and end up with an empire and as per usual the decor is BAGLIONI HOTEL LONDON 60 Hyde Park Gate, London, SW7 5BB, UK #BaglioniLondon #BaglioniHotels uncomfortably good view of a marriage something in-between the dark wood- Tel. +44 207 368 5700 | www.baglionihotels.com/london #LuxuryHotel #London in the process of disintegrating over panelled gentlemen's club and that from the course of a meal. Thankfully the an early spy novel. Max Feldman nurture his inner Dalstonite, couldn’t Moving on to the large plates we the paprika hollandaise, which came Restaurant Ours Art St. Kitchen resist the pulled pork terrine, fennel and continued our split between fish and together in a rich finish and should see 264 Brompton Rd, Art Street SW1P 4DU apple salad (£6.50) both dishes put the meat with the pan fried hake, paprika any fans of seafood smiling. To close we Photograph © Ours Photograph lie to the ‘small plate’ descriptor as they hollandaise, tenderstem broccoli and tucked into a possibly life-threateningly Knightsbridge, www.artstkitchen.co.uk were more than generous. The squid lemon (£15.00) opposite the sliced decadent black forest chocolate tart London SW3 2AS was wonderfully tangy, whilst the fried flank steak, shitake mushrooms, garlic (£6.00) alongside the equally heart- orange slices added an unexpectedly fresh and horseradish (£15.00). The sliced stopping sticky toffee cheesecake, both www.restaurant-ours.com counterpoint which offset the dish nicely. flank steak caught the attention far delicious but with a tendency to leave The pulled pork terrine was slightly more more than the pulled pork, the garlic you a groaning wreck by the end. Art St. rt St. Kitchen (appropriately generic but certainly filling and raised and horseradish duelled for dominance Kitchen is decent value for good food, if enough) takes its moniker from up by the sharply accented apple salad, against the juicy palate of the steak one’s artistic urges bring you to the Tate the rather whimsically named which unexpectedly stole the thunder with one’s taste buds emerging the clear Britain it’s well worth being drawn that ArtA Street. Art Street, which presumably from underneath the pulled pork. victor. The hake was well paired with bit further. Max Feldman earned its name due to it’s a proximity to the Tate Britain, is a snaking capillary leading to the Thames and Art St Kitchen takes full advantage of its scenic position. The restaurant is attached to the Double- As the Brompton Road tributary feeds atrium-like space, where walls were Restaurant Ours to a particular cuisine; Graduating onto the mains, our Alaskan Tree by Hilton and whilst its design is into a confluence with Thurloe Place, plastered with sprawling vines and the restaurant broadly defines itself as king crab for two (£65), lamb cutlets pleasingly sleek with an expansive glass Photograph © Art St. Kitchen Art St. © Photograph catching a sighting of Restaurant Ours, huge trees snaked up towards the high British-Euro, but influenced by Asian, with aubergine (£25.30) and chunky frontage; it doesn’t exactly break the a cocktail bar-cum-restaurant, on first ceiling. We were both struck by the sheer Mediterranean and Latin-American chips with truffle and parmesan (£9.40) mould, preferring to do it’s talking via passing can be difficult. Wedged between expanse of the room and the beautifully sharing styles. Thus, it recommends, in continued in the same form as their the food. a designer clothing store and Aubaine, manicured horticulture within. Our slightly nebulous language, to have ‘four lighter predecessors. The fluffy white The ‘concept’ behind Art St. Kitchen the dark cerulean-green exterior of reaction illustrated as much. to five dishes per person to share’. meat that flowed out of the Alaskan king is ‘art on a plate’, thankfully this is Restaurant Ours occupies a relatively The restaurant divides into a bar and The dishes arrived as they might in crab’s spindly legs certainly legitimised its more about arrangement and aesthetics inconspicuous position on Brompton dining area on the ground floor and a tapas restaurant: the lighter dishes regal title and had we not been distracted than serving up miniature Rodins as Road. Were it not for the nose of the a mezzanine above. The mezzanine, a first, followed by the signatures and by the succulent lamb cutlets to its side, antipasti. The restaurant offers a tapas- restaurant jutting out ahead of its lounge area that likely springs into life on food from the grill. We started with another king crab per person to share like service, with each plate designed to neighbours, the discovery of Restaurant Friday and Saturday evenings, does not the smoked wagyu beef tartare with would be lying in wait. be shared, and it must be said the prices Ours may have been a far more hang over the dining area in an intrusive quail egg, horseradish cream and toast The chef, Douglas Santi who has only are very reasonable. We began with two protracted process. way. Rather, it shelters a single row of (£17.90) and prawn dumplings (£16.20). been with the restaurant for two months, selections from the extensive small plate Paddling back upstream from tables at the far end of the restaurants, I concede that these two dishes were has made a distinguished mark on Ours. selection, never having encountered a Thurloe Place, my dining companion offering a degree more privacy to guests not necessarily a harmonious pairing, Mr Santi deserves to be commended cephalopod that I didn’t like I swung for and I were guided through a cavernous who seek it. but they were nevertheless exquisite. The for a fantastic selection of dishes, all of the fried squid, fried orange and lemon nightclub tunnel into the main body of As my guest and I read through the prawn dumplings stood out in particular which stood out in their own right. slices (£6.50) whilst my guest, keen to the restaurant. 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Photographs © Mulberry Cottages Photographs Season If you want to take a laid-back By Kate Hawthorne approach visit the Cary Spa with its waterfall hydrotherapy pool, sauna, steam room, experience shower and gymnasium. Indulge in the world of With Christmas, New Year leading marine-themed French beauty and winter holidays on the and skincare brand Thalgo in one of the three treatment rooms. Couples can horizon we have that extra enjoy the spa treatment rooms and there special luxury to look forward are individual treatments and products available for men and women and to. TIME. sensitive skins. There is a shaving cream which is especially popular for male or many, the festive season is a visitors. time to be with family and friends, If you do not want to cook in your at home or, to escape with them, cottage or dine at the Inn you may want For from them, and all the extra work to take in a Festive Show and eat in festivities can require. North Downs Cabin If you want a home away from home a second room and a twin. Warm up By David Hughes with all the comforts, without the effort, by the large open fire whilst you sip take off to a cottage by the sea. Here you the complementary sloe gin beneath can choose to cook or not to cook, to your own chandelier. Comfort is part celebrate or commiserate, to indulge or of the cottage’s DNA here; you just feel There are rules naturally, but dogs are get fit, to explore or simply do nothing completely at home the minute you Welcome to the crisp nip welcome here, and the garden is fenced at all. arrive. The rooms feel as if someone has off and safe enough for the average fido Winter by the sea can be as of autumn, of mellow mists taken many years of care and dedication to snuffle around without getting him enjoyable as the summer. You may not to achieve the atmosphere. or herself into any trouble with the local want to swim or sunbathe, but the sea and the pleasurable shiver of a There is a stunning fully fitted landowners. The wildlife is confident when it’s angry is mesmerising and kitchen with dining area and a spacious breath taken too quickly that here, too; we spotted a pheasant pecking spectacular. You can watch its changing and stylish drawing room with private away in the garden, and 6 more stepped temperaments in all its glory whilst condenses as a soft cloud when terrace, sea views and gardens. The out of the hedgerow as we left. curling up and reading a book, by a walls play host to some museum quality I might be a little out of step with the roaring fire, or put a coat on and go for you exhale. paintings and photographs of exquisite average Barbour and Wellie clad rambler a brisk walk along the coastal footpath, taste, with personal touches and special The bony fingers of twigs but I tend to think of places like this as watch its next performance. and take in furnishings throughout. oh, I’m on a roll here; move this place is for you. a little more versatile in the summer. The all the wonderful oxygen. are revealed by the dropped Bay Cottage is similar in style and over Wordsworth and all you Inside, the log fire is all electric appeal of drinks on the deck in anything The South Devon coast, has plenty character and features one master king other lyrical masters of the (blame the march of `elf and safety) and less than 20 odd degrees literally leaves of pursuits for all ages. The Cary Arm’s leaves that settle as a rustling and one twin, both ensuite and both with English countryside, yours truly is within if you want a sauna then you are out of me cold, though I might make an New England style boutique hotel is well O exceptional views, sleeping four adults. carpet, sage green to crinkly shouting distance of the M20 and the luck, but its cosy. Being so new it still exception for a spot of mulled wine and placed for a visit to this part of England mainline train to London, but inexorably looks a bit catalogue fresh, but you get a the odd firework display. and takes in part of the Babbacombe Bay browns and burnt caramel There are plenty of golf courses and town. under the spell of nature’s mellow mix of better class of hotel in the fluffy North Downs Cabin is near Coastal Watch with information on the of particular note is the Teignmouth Torquay has a very good theatre fruitfulness. dressing gowns and slippers, and the Bearstead in Kent and conveniently close seasonal wildlife spotted around the Bay. shades are flaked over dew Golfcourse. The views at Teignmouth are and West End productions start their What’s caused this sudden commune basic: IKEA fold up tables and chairs to some wonderful country and Junction An ideal break for couples and spectacular over to Dartmoor and out to trial runs here so you can expect really laden grass. with the natural world? It’s a little cabin that are held to the wall by a chain. 8 of the M20, approx. 90 mins drive from families the Hotel’s cottages offer sea. Clay pigeon shooting, archery, forest quality shows. The theatre is extremely at the bottom of someone’s garden, The eclectic theme continues with the central London sleeping facilities from 2-9 persons, An ancient oak bends trails are also all in the vicinity. comfortable, has a lovely bar, and is that’s down a crumbling lane that says industrial chic of exposed conduit and and some welcome dogs too. You can You may see the visits of wintering right on the water. There are one or two “horses and authorised vehicles only” If metal sockets, but hello, it’s a cabin. IT’S HORSES FOR COURSES, choose from the different styles and against the azure sky, and stray seabirds. sightings of buzzards, Manx excellent restaurants; The Elephant which you like your Scandinavian cabins a bit The shower’s nice, but not for sharing and North Downs Cabin is a delightful accommodation of these adorable shearwaters, or various species of geese, has a very good reputation and the Roux clouds are strewn and dappled, bijoux, with a petite galley kitchen that’s because, basically, there’s a lot to pack part of the wider Mulberry Cottages fisherman cottages, including a thatched porpoise, dolphin, whales and other Brothers restaurant in Exeter is a short plenty good enough for the simpler self- in a small space. A comfortable bed and portfolio (mulberrycottages.com or call one. You can be the cook or be cooked casually dropped as if by divine wildlife depending on the time of the drive. catering, a dinky TV, some simple walks quality linen go a long way to making them on 01227 464 958) so you can be a for; enjoy hearty breakfasts, long lunches year. The hotel has a large, ship’s bell for ...And then in the morning there is . that take in the local pubs, and have an up for some other minor shortcomings backwoodsman one day, then Lord of a or lazy suppers with English heritage arrangement residents to ring if a dolphin is seen from the superb breakfast offering waiting irresistible yearning for a hot tub, then though. considerable manor the next. seaside food local cooked by the team of the hotel and a resident grey seal is fed for you, to set you up for another day's talented chefs or make your own roast in mackerel from local fisherman. There is sightseeing, activities or just relaxing . your own fully fitted kitchen. also a local dive school and fishing rods back into festive fun. Cottages at Christmas and in the are available if feel like catching your New Year are a really lovely way to own suppler. The chef will prepare your All accommodation options are available spend quality ‘at home’ time away. The fish, mussels or crab for you to enjoy that and are included in the Christmas and cottages are dressed for the occasion in evening. New Year packages. their festive finest. Lit up they bring the Those looking for more action magic of the season to the occasion. The There is much fun to be had in winter can go horse riding or walk along the Visit: www.caryarms.co.uk/uploads/ two latest new editions are Cove Cottage such as the Agatha Christie Experience spectacular coastal walks. There are 8 editor/CARY_Festive_2018_6pp_ and the Bay Cottage ready in time for visitto her home, or taking the old different routes from a gentle stroll to AW.pdf the Festive season and New Year. steam train from Torquay to Dartmouth steeper, more adventurous routes. The and www.caryarms.co.uk and see an These cottages combine pure luxury through the pretty countryside, taking walks are sign-posted and full details impressive virtual tour with complete comfort. afternoon tea on the train. The mild of these are provided by the hotel in Cove Cottage sleeps up to 6 adults climate with hardly any ice or snow a booklet. The Torbay stretch of the Kate Hawthorne visited Cary Arms and with a luxury master king with balcony, makes golf popular all the year round. 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Bob Green Bob Green Join us on a special train to celebrate the Approx.Timings Depart Return This seasonal day trip by steam train provides a Approx.Timings Depart Return Festive Season in style. Our train travels from London Victoria 10:30 17:20 unique opportunity to visit either the historic London Victoria 08:45 20:10 Eastbourne 13:00 14:30 Staines 09:35 19:15 San Francisco London Victoria to the Sussex coast crossing city of Winchester or the Wiltshire cathedral Hastings 15:00 15:10 Woking 10:05 18:45 So much to see, but exploring the the North and South Downs and passing city of Salisbury. It starts from London Victoria Basingstoke 10:50 18:05 through the beautiful countryside of the Fares Adult Junior Family station and picks up more passengers at Winchester 11:25 17:40 city’s precipitous streets of Victorian Weald. It will be hauled by Black 5 No. 44871. Premier £209 £139 £626 Staines, Woking and Basingstoke before Salisbury 12:15 17:00 architecture is easy with the aid of This is a wonderful way to enjoy a leisurely First £139 £90 £413 continuing to Winchester. We then travel via the City Pass. Giving 3 days travel on Standard £99 £70 £303 Fares Adult Junior Family lunch whilst appreciating the scenic views from Southampton and Romsey to Salisbury. Both Premier £259 £175 £780 buses, cable cars, historic trams and your carriage window. destinations will be holding their Christmas First £169 £112 £506 free passes for a raft of attractions; an Markets to get you into the Christmas spirit. Standard £109 £76 £332 California Road informative one-hour bay cruise with Buffet car available. Tables for two can be guaranteed in Premier/First for £25pp supplement subject to Buffet car available. Tables for two can be guaranteed in Premier/First for £25pp supplement subject to Blue and Gold, entry to the Aquarium availability. The Railway Touring Company’s Standard Conditions of Booking and Travel apply – see website availability. The Railway Touring Company’s Standard Conditions of Booking and Travel apply – see website Trip of the Bay, The Exploratorium and The or brochure for details. or brochure for details. By Cynthia Pickard Museum of Modern Art. The California Visit railwaytouring.net or phone us on 01553 661 500 Other day trips departing from London: York Yuletide Express 17th Nov, Academy of Sciences provides rain forest, Bath Xmas Market 24th Nov, Lindum Fayre 8th Dec, a planetarium, and an innovative green 14a Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1JN Sherborne Christmas Carol 11th Dec, Christmas White Rose 15th Dec. T726X roof. rom helpful Harmony at Hertz In Golden Gate Park, there’s global we pick up our shiny red Hyundai. plant variety in the Botanical Garden, Starting from Oakland, across the ($9 adult), the exquisite Japanese Tea Bay from San Francisco, for the five-hour mix of medieval Usually trodden in the Spring and F Garden and Tea House (entry $6). A drive east to Yosemite National Park. We walk through Haight Ashbury still streets, baroque Autumn to avoid the searing southern stop in Jamestown, an historic Gold Rush I am Pilgrim turns up a few aged, stoned hippies. The Walking the Via de la Plata churches and heat the Via offers more of a solitary town full of Antiques emporia found in all palaces. Around a sojourn and is reputed to be a more the small towns. Contemporary Jewish Museum($14) has By Lynne McGowan 1000 kms north authentic camino experience. Those who Winding roads lead to the an exhibition of Jewish Dress also ‘Lew of Santiago de venture on the silver road tend to be wonders of Yosemite, huge, stunning, the Jew’ the work of an early tattoo artist. Compostela is the robust and self-reliant. Be prepared for unphotographable, sheer granite cliff The Chinese Historical Society, ($15) final pit-stop, the an undulating route with long distances faces and formations of solid rock. Ansel another Julia Morgan building, shows capital of Galicia between towns and villages with Adams managed to achieve the impossible the history of Chinese exclusion and and a city steeped occasional steep climbs. with his studies of El Capitan and Half inclusion in the US. in pilgrimage. A Follow the yellow arrow or scallop Dome. Stationary cars alert us to a Black Blake created the restaurant in 1939. To experience the grandeur of A pilgrim is a wayfarer, a city of a thousand shell; a potent camino symbol said to Bear mother and two cubs feeding on a The Carmel Food Tour introduces us California Redwoods, I take a convenient years of journeying have evolved from the story of St James carcass. Rangers confirm it’s most unusual to specialist tastings, honeys, flavoured 45 minute drive and tour of Muir seeker, a traveller on a road of where 300,000 miraculously saving a drowning knight to see bears so close. We stop at Olmsted olive oils and Balsamic vinegars, an Woods with Big Bus Tours. Returning self discovery. As we come to pilgrims arrive who emerged from the sea covered in Point for fantastic views back to Yosemite, Iranian baker, also a great exploration of via Sauselito one can opt to cruise back each year and shells. shapes formed by glaciers over millions of this affluent town’s secret passages. by ferry. Along the Embarcadero, the understand everything in life is wearily lay their The scallop shell is said to be a years. Then south for Lee Vining through The Monterey Bay Aquarium is restored Ferry Building houses upmarket Arabia, clearly pilgrimages are ancient heads, a journey over. metaphor, its lines representing the a treeless landscape to reach Mono Lake, renowned for its displays. Rescued sea shops and cafés. The Exploratorium has interconnected and we are not and universal. The Via is historically Santiago Apóstol (St James the Apostle, different routes pilgrims travel from all excrescences of tufa pointing up from otters enchant, jellyfish pulsate, and around 600 interactive exhibits that kids separate from the world we a Christian road, named the Silver one of Christ's closest disciples) is over the world, all walking trails leading its glassy surface. The Mobil garage is children stroke bat rays in the Touch Pool; love, involving light and sound, landscape Road and originally a Roman trading believed to have preached in Galicia and to one point: the tomb of Saint James in recommended, excellent tacos, there’s a lot a great view; mountain ranges, amazing out in the ocean sea otters and seals can and human behaviour. inhabit, a journey physically or route. The Romans are thought to have after execution in Palestine, his headless Santiago de Compostela. Medieval monks of Mexican cuisine in California. variations of rock formations and the flat be seen. San Francisco has a wide-ranging transported silver from Asturias mines to body was brought back by stone boat wore them and on the journey the shells Now a ghost town; during the gold bottom of Death Valley. Badwater is 282 North of Monterey The Haute choice of restaurants. Burma Love in metaphorically or both offers Cadiz, but plata derives from the Arabic and buried here. King Alfonso II built fulfilled a practical purpose as scoops and rush 10,000 people lived in Bodie, feet below sea level. Enchilada Social Club is a fun venue with trendy Valencia Street (not bookable), an opportunity to encounter a word al–balat meaning ‘broad surfaced a church above the holy remains and bowls for holding food and water. These 100 million dollars worth of gold were Friendly Californians laugh when a creative menu of sustainable seafood upmarket Mexican at Arguello in The road’. Early Mozarabic (Christian) pilgrims began descending from all days painted on rocks, trees, walls and mined until it ran out and the town was they hear we stayed in Bakersfield, a and local organic produce, a gallery of Presidio’s Officers’ Club, walk from here deeper truth. pilgrims trod the path during the over Europe. A more impressive church tiles they can be easy to miss, wondrous abandoned leaving atmospheric buildings convenient stop off on the way west to the lively artworks. 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Kilimanjaro in four days and descend in having one more day on the mountain Office as a lasting of another Madonna del Rosario two. The first two days on the mountain would have likely resulted in me example of Italian (or surrounded by saints by Anthony van were difficult, but bearable. Day three summiting, but I am proud to have got to L’uovo di Fascist) Rationalism, Dyck, commissioned during the period was considerably harder; the effects of the top in just four days. plonked onto the of the 1624 plague. A third example of Climb a mountain to unlock altitude leading to headaches, vomiting, My disappointment on Kilimanjaro un curato A Sicilian Defense wide thoroughfare Serpotta’s sumptuous embellishments is © Don Grant Photograph shortage of breath and diarrhoea will not deter me from taking on of Via Roma, and the Oratorio di San Lorenzo, completed your potential amongst the group. The fourth and mammoth challenges in the future. © Danielle Desouza Photograph By Don Grant little streets behind in 1699, crowned with what should By Danielle Desouza final day began at 12pm, where we all Instead, I vow to take on a new challenge being squeezed ever have been a stunning altarpiece by walked “pole, pole (slowly slowly)”, with every year. Perhaps taking on the largest more closely together, Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis head torches to reach Stella Point before freestanding mountain in the world as their ramshackle and St. Lawrence. Unfortunately, it was sunrise. my first mountain was a big risk, but houses a patchwork stolen, most likely by the Cosa Nostra After 8 hours of walking, the it was a risk I was glad I took. I would of crumbling plaster, in 1969, never to be seen again. In the beautiful still sun shone brightly. never have had such an incredible faded shutters and pretty square just outside the church However, it was not enough to mask summer full of new experiences without wrought-iron balconies lies the Antica Focacceria San Francesco, the effects of hardly any sleep, food and that risk, and I implore others to go flagged with washing, founded in 1832, a bustling, slightly oxygen at that altitude. Upon reaching out of their comfort zone every now icily has been invaded many times until they were too chaotic eaterie on three floors, packed Stella Point, Uhuru Peak the summit of and then. Furthermore, due to how the over the milennia. From the 7th narrow even for a Kilimanjaro, was in sight. However, I was mountain affected me, I aim to fundraise with tourists and locals alike, with a century BC, the Greeks had ruled instructed by my porters and guide to for mental health charities and support FIAT 500 Topolino. A mouthwatering choice of home-cooked Sicily, and Byzantium regained Sicily descend after Stella Point because I was those suffering from mental health S second uprising known food, including panelle,bucatini con sarde on the verge of delirium. The climb also problems in the upcoming year. from the Goths in 535 BC, while the as the Sicilian Vespas and linguini pistacchi gamberi. For 184 affected my mental health very badly, The biggest piece of advice I would Roman Empire continued in the east occurs every evening as years the restaurant was popular with the resulting in me crying constantly and give to those wishing to embark on as Byzantium, with Constantinople as thousands of scooters rich and famous, royalty and mobsters, losing the determination that got me climbing Kilimanjaro is to try your best its capital. Other than the Goths, many swarm down the including high-ranking members of the through the challenge in the first place. to stay hydrated, eat and get enough more would tramp across its fertile soil, thoroughfares and Mafia, like ‘Lucky’ Luciano. Then, the As soon as I gained enough oxygen, sleep, but also to know your limits. including the Phoenicians, Romans, up the back alleys local mob made the owner Vincenzo I cried again after realising that I was Reaching the peak is the goal of many Carthaginians (or Punic) settlers, who of Palermo. Vespa in Conticello an offer he could not refuse. capable of reaching the summit, and that intrepid trekkers every year, but the lost to the Romans in the Sicilian Wars English is, of course, But refuse he did, and the restaurant having strong mental health is essential. journey behind the climb is far more of 265-146 BC, Vandals, Byzantine a wasp. The scooter was put under police guard. He testified Despite not reaching Uhuru Peak, I important; climbers should never lose Christians, Byzantine Greeks, Muslim scuderia, chase, over- against the man who had tried to extort reached Stella Point, which is arguably sight of all of the hard work, training and Arabs, Jews and Normans. It became a and undertake each pizzo (protection money), who was found the hardest part of the mountain to resilience needed to get to wherever they centre for cross-cultural exchange and other, weaving in and guilty and sent to prigione, along with reach, and got an official certificate of can make it on Kilimanjaro. made it a major European power. Under out of the cars, buses two hoodlum accomplices. recognition for reaching that point. King Roger, an extraordinary mélange and lorries at speeds About 10 km from the centre of As well as this, I made some great For more information on attempting of Arab and Norman architecture that would have been Palermo is the hillside town of Monreale, friends, saw some most spectacular Mount Kilimanjaro and the charity, Dig emerged, as well as sculpture, jewellery, respectable on the Isle a shabby stack of panelák eastern bloc- views, overcame my fear of falling and Deep, see link: Norman mosaics and textiles, and of Man style blocks on the slope of Monte fundraised for a good cause. Of course, www.climbforcleanwater.org Sicily was envied for its wealth and In the narrow Caputo, overlooking the fertile valley of cultural patronage. There was a long streets a few metres La Conca d’oro (the Golden Shell). At period of Swabian rule by Frederick II from the Via Roma, the north of the town is the cathedral, of Hohenstaufen, which ended when a service economy. Sicily has neither are two extraordinary churches. The one of the greatest extant examples of the Pope gave Sicily to the House of industrialisation nor a service economy, Oratorio del SS. Rosario in Santa Cita is Norman-Byzantine architecture in the Anjou, under Charles I, whose reign and farming is not performed on a large a jaw-dropping experience, and one that world, completed in 1182 by William ended when the Sicilians revolted against scale and is mostly subsistence, due I was not prepared for. One climbs up a II, King of Sicily. The walls, columns the French in an uprising known as to the difficult terrain, whereas, in the long flight of stone steps and along an and ceilings are completely covered limbing Kilimanjaro was the less than stellar interview was a shock, the Sicilian Vespers. The French were north, they have plenty of flat, arable open cloister above a courtyard in which with stunning mosaics with hundreds of toughest mental and physical but a good one. The recruitment period slaughtered in their hundreds. Foreign land. Investors are reluctant to plough an enormous carob tree grows, which thousands of gold tessarae, telling stories challenge I have attempted so far. followed, which resulted in me seeking friars were dragged out and told to was in full blossom of pink flowers, with from the Bible, and the floor itself has 32 university students, including myself, out teammates through Facebook, money into a declining economy with C pronounce the word ciciri, meaning unemployment at an unprecedented a warty trunk which was swollen in the an intricate Arab geometry reflecting from the universities of Keele, Royal Freshers’ Fair, posters around university chickpeas, a sound the French could Holloway, Westminster and Goldsmiths, and help from friends. I eventually percentage, and many of the young middle. The sight that greets one as Muslim spirituality laid out on a never accurately reproduce. If they climbed Kilimanjaro this summer for recruited six other Goldsmiths’ pupils, people have migrated north; a trend that one enters the chapel is a breathtaking Byzantine plan. Before leaving Palermo, Dig Deep. Dig Deep is a relatively small although teammates could be from couldn’t, they were slain. Long stagnant has been apparent since after the First floor-to-ceiling extravagance of white it seemed churlish not to visit the charity, which offers university students other universities too, or as well as non- centuries of rule from the Spanish World War. sculpture of angels, putti, musicians, Gallery of Modern Art in Via Sant’Anna, the chance to raise funds for their university students. Bourbons ended when Garibaldi Where to start? Palermo is as good scenes from the bible, martyrdoms of showing off Italian art in general and projects in Kenya via overseas challenges In terms of preparation for the marched into Marsala in 1860 with a a place as any. It is laid out as though saints, ladies in period costume and Sicilian art in particular. The seascapes in Africa. Other challenges include climb, I took part in a range of different thousand men as part of Il Risorgimento, a town planner was about to present battles, including that of Lepanto in by Antonino Leto are sublime, and there the Maasai Cycle and the opportunity exercises. I exercised 4-5 times a week, or the unification of Italy. The Allied his wooden architectural model to the which the Christian fleet, protected by is some excellent genre painting, like I to climb Mount Kenya and visit their taking part in Les Mills’ exercise classes troops invaded Sicily and chased the City Fathers, aldermen, merchants, Our Lady of the Rosary, beat the Turkish carusi (The Young Workers) by Onofrio projects. Their projects are aimed at which included spin, cardio intensive Nazis out of the island and up through bankers, clergy, developers, aristocrats infidels. The floor is an intricate Moorish Tomaselli painted in 1905, but, by far the providing water and sanitation training. exercises and weight training. I also Italy in 1943, and now the Germans are and the great and good of Palermo in marble mosaic, around which are wooden best works are sculpture. Ettore Ximines’ Dig Deep reached out to everyone in my took up running to increase my stamina; back, along with the Americans, British their finery, when he tripped on the benches in ebony inlaid with mother of Ecce mater, 1936, and Pietro Canonica’s group through sending messages to our participating in races in locations such as and other Europeans in a tourist invasion carpet and all the buildings went flying. pearl along the walls. Above the altar is marble Le communicande are gems, and university emails. Last August, I received Hyde Park and the Olympic Park. of epic proportions, although 70 per cent In his panic, he managed to get them a magnificent painting of the Madonna Domenico Trentacosta’s Faunetta, or an email from Dig Deep appealing for Fundraising was the second biggest of all tourism is still domestic. all back on the board, but not in the del Rosario painted by the Late Baroque “little fawn drinking from a bowl”, is a Goldsmiths’ group leader for their aspect of the challenge, alongside the Sicily is a curious mixture of order he originally intended. Baroque Classical artist Carlo Maratta. However, a peach. Renato Guttuso, Sicily’s most Mount Kilimanjaro hike. I instantly training. I fundraised £1,500 in total astonishing natural beauty, dreamy churches were hurriedly pushed next to a the astonishing fact about the sculptures famous artist, is also represented by applied as Mount Kilimanjaro was on with the help of donations, and a series ruins, sensational art, a passion for food, Norman-Arab-Byzantine style cathedral, is that they are all stucco, and the work a self-portrait and Nudo; he painted my bucket list, and I wanted to give of fundraising events such as sponsored a dazzlingly rich past and a poor, drab grand eighteenth and nineteenth of one man, Giacomo Serpotta, who La Vucciria in 1974, which portrays a something back to the country where my runs, a movie night and cake sale. Even present, a legacy of years of neglect, century buildings, in spacious palm- was responsible for the magniloquence busy montage of the popular market, dad was born. The application was fairly though fundraising was arduous at times, corruption and abandonment. The rich tree-lined squares, were shoe-horned between 1685 and 1690. At the back full of colour, fruit and carcases, which straightforward; it consisted of applicants it was a substantially simpler than the industrial north and the poor agricultural next to sixteenth century oratoria, a of the the Church of Saint Dominic is close to Via Roma. Italy’s answer to having to write 500 words on why they climb itself. south is still a great divide. A hundred gigantic opera house, the third largest and a few hundred metres from Santa John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, were suited for the role and a Skype Our group completed the climb via and fifty years ago, agriculture made in Europe, dropped into the middle of a Cita, is the Oratorio del Rosario di San a society portrait painter, known as interview. Every university that wishes the 6-day Machame route, which took up a large chunk of the economy, but rich residential area, a loveless marriage Domenico, also decorated by Serpotta, ‘The Master of Swish’, has two ‘loose’ to take part in the challenge, has to have a toll on everyone. This particular route mechanisation and then industrialisation of Neoclassicism and Art Deco in the in a slightly more restrained manner, paintings on display. Parts of the gallery, a group leader. Being selected after my requires climbers to get to the top of dominated, and now it has moved into Mussolini-inspired modernist Post but with the addition of an altarpiece like Sicily itself, are excellent. 58 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

stone wall, with a fluttering label reading ‘Gods, save me too, the Mother of the Klimt/Schiele: Mantegna and Virtues’, while above, the clouds have Dawings from Bellini faces and are blowing away all traces of The National Gallery Vice. One could not see Bellini tackling the Albertina such a subject. However, at the insistence Until 27 January 2019 of Isabella’s brother Alfonso I d’Este, Museum, Vienna Admission £14 the Duke of Ferrara, he painted a large Royal Academy canvas entitled The Feast of the Gods for his camerino d’alabastro (chamber Sackler Galleries of alabaster) in the Castello Estense, Until 3 February 2019 Ferrara. It was his last great work and only just finished before he died in 1516, Admission £18 after which Titian and Dosso Dossi www.royalacademy.org.uk are said to have added some landscape elements. It shows the moment based on a narrative by Ovid, when Priapus attempts to rape the sleeping nymph Lotis, who is only woken by Silenus’s ass braying, just in time. Another pair of paintings that have common motifs, colouring, composition and treatment of the landscape, nce again the Sackler Galleries particularly the rock formation, are The are host to a small, but perfectly- Agony in the Garden, first painted by formed, exhibition. This time it Mantegna in 1455, and then by Bellini Above: three years later. They have been hanging focuses on two of Austria’s most famous Andrea Mantegna. O Minerva expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue side-by-side in the National Gallery and talented artists, Gustav Klimt and © Musee du Louvre for many years. The Descent of Christ Egon Schiele. Although Klimt was 28 Left: Left: years older than Schiele, they both died Egon Schiele Giovanni Bellini into Limbo was another subject tackled Seated Female Nude, Elbows Resting on Right Knee. The Agony in the Garden by both painters, with Mantegna’s the in the same year precisely a hundred © The Albertina Museum, Vienna. © The National Gallery years ago. Klimt died of pneumonia Above: stronger composition, displaying more Gustav Klimt. drama and contrast. Personally, I prefer following a stroke and Schiele was a Standing Female Nude. victim of the great influenza pandemic, © The Albertina Museum, Vienna. the Agnolo Bronzino version in the popularly known as Spanish flu, which, it Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence for is estimated, infected about 500 million sheer sumptuousness. If that is what Hell people, or one-third of the world’s looks like, then bring it on. Bellini’s The population, and the number of deaths gaol, three of chairs, one of a corridor to Isabella d’Este Gonzaga, Marchesa Drunkenness of Noah is a curiosity, with was estimated to be at least 50 million with mops and buckets entitled I Feel of Mantua, a powerful patron of the the old man lying naked in a stupor, worldwide. Klimt was the founding Not Punished But Cleansed, and a self- arts,‘Nobody can beat Andrea Mantegna surrounded by his three sons, Shem, and president of a radical breakaway group studios and exchanged drawings. While chicken. Schiele’s chickens are not only portrait. Unusual for him, there are also for invention in which he is the height Japhet each side of him, and Ham in the of artists called the Secession, shrugging Schiele moved away from his elder’s plucked, they are also spatchcocked, and three flower paintings and a couple of of excellence … but in colour Giovanni middle, giggling at the absurdity of it off the state-sponsored, conservative influence to create his own expressive sometimes headless, and the focus is on landscapes, as well as two deft drawings Bellini is excellent.’ Bellini turned down all. There are many fine paintings to see, Academy to exhibit independently under style, Klimt was deeply impressed the genitals.’ of buildings. Although Klimt is better a commission from Isabella d’Este to including the National Gallery’s famous the slogan, ‘To the age its art, to art its with the younger man’s powerful use Schiele was also more ‘bohemian’ known for his line-drawing, there is a contribute a mythological or allegorical Doge Leonardo Loredan by Bellini and his freedom.’ His unconventional approach of line and composition, and this is than Klimt, although he was introduced charming black and red chalk rendering historia to her famous studiolo, her Portrait of a Humanist, thought to be of to art launched him into the forefront of demonstrated in some of the drawings to the model Wally Neuzil, who he Lady with Cape and Hat. Klimt’s erotic private study, where she displayed her Mantegna himself, but the finest are the the Viennese avant-garde, or Jugendstil, in the exhibition. Although often painted in a variety of explicit poses. drawings are almost too faint to discern, he Bellini family were arguably he was offered the prestigious position paintings, on the grounds that it was so three enormous paintings on loan from as it was known as in Germany, and divergent, there are common themes They soon became lovers and went to but the ones of women masturbating are the most important and of Court Artist to Lodovico Gonzaga different from the devotional pictures H M The Queen depicting The Triumphs he smudged the line between fine art running through both artist’s work, live in Krumau, a small village 200 km far more arousing than Schiele’s blatantly influential of Italian painters in II, the Marquis of Mantua. After much and portraits that he considered were his of Caesar, including The Vase-Bearers, painting and decorative art. Schiele, on and the exhibition has been arranged west of Vienna, where they shocked the detached and somewhat bleak voyeuristic the second half of the 15th century, the deliberation and hesitation, Mantegna strength. He was in good company, as The Elephants and The Standard-Bearers T and Siege Equipment, all painted with the other hand displayed a prodigious thematically, but Schiele’s approach to locals by co-habiting. They moved again works. Wally was abandonded in favour head of which was Jacopo, who had a accepted and, except for a brief stay in Leonardo da Vinci had already declined talent, and he enrolled at Akademiie der the human figure is radically different to another village, Neulengbach, nearer of the ‘more socially acceptable’ middle thriving studio in Venice and two sons, Rome to work for Pope Innocent VIII, to paint her portrait, although he did egg tempera on canvas, and each one Bildenden Künste when he was just 16, from the older artist’s work. Four years to Vienna, where his studio became class Edith Harms, whom he married Gentile and Giovanni, both of whom remained in the service of the Mantuan a very fine drawing of her. Albrecht measuring nine feet square. Visitors to just as the Secession was unravelling. ago, the The Courtauld Gallery staged a gathering place for the township’s and who, at first, banned professional excelled in the the art of painting, but Court for the rest of his life. Not much Dürer, who was still working at the age the RA earlier in the year may recall Klimt and a group of architects, a small exhibition of Schiele’s drawings delinquent children. Schiele’s way of models from the house, and reluctantly it was Giovanni who became one of the is made of either of the brothers-in-laws’ of ninety, wrote of Bellini, ‘still he is seeing the monumental series of nine designers and artists, were disenchanted called The Radical Nude, about which I life aroused much animosity among the posed for some of works herself, although greatest artist of the Renaissance. All intertwined lives, other than through the best painter of them all’. Mantegna paintings in the Charles I: King and with the organisation, but put together wrote, ‘At least Schiele bemoaned the town’s inhabitants, and in April 1912 he insisting that her face was covered. In no three worked on a number of altarpieces painting, and one yearned for more detail had already painted Pallas and the Vices Collector exhibition, which was purchased the first Kunstschau exhibition in 1908, fact that he ‘certainly didn’t feel erotic’ was arrested for seducing a young girl time at all, she was posing with wall-to- in Venice, while Gentile was sent on a on a personal level. (Minerva Expelling the Vices from the as part of the Duke Gonzago’s collection which showcased Austria’s artistic talent. whilst doing his raw, in-your-face, below the age of consent. What actually wall legs, but then she became pregnant, diplomatic mission to Constantinople to Each artist portrayed Presentation Garden of Virtue) for her in 1502, and in Mantua, and were hung in Hampton The young Schiele was transfixed by drawings of spindly young girls with happened was that a thirteen year-old and he lost interest in her, preferring paint the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, of Christ in the Temple, with remarkably this gloriously irreverent and complicated Court, where they remain today. Klimt’s work and began to emulate their legs apart and rouged nipples. There girl, who had run away from home, to paint her sister Adele, whom he Mehmed II. Giovanni was continually similar compositions, although painting is on loan from the Louvre. Allegedly, Giuseppe Cipriani, founder his style, and the following year, he is a perfectly reliable and well-tested sought shelter in their house, and they persuaded to adopt some increasingly experimenting with techniques in Mantegna painted his around 1454, and Minerva is seen marching in from the of Harry’s Bar in post-war Venice, poured was asked to exhibit at the Kunstschau, method for a man to know what is and took her in. He was imprisoned on the explicit poses. applying paint in the manner of artists Bellini around twenty years later, possibly left, spear in hand, with her daughters peach purée into a glass of Prosecco and alongside such heavyweights as Vincent what isn’t erotic, and Schiele’s explicit charges of child abduction, seduction After Klimt died in February 1918, from the Netherlands and the Tuscan even tracing the figures. In his enlarged Fortitude, while Temperance and Justice called it a Bellini, because the subtle pink Van Gogh, Oscar Kokoschka, Lovis depictions certainly don’t pass the test. and immorality, based on the fact that Schiele was regarded as an establishment painter Piero della Francesca, making version Bellini has added a female observing from a cloud, scattering color reminded him of the toga of a saint Corinth, Edward Munch, Henri Matisse, They are positively moist with sexuality, a minor had been exposed to the nude figure, and was widely acknowledged as innovative use of perspective, landscape, figure to the left of the Madonna, who grotesques, putti, owl-faced cupids, in a painting by Bellini. A Tintoretto the Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck, and exquisitely drawn, but they are not drawings of Wally at his studio. At his his natural successor, being invited to colour and observed light. Into this is believed to be a portrait of Nicolasa, a hermaphrodite monkey, an armless is made with pomegranate juice, while Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and, a turn-on. Gustav Klimt, his mentor, trial, having spent three weeks in jail, organise the Secession’s 49th exhibition. exalted artistic dynasty steps Andrea and two young men to Simeon’s right woman representing idleness being led other variations slithered into the world representing Great Britain, Charles on the other hand, achieved this with two of the charges were dropped and Just before the collapse of the Austro- Mantegna, a prodigious talent from a who are said to be the Bellini brothers. on a rope by another representing inertia, of music, with a Puccini, replacing the Rennie Mackintosh. apparent ease, an unswerving eye and he was sentenced to a further three days Hungarian Empire and the end of the humble background, who met, fell for In Bellini’s version, Joseph stares out like a monstrous satyr carrying off a wingless peach purée with an equal amount Although they may have met subtlety. There is an old adage about in prison for ‘public immorality’. The First World War, Edith died of the flu, and married Jacopo Bellini’s daughter Anthony Hopkins from dead-centre, Cupid, a seductive Venus standing on of mandarin juice, and a Rossini uses earlier, the first documented meeting the difference between eroticism and authorities had confiscated 125 drawings, six months pregnant, followed, three days Nicolasa. The two men worked closely while Mantegna’s tempera painting has the back of a centaur and three drunks strawberry purée. No-one has yet come did not take place until November pornography: with eroticism, one uses and the judge actually burnt one in court. later, by Egon himself. together at first, with Mantegna leading him as much older, and even more grave. labelled Ingratitude, Ignorance and up with a cocktail called a Mantegna. 1910, when they visited each other’s a feather; with pornography, the whole There are five drawings done whilst in Don Grant the way with his astonishing skills, then In 1504, a Venetian art dealer wrote Avarice. Virtue is locked away behind a Don Grant 60 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

he designed furniture and stained-glass The Mill, three miserable-looking dancers Edward Burne-Jones for both the domestic and ecclesiastical accompanied by a gender-confused Tate Britain markets. He was elected to the Old lute-player cavort on one side on the Watercolour Society, nowadays with royal mill-pond, while a group of naked male Until 24 February 2019 patronage, and exhibited though them, swimmers pose on the far bank. The Admission £18 until one of his watercolour and gouache models are Aylaia Coronio, daughter of paintings ran into controversy, mainly Constantine Ionades, who commissioned tate.org.uk because of nudity, but also because the the painting and who later donated it to the V&A, Marie Spartali, a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, and the ubiquitous Maria Zambaco, whose sulky profile as a dame lointaine has become synonymous with the Pre-Raphaelites. As MacCarthy points out, ‘Some of the women in Burne- Jones sexual and romantic imagination appeared in his pictures, no doubt much to the chagrin of his wife, including Maria Zambaco, probably an innocent liason which caused him a lot of private pain’. There were others that Burne-Jones became very close friends and obsessed with, like Frances (née Graham) Horner and May Gaskell, with whom he had a six year, passionate, but ultimately, platonic relationship, and whose troubled and unhappy daughter Amy he painted. As the last of the Pre-Raphaelites, he was also one of the precursors of the Above: Piano. model for both the male and female leads Symbolist movement, influencing the The Estate of Belgian painter Fernand Khnopff and Roger Perry of Phyllis and Demophoön were posed by Left: Maria Zambaco, which could explain the Frenchman Gustave Moreau. As a Desiderium young man, he visted Italy four times © Tate why the guilty and remorseful lover has such a very small penis. A decade later, between 1859 and 1873, studying the he painted the same scene in oils, but works of Titian, Piero della Francesca, covered his genitals with a swirl of cloth, Tintoretto and Fra Angelica, and while she was naked. There was more the results can be clearly seen in his nudity in The Perseus Series of paintings, drawings, which are amongst some two of which were on loan from the of the best works in the exhibition. Top: Staatgalerie in Stuttgart. The Rock of Two paintings, devoid of mysticism or (like Hypperealism’s artistic ancestor Vanitas 15.09.28: mediaevalism, are that of his patron, History of Music Doom shows an adrogynous Andromeda Paul Beliveau Photorealism) and this is particularly Acrylic on canvas, chained to a rock, while a limp-wristed William Graham, an honest portrayal true for Beliveau: rendered through his 152 x 244 cm of a ‘real’ person, and one of Ignacy Jan Right: Perseus peeps around the corner. In the Plus One Gallery eyes, the exterior of a book has just as Vanitas 16.01.04: second, The Doom Fulfilled, Perseus dons Paderewski, the concert pianist, who later much to say as the interior. Jimi Hendrix By Max Feldman Acrylic on canvas, the helmet of Hades to become invisible, became the Prime Minister of Poland, Whilst Beliveau does paint books 91 x 91 cm and the sea monster Cetus appears, ready with his signature shock of ginger hair, from his own collection, he also designs Below right: Vanitas 13.12.10: to devour the enchained woman. While who was also famously painted by Alma- fictional titles which fit indistinguishably Dylan-Lennon drawings illustrating The Masque of Cupid he is struggling with the serpentine coils, Tadema. He was not averse to portraying into the literary jigsaws of his works. As Acrylic On Canvas 76 X I don’t believe one can quite 152 cm a subject taken from Edmund Spenser’s and having already slain the Medusa, male beauty, albeit in a slightly drippy t is broadly accepted wisdom that a result he can create dream sums where like Burne-Jones. He is great allegory, The Faerie Queene. One Andromeda has coyly turned her back way, particularly in his retelling of the judging books by their covers is Marilyn Monroe and Einstein can be All pictures © Plus One Gallery the Victorian equivalent of delightful drawing, known as Desiderium, on the viewer, revealing a rather pert story of Sleeping Beauty, or The Briar to be avoided if you want to be laid side by side, establishing un-thought and based on the figure of Amorous bottom. Rose, from the version by the brothers the kind of person who gets invited of connections and themes between Marmite. As I emerged from Desyre, modelled by his pouting lover Grimm. Also on display are his large- I When not naked, his young women to dinner parties. Adages are made historical figures, the arts and celebrity this large retrospective, I Maria Zambaco, is depicted blowing are draped in figure-hugging robes scale tapestries like Adoration of the Magi to be broken however as firmly simply by virtue of their placement next gently to awaken the sparks of passion. à la Botticelli, although the Tuscan and The Arming and Departure of the demonstrated in the case of Canadian to each other. Beliveau is very specific thought that if I saw one more In her book on the Pre-Raphaelites, painter did it a lot better. One only has Knights of the Round Table on the Quest for Hyperrealist artist Paul Beliveau; who about each book’s subject and placement fey, pouting, miserable looking Fiona MacCarthy notes that, ‘when to compare Primavera to, say, the The the Holy Grail, which took four years to over the course of his four decades of within the artwork in order to achieve his son Philip Burne-Jones presented Golden Stairs to appreciate the massive produce. In amongst the large canvases, work has claimed cover jackets as his a perfect balance with its fellows along maiden, I would pull my hair the drawing in 1910 to the Tate, it had void between the Renaissance painters drawings, illustrated books, manuscripts, central muse and model. His works with the mix of aesthetics and ideas he out and poke my eyes out with evidently been tampered with. A panel and the Pre-Raphaelites. In this painting, embroideries, furniture and tapestries, are monumental in size: each artwork wants to engender. He is represented by to the right of the woman’s head had he used a number of his friends and is a rare oddity; a painted piano, displaying several titanic book spines Plus One Gallery in London, which has a pencil. been chopped off and the Victorian acquaintances as models, including his commissioned by Graham as a wedding resting against each other; a glimpse many of his most evocative works which, art specialist Rupert Maas, using a daughter Mary holding a trumpet, Edith present for his daughter, depicting her of a giant’s library. Whilst there is a particularly considering Beliveau’s focus ne can certainly admire his contemporary photograph as evidence, Gellibrand, known by the stage name as Eurydice gazing down on Orpheus, certain quality reminiscent of Pop Art on size, deserve to be seen in the flesh. painterly skills and his use of believes that it depicted a man’s penis Edith Chester, May Morris, daughter with a reference to Mantegna, while to Beliveau’s approach, the execution In an increasingly digital world, colour, whether bejewelled, and balls directly within the woman’s line of William, holding a violin, Frances under the lid, is a naked Mother Earth, is pure Hyperrealism. The books seem Beliveau must be commended for Omuted and subdued, or virtually of vision and that Philip had censored Graham, later known as Lady Horner, surrounded by a dozen or so slightly to practically curve out of the wall, managing to return books to their pride monochromatic, and his drawings in his father’s erotic fantasy’. daughter of William Graham, his patron, grotesque, chubby little babies, entwined with each tear in the paper or scuff of of place. pen and ink are redolent of Durer in Burne-Jones studied theology at holding cymbals, Mary, daughter of the amongst the vines. Andy Warhol was flaking leather painted with the kind their intricacy. His graphite drawings Oxford, where he met William Morris, then Prime Minister William Gladstone, most impressed with the piano when it of depth and clarity that is almost Plus One Gallery is located in the Piper are sensual, and he did dozens of who introduced him to the world of Laura Tennant, later known as Laura appeared at the Hayward Gallery in 1975 slightly shocking to witness in the flesh. Building, Peterborough Road SW6 3EF sketches of heads, hands and feet in mediaevalism, a subject he clung onto Lyttelton, and Mary Stuart-Wortley, later and was photographed at the keyboard. Hyperrealist art uses the possibilities T: 020 7730 7656 preparation for his large works in oils throughout his career, but he abandoned Lady Lovelace. Another example of a Marmite painter, created by digital photography and Open Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm by and watercolour with gouache. In 1872 his course and took up art, working for In a somewhat mysterious painting, this time in the twentieth century. editing software to accentuate reality appointment only Burne-Jones embarked on a group of Morris and Co. as an apprentice, where with no discernable narrative, entitled Don Grant rather than simply reproducing it www.plusonegallery.com 62 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Sunday 18 November Bill Frisell The New Albukhary Gallery MUSIC Armed with his trusty six-string and of the Islamic World at the British Museum. tunes from his new solo album, Music IS, this rare solo concert will see the ROUND UP American guitarist revisit songs from his Photograph © British Museum © British Photograph BY GEOFF COWART storied career. 5.30pm. From £30 Monday 19 November Martin Speake’s Charukesi Davina & The Vagabonds Luna Cohen Alto saxophonist Martin Speake and The Jazz Festival his pared-down Fever Pitch group Fats Domino, The Preservation Hall Jazz the jazz festival called the London Lights will play a set of rhythmic music from Band, Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits. Suite drawing on the Capital’s street comes to town around the world including songs with Support from Natalie Williams. 7.30pm. music from the 18th century to present Arabic, Indian and Turkish influences. From £25 day. With Rod Youngs (drums) and Dave and The London With Alyson Cawley (tenor saxophone/ Lewis (saxophone). 8:30PM. £14 clarinet), Rob Luft (guitar) and Will Friday 23 November Philharmonic Glaser (drums/percussion). 2.30pm. Adam Waldmann Trio Wednesday 21 November FREE The MOBO Award-winning Kairos Tony Kofi marks Armistice 4tet saxophonist branches off to explore Tony Kofi; saxophonist and former Sam Amidon standards past and present, as well as member of The Jazz Warriors and Gary Day with the Following the success of his latest original tunes. With Conor Chaplin Cosby’s Nu Troop pays homage to the Nonesuch album, The Following (bass) and Corrie Dick (drums). 2.30pm. late Cannonball Adderley. With Byron Royal Choral Mountain, Vermont-born avant-folk FREE Wallen (trumpet/cornet) and Deelee he British Museum's fine and contemporary which reveals there were Christian musician Sam Amidon presents an Dube (vocals). 8.30pm. £14 collection of Islamic art treasures, Middle Eastern art. patrons. Also there is rarely seen Society, Vaughan expansive concert set featuring his Lisa Ekdahl once located in an obscure gallery, The pervading theme archaeological material from Samarra in singing, banjo, fiddle and guitar playing. Lisa Ekdahl is a Swedish star whose For more details about the London jazz has been displayed again in a splendid, is the link between Islam, Iraq and from Siraf in Iran. This comes Williams and With Byron Wallen (trumpet), James understated voice is perfectly suited to festival, visit: newT gallery which will be its permanent the ancient world, the from recent excavations. Much coveted Allsopp (saxophone), Kit Downes the standards. Support from pianist Livio efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk home. The Albukhary Foundation has Mediterranean regions Chinese porcelain traded across the War-time poetry, (piano/organ), Larry Bartley (acoustic Minafra. 7.30pm. From £25 made this possible with significant and Europe. European Indian Ocean is on view. Never before bass) and Chris Vatalaro (drums). support. This new gallery is a shared artists were much displayed are 19th and 20th century The EFG Jazz Festival returns 7.30pm. From £20 Sunday 25 November project and shows the diverse cultures influenced by Islamic art. textiles from the Middle East, Central Monty Alexander London Philharmonic of the Islamic world, from Africa, the The influence of this Asia, and South and Southeastern Asia. to London with a bang as Tuesday 20 November The American songbook, blues, gospel, Middle East, Central Asia and South art was far-spread and can As part of works on paper, displayed west London hosts the best Joanna Eden and bebop, calypso and reggae; what can’t Orchestra marks and Southeast Asia. be seen in other objects are illustrated pages from The Book of the George Double Trio Jamaica-born pianist Monty Alexander The Albukhary Foundation is in the museum from Kings the Shahnama. This come from performances of the fortnight. Acclaimed singer and mentor to Oscar play? Expect to leave this gig with a Armistice Day a non-profit organisation based in Byzantium, the Viking a celebrated Persian tradition of oral and Grammy-winner Sam Smith, Joanna smile as the jubilant Alexander never Malaysia with an international presence. period, the time of the epic. Islamic literature developed from One hundred years after the end of The festival,which runs from November Eden approaches the songs of Stephen disappoints. With JJ Shakur (bass) and It believes good will can be promoted Crusades and Islamic ‘storytelling’. The stories were about the First World War, the London 16th to 25th, is not only London’s largest Sondheim from her own jazz-influenced Jason Brown (drums). Support from through education and cultural heritage. Spain. The juxtaposition Kings, real or mythological, heroes, Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal city-wide music festival, but one of the perspective. With Gerry Hunt (guitar/ Tomorrow’s Warriors Female Frontline. The Foundation has led to many of these objects in religious themes and romance, not unlike Choral Society will mark Armistice best jazz events in the world. Even better, reeds), Russell Swift (bass) and George 4pm. From £25 commendable, humanitarian projects nearby galleries draws the Serbo Croatian oral epic or Homeric Day’s centenary at Cadogan Hall. the top picks are happening on our Double (drums). 2.30pm. FREE in underprivileged and neglected attention to the source epic traditions. doorstep in Chelsea at Cadogan Hall and The programme includes Vaughan communities. It initiated and supports of their inspiration and This display reveals the connectivity the 606 Club. And many of the gigs are Wednesday 21 November 606 CLUB Williams’ impassioned Dona Nobis the Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala illustrates the continuous of the Islamic World extremely well. free! The Fishwick Brothers Quintet Monday 19 November Pacem set to evocative texts by poet Walt Lumpur, Malaysia. Hartwig Fischer, connectivity that took The highlights of the festival include Trumpeter Steve Fishwick and his Luna Cohen and Jurandir Santana Whitman, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Director of the British Museum, place. Do not miss the Turkish Shadow sets from jazz legends such as guitarist brother and drummer Matt play the Brazilian singer Luna Cohen with her It will be conducted by Richard Cooke expressed his gratitude to the Albukhary The display has not Theatre Puppets known as Karagoz. This Bill Frisell, pianist Monty Alexander and music of Blue Note Record’s piano legends special guest singer/guitarist Jurandir alongside singers Kate Royal (soprano) Museum and the Islamic Arts Museum overlooked the Pre- entertainment is very popular today and Davina & The Vagabonds. Here’s the Cedar Walton & Duke Pearson. With Santana celebrate 60 years of bossa nova and Dominic Sedgwick (bass). for their very generous support of the Islamic period and its has spread to Europe. The Ottoman best of the Chelsea gigs: Dave O’Higgins (tenor saxophone), Rob tunes. 8.30pm. £14 The concert on Sunday 11 November new Gallery. art which flourished in ceramics from Iznik are impressive Barron (piano) and Dario De Lecce also features actor Paul McGann (from Stanton Williams worked with South Arabia. The non and the enamelled glass from Syria is Tuesday 20 November title role of WWI TV drama, The Cadogan Hall (bass). 2.30pm. FREE Arup’s lighting team on the design of Muslem communities attractive. Simon Wallace Monocled Mutineer) reading a selection of the Gallery. Roof lights control the have not been forgotten, TheArabesque is an early floral decoration James Taylor Quartet & Orchestra Pianist and composer Simon Wallace war-time poetry. 6pm. From £15. direction and intensity of the light. Christians, Jews and and an important element in Islamic art. Friday 16 November unveils a new work commissioned for www.cadoganhall.com Tord Gustavsen Trio British Hammond organ player James Artist and designer, Ahmad Angawi Muslems all trace their It appears as a scrolling and undulating ECM Records pianist Tord Gustavsen’s Taylor performs his cinematic yet funky created the effective Mangour window Islamic art and material culture from origins to Abraham whom they consider stem with leaves. Sometimes the leaves new album, Soundtrack from Electric screens in walnut wood. They are made Africa to China. The Gallery has to be the first monotheist. These three are split and they grow into future stems. continues to enchant with his blend of subtle grooves and arty attitude, or what Black. 7.30pm. £35 of interlocking components and lattice material from the Rise of Islam in the Faiths share aspects of belief, the These stems grow continually towards he calls the ‘Nordic blues’. With Sigurd work and they are a gift from the 7th Century AD to the present day. The concepts of one creator, guidance of one another. The Arabesque is versatile, Hole (bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums). Thursday 22 November Albukhary family, dedicated to their curating team are Venetia Porter, Ladan divine scriptures, charity, pilgrimage the rhythmic and repetitive quality of Support from Elina Duni and Rob Luft. Georgia Mancio’s Quadro parents, Syed Nor Albukhary and Sharia Akbarnia, Fahmida Sulman, Zeina and prayer. Jerusalem, the Holy City, is this motif can make a frame or fill an 7.30pm. From £15 New trio formed by award-winning Rokiah Albukhary. Klink-Hoppe, Amandine Merat and respected by all three Faiths. empty space. vocalist Georgia Mancio presents jazz Visual arts of the Islamic world William Greenwood. They rose to the Modern media technology plays a One would imagine that to make a and Brazilian standards from composers are extremely diverse and impossible challenge and have created a successful, part in the displays. Further research can display of such a magnitude of diverse such as Strayhorn/Ellington, Tom to define by a single style or one form informative display. be done which is good in the technology material would lead to anarchy, but Jobim, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Artie Shaw of aestheticism. Admittedly, certain There are two Galleries, the first of metal work for example. Light this has not happened. Connectivity and Waldemar Henrique. With Frank elements do often appear on objects, covers the region from the rise of Islam sensitive material rotates every so often has prevailed and the display tells a Harrison (piano) and Andrew Cleyndert either alone or in combinations, from in the 7th century up to 1500, while which is necessary in the conservation fascinating story. (bass). 2.30pm. FREE differing regions. This recurrence is the second gallery represents the height and protection of calligraphy, paintings Art transcends political unrest. Like noticeable in calligraphic inscriptions, of creativity under the Ottoman, the and organic material. the stems of the Arabesque perhaps Davina & The Vagabonds shapes and symmetry of geometry Safavid and Mughal dynasties. The 1600 objects are displayed, among nations and their leaders must try to Bluesy, blustery, bawdy and irresistibly and natural abstract forms of fruit and display includes archaeology, decorative them a 13 century incense burner, made grow towards each other. Bill Frisell fun, Davina’s barrelhouse piano and Paul McGann vegetables. arts, metal-work, the art of the book, of intricate, inlaid metal, from Damascus. gutsy, sweet vocals are influenced by It was a huge challenge to showcase ethnography, jewellery, textiles, epigraphy Its decorations depict Christian scenes Marian Maitland 64 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 65 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

FeldmanMAX Anti-Heroes at Royal Selangor REVIEWS By Max Feldman Photographs © Royal Selangor © Royal Photographs

Photographs © Universal Pictures © Universal Photographs Right: Venom Dark hen comic books and Man himself as a lethal protector of the Origin superheroes experienced their innocent. More likely to tear a criminal £199.00 Halloween Size H12.5cm first rush of real popularity apart (or even eat them!) than bring including base, Director: in the 30s and 40s there wasn’t really them to the police, he is anything but 13.5cm x 12cm W Below right: David Gordon Green room for a lot of shades of grey. Bad a traditional hero. This nightmarishly Limited Edition guys twirled moustaches whilst cackling sculpted model is a testament how far Iron man £499.00 Running time: 000 mins Size H23.5cm and good guys had lantern square jaws the boundaries of comics were redrawn including base, and sold war bonds by literally punching by these dangerous figures. 18.5cm x 18cm Below: Hitler in the face. 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As dangerous as they a massive array of heroes in frenzied ever were when they were villains, any conflict with the genocidal machine. criminal who falls into their hands is in Huge and deeply evocative, it is a serious trouble. representation of all that these characters Whilst examining the exquisitely have become over the years, even those intricate pewter figurines of Marvel and darker ones who walk in the shadows. DC’s finest available at Royal Selangor suburbia, meticulously building the dread her teenage days. Green and McBride are on King’s Road, Chelsea, it’s easy to Royal Selangor’s UK store is located at before violently shattering the calm, as more interested in setting up the rousing see how this sea change altered the 261 King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 consistently wink at its imagery and empowerment of their third act, when face of super-heroes forever. Artisans 5EL where all of these figures and many tropes. 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And biggest scares with jokes, deflating the much as a self-conscious do-over of Vader and Kylo Ren, both of whom will receive a gift, a Marvel lapel pin, if I they mention this ad he always makes it home for the holiday. Jamie Lee Curtis has returned, too, tension at every turn. Their dopiest H20, one of those generally maligned straddle the line between anti-hero and . He’s a creature of habit, and so, too, is the reprising the role of one-time imperiled choice is a subplot involving a pair of Halloween sequels that the new one villain. Venom himself is represented apparently immortal Halloween series, babysitter Laurie Strode, the final girl annoying British podcasters, around to wants you to disregard. That was a much with bunched muscles coiled in rage; which returns repeatedly, like a mindless, who got away. Yet for all its promising broadly satirise the ongoing true-crime more workmanlike horror movie, but wrenching his savage claws through unstoppable force of evil, to the same pedigree, Green’s Halloween, the 11th craze and then get swiftly brutalised for also, in its own flawed way, a better one. shattered concrete whilst roaring his place on the same night of the year to instalment if you count the hick-horror their arrogance. H20 really did care about the reality defiance through a jagged sea of fangs. run through something close to the same remakes by Rob Zombie, is as chained to There is, admittedly, some real power of Laurie’s life (it gave her a nuanced The burnished pewter is a perfect plot. By now, October 31 should be a franchise formula as every pale imitation to seeing Curtis back in the scream- post-divorce romance, for one) and even mirror to Venom’s raw alien nature day of martial law in Haddonfield. How that’s come before it. 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Laurie as unsentimental, rawhide- repetition and diminishing returns that’s products it is highly collectable and the Shatner masks, and puts a small army on Almost certainly the most tough, even a little unhinged in her plagued this undying series since the £199.00 model is both a work of art and every leaf-covered street corner? accomplished, acclaimed director fanatical certainty that the nightmare now-retconned second episode. And of an investment.The character originally We’re meant to look at this new to ever tackle a late entry in a long- she experienced a lifetime ago isn’t course there was the refreshing heads- began life in a 1986 Spiderman comic as Halloween and see more than just running slasher series, Green does have really over. It’s faintly affecting, this will-roll finality of its finale, a potently a symbiotic parasite that attached itself another inferior sequel. We’re meant some occasional fun aping Carpenter’s skeletal portrait of rebirth through terror, cathartic image of trauma overcome and to the webslinger. Its alien wants and to see the sequel, the worthy one that predatory camerawork. There’s a nifty of someone so haunted by one soul- an ideal (if sadly and quickly reversed) desires corrupted the typically upbeat John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher par long take that tracks Michael up to a shaking trauma that she’s spent every ending to the Laurie And Michael hero and led him down an increasingly excellence never spawned. It has been window, loses him as he walks around the day since transforming herself from Show. This Halloween, for all the crowd- violent path before he was able to divest made by a real director: David Gordon side of the house, and finds him again victim to fighter. It might even have pleasing resonance of its climax, can’t himself of it. Finding its way to the rage- Green, the genre hopper who follows when he appears behind some poor, been heartbreaking if Halloween spent quite resist leaving the door open a crack. filled Eddie Brock, the symbiote merged his muse wherever it takes him, from unsuspecting knife fodder inside. But more than maybe a scene and a half on Haddonfieldians, in other words, would with him and became the monstrous arty Southern character dramas to the filmmaker doesn’t so much revive the what Laurie’s life has become, the way be best off keeping theirs closed and Venom. After years as a villain, Venom dopey stoner comedies. Green, who values of the original, the way Carpenter Carpenter devoted the early stretch of locked. became a dark reflection of Spider- co-wrote the screenplay with goofball carefully situated us in a mundane his movie to the ordinary bric-a-brac of Max Feldman 66 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 67 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Motoring MotoringA72 - CHELSEA WORKSHOP page_CLASSIC MOTORING 31/10/2018 15:00 Page 1

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Rumours have spread a gentlemen’s agreement between the that Australia is getting it, don’t hold Japanese firms meant limiting the your breath. horsepower rating to just 276bhp. If But what about a long-awaited car your £50,000 sports car, the price of that we are getting? a 400bhp Porsche 911 in those days, The Toyota Supra may not sound as made only so much horsepower, you exciting as America’s V8 sports car. Its have to enhance in every way. The early history is not as storied, beginning Toyota and the Nissan used state of life as just a version of the smaller Celica. the art turbocharged engines and very But as the years went by it cemented sophisticated four-wheel-drive systems itself as one of the greatest Japanese that made them indomitable on any sports cars. Ever since the MKIV went circuit. And the aftermarket scene took out of production a decade and a half them to great limits that few could have ago, there have been calls for a new one, 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I 1973 Silver Shadow I 1965 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud 2 door coupe both from fans and within the company. thought possible when the originals 68,000 miles. Sage green. £32,000 29,500 miles. £35,000 79,000 miles. £145,000 Enter BMW. The German brand signed were launched. a deal with Toyota in 2012 to co-develop The news that the Supra will finally a sports car just as Subaru had done a be making a comeback is a cause for few years prior. The German car will be celebration. They are to the Gran the BMW Z4 while the Japanese will see Turismo generation what the Ferrari the Supra name revived. Boxer and the Lamborghini Countach Allegedly, the two companies met when are to the prog rock generation. 68 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 69 Sport Sport online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

long in coming. And as a consequence Quidditch 19: Football: The Future of when it happened it had to be fitted SPORTS Uefa Nations League - Denmark v in between the cycle which then was Republic of Ireland (league B- Group 4) English Rugby Olympics (Summer) 1984,1988, 1992 CALENDAR Ireland sit bottom of group 4 with only By Derek Wyatt and every four year thereafter and the one draw and two defeats from their FIFA Soccer World Cup 1984, 1988 three matches so far. Having lost twice and 1992 and thereafter. The problem to rivals Wales, Martin O’Neill and Roy was that the Winter Olympics had Keane will be hoping that their team can moved to 1994, 1998 et al and the IAAF What’s coming world Track & Field Championships conjure a performance that proves that had started in 1983 and was also held up in November? they are still the right men for the job. y the time you have read this every four year so 1987, 1991, 1995 et By George Vines England would have either won al. Where then to place a world rugby 20: Football: or lost their first game against championship? Uefa Nations League; Scotland v Israel BSouth Africa in what are now called the Thus, world rugby had to plump for 12-18: Tennis: ATP Finals, (League C- Group 1) Autumn Internationals. If England have the year before the Olympics or the year London Depending on their result against lost, Eddie Jones, its Japanese/Australian after the soccer World Cup. I hope you The ATP returns to the O2 Arena Albania, Scotland will be hoping that coach, would have been sacked. Always are still with me. It plumped for the in London as the world's best eight they still have a chance for promotion if the devil is in the detail. If that has latter, that is 1987, 1991 and therefore qualified singles players and doubles they beat Israel on home soil. A victory happened then there will have already always clashes with the World Track teams, contest in a round-robin format against Albania will set this up to be a been a major earthquake in the sporting and Field championship dollars. It was a with the best four players and doubles crucial group decider at Hampden Park. media in the UK. itself as a £1bn business. It is halfway professional rugby is broken. It has little gamble and it has definitely paid off. teams reaching the knockout semi-finals I have to assume that given South there. So ticket prices are now so high or no interest in the paying customer. The Next year Japan will host the ninth stage. The tournament is the season- Sri Lanka v England, third Test, DP World Championship, Dubai 25: Formula 1: Africa fielded a weaker team than the (£161 for the All Blacks game) that it is grounds are at best third rate. Parking Colombo rugby World Cup. It will be the first ending event for the highest-ranked Golf returns to Dubai as the 60 leading Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina one England last beat in the Summer not possible for a rugby supporter now is impossible. Having a meal before The final test of the series takes place in not to be held in a white Anglo Saxon singles players and doubles teams on the golfers in the world look to win ‘The A hit on the circuit since its debut in season of internationals (South Africa receiving his or her pension to be able to or afterwards is a dream. The seats are the capital city of Colombo as England Race to Dubai’. The tournament will be nation. It is frankly a miracle it has 2018 ATP World Tour. 2009, Formula 1 returns to the glitz and having already won the series 2-1) that happened at all, notwithstanding, Japan afford to go and watch the game having more often open to the elements and too look to round off the year in style. In contested on the stunning Earth golf given a life’s service. The young kids on expensive. Something has to give. glamour of Abu Dhabi as rivals Lewis Jones has survived. Foresight should bid for the 2011, the 2015 and lastly and 23-25: Tennis: Davis Cup final what is their final test match of 2018, course at the Jumeriah Golf Estates. never be underestimated. the Twickenham block have no interest If it does not American Football or Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel lock successfully for the 2019 world cups. She The Davis Cup is the premier captain Joe Root and co will be looking The winner will take home a cool €1.2 Win or lose English rugby is in a in the game’s history. They have fallen for Baseball will come and show us how a horns once again. Hamilton and Vettel was in 2011 the second largest economy international team event in men's tennis. to put in an impressive performance million. major crisis; no less, no more. But before the quick buck. The amateur game has world game should be run and organised. are tied three a piece for most wins on in the world, the third in 2015 and now It is described by the organisers as the before their next test series against the I explain why, let’s just examine where been dumped. The NFL already has a presence in this track. the fourth (USA/China/India). So bigger "World Cup of Tennis", with the winners West Indies in January. 16: Football: Uefa Nations League. rugby is a world sport. Worse, the professional game has London. Baseball arrives next year (it was than any of the top eight rugby nations. referred to as the World Champions. The Wales v Denmark (League B- Group 4) The focus of world rugby is now the not progressed. The laws need a major always an English sport) with the World I have digressed just a tad. competition began in 1900 as a challenge 17: Rugby union: Wales take on Denmark at the Cardiff 27/11: Netball: Rugby World Cup held every four years. overhaul. There are simply too many Series holders, the Boston Red Sox due English rugby is caught between the between Great Britain and the United Autumn Internationals. City Stadium in Cardiff in their final Vitality Netball International Series; Because the organisation that ran world injuries and/or too many games for the to play the NY Yankies. national side and the game as an entity. States. By 2016, 135 nations entered England v Japan; Wales v Tonga; game of group 4. Ryan Gigg’s side will England v Uganda, Echo Arena, rugby so loved itself, a World Cup was professional player in England; Club The clock is ticking. Twickenham has lost the plot. It sees teams into the competition. The present Scotland v South Africa & Ireland v be looking to avenge their 2-0 defeat of Liverpool champions are France, who beat Belgium New Zealand Denmark in Aarhus back in September. forward Gareth Southgate. With no to win their tenth title in 2017. Victory would see Wales win the group 30/11: Netball: stand out candidates for the position 24: Rugby union: and seal promotion to League A. Vitality Netball International Series; The Resurrection of national team coach, the FA tasked 14-18: Cricket: Autumn Internationals. England v Uganda, Hisense Arena, Southgate with the role of resurrecting Sri Lanka v England, second Test, England v Australia; Wales v South 17: Football: Uefa Nations League. Copper Box, London of English English football after a string of Kandy Africa; Scotland v Argentina & Ireland Albania v Scotland (League C, Group 1) misjudged appointments. Southgate’s Following on from their victory in the v USA Scotland will be looking to build on their 02/12: Netball: The autumn internationals return as the Football previous experience as manager of one-day international series, England only victory of this Nations League thus Vitality Netball International Series; world’s best teams compete for world By George Vines the under 21s made him the perfect will be looking to extend their recent far; a 2-0 victory against Albania back in England v Uganda, Hisense Arena, rankings. The teams from Northern September. Defeat against Israel last time candidate to undertake this overhaul good fortunes against Sri Lanka with Copper Box, London of English football. Having worked a victory in the three match test Series. Hemisphere host those from the out means a victory is crucial for Alex with the youngsters through their The second test which takes place in Southern Hemisphere for a month of McLeish’s side. test rugby. England, Scotland, Wales The England Roses will face Uganda developmental years, there was no one Kandy will see England continue a new in a three-match Vitality Netball Before the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and Ireland will be looking to see which 18: Football: Uefa Nations League. better than Southgate to introduce them era without the ever-present Alastair International Series this winter and the relations between English football fans players will make the grade for their Six England v Croatia (League A- Group 4) into the first team. Cook who announced his international final two matches will take place at the and the England national team were at The World Cup in Russia 2018 saw retirement in September. Nations campaign, starting in January. Gareth Southgate and his three lions Copper Box Arena. This will be the first an all-time low. The previous World Cup England play with a clear style and secured a historic 3-2 victory against time the Roses will have played on home campaign in Brazil 2014, led by Roy identity, something that had been lacking 23-27: Cricket: 15-18: Golf : Spain in Seville in their previous match. Hodgson, ended embarrassingly early in previous tournaments. Russia will That victory put them back on course in soil since being crowned Commonwealth after England were defeated by Italy and hold many fond memories for English the group after a disappointing defeat Games Champions earlier this year. Uruguay, meaning they were out of the football fans, both avid and causal, as the to Spain at Wembley and a drab draw competition after only two games. In man in the waistcoat brought optimism against Croatia away from home. Victory 27 Nov-9 Dec: Snooker: their final game, they could only manage and hope back into the nation. Cries against Croatia at Wembley means that UK Championship, York a draw against lowly Costa Rica, exiting of ‘It’s coming home’ will forever be England will be in for a shout of winning 2018 will see the return of the Betway the tournament without a win. reminiscent of that summer as England the group, should Spain not beat Croatia UK Championship to its home in the The European Championships in made it all the way to the semi-finals, on November 15th. York Barbican. Defending champion France 2016 did not fare much better losing narrowly to Croatia after extra Ronnie O’Sullivan will be looking to get as England narrowly negated the group time. Although the defeat was tough 18: Football: his hands on the coveted trophy once phase after draws with Russia and so desolate for English football. The payments for unrelated ventures and to swallow, the overall goal had been Uefa Nations League Northern Ireland v again. Slovakia, sandwiched by a stoppage time defeat marked the end of Hodgson’s discussing ways of getting around strict achieved. Hope had been restored to the Austria (League B- Group 3) win over fierce rivals Wales. Defeat in the hapless reign. rules in the transfer market. The fallout nation. Going forward, there is a buzz Northern Ireland currently sit bottom of group 3 with three losses from their 28 Nov-16 Dec: Hockey: second round at the hands of minnow More anguish was to follow with and embarrassment of this sacking around the national team once again as Men’s World Cup, India three games. With relegation from Iceland compounded English misery the appointment of Sam Allardyce meant that English football was the fans look forward to the next tournament The 14th edition of the World Cup and left English football in state of as the national team’s manager. The laughing stock of the footballing world, the group extremely likely, manager in 2020, hoping to see an improvement Field Hockey Tournament takes place in hopelessness and despair. The manner of former West Ham United manager’s as many wondered how this once so Michael O’Neil will be hoping for a from England’s fine displays in Russia. Bhubaneswar, India. It is scheduled to be the defeat to a nation of some 300,000, reign was the shortest in history of any great footballing nation had fallen so From day one Southgate always said performance that can recover some held from 28 November to 16 December left many English fans scratching their England manager, lasting only 63 days, dramatically from grace. he wanted the fans to reconnect with the pride in front of their home fans. 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium. heads wondering how things had become after he was secretly filmed taking large With all hope seemingly lost, step national team, he has certainly done that. 70 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 71 Crossword, Bridge & Public Notice Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

This is the seventy second Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 outcome of the 2018 FIDE Presidential 1 Where four tops demand you go loco CHESS elections for Arkady Dvorkovich, 10 new Wolfe Cryptic Crossword in Mexico. (8) 9 Vice-Presidents have been elected for his 5 American uncle following plane By Barry Martin team, including Nigel Short GM, who Caroline Furnival of the Worlds thrown off the ship. (6) 10 11 End Estate is last month’s winner, 10 Insert identification card holding withdrew his own application for the congratulations! medal. (5) role of President just moments before the Please let me have any comments or 11 Argue gain may be solved by FIDE delegates voted. Whilst the new suggestions you may have and remember, precipitation checker. (4,5) 12 13 President installs himself and his team in if you haven’t totally finished the whole 12 Bribe paid to be quiet. (4,5) The 4 C’s Season their Athens FIDE H.Q, and the dust crossword still send it in as the first correct 13 Made one grand toilet for the Inuit. settles from the bitter and acrimonious or substantially correct answer picked (5) at random will win a prize of a bottle of 14 Grew an eccentric composer. (6) lead up prior to the elections themselves, Champagne kindly donated by Lea and 15 Last Shah used such language when 14 15 16 he season of the 4 C’s has a variety of exciting and top range chess Sandeman. Send your grids either by post deposed. (7) begun; Carlsen, Caruana Chess tournaments and competitions have 17 to Wolfe, at KCW Today 80-100 Gwynne 18 Saint left in tree made a simple table. Championship, and chess history been taking place. Such is the global (7) Road London SW11 3UW, or scan it in has begun anew with the recently elected interest in chess that to mention them and send by email to wolfe@kcwtoday. 20 Sounds like my breathing difficulty 18 19 20 T all would fill most of this column’s space. incumbents to FIDE. There is a new co.uk. caused an unhealthy vapour. (6) However a few are, or were: The 15th 22 Pointillist dance. (5) 21 epoch upon us and the 4 K’s of Karpov, www.leaandsandeman.co.uk/Fine-Wine. 24 Tidy up around the right gym for non Kasparov, Kramnik and nearly there World University Chess Championship 12th-18th September, Aracaju, Brazil; 106 Kensington Church St, London, secular worker. (9) 22 23 24 Korchnoi seem part of the regime that W8 4BH. T: 020 7221 1982. 25 Fraud before intent perhaps for a has been displaced with the demise of The 2018 Women’s World Championship, Contact Sandor. landmass. (9) Kirsan IIyumzhinov and his follow- Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 2-23rd 26 Insect on integrated circuit for a lark. November, with 64 qualifiers. This is a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 up team, with Makropoulos and Pein B U T T E R F L Y E F F E C T (5) 25 26 knock-out tournament to decide a new O O N U E R D E 27 Domineered old red when drunk. (6) vying for election in October’s 3 horse 9 10 women’s World Champion in chess. It is L A M B D A S L A O T I A N 28 Pronounced as two pairs of limbs but race. I mention Kramnik, former world the second World Championship held in T B U E L Z F C in fact are only parts of one pair. (8) champion as he was Kasparov’s second 11 12 2018, after the Tan Zhongyi versus Jun O D O U R D U O D E C I M O too, in the latter’s defence of his title, 27 28 Wenjun match, in May. F L A W E M Down although he and others are still in 13 14 15 The 34th European Open Chess Club L E A R N A B L E H A R E M 1 When landing get off on fire. (6) contention at top class tournaments. Cup and The 23rd Women’s European Club I C U S O A 2 Amused cab engineered to set a trap. FIDE’s new administration, the 16 17 18 19 G L O V E C A T A M A R A N (9) (5) unexpected? (8) world’s chess fraternity, and the press Cup Tournament 11th-19th October, H R C O E D 3 Maybe undermost native doesn’t show 8 Commonly alphabetical aide memoire 19 Avoid two directions to eat. (6) are all focussing their attention on Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece had 20 21 22 23 T A I L B O A R D G R I M M it. (15) (8) 20 West has odd sort of distinguished 73 chess clubs participating, from 47 4 Rules on the dead when there’s nothing London’s great event of The World Chess N N R N I R N E 9 Put DIY away and sort things out. conductor. (7) Championship and Magnus Carlsen, European Chess Federations with 61 Chinese top player has a run of 94 games know of very good female players for 24 25 in the corner. (7) I D O L I S E S W A N S O N (4,2) 21 Passes law and represents on stage. clubs in the Open and 12 in the Women’s without loss since August 2017. The example, who in the past have not been 6 Familiar speech as spoken by all pilots title holder and the contender, Fabiano N C E E C P I T 16 Two graduates coming in reshape (6) Section. Club Valerenga had Magnus good-will factor goes on with a new star able to afford to go to International chess 26 (7,8) one’s college (4,5) 23 Blunt dart missing extremes about Caruana.The players are neither Russian G O O D F O R N O T H I N G S Carlsen ELO 2839 on board 1 with just 7 Row-it sounds like it’s all in the head. 17 Novel play, Act 1 being somewhat the moon. (5) nor East European and the event has coming in at 12 years, 10 months and 8 tournaments, because they haven’t the a truly western atmosphere pervading 2.5pts clear of Caruana, the latter not days and born into the firmament of the money to pay for travel, accommodation it. The USA has only had one chess playing in this tournament. However, Grandmaster Gods, named Javakhishvili and day to day costs which they would champion, Bobby Fischer, and so Carlsen was playing to the edge by Sindarov, beating Praggnanandhaa’s have to meet out of their own pockets PUBLIC NOTICE Caruana carries with him the high hopes entering, given Caruana’s great play record by 5 days! Good luck to him, with had they decided to go! This is a national Andrew’s Top Ten Conventions of not just chess loving Americans, but in the recent Olympics for the USA’s a very bright future assured in chess. disgrace. With Andrew Robson the core of American society that once team, and with losses Carlsen could The 15th World University Chess have gone into the WCC tournament Championships, Brazil 12th-18th The ChessPuzzle is taken from The Our second in the series of Top Ten Conventions, featured last month, was the Weak Two Opener. Its close relative is the Weak more can rejoice in an American that LICENSING ACT 2003 not as number 1 in the world facing September, had 48 players from 13 34th European Chess Club Cup 2018, Jump Overcall. Modern experts are almost universal in their agreement that a single jump overcall (e.g. 1♣-2♠ or 1♦-3♣ can lift the crown which represents the GRANT OF A PREMISES LICENCE Caruana who would have occupied countries, (none of whom were from between Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, white, Under Section 17 should be disruptive, showing the same hand-type as a Weak Two opener, i.e. 5-10 points and a six-card suit. These bids occur far highest cerebral sport’s game to be won that spot. Given Carlsen’s endearing the United Kingdom). Played over 9 and Tapani Sammalvuo, black. White more often than any stronger variety, and the space they consume can make life very awkward for the opponents. at world level and claim the throne of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT: statement that being number 1 in the rounds the results were: Open, 1st IM won this game with a very neat ending (1) SHRAVALE LIMITED of In order to make a Weak Jump overcall as often as is sanely possibly, liberties can be taken when non-vulnerable, especially such excellence for the USA! Caruana’s world’s ELO ratings mattered more Tadeas Kriebel, Czech 6.5/9; 2nd IM 9 moves deep. Black has played 32.... (2) 1-3 TREBOVIR RD, LONDON SW5 9LS when partner is a passed hand and will not take you too seriously. When vulnerable or at the three-level, on the other hand, use first chess coach, Boris Zlotnik, has said has applied to Royal Borough of to him than anything else, by putting Grzegorz Nasuta, Poland 6.5/9; 3rd GM Bd5, which seems a safe, consolidating more caution: a seven card suit is advisable. Similar to all preemptive bids, the Weak Jump Overcaller does not bid again, his that he had never encountered such a Kensington and Chelsea for a that on the line in the European Team Shanglei Lu, China,6/9. Women’s: 1st move, but proved to overlook White’s partner becoming Captain. mind before as Caruana’s that could PREMISES LICENCE for: Championships took some nerve, and all WGM Shiqun Ni, 7.5/9; 2nd WIM forthcoming tsunami that inundated (3) Performance Plays, Exhibition of Films, envisage such a multitude of variations ♠ ($" credit to him. He suffered no losses and Goulart Librelato 6.5/9; 3rd WGM Black’s positions and immobilised his Performance of Dance, Live Music Dealer South "&' $%'# !&' $('# during the process of a game of chess. SALE BY RETAIL OF ALCOHOL: ♥ will go into the bout with the contender Cori T. Deysi Per 6.5/9. Alas, there were King, leading to Black’s resignation. North-South Vulnerable $" The differences between the two Mon-Sun from 07:30 until 00:00 ♦ Caruana still World No 1. The team, no English University chess participants What was White’s next attacking move? ♦ & players couldn’t be more pronounced

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From the end of permitted hours on New ♣  ♣ &! the Gold medal. Sadly for Valerenga Club, and which I regularly attend, I intuition serve him well in end games explains and neat very Bf7+, 39. cornered!

Year’s Eve to the start of permitted hours ♠ a last minute surge by AVE Novy Bor am concerned at this absence, but not # where tiredness and strain take their toll is King the Kg8, nigh, is end the Rf6+,

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For the premises: (4) took silver and bronze respectively. noticeably missing as a nation from KENSINGTON COCKTAIL LOUNGE ♦ that characterise Caruana’s approach. net.... closing the in reels White and

(*%$! The Women’s event was won by being represented in many international Situated at: (5) 1-3 TREBOVIR RD, SW5 9LS ♣ It may be that Carlsen will triumph if about shuffle now only can King Black

(+# Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo with events. Whilst London hosts the World Anyone wishing to make a representation to this Caruana allows him to venture into long the ranks, 8th and 7th the on King

application may do so by 27th November 2018. Anna Muzychuk on top board who won Chess Championship this month and A record of the application made to the Licensing ♥ ♥ end games. Black the trapped having move excellent

Authority will be kept on a register at the address West’s Weak Jump Overcall, combined with East’s preemptive raise to 3 stole the bidding from North-South. That the 3 two gold medals with the other for her we celebrate this glorious encounter, Whatever the outcome of this Bh5+!, 36. a-file. the down King White

given below and the register may be inspected contract failed by one trick (losing all four aces and ♦K) was almost immaterial when you consider what North-South could have 4.5/6pts score. The St. Petersburg trio we should remind ourselves that we during opening hours. All representations regard- championship, it will undoubtedly be the attack to preparing 35...Ra5, 6th.

ing this application must be in writing and sent to: made. of middle board players consisting of are, as a nation, largely absent from talked about, dissected and picked the into 7th.rank the below infiltrating

Licensing Team, Council Offices, Royal Borough Imagine a 6♣ contract (by South). West leads ♥K and declarer wins ♥A. He immediately begins establishing diamonds, Fedoseev, Vitiugov and Matlakov all won many international chess events, and of Kensington and Chelsea, 37 Pembroke Road, ♦ ♦ ♣ ♣ ♦ ♣ ♣ over in minutiae for many months and from King Black the preventing move

London W8 6PW, tel. 020 7341 5152 or www.rbkc. cashing AK, trumping 3 with J, crossing to Q, and trumping 6 with K. He crosses to A, drawing East’s last trump, extra gold medals for their individual particularly in the women’s sections.

gov.uk It is an offence knowingly or recklessly ♦ ♥ ♥ ♠ probably years to come. good Rd6, 35. defends. Black Rc5,

to make a false statement in connection with an then cashes 7 discarding 6. He trumps 8, cashes A, concedes a spade, and tables his remaining two cards, both trumps. Sad performances on boards 3, 2 and 4 Why is this? A part cause is that a The Fide World Chess Championship 34..... d5! on Bishop Black’s threatening

application and is subject to punishable by a fine for North-South that the play to 6♣ is hypothetical, credit the Weak Jump Overcall! respectively, and proved difficult to break clear Government structure for chess of any amount on summary conviction for the 9th-28th November, at The College, Rd8, 34. Kf7. Rh8+, 33. Bd5. 32.... offence. London WC1. Following the successful through from other teams. In terms of as a sport and annually funded from ANDREW’S FAVOURITE CONVENTIONS: (3) The Weak Jump Overcall performance however, Ding Liren, the the central sporting purse is absent ! I 72 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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