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Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS It’s a Funny Old their nuclear industry thus far without & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents China’s very strong support. So, we LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS can detect the hand of China behind a ISSUE 0072 MAY 2018 FREE World 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, Summer By Derek Wyatt change of heart by President Kim Jung SW11 3UW in the City Hills © Jonathan Illustration Un. London & Should North Korea disagree to end Tel: 020 7738 2348 Gallery courtesy of Redfern Neiland, © Brendan Fender Red Painting International News Motoring its nuclear ambitions it could herald Chelsea Flower Show Arts & Culture fundamental change to the Korean E-mail: [email protected] Auctions & Events A voice came to me and said peninsular. A united Korea seems some Education Website: Health 3 News “Cheer up, things can only get way off, but if the two countries can open Opinion & Comment www.kcwtoday.co.uk Business & Finance up the border, exchange prisoners, allow Literature & Poetry worse.” So I cheered up and families to travel easily and begin trading Advertisement enquiries: Dining out Feature 4 Travel with one another, it will happen faster. [email protected] sure enough things got worse. Lifestyle In the Middle East, it is hard to Subscriptions: Sport Statue & Blue Plaque Crossword 8 hose amongst you who follow understand what is going on but those Bridge [email protected] global politics carefully must who warn of a explosive time there, Publishers: Untitled-1 1 09/05/2018 15:33 9 be wondering whether it can which could splinter out across north Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited Opinion & Comment possiblyT get any worse. Africa and should be taken 10 We have had the Spanish PM seriously. Whilst ISIS regroups and Al lose a vote of confidence forcing his Qaeda reboots, Saudi Arabia’s behaviour 12 European & International News resignation. We have had Italy playing in Yemen has frankly been appalling. one step, in one step out with the Meanwhile, in Syria, another basket case, 13 Business & Finance News choice of its new prime minister as appears to have the edge on the Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne their President oversteps his authority. EU and America and its long game there 14 Property Interestingly recent polls there suggest US tariffs on steel and cars quickly President Trump views his role as may result in its navy being permanently Art Director & Director: Tim Epps a loss of faith in EU institutions. And followed which will have a devastating president as a deal maker. He has no based in the Mediterranean. Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane 18 Astronomy yet Brussels remains impervious. How effect on the EU including the UK. other perspective. He blows hot and cold Russia has the long suit in fake news. Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane different events might have been in the Nearly sixty per cent of the UK car waiting to pounce when the wind is in It is no longer interested in what the EU, UK had David Cameron argued for industry’s products are exported to - his favour. This has best been exemplified the UK or the USA says. Putin wants to Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka 19 Feature fundamental reforms there. He seriously guess where - America. The so-called by his recent on-off meeting with the recalibrate Russia and restore its presence Architecture: Squinch misread the tea leaves. “Special Relationship” was shredded in President of North Korea. It does look as on the world stage. Hosting the Winter Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland 20 Education In America, President Trump’s minutes. Trump’s actions seemed more though the mood is moving in the right Olympics in 2016 and the Football Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS behaviour is hard to read. First he like two steps in two steps out. Dancing direction with the initial summit now set World Cup in a few weeks time has been 22 Literature introduces tariffs against China and then has become the new politics. again for Singapore on 12th June 2018. part of his long game. It is interesting to Bridge: Andrew Robson relaxes them almost as quickly to enable The Leavers’ claims that we would A Trump deal here could secure a second note that he will have served longer than Business & Finance James Billot, Fahad Redha 23 Poetry one large tech company to survive. In be stronger out of the EU, because term for him. Stalin as its leader. Chess: Barry Martin agreeing to do this it has been suggested we would be able to fix our own trade North Korea has been a rogue state We are not so much in a new Cold his family has benefitted from being deals with countries like the USA ever since the Korean War ended in 1953 War more a new Bold War. The new Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 24 Fashion awarded some private patents there. looks suspect. Indeed, the Governor of without a peace treaty between North players in town are Presidents Putin and Derek Wyatt Events Trump’s view is that his role as President the Bank of ’s suggestion that and South Korea. North Korea’s nuclear Xi of China. Should Trump succeed in Music: Geoff Cowart, 26 of the Free World should also benefit his leaving the EU will cost taxpayers £1000 industry has been supported by Pakistan North Korea, America will be back in Crossword: Wolfe 32 Horticulture own family. each a year already feels undercooked. (which has the bomb) and China. Indeed town too. It’s a funny old world. Dining Out: James Billot, Max Feldman, David Hughes (Editor) 34 Travel to fire safety concerns last August. In provide food and meals to victims and H &F create the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, the evacuees of future incidents, possibly Editorial: James Billot, Max Feldman, 36 Dining Out recommendation that a permanent using a council voucher scheme. The Kate Hawthorne, Fahad Redha, disaster plan rehoming policy be considered has been council was encouraged to seek out deals Emma Trehane Arts & Culture for Grenfell Tower-sized agreed to by the Cabinet. The policy with hotels, and find premises that could 37 will be drafted by council staff, then it quickly be converted into emergency

Education: Fahad Redha © Michael Howlett Photograph emergency will come before Cabinet for formal accommodation if an emergency struck. Events: Fahad Redha 48 Health consideration at a later date. As part of those plans, the council are Features: James Billot, Max Feldman Other recommendations agreed for holding a training day for ‘community Motoring Hammersmith and Fulham Council's Travel : Cynthia Pickard 50 consideration by the cabinet include responders’. leaders are considering a policy giving pre-emptive planning for emergency Health: Fahad Redha 52 Sports social housing residents the right to be accommodation and goods, and mental For the fiscal year of 2018/19 the council Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman permanently rehomed in the borough if health services’ plans in the event of a will draw £102,300 from its Community I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton 53 Upstream they are displaced by an emergency on major incident striking the borough. Safety Reserve to add it to its £296,300 the scale of the Grenfell fire. They also The report”s recommendations included budget for providing resilience services. Literature: Max Feldman 54 Crossword, Public Notices &Bridge agreed to recommendations to negotiate teams, from Hammersmith and that the council consider negotiating It will also pay an extra £15,000 toward Motoring: Fahad Redha deals with hotels, supermarkets and Fulham were also involved in aiding agreements with chemists, opticians, the London Resilience fund that every News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Chess pharmacies ahead of the possibility of the neighbouring Royal Borough of dentists and other local stores and borough in the capital contributes 55 disaster striking. suppliers to secure emergency essentials toward the London Fire Brigade so it Arts Correspondent & Kensington and Chelsea in its response The Council’s Labour Cabinet to the Grenfell fire. Many Grenfell for displaced residents. can coordinate emergency preparedness Picture Editor agreed to the recommendations in survivors were temporarily and then It also recommended the council across the city. Both amounts were to Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA PhD the Emergency Planning and Business permanently rehomed outside of start a process of negotiating agreements be drawn from an underspend in the Political Editor: Derek Wyatt Continuity Report provided on June 4th, Kensington and Chelsea in the aftermath with supermarkets and restaurants to council's registration budget. which reviewed its handling of major of the fire. More than 40 households International Editor: Michael A Kolarov Front cover: The Westminster Abbey standard (AKA the Abbey Flag) bears emergencies, including the Grenfell were temporarily housed in hotels in Sport: Fahad Redha the coats of arms of Westminster Abbey. For the first time the Abbey tragedy. In the past year, a number of Hammersmith and Fulham. Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros opens it's doors to an unused loft space high above the mid-13th Century calamities had required the council’s Hammersmith and Fulham also SUSCRIBE & SUPPORT emergency responses; including the Upstream: Don Grant Triforium now known as the Queens's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. provided support to Camden Council Parson’s Green terror attack. following Grenfell, when the council KCW Today. See page 11 for details Council staff, including social services evacuated several tower blocks due 4 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk ATTENTION ALL CAR COLLECTORS Photograph © Hugh Gilbert © Hugh Photograph

81 YEAR LEASE FOR SALE IN CHELSEA SECURE CAR STORAGE The Garden of Earthly Delights. The themed frontage for this year’s Midsummer Ball at the Chelsea Arts Club FOR UP TO 30 CARS By artist Tony Common PRICE: £ 4.5 MILLION Oxford Street Richard Branson Corbyn: Labour ANNUAL OUTGOINGS pedestrianisation calls for ban on promises to Photograph © Kemal ATLI © Kemal Photograph MINIMAL plans scrapped diesel and petrol ‘protect’ local cars journalism CONTACT +44 (0)7836 336 698 Plans to pedestrianise Oxford Plans to ban the sale of new Earlier this month, Jeremy Corbyn expressed his support for local journalism Street have been “taken off the petrol and diesel cars from and the ‘important’ role that it plays table for good” as the majority 2040 should be brought across the country. In exclusive remarks to KCW Today, of residents opposed it. The forward. the Labour leader acknowledged that local papers were under strain and that proposal was initially backed This is according to Virgin founder Sir programme that will trial filtration systems the government should ‘assist’ them to reduce indoor air pollution. by a public consultation and Richard Branson who funds a team in through a local advertising authority. £1 million fund Buskers to accept Formula E, the all-electric race. The Last month, the Mayor visited one of hailed as one of London Corbyn added: “We have to make the audited schools in Westminster, St deadline, he says, needs to be brought local papers, both online and in print forward to 2025 as other European to protect pupils Mary’s Bryanston Square Primary School, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s “flagship card payments form, a point of news and a point of where staff have already been working countries, including the and reference because if we allow local papers with City Hall, TfL, and Westminster policies.” Buskers in London will be given card Norway, are planning. from pollution readers and even be able to accept to wither, then the quality of journalism Council to implement some of their audit “Every month the technology is getting The Mayor described the decision as contactless payments in a world first. as a whole and across a whole society recommendations. better and better, Branson said. “I honestly A range of instalments have been made “betrayal of millions of Londoners” saying “London is a powerhouse of music, having diminishes. produced artists from Adele to Stormzy, think that we've got to bring everything at St Mary’s, including a new filtration that he “won't walk away from Oxford forward because there are concerns that We then end up with a less informed and The xx to Dua Lipa,” London’s mayor society and information fed through system to reduce pollution inside the Street.” This “poses a real threat to the we could actually have sea levels rising by school and turning the staff car park into a Sadiq Khan said. “For London to maintain either the BBC or through a neo- future” of the road, he added. its status as a global capital of music, it’s over 100ft if we lose a big chunk of the he Mayor of London has garden and encouraging all staff and pupils The plan was supported in a public vitally important that we support the stars Antarctic. Therefore we've got to move the monopoly of the Murdoch Empire”. announced a new £1 million fund to walk, cycle or use public transport. consultation and would have seen all east- of tomorrow. process of moving to clean energy quicker Asked whether Labour would that will provide 50 of London’s The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan west traffic stopped though some north- “Busking helps emerging artists to hone than most governments around the world consider direct subsidies, Corbyn mostT polluted schools with a £10,000 said: “Air pollution is a national health starter grant and enable other schools in south routes would continue. The Mayor their talent and gives them the chance are doing” responded: “We haven’t ruled out direct crisis that is putting children at risk. areas exceeding air pollution limits to apply had hoped that it would coincide with the to perform in front of huge numbers of However, road minister Jesse Norman subsidies but I’d be more interested in I’ve moved fast in London to implement people.” the way in which we work with local for funding. the most ambitious plans to tackle air arrival of the Elizabeth Line later in 2018. says that 2040 is a “sensible compromise... Following the release of air quality A “rethink of the whole strategy” is The scheme will be put in place by Busk In encouraging people to phase older vehicles media partly through the placing of pollution of any major city in the world. audits carried out in 50 schools across This includes cleaning up our bus needed according to Westminster City London which is designed to increase and out as quickly as possible.” advertising which is a very big item on a 24 London boroughs, the Mayor will and taxi fleets, bringing forward the improve street music in the capital. It will ”If you look at it overall we're about as paper’s budget”. Council leader Nickie Aiken. “It was clear provide £500,000 to deliver non-transport introduction of the world’s first Ultra- work with technology company iZettle. far advanced as almost any government in Corbyn’s comments were made through two public consultations and Card readers will be set to accept a fixed interventions at all 50 schools, £300,000 to Low Emission Zone and introducing the the world, so I don't think there's anything at the Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural recent council elections that local people amount chosen by the musician so they can deliver green infrastructure and £250,000 Toxicity Charge for the older polluting do not support the pedestrianisation continue to play while passers-by donate. problematic about where we are and I look Heritage Centre where the Labour in funding to launch a new nursery audit vehicles in central London”. proposals,” she added. “If street performers like myself don’t forward to seeing more progress in the leader joined local Muslims for Ifter. In a In exclusive comments to Kensington, However, the Mayor of London felt adapt to the cashless society we are edging years to come,” he said. keynote speech delivered at the Centre, Chelsea & Westminster Today, Khan differently. “The project was a good example towards, we’re at risk of becoming a dying There has been little information about Corbyn backed calls for an investigation added: “Simple things like not leaving your of two political parties putting politics art,” Charlotte Campbell, a full-time what the 2040 deadline will mean for into allegations of Islamophobia in the engine running leads to improvements. Too aside, working together to improve our city busker who has been helping trial the drivers though the government has said Conservative Party after home secretary many of us suffer from asthma, with me for everyone,” he said. technology, said. “It’s has already had a that more details are coming. Sajid Javid rejected the proposition. included. There are short term steps and short- “This now poses a real threat to the significant impact on the contributions I’ve received. More people than ever tap term gains made from things like the future of Oxford Street, which could not to donate whilst I sing, and often, when t-charge but I’m looking to expand the be worse timed, coming on the same day one person does, another follows. The SUSCRIBE & SUPPORT emissions zone next year and create a House of Fraser announced they will be technology has already been rolled out to new generation of zero emission taxes. closing their Oxford Street store. I won’t performers in London’s 32 boroughs, with KCW Today. See page 11 for details We’ve got to make sure that London as walk away from Oxford Street. 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that the viral immunotherapy T-VEC was effective in patients with advanced World-class and previously untreatable melanoma, research in potentially even curing some patients.

Photograph © Met Police Photograph T-VEC has now become the first viral immunotherapy to gain a licence in Chelsea is using Europe. The ICR’s Professor Alan Melcher the immune is also working on using viruses to defeat cancer. His team has shown that system to defeat a modified virus could be used to kill cancer cells in the brain; an area of the cancer. body that many existing treatments struggle to reach. The team found that Tina Manning, 53, was diagnosed the virus was able to switch on the body’s with malignant melanoma in 2013. In recent years, it’s been own defence systems to attack the brain She later developed a secondary tumours. tumour in her brain. hard to avoid news about A major challenge now is to make “I went through a stage where immunotherapy. Breakthrough on the NHS, helping thousands of immunotherapies work even better, and there were no more treatment people. for more people. Recent studies by ICR options available to me. I had started to think about not making it.” studies and major clinical For instance, Professor Kevin scientists are uncovering why they only Then pembrolizumab, a type trials have established this Harrington, Professor of Biological work for some patients, and could lead to of immunotherapy known as a Cancer Therapies at the ICR and a new tests that identify the patients most new type of cancer therapy checkpoint inhibitor, was approved consultant at our partner hospital, The likely to benefit. for the treatment of melanoma. as a genuinely revolutionary Royal Marsden, led the UK arm of The ICR also has plans to play a “Pembrolizumab has worked a major trial of the immunotherapy big role in creating the next wave of wonders for me; I had five tumours treatment. nivolumab in head and neck cancer. The immunotherapies. Professor Raj Chopra and now they’re all gone. drug is now available on the NHS for is leading the ICR’s efforts to find new “I have no evidence of disease ased right here in Chelsea, patients with this disease, which is often immunotherapies, in studies that could now, which is why I smile a lot. scientists at The Institute of difficult to treat. create new drugs that manipulate the “Thanks to advances in cancer Cancer Research, London, The ICR is also a world leader immune system at the molecular level. research there is now a number of a charity and world-leading cancer choices for people with melanoma.” in one of the most pioneering forms The ICR is already the world’s leading B The ICR is now running studies to research institution, are at the forefront of immunotherapy, known as viral academic centre at discovering new of immunotherapy research. investigate whether pembrolizumab immunotherapy, which uses viruses to cancer drugs. With plans to discover new Studies led by The Institute of Cancer and related drugs can work for where police officers are preparing for On the call, an individual has infect and kill cancer cells. immunotherapies already under way, the affray, they take a third boy home. Research (ICR) have resulted in new patients with other cancer types. the evening. As Bobbies stream out of reportedly brandished a knife and Professor Harrington was the lead ICR is truly living up to its mission to An evening with Glaring through the rear-view mirror, immunotherapies being made available the building, Lloyd remains standing on Lloyd warns the boy that he was threatened two members of public. UK researcher of a trial that proved make the discoveries that defeat cancer. Kensington & the balcony. A 6'4" former Guardsman, “very lucky” to escape arrest. Collins, While knife crime is not as prevalent in the Welsh officer casts a long shadow, but meanwhile, discreetly shakes his head at Kensington & Chelsea as it is in other Chelsea coppers his convivial demeanour eliminates any the boy, but warns him not to do it again. boroughs, it remains a serious problem; By James Billot whiff of a fear-factor. He is engaging and A classic case of good-cop-bad-cop. just last month, two teenage girls were enjoys explaining the basics of policing They are, however, both candid about attacked with a knife in to an outsider. To ensure that I am up to the realities of policing in the current and there was a fatal stabbing the here are a slew of misconceptions speed, Lloyd will habitually ask “are you climate. In the past 10 years, there month before. On their arrival, Lloyd about working as a reporter in with me?” in the same way that he might has been a decline of 20,000 officers and Collins discover that the individual Kensington & Chelsea. These to a drunk asking for directions home. and this has put an immense strain on has already been apprehended, but one misconceptionsT tend to be prefaced with Lloyd is joined by PC Collins, a today’s officers. “We just don’t have the of the victims is in a hysterical state. ‘it must be boring because…’ before former physio turned police officer. resources to go out and investigate,” Unruffled, PC Lloyd collects the sobbing participants select from a drop-down list For a man with 14 years police service says Collins. “Because we have lost the lady and they walk around the corner of options ranging from the a) political: under his belt, Collins looks young for specialised investigation team, officers do for some privacy. Within 10 minutes, ‘all residents are raging Thatcherites’ his years and has vim to match. Even as it themselves so there is less opportunity both return with beaming smiles. At to the b) socio-economic: ‘they’re all the night stretches into the weary hours to take on new cases”. As Collins speaks, that moment, personal doubts arose as minted’ to the c) cultural: ‘they’re all of the early morning, Collins is able Lloyd nods along with a weathered look: to whether PC Lloyd had extended his Improving the lives of characters from Made in Chelsea. to tap into a bottomless pit of energy “And the new ones have spent too much police training into the dark arts, but to Essentially, what underpins these that manifests itself in a series of James time behind a computer and not in the probe this further may have been deemed misconceptions is the perceived sense of Brown renditions. It is no wonder why real world”. inappropriate. According to PC Collins, ennui that comes with the borough. Ergo, his colleagues call him the “Duracell There is a palpable sense of the formula is not particularly complex: cancer patients worldwide, what is there to report? In a bid to prove Bunny”. But as the first call of the night frustration when PC Lloyd discusses “Just be yourself,” says the wiry PC. “And these apocryphal claims wrong, I spent demonstrates, he has a spine of steel in the training, or lack thereof, of the a bit of humour doesn’t hurt”. an evening shadowing two Kensington lieu of a pink, fluffy tail; stepping out of younger generation: “Through no fault It is not until 9am that, two hours & Chelsea police officers, PCs Lloyd and the car onto High Street Kensington, of their own,” says Lloyd, “they are after their shift has finished, the right here in Chelsea. Collins. Together, these two officers have PC Collins is graciously received with joining the Force without the right officers return to the station. Reams Text RESEARCH5 served a cumulative 29 years in the Met a cacophonous barrage of abuse from level of experience. I spent 18 weeks at of paperwork await them upstairs, but Police and under their tutelage, I gained an inebriated member of the public. Hendon”. Hendon Police College is an if there is any sign of fatigue, neither to 70410 to donate £3 a first-hand insight into the impact that Where others may have been tempted to academy that trains and vets prospective show it. I, on the other hand, can hardly soaring crime and savage funding cuts take a different approach, Collins coolly officers before they join the Service. It disguise my bleary-eyed lethargy as I We’ve been improving cancer patients’ Text RESEARCH5 YES has had on the Borough. dismantles every insult directed at him has long been considered the Sandhurst bid them my farewell. Reflecting on the “Cuts have destroyed the Met until the belligerent is left with little else of policing, but in recent years, training evening on my cycle-ride home, I am still lives since 1909. to 70410 to donate £3 police,” says PC Lloyd as we shake to say. At this point, PC Lloyd steps in to standards have dipped due to funding left with one burning question: why are and to allow us to contact you about hands. “Officers joining now are not take the man to the station. Logic always cuts. Consequently, graduates now the police everybody’s favourite punching our work by SMS getting the training that they need”. It trumps liquor. joining the police are, as Collins adds, “in bag? I ponder this for a moment before Text costs the donation amount plus your standard network rate. Please obtain bill payer’s permission. is 10pm and the night shift is starting. It may be their natural chemistry or greater need of our guidance”. This does I recall an earlier comment made by PC The Institute of Cancer Research will receive 100% of your donation. Customer care number 0207 153 We are standing on the fourth floor years of experience together, but Collins not seem to bother either PC when they Lloyd: “Because you lot only report the ICR.ac.uk/london 5387. A Charity, Not for Profit. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No. 534147. of Kensington Police Station, soon to and Lloyd form a strong partnership. invite a young, fresh-faced copper to join bad stuff ”. be abolished in the wake of more cuts, Having arrested two teenage boys for them on their next call. Perhaps it is time to change that.

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The second, Saving Mr Banks, released in 2013, starred Emma Thompson as By Kate Hawthorne, Editor in Chief Blue Plaque: Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney One year on P.L.Travers OBE and the difficulties of opinion between UCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND BROADCAST about the Grenfell 1889 -1996 Travers and Disney were revealed. He NEVER tragedy. KCW Today has been told it is too much and some say it rather seemed to side-line her and ignore Mis not enough but, no words can truly describe the feelings and requests about the character and the suffering of the victims’ relatives and survivors of this apocalyptic appearance of the Bank’s home. Another disaster. film is appearing later this year. AGAIN The Grenfell Inquiry commenced on May 21st 2018. The first phase P.L Travers was not an easy character of the Inquiry finishes on October 29th. and had fleeting relationships. However Will investigations be forensic or powerful enough to penetrate and she did live with Madge Bernard for dissect the complexities and volume of evidence? Accusations are persistently aired in the media and levelled at n 31st May, London History some years and following that she 14.06.17 Day, an English Heritage Blue corporations, individuals and public bodies. Will the Inquiry produce adopted an Irish baby; His name was enough evidence to apportion and identify legal and actionable Plaque honouring P.L. Travers John Camillus Hone, a twin grandson GRENFELL TOWER responsibility for the deaths? Owas erected at 50 Smith Street. Chelsea, of a friend of W.B Yeats, who was being How does the Inquiry differ or impact upon the current criminal where she lived for seventeen years. She brought up by his grandfather with investigations by the Metropolitan Police Service? was the creator of Mary Poppins, the several other children. During the War How many of these questions will remain unanswered? When will world's famous, fictional nanny who lived she took the child to America, returning 72 LIVES LOST criminal proceedings start? in Chelsea. in 1945. Michael A. Kolarov attended the opening. P.L. Travers was born Helen Through a friend, John Collier Marco Gottardi (Aged 27), Gary Maunders (Aged 57) Lyndon Travers in Maryborough, who was the Commissioner for Indian Gloria Trevisan (Aged 26) Deborah Lamprell (Aged 45) Queensland. Her father, Robert Goff, Affairs, Travers had the opportunity to Raymond “Moses” Bernard mother Marjorie Vital (Aged

was an unsuccessful banker who died STATUES live among the Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo (Aged 63) 68), and son Ernie Vital (Aged The Grenfell of alcoholism when Helen was aged peoples studying their anthropology, 50) seven. He left her mother and other folklore. and mythology. These subjects Viscount Churchill, two years after Rania Ibrahim (Aged 31), Inquiry siblings destitute. Her mother, Margaret had always fascinated her. She later the body of The Unknown Warrior had & two daughters, husband Mohamed nur by Michael A. Kolarov Morehead, was the sister of the Premier Soldier Reading Fethia Hassan (Aged 4), Tuccu (Aged 44) , wife Amal

held the post of Writer in Residence at been interred with great ceremony in Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph of Queensland. Lyndon was sent to Radcliffe College and at Smith College. Westminster Abbey. The inscription Hania Hassan (Aged 3) Ahmedin (Aged 34), her cousin a Letter Amna Mahmud Iris (Aged 27), On June 14th 2017 fire broke out in Loreto, a boarding school in Sydney. Later she travelled to Japan to study Zen on the plinth originally mentioned Hesham Rahman (Aged 57) P.L. Travers had inherited a love of Mysticism. By Charles Sergeant Jagger only those who had perished in and daughter Amaya Tuccu- the Royal Borough of Kensington and poetry and mythology from her father P.L. Travers continued writing into Paddington Station the First World War, but was later Mohamed Neda (Aged 57) Ahmedin (Aged 3) Chelsea in North Kensington’s Grenfell and during her teens she showed a flair old age until arthritis limited her output. amended to include those who gave Fathia Elsanosi (Aged 71) Tower, a 24-storey high-rise building, Fatemeh Afrasiabi (Aged 59), separation between the reporter and for acting and directing. She became an She died at home. their lives during World War II: with her daughter taking the lives of 72 people. and sister Sakineh Afrasiabi the subject(s); it allows one to remain actress and used the stage name Pamela Frances, her daughter-in-law said, Isra Ibrahim (Aged 33) and son At the time, I watched the fire on IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO (Aged 65) detached from the story in order to Travers. She also wrote articles and “Mimoo as we called her lived in he statue on Platform One at Abufars Ibrahim (Aged 39) the TV from my home in South Africa, poetry which were published. When Smith Street before any of the King’s Paddington Station is officially SERVED IN THE WORLD Isaac Paulos (Aged 5) far removed from the events, and the present the material as objectively as WARS. 1914 † 1918 1939 † 1945 Bassem Choukair (Aged 40), she met and fell in love with a New Road commercial frenzy had begun. She called The Great Western Hamid Kani (Aged 61) community affected. I watched the possible. I knew after that first day that 3312 MEN AND WOMEN wife Nadia Choucair (Aged Zealand journalist, her acting career was always wore a soft grey coat that swung Railway War Memorial, and coverage on all the mainstream media such a separation would be impossible. OF THE GREAT WESTERN 33), mother Sirria Choucair Mere factual reporting of the events abandoned. from the shoulders, I think it was called Twas commissioned in 1920 to Biruk Haftom (Aged 12) and outlets and as the story developed RAILWAY GAVE THEIR LIVES (Aged 60), daughters Zainab In 1924 she came to England. Ten a ‘duster coat’, and underneath little commemorate the employees of the mother Berkti Haftom (Aged drew my own conclusions on what had taking place in an objective and detached FOR KING AND COUNTRY. Choucair (Aged 3), Mierna years later Mary Poppins was created, dresses of many blue and grey checks, GWR who had died during the First 29) happened, why it happened, and what manner would never be sufficient. In THE NAMES OF THOSE Choucair (Aged 13), Fatima which was followed by Mary Comes just to mid calf. She had a little green World War. The commissioning would be done about it. the 21st century a lot of reportage has WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES Choucair (Aged 11), Vincent Chiejina (Aged 60) Back and a further series. The character Ford, a tortoiseshell cat and a dachshund committee who briefed Jagger stated On May 21st 2018, one year later unfortunately become exactly that. that they wanted a memorial that ARE INSCRIBED ON A ROLL We’ve removed the humanity from our of the magical nanny, blown in by called Pompey. I am glad a plaque has OF HONOUR DEPOSITED Firdaws Hashim (Aged 12), Mohammed Hanif (Aged 26), working in London for KCW Today the East wind into the Bank's family been put up, as memory of those days are would evoke the ‘appropriate public Yaqub Hashim (Aged 6), Mohammed Hamid (Aged 28), I was given the assignment to cover reporting, and as a consequence, perhaps emotions of Pride, Sadness and BENEATH THE BRONZE home in Chelsea, was an immediate so dear to me.....” Yahya Hashim (Aged 13), Husna Begum (Aged 22), the Grenfell Inquiry proceedings. The we’ve removed humanity from the news, Fondness’. Originally, Jagger wanted FIGURE. success. The publishers adored Mary P.L Travers had that rare gift of Hashim Kedir (Aged 44), Rabeya Begum (Aged 64), first phase of these proceedings was to or replaced this with sensationalism. the soldier standing on the ground, Poppins and she was immortalised in Nura Jemal (Aged 35) Kamru Miah (Aged 79) commemorate those who lost their lives. As the survivors of Grenfell strived understanding the mind of a child and controversially at the same level as Jagger was not only a sculptor of films. The first, released in 1964, starred The survivors and bereaved family to put humanity into the Inquiry, I the power of his or her imagination. the commuters all around him, but extraordinary talent, he was a soldier, Anthony Disson (Aged 65) Khadija Khaloufi (Aged 52) Julie Andrews and won five Oscars. Marian Maitland serving in Gallipoli and on the members of Grenfell Tower wanted could not help but be reminded of the it was felt that such a figure could be Mariem Elgwahry (Aged 27), Joseph Daniels (Aged 69) immense responsibility of the media seen as evoking the dead amongst the Western Front, being awarded the commemorations to take place at the and mother Eslah Elgwahry to emphasise the consequences of the living, and hence unsettling to the Military Cross for gallantry. He had Sheila (Aged 84) start of the Inquiry to remind the people already won the prestigious Prix de (Aged 64) involved, and the media reporting on the system of failures which led to this travellers arriving and departing from Steven Power (Aged 63) tragedy and to do all that is in our power the great London Terminus only a , a British scholarship for art Ligaya Moore (Aged 78) Inquiry, of exactly what was lost on that to help the victims and survivors find couple of years after the conflict. He students, after a period at the Royal Denis Murphy (Aged 56) calamitous day. wife Faouzia El-Wahabi (Aged justice for Grenfell. was subsequently placed on a plinth College of Art, but gave it up to Though I appreciated the magnitude 42) , husband Abdulaziz El- Mohammed Al-Haj Ali and sited against the wall, adjacent to enlist, first in the Artists’ Rifles, and of what I was walking into, nothing Wahabi (Aged 52) (Aged 23) the original entrance to the station, in 1915 he was commissioned in the could have prepared me, or anyone, for The Inquiry: Phase One Worcestershire Regiment. His most Son Mehdi El-Wahabi (Aged 8), through which everyone would Zainab Deen (Aged 32) and son the statements made by them at the famous work is the monumental Daughter Nur Huda El- have passed, and would have been Jeremiah Deen (Aged 2) Inquiry’s opening at the Millennium June 4th opening statements mindful of the number of troops at Hyde Park Wahabi (Aged 15), Counsel to the Inquiry, individual Corner, although he was credited with Abdeslam Sebbar (Aged 77) Gloucester Hotel, chaired by Sir Martin that would have been transported Son Yasin El-Wahabi (Aged 20) and organisations core participants other memorials around the world, Moore-Bick. through Paddington to the West Mary Ajaoi Augustus Mendy Ali Yawar Jafari (Aged 82) The courage they had to come 18th June Inquiry’s expert witness Country during the First World War, including The Anglo-Belgian War Memorial in Brussels, and the Cambrai (Aged 54), and Victoria King (Aged 71), and forward and deliver commemorations presentations many, of course never to return. The daughter Khadija Saye daughter Alexandra Atala to those they lost, to fight against their 21st June LFB (London Fire Brigade) roll of honour of GWR employees Memorial to the Missing, sometimes referred to as the Louverval Memorial, (Aged 24) (Aged 40) overwhelming emotions and speak 2nd July firefighters evidence, LFB is hidden inside the plinth in a control room and sculptures in India, commissioned Omar Belkadi (Aged 32) and (Stillborn) directly to us all about who these people sealed casket which was made at the Logan Gomes 3rd July survivors and local by Edwin Lutyens, and a statue of Sir Farah Hamdan (Aged 31), were and the rich lives they lived was GWR’s Swindon Works, listing the Maria Del Pilar Burton residents.TBC witness statements, Ernest Shackleton on the outside of Malak Belkadi (Aged 8), immeasurable to anything I have seen in names of all 2,524 employees who (Died six months after the fire. utility providers died in the First World War. The the Royal Geographical Society in Leena Belkadi (Aged 6 months) my work as an International journalist. Age unknown.) 1st October expert witness memorial was unveiled on Armistice London. Stories of hardship and perseverance, of Jessica Urbano Ramirez evidence Day, Saturday 11 November 1922 by Don Grant simple human kindness, moved me, and Julie Andrews, Walt Disney and Pamela Travers (Aged 12) those around me to tears. 29th October closing statements In journalism there is a comfortable 10 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

or liberal values you’re basically old, in thousands of others, many who have and lime green tights, David Hemmings Middle Eastern. Inevitably this has are found to hand it over to speculative fashionable, property prices will fall, and line for a hip replacement (and they never demonstrated before, I’m going to cruised around in Soraya Khashoggi’s pushed the former, narrow circumference builders or private landlords. The the young will be able to move back in. MARIUS BRILL’S know about hip) and way behind the be there. Come along, make your voice Roller, while I bought a jacket at of gentrification a few miles further out, national demise of council housing since Probably not, though. times. You probably remember D:Ream’s heard. At a moderate volume of course. Granny’s, once sneaked into Alvaro’s driving affordable accommodation into it was undermined by the Government Meanwhile, the youth drain to Things Can Only Get Better and the Blair March for a People’s Vote: June 23, 2018 Aretusa, drank frothy coffee at thePicasso distant suburbs, previously beyond the of the 1980s has been a grotesque and Brighton and Bristol is turning into a ‘third way’ with nostalgia; basically YOU, at 12pm-4pm, Pall Mall (SW1Y 5BL) to and ate cheap scoff in San Frediano’s or pale for fashion-conscious young Brits completely predictable disaster whose flood. MEMEING OF LIFE the Chelsea Kitchen. I bumped into Roger making their debuts in the capital. The ramifications have been felt more harshly you moderate, you Middle Class, middle Parliament Square. Daltrey at a club called Blazes (now a car less affluent young must now live in the in London than anywhere else in the Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... of the road, middle muddler, with your www.peoples-vote.uk/march park in Queen’s Gate). Laid back, rich further reaches of Zone 2 and beyond. country. university degree and holidays abroad, toffs asked their poorer chums to their It has also made it a great deal harder It is young people who create and you are the minority now… you just parties. You could still sort of be part of it for the inherently less well-off. It is propel new culture, and with nowhere to current bestselling Sapiens author haven’t realised it yet. all, even if you were skint. a good generation or two since the for them to live, the cultural heart Yuval Noah Harari, one of humanities And they’re not entirely wrong. The Not any more, you can’t; the cost former inhabitants of Fulham, for of London will atrophy. It is already Let me finest achievements. “One on one, middle class meme is a late comer to Give us Back Our of being ‘fashionable’ has rocketed, example, were tempted to cash in becoming a place of spotless, uninspiring

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There’s no doubt that 80s the constituency started returning only when we cross the threshold of shortage of workers, peasant plague survivors began to take control of the the gap between the rich and the rest Conservative MPs and now humble t times it’s a struggle to keep up 150 individuals, and when we reach was far greater 100 years ago, but having terrace houses there sell for millions. economy, the feudal barons and kings with modern Middle Class DOs: 1,000–2,000 individuals, the differences experienced a cultural narrowing in the A result of this major change in WE WANT YOU TO STAY! smile at minorities; encourage are astounding. If you tried to bunch could only watch as a merchant class I used to think it essential that at least 1960s, when manifestly ‘having a lot of demographic has seen the more central your daughter to date one, not just for together thousands of chimpanzees into emerged and prospered. Capitalism several of the impressionable years of a bread’ wasn’t deemed cool, the current quarters of London stripped of their A nurtured an ever-expanding band of young life should be spent in a capital dimension of this space is felt more former cultural originality and they the inclusivity brownie points, but she’ll Tiananmen Square … the result would AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE: “get it out of her system”; moderate your people who neither worked the land city, a milieu where national decisions are strongly by young Brits in London. This have morphed into pale, well-scrubbed be pandemonium. By contrast, Sapiens taken, trends are set, artists and designers voice even when speaking to people regularly gather by the thousands in such nor entirely owned it. By 2011 71% is naturally not helped by the fact that a shadows of their mid-century selves. The of the country defined themselves as lead the nation’s creative agenda, and the large proportion of the rich in our capital joyousness that it was once possible to who voted Brexit; confidently bypass the places.” apex of society cluster. The law is changing regarding data protection Quinoa and Kale sections in Waitrose Middle Class. But in the last seven years, aren’t British. feel, even in the centre of London, is far A few protest rallies through To the English provincialist The cultural gap between, say, a more elusive these days. The once groovy because you’re ahead of the curve and on Austerity has taken its toll. Yesterday’s Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today history have become the tinderboxes lobby; those who like to see the BBC Russian oligarch and a sophisticated streets are full of dreary, characterless to Cassava; counter bigotry by bravely for revolutions, but most of the time aspiring are, today, perspiring again, in Manchester, the VAT Office in dragged back into working, or benefits, young native is in itself hard to reconcile. chains run by fashion analysts and want to ensure you continue to receive and using the awkward silence or the slight the officials in power barely twitch Southend, the DVLA to Swansea, any And since Big Bang happened in the 80s, bean-counters; Biba in Kensington class survival. The “squeezed middle” has nod and a “I hear what you’re saying,”– their curtains to gaze out at the rabble public body or private sector company the nature of even the indigenous City- High Street is but a distant dream, and review London news and views from the convince yourself this has nothing to shouting slogans at the walls. The protest got ever tinier as the belt has inexorably that employs tens of thousands of central rich has changed. even the once cheap and chirpy Pizza do with saving a claim on your BUPA can be ignored because it’s not the ballot tightened. staff relocate their HQ to a (preferably Whereas in the 60s a young person Express, now part of a $1bn Hong Kong Capital’s finest writers and journalists. insurance from getting into a fight, but box. That’s where the sensible Middle And now, this month, an Northern) provincial location, this is might have had a friend who had an conglomerate, has sunk into multiple because you’re passionate about free extraordinary event is taking place, a first destructive, London-centric talk. It aunt who had a mansion flat in Cadogan mediocrity. Class lodge their displeasure before implies that there is inevitably more We are GDPR compliant and do not share your speech; oh and remember to follow a in my lifetime: a moderate protest. Gardens, in which they could doss for While there remains some social turning on the Archers on Radio 4. immediacy, relevance and excitement handful of right and left wing nutters Corbyn’s Momentum movement takes June 23rd sees a March for a ‘People’s a few weeks that turned into a few housing, even within the richer boroughs, data with anyone. Vote’, requesting a referendum on the to be found in the Capital, as well as a years, by now the aunt has died, and her there is nothing like enough of it, and with deplorable views on Twitter to keep pride in its ability to assemble a horde nearness to the nation’s heartbeat and its final Brexit deal. Even the demand is apartment has been sold to an absentee that little dwindling steadily as excuses your ‘bubble’ in check. whenever their leader is challenged. zeitgeist. To practitioners of the art of Right-wing activists are no less capable. pathetically reasonable: not a demand to For sure, there are many fine MiddleClassdom, it’s all just riffing Within hours of the Islam-antagonistic, stay in the EU, no full capitulation of a British provincial cities, some, on good old-fashioned Anglican-style English Defence League founder, failing Brexit-frozen government, just a , and Belfast, part- pragmatic tolerance. But the Right call it Tommy Robinson being arrested a jolly practical, inclusive, ‘People’s Vote’ governmental, but paler in significance in on whether the Brexit terms are actually Take a subscription of KCW TODAY for 2018 “virtue signalling,” (as if virtue becomes couple of weeks ago, a vast crowd of almost every respect than London. There a vice when it’s shown) the Left call right wing protestors had mobilised a good idea or not. Veteran protestors is no evading, or talking down the issue. it “bourgeois” (which in itself, using from left to right, from Animal Rights If a young person wishes to have lived at and blocked Whitehall. They knew least some of their life close to the centre the French, seems tres bourgeois), while the ropes, they knew what would get activists to Poll Tax rioters, can only sit and receive a copy delivered of their nation, they must have some both see it as self-satisfied dissembling noticed, they knew how to push the back and laugh into their balaclavas as these finally fired up, finally spurred, experience of living in their Capital. that perpetuates neoliberal elitism and media’s buttons. Of course that didn’t But the last forty years have revealed finally angry, moderate liberal (small L) Name economic inequality. In other words, they stop Robinson getting a 13 month a harsh irony in the burgeoning hate it. sentence, handed down by one of the centrist nouveau protestors, with only the international popularity of London, for One thing being Middle Class will Daily Mail’s “Enemies of the People,” sketchiest idea of how it’s done, prepare not only is it perceived as the nation’s Address have, up until now, excluded you from, AKA a judge. Even so, by then his to march on Parliament. How does hub, it is also for many non-Britons is demoes, political rallies or protest supporters, as marginal as they might one find one’s way from the prosciutto the world’s financial, administrative marches. Why? Because being Middle appear, had marshalled the internet to counter at Waitrose to the frontline of a and cultural centre point. For the last Class also places you, give or take a little create an international pressure group mass protest? 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DeVos had this to say: “Think about it increase of 6.12p, it fell behind the 8.43p this way: Students seek out a credential; increase that occurred in May 2008. DeVos visits a bachelor’s degree, an associate’s degree, Jeff Bezos The RAC Fuel Watch data also shows UK entertainment Switzerland, an advanced degree, because they think it becomes richest the average prices of both petrol and and media sector will send a signal to employers that they diesel have risen every single day since to grow by £8bn over the next lambasts US are employable. But too often what they man in history 22 April, adding 8p a litre in the process, learn while earning that credential isn’t By James Billot which is the longest sustained price four years what they need to do the work they are increase since March 2015. Education system hired to do.” RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams “The Swiss approach addresses that. said: “May was a hellish month for Employers and educators work hand-in- motorists. Sadly, they have been besieged The Entertainment and Media hand to line up the skills required with by pump price rises for three months (E&M) sector is expected to value those actually learned. It’s a bottom-up, with nearly 9p a litre being added to at around £76bn by 2022, up from US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos self-defined solution. And it’s a solution petrol since the beginning of March. £68bn this year, according to PwC’s visited Switzerland to give a speech on we must better emulate in my country.” “The rising oil price together with a latest Global Entertainment & Media Photographs © PxBAY.com Photographs June 7th in which she heavily criticized Before leaving for Switzerland, weaker pound is a punitive combination (E&M) Outlook 2018-2022. the US Public Education system as DeVos faced questions from a Senate for anyone that drives regularly. For Overall, the market will grow by obsolete and called for the revamping Appropriations subcommittee hearing many people there is little alternative this year, only after the Cambridge £8bn over the next four years, making of the system from the ground up to be where Vermont Democratic Senator to the car for the majority of journeys Analytica scandal broke out. Thereafter, the UK the second largest market in more like the Swiss model. Patrick Leahy asked whether the Jeff Bezos clinched the top spot in the they have to make so it is therefore very Facebook agreed to prohibit developers Europe, the Middle East and Africa In her speech, DeVos said that; “We federal school safety commission she 2018 Forbes rich list with a reported net difficult to avoid feeling the pinch of from collecting information from users’ (EMEA), after . recognize that a dynamic and changing was heading would look at the role of worth of $112 billion. rising pump prices”. J.B. friends. However, the company did not Mark Maitland, UK head of economy requires dynamic and changing firearms as it relates to gun violence The Amazon CEO leapfrogged Bill disclose that cellphones, tablets and other Entertainment and Media at PwC, approaches to education.” and then went in US schools. “That is not part of the Gates in the biggest single-gain year hardware were not included in these said: “The UK’s entertainment and on to explain that, “Too many classrooms commission’s charge, per se,” DeVos said. ever and is now the only living centi- restrictions. media sector is forecast to grow at in America... still reflect a bygone era...” She said that the commission’s focus is billionaire. It also makes Bezos the Facebook defended their exemptions, a healthy rate over the next four “school safety and how we can ensure our richest man in history, with no other arguing that the company views years with some of the largest and the country since April 18th. students are safe at school.” M.A.K billionaire ever reaching $110 billion. its device partners as extensions of fastest growing markets in digital and IACHR proposed the creation of an However, when inflation is factored in, Facebook, serving more than two billion technology, reflecting its location as a IACHR to Interdisciplinary Group of Independent the CEO pales in comparison to John users, officials said. “These partnerships place for innovation. Create a group Experts (GIEI, by its Spanish acronym) D. Rockefeller’s estimated worth of $367 work very differently from the way in “To stay ahead of the curve, whose autonomy and independence Canadian Senate billion. which app developers use our platform,” entertainment and media companies of experts to are both guaranteed. The GIEI will be It has been a stellar year for Bezos’ said Ime Archibong, a Facebook vice must revisit how they envision their charged with technically assessing lines votes to legalize Amazon of which he holds a 16% stake. president. Unlike developers who provide business generates revenues and how investigate of investigation, and recommending Company stock has risen by 7% this year games and services, device partners can they build and retain trust. actions regarding various levels of marijuana and 56% in 2017. Bezos is also owner of only use Facebook to provide versions of Given the pace and scale of change violence in legal responsibility; assessing whether The Washington Post and Blue Origin, a the ‘Facebook experience’. J.B. underway, speed is key. J.B. investigators are adequately and fully The Canadian Senate voted private space travel business that intends pursuing every line of investigation, to take tourists to space. Nicaragua and whether they are applying the on June 7th to legalize Over 2,200 billionaires featured By Michael A. Kolarov appropriate legal concepts to classify recreational marijuana, thus on the Forbes list and their combined possible offenses and their perpetrators net worth is $9.1 trillion, equating to overcoming a major obstacle approximately half the GDP of the Facebook crisis On May 30th, Nicaragua and, if necessary, recommending what actions should be taken to ensure such to what would make Canada United States, the world’s biggest experienced an unspeakable goals are achieved. economy. deepens CashNow the first nation in the G7 to There were 259 new entrants on the tragedy when a Mother’s Day The GIEI will also be entitled to Same day offer to buy your goods suggest additional measures to guarantee legalize recreational marijuana. list and the number of women increased acebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is protest turned bloody. Fifteen the safety of anyone who cooperates with by 29 to 256. Alice Walton, daughter of embroiled in another data scandal of value in 24hrs with investigations, whether as witnesses, The United States has been facing The vote was 56-30 in favor of the Walmart founder John Walton, is the concerning access given to mobile people were killed and more legislation but included amendments richest woman in the world featuring experts, or aides. uprisings of Public School teachers device makers. Options: On the 6th of June, United Nations walking off their jobs to strike for better which the lower house would need to 16th on the list with a reported net F than 200 injured. A recent report from The New York decide on before the law can be passed. Secretary-General António Guterres pay and better public education funding. worth of $46 billion. Times reveals that, in a bid to become A Straight Purchase his in turned caused Nicaragua’s welcomed the move by the OAS “in Those amendments include tighter President Donald Trump has slipped DeVos has long been a proponent of advertising restrictions, giving the the world’s most dominant social media A Purchase and Sell Back Option Episcopal conference of Catholic support of the people of Nicaragua”, Private and Charters schools, but never down the rankings from #544 in 2017 to service, Facebook struck deals with provinces the say over whether individuals #766. His fortune has declined over the bishops, which had been trying which calls on the Government and of Public Schools. DeVos has stated can grow their own plants. phone makers to expand its reach. Agency Sale to negotiate a peaceful settlement to all members of society to engage during a tumultuous interview with 60 Health Minister Ginette Petitpas past year by $400 million to $3.1 billion, The social media giant is believed T largely due to falling values of Midtown the crisis, to suspend talks, calling it constructively in dialogue to address the Minutes that the US “invested billions Taylor said in February that marijuana to have made at least 60 data-sharing “organised and systematic aggression.” country’s challenges and to stop all forms and billions and billions of dollars [in would only go on sale a few months after Manhattan real estate and falling partnerships with mobile device markes In the wake of the Episcopal of violence. public schools] and we have seen zero it was legalized because the new retail revenues at several Trump golf properties. including Apple, Amazon, Blackberry, conference withdrawal from the talks, The Secretary-General stated that he results.” system would need time to start working Microsoft and Samsung. The deals the Inter-American Commision on was encouraged that the Government According to the most recent report properly. Marijuana in Canada would be allowed Facebook to expand its reach Human Rights (IACHR) and the is working with the OAS on electoral on education funding in the United available through government regulated and let device makers offer popular stores the same way alcohol is currently General Secretariat of the Organization issues as well as with the Inter-American States by the Center on Budget and features from the social media network, sold (Through either provincially or Worst petrol of of American States (OAS) issued a Commission on Human Rights Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research including messaging and address books. government-run stores.) M.A.K Press Release on May 30th in which (IACHR) on the establishment of a and policy think tank, per student public price increase These partnerships were in direct they outlined their plans going forward. Group of International Independent school education funding has been on violation of a 2011 consent decree with IACHR reports that 127 people have Experts to investigate the recent an overall downward trend between in 18 years the Federal Trade Commission because been killed in Nicaragua since the anti- violence and expressed his solidarity 2008 and 2015, though some states have Facebook granted device makers access government demonstrations began on with the people of Nicaragua. The increased their funding, the majority Motorists around the UK endured the to the data of users’ friends without Call Jamie: April 18th. Secretary-General also said that the have decreased it in that time period. worst monthly rise in the price of petrol their explicit consent. 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donors. Whilst the Galleries have been painstakingly cleared of their ancient The Queen’s contents, in what could presumably have Which came first? been screened as the most highbrow Diamond Jubilee episode of Storage Wars ever put to tape, Galaxies, Stars or Black Holes? Westminster Abbey have repurposed the Galleries space as a miniature museum of its own By Scott Beadle FRAS and the Weston Tower at history. Westminster Abbey The various exhibits are loosely grouped into three thematic segments, By Max Feldman but really it’s a grab bag of over 300 objects that either have not been exhibited recently or have never seen uch like its neighbour the the light of day. Ancient weapons Palace of Westminster (or glint darkly next to stained glass Parliament if you want to be representation of notably brutal Mcolloquial) Westminster Abbey has been martyrdoms and gorgeously illuminated at the centre of the Capital’s public life medieval texts practically burn with for over a thousand years. So many of fuming gold and aqueous blue. As a final the great cultural figures of our history outré touch these exhibits are watched are buried or memorialised there, that Above: Westminster Abbey. © Jim Dyson over by the glassy, yet still it’s almost impossible not to find yourself Right: From an effigy of Henry VII, believed to have been taken imperious stare of life-sized accidentally standing on the memorial of from his death mask, possibly by Pietro Torrigiano. Dean and Chapter of Westminster. marionette representations some famous name; proliferating over the Below: Weston Tower, Westminster Abbey © Alan Williams of long dead kings and centuries into something approaching queens. These ventriloquist sepulchral crazy paving. The abbey is a fever dreams are one of true embarrassment of historical and the centrepiece of the architectural riches, to the point where exhibition, the enigmatic it can be slightly overwhelming to a first dénouement of a long time visitor. Indeed, the winding path extinct tradition; which which snakes through the abbey can saw the exact likenesses initially seem to follow a logic that has of recently deceased only a passing familiarity with Euclidian royals carved and dressed geometry. For those who haven’t visited in their own clothes to the abbey, their mental image of the receive funereal homage Top: church tends to be a bird’s eye view from from the grieving British “Remember to look up M104 Sombrero Galaxy: beautifully formed is accumulating that mergers are the spiral galaxy seen edge-on, coalesced as primary source of making galaxies. its upper galleries, an image derived not public. After this day in the clumps of matter aggregated in the early at the stars and not down universe. Some “deep fields” imaged by Hubble from a spatially oriented imagination, limelight they would vanish NASA /The Hubble Heritage Team show distant galaxies and reveal but from a televised Royal Wedding or into the cavernous bowels at your feet. Right: NGC1316 shows its chaotic past and great numerous blob-like objects that appear from a Coronation. Though considering of the abbey, and are only turbulence in its core. to be proto-galaxies. These are likely that the last (and indeed, only) screened now, returning to the public P Goudroou/STSci Try to make sense of what to be fragments that clung together to coronation was Queen Elizabeth’s eye with Norma Desmond- form the larger “normal” galaxies we see ascension in 1953, it seems more likely to esque pomp. Beyond the you see and wonder about what around us. be the former. little human surprises of makes the Universe exist. The Milky Way may have formed For over seven centuries the galleries these wooden memento from the mergers 100 or more small which provide that view, which John mori (who knew that Mary galaxies over time. The question of Betjeman referred to as “the best from every broadcast (the first Royal title of ‘Surveyor of the Fabric’. It must Tudor had a pot belly?) stranger details Be curious.” chicken or egg, galaxies or stars is still [view] in Europe”, have been closed to Wedding held at the abbey slightly be said, he’s done a fine job. creep in; a king’s sagging mouth indicates unclear. the public. The rooms were originally preceded television, taking place as it At first glance the tower blends his probable death from a stroke; the constructed in the mid-13th century did in 1100). Regardless of the view, this seamlessly into the vaunting gothic of bald queens emit a gender fluidity that Steven Hawking 1942-2018 A third possibility is that black holes formed initially as dense pockets in the midst of Henry III’s sweeping has never been an exactly convenient the ancient masonry surrounding it. wouldn’t be out of place in the 21st of matter. They then swept up material rebuild of the church and seemed to arrangement. Initially the only entrance However Dean has laid his own modern century. Even the staunchest Leninist around themselves, and galaxies formed have been planned to serve as chapels, to the galleries was a vertiginous stamp on the tower: encasing it in should be able to uncover some pathos in from the surrounding gas that didn’t get mirroring those on the floor below. spiral staircase that thought ‘room to sinuous bronze, which snakes along the these long dead aristocrats. sucked in by the black holes. Thirty years However like everything else in the manoeuvre’ was the title of a Tennessee flashing glass of the glass frontage like a Also on offer are the faux Crown sing observational tests, still hotly debated and still the focus of 1960s and which suggested that galaxies ago, astronomers thought black holes, world the church has its fashions and, as Williams play. The stairs were deemed snarl of parasitic vine across strong oak. jewels, which look real enough to save astronomers invest a lot of time much future research. collapsed as single objects out of gas regions of intense gravity from which the reworks ground on, the ecclesiastical completely unsatisfactory for public use Whilst such a bold fusion of styles could on a trip to see the originals, and the focusing on the mechanics Deciphering galaxy formation owes clouds. As the gas fell in by gravity it no matter or light can escape, were just intelligentsia came to feel that chapels and the Abbey undertook drastic action; run the risk of looking gauche when wedding certificate of Prince William of how matter came together in the much to the work of Walter Baade at first formed a spherical halo. As more weird mathematical conundrums. were deeply passé. A victim to changing in the shape of the Weston Tower: the placed next to such an ancient edifice, and Kate Middleton. Both exhibits seem U fashions, the gantries that that have most significant addition to the building it is instead entirely in keeping with likely to pull in their fair share of visitors early universe. The key question is: Did the Mt Wilson observatory in California gas coalesced, it began spinning and Not anymore; astronomers armed galaxies, stars or black holes come first? during the 1950s. Baade discovered a was enriched with metals, creating discs with the latest giant telescopes deduce become the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee itself since Nicholas Hawksmoor’s West the building’s architectural profligacy. who might otherwise feel that history The infant universe was a relatively group of stars around the Milky Way inside galaxies. their presence in the centres of most Galleries were therefore never completed Towers were completed in 1745. The Westminster Abbey’s exterior is such should be left in the past, but really the uniform sea of several thousand-degree in the galactic halo with few metals However more recently astronomers large and medium sized galaxies. They according to their original design. As a new tower bursts from the courtyard a conglomeration of differing styles central draw is the galleries themselves. gas and dark matter; that unseen, (elements heavier than hydrogen and have proposed the merger theory. This are seen to be the driving forces in result, the galleries soon bowed to the outside Poet’s Corner, a thrusting gothic and motifs that entire architectural The exhibitions have carefully been mysterious and much more predominant helium). These stars would be very, suggests the union of proto-galaxies; vast distant quasars, highly energetic infant law of rooms without a clear function: spike, rearing between the buttresses of movements wax and wane across the face aligned to avoid standing in direct form of matter, that is indirectly known very old, around 11/12 billion years conglomerations of gas without stars galaxies. The consensus is they inhabit they became a storage room for all the the Abbey like a crenulated shark fin. of the abbey like fossils erupting from sunlight and the whole space is lit by to exist because of its huge gravitational old in fact. The heavier metal rich that gravitated towards one another, the cores of almost all galaxies other than random miscellanea that multiplies in The star-shaped Weston Tower, named geological strata. Moving beyond its light flaring through titanic stained influence on galaxies. elements would be created later through merging to form galaxies in the early the smallest. any inhabited building over the years. for a private donor, is pulling double borderline steampunk exterior, the Tower glass portals. It’s the perfect backdrop to Based on the cosmic microwave supernovae and other processes to be universe, and subsequently galaxies of So I suppose the answer to the Only in this case the time scale wasn’t duty in not only conveying tourists to houses a lift alongside a staircase which the stunning view of the interior of the background data (CMB), astronomers thrown into interstellar space and then varying sizes merging later with other question “ Which came first” is, ‘erm, single digit years but centuries, and the the Galleries but also by obliterating doesn’t view breathing space as a sign of abbey, previously reserved exclusively for think matter coalesced when the universe be incorporated into younger stars in our galaxies. Certainly, in recent years this not quite sure. The jury’s still out, but ‘junk’ priceless relics of Britain’s past. the grim 1950s lavatory block which moral turpitude. Once you emerge from God and BBC camera men. Perhaps John cooled and became “transparent” galaxy. so called bottom-up path has become we are at least, as Stephen Hawking With the advent of television, the used to squat apologetically in its place. the Tower into the galleries, the space is Betjeman was over egging the pudding 380,000yrs after the Big Bang. Stars and Baade’s discovery led to the ELS more prevalent, but as yet astronomers recommended, still looking up! Galleries finally found a purpose beyond The tower was designed by Ptolemy pleasantly bright and airy, the product somewhat, but it’s well worth the galaxies formed about 1 billion years model named after three astronomers, still don’t know which path dominates. storage when their unparalleled views Dean, the Abbey’s in-house consultant of five years work and nearly 23 million clamber to look down on the history of after the Big Bang, but exactly how is Eggen, Lynden-Bell and Sandage in the Nonetheless circumstantial evidence saw them serving as the nerve centre architect, who bears the suitably florid pounds of investment from private England, plotted out in marble and glass. 20 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Education Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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She was an active feminist and along “Later, as he sat on his balcony primal violence portrayed in High Rise Forget Me Not Books and elsewhere in Ballard’s œuvre comes with many other women writers of the period, patiently waited to be heard eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing purely from within, from a perceived over the racket of male dominated literary criticism. In her first collection 92pp. £9.99 reflected on the unusual events fundamental hominid need to blow off Xantippe and other poems, published shortly after she had turned 20, ISBN 978-1-907860-10-2 that had taken place within this steam through unrestrained barbarity. Xantippe, the long suffering wife of Socrates, bemoans her exclusion from Ballard’s detached wryly telegraphic the Philosophical circles in which her husband was revered. It is possible Back in 2001, Brian wrote and I saw a blind man on a path style takes this technically absurd huge apartment building during that in Xantippe, Levy was expressing her own feelings of personal and compiled a book called The Story Giant, When I walked out one night. premise and makes it sing. There’s the previous three months.” professional exclusion and a longing that her literary achievement be which was a collection of tales, some He came towrds me silently, something in the way he writes this interconnected, some not, taken from his High Rise, Chapter One. thoroughly nasty little parable that goes recognised. While in some poems, Levy demonstrates a depressive nature, In his hand he held a light. own imagination, folk-tales borrowed I asked him what use he had for it beyond mere perverse titillation into others offer a glimpse into Levy’s playful wit and deep insight into life and from Irish, Germanic, Sanskrit, Hebrew very writer longs to have their When he had lost his sight. something more genuinely disturbing love. The quality of Levy’s work revealed itself here in Philosophy, a slightly and Arabic sources, as well as Aesop, the name become an adjective. The concerned with the sexual potential fall at all. There’s no gradual undoing He said that if I thought a while and oddly revelatory. Whilst no humans mischievous poem which uses clever poetic skips and tricks to drive home Panchutatra, Chaucer and Djuha stories. ability to reliably produce work of car crashes and one which is highly of propriety as there is in Lord of the would ever act the way that Ballard’s the simple point that ‘girls just wanna have fun’! In his new book, The Book of Upside Down The reason would be plain to see. that is simultaneously both sui generis unlikely to ever be the subject for Book Flies. The residents of the tower block characters do, there’s something in the ‘It’s not to help me on my way,’ he said. E Enjoy! Thinking, he uses stories that date back to and the sire of a legion of pale imitations at Bedtime. High-Rise was a different flash into action without hesitation. manner in which they “succumb to a the 11th century, written in the spirit of ‘It’s to stop you bumping into me.’ is about as close to immortality as a beast, a nightmarish social satire which The tensions in the high-rise, which logic more powerful than reason” that Nasrudin, or Si’Djeha as he is sometimes writer can hope for. J.G. Ballard was able sees the well-to-do residents of a newly are predicated on such small factors as holds up a dark mirror to the isolating called, and has turned then into rhymes, A few further pages further on, there is to reach this literary apotheosis, though built high-rise regress into a level of power outages, pool visitation rights and realities of the atomised world of the Philosophy aphorisms and maxims. some Sweet Advice. much like Kafkaesque and Orwellian, primitive savagery that makes the wild access to the children’s playground on the internet and push button conveniences Amy Levy (1889) Brian was in Morocco the year before, Ballardian is not an upbeat descriptor. boys of Lord of the Flies look like Rhodes roof, stratifies the building into a vertical have created. High-Rise’s excesses reflect and was intrigued and enchanted by the An angry wasp is in the honey. Defined by the Collins English Dictionary Scholars. class system: those at the top are on top that the modern world is more unhinged humour of these folk-tales, portraying Don’t fiddle with it. as “resembling or suggestive of… Unlike Golding’s cautionary tale, basically. The building itself seems to be and illogical than we would like to admit. Ere all the world had grown so drear, a man who is sometimes a sage, and Let the honey sort it out. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made Ballard eschews both morality and even emitting a malign psychic influence on The novel’s spiky humour, outrageous When I was young and you were here, sometimes a fool, but always with an landscapes and the psychological effects conventional logic. Indeed, it presents the increasingly demented residents; each satire and borderline dystopian horror eye on the absurdities of life and the Mr Patten has a fine way with words of technological, social or environmental a world where it seems absurd even to of whom slowly gain insurmountable ’Mid summer roses in summer weather, might be deliberately alienating (if oddly human condition. The shortest is a mere and he makes them dance a little gig for developments”. High-Rise, released in ask if doing something may be morally aversions to the concept of leaving the What pleasant times we’ve had together! compulsive), but Ballard’s warnings of 15 words, and the longest 22 lines. Most him, as they always have, in this quietly 1975, came at a time when the author’s wrong or right. It’s even misleading to building in any circumstances. Starvation the frailty of civilisation in the face of make one smile, or nod wisely, and some assured and satisfying little book of verse infamy was at an all-time high. This was talk about a descent from civilisation; preferable to the rules and structure of ever increasing technological saturation We were not Phyllis, simple-sweet, may make one groan just a little. This one and jokes. thanks to the release of Crash: a novel the people in Ballard’s book don’t really the outside world. remain potent and striking. And Corydon; we did not meet called Seeing and Believing made me tut By brook or meadow, but among to myself and say, ‘Of course!’ Don Grant Writers who don’t like hard rules about cancelled, and Cocktales’s publicist A Philistine and flippant throng Judge rises to the occasion as bid to how they can describe their characters Jennifer Watson. are feeling thoroughly satisfied after a US The Authors Guild and Romance Which much we scorned; (less rigorous trademark the word ‘cocky’ rendered court has ruled that they can continue Writers of America joined forces to It had no scorn at all for us!) to use the adjective “cocky” in their book provide Crescent with legal assistance How many an eve of sweet July, impotent titles, after one author attempted to stop and “defend the principle that no one other writers from using the word. The should be able to own exclusive rights Heedless of Mrs. Grundy’s eye, legal proceedings began in September to use a common word” in book titles. 2017, when self-published author They argued that “countless romance We’ve scaled the stairway’s topmost height, Faleena Hopkins filed a trademark novels employed ‘cocky’” in their titles And sat there talking half the night; claim for the word “cocky” in relation well before Hopkins laid claim to it, And, gazing on the crowd below, to a romance novel series, registered by that “no one should hold a monopoly Thanked Fate and Heaven that made us so; the US Patent and Trademark Office in on cocky”, and that “cockiness (in all its April 2018. permutations) remains as prevalent in In May, several romance authors romance novels as the use of stunning, To hold the pure delights of brain reported receiving letters from Hopkins scantily clad models on their covers”. Above light loves and sweet champagne. asking them to stop using the word During the case, heard in a New For, you and I, we did eschew in their titles and requesting that they York court on June 1st, Judge Alvin The egoistic “I” and “you;” change them. Hopkins, according to the Hellerstein described romance readers Authors Guild, later “tried to block the as “sophisticated purchasers” unlikely to And all our observations ran sale of books by other romance writers be confused between different authors’ On Art and Letters, Life and Man. that included the word”. She then books and denied Hopkins’s motion for applied for a preliminary injunction and a preliminary injunction and temporary Proudly we sat, we two, on high, a temporary restraining order to prevent restraining order to stop the publication Throned in our Objectivity; the publication of a collection of stories of books with the word “cocky” in the by various authors, Cocktales: The Cocky title. “Authors should be able to express Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers), Collective, which was written as an act of themselves in their choice of titles,” said But sexless, safe Philosophers. protest against Hopkins’s trademark. Her the Authors Guild in a statement after lawsuit was filed against Tara Crescent, the hearing. “A single word commonly author of another book series that used used in book titles cannot be “owned” by Dear Friend, you must not deem me light the word “cocky”, the lawyer Kevin one author. This is especially true when, If, as I lie and muse to-night, Kneupper, who had filed a legal challenge as here, the word has already been in use I give a smile and not a sigh to have Hopkins’s trademark in “cocky” by other authors in titles for years.” M.F. To thoughts of our Philosophy Compiled & Edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD 24 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Fashion Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Diana: Her Fashion Story Kensington Palace, W8 4PX Running throughout 2018 Photograph © Patrick Demarchelier © Patrick Photograph

RH Prince Henry and Ms Meghan Markle celebrated their Marriage at St. George’s Chapel. Windsor Castle on 19th May. 2018 and the world rejoiced with them. It was a glittering occasion of love, music, pageantry and fashion. HMeghan’s bridal gown was the perfect choice, classically elegant in style. Clare Waight Keller, the first female Director of Givenchy, the French Fashion House, worked closely with Meghan on its creation. Her name was kept secret until the Wedding Day. The exclusive, double silk, cady fabric was specially made to give a sculpted appearance. The elaborate veil, 5 metres long, was of silk tulle embroidered with symbolic flowers representing each of the 53 Commonwealth Nations. The sculpted effect of the dress was enhanced by the white roses rambling over the arched entrance to the Chapel. They seemed sculpted too and had an architectural aura. Meghan's bridal bouquet included ‘forget-me-nots’, Diana’s favourite flowers. Prince Harry picked them from his private garden, at Kensington Palace, in memory of his beloved mother. The Exhibition, Diana: Her Fashion Story, originally opened at Kensington Palace in February 2017 and is now displaying eight new exhibits. It explores how Diana matured from a young woman, who was learning the many rules of protocol, tradition of royal and diplomatic dressing, to become master of the art and to impress her own signature on the fashions created for her. Princess Diana’s dedication to her charity work is revealed in the centrepiece of the Exhibition. This new exhibit, a flak vest, denim shirt and Armani chinos, was worn when Diana visited a mine field in Angola. The hand painted logo on the vest depicts The Halo Trust a charity, which removes landmines and other debris of war. Notice the baggy knees of the chinos acquired as she often bent down to talk to children whilst working. Diana visited landmine victims during her visit to Angola in 1997. She was a guest of the International Red Cross. Memories of Princess Diana’s own Wedding Day are invoked by another new exhibit, the pink Bellville Sassoon suit. This was the going away outfit made for the young Princess and it is charming with a fichu collar and bolero jacket. Sassoon was one of her favourite designers and created much of her trousseau. It is interesting to view the resplendent, emerald green gown with a bustle, which is a stunning design of Victor Edelstein, top London Couturier. It was created for the portrait by Terence Donovan in 1986 and worn at the Anglo Spanish Ball in London. Diana looked spectacular in this opulent, royal dress. She took her role of showcasing British design and craftsmanship very seriously. The Exhibition draws attention to the huge variety of duties for which Diana had to be suitably dressed, these included the Braemar Highland Games in 1982. For this duty she wore a day dress in plaid, with white collar and cuffs, designed by Caroline Charles. This new exhibit has never been displayed before. It is traditional that the Royal Family wear tartan at the Games. The dress shows her adherence to protocol and was much imitated in the High street shops. The designer, Catherine Walker, was much favoured by Princess Diana and she became a personal friend. Catherine designed the blue silk dress with pleat and buttons for the New Zealand Tour in 1983. Catherine would have been given aspects of the design in a brief, before she began work. This was a customary practice. Another ‘first time on view’ exhibit is the deep blue, silk, pleated evening gown designed for the State Dinner with Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo 1986 and later worn at the Colosseum, London for a Ballet. This is an example of diplomatic dressing. A London based Japanese designer, Yuki, was chosen to design the dress as a diplomatic gesture in honour of Diana’s hosts. Much thought is given to appropriate dress for all state occasions. During the 1990s Diana developed a friendship with Gianni Versace and she inspired him to create a new look for her. His designs were classic, elegant and based on simple silhouettes of fashion icons, such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy. Diana: Her Fashion Story is a most enjoyable Exhibition. A second visit is a pleasure and enhanced by the new exhibits. It is about more than fashion, as it tells of the designers, protocol, the art of diplomatic dressing, royal visits and State occasions. It includes several items on loan from TRH Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry. A visit to Kensington Palace is always an uplifting experience, a palace where the walls echo the tragedies and joys of the royals for whom it is home. Marian Maitland

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TriOperas features www.sloanestanley.com political moments. the beautiful classics that you know and Ongoing 020 3862 5900 love, including Nessun Dorma, One Fine Witnesses to War Ends June 25 224-238 Kensington High St, Kensington, Day, Humming Chorus, Habanera and The Imperial War Museum Micromégas London W8 6AG Toreador Song, merged with punk, rap, rock Witnesses to War presents nine important Saatchi Gallery designmuseum.org and hip hop. This high adrenaline show is objects from the museum’s collection Micromégas is a portmanteau of the Latin E a dazzling experience, with an incredible spanning over a century, highlighting words for small and large. 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Joining them is a 020 7811 3070 are an important element of today’s art Reuters Land Rover damaged by a rocket Duke of York's HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, market. This is the UK’s most important T S July 10 – 11 attack in Gaza. London SW3 4RY focal point for international and local Rambert School of Ballet and 020 7416 5000 saatchigallery.com collectors, having stamped its mark on Contemporary Dance, Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ the international fair circuit by offering Summer Showcase iwm.org.uk Ends July 1 an exciting diversity of works for sale, as Lilian Baylis Studio The Art of British Natural History well as hosting lectures and talks on many June 2018 Rambert School is renowned for June 13 Natural History Museum subjects relating to indigenous cultures. producing passionate, expressive dancers Early Evening Chelsea Art Event This free art exhibition celebrates the 020 7930 6844 and innovative choreographers. The 264 King’s Road unique nature on our shores. 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The programme will also include a at the Workshop on King’s Road, right captured the imagination of many artists, FAIRS & FESTIVALS Ann Van den Broek: Loops of Behaviour 020 8985 2424 selection of original student choreography. next to the Chelsea Fire Station. scientists and naturalists, inspiring them The Curve 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ 020 7863 8000 It is a FREE event and light to observe and document the nation’s June 13 This summer in the Curve, Dutch- hackneyempire.co.uk Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R refreshments will be served. Dove Art geology, flora and fauna. Admire artworks Scavenger Hunt Flemish dance company WArd/waRD, sadlerswells.com Studio is our partner in sharing the of some of Britain's most iconic species. Hyde Park founded by dancer and choreographer Ends June 21 techniques of still life painting. All This showcase of items from the Museum Test your knowledge about the natural Ann Van den Broek creates a ten-day Swan Lake July 18 – 22 materials will be provided. Thank you Library’s collection explores the many world, uncover the hidden histories of the performance installation for the first Royal Opera House Che Malambo to Sloane Stanley for supporting the different ways the wonderful variety of park and get creative! You'll be awarded time in the UK. Informed by the work Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of Peacock Theatre programme and to Imperial College wildlife in Britain has been depicted over points for the number of clues you solve - undertaken during her Barbican residency swans while out hunting. When one of For the first time in the UK, after wildly London for loaning us the space. the past 300 years. the highest scoring team will be announced in 2017 and following her participation the swans turns into a beautiful woman, successful performances across North If you would like to attend please email 020 7942 5511 the winner of a goody bag filled with in Doug Aitken’s Station to Station: A 30 Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under America and Europe, the all-male us [email protected] to be Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 prizes! Maximum team size is 4 people. Day Happening in Barbican Art Gallery a spell that holds her captive, allowing Argentinian percussive dance and music sure of a place. 5BD Please bring a charged smartphone as you in 2015, this exhibition continues Van den her to regain her human form only at sensation Che Malambo brings the power, 264 King’s Road nhm.ac.uk will need to take pictures during your hunt. Broek’s research into the concept of a ‘total night. This season sees a new production poise and posturing of the gaucho cowboys Chelsea, London Please note this session is open to over 18s. experience’ whereby visitors can experience with additional choreography by Artist in to the Peacock stage. Created by French SW3 5UF Ends August 5 No items will be left or taken from the live performance, spoken word, sound and Residence Liam Scarlett. 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See the Music, 12-14 Long Acre, Covent Garden, London about retribution, remorse and redemption, reflection and violent action, tragic depth coordinated by RCM student Joe Parks, is WC2E 9LP Frozen explores the interwoven lives of and wild humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the the first collaboration of its kind in recent stanfords.co.uk three strangers as they try to make sense of story of the English language and the fullest years the unimaginable. expression of Shakespeare’s genius. 020 7591 4300 June 17 020 7930 8800 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London TEDxClapham: Grow 18 Suffolk St, London SW1Y 4HT shakespearesglobe.com SW7 2BS The Clapham Grand, trh.co.uk rcm.ac.uk Inspiring speakers from across the globe will descend on The Clapham Grand as Ongoing June 26 part of TEDx’s third event in Clapham. 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The Centenary of the end n Exhibition revealed ’s Pearson, who pioneered the Idea of a Chelsea Flower Show 2018 The Launch of courageous and epic struggle Florilegium were also present. By Don Grant of World War I and the in decisive battles at the When The Prince of Wales first the Transylvania unification of all Romanian EasternA Front and the close British and visited Transylvania in 1998, He was Romanian Alliance which was very totally overwhelmed by its unique beauty Photographs © Don Grant Photographs Florilegium Provinces in 1918 has been significant in the victory. and extraordinarily rich heritage. He saw at The Romanian Cultural commemorated at the The Chelsea Botanical Artist, Mary the importance of its flora and fearing f it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, is an old adage. Because it makes garden shed-loads of Ellen Taylor, and other artists world wide that some plants might be vulnerable to money for the RHS with record attendances and exhibitors’ fees, raises the profile Institute. Romanian Cultural Institute have contributed to the Transylvania changes in farming methods, suggested of corporate investment businesses and provides hour upon hour of television with a series of events. Florilegium which was launched as part it should be recorded in a Florilegium. coverage on the BBC, it should be left alone. But, because it is formulaic and of the Centenary Celebrations. She was He was inspired by the Highgrove I commissioned to paint an Aster Amellus Florilegium. The two volume Edition predictable, it should be fixed. For the past nine years M&G Investments has been the main sponsor, and they have blanket-bombed the site with placards, hoardings, Selita Vinata and it is both delicate and is compiled by Dr. J Akeroyd FLS, an pennants and posters plastered with their logo. A new kid on the block is VTB beautiful. The artists found their chosen authority on Transylvanian plants, who Group, ‘a leader in international banking in the Russia sector in emerging markets’, flora at Viscri and Valea Zalanuiu, an has worked there for many years. The and I thought the British government were trying to mount a retaliatory financial area of Transylvania bordered by the project was headed by Helen Allen crackdown on Russian money invested in London. investors believe Brexit- Carpathian Mountains and covered with FLS, Principal of the Chelsea School besmirched Britain is going to need Russian money even more in the future, and myriads of wild flowers which blossom to of Botanic Art at the Chelsea Physic chasing it out risks frightening off super-wealthy investors from other countries, too. hail the spring time. Garden and it took seven years to So, here they are, investing in a garden entitled Spirit of Cornwall, inspired by the The Botanical artist needs to be complete. work of Barbara Hepworth, not that there is any of her work on view, just a pair of scientifically accurate in his or her The Transylvania Florilegium is, metal and Perspex sculptures by Sheila Vollmer, inspired by Russian Constructivism. renderings of plants and to have much indeed, a fitting record for the flora of Old-timers at Chelsea are The Garfield Weston Foundation, now in their 60th patience. There is far more to this art the area it represents. The marbled cover year, with subtle and textured planting of mature trees, many of which have been to form than painting flowers. The artist with The Prince of Wales Feathers in an Chelsea before, and everything in this large and open garden in the middle of the chooses his/her specimen and consults oval shaped medallion is very handsome. Great Pavilion, is recycled, and will continue to be so. with a scientist in the field. A drawing Addisons has a very skilled team and Birmingham City Council have done the seemingly impossible by presenting a is made of the plant at first. Remember Iain Bain was in charge. Stochastic stand that was even more tacky than the last four. In 2014; they featured the First plants change even as you behold them! lithography was used ensuring colours World War, with the Cathedral as the centrepiece the following year. 2016 saw the The Romanian Cultural Institute were as close to the original as possible. focus on sewing needles, from micro sculpture of tiny figures carved into the eyes of partnered with Addison Publications Printing was done by Pureprint in Sussex needles, which were viewable through microscopes, up to one five meters in length, Ballard © Fay Cabbage. Tartar Sebeók , tataria Crambe and The Prince of Wales’s Charitable and the binding is by Stephen Conway a wicker Usain Bolt in characteristic pose and a giant metal hummingbird. Last year, Foundation to produce the Florilegium in Halifax. they featured the work of the quintessentially English cartoonist, Rowland Emett, which was launched in the presence Within the Transylvania Florilegium winning them a total of six gold medals in succession. This year, they have gone for of HRH The Prince of Wales, Liliana broke with the super-topical subject of the Empire Windrush, with an enormous is beauty painted by gifted mortals which THE EXHIBITION runs to 12th June Turoiu, President of the Institute, Dan is close to Nature’s own work and is a cry model of the ship, complete with floral funnels, wicker dolphins rising and falling and by popular demand returns from at the prow and little models of black people waving on the rear deck. Half of the Mihalache, Romanian Ambassador to for the protection of the environment. 2 - 31 July. Romanian Cultural Institute garden surrounding the ship is Caribbean in origin, and the other shows some of the UK and Dorian Branea, Director of the 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH roles and jobs undertaken when the Windrush generation settled in Britain. Transport Institute. Sir Nicholas Pearson and Lady Marian Maitland is represented by a floral locomotive and a red wickerwork London bus. They do seem to like a bit of wickerwork. The Lemon Tree Trust Garden was a little haven, created by Tom Massey who was 2019 DIPLOMA IN BOTANICAL awarded a RHS Gold Medal at Hampton Court for his UNHCR Border Control PAINTING AND ILLUSTRATION Garden, which was suitably tough and uncompromising. For the one at Chelsea, he took on board the advice and experiences of refugees living in Domiz, a Kurdistan STILL ENROLLING FOR JANUARY 2019 region of Iraq. The Trust support gardening initiatives in refugee communities ‘as ENQUIRE ABOUT INFORMATION SESSIONS RHS LONDON SHOWS a way to restore dignity, purpose and cultural identity.’ In another ‘worthy’ project, the RHS has joined forces with the NHS to design the Feel Good Garden, which Royal Horticultural Halls highlights the positive impact gardens and gardening can have on mental health Class-room based at the 11-12 July • RHS London Plant and Art Fair and stability. After the show, it will be relocated to the Camden and Islington NHS 10 July • Late event Foundation Trust, where it will provide a place where patients and staff can garden Chelsea Physic Garden, 2-3 October • RHS London Harvest Festival Show and feel closer to nature. The show gardens are exactly that, “showy” While there are this 2 year part-time smaller, and more modest, artisanal spaces away from the main drag, although the diploma course is taught 27-28 October • RHS London Urban Garden Show 26 October • Late event Welcome to Yorkshire exhibit has a cottage-garden charm. In the blurb for the Morgan by professional artists, academics and botanists Stanley Garden for the NSPCC, they portentously state that it is ‘a metaphor for RHS On Tour at Lambeth Country Show, Brockwell Park the emotional transition that takes place in a child as they experience the positive – bringing art and science Sat 21 July - Sun 22 July 2018, 12am-8pm impact of the NSPCC’s work.’ I am afraid that metaphor got lost in translation together within a strong along with the design process. Phrases like ‘‘a modern interpretation of . . . ’ ‘a historical context. reflection on humans’ interaction with the environment over time,’ and ‘it aims to Book tickets and find out more show homeowners how they can accommodate bold design features and colourful, Please visit our website for at rhs.org.uk/shows abundant planting’ are all pretty meaningless. Beware the word ‘bold’ when describing more information on our or 0844 995 9664* garden design. The Skin Deep Garden features a ‘bold’ sculpture consisting of almost diploma course and NEW 200 concrete blocks, representing human faces and skin conditions. Really? 2019 SHORT COURSES *Calls cost 7p per minute plus network extras. The garden sculpture at Chelsea has for years been uber-naff, but this year it takes for beginners through to some beating. Where did those prancing horses made of driftwood come from? They advanced master classes. are the three-dimensional equivalent of paintings of stallions galloping through the spume in the Camargue by moonlight on black velvet. www. Spherical slate water features are all the rage this year, as copper and glass ones chelseaschoolofbotanicalart. were the year before, and there is an abundance of cute goblins, fey fairies, sweet owls, co.uk dogs, cats, snails and frogs. Coy and capricious characters from Alice in Wonderland and Wind in the Willows cast in bronze costing thousands of pounds pose alongside whimsical dragons and goats. There are still pre-pubescent young girls generally RHS Registered Charity No: 222879/SC038262 lounging about, reading or gazing at their own reflections in ornamental ponds; this [email protected] time the three-dimensional equivalent of Margaret Keane’s big-eyed children. 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For a not opt for some of the items on this amusing photographic record, and will sports, a 25 metre yacht for themed sampled in each. group sharing a variety of great dishes, menu; such as edible snail, moorhen, deer certainly be able to dine out on this story excursions, a fully equipped gym, yoga, Starting with Pho Gà, the nation’s spring rolls, stuffed pancake, lots of and forest pig, hot-pot of salmon head, when they get home. tennis, painting and cookery classes, a library and pool table with a log fire for less sunny days, a Wellness Spa with The Dorset Coast Express indoor pool. In an effort to regain my Thursday 26th July, 9th, 23rd August and 6th September 2018 lost youth, I opt for a facial massage using natural products, so relaxing that I Flying in to Thessaloniki the surrounding table set on a carpet under a romantic nearly fall asleep. 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£U 109 age’ of steam. Passengers have the option of spending time at the celebrated seaside resorts of either Bournemouth or Weymouth, less developed of the fingers of three It’s not surprising that guests return Neos Marmaras to visit. There we have where both have fine sandy beaches. Each train will be hauled by a peninsulas extending into the Aegean sea year after year. There are so many an extended lunch at one of the harbour steam locomotive that was built for express passenger train work. that make up Halkidiki. The first finger thoughtful touches to surprise you, for side tavernas helped by retsina, ouzo and is the more populated Kassandra and the example, relaxing by the pool one of Tsipouro, the local firewater. 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Weekend Brunch (served Saturdays The Rib Room Bar & Restaurant William De Morgan became a well Ceru and Sundays from 11am to 5pm) and A Taste of is located on the ground floor of Sublime known novelist; his first novel called 7-9 Bute Street, looking over their savoury selection Jumeirah Carlton Tower, in the heart of Joseph Vance was about a mathematician’s became ominously aware of the very real Knightsbridge. The Rib Room serves the son. It was a bestseller in UK and USA. South Kensington, SW7 3EY possibility that our relationship might Summer best British cuisine and is a glamorous Symmetry: De Morgan was very observant T: 020 3195 3001 end with one of us skewered on the destination for wine or cocktails, offering and when working with stained glass, other’s fork in defence of a particularly an exciting array of whiskeys, premium The Mathematics he realised certain stains would have choice morsel. gins and bespoke bitters. a luminous finish if fired at certain Art Gallery © Guildhall Photographs I opted for the Shakshuka: Baked To mark the 50th anniversary of behind William temperatures, and thus he reinvented he area immediately surrounding eggs in Ceru’s own blend tomato sauce. Champagne Laurent-Perrier’s Cuvée lustre glaze. South Kensington Tube Station A hangover cure par-excellence, rich and Rosé, the Terrace will be serving this De Morgan’s Further innovation is seen in his can be a bit of a culinary compulsively edible. My girlfriend sprang much loved beverage, alongside several Ceramic Designs fantastical animals. Some are given minefield, with grimy windowed for the Spicy Lamb Hash: Flaked slow specially created Champagne cocktails Guildhall Art Gallery. human qualities. T and the brand’s world-famous Grand restaurants stocking pizza that looks cooked lamb with red chilli, edamame, De Morgan made serious study of positively radioactive rubbing shoulders fresh coriander and green peppers Siécle Champagne. To complement these Until 18th October 2018 the perfection and symmetry in Middle with the haute-ist (and haughtiest) of crowned with a fresh egg. The slow much loved beverages, The Rib Room Eastern tile work and that art inspired haute cuisine which your average visitor roasting that the lamb undergoes gave will be offering a selection of handmade his work. His beasts learned to coil round would probably have to take out a second it a heavenly softness which causes it to canapés including home cured salmon the contours of ceramic hollow ware mortgage just to be shown a glimpse of come apart quicker than one of Donald with Avruga caviar and walnut sable, and his profusion of flowers was much the wine list. In contrast to these two Trump’s electoral promises. It had all smoked Gressingham duck, picked admired by the contemporaries of the extremes is Ceru, a great quality (and the fortifying effect of a Full English blackberries & celeriac purée and Sussex day and has not failed to captivate in notably affordable) restaurant tucked with none of the bloat and by the end of crumble cheese croquettes with apricot modern times. away in Bute Street, which offers its own the meal we were totally sated. But we & ginger chutney. illiam De Morgan was the He had a wild imagination spin on contemporary Levantine cuisine. decided to finish off the meal with some Guests that order two glasses of leading ceramicist in the and threading through his work is Compared to the dull concrete delightfully decadent Dark Chocolate Jumeirah Carlton Tower has Champagne Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rose Victorian Arts and Crafts a mathematical rigour which the expanse of the warren of streets that Mousse and an espresso martini which partnered with Champagne will receive a complimentary tray of six MovementW and this exhibition explores exhibition reveals as well as his adherence surrounds the Natural History museum had enough kick to convince us that canapés. Alternatively, if guests order his work. It is an exciting collaboration to symmetry. Geometric shapes are the interior décor of Ceru was a positive another carafe of wine was not just Laurent-Perrier to bring a specially curated Champagne flight, between Guildhall Art Gallery and the balanced to great effect. Mathematics explosion of Mediterranean glitz. advisable but downright essential. Londoners a taste of summer which consists of Champagne Laurent- De Morgan Foundation with generous came naturally to him and he saw it in Turning our eyes to the menu it became Ceru offers high quality and off the Perrier Cuvée Rose, Champagne Laurent- loans from the London Mathematical all nature and made it the basis for his clear that the mezze style approach beaten track food offered at bargain at The Rib Room Bar & Perrier Brut NV and Champagne Society and other organisations. Many designs. This was the man who thought (not a million miles away from tapas, prices, with an all-day lunch menu which Restaurant’s al fresco terrace. Laurent-Perrier Ultra Brut NV, they will of his famous lustre pots, tiles, vases and Euclid’s work on Geometry was the best just coming from the other side of the manages to be entirely gluten free (not receive a pairing of three canapés. plates are displayed. novel ever written! He was drawn to Mediterranean) was something closer to counting the pita bread) without losing This summer, visitors and guests alike Those who wish to order a glass of There are many supporting events Islamic art because it favours geometric Middle-Eastern fusion than a classical any of its vibrancy. It’s hard not to see will be able to indulge in a glass of Champagne Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle which include practical workshops, principles. It inspired him. approach to the cuisine. My girlfriend them cleaning up the competition in Champagne, whilst overlooking views of will receive a complimentary 10g tin of an excellent schools’ programme and It seems he sought an imaginary state and I were there to check out their South Kensington. Max Feldman Sloane Street. Caviar. several talks. The Curator, Sarah Hardy, of perfection in art based on abstract is among the eminent speakers and she symmetry. In Middle Eastern art there Show, my guest and I took the latter is leading walks round Postman’s Park are visions of paradise which suit the option. For breakfast, I chose the where you can see the Memorial created Middle East, but maybe do not work so The Corner scrambled Wilton’s eggs on multigrain by William De Morgan and G.F. Watts well in an English home! The addictive toast with free range bacon (£7 and to those who lost their lives saving patterns need the grandeur of a mosque House £2.50 respectively), while my guest went others. or unending bright sunlight. 102-104 Shepherd's Bush a little further afield, ordering the Severn Elizabeth Scott, Head of the City of The properties of squares and circles Road, London W6 7PD and Wye Valley smoked salmon, rocket London Corporations’ Guildhall, said, are balanced and much used in De and dill cream cheese bagel (£5.50). “William De Morgan revolutionised Morgan’s designs and flowers are made Both dishes were wonderful. Often the field of ceramics by rediscovering the up of arcs or segments from a circle. He it can be difficult to distinguish one lost art of lustre ware and the Exhibition knew well that if flowers are rotated at Jinking my way through the bacon and egg dish from the next, but takes a unique approach by showcasing 120 degrees they match up perfectly this one stood out for the sharp contrast his famously colourful ceramic designs Think about, mathematics, symmetry, bustling streets of Shepherd’s of the eggs’ smooth texture and the and a fascinating account of how his Middle Eastern influence as you admire Bush, I arrived at The Corner crispiness of the bacon. Staring across life and upbringing helped to shape his the exhibits in this splendid exhibition. the table, my guest appeared to have mathematical approach to his art.” The ‘two handled vase’ with its Middle House in a rather dishevelled been lulled into a trance-like state from William De Morgan grew up in Eastern floral decoration, the ‘fan tile fashion. Having stepped off the half-eaten bagel that lay before Bloomsbury with his broad-minded panel’ with its glorious magenta and him. After taking a bite of my own, I family. His father, Augustus De Morgan, yellow colouring and the remarkable the bus four stops short of felt a similar disposition. Hearty with was the first Professor of Mathematics vase looking like fish net and fish within. my intended destination, a zestful undertone, I would absolutely at University College London, aged The tiles from Bedford Park Arts and recommend this dish. 25 years old. He pioneered computer Crafts Garden, Chiswick, the first garden the ensuing schlep made the But what makes this charming little programming. He was a brilliant and suburb, are famous and still there today. Park Terrace’s private dining room is the perfect location to gifted Mathematician and William The tile pattern revealing ‘Islamic arches’ manner of my arrival far from café so delightfully idiosyncratic is what host any special occasion. lies beneath. Following the stone-tiled inherited this talent. William’s mother is significant, as here De Morgan has princely. Fortunately, the airy flooring to the downstairs area, my guest Expect the same level of friendly and attentive 5 star service that was Sophie, née Frend. She was a used perspective to give the illusion of and I discovered that the café doubles you receive throughout the hotel. campaigner for Women’s Suffrage, Prison depth. Finally look out for a forceful, Corner House café helped to up as a crèche. Offering classes ranging Reform and the Abolition of Slavery. chocolate coloured peacock as this shows incubate my recovery. from baby hip-hop to ballet, parents can Take in delightful views of Kensington Gardens while you sit back When De Morgan was aged 20 fractal design. The whole image is made let the little ones have a run around while and enjoy delicious food and fine wine. years he attended the Royal Academy, up of parts of the same shape as itself. Divided by a partition running they treat themselves to a much-deserved but he left because he did not like the Its tail is the same shape as each feather through the centre, the café splits into an mocha upstairs. To make a booking or for more information, please contact Establishment. In 1863 he met William component. American-style on-the-go service where The Corner House is a perfect escape [email protected] or call 020 7361 1999. Morris and designed stained glass, tiles William De Morgan was customers can pick up a coffee for their from the busy hubbub of London life. 2-24 KENSINGTON HIGH STREET LONDON W8 4PT and furniture for Morris and Co. In 1872 undoubtedly a superb designer and morning commute. In the other room, TEL +44 (0)20 7937 8000 FAX +44 (0)20 7361 1991 he set up his own business in pottery and Appropriate for all ages, it is certainly WWW.ROYALGARDENHOTEL.CO.UK draughtsman with perfect technical there is a more relaxed seating area where worth visiting for those in the Shepherd’s ceramics. He lived in Fitzrovia and later competence, but can he be counted as a customers can let their roots grow. Bush area. Cheyne Walk which was very popular great artist? In the spirit of the Chelsea Flower James Billot with artists. 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Edward Bawden Dulwich Picture Gallery Until 9 September 2018 Admission £16.50.

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ike Eric Ravilious, Bawden could not be anything other than a quintessentially English artist. LHe was a graphic designer, printmaker Seniors, made when they reach the age and illustrator, and many will instantly of 75, which makes way for newer and recognise his style from his film posters younger artists. They elect replacements for the Titchfield Thunderbolt and Hue through ‘natural wastage,’ to keep the and Cry, with Alastair Sim, as well as numbers up. There are also 30 Honorary the whimsical designs he executed for Academicians, including such artists and Fortnum and Mason and Shell. Working architects as Jim Dine, Anselm Kiefer, mainly in watercolour, he would also Ai Weiwei, Renzo Piano, Jeff Koons and add pen and ink and pastel to produce Frank Gehry. The Academicians look works that are as idiosyncratic as they are forward to the Summer Show as a pig individual, although there are traces of looks forward to snuffling for truffles, as Ravilious, and Paul Nash, who tutored they are allowed up to 6 pieces each and them both at the Royal College of Art in pay no submission fee, whereas the poor the 1920s. punter has to fork out £35 for each work, After he left the RCA he went back which has gone up from £25 last year, to teach there, as well as at Goldsmiths and there are around 20,000 of them. College. While there, he worked on a The Royal Even with one submission per person, number of projects for the Curwen Press, that amounts to £700,000. Ker-ching. as well as other publishers, producing Academy of Arts The RA take 30% of every work sold, cover designs, book illustrations, posters Redevelopment of Burlington plus VAT, and last year there were 1,090 and advertisements for such diverse original works, plus prints, and this year, companies as Twinings, Poole Potteries, Gardens with more space in which to hang, they Westminster Bank and London expect 1,200 works, of which 800 will Transport which extolled the virtues of be from the public. A percentage of getting out of London and visiting places the surplus from the Summer Show is such as Kew Gardens. ploughed back into the Schools. This attractive exhibition comprises a Burlington House is a seventeenth number of chapters, including he RA has always been pretty century Grade-II-listed building, A World Off-duty, which involved a pleased with itself. Now, having while Burlington Gardens is a mid- witty glance at his fellow humans at spent £56m expanding into Victorian edifice, which first housed the play; Gardening, which displays his love whatT was the Museum of Mankind, University of London, then, in turn, the of plants and gardens, and includes and increasing its size by 70%, it could Civil Service Commission, the British book illustrations, his studies of Kew writhe with insufferable smugness. We Academy and the much-loved and Gardens and textile design; Spirit of are told that there will be free areas to Top: sorely-missed Museum of Mankind. Place, which records his impressions which the public have access, such as Royal Academy of Art Burlington House As part of the British Museum, until of particular locations, many from his The Collection Gallery displaying some Top: Top right: 1970, it was purchased in 2001 by the own surroundings in Great Bardfield of their own 46,000 works, including Taddeo Tondo Landscape with sunset Michelangelo Buonarroti RA. Various schemes were discussed in Essex; Wartime Portraits shows his Above: the extraordinary 16th century copy of The Gnat and the Lion Above: over the years as how to join the two work in Northern , Egypt, Sudan, Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper and Ultima Cena Right: buildings, without compromising the Ethiopia, Libya, the Lebanon, Iraq, Brighton Pier Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo, which has Leonardo da Vinci Left: space taken up by the RA Schools. Greece and Italy as a war artist, having been disappointedly hung on a white Benjamin West lecture theatre David Chipperfield RA was appointed never been further than Newhaven; background with distracting panel joints. to redevelop the new-ish acquisition in Architecture looks at some of his more To get to the other building from the 2008 and building works started in 2015, recognisable works, including his Piccadilly entrance, one goes under the the completion due to coincide with the linocuts and lithographs of Brighton main staircase, down some steps and into 250th anniversary of the RA. Hurrah! At Pier, Liverpool Street Station and his The Vaults, which have been cleaned to first glance, the staircase up to the bridge series Nine London Monuments; A Life an eerie bone-white, the perfect backdrop from The Weston Studio, which will in Black and White displays his drawings for a cast of the crucified body of a flayed house a rotating exhibition of students’ and linocuts from various stages of his murderer, known as an écorché. After works, appears to be very steep, and a career; Fable and Fantasy shows off his crossing the RA Schools’ area, there bit on the mean side, but it is merely a murals, posters and his own illustrated Ardizzone, whose delightful vignettes of lines of the glazed arched roof acting as This is a notable exhibition, following is a small chamber called the Weston link, and the grandeur is apparent when books for children of all ages, and the English at play have a bite lacking a backdrop to the puffing locomotives in on the heels of the Ravilious show at Studio at the foot of a steep flight that one enters the Wohl Entrance Hall from includes a wall lined with his own natural in Bawden’s work, without ever being the station, without overwhelming the Dulwich in 2015, reminding us that takes one back up to the ground floor of under the grand staircase.There are new history wallpaper. unkind. They were contemporaries, picture. Albert Bridge, before the central these two artists, along with Alan Sorrell, Burlington Gardens across the Weston exhibitions put on upstairs, maybe they Jungels-Winkler Galleries, which were spaces to eat and drink, including the Bawden was an inventor of imaginary and some of Ardizzone’s style and tone piers were installed in 1973, and Brighton and, to an extent, John Piper, have been Bridge, which overlooks The Lovelace feel they should not complain too much. housing Tacita Dean’s Landscape, the Senate Room bar, an all-day restaurant worlds, based on his extensive travels seem to have rubbed off on the more Pier, are other triumphs of paring down slightly forgotten and fallen out of Courtyard. Phew! One wonders what the The additional space includes the most boring film-maker since Jocelyn and cafés and shops at the Burlington in the Near and Middle East, and, serious Bawden. His architectural works the architecture to what is important to fashion over the years. Hopefully, this 50-odd students will make of ‘strangers’ raked, semi-circular, 250-seat Benjamin Moorhouse or even Andy Warhol. There Gardens entrance, all of which have free although the curator was at pains to are perhaps his strongest, graphically the composition, in complete contrast to exhibition will restore his reputation, as infiltrating their zone, but as their West Lecture Theatre, very much like an are 80 Academicians at any one time, all entry. describe him as a witty artist, he is not speaking, and Liverpool Street is a classic the playful and quirky world of Fable and the Ravilious one did for him. tuition is gratis and paid for out of the old operating theatre, and The Gabrielle elected by their peers, plus a further 47 Don Grant a patch on another war artist, Edward example of the complicated, bold black Fantasy in the final gallery. 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Royal Academy Summer Show The Great Spectacle Until 19 August 2018 Admission £18 and £16

rayson Perry is everywhere. He is in the Summer Exhibition with two pieces, a glazed ceramic Gpiece entitled Stupid White Thing and a woodcut called Selfie with political causes, in an edition of 12 and priced at £51,600 each. He was hosting a tour of Left: Untitled photo, possibly related to Mr Tronson, farmer near the exhibition at the press view, flouncing Wheelock, North Dakota. through the galleries in a clown suit. He Above: Untitled photo, possibly related to Co-operative store at is in the gift shop with Grayson Perry Greenbelt Maryland. T-shirts, Grayson Perry mugs, Grayson Below: Untitled photo, possibly related to family of rehabilitation client Perry notecard sets, Grayson Perry Boone County, Arkansas. necklaces and Grayson Perry Red Alan toys. He also co-ordinated the hanging of the show, and was in charge of the first two galleries, which he had painted canary yellow and had thrown everything at the walls. And it works. It’s completely mad, but it is fun, and so unlike anything of editing. Two photographers stand out, that has occurred in the last 250 years. Killed Negatives: namely Dorothea Lange and Russell But then the wheels fall off. Last year, Lee, and they both operated around there were 1,090 exhibits, but this year Unseen Images the farmworkers in the mid-Western there were 1,347 and in less space, States affected by the Dust Bowl. because The Great Spectacle exhibition Top: Many of Lange’s photographs survive, had robbed the Summer Exhibition of Joseph Michael Gandy, Public and Private Buildings executed by Sir John of 1930s America Soane between 1780 and 1815, 1818. Watercolour, bodycolour and pen Whitechapel Gallery as Stryker obviously thought highly of the Weston Rooms and Galleries I and and ink over graphite on paper. her, including the iconic image entitled Others: II. It seems odd to increase the number RA Summer Show interiors © Don Grant Until 26 August 2018 Migrant Mother for the Resettlement of works and shoe-horn them into less Free admission Administration, which summed up space, but they have, and the resulting the despair and poverty in this bleak displays are a shambles, with the Piers on show is William Frith’s A Private whitechapelgallery.org patch of American history. Lee took Gough curated Architecture Gallery View at the Royal Academy, 1881, with thousands of pictures all over California, resembling a store-room waiting to be fashionable London ladies mixing it with New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, unpacked, and the sculpture galleries, Oscar Wilde, who is pontificating in where he documented the lives of the curated by Phyllida Barlow, and Cornelia front of a group of admirers. John Singer tenant farmers and sharecroppers living Parker with Grayson Perry (it’s that man Sargent’s portrait of Henry James was in the migrant camp on May Avenue, again) are an omnishambles. Banksy is slashed by the suffragette Mary Wood at south of the North Canadian River. on show for the first time, with a new but, sadly, it is not for sale. Neither limited edition polymer photogravure the Summer Exhibition of 1914, while Another featured photographer was work based on a UKIP poster, entitled are David Hockney’s two gigantic etchings of Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass. Michael Gandy’s masterful watercolour n odd title, you may think, for the Social Realist painter, muralist and Vote to Love, priced at £350million, the photographic drawings, which seem a The Great Spectacle tells the story of of Public and Private Buildings Executed an exhibition of photography, calligrapher, Ben Shaun, who travelled price being the amount that the Leave little pointless, in spite of their size and the annual show, which has been held, by Sir John Soane between 1780 and but not as odd as the reasons around the affected areas with Lange, campaign once promised would go to the provenance. As an honorary RA, Anselm without interruption, since 1769, and 1815 is on loan from his museum in behindA it. In the 1930s, the Information and one wonders what could possibly UK National Health Service each week Kiefer has a mixed medium assemblage this is celebrated in an excellent display Lincoln’s Inn Fields. David Wilkie’s Division of the Farm Security be offensive about his photograph of appears in the frame, it does its job, as 170,000 of his photographers’ images if Britain left the EU. comprising emulsion, oil, shellac lead, in the rooms at the front of Burlington historical painting of old soldiers reading Administration (FSA), commissioned the young woman at the rehabilitation it becomes the focus of the picture and and negatives ended up in The Library The usual suspects are all there, with metal, clay, gold leaf and wood, entitled House, overlooking the Courtyard. It of Napoleon’s defeat, Chelsea Pensioners photographers to record and document centre in Boone County, Arkansas. Other impossible to ignore, or use as a print. of Congress. He was interviewed by Ken Howard’s petrichor reflections of Gehäutete Landschaft, which translates has been arranged in chronological order, Reading the Waterloo Despatch caused life in rural America during the Great photographers in the exhibition are Franklin D Roosevelt was the President the Smithsonian Institution in later Venice, Joe Tilson’s Stones of Venice series, as Skinned Landscape, also NFS. In the starting with A Georgian Parade, when a sensation when displayed in 1822. Depression years, but to a very strict set Walker Evans, Paul Carter, Jack Delano, during this whole period between 1935 life and he admitted how little he really Stephen Farthing’s visual rants, Norman Wohl Central Hall is an enormous the RA was housed in Somerset House, Into the modern era, they have Pietro of rules, guidelines and subject matter. Theodor Jung, Arthur Rothstein, John and 1944, and made serious efforts to knew about photography and how Ackroyd’s exquisite etchings, Mick textile column by Joana Vasconcelos, with the deliciously salacious Thomas Annigoni’s Queen Elizabeth II, which Any submitted photographs that did not Vachon and Marion Post Wolcott. drag America out of the Depression with much the photographers he had hired Rooney’s gouache and tempera paintings called Royal Valkyrie, which is a hand- Rowlandson print called Exhibition drew huge crowds in 1955, and Michael adhere to the instructions, were ‘killed’ Whatever the reasons behind the his New Deal, comprising relief, recovery taught him, learning that images could of magical realism and Bill Jacklin’s made woollen crochet creation, with felt Stare Case, with plump, knickerless ladies Craig-Martin’s Reconstructing Seurat by the project manager, Roy Stryker, by defacement of so many negatives, printed and reform, delivered over the wireless in express feeling as well as information. swirling out-of-focus oils, including a and fabric appliqués. Most of the prints, tumbling down the stairs, simultaneously (Orange), as well as a display of posters hole-punching the negatives. This control up as bromides for this exhibition, the his ‘fireside talks,’ including his famous He realized, however, that magazine and new way of looking at the stars and the photographs and drawings are now mocking the exhibition-going public, advertising the Summer Exhibitions over of information and censorship smacks results, each with a black disc hovering remark, ‘The only thing we have to fear is newspaper photographs showing needy sea, as monoprints, as well. One can only housed in the Sackler Galleries upstairs, eager to see the annual show, and the the years. of Stalinist Russia, with its propaganda randomly in the frame as a black sun, fear itself.’ farmers, would boost the chances of New guess how much Ken will appreciate the and one wonders how many visitors will London art establishment. After that, To coincide with the Summer machine ensuring that only those a hole or a ball, are in the realms of He brought out laws mandating Deal relief legislation passing Congress. cheesy, larger-than-life portrait of him by make it up there. Tom Phillips seems to the visitor moves into The Rise of Genre Exhibition, flags are hanging high above images sanctioned by the Party get into surrealism. In some images, the disc is in proper soil maintenance to make sure It is curious, then, that he went about Tim Hall. The Courtyard has a ridiculous have come to a full-stop with his digital Painting, The Triumph of Landscape, with Bond Street, Piccadilly and Regent the public domain. Some images were the middle of someone’s face, while in that another dust bowl was avoided. selecting the right image in documenting pile of stones and boulders underneath print and screenprinted Humument examples by Constable and Turner, and Street, decorated with designs by artists ‘strykered’ because they were patently not another taken in a Cooperative store in Stryker was part of Roosevelt’s Brain the Great Depression at the expense of a metal frame holding a red fabric disc series, which he has been producing since The Pre-Raphaelites, with the painting Rose Wylie, Cornelia Parker and Joe good, or interesting enough, but it was Maryland, it sits on a shelf behind two Trust, and, at his time in charge of the ones that were, in his view, not. entitled Symphony for a Beloved Daughter 1970, while Cornelia Parker also seems by John Everett Millais of Isabella, on Tilson. And, of course, Grayson Perry. still an unusual and Draconian method children with a trolley. 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“they lived Virginia Woolf in squares, True Colours Pallant House painted in By Jane Duncan Until 16 September 2018 circles and Admission £11 House © Pallant Photographs loved in www.pallant.org.uk triangles” Dorothy Parker he artist Kandinsky believed that Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. “Colour is the keyboard,T the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The he sub-title of this show in artist is the hand that plays, touching Chichester is ‘an exhibition one key or another purposively, to cause inspired by her writings.’ vibrations in the soul.” This analogy was AlthoughT the publicity flags up the fact echoed by Matisse, “The effect of colour that it comprises 80 female artists, it is has real power…so much power that, curious that no men are included, not in certain lights, it seems to become a one. Not even Duncan Grant, but then substance” the curator moderated by stating, ‘Not But artistic interpretation of colour every single artist in the exhibition is is not singular or new. Our relationship inspired by Virginia Woolf,’ says Laura. with colour dates back millennia. Colour ‘It’s not that simple or didactic. It’s has been investigated and used for more about creating a shared language and than 2000 years throughout history. The experience.’ The exhibition starts with a Egyptians are recorded as using colour gallery entitled Landscape and Place, and for cures and ailments. There are lists for Woolf, this meant an escape from the on papyrus dating back to 1550 BC of constraints of Victorian values and also colour “cures” and the practice of using the dominance of a patriarchal society. colour/light therapy. The Chinese also The natural world provided a backdrop practiced Colour Healing. The Nei Ching, for her first novel, The Voyage Out, where 2000 years old, records colour diagnosis, her female protagonist explores her inner and some early studies of colour theories life through an epic journey. ‘I love the about light were done by Aristotle. the owner of the property. by those seeking a minimalist look. freedom of it; it’s like being the wind A pioneer in the field of colour, was Colours favoured by Castor Grey is timeless and classic, or the sea.’ Feminist landscape painters Isaac , who published his first Londoners are black, so doesn’t run the risk of going out of included Woolf ’s sister Vanessa Bell, in Spanish Landscape with Mountains controversial paper on colour, in 1672. white, grey, navy, red, green, fashion. Navy Peony is authoritative and purple, pink, yellow and trustworthy, while Nile Green is calm, Laura Knight and Ithell Colquhoun, a are more mamillary than monticulate. Newton passed a beam of sunlight © Pinterest Photographs surrealist and occultist, whose painting Bloomsbury’s Bohemian sensibility through a prism. When the light came natural stain. Black is the quiet and soothing. True Red is quite the Scylla, depicting what could be some suited Woolf, who joined with other out of the prism is was not white but prevalent choice of Belgravia, opposite and more likely to be preferred rocks, or, more likely, the artist lying intellectuals in her newfound community seven different colours: Red, Orange, Mayfair, Marylebone, by commanding, dynamic and engaging in the bath with her legs apart, which to form the Bloomsbury Group, an Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. conservation areas in individuals. Argyle Purple suggests caused a bit of a stir in the 1930s, as informal social circle that included This spreading into rays was called Camden and Islington, and those with a penchant for the dramatic, did her phallic imagery. Gluck was an Woolf ’s sister Vanessa; Vanessa’s husband dispersion, and Newton called the selected properties in South Minion Yellow is optimistic and interesting character in this potpourri the art critic Clive Bell, the artist Roger different coloured rays the spectrum. Kensington and Chelsea energizing, Pink Lavender is youthful of feminist and creative women. Born Fry, the economist John Maynard Keynes During the Renaissance, artists which are restricted to black and spirited while opting for a natural Hannah Gluckstein, she was part of the and writers Lytton Strachey and E. M. revolutionised the use of colour. Colour doors only. Halsey Street stain is rustic and warming.” J. Lyons food empire; she had a series Forster. Dorothy Parker famously noted was chosen for aesthetic or technical in Chelsea is an exception, Marcus Flacks, Marketing Director of high-profile affairs with women, that ‘they lived in squares, painted in purposes, and often served as a symbol. and an example of the use of Marsh & Parsons, said: “You can’t including Effie Craig, known simply circles and loved in triangles.’ Through The concept of colour symbolism pastel colours. be scientific about people’s choice of as Craig, and took to wearing pleated Bloomsbury, Virginia also met writer continued to be prevalent well into the Visit Portobello Road colour but clearly someone who choses trousers and smoking pipes. Her painting Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 20th Century. TS Eliot in his epic poem in Notting Hill, there black, like No. 10 Downing Street, is Before the Races, St Buryan, Cornwall 1912. At one point she wrote, ‘creative The Waste Land references ‘The violet are a myriad of colours probably inclined towards an imposing is a delightful landscape of a group women must think back through their hour’ the time between the sun setting both on front doors and first impression that suggests power of owners, mounts and riders under a mothers’. Ethel Sands, a great American and when the sky turns purple. facades, representing the and prestige. But someone who paints perfect blue sky. socialite and hostess to members of the In many cultures, from ancients to the areas flamboyant past and their front door a vibrant pink or The second section is entitled Still life, Bloomsbury Group, as well as Walter present day, the colour of doorways and present. Mews houses across yellow is also making a statement that the home and a Room of One’s Own, which Sickert, Augustus John, Henry James and entrances has long held significance both London tend to be painted life should be fun. That’s what makes is the title of her essay she wrote in 1929. Arnold Bennett, is represented by a calm, a Surrealist writer and photographer, with fellow writer Vita Sackville-West, symbolically and spiritually. In India a is considered the mouth of Chi. The in more vibrant colours; particularly in London so fascinating. We have found ‘A woman must have money and a room moody interior study entitled The Chintz who, with her partner and step-sister, the changes gender from man to woman colourful design called a Rangoli is made quality of this energy determines the Marylebone and more bohemian parts of from the survey, there are restrictions of her own if she is to write fiction.’ The Couch. illustrator Suzanne Malherbe, adopted as the story unfolds. The last section is near the entrance to a house to welcome quality of energy in the home. In Camden. in some areas, but in the main people writing desk became her refuge. ‘The The self in public deals with how many an alliterative masculine alias and called The self in private and explores the guests. The term Rangoli is derived classical Feng Shui, the most auspicious So what do these colours signify? are free to express themselves, and only way I keep afloat is by working,’ artists have chosen to present themselves, published as Marcel Moore, smudging more subconscious desires and concerns from the words Rang (colour) and holi colours for a front door are based on the Marsh & Parsons asked the Pantone clearly Londoners enjoy making Woolf confessed. ‘Directly I stop working as well as family and friends. Gwen the lines between gender years before it of the artist and includes works by Ithell (celebration). Traditionally made from compass direction the door faces and its Colour Institute for its interpretation striking statements with their choice I feel that I am sinking down, down.’ John’s self-portrait shows us a somewhat became fashionable and accepted. Gluck Colquhoun, Sandra Blow and Penny coloured sand or rice powder, they are corresponding Feng Shui element. of what the identified colours might say of colour. Whilst we would not suggest The exhibition is led by her writing, prim young woman, which belies her and Eileen Agar are included in these Slinger, who produces rather tiresome, often created very early in the morning So how important is the colour of about those owners who live behind their that a particular colour could affect which explores feminist perspectives enthusiastic attitude to sex, with both galleries, as is France-Lise McGurn, a surreal, feminist photo-montages and and later swept away, so that a new our front door? What messages are we front doors. a sale, psychologically people might on landscape, domesticity and identity women and men, notably Auguste recent graduate of the RCA, who also objects primarily dedicated to different picture is produced every day. A Rangoli conveying to the outside world about Laurie Pressman, Vice President subconsciously be more attracted in modern and contemporary art, with Rodin, and then Véra Oumançoff, about has a St Ives connection along with aspects of the female psyche. The symbolises a warm welcome and good ourselves and our home? A recent survey of the Pantone Colour Institute, said: to a house which reflects their own works by such artists as Gwen John, whom she became obsessive. Claudia Vanessa Woolf, having just recently exhibition came from Tate St Ives, and luck. between London estate agent Marsh & “Black has elegant, powerful and personality.” Winifred Nicholson, Sandra Blow, Calhoun’s playful photograph of herself completed a residency and wall painting moves on after Pallant House to The It is believed in Feng Shui the house Parsons and the international Pantone prestigious undertones. It is imposing, Interesting, perhaps Kandinsky and Barbara Hepworth, Claude Cahun as a weight trainer, was taken in 1927; at Tate St Ives herself, Collapsing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. receives its nourishment of energy Colour Institute reveals the colour of a sleek and chic. Brilliant White is simple, Matisse were right, colour has power to and Dora Carrington, whose hillocks she was the alter ego of Lucie Schwob, Orlando, based on the author’s love story Don Grant (Chi), through the front door, which front door can indicate the personality of crisp and pristine and often favoured connect us all.. 44 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

dark and uncompromising they recorded Dopesmoker. Despite two descending runs and revealed a rich Aftermath views of a world at war, with months of recording yielding one single expanse of melody and power. It created Tate Britain Max Beckman’s series Hell, MUSIC hour-long song, it turned off London a joyous, if bloody-minded, rock tune. All portraying Berlin as a violent and Records who refused to release it. Sciences hail Sleep and its medicinal powers. Until 23 September 2018 lawless society in melt-down, rights that wrong thanks to a handsome Photographs © Tate Britain Tate © Photographs ROUND UP Admission £22 Kathe Kollwitz’s War, Georges and sympathetic new release on Jack Rouault’s Misery and War and BY GEOFF COWART White’s Third Man Records imprint. tate.org.uk Otto Dix’s series of etchings, After all, Jack, of White Stripes fame, is Royal Academy drypoint and aquatints, also a man who, like Sleep, knows how to entitled simply War. rehash the same song to deadly effect. hosts the Emerging from the shadows, Predictably enough, it’s the tunes Behn Quartet hundred years has nearly the visitors enter a gallery from Sciences which dominated the gig. passed since a mother had had entitled Return to Order, in Opening with the title track threatening The Royal Academy of Music hosts the Esa-Pekka Salonen inscribed on her son’s tombstone which there is a renewed Sleep awaken after to rip the newly-repaired roof off young all-female Behn Quartet on 21 in the corner of a foreign field at the interest in pastoral scenes, the Empire, it was followed closely June. The concert pairs Debussy’s String A harking back to peaceful a 15-year slumber by Marijuanaut’s Theme, Sonic Titan, quartet Op.10, plus the little-heard Three Foncquevilles Military Cemetery in the Pas de Calais ‘Will some kind hand in a times, and George Clausen’s Antarticans Thawed and The Botanist. Transcriptions by New Zealand composer Haigh commission for two narrators and foreign land place a flower on my son’s The Road, Winter Morning, to conquer the These tracks sat alongside songs from Jack Brody as it attempts to channel large ensemble. 24 June at 3pm grave.’ The repercussions and shock- painted in 1923 is shown next their more rugged and loose 1993 album, the sounds of the Madagascan zither, waves that reverberated throughout to The Cornfield by John Nash, Empire Holy Mountain, which included the title Chinese jaw harps and Bulgarian village • Musicians from the RCM Junior Europe and the rest of the world, went both reassuringly British and track, Aquarian and Dragonaut. bands. Free entry. From 1.05pm. Department perform a selection of on for years after the end of the ‘War bucolic. Women’s roles had he late May bank holiday These shorter tunes reveal both the www.ram.ac.uk contemporary pieces, including works by to End All Wars’, with dreadful social changed radically during the weekend hosted a prodigious power, and limitations, of Sleep. Yes, RCMJD composers. 16 June at 5.30pm. deprivation, shattered bodies and minds war, with emancipation and weekend of heavy music in these more concise songs show off what and terrible destruction to towns, cities memorials ever made was designed by draped in a Union flag at the entrance modern femininity coming to the fore, London. The annual Raw Power festival they do best: the tight lockstep playing •RCM singers explore the themes T between Pike and Cisneros; the clever, of love, separation and reunion through and the landscape, nowhere more so Charles Sargeant Jagger as a monument to a richly-decorated and darkened hall illustrated by Dorothy Brett’s War in Tufnell Park delivered wild shows than Northern France. In the first dedicated to the casualties in the Royal at Versailles, at the end of which is an Widows, with nine females all in black, from noisenik legends such as Godflesh subtle harmonic variations that keep the songs by Duparc and Chabrier. 20 June gallery called Remembrance: Battlefields Regiment of Artillery and stands at arched window and a cross. Originally, Dod Proctor’s delightful Morning, and (UK) and Circle (). It even songs moving; the general brutality of at 6.15pm. and Ruins, there are two paintings by the west side of Hyde Park Corner. he painted two ghostly, semi-nude Meredith Frampton’s neo-Classical featured a performance from the exciting the band as Hakius pummels the unholy Christopher Nevinson, one of two dead A maquette of The Driver adorns this figures at either side representing an portrait Woman Reclining featuring new doom tuba duo, Ore. Yes, doom tuba. groove along. Meanwhile, resident violinist Pinchas soldiers lying amongst the barbed wire room, one of four oversize bronze figures unemployed soldier and the Dead, but the model Marguerite Kelsey in Coco But it was the California burnouts But Sleep perform best when they Zukerman holds a workshop for RCM Behn Quartet and shell-holes, called Paths of Glory, and standing sentinel around the Portland when the Imperial War Museum rejected Chanel garçonne style. Frampton’s father Sleep who stole the headlines. Playing to can stretch out and improvise. And they string players at Cadogan Hall on 27 the other painted a year earlier in 1916 stone plinth, dominated by a massive it on grounds of not sticking to the brief, was the sculptor Sir , a sold-out O2 Shepherds Bush Empire saved the best for last by finishing with June. of Ypres After the First Bombardment, 9.2 inch Mk I howitzer, some 9m. high, he altered it accordingly. A temporary who produced the statue in on the Monday they showed no signs fan favourite Dopesmoker bathed in a red- The Schubert and Dvorak concert depicting empty or burning buildings. sitting atop the stone. His sculptural catafalque was erected alongside the Arc Kensington Gardens and the memorial of rust after a 15-year hiatus from lit stage. Here, the band didn’t need to starts at 7.30pm. £10. Showing alongside is a three-minute film tribute has a raw truthfulness with no de Triomphe in Paris on 14 July 1920, to Edith Cavell in Saint Martin’s Place. recording. Thankfully, their new album punctuate the gaps between songs with And members of the RCM Chorus taken from a rigid airship flying lower sentimentality, and alongside is another with thousands of soldiers taking part, Stanley Spencer is represented by Christ Student recitals join the Philharmonia Voices and and lower over the same town in 1919 maquette of a Soldier Reading a Letter, but the structure was dismantled after Carrying the Cross, and the seminal The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for a full by a film cameraman and his pilot, and which features as our June Statue on the parade. In Whitehall in London, Deluge by Winifred Knights, which we a-plenty concert performance of Schoenberg’s the devastation is hard to comprehend. page 8. In between these two stunning Sir Edwin Lutyens was asked by Lloyd saw at the Dulwich Picture Gallery less opulent Gurrelieder. 28 June at 7.30pm. In the vitrines are a fascination display bronzes is a bas-relief panel, 4ft x 10ft, George to design a permanent Cenotaph than two years ago; she was declared It’s exam time. Which means another From £11. of photographs of ruined buildings, depicting a listening post in No Man’s (literally ‘empty tomb’), past which the a genius by the Daily Graphic when it week of free recitals at the capital’s www.rcm.ac.uk including Reims Cathedral, aerial Land, where a soldier hides among the peace parade would march, honouring was displayed at the RA in 1921. Also music colleges. At the Royal Academy reconnaissance photographs of German bodies of his dead comrades in order the million or so dead, initially made of in this section are paintings by Picasso, of Music, the gigs come thick and fast trenches, illustrated Michelin guides to listen to the enemy all around him. plaster and wood, but later fashioned André Derain and Georges Braque, between now and 18 June. Check out Fulham to the battlefields and a collection of Frank Salisbury’s The Passing of the from Portland Stone. with sculptures of a standing woman the Orlando Piano Trio’s recital on 12 souvenirs, both British and German, Unknown Warrior, 11 November 1920, The third room is all about wounded by Henry Moore, Aristide Maillol’s June featuring pieces for flute and cello Symphony including matchbox covers, letter openers is an impressive piece of work of the soldiers and contains the most thought- Venus with a Necklace and Eric Gill’s performed by students. and ashtrays made of shrapnel and shell- same dimensions, but, more impressive provoking and harrowing works, with beautifully-carved Hoptonwood stone www.ram.ac.uk Orchestra cases. still is William Orpen’s To The Unknown Henry Tonks’s rarely seen portraits of female nude Mankind. Imagining Post- Over at the Royal College of Music, One of the most powerful war British Soldier in France, showing a coffin severely disfigured servicemen, used war Society: Post-War People includes the recital season is longer, running until return to the in the reconstruction of their faces at such paintings as Edward Burra’s Les 8 July. Highlights include: the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Follies de Belleville and The Snack Bar, Town Hall Department, or the ‘Tin Noses Shop’, at William Roberts’ The Jazz Club, and • Student-formed modern ensemble The Third London General Hospital in more works by Dix, Nevinson, Hoerle Uncharted Lines performing Louis The Fulham Symphony Orchestra Wandsworth, and working for Sir Harold and Grosz, whose Grey Day suggests Andriessen’s Workers Union and a Robin celebrate summer with a return to Sleep Gillies, producing these astonishing that nothing had really changed and the Hammersmith Town Hall on 16 June. pastel drawings and recording operations world had reverted to its old social order The concert from the ambitious of facial injury cases at the Cambridge and class divisions. The final section amateurs will feature the third military hospital in Aldershot. Otto Dix, looks at The New City, and includes Sciences finds their heads safely back in chat (restricted largely to Pike saying symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams George Grosz and Heinrich Hoerle did artists looking across the Atlantic to the clouds; exactly where their legendary ‘Thank you, London’ repeatedly…) or and Danish composer Carl Nielsen, not flinch from the horrors of war on the future, where technological progress 1998 Dopesmoker sessions left off. aimless noodling. Instead, they could riff dating from 1922 and 1911 respectively. the other side, producing biting, satirical and modernity were the order of the They made a lot of noise back in the out and relax, trading in the distortion The Vaughan Williams’ piece has four comments on the marginalisation day, celebrating skyscrapers, automated Nineties with their hour-long jams. But for an impervious sludge of blues, metal lyrical movements which aim to share of disabled war veterans. In France, factories and machinery, with a large their brand of slow-motion metal is best and early Sabbath-esque jazz. some of his experiences in his role in however, Les gueules cassés featured canvas by Ferdinand Léger entitled Discs experienced live. Earplugs help, but this Pike’s growling Rickenbacker made the medical corps during the First prominently in the victory celebrations in the City dominating the room. The is hardly an effective bulwark from their a handy foil for Cisneros to riff over as World War. While Nielsen’s exuberant in 1919. Dada emerged from neutral last painting one sees as one leaves is gloriously punishing riffs. they thrashed their way through the Espansiva symphony boasts powerful, Switzerland during the war, with artists Christopher Nevinson’s The Soul of the The trio, consisting of burly singer/ epic song. Armed with five bass cabinets yet wordless, vocal parts in its second like Hannah Höch and the Berliner Soulless City (‘New York-an Abstraction’), bassist Matt Pike (who’s spent the past with eight heads, he faced off with movement. John Heartman producing anti-war which resonates with the same emptiness few years concentrating on his High Cisneros’ eight guitar cabinets and seven Conductor Marc Dooley is joined photomontages and Grosz and Edward and hopelessness as his painting Ypres, on Fire project); tattooed guitarist Al heads in a wall of guitar gear straight by Rebecca Lea (soprano) and Greg Burra making human beings out of painted in 1916 and displayed in the first Cisneros and clean-cut drummer Chris out of Spinal Tap. But it was effective. Skidmore (baritone). Starts 7.30pm. Pincas Zukerman machine parts, alongside Max Ernst and room. Hakius (who both play in Om), were And highlighted the band’s impressive Tickets £12 (under-18s £8). André Masson. The next room includes Don Grant beset with a bad label and bad luck when tonal range mirrored in their ascending/ fso.org.uk

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MAX to Cleveland-based cartoonist John grief; a force as possessive, in a manner “Derf ” Backderf, Jeffrey Dahmer was the Hereditary of speaking, as any invading spirit, but Feldman weird kid at his high school. Backderf Director: Ari Aster also complicating it with conflicting REVIEWS later translated his memories of going notes of bitter fury, wavering affection, Photographs © A24 to school with, and briefly befriending, Running Time: 127 minutes and even dark humour. It’s a tour-de- Dahmer into the graphic-novel memoir force performance, at once explosive and My Friend Dahmer, which forms the heart-breaking, and as extreme thoughts

basis for the film (with a few tweaks, Aperture Entertainment © Photograph and hard truths begin bubbling from the My Friend including an increased focus on Jeffrey’s f all the blood-curdling images depths of Annie’s mind, Collette turns home life). conjured up by Hereditary, the her heightened, volatile emotions into an Dahmer Director Marc Meyers aims for a most traumatically terrifying new open threat: the monster of unprocessed Running Time: 107 minutes similar verisimilitude in the look of the Ohorror movie in ages, one sticks out as baggage. (Her fervour is nearly matched, Director: Marc Meyers film, shooting in the actual house where particularly definitive: Toni Collette, face it must be said, by the credible bone- Dahmer lived as a teenager and filling twisted into a grotesque grimace of fear, deep fright conveyed by Wolff, stuck in a the film’s soundtrack with songs pulled staring off screen at a ghastly something much more harrowing misadventure than from contemporary playlists on the local we’ll soon have the bad luck of laying the one he weathered in Jumanji: Welcome FM rock station. This technique does eyes on too. Her recurring expression of To The Jungle.) give the film a very specific sense of fright and pain is more than just a perfect As a set-piece machine, Hereditary y Friend Dahmer, a coming- time and place, small town Bath, Ohio, crush. At times, Meyers and Lynch bring emotional instability keeps her cycling in mirror, reflecting back the audience’s own doesn’t shatter the mould. Its tropes are of-age drama tracing the 1978, and the characters of Derf (Alex a sensitivity to the character that gives and out of mental hospitals. She delivers mounting distress. It also captures, in familiar: apparitions emerging gradually struggles of an adolescent Wolff) and his National Lampoon and little moment’s impressive weight, like the film’s most groan-worthy line: “In shuddery microcosm, the tactics of this from the shadows or perching in the MJeffrey Dahmer to fit in at his high Monty Python-obsessed crew of teenage Jeffrey taking the family dog out to the this house, we eat our mistakes.” relentless, ingenious shocker, the way it corner of the frame; bodies unnaturally school, is going to make some viewers comedy nerds are much more specific woods behind his house or flinching All this family drama takes away builds its haunted house on a foundation contorted; a creepy kid (this one granted uncomfortable. Some may even lash out and realistic than most cinematic high under the cold stethoscope of handsome from the film’s provocative core question: of raw and ugly emotion. The real horror an unnerving verbal tic, a guttural against the film, deeming it insensitive schoolers. At the beginning of the Dr. Matthews (Vincent Kartheiser), If there had been someone in Jeffrey tempest of unspoken, unspeakable cluck deployed to break the silence at toward the families of the 17 men and film, Derf and his friends adopt creepy who Jeffrey silently watches from the Dahmer’s life who could have helped feeling, lurks behind the safer, faker opportune moments). And Aster hews boys Dahmer raped, murdered, and loner Dahmer as the “mascot” of their bushes on the former’s daily jog. At him channel his impulses, particularly kind, enhancing every macabre funhouse pretty closely to what might cynically dismembered before he was apprehended group, pushing him to participate in other times, the character seems like a the sexual ones, into something healthier, moment. be described as the A24 (haunted) in 1991. And the film does make a increasingly outlandish pranks (some of sloped-shouldered, unsmiling cipher. But would he have killed anyone at all? My In its seriousness and hair-raising house style, complete with ominously bold request of its audience: to try to which are quite funny, in a juvenile sort considering that much of what we know Friend Dahmer asks this question without craftsmanship, Hereditary belongs gliding camerawork and a groaning, understand, and even sympathize with, of way). Dahmer, a sociopath who lacks about Dahmer’s adolescence comes from indulging in any explicit violence or sex, to a proud genre lineage, a legacy atonal score by avant-garde saxophonist a teenage boy who, at times, seems like fear, shame, and social skills, takes this Dahmer’s jailhouse interviews, perhaps a leaving the horror to unfold entirely that stretches back to the towering Colin Stetson. But he also conducts any other tortured adolescent, until you tiny morsel of acceptance and pushes it bit of shallow effect is forgivable. in the viewer’s mind (and conscience). touchstones of mid-20th century his scares with the cruel precision of remember that he went on to murder 17 to its limit. It’s another portrayal of mental illness It’s a clever move on Meyers’ part, horror, unholy prestige-zeitgeist classics a veteran maestro of dread. His true men and boys. If there wasn’t a Jeffrey at But where Derf and his buddies that keeps My Friend Dahmer from fully appealing to the audience’s humanity in like The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby. innovation is anchoring each of them your high school, the movie implies, you are specific, Dahmer himself, played immersing viewers in its reality, however. a character study of a man many would Remarkably, it’s a first feature, the to unbearable torment, exploiting may have been the Jeffrey. by 21-year-old Disney Channel star Dallas Roberts is believably exasperated call inhuman. Jeffrey Dahmer was a auspicious debut of writer-director Ari the relationship between sorrow and Of course, the weird kid at most and boy-band singer Ross Lynch, is as Jeffrey’s worried father, who attempts real person, with a family and at least Aster, whose acclaimed, disturbing short fear; at times, Hereditary is brilliantly high schools doesn’t go on to become a more elusive. Lynch plays the disturbed in vain to make up for years of burying a couple of casual friends. The people films were all leading, like a tunnel into sophisticated in its emotional terrorism. cannibalistic serial killer. While many teenager as a brooding hulk, silently himself in his work when he recognizes he killed were, too. The discomfort of the underworld, to this bleak vision. Aster will seem to leave the grisliest movies have toyed with the idea of a keeping secret his homosexuality, as well dark personality traits in his son. Anne reconciling those two facts is where this You know you’re at the mercy of a gifted image to the imagination, sparing us the sympathetic monster, those are usually as the violent urges that become stronger Heche, on the other hand, goes way over film lives, and what ultimately makes it filmmaker from the ominous first shot: full gut punch, only to spring it on us strictly within the realm of fiction. But with every social rejection and frustrated the top as Jeffrey’s mother, Joyce, whose work. the camera pivoting from a window and at a moment of pure devastation. (Let’s across a workshop, past a collection of just say he knows when to go in for the carefully constructed dollhouses, creeping close-up.) And he’ll use a disarming works distractingly against the plays best other fraught. The same mystery as to closer and closer to the interior of one of conversation, like the one between Annie Act & Terminal 3 interests, with Power’s broad Southern the setting and character relationships them until, through some imperceptible and a fellow bereaved soul (Ann Dowd) The Print Room at twang compounding the issue with a remain from Act, but they slowly unfurl magic trick, the miniature room has who seems just a little left of center, to didacticism that smothers rather than into full and terrible meaning. Terminal become life-size, with flesh-and-blood prime us for a gangbusters jolt. Even the The Coronet informs the narrative. Noren’s original 3 is peppered through with welcome actors inside of it. jump scares are psychologically loaded. was set in post-war Germany with some humour, particularly from Robert Stocks This bravura, perspective-bending Moving, for a good while, at a Until June 30th Kenton Tristram © Photograph direct references to the Bader Meinhof as the man in the younger couple whose opening scene teases an insidious deliberate creep, Hereditary gradually gang and one wonders whether director city boy boorishness provides necessary blueprint: sinister forces operating just ratchets up the intensity, until a full- Lars Noren is a Swedish writer Anthony Nielson should have stuck with levity in a play that plunges into dark, beyond the line of sight, conspiring in parts. She also appears to possess a link the Graham home, as dinners transform bore climax that’s relentless in its who doesn’t have the kind of name the original text and left the parallels purgatorial but deeply human territory. secret. It also establishes the livelihood to the spirit world, drawn as she is to into venomous airings of grievances and crucible of terrors. It’s not always the recognition in the United Kingdom as to the Post-Truth 21st century implied. The pouring dry ice that accompanies the of Collette’s Annie Graham, an artist spectral figures in the distance blame volleys across rooms like shots most elegant piece of storytelling; the he does on the mainland. Whilst he’s That being said the sense of confusion revolving white wall is about the limit who specializes in dioramas of her spaces, You could say that misfortune runs in fired, has as much in common with the exposition comes in crashing waves by been heralded as the heir of Strindberg, that curls obliquely around Act is one of of the stripped back staging but both emotional and physical. Annie has a lot the Graham family. In fact, it seems to wrenching, heartbroken truth-telling of, the end. But as with Annie’s dollhouse a phrase that makes him sound like a be trusted. What at first seems a typically the play’s strongest assets; it’s expertly add an otherworldly surrealism to the of material to work with of late. Her get passed from generation to generation say, In The Bedroom as any bump-in-the- re-enactments, we know we’re looking character out of Game of Thrones, but adversarial psychological conflict developed by strong performances from proceedings. The striking environs of the mother, a private, distant person and like a curse. Early into the film, Annie dark potboiler. at a work of cathartic expression. And based on the two short plays Act and between captor and captive derails both Power and Temi Wilkey, but sadly Coronet’s beaten grandeur more than often a chilly presence in her daughter’s attends a support group for the bereaved, But that’s part of the warped genius there’s a certain terrible beauty to how Terminal 3 currently pulling a double bill into the uncanny as both characters there’s just too little for the audience to provides the atmosphere for this skeletal life, has just succumbed to cancer, and and an awful personal history comes of Hereditary: It’s a supremely effective the plot finally comes together, the pieces at The Coronet, the roots of his family become unsure of their own lives and get their teeth into for Act to offer more staging to flourish, but admittedly it the death has sent a storm cloud over pouring out of her, through a monologue gauntlet of supernatural horror that’s falling diabolically into place. Tragedy, tree also plunge deeply into Beckett and stories, contradicting themselves and than ephemeral pleasures. could probably do the same for a live the family home, straining Annie’s that relays the shattering losses she’s also, at blackened heart, a gruelling especially the truly senseless kind, tends Pinter. Both of the short plays (neither each other, as reality seems to buckle The second play Terminal 3 works staging of Love Island. Both plays are a relationships. Husband Steve (Gabriel endured since childhood. And that’s domestic drama about how trauma, to leave people searching desperately is over an hour) bristle with elliptical and twist. Of the two Barnaby Power’s far better: two couples, young and old, worthy demonstration of Noren’s talents Byrne) perennially and often unhelpfully before Aster rocks her and her family resentment, and guilt can seep into the for meaning, grand and spiritual or conversations, casual but strobing darkly loquacious doctor steals the show with sit on either side of a white plastic and deserving of a visit for any theatre- keeps the peace. Teenage son Peter (Alex with fresh, inconceivable tragedy: a freak roots of a family tree, rotting it from otherwise, in what fate seems to have put with unspecified menace. a performance that wheels between wall, one of the women pregnant, the goers unfamiliar with his work. Wolff) withdraws. And disturbed, sullen accident so upsetting, in its real-life the inside out. So much of the film’s them through. By the shocking ending, Act, the first of the pair, is the threat, self-pity, humour and mystery 13-year-old Charlie (Broadway star possibility and aftermath, that it defiantly spooky power belongs to Collette. She’s the Graham family has stumbled into most indebted to those two British like a deranged compass. Irritatingly Milly Shapiro), who may possess some breaches the standard contract of been down this darkened street before, a kind of meaning, and even a strange playwrights; ostensibly about the medical the plays successes are undercut by the unspecified developmental disorder, multiplex-ready genre “entertainment”; having played a mother mourning her sort of purpose, in the nightmare they’ve ‘treatment’ of an imprisoned woman decision to decorate the stage with a SUSCRIBE & SUPPORT quietly frets. She is, in her own way, an anyone going in expecting some easily own mother while raising a child who endured. 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June 30 Quidditch here is a question doing the rounds about what is the difference between an 2018 WORLD CUP Winner Group A v 2nd Group B, Fisht entomologist and an etymologist? The answer is that an etymologist knows Olympic , From the the difference. One doesn’t have to be an entomologist to be a successful fly- fisherman, but it will help if one knows the rudimentary rules about what a rising fish is Round 3 Riverbank T Part 5 taking and how to ‘match the hatch.’ Most trout are opportunist feeders and when hungry July 1 will take anything that comes their way, but when there is an abundance of a certain T’S WORLD CUP YEAR! Russia Winner Group B v 2nd Group A, Luzhniki By Don Grant insect due to a hatch, they become very selective and will become preoccupied with a is the host while Germany is the Stadium, Moscow particular insect species. This can become confusing when several different species hatch returning champions after beating at the same time, and the fly-fisherman has to choose which species to try and emulate. Argentina in Brazil in 2014. Meanwhile Round 4 Since I wrote a column a month ago about fly-fishing and particularly the mayfly, two I July 1 Iceland and Panama have both qualified things occurred, the first was picking up a book called Waterside Guide by John Goddard, for the first time ever. Previous World Winner Group D v 2nd Group C, Nizhny given to me as a birthday present by a keen and thoughtful daughter, and actually reading cup winners, including Brazil, Argentina, Novgorod Stadium, 18:00 it. Goddard has written numerous books about fishing, the most famous being The Trout Uruguay, France, and Spain will also be June 25 Germany v Mexico, , and the Fly with Brian Clarke. Admittedly, a great deal of this book is highly technical, playing, but Italy will not. Spain v Morocco, , Moscow, 15:00 Round 5 but the basics are all there if one wants to understand why no fish seems to want the fly For the first time ever, four Arab 18:00 June 18 July 2 one is presenting, when they are taking, what looks like a ‘close imitation’ rather than countries have qualified; Egypt, Sweden v South Korea, Nizhny Stadium, Winner Group E v 2nd Group F, Cosmos an ‘exact imitation.’ Apparently, trout can see, not only colour, but also variations and Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia have GROUP C Nizhny Novgorod, 12:00 Arena, Samara, 14:00 shades of colour that are off the spectrum when it comes to the human eye. Naturally, Mr all cemented their place in this year’s June 16 June 23 Goddard spends the long winter nights tying his own flies, modifying and experimenting championship. France v Australia, Arena, 10:00 Germany v Sweden, Fisht Olympic Round 6 with ‘patterns’, as they are called. To paraphrase Shirley Conran, I think life is too short to Only three Nordic countries, June 16 Stadium, Sochi, 15:00 July 2 tie one’s own flies. Take these instructions as to how to dress an upside-down dun: 1.Tie , Sweden, and as mentioned Peru v Denmark, , June 23 Winner Group G v 2nd Group H, Rostov silk from 2mm behind eye round bend to 30 degrees. 2.Tie in tails, splayed outwards at 40 before, Iceland will be playing, while Saransk, 16:00 South Korea v Mexico, , Arena, 18:00 degrees for aerodynamic effect 3.Tie in rib 4. Dub and wind abdomen. 5. Rib and tie in. both Finland and Norway failed to June 21 15:00 6. Attach wing, slim and made from 15 mallard flank fibres, tied in within the bend 1½ to qualify. France v Peru, Central Stadium, June 27 Round 7 2 gapes tall, quarter way down the shank. 7. Tie in thorax cover and hackle; hackle should The Netherlands has reached the Ekaterinburg, 12:00 South Korea v Germany, Kazan Arena, July 3 be 1 to 1¼ times gape, the thorax cover can be feather fibres, the hackle stem or whatever final in four of the ten World Cups it has June 21 14:00 Winner Group F v 2nd Group E, you choose. Pick a colour to match the thorax of the natural dun or spinner, etc, etc, until played in. It has, however, yet to win and Denmark v Australia, Cosmos Arena, June 27 Krestovsky Stadium, St Petersburg, 14:00 the job is complete. An addendum reads, ‘if you are tying this fly streamside, you can omit take home the Cup, most recently losing Samara, 14:00 Mexico v Sweden, Central Stadium, the thorax cover by using the hackle stem as a thorax cover.’ Well, that’s a relief. to Spain in South Africa 2010. This June 26 Ekaterinburg, 14:00 Round 8 year will be no exception as it too, like Denmark v France, Luzhniki Stadium, July 3 The second thing that occurred was the biggest mayfly hatch I had ever seen. It Italy,has failed to qualify. Moscow, 14:00 GROUP G Winner Group H v 2nd Group G, Otkrytiye happened on the last Friday in May on All Saints Beat on the River Loddon at Stratfield England defeated Slovenia at June 26 June 18 Stadium, Moscow, 18:00 Saye, and it began at about seven-thirty in the evening. There had been mayfly taking off Wembley to ensure a place in the Australia v Peru, Fisht , Belgium v Panama, Fisht Olympic all afternoon, as well as caddis or sedge-flies, stoneflies, crane flies and gnats, but once championship. So maybe, just maybe, Sochi, 14:00 Stadium, Sochi, 15:00 QUARTER FINALS the mayfly began to emerge, it was as though a giant hand had shaken a cherry-tree in July 6 football’s coming home. June 18 full blossom. The warm air was chock-full of back-lit yellow and white mayfly, dancing in QF1, Winner R1 v Winner R2, Nizhny GROUP D Tunisia v England, Volgograd Stadium, the golden evening sun, with thousands upon thousands and thousands of them, soaring Stadium, 14:00 June 16 18:00 higher and higher to form frothy clouds above the river, while below, the water was July 6 GROUP STAGES Argentina v Iceland, Spartak Stadium, June 23 boiling with rising fish, splashing at the emerging duns and slurping at the spent husks of QF2, Winner R5 v Winner R6, Kazan Moscow, 13:00 Belgium v Tunisia, Spartak Stadium, the female spinners, having laid her eggs on the surface. This went on for at least half an Arena, 18:00 GROUP A June 16 Moscow, 12:00 hour, and then, just as it had started, it stopped again, and the river fell quiet. Robert and July 7 June 14 Croatia v Nigeria, Kaliningrad Stadium, June 24 I had already taken our quota for the day, namely six beautiful, sleek brown trout varying QF3, Winner R7 v Winner R8, Cosmos Russia v Saudi Arabia, Luzhniki Stadium, 19:00 England v Panama, Nizhny Novgorod in size from a pound and a half up to three and a half, so we watched one particular fish Arena, Samara, 14:00 Moscow, 15:00 June 21 Stadium, 12:00 for all of twenty minutes in a head-and-tail rise form, taking a fly off the surface every July 7 June 15 Argentina v Croatia, Nizhny Novgorad, June 28 few seconds, expending the least possible energy in doing so and guzzling his fill. I have QF4, Winner R3 v Winner R4, Fisht Egypt v Uruguay, Central Stadium, 18:00 England v Belgium, Kalingrad Stadium, seen mayfly as early as April and as late as September, but there are over fifty different Olympic Stadium, Sochi, 18:00 Yekaterinburg, 12:00 June 22 18:00 species in Britain alone. Mayflies are unique as insects in having two winged adult stages.

June 19 Nigeria v Iceland, , 15:00 June 28 After emerging from the water they fly to the bank where they shelter on the underside of Russia v Egypt, Krestovsky Stadium, St June 26 Panama v Tunisia, Mordovia Arena, SEMI-FINALS leaves or in the grass. They then moult again, leaving behind their drab ‘dun’ skin to reveal July 10 Petersburg, 18:00 Nigeria v Argentina, Krestovsky Stadium, Saransk, 18:00 their shiny ‘spinner’ skin. Following this moult they fly back to the water and form mating SF1, Winner QF1 v Winner QF2, June 20 St Petersburg, 18:00 swarms dancing above the surface, which is what we were witnessing. This dating and Krestovsky Stadium, St Petersburg, 18:00 Uruguay v Saudi Arabia, Rostov Arena, June 26 GROUP H mating pattern has been going on for some time now; they were one of the first winged July 11 15:00 Iceland v Croatia, Rostov Arena, 18:00 June 19 insects, with fossils dating back over 300 million years. June 25 v Senegal, Spartak Stadium, SF2, Winner QF3 v Winner QF4, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, 18:00 Uruguay v Russia, Cosmos Arena, GROUP E Moscow, 12:00 There are basically four Orders of insect a fly-fisherman is interested in to try and

Samara, 14:00 June 17 June 19 emulate. The first are the Upwinged flies (Ephemeroptera), which include all the mayfly June 25 Costa Rica v Serbia, Cosmos Arena, Colombia v Japan, Mordovia Arena, 3RD PLACE PLAY-OFF patterns; Flies with roof-shaped wings (Trichoptera), including all Sedge-flies; Flat- July 14 Saudi Arabia v Egypt, Volgograd Arena, Samara, 12:00 Saransk, 15:00 winged flies (Diptera), two of the most common species in this order being the common Loser SF1 v Loser SF2, Krestovsky 13:00 June 17 June 24 house-fly and the mosquito; Hard-winged flies (Plecoptera), a relatively small Order Stadium, St Petersburg, 14:00 Brazil v Switzerland, Rostov Arena, 18:00 Japan v Senegal, Central Stadium, also known as stoneflies. There is another group that embraces all the remaining Orders

GROUP B June 22 Ekaterinburg, 15:00 called Fauna, and comprises fresh-water shrimps, water bugs, dragonflies and damselflies, June 15 Brazil v Costa Rica, Krestovsky Stadium, June 24 beetles, wasps and ants, grasshoppers and spiders. Some of these are terrestials and are Morocco v Iran, Krestovsky Stadium, St St Petersburg, 12:00 Poland v Colombia, Kazan Arena, 15:00 FINAL either blown onto the water, or fall in off branches and reeds. However, they all make for a Petersburg, 15:00 June 22 June 28 handy snack for the trout. In gutting the fish, one comes across quite large cray-fish in the June 15 Serbia v Switzerland, Kaliningrad Japan v Poland, Volgograd Arena, 14:00 JULY 15 fish’s gut, along with the odd piece of gravel, which is rather an extreme form of roughage. Portugal v Spain, , Stadium, 18:00 June 28 Sochi, 18:00 June 27 Senegal v Colombia, Cosmos Arena, WINNER SF1 V WINNER SF2, In last month’s piece, I included a woolly bugger as a type of dry-fly, but as my friend June 20 Serbia v Brazil, Spartak Stadium, Samara, 14:00 LUZHNIKI STADIUM, MOSCOW, Robert pointed out, it is a wet-fly, but, as Mark Twain said, ‘never let the truth get in Portugal v Morocco, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, 18:00 15:00 way of a good story.’ He also said, ‘Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; Moscow, 12:00 June 27 Round 1 but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.’ Apparently he loved to go Compiled and edited by Fahad Redha. June 20 Switzerland v Costa Rica, Nizhny June 30 fishing to relax, but hated catching fish, as playing it and taking it off the hook ruined his Special thanks to Tates Iran v Spain, Kazan Arena, 18:00 Novgorod Stadium, 18:00 Winner Group C v 2nd Group D, Kazan relaxation, so, in order not to appear to be lazy, he used to take a rod, line and a bobber, 135 Hammersmith Road, West June 25 Arena, 14:00 but he wouldn’t put a hook on the end. He would cast the bobber in the water and lay Kensington, London, W14 0QL Iran v Portugal, Mordovia Arena, GROUP F back on the bank. That way he could relax all he wanted and he would be bothered by tatesestates.co.uk Saransk, 18:00 June 17 Round 2 neither man nor fish. 54 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Crossword, Bridge, Public Notice & Classified Chess online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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T N I I T A E (4,10) R The 10 player tournament has eight 11 12 is not surprising since AI programs C O A T H A N G E R C U R L Down have used chess as a springboard for out of the world top ten players that T H O L O 29 includes: Aronian, Anand, Carlsen, 13 14 15 16 2 Sycophant tailed French brother advancement, and have now passed O B E D I E N T N E A R B Y imbibing white coffee. (9) ordinary mortals and Grandmasters in Mamedyarov, MVL, Caruana, Karjakin, E I V I 17 18 19 20 their excellence at playing the game and Nakamura. So and Ding Liren, with only W E B C A M P I Q U A N C Y 3 Twice spoke of a circle. (5) winning against all comers. I will return Kramnik and Giri missing. This will be K K A A U 4 Grant Mike might help sell products. (9) (6) 19 Used this type of shotgun to make 21 22 23 24 to the forthcoming FIDE elections for the strongest tournament to be played D E F Y G E R I A T R I C S 5 Sprite as American city on speed. (5) 15 Opera must be confused with this long people leave the premises in the past. (4-3) in 2018 with the average rating of 2791 E B N A S A E 6 Hunch independent of reasoning of standing play. (9) 21 Sell my mixture when it’s humming. (6) President later in this article. 25 26 S P R I T E S C A R C E L Y home schooling. (9) 17 Add Latin thing to see who gets the 23 Coined by old Greek copper. (5) Sam Shankland, in winning the points and certainly will provide the AI Alpha Go recent developments ahead of the other two candidates.’ Quite E R T O R E E 7 Be gone from under Welsh town. (5) mail. (9) 24 Shorthand user in short. (5) 53rd Capablanca Memorial Chess litmus test for the contenders of Carlsen make it highly possible for it to be such so Nigel, best of luck! 27 28 C R U D E O I L S T R O B E 8 In Salamagundis joint split in two. (7) 18 Publican headed off a meal around the 26 In the beginning creates really excellent Tournament held in Havana, Cuba, May and Caruana preceding the World a candidate, but there are others. With In celebration of Sam Shankland’s 9 Fire into the sky could lead to this result. fort. (9) spring salad ingredient. (5) 9th-19th, has joined thirty other 2700+’s Championship in November. an incorruptible savvy, central intelligent win in the 53rd Capablanca Memorial, trying to make it into the top 10, where On the 3rd October during the world thinker in its midst, Nigel could be established in 1962 on the initiative of you are guaranteed to be invited to take Team Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, the face, assembler and facilitator as Commander Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, delegates from FIDE’s 185 affiliated the active President opening world in homage to the famous Cuban Jose CLASSIFIED for Intermediates part in the most elite world tournaments. ADVERTISEMENT PUBLIC NOTICE Monthly Bridge Tip Shankland who scored 7.5/10 points countries will vote on whom should tournaments and raising funding with his Raul Capablanca, who taught himself with Andrew Robson ahead of Alexey Dreev 6/10 and David become the next FIDE President. So team. For example, which bank wouldn’t the game of chess at the age of 13 Anton Guijarro 5.5/10 in this six player far three hats are in the ring with our want its computerization methodology and became the Champion of Cuba! Licensing Act 2003 When your partner overcalls – guaranteeing at least a five-card suit but saying little completion is running in top gear having own grandmaster Nigel Short having missing the expert pronouncements Capablanca became world champion in New Prime Front Row Licensing Act 2003: about points – you should be bold with a fit. The level to which you should bid in just recently won the US championship put himself forwards, alongside Kirsan issuing forth from FIDE’s AI president? 1921, defeating Emmanuel Lasker in Grave Plot for Sale Grant of a support, combining disruption with sanity, is best determined by adding up the tournament. He also has a book, Small Ilyumzhinov, the incumbent President There would never again be the financial Havana. Between 1916 to 1924 he was Premises Licence number of trumps held by the partnership. Simply bid to the trick level equalling that Steps to Giant Improvement: Master Pawn and the current Deputy President, turmoil presently being experienced undefeated in all of his played games! At Kensal Green Cemetery number. If you have four trumps in the response to partner’s overcall (therefore nine Play in Chess due to be published on the Georgio Makropoulos. 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It is Black to move with ♦ '%" ♣ ♠ !$% "#&& To grant a premises licence for: Shankland must be a serious contender both Kasparov’s attempts to dethrone President.’ He believes that Ilyumzhinov White having just played his queen, ♣ +%" (4) GA GENNARO DELL’AQUILA LTD, "#&& "#&& to be one of the four US players. A Ilyumzhinov, which both ground to a and Makropoulos are short of money. 41.Qe5…? (See diagram). What was Strenuous efforts are made by KCW Today HAIR & BEAUTY SALON. ♠ $ ♠ (% N halt as the latter reigned surpreme. In the interview with chess.com, he Black’s response to White’s request to newspaper to ensure that the content Situated at: ♥ ♥ *)& (+'$"! Nigel has been an outspoken critic of commented on FIDE’s cooperation with exchange Queens? and information is correct. 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Personal views expressed in this activities are for the sale and serving of ♦ that in cogitating about applying for no benefit to FIDE and I belive has cost 53.Bd3,Rb6. 52.Be2,Rb8. 51.Bd3,g5. alcohol from 10.00-19.00 on Monday to ! 50.Rc7,Kf6. 49.Ra7,Ra8. 48.Kf2,Rh8.

newspaper are solely those of the ♣ the job ‘… he has become determined FIDE a huge amount of money in lost Thursday, from 09.00-19.00 on Friday and *)! .47.b4,f4+. 46.Bf1,Kg6 45.Ke3,Rh4.

respective contributors and do not reflect North bid 4♠ - the 10 trick level - in support of his partner’s overcall, because to try to alter the number of choices the opportunities. Forgone income!’ Saturday, and from 11.00-17.00 on Sunday. 44.Qxd4,Rxd4. Black. from play accurate

those of the publishers or its agents. All he knew the partnership held 10 trumps. With no assurance of finding a fit, East chess world has had on these (election) In another interview in African Chess

materials sent to KCWToday are at the Anyone wishing to make a representation to this doubled, and West led ♥8. East won ♥A and switched to ♣8. West won ♣A and occasions, which for far too long has Media, Nigel was asked what his reply with point this from lost is game application may do so by 2 July 2018. A record of ♣ ♣ ♠ ♠ ♦ White’s d4! on Bishop the protecting

suppliers’ risk. Reproduction in whole the application made to the Licensing Authority returned 2. Declarer won J and led K. East won A, cashed A, and, because been a two horse race.’ He will announce might be to people who think he might

will be kept on a register at the address given West signalled encouragement by playing ♦8 (“throw high means aye”), followed his team and the (financial) support the lack the necessary business experience and numbers in advantage pawn Black

or in part of this publication is strictly below and the register may be inspected during ♦ ♦ ♣ ♠ a with Queens the exchanging Qxd4+,

opening hours. All representations regarding with 6 to West’s Q. West correctly next led 6 and East trumped with 7. position requires soon. There is a strong required to be President. Nigel’s reply prohibited without prior consent. 43.Be2, bargain! the into d4 on pawn the

this application must be in writing and sent to: Declarer trumped East’s ♦J continuation, and was able to make the remainder by level of opinion that in suggesting that is in keeping with the best of his The appearance of advertising Licensing Team, Council Offices, Royal Borough threatening move good 42.Kf2,Qd2+,

of Kensington and Chelsea, 37 Pembroke Road, trumping his two heart losers in dummy. Accurate defence and three down (500 with the huge advances in AI technology sometimes witty retorts. ‘It’s true that I in this newspaper, including inserts move. this with way decisive a in offensive

London W8 6PW, tel. 020 7341 5152 or www. points to East-West). and a number of top world companies have never discussed business deals with or supplements, does not constitute rbkc.gov.uk It is an offence knowingly or reck- the on goes Black exchange, Queen a

lessly to make a false statement in connection Was this a disaster for North-South? Absolutely not – East-West could have made a employing AI at the center of their genocidal dictators. However, I have

endorsement by KCW Today of the with an application and is subject to punishable Grand Slam in hearts (worth 1510 points to East-West). It was a brilliant sacrifice! decision making, it is time that FIDE never had the slightest difficulty opening by White off pressure taking of Instead by a fine of any amount on summary conviction Qg5+! … 41. products or services advertised. for the offence. ANDREW’S TIP: Bid to the “level of the fit” in support of partner’s overcall. considers its position and adopts a or keeping bank accounts, and quite Do it immediately – then shut up! similar strategy. frankly I think that already puts me well 56 June 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement Need some direction?

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