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site under the Westway. Galliard Homes, recycling company Powerday and a host Grenfell boxing of other contractors and suppliers also supported the project. club reopens Members of the local community volunteered to help with the build, which under the took just 63 days and was attended by the Duke of Cambridge. The episode Westway aired on BBC One in September. By James Warrington Presenter Nick Knowles said: “When you see the enthusiasm and the respect in the club, we knew that we’d been pointed in the right direction in terms of building this.” Former footballer Dennis Wise also boxing club based in Grenfell attended the ceremony to oversee the Tower has reopened in a new, unveiling of a minibus that he donated to purpose-built location a year after the club. the fire that claimed 72 lives. Nine year-old Dale Youth boxer A Mason said he liked the layout of Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club had been situated at the bottom of the the new gym, which has high quality tower for almost two decades before it equipment and a viewing gallery for was destroyed last June. parents. “I feel very happy and I thank The club has trained in an unused car the DIY SOS people for doing it,” he park since the fire. A new state of the art added. gym, built with the help of the BBC’s The inquiry into the fire at Grenfell DIY SOS team, has now been reopened Tower is ongoing and has recently heard under the Westway. evidence from members of the London Mayor Sadiq Khan, DIY SOS Fire Brigade, survivors and the bereaved. presenter Nick Knowles and former James Brokenshire, secretary of Chelsea footballer Dennis Wise attended state for housing, communities and the official opening ceremony. local government, announced a ban on Mick Delaney, head coach at Dale cladding similar to those used on the Youth ABC, said: “It’s unbelievable. We Grenfell Tower. never dreamed it was going to happen.” Survivors welcomed the He described the club as a vital Mayor Sadiq Khan said: “The thing have this given to us. It brings people announcement, but the Fire Brigades facility for young people in the area. about this boxing club is it teaches together. There’ll be a lot of people Union criticised the government for not “It’s a community, North Kensington. people life skills. I want young people to coming in from the community.” going far enough. Everyone gets round each other, everyone know this is a safe place for them to go. Dale Youth was originally located FBU general secretary Mark Wrack knows everybody, and everyone sticks This is the sort of gang they should be on the ground floor of Grenfell Tower, said: “This is not the outright ban on together. I think this is so important,” he belonging to.” but moved to the walkway level combustible cladding that firefighters said. Many members of the club lost after a refurbishment in 2016. This have been calling for. The Westminster Dale Youth has a long list of friends and family in the fire at Grenfell refurbishment also added the cladding government continues to allow cladding successful alumni including an Olympic Tower last year, and some survivors that contributed to the fire last June. of limited combustibility for any building champion, two world champions, and attended the opening ceremony. William The DIY SOS team led efforts to work in the future. The FBU calls for European, British and Commonwealth McDermott, who has trained at the club build the new gym and an adjoining a universal ban on these flammable champions. for the last 10 years, said: “It’s a gift to community centre on a 750 square metre materials.”

is being used for extra funding towards to ask its wealthiest residents to dig

Westminster youth clubs, which have suffered cuts in into their pockets if the Conservative recent years, as well as help for rough Government had not created an raises 390K with sleepers, and for initiatives tackling economic climate of “austerity.” isolation and loneliness. Following the public interest in the voluntary ‘wealth The council is not allowed to raise scheme, the council pledged another council taxes for just the wealthiest round of mail drops asking for Band H tax’ residents. By law, it would have to lift residents to give more. By Local Democracy Reporter them across the board. The report to Thursday’s committee It introduced the adult social care precept said council officers were considering Talia Shadwell in 2017/18, lifting contributions by 2 per yet another mail drop in the autumn cent, or about £1 million. concentrating on Band H residents who In this year’s council tax round, residents had not yet made a contribution. Asking Westminster’s wealthiest in Band H properties were due to pay 15,600 highest value properties, and Residents who make the voluntary residents to top up their council tax bill about £833, excluding the Greater drew widespread attention for asking the donations are sent letters detailing what with a voluntary contribution to help London Authority top-up which brings borough’s residents to pay double their the money was being used for. rough sleepers has net about £390,000 their total bill to £1421. usual council tax bill. It added that Westminster had received a so far. The latest figures on the community Band H describes homes valued at more number of enquiries from other councils Westminster City Council touts its contribution scheme were provided than £320,000 in 1991 interested in the scheme, with Islington council tax as among the lowest rates in to the council’s housing, finance and By May it had net £342,000 in its first Council poised to introduce a similar the United Kingdom. customer services scrutiny committee on round, and the council drew criticism scheme Its community contribution scheme September 27. over the figure- with some saying it The scheme has been shortlisted for asks residents in the London borough’s In response to a query on the cost of the showed blanket taxation was more a national “innovation” award from priciest homes to contribute more, on top scheme, Cllr Robert Rigby said he would reliable than charitable giving. the Institution of Rating, Revenues & of their ordinary council tax. find out and report back. Labour opposition leader Adam Hug at Valuation, with the winner due to be The council says the extra money raised The scheme is focused on Westminster’s the time said the council wouldn’t have announced in October. 4 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

the truth, and when egged on by appeared in a number of episodes He found a new lease of life in his an appreciative audience, he would of Emmerdale, Holby City and seventies, with one-man shows at deliver a killer punch in the form of Eastenders as Wilfred, but his most the Edinburgh Fringe, Killing Kittens a withering put-down. He was also widely-praised and much-loved in 2003 and Pandora’s Lunch Box around long enough to have mixed role was as Tinker Dill in Lovejoy in 2006. Dudley wanted to call it with some of the great and the good with Ian McShane. Now, there was Pandora’s Hairy Lunchbox but they of British theatre and movies, and a man who Dudley revealed that he wouldn’t have it and tried to censor had an endless stream of stories was not all that he seemed. Tinker the show. He was furious, and about John Gielgud, Larry, Richard was Dudley’s own creation, in his thought the Fringe had become all Harris, Peter O’Toole and Richard flamboyant check suits, beret, silk too safe and corporate. Two years Todd, some unrepeatable in a family handkerchief and spotted bow-tie, ago, he was playing Candy in Of newspaper. His first big break was in and was the perfect antidote to the Mice and Men at the King’s Head in Sidney J Furie’s The Leather Boys as a skallywaggish Lovejoy, as he oozed Edinburgh, performing alongside a gay biker astride a Norton in 1964, charm and warmth as the tout. dog, which, in the audition notes said with his baby-face, tousled hair and Charm and warmth was what Dudley should look ‘relatively elderly and an air of nonchalant confidence had in spades in ‘real life’, mixed have the appearance of a ‘working’ about him. He had bit parts in in with friendliness and a genuine dog.’ Going back on tour aged 83, early episodes of Dixon of Dock interest in the person to whom he because ‘I was out of work and I take Dudley Sutton Green, Z-Cars, The Sweeney and The was talking, but above all, it was his what comes’, put a spring in his step (1933–2018) Beiderbecke Affair, and was rarely wit and humour that came across. and he put it down to ‘Dr Theatre’. out of work, appearing in such films He was also generous with his Eight years ago, he appeared in udley was a one-off, a unique as Ken Russell’s The Devils, Federico time, and would appear at dinners Romeo and Juliet at Bristol Old Vic, confection of actor, performer, Fellini’s Casanova and Sally Potter’s I was hosting at the London Sketch set in an old folks’ home, with Sian Dpoet, artist, writer and one of Orlando with Tilda Swinton. Club and perform his socks off, Phillips and Michael Byrne. Charles the funniest people I have ever met. He was always drawn back to extemporaneously, with ne’er a note. Spenser wrote in the Daily Telegraph His ribald and gloriously indiscreet the theatre, however, as he tired He also turned up at this paper’s at the time, ‘Among the supporting tales of life in the theatre, television of playing villains in crime series Christmas lunch in the loggia of cast, I particularly liked Dudley and film kept one entertained for on TV, his villainy made all the the Chelsea Arts Club year after Sutton, whose mischievous Mercutio hours, and his fierce attacks on more chilling by having such a year and would recite some of his delivers the Queen Mab speech with pomposity were always well-aimed lived-in cherubic face. He was in heroic verse, with jaw-dropping great beauty.’ and invariably hit the target. He the first production of Joe Orton’s effect on some of the younger staff Actor, performer, poet, artist, was not a man who took prisoners Entertaining Mr Sloane at the New who had never heard anything writer and friend. We shall miss you, or suffered fools gladly. He told it Arts Theatre in 1964 playing Sloane, of the like before. My Daughter’s dear boy. how it was and never shrank from directed by Patrick Dromgoole. He Fucking Wedding was a favourite. Don Grant

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Edwin Mroz 2018 Global Statesman augment his vast experience in the Senior Ambassador to Europe; Award in a gala ceremony in New York areas of physics, private sector, and Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg Armen Sarkissian on October 3rd. state administration. In the times when and the Vatican; Armenia is going through the period of receives the 2018 The John Edwin Mroz Global Prime Minister of Armenia; Statesman Award is named in honour of great changes, Sarkissian was entrusted Special Advisor of the President Global Statesman American diplomat John Mroz, co- with ensuring stability and creation of a European Bank for Reconstruction and founder of the EastWest Institute in new vision for his country which, we are Development and Governor of EBRD; Award 1980. The Institute bestows its annual confident, he will lead towards a more Global Leadership Foundation (GLF); October 3rd 2018 awards on individuals who have been democratic and prosperous future.” Founder of the High Power Annual singled out for considerable contribution “The EastWest Institute is committed Conference at the Cambridge By Kate Hawthorne to global development, exceptional to the development of innovative and University; leadership, preventive diplomacy, creative solutions to solve current Chairman of Global Council on Energy innovative spirit, and economic and problems and get ready for the future Security (WEFForum); regional security. challenges. Individuals like Sarkissian Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative (Chair Previous recipients of the Award make our efforts possible.” of Energy Security); include the former Secretary of State Sarkissian added: Dean’s Advisory Council, Kennedy Henry Kissinger, the 41st President of “Thank you again for this wonderful School of Government, Harvard the United States, George Bush, former prize. It will remind me that I have still University; Dean’s Advisory Council, Harris School Prime Minister of the United Kingdom a lot to do. It will remind me about of Public Policy Studies, University of the wonderful people that I have had Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Chicago; Helmut Kohl, former President of the a chance of meeting in my life at the John Smith Trust member, London, UK; Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, former EastWest Institute. It will always remind International Economic Alliance, Global President of Finland, winner of the me about the wonderful man whose Leadership Foundation; Noble Peace Prize in 2008, Martti name was John Mroz, and it will always Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Ahtisaari, and others. remind me that there is much to do in School of Mathematical Sciences; At the official award ceremony the our world. And I have also a duty to Professor, University of Cambridge, Chairman of the Board of Directors of serve my nation and my country – a Institute of Mathematics of London the EastWest Institute Ross Perot said: country that in the 21st century will be University; “We are honoured to hand the John one of the world leaders.” Honorary doctor of National Academy Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award Armen Sarkissian has authored of Sciences of Armenia; to the representative of Armenia, His numerous academic articles and Excellency Armen Sarkissian, for his publications on theoretical physics, Awards he President of Armenia long-lasting career and achievements in astrophysics, computer modelling, 1997 St. Gregory the Great Award from His Holiness the Pope John Paul II (inaugurated April 2018) statesmanship as well for considerable political science and transition 2008 St. Gregory the Illuminator medal contribution to global development. economics. and former UK Ambassador from His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos “The selection of the President of the Some of his many Awards, executive to Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, was Patriarch of All Armenians. T Republic of Armenia has come to honorary roles and positions include: honoured with the prestigious John

Sir Gregory Winter, from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in British chemist Cambridge, was one of three scientists to receive the award. He jointly received awarded Nobel half the $1m prize with University of prize Missouri researcher George Smith, while By James Warrington the other half was awarded to Frances Arnold from the California Institute of Technology. Research by Smith and Winter led to the development of Humira, a medication used for rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases. It is one of the best-selling drugs worldwide. Their methods have also produced

Photograph © Aga Machaj Aga © Photograph antibodies to counteract autoimmune diseases and metastatic cancer. Arnold, who is the fifth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, was recognised for her work developing enzymes that contribute to more environmentally friendly pharmaceuticals and renewable fuels. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement: “This year’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have been inspired by the power of evolution and used the same principles, genetic change and selection, to develop proteins that solve mankind’s chemical problems.” Alfred Nobel left the majority of his fortune to be “distributed annually in A Briton has been awarded the 2018 the form of prizes to those who during Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work the preceding year have conferred the developing antibodies that combat greatest benefit to humankind.” autoimmune diseases and can even cure The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was cancer. first awarded in 1901. 6 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

children and young people with special tonnes of pollution. This improvement educational needs and disabilities, the of air quality saves us £126 million in Hammersmith Stephen Wiltshire Centre is a unique FreeTrees costs associated with pollution. They also base in Queensmill Road, Fulham, where remove the equivalent of 13 percent of and Fulham children and young and their families PM10 particulates and 14 percent of will be able to take part in activities and NO2 from vehicles. opens disability access information, advice and support. “The Mayor is determined to make The centre was opened by Stephen, London one of the greenest cities on centre a former pupil of Queensmill School in the planet,” the Deputy Mayor for Shepherds Bush, who has autism. His Environment and Energy, Shirley designed by a incredibly detailed cityscapes, drawn Rodrigues said, “and Londoners have from memory, have amazed the art world the chance to roll up their sleeves and disabled architect since he first received media attention as help make this happen by applying for a teenager in the 1980s. Stephen, now nearly 50,000 free trees. Whether it’s in aged 44, was awarded the MBE in 2006. gardens, parks or greening our housing “We believe strongly in this borough estates, one of the best things we can all in doing nothing about Disabled people, The Mayor of London is inviting do to help make our city greener and without Disabled people, this is their residents, schools, and local community healthier is to plant a tree, and I hope as centre, and families have been involved at groups to apply for 49,000 free trees as many people as possible will take part every step of its creation,” said Cllr Larry part of a mass planting of over 75,000 in London’s biggest ever tree planting Culhane, H&F Cabinet Member for trees. The event is part of the Mayor’s National Park City weekend.” Children and Education. plan to help make the capital become a Apply by 5 November at www. Nandini Ganesh and Mary Melsom “National Park City.” london.gov.uk/plant-a-tree for free tree from Parentsactive, which supports Sadiq Khan has partnered with the packs to plant in gardens. Tree packs parents and carers with children and Woodland Trust which will supply will be delivered to successful applicants’ young people with Special Educational 24,000 free of charge to Londoners to homes by the end of November. Needs and Disabilities spoke at the event plant in their gardens. A further 25,000 and have played a big part in the creation trees will be offered to community of the centre and informing the services groups and schools across the capital TRAFFIC WATCH £6m state-of-the-art centre for and support within it. “We felt very in partnership with The Conservation children and young people with Volunteers. These include maple, birch, proud to have Stephen Wiltshire himself London Home Football disabilities and their families come and open the centre,” said Nandini. hazel, and hawthorn saplings which will hasA been opened in Fulham with world “We’ve been working in partnership be planted over the weekend of Saturday renowned artist Stephen Wiltshire with Hammersmith & Fulham Council the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of December Oct 20, Chelsea v Man Utd, 12:30 MBE giving his name to the community and we’re really grateful to them. The to mark National Tree Week. Oct 22, Arsenal v Leicester City, 20:00 resource. centre means a lot to the families which Every year, the eight million trees Oct 23, QPR v Sheffield Wednesday, 19:45 Designed with local families of use it." in the Capital help remove over 2,241 Oct 25, Chelsea v BATE Borisov, 20:00 Oct 26, Chelsea v Aston Villa, 19:45 Work Match, the service set in 2013 the aspiration was to help Oct 27, Fulham v AFC Bournemouth, 15:00 unemployed Wandsworth residents Oct 29, Tottenham Hotspur v Man City, Work Match up five years ago to help get secure new jobs, apprenticeships and 20:00 hits landmark training roles, working with business Nov 3, Arsenal v Liverpool, 17:30 local people into employment across the borough. Nov 4, Chelsea v Crystal Palace, 16:00 of getting 1,000 while also supporting local Unlike most recruitment teams Work Nov 6, Tottenham v PSV Eindhoven, 20:00 Match is not driven by commission Nov 8, Arsenal v Sporting CP, 20:00 businesses, is celebrating targets and only puts forward candidates Nov 11, Arsenal v Wolves, 16:30 people into work who are genuinely ready, willing and able Nov 11, Chelsea v Everton, 14:15 finding its 1000th person a job. to meet workplace demands. The Work Match team supports he news comes on the day that candidates through the application London Women’s Home Football Work Match marks its fifth process - including help with CVs and Oct 21, Arsenal v Reading, 14:00 birthday and the successful interview skills - to give them the best Oct 21, QPR v Chichester City, 14:00 recruitment service is now looking T chance of success. They also help local Nov 4, Arsenal v Birmingham City, 14:00 forward to linking up hundreds more people find any pre-job training and Nov 11, QPR v Coventry United, 14:00 Photograph © Work Match Work © Photograph residents to businesses across the borough support they need to get ready for the in the coming years. workplace. Josiah Knight was the 1000th Leader of Wandsworth Council, Cllr Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha person to get a job through Work Match Ravi Govindia, said: “To have put 1,000 Full sports fixtures on page 58 and attended a special birthday party Wandsworth people into employment is at the team’s new offices at the Vista an incredible achievement and I am very development in Nine Elms. The 17-year- proud of what the team at Work Match Development, Skills and Employment, old, who had been working as a labourer, has done for our residents. The local jobs secured a position with Keltbray via Cllr Rory O’Broin, said: “Work Match market is growing and the Work Match has proven to be a huge asset to Work Match. He now works at Battersea team is making sure our job seekers Wandsworth’s business environment. Power Station, and Keltbray has selected have a real advantage when it comes to It’s free of charge to both candidates him to start a carpentry apprenticeship securing new roles.” and employers, and we have found that next month. Since 2013 Work Match has worked He said: “I really wanted to get with a range of businesses including businesses across the borough really involved in construction and someone Cineworld, Battersea Power Station, St trust the service to provide them with told me about Work Match so I got in James Group, Ballymore, Sainsbury's, excellent candidates. Wandsworth has contact with them. Will from the team Homebase and a whole host of many ongoing major projects, especially helped me with my CV and referred me independent shops. Roles filled have in Nine Elms, and the Work Match team for jobs. It is great to be working on such been diverse as security, construction, provides a direct link between these new B anA iconic project.” catering,C hospitality and leisure. opportunities and our residents who When Work Match was launched Cabinet member for Economic need them most. “ 0207 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Viscount Allenby was a contradictory Blue Plaque: character, and deeply loved his only son, Field Marshal Edmund Henry who died in action on the Western Front in 1917. Unusually, for a general, he Hynman Allenby, Photograph © Don Grant Photograph STATUES loved nature, poetry and reading. Known 1st Viscount Allenby. as ‘the bull’, he had a violent temper, and at one time faced mutiny from his GCB., GCMG., GCVO. own men, but he was a hero and his 1861-1936 campaigns were dazzling. Viscount Allenby was the son of Hynman Allenby and Anne Allenby (nee Cane) and he was educated at The London County Council erected Haileybury College and the Royal a Blue Plaque honouring Viscount Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was Allenby at 24 Wetherby Gardens, South commissioned into the 6th (Inniskilling) Kensington, SW5 OJR. He lived there Dragoons and served in South Africa from 1928 until he died there in 1936. during the Boer War. Viscount Allenby had a distinguished On return to England, in 1902, he military career and was one of the commanded the 5th Royal Lancers and greatest soldiers in World War 1, whose following several promotions, he reached courage and will to achieve victory never the rank of Major General. failed. Much of his fame also rests on In World War I Viscount Allenby his leadership in the Allied Victory over distinguished himself further by Turkish Forces in 1917. T.E. Lawrence commanding the Cavalry Division described him as, of the British Expeditionary Force to “Morally so great that the France, fighting at Mons and Ypres. comprehension of our littleness came He supported the Battle of the Somme slow to him.” Offensive and the attack on Arras. sites that have been stolen or destroyed The British Journalist, Mark Urban, He next took command of the in Iraq since then’. said that, The Invisible This is the 12th commission of Egyptian Expeditionary force, and Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London’s, “Allenby is one of the most he showed a good understanding of Enemy Should Fourth Plinth Programme, which was important generals that ever lived...... the problems posed in the logistics of unveiled 28 March 2018; one of the his use of air power, mechanised forces desert warfare. He made sure his men Not Exist most talked about public art prizes in and of ‘irregulars’, such as those led by had supplies, water and medicine. The The Fourth Plinth the world. Previous works have included Lawrence of Arabia, marked one of the Middle Eastern Campaign was one of Trafalgar Square David Shrigley’s deeply silly Really first attempts at a new kind of war, as he his greatest accomplishments. After Good, featuring a seven-metre-high had to act as a politician, holding a force capturing Gaza and Beersheba his By Michael Rakowitz hand cast in bronze giving an elongated comprising men from many nations, forces finally drove the Ottomans out of thumbs up. Gift Horse, by Hans Haacke, making him the first of the modern Jerusalem. Victorious indeed, he received 2015, featured a skeletal horse with supreme commanders.” s it states on the plaque at the base leaders of the Jewish, Christian and an electronic ribbon fixed to its front By defeating the Ottomans he paved of the plinth, in 2006 Michael leg, with a live ticker of the London Moslem Communities and ensured that Rakowitz started his project The Stock Exchange; symbolising power, the way for the creation of new states the religious sites of these three great Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist to money and history. The equine figure in the modern Middle East. Had the religions were respected. He entered The Arecreate over 8,000 archaeological referenced a Stubbs etching owned by Ottomans kept their boundaries this Holy City on foot as a mark of respect. artefacts looted from the Iraq Museum the National Gallery, a few feet behind. would not have been possible. The Battle of Megiddo followed and The during the war or destroyed elsewhere. In 2013, Katharina Fritsch produced Ottoman line was One of these was the Lamassu, a Hahn/Cock, a huge 5m. high sculpture broken. The Egyptian winged deity. It guarded Nergal Gate of a cockerel, in brilliant ultramarine. Expeditionary Force at the entrance to the ancient Assyrian The previous year saw Elmgreen & marched on to Aleppo city of Nineveh, near modern-day Dragset’s Powerless Structures, Fig 101, and the Ottoman Mosul, Iraq, in C700 BC until 2015 which portrayed a boy on a rocking when it was destroyed by ISIS. The horse. The Fourth Plinth was meant Empire ended with the

Lamassu, which had the same footprint to hold a bronze equestrian statue of Armistice of Mudros. Goodall © Xavier Photograph as the Fourth Plinth, is made of empty King William IV by Sir Charles Barry, Viscount Allenby was Iraqi date syrup cans, representative of but it was never installed, so this was a granted his title which a once-renowned industry decimated different take on the classical equestrian was named after the by the Iraq Wars. Rebuilding the statue. Yinka Shonibare produced Battle of Megiddo. Lamassu means it can symbolically Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, a 1:30 scale He was appointed continue as guardian of a city’s past, model of HMS Victory in a glass bottle. the Commissioner present and future. The inscription Anthony Gormley came up with One of Egypt which was written on the Lamassu reads: & Other in 2009, which realised 2,400 granted limited self different people taking it in turns to government. Sennacherib, king of the world, king stand or perform for an hour, every of Assyria, had the inner and outer wall of hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days. In Viscount Allenby Nineveh built anew and raised as high as 2007, Model for a Hotel by Thomas married Adelaide mountains Schütte comprised sheets of brightly- Mabel Chapman. He coloured prespex representing a scaled- kept no diaries and left Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi up architectural model of a 21 storey no personal records American artist best known for his building. The first, and possibly most of his life. He died of conceptual art displayed in non- controversial, commission was Marc a ruptured cerebral gallery contexts, based in Chicago, Quinn’s Alison Lapper Pregnant, a 3.6m aneurysm at Wetherby USA. In 2017, he had a solo show at tall, 13-tonne Carrara marble figure of Gardens. the Museum of Contemporary Art, the artist, who was born with phocomelia His ashes rest in Chicago. He states that ‘the list of 8000 and had no arms and shortened legs. peace, in the company objects has unfortunately, grown to Don Grant include the artefacts and archaeological of other great warriors in Westminster Abbey. Marian Maitland 0209 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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to move forward, improve, reform and change (read whig/liberalism). It’s Stasis It’s Important MARIUS BRILL’S vs Kinetic, Stability vs Innovation, Status Quo vs Prog Rock. Not to Retire You would think that, with the by Derek Wyatt MEMEING OF LIFE growth of our post-Freudian relativism about the past, as it gradually fractured Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... and became less distinct, conservatives would have had less to hold on to and the progressives would have won the day. But 21st century conservatives have Supreme Court Judge nominee Brett found a new opportunity in all this. My dad retired on his 60th birthday in Kavanaugh assaulting her over 30 years Can’t be sure of the past? Build a better 1980. One day he was worth something Ctrl-Z ago. “Just basic memory functions,” one! They’ve finally realised it’s all in the the next day he was cast out. I am not she said, “and also just the level of stories you tell. There’s a spitfire forever sure he saw it that way. He had been norepinephrine and the epinephrine in flying in the blue skies above Kent planning his retirement with my mum the brain that as you know encodes that in their makebelieve past; it’s plucky for some time. They went to live close neurotransmitter that codes memories Britain against the world, before all to their children and grandchildren on I’ve done some pretty nasty into the hippocampus.” The entire the foreigners arrived. Make your story Vancouver Island in British Columbia. inquisitorial panel stared at her with compelling enough, and you’ll attract They were fortunate that they had several things in my time. I’ve open mouths and then dismissed it as 17.4 million moths to your flame, many pensions but no properties. clearly a herstory/history. apparently willing to fly right in, and go I chose not to retire when I stood definitely put the ain’t in Saint It seems that, before the Western down in smoke. down from Parliament in 2010. I and, what’s more, too spineless Liberal orthodoxy began to implode in But the real fantasy behind Trump’s thought aged 60 there was one good job 2016, no one had noticed how far reality pre-civil rights America; the Brexiteers’ out there for me. Before being an MP, I to admit my own flaws, I and truth had actually drifted from each Blitz spirit Britain; ISIS’s “Caliphate”; had run a television company, a channel other. Now we can only gawp at Trump’s Russia’s rerun of Cold War sabre rattling; on Sky and been a publishing director. constantly lie to myself about flat denials or the Boris Mogg glorious the alt-right’s climate change denial and There must be someone, I said to myself, it. So in my version of the pre-Euro, British idyll, (when there even the anti-vaxxers hankering for lost who would still want me given what I definitely wasn’t abject poverty, child- childhood diseases, is the notion that had achieved at Westminster. world, after drunkenly stealing killing measles, general strikes, and whole there’s a Ctrl-Z for life, an undo button, There is no HR support for working generations toiling in servitude), as mad something that will magically revert us to MPs in Parliament, especially for those some roadworks diversion as a cricket bat, village green, fantasy that a happier place, even if it’s a version that departing. I was lucky I gave myself two signs, and thinking it hilarious Brexit can take us “back” to. never existed in the first place. years to find a job. Many of my friends “Make America Great Again” relies Along with nearly every Remain decided to stand again in 2010, though to reroute all the traffic on on a mass delusion that America was voter, and the 1.1 million Leave voters the wind was against them. They were ‘great’ at some point. America has who say they regret the way they voted, given fifteen seconds’ notice by the Cheyne Walk the wrong way done great things: won wars, assured I too want us to go back in time. For Returning Officer that they were no up Old Church Street, none peace, policed the world, and promoted us though, it’s not to some Downton longer employed. It was and is brutal. In democracy. But, from its founding Native Abbey fantasy Britain but, specifically, to the USA, they give the elected and those of the potentially fatal car American genocide, through slavery, to 23rd June 2016 so that, infinitely better who lose their seats about ten weeks to the “No Coloreds” white picket fences of informed, completely aware of how adjust to their new lives. That’s not such crashes I may have caused the Madison Avenue/Hollywood dream messy, ridiculous and utterly damaging a bad idea. ever happened. Nope. Never sellers, America has only ever been a the alternative is, we vote again. In the interregnum between “great” place to live in stories and for a As any salesman will tell you, if you’ve announcing I was stepping down and happened. privileged few. The version of the past sold someone a crock and a story, better the 2010 General Election (where I too that the alt-right succeeds in selling is a close quick. You can’t give the suckers would be 60) I did a number of things. hrough the 20th century, as the selective nostalgia. time to think. You certainly can’t give I wrote to everyone I knew in the media fledgling science of “psychology” So if the victors write history and our them a two year cooling-off period when asking whether they had anything. I blossomed, we started to realise memories are neurological shifting sands, they might realise how the dream just received not a single reply. I wrote to howT flawed the human brain is. Now can we say the past actually exists? doesn’t stack up with reality: the tearing a number of companies I had helped neuroscience can show our brains I know that’s the sort of question up of the Good Friday Agreement, the whilst in Parliament and, as you have physically rewire in response to stimuli; philosophers like to ask whilst skinning return of the IRA and expensive foreign probably guessed, no-one answered or we are biologically capable of rewriting up rollies outside the jobcentre. But holidays while nurses and doctors only one person asked to see me. In all I past experiences. Hangover amnesia is then, if we didn’t have philosophers to disappear… they might just change their must have personally written to over 50 probably the most common phenomenon ask stupid questions we’d have to rely minds. They might just want a people’s people. of this neurological self-editing. “Drinks? on Piers Morgan and no one, not even vote. Not quite knowing what to do, I’ve had a few. But then again… I’ve Mrs Morgan, wants to do that. Of course I asked to see a headhunter and she rerouted my synapses so I’ll never be it’s possible that, like homework-eating said I was eminently employable but reminded.” Done something you’re not dogs, working late at the office or some We’re constantly rewriting my CV needed brushing up, as did proud of? Don’t worry, your brain will fix really bad heroin, the past could be one my application letters and interview it because it still needs to function and gigantic fabrication we spin ourselves to history. Now, more than ever, techniques. I paid over £1200 to have get some sleep. explain the terrible state we’re in right myself filmed so I could see how much If we’re rewriting the events we’re now. But, beyond the solipsism, even if you need to help rewrite it for work I had still to do in presenting uncomfortable with, what we’re replacing we can’t agree on what the past is, we all the better, give Parliament a myself. I had my CV written for me. I them with are just, well, stories. Concepts seem to function by agreeing that there sent it out to a few people for comment... such as “the truth” and “the past” have is one. reality check, join the “People’s again no replies. I was a non-person. I not only become subject to relativism, In The Battle of the Books (1704), had only been valuable to all these people but the very fact that I can call them Jonathan Swift contended that all Vote and The Independent whilst I had those magical letters ‘MP’ “concepts” without your alarm bells arguments eventually come down to March for the Future” on after my name. ringing “logical fallacy” shows how one difference: past or future, you’re I continued to apply for jobs. I far down the rabbit hole we’ve already either an Ancient or a Modern. Ancients Saturday 20th October, 12pm continued to be rejected. Out of nowhere descended. look to the past and fight to preserve I had the offer of some consultancy. At Dr Blasey Ford did herself no favours it, maintaining the status quo (read (midday), Park Lane. my interview I was asked how much explaining how she could remember US conservatism) whilst the Moderns want www.peoples-vote.uk/march I wanted and I said £3k. The CEO 02011 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

whistled and I knew I had made an error. The error was he thought I meant £3k a Good people week whereas I meant a month! At least A passport fit for a king I had a platform to build on. make soft targets By Fahad Redha I kept running after CEO jobs and By Peter Burden made short lists and even with my super duper CV and interviewing techniques Thanks to the EU and the Schengen Area, it is possible, for now, to travel honed I was rejected. I was told I had to France without ever having to say if it’s for business or pleasure. done nothing “useful” in the work place But this was not always the case. In the 1970s anyone wanting to for 13 years and my skill sets were not travel there for any purpose had to have valid identification such as a as good as a current CEO and in doubt passport. a chairman or woman was bound to Anyone who identifies themselves as an play safe. I was done. It was not helped upholder of a particular theosophy or This posed a problem for archaeologists in Egypt. The mummy that by a change of government. There are belief system is especially susceptible to was once Ramses The Great had been infested with bacteria and begun accusations of hypocrisy and hubris. The hundreds of public service appointments to show signs of decay. The country’s authorities in the north African made, but whoever is actually in British press, particularly what used to country immediately began to search the world for expert Egyptologists government tends to favour their own. be called the tabloids, red tops or gutter This is wrong and it is one of the press, have sold papers by exploiting and restorers who were capable of preserving his emaciated body. elements which makes current politics so this vulnerability for a century or more. Eventually experts were found in France. But because of the French law, During the 60 years leading up to its corrosive. the Egyptian government had to issue a valid passport for the former death in 2011, the staple diet of the News Somehow, over the past eight years I pharaoh who had been dead for over 3,000 years. Under “occupation” have managed my retreat from work. It of the World was the activity of miscreant was not what I was expecting. But I did vicars, strippers at policemen’s parties, the document said that he was “king (deceased).” quite a bit of charity work and studied MPs in suburban brothels, opportunistic When the airplane landed, it received full military honours fit for naturists and gay shenanigans at the for a Master’s degree. I was one of the a pharaoh. This too is because any monarch, dead or alive, is entitled YMCA – ordinary people in institutions luckier ones. where propriety might generally be to such a reception upon arriving in France. When he returned to the All the research suggests that as we expected. It was the contrast between the Egyptian museum in Cairo his remains were inspected by then President become older it is important to keep supposed upright image of the place or the neural pathways in the brain open Anwar Sadat who wanted to ensure that he had been properly restored. profession and the smutty carryings on and not furred up. For those of us of a You can see them to this day at the Egyptian Museum in the country’s raked up, often faked up, by its reporters certain age this is difficult. Just edging that editors of the paper knew would capital. Just don’t forget your passport. the retirement age to 67 or 68 or 69 titillate the undemanding imaginations is frankly just a balance sheet exercise of their unsophisticated, self-righteous by the Treasury who cannot afford readership. our pensions. No political party has a In the mid-1990s Rupert Murdoch coherent strategy on how to fund our realised, through the success of Hello! years. But this can’t justify the manner in story about a priest who had strayed, pensions, our housing benefits or our magazine, that the ‘celebrity’ had become which the News of the World stalked and into a marriage made from deep love care packages. a primary source of public fascination. harassed a young, selfless man, who had and compassion. The hypocrisy of the So, to keep our brain fit, we need to With his characteristic sense of the chosen to dedicate his life to the service journalist was a breath-taking example volunteer, to help a charity, to learn a zeitgeist, he took the decision to elevate a of mankind by becoming ordained as of the hideous ethos of popular British new language, to go to music lessons, brash young gossip pedlar to the editor’s a Catholic priest. I knew him, so I will journalism, which entirely justified the to learn to play an instrument, to cook chair at the News of the World. He also respect his privacy. He was a clever man death of the News of the World. or take up bridge. We could try a new saw that celebrity news would become who made people laugh, loved real ale Nevertheless, a large part sport and/or attempt some further or an internationally traded commodity and and sang the blues; I was present at of the British press continue to defy higher education. But this needs to be could be simultaneously fed into many his ordination. I was deeply moved by the recommendations of the Leveson continuous so once you have mastered of the dozens of newspapers he owned witnessing a man who possessed such Inquiry, and will not submit to any a language you need to volunteer and around the world. The young editor, Piers a true sense of purpose that he vowed, external regulation over ruthless so on. And you will need funds to pay Morgan, also understood the symbiosis within the tradition of his church, to invasions of privacy. And they’re for these activities. Language lessons between popular TV and celebrity gossip, forego married life and its physical joys, getting away with it because the current can cost £60 a half hour. Taking a first in which TV companies would supply despite his natural inclinations. Celibacy government and the chairman of or second degree might set you back an endless string of ‘celebrities’ from as a social condition is hard to rationalise the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £12,000. Just upping our Old Age its popular soaps, and the press would in a highly sexualised world, but it was Committee are still ready to lie on Pension by £5 a week and claiming it as maintain the interest of the Sun-reading a condition that this man had chosen their backs and wave their legs in the some kind of miracle is abject. community by reporting minutiae about to impose on himself to heighten his air whenever they’re confronted by the To keep ourselves brain-fit helps these minor celebrities between shows. dedication. He was sent out as assistant combined might of the Murdochs, the keep down the cost of the inevitable care It suited both sides very well. And still priest to a parish in the diocese into Mail and the Barclay brothers. packages within the NHS. Already those does – the number of column inches which he’d been ordained. A generous, over 80 are the bed blockers. They cannot dedicated to the almost entirely talentless compassionate man, after a while he be returned home if they need help to nonentities in Love Island last August found himself giving solace to a recently dress, eat and walk. This problem is only did a lot to sustain interest in the whole bereaved parishioner, a young widow, going to become worse. Our obsession fatuous charade. who was soon moved by his kindness with Brexit is masking this most serious However, there still lingers in the and strength, and fell in love with of issues, growing older. genes of the tabloid hack a love of him. He was a man not made of stone, Growing older is a muddle, yet within the hubristic and hypocritical, and and despite his vows he couldn’t help the next decade there will be one person the taste for exposing randy coppers responding. He’d fallen in love too and working and one person retired. We will and rampant politicians has not been wanted to marry the woman. He knew not have the tax-take required to help entirely extinguished. The Catholic that in abandoning his vows, he had to give our older people the dignity they Church has certainly been hubristic and leave the priesthood to find another way deserve as they face the end of their lives. hypocritical through several periods of of offering his compassion to the people We need to think again and our its existence, encompassing the material around him. He married the woman he

politicians need to hurry up and come excesses of the Middle Ages, the Sale of loved and moved into a new home to peterburden.net forward with a new version of the NHS, Indulgences, the careers of the Borgia start his new, non-clerical life. the Senior (S)NHS for those of us over popes, the horrendous abuse of children Within days, a tabloid reporter 60. and subsequent cover-ups of the last 50 was on his doorstep, looking for a www. 12 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk European & International NEWS

from ordinary citizens.If you are able columnist at the Washington and willing to donate to the disaster Post, as well as a political INTERNATIONAL relief effort; KCW Today recommends commentator on several going through Charity Navigator television channels including NEWS (www.charitynavigator.org) which Al Jazeera and the BBC. In ranks charities based on their levels of 2016 it was reported by the BY MICHAEL A KOLAROV transparency, accountability and financial online news portal Middle East Eye that Khashoggi had been health. banned by Saudi authorities Following such large scale natural from publishing or appearing on disasters it is not uncommon for television anywhere in the ultra scammers to set up fake charities in an conservative kingdom because attempt to profit from the outpouring of of his criticism of US President

Urgent appeal to on Middle East Democracy Brady/Project April © Photograph empathy which makes tools like Charity Donald Trump. Navigator an essential part of making aid Indonesia sure the money you donate is going to a Questionable Human Rights trustworthy organization which will use Freedom of the press is non- the money for its intended purpose. existent in Saudi Arabia, which is also notorious for its Who is Jamal Khashoggi? treatment of dissidents and poor human Jamal Khashoggi gained notoriety and rights record. Prominent infamy from the very beginning of his In recent times, the Saudi government career in Saudi Arabia, but especially has been trying to polish its image abroad Saudi Journalist came into the mainstream consciousness with superficial reforms such as permitting after the September 11th attacks on the the operations of movie theaters. Saudi Missing in United States because of his relationship Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has with Osama Bin Laden, whom he had also tried to brand himself as a champion Istanbul interviewed several times and whose career of women’s rights in the ultra conservative he had followed since the 1980s. Al Arabiya kingdom by allowing women to drive. reported that he had even tried to convince However, in the shadows of these Bin Laden to give up on violence. reforms there has also been a heavy handed During his career Khashoggi had crack down on dissent. One of the most Jamal Khashoggi, a well known and penned many sharply critical articles on alarming cases has been women’s rights respected Saudi dissident journalist who Saudi Arabia’s harsh implementations of defender Israa al-Ghomgham. According has lived in and out of self-imposed Islamic law. While serving as Editor-in- to Human Rights Watch (HRW), she exile since 2003, has gone missing after Chief of the Al Watan newspaper in Saudi and five others are on trial at a terrorism n the evening of September 28th, entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Arabia it became the most cited source tribunal where they face charges such as the Indonesian island of Sulawesi October 2nd. According to a report from of news on the theocratic kingdom for “participating in protests”. HRW reports was hit by a tsunami triggered by the New York Times citing his fiancée and international media and scholarly research. that at least 13 human rights defenders and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake along a fault several close friends, Kashoggi entered the However, it was also during this time that women’s rights activists have been arrested O consulate to obtain a document he needed Al Watan drew the ire of the religious since the crackdown began in mid-May. line located six miles beneath the surface The activists have been accused of activities of the island. In the wake of the tsunami to get married, but never came out. police for their progressive views and Saudi Arabia has denied that it is criticisms of the Saudi religious authorities. deemed a risk to national security. Some which devastated the Indonesian island holding Khashoggi in the consulate, a As a result of its progressive approach, have been released, but others remain an urgent appeal has gone out around the claim strongly contested by his fiancée. A religious conservatives in the kingdom detained without charge. world to raise money for the victims of spokesperson for the Turkish president, began to refer to Al Watan as “Al-Wathan” Saudi prosecutors announced in the natural disaster. Thousands have died, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on October 3rd which means “the idol” in Arabic, in effect September that they will punish the and thousands more remain unaccounted said the journalist remained inside the accusing the newspaper and its employees creators of satirical content on social for. Saudi consulate. He also told the media of being idolaters and apostates. Since media if it “mocks, provokes or disrupts Though international aid has started that Ankara was monitoring the case the end of Kashoggi’s tenure as Editor- public order, religious values and public reaching Sulawesi, the long term recovery and had raised the issue with their Saudi in-Chief Al Watan has toned down its morals”. Anyone in Saudi Arabia found to of the island and the continued care Arabian counterparts. The spokesperson commentaries and criticisms can no longer be producing or distributing such material for survivors will depend on continued expressed hope that the issue would be be found within its pages. could face up to five years in prison and a international aid which will largely come resolved. Since then he has been a contributing £623,000 fine.

its independence from Yugoslavia in civilization. late 1991 and became the Republic of The status of the Republic of Macedonia Republic Macedonia. The reason for the controversy became a heated political issue in 1992 between Macedonia and Greece is the when demonstrations took place in Athens. of North title of “Macedonia” used in the country’s Over one million Macedonian Greeks took constitution. The historic region of to the streets in Thessaloniki, under the Macedonia includes the modern Greek slogan: “Macedonia is Greek”. Macedonia? region and some territory within what is Greece made it clear that it would now the sovereign state of Macedonia. not recognize the Republic of Macedonia The official position of Greece is that until it made a constitutional guarantee of the use of this name is a direct cultural, having no claims to the Greek territory, put On September 30th, the Republic of Russian interference, as well as calls for a national and territorial threat to Greece and a stop to what it calls “a hostile propaganda Macedonia held a referendum on the boycott by President Gjorge Ivanov. the Greek people. The Greek government campaign against Greece”, and exclude the name of its country. The final result came The referendum had been called for objected formally to any use of the name term ‘Macedonia’ and its derivatives from a in at 94.18 per cent in favour of renaming citizens to support a landmark deal struck Macedonia (including any derivative new official name of the state. the country to the “Republic of North between Macedonia and Greece over the names) and also to the use of symbols such 27 years later, the issue is still just as Macedonia.” However, the referendum was name of the country in order to pave the as the Vergina Sun. The Greeks feel that contentious. In Macedonia, nationalists invalid because only 37 per cent of eligible way for Macedonia to join the European by using the name, the former Yugoslav supported a boycott on the referendum voters participated. Union and NATO, membership into both nation imposes an open territorial claim on which is credited with successfully According to the Macedonian of which was being blocked by Greece over the territory of Northern Greece, which is sabotaging it, meanwhile the Greek Constitution, over 50 per cent of voters a dispute about the name of the Balkan also called Macedonia. Greece claims an Parliament attempted to hold a vote of no must participate for the result to be nation. exclusive copyright to the use of the name confidence in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, valid. Only 666,734 participated out “Macedonia” as the history and culture of which he narrowly survived, just a day of 1,806,336 registered voters. The What’s wrong with the name? ancient Macedonia were and are integral before the deal was signed between the two referendum was troubled by accusations of The Republic of Macedonia declared parts of the Greek national history and nations. 02013 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Planning for the 100 year life By Stephanie Hawthorne, Award-winning financial journalist

Your chances of making it to 100

AGE 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 99 TODAY Male 1 in 4 1 in 4 1 in 5 1 in 6 1 in 7 1 in 10 1 in 12 1 in 15 1 in 17 1 in 15 2 in 3 28.4% 24.3% 20.2% 16.6% 13.3% 10.4% 8.1% 6.4% 5.5% 6.9% 64.9% Female 1 in 3 1 in 3 1 in 4 1 in 5 1 in 5 1 1 in 7 1 in 8 1 in 10 1 in 12 1 in 10 2 in 3 35.2% 31% 26.6% 22.5% 8.7% 15.2% 12.3% 10.1% 8.7% 10.4% 69.7%

women and 63 for men. Life expectancy The oldest person in the UK has been increasing faster than healthy is now 112. life expectancy, so the number of years we spend in poor health is growing. Will you make it to 100… According to a government study and will your money? last year, there were around 410,000 people living in care homes. It also said Grace Catherine Jones, the average cost for a nursing home the oldest person in the UK, was around £44,000 a year, and for a residential home was £31,000. The celebrated her 112th birthday assessment as to whether you have to on Sunday 16 September. pay for care is complex, and depends on She took the title on 28 100, a number of things, including where you live and what assets you have. If you have August 2018. assets of at least £23,250 in England you will have to pay for some, if not all, of your care. Whether you’re lucky race Catherine Jones is a relative enough to reach 100 or not, it’s therefore spring chicken when it comes to important to think about how you would those who have held the title of Batting cover the cost. G‘The UK’s Oldest Person’. The previous You might be entitled to benefits, incumbent was Olive Boar, aged 113, and such as the Disability Living Allowance. previous title holders have reached the You may also have life insurance that will age of 115. pay out on diagnosis of certain terminal Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst illnesses requiring care. This will usually at leading financial adviser Hargreaves only cover a fraction of the cost, but it all Lansdown, says: helps. “While these supercentenarians for a If you can amass sufficient savings achieve the kind of longevity few of us and investments, meanwhile, it gives you can hope for, you might be surprised at the option of buying an immediate needs your chances of reaching the age of 100. annuity to cover the cost of care. These Newborn girls have a one in three chance take into account your age and state of of hitting 100 and newborn boys one in ways, it begs the question of whether produce a sustainable income, one health, so if you are in poor health, they four. Meanwhile, men aged 50 have a your cash will last as long as you do. If useful rule of thumb is to draw the offer a much higher rate than a typical one in ten shot and women of the same Centuryyou draw money from your savings and ‘natural yield’ ; just taking the dividends retirement annuity. age, one in seven. It means it’s well worth pensions without keeping this in mind, generated by your investments. This Beyond this, you may need to use considering how your retirement finances there’s a risk you will overspend and run varies depending on the performance the value of your home. This can include would cope if you live longer than you out. If, for example, you started drawing of the companies you invest in and on selling up, releasing equity, or entering expect, and the implications this may from your pension in the year 2000, and the specific investments you hold (if into a deferred payment agreement with have for your care needs too.” took 6 per cent of the initial pot value you hold an actively managed income the local authority, so they cover the each year (increasing with inflation), your fund this will often focus on maximising cost of care and recoup it from the sale Your chances of living to 100 money would have run out after just 14 the sustainable income from the fund). of your home after your death. While years. However, at the moment, according to you can’t do anything specific to plan The Office for National Statistics Ms Coles says: “A sensible strategy to Thomson Reuters, the FTSE All Share is for these eventualities, it’s important to crunched the numbers, based on ensure your cash lasts as long as you do is yielding just over 4 per cent. let your family know this is something projected figures for 2016, to assess your to secure an income for life to cover the you have considered and are comfortable likelihood of reaching the age of 100, essentials through your state pension, any What about care? with. depending on how old you are today. defined benefit pensions and annuities. One key piece of planning for care is Women have a better chance of Ideally this should be linked to inflation, There’s also a good chance that as you get a lasting power of attorney. There are two reaching their century throughout most which can cut the buying power of older, your health will deteriorate, so that types, one of which allows a nominated of their life, until around the age of your income by two thirds during a once you’ve notched up a century, you are person to make financial decisions on 99, when both men and women have 30-year retirement. You can then use likely to need some kind of care, either in your behalf, and one of which allows roughly a two in three chance of getting a any additional cash in your pension to your own home or in a care home. them to make health decisions for you. telegram from the Queen. pay for luxuries as you go along. That The most recent ONS figures for You need to set them up while you way, however long you live, you should healthy life expectancy cover 2013-15. In have full mental capacity, and they can Will your money run out? always be able to cover the cost of the this period, life expectancy at birth was be registered by a loved one if your essentials.” 79 for men and 83 for women. However, condition deteriorates and someone But while this is excellent news in many If you want to use drawdown to healthy life expectancy was just 64 for needs to step in. 02015 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

hear them bleat when it does) who’d online and check your account regularly. bring back hanging for smuggling, the I strongly recommend you put off “going The Tide LDF was a resounding success. The paperless”. What the Revenue did in the only reason for morphing this into the Armstrong case was pathetic and typical Will Turn unwieldy, cruel and confusing Worldwide of the bad faith we’ve come to expect Clampdown on abuses Disclosure Facticity must be political; from a broken system that believes in by HMRC it most certainly won’t collect more tax. bullying citizens into believing there’s Even that is an IT nightmare with the good avoidance and bad avoidance, By Douglas Shanks requirement to pigeon-hole multiple putting it on the taxpayer themselves choice online disclosure. to decide what Parliament intended to On the heavier cases we still set up be good practice. HMRC punished here’s been a spike in our an email protocol and communicate Ms Armstrong for not checking her LinkedIn visitors since the return on those either fraudulent or highly online account with penalty notices and of the rant. We thought we’d get technical matters directly with half- where did they park them? In the online a rush of business, but we suspect digital sensible inspectors. That level of account… Oh, we might as well all blame T ourselves, we voted for the bastards. spying from the Sheriffs of Whitehall. convenience and efficiency may surprise HMRC is coming late to the IT party, you as the general tax payer isn’t so lucky. I’m in France on holiday, in a room which in Kensington and Chelsea, if not If you do agree to “go paperless”; frankly, with a hundred-kilometre view over the Westminster, might conjure up it girl good luck. The system is designed as plains of Fleurance-Lomagne to the images of inspectors sporting pinstriped ever to trick you; perhaps wilfully, or Pyrenees. I’m an optimist in an idyll. morning suits over upturned lace collars more realistically, negligently. I can’t see The tide will turn. Despite my rants and pale blue Brora cashmere. what could possibly stop the Revenue against the state, I’m proud to be British. Everything seemed to change in from emailing you particularly if you I remember Boris Johnson saying in one the golden era of the Liechtenstein gave them permission. Don’t give me the of his better performances (to Clarkson Disclosure Facility, a sensible and security chestnut; you think the postal on Top Gear) that the London Olympics generous measure to encourage evaders service is secure? would be a success and, with typical to settle. The whole thing was a breath The tribunal case of Armstrong v and appealing national self-deprecation, of fresh air; we knew it couldn’t last. HMRC has been well-trailed and is added something along the lines of “in Common sense sits uneasily in the good news, with the Revenue getting a our unique and British way”. We were byways of Westminster. Suddenly bloody nose and quite rightly. Essentially pushed very reluctantly into two World HMRC etiquette was first names, Ms Armstrong had elected to “go Wars; somewhat unprepared for one and single points of contact and emails. The paperless” and in her circumstances could totally unprepared for the other. Could LDF clients agreed to full disclosure have no idea what that meant. What it possibly be not only that we will make so all the tax was paid in full. While “going paperless” doesn’t mean is they’ll a success of Brexit, but that HMRC the level of the penalties didn’t satisfy ring you or do something sensible like will finally be held to account by an the bloodthirsty envy-mongers (or send you an email. What it means is independent judiciary? worse won’t-happen-to-me merchants; that you must discipline yourself to go [email protected]

investing feels like gambling, like they of which will feature in a mixed bag of we know it, the chances are you think could lose it all, let me ask the question mainstream investments. What do you the risk of this happening is so remote What is risk? in a different and more tangible way. think the risk is that all of these firms as to be negligible. So if we look at this By Holly Mackay Think of Apple, Amazon, Barclays, will go bust over the next five years? based on brands and companies we know, BOringMoney.co.uk Google, Heineken, HSBC, ITV and Unless you’re stockpiling baked beans our improved understanding tend to Samsung. All massive global firms, many and fear the meltdown of capitalism as drastically minimise our perceptions of risk. Now let’s consider risk through the eyes of a turkey. Baby Turkey is born on 15th September. The big bad farmer We all make daily assessments walks in the next day and feeds him and about risk which typically turns a heat lamp on. Nice. The next day the farmer re-appears and does the change with age and same. Gradually the turkey relaxes. By experience: crossing a day 100 it is statistically impossible that the farmer will kill the turkey. Trouble is, road, online dating, skiing, that day is actually Christmas Eve. The swimming in the sea. turkey’s mistake was to confuse risk with uncertainty. We make a mental judgement about The same is true of investment reward and the materiality of the risk. markets. We think we’re talking Trouble is, when it comes to investment about risk but in fact we’re just facing risk, lots of us are flying blind. We don’t uncertainty, which humans tend to hate. actually know how to quantify this. Many of us would rather the certainty Data confirms that women are more of rubbish interest rates than the risk-averse than men when it comes uncertainty of stock markets. to investments. Both in terms of what Uncertainty is indeed a characteristic they actually have and what they think. of the stock market. But choosing to Women are more likely to tell me it back the firms which provide our cars, “feels like gambling”. They could “lose it our energy, our food, leisure, clothing and all”. It’s “not being sensible” with what banking, is a sensible use of our money they have. and bears little resemblance to the 50:50 I hear a massive disconnect between of a roulette wheel. Since global stock the unfamiliar distant ivory tower world markets began, shares have done better of the asset manager and our day-to-day than cash over a 10-year period on nine lives. So to anyone who would say that occasions out of 10. Those are odds worth considering. 16 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

CASSIOPEIA A ….DEATH BECOMES HER BY SCOTT BEADLE FRAS

I have one more month in the with my telescopes here in Spain, but I smashed into the surrounding gas and your jewellery, the calcium in your bones can see the beautiful constellation itself dust. and the iron in your blood; in fact almost Valley of Lecrin. The weather and buried within it, is the remnants of A blast of light from Cas A can be everything to make life possible, but it’s has been poor with rain and a supernova 11,000 light years away now seen travelling through the dusty skies. still a balance. Get one a bit too near and referred to as Cas A. It’s called an “infrared echo”. Infrared it’s curtains for us all. cloud, thunder and lightning; This stunning false colour image echoes are created when a star explodes While stars like our sun die less dramatic, enjoyable and very shows off the many sides of the or erupts, flushing light into surrounding violent deaths, stars at least eight times as supernova. It is made up of images taken clumps of dust. As the light zips through massive as our sun blow up in supernova good for the ground, but not by three of NASA’s Great Observatories, the clumps of dust it heats them up, explosions. The high temperature and for astronomy. But hey-ho, using three different wavebands. Infrared causing them to glow successively in particles created in the blast fuse light data from the Spitzer Space Telescope the infrared, one by one. It is however elements together to create all the that’s our own planet at work, are coloured red; visible data from the an optical illusion; the dust seems to be heavier elements. watering, feeding, recycling, Hubble Space Telescope are yellow: and flying outwards at the speed of light. NuSTARS is the first telescope X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Echoes are distinct from supernova capable of producing maps of radioactive living, reminding me what a Observatory are green and blue. shockwaves, which are made up of elements in supernova remnants. The great place our planet is. Cas A is the remnant of a once material that is swept up and hurled discovery of titanium 44, which has an massive star which you can see in the outward by the exploding star. unstable nucleus produced in the heart Chandra data as a sharp turquoise dot in Stars are basically spherical balls of the explosion, gives physicists a more ow the sky is clear and the centre of the shimmering shell. of gas, and when they collapse and die complete picture of what actually is my telescopes are looking Each Great Observatory highlights you would think they would have the going on at the core of the explosion. northwards. Of course, I get the different characteristics of the celestial courtesy of exploding uniformly and Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s best views to the south here, which is orb. While Spitzer reveals warm dust make our understanding of their demise astrophysics division said: “That’s why we N in the outer shell about a few hundred simpler; alas, no. Recent observations built it to discover things we never knew why Jupiter, Saturn and Mars have been wonderful this summer. Looking north is degrees Kelvin (27degrees Celsius), of Cas A by NuSTAR (Nuclear and did not expect about the high energy usually better in England, but it’s cloudy Hubble sees the delicate filamentary Spectroscopic Telescope Array) shows universe.” to the south of me and clear north, so structure of hot gasses about 10,000 how the explosion’s heart, or engine, is So, at the moment ‘sloshing’ holds I’m looking at the constellation called degrees Kelvin (9,700 Celsius). Chandra distorted, possibly because the inner the theoretical arena of supernova Cassiopeia, the familiar asterism shaped probes unimaginably hot gasses up to regions literally slosh around before development… Mmmh, and with that I like a “W” that most of us have known 10 million Kelvin (9,900,000+ Celsius). detonating. think a visit to the La Conca Arts Club since childhood. These extremely hot gasses were created Supernova seed the universe with and a bit of sloshing of the Rioja variety Now the image you can see I can’t when the ejected material from Cas A many elements including the gold in is called for. Goodnight. 02017 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Left: BaoziInn Middle: Market Halls From Dance Hall Below: Super Tacos from Breddos to Market Hall: Market Halls comes to Photographs © Market Halls © Market Photographs Victoria this November

his autumn Market Halls will be transforming the abandoned arcaded bays of Victoria’s TerminusT Place into a sustainable new destination for local residents, workers, commuters and visitors to the city. Since 1909, the space has housed an Edwardian shopping arcade, a restaurant, and more recently the super-club Pacha. When the doors reopen in early November, Market Hall Victoria will HISTORY AND DESIGN OF showcase a diverse and eclectic offering MARKET HALL VICTORIA of food and drink across three floors with eleven kitchens, a coffee shop, and three The Victoria Street Arcade was brought bars championing independent British- about by Robert Hope Selbie, the general made beers, spirits and soft drinks. manager of the Metropolitan Railway Market Halls will bring together from 1908-1930, who proposed the some of the most-loved restaurants from reconstruction of the street buildings of across the capital, including BaoziInn, the company’s inner London stations to Monty’s Deli, Flank and Kerbisher & include commercial letting space. George Malt, whilst introducing exciting new Sherrin, the architect for Victoria station, offerings from some of London’s biggest also designed the arcade and parade of hitters: Koya Ko by Koya, Gopal’s shops fronting Terminus Place. Corner by Roti King, Super Tacos from The history of the building, its unique Breddos, Nonna Tonda from Fat Tony’s combination of decorative Victorian and Bunshop from The Marksman. elements, robust industrial features and Joining these kitchens will be some its proximity to Victoria Overground popular faces from Market Hall Fulham: and Underground train stations, are Fanny’s Kebabs and Press Coffee, with fundamental to the design approach. Victoria locals, Squirrel, concluding the Market Halls’ architects, FaulknerBrowns, line-up. ABOUT MARKET HALLS Seating for 400 people over three floors Market Halls, a group of UK-based, Roof terrace (opening spring community-minded property developers 2019) and restaurateurs, are redefining the All day dining taking diners British concept of food halls and turning from breakfast through to unloved public spaces with particular late night snacks architectural or historical interest public 3 bars, 11 kitchens again. With two major central London 1 coffee shop launches secured in 2018, a site that will become the largest food hall in the Simon Anderson, Chief Operating country when it opens in Spring 2019, Officer, said: “Victoria is a reinvigorated and a further three openings in London and dynamic district that is currently and numerous regional launches to be experiencing massive regeneration. We announced in 2019, Market Halls is set found a site in the heart of Victoria that to make an unprecedented mark on the has been derelict for years. After we UK’s dining scene. restore the building back to its former Market Halls is headed up by CEO glory, we look forward to bringing Andy Lewis-Pratt, a former property something new and exciting to the area.” developer and philanthropist, with “Victoria has an interesting mix have made discreet and minimal beams, decorative ceiling mouldings and Simon Anderson of London’s Pitt of customers; we expect it to change alterations to respect and enhance the cornicing, which were blacked out and Cue Co, as COO. Together they have throughout the day and week. We're appearance of the building’s heritage. The hidden away during its time as a club, spent the past two years visiting sites anticipating a combination of local façade will have the original historical exposed at every possible opportunity. A around the world including New York, residents and workers during the shop fronts reinstated and refurbished at curved timber ticket stall at the Victoria Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon daytime, with commuters figuring ground and first-floor level, rebuilding the Street entrance has been maintained and and the UK to ensure that their food heavily before and after work (we’ll relationship between building and street decorated to offer an additional point halls will be the most significant and provide the perfect place to sit out any that was abandoned by the building’s of service for customers. Stained glass exciting the country has ever seen. transport delays) alongside tourists and use as a nightclub in the 2000s. Key windows and an atrium roof light are theatregoers during the early evenings original features have been retained and being repaired and restored aiding in the and especially at the weekends.” sensitively repaired, with features such as introduction of natural light. www.markethalls.co.uk 18 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

Literature “I think we only ought to read the kind of book that wounds and stabs us.” Franz Kafka

to the reader’s eyes, but if anything this rubbery logic increases the narcotised Anniversary terror of Kafka’s narrative and adds a subtle note of farce which helps the pitch dark narrative breathe. In a memorable moment, K. walks into his office supply cabinet only to discover the agents who arrested him being viciously flogged for The Trial attempting to solicit a bribe. It’s a surreal moment that establishes that the blood soaked cogs of totalitarianism whir even ranz Kafka has (rather depressingly behind the most normal facades. It’s easy when you think about it) become to be surprised by the sly humour that something of a patron saint for Kafka injects even into his darkest works, Fmodern living. His alienated writings considering that the man’s modern of skewed social conventions and reputation isn’t exactly that of the class hallucinogenic persecution (that you clown. feel somehow you might have deserved) The Trial does not merely portray how deeply affect readers because there’s people become victims; he also showed something primal in his narratives that the extent to which power relies on the resonates almost subliminally with the complicity of its victims. At no point is existential dread that comes with urban K. really put in a situation that he is not life. Considering the long shadow that capable of merely walking away from. Kafka casts over literature, it’s amazing His nebulous crime hangs heavy over how few of his stories he actually him and whilst he protests his innocence, completed. Kafka is an author who often there is a sense that K. believes too is more known about than actually read heavily in the power and essential justice and many of his novels and short stories of the insane machinery bearing down are even stranger on the page than their accused of an undescribed crime and is Kafka story act with a kind of dream on him. Kafka never finished The Trial summaries would suggest (with the to be put on trial for it. This summary logic to the bizarre situations they are and as a result several of its later chapters noted exception of Metamorphosis which, immediately conjures images of a placed in and The Metamorphosis is no are fairly elliptical, but unlike several of it must be admitted, does exactly what it righteous, outraged novel presaging the different. K. frequently makes bizarre his works, it does have a definite (a very, says on the bug spray tin). 20th century atrocities of Hitler and decisions like wandering away from an very definite) ending. The Trial does A quick summation of The Trial is Stalin. Whilst it can be seen as that, The important conference with his lawyer have lessons to teach us, but they are far that bank clerk Joseph K. is woken on Trial is far more surreal and comically in order to seduce the man’s webbed darker, more worrisome and relevant his thirtieth birthday by mysterious absurd than that bald summation of fingered lover. Every element of The than its reputation may suggest. agents who inform him he has been events would indicate. Characters in a Trial’s world is alienating and bizarre Max Feldman

disaffection. There is a certain unavoidable issue The Outsider that academics get hung up on with The The Coronet Outsider and it lies in its racial politics. 14 Sep – 20 Oct 2018 In the novel the victim of Meursault’s random violence is simply referred The Outsider by Albert Camus to as ‘the Arab’ and is dehumanised Kenton Tristram © Photograph Tickets: www.the-print-room. to the point of plot device. It can be argued that his silence is intentional as org a foil to Meursault himself, though the inferred murky morality has clearly left poet and scriptwriter Ben Okri feeling uncomfortable. Rather than change the text he takes a third option by screening The Outsider (or L’Etranger if you’re The Insider, a short film by Mitra feeling continental) is Albert Camus’s Tabrizian, in which The Arab describes first and perhaps most famous novel. A his life and his guilt about his failure deeply interior novel, it has never been inter-war colonial whose borderline stratum of feeling boiling under his to protect his sister (though does not performed on stage in a significant sociopathic detachment from life is oddly glassy exterior. Director Abbey Wright mention his feelings about inspiring The production for much the same reason contrasted with a genuine Epicurean commits to a stark, concrete stage set, Cure’s first single). It is screened from that Das Kapital hasn’t enjoyed a second zeal for its pleasures. After the funeral suggestive of a cell, with any props 18.15 each evening at The Print Room life as a Broadway musical: sure you can of his mother, where he expresses no carried by the actors themselves putting and also during the play’s interval and do it, but should you? outward grief, Meursault drifts through the audience further into the empty whilst a perfectly effective piece of work Of all the theatres in London to take Algiers at a remove: working, drinking transitory world that Meursault moves is inessential for the broader narrative the challenge on, it’s unsurprising that coffee, conversing and enjoying a notably in. Whilst this makes artistic sense itself. it was Notting Hill’s The Coronet which physical affair with an ex-co-worker. So regrettably the relentless focus can be The potential for disaster adapting made the attempt. The theatre has always far, so stereotypically French, but after an a tad draining. Whenever Meursault’s The Outsider is (ironically) dramatic, had an admirable appetite for artistically act of shocking, near motiveless violence; friend, the gangsterish, woman beating but Wright has pulled off a guarded challenging projects and the stark he finds himself on trial, as much for his Raymond (authors had different concepts success with Frenchum due particular grandeur of the weathered performance societal disaffection as his crime. of comic relief in the 1940s) played with recognition. It’s not the easiest ride, space gives The Outsider some serious The novel places you entirely within thuggish brio by Sam Alexander is on considering the nature of the narrative atmosphere, which considering the lack Meursault’s consciousness, so it’s on his stage, the play lights up. Abusive, human requires significant focus on the part of formal ‘action’ in the narrative is a casting that play lives or dies. Thankfully and oddly likeable, he is perhaps the of the audience, but if it’s afforded godsend. Sam Frenchum, who mildly resembles closest the real world comes to forcing that concentration then all of Camus’s The Outsider (both novel and play) Sam Riley, brings Meursault to life its way through The Outsider’s rigidly subtleties can be seen as though through is narrated by Meursalt, a seemingly through a series of tiny expressions and drawn lines with his brute humanity a shimmering heat haze on some far emotionless Frenchman living in gestures which suggest a deep volcanic contrasting sharply with Meursault’s cool away beach. Max Feldman Compiled & Edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD

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Temples of Convenience: a tribute

HIS MONTH’S POETRY PAGE is tinged with sadness by the death of our good friend and long-time contributor to the newspaper, Dudley Sutton. Best known as an actor, Dudley performed in Film and Television, winning theT hearts of the nation most notably for his role as Tinker Dill in the 80s TV series Lovejoy. Only two years ago Dudley took part in Of Mice and Men touring some of the town theatres across the country. On one memorable lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club he admitted that performing in Of Mice and Men was the most enjoyable moments in his acting career. He had the pleasure to work with people of all ages during this production and claimed that working with young people, in particular, gave him a renewed sense of joy and perspective on his craft. Whether on the London or New York stage, or the small town playhouse, Dudley loved to perform. Yet, he was much more than an actor. One of his greatest passions was writing and performing his own poetry. Dudley’s knowledge of poetry was seemingly endless and each month he would choose a poem that had moved or inspired him and sent it in to KCW Today for publication under the column title I Wish I Had Have Written That. The title of his column said as much about the joy he felt in rediscovering a poem as it did about the poem itself. Dudley’s own poems are loaded with insightful and humorous observations about commonplace things or situations. They often reflected his mischievous nature and always moved audiences to loud rounds of applauses amidst raucous laughter. At KCW Today we had the pleasure of receiving a private audience with Dudley every year at the annual Christmas lunch. A particular favourite with the KCW Tribe is the following poem, A Hymn to the Vanishing Gentlemans’ Lavatories of Old London. So we say a fond and loving farewell to Dudley with this tribute. From all of us at KCW Today you will be greatly missed, dear friend.

A Hymn to the Vanishing Gentlemans’ Lavatories of Old London by Dudley Sutton

I sing to you all the pubbelick Gents Baronial Hall to the oddest events Supposed by call on the public expense Some are quite small and other Immense The pubblick, bubbelick Gents. There are holes in the walls for inserting your willy Now who could object to the smell of the pee Though who’d have the balls to do something so silly Disinfected by Dettol but never from me Mid wildly inaccurate drawn compositions That strikes at the nose as one comes down the stairs Of dangerously difficult avid positions Rounding the corner expecting affairs With telephone numbers in ball-pointed pens Wish gentleman standing at porcelain stalls As to who should suck whom and suck where and suck when Fixing their gazes at spots on the walls I never have dared to call on of those men As they study the posters depicting disease Though I’ve fantasised of them again and again. And a sot in a closet has fits of D.T.’s. But now they’ve invented a ghastly machine There are bars of that desperate soap with the stink With muzak and plastic and chemicals green That soap that leaves jelly all over the sink And gone are the smells and the porcelain stalls That fierce little man has to clean with a cloth And gone are the cocks with the incredible balls The one in the office who calls you a toff Gone are the posters, the numbers to phone Who is there to ensure that the water is hot The fierce little men have been sent to ahome Who gets into trouble whenever its not For fierce little men for who all that remains Who will rub and will scrub all things we don’t mention Of brushes and flushes and flags down the drains Who fought in the war to draw minimum pension. Inaccurate drawings and holes in the wall Replaced by machine there is nothing at All There are gleaming machines for the coins in the slot The doors reach the floors or why they do not Oh my dears, some were quite small and others immense The shine of the copperware brassware and locks The pubbelick, bubbelick, clubbelick Gents. Incredible balls with incredible cocks for controlling our flushes and sparing our blushes To hear Dudley Sutton read this poem please go to the following YouTube link Aided by bristley thistley brushes www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUfLAnA3O1g the ones with long handles a- standing in tins That hide such a multi great tude of our sins. Compiled & edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD 20 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

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there is little evidence to suggest that pupils with unconditional offers gained Private disappointing grades. According to figures from UCAS, this year saw a 3% schools call for reduction in the amount of university applicants. This decline is responsible universities to for fuelling employers’ motivation to increasingly take candidates’ A level reduce amount grades into consideration. University may only be for three years, but grades stay of unconditional with you for life. offers awarded ‘Congratulations, you have received By Evangeline Cronchey an unconditional offer.’ Upon hearing a university of your choice explicitly wants you, you rush to press the ‘Firm’ button. Amidst an influx of endorphins, seemingly forgetting about the other four institutions you spent hours deciding Top private schools are increasingly whether to apply to. In any case, this worried that unconditional offers are button not only promises you a space but being handed out by universities too in symbiotic fashion, also guarantees the effortlessly. Heads believe that A level university that one more undergraduate students in receipt of this offer may be position is to be filled. tempted to “take their foot off the gas” Unconditional offers are not typically well in advance. need to settle for the unconditional offer according to The Guardian. distributed by the top twenty four Universities reassuringly say that even though the University has happily Out of 950,000 offers made this year, 7% universities. Compiled due to their these offers are only given to the top settled for you. They would be lucky to were unconditional, figures from UCAS research- intensive nature, members candidates. Are the best candidates have you, as Nick Hillman director of (university applications administrator10 form ‘The Russell Group’. The removal being short changed though? Predicted the Higher Education Policy Institute shows. A fifth of the 250,000 applicants of government caps on funding grades of A*BB, Ashely Ford received an reminds it is a “buyer’s market.” Ensuring to English universities received at least undergraduate numbers has generated unconditional offer from Plymouth to the informed choice surrounding which one unconditional offer. greater competition between universities study economics, a course only requiring university they should choose remains in The unconditional offer allows pupils causing them to unconditionally accept BBC. Although Ford is likely to attain attainable reach, pupils are encouraged a guaranteed place at their chosen more candidates as well. Vice chancellors her predicted grades, she told the to work to achieve the results they are university, regardless of their A level believe the nature of the offer manifests Guardian, “I absolutely definitely want capable of, “it is one year of your life grades. With seemingly nothing security for both the pupil and university. to go to Plymouth… even if I do much and the decision could affect your entire further to work towards, pupils feel a Offering peace of mind, it allows better I’m sticking with them.” future’’ says Lynse Hopkins, Head of reduction in pressure. Having said that, students to prepare for accommodation Students should be warned, there is no Admissions at Sheffield University. 22 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

state school, only 57 per cent of hired graduates were state educated. Private school Almost all of the 138 employers students surveyed described diversity as a significant priority, but the ISE said dominate top more must be done to improve diversity. Hawkesdown House School “On almost every diversity measure, graduate jobs the average graduate intake does not By James Warrington reflect the graduating cohort or the For Boys & Girls UK’s population. People who attended state schools, women, first generation aged 3 to 11 years graduates and disabled people are all underrepresented on graduate programmes,” the ISE said. Overall, the number of graduates hired increased 16 per cent compared with last year. However, stagnant wages mean graduates this year are £1,500 worse off than those who graduated just before the 2008 crash. Stephen Isherwood, chief executive of the ISE, said the number of graduate jobs on offer was encouraging, but warned of the lack of diversity. “We must find the means to recruit the talent that exists within the breadth of the student body. This means changing the nature of recruitment and selection processes and putting less focus on Russell Group institutions or those that ormer private school students companies have historic links with,” he dominate the best UK graduate said. 27 Edge Street, Kensington, London W8 7PN jobs, according to a survey by the “It is important to look at the Telephone: 0207 727 9090 Email: [email protected] Institute of Student Employers (ISE). wider social obstacles too. We can’t F www.hawkesdown.co.uk The survey found that while 91 expect businesses to shoulder the full per cent of the population attended a responsibility for an unequal society.”

So many times I have been asked Never compare where a child is in comparison to their classmates; my response is that we do not your child to rank children. Of course when writing references, this will invariably be asked another, especially and so I will refer to a quartile only. This measurement is immeasurable as CAMERON HOUSE SCHOOL not a sibling the success of each class holds so many By Mrs. Dina Mallett, variables. The ugly phrase, ‘value added’ is 4 THE VALE, LONDON SW3 6AH actually the most relevant; and the question Headmistress: Dina Mallett Headmistress at that should be asked is “how much has T: 020 7352 4040 www.cameronhouseschool.org Cameron House School my child achieved?” rather than “how do they compare to their peers?”. Resist the temptation to look at other children’s work The most important aspect of on the wall in your child’s classroom; read your child’s only. Whether they are streets your child’s learning is how ahead or striving to catch up with their well he or she is doing for cohort, place importance on your child’s achievement not attainment. themselves, irrespective of the Comparing siblings is an absolute achievements of any other no-no. The number of times parents have child in the class. referred to a sibling as ‘the clever one’ or ‘not as clever as his sister’ is heartbreaking. Stating these comparisons is unfair and may put the so-called ‘less-able’ at risk of fulfilling this prophecy. Children should A Springboard for Life be taught to strive for their best rather than settle for the fact they will never be as successful as their sibling. I have never taught two siblings who were the same, yet •A Soaring Start the siblings I have taught may have shown •Challenging Curriculum equal promise, but perhaps in different curriculum areas. •Established Excellence Remember to celebrate every success, ISI Report “Excellent" in all Categories regardless of how big or small and regardless of how any other child has done. 02023 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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We have over 200 of the Cambridge So why do schools offer bursaries? UK’s leading schools all under one It goes back to the mission of most roof, providing parents with the perfect University independent schools, where the founders opportunity to meet schools one-to-one wanted to pay for poor scholars to have and get your questions answered. You announces £500 an education for social mobility and the can also hear from experts in the field in University © Cambridge Photograph alleviation of poverty. It’s in the schools’ our two education theatres, covering all million scheme ethos. you need to know to ensure you select a to bring in poorer students As Mark Bailey, High Master of school that is right for your child. By Max Feldman St Paul’s School, and David Goodhew, Headmaster of Latymer Upper, both Tickets are FREE to everyone who agreed at the Independent Schools Show registers before the Show. Be sure to get Cambridge University has launched a last year, diversity in independent schools ahead of the game and get your tickets £500m fundraising campaign to pay a year between 2012 and 2016. Giving benefits all pupils. today. This is the perfect day out for all for a new “transition programme” to the traditional start-of-year speech to ‘Our parents want us to be a school the family. encourage and support applications from university staff on Monday, Cambridge’s for people from all walks of life, from Visit www.schoolsshow.co.uk for talented students from disadvantaged vice-chancellor, Prof Stephen Toope, diverse backgrounds, culturally, social- more information and tickets. backgrounds who might otherwise not said: “Can we call ourselves a place of get a place. excellence if we are not fully inclusive of The scheme will include an intensive the most diverse talent? 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a sixth of the surface of the Earth, the December 3 – January 15 last imperial monarchs of Russia, the The Nutcracker Romanovs, enjoyed lives that glittered with Royal Opera House unimaginable wealth and power, but the A Christmas treat for the whole family and family mysteriously disappeared in 1918. a classic with a special place in the hearts 0333 241 4000 of ballet fans around the world. Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 020 7240 1200 2DD Bow St, London WC2E 9DD sciencemuseum.org.uk roh.org.uk

Ongoing January 19-20 Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo Manon Science Museum London Coliseum Come face-to-face with a full-size The young and naïve Manon is torn engineering model of BepiColombo, between two lives: privilege and opulence the European Space Agency’s first ever with the wealthy Monsieur GM, or spacecraft to explore Mercury Standing 02027 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT FORonline: AUTUMN www.KCWToday .co.uk

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Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, 020 7522 7888 London E16 1XL 77-82 Whitechapel High St, excel.london London E1 7QX westminster-abbey.org/institute whitechapelgallery.org October 27-28 RHS London Urban Garden Show FAIRS & FESTIVALS Royal Horticultural Society Inspiring visitors to grow, even those with October 11-21 only the smallest of plots, the show is the Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival perfect place to browse and buy an exotic Bloomsbury assortment of plants for small gardens, RHS London Urban Native Spirit returns to Bloomsbury for balconies and windowsills along with their 12th Indigenous Film Festival 11-21 popular houseplants, plus an eclectic range October with a great line up of 50+ films of botanical inspired products for the Garden Show highlighting Indigenous Cinema from home for visitors to create their own urban the Arctic, Americas, Australia, Africa, jungle. The event will also feature a host of Sat 27 Oct–Sun 28 Oct Pacific, Taiwan and Canada. Special guests creative talks on urban horticulture to help RHS Late Fri 26 Oct include artists, musicians, filmmakers and everyone get to grips with it to make the writers: Jules Koostachin (Cree), Red most of their city abodes. Haircrow (Chiricahua Apache, Cherokee), 020 3176 5800 Greta Morton Elangué (Indigenous RHS Lindley Hall, SW1P 2QW and RHS Australia), Suming Rupi (Amis), Ado' Lawrence Hall SW1P 2QD Kaliting Pacidal (Amis), Lin Guo-ting rhs.org.uk (Amis),Ingrid Pumayalla (Trujillo), Sara Taukolonga (Tonga) Don’t miss the November 30 – December 2 opening night film BLACK DIVAZ which Amaze follows the inaugural Miss First Nation Olympia Australia drag pageant at Darwin Pride. Amaze Expo, formerly known as Big Highlights also include a full day of Boys Toys, is the innovation and luxury Indigenous Cinema, Sunday 14 October lifestyle exhibition launching at Olympia 11-6pm at SOAS and the Life Blood London. Come explore the world's most exhibition with Cara Romero, Chemehuevi groundbreaking, state-of-the-art and Photographer at The Crypt Gallery. innovative products and services from an Opening night advance ticket entry £10. array of global manufacturers. There is All other events free, donations requested something for everyone, even if you are £5-10. just 'window shopping', you will discover Houseplants | Interactive workshops | Expert advice Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk new and desirable cars, yachts, private jets, www.nativespiritfoundation.org holidays, fashion, beauty, art, technology and more. Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster St James’s Park / Pimlico October 16 +91 80 500 40 777 London Victoria Track Day Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith, Book now at rhs.org.uk/londonshows Goodwood Motor Circuit London W14 8UX RHS Registered Charity No: 222879/SC038262 The track day offers Alpine customers amaze-london.com the opportunity to take their car onto November 23 28 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS SUPPLEMENT FOR AUTUMN

Creative Quarter 2018 Explore the Galleries hour. to interact with the performer on her This year the V&A, Natural History Natural History Museum 0800 0722 110 remarkable journey, before she builds her Museum, Imperial College London, From dinosaurs to mammals, explore See website for how to get there new home on stage. Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal the amazing diversity of life on Earth. queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk 020 8543 4888 College of Music and Goethe-Institut Follow our planet's evolution and walk 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London will welcome young people considering beneath a 25.2-metre blue whale skeleton. October 14 SW19 1SB careers in the creative industries to a day Take a journey through the spectacular East London Brass polkatheatre.com of talks, workshops and behind the scenes Earth sculpture and find out about the St John’s Smith Square tours on Friday 23rd November. For more tremendous forces that shape our planet. A fun-filled family concert at St John's December 14-21 information, please visit: See scientists at work in the Darwin Smith Square. There’ll be lots of chances to The Snow Queen discoversouthken.com Centre and enjoy the tranquil habitats of join in, so bring your loudest singing voices Under the Bridge the Wildlife Garden. and something to shake or blow. Sing For the first time this December, Under December 4 020 7942 5511 along, play along, learn and listen to some the Bridge will transform into the ultimate A Christmas Cocktail Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 of your favourite songs, including Let It Go Christmas destination as it brings a large Chelsea Old Town Hall 5BD from Frozen, The Circle Of Life from The dose of festive spirit to West London The annual Christmas fair to raise money nhm.ac.uk Lion King and the theme from Star Wars. and presents a show for all the family. for Save the Children. And why not make your own instrument to Described as a fusion between Frozen and 020 7361 2220 Ends October 31 play along? Free for under 15s. Hans Christian Andersen’s famous fairy Chelsea Old Town Hall, King's Rd, Ride the Slide at the Arcelormittal Orbit 020 7222 1061 tale, The Snow Queen is a musical comedy Chelsea, London SW3 5EE Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park St John’s Smith Square, London, show with plenty of audience participation savethechildren.org.uk London’s most exciting attraction, The SW1P 3HA and interactive fun that tells the story of Slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit opened sjss.org.uk a young girl out to prove that friendship FAMILY & CHILDREN in June 2016 and visitors have been and the power of love can conquer all. snapping up tickets to experience the truly October 20-22 The action-packed, fun-filled, 60-minute Ongoing hair-raising sensation! Measuring 178m, Kidtropolis adventure is ideal for children of all ages Hackney City Farm The Slide is the world’s tallest and longest Excel and the venue will also host an authentic If you’re on a day trip from the country, tunnel slide. Travel down the UK’s tallest A family event for children aged 12 and Santa’s grotto, where children can meet this quaint urban farm isn’t for you, but public artwork through light and dark under and their parents and guardians. Santa after the show. city kids enjoy meeting the goats, sheep, sections as London’s dramatic skyscape Already announced and heading to the 020 7386 3327 chickens and rabbits. There’s also a farm passes by. The Slide twists and turns 12 event are the following activities: Rolling Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1HS shop selling eggs, organic vegetables and times, including a tight corkscrew section skating, inflatable Bumper Carz, a 60 metre underthebridge.co.uk other locally produced food. named the bettfeder after the German long giant inflatable assault course, Messy 020 7729 6381 word for ‘bedspring.’ It ends with a 50 Play, Sand Art, the Play-Doh zone, and FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY 1A Goldsmiths Row London E2 8QA metre straight run to the ground. In the a carousel. There will also be a multitude hackneycityfarm.co.uk exhilarating 40-second trip, riders are of live shows and workshops including See website for dates expected to hit speeds of up to 15 miles per Mad Science, balloon model making, dance Dream Big: Engineering Our World 3D Ongoing lessons and meet and greets with The Science Museum Oddbods, Masha and the Bear and My Discover the human ingenuity behind Little Pony’s Twilight Sparkle. engineering marvels big and small. From John Parnham’s Children’s Fun Fair in partnership with 020 7069 5000 the Great Wall of China and the world’s Royal Victoria Dock, tallest buildings to underwater robots 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL and solar-powered cars, engineering plays excel.london a crucial role in so many of our greatest innovations. Dream Big: Engineering Our October 23 World celebrates the human ingenuity Nature Explorers: Wild Film makers behind engineering marvels big and small. Hyde Park Hear inspiring stories of human grit and Drop your young explorer off to spend aspiration as the film reveals how engineers the day becoming a wildlife film maker in push the limits of innovation to solve Hyde Park. Children will make their own problems and create a more sustainable mini wildlife documentary and follow in future for us all. the footsteps of David Attenborough, Steve 0333 241 4000 Backshall and Chris Packham! They’ll use Exhibition Rd, Kensington, London SW7 iPads to explore the hidden wildlife of the 2DD park, with lenses to make micro minibeasts sciencemuseum.org.uk appear larger than life. Work with a partner NORMAND PARK to hone your presentation skills and Ongoing LILLIE ROAD FULHAM SW6 7ST discover Hyde Park in a whole new way. Superbugs: The fight for our lives Suitable for children aged 8-11 years Science Museum th th 0300 061 2000 Antibiotics have enabled us to combat 28 74 190 Fri 19 to Sun 28 OCT royalparks.org.uk diseases that were once untreatable. But 391 430 N28 bacteria have fought back, evolving into N74 N97 OPEN EVERY DAY 12 Noon to early evening October 24 – November 3 superbugs resistant to even the most Under the Rainbow powerful antibiotics. This new exhibition Polka Theatre explores how society is responding to the Returning to Polka this autumn, Under enormous challenge of antibiotic resistance, This Fair is a Token operated event the Rainbow’s evocative music, puppetry featuring scientific research from across NO CASH ON RIDES OR STALLS ACCEPTED and a beautiful transformative set gently the globe and the personal stories of those 1 TOKEN 12 TOKENS tells the story of one woman’s courageous waging war on the superbugs. £1.00 £10.00 journey. 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Meet the Neighbours Planetarium Show iwm.org.uk affordable objects created by artists working Royal Observatory The Democratic in contemporary styles. Tour the solar system and beyond and October 28-29 Simon invited Cherie into his home meet our next-door neighbours in space! Movie Nights at the Museum Dish: Mintons whereupon she saw his beautiful collection. Vote with the audience on which planets Natural History Museum Secessionist Ware “There did not appear to be a single object to explore in depth, before moving beyond After the last visitors have left the Museum in the room that was not in period with the to explore neighbouring stars and galaxies for the day, it's time to settle in for a Movie an exhibition at Chelsea Space ceramics, from the furniture to the artworks far away in the depths of space. Packed Nights Halloween Special in the Hintze until 26 October 2018 and wallpaper – even the exotic lily plants full of spectacular sights and fun facts, this Hall. Each ticket includes complimentary in their Mintons jardinières looked in style, ” interactive show will be presented live by popcorn and free entry to the Life in the said Cherie. an astronomer from the Royal Observatory. Dark exhibition. This event is hosted in The selection of the ceramics that Cherie 020 8858 4422 collaboration with The Luna Cinema. has made for this exhibition is her attempt Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ 020 7942 5511 to offer the gallery visitor an impression of rmg.co.uk Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 that first vivid encounter. To recreate the 5BD ambience of Simon’s home she has even October 25-29 nhm.ac.uk used the same paint colour for the gallery Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old wall! Imperial War Museum Ends November 3 Visitors to the gallery are invited to Jackson’s artistic response to the First Purdah - The Sacred Cloth submit their own designs inspired by the World War, co-commissioned by 14- Autograph show and four designs will be reproduced 18 NOW and IWM. Archive footage Arpita Shah’s photographs portray women onto large ceramic plates (chargers). Entries has been transformed offering a new from the Muslim, Sikh and Hindu must be received by 5pm, Friday 19 October. perspective on this 20th century conflict communities in Scotland, who practice A panel of judges from the college will A chance encounter with a collector has to a 21st century audience. Peter Jackson, the tradition of head covering or veiling. make their shortlist and the University’ s led to a beautiful exhibition of Mintons best known for directing The Lord of Shah highlights the significance of the Chancellor Grayson Perry RA will announce Secessionist Ware at the Chelsea Space the Rings trilogy, has created a new film Purdah, the ‘sacred cloth’, and its deeply his final selection at a reception event at the Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. using original footage from Imperial personal meanings to the women she gallery between 5-8pm on Friday 26 October When Cherie Silver, a curator at Chelsea War Museums’ extensive archive, much collaborated with as part of the project. 2018. hand delivered some leftover posters and of it previously unseen, alongside BBC Her portraits seek to address the common magazines from a previous exhibition that The Democratic Dish: Mintons and IWM interviews with servicemen misconceptions around the tradition she’d sold on Ebay, she hadn’t planned on Secessionist Ware who fought in the conflict. Footage has of head covering and veiling through discovering the material for her next project. continues until Friday 26 October 2018. been colourised, converted to 3D and representations of contemporary women The buyer turned out to be Simon Wilson, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, transformed with modern production who choose to practice this tradition. OBE, an art historian and retired Tate curator UAL, 16 John Islip Street, techniques to present never before seen 020 7749 1240 who, with his late wife Alessandra, had for London, SW1P 4JU detail. Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA many years collected Mintons Secessionist Gallery opening times: 020 7416 5000 autograph.org.uk Ware. Mintons were renowned for creating Tues - Fri: 11:00 – 17:00 Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ

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Ends November 3 fundamentals and exploratory passion, 020 7887 2626 Liberty / Diaspora from his emergence as a teenage blues October 30 The Pod Building, Bridges Court, Autograph phenomenon with Taj Mahal and Captain Uffenbach’s Travels Battersea, London, SW11 3BE Liberty: A Universal Chronology of Black Beefheart in the mid-Sixties to his roots- Handel & Hendrix thelondonhelicopter.com Protest reinterprets defining moments and-noir film soundtracks and central Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach of historical revolt and black struggle in role in the birth and success of the 1996 was an accomplished amateur musician Ongoing Africa and the diaspora, exploring what Havana supersession Buena Vista Social and writer. His journals give accounts of Guided Walks unifies and defines these fights for freedom Club. performances by many Baroque composers See website for more and human rights. These images challenge 020 7730 4500 such as Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi. Guided walks and treasure hunts which monolithic history-telling, featuring key 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London This recital will provide a rare insight hope to enable you to discover new places events such as the Alabama marches on SW1X 9DQ into 18th-century musical life. Ensemble and look at London with new eyes. These Washington (Selma 1965), lesser known cadoganhall.com Voyage are Bethan White (oboe), Tabea walking tours are for those who love resistance movements against colonial Debus (recorder), Naomi Burrell (violin), London and want to make the most of oppression in south-eastern Nigeria (The October 19, November 9 Catriona McDermid (bassoon), and Pawel their time here, no matter whether it's a Women’s War 1929) and the more recent Miss Hope Springs: Siwczak (harpsichord). weekend or a lifetime. Who knows, you Million Hoodie March in New York which Blood, Sweat & Sequins 020 7495 1685 may love London a little bit more! inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. Brasserie Zédel 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London londonguidedwalks.co.uk 020 7749 1240 Comedy cabaret chanteuse down-on- W1K 4HB Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA her-luck ‘recovering showgirl’ Miss handelhendrix.org October 17 autograph.org.uk Hope Springs plays the piano and sings Help combat violence against women songs from her acclaimed all original self November 4 and girls MUSIC penned repertoire and recounts hysterical Childish Gambino Kensington Town Hall tales from a career that started in the O2 Practitioners and coordinators working Ends October 26 early sixt…I mean seventies. You’ll hear GRAMMY, Golden Globe and Emmy- to help combat violence against women Das Rheingold scandalous stories from her disastrous ‘Ritz Award winning and multi-talented and girls are invited to a conference on Royal Opera House to the pits’ life, interspersed with songs recording artist, actor and producer Donald Wednesday 17 October at Kensington Antonio Pappano conducts the first about her various paramours, from Liberace Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino announces Town Hall to look at the new accredited opera in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des to Barry Manilow, and she’ll spill the beans headline show at The O2 on Sunday training in line with the EU best practice Nibelungen, with a cast including John about cohabiting with her husband Irving 4 November 2018, with Special Guest in order to expand their knowledge and Lundgren and Johannes Martin Kränzle. and his close hairdresser pal Carlos in that H.E.R. 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Working with Standing Together The Leonore Piano Trio brings together Janina Fialkowska Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX Against Domestic Violence, Dimitra (from three internationally acclaimed artists Eaton Square theo2.co.uk Greece), Catharsis (from Romania) and (Benjamin Nabarro, violin; Gemma Beloved the world over for her exquisite Region de Murcia (from Spain), this Rosefield, cello and Tim Horton, piano) pianism, Janina Fialkowska has enchanted TALKS, CONFERENCES, European project for innovative accredited whose piano trio performances under audiences for over thirty years with her TOURS, & WALKS training is leading the way in improving the umbrella of Ensemble 360 were met glorious lyrical sound and her profound the response to violence against women with such enthusiastic responses that sense of musical integrity. Particularly See website for dates and girls. they decided to form a piano trio in its distinguished as one of the great Hidden London The conference will look at the own right. This concert marks the 100th interpreters of piano works by Chopin, London Transport Museum experiences and outcomes of the partners Anniversary of Hubert Parry’s death “…indeed, lesser mortals may well weep Hidden London is London Transport involved and what opportunities this (7th October 1918) with a programme with envy at such unfaltering authority” Museum’s exclusive programme of tours presents for professionals working in the including the composer’s first piano trio. (Gramophone Magazine), Eaton Square and events at disused stations and secret area. It will be flanked by Haydn’s characterful Concerts is delighted to welcome back this sites across London. Led by experienced For more information, email DVCI@ Trio in E major and Beethoven’s famous beguiling pianist. guides, ready to share unusual and little- rbkc.gov.uk or book yourselves a place on ‘Archduke’ Trio. 020 7553 4039 known stories surrounding the stations’ www.eventbrite.co.uk 020 7553 4039 St Peters Church Eaton Square, 119, varied histories, these visits offer an St Peter’s Church, 119 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL exciting opportunity to explore locations October 27 London SW1W 9AL eatonsquareconcerts.org.uk rarely seen by the public. 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FEATURING CHRISTMAS CLASSICS AND EPIC FILM SCORES WITH CONDUCTOR JOHN MAUCERI AND THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

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Just a month to go until the 29th edition of the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair opens.

The countdown has begun to the opening of the friendliest book fair in the calendar. Once again over 80 regular and first-time exhibitors from all over the world will return to historic Chelsea Old Town Hall; beautiful and valuable books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and ephemera; from museum quality works to affordable editions with which to start your own collection.

Exhibitors are keen to chat and trade with all book lovers, of any kind, from the collector to the curious. Experts will lead talks and tours on topics From Aldous to Zadie, Modern Firsts & Modern Children’s Editions, to A Whistlestop Tour of Bookbinding and Eating Books.

The Centenary of the end of the First World War will also be commemorated. On display; a scarce edition of Vera Brittain's Verses of a VAD poignantly dedicated to her fiancé who was killed on the Western Front; works by Sassoon and Brooke; notebooks chronicling one man’s struggle to keep the Navy at sea; photographs, letters and a rare and beautiful prosthetic hand with articulated fingers.

With prices starting at just a few pounds, there's something for every interest; poetry, children's classics, modern fiction, fashion, gardening, cookery, sport, military, crime, art, architecture, travel...

The Chelsea Fair is definitely a place for all literary enthusiasts to become immersed in the buzzing community of the rare book trade.

Bat out of Hell 0844 482 5115 The Outsider Curtains Up Pub, 28A Comeragh Road, Dominion Theatre Coventry St, London W1D 6AS Coronet Print Room London W14 9HR Meat Loaf has joined forces with the princeofwalestheatre.co.uk The Outsider is the story of Mersault, a angeltheatrecompany.co.uk songwriter who helped make him a world- young French clerk in 1940s Algeria, class rock star, to create a long-awaited Ongoing disengaged from a world in which he Ends October 20 stage musical featuring a host of his best- Hamilton doesn’t really fit. Following his unemotional Drip Feed loved tunes. The very best of all three Bat Victoria Palace Theatre response to the death of his mother, and Soho Theatre Out of Hell albums has been combined The critically-acclaimed and multi-award- his senseless killing of someone he barely Brenda and her best pal are part of the to create a musical that no serious rocker winning Broadway musical at London’s knows under the glare of the Algerian sun, furniture. Dancing on tables and 3am will want to miss, with a futuristic plot Victoria Palace Theatre. he finds himself on trial not only for the breakfast rolls. But what if you wake twisty enough to satisfy the fussiest 0844 482 5138 murder but also for his refusal to conform up hungover and broken on the wrong theatregoer. Welcome to the future, where Victoria St, Westminster, London to society’s expectations. person’s doorstep, realise you’ve got it young Strat will do anything for love… SW1E 5EA 020 3642 6606 wrong, all wrong, and it might just be too including risking the wrath of Falco, the victoriapalacetheatre.co.uk 103 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, late? A fast, infectious, dark comedy about despotic leader of the dysfunctional, post- London W11 3LB the messiness of being youngish, female apocalyptic world. Ends October 13 the-print-room.org and queer in Ireland. 020 7927 0900 Taming of the Shrew 020 7478 0100 268-269 Tottenham Court Rd, Fitzrovia, Tristan Bates Theatre Ends October 13 21 Dean St, Soho, London W1D 3NE London W1T 7AQ Given only their character’s lines and Eavesdropping Again sohotheatre.com dominion.theatre-tickets.com immediate cue words, the actors ensemble Barons Court Theatre together on stage without prior knowledge Following their successful sell-out runs Ongoing of what or who they will encounter. of Eavesdropping (2016) and More The Book of Mormon Thus beginning an attention-grabbing Eavesdropping (2017), Angel Theatre Prince of Wales Theatre voyage of discovery. The audience is part Company returns to Barons Court Theatre The Book of Mormon has book, music and of the adventure into the unknown and with Eavesdropping Again, the next lyrics by South Park creators Matt Stone experiences (as close to as possible) what instalment of their verbatim theatre project. and Trey Parker, and the mind behind the Elizabethan theatre goers would have Using the same concept as its predecessors, hit musical Avenue Q, Robert Lopez. The seen on stage. Audiences were known their company of actors covertly record real show follows the journey of two Mormon to pay double to see Shakespeare’s new life conversations, which are then scripted missionaries who travel to Africa to preach plays performed for the first time, such word for word and reinterpreted through their religion. They share their scriptures was the excitement of knowing you would rehearsal to create a piece of theatre. Unlike Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha with a small village in Uganda, but find make discoveries with the actors as they most plays which are either written or it difficult to interest the locals who have experience the unfolding of the story devised, Eavesdropping Again is unique If you have an event that you’d like listed much bigger things to worry about: AIDS, together. in that it is neither! Each vignette is a in the next edition, please send any famine, and local warlords. It features 1A Tower St, Covent Garden miniature work of art, offering the audience information to: [email protected] hilarious songs like Hello, All American WC2H 9NP a great insight into the world around us. Prophet, I Believe and I Am Africa. Ends October 13 07956 698617 02033 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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T: 01935 813131 thing to say about the hotel is that the © Eastbury Hotel Photographs front-of-house staff were exemplary in www. theeastburyhotel.co.uk their welcome and friendliness, nothing seemingly being too much trouble, and the same applied to those in the Seasons herborne is gem of a town in the restaurant and bar. middle of pastoral Dorset, part The food is excellent in both sandstone, part brick, part stone. It the use of local seasonal ingredients Sis set on a hill, with the railway station where possible, and in its unfussy tucked into a valley at the bottom, the preparation. They do however have Abbey halfway up and a Waitrose at the 2 three course menus and a 5 course top. There are plenty of clothing shops tasting menu which can make choice both country and smart, coffee shops and less straightforward. There is a house several charity shops in the long high menu with standards like beer battered street, but they also have an excellent fish, steak and burgers, an à la carte butcher, greengrocers and several bakers. menu which is lighter in style and more The footfall in early autumn was a exciting, and a 5 course tasting menu mixture of locals and tourists (including We opted for the à la carte and there Americans) as well as the students at were several interesting little treats hidden away amongst the excellent locally sourced food, like a damson membrillo, a honey and truffle chutney, intriguing tomato butter and a parsnip amuse bouche. The owners patently like labels, and the appealing breakfast spread was laid out with dozens of pieces of slate painted to look like chalk, with the legend muesli, marmalade, Dorset yoghurt etc. There was honeycomb from their garden hives, fruit salad both fresh and dried and homemade jams as well as cooked Dorset breakfast, kippers, or smoked salmon and scrambled egg. Indulgent afternoon teas served in the drawing room, restaurant conservatory or on the terrace are polpular. More curious is the glass sphere ‘pod’ in the garden which can be booked abandoned it to build a new house based for intimate dinners, and a special on the bishop’s hunting lodge in the deer Chef ’s Table offering private dining in a park. After Raleigh’s imprisonment for secluded part of the garden. treason King James leased the estate The artworks in the dining room to Robert Carr and then sold it to Sir comprised American paintings and John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol in 1617, illustrations from the Golden Age of Sherborne School wandering about town who employed Capability Brown to lay illustration which lasted from 1880s until in their lunch hour. There is a good wine out the grounds and install a 50-acre shortly after World War I. store and, of course a Farrow and Ball, lake using the old castle as a backdrop. We stayed in the Garden suite doing a roaring trade in Mouse’s Back, Despite withstanding two seiges during which is spacious, with a statement four Elephant’s Breath and Weasel Fur. the Civil War, the old castle defences poster bed complete with Egyptian The Abbey is a magnificent building were destroyed by Parliament and it is cotton bedlinen, luxurious bedcoverings with some of the finest fan-vaulting now a romantic ruin, with the remains and a private walled garden. We were to be found anywhere in Britain, of of the towers sticking out like rotten welcomed by a shot of sloe gin. which Simon Jenkins in his book evensong, which had a skin-tingling teeth. The Digby family still live in the The bathroom was bright and England’s Thousand Best Churches says, frisson as the soprano boys’ voices house and have cultivated a vineyard for airy and equipped with White ‘I would put Sherborne’s roof against effortlessly reached the higher register. Sherborne Castle Estate wines. Company toiletries but the trend of any contemporary work of the Italian From the outside, one could understand The Eastbury Hotel is a converted incomprehensible counter-intuitive Renaissance.’ The interior positively why the peal of eight bells is the heaviest elegant town house in a quiet street ten bathroom fittings has reached Dorset glows with a honey sandstone colour, in the world, and yet, when inside, it is a minutes walk from the centre of town. and I managed to splash a great jet of enhanced by a burning arrow shot into sound of distant bells. It has twenty-odd rooms, including 3 water into my lap, not once, but twice. the east end of the Abbey, during a riot, Sir Walter Raleigh is linked suites. Beyond the wall is a charming The jacuzzi bath was thankfully easier to which resulted in a fire of the wooden intrinsically to Sherborne, worshipping garden, alive with flowering shrubs and operate. scaffolding permanently reddening at the abbey and renovating the Old mature trees including ancient Irish No hotel is complete these days the stone in the quire. At each end of Castle above the flood plains to the Yews. If you are feeling energetic and/or without a spa and there is a plan to build the transept are two fine stained-glass east of the town which he leased from competitive there is croquet, badminton a ‘hobbit house’ in the woodland part of windows, one by John Hayward, which Queen Elizabeth in 1592. The castle was and table tennis on offer. We were picked the garden for Summer 2019 which will was dedicated in 1998 by H M The a magnificent fortified palace built by up from the station by Ian, who was house a sauna, steam room, mini gym Queen, and in the Lady Chapel, there Robert Bishop of Sarum (Salisbury) in driving a 1960s Beardmore taxi, brought and Thalgo hydrotherapy treatments is a large engraved glass reredos by Rex the 12th century and Raleigh wanted to back the sounds of childhood; sitting in from France. But if you can’t wait until Whistler’s less famous brother, Lawrence. create a country mansion which proved the back seat of a 1950s saloon car, with then for a delightful break with plenty of We happened to be in the Abbey for harder than he imagined and he soon the smell of old, damp leather and oil. local interest then this could be it. DG 34 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining Out

Café Forty One Fine Vegan Cuisine By Cynthia Pickard Photographs © Cynthia Pickard © Cynthia Photographs

y gluten–free companion and I are the first to sample the new autumn menu at Café MForty One with its beautiful arboured terrace. La Suite West is a contemporary Hempel-designed boutique hotel in a Victorian row of townhouses a stone’s throw from Hyde Park and Notting Hill Gate. Unusually, however, their a little drop of alcohol. fragranced panna cotta sitting on a disc perfectly. brand new restaurant is devoting itself to My companion opts for the gluten– of genoise accompanied by caramelised The use of seasonal plant-based offering vegan food only, the first hotel in free sweet potato dauphinoise with crispy coconut crisps, pink grapefruit pieces, ingredients works well and no-one need London to do so. pulled aubergine giving a nice contrast pink grapefruit curd, coconut cream feel deprived. There is excellent attention The menu has been developed under between the creamy potato and the fried and bergamot gel. My friend loves the to detail and presentation, the dishes are the watchful eye of young French Head slightly chewy aubergine. I go for the contrast of the sharp gel and the sweet generous and really good value with main Chef Clarisse Flon who is passionate truffle polenta and wild mushrooms in syrup as well as the contrast of textures. courses from £9.50 to £13.50. about the health-giving benefits of a Dijon sauce with a cross section of I always hope for a well made rice This dining experience is not confined a vegan diet. This way of eating is roasted winter vegetables, including red pudding when the opportunity presents to lunchtime, veganism is even extended gaining popularity, and not only among onion, courgettes and slightly al dente itself, this one comes with roasted fresh to the full English breakfast, sumptuous celebrities keen to promote it, such as rainbow carrots. The lovely mustardy figs, caramelized almond and chocolate afternoon teas and all-day French Venus Williams and Beyoncé. sauce packed with three types of shards and a crispy caramel tuile. The desserts. From November there will be Autumn leaves fall gently onto us mushrooms is the star of this dish. Both rice itself has been cooked with vegan patisseries available to take away too. from overhead as we sit in the shelter of plates have some virgin salad on the side honey, vanilla and non-dairy milk the green terrace. Virgin cocktails get us that could benefit from being clothed in using risotto rice with the result that it Café Forty One at La Suite West Hotel, started, a Mojito full of fruit and flavour some sort of dressing. almost approaches the consistency of 41-51 Inverness Terrace, W2 3JN Tel and a restrained Strawberry Daiquiri. Clarisse Flon’s forte is definitely in oriental sticky rice: most satisfactory and 020 7313 8484 However delicious, sometimes when the dessert area. From the great choices comforting. I follow up with a hazelnut www.lasuitewest.com contactus@ behaving healthily one can still yearn for on offer we choose two winners. Lightly shot that continues the autumnal theme lasuitehhotel.com

Mayfair for several years. The dishes are so you have the benefit of selecting from full flavoured. A peppery Cabernet largely south Indian influence containing a variety of three, four or five dishes each, Sauvignon red matched the meat. Both Kahani fish and vegetarian dishes, as well as meat saving the deliberation of choice, or a from J’noor in an attractive bottle. For First-class Indian cuisine in dishes and fresh Scottish Blue Lobster. starter and a main course. those with more indulgent pockets the heart of London’s Chelsea. Manager Taran Singh and his We selected char-grilled Scottish Cristal is available at around £565 a immaculately dressed staff greet us scallops, star anise coated, garnished bottle and champagnes range from £60. By Tim Epps and invite us to cocktails. We choose a with spiced raw mango thuvayal; smoked Wine by the glass from £7. & Kate Hawthorne “basil straight and narrow”, a refreshing Malabar prawns, fresh turmeric, coconut, Onto deserts. A chili chocolate combination of Seedlip garden gin (no curry leaves; sirloin kebab chargrilled, bomb for dessert which fell apart (rather alcohol) basil and watermelon shrub, truffle oil, ground fennel, royal cumin; than exploded) under its warm sauce. Imagine an Indian meal. Then, forget it! foamed egg white topped off with a venison bhuna, black cardamom, peppers, As a good bomb disposal expert the Kahani bears little resemblance to other blossom (delicious), and an Indian gin shallots, paratha. This was accompanied fragments were gathered up expertly and Indian meals. There’s horses for courses, and tonic dressed with cucumber slivers, by a variety of papadums with three dips, completely demolished. but this is a racehorse. which hit the spot. the lightest of rices and the best tarka The medley of kulfi included a variety Kahani is discreetly situated behind Then the fun started. The dining dahls either of us had experienced. of salted caramel, rose mala, and the new Cadogan Hall off Sloane Street. concept is similar to tapas. A great Chef Peter Joseph happily admitted pistachio cardamom. Another winning Chef Peter Joseph comes from serving offering for all appetites. Starter and that he was fascinated at a young age by combination. the notable kitchens of Tamarind, main sizes are available for most courses, his mother’s cooking and carried on the Overall the food was a masterly learning process combination of complex and delicious ever since. It tastes and textures, precisely balanced shows. and beautifully presented. There is also a The wine list private dining room seating 10 for lunch was good and and dinner. comprehensive This was without doubt one of the

and the best Indian dining experiences either Epps Tim © Photographs sommelier of us had had. You could say maybe the suggested Indian reviewers don’t get out that much, but as wine. a pair of ancient globe trotters that is not This was a the case. This restaurant is a delight. new experience So come on all you exhausted and the white shoppers and Cadogan concert goers, a Sauvignon Blanc, whole new experience is nearby! unlike new world or European Kahani versions, was 1 Wilbraham Place, SW1X 9AE low on acidity, Tel: 020 7730 7634 delicious and www.kahanilondon.com 02035 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Burrata with heritage tomatoes, pesto meal was washed down with a quality Omar’s Place Genovese and pine nuts (£12) and beef bottle of Grange Des Rocs Languedoc- By Emma Trehane tartar with pear, hazelnut mayo and Roussillion PicPoul De Pinet (£24.50), Parmesan tuile (£13). I had skimmed Determined that we left completely over the hummus on the menu not being satisfied Omar insisted on us trying

the biggest fan but Omar pointed out his signature cocktail Martini to finish. © Omar's Place Photographs that this was hummus with a difference Absolutely delicious and I would idden away on the back streets and worth a try. The dish came as a recommend readers should pay a visit if of Pimlico is Omar’s Place. duet of beetroot and green pea hummus only for Omar’s Martinis. Whilst only a stone’s throw from rolls. The outside of the roll is delicate HVictoria Coach Station and Buckingham and crispy and the contrasting flavours Palace Road, the restaurant took some were tantalising. At £7 this dish is a well time to find; the building blends into priced treat. If you wanted to begin with 13 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, London. the residential quarter a little too well. something a little warmer then there is SW1V 4PR That said, the extra observational skills also hot tapas on offer, including bone Reservations: 07881 777227 required were not used in vain. After marrow charcoal grilled with butter (£8), www.omarsplace.co.uk allowing myself and my fellow fine gambas al ajillo, seared Mediterranean diner time to settle in, the restaurant’s prawns with garlic and chilli (£12), and namesake came and introduced himself pastilla; a Moroccan pie filled with pulled to us. Omar Shabaan, an Egyptian lamb and aubergine (£15). with the looks and physique of an For the main course we ordered ancient Pharaoh, was the perfect host slow cooked lamb with celeriac puree from beginning to end. Aware that the and bitter watercress (£16) and turbot restaurants location was problematic he char-grilled Andalusian style (£18). The convinced us that on tasting what he had charcoal grilled broccoli with balsamic to offer we would have no trouble finding vinegar glaze (£6) and roasted butternut him again. He was not wrong! squash with wild mushrooms (£6) Omar advised us that the menu was were the perfect side complement and inspired by over 20 countries across went particularly well with the turbot. Europe. Michelin starred chef Vicente Although we had little room left for Fortea is the brains behind the menu, desert the apricot Tarte Tatin with vanilla presentation, food and flavours, and ice cream (£6) and strawberry and white offers diners dishes from Majorca to chocolate route with white chocolate Istanbul. foam, strawberries and pistachio (£6) Starting with the cold tapas, we got the better of senses and how pleased ordered Iberian ham 5 Jotas with we were they did. Just to put the icing Manchego cheese and tomato (£13), on the cake this highly recommended

the house olive oil that was so good we rossi di Mazara are some unique sulphite with myself about dessert. Compromise bought a bottle to take with us, and some free prawns that arrive with a little suggested we shared one, a Semifreddo Tasting Sicily, marinated olives. Chomp chomp, glug salad and a salmoriglio sauce, plus some of Agrigento almond parfait with a hot glug and other sounds of happiness. This tuna bottarga by request for another £6. chocolate sauce topping. Wise move, Enzo’s Kitchen was followed by a mix of meat and veg Compared to the paler imports we get good choice, and we only had a small By David Hughes Arancini del Commissario Montalbano from the Far East & Asia these have a fight for the last spoonful. The meal came (apparently its Inspector M’s favourite) big powerful head and a slightly lesser to a close sampling a couple of grappas and a phenomenal octopus carpaccio. On body. A bruiser with slender hips, but and a macchiato, and was a most agreeable a mission to convert us to pumpkin in a tasty one. The simple Signature salad way to visit the best of Sicily without the heat of summer, he sent out a plate of of Sicilian orange and crunchy fennel, going anywhere near an airport Zucca in agrodulce which was the sweetest red onion and black olives, oregano and Tucked away in Panton Street. Its sounds I have ever tasted, but expertly cut back mint looks almost too plain, but here’s a funny expression for the heart of town with the vinegar dressing, mint and the thing; do we want authenticity or a that’s just a short walk from Picadilly garlic. tarted up London version? Circus, but sometimes these ancient side It’s an occupational hazard having We had to pause at this point, let streets still have that air about them. A a little too much of what you fancy, but the mains gently rest, and enjoy another Tasting Sicily, Enzo’s Kitchen quick online search reveals Panton St where there’s a will…a good secondi will glass of red. After a few minutes, and is at 38 Panton St, SW1 first appears in the Ratebook records of follow! The exotic sounding Gamberoni not for the first time, I lost the debate Bookings on 020 7839 5142 1674, and was described by Strype in 1720 as “A good open street, inhabited by tradesmen” You would only have to add “and plenty of tourists and revellers too” to bring things right up to date. Today, one of these good honest establishments is Tasting Sicily, Enzo’s Kitchen. The man himself is a bit of a celebrity; chef to the Italian cycling team, Hughes © David Photographs cook to nobles, gentlefolk, and happily enough, to you and I, too. Although the clue’s in the title, like most Italians there’s a strong sense of regional pride that would shine through no matter what title you put above the door. We ask for a bit of his favourite mix to start, a genuine Sicilian Moretti (it has a hint of orange blossom in it) and a bottle of local red. Up came fresh baked Pane della Casa, 36 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Paula Rego: From Mind to Hand Marlborough Fine Art 6 Albemarle Street, W1S4BY Until 27 October 2018 www.marlboroughlondon.com

aula Rego grew up under the anti- communist Catholic dictatorship of Salazar’s corporatism Estado PNovo in Portugal, with shadows of the secret police around every corner. It is hardly surprising that her images resonate with menace, ambiguity and the threat or actuality of violence. The Maids is a painting based on the Jean Genet’s eponymous play, which itself was based on the true-life story of two sisters who murder their rich French employer and her daughter in a calculated role-playing ritual. Two preliminary drawings are on show, but neither portrays the impending danger seen in the painting, which contains a hog-like dog snarling in the corner. In a study for The Policeman’s Daughter, there is a young girl polishing a long black boot, with a castellated doll’s house at her feet. In the painting, the girl has become a young woman, and her hand is rammed into the boot up to her elbow in what can only be described as a ‘Mapplethorpe manoeuvre.’ The doll’s house has been supplanted by a stretching cat. None of her characters are remotely attractive. The women are Top: awareness in her home country, and the tough, lumpen, harsh and physically The Maids Mueck, had his first public display in the Bottom: same show, with his realistic Pinocchio, a laws were liberalised in 2007. Her studies awkward, particularly her series of Dog Girls Sawing for Caritas contain all sorts of sexually Woman drawings, while her children, 1984-5 mere 85cm tall, leaning slightly forward Images courtesy of: with a quizzical and slightly embarrassed ambiguous activities, with children sitting with large heads and thick ankles, lack © Marlborough Fine Art even a whiff of innocence. Rego counts look, naked except for a pair of tiny astride old gentlemen, while The Artist herself as a storyteller, and she draws Y-fronts. Her works highlighting the in her Studio is a mélange of animalistic on Iberian folklore, as well as dark fairy laws surrounding the abortion laws in figures, children, toys and statuary. tales, with a brooding sense of psycho- Portugal are nothing if not harrowing, Goodness knows what prompted her sexual behaviour. In a series of three pen but they aroused interest and raised pen and ink drawing called The Butler, in and watercolour drawings entitled The which the waistcoated servant is holding a Dinner Party, a tall, rangy woman in a maid round the waist while she vomits on long dress dances with two young boys. the floor in a graphic Steadman manner. It transpires that the woman is Princess Her work is not for sissies. It is raw, Diana and the two boys are William grown-up and uncompromising, leaving and Harry. Each was priced at £22,000, one with a slightly uneasy feeling, and yet, while Two Girls Sawing was catalogued one is drawn into it with a Balthusian, at £45,000. almost voyeuristic, fascination. The line She has come a long way since she between child and adult is often blurred, appeared with Peter Greenaway, Ridley further confusing the sexual undertones, Scott, Eduardo Paolozzi and Terry which may, or may not, be there in the eye Gilliam, in a seminal exhibition at the of the viewer. Her drawings of Dog Women Hayward in 1996 called Spellbound: Art are a trifle confounding, particularly and Film. Her contribution was a series as she explains, ‘To be a dog woman is of Disneyfied pastels depicting scenes not necessarily to be downtrodden; that from Fantasia, Pinocchio and Snow White, has very little to do with it. In these but with reverse anthropomorphism pictures every woman’s a dog woman, not in the first, featuring ungainly women downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial in black ‘ostrich’ outfits squeezed into is good. It’s physical. Eating, snarling, all non-aspect ratio frames, and a curious activities to do with sensation are positive. relationship between Snow White and To picture a woman as a dog is utterly her stepmother, which could just be the believable.’ We will have to take her word underlying theme of jealousy. Rego’s for that. son-in-law, a film model maker Ron Don Grant 02037 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 37 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Ribera: The Art of Violence Dulwich Picture Gallery Until 27 January 2019 Admission £16.50 www.dulwichpicturegallery. org.uk

f your predilections are flaying, flagellation, torture, hanging, upside-down crucifixions and Ihuman suffering generally, then head on down to Dulwich, where there is an array of the art of violence or the violence of art in all its shocking forms. Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) was a Spanish-born painter from Valencia, who spent most of his artistic career in Spanish-occupied Naples, influencing Neopolitan artists like the romantic and allegorical painter Salvator Rosa and training Luca Giordano, who went on to paint large-scale mythological and religious scenes. What is it about the Spanish preoccupation with violence and cruelty? Two hundred years after Ribera, Goya produced his Disasters of War, which, although were thought to be a protest against the violence of the French occupiers in the Peninsula Top: War, they were still graphic depictions Apollo and Marsyas, on loan from: of beheadings, garrotings and rape. All Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples Ribera’s victims are men suffering at the Right: Martyrdom of St Bartholomew. hands of other men painted in the midst New York Public Library of the Inquisition during the Counter- Catholic Reformation. Ribera would have been witness, along with other citizens wandering about the city, to beheadings, hangings and people being burnt alive at the stake. Flaying alive, that is, stripping off a person’s skin as one would skin a rabbit, seems to have been the cruelest of a cruel way of torturing and ultimately killing a victim. Ribera paints and sketches the process in the most gory detail, which is both deeply shocking, and fascinating at the same time. A painting of St Bartholomew shows the poor denuded man actually holding his own skin over his arm like an overcoat, complete with face and hair. St Bartholomew is the subject of another gruesome painting on loan from the Museu Nationale d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, showing the martyr staring helplessly at the viewer while he is being Baroque stringed instrument called a same scene 70-odd years before, which held exhibitions by the likes of Edward tied down and flayed alive. viola da braccio. The howl of sheer agony caused a sensation when it was shown Bawden, John Singer Sargent and Eric Even worse than that grisly picture screams out at the viewer, as Apollo, in at the Royal Academy in 1983, with Ravilious. The visitor will, however, be is the one of at the end of this dark a blue robe borrowed from El Greco, many critics perplexed as to ‘how it is rewarded with a masterful display of voyage through human pain, namely calmly starts cutting the satyr’s hairy possible that a horribly painful subject painterly skills and dramatic chiaroscuro Apollo and Marsyas, on loan from Museo leg, revealing a great vulvic gash of open should be the occasion of beauty or compositions, as well as some fine e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. flesh. Apart from the brutality, it is the greatness in art.’ The same cannot be prints and drawings. Apart from that, Marsyas was a satyr who foolishly nonchalance of the great god Apollo, as said for Ribera’s masterpiece, as it is the overall atmosphere in the darkened challenged Apollo, the god of music, he butchers his vanquished foe, that is certainly not in any way beautiful. It is, galleries was one of doom and gloom, amongst other attributes, to a musical so shocking. It is a stonker of a painting, however, great art. This really is not a and it was a relief to emerge into the contest. Marsyas’s double pan-pipes with more than a whiff of Caravaggio show for the squeamish, and it is well late afternoon summer sunshine in leafy were no match for the god’s usual in terms of light and shade, as well as outside the comfort zone of the Dulwich Dulwich. lyre, substituted in the painting for a his limited palette. Titian painted the Picture Gallery, who have previously Don Grant 38 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Another much-loved musical folk and blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Classical stars return to the Tex-Mex zest of conjunto and the MUSIC veteran returns to Bush Hall regal sensuality of Afro-Cuban rhythms. Cadogan Hall and Wigmore on Tuesday 6pm. £55 Hall www.cadoganhall.com ROUND UP (October 16) as Laura Veirs tours BY GEOFF COWART her tenth solo album, The Lookout. Cuban big band comes to No stranger to Shepherds Bush, the bespectacled folk-pop star from Oregon Fulham has always boasted a wonderful knack There’s plenty more Cuban spice on offer as energetic mambo big band Orquesta With autumn’s Akokán makes its UK debut at Under the Bridge on Wednesday October 24. gig season in The Fulham Road venue under Chelsea FC’s stadium is the regular showcase for full swing, all bands on the celebrated Brooklyn label Daptone Records. Assembled and led Calling all classical music fans aged 8 eyes turn to by Cuban vocalist José ‘Pepito’ Gómez, to 25. Wigmore Hall is offering free Orquesta Akokán is a big band collective tickets to see the talented young Danish Subterania in of the finest musicians on the island, String Quartet perform on Tuesday young and old. 7pm. From £22 night (October 16). The superb group Ladbroke Grove www.underthebridge.co.uk will tackle two pieces by Beethoven, an early quartet piece (Op 18) and the later he recently revived Black masses at Empire Razumovsky quartet, alongside Webern’s dazzling Quartet for Strings (Op 28). club welcomes Saturday night (October 13) at the O2 7:30pm. Call 020 7935 2141 and quote legendary soul Shepherds Bush Empire promises a ‘Chamber Zone’ to book. Tickets from gathering of the black clad masses as £18 if older than 25. vibraphone player Roy Ayers for spinning weighty yarns into her Current 93 and Nurse With Wound T whimsical tunes. Fittingly, she proclaims The London Chamber Orchestra pile on for a three-night stand, from that her new tunes are a ‘soundtrack for the Mozart for their October 30 date at November 1-3, which shows turbulent times’ and it’s full of allusions Cadogan Hall as they perform Mozart’s that the Acklam Road club is to ‘protectors: the camper stoking a Symphony No. 40, Concerto for Two watch fire, a mother tending her children, Pianos No. 7 and Serenade No. 6, led by once again setting the pace. a sailor in a crow’s nest and a lightning Christopher Warren Green with soloists rod channeling energy’. 7.30pm. £26.95 Arthur and Lucas Jussen at the piano. www.bushhallmusic.co.uk 7.30pm. From £10

Two days later, enigmatic The following night sees phenomenal Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt perform Californian guitarist Ry with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra Cooder brings his son, at Cadogan Hall. The Halloween night gig (October 31) should provide some drummer Joachim, to Cadogan frightening displays of pianistic skill, Hall. if nothing else, in Beethoven’s mighty Emperor piano concerto. Yutaka Sado Tickets to Thursday’s gig (October 18) conducts, with Bernstein’s Three Dance are in short supply as it’s a rare chance Episodes from On the Town and Sibelius’ to hear the six-string legend in action. share the bill. Both bands evolved in Fifth Symphony also on the bill. 7.30pm. While he’s best known for leading the London’s fertile early Eighties music From £18 blockbuster Buena Vista Social Club scene as they contorted the sonic sessions in 1996, it was his Sixties work extremities of industrial, punk and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev with Captain Beefheart and Taj Mahal drone music with aplomb. While the returns with the Mariinsky Orchestra that put him on the map. Since then, membership of both bands has been to Cadogan Hall to celebrate the 200th Born in Los Angeles in 1940, Ayers Cooder has ploughed an impressive fluid, David Tibet (Current 93) and anniversary of Marius Petipa, who made a name for himself in the early furrow through the American guitar Stephen Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) served as first ballet master and principal Seventies with a string of superb soulful tradition with his sublime amalgam of have consistently collaborated across choreographer of the Mariinsky for more funk albums for Atlantic. But his their respective projects. Expect the than 30 years. The November 5 gig will grounding was always in jazz. At age five, unexpected. 7pm. From £38 feature Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and his music-loving parents took him to see www.02shepherdsbushempire.co.uk excerpts from Sleeping Beauty. 7.30pm. Lionel Hampton’s big band. Young Ayers From £18 was spotted in the crowd by ‘Hamps’ and was handed a pair of his vibe mallets. By Sundays are for Communion 17, he had his first vibraphone. String quartets from Mozart, Ayers was later taught by his Communion Records, home to Michael Shostakovich and Mendelssohn feature neighbour, rising Blue Note vibes Kiwanuka, Catfish and the Bottlemen on November 7 as the new-look Takács star Bobby Hutcherson, and shortly and George Ezra, continue their Sunday Quartet perform at Wigmore Hall. The thereafter made his recording debut sessions at the Notting Hill Arts Club. renowned Hungarian group formed in with Curtis Amy, a highly regarded The line-up on November 4 includes 1975 and are now based in Colorado saxophonist with whom he recorded Etham, Free Money, Shiners, Margot, with original cellist András Fejér the sole the tune Way Down. Music, and the MarthaGunn and Milly Upton. 6pm. £8 original member. 7:30pm. From £18 vibraphone, has never been the same www.communionmusic.co.uk since. 7.30pm. £25 www.cadoganhall.com www.subternania.net www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 02039 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photographs © Plus One Gallery Photographs

development of digital photography given location into a scene more striking frequently not touched on in similar and editing software, which opened and comprehensive, as the sum of his landscape painting. If cities are as much Plus One Gallery: up new frontiers unimaginable to their inspirations. the sum total of the people who live Christian Marsh Photorealist predecessors. Rather than simply relying on in them as architecture then Christian By Max Feldman Whilst Hyperrealism lacks a formal the architecture he paints to tell the Marsh’s Hyperrealist approach shows the manifesto, it can be broadly broken whole story, Marsh has developed a urban environment as it really is. down into three distinct categories reputation as a ‘humane’ Hyperrealist He is represented exclusively by the that its practitioners work within: in his attention to the human element Plus One Gallery in London, which has Landscape, Still Life and The Human of his lush urban environments. Rather many of his most evocative works and s the 20th Century gave way to Figure. Christian Marsh is a Landscape than be simple markers for scale, the greatly benefits from being witnessed in the 21st, Hyperrealism evolved Hyperrealist artist who uses the people in his paintings are in many person. from an art dealer buzzword technologically-enhanced possibilities ways the central focus. The extreme intoA a unique and striking genre all of its inherent in Hyperrealism to create focus and depth of field possible in The Plus One Gallery is located in the own. Whilst its progenitor Photorealism stunning cityscapes in oil and canvas. Hyperealism allows Marsh to add an Piper Building, Peterborough Road focused on producing work that exactly Travelling across the globe, Marsh uses emotive ‘backstory’ to the people who London SW6 3EF. T: 020 7730 7656 recreated its subject matter, Hyperrealist photography to document dozens of exist in his cityscapes asserting “the Open Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm artists moved beyond rote replication; different constituent elements of his inclusion of a human presence and subtle by appointment only photographs became part of the means chosen landscapes: different times, narrative is important for the overall www.plusonegallery rather than the desired end. Hyperrealist lighting and moving individuals. Rather atmosphere of the location, as well as art utilising shatteringly crystal clarity than choosing any individual photograph inviting interaction with the viewer”. coupled with luminously bold colours to recreate, he instead composites them The fleeting nature of the moments that Top: Into the Night Below Left: Primrose does not reproduce reality, but accentuate into a single image which contains the Marsh captures can’t help but draw the Below Right: Albert Bridge it. Hyperrealism in its current form has most evocative and powerful aspects of mind towards the identity and feelings © Christian Marsh been made possible with the exponential each image, enhancing the reality of any of transient humanity, in a way that is & Plus One Gallery 40 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

specimens in a natural history museum. rational approach and do the sketch only In between, there is a darkened viewing after the bridge, millennial or otherwise, area, in which there is a selection of has been constructed. Piano is passionate black and white photographs by Gianni about light and how in an art gallery, Berengo Gardinis of Piano over the such as the Menil Collection in Houston years, and a 17-minute film by Thomas thirty years ago or the recently finished Reidelsheimer, highlighting Piano’s Whitney Museum of American Art in intelligent approach to architecture and New York, creating spaces using natural Art of Academy © Royal Photographs his languid attitude to life. In the middle light is a prerequisite in viewing the art. of the room is a specially-constructed, The Jérôme Seydoux Pathé Fondation imaginary ‘island’, on which are installed has a fiendishly complicated organic over 100 models of his projects, which carapace floating within the strictly include the largest, the 1.7km-long nineteenth century shell in Avenue des terminal of Kansai Airport, built on an Gobelins in the XIII arrondissement, artificial island in Osaka Bay, to the with original bas-relief sculptures by a smallest, his Diogene one-room cabin young Auguste Rodin. The new Academy in Weil am Rhein, which was informed Museum of Motion Pictures is currently by boat building and decades of under construction in Los Angeles, and, architectural experience. in all, there are 16 of Piano’s past and He is probaly best-known in this future projects on display, including country for his iconic Shard, with its the New York Times Building in New faceted 11,000 glass panels, containing York and the extraordinary Jean-Marie 44 lifts, including double-deckers, offices, Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Nouméa, New shops, restaurants, an hotel, 10 exclusive Caledonia, whose conical domes are residences and a public gallery, 309.6 constructed using laminated and natural metres above London, it is Europe’s iroko wood, concrete, coral, aluminium tallest building. He genuinely does have castings, glass panels, tree bark and an empathy for people, the environment stainless steel. Louvres, called nacos, open and the impact architecture has on their and close in tandem automatically by computer control, calibrated to the speed of the wind. Although Richard Rogers is credited with authorship of the then radical Pompidou Centre, it was designed by both Renzo Piano and Rogers in collaboration. In 1977, it was deemed startlingly innovative, in that it had all the ‘innards’ on the outside, although many of the components were purely cosmetic and served no structural purpose. The lack of a formal entrance was novel in its approach, but still rankles visitors. Colour-coding was part of the design, so that ventilation ducting was painted blue, plumbing Renzo Piano: and fire control piping green, electrical elements orange and yellow, circulation The Art of throughout the building red, and the larger structural components painted Making Buildings white. It took six years to build and Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler cost close to 1000 million francs, but in 1997, it was showing signs of premature Galleries ageing, having received more than 180 Royal Academy of Arts million visitors, or 25,000 visitors a day, and a further 576 million francs had to Until 20 January 2019 be spent on renovation. One innovative Admission £14 element was the introduction of large hollow members created from cast steel that were fabricated in Germany, known as a gerberettes, so-called from the German engineer Heinrich Gerber, each weighing 11 tonnes, and fixed together with an oversized nut and bolt system. One is painted red and stands as a t 81, Piano is remarkably ergonomic and spacial perception skills, lives, which is more than can be said for sentinel outside the Burlington Gardens sprightly for his age, articulate, as, when he came to move it out and tow many of his ego-fuelled contemporaries, building. relaxed, urbane and charming, it down to the sea at Genoa, it would who have little or no sense of place or The main sponsor of this exhibition stillA heading up the Renzo Piano not fit through the doors, which had history. There are a number of very rough is Rocco Forte Hotels, and the Hotel Building Workshop, which he founded to be dismantled. The exhibition is laid initial sketches of buildings in magic de Rome is one of their flagship hotels, in 1981, and still involved in all aspects out as two workshops/classrooms, with marker pen, which are loose doodles located on Bebelplatz, off Unter den of the design development of their drawings, models. photographs and in comparison to the highly detailed Linden in Berlin and was rebuilt by projects. He was born into a family of materials neatly displayed on squeaky- working drawings that emerge at a later Piano. Surely, these two distinguished builders, and soon set about designing clean white-topped desks, with canvas stage. One gets the feeling that these are gentlemen did not join forces simply to a sailing boat, which he built in the directors’ chairs ranged around them. the genuine article, whereas one suspects make a pianoforte gag? garage. He had not quite honed his Above, hang sketetal vertabrae like that some architects utilise a post- Don Grant 02041 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

On the surface of it… By Jane Duncan

he earth is a magnificent resource for artists, and we derive much inspiration from all her elements, earth,T fire, air and water. However, it is perhaps the magical alchemy of the blending of these elements which produces one of the most hard-wearing colourful and adaptable materials for artists and designers. From ceilings and floors, to roof tops and pathways, it adorns buildings from the modest to magnificent. It spans cultures and countries from ancient times to modern day. This incredibly hard-wearing and popular material is “The tile.” The word Tile is derived from the French word tuile, which, in turn, is derived from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay. Tiles are often used to form wall or floor coverings and can range from the simplest plain square tile to more ornate designs and complex mosaics. Most commonly used materials consist the building of wall Holland Park is the magical tiled Arab of ceramic and are typically glazed for decorations formed hallway which contains an animal tile internal use and unglazed for external by patterns of clay panel, circa 17th-19th Century depicting surfaces such as roofing and pathways. tiles. In 1619, Joannes birds of prey and lions fighting with Natural materials such as stone, glass, Kepler made an early mythical beasts. The panel of sixteen cork, onyx, granite, concrete or slate, are documented study tiles is a mixture of 17th century Syrian © Leighton House Photograph typically used in manufacture although of tessellations. He tilework produced by the artist and composite materials can be produced wrote about regular potter, William de Morgan ( 1839-1917). for situations which require more and semiregular De Morgan’s tiles are imitating the durable surfaces and which will resist tessellations in his earlier Syrian tiles which were produced impacts. Printing techniques and digital Harmonices Mundi; to replace those broken in transit from manipulation of art and photography It has been proposed Damascus. Sir Frederick Leighton had are sometimes used in what is known that he was possibly employed De Morgan, the foremost as ‘custom tile printing’, this can also the first to explore and to explain the hexagonal structures of the honeycomb and studio ceramicist to arrange the tiles in involve the use of a diamond-tipped drill. snowflakes. In textile design, tessellated patterns often appear on woven, printed or the Arab Hall because of De Morgan’s Diamond etching is believed to be more stitched fabrics and are often used to create interlocking motifs of patch shapes in enthusiasm for Middle Eastern artwork, permanent than a laser engraving. quilts. particularly ceramics. De Morgan spent In art and architecture, since ancient Within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea there are several most of his career trying to replicate the times, tessellations have been used to interesting examples of the use of tiling in buildings where it might be otherwise colour and glazes used in these countries. create decorative motifs. Tessellations considered unexpected. Hidden within the walls of Leighton House Museum in His efforts were so precise that it can be (the tiling of a plane using one or more extremely difficult to tell the difference geometric shapes), frequently appeared in between the two. the graphic art of M.C. Escher; who was In contrast at the “Michelin building” inspired by the Moorish use of symmetry on Fulham Road, the slogan claiming in places such as the Alhambra in Spain. that these tyres “drink up obstacles” is Escher made four ‘Circle Limit’ drawings the literal theme of the intricate floor of tilings that use the methodology mosaic of the former headquarters. of hyperbolic geometry. Some of the There are a number of decorative tiles most decorative patterns can be found showing famous racing cars of the time in Moorish wall tilings of Islamic that used Michelin tyres. More tiles can Architecture, using Girih and Zellige be found inside the front of the building, tiles in buildings such as La Mezquita in which was originally a tyre-fitting bay Cordoba in Spain. for passing motorists. The reception area In nature the honeycomb provides also features decorative tiles around its a well-known example of tessellation walls. The Michelin company’s close with its hexagonal cells. In botany, the association with road maps and tourism term “tessellate” describes a checkered is further represented by a number of pattern, for example on a flower petal, etchings of the streets of Paris on some tree bark, or fruit. Some species of the of the first-floor windows. Colchicum flower are characteristically tessellate. Tessellations were once used Jane Duncan by the Sumerians ( about 4000BC) in www.jddesignlondon.com 42 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

‘acting out a metaphor for inspiration,’ adding that ‘many artists, writers and Creativity: Why it Matters scientists have loved fishing for that By Darren Henley reason.’ It comes in under the heading Published by Elliott & Thompson of ‘everyday creativity.’ In his little pink book, Henley quotes Bazelgette, or Baz, 134pp. £9.99 as he refers to him, on the subject: ‘the ISBN 978-1-78396-378-2 skills and business models of this sector and the wider creative economy are those which many experts judge to be of One can tell a great deal about a book owned some 50,000 works increasing importance: blended technical by starting at the back and flicking in various mediums from and creative skills; collaborative through the index. Any book that lists every period of his career. interdisciplinary working; John Sebastian Bach with Sir Peter Certainly, there were a few duds entrepreneurialism and enterprise.’ Bazelgette,and David Bowie, warrants in that enormous output, but There is an old chestnut doing the a look, and then add to those Stanley how many gems? Henley makes rounds about the great-great- Kubrick, Spencer Tunick, and sigmoid the point that creativity is not just grandson of the great Victorian curve, as opposed to Sigmund Freud, about art, and, as the anthropologist civil engineer Sir Joseph, who it certainly grabs one’s attention. An Augustín Fuentes argues, there is as was instrumental in pumping organisational psychologist Adam Grant much creativity going on in the science ordure out of peoples’ homes, says that successful creative people laboratory as in a concert hall. This also and, as the man responsible are not distinguished by a dramatic applies to engineers, medics and business for introducing Big Brother qualitative difference in what they do, people who innovate and believe that to British viewers, Sir but in the energy of their production. creativity matters in their work. Peter was accused of He is quoted as saying, although not in He quotes an economist Dr reversing the process. this book, that ‘the greatest originals are George MacKerron who created a Henley has had a the ones who fail the most, because they ‘Mappiness’ app, which pinged 20,000 career mainly in radio, are the ones who try the most.’ Henley users throughout the day, asking them having worked at Classic FM cites Mozart as having composed over to record their happiness levels and since 1992, becoming the Managing 600 pieces before his death at the age of what they were doing at the time. He Director in 2006. Five years later he thirty-five. Bach is credited with over a compiled a list of twenty activities from thankfully, undertook an independent review into thousand, while Picasso’s work includes more than one million responses, and there was no music education and is currently chief 1,800 paintings, 1,200 sculptures, 12,000 found that there were at least half a mention of the Internet. executive of Arts Council England, so drawings, plus prints, ceramics and dozen that most people would consider My own happiness levels were he has first-hand experience of music textiles. There may be as many as 180,000 to be creatively artistic. Top of the list boosted when he mentioned fishing, and the arts all over the country. And, of Picasso prints in circulation, and, at the was making love, which, mysteriously, along with shooting, which came in at course, creativity at all levels. time of his death, it is estimated that he was not considered to be creative, but, number 10, and explained that it was Don Grant

to escape Nazi oppression. He studied noticeable. Eventually these ceased, and enlightened with gold. at the Slade School. His past was not lighter thinner works evolved with strips From 2008 until he died in 2013 Catharine forgotten and his work reflects the of colour finely graded along horizontal Feiler continued to be innovative and light and moving perspectives of early and vertical axes. They seem to vanish started a new style with a series of ‘square Armitage: The mountaineering experiences in the Alps. into unknown centre space. Feiler was reliefs’. In these compositions of collage His interest in continental architecture never really comfortable being part of a paint and perspex was used. They are Way She Sees It: is noticeable and a visit to Venice with group of artists. lovely wall pieces and the perspex moves Gallery © Redfern Photograph recent Paintings its colonnades made a deep impression. Feiler's use of gold and silver leaf is as you walk past, rather like scenery. The Redfern Gallery The styles of Cezanne and Mondrian, very effective and added a mysterious Structure always appealed to Feiler continental artists are apparent in his quality to the paintings. and he said, Cork Street, Mayfair. work Feiler was intrigued with the landings “We are standing creatures so we view London W1S 3HL Feiler was always interested in on the moon and this opened a new style the world horizontally”. exploring pictorial space and he enjoyed in his work. Feiler’s work had expressive power experimenting with collage. The style The Exhibition has some fine and he had his own system of spatial Until 27th October. 2018 of his art saw many changes; complete examples of the ‘lunar’ style. These logic. changes. consist of plain compositions of circles Catharine Armitage, Feiler’s wife His Cornish art contained and vertical bars which bring to mind lived and worked in Cornwall. Over abstractions of landscape in which Malevich’s studies of pure Suprematism. the last four years she has produced oil heavily encrusted surfaces were Feiler devoted many years to the 'Shrine on canvas works which reveal her own Paintings' personal reactions to the material world. his Exhibition reveals the with their She has stated clearly. changing styles of Feiler's work concentric “My paintings are reactions to the and marks his Centenary year. squares and a things I see; they are not about ideas.” Furthermore, it runs concurrently, for circle within. She transforms what she sees into T Later came abstract shapes and contrasts organic the first time in UK, with a show of new paintings by Feiler's wife, Catharine the Janus and geometric forms. She specialises Armitage. Series, well in glimpses of views and observes how The inspiration for Feiler’s work and represented at perspective can be distorted. This artist, the influence of other artists are clearly the Exhibition with great use of colour, paints a scene revealed throughout this splendid display and painted in through a window, or a door frame or of his paintings. sombre colours. a slatted gate. Her views are quirky and Feiler was inspired by the Cornish The following original. light where he lived and worked, but, he Janican series This is an excellent Exhibition, was not a true adherent of the St. Ives had glazed aesthetically pleasing and challenging in style of painting. Feiler ( 1918-2013) was surfaces that the art demands a response from the born in Germany and came to England and were viewer. 02043 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photograph © Clive Black © Clive Photograph

relationship was with Vanessa with whom he lived and worked from 1914 to Creative Development at her death in 1961. David Garnett, a publisher and Charleston author wrote eighteen novels. He was Home of Eminent Members of the volatile and cared deeply about things. ‘Bloomsbury Set’ He and Duncan were lovers. They were also conscientious objectors and worked on a farm near Charleston. He had a Charleston failed marriage with Duncan's daughter, Angelica and eventually retired to France Firle, Lewes where he wrote, cooked and kept bees. E Sussex BN8 6LL Vanessa, Clive, Duncan and David lived their artistic lives at Charleston and it today stands as a witness to that extraordinary story. Last month an £8 million development was unveiled at Charleston, which has taken twelve years to complete. Two eighteenth century barns harleston was the home of upbringing in Hyde Park Gate. Her colours. She was later influenced by have been renovated by Julian Harrap Vanessa Bell which she shared maiden name was Stephen and she abstract paintings. She had no interest Architects. The Threshing barn has with Clive Bell ( her husband ), grew up with two brothers, Adrian and in Victorian narrative painting which been transformed into a most attractive CDuncan Grant and David Garnett. In Thoby and two half brothers, George and was fashionable at the time. She was, restaurant serving appetising dishes and the words of her daughter, Angelica, Gerald Duckworth. The future Virginia actually, the most celebrated painter of sandwiches with delectable sweet treats. “She loved the pearly luminosity of Woolf was her sister.She studied at the ‘Bloomsbury Set’. She experimented They have a good wine list, too, and local the Sussex light, the pale gold of the the Royal Academy under John Singer with art as she did with her life which beers. stubble fields, the orange-roofed barns, Sargent. was complex and emotional. She was Jamie Fobart Architects have which stood in mysterious isolation When their parents died Vanessa a prolific painter and interior designer. created five interlinked galleries out of and the silver willows whose cool grey moved to Gordon Square with Adrian Her works include Studland Beach, cross laminated timbers for Exhibition smudges relieved the dark august green and Thoby where they mingled with Interior with two women. Iceland Poppies purposes. This structure is very successful of oak or elm.” artists. writers and intellectuals who had and portraits of Aldous Huxley, Virgina and reminiscent of a cloister. Vanessa was content with her visual formed ‘The Bloomsbury Set’. They were Woolf and David Garnett. The guided tours in the house are surroundings at Charleston. It is a free spirits in all the senses. Frequent Vanessa’s husband, Clive Bell was excellent and given by friendly lecturers beautiful, solid farmhouse built of Sussex visitors included Lytton Strachey, born into a rich family, educated at who know their subject well. In the brick and stone, totally unpretentious Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Cambridge where he met Vanessa's new Wolfson Gallery the Exhibition with a glorious natural garden, complete Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Clive brother, Thoby. Clive became an Orlando runs until 19th January. It adds with a pond, vegetable patches and fruit Bell. Vanessa and Clive got married and influential art critic in the avant-garde great interest to a visit as it explores the trees. It contains the original decorated had two sons, Julian and Quentin. The aesthetic theory. He worked closely with themes and concerns of Virginia Woolf's furniture, curtains and embroidery work. marriage failed, neither of them took it Roger Fry organising post-impressionist novel of that name. There are also many Some of the wall paper was stencilled by very seriously. Exhibitions. Clive's personality created treasures on view from Knole, childhood hand, other walls being painted. Doors Vanessa, Clive, Duncan and a ‘down to earth’ note in the utterly home of Vita Sackville-West. Vita were also painted with dots, swirls and David went to live at Charleston Bohemian atmosphere of Charleston. was Virginia’s friend and lover and the mythic figures. It all tones together well together. Vanessa and Duncan formed Duncan Grant met the ‘Bloomsbury inspiration for Orlando. and gives the impression of being created an enduring, artistic and creative Set’ through his cousin Lytton Strachey Charleston hosts lectures, workshops, by a commune of artistic friends. Artists partnership. They had a daughter, and he had an easy going personality courses and festivals. Visiting hours are see life differently from other mortals Angelica, whom Clive recognised with charm and he never seemed to grow now greatly extended even during the and consider art is necessary to life. The as his own. Vanessa and Duncan old. He had trained to be a painter in winter. It is necessary to book tours and setting of Charleston is creative naturally, worked together and completed many Paris under Simon Bussy. He became a check opening times. high on the Sussex Downs with the commissions for the Omega workshop, Director of Omega workshop with Roger Marian Maitland ground sloping down all around. created by Roger Fry. and Vanessa. Duncan was a prolific Vanessa had a vivacious personality Vanessa attended many post- artist, experimenting in textiles, interior and people were drawn to her, as if by a impressionist exhibitions and was decorating, murals and theatre design. Charleston Telephone: 01323 811 626 magnetic force. She had a very formal drawn to their bold forms and bright Although homosexual, his longest e-mail: [email protected] 44 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

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The Little Stranger Director: Lenny Abrahamson Running Time: 111 minutes

he Little Stranger, a strange little haunted-house yarn from director Lenny Abrahamson (Room),T creeps into theaters this weekend as quietly as a cold breeze slipping in through a cracked window. Normally, when a studio goes to great lengths to hide an upcoming release; prohibiting reviews until the eleventh hour, mounting an almost nonexistent marketing campaign, it’s because the film in question is plainly an embarrassment, to be buried and then forgotten. But it’s almost the opposite problem facing Focus Features, whose efforts to pass daughter, the conspicuously unmarried Brideshead Castle was a nostalgic symbol offbeat music comedy Frank, warming us off this Gothic slow burn as a kind of Caroline (Ruth Wilson, who’s logged of an aristocratic age, Hundreds Hall is a to his underdog affability, only to reveal a midcentury Conjuring are complicated by some hours in a haunted house before). crumbling tombstone for the same. jealous, exploitative culture vulture. the restraint; the unfashionable subtlety, Adapted from a novel by Sarah As a man of science, Faraday fits When The Little Stranger hit that Abrahamson brings to his material. Waters, Welsh author of sapphic the archetypal profile of the rational bookshops in 2009, it was seen as a The skeleton hiding in the film’s closet is Victorian romances like Tipping the outsider, ready to debunk a supernatural change of pace for Waters, an unexpected that it features no skeletons lurching out Velvet and Fingersmith, The Little Stranger explanation, but confronted with dabble in Gothic horror. Yet as in of closets, or really anything that would unfolds chiefly from the perspective occurrences he can’t readily explain. But Fingersmith as well as Park Chan-wook’s send butts from seats or popcorn flying of an outsider: the country doctor he, too, is tormented by the place’s legacy. gonzo adaptation, The Handmaiden, The most conventionally frightening Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson), who His mother, we learn, was once a maid her story depends on a shattering of thing about The Little Stranger is its comes to Hundreds Hall to attend to a at the manor, and repeated flashbacks expectations about the characters, which setting: a sprawling, dilapidated mansion sick housekeeper, only to discover that to a childhood memory of the Estate in this case happens in slow motion in 1940s Warwickshire. Built in the 18th she’s not really sick, just spooked by indicate the spell it cast over him. Is rather than through twisty rug-pulls. century, when it loomed as a pillar of the cavernous, rundown manor itself. Faraday’s growing friendship-or-maybe- Likewise, while a sprawling mansion wealth and glamour, Hundreds Hall has “This house works on people,” Mrs more with the pragmatic Caroline, who is a much more spacious setting than a fallen into disrepair; a byproduct and a Ayres grants. Roderick, meanwhile, the locals dismiss as a damaged spinster, cramped tool shed, The Little Stranger reflection of the fading fortunes of its can’t shake the feeling that some dark just an extension of his deepest social isn’t so different from Abrahamson’s owners, the old gentry family the Ayres. presence looms over the estate. Is it the desires? Gleeson, who can do stiffly Oscar-winning Room in its vision of They’re a crestfallen lot, like Edward spirit of his long-dead sister, or just all milquetoast better than almost any actor imprisonment and possessiveness. Gorey misfits made flesh: regal matriarch in his fractured mind? The Little Stranger working today, is perfectly cast as the The director expertly evokes a postwar Mrs. Ayres (Charlotte Rampling), comes on as a throwback to British picture of English repression, all subdued England without a lot of fuss, sustains caught in the vice grip of undying grief psychological-horror classics like The emotion and unyielding formality. The an atmosphere of quiet unease, and uses over the death of her eldest daughter Innocents and The Haunting. But it’s got Little Stranger, though, allows Gleeson composition to link the physical spaces decades earlier; her son, Roderick (Will more on the mind than another game to peel back that polite-society civility to the psychic ones. It amounts to his Poulter), disfigured in the war and of “Ghosts” or “Just Crazy”. What really to find something more troubling most controlled, elegant filmmaking, nursing some psychological scars to go haunts the Ayres is the spectre of a underneath. One is reminded of what and the classiest portrait of paranormal with his physical ones; and her other bygone high society; if Evelyn Waugh’s Abrahamson did with the actor in his activity to make it to theatres in ages.

In the background of all the painful sword on Mike Wallace’s show the the living embodiment of the concept of and very necessary conversations about morning after stabbing his wife Adele. emotional labour who’s devoted 35 years The Wife gender, power, and talent that have He is Pablo Picasso, who reportedly of her life to ensuring that Joe’s genius Director: Bjorn Runge come out of the #MeToo movement, once told one of his many mistresses that can flow unobstructed, untroubled by Running time: 116 minut a figure has hovered. He’s frequently a “women are machines for suffering.” matters domestic or otherwise mundane. drunk or a philanderer (or both), usually And in Swedish director Björn “I’ll take good care of him,” she reassures surrounded by sycophants who hang on Runge’s new film, The Wife, he is the faraway stranger. Of course, Joan has his every word, and always intimidating Joe Castleman ( Jonathan Pryce), a dreams and talents of her own; or she and unquestioned in his knowledge Brooklyn-born writer who, in the did, once. and abilities. He is the Great Man Of opening scene, gets the phone call he’s The majority of The Wife takes place Literature; or painting, or cinema, or any been waiting for: a flattering, Swedish- over the course of a few days, as Joe, number of art forms, whose genius has accented voice informing him that he’s Joan, and their adult son, David (Max been fetishised throughout the modern the winner of that year’s Nobel Prize Irons), travel to Stockholm for the Nobel era. He is Norman Mailer, opining on for literature. Listening in on the other Awards ceremony. David, a frustrated the vigorous phallic symbolism of the line is Joe’s wife, Joan (Glenn Close), writer himself, is sullen and resentful 02045 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

from the start. But Joan absorbs Joe’s politely accepts, yet another tedious joke to the Nobel welcoming committee obligation in a lifetime full of them. At about how “my wife doesn’t write” the bar, Nathaniel confronts Joan with with the same stoicism with which evidence of her husband’s many affairs,

she declines a condescending offer to which she finds amusing; of course she © Universal Photograph go shopping with the rest of the silent already knows about that. But his next appendages. It’s not until later that we insinuation is more pointed: He’s read learn that Joan used to write, and she was one of Joan’s early short stories, and damn good at it; until she abandoned her thinks it’s curious how much better Joe’s dreams on the advice of bitter novelist writing became after he met her. Elaine Mozell (Elizabeth McGovern) Close’s expression in that moment, and shacked up with her married writing the camera focused close-up on her teacher, Professor Castleman, instead. face, is extraordinary: Decades worth Screenwriter Jane Anderson’s of secrets and subtle slights shift like adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel is tectonic plates drifting apart, her eyes skillfully executed and well paced, if gleaming with the pain of their sudden conventional in its structure. Flashbacks movement. But even when she’s pushed to the Castlemans’ early years as a couple to the side of the frame, it’s hard to take inform the main storyline, parceling your eyes off Close and her masterful, out clues to the film’s central mystery: tightly controlled performance. Often, all What’s driving the resentment behind Joan’s repression will allow the woman Joan’s strained smile? The plot is further playing her is a pointed eyebrow raised or propelled by Nathaniel Bone (Christian a seemingly involuntary purse of her lips, Slater), a journalist who trails the yet the character’s complex emotional Castlemans to Stockholm, where he state always comes through. invites Joan out for a round of afternoon drinks at a bar near their hotel. She

Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Heavy Metal, Crüe), big couches, and Reagan. He is snorting scoops of cocaine and lighting in Mandy’s case. Its ritualization of taste older, with a tough guy’s tattoos; she a cigarette off a vanquished foe’s flaming Mandy markers begins with the opening credits: has a big, memorable facial scar and an severed head. Its central conflict is Director: Panos Cosmatos the lachrymose Robert Fripp guitar otherworldliness that belies the biker- between different meanings of “cult”: Running Time:121 minutes work of King Crimson’s Starless over an chick look. They’ve gotten away from the kind that oppresses, embodied by aerial shot of pines and a paperback- vague, destructive pasts; in the here and Jeremiah and his brainwashed followers, cover typeface. We are introduced to now, they are soul mates. They spend the kind that brings pleasure, embodied Panos Cosmatos knows his audience. But Red Miller (Nicolas Cage), a logger their time talking about planets and by Mandy’s love of sword-and-sorcery does he know anything else? Both of his and ex-something or other violent; his dreams. fantasies, Cage’s hypnotic overacting films to date (Beyond The Black Rainbow, girlfriend, the title character (Andrea Enter the “weirdo hippie types,” (now in its “fat Elvis” phase, for better the new Mandy) have been exercises in Riseborough); their quiet home in the an LSD cult led by Jeremiah (Linus or worse), and by Cosmatos’ mannerist psychotronic drag-ass, best appreciated woods, a locus amoenus of imperfections Roache), a stringy-haired failed singer- reinterpretation of midnight movies and by a certain kind of movie freak, the that fit together just right. It is, of course, songwriter of the previous decade. He high-grade ’80s supercheese. (The last devotees of the church of The Texas the 1980s, era of big T-shirts (Sabbath, sets his eye on Mandy and dispatches one is a family business; his father, the his unprepossessing, doltish minions to late George P. Cosmatos, directed Cobra snatch her with the help of the Black and Rambo: First Blood Part II.) The look Skulls, an infernal trio of pain-loving of the film is a hoot: double lens flares bikers in gimp suits and spiky metal. The over wood paneling, psychedelic lighting, buildup is as deliberate and intractable crude animated sequences, slow-mo and Photograph Photograph © A24 as sludge, but so is the follow-through. It telephoto shots, and enough vintage takes a solid hour before Red goes after MTV fog machines to kill a hair metal Jeremiah and the Skulls, the initially band. underplayed performance cracking into An ad for a fictitious Kraft Mac unhinged Cage-mania; the next hour & Cheese competitor called Cheddar is a drawn-out blood sacrifice to the Goblin (complete with a mascot who grindhouse gods. Heads are crushed and regurgitates gallons of mac) sums it up: severed, throats are cut and penetrated It’s got double the cheese of the leading with sharp objects, and the red stuff other brands. But at 121 languorous gushes. Armed with a crossbow and a minutes, Mandy feels both heavy and hand-forged Dungeons & Dragons axe, superficial. The reconfiguration of genre our bug-eyed avenger cuts an archetypal violence, fetishes, and animal imagery figure against the nowhere-ness of the (tigers, in this case) into a Manichean setting, a vague Pacific Northwest of myth with a self-destroying hero smacks logging roads and rock quarries. (The of Nicolas Winding Refn. But with the film was actually shot in Belgium.) The exception of one striking Fritz Lang- white part of his lucky baseball tee is ian effect, Mandy’s face lysergically soaked red with blood. The doom-metal morphing into Jeremiah’s mid-trance, influenced original score (by the late Cosmatos maintains an ironic distance Jóhann Jóhannsson) growls. from his simplistic ideas of good and Not that Mandy lacks of sense of evil. The film is about nothing; aside, humor, sick or otherwise. Roache’s prissy, of course, from the sight of a blood- acid-dosing messiah is consistently spattered Nicolas Cage gritting his teeth funny and anyway, this is a movie that as he rams the sharpened knob of his features a chainsaw duel and Cage, in axe down someone’s throat. For the right full bug-eyed-and-grimacing mode, palate, that can be enough. 46 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health

offers it. Some local pharmacies now offer flu vaccination to adults (though The flu vaccine: not children) who may be at risk of flu. This includes pregnant women, people what you need aged 65 and over, people with long- term health conditions and carers. Your to know pharmacist, in this case, will inform your By Fahad Redha G P. The vaccine is the best available protection against the flu. Studies have shown that it will help prevent you from o protect adults and children getting the flu, though it is not a 100 per alike from the risk of flu and its cent guarantee. If you do catch a flu after complications, flu vaccinations being vaccinated, it is likely to be much areT available through the NHS. For most milder and shorter-lived than it would healthy people it will usually clear up have otherwise been. Some evidence within a week, albeit a fairly unpleasant has also suggested that it can reduce the week. likelihood of getting a stroke. But for some people it can be more Over time the protection offered by severe. These include anyone over the the vaccine will gradually decrease. That age of 65, pregnant women, and both combined with changing flu strains is the children and adults with underlying reason that new vaccines are produced health conditions (including heart annually and people are advised to have or respiratory diseases) or weakened the vaccine every year as well. immune systems. Anyone in these groups Despite what you may have heard, faces a greater risk of more serious serious side effects are very rare. You may complications of flu, such as pneumonia, experience a mild fever and your muscles and so it is recommended that they have may ache for a few days. You may also a flu vaccine annually to protect them. feel sore where you were injected. If you This is the best time of year to have take a nasal spray, side effects include the vaccine: between the beginning of a runny or blocked nose, headache, October and the end of November. But if tiredness, and loss of appetite. free vaccines are becoming increasingly you delay it until the fever clears. If you you miss it, you can still have the vaccine There are some people that are available and your GP might be able have a minor illness with no fever such as later in the winter. advised not to have the vaccine. People to locate a suitable one for you. If your a cold there is no need to delay. You can have your vaccine at your with an egg allergy may be at an allergy is very severe your GP may refer local GP surgery, a local pharmacy that increased risk of a reaction since some you to a specialist at a hospital. If you are For more information speak to your GP offers it, or your midwifery service if it flu vaccines are made using eggs. Egg- ill with a fever it is recommended that of pharmacist.

Loughran said: “Our research shows that, health and community and business Londoners as a nation, we find it hard to answer Victoria BID networks to provide supported housing, honestly. This could mean someone close talking therapies and community based to you is struggling with their mental programmes. struggle to speak health; they might just be waiting for raising awareness out about mental your cue to talk about it.” for World Mental PRESENTATION: “Asking twice is a simple, effective Janice Horsman, CEO of Brent, way to show our friends and family Wandsworth and Westminster Mind health problems members that we are asking for real; that Health Day By James Warrington will discuss the charity, and good we are ready to listen, whether that’s now mental health can help you thrive at or whenever they’re ready.” work. There will be a performance by The research indicates we are To raise awareness for World the Harmonious Community Choir. reluctant to talk openly because we doubt Mental Health Day, Victoria whether people want to hear an honest Tuesday, 9 October 2018 from 12:30 to Almost three-quarters of answer. Half of respondents also stated BID have collaborated with 13:30 people in London would say they did not want to burden others. the charity Mind. Location: Ruffer LLP, 80 Victoria James Martin, 48, has experienced Street, London SW1E 5JL they are ‘fine’ even if they are depression and anxiety. He said: “I’ve Together, they are running two struggling with mental health pretended to be fine when I’m not more workshops and a presentation on MENTAL HEALTH times than I can remember. It’s been Wednesday 10th October, all of which AWARENESS WORKSHOP problems, according to new very difficult coming to terms with my are free to attend. These events aim to Understand the causes, symptoms and statistics. depression and anxiety, but what I’ve teach people the importance of mental support options for a range of mental found most helpful is talking about it health and understand the process of health problems. and having supportive people around mental health recovery. Wednesday, 10th October 2018 from A survey of over 2,000 people, carried me.” Foresight the UK government’s future 12:00 to 13:00 out by mental health campaign “Just the simple action of really think-tank commissioned experts Location: 21 Eccleston Place, group Time to Change, showed that asking people how they are, more than across different fields to review what Belgravia, London SW1W 9NF asking ‘How are you?’ often leads to a once if necessary, can make a world of was known about mental health and meaningless exchange. difference to their day – or week, or even wellbeing. Spanning over two years, they 5 WAYS TO WELLBEING The organisation is launching a discovered three things that determine whole life.” Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, new campaign encouraging people Although the stigma surrounding our happiness; our circumstances (where Keep Learning and Give – are sure to do more if they suspect friends, mental health has reduced in recent we are), our personal resources (who we ways to look after our wellbeing. family or colleagues are struggling with years, many people remain unsure how are) and activities (what we do). their mental health. The ‘Ask Twice’ to provide practical support for others. The charity Mind adopts a person- project aims to foster greater openness Roughly one in four people in the UK centred approach to assist people being Wednesday, 10 October 2018 surrounding mental health issues. experience a mental health problem each able to live purposeful lives. They work from 12:00 to 13:30 Time to Change director Jo year. closely with departments in social care, 21 Eccleston Place, SW1W 9NF 02047 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

“It was also important in the partnership surgery. Nowadays we do it under development of the first contraceptive ultrasound scan guide, which is much less Six fertility pill (although this wouldn’t be available “Although fertility researchers had been invasive, and has also led to the evolution to the mass market for another 30 years), experimenting with fertilising both of other new techniques including the milestones that because of an increased awareness of how animal and human eggs outside the ICSI technique (injecting one sperm oestrogen interacts with other hormones body for years, the work of this tireless into the egg) and the IMSI microscope have shaped our such as progesterone. partnership, would lead to the eventual (used to select the ‘best’ sperm to fertilise “And it wasn’t just important for birth of the first IVF baby, Louise the egg) and embryo biopsy for genetic world the fertility world; our understanding Brown, a decade later. Physiologist conditions. “A few years later, in 1984, we saw the first baby to be born from a frozen IVF (or ‘in vitro fertilisation’) embryo along with the first baby born is now a common part of many using a donated egg, which has enabled women who have low ovarian reserves fertility journeys; in 2015 we and same sex couples to complete their saw the 250,000th baby born families.” using IVF techniques. But Milestone 6: 1999 where did it all begin? First live birth following vitrification

he journey to get to this point “Vitrification has been one of the most started over 200 years ago, when a important techniques to emerge over successful case of human artificial the last 20 years. It means we can freeze insemination was reported by Scottish eggs and embryos extremely rapidly (the T process takes around 10 minutes) helping surgeon John Hunter in 1790. Here, Dr Raef Faris, consultant to preserve their structural integrity until gynaecologist and IVF specialist from people are ready to start a family. The Lister Fertility Clinic, part of HCA “Egg freezing has become Healthcare UK, which has contributed increasingly popular in recent times, more than 16,500 of those babies in due to the flexibility it gives prospective its 30 years, counts us through some of parents. This technique is constantly the major milestones that he believes being refined, and pregnancy success have paved the way for the fertility rates are now almost equal those of fresh innovations we are seeing today. eggs collected through standard IVF.”

Milestone 1: 1919 For more information please contact Gynaecologist Isidor Clinton Rubin [email protected] T: 020 7478 7833. develops tests for blocked fallopian tubes About The Lister Fertility Clinic Mr Raef Faris says: The Lister Fertility Clinic, part of HCA “The ‘Rubin test’ as it came to be known, Healthcare UK, was established in was a significant breakthrough in the 1988 and is a leading national centre fertility world. Fallopian tube blockages for fertility treatment with over 16,500 are estimated to be the cause of around babies born. It provides world class 20% of female infertility, and Rubin fertility services for a range of patients, discovered that it was possible to detect including patients with a ‘low ovarian blockages by pushing carbon dioxide of the effect of oestrogen on the female Edwards and gynaecological surgeon reserve’, men experiencing fertility through the cervix and into the tubes. reproductive system has also led to a Steptoe were pioneers in the field, often problems, same sex couples and single “Diagnosis of tubal blockages was clearer understanding of some cancers of in the face of opposition. women. The Lister Fertility Clinic is an early reason that scientists started the womb and ovaries.” “But in 1969 they accomplished the located at Chelsea Bridge Rd, London developing IVF technology; in order to first fertilization of a human egg outside SW1W 8RH, with satellite clinics in the bypass the fallopian tubes. Milestone 3: 1954 a human body, and in 1972 became the surrounding counties, Jersey, and a clinic “Testing for blocked fallopian tubes First successful pregnancy using frozen first to implant an in vitro fertilized in The Shard. is still one of the first steps we take when sperm human egg in the womb, giving millions investigating female infertility, although of couples hope of starting a family.” About HCA Healthcare UK the techniques we use have evolved “This was a breakthrough for male HCA Healthcare UK is part of the somewhat! Instead of injecting CO2 we infertility and for alternative parenting as Milestone 5: 1978 world’s largest private hospital group and now inject either saline and assess with it opened the door for sperm donation, Louise Brown, the first ‘IVF baby’ is treats 800,000 patients every year. From ultrasound scan or a dye and assess with which is an increasingly common way for born in Oldham complex and urgent care, to primary either X-ray or endoscopy (a camera people to complete their families. In the care, outpatient and day-case treatment, through the belly button). There is also UK today around 2,000 children per year “In 1978 IVF was extremely we provide exceptional care across our some evidence the simple tubal test using born through donors . experimental, and there was no guarantee network of facilities in London and a dye can improve the success of natural “Freezing sperm is also key to of success. Louise’s parents had to take Manchester. HCA Healthcare UK pregnancy by releasing any obstructions.” successful IVF treatment. The process a considerable leap of faith in agreeing includes London Bridge Hospital, is very time sensitive so we use it as a to be involved. When Louise was born The Portland Hospital, The Harley Milestone 2: 1923 backup in cases where it’s difficult to healthy on 25 July no one could quite Street Clinic, The Lister Hospital, Reproductive hormone oestrogen is produce sperm, or where it is needed on believe it, and she had to undergo over The Princess Grace Hospital, The discovered by Edgar Allen a particular day for insemination and 60 tests before her parents could take her Wellington Hospital, The Wilmslow “This advanced our understanding of both partners aren’t available; which home. But the fact that the procedure Hospital, Roodlane Medical Ltd, and female fertility in terms of the menstrual often happens these days as people have was a success has led us to make Blossoms Healthcare. HCA Healthcare cycle, the relationship between the brain such busy schedules!” hundreds of improvements that have UK also has NHS partnerships around and ovaries, how hormonal imbalances changed the lives of people around the the country including Harley Street at affect fertility and other conditions such Milestone 4: 1966 world. University College Hospital, Harley as ovarian cysts, low ovarian reserve and Sir Robert Edwards CBE and Patrick “At the time, egg collection was done Street at Queen's and The Christie premature ovarian failure. Steptoe CBE begin their professional using a laparoscope, which is a keyhole Clinic in Manchester. 48 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health

reasons; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, for example, cites “the lower Socially success rate, [in which women] require 3 ‘egg’ceptable? cycles of stimulation, at a cost of £15,000 By Evangeline Cronchey and a storage fee of £200-£400 annually.” Another issue is that the procedure encourages women to have children later in life which poses a threat not only to the unborn baby, but to the mother herself. Once over the age of 30, the NHS classifies women as ‘geriatric’. Age increases the ‘medical complications’ Egg freezing should not be associated with pregnancy, doctors at the relied upon to ensure genetic Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London warn. motherhood, leading fertility The option of having your eggs experts warn. frozen won’t go away, and nor should it. favour of egg donation” says Dr Marta feel pressured into a relationship because Women spend their youth drastically n vitro fertilisation (IVF) is often Devesa of the Hospital Universitari of their declining ovarian reserve” Dr avoiding pregnancy (because they can) used when the prospect of conceiving Quiron in Barcelona, Spain. Between Jara Ben Nagi from the Centre for but then resort to social egg freezing as naturally is reduced because the 2014 and 2016 the percentage of IVF Reproductive and Genetic Health and the last form of protection over their Isubject’s undergoing medical treatments treatments that resulted in a live birth colleagues argue. right to a biological child. To make such as chemotherapy. Women in dropped from 29% for women under the The news is celebrated when someone informed decisions surrounding family their 30s and 40s are combatting their age of 35 to just 3% for women aged 43 older has a baby, such as 55 year old planning, women need to be educated declining fertility rates by turning to to 44 (NHS Behind the Headlines). actress Brigitte Nielson. But even if they with accurate information. Perhaps the ‘social’ egg freezing, The Guardian reports. In a move that puts women at the are a celebrity it is not reported whether decision would be easier whilst they still Reluctant not to let their biological forefront of this decision, female a baby was conceived via IVF and if so, have the option to freeze their younger, clock interrupt their career, women are employees at Facebook and Apple are how many failed rounds of IVF they much fresher eggs? allowing social factors such as finding a offered free social egg freezing as part had to endure or conversely, how much suitable partner dictate the right time to of their employment package. On the that baby cost them. The NHS warns To be an egg donor, please visit conceive. surface, this choice empowers women. that there are a number of health risks ivf.org.uk/treatments/donation-program/ Women should be warned there is Our biology hasn’t kept up with the ever involved with the procedure and the being-an-egg-donor/ no guarantee that this procedure will be changing demographic of society but medication often delivers headaches and The Lister Fertility Clinic effective. Success rates decline with an medical science has. Is this choice really hot flushes and frequently no baby. The Lister Hospital increase of age. “Women of 44 or older ours to grapple with? “Women should The procedure can put a strain, physically, Chelsea Bridge Road should be fully informed about the real no longer be punished with childlessness emotionally, and above all, financially. London SW1W 8RH chances of a live birth and counselled in for not finding a partner, nor should they The NHS does not fund IVF for social +44 (0) 20 7730 5932

diseases. This refers to the membrane that prevents harmful particles from Blood-brain making their way into the brain. When this becomes dysfunctional it could barrier key potentially allow harmful proteins to move from another part of the body where it is to diagnosing harmless, and enter the brain. This could I pee when I laugh... Alzheimer’s contribute to plaques that are thought to By Fahad Redha be a fundamental step towards cognitive We can fix that! decline. “Cognitive impairment, and Improve, strengthen and One of the most important steps towards accumulation in the brain of the abnormal treating neurodegenerative diseases such as proteins amyloid and tau, are what we maintain your pelvic floor Alzheimer’s is early diagnosis. However, it currently rely upon to diagnose Alzheimer's can also be one of the most challenging. A disease,” says Berislav Zlokovic, one of TREATMENT SUMMARY new review article from researchers at the the article’s authors. “But blood-brain Improve, strengthen and maintain your pelvic floor University of Southern California (USC) barrier breakdown and cerebral blood flow (ThermiVa®/Geneveve®). They are non-invasive radio has proposed a solution. The team suggests changes can be seen much earlier.” frequency treatments offering a solution to many of that leaks in the blood-brain barrier could This, the article suggests, could be an early the gynaecology problems associated with childbirth. be a suitable warning sign that reveals sign of the progression of a number of USED TO TREAT the early onset of a number of illnesses, illnesses. These include Alzheimer’s disease, • Vaginal laxity including Parkinson’s disease and multiple Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, • Stress and urinary Incontinence sclerosis, well before visible symptoms amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple (improves bladder control) appear. This was published in the journal sclerosis. It has also been suggested that • Vaginal rejuvenation Nature Neuroscience. simply testing for leaks in the blood-brain • Improves sexual function Most experts agree that the key to barrier could be an even earlier biomarker fighting such diseases is to catch it before for some of these conditions. symptoms appear. Unfortunately, we do For more information visit www.cosmetech.co.uk or The downside is that tests for blood- to book a complimentary consultation with Consultant not have a reliable or effective way of doing brain barrier dysfunction are not easily Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Professor Jim Dornan or so. In the quest to find a reliable diagnostic accessible. Even identifying signs of leakage Dr Kate Bishop, please call 020 7565 0333. method everything from blood and eye requires complex MRI or PET scans. So tests to PET scans are being looked into in while this by itself may not be particularly order to catch it early. useful for diagnosis, it may help researchers Cosmetech Chelsea Private Clinic T: 020 7565 0333 This work from scientists at USC The Courtyard, 250 Kings Road, E: [email protected] identify better early-stage subjects for London, SW3 5UE www.cosmetech.co.uk is now suggesting a breakdown in the medical trials to test new drugs hoping to blood-brain barrier could be an early slow down or even stop the onset of these sign of a number of neurodegenerative diseases. 02049 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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New York to Washington DC, Houston to Dallas, or Los Angeles to San Diego, Volvo concept envisions the world around are more time consuming by air because

Photograph Photograph © Volvo of the checking-in, waiting times, and self-driving cars security. For short routes of 300km (188 By Fahad Redha miles), this, the company hopes, would be a replacement for air travel. The traveller would not need to go through a lengthy and tedious check-in, nor would they have to tell the car whether they have anything to declare. “Domestic air travel sounds great when you buy your ticket, but it really isn’t. The 360c represents what could be a whole new take on the industry,” said Levenstam. “The sleeping cabin allows you to enjoy premium comfort and peaceful travel through the night and wake up refreshed at your destination. It could enable us to compete with the world’s leading aircraft makers.” hen the Wright brothers wraps off a very ambitious concept car. inside. This space can be used either for But it is the change that this concept took to the skies in 1903, The 360c envisions “a world in which you sleeping, or as an office, a living room, could have on cities and culture that they did not have a clue travel long distances without the need for or an entertainment space. It becomes is the most exciting. Our cities today, about what modern air travel would look airports. A world in which you can avoid whatever you need from it. particularly those in America, are built “W around the freedom that cars give us. like,” Mårten Levenstam, Senior Vice airport security, hours of queuing and “The business will change in the President of Corporate Strategy at Volvo waiting, and noisy, cramped airliners.” coming years, and Volvo should lead “Autonomous vehicle concepts have Cars says. “We do not know what the The idea is that you would instead have that change of our industry,” said Håkan a tendency to become a technology future of autonomous drive will hold, but the car collect you at home and take Samuelsson, President and CEO of showcase instead of a vision of how it will have a profound impact on how you to where you need to go. Of course, Volvo Cars. “Autonomous drive will people use it,” said Robin Page, Senior people travel, how we design our cities this car will not take you all the way to allow us to take the next big step in Vice President of Design at Volvo Cars. and how we use infrastructure.” Sydney or New York. But the domestic safety, but also open up exciting new “But Volvo is a human-centric brand. We We always imagine the technology air travel industry, worth billions of business models and allow consumers to focus on the daily lives of our customers when it comes to self-driving cars. But dollars, may raise an eyebrow. spend time in the car doing what they and how we can make them better. have you ever wondered how they might The car itself does away with a want to do.” The 360c is the next iteration of this change our society beyond that? steering wheel and engine, allowing America saw over 740 million people approach.” To that end the company has taken the passengers to make more use of the space taking domestic flights. Routes such as

struggling company called Bantam had bet everything on winning the contract, A brief history setting aside all development to focus on this vehicle. While its design was of America’s the favourite, Uncle Sam did not feel that such a small firm could handle automotive the required production load. So, the contract, and much of Bantam’s design, arsenal fell to the lap of Willys and Ford as the By Fahad Redha former was also too small to handle the load by itself. The US gave so many to its allies that by the time it would join the war in 1944, its shape had already entered the public psyche. It was so much better than Three years after winning the contract, Germany’s own Kubelwagen (especially as Oshkosh Defence has begun delivering it was four-wheel-drive rather than just its L-ATV to the US military. This large rear-wheel-drive) that any apprehended truck replaces the Humvee that has Jeep would be taken captive and serve served the US military since 1985 and the Axis. been a staple of the American armed It too spawned a civilian counterpart. forces ever since. From Operation Just The civilian Jeep, or CJ, would be Cause to Desert Storm the High Mobility produced in various generations from Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle is one 1944 to 1986. Willys knew that once of the most iconic shapes in automotive the war was over it would have trouble history. Even a civilian version, called making money from the Jeep. It had the Hummer H1, was built at a starting devoted so much of its resources that tractors, this was a car that could serve and the Hummer H1. But that doesn’t price of just over $40,000 in 1992. It is it would also struggle to make cars as the family in the weekends. Simply put a matter. A Canadian company called often said that Arnold Schwarzenegger it had done before the war. But who rear bench where the hay bales were and Conquest Vehicles produces something requested it and it was General Motors was the Jeep for if not soldiers? The you have practical family transportation. it calls the Knight XV. For $800,000 that delivered. first production version, the CJ2A, was It is almost certain that the Oshkosh this 8.8-ton monster features a far more But even it is not as iconic as the car marketed to farmers. In addition to a L-ATV will be an iconic image the luxurious interior than either of those it replaced. Congress had called for a redesigned grille, it featured a fold down world over. But don’t hold your breath for two. But if an iconic image is what you’re military vehicle to be developed at the tailgate and was available with a power- a civilian version any time soon. It was after, you’re better off ploughing through start of the Second World War. A small, take-off similar to a tractor. But unlike circumstance that gave us both the CJ the classifieds. 02051 7738 2348 OctoberSeptemberAugust 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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it also has a large distinctive orange- tipped dorsal fin, like a sail-fish. I have never eaten grayling but some people say that it tastes of the herb thyme, which would make sense, as its Latin name is Thymallus thymallus. It is also said that smelt smell and taste of cucumber. The © Simon Darcourte Photograph Environment Agency states that on any given day, an angler, providing he has the water owner’s permission, and a license, may remove 15 small (up to 20cm) native species including barbel, chub, common bream, common carp, crucian carp, dace, grayling, perch, pike, roach, rudd, silver bream, smelt, tench and zander. Of all those, I have only eaten pike, in France, as quenelles de brochet, which, apart from the crayfish sauce, was mightily bland. Eastern Europeans seem to have a liking for freshwater fish, even carp, which they regard as a delicacy. While freshwater fish such as perch, roach and bream are considered inedible by most of us, in many central and eastern European countries they are regarded as delicacies. In Poland, carp is the main ingredient of the traditional meal eaten on Christmas Eve, called the wigilia. The starter is a soup called siemieniuk, with stock made from the fish-head and fins, with crushed flax seed, ground millet and buckwheat groats, followed by the carp itself, ryba wigilijna, fried and served with potatoes and vegetables. A few years ago Hertfordshire police arrested and questioned four eastern Europeans seen with snorkels and a spear gun near a lake stocked with protected carp. I have tried cooking trout in a variety of ways, including pan-frying smaller ones, baking, barbecuing, and poaching. One recipe involved wrapping the fish in wet newspapers and putting it on way of an enjoyable days fishing. We I think he was. the barbie until the paper had burnt, have little huts in which to shelter, dry As I have intimated before, fishing and voilà!, there inside was a perfectly- From the off, prepare and eat food, open bottles is not about catching fish. I was quite cooked trout. I am not sure who was Riverbank of wine and cans of beer, drink coffee prepared to go home without a fish more surprised, him or me. I have a Part 9 and munch chocolate. Only once did I in the creel, so this one was a bonus borrowed hot smoker, which I charge pack up and go home after a morning of and one that I was happy to take. The with a variety of wood chips I buy By Don Grant unrelenting stair-rods, bashing the water American stand-up one-line comedian from a place in Somerset. I have tried a like ten thousand little hammers. I sat Steven Wright said, ‘There’s a fine line number of different flavours, including in the hut sketching the view outside, between fishing and just standing on the alder, apple, beech, cherry, hickory, framed through the open doorway, but shore like an idiot.’ He also said that last maple and oak, and have tried apple and six month season seems like a there were only vertical lines like one of year he went fishing with Salvador Dali. hickory mixed together, which produces reasonable span, stretching from those aluminium chain-link fly-curtains ‘He was using a dotted line. He caught a wonderfully infused subtle taste. One around Easter to the end of in an Italian deli, blocking out any other every other fish’. There is an old adage simply lights a bowl of meths under the September, but it just whistled past, and detail. No self-respecting fish would about ‘Give a man a fish and he will eat sealed stainless steel chamber and leaves A poke his head out from the relative calm for a day. Teach him how to fish, and it for a couple of hours. If one tires of as the days get shorter and autumn turns to winter, one is immediately thinking under the surface and into the purling he will stand on the riverbank drinking smoked fish, then one can always make about next Spring. Having well-defined maelstrom, but one did, to slurp a sodden beer all day.’ The last day of September a smoked trout pâté, blending the fish seasons is one of the joys of living in cranefly off the surface. I tied on a large heralds the end of the trout season on with horseradish, crème fraîche and lemon England. This past summer was one of daddy-long-legs dry-fly, gave it a liberal my river. On the Test, one can fish for juice until smooth, adding black pepper the hottest ‘since records began’, with coating of floatant Gunk, put on my grayling from mid-October until the and chives. One could take a disposable day after day of cerulean skies and not rainproof jacket, pulling the hood up, end of January, while the Itchen has barbecue down to the river and cook a drop of rain, but not once did I feel and ventured the few yards to the river, an open season from the beginning of one’s catch right there and then. There like Sarah Miles, at the end of the film where the fish had risen. Two casts a few October until the end of the year, with is a rather superfluous sign in the huts, White Mischief, about a murder amongst yards above him and he came again for other chalk streams having grayling beats which reads ‘No cooking in the hut.’ As white colonials living in East Africa, my mid-day snack, taking the fly down until the middle of March. Grayling are if one would, although a bunch of chavs upon opening the shutters on a Kenyan to the depths and he was off, the reel now considered to be the fourth game apparently fetched up at Glyndebourne morning, saying wearily, ‘Oh, God. Not screaming as he headed for some reeds fish, for many an equal to the salmon, one year with their B&Q Ready-to-Lite another fucking beautiful day’. Every on the other bank, no doubt cursing his brown trout and sea trout, having been Barbecue and got out the six-pack and the day on the riverbank is a beautiful day, bad luck or stupidity. I am not sure who considered a coarse fish for many years. sausages. As the smoke billowed across whether blustery, drizzling or just plain was more surprised, him or me, when The grayling is a member of the salmon the ha-ha, Vince, its resident fireman, overcast. Actually, that is not strictly true. I landed and dispatched him with my family and this is noticeable from the took great delight in extinguishing the Heavy rain or high winds can get in the priest. Judging from the look he gave me, adipose fin on its back above the tail and flames. 54 SeptemberAugustOctober 2018 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Crossword & Bridge

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on the 22nd September, states, “Our CHESS goal (chess.com/Peter Doggers) was to get a clear view of the areas where they By Barry Martin (the candidates) agree and disagree, and to learn more about which candidate has what kind of plans for the future of chess”. Dvorkovich and Short both Game of Boards replied with in-depth answers to the various good, and to the point questions, descends into such as, “What is the main reason why delegates should vote for you, and not Game of Thrones. the other candidates?” etc. Georgios Makropoulos declined to participate! For the good of world chess at every level, what sort of attitude is that, when the world is watching, particularly after the y the time the reader views this mess FIDE has been in for a number column, barring any play-offs, of years under the reign of Kirsan a new President for FIDE will Ilyumzhinov and his vice-president Bhave been elected on the 3rd October himself, Georgios Makropoulos? The in Batumi, Georgia. The election takes whole of Short and Dvorkovich’s replies place at the same time as the 43rd Chess to the chess.com questionnaire can be Olympiad is being played under the viewed under the title Dvorkovich, Short auspices of the world governing body for Respond To Chess.Com Questions, at chess. chess, FIDE. It is customary for the first com. Even if neither are elected, their move that is made to open the Olympiad answers to pressing global questions is on Board One of the present holders about world chess administration and of the title, and in this case it is the USA. organising should form part, if not a The anomaly is that this first move is full stake of any future agenda of the outstanding, almost outrageous aspect Shankland lost to Vachier-Lagrave, usually made by the President of FIDE. next incumbents to take office at FIDE. of this was that she was blindfold! Two Aronian won against Dominguez, So Since a new President isn’t being elected Whilst at this time of writing the three further recent chess tournaments of against Giri, and Nakamura against until the 3rd October and the Olympiad verbal pugilists batter away at each other note amongst the many were the 960 Svidler, similarly. Due to the nature started on the 23rd September, the first in their end game, across the board Chess Champions’ Showdown, Fischer of Blitz and Chess 960 there was a move will have been made by the acting numerous real chess games have and are Random event held at the St. Louis plethora of blunders and time scrambles, President, Georgios Makropoulos, who taking place including at the World Chess Chess Club, USA, where 10 world but this provided the spectators and is, at this time of writing, being sued Olympiad, and elsewhere. We wish our class players including Garry Kasparov commentators a wealth of enjoyment by the other main contender for the English chess teams the best of luck in participated, and the TCEC, Top Chess and comment, along with great games presidency, Arkady Dvorkovich. The their endeavours for our country. The Engine Championships currently under and players’ creativity being expressed. latter, who had already stated publicly women’s team is composed of Jovanka way with Stockfish dominating Division Garry in a postscript commented,’ I that he, “...would take all possible legal Houska, Dagne Ciuksyte, Akshaya 1 after two out of 6 round robins with believe we opened a new chapter in measures to protect my reputation and Kalaiyalahan, Su Maroroa, Louise Head, 21pts from 28 games, 14 wins, 14 draws. the development of chess. It’s a great good name”, in response to Makropoulos with Lorin D’Costa as non-playing Houdini is the closest challenger to experiment when top players contribute referring him to the FIDE Ethics captain. The Open Section team is Michael Stockfish, being 3.5 pts adrift from the their creativity and skills in something Committee for alleged bribery, aiming to Adams, David Howell, Luke McShane, leader who has now accumulated a huge new, which may become a mainstream in help him gain FIDE delegates’ votes in Gawain Jones, Nicholas Pert, and John universal rating of nearly 3600 points! the future’. The following game between the forthcoming elections. Dvorkovich Nunn as non-playing captain. In the 960 Chess Champions’ Showdown Pavel Eljanov, as white, and Keith Arkell, has now filed a petition via his Swiss The 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, there are 5 matches with the 10 players black, is taken from the Isle of Man lawyers to the District Attorney in Georgia, also has a reunion of the most divided into pairs who play 6 rapid Open Tournament, Douglas, rnd 1, 23rd. Lausanne, in order to prosecute Mr. famous sister-playing grandmasters the games with 30 minutes per player and a September 2017. The game is in its final Makropoulos for defamation! The latter, world has seen in the form of the Polgar 10 second delay per move. 14 blitz games throes, much as the Presidency for FIDE in protesting against the actions and sisters, Judit, Sofia and Susan. The 43rd at 5 minutes per player plus 5 seconds is at this present time, and in both cases statements of Dvorkovich said of him, Olympiad is also the 30th anniversary of delay per move. The starting positions their is a considerable lack of watching “While threatening in public, aiming to Hungary winning gold in the women’s each round are drawn at random from the ‘back door’ by the participants, and stop me from complaining to the FIDE team event in 1988(also 1990) held in 960 possibilities and each player has in leaving it open gives the opponent Ethics Committee, (whilst) at the same Thessaloniki, Greece. Hungary also won one hour to prepare for the game with every opportunity to enter and cause time he is begging the same commission the first official Chess Olympiad held in the unorthodox starting positions of havoc when least expected. Black has for immunity!” More to be said about London in 1927! Up until 1988 Soviet the chess pieces in mind. Interestingly played 34....Ke7, believing his Queenside this Punch and Judy state of affairs later, women had dominated and had won enough many players chose to prepare needed support in defence and with a but a recent survey of questions and gold in every Olympiad in the women’s for that hour with other match possible advance. This proved to be answers conducted by chess.com and sent team section. Susan Polgar’s performance participants! The USA’s Olympiad team erroneous. What was White’s winning to all three contenders for Presidency, for Olympiads reads with exceptional also practised each day in this special move?

Short, Makropoulos and Dvorkovich, on virtuosity having played 56 games on environment.This tournament started a Answer upside down below.

the 3rd September this year and released board 1 for Hungary’s women’s team new dawn in chess with the Universal 1-0 promote. to on goes pawn h White’s

without defeat, itself an Olympic record! Rating System announcing their plans and 44.h6, 42.h5,gxh5.43.gxh5,Bxa5.

She won 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals to include Chess 960 events in their 41.h4,Bb4. 40.Nd2,b3. 39.Ke2,Ka4.

NEW FIDE PRESIDENT and 1 bronze medal during this period. rating calculations, making thisevent a 38.Kf3,Kb5. Ra7. 37.Rxh7, continues.

The three sisters all grandmasters, all rated tournament. Garry Kasparov lost to committed having 36.....Kc6 pawns! Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian, kingside Black’s of punishment the

with individual outstanding successes Topalov 11.5/14.5 which was an upset, has been elected as the new FIDE begins now , White for open door back

in the game will be marking out their but which also demonstrated that even President with 103 votes. the left Having 36.Rh8! piece. and pawn

meteoric rise in world chess history at at this level GM’s can make mistakes, as His rival, Georgios sacrificing from White barring defended

the present Olympiad! One example Garry realised only 1 minute before one Makropoulos had 78 votes. is Queenside His unprotected. pawns

from the baby of the family Judit, round that he had prepared during the Nigel Short withdrew his side King the leaving mistake a is move

who when 9 years of age played a hour study period for the wrong starting candidacy at the last moment King this Kd7, Rc8! 35. Answer: simultaneous match against 5 strong position! Each winning player received chess players and won all 5 games! The $30,000 and the runner up $20000. 56 SeptemberOctober 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement Remember! Clocks go BACK one hour on Sunday 28th October.

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