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happens to the middle ground in UK decision making process into the long over if there is not a master plan for the Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER Parliament politics? When Tony Blair spoke at the grass and past the next general election. next thirty years. So, here's a thought, & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents Open Europe event three weeks ago he The public is not that stupid. why not give the NHS to the cities LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0058 FEBRUARY 2017 FREE (EXCEPT WHERE SOLD) Squared disappointed. He should have proposed But if the Tories, who are taking to administer? Let them become the 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, By Derek Wyatt a new political party, a version of the soundings on a Royal Commission, do hubs for the towns and villages in their SW11 3UW ? Gang of Four, which begat the Social appoint one it will be a most cynical hinterlands. Let them decide their own Tel: 020 7738 2348 Democrats. act. We have had different political priorities and funding models. Let us We have a one man party called parties spending £bb on reorganising the have less NHS and more LHPSS, Local

FREE hither the future of the ‘FarageUKIP’ or FUKIP for short whose NHS to little or no effect over the past Health, Pensions & Social Services, E-mail: [email protected] Labour Party? The polls for sole raison d’être was to campaign to forty years. This just shows the lack of under one body locally elected. Website: 3 News them have been dire for the take us out of Europe. Well, it is time imagination there is in Whitehall and The case must be made that we www.kcwtoday.co.uk pastW eighteen months and show no signs for a REMAIN party to fight to keep us the scale of the problem. Not a single should be pay a little more on top of of improving. Advertisement enquiries: OF THE in. It could work as Remain/Scotland, political party has come forward with a our NHS contributions to include care [email protected] 10 Opinion & Comment Corbyn’s abject leadership has Remain/Wales, Remain/NorthernIreland manifesto for a NHS that is fit for the packages in addition to second pensions. extraordinarily led to a renewed interest and Remain/. It would take seats 21st century. A pox on all of them. We We already do this with prescriptions, Subscriptions: in what was fast becoming another across the board and it ought to fight the want giants not pygmies. But it is the glasses and teeth. Why not poll the LAND [email protected] 12 Statue & Blue Plaque defunct party: the Lib Dems. They next by-election to test the water. latter who fill the corridors of power at public on what else they would be Publishers: took Richmond from Zac Goldsmith As it is, aside from someone called Westminster. prepared to contribute to? And then Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited (though to be fair they had held the Trump, Brexit continues to dominate When the NHS was formed in 1948 have a referendum. The nation needs 13 Features seat from 1997-2010) and have done the airwaves. The European cause will life expectancy for both sexes was in the to be involved. We know so far as the extraordinarily well in local council by- be tested with general elections in the For news of our podcasts early to mid 70s not the early to mid politicians are concerned they are hiding elections too. Netherlands and France over the coming visit www.kcwtoday.co.uk 80s as it is now. We knew little about their intentions. 15 Business & Finance Neither party though threatens the months. Attention is re-focusing on cancer treatments or heart disease or We will still need to have single hegemony of the sitting Tories. This Marine Le Pen as she nudges ahead in psychotherapy. We certainly could not national centres of excellence for cancer, is not good for democracy at a critical the polls. Are the French about to shock have anticipated stem cell research and for heart, for neurology, for rare diseases 18 Business & Development juncture in the nation’s future. To make us all by electing her? That would be replacement knees and hips. Fortunately, et al but let the cities have the authority matters worse, Labour lost Copeland to seismic. for all of us there have been the most to decide how they want to structure them. This was the first time they had The biggest problem facing us in profound scientific changes for the good health, pensions and social services 19 Legal lost this seat since the party was formed. the UK is not Brexit or the train strikes over the past seventy years. for their own populations. It would Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Corbyn has to stand down for the good on the Underground and Southern The NHS is simply overwhelmed. be radical. There would have to be an of his party otherwise, it is doomed. Railways, though they are tedious and It has indifferent leadership, appalling agreement for national funding for a Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 20 Astronomy Politics is about winning power: it is not self serving, it is the future of the NHS. I management, chaotic administration and decade or so to allow the transition to Acting Editor: Dr Emma Trehane a lifestyle option. hear the call for a Royal Commission but yet somehow it struggles. Still, amazingly, bed in but it would be a different and Head of Business Development: Dr Emma Trehane 21 Education This begs the question as to what this would just be an excuse to kick the we love it. But we all recognise it will tip what's more we would have voted for it. Business Development: Caroline Daggett, Antoinette Kovatchka, Competition students augmented by Architecture: Emma Flynn 25 illustrious alumni. The musical The Prince theme appeared loosely to be Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland of Wales hosts British composers, composers Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 26 Literature with British associations, Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward a Gala and also Bach. the subtext was to celebrate the vision Bridge: Andrew Robson

Poetry Burns Photography © Paul Photograph 27 Celebration of the RCM and its major Business: Douglas Shanks at Buckingham Palace for the projects, including plans for a Chess: Barry Martin Dining Out redevelopment of its campus Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 28 work of The Royal College of (also discussed in the Colin Music Lawson interview on page 13). Derek Wyatt Guests, supporters and young Music: James Douglas 31 Lifestyle & Fashion musicians joined the Prince Crossword: Wolfe: of Wales to celebrate our local Dining Out: Edward Burns, David Hughes, Events conservatoire, and the work 36 it is doing to expand its reach Max Feldman and projects through its More Editorial: Polly Allen, Ione Bingley, 46 Arts & Culture Music Campaign. I’d like to Max Feldman, Owen Fulda pretend, to myself if no-one else, that I take these things in Events: Polly Allen Travel my stride, but it was hard not Fashion: Polly Allen, Lynne McGowan 58 to be charmed by a magical Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman setting. The tone of the Beauty: Jayne Beaumont Health evening, British music (and 60 what wouldn’t be uplifted by a I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton bit of Bach as well) in a quintessentially Charles’ great-great-great-grandfather, Lady Radnor Suites as perhaps the Motoring: Don Grant, Owen Fulda 65 Motoring British setting, performed to world class brought a nice personal touch full circle, surprise show-stealers, and that in the News, Online Editor standards, was set by the spine-tingling given Prince Albert’s role developing the context of Bach’s divine Concerto for drum-roll that announced the National arts around his memorial, including of two violins in D Minor, Haydn Wood’s & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman 68 Sport Anthem. If Sullivan’s overture to The course the RCM. appropriate A state ball at Buckingham Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA Ph.D Yeomen of the Guard has a time and HRH Prince Charles was an Palace, and some splendid Mendelsohn. Political Editor: Derek Wyatt place surely this was it, and such are the engaging and effervescently enthusiastic Having spent a good twenty minutes host, completely at ease showcasing the Business & Development: Ione Bingley 70 Crossword, Bridge & Classified acoustics of the State Ballroom that the chatting to virtually every member of the Editor-Kate and I were lucky enough excellent orchestra really did bring out importance of the RCM as an institution orchestra, HRH Prince Charles called Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros to be invited by the Royal College of the best in the piece. The premier of and demonstrating a rare sensitivity to over to me on his way out asking me Travel: Cynthia Pickard, Derek Wyatt 71 Chess Music to the Royal Gala Concert, in a new orchestration of Ein Standen by music, and what it takes to be an elite what I thought. I promised him a good no lesser surroundings than the State Prince Albert the Prince Consort , (let’s musician. Quite rightly, he singled out review. So here it is. Ballroom, performed by the current see if I can get this right) HRH Prince the elegant brief cameos from Parry’s James Douglas 4 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

The national advertising campaign, A search of 279 beaches around the UK be 596,000 of which 268,000 were EU which will be carried on public transport, has found that almost three-quarters Tues March 7. 19:45 citizens, 257,000 non-EU citizens and Minimum wage in shopping centres and other public of them were littered with tiny plastic UK Citizens Fulham v Leeds United Net immigration 71,000 British citizens. This included the awareness places, is being rolled out ahead of the "nurdles". The lentil sized pellets, which spending less Tues March 7. 19:45 falls to lowest in highest level ever recorded of Romanian campaign launched by Government’s National Minimum and are used as a raw material for plastic QPR v Barnsley and Bulgarian immigrants at 74,000. National Living Wage rates rising on 1 products can cause damage to such The total emigration was thought Government April. wildlife as birds and fish, which eat them. © GeorgeTsiagalakis Photograph on booze and Mon March 13. 19:45 two years to be 323,000 people, up by 26,000 on Chelsea v Man Utd By Ione Bingley By Ione Bingley From 1 April 2017, the Government’s Campaigners estimate that up to cigarettes the year before. Of these, 128,000 were National Living Wage rate for those aged 53 billion of the tiny pellets escape into By Max Feldman Tues March 14 British citizens, 103,000 EU citizens and 25 and over will increase by 30p to £7.50 the UK's environment each year, during Fulham v Blackburn 93,000 non-EU citizens. per hour. their manufacture and use. The nurdles 19:45 There has been serious concerns HMRC enforces the Government’s are often spilt accidentally into rivers and Britons are spending less on alcohol, voiced by several sector in recent months National Minimum and Living Wage oceans or fall into drains where they are smoking and drugs and more on eating Sat March 18. 15:00 regarding access to ‘low-skilled’ migrant QPR v Rotherham law and over the next year will spend a out and hotels according to the latest workers following the referendum result. figures on family spending. record £25.3 million on making sure the Sat March 18. 15:00 Particularly in the British farming country’s lowest paid people get the pay former mayor Boris Johnson revealed Weekly spending on alcohol, tobacco TRAFFIC WATCH Fulham v Wolves industry where the employment of and narcotics fell below £12 for the first they are entitled to. last year 433 primaries were exposed HOME AT LONDON CLUBS seasonal migrant workers is key to their “Paying the National Minimum Wage to dangerous levels of air pollution, but time since comparable records began in Sat April 1. 15:00 business model. Chelsea v Crystal Palace is the law; it’s not a choice. Employers the new report shows the city's air to be 2001-02, partly reflecting the decline Speaking in Tallinn, Estonia, the must pay their workers what they’re deteriorating further. Now one-third of in the number of people who smoke. Net immigration to the UK fell by secretary of state for exiting the EU entitled to and follow the rules,” said state nursery schools, nearly 20 per cent Spending in this category has fallen by 49,000 between September 2015 and David Davis denied that Britain would Jennie Granger, Director General for of primaries and 18 per cent of secondary a third over the last decade according to 2016 compared to the year before, suddenly restrict low-skilled migration Customer Compliance at HMRC. schools in the capital are in areas where the Office for National Statistics. according to data released by the Office after Brexit. “We will act to ensure ripped-off toxic levels of nitrogen dioxide directly On the other hand, households spent Pensioner for National Statistics (ONS). “In the hospitality sector, hotels and he Government has revealed a more than £45 a week on restaurants and new advertising campaign to raise workers receive their proper pay and threaten children’s health While it was the first time in restaurants, in the social care sector, hardworking businesses are not losing hotels for the first time in five years in incomes ‘outstrip two years that the balance of people working in agriculture, it will take time. awareness about minimum wage the year ending March 2016, fuelled by and the laws surrounding it ahead of the out to dodgy dealers who cheat their arriving and leaving the UK had dipped It will be years and years before we get T staff.” rising disposable income and high rates those of working below 300,000, this was short of the British citizens to do those jobs,” said national living wage and minimum wage The BEIS name and shame list that washed out to sea. of employment. Government’s 100,000 net immigration Davis. “Don’t expect just because we’re rise in April. Average total spending, adjusted for families’ The campaign comes a month was released on February 15, called out Plastic ‘Nurdles’ Madeleine Berg of Fidra, a Scottish aim. changing who makes the decision on the 359 employers for underpaying workers environmental charity which organised inflation, was unchanged from a year By Max Feldman The ONS also warned that it was too policy, the door will suddenly shut. It after Sainsbury’s revealed that its new earlier at about £529 a week, possibly acquisition Argos had been illegally nearly £1 million. discovered the hunt, said it showed action was early to attribute the trend to the long- won’t.” needed, asserting that “We are asking the reflecting weaker consumer confidence Typical pensioner incomes after housing term migration impact of the Brexit vote, The government would choose to paying around 37,500 of its staff under over the period, according to the ONS. the minimum wage prior to their littered across UK government to ensure best practice costs now outstrip those of working- citing the seasonal migration of students keep migration from EU countries such is in place along the full plastic supply Low income families continued to spend age people, a new report suggests. starting the academic year in September. as Estonia, at least for a period, Davis takeover, and Debenhams was “named a higher proportion of their spending on and shamed” on a Government list for Tens of thousands beaches chain, and any further nurdle pollution is The Resolution Foundation also says Total immigration was estimated to claimed. By Max Feldman stopped.” food and energy compared with people pensioners are more likely than their underpaying 11,858 of its staff. on higher incomes. A recent poll by the Department of of London predecessors to be working, own a home Weekly spending was highest in and have generous private pensions. Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy London, at £652.40, while at the other (BEIS) of workers paid less than £15,000 children The think tank says growth in exposed to toxic air end of the scale, spending in the north- pensioner incomes has been coupled with a year revealed that almost half of the east was more than £200 lower, at respondents were unaware that tips could By Owen Fulda weak income growth for working-age £423.50. The ONS reported that the people. Pensioner households are now not be used to top up wages to meet discrepancy was down to housing costs. national requirements and 69 percent £20 a week better off than working age did not know that travel time between households, but were £70 a week worse A study commissioned by the mayor appointments should be paid. off in 2001. of London Sadiq Khan has discovered The research also found that 57 However, the report, called As Time that tens of thousands of children in the percent of respondents do not know that Bad footwear can cause Knee & Back Pain, Comedy Goes By, adds: "This strong growth capital are being exposed to illegal levels having money deducted from their wages Corns, Cold Toes & Nerve Damage is not the result of a boom time for of air pollution that risk causing lifelong to cover the costs of their uniform is gala raises all pensioners, with most finding that health problems. their personal situation changes little unlawful if it takes their earnings below © Xander Casey Photograph More than 800 schools, nurseries the national minimum wage or national over from year to year. " It says while typical and colleges in London are identified living wage. incomes across the pensioner population as being subject to levels of nitrogen In light of this, the campaign £80,000 have grown by more than 30% since dioxide that breach EU legal limits of 40 highlights some of the most common for Royal 2001, the typical income of someone micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic FREE £150 examples when a worker may be who turned 65 in that year was only 7% metre of air. Brompton underpaid the legal minimum in a bid to BIOMECHANICAL higher by 2014. Khan said the results were devastating encourage workers to check their pay. ASSESSMENT & £50 and Harefield Lord David Willetts (an executive and warned that it was the capital’s The research forms part of the chair of the Resolution Foundation poorest children who were bearing the OFF ANY SKI BOOTS Hospitals charity Government’s campaign that is designed and former Conservative minister) said brunt of the air pollution crisis. He called to increase understanding about pay, WITH THIS ADVERT that the "triple-lock" pension policy for the government to introduce a clean especially among lower-paid employees. The Royal Brompton and Harefield of successive governments should be air act and for a diesel scrappage scheme “We are determined to make sure Hospitals Charity (RBHC) were able reviewed. The triple-lock guarantees to take polluting cars off the road quickly. everybody in work receives a fair wage to raise over £80,000 with their 100 pensions rise by the same as average “It is an outrage that more than 800 and while most employers get it right, Call today for a FREE Hearts comedy gala event at the Adelphi earnings, the consumer price index, or schools, nurseries and other educational there are still a small number who fail to Theatre on February 26. 2.5%, whichever is the highest. institutions are in areas breaching legal biomechanical play by the rules,” said Business Minister The sold out show featured an all-star "Of course there has to be some kind air pollution limits,” said Khan. “This Margot James. assessment line up including performances from of framework for increasing the state is an environmental challenge, a public “This campaign will raise awareness Harry Enfield with Paul Whitehouse pension," he told BBC Radio 4's Today health challenge but also – and no one among the lowest paid people in society and Rowan Atkinson with Angus Programme. talks about this – it is fundamentally an about what they must legally receive. Deayton as well as Jo Brand. "But the [triple-lock] is a very issue of social justice. If you are a poor 138 High Street Kensington We stock over 200 styles of footwear, specialising in Anyone who thinks they may be paid less The night drew to a close with powerful ratchet pushing up pensions at Londoner you are more likely to suffer London W8 7RL extra narrow and extra wide fittings Michael McIntyre manfully hobbling a time when incomes of the less affluent than the legal minimum should contact Our experts can help you choose the right boots from illegal air.” through the final act having sustained an Acas as soon as possible.” T: 020 7937 7177 making skiing a pleasure again half of working households are barely A report that was kept secret by injury playing football rising at all." 6 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 European News European News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

the big winner from the deal is also said Hollande, a Socialist, is not seeking to have put the LSE on edge. a second term and is the first French German parents Nicola Sturgeon set to Giant LEGO It now appears that plans for the president to not to do so in modern Ten attacks a day told to destroy warns launch space building to open merger have collapsed as the LSE has history. Many of the issues facing France on migrants of imminent second also refused an EU request to sell their are economic; the state swallows 57% of doll programme in Denmark part of its Italian trading arm MTS, a the country’s GDP and over 10% of the in Germany last that can spy on children Independence referendum By Polly Allen By Polly Allen move that has stunned the City and population are unemployed (the eighth By Max Feldman meant that the European Commission highest unemployment rate amongst year By Max Feldman are highly unlikely to approve the deal. the 28 EU member states). The French By Ione Bingley While Kengeter expressed his “regret” economy has made a slow recovery from at the LSE’s move to kill off the merger, the 2008 financial crisis and all the Nicola Sturgeon has said a second Radio Poland and the Puls Biznesu daily gathered in the streets of Madrid in he was confident about Deutsche Börse’s leading candidates say deep changes are independence referendum will become a have reported that Poland will launch solidarity. future. needed. “legitimate, almost necessary” step unless a space strategy within its Responsible Earlier in February Catalonia's “It is pointless to me to speculate Another key issue is immigration and

Scotland secures a special relationship Development Plan. © LEGO Photograph separatist government denounced on what the reasons behind our merger security, France has experienced some with the European Union before article The Polish Space Strategy (PSS), reported plans by Madrid to close partner’s decision were,” Kengeter told of the most high profile and deadly Photograph © Genesis Toys © Genesis Photograph 50 is triggered. recently accepted by the government, will schools in the northeastern region and an audience in Frankfurt. “We feel very terror attacks on the European mainland There is growing speculation include satellite technology to improve take control of the police to stop the well-prepared as a company for the forcing citizens to live under a state of Sturgeon will use her conference speech national security. Furthermore, the contested referendum. future.” emergency and exposing deep cultural in Aberdeen later in March to confirm PSS predicts that, by 2030, Poland will The commission has refused to rifts in the country with Europe’s largest Germany’s telecommunications she plans to table a new referendum generate three percent of European space comment before a deadline for delivering Muslim community. Whilst at first the watchdog has ordered parents to destroy bill at Holyrood, or demand the UK sector turnover. its formal verdict on 3 April. clear favourite looked to be the centre- Nearly ten attacks a day on migrants or disable a “smart doll” because the toy In January, it was announced that right candidate Francois Fillion, a shock were recorded in Germany by the Billund, the Danish town known as It is the third attempt to unite the can be used to illegally spy on children. Poland had increased its four-year scandal that accused him of paying his interior ministry in 2016. the home of LEGO®, will open a giant two major stock exchange operators, The My Friend Cayla doll, which funding budget for voluntary European wife public money worth 1.5 million A total of 560 people were injured, LEGO House on September 28. Europe’s biggest following two failed attempts, in 2000 was voted one of the top 10 toys of Agency programs by a quarter. Euros for jobs that she did not carry out including 43 children. Designed by Danish architects BIG and 2005. Rumours have since begun year in 2014, is manufactured by the US Beyond Polish government investment, has left him at the bottom of the pack Three-quarters of the attacks (Bjarke Ingels Group) to resemble stock exchange to emerge that LSE has found a new company Genesis Toys and distributed home-grown businesses can capitalise (after stating that he would step down, targeted migrants outside of their stacks of the instantly recognisable potential suitor in ICE, owners of the in Europe by -based Vivid on these developments. More than 300 he has since insisted on staying in the accommodation, while nearly 1,000 LEGO bricks, the attraction includes merger collapses New York Stock Exchange. Toy Group, allows children to access the Polish companies told the Puls Biznesu race, claiming that he was the victim of a attacks were on housing. four colour-coded learning zones: red By Ione Bingley internet via speech recognition software, they would be willing to invest in the character assassination.) Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision (imaginative), blue (cognitive), green and to control the toy via an app. space technologies sector, which is said to Instead he has been overtaken by to open up Germany to people fleeing (storytelling) and yellow (emotional). But Germany’s Federal Network government gives Holyrood the powers be growing by four percent each year. French Elections Emmanuel Macron, a 38-year-old conflict and persecution has polarised the It will be aimed at both children and Agency announced this week that it to stage one. Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s By Max Feldman investment banker who was an economic country and boosted hate crime. adults, much like the company’s second classified Cayla as an “illegal espionage Sturgeon told the David Hume Minister of Development and Finance, adviser to President Francois Hollande Germany is struggling with a backlog touring exhibition, called The Art of the apparatus”. As a result, retailers and Institute on Tuesday the prime minister has predicted the entire Responsible The upcoming French elections in before taking up the post of economy of asylum applications and there are Brick, currently stationed on London’s owners could face fines if they continue had to prove that Scotland would have a Development Plan could inject as much April have drawn political attention minister in 2014. Not only has he never fears about security following a series of to stock it or fail to permanently disable as 2 trillion PLN (Polish Zloty) into the Southbank. terrorist attacks across Europe. bespoke deal before she triggered Article © Deutsche Börse Photograph from around the globe as a battle for been an MP, he has never stood for LEGO was first manufactured in the doll’s wireless connection. 50 by the end of March. country’s economy by 2020. At a news the soul and future of the European election. He is currently riding on a wave 1949 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Billund Under German law it is illegal to Sturgeon said that if May failed to conference, Morawiecki admitted the Union. France as a nation has been the of voters hungry for change from the local. In 2015, the Brand Finance global manufacture, sell or possess surveillance do so, then “proposing a further decision PSS would also be useful for monitoring victim of years of economic stagnation established system, but eager to avoid Strenuous efforts are made by consultancy named LEGO as the world’s devices disguised as another object. on independence wouldn’t simply be the country’s recent smog problem, and the bleak national mood (One poll the perceived racism of Marine Le Pen’s most powerful brand. Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster According to some media reports, legitimate, it would almost be a necessary as satellites could help track harmful last year found that French people are Front National. Macron is staunchly pro- “LEGO House will enable us to Today newspaper to ensure that breaching that law can result in a jail way of giving the people of Scotland a emissions. the most pessimistic on Earth, with trade, pro-competition, pro-immigration offer both adult and young visitors the term of up to two years. say in our own future direction”. A year of negotiations towards a merger 81% grumbling that the world is getting and pro-EU, embracing cultural the content and information is chance of stimulating their creativity of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) worse and only 3% saying that it is change and technological disruption. and learning,” said General Manager of correct. Kensington, Chelsea & and Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt’s Stock getting better.) has led to a situation Pitching himself as a pro-globalisation LEGO House, Jesper Vilstrup. Exchange, has collapsed. where political outsiders are dominating revolutionary, he has made inroads with Westminster Today newspaper A Swedish Electric Car The LSE has refused to allow the discourse. Five leading candidates both the Left and Right. reserves the right to report Deutsche Börse to add new terms to will contest the first round of voting By contrast Ms Le Pen blames outside unsolicited material being sent Politician Wants Industry Boom the £21 billion deal following the Brexit on 23 April. Unless one candidate wins forces and promises to protect voters Madrid vote amid an increasingly tense political more than 50% of the votes, the two with a combination of more barriers and through to the publication. To Give People in Norway climate with several eurosceptic MPs leading contenders will then go through greater social welfare. She has effectively Personal views expressed in this expressing concern over Deutsche Börse’s By Polly Allen determined to to a second round two weeks later on 7 distanced herself from her party’s newspaper are solely those of the 'Paid Sex Breaks' 54 percent stake. May. anti-Semitic past (even evicting her It had been agreed following the During the Work Day The electric car industry is experiencing stop Catalan The current President, Francois father from the party he founded), but respective contributors and do not independence referendum merger that the headquarters would be she appeals to those who want to shut By Max Feldman a boom in Norway, with battery-powered based in London, but, responding to reflect those of the publishers or or hybrid cars accounting for 29 percent By Ione Bingley out the rest of the world. She decries German concerns after the referendum globalisation as a threat to French jobs its agents. All materials sent to of the country’s new car sales in 2016. result, Deutsche Börse has since put Swedish workers should be given paid and Islamists as fomenters of terror who Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Norway rewards electric car drivers forward plans, which the LSE has “sex breaks” by their bosses, a local make it perilous to wear a short skirt in with a series of financial incentives, rejected, to create a dual-holding Today are at the suppliers’ risk. politician has suggested. A councillor in The Catalan government has promised public and refers to The EU as “an anti- including free parking in cities, free company, the second headquarters of Reproduction in whole or in part the north of the country has suggested to hold a “binding” independent Bloor © Frank Photograph democratic monster”. She vows to close ferry and road tolls, waived purchase tax, which would be in Frankfurt with both workers should be given a one hour break referendum this year in response to a radical mosques, staunch the flow of of this publication is strictly and even the right to use bus lanes. An supplemented by a joint-operating paid for by their employer in order to go evenly split Catalan community with immigrants to a trickle, obstruct foreign increase in charging stations, and their company. prohibited without prior consent. home and have sex. half willing to stay part of Spain and half trade, swap the Euro for a resurrected charging speeds, is set to encourage even Deutsche Börse’s chief executive The idea was proposed by councillor eager for Catalonia to be recognised as French Franc and call a referendum on The appearance of advertising in more Norwegians to abandon high- Carsten Kengeter has also worried Per-Erik Muskos from the town of an independent state. leaving the EU. emission cars. bankers with reports that London could this newspaper, including inserts or Övertorneå near Sweden’s border with Madrid, however, is set on blocking Whilst it seems unlikely that Ms Such perks have seen Norway become lose some key roles saying that the supplements, does not constitute Finland, where temperatures this week the move putting Fransesc Homs of the Le Pen will be able to clinch a victory, the country with the highest number exchange would create 400 new jobs with have reached below -10C. Catalan Democratic Party on trial for has already been accused of endorsement by Kensington, of electric vehicles (known as EVs) per 300 of them in Frankfurt. Mr Muskos said: "There are studies holding an “illegal” referendum in 2014 launching a ‘fake news attack’ on Macron capita: 100,000, in a population of just Furthermore, a report commissioned Chelsea & Westminster Today of the that show sex is healthy. I believe sex is a that saw 89 percent of Catalans in favour and Fillion is claiming that the charges 5.2 million people. The Norwegian by Deutsche Börse published in January scarce commodity in many long-lasting of independence. against him are similarly false; no result products or services advertised. government’s climate goals include claiming that the German city would be relationships. having only EVs on sale by 2025. During the trial, separatist supporters should be assumed to be set in stone. 8 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 International News International News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Association looks forward to having its “Right now, we’re starting to explore The busiest land border in the Western circumnavigating the globe. annual dinner on April 29,” confirmed ways to use AI to tell the difference hemisphere linking Mexico’s Tijuana Google’s aim is to provide Putin and Trump President of The White House between news stories about terrorism with San Diego in California, the San Pavement lights connectivity to the around four billion Congolese Correspondents Association (WHCA), and actual terrorist propaganda,” Mr Ysidro border crossing, has seen queues people in the world who do not have lash out against Jeff Mason. Zuckerberg said his ultimate aim shrink to an all time low. for ‘zombie’ access to the internet, particularly those president ‘fake news’ “The WHCA takes note of President was to allow people to post largely Shiva Andrew © Photograph Pedestrian and vehicular traffic has phone users in difficult-to-reach rural areas. Rather cancels election By Ione Bingley Donald Trump’s announcement on whatever they liked, within the law, with slumped since US President Donald than undertake huge construction over ‘High cost’ Twitter that he does not plan to attend algorithms detecting what had been Trump has taken office. The slowdown projects to replicate connectivity the dinner, which has been and will uploaded. appears to be linked to reports that networks in the developed world, the By Owen Fulda continue to be a celebration of the First Zuckerberg, who has played down immigration officers have begun the firm has instead experimented with Amendment and the important role claims of Presidential aspirations on implementation of a zero tolerance beaming down connectivity from a played by an independent news media in several occasions, also mentioned how he policy towards visa violations. network of huge, tennis-court sized a healthy republic.” hoped to place Facebook “at the heart of Palestinians want to have the capital of There appears to be a change in balloons. democracy” with plans to turn the social an independent Palestinian state in the attitude from border patrol officers The balloons float in the stratosphere media site into one of the primary modes east of the city and the final status of the Veelenturf © Flora Photograph towards green card holders commuting around 11 miles high. By raising or of communications between politicians city is supposed to be determined via regularly between the two countries. lowering altitude, the balloons can be and their constituents, even going so direct negotiations between Israel and Green card holders are meant to reside in caught in different weather streams, far as to hint at eventually allowing the Palestine. the US, but many live in Mexico where changing direction. By using machine- Repeatedly delayed elections in the Facebook trialling capability for users to ‘vote from their Jordan and Egypt, the only two Arab living costs are cheaper, crossing the learning algorithms, Google thinks it has Democratic Republic of the Congo Facebook newsfeeds’. countries with peace treaties with Israel, border to work in the US on a regular Pavement lights have been installed at cracked a way to predict weather with face another obstacle after the budget AI Whilst most of this is planned for have warned against the move, as have basis where wages are reportedly up to a pedestrian crossing in a town in the enough accuracy to make it possible to minister said he doubted whether the as they unveil vision of the the future, Facebook have confirmed that former President Barack Obama and six times higher. Netherlands to help smartphone users hover balloons over a relatively small area country could find the £1.5 billion that network “at the heart of they are trialling technology that uses former Secretary of State John Kerry, With the recent detention of cross the road safely. for a long period of time. the government claim is required to hold he Russian Ministry of Foreign artificial intelligence to identify members saying it could be explosive for the hundreds of Mexican immigrants, it The light strips catch the eye of Last last year the firm was able to a poll this year. Affairs has launched a ‘fake news’ democracy” that may be at risk of suicide. The social region. looks like US officials are beginning to people looking down at their devices and keep a cluster of balloons over Peru for Joseph Kabila has been president tracking page that emblazons By Max Feldman network utilize algorithms that spot The Trump administration have since implement Trump’s campaign to expel change colour to match traffic signals. three months. since his father was assassinated in 2001, a large, red ‘FAKE’ stamp on articles it warning signs in users' posts and the backed off the idea with Israeli officials illegal immigrants. The lure of games and social media but Amnesty International claim those T has come “at the expense of attention to deems untrue. comments their friends leave in response. saying that it was hardly mentioned The slow down at the Ysidro border who oppose him are being rounded up The site has only denounced outlets After confirmation by Facebook's human in a 30-minute call between Trump could be the beginning of a serious traffic”, said councillor Kees Oskam. and detained. in the US and the UK so far, including review team, the company contacts those and Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin shift in the flow of goods and people But Dutch road safety group VVN Japan’s The news comes 12 days after the the New York Times, Bloomberg, The thought to be at risk of self-harm to Netanyahu in January. between the two countries if Trump is said the idea “rewards bad behaviour”. death of Etienne Tshisekedi, a veteran Telegraph, NBC News and the Santa suggest ways they can seek help. Abbas warned member states at the to follow through with promises to scrap "We don’t want people to use phones government politician whom analysts say was the only Monica Observer. It has now developed pattern- UNHRC meeting that Israel was in or renegotiate the historic 1994 North when they’re dealing with traffic,” figure capable of unifying the DRC’s As the ministry’s spokeswoman recognition algorithms to recognise if danger of moving towards an “apartheid” Incorporated © Parker Photograph America Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) said VVN of the Dutch Traffic Safety brings in fragmented opposition to the President’s Maria Zakharova explained to the someone is struggling, by training them system in light of a new law passed that that scrapped nearly all customs duties. Association Jose de Jong. “People must continued rule. Russian government’s own state-run with examples of the posts that have has legalised the building of dozens always look around them, to check if cars overtime limit RIA Novosti news agency, the site previously been flagged. Talk of sadness of Jewish-only settlements on private are actually stopping at the red signals.” to stop people working is intended to prevent the sharing of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and pain, for example, would be one Palestinian land. Similar pavement lights are being articles it believes are inaccurate. has outlined a plan to let artificial signal, whilst responses from friends with “Palestine will remain the litmus China to tested in the German city of Augsburg themselves to death South Africans “Here we will make an example of intelligence (AI) software review content phrases such as “Are you OK?” or “I’m test for this council … and whether it to help so-called ‘smartphone zombies’ By Max Feldman such propaganda dumped by various posted on the social network. In a letter worried about you,” would be another. succeeds or not, will be crucial for the fingerprint all navigate level crossings. spend more on media outlets, providing links to their describing the plan, he said algorithms Once a post has been identified, it is credibility of the human rights system sources, and so on,” said Zakharova. would eventually be able to spot sent for rapid review to the network’s throughout the world,” said Abbas. foreign visitors guns and security The site does not explain why terrorism, violence, bullying and even community operations team. “We call for the establishment of By Max Feldman Google hails Russia’s foreign ministry believes the prevent suicide. a system that would guarantee an than police articles are incorrect, it only provides the He admitted Facebook had previously independent Palestinian state with net balloon By Owen Fulda cryptic message: “This material contains made mistakes in the content it had Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 data, not corresponding to the truth” and removed from the website. However borders.” China will begin taking fingerprints of ‘breakthrough’ a link to the original article. he claimed it might take years for the Defend Israel- all foreign visitors as it steps up security By Max Feldman According to a recent poll conducted necessary algorithms to be developed. on its borders. by the Russian government, a quarter of Zuckerberg argued that considering Palestine two- The fingerprinting of foreigners will the country’s citizens feel that no source that sheer scale of data made up by Mexico/US be introduced at Shenzhen airport in of information, neither TV nor online, is the billions of messages posted on the state system, the south from Friday, and it will then trustworthy. platform each day, there was no way for border activity at be gradually rolled out at other entry

US President Donald Trump has also © Google Photograph humans to effectively oversee the data. says Abbas points around the country, the Ministry Japan is planning to bring in a cap on launched a sustained attack against the “The complexity of the issues we've seen By Ione Bingley all time low of Public Security said in a statement the amount of overtime a worker can do media for peddling ‘fake news’ following has outstripped our existing processes for By Ione Bingley to cut down on the number of cases of on Thursday. his refusal to grant access to a recent governing the community,” he said. “death from overwork”. press conference from several key global He highlighted the removal of All foreign passport holders Workers’ overtime will be restricted news organisations including the BBC, videos related to the Black Lives Matter Palestinian Authority President aged 14-70 will have to give their to around 60 hours a month with South Africans spend more money on The New York Times, movement and the historical napalm girl Mahmoud Abbas has called on the fingerprints, without saying if other an increased limit of 100 hours for protecting themselves from crime than and CNN, Trump took to twitter photograph from Vietnam as “errors” in international community to defend the biometric data would also be collected. particularly busy periods. The working the national police force’s annual budget. condemning the media as “the enemy of the existing process. Facebook was also Israel-Palestine two-state solution in The ministry said the regulation week in Japan is 40 hours but a recent The public spend 45 billion Rand per the people”. criticised in 2014, following reports that an address at the opening of the 34th would strengthen immigration government report revealed nearly year on guns, guard dogs and private He has also confirmed that he will one of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby session of the United Nations Human controls and increase efficiency. The one in four companies had employees security, compared to the police’s budget not be attending the annual White spoke online about murdering a soldier, Rights Council (UNHRC). United States, Japan, Taiwan and who racked up more than 80 hours of of just 30 billion (£1.8 billion). House Correspondents Association months before the attack. His comments come after promises Cambodia, among others, have similar Researchers at Google say they are “years overtime a month, whilst staff at one in One in 20 households contains a Dinner on April 29. Traditionally, the “We are researching systems that can that US President Donald Trump made requirements. closer” to rolling out a network of huge 10 workplaces did an extra 100 hours of weapon, while twice as many employ event is attended by the president and read text and look at photos and videos during his leadership campaign to move rotection © US Customs and Border Photograph While Chinese border posts do balloons to provide connectivity to rural work every month. private security. In 2015 civil rights group widely covered by the news media. to understand if anything dangerous may the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the areas. The companies X research lab, said Campaigners have tried to challenge AfriForum reported that a total of 6,602 not generally have heavy duty entry The dinner is most well-known for its be happening. This is still very early in divided city of Jerusalem. it was now able to use machine learning the nation’s culture of long hours since firearms were lost or stolen from South inclusion of a skit where the current development, but we have started to have Israel considers the city its eternal and formalities, most visitors need a visa, to predict weather systems. It means the 24-year-old advertising worker Matsuri African police over a five years period. president mocks himself for the it look at some content, and it already indivisible capital and wants all countries though many cities have visa-free deals firm has far greater control over where Takahashi killed herself after having The nation has one of the highest amusement of the attendees. generates about one third of all reports to to base their embassies there. Such a for visits of a few days as part of efforts its balloons go, making it possible to worked up to 130 hours of monthly violent crime rates in the world with 51 “The White House Correspondents the team that reviews content.” move could be destabilising because the to boost tourism. focus on a specific region, rather than overtime. murders per day on average. 10 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

of ‘experts’ and shady ‘elites’, albeit by electing blatant ones instead. We’ll Public Lack MARIUS BRILL’S have none of those secretive dark DUDLEY SUTTON’S deals between oligarchs anymore, just billionaires and hatemongers openly of trust

Photograph © John Handley © John Photograph I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT MEMEING OF LIFE grabbing the spoils and crying fake in Institutions news whenever they’re called on it. Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... The City wrings its hands over Brexit but how many there were willing, has created even bankrolling, it? With instability Populism The Yellowhammer's Nest did Oswald Mosely so proud, never comes fluctuating markets, the perfect By Peter Burden By John Clare left us. The likes of Brexit and Trump rollercoaster for those hedgefunds who Delete the elite? have reawakened those who have been would spread bet on shares dipping and failed, by that lust for peace and capital, rising like a window-cleaner’s sponge in ent is the traditional time to in their prospects and, possibly, in their a 70s sex comedy. Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up, deny yourself your worst habits. education. What’s more, their seething Clearly there are people in privileged I thought I’d give up double anger is aimed squarely at the precepts positions who really shouldn’t be trusted. Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled down entendres; but it’s so hard. that have provided us with security for But ‘Elite’ as our hateword du jour, like L Over the last half century the British and vicars. lending in the subprime market, which To reach the misty dewberry—let us stoop I always thought that the easiest over 70 years. At last they feel legitimised all generalisations is only useful as a public’s growing distrust in its All the old, protective layers of was further encouraged when, during thing to give up would be denial itself. to voice long supressed bitterness and dehumaniser. A blunt instrument in institutions has led to a tendency to privacy were being peeled like onion George W Bush’s first term, the US And seek its nest—the brook we need not dread, But then, I had no idea how deeply in it release the gobs of war. argument and claiming they’re all the ignore advice and make choices based on skins from the personal lives of the Federal Bank single-mindedly pursued I was. Really. WWIII no longer seems quite same makes no sense. short-term self-interest and incomplete formerly great and good. As the century a policy of creating a cheap dollar, in 'Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown, Turns out that most of my life I’ve as impossible as it once did. Europe History tells us we’ll never get rid of information - a trend that has become progressed this uncovering increased line with the wishes of the US exporting been pretending to myself that the divided, nationalism on the rise, bare- elites mainly because, when benign, they known as Populism. and the public were becoming inured businesses’ lobby. Thus mortgage lenders So it sings harmless o'er its pebbly bed entire western world was just like my back horse riding bare chested muscle- serve a vital purpose. Every revolution During the last era of moral certitude to the successive scandals. But the who were buying their money very cheap bubble: some bad eggs but mostly full flexing from expansionist Russia, a has simply replaced one with another. in post-war Britain of the ’50s, when discovery that MPs had for years been were encouraged to lend it to subprime —Ay here it is, stuck close beside the bank of nice, intelligent, reasonable, liberal- super militarised China and the chief Societies need elites, and experts and women were housewives and men wore topping up their meagre salaries with borrowers at five, even ten times the minded people with quasi-socialist values strategist at the White House, Steve specialists. In June last year we were all hats, when PC Dixon patrolled Dock creative expense chitties came as a far rate they were paying; like a greengrocer Beneath the bunch of grass that spindles rank inspired to support egalitarian projects Bannon, convinced that, “We’re at the asked a bloody complicated question Green and Mr Brown went up to town bigger shock than it should have done, buying spuds at 5p/lb and retailing them like paying tax, universal healthcare and very beginning stages of a very brutal which I simply didn’t have enough facts on the eight-thirty-one, his bowler hat and significantly increased the public’s at 50p/lb. It was outrageously profitable, Its husk seeds tall and high—'tis rudely planned legal access. and bloody conflict ... If (we do) not to answer, nor did I have the time to and tightly rolled umbrella symbols of distrust. and it was legal. Of course, there were The reality is I’ve been deeper in ... fight for our beliefs against this new truly examine it. But then that’s what I his fiscal propriety, and every village More genuinely shocking and risks, failures and repossessions, but the Of bleachèd stubbles and the withered fare denial than Cleopatra’s sunken barge. barbarity ... (it) will completely eradicate pay MPs to do. Now it seems that even church had its own vicar, the public still indicative of serious moral malaise was asset could always be sold to recoup the It was merely a fantasy. It’s just that I everything that we've been bequeathed they can’t grasp the specifics behind, or trusted the institutions - their politicians was the banking crisis of 2008. It was by capital, as long as the by then heavily That last year's harvest left upon the land, happened to be fortunate enough to over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.” the consequences of it. and policeman, clergymen and bank no means the first City scandal to affect inflated housing market stood up. have been born in the peace between The only thing more galling than We could have done with an educated managers, teachers, judges and the Britain; the South Sea Bubble of 1702, But in 2007 the Fed realised that Lined thinly with the horse's sable hair. the Second and Third World Wars. some smug bastard saying “told you ‘elite’ that we could trust, to take the time Metropolitan Police, the BBC and the the crisis of confidence in the Panic they’d drastically over-egged the money A time when our scarred societies so” is a long line of despots, oligarchs, to examine it, study it, to understand editor of the Daily Telegraph. of 1772, when a run on British Banks supply, and tightened the reins. The well Five eggs, pen-scribbled o'er with ink their shells would do almost anything to avoid dictators, potentates and caliphs saying and explain, instead of undermine and It was in this period of shared caused twenty of them to go out of from which the lenders had all been future conflict: be nice to old enemies, it. Transmoral types have been asserting exploit. righteousness that Prime Minister business; the speculative bubble of Latin drinking abruptly dried up. House prices Resembling writing scrawls which fancy reads mutually assure destruction, help the for centuries that you cannot trust Yes, the system is broken and many Harold Macmillan delivered a speech: American investment of 1825, when crashed almost instantly, and the steady vulnerable, have faith in secular morality, the hoi-polloi to make decisions. And ‘elites’ aren’t fit for purpose. Yes, we “Indeed let us be frank about it - Scottish conman, Gregor MacGregor stream of repossessions became a torrent. As nature's poesy and pastoral spells— set up internationalist quangos and we’ve known that too. Democracy in its need to reform or exchange them. But most of our people have never had it so invented a Central American state, That so many banks, including most entangle every nation in globalised co- purest sense would be mob rule, so every to bundle everyone richer and more good,” he said famously. “Go around the Poyais, into which thousands poured, British banks, became involved, either as They are the yellowhammer's and she dwells dependency. western democracy has been a fudge of powerful than us in our social colonic is country, go to the industrial towns, go then lost their money. And in 1932 principals, or secondary wholesale lenders But, between the financial crash and some sort. A delicate balance between a to not only throw the baby out with the to the farms and you will see a state of Britain was caught in the wake of the was a direct result of opportunistic Most poet-like where brooks and flowery weeds the election of Trump, the veil, or burqa figurehead, an elite club claiming to be bath water but the bath, chrome taps, prosperity such as we have never had in Great US Depression. greed and atrocious financial judgment. if you prefer less cultural appropriation in the servants of the public and the public Cranberry Lush, bath bomb and half a my lifetime - nor indeed in the history of But these crises came and went and Although as a result of the crash, a As sweet as Castaly to fancy seems the cause of clichés, has gradually slipped itself, who are only ever allowed to make litre of TRESemmé as well. this country.” British bankers had developed a system, number of prominent American bankers from my eyes. Now it’s clear that the the narrowest of democratic choices. But then common sense is like In the post-war boom, this was the in the pragmatic interest of greater were indicted by American courts, And that old molehill like as Parnass' hill sort of good old-fashioned, self-centred, But our Western Spring is having deodorant, the people who need it most truth; the people were inclined to believe efficiency in which a man’s word really convicted and jailed for financial crimes, small-minded, nationalist fervour, that its own Lent, intent on purging itself never seem to have it. and trust the Prime Minister. was his bond and which lasted more none of their British counterparts were, On which her partner haply sits and dreams But during the next decade this a or less until the so-called Big Bang although Sir Fred Goodwin was stripped long-held confidence in the Ruling revolutionised the way the City operated of his knighthood, poor chap! O'er all her joys of song—so leave it still Classes began finally to unravel under and electronic confirmation of a deal It’s shouldn’t be surprising that the scrutiny of the satirists; the new- replaced the human handshake. large swathes of the British public don’t A happy home of sunshine, flowers and streams. born Private Eye, Beyond the Fringe, That But the Credit Crunch crisis of ten trust the Institutions anymore, and will Was The Week That Was. John Profumo, years ago perhaps did more damage than no longer take a lead from politicians

Portrait © Jonnohills Portrait Yet in the sweetest places cometh ill, Secretary of Sate for War, cavorted with had ever been done to the reputation and economic experts. Populism and Christine Keeler, whose other lover was of bankers and, more crucially, to the Brexit have been a predictable, albeit A noisome weed that burthens every soil; a Russian spy; the Great Train Robbers governments that claimed to regulate unpredicted, result of this lack of trust. pulled off their spectacular heist; former them, and the judiciary and police For snakes are known with chill and deadly coil government minister, Lord Boothby who failed to chastise them. It is was found hobnobbing with the Kray almost incredible that it should ever To watch such nests and seize the helpless young, brothers. have been allowed to happen, but few Public perceptions were being rapidly commentators or regulators waved And like as though the plague became a guest, altered under an onslaught of cultural warning flags, and when they did, they change: mini-skirts, Mods and Rockers, were ignored. The primary driving Leaving a houseless home, a ruined nest— Liverpool Cathedral, the long hair factor behind the crash was the Clinton and studied grubbiness of the Rolling administration’s policy that mortgage And mournful hath the little warblers sung Stones, the legalisation of abortion and lending criteria should be lowered in homosexual acts, cannabis, the Pill, order to accommodate people “who peterburden.net When such like woes hath rent its little breast. and the News of the World’s increasingly have historically been excluded from prurient revelations of the sexual home-ownership.” This greatly relaxed activities of politicians, teachers, firemen the traditional safeguards against risky www. 12 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Statue & Blue Plaque Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

moved to Dieppe and ‘Tommy’ grew up speaking fluent French. This made him Blue Plaque: very valuable to the SOE. The Royal Wing ‘Tommy’ fought with the Poles in College of Music

Image © Stephen McKay Image the Polish Soviet war. He was captured by the Russians, but typically, even at a Providing world-class music Commander very early age, he avoided execution by in the heart of London escaping. Forest Frederick Between wars he worked for By Kate Hawthorne Molyneux, a large Paris fashion house. I Edward Yeo- cannot imagine him there! Thomas In 1940, France having fallen to the udwig Van Beethoven claimed GC., MC., , Germans, ‘Tommy’ came to England as that ‘Music is a higher revelation a translator for De Gaulle’s Free French than wisdom and philosophy in STATUES France, , Forces using his mastery of the French Ltheir totality’. Cross of Merit, Poland. language. His SOE work necessitated his Many would agree but the practice being parachuted into occupied France of translating this essence and Art 1902-1964 and his duty was to obstruct the German Form into a successful world-class occupation. This involved meeting and conservatoire takes more than a dining with high ranking Nazi officials. formidable talent. Sport has a broader appeal than us. Why? building by John Simpson will extend A Blue Plaque honouring Wing He was parachuted into France It requires immense stature, Yes it’s good that Sport is so popular the language of the school building with Commander Yeo-Thomas was erected again in 1944 and was captured in Paris knowledge and experience. To steer but music should at least be on the same an ultra-modern interior. by at Queen Court, where the Gestapo tortured him using an International ship, through moving level playing field in education. We need We are providing 420 new rooms Guilford Street, , London. sinister methods. His amazing courage borders and boundaries, with a crew of "the stand against instant to change this and are constantly fighting where students can live, rehearse and It was unveiled by his niece, Carol and powerful, enduring spirit of survival the world’s most brilliant and creative gratification where people to do so. practice. With property prices at a Green in the presence of Mark Seaman, overcame their cruelty. He steadfastly minds, the Commander must also We see a lot of potential going to premium and restrictions on playing his biographer. Squadron Leader Lee refused to give any information and possess a propensity towards humour, won’t put their phones waste in local schools. Good music has music in residences, providing ‘sound Roberts represented the RAF. had enough courage left to escape. He humility and a forensic attitude towards down to listen to a Mozart always been expensive to produce and practice space’ is a major challenge and The Wing Commander, nicknamed was recaptured and sent to Buchenwald responsibility. for years has relied on patronage and consideration. ‘Tommy’ was a hero and his story is Concentration Camp. Enter Colin Lawson, Director of symphony let alone a sponsorship. We could bring so much Technology is a necessary by the then Prime Minister the Rt. of enduring courage. He fought hard There he took a great risk the Royal College of Music. The RCM, Bruckner" more diversity of opportunity if properly and important part of our world. Mahatma Hon. Harold Wilson, MP, and was in helping others. 115 Allied in the heart of the Royal Borough funded. Our Sparks Junior programme Livestreaming extends the reach of the placed there to commemorate the Airmen were taken prisoner. (founded in 1882) is an International provides proper tuition but it’s only for College. Ghandi 125th anniversary of the birth of He knew they would get Conservatoire for music education, 30 people a year. If we want to continue Additional audiences provide By Fredda Brilliant Mahatma Gandhi in 1996 by the better treatment by the performance and research housing the rely on their continental perspective and training world class musicians we have to income but the real value is bringing High Commissioner for Dr L Luftwaffe and succeeded world’s finest musicians. The nurturing collaboration on international research get them early, but it’s unfashionable to in the families, visitors and friends of M Singhvi. in informing them of their and education of such potential talent projects. Research projects help drive be training at this level, but not in Sport. students across the globe. The new The creator of the bronze sculpture presence. across such a diverse section takes institutions forward financially and work We are competing against the American technology allows remote creativity was Fredda Brilliant, a Polish sculptor ‘Tommy’ escaped yet profound dedication. together internationally on bids. It’s an College scholarship system and free and interaction with our performers, and actress, who was also a writer, again. He was captured and Professor Lawson, CBE, read music essential part of our business beyond tuition in Germany. Having said that musicians and academics and opens up here are two statues singer and script writer. She was taken to Stalag XX-B, a at Oxford, is described as a brilliant strictly musical boundaries; it’s pivotal we have the huge advantage of London greater opportunities and exposure for of Ghandi in London, much-travelled and lived in , prisoner of war camp near world-class performer and played to our growth and work and the broader being a most attractive location. collaboration. the other one by New York, Russia and London. Marienburg . He eventually principal Clarinet in Britain’s leading context of performing, science, music and I am immensely proud of our diverse Our live performance programme is Philip Jackson being Whilst living in , she met and reached Allied Lines in late period orchestras. Colin Lawson has motherhood. community of students and staff. Their extensive and is an essential part of our in Parliament Square, married Herbert Marshall in 1935, 1945. recorded, toured, released several CDs However, now the UK Government exceptional talent and creativity makes DNA. We have lunch time workshops unveiled in 2015 by David Cameron, a lecturer and screenwriter. In 1939, In the post war years he of his work, and appeared as soloist in has announced that EU students a huge contribution to daily life at for example which the public can sharing it with two other incongruous the pair collaborated on a socialist was a key witness at the international venues and major concert applying for 2017 entry will be eligible to the RCM. RCM’s internationalism attend free of charge in addition to our flower-bed-fellows, Oliver Cromwell T filmThe Proud Valley, starring Paul Nuremberg Trials when the halls throughout the world. As with his apply for student loans and grants for the constantly reminds me that music is a performance programmes throughout and Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill Robeson, and she appeared in Robert atrocities and inhumanity CV, and the letters after his name, there duration of their course. This eligibility language with the power to transcend the year. loathed the man and called him ‘a Ardrey’s anti-fascist play Thunder of the Nazi Leaders were are too many achievements to mention. will continue throughout their course, borders and this inspires me to look Colin Lawson summarised his views seditious Middle Temple lawyer, Rock, first with , exposed to a shocked world. In 2016 he was appointed Commander even if the UK exits the EU during that beyond the uncertainty and focus on the with this message: now posing as a fakir of a type well and then . The couple He was also a witness at the of the British Empire (CBE) in the period. RCM’s long-term vision; to continue to “I give my assurance that the known in the East.’ The newer lived in India in the 1950s and 1960s, Buchenwald trial held at Queen’s Birthday Honours List for The RCM was founded on the demonstrate our connections to Europe quality of the RCM’s training, our statue was welcomed by the Indian and while he made films for the Dachau Concentration camp services to music and music education. principle that world-class music and the rest of the world, strengthen unrivalled performance opportunities Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but government, she made sculptures in 1947. With the results of the EU education should be available to anyone international partnerships and create and our support for and commitment dismissed by Gandhi’s great grandson of, amongst others, such Indian ‘Tommy’ had always referendum in June 2016, businesses were with the talent and potential to succeed, opportunities for cultural exchange. to European students will never change. as ‘false worship.’ In Bloomsbury, dignitaries as , V K against the forces of tyranny in World excelled in maintaining the morale of faced with uncertainty and turmoil and regardless of their background or Combining growth and sourcing All of us at the Royal College will Ghandi is in peaceful repose, sitting Krishna Menon and . War 11 and suffered much at the hands fellow prisoners and his devotion to duty educational institutions beset with their personal circumstances. Throughout our funding is an eternal part of the College’s be working hard to ensure the RCM atop what looks like a stone chimenea Her list of sitters went on to include of its perpetrators. never wavered during his lengthy service, own fears as to how this would affect 130 year history the College has upheld work. remains the number one choice for or pizza oven. It was intended as Buckminster Fuller, Muhammad Ali, ‘Tommy’ served in the RAF and was when the threat of death was never far their international standing, student this ethos; welcoming, nurturing and Our More Music Campaign was talented musicians from all over the a receptacle for flowers and floral John F Kennedy, Maurice Bowra, and an agent in British Special Operations away. intake, revenue, and future planning. training the best and most promising launched in February this year to world”. tributes to the great lndian leader, Duncan Grant; quite a mix. Pablo Executive (SOE). His code names ‘Tommy’ was married to Lillian Colin Lawson cast some light on the talent from around the globe. Nearly 50% raise £40 million pounds to support The responsibility for nurturing such but many devotees simply lay them Picasso invited her to his house in were ‘Seahorse’ and ‘Shelley’. He had Walker and had two daughters. They matter: of RCM students receive financial help development of new state-of-the-art potential talent across a diverse section on his lap. The reason for the siting France and offered to sit for her, but the tragic misfortune to encounter the separated but did not divorce. Later he “We had difficulty in the immediate and this is extended to our international facilities. More performance spaces of creative and sensitive individuals is of the statue in Tavistock is that it she declined after he pinched her Gestapo, who called him the ‘White had a long term partner, Barbara. aftermath of Brexit, with the uncertainty students, ensuring that financial means are essential to support more than 500 one thing. The knowledge, challenges is but a stone’s throw to University bottom. The couple went to live in Rabbit’. His special area was occupied Wing Commander Forest Frederick going forward as we rely on students to are not a barrier to achieving musical annual public events. To date we have and the skill sets required to manage and College London, where he was America, when Marshall was offered France and Vichy. Edward Yeo-Thomas died in Paris aged bring quality as well as fees. Half our excellence. raised 60% of the sum required. Our enhance the world’s leading International studying law, before going on to lead a professorship in Soviet and East It took some time for the invaluable 61 of a haemorrhage. He was cremated student body is from outside the UK. We are rated number 2 in university Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, will Conservatoire takes remarkable courage, India to independence from Britain European studies at the University of and brave SOE work to be recognised. in Paris, repatriated to be interred in Eastern Europeans start music as early rankings in Europe and number 1 in the be completed with Flentrop currently and a finely tuned musical and ſiscal in 1947. As it states on the plaque on Southern Illinois at Carbondale.They ‘Tommy’ played a big part in getting Pine Glade Garden of Remembrance in as three and are playing eight hours a UK. But, whilst this is important, what building a bespoke new organ tailored baton. A rarity. one of the steps, the statue erected then returned to the UK where they more support for them and encouraged Brookwood Cemetery, . day by the age of 10. Their recruitment is is more important is the stand against to suit the space. Within the RCM A standing ovation for Professor under the aegis of the India League lived in Henfield in Sussex, until he the Government to realise this war could essential and the quality of competition instant gratification where people won’t complex a new museum will house Lawson! by the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial died in 1991 and she in 1999. not be won by traditional methods. Commander Yeo-Thomas, his story was so high it helps maintain the highest of put their phones down to listen to a our international collection of musical Committee. It was unveiled in 1968 Don Grant ‘Tommy’ was the son of John Yeo- Courage. standards with UK and International Mozart symphony let alone a Bruckner. instruments, works of art, manuscripts To view the Royal College’s Performance Thomas, a coal merchant. The family Marian Maitland students. We also have 75 EU staff and We need to change this attitude. and substantial historical research. A new programmes visit www.rcm.ac.uk 14 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Feature Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

regard as fraud”. Either we’re getting better at it, which I suppose is possible, The demands will or the revenue are becoming reasonable, or if that’s not the right word, ‘realistic’; all change, so stay given the personalities in government Photograph © Gina Miller Photograph that in itself may not be an unrealistic Barnes Troy © Photograph awake! view. It’s early days, but I was chatting to (with apologies to Billy John earlier, and he brought my attention Connolly) to the Chair of the influential Treasury select committee, Andrew Tyrie’s criticism By Douglas Shanks of HM Revenue and Customs for its handling of legal disputes against film partnership tax avoidance schemes, saying they have led to financial distress for some investors. The issue of “financial distress” misses the point about the retrospective nature of the interpretation of legislation, and it’s just one bloke saying “wait a minute” (you need to imagine ith a stronger-than-expected starting to make a material difference, within HM Customs & Revenue that in Billy Connolly’s voice, the accent economy post Brexit (my own a couple of years after they were first presumably emanating from the Treasury, of my childhood, try saying it without powerfully pro-Union views, announced. Whatever the misty-eyed since the arrival of Hammond, Mrs May pronouncing the “t”s), but he’s relatively course rather than, for example, the most starting block. that we respond to it.” both and Europe, good intentions of the Socialists, death and Financial Secretary to the Treasury senior, and it’s at least a start, a move away W from the hang-avoiders-legitimate-and- financially advantageous. “Integrity means ‘one’, so there’s a While Foster-Gilbert’s fervent belief were never to do with the economy taxes are surely a most distasteful way of Jane Ellison. They just seem business-like, Westminster Resting on the conviction that the unifying of the person who is working, in the essential goodness of those who which is a red-herring), and indeed addressing social inequality. and while there was an element of the otherwise brigades that have blighted civil service is a vocation, rather than what they’re doing, who they’re working live to serve is inextinguishable, she the perhaps surprising Conservative Others have more crystallised balls silent assassin about the Prime Minister’s the tax industry which by and large was Abbey Institute’s career choice, and that members, for with, and where they’re working. And, admits to moments last year when her victory in Copeland, Mr Hammond may than mine, and I’m sure you’ll find plenty arrival in office, that’s an image that gets peaceably going about its lawful business the most past, enter with the hope of moreover, that the public, whom they convictions were been tested. be tempted to leave well-alone in the of useful speculation elsewhere. I know things done (c.f Jim Hacker’s delight in until Blair landed us with Brown (which Claire Foster- affecting positive change, the Institute claim to serve, are heard, and that what “There is good and bad in all of us forthcoming budget. my own business partner tax-guru John being described as “dictatorial”), and the in my opinion was his only, if all-damning hopes to coax the glowing embers of is offered by them is what’s actually and I’m just aware of this tipping into I doubt he’ll do much about Handley is gearing up for a technical cynic in her cosying up to Trump, I have crime). Gilbert morality back into the fire of goodwill needed.” such a fearful, defensive place that all we Inheritance Tax. While there was monster of an article next month, so been wondering in these columns if it I’m conscious that this has fallen short By Ione Bingley that first fueled their way to the sector. The lectures seek to explore “a deeper can do is fight for our own survival, and something deeply mean-spirited about forgive me if I indulge myself with might not be quite good news for the of a rant; I’m sure the budget will enrage Foster-Gilbert is, however, careful understanding of what it means to be the sense of the human family caring for the way the new reliefs are being phased something of a tour d’horizon, to borrow taxpayer, and their much put-upon agents. me in time for the next edition. to take into account the unavoidable true to yourself and to the vocation that each other, and for the planet that we all in (and how sickening must it be to a neat phrase lifted from Jimmy the You’ve heard me banging on about fallibility of man and it is through this you feel called to” and to ultimately depend on, would become impossible know that if a loved one had lived a Music’s page (second-hand as it happens; the work my firm does in the field of Douglas Shanks is DSC Metropolitan ow in its third year, the understanding that the Abbey’s rich find out “whether the institutions that because we’re so busy defending our few days longer one might have been he nicked it from Le Carré). what we call remedial tax, and what the Chartered Accountants temporarily Westminster Abbey Institute religious tradition subtly informs the support the governing of the country own.” so much better off ), the relaxations are There seems to be a new pragmatism revenue describes as “what we might mellowing partner has seen some of the biggest basis of what they do and why they do it. hinder that integrity by being too “That’s what Trump and some of the Nnames in politics, the civil service and “The story of a divinity that became stifling of the human spirit, or support Brexit narrative has been playing on. I indispensable part of their armoury. They categories: single family offices (SFO) the role of the family office to evaluate the judiciary pass through its doors to absolutely fallible as a human being it by being a custodian of goodness and didn’t hear anywhere in public a narrative struggle to survive without it as, equally, and multi family offices (MFO). The the appropriateness of that risk in the bravely voice their views on the value of to the point where he allowed himself integrity”. of unselfishness. How can Britain be Plus ca change! do those who enlist the support of family former normally handle the affairs of an context of the wider family construct ethics in decision-making. to be killed, as God becoming man in By raising awareness for the concept a better force for good in the world, in The role of the family office offices. individual family with a net worth of c but, equally, provide a window onto With the fiercely passionate Claire Christ, is an extraordinary, mind-blowing of integrity, Foster-Gilbert hopes or out of the EU? That question wasn’t By Howard Lewis The concept of the family office £25,000,000 and upwards. There may the world. An international perspective Foster-Gilbert at its helm, the Institute concept that allows us to be fallible too, to “have its sense of the importance being asked and there was an assumption originated in America to help administer be many competing issues to tackle at is vital as, indeed, is a command of hosts two free and popular lecture series but also in the middle of that there is restated”. that people didn’t want to hear it.” the vast fortunes accumulated by the that level. The value of its assets may shifting cultural and societal trends. The a year, aiming to, “revitalise moral and something enormous, like a spark of joy,” Following the global fallout from descendants of the fabled 19th C. be tied up in an operating business, consulting group EY suggests there are spiritual values in public life and public says Foster-Gilbert. Past, present, future Brexit and Trump, the autumn lectures industrial barons, such as Morgan and the beneficiaries of that fortune may some 3,000 family offices in existence service”. The Institute also sees to “What we’re doing here is about With a are to bring with them the ambitious Rockefeller, Gould and Vanderbilt. The have conflicting desires in realising it today, half of which have been formed the moral wellbeing of our politicians making that available, without for one degree in and timely theme of democracy in an he language of family social demands of that gilded age meant or perhaps a sudden liquidity event has in the past 15 years. This figure excludes with its under-the-radar seminars for minute saying everybody has got to theology from attempt to address and investigate the management acknowledges their beneficiaries, typically, had neither the potential to change fiduciary status. the vast majority of wealth managed on Government departments, MPs and become a Christian in order to have it. It Oxford and fundamental moral dilemma at its heart. more than the mere need to the time nor the inclination to sully Seasoned executives, with appropriate behalf of Asian families, many of whom peers, as well as providing a fellowship has got to be understood that what these a career in “MPs always have to have one eye on communicate.T The modern world themselves with the minutiae of everyday professional qualifications, are often still grapple with the very idea of giving programme, which allows a new public servants are doing is attending to medical and re-election because if you’re not elected, brings many complexities, one of which life. Responsibility for the distribution hired externally to run SFO, although strangers their money! generation of civil servants to discuss their moral health and recognising that, environmental you’re not in there to make a difference, is the abundance of choice. Families of their dividends and maintenance of concerns about fees and investment Family ties are deeply embedded in the ethics behind policy making with like the rest of us, they’re fallible human ethics behind so you have to attend to the retaining used to be largely concentrated in one their living conditions was devolved to a returns have led to some families Asia. Honour, pride, loyalty, respect for Parliament Square’s lifelong members. beings and need help to stay good.” her, Foster- of power and that is morally corrosive,” place, engaged in similar activities, but select group of trusted retainers. These assuming greater personal involvement tradition and a sense of place all play Sitting on the south side of Westminster Abbey Institute has Gilbert has explains Foster-Gilbert. nowadays are often dispersed far and custodians, versed in managing money in their affairs over recent years. their part, as does a deep appreciation Parliament Square for over 1000 years, no problem finding speakers, or filling never been Opening the forum up to even wide through the ubiquity of both and the vagaries of wealth, were the Nonetheless, the endless imposition for the patriarch who started it. The air travel and opportunity. As wealth with the Houses of Parliament to the its sought-after seats, with the likes afraid of braver themes, 2018 will see the institute forerunners of the multifaceted concierge of compliance, governance and due Chinese and their Asian cousins do generation has grown so exponentially east, the treasury and Whitehall to the of William Hague, Rowan Williams, grappling tackle “the really intractable, complex services available today. The principal diligence requirements can overwhelm not share our short term horizons. over the past quarter century, the focus of such offices is overseeing the even the brightest minds. That is how they forge their business north, and the Supreme Court to the Mary McAleese, Baroness D’Souza, with global problems that can’t be solved at conventional checks and balances have preservation and growth of capital for MFO are effectively a supercharged dynasties! Moreover, they are not shy West, Westminster Abbey offers “a place Peter Hennessy, Vernon White and enormously deep and intricate questions. national level and what the individual required a more calibrated approach. An families of substance. But it encompasses version of SFO, whereby a group of to travel to new countries and absorb of calm reflection to provoke thought Claire Foster-Gilbert stepping up to the “Doing something like this at and institutional response is to that”, like army of private advisors has emerged so much more besides including, inter families pool their resources to provide new experiences. English as a language and questioning about the nature of challenge of debating the wider moral Westminster Abbey, and prior to that climate change and the large movements you never knew you needed. Some are alia, advice on structuring trusts and economies of scale and access significant is now pursuing a parallel path to the the good that we’re all trying to do questions at the heart of the lecture at St Paul’s Cathedral, I did become of people. around here, what it means and what the designed to organise your finances, others similar entities, tax and domicile, investment deals as a collective. They United States as a nation. Each retains series. convinced that really thinking hard and While most of the lectures are open your life, but their sheer multitude act legal jurisdiction, succession planning, may be based in different regions and a seat at the top table but neither is challenges are to it,” says Foster-Gilbert. well about what it is to be moral, to be to the public on a first come first served The Institute insists that it has no as a reminder of the busy, complicated, philanthropy and aligning the collective guided by different principles but, completely dominant any longer, merely Integrity good, has a spiritual dimension,” she says. basis with free booking available online, international lives we all appear to lead. interests of the client. The language of ultimately, they reflect a wish for the very important. However, English as a interest in directly affecting legislation or With the each chosen theme “It’s not just about utilitarianly priority is given to civil servants. A book policy-making, rather it aims to “create Once upon a time, they were called money, spoken or otherwise, has been supervision of their affairs with like- business language remains primus inter emerging organically from the current working out what the rationally right featuring the last three years of lectures bankers, solicitors and accountants, but an atmosphere in which goodness can transformed. minded people. Many such investments pares, albeit the Brexit vote suggests we mood and political climate, this season’s thing to do is, that’s not how human will be available from June. that is so very 20th century. Do keep be supported and applauded and not be In the financial sector, all the usual are mainstream and cautious, via the are more insular in that regard than we lectures will explore ‘Integrity’ and, while beings work, we work with our hearts up at the back! Nobody could have suspects offer an array of private banking public markets, but those with a greater might care to admit. It will be interesting seen as a strange goal”. It provides a rare the institution insists that it “doesn’t start as much as with our heads and what we For information and bookings visit: conceived of social media management and wealth management services. appetite for risk often lean towards, to observe whether the Chinese model of platform for public servants to consider with definitions, but listens for good believe determines how we behave, so the www.westminster-abbey.org/institute/ as a serious profession five years ago, However, the creation of family offices for example, private equity, impact financial management is colonised across choosing the most morally beneficial ones”, Foster-Gilbert was able to offer a way we see the world determines the way integrity yet some people now regard it as an is a step beyond and they fall into two investing and emerging markets. 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No tax on dividends ≤£5,000 for decades of war and economic strife, Tax Planning individuals world leaders came together in 1944 By Tim Smith & James Joly From April 2016, the Dividend Tax for the Bretton Woods Agreements. Credit has been replaced by a new tax- A system which made the previously free Dividend Allowance of £5,000. This unthinkable step of creating a gold

means you can potentially receive tax free Frenzi © Karsten Photograph exchange standard where the price of dividend income from your investment properties. Medium © Dreamstime Photograph gold was fixed to the U.S. dollar. This was a radical experiment and it served No income tax when reinvesting profits to make the United States effectively the most powerful player on the world’s im Smith, a senior tax to secure further properties You could grow a BTL portfolio markets for decades. The U.S. dollar was partner with RSM (Baker more quickly within a Limited Company chosen for the Bretton Woods system Tilly) UK advises on ‘Tax as there will be no income tax on the because the United States was easily Planning’ actions to be put in place retained profit, thus allowing more cash the world’s strongest economy coming T to re-invest. Although corporation tax is before 5th April 2017 in Part 1 of out of the Second World War. Unlike this article. payable on trading profits (20%; 2015/16; reducing to 17% by 2020), this is lower previously strong European nations, than the higher income tax rate. the United States did not have to repair Tim also advises clients of infrastructure or fix towns that had been Moncrieff Joly, a Financial Personal funds can be drawn back out of bombarded throughout the war. Management Consultancy Group, the company In 1944, gold was fixed at $35 per which includes a Family Office Any advances you make to your ounce for the foreseeable future. This division for private clients. Limited Company (e.g. the mortgage system lasted basically unchanged until deposit), you can draw back out of the the early 1970s, where another war (the company by way of Director’s Loan. Managing Partner, James Joly, has remember the generous enterprise tax profits which can be reinvested for Vietnam War) caused the gold exchange investment scheme (EIS) and related quicker growth without high personal tax standard to collapse. America’s budget contributed Part 2, setting out the seed-EIS (SEIS) reliefs. rates applying. Furthermore, it can allow was in ruins and in 1971, President advantages and disadvantages of EIS can give 30 per cent income tax Disadvantages of using a Limited for efficient family wealth protection and Company Nixon unexpectedly decided to end the ‘Using a Limited Company for Buy relief and SEIS 50 per cent income tax planning for income and inheritance tax Bretton Woods system in a moment that relief. Both give the ability to mitigate to Let properties.’ purposes. No Capital Gains Tax (CGT) allowance sent deep shockwaves throughout the (defer (EIS) or partially exempt (SEIS)) The above comments highlight some When the company sells a property, tax on capital gains made on other assets financial world key reliefs and allowances: whereas individuals selling a property and a capital gains exemption applies to Between 1971 and 1976, a number would currently have £11,100 CGT Part 1 the new shares subscribed for. of attempts were made to salvage the For more information please contact allowance. Indexation allowance is, Tax planning before If you are looking to invest in Gold Standard. However, the price of Tim Smith Tax Partner at tim.smith@ however, available. 5 April 2017 someone else’s business, these reliefs rsmuk.com gold continued to rise beyond what any should not be overlooked. Additional cost of running a currency could sustain. As many personal tax reliefs and Limited Company of gold is equal to two and a half parts of the gods, calling it literally “god As a result the concept of the gold allowances are annual, it is important to £5,000 of dividend income and Part 2 Such costs include the preparation of Golden Years of silver. This is also the first recorded excrement” (teocuitlatl in Nahuatl), and standard was reluctantly abandoned and review what can be done before 5 April personal allowances accounts, company tax and corporation measurement of the lower value of silver after Moctezuma II was killed, most of Fiat currency now fills most monetary The new dividend allowance came Using a Limited Company by Max Feldman 2017 to ensure you are fully benefiting. tax calculations for HMRC, filing at in comparison to gold. Despite this well this gold was shipped to Spain. Ironically roles. 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Since the abandoning of the gold contributions up to £40,000 each year allowance between them so that one properties? rates and fees for Limited Companies standard, gold has enjoyed a far more but, since 6 April 2016, this allowance partner is not paying tax on dividends There is not a straightforward answer compared to Individual Buy to Let modern U.S. Treasury, there are first known civilization to use gold as a related to their utility, such as obsidian, is tapered away for those paying the top while the other still has available to this question. For each case, the mortgages. few metals that have had such form of currency was the Kingdom of flint, and slate. rocky relationship with the markets rate of income tax, giving a maximum dividend allowance. response could differ depending on an influential role in human history as Lydia, an ancient civilization centred in One by one countries across the than some might expect. Over the past annual allowance of £10,000 for those The generous annual personal personal circumstances, future intentions, F two decades, gold has gone through a Reduced choice of lenders and gold. Being prevalent across the face of western Turkey. globe began to tie their currencies to the earning £210,000 or more. However, allowance should also not be overlooked, and the availability of mortgage finance mortgages the globe, innumerable civilisations have Later on in history, the ancient so-called Gold Standard in the form of number of major changes. August 1999 relief can be carried forward for three where available, and couples should to Limited Companies for the purchase Many lenders do not offer mortgages been drawn to its beauty and rarity (In Greeks viewed gold as a social status bills (that mature into gold coin) and was a landmark moment in the price of consider maximising use of this between years, so those with unused relief from of Buy to Let properties. 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From emperors to priests notably Britain, gradually restored gold- in 2003. Geopolitical tensions between family members such as spouses and before the new rules come in. Higher tax relief Capital Gains Tax and Stamp Duty in ancient Egypt around 3,000 B.C. to the elites and upper middle class, convertibility, but international flows 2003 and 2008 continued to elevate the adult children should be considered, From 2017 to 2020 the amount of Land Tax (SDLT) on the transfer, which Gold played an important role in ancient those who held gold also tended to hold of gold via bills of exchange remained price of gold and the global economic given recent changes that allow greater Personal investment companies Buy to Let tax relief individual landlords tends to make this less desirable. Egyptian mythology and was prized power. embargoed; international shipments were crisis increased the price of gold even flexibility and the potential for an (PICs) can claim back will be progressively cut by pharaohs and temple priests to the The European exploration of the made exclusively for bilateral trades or to further. After reaching a high of over inheritance tax free pot for the next Instead of holding investments from a maximum of 45% to 20% for point where the capstones of the Great Americas was fuelled in no small part by pay war reparations. $1,900 per ounce in 2011, gold has fallen generation. personally, there are numerous top rate taxpayers. However, this change Pyramids were made of solid gold. reports of the gold ornaments displayed The two World Wars wreaked havoc to between $1,200 to $1,400 in recent advantages of using a PIC to retain and does not affect Limited Companies. For more information and/or a grow family wealth. The Egyptian civilisation also in great profusion by Native American on the gold standard and world financial years, however considering the potential Enterprise investment scheme Therefore, if you are a top rate tax payer, preliminary exploratory meeting, With alternative funding of The main benefit of a PIC comes the tax payable via a Limited Company produced the first known currency peoples, especially in Mesoamerica, markets. Of course, it didn’t help matters for further economic crisis in the near businesses, such as crowdfunding, through its use as a long term investment will be lower than tax on individual please contact James Joly at exchange ratio which mandated the Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The that the Great Depression occurred in future gold’s perceived value could return growing rapidly, investors should vehicle, enabling it to retain higher post- income. 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“she should never have been committed at all.” Can Britain LSGA and the Hal Branch, Partner at LSGA Solicitors suggests “the case raises remain a leading Court of numerous issues about how the Court of Protection operates and how we treat light in global Protection people who refuse to comply with a Photograph © SMTT Manufacturing Photograph By Hal Branch research court order when they believe that they By Ione Bingley are doing so in the best interests of the SGA has recently been parties.” involved in successfully Mrs. Kirk is not the only person defending Mrs. Teresa Kirk’s to be jailed by the Court of Protection “Lrights in a case that highlights the in a dispute over a citizen’s life choices brutality of judgments that may be and we fear she may not be the last but handed down by the Court of Protection. hopefully Mrs Kirk’s case makes this The Court of Protection deals with much more unlikely.” n the lead up to the referendum, the a variety of cases and has the power to Government’s science & technology make far-reaching rulings on almost committee noted that the UK’s every aspect of a citizen’s life, from membership of the European Union compelling a person to use contraception I to deciding whether a life-support has a “wide-ranging influence” on UK science and research. system is switched off. “The UK’s level of engagement with In this extraordinary case, Mrs Kirk, remained close all our lives and I was ex-inmate of the prison. Mrs Kirk’s EU funding programmes, for instance, who is 72 years old, was sentenced to six not going to abandon him to state social imprisonment was also kept a secret from is considerable. EU membership also months imprisonment after she defied workers in his last years. He would have the public. has significant bearing on scientific Devon County Council’s demands over become depressed in Devon without the LSGA secured the release of Mrs collaborations, the mobility of the care arrangements for her elderly sunshine. He loved the gardens and the Kirk, following 7 weeks behind bars, researchers, regulatory frameworks brother. warm weather where he lived.’ by making an urgent application to the and research and development (R&D) Mrs. Kirk took the decision to Following Mrs Kirk’s refusal to bring Court of Appeal. LSGA have most undertaken by businesses, to highlight move her brother, Manuel Martins, who her brother back from Portugal, Mr recently been successful in having the just some of the interactions between suffered from dementia, to a Portuguese Justice Newton, the judge presiding over reporting restrictions in the case lifted. EU membership and the vitality, or care home. Mr Martins was born in the case, stated “I have no alternative but The head of the family court, Sir otherwise, of science and research in the Madeira and Mrs Kirk believed that to pass a sentence of imprisonment”. James Munby was highly critical of many UK.” of medical products in the EU. reportedly in post-graduate applications full potential and remains fit to compete her decision to place her brother in the Her family only learned that Teresa aspects of how the case had been handled It perhaps comes as no surprise The second big stumbling block is that are key to British universities staying on the international stage,” he said. Portuguese care home was in his best was being held at Bronzefield Prison (a prior to LSGA’s involvement. Munby interests. maximum security prison, where Rose stated “Mrs. Kirk had been failed by the then to find that the British scientific the impact that the cessation of research at the forefront of global research. While Carlos Moedas, the EU Hal Branch, Partner, LSGA community is more than a little funding from the EU is likely to have on In addition to reports of top Commissioner for Research, Science and Mrs Kirk said about her decision “we West was incarcerated) from a presumed system” and that, in the circumstances apprehensive about the future of their British science. MPs attending a health academics pulling out of UK-based Innovation, told the EuroScience Open sector. Traditionally taciturn scientists select committee meeting last month research following the Brexit vote, the Forum in Manchester that EU funding have been stepping up to voice their were warned by Professor David Lomas, move could prove to be the “biggest of research projects will “continue to worries, with the likes of lobby groups speaking for UK university hospitals, that disaster” to higher education for many be evaluated based on merit and not such as Scientists for EU becoming a British medical researchers were already years, according to the Government’s on nationality”. There are no such LSGA gets straight to the heart of the matter mouthpiece for mounting concerns. being “bumped off ” European Research education select committee. Perhaps assurances after our official divorce from The potential woes faced by British Council (ERC) grant applications. the most worrying is the drop in the EU in 2020. scientists and their respective industries “Previously having a British member international nursing applications where However, the Chief Secretary to Our lawyers have much in common with the general would help you in your application to numbers have fallen by a quarter, adding the Treasury also announced a range mood pervading every corner of British get funding … Now you are less than an strain to an already stretched NHS. of further assurances in relation to the specialise in: industry, from agriculture to finance. A asset, so we have had academics removed “The seven per cent decline in EU funding that the UK currently third of UK manufacturers are planning from grant applications,” said Prof applications of students from the EU receives. And minister for Universities high value residential property, to shift operations out of the UK, Lomas. after the referendum result should be and Science, Jo Johnson, addressing the commercial property, according to a recent KPMG report, Prof Lomas’ own university, seen as a warning that studying in the Wellcome Trust, claimed “new, additional with several large science, technology, University College London, and UK is a considerably less attractive money beyond the £26.3 billion that the company and commercial work engineering and mathematics (STEM) Cambridge University are major option than it was 12 months ago,” said Government have already committed to (and related corporate finance), based businesses looking to join the beneficiaries of ERC grants, raising more NUS Vice President Sorana Vieru. science”, during EU funding agreements, move. funds this way than any other institute The dwindling access to European would be made available for universities employment law, “While this might seem counter- in the EU. He believes that it is essential STEM talent is worrying both at the and firms after the move. commercial litigation, intuitive at a time when the low that British patients are able to profit research and manufacture levels and is The government is now under high pound value is encouraging greater from the cutting edge research that the likely to have considerable knock-on pressure to follow through with its property litigation, investment into the UK, businesses money currently allows. effects commercially for a burgeoning promises as the Brexit negotiations get personal injury, with interconnected pan-European “If we don’t get the very best British STEM industry. underway if the UK is going to remain a supply chains may be planning for the people we don’t drive the research and Stephen Cooper, UK head of leading light in the medical and STEM professional negligence, possibility that the UK exits the EU innovation where we punch above our industrial manufacturing at KPMG, sectors. medical negligence, Customs Union without an EU-UK Free weight. 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Photographs © Youth in Iceland Youth © Photographs The winners

A joyful decision to have to make, such was the response. These are my final selections.

• The first was full of energy and we get two crocodiles for the price of one. • The second made me laugh so I included it, even though it concerned a nearby hyena rather than a crocodile. • The third was bold and full of fun.

Well done and thanks for all your entries. their children home in the evenings. Dudley Sutton Most importantly (and most radically) Pure as the driven was a law, still in effect, that was passed which forbade children aged between 13 snow and 16 from being outside after 10pm in winter and midnight in summer. Max Feldman wraps up warm State funding was increased for organised sport, music, art, dance and as he heads to the land of the other clubs, to give kids alternative ice and snow to discover why ways to feel part of a group, and to feel good, rather than through using alcohol Iceland’s teenagers are so clean and drugs, and kids from low-income living families received help to take part. In Reykjavik, for instance, where more than a third of the country’s population lives, a Leisure Card gives families 35,000 eyond the fact that Scandinavia krona (£250) per year per child to pay is apparently teaming with for recreational activities. Between 1997 serial killers hunted by stern and 2012, the percentage of kids aged Bemotionally distant detectives wearing 15 and 16 who reported often or almost sensible jumpers (at least if prestige always spending time with their parents television is anything to go by) our on weekdays doubled (from 23 per cent frozen cousins’ social programs are often to 46 per cent) and the percentage who looked up to with a kind of jealous awe. participated in organised sports at least There’s a general sense that there’s just four times a week increased from 24 per something inherently wholesome about drunk in the previous month plummeted However the data provided meant that cent to 42 per cent. Meanwhile, cigarette Top right: the Hygge-prone Scandinavians (once from 42 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent the government were able to focus into smoking, drinking and cannabis use in The winner. again, fictional serial killer excluded) that in 2016. The percentage who have ever the minutiae of the differences between this age group plummeted. Aweis Warsame. 7 years makes them cut out for socialist paradises used cannabis is down from 17 per cent the teens who had abused substances The question is whether this in a way that us binge-drinking Britons to 7 per cent. Those smoking cigarettes and those who didn’t. The central factors approach could successfully be imported Right, Second: somehow don’t have the psychological every day fell from 23 per cent to just 3 which were shared by the sober teens abroad; Iceland has a total population Antoine Noordpool. 7 years complexion for. per cent. boiled down to participation in organised of 323,000 with an effectively negligible Above,Third: This is of course nonsense; Clearly something unusual was activities (generally sports) three or four homeless problem compared to Shuaib Barkzaei. 8 years however there are certainly aspects of happening to explain such a cultural times a week, feeling involved in school, a the United Kingdom’s 64.1 million the Scandinavian model that should shift and indeed the epicentre of this larger amount of time spent with parents inhabitants and a far more diffuse culture All entered by be examined to see if they have any cultural youthquake is a government during the week and not being outdoors which may resist blanket attempts to application on this side of the cliffs program called Youth In Action which in the late evenings. impose restrictions on their children’s The Doorstep Library of Dover. Of particular interest to simultaneously managed to step Using the survey data and insights activities. Regardless of these issues of educators and parents (particularly as radically outside of the box in regards from a radical new national plan was scale, there have been recent attempts to heavy government cuts are set to come to educational thinking whilst relying introduced that developed into the export the program (creatively entitled down on our own educational sector) is heavily on evidence and peer review modern version of Youth in Iceland. It Youth In Europe) which have begun to Iceland. In the late 90s Iceland’s youth to help dictate policy direction. Youth became illegal to buy tobacco under the meet with limited success, Bucharest, were less culturally informed by hygge In Action has its origins with a school age of 18 and alcohol under the age of for example, the rate of teen suicides than by their own Viking ancestry, with questionnaires for 14-16 year olds sent 20, and tobacco and alcohol advertising is dropping alongside use of drink and a reputation as some of the heaviest out to every school in Iceland circa 1992 was banned. Links between parents drugs. In Kaunas, the number of children drinking teens in Europe (a hotly which was filled with questions like and school were strengthened through committing crimes dropped by a third contested title at the best of times), but “Have you ever been drunk? Have you parental organisations which by law between 2014 and 2015. However for the last twenty years have seen a sober tried cigarettes? Do you have a close had to be established in every school, countries such as Britain, the plans revolution in their teens, which has seen relationship with your parents? What along with school councils with parent require a symbiosis between the state Icelandic youth making a sharp U-turn kind of activities do you take part in?” representatives. Parents were encouraged and parents and an ability not to rankle from drunk and disorderly to currently The questionnaire was then repeated in to attend talks on the importance of at government proscribed morality that topping the European table for cleanest- 1995 and 1997. spending a significant quantity of time in many ways simply does not exist. living teens (which admittedly sounds The results of these surveys were with their children rather than occasional Whilst Iceland may have hit on a system like a contradiction in terms). Surveys alarming. Nationally, almost 25 per cent “quality time”, on talking to their kids that works, it would require a great deal show that the percentage of 15- and were smoking every day, over 40 per about their lives, on knowing who their of cultural change before many would 16-year-olds who have admitted been cent had got drunk in the past month. kids were friends with, and on keeping accept that it would work here. 26 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Literature Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Louisiana senator Huey Long, a wild- and who rather worryingly eventually HIS MONTH’S POETRY page sees the return of some of the English Romantic poets and a selection of verse by Byron, man fighter for social reconstruction overthrows Windrip and seizes power It Can’t Happen (who ran his state like a King) who himself. Sarason believes in propaganda, Keats and Shelley. In a completely different vein we have a poem written by Roger McGough.

Here looked set to potentially unseat President not information, openly arguing that Brook Toby © Image She Walks in Beauty written in 1814 by Lord Byron is one of his most famous works and a staple of the Romantic poetic By Max Feldman Roosevelt in 1936. Whilst Long was “it is not fair to ordinary folks, it just assassinated before the election, Lewis’s confuses them, to try to make them tradition. The poem was included in Hebrew Melodies, a collection of poems that the poet had intended to be set to traditional novel remains a powerful warning about swallow all the true facts that would T Jewish tunes, which explains the rhythmic pace of the poem and its musicality. populist politics potential to place in be suitable to a higher class of people.” The unnamed lady in question is purported to have been Anne Wilmot, the young wife of Byron’s cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot. chains the very people who fall prey to Through a combination of Sarason’s its promises. Whilst Windrip runs on cynical race-baiting machinations and The poem is unique in as much as it side-steps common love poetry which tends to dwell on physical ideas of beauty and instead In our Literature page, we a quasi-socialist platform (promising his own combination of deception and finds its power in how the subject possess beauty. It is her guiltlessness, peacefulness and goodness to which Byron attributes this look back on great works a free $5000 dollars a year for every ugly charisma, Windrip ascends to the dire warnings in 100 point type. Even “real American family) and is more presidency while the nation’s liberals beauty and that transcends the given norms. The contrast between the dark and light only goes to amplify the radiance of this of literature realised in the so there is still a tendency towards interested in rapid militarisation than tremble. It’s only after the inauguration, ‘nameless grace’. current month, for March, complacency, there’s no way that America late night twitter storms, there are though, that It Can’t Happen Here takes could slide from its position of de-facto some unnerving parallels between this a truly dark turn, thankfully not one Max Feldman chronicles the Finally, we have John Keats’s, the Adonis, leader of the Western World to a home dreamed up-dictator and our current that (currently) corresponds with reality: of Shelley’s poetic hall of fame and master collapse of the American for authoritarian terror. However It’s orange overlord. Like Trump, Windrip Upon moving into the White House, Ozymandias, Romantic sonneteer. Here we offer up one She Walks in Beauty exactly this kind of liberal complacency sells himself as the champion of Windrip immediately declares Congress By Lord Byron (George Gordon) dream into fascism and fear written in 1817 by Byron’s friend Percy Bysshe of Keats’s finest sonnets, On Seeing the Elgin that Sinclair Lewis (the first American “Forgotten Men,” determined to bring an “advisory” body, stripped of all real with Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 Shelley representing an alternative view of Marbles which at one and the same time author to win a Nobel prize) had in dignity and prosperity back to America’s power. When members of Congress Romantic poetry. The poem, which is one of symbolises mortality and immortality. Keats, cautionary tale: his sights with his 1935 scorched earth white working class. Windrip loves resist, he locks them up without the She walks in beauty, like the night Shelley’s most famous and anthologised, is a blatant who died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, knew political parody It Can’t Happen Here big, passionate rallies and rails against slightest semblance of due process and It Can’t Happen Here political rant. Unlike most of his work, which is of his impending death at the time of writing Of cloudless climes and starry skies; which details how a clownish, proudly the “lies” of the mainstream press. His begins the process of re-imagining the more focused on beauty, love, expression and the the poem. The marbles themselves represent the ocked by the continuous anti-intellectual and anti-immigrant supporters embrace this message, lashing US as the Corporate States of America, And all that’s best of dark and bright imagination, Ozymandias focuses on the evils and highest achievements of mankind. The objects shockwaves of Trump’s populist candidate was able to seize on out against the “highbrow intellectuality” where Big Business reigns supreme and damaging effects of political power and the image are somewhat of a contradiction for Keats for Meet in her aspect and her eyes; tempestuous presidency, it feels public dissatisfaction with the status quo, of editors and professors and policy unchallenged. of Ozymandias’s ruined statue a reminder of the as much as they survive their creators, they too Thus mellowed to that tender light almost nostalgic to remember a time become president and steadily transform elites. Rather more alarmingly (and with The novel was written at feverish R dangers of man’s arrogance, self-importance, and are subject to decay and displacement over long about a decade ago when politics could America into a Fascist nightmare. Sadly Windrip’s tacit encouragement) they also speed and in some ways serves better as Which heaven to gaudy day denies. ultimate insignificance over the course of time. periods of time. be safely ignored without the fear that the central difference between Trump take out their frustrations on blacks and polemic than literature but its seasick and you might miss the announcement of and the fictional dictator Buzz Windrip Jews. horribly familiar vision of what happens World War III and Brexit wasn’t even a is that Windrip is implied to have a level The novel even features a Steve when a culture allows self-congratulatory One shade the more, one ray the less, reptilian twinkle in Nigel Farage’s beady I met a traveller from an antique land, of superficial competence far beyond Bannon equivalent, a coldly brutal complacency to distract itself from clear On Seeing the Had half impaired the nameless grace eyes. The world’s current status RE: Hell anything the current leader of the Free ex-newsman named Lee Sarason. It and present constitutional dangers have Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone and Handcart means it’s impossible for World could aspire too. is Sarason, not Windrip, who actually rarely been as prescient or as biting. It Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Elgin Marbles Which waves in every raven tress, even the most wilfully ignorant citizen Lewis wrote the novel because writes most of Windrip’s more Can’t Happen Here shows that it can Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, My spirit is too weak--mortality Or softly lightens o’er her face; to ignore the headlines screaming out he was afraid of the meteoric rise of apocalyptic, racist campaign promises indeed happen here, but only if you let it. Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Where thoughts serenely sweet express, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Tell that its sculptor well those passions read has been engineered to maximise general Atwood (1985) Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

happiness with a focus on free love and Perhaps more fitting to a potential Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. a state-proffered happiness drug that President Pence rather than Trump, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep would have Winston Smith from 1984 And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, Atwood’s vision of a totalitarian And on the pedestal, these words appear: That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, thinking he’d died and gone to heaven. Christian theocracy that has usurped Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, However whilst superficially a hedonistic the US government and instituted a My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Such dim-conceived glories of the brain environment, it soon becomes clear that forced breeding system that sees fertile Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; The smiles that win, the tints that glow, this is no place to live: if you cannot feel American women enslaved retains Nothing beside remains. Round the decay So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, But tell of days in goodness spent, pain, can you ever truly feel joy? its power to chill in a portrait of the That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare A mind at peace with all below, Patriarchy triumphant. Wasting of old Time--with a billowy main-- Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury The lone and level sands stretch far away.” A sun--a shadow of a magnitude. A heart whose love is innocent! (1953) The Road: Cormac McCarthy The ultimate dystopia for this era (2006) of fake new and anti-intellectualism, Potentially one of the bleakest in Bradbury described an American its genre (which is certainly saying In case of rain don French beret society where all books are burned and something), McCarthy offers a intellectual thought is illegal. Even more harrowing vision of a post-apocalyptic In case of beret vend des oignons alarming a read now than it was sixty world beset with cannibal gangs where years ago, it’s a dark mirror to a potential anything resembling hope has died. Epps Tim © Photographs En cas des oignons shed bitter tears endpoint for the current war on truth. However the beautiful and tender 1984: George Orwell (1949) Brilliantly, in a triumph of irony, when relationship between father and son that In case of tears produce silk handkerchief Dystopian It’s impossible to discuss fiction it was first released, the book itself was makes up the core of the narrative is of this sort without mentioning what banned for ‘questionable themes’. proof that however grim and hopeless In case of handkerchief magic white rabbit amounts to the keystone novel of the Fiction the surroundings, some faint glimmer of In case of rabbit bake into pie By Max Feldman entire genre. Grim and depressing, The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret humanity will always survive. Orwell’s tale of the grinding misery of Continuing our theme, this life in a world where the all-powerful In case of pie set before king state is always watching and ready to month KCWToday are taking punish the slightest deviation with In case of king long may he reign a look at the best fiction about instant unpersoning will never not feel unnervingly plausible. In case of reign don French beret the darker paths that the future could take. Each one a Brave New World: Aldous Huxley By Roger McGough palpable warning to be vigilant (1932) At first glimpse the dystopia against the worst impulses of presented in Brave New World seems The beret, with poem inscribed by Roger was ourselves as a species. almost idyllic, every aspect of social life Compiled and edited by Emma Trehane MA, PhD. auctioned at the Chelsea Arts Club for charity 28 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Dining Out Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

recent times minds about the naming of the next been paired course, Cep & Trumpet Risotto. We Andrew Cole’s with everything all loved the bite of the rice, and it was Supper Club from Spanish a nice enough thing, but the usually The Bingham, Richmond Chorizo prominent flavours of Cep and Trumpet Photograph © David Hughes © David Photograph to burnt were elusive. Hughes © David Photograph By David Hughes cauliflower. As if to answer this criticism, out Tonight it’s came an indisputably excellent portion of sitting on a beef rump, shredded Oxtail wrapped in celeriac purée, cabbage and confit of oyster mushroom. surrounded by Good enough to tempt even an ardent delicate chunks vegetarian, every plate was completely ne of the joys of living of apple and cleared. Time for cheese, but with a bit in London is the mighty coated with of a spin, melted vintage cheddar with a Thames snaking its way black Perigord cube of caramelised apple. throughO our midst. In central London truffle. One of Dish number 7 is a palate cleansing it’s bound by high embankment walls, our number Granny Smith apple & Spiced Honey and although picturesque, it always feels thought the Granita, paired with a Monbazillac just a little too turbulent and dangerous truffle a little pudding wine. None of us have tried to mess with. Go a bit further upstream too prominent, a spiced honey granita before, but it however, and grassy banks run down to but I didn’t gets a universal thumbs up. To finish the peaceful, tree strewn margins that agree. It was our evening we have a Frozen Yogurt Richmond’s Bingham Hotel looks out delicious, and with Rhubarb & Graham Cracker, a on to. things have to symphony of bubble gum pinks and Andrew Cole billed his Supper Club be pretty bad cracker crumbs that somehow everyone as a small plates tasting menu, which for there to be finds room for. to me just makes it a tasting menu, too much fresh Go for: an entertaining night out but hopefully with a decent number of truffle! where your conversation will often people to fill the tables. After a couple selected ingredients. It’s a bit tedious After a quick top up on the wine, the be drawn back to the food and wine. Valentine Warner of house speciality cocktails, we had 8 going into tiny detail 8 times over, so I’m next plate arrives bearing a quenelle of Recommended. plates of amuse-bouche to bowl-food sized going to crack on, but if you can enjoy Catalonian Romesco, a disc of cod, butter Back off: if you are looking for rustic Pop-In portions, so quite comfortable over the the majority as I did, then it’s ‘mission milk sauce and a slither of baby gem plates and hearty portions Parabola restaurant course of the evening. accomplished’ for the kitchen. lettuce. We are here to be entertained as at the With such compact portions you can First up was Cauliflower & Cheese much as fed, but a coin of cod seemed The Bingham is a 15 room boutique turn up the flavour a notch or two, and which was universally praised at the just a bit too arty. Browning the top had hotel situated on a beautiful stretch of By David Hughes I’m looking forward to concentrated hits table, and got us off to a good start. also dried it a touch, but the flavours the Thames with a terrace and rolling of beautifully presented and expertly Next, the versatile scallop that has in were good. My companions were in two lawns. Bookings on 020 8940 0902 he main body of the Design Museum is all soaring space and grand scale, but Parabola The Colton Arms bringsT things down to a more intimate By Max Feldman level. The ceilings comparatively low, and the kitchen takes up one end of the room, and the well-stocked bar the Inns © Hippo Photographs other. Rather than be tied to any one 187 Greyhound Rd, style or chef, there’s a series of residences West Kensington, sponsored by Verve Clicquot that started with Rowley Leigh last November, and London W14 9SD currently stars Valentine Warner until 31st of March. The style is very much Supper Club, a less primped version of a tasting menu that does without the attendant flights flatbread. The smokiness of the chipotle fruits and salsa verde. A 2015 Crozes The Colton Arms has clearly heard of the of amuse bouche and flamboyant serving was present throughout, and it was a Hermitage Blanc from Paul Jaboulet was beaten track, but the Fulham pub is far procedures. You can go food only at £45, better dish than you would find in most paired with the rabbit, and an Old Vine enough off it that it’s probably never or surrender to the inclusive cocktails specialist Mexican establishments. A Carignan Maule from Garage Wine Co laid eyes on it. My dining companion and wines at £65. The first drink second appetiser of Curried chicken in the Maipo Valley was poured for the and I are not overly blessed with senses was a Hepple Gin Martini, billed as livers, cucumber salad and crème fraiche Bollito Misto. of direction (or indeed any sense come were swiftly forgotten. I opted for the his various expressions of ecstasy it was protective of, so I could only sneak small “Valentines very own gin” was subtle, silky smooth, and successfully The rabbit was the slightly daintier of to think of it) so what should have been Moules Marinière for my starter and was the perfect opener (either that or he was tastes when he was otherwise concerned Madame’s blood/gin ratio had been laced with a few toasted and flaked the two dishes, and the vegetal complex about a five minute journey from Baron’s rewarded with a plate that practically having a stroke). with his wine. Thankfully this was a falling for some hours, so I had no choice almonds. nose of the Crozes was at its best lancing Court station to The Colton Arms ended groaned under the sheer quantity of For the mains we were both too fairly regular event. As such I can report really, and it did seem to revive her. I’m Along comes a sommelier who clearly through the roasted cuts with a dash of up being a fairly humiliating fifteen seafood. The mussels were just the right nervous to ask whether the Hippo back that it was delightfully flavourful not sure if this treatment is clinically loves his job; the Barbera d’Asti 2014 is salsa verde. The Bollito is a hearty, rustic minute trek, which took in every single level of creamy and my only real problem cheeseburger was made from a bona-fide and rich and going by his doleful look proven, but it has been mentioned that served with due reverence, and he gives number that includes a thick slice of direction save for the right one. Finally with the dish was that there just wasn’t beast of the savannah and opted for some at his empty plate I sense that his only it saw the Queen Mother to just under out a little bit of info about the estate. tongue that I loved. This is not a plate arriving at the door with our spirits any practical way for me to eat all of rather more recognisable fare. I tucked regret was that there wasn’t more of it. a 102 years of age. M has stated she Naturally, I’ve completely forgotten for the faint hearted. There’s lots of suitably dampened (not a metaphor, them, reducing me to the shame of into a Crispy Pork Belly served with root We ended up closing with a intends to continue with clinical trials which side of the hill the grapes came simple (but perfectly cooked) meat, and adding to our blues was the all-pervasive palming them off onto my guest with vegetables and apple sauce that could decadently rich White Chocolate for the foreseeable future, so I’ll keep you from, but it’s great to see such genuine the wine to go with it is a big, high- came with it helped on that front, and rain) my companion and I were not feigned magnanimity (In my social circle have turned Morrissey into a raging Cheesecake and we practically had to posted. enthusiasm. M loved her Octopus with alcohol rugger player of a drink. convinced me that the extra £20 for the in the best of moods to enjoy much of showing weakness this early in a meal carnivore, guarding the meat from the be rolled back into the rain by the end Having bedded down the gin it was cannelloni beans and red wine, mine was To cleanse the palate and close off the drinks was a dam fine investment! anything, dining or otherwise. means surrendering equal amounts of roving grasp of my companion with the of the night. With prices evening out time to be introduced to the Yellow fin a touch salty, but beautifully cooked. evening, dessert is a Pink grapefruit and It’s a tribute to the cosy atmosphere one’s main and dessert; a fate worse than steely eyed determination of a man fully between £12-14 for the main The Colton tuna tostada with chipotle, a pleasingly For mains there was a choice, so we Campari granita. It looked a little large The Design Museum, of The Colton Arms that once ensconced death). When he wasn’t snacking on my prepared to stab his dining companion Arms is something of a steal, it’s well fresh arrangement of avocado, sweet went for one of each and shared. Confit at first, but it all went down without 224-238 Kensington High Street, in the conservatory style dining area Moules Marinière, my companion has with a fork. Suitably chastened he elected worth a trip down the backstreets (but deep fried tiny red onion ringlets, rabbit with French fries and mustard any pain save slightly chilled teeth. 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restaurant to produce anything but has The Berkeley Hunt, Thai Silk perfect rice, and nobody was going to the oldest pack in the By David Hughes jail here. M’s Beef & Green beans was country with the Master clearly produced by a man for whom and huntsmen sporting “hot” meant a touch of the blow torch. the distinct yellow livery

It takes a bite or two to adjust after Hughes © David Photographs coats of the Berkeley such mild starters, but once you get into McGowan © Lynne Photographs family. it, even the offbeat addition of a few Many political ard to believe, but crinkle-cut carrots seemed to fit the bigwigs were neighbours I drove past twice dish. This felt a lot more like authentic to the fashionable before I figured out the street-food cooking; bold dashes of fresh including Horace Hwalkway full of restaurants was chilli & herbs, and with a minimum of Walpole at No. 11, actually Isabella Street. When primping. Winston Churchill lived I finally parked, a fox strolled Desserts were a colourful boat of at No. 48 as a child and nonchalantly through some ice cream, fruit and green pancake. The Robert Clive of India railings, giving me a “So you most traditional Thai desserts are usually bought No. 45, later found it then” look as it passed formed from a combination of sticky committing suicide by on its evening stroll. Nature sweet rice, banana, mango and coconut, in 1761 following a is infinitely adaptable it seems, but who cares; ice cream is pretty depressive episode. and Mr Fox now likes to dine with the universal these days, and it’s a welcome Ironically, Benares, rest of us. street, and to a decent standard, balm. in 1738 on the east side were built with the much praised Michelin star Indian Thai Silk advertises a Bangkok but no breaking of ground Thai Silk sits in the middle of a solid bricks made from clay dug up on the Restaurant is located exactly opposite inspired Street Food menu, and directly here. The dishes were a bit too line of eateries situated just 5 minutes spot and were called Berkeley Row, the Clive’s old house. imports around 80% of the ingredients to inoffensive, and it didn’t feel like from Waterloo Station, and only a west side followed a few years later and No nightingales were spotted the last give it authenticity. If you are food miles the chefs had clicked into high couple of minutes from most of those original houses remain time I was in the square, too chilly for gear yet. obsessed, this may cause some pain. If underground, so ideal for visiting one today. A few link-extinguishers can still them yet snowdrops and crocuses peeped In marked contrast, the you like your Thai to be Thai, and not a of the many theatres, galleries and be seen flanking doorways reminding out into the sunshine and the same Mixed Seafood sizzled with look-alike from , it’s happy days. attractions in the area. Friday nights, and us of the times when coaches and sedan mighty trees looked down with wise interest; the enticing pile As you enter, a huge gold Buddha head, the last Thursday of the month are DJ chairs prevailed. Naturally rats infested beneficence. During my meander around, of squid, whitefish, mussels eyes closed in contemplation, looks down nights, and for those that missed The the square but so too did robbers and I was attracted to a tarnished bench and scallops was bold on the from the far wall. Being less ethereal, I Voice auditions, there’s a couple of private footpads; highwaymen operating on foot. plaque sitting on the south side near the lemongrass and chilli, and decide to contemplate the drinks list, rooms for hire for Karaoke. It could be a perilous business alighting marble statue, it read, ‘In loving memory laced through with racemes of then order a beer. from one’s carriage to attend a ball only of William Gilbert, a gentle man and a Won Tons, minced Spring Rolls, blackened green peppercorn Thai Silk to be confronted by a masked man scholar who never tired of London’. Tempura Prawns and Tempura Veg all and baby corn, and topped 94-95 Isabella St, pointing a pistol. A moving tribute to a square and hit the table in record time, along with with flecks of dill. I thinks it’s SE1 8DA, Berkeley Square Balls have famously a city. the inevitable sweet chilli dip. All very pretty much illegal for a Thai reservations on 020 7928 5111 filled the square with hue and cry but so

(Sicilian) favourites. Suddenly area between the wine and air. filled up and people began to surround us Aeration of the wine helps bring God moves in encouraged by the good natured staff and Decanting: out the complexity of the wine as mysterious ways all greeted personally by our cheerful new The decent well as softening it, but it also helps friend Bucci. The atmosphere took off and reduce the level of sulphites in the wine with the phantoms of past residents, By Tim Epps family members, friends and lovers our smiles broadened still further at our . (lessening any potential hangover!) I Nightingales & thing to do kept alive by the many brass plaques beautifully prepared starters and mains should also mention that pulling a cork “Wine improves on memorial benches lining the paths. and an honest, delicious Sicilian house and leaving it for a couple of hours ghosts The engraved words offering solace and wine. Sometime in the proceedings we with age. The older achieves nothing since none of the wine Berkeley Square W1 comfort for the living, private sentiments e three were to meet on the sent a picture of the Editor’s favourite, the is exposed to the air. Fulham road with a plan to I get, the better By Lynne McGowan aired in a public place. Somewhat eerily, succulent liver, to her, just to get a dig in! The only time I advise go to a restaurant, selling only it continues to have a thrilling reputation Was the food good? You bet! Was the I like it” not decanting is with a pork. Since one of our party was Iranian whole evening fun. You bet! for ghosts; no 50 is reputed to be the W Anon. wine over five decades most haunted house in London housing I questioned my colleague. I needn’t have Want a good time? Go to Frantoio, old, when sometimes worried. The restaurant was firmly shut. That certain night a locked up lunatic screeching into the you won’t be disappointed, in fact you’re the swift exposure to air Where to go now? We tried another night and a jilted lover wandering around welcome; good music, good food, good will shock the wine and The night we met restaurant round the corner, which was A lot of my by flickering candlelight. No 44, now fun, good friends; (oh, and there was décor leave it hollow. usually peopled by infidels and hedonists. and good linen, but I only remember the friends ask me There was magic abroad in the air the Clermont Club is said to be home to Shut too, since Allah was plainly taking a whether they We recently opened a bewigged apparition resplendent in a rather nice painting done of our host, Bucci two bottles of St Julien’s immensely There were angels dining at the Ritz hand! We suddenly remembered a Sicilian and his friends). No desserts, (diet, what should decant a wine before they drink green uniform seen flitting up and down quaffable Chateau Gloria 2005 at our And a nightingale sang in Berkeley restaurant on the bend of the Kings Road diet?), but a shared Irish (Sicilian?) coffee it and in almost every instance I say yes. the stairs. Chelsea office, decanting one and not that had had good reports from our Editor rounded us off nicely. Most people believe that the point of Square... Famous for being the most desirable the other. After two hours we tasted the and was unlikely to offend. As we rolled happily out into the night, decanting of a wine is to remove any residential area in London in the 18th pair with a customer, who loved both All this is a preamble to the main in the spirit of the way the evening began, sediment that has built up in the bottle, As sung by Vera Lynn, 1940 century, merchants were quick to serve bottles but rated the decanted bottle event. Greeted with enthusiasm (especially we noticed that the door of the Moravian but that is only half the story. the wealthy. Berkeley Square usefully considerably higher, describing it as the the women) by the ebullient Bucci we churchyard was open so we sneaked in and The principal reason to decant is to his lozenge shaped London housed a coffee shop, apothecary and started to relax. My colleague commented took in the tranquillity of that corner of awaken a wine by exposing it to oxygen. better wine of the two. A simple example Square quartered into four tailor as well as a carpenter, draper and on the music and suddenly we were treated Chelsea forgotten by time, but obviously When a wine has a cork inserted, it goes of why it is worth making the effort to lawns and surrounded by plane candlestick maker. The Pot and Pineapple to an enthusiastic master class of 80s music not by the Almighty, for a few brief into semi-hibernation and although decant. trees the size of sequoias is more than was one establishment set up by an the wine still ages in the bottle, it does At the end of the day a decanter gives T Italian pastry cook but later became the controlled from a smart phone through the moments. A calming end to a thoroughly just a romantic or restful haven in the restaurant sound system. We discovered good evening. so at a reduced rate as the cork, while you and your guests a sense of occasion, heart of . It would have been a famous Gunter’s dishing up delicacies there were some 5 different versions of porous, prevents excess air reaching the making even an ordinary wine seem very different square back in the 1800’s for the ladies. The square’s origins were Love of the Common People (I preferred Frantoio wine. When the cork is finally pulled special, so even if you do not have a glass bustling with squawking hawkers humble, a couple of carpenters entered Springsteen). Good job we were the first to 397 King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW10 the best way to bring a wine back to life decanter a jug will do the job just as well! parading their wares and braying into an agreement with John Berkeley arrive! 0LR is to maximise the amount of oxygen it aristocrats spilling from dinners and balls (1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton) in 1675 We ordered our meals from a board T: 020 7352 4146 receives. Hence so many decanters have a Edward Burns into the horse drawn carriages. to transfer farmland and further develop and a menu stuffed with classic Italian www.frantoio.co.uk large flat bottom, maximising the surface www.bgvintners.co.uk Berkeley Square has always been filled his estate. 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possessions for some time after on Carnaby Street, Trecamp.” downsizing from their country estate Aged 18, Stephen moved down from Drowning under to a smaller in-town residence. Boy, did John Stephen, Glasgow to work at Moss Bros, Covent a surfeit of stuff? they have storage, £120,000 a year kind ‘King of Carnaby’, Garden, in 1952. He then progressed Help is at hand of storage, everything from valuable preserved in print to mark 60 to the much edgier Vince Man Shop, in www.adandyinaspic.com paintings, to old clothes. I sold items ’s Newburgh Street, where a young By Judy Mercer at auction, donated three truckloads PAYING A FORTUNE years of Carnaby’s heyday Sean Connery was a clothing model. to charity, filled a few dumpsters and By Polly Allen However, Stephen wanted his own significantly reduced their yearly bill. IN STORAGE FEES? business. There have always been hoarders, The first shop was His Clothes but in 21st century consumer society It’s no understatement to say that (originally at 19 Beak Street, later 5 people are running out of space and less Stephen created Carnaby Street: together Carnaby Street), selling flamboyant kilts, willing to throw things out, often feeling with his business partner, Bill Franks, he velvet blazers, skinny trousers, ruffled Photograph ©Judy Mercer ©Judy Photograph it ‘may come in handy’ one day. Items are launched 15 different shops and gave it shirts and kaftans: customers embraced saved for the ‘kids’, but the kids just don’t enduring street cred. With the Swinging this ‘peacock revolution’. Other shops want brown furniture, nor do they want Had things in storage for London concept now 60 years old, one followed, like Domino Male, Drugstore, Staffordshire Dogs or Willow pattern years and years & not sure graphic artist has uncovered Stephen’s Lord John, Male West One, Mod Male and dinner sets. They would rather have what to do with it all? archive to remind us of his genius. Teenshop; his rock star models included comfy, modern Italian sofas and plain Odysseas Constantine is the man Mick Avery and Jeff Beck. Stephen’s white dinner sets. SORT MY STORAGE will sort, behind Art & Hue (artandhue.com), a empire gradually spread across London, Sussex-based company specialising in The average storage time is around 38 catalogue, & consolidate to Brighton, and eventually worldwide. the customers, and loud contemporary Shepherd dog. graphic prints using the Pop Art-esque music,” says Constantine. “He created As the 70s took hold, copycat All storage begins as a temporary weeks, but over a third run into 2 years. precious possessions, It wasn’t until 1966 that Time solution. Whether it’s a need to declutter, Many people put items into storage, halftone technique. He admits it took magazine coined the phrase ‘Swinging the first lifestyle ‘concept’ stores, and retailers flocked to Carnaby, and Stephen lack of space, downsizing property, but never look at it again, and are surprised (Art/antique expertise) “a year's worth of detective work and London’, but this part of town had long early on, he recognised the importance of publicly floated his retail empire in not possessions, or taking a short-term when they find out what they have. With dispose of unwanted items research” to find the copyright holder for been cool thanks to Stephen. ‘When I celebrities. 1972. Three years later, it closed, and contract abroad, we all think it won’t be the storage companies being paid by reducing the cost of storage the John Stephen Estate archive, but the first saw Carnaby Street, it felt like a film “His success meant that cars the archive was donated to the V&A. for long and will sort our stuff out soon. direct debit it is easy to put off making hard work paid off. set,’ Barbara Hulanicki wrote in 2010. struggled to drive through the crowds; Stephen went on to other retail projects, “It was wonderful to discover the the world wanted to swing their such as Francisco-M, and later helped But months and years can pass by very any decisions and just box it up to deal Storage solutions for: divorcing couples, Celebrities of the day, from the image of the King & Queen of Sixties shopping bags down Carnaby Street. bring designer label Lanvin to the UK. quickly, and the value of our possessions with later, out of sight out of mind. deceased relatives, ex-pats living abroad Rolling Stones and the Who to Cliff can be surpassed by large, yearly storage Some possessions are irreplaceable fashion together,” Constantine says of Richard, flocked to Stephen’s shops. The Greater London Council gradually Stephen died in 2004 and was warmly bills. treasures and must be safely stored, but one of his favourite prints: Stephen with Stephen’s low price points, which also closed the street to cars from 1967 and remembered by the British press, yet his it is important not to be emotional about Tel: +44 783 329 1412 Mary Quant. Another personal favourite appealed to the public, were accompanied made it fully pedestrianised by 1973.” legacy is largely forgotten today, save Enter Sort My Storage. storage. I photograph and catalogue all Email: [email protected] is Trecamp, starring one of Stephen’s by clever in-store quirks. Stephen didn’t wear his creations, for a plaque at 1 Carnaby Street. As A few years ago, with a background items creating a distance between you distinctive models, future Rocky Horror “Young people didn’t want to preferring a plain white shirt and a Constantine puts it, “We all owe a debt in art and antique storage and and your possessions, so you can decide www.sortmystorage.com star, Peter Hinwood: “Hinwood appeared dress or shop like their parents in simple suit. Instead, his indulgences of gratitude to John Stephen for creating transportation, I was asked to assist what to keep and what to let go of using in swimming trunks on the walls of a dull department stores… He introduced included cars, holidays and trips to the the modern menswear industry and a couple who had been storing their your head, rather than your heart. dressing room in the first women’s shop young shop assistants the same age as Ivy with Prince, his white German affordable fast-fashion.” 34 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Lifestyle & Fashion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Lifestyle & Fashion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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With oliversearsgallery.com The evolution of underwear design from @NPSGallery Music whilst enjoying a hot musicians, whilst indulging live Carnatic music accompaniment. @osearsgallery the 18th century to the present day, with drink and a pastry in a delicious brunch Starts 19:30. Tickets £12-15. over 200 examples highlighting innovation, Ends 19th March 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, 9th March-18th June fashion and luxury. Retracing Ribeiro E1 6LA The American Dream: Pop to the Timed entry Saturday-Thursday, 10:00- E 020 7613 7498 Present 16:15; Friday until 20:15. Tickets £5-13.50. A look at the work of Indian-born N richmix.org.uk @RichMixLondon Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL painter Lancelot Ribeiro, who studied An all-encompassing tour of American 020 784 2000 at St. Martin’s College and lived in art over the last 60 years. 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Tickets exhibition. This year's featured artist is the first inspired by James Cousins Company: Rosalind Chelsea, London SW3 5EE Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends £4-7.50. Olivia Chalmers, who specialises in botanic and set to the sounds of Kate Tempest, The Place Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN art, and is a former student of the Harrow RHS Registered Charity No: 222879/SC038262 RHS Registered Times: Wednesday 12noon-8pm. National Portrait Gallery the second featuring the music of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is retold by a Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-6pm, Dive into the expressive world of Howard 020 7747 2885 School of Art. Anohni. company of Korean dancers and artists, with Sunday 11am-5pm. Hodgkin, a leading British painter known nationalgallery.org.uk Saturday 1st April, 13:00-18:00; Sunday Starts 19:45. Tickets £18. a modern spin on the tale. www.penman-fairs.co.uk for his distinctive brushwork and unusual @nationalgallery 2nd–Sunday 9th April,10.30 -18:00. 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ICA Celebrated dance group Mother Africa A blend of dance styles merge to create Thursday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Tuesday- People Power: Fighting for Peace Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-17:00; Sunday, Solo exhibition from the Australian artist, brings its latest dynamic show to the a powerful piece, Witness, on the topic of Wednesday by appointment only. 11:00-17:00. Tickets £2-10.25. exploring connections between Britain and Peacock, combining acrobatics and live mental health. This is followed by a shorter Free entry. Learn what it really means to be a pacifist 40 , WC1N 1AZ Australia via large-scale paintings. music. performance of Words Unspoken. Symes Mews, 37 Camden High Street, by exploring over 300 objects connected to 020 7841 3600 Daily, 11:00-18:00; Thursday until 21:00. Tuesday-Saturday at 19:30; Saturday Starts 19:30. Tickets £12-16. RHS Spring Plant & Orchid Show NW1 7JE peace movements, from banners to anthems, foundlingmuseum.org.uk Entry (to all exhibitions) is £1. matinees at 14:30; Sunday at 14:00 and Laban Theatre, Laban Building, Creekside, 020 7383 3004 including photographs of anti-conscription @foundlingmuseum The Mall, SW1Y 5AH 18:00. SE8 3DZ Late Tue 28 Mar, 6–9pm davidrobertsartfoundation.com marchers in 1939, CND paraphernalia and 020 7930 3647 Tickets £15-38 020 8463 0100 SHOWS Wed 29–Thu 30 Mar, 10am–5pm @DRAF_London the women of Greenham Common. Ends 26th March ica.org.uk - @ICALondon Portugal Street, , WC2A 2HT trinitylaban.ac.uk @TrinityLaban Daily, 10:00-18:00. Tickets £5-10.Lambeth Luc Tuymans: Glasses 020 7863 8222 Ends 18th March Road, SE1 6HZ National Portrait Gallery Ends 2nd April sadlerswells.com @sadlers_wells 16th-24th March House Work 020 7416 5000 Selected Tuymans portraits featuring sitters Robert Rauschenberg Mixed Programme: The Human Seasons/ Royal Horticultural Halls Victoria Miro Gallery iwm.org.uk - @I_W_M wearing glasses. Ends 14th March After the Rain/New Crystal Pite Daily, 10:00-18:00; Thursday-Friday until St James’s Park London Victoria Marc Chagall, Karen Kilimnik, John Preceding Warhol and Emin, Rauschenberg The Sleeping Beauty 21:00. Free entry. Public £6 (advance) / £9 (on door), RHS Member £5, Late £5 to all Kørner, Grayson Perry and Tal R are among Ends 26th March was the original Pop artist. Using Royal Opera House Revisit David Dawson’s first Royal Ballet those featured in this group show, tackling Australia’s Impressionists St. Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE performance, found objects, newspapers, After a Christmas break, the Royal work, 2013’s The Human Seasons, inspired rhs.org.uk/londonshows the theme of home for artists working from National Gallery 020 7306 0055 mass, popular and trash imagery, he Ballet’s stunning performance of The by Keats’s poetry. Next up is After the the 1920s onwards. Charles Conder, Tom Roberts, John Russell npg.org.uk @NPGLondon produced witty, thought-provoking Sleeping Beauty returns to the Royal Opera Rain, a one-act piece by Christopher Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-18:00; Monday by and Arthur Streeton are four of Australia's paintings and large-scale pop art prints House. 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Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-18:00; Friday- Ends 21st April A Family of Artists During the War and NW3 5SX 020 7611 2222 britishmuseum.org @TonguesOnFire range of films will be screened, including Saturday, 10:00-22:00. Tickets £15-18.50. Designology the Holocaust 020 7435 2002 wellcomecollection.org @britishmuseum the Soviet Russian silent film Aelita, the , SE1 9TG The Wiener Library for the Study of the freud.org.uk @FreudMusLondon @ExploreWellcome 9th March - 29th May Bollywood romantic thriller Om Shanti Om, 020 7887 8888 We often take for granted the design Holocaust and Genocide Ends 3rd September Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Sci-Fi classic Barbarella, and experimental tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern processes behind our everyday journeys: Focusing on the family of illustrator Ends 14th May Ends 28th June The Art of the Brick Behind the Mask, Another Mask pieces like Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of @Tate the signage, the tickets and the decor that Franciszka Themerson, who was alone in Eduardo Paolozzi Scaling the Citadel: , Upper Ground National Portrait Gallery Pomegranates and French art cinema film becomes commonplace. Here's a chance to London during WWII, whilst her husband The Art of Stanley Lench Following a successful show in 2014 at The photographs of two powerful female Last Year in Marienbad. Ends 4th April revisit these often-overlooked icons, and (a writer and film-maker) was in Southern A huge retrospective devoted to the Bethlem Museum of the Mind the Old Truman Brewery, LEGO® artist artists, Claude Cahun (a dramatic presence Times vary. Tickets £5-15. Transfashional Lab learn about the future of transport design, France and other relatives were trapped in Godfather of Pop Art. The 250 works Though Lench was a formally trained Nathan Sawaya returns to London, this in the 1930s) and Gillian Wearing (a Venues include Curzon Cinemas, Austrian Cultural Forum London such as driverless vehicles. the Warsaw Ghetto. Themerson’s 9-year- on show will demonstrate his talent in artist who had sold some of his paintings time with DC Comics as his theme. Sawaya contemporary success story), can be seen The Hoxton Hotel and the Prince Charles What connects fashion with art, and where Monday-Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, old niece, Jasia Reichardt, escaped the different media, including sculptures, to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of has used almost 2,000,000 LEGO bricks together for the first time, drawing deep Cinema. do the two disciplines merge? An exhibition 10:00 - 18:00; Friday, 11:00-18:00 (last Ghetto and went into hiding until 1946, textiles, paintings, collages and screen- Art, he never became a household name. to create sculptures of classic DC figures, parallels between their work and their Contact individual venues or see eventbrite. co-curated by the Austrian Cultural Forum, entry 17:15). Tickets £11.50-17.50, valid when she was reunited with her aunt and prints. This exhibition explores the effect of mental such as Batman, Wonder Woman and The motivation. com for booking information the Polish Cultural Institute in London and for one year with unlimited visits.Covent uncle. Tuesday-Sunday, 11:00-18:00; Thursday illness on Lench’s vivid work. Joker. Timed entry, Saturday-Wednesday, 10:00- fashioninfilm.com the London College of Fashion. Garden Piazza, WC2E 7BB Monday-Friday, 10:00-17:00; Tuesdays until 21:00. Tickets £11.95-13.50. Wednesday-Friday 10:00-17:00, except Timed tickets, daily, 10:00-17:00; Thursday 17:30; Thursday-Friday until 20:30. Tickets @FashionFilmFest Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00. Free entry. 020 7379 6344 until 19:30. Free entry. 77-82 Whitechapel High St, public holidays; also, first and last Saturday until 19:00; Friday until 18:00. Tickets £4.25-12. 28 Rutland Gate, SW7 1PQ ltmuseum.co.uk @ltmuseum 29 , WC1B 5DP E1 7QX of the month. Free entry.Bethlem £11-16.50.Corner of Upper Ground and St. Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE 13th-19th March 020 7225 7300 020 7636 7247 020 7522 7888 Royal Hospital, Monk’s Orchard Road, Cornwall Road, SE1 9PP 033 3247 0620 020 7306 0055 London Book and Screen Week acflondon.org Ends 23rd April wienerlibrary.co.uk whitechapelgallery.org Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BX aotbdc.co.uk @artofthebrickdc npg.org.uk @NPGLondon 2017 @ACF_London Adventures in Moominland @wienerlibrary @_TheWhitechapel 020 3228 4227 Various London venues Southbank Centre museumofthemind.org.uk 10th March - 3rd April Marvel at the very best book adaptations Ends 17th April Part of the Nordic Matters season, this Ends 1st May Ends 19th May @bethlemmuseum FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY Five Finnish Photographers on the big screen, crossing all literary and The Remarkable Life Story exhibition for adults and children delves Memorial: A Tribute to Taxidermy Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Purdy Hicks Gallery film genres. The 20th anniversary of the of Emma Hamilton into the ongoing success of the Moomin Somebodies Ends 27th August 9th-19th March Three generations of Finnish photographers publication of Harry Potter, and a Q&A books, written by Tove Jansson. Ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long The House of Illustration Where the Thunderbird Lives: 19th London Asian Film Festival will take over the Purdy Hicks Gallery: and screening with Terry O’Neill, are just Hamilton was an international beauty, best Extra evening off-peak sessions responds to the Horniman’s collection Jo Brocklehurst’s raw illustrations of youth cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast Various London venues discover work by Ulla Jokisalo, Sandra two of the highlights. known for being Lord Nelson’s mistress, (Wednesday-Friday) are for adults only. through new works. Each piece will and club culture are brought to life. The of North America Tongues On Fire presents a strong Kantanen, Milja Laurila, Anna Reivilä and Times and ticket prices vary - see website. who went from rags to riches and back Timed ticket sessions run hourly, Monday- be displayed alongside its museum show is co-curated by Brocklehurst’s muse, British Museum programme of screenings and talks, Santeri Tuori. Venues include Bush Hall, Charlotte again. View over 200 objects connected Friday, 14:00-18:00; in 15-minute intervals counterpart. Isabelle Bricknall. Discover artefacts from the people of the highlighting the continual power of Asian Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:00; Saturday, Street Hotel and St. Pancras Renaissance to her, such as paintings by Sir Joshua on weekends and holidays, 10:00-18:00; Daily, 10:30-17:30. Free entry. Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00. Last entry Pacific Northwest Coast, whose culture cinema. Look out for Chalk N Duster, 11:00-18:00. Free entry.25 Thurloe Street, Hotel. Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, adult off-peak sessions, Wednesday-Friday, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, 17:30. Tickets (covering all exhibitions) £4- spans 9,000 years, and immerse yourself which explores the private education sector South Kensington, See the website or eventbrite.com for and letters between Hamilton and her 19:00, and Thursday-Friday, 20:00. Tickets SE23 3PQ 8.25.2 Granary Square, King's Cross, in their legends and legacies passed down in India, and Lipstick Under My Burkha, SW7 2LQ booking information lovers. £12-16.50.Upper Ground, London SE1 020 8699 1872 N1C 4BH through the generations. The Thunderbird, following the lives of four young Indian 020 7401 9229 londonbookandscreenweek.co.uk Daily, 10:00-17:00 (last entry 16:00). 9PX horniman.ac.uk - 020 3696 2020 one of the Northwest Coast Peoples’ most women. purdyhicks.com @PurdyHicks @LBandSW Tickets £6.30-12.60. 020 7960 4200 @HornimanMuseum houseofillustration.org.uk important spiritual figures, takes centre Times and prices vary - see website.Venues Greenwich, SE10 9NF southbankcentre.co.uk @illustrationHQ stage. include Harrow Arts Centre, Regent Street 11th-26th March 16th March 020 8312 6565 @southbankcentre Ends 7th May Daily, 10:00-17:30; Friday until 20:30. Last Cinema, The Courthouse Hotel and the Fashion in Film Festival London Overground Screening rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum - Full Circle & Recycle Ends 4th June entry 80 minutes before closing. Free entry. V&A. Various London venues London Transport Museum @nmmgreenwich Ends 28th April 21st Century Swedish Textiles America After the Fall: , WC1B 3DG 020 8961 8908 This year’s festival theme is Wearing Time: See the documentary by Andrew Kötting One Family, Three Cities, Six Years of War: Fashion and Textile Museum Painting in the 1930s 020 7323 8355 tonguesonfire.com Past, Present, Future, Dream. A diverse that brings to life Iain Sinclair's book, The head of the Swedish textile design Royal Academy collective 10-gruppen presents 10 of the An eclectic mix of famous paintings from a best Swedish textile artists who upcycle transformative decade in American history. their materials. One highlight is Grant Wood’s iconic Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday American Gothic, which has never been until 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-17:00 (last displayed beyond the USA. ONE FREE ENTRY entry 45 minutes before closing). Tickets Timed ticket sessions every 15 minutes, WITH THIS AD (covering all exhibitions) £6-9.90. Saturday-Thursday, 10:15-17:15; Friday 83 Street, SE1 3XF until 21:15. Tickets £8-13.50.Burlington 020 7407 8664 House, Piccadilly, ftmlondon.org @fashiontextile W1J 0BD 020 7300 8000 Ends 7th May royalacademy.org.uk Josef Frank: Patterns-Furniture- @RoyalAcademy Painting FAIR Fashion and Textile Museum Ends 11th June ART Multi-disciplinary artist Josef Frank, Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 a major part of the Swedish Modern Tate Modern movement, is remembered in this It’s the first time Tillmans has staged an DESIGN comprehensive show. Frank’s work appeared exhibition at the Tate, and he’s pulled out all on lighting and furniture and in various the stops, with a huge portfolio of his work. interior design projects. Expect a mixture of photography, film, SPRING Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday projections, music and other multi-media ANTIQUES until 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-17:00 (last projects. entry 45 minutes before closing). Tickets Monday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00; Friday- (covering all exhibitions) £6-9.90.83 Saturday until 22:00; tickets £10-12.50. Chelsea Old Town Hall Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF Bankside, SE1 9TG 020 7407 8664 020 7887 8888 15 - 19 March ftmlondon.org @fashiontextile tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern ANTIQUES AND 20TH CENTURY DESIGN Wed Noon-8, Thur/Fri/Sat 11-6, Sun 11-5. @Tate 4-9 April 2017 FOR INTERIOR DECORATION Ends 7th May Temporarily Accessioned: Ends 25th June Battersea Park, London This is your Freud’s Coat Revisited Electricity: The Spark of Life Complimentary Ticket for One Artist and researcher Paul Coldwell exhibits The story of electricity in all its guises, valid Thursday to Sunday at the Freud Museum for the second time, from Frankenstein’s monster to the use of showing mixed media pieces inspired by electrotherapy. For double Complimentary E-Tickets Freud’s exile from Vienna in 1938 and his Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Sunday, valid from noon Wednesday, experience of moving to London. 11:00-18:00; Thursday until 22:00. Wednesday-Sunday, 12:00-17:00. 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London Overground. Sinclair will also body, through film, photography and White. @tpgallery College of Music in 2013. At this lunchtime Vortex Jazz Club discuss the film and the book with audio. Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-18:00; Friday- concert, you’ll see why. Renowned jazz improviser Evan Parker filmmaker John Rogers. Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00; Wednesday, Saturday, 10:00-22:00. Tickets £13.10- Ends 28th August Starts 12:30. Tickets £12.50, with teams up with Danish jazz improvisers from 19:00-21:00. Tickets £8-10. until 21:00. Free entry. Arkwright Road, 16.50.Bankside, SE1 9TG Edmund Clark: War of Terror unreserved seating. the ILK Collective. Expect a spellbinding Covent Garden Piazza, NW3 6DG 020 7887 8888 Imperial War Museum Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP performance with Modernist twists. WC2E 7BB 020 7472 5500 tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern @Tate Blending photographs, videos and 020 7589 8212 20:00-23:00. Tickets £12. 020 7379 6344 camdenartscentre.org documents, Clark demystifies the War royalalberthall.com 11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ ltmuseum.co.uk @ltmuseum @camdenartsctr Ends 11th June on Terror and exposes the realities of @RoyalAlbertHall 020 7254 4097 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Guantanamo Bay, control orders (a form of vortexjazz.co.uk @vortexjazz Ends 18th March 27th March Prize house arrest) and prisons such as Abu Salim 11th March Ruud van Empel Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) The Photographers’ Gallery in Libya. London Supersax Project: Celebrating the 17th March Beetles + Huxley Italian Cultural Institute Photographers from across the world Daily, 10:00-18:00. Free entry. Genius of Charlie Parker Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Leif The Dutch contemporary photographer A screening of the award-winning 1965 compete for a £30,000 prize, awarded to the Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ Ronnie Scott’s Ove Andsnes is profiled for the second time at Beetles domestic drama, centred on Giuliana, a best contemporary work or exhibition of the 020 7416 5000 The London equivalent of the Grammy Cadogan Hall + Huxley. His work, using digital frustrated and vulnerable housewife with past year. iwm.org.uk - @I_W_M award-winning Supersax group presents a Leif Ove Andsnes, the acclaimed pianist, manipulation and referencing Dutch rapidly deteriorating health. Shown in Monday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday tribute to Charlie Parker. is joined by the Norwegian Chamber Old Masters, is even more engaging up Italian with subtitles. until 20:00; Sunday, 11:00-18:00. Tickets Ends 10th September Line-up TBC. Orchestra to play works by Grieg, Mozart close. 19:00-21:30; free event. Festival of Classical Music £2.50-4 (covering all exhibitions), or free Wildlife Photographer of the Year First house, 18:00; second house, 22:30. and Profokiev. Monday-Saturday, 10:00-17:30. Free entry. 39 , SW1X 8NX before 12:00. Natural History Museum Tickets £30-45. Limited availability. Caversham Room, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 3-5 Swallow Street, W1B 4DE 020 7235 1461 FEATURING ARTISTS INCLUDING 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW Nearly 50,000 submissions from worldwide 47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT 9DQ 020 7434 4319 icilondon.esteri.it/iic_londra/en 020 7087 9300 photographers were whittled down to a 020 7439 0747 020 7183 7323 beetlesandhuxley.com @iiclondra NIGEL LANG ALISON thephotographersgallery.org.uk selection of just 100. Find your favourite ronniescotts.co.uk cadoganhall.com @Beetleshuxley @tpgallery nature photography moments of 2016, @officialronnies @cadoganhall 30th March - 9th July KENNEDY LANG BALSOM including those by children and teenagers, Starts 19:30; tickets £18-42. WITH SPECIAL GUESTS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Ends 11th June and determine what makes a great image of 15th-24th March 22nd March You Are Looking at Something That Never ROBERT PLANT & JEAN-LUC PONTY BRYN TERFEL & GUY BARKER Kennington Bioscope Presents: Occurred Roger Mayne the world around us. Partenope 20th March Il Fuoco Zabludowicz Collection The Photographers’ Gallery Daily, 10.00-17.50 (last entry 17:30). English National Opera Music and poetry from the Zweig The Cinema Museum Explore the power of photography in all From the London Contemporary Orchestra in the The first retrospective of British Tickets £6.50-13.50. Handel’s comedy opera returns to the Collection photographer Roger Mayne (1929- Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD stage, with set design inspired by Man Il Fuoco (which translates as The Fire) is a its forms, from spur-of-the-moment street Loading Bay to exploring gender roles in Indian Music, 1916 silent film taken from the archive of shots to carefully composed long exposure 2014) since 1999, featuring images of 020 7942 5000 Ray. Conducted by Christian Curnyn and An evening blending the music and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin. pieces. The line-up includes Anne Collier, enjoy 12 days of events throughout the Royal Albert Hall London, Sheffield and Nottingham, nhm.ac.uk @NHM_London directed by Christopher Alden. literature mentioned by author Stefan This romantic thriller will be reimagined Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Sara plus his installation piece, The British at Starts 19:00. Tickets £12-125. Zweig in his manuscripts, which are held with live accompaniment, and preceded by VanDerBeek. Leisure. MUSIC , St Martin’s Lane, by the British Library. Balzac and Bellini a series of short films. Seating is limited, so Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-18:00; free Monday-Saturday, 10:00-18:00; Thursday WC2N 4ES meet Keats and Mozart, brought to life by tickets must be requested via kenbioscope@ entry.176 Prince of Wales Road, Call: 020 7589 8212 until 20:00; Sunday 11:00-18:00. Tickets 10th March 020 7845 9300 Ilona Domnich (soprano), Simon Wallfisch gmail.com. NW5 3PT £2.50-4 (covering all exhibitions), or free Gary Ryan eno.org @E_N_O (baritone) and Simon Callaghan (piano). Starts 19:30. Tickets £5. 020 7428 8940 royalalberthall.com before 12:00. Royal Albert Hall An accompanying exhibition will be on 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), zabludowiczcollection.com 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW (Venue: Elgar Room) 16th March show until 11th June. Kennington, SE11 4TH @Zabludowicz_Coll /royalalberthall @royalalberthall 020 7087 9300 Classical guitarist Gary Ryan was awarded Evan Parker with Jacob Anderskov’s 19:00-20:30. Tickets £7-10. 020 7840 2200 thephotographersgallery.org.uk the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Kinetics 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB cinemamuseum.org.uk Ends 31st March @CinemaMuseum Martin Parr: Swans, Gloves, Roses and Pancakes including panel discussions with the likes of Ends 22nd April Ends 24th March Maggie Smith, and the cast and creator of Making Jamaica: Photography from the Enrique Metinides This exhibition shows photographer Line of Duty. 1890s Michael Hoppen Gallery Martin Parr is still at the top of his game, Times and ticket prices vary. Autograph ABP Metinides was a child prodigy of with snapshots behind the scenes at some Belvedere Road, South Bank, Over 70 images from the Caribbean photography in his native Mexico of London’s strangest events, such as the SE1 8XT Photo Archive will be on show, including City, becoming an assistant to a crime Gloves Ceremony at the Royal Courts of 020 7928 3232 photographs by Valentine & Sons from an photographer when he was just 13 years old. Justice. bfi.org.uk @bfi Awakening Jamaica committee project in See his remarkable reportage here. Daily, 09:30-17:00. Tickets £6.30-9.00 1889. Alongside these artefacts, view a new Monday-Friday, 09:30-18:00; Saturday, (covering entire site). Tower Bridge Road, Ends 8th April commission by Ingrid Pollard. 10:30-17:00. Free entry. SE1 2UP Jimmy Nelson: Before They Part II Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:00-18:00; 3 Jubilee Place, SW3 3TD 020 7403 3761 Atlas Gallery Thursday, 11:00-21:00; Saturday, 12:00- 020 7352 3649 towerbridge.org.uk More than 30 of Nelson’s new works will be 18:00. Free entry. Rivington Place, michaelhoppengallery.com @TowerBridge displayed. His photojournalism speciality EC2A 3BA @michaelhoppen1 is documenting tribes around the world, 020 7749 1240 1st April including those in French Polynesia and autograph-abp.co.uk Ends 24th March Tunde’s Film China. @AutographABP Roger Ballen: The Theatre of National Theatre Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:00; Saturday, Apparitions Part of the Bright Young Tings season,a 11:00-17:00. Free entry.49 Dorset Street, Ends 30th April Hamiltons Gallery screening of playwright and director Tunde W1U 7NF Secret Cinema: Moulin Rouge Inspired by pictures he found in an Akoli’s 1973 film, co-written and directed 020 7224 4192 Secret Cinema abandoned women’s prison, Ballen has by Maggie Pinhorn. To be shown at the atlasgallery.com @ATLASGallery Secret Cinema returns with screenings of created a multi-layered group of images. He Cottesloe Room. Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge, to be shown blends drawing and photography for an end 18:00-19:30; tickets £3-5. Ends 15th April at an undisclosed London location. Guests result resembling cave paintings. Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX Bright Young Tings will receive dress code instructions and Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:00; Saturday, 020 7452 3000 National Theatre venue details after booking. 11:00-16:00. Free entry. nationaltheatre.org.uk A series of former NT Art Director Times and prices vary - see website. 13 Carlos Place, W1K 2EU @NationalTheatre Michael Mayhew’s photographs, in Venue TBC - within Zone 2 020 7499 9493 the Lyttleton Lounge, celebrate the 020 7739 6055 hamiltonsgallery.com 7th-9th April contribution made by black actors to secretcinema.org - @secretcinema @HamiltonsGall BFI and Radio Times Television the theatre industry. Don’t miss the Festival specially commissioned works by Cherelle Ends 7th May Ends 26th March BFI Southbank Sappleton which accompany the archived The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography Joachim Koester: In the Face of Television has arguably raised its profile images. from the Sir Elton John Collection Overwhelming Forces over the last few years, with bigger budgets, Monday-Saturday, 09:30-23:00. Free entry. Tate Modern Camden Arts Centre sensationalised scripts and an audience Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX Elton John has been a passionate collector Danish artist Joachim Koester delves into with the desire to binge-watch an entire 020 7452 3000 of photography for many years. Now the the last 12 years of his multidisciplinary series over a weekend. The BFI celebrates nationaltheatre.org.uk public has the chance to see a selection work, which repeatedly focuses on the the latest in TV at this acclaimed festival, @NationalTheatre of his 1920s-1950s prints, from the likes of Man Ray and Margaret Bourke- 42 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Events Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

01937 546546 musicians such as Nas and Kanye West. of the Saatchi’s Gallery’s 21st March 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE 28th March Tom Kerss and Radmila Topalovic, two bl.uk @britishlibrary 19:00-23:00. Tickets £22.50. free entry and education The Diva and the Divas: Tosca and the 020 7611 2222 Democracy and the Arts in Europe: Artists astronomers from the Royal Observatory, 5 Parkway, Camden, NW1 7PG programme. Art critic and THE LECTURE CLUB Women Who Have Sung Her wellcomecollection.org in a Global World will discuss what makes stargazing such a 020 7485 6834 curator Patricia Ellis will host SPRING Cadogan Hall @ExploreWellcome Rich Mix fascinating hobby, and how you can get into 23rd March be informed PROGRAMME Words and Jazz thejazzcafelondon.com a panel discussion on modern Opera Prelude (operaprelude.com) A varied panel discussion on the potential it as a complete novice. Vortex Jazz Club @TheJazzCafe patronage with contemporary All Lectures 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm. introduces Becca Marriott (soprano) and 25th March impact of Brexit on the arts and culture 19:00-20:00. Tickets £5-8.107 Charing The March instalment of Vortex’s monthly artists Noémie Goudal, Ryan £15 Entrance on the door or pre-book online and print Natalie Burch (piano), who will discuss Music as Therapy in the 19th Century sector. Panellists include Jo Glanville, Cross Road, WC2H 0DT poetry and jazz event, curated by Nicki 5th April Mosely and Sigrid Holmwood. your ticket for £12. Wine and Refreshments included. the representation of Floria Tosca and her Asylum director of English PEN, and Munira 020 7437 5660 Heinen. Cendrillon Christie’s specialists will portrayal by operatic greats such as Maria Bethlem Museum of the Mind Mirza, an adviser on the arts and foyles.co.uk @Foyles MARCH 7TH MICHELLE MCGRADE: 20:00-23:00. Tickets £8. lead tours of the Handpicked Callas and Hariclea Darclèe. Edward Elgar spent five years as philanthropy. 11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ Opera Prelude (operaprelude.com) revives preview and stop by the “THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER OF INVESTING” Caversham Room, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X bandmaster of the Worcester County and Starts 19:00. Tickets £5-7. 6th April 020 7254 4097 19th century singer and composer Pauline Handpicked pop-up shop for a 9DQ City Asylum, composing music to aid 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Spinsters, Hecklers and Lingerie vortexjazz.co.uk @vortexjazz Viardot’s retelling of Cinderella. free Handpicked tote bag with MARCH 14TH PROFESSOR NICK LOWE: 020 7183 7323 patients in their recovery. Dr. Rosemary E1 6LA Chelsea Physic Garden 19:00-21:00. Tickets £40 (including a every purchase of the auction “FACE AND SKIN REJUVENATION WITHOUT SURGERY” cadoganhall.com - @cadoganhall Golding, of the Open University, talks 020 7613 7498 An interactive talk focusing on the history 24th March programme and a glass of wine). catalogue. 10:30-12:30; tickets £25. about the trend for music to play a part richmix.org.uk of flax, and its connection to various words Chris Thile 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ 6.00-8.30 pm APRIL 18TH CARRIE BROOKS – in treatment for acute mental health @RichMixLondon we use today. Hosted by Zoe Burt and Kate Wigmore Hall 020 7602 3316 Free entry. LIFE COACH - AGEING WELL “TIME OF OUR LIFE!“ 22nd March conditions. Poland. Mandolin player Chris Thile, who also leightonhouse.co.uk 85 Old Brompton Road, Why Do We Still Play Board Starts 14:00. Free but ticketed. 28th March 18:00-19:00. Tickets £17 hosts the radio show A Prairie Home @RBKCLeightonH London APRIL 25TH MICHAEL MORRIS FRANKS, Games? Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monk’s Orchard Everest Rescue: Les Binns talks about his (including a glass of wine). Companion, will play a mixture of original SW7 3LD PARTNER WILLIAM STURGES LLP: “MR TURING I PRESUME” V&A (Venue: Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BX dramatic rescue on Mt Everest. 66 Royal Hospital Road, SW3 4HS and classic pieces. 6th April 020 7839 9060 Lecture Theatre) 020 3228 4227 Peak Dynamics at the Royal Geographical 020 7352 5646 Starts 19:30. Tickets £15-37. 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Ralph Fiennes from the event will be donated to the Army 1st March-3rd June 28th March including improvised sections. Lunchtime Talk: Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL The School of Life Benevolent Fund. The Miser London Astrobeat Choir 19:00-21:00; free, but pre-booking essential. Gender in Advertising VENUE: 9 ILCHESTER PLACE, LONDON W14 8AA 020 784 2000 Slavoj Žižek, the respected Hegelian 18:45-20:45. Tickets £26-34, via Eventbrite. Performs Talking Heads Brunei Gallery Lecture of Brands, LECTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST SCHEDULE ON vam.ac.uk @V_and_A philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR Lee Mack, Griff Rhys Jones, Mathew Jazz Cafe 020 7637 2388 Packaging and Advertising author, talks to award-winning actor Ralph 020 7591 3100 Horne, Katy Wix and Andi Osho star in WWW.THELECTURECLUB.COM Paying tribute to the afrobeat influences soas.ac.uk @SOAS Learn how gender has been 23rd March Fiennes. Part of the series at The School of rgs.org @rgs_ibg Molière’s comedy, adapted by Sean Foley FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @thelectureclub of two prominent Talking Heads albums, portrayed in adverts since To Cure All Ills? Life. and Phil Porter. Previews from 1st March. Remain in the Light and Speaking in Tongues, 7th-9th April Victorian times. Part of a Wellcome Collection 19:00-21:30. Tickets £30. 29th March Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday the Astrobeat Choir will be led by Edd Bach Weekend programme of events marking An hour-long discussion, led by author Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street, Misty Moon Presents the Legendary and Saturday matinees start 14:30. Tickets Bateman. Kings Place and following International Caroline Rance, on the medical cures SW1P 3DW Dudley Sutton £15-87.50. Road, 19:00-23:00. Tickets £10. The extensive programme includes cantatas, Women’s Day (8th March). touted by unqualified people, often known 020 7833 1010 Phoenix Artist Club WC2H 0HH 5 Parkway, Camden, NW1 7PG concertos, fugues and preludes, and St. Starts 14:00. Free entry with museum ticket V&A as ‘quacks’, with little interest in patient theschooloflife.com An evening in conversation with much- 0330 333 4811 020 7485 6834 Matthew Passion with the London Bach (£5-9). Learn about the set designs and models wellbeing. @theschooloflife loved actor (and KCW poetry editor) nimaxtheatres.com/garrick-theatre thejazzcafelondon.com Singers. 111-117 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, collected by the V&A from Sondheim's 18:00-19:00. Free entry. Dudley Sutton, perhaps best known for his @NimaxTheatres @TheJazzCafe Times and prices vary. W11 1QT bloodthirsty musical, Sweeney Todd. television roles in Lovejoy, Smiley’s People 90 York Way, N1 9AG 020 7243 9611 Harriet Reed, Assistant Curator of Theatre and Skins. 2nd March-15th April 29th March 020 7520 1490 museumofbrands.com & Performance, hosts. Starts 20:30. Tickets £16. Limehouse Guitarrísimo: Sones y Flores kingsplace.co.uk @KingsPlace @MuseumofBrands 13:00-14:00. Free and non-ticketed. 1 Phoenix Street, WC2H 8BU Eduardo Martín & Ahmed Dickinson Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL 020 7836 1077 Steve Waters’ new play is a fictionalised Cárdenas Ongoing 11th March 020 784 2000 phoenixartistclub.com account of four Labour politicians (Bill St. Peter's Church Classical Season 2016-2017 Believe in Yourself vam.ac.uk @V_and_A @phoenixartistcb Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and (on behalf of Instituto Cervantes) Southbank Centre Inner Space at Westminster City David Owen) meeting as their party is in Two Cuban guitarists present their unique The season continues with stellar events, Hall 16th-17th March 1st April crisis. The cast includes Roger Allam and blend of Yoruba chants, rock, funk, rumba such as The Best of John Williams: From ET A daytime programme of short inspirational Daunt Books Festival English Tom Goodman-Hill. and slap bass. Afterwards, enjoy a free glass to Star Wars and Beyond (1st April) and The talks aimed at women. Daunt Books PEN Modern Literature Festival Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Thursday of wine from Wines of Spain. Music of Today: Bent Sørensen (6th April). 11:00-13:00; arrive at 10:30 to choose your Rich Mix and Saturday matinees start 14:30. Starts 19:00. Tickets £10-14 in advance, Times and prices vary. sessions. Free, but registration essential. As usual, the Daunt Books Festival has More than 30 English writers will pay Tickets £10-40. or £14-18 on the door. Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX 17 Floor, 64 Victoria Street, a packed itinerary. Participating authors tribute to their overseas peers who are listed 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX 119 Eaton Square, SW1W 9AN 020 7960 4200 SW1E 6QP include Philip Hook, Philippe Sands, on the Writers at Risk programme, facing 0844 871 7624 020 7201 0750 southbankcentre.co.uk 020 7836 6688 Anne Sebba and Elif Shafak; there will oppression for their creative output. donmarwarehouse.com (Instituto Cervantes) @southbankcentre innerspace.org.uk @inner_space also be music by the Bookshop Band and Sessions from 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30 and @DonmarWarehouse stpetereatonsquare.co.uk - londres. Cavendish Winds. 19:30-21:30. Free but ticketed. cervantes.es/en @Instcervantes Ongoing - every weekday Events are priced individually, or buy a 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, 8th-25th March Lunchtime Concert 14th March festival pass for £45. See website. E1 6LA Made in India 30th March St. Martin-in-the-Fields An Evening of Adventure with Michael 83 Marylebone High Street, 020 7613 7498 Vivamus Chamber Choir Catch a free lunchtime concert every Palin & Guests W1U 4QW richmix.org.uk This new play, written by Satinder Chohan Swiss Church weekday at 13:00, including cellist Razvan Wild Frontiers at the Royal Geographical 020 7224 2295 @RichMixLondon and directed by Katie Posner, is set in a The Vivamus Chamber Choir performs Suma and pianist Rebeca Omordia (20th Society dauntbooks.co.uk @Dauntbooks Gujarati surrogacy clinic. It explores issues pieces by Faure, Frank Martin and Carl March), the Junior Royal Academy of Johnny Bealby, CEO of Wild Frontiers 2nd April of motherhood and birth through the eyes Rütti. Music (3rd April) and Isbilia Quartet Adventure Travel, introduces Michael 20th March Mensheviks and Bolsheviks of three very different women. Starts 19:30. Tickets £5-23. (4th April). Palin in conversation with fellow explorers The Orchestras of Auschwitz 1917-1923 Starts 19:15. Tickets £17-19. 79 Endell Street, WC2H 9DY Starts 13:00. Free entry. Benedict Allen and Spike Reid. The trio The Wiener Library for the Study of the Conway Hall 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE 020 7836 14 18 Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JH will recall their travels in the Hindu Kush Holocaust & Genocide The Mensheviks, who were the ‘losing side’ 020 7478 0100 swisschurchlondon.org.uk 020 7766 1100 region of Pakistan. Proceeds from the event This Constella OperaBallet project in the Russian Revolution, will be under sohotheatre.com @sohotheatre @SwissChurchLond stmartin-in-the-fields.org will support the Kalash people through the remembers the Sunday concerts held in the spotlight in this lecture, led by historian @smitf_london Wild Frontiers Foundation. Auschwitz-Birkenau by the orchestras of Frances King. 16th-25th March 4th-5th April 18:00-20:30. Tickets £20, via Eventbrite. prisoners. 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Avenue), Camberwell, SE5 0XT @finborough 6th-8th April Ellen McDougall's version of the 020 7701 0100 The Class Project Shakespearian tragedy blends period and blueelephanttheatre.co.uk 29th March-22nd April Camden People’s Theatre modern references, including updated @BETCamberwell Posh How does your birthplace affect your swear words and slurs. The director believes Pleasance London class? And what about the places you the racism and inequality featured in the 17th March-10th June An all-female cast, including Game of live in afterwards, or the places you wish play are still huge problems for society to Don Juan in Soho Thrones' Hannah Murray, tackles Laura you belonged? Rebecca Atkinson-Lord’s overcome. Wyndham’s Theatre Wade's hugely successful play, which was debut solo show, The Class Project, explores Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday, David Tennant, Adrian Scarborough and later adapted for the screen as The Riot thorny issues of identity, social mobility and starts 19:30; Wednesday, Thursday and Gawn Grainger bring Patrick Marber’s Club. education. Saturday matinees at 14:30; Sunday modern update of Molière’s play to the Starts 19:30; matinees at 14:30. Tickets Starts 19:15. Tickets £10-12.58-60 matinees at 13:30. Tickets £10-62. West End. £17.50-25.00. Hampstead Road, London, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday Carpenters Mews, North Road, Islington, NW1 2PY 020 7401 9919 matinee at 14:30. Tickets £10-150. N7 9EF 020 7419 4841 shakespearesglobe.com Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DA 020 7609 1800 cptheatre.co.uk @camdenPT @The_Globe 0844 482 5120 pleasance.co.uk @ThePleasance delfontmackintosh.co.uk Ends 8th April Ends 29th April @DMTWestEnd 30th March-13th May Hamlet Rosencrantz & Guildenstern The Lottery of Love Almeida are Dead 24th March-24th June Andrew Scott takes the title role in CLASSICAL AND MODERN The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? The French comedy, Le Jeu de l’amour et unforgettable Shakespearian tragedy, with 50 years after Tom Stoppard made his du hasard, translated by John Fowles and Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude. name with this witty play, the Old Vic Edward Albee’s 2002 tragi-comedy sees transposed to Regency England, is directed Monday-Saturday, starts 19:00; Wednesday revives it with a stellar cast, including CHINESE PAINTINGS Damien Lewis and Sophie Okonedo return here by Paul Miller. and Saturday matinees at 13:30. 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Tickets TW9 2SA @AlmeidaTheatre 0844 871 7628 £15-150.18 Suffolk St, 020 8940 3633 oldvictheatre.com @oldvictheatre SW1Y 4HT orangetreetheatre.co.uk 8th April CONSIGNMENTS WELCOME 020 7930 8800 @OrangeTreeThtr National Theatre Connections: Ends 29th April trh.co.uk @TRH_London Extremism Travesties Ends 1st April Deadline: 10 March 2017 Ends 25th March A Midsummer Night’s Dream A challenging new play for young people, Tom Stoppard’s play transfers from the I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard written by Anders Lustgarten, to explore for a 12-week A new production of Shakespeare’s classic issues of tolerance, religion and fear. West End run. Patrick Marber directs, and Halley Feiffer’s black comedy, which won comedy sees director Tim Hill-Gibbins 269a Archway Road, Highgate, Tom Hollander and Freddie Fox are among an Outer Critics’ Circle Award in 2015, team up with renowned designer Johannes N6 5AA the cast. explores the theatrical world through Schütz. 020 8341 4421 Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday ambitious actress Ella and her playwright Monday-Saturday starts 19:30; Wednesday jacksonslane.org.uk and Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets father. Dare she read the critics' reviews of and Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets @jacksons_lane £20-71.50.31 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, her off-Broadway debut? £10-36. Starts 19:30. Tickets £5. W1D 7EZ Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday 66 The Cut, Waterloo, SE1 8LZ 0330 333 4809 and Sunday matinees at 15:00. Tickets 020 7922 2922 Ends 16th April nimaxtheatres.com Chiswick Auctions is the only London auction house £14-18. youngvic.org @youngvictheatre The White Devil @NimaxTheatres 118 Finborough Road (above the Ends 1st April Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to host a dedicated sale of Chinese painting. Finborough Arms), Earl’s Court, a profoundly affectionate, passionate (Venue: Sam Wanamaker Ends 17th June SW10 9ED devotion to someone (-noun) Playhouse) Stepping Out It is the leading centre for the sale of Chinese paintings 0844 847 1652 Royal Court (Venue: Jerwood Theatre A Jacobean revenge tragedy is transformed finboroughtheatre.co.uk Upstairs) into a dystopian nightmare. Directed by A revival of the musical comedy, directed in the UK and offers free non-obligation valuations. @finborough Playwright debbie tucker green (whose Annie Ryan, the play will be performed by by and starring Amanda name and play title is always presented in candlelight. Holden, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Tamzin 28th-29th March lower case) brings yet another arresting Monday and Thursday starts 19:30; Outhwaite. Letters to Myself drama to the Royal Court, this time Sunday at 18:30; Tuesday matinee at 14:30. Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday Camden People’s Theatre focusing on three couples. Tickets £10-62.21 New Globe Walk, SE1 and Saturday matinees at 14:30. Additional What would you tell your younger self if Monday-Saturday, starts 19:45; Thursday 9DT matinees and schedule changes from 20th you could? Becci Sharrock’s comic play, and Saturday matinees at 15:00. Tickets 020 7401 9919 March - see website. Tickets £20-69.50.404 Contact: Lazarus Halstead based on real letters from participants, looks from £12. Limited availability. shakespearesglobe.com Strand, WC2R 0NH at the lessons we’ve learned as adults and Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS @The_Globe 0330 333 4814 the decisions we made as teens. 020 7565 5000 nimaxtheatres.com Starts 19:15. Tickets £10-12. royalcourttheatre.com Ends 17th April @NimaxTheatres [email protected] 58-60 Hampstead Road, London, @royalcourt Twelfth Night +44(0)20 3110 0604 NW1 2PY National Theatre Ends 21st October 020 7419 4841 Ends 2nd April (Venue: Olivier Theatre) Dreamgirls cptheatre.co.uk @camdenPT My Brilliant Friend, Parts 1 and 2 Shakespeare's romantic comedy of mistaken identity hits the National just after It's taken 35 years, but the Tony® award- London, W3 8BL 28th March-22nd April Publishing sensation Elena Ferrante’s Valentine’s Day, starring Tamsin Greig as winning musical about a Motown-esque girl Incident at Vichy quadrilogy has been adapted for the stage Malvolia (in an additional twist, Malvolio group has finally crossed the pond. Starring chiswickauctions.co.uk Finborough Theatre as a two-part play, by April de Angelis. has become a woman). as Effie White. The first professional production of Arthur Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Saturday Monday-Saturday, starts 19:30; Wednesday Miller’s play for half a century takes a no- play the two protagonists living in post-war (and selected Wednesday) matinees at and Saturday matinees at 14:30. Tickets holds-barred look at evil and bureaucracy in Italy. 14:00. Tickets £15-65. Limited availability. £20-145. Nazi-occupied France. Part 1 starts at 14:30, with a 20-minute Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX Strand, WC2R 0ET Tuesday-Saturday, starts 19:30; from 8th interval, then a two-hour break until part 2 020 7452 3000 0844 871 7687 April, Saturday matinees at 15:00; Sunday at 19:30. Alternatively, each part of the play nationaltheatre.org.uk dreamgirlswestend.com Qi Baishi (1864 - 1957) matinees at 15:00. Tickets £14-18. can be seen separately. 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ompared to the very busy galleries downstairs, full to overflowing with vibrant Russian art, this Cis a quiet backwater in comparison, although it does contain some dark and violent images. America After the Fall really means America after the Crash, and charts painting in the 1930s. ‘All human life is here’, as Anthony Burgess said, adding ‘but the Holy Ghost is somewhere else’, from the bustling city scenes to the rolling hills of New England, and from smoking chimneys of the American industrial landscape

to the homely interiors celebrating Tate Bell courtesy Garnett. of Henrietta Vanessa Estate of The © c.1912. Duncan Grant of Male Nudes by Group Verso: . Studland Beach Bell. Vanessa Thanksgiving, as in Doris Lee’s pre- dentist), and his po-faced wife (actually a bony hand holding an ancestral American Justice, showing a half-naked Norman Rockwell view of the American his sister) against a weatherboarded willow-patterned tea-cup, to emphasise negro girl lying dead at the foot of a dream of domestic bliss and Beryl farmhouse with a Gothic window. hereditary values. His narrative painting tree, while a dog howls at the noose Cookian bustle. Grant Wood is well More po-faced women in his soft- of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere hanging from it and a group of ghostly represented, with his iconic American focus Daughters of the Revolution, with depicts his romanticised ride through Ku Klux Klansmen stand in a circle, with Gothic, featuring the humourless, blank Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the night to warn the inhabitants of a house ablaze in the background. John features of the farmer (posed by his the Delaware on the wall behind, and rural Massachusetts of the advance of Steuart Curry’s Hogs Killing a Snake is the British. In a bird’s-eye view of a an oddity, a darkly violent depiction of a sleepy village, the lone horseman gallops pack of wild boars biting and trampling past, waking households in his wake a snake in a whirl of action, reminiscent and prompting people to spill out of of Peter Paul Rubens. The stars of the their houses in their nightshirts and show are possibly the most familiar to into the street, while more horsemen Britsh eyes, namely Gas and New York with lanterns are seen a long way off Movie by Edward Hopper. Gas shows a down the undulating road. Death on the single man adjusting the pumps in the Ridge Road is a cartoonish painting of forecourt of a Mobil gas station at dusk. and charming Grant had not only been Lytton Strachey, Stephen Tomlin and Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition an accident about to happen, depicting In New York Movie a lonesome, bored the lover of Lytton Strachey, politician Gerald Brenan, but she preferred women. at the Grafton Galleries, London, a Vanessa Bell This maelstrom of sexual encounters landmark show organised by Roger a careering truck browsing a hill, and usherette stands in the wings, while Picture Gallery Arthur Hobhouse and of the economist about to run into an out-of-control Frank Capra’s film Lost Horizons plays to John Maynard Keynes, but also of her and relationships was going on all around Fry. With Fry, Bell and Duncan Grant automobile slewing across the road. The two lonely people in the audience. The Until 4 June 2017 brother, Adrian. Grant, a conscientious Vanessa Bell, who continued to paint co-founded The Omega Workshop, an bold portraits of her friends, including artists’ co-operative for decorative arts lighting is menacing and dramatic, with exterior of the cinema is the subject of Admission £14 objector, worked on the land in the First storm clouds gathering in the distance Reginald Marsh’s Twenty Cent Movie, World War. to avoid conscription. Clive Virginia Woolf, who described her’s that operated between 1913 and 1919, making rugs, textiles and clothing, and and deep shadows in the foreground. is all about sex, with girls in seductive dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Bell made a heavy pass at Virginia, and as ‘rough eloquence’, Roger Fry and they would design and print side-by-side The catalogue states that the painting clothes parading in front of a barrage of often brought his mistress, Lytton’s Strachey, as well as landscapes and still on numerous projects, often working in was first owned by Cole Porter, whose posters with such headlines as ‘Stripped cousin, Mary Hutchinson to stay at lifes, while looking after three children, muted tones.Her painting of Studland wife’s ex-husband was the first American Bare’, ‘Dangerous Curves’, and ‘Joys of oo-er, those Bloomsburys. What Charleston. Henrietta Bingham, the running the house and being the calming Bay, on loan from Tate, is anything but, to kill someone in an auto crash. This is the Flesh.’ His In Fourteenth Street shows a bunch of nutters, egg-heads, daughter of the US Ambassador to mother-figure at its centre. She was one with a nod towards Matisse, emphasising simply not true as any Google search will a bustle of cavorting people pouring daubers, wordsmiths, lesbians and Britain, had lesbian flings with the of the first British artists to experiment colour, shape and line rather than subject, testify, but why let the truth get in the out of the El station like a swarm of cocksmiths. Vanessa Bell is probably as painter Dora Carrington and the with abstraction, and she was influenced C by Vuillard, Bonnard and the Symbolist in an exercise Clive Bell and Roger Fry, way of a good story? His rural landscapes bees following the queen, while Philip well known as a Bohemian free-spirit, psychoanalyst Alix Strachey, as well as called ‘significant form’, and it is a gem. are a delight, particularly Young Corn Evergood’s Dance Marathon has all the with her loose, extramarital relationships with Bunny. Carrington was ‘lesbianised’ painter Maurice Denis, whose theories Tents and Figures is another bold, strong and Fall Plowing, owned by the tractor street-life energy and vivacity of an with Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, by Vanessa’s sister Virginia Woolf, who contributed to the foundations of painting on a four-fold screen, with manufacturer John Deere, featuring an Edward Burra Harlem painting, but with the predominantly homosexual father had confessed to Vanessa that she was Cubism; a style she later incorporated 1939 Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation Art Museum, American of Smithsonian Harlem, 1939 Collection Life, Street H Johnson, William four naked bathers amongst a pyrimidal old-fashioned, horse-drawn plough. all the energy and vivacity sucked out of of her daughter, as she is a painter. She having an affair with Vita Sackville- along with Fauvism, but always returning confusion of geometric shapes. The Other The Fleet’s In! by Paul Cadmus is a was surrounded by lofty literary and West, which shocked her deeply. to figuration. A portrait of her daughter, it, with the exhausted dancers hanging Room, painted in the late thirties, is pure raunchy view of sailors out on the piss, artistic talent and sparkling wit, but awkwardly sitting in the library at onto each other like they are clinging to Apparently buggery was acceptable to Matisse, even down to the vase of flowers carousing with well-upholstered ladies was a formidable painter and print- Charlston, is a wonderful patchwork of the wreckage. Bloomsbury, but affairs between women and the gaily-patterned fabrics, a late in clingy dresses and a gay man offering maker herself. She married the critic textiles, books and slabs of colour. Her This a well-curated and intelligent was, to her, beyond the pale. ‘But do you response to the French modernists she cigarettes, and caused a sensation when Clive Bell, and had two sons, but had spare, tranquil landscape of the pond show, bringing some previously really like going to bed with women’ she admired so much. This is a long overdue it was first displayed at a Washington an open marriage with him, and their at Charlston was the first painting she unfamiliar paintings to British art said, ‘And how’d you do it?’ Carrington exhibition, in fact, the first retrospective gallery in 1934 and was censored, as it ménage à trois, first at Wissett Lodge did when she moved there, and stayed lovers, and underlines the fact that, once was pursued by Mark Gertler, C R ever held in Britain of Bell’s work, and showed up the US Navy in a bad light in Suffolk, and then at Charleston, in until she died in 1961, aged 81, still with again, the four Sackler Galleries are the W Nevinson, David Garnett, Albert it is well worth the ten minute journey of depravity. With more than a whiff of Sussex, included David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, Duncan Grant. In 1912, alongside such perfect venue for a show of this size and Rutherston, Aldous Huxley and Ralph from Victoria. irony, the Navy now owns the painting. who eventually married Vanessa and illustrious names as Picasso and Matisse, standard. Partridge, who she married in1921, Don Grant Altogether more sinister is Joe Jones’s Don Grant Duncan’s daughter Angelica.The affable whilst having deep relationships with Bell exhibited her work in the influential 48 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Right: Ross, starting with the present day and Portrait of an Artist. working back in time. It gives a good (Pool with Two Figures),1972. A New Museum David Hockney © Lewis Collection. insight into the history of Charterhouse. The first exhibit is the famous ‘Tudor Below: at Charterhouse. Breakfast at Malibu, Sunday,1989. chair’, a hybrid made up from different Until 29 May 2017 © The Robert A Rowan Collection. London periods. The videos on the walls are Admission £19.50 Charterhouse. mercifully silent and give a good idea of the Brothers' life today. From the school tate.org.uk Charterhouse Square. London. is a facsimile of the ‘Black Book’ or ‘flog EC1 M 6AN blog’ recording misbehaviour which earned the punishment of ‘swishing’ Opened 27th January 2017 There is a description of a ‘14 cutter’ he media has become lashing written by an observing pupil. preoccupied with who ‘Britain’s Graffiti on a desk shows names of hated Greatest Living Artist’ is. After monitors heavily scored. Francis Bacon died in 1992, the hollow Much display space is wisely devoted T crown was perched precariously on to Thomas Sutton and his charitable Lucian Freud’s head until he died in work. 2011, and this was was then followed Do not miss the Bible printed in by an interregnum, while various art 1620, a good collection and chalices and critics bandied around names like Sir notice the painted wooden statues as it Anthony Caro, Sir Howard Hodgkin is amazing how the paint has survived and Frank Auerbach. The new director through the ages. of Tate Britain, Alex Farquharson said The displays end with the skeleton that ‘Hockney is without doubt one used the Great Chamber to create 130 of a young man lying on a gravel bed of Britain’s greatest living artists’. He new Barons before he was crowned. surrounded by lights. Apparently his is certainly one of her most popular, When Lord North died, Thomas teeth contained a chemical which and has entered the realms of a ‘living Howard purchased the property and scientists say provides the evidence that national treasure’, jostling with Alan a blunt Yorkshire edge, who has a the paintings he subsequently made of that of draftsmanship. and the lesson renamed it Howard House. He lived he died from the Black Death. Bennett, David Attenborough and The reputation for being outspoken about the Californian landscapes surrounding that drawing is a way of looking more there under house arrest due to his Queen for cosy comfort on the sofa, art, about sexual politics and about his Hollywood house. In the 1990s, his intently. He also believed that ‘the joiners

Photographs © Lawrence Watson © Lawrence Photographs plotting to kill Mary Queen of Scots. An important part of your visit is with a cup of tea and a Bourbon biscuit freedom to choose, particularly about abstract works influenced the manner were much closer to the way we actually He was executed for his collusion in the the Chapel. in front of the three-bar electric fire. his passion for smoking. He also has in which he painted the Grand Canyon look at things, closer to the truth of Ridolfi Plot. The Chapterhouse of the Monastery Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970–71) a great sense of history and place, and and, subsequently, the Yorkshire Wolds, experience’. Thomas Sutton then acquired the survived the Dissolution and was is not just an iconic image of the 1960s is as knowledgeable about art as many where he grew up.These were a large Paintings of natural environments house. He was a philanthropist from converted into a small chapel for use by and 70s, it is also one of the Tate’s critics. He has recently published the part of the big 2013 show at the Royal have formed a significant part of Knaith, in Lincolnshire, who had made the occupiers of the house. It is open to best-selling postcards, and it came fifth modestly-titled A History of Pictures Academy, which attracted over 700,000 Hockney’s artistic life, from Californian a fortune in coal. He endowed an the public for services and viewing. The in a BBC poll to find ‘The Greatest with Martin Gayford, art critic for The visitors, underlining his populace appeal. terrains to rural English landscapes, almshouse on the site and a school for language of the 17th century Book of Painting in Britain’, as well as being Spectator. This exhibition covers the ‘I’m interested in ways of looking,’ he whose scale is awesome. One, Bigger Trees poor boys. The almshouse was to house Common prayer is used. the only twentieth-century image to sixty years he has been experimenting, says. ‘Everybody does look, it’s just a near Warter, measuring 12m long by 4.5m up to eighty 'Brothers' chosen from old The Chapel is panelled and has the make the list. Top of the post-card list innovating, discovering and practicing matter of how hard they’re willing to high is not in the exhibition, although sea captains, maimed or disabled soldiers, wonderful aroma of old wood and musty is Lucian Freud’s Girl with a White Dog, his craft in a multitude of mediums look.’ The drive to communicate what some smaller ones of trees and woodland failed merchants, the shipwrecked books, a joy to academics. The North which recently ousted Ophelia by Millais. that include pure painting, drawing, he sees has pushed Hockney to explore in the Wolds and Hawthorn Blossom near and others suffering calamity. Today aisle and Tuscan arcades were designed We can only surmise that the ‘greatest printmaking, photography and photo- many different means of image-making, Rudston, measuring 3.6m. and 4.8m. a community of ‘Brothers’ still live at by Francis Carter. Windows face living’ accolade would not amount to a collage, experiments in coloured fax often by utilising new technology and long, are made up of smaller canvases, Charterhouse who benefit from Thomas Chapel Court, the site of the original pile of beans in Mr Hockney’s sense of paper, theatre set design and posters, as materials. very much like his earlier joiners. ‘Trees Sutton’s Charity. James 1 became the 1349 church. Thomas Sutton’s tomb achievements and self-worth, having well as film and books.He is constantly The exhibition is mainly laid out are like faces’, he explains. ‘Everyone is harterhouse is a little known founded there in 1371 by the Carthusian first Royal Governor. Great names, such dominates the North aisle and it was already turned down a knighthood. on the move and, as soon as he has chronologically, apart from the first different. Nature doesn’t repeat itself. site in London where Vanitas, order. The name, ‘Charterhouse’ is an as Wellington, Gladstone and Cromwell designed by Nicholas Jansen, Edmund He paints ‘what I want, when I want embraced and mastered the latest gallery, where there is an overview of You have to observe carefully; there is a a cherub, adorns the tomb of anglicisation of their name, La Grande were all Governors too. Kinsman and Nicholas Stone. It is and where I want’, and he maintains digital technique, he shifts to another, his work, in the early galleries, one is randomness’. In four serene and beautiful Thomas Sutton, whilst blowing golden Chartreuse It was one of the largest The School, named Charterhouse, heavily carved with images representing that ‘most artists work all the time . . . but never losing sight of previous confronted by some very familiar images, films, made up of nine video cameras C moved out of the premises to Godalming his charitable work. especially good artists. . . I mean, what directions. His innovative ‘joiner’ of which even Hockney says, ‘many attached to the front of a Volvo Estate, bubbles which represent the vagaries of Carthusian Monasteries in Europe life and luck. Faith, Hope and Charity and was dissolved in 1537 during the in 1872. Among its pupils in London The attractive Cloister was built in else is there to do?’ montages from the eighties, such as seem like old friends to me now. We’re which was then driven slowly down a stand by accompanied by images of peace English Reformation. Charterhouse put were Thackeray, Wesley and Baden- 1614 during the conversion of Howard He is a quietly witty man, with Pearlblossom Highway 1986, informed looking back over a lifetime, and I hope, track through Woldgate Woods, the four and plenty. up a resistance resulting in the Prior, Powell. Their names are recorded on House. The space was designed by like me, people will enjoy seeing how seasons unfold and reveal themselves The site of Charterhouse is a complex John Houghton being hanged, drawn plaques in the old cloisters. The school Francis Carter. Plaques and tablets record the roots of my new and recent work on 36 synchronised monitors. He really of historical buildings located on the and quartered. Ten Monks were sent to prospered and became one of England’s families and servants who lived on the can be seen in the developments over pushed the boundaries with his iPad City of London's Northern border, close Newgate prison, where nine starved to leading Public Schools. premises. the years.’ The earliest works include drawings, which have an unnatural and to Smithfield Market. It dates back to death and one was executed three years The new Museum was opened in A visit is very rewarding, so much the overt homoerotic Doll Boy, The Most unreal quality, which is ‘clever’, but not the 14th century. The Chapel houses later. They were known as the Carthusian partnership with the history is part of this site, the ‘old Beautiful Boy in the World and We Two that appealing, and his 2015 version the tomb of Thomas Sutton, benefactor Martyrs. and there is a new learning centre for city’, Black Death, Dissolution of the Boys Together Clinging from 1960-01, and of The Card Players is a photographic and philanthropist and the Charity he Fragments remain of the Monastic schools, families and universities. It is all Monasteries, Martyrdom, Royalty, Cleaning Teeth, Early Evening (10PM) drawing printed on paper, whatever founded there still exists today. period, but the remaining building was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Nobles, Schools and Almshouses. The W11, with a pair of priapic tubes of that means, mounted on Dibond, an This historical gem, Charterhouse, developed after 1545 into a courtyard Entrance to the Museum and Chapel is charitable work of Thomas Sutton lives toothpaste, from the following year. The aluminium composite sheet, with his dating to an age when ‘the old city’ was house. At first it was rented by the free, but the Brothers’ tours are highly on today. oil paints he used then in such paintings original acrylic painting hanging on packed with parish churches, several Bassano family, musical instrument recommended to show the house, how The Bell, cast by Thomas Bartlett as Flight into Italy-Swiss Landscape and the wall behind the men, alongside monasteries with grounds, ponds and makers. Henry V111 stored hunting they live, the Great Chamber and the in 1631, tolls everyday for all those The Hypnotist are as vibrant today as Pearlblossom Highway 1986. All very orchards and thriving busy life, has gear in the church. The house was then Great Hall and several artefacts from associated with Charterhouse in the they were sixty-odd years ago, and when confusing. His paintings of the gardens opened its doors to the public for the bought by Sir Edward North (later Lord the past. They will also show visitors the present and the past. he experimented with acrylics in the surrounding his home are simplified first time. A new Museum has been North,) who demolished the church charming garden, set out as an English Marian Maitland. mid 1960s, with his views of America down to bold and brash brush-strokes, created revealing its history. and added the Great Hall and Great country garden dominated by an ancient from California and Arizona to the but they are ultimately impish FUN, Museums housed in historical Chamber. mulberry tree. It is said to be a cutting Charterhouse: Rockies, the colours became richer and which is what Mr Hockney is all about, buildings have their exhibits enhanced Queen Elizabeth I used the house of Milton’s mulberry tree in Christ’s T: 020 3818 8873 deeper. Throughout this period, and and always has been about, right from his and give an atmosphere of living history. during preparations for her Coronation College, Cambridge, which was planted Open Tuesday to Sunday: 11 am to into the seventies, he continued to draw days at the Royal College, sixty years ago. This site was a burial plot for victims and held Privy Council there. There was in 1840. 16.45 pm and etch, and one skill he has never Don Grant of the Black Death. A Monastery was further Royal association when James I The Museum is curated by Cathy www.thecharterhouse.org mislaid, forgotten or compromised, is 50 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

progress of architecture and society,” said Mendes da Rocha. “I would like to BALLET BRICKS AND send my warmest wishes to all those who BY ANDREW WARD share my passion, in particular British BRICKBATS architects, and share this moment with all the architects and engineers that have BY EMMA FLYNN collaborated on my projects,” he added. Born in 1928 in Vitória, Brazil, Mendes da Rocha began his career in Giselle São Paulo. He established his office in A triumphant night of classical 1955 and completed one of his most important projects, the Athletic Club of ballet presented by ENB. Brazilian São Paulo, two years later. A minimalist concrete UFO, the building was intended Brutalism: as a pure expression of the means of Architect Paulo Mendes da enclosure, lifted from the ground to Rocha receives the 2017 Royal shelter the gym below and maintain views of the landscape. Gold Medal for Architecture This was followed by a large number of predominantly public buildings in the ollowing hotly on from ENB’s city including Saint Peter Chapel (1987), latest triumph with Khan’s the Brazilian Sculpture Museum MuBE provocatively reimagined version of razilian architect Paulo Mendes (1988), Patriach Plaza (1992-2002), the the romantic classic Giselle the company da Rocha has been named as the renovation of Sao Paulo’s oldest fine arts F 2017 recipient of the Royal Gold museum, Pinacoteca do Estado gallery is back performing the very same ballet. But this time it’s the traditional version BMedal for architecture, after winning (1993) and the FIESP Cultural Center produced by Mary Skeaping for the both the Praemium Imperiale prize and (1997). Another of his most celebrated company in 1971. This production is the Venice Architecture Biennale Golden works, the Brazilian Sculpture Museum, perhaps as close as it gets to the original Lion last year. was in fact born out of the desire to created in 1841 by Jean Corralli and Jules Described by the Royal Institute of have no building at all. Locating the Perrot and later revised by the all-time British Architects (RIBA) as Brazil’s museum’s galleries underground, the site god of classical ballet, namely Marius most celebrated living architect, Mendes was instead conceived as a public square Petipa. da Rocha, 88, was awarded the medal in and sculpture garden, with 60-metre long Skeaping keeps virtually all of a ceremony on the 31st January. Given suspended concrete beam providing a Adolphe Adam’s original score with in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the canopy above. When asked why he didn’t a couple of additional solos added by Lauretta Summerscales as Giselle and Xander Parish as Albrecht in Giselle © Laurent Liotardo Royal Gold Medal is approved personally design a more conventional museum ballerinas over the years to show off by The Queen and is given annually to building surrounded by a sculpture their technique. Namely in 1932, Petipa the fore that grabs the audience, Albrecht is growing in stature as a ballerina. Like a person or group of people who have garden, he replied: “It would hide the created a solo for Olga Spessitseva in act and Hilarion in equal measures. Her Marinela Nuñez across the road at had a significant influence ‘either directly things that happen there, and the city 1 with the express purpose for Giselle purity, fragility and innocence backed Covent Garden, Summerscales radiates or indirectly on the advancement of would be excluded in some way.” to thank Bathilde for the neckless. The with steely classical technique makes the joy of dance whenever she sets foot architecture’. Socially considered, Mendes da series of hops en pointe have tested the audience feel part of the action. on the stage to perform. Parish should Paulo Mendes da Rocha is known for Top: Rocha’s works are also technically Patriarch Plaza sideview ballerinas ever since not least by our very Brilliantly acted! Sometimes it’s a quick be applauded, and he was at the curtain a particular style of Brazilian brutalism, © Nelson Kon rigorous. His father was an engineer and own Alicia Markova who welcomed coy glance down or a loving look with a calls, for his soaring leaps in Act 2 as combining raw concrete with huge Middle: designer of hydraulic works and port Museu Brasiliero da the opportunity to put her mark on twinkle in the eye. Every moment has a he was commanded to dance to his sections of glazing, light wells and open Escultura facilities, which greatly informed Mendes this iconic moment in the ballet! meaning in her portrayal of this character death. With his super long limbs he walls. Over the past six decades, through © Nelson Kon da Rocha’s education and passion for Right: The composer of this solo has been that Cojocaru has made her own and gave us a Russian masterclass of how a bold use of simple materials, light Ginasio Paulistano infrastructure. This is evident in his raw attributed to both Drigo and Minkus will be remembered for decades to come. to devour one of the UK’s largest stages and form, he has consistently produced Athletic Club concrete forms, which regularly capture © PMDR archive with historians and musicologists not in Hernández was a good Albrecht but for classical ballet. Parish left The Royal buildings with a deep understanding of the language of flyovers and dams. agreement! at times it felt safe and calculated. He Ballet as he was only allowed to hold the poetics of space. For him, architecture Despite Mendes da Rocha’s Before curtain up on the opening danced with stunning classical line and a spear in the corps de ballet. Since is a tool to modify space and landscape, international reputation, there have been night there was a buzz in the audience Courland. Hilarion, a gamekeeper, is high leaps in the last act. Bufalá gave a joining The Marinsky Ballet he has in order to meet both social and aesthetic just a few examples of his work outside with an air of excitement and also in love with Giselle and finds out good account of Hilarion with credible come on in leaps and bounds. Returning human needs. Through this two pronged his home country; Brazil’s pavilion at expectation. It was a night of firsts! that she is lovestruck with Albrecht. On acting skills. Lauretta Summerscales as a Principal Guest Artist, Parish approach to design, he is considered Expo ’70 (Osaka, Japan) and Portugal’s Alina Cojocaru’s first ENB performance finding his sword he realises Albrecht danced with a radiance and assurance demonstrated his inner core strength largely responsible for the modernisation National Coach Museum (Lisbon, as Giselle in this production and likewise is not a commoner but a nobleman and and at times a spirited sensual presence and polished technique when executing of Sao Paulo, substantially aiding the 2015). His Brazilian pavilion was an for Isaac Hernández and Fernando calls the hunt party back to the village. commanding her Wilis to drive and soaring double assemblé taking off like city’s revitalistion through his numerous awe-inspiring display of his engineering Bufalá in the lead roles of Albrecht and Bathilde reveals her engagement to force the men to dance to death. Her a panther in full flight with deliciously notable cultural buildings. skill; an immense concrete slab floating Hilarion respectively. Cojocaru had Albrecht. Broken hearted Giselle loses jetés take flight like a galaxy of stars with soft landings in fifth position. It has to Speaking about the award, RIBA over an undulating landscape, supported previously made Giselle a signature role her mind and dies suddenly stunned mesmerisingly soft lunar landings that be the Russian training. Parish will, in President and chair of the selection at only three points where the landscape having performed the role numerous by the betrayal. Rising as a ghost can only be described as cosmic! Rina time, develop his youthful acting skills committee Jane Duncan said: “Paulo citation: “Paulo’s international stature, to Zaha Hadid shortly before her rose to meet the structure. Whilst times with The Royal Ballet over many from her grave in Act 2 she is forced Kanehara and Cesar Corrales danced a as he gets more performances under his Mendes da Rocha’s work is highly which has been considerable for decades, unexpected death, making her the first temporary, the pavilion embodied what years. by the Queen of the Wilis, Mythra, to crispy clean and energetic peasant pas de belt. Michaela De Prince, guesting from unusual in comparison to the majority arises from a remarkable and sustained woman ever to win the Royal Gold Mendes da Rocha saw as the “founding This gothic romantic love torn convince Albrecht to dance throughout deux in act 1. Dutch National Ballet gave a powerful of the world’s most celebrated architects. combination of architectural originality, Medal in her own right. Other recent trait of architecture”, as an “instrument tragedy is set in a German Rhineland the night until he dies. On the brink of Two days later Lauretta account of Queen of the Wilis. The He is an architect with an incredible social concern, and educational work.” recipients of the accolade include Frank for configuring the land”. village. Skeaping’s choreography and death, Albrecht is saved by the arrival of Summerscales, Xander Parish and dark atmospheric lighting failed to do international reputation, yet almost all Whether a home, church, art museum, Gehry (2000), Norman Foster (1983) “Many decades after being built, each David Walker’s cleverly designed sets dawn, breaking the power of the Wilis Michaela De Prince also had debuts justice to the superbheight od Michaela his masterpieces are built exclusively in or public plaza Mendes da Rocha and Frank Lloyd Wright (1941); Oscar of his projects have resisted the test of create the perfect atmosphere for the who must return to their graves. With in the roles of Giselle, Albrecht and De Prince’s jetés. Once again the corps his home country. Revolutionary and architecture has been guided by a sense Niemeyer (1998) is the only other time, both stylistically and physically,” peasants to celebrate the grape harvest a lasting embrace of love Giselle also Mythra, Queen of the Wilis respectively. de ballet should have a special mention transformative, Mendes da Rocha’s work of responsibility to the inhabitants of his Brazilian architect to have received the said Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with gusto and style. The story is returns to her grave leaving Albrecht Once again the audience was treated to a as they have played a major role to keep typifies the architecture of 1950s Brazil, projects as well as to a broader society. honour. and the board of directors who awarded like most love tales simple, but with alone with his grief. special night of ballet from these young ENB at the very top of the premiere raw, chunky and beautifully ‘brutal’ Mendes da Rocha’s work and its acclaim “After so many years of work, it is a Mendes da Rocha with the Golden intriguing twists. Giselle, a peasant girl, Cojocaru brings all her experience to rising stars. league with total engagement from the concrete… Paulo Mendes da Rocha is also saw him receive the Pritzker Prize, great joy to receive this recognition from Lion for lifetime achievement. “This falls in love with Albrecht an aristrocrat lead this spell-binding love story from Summerscales and Parish gave a peasants, royalty and Wilis. a world-class architect and a true living architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel, in the Royal Institute of British Architects astonishing consistency may be the in disguise who is already engaged to beginning to end. She brings a delightful hypnotically refreshing and youthful A triumphant night of classical ballet legend.” Expanding on this, architect 2006. for the contribution my lifetime of consequence of his ideological integrity Bathilde the daughter of Prince of yet mysterious cocktail of emotions to account of the lead roles. Summerscales presented by ENB. John McAlsan, wrote in his Gold Medal The 2016 medal was presented work and experiments have given to the and his structural genius”. 52 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

The Exhibition is created by the sought to represent the world in a new for events were proceeding at a horrifying Chagall and Kandinsky, as well as the each other across a bridge above. Sussex Bulldog Trust charity and nine Sussex light. Revolution: pace’. In the midst of all this, Russia celebtrated bass opera singer, Feodor Cultural Heroes has a number Museums. It is curated by Dr Hope There are one hundred and twenty was having its own inner turmoil, with Chaliapin, who believed that ‘liberty had of stylish photographs by Moisey Modernism: Wolfe, Lecturer in Modernist Literature exhibits which include Mae West's Lips Russian Art poverty widespread, the nation teetering been turned into tyranny, fraternity into Nappelbaum of the composers Dmitri and Co-Director of the Centre for Sofa looking slightly incongruous in on the brink of economic ruin and the Civil War, and equality meant stomping Shostakovitch and Sergei Prokofiev, Retreat and Modernist Studies at the University of the stairwell at Two Temple Place. Eric 1917-1932 army struggling against Germany. In on anyone who dared raise his head the poets Alexander Blak and Anna Sussex. Gill's Divine Lovers shows religious Royal Academy February 1917 revolution broke out and above the level of the swamp.’ Ahkkmatova, the writer Maxim Gorky, Rebellion She visited many Museums, Galleries iconography mingled with eroticism Tsar Nicholas abdicated, bringing 300 The first gallery is named Salute the with the film-maker Sergei Eisenstein Two Temple Place. and Artists’ homes seeking loans for the and sensitively blended into sculpture. Until 17 April 2017 years of feudal rule to an end. A second Leader and features many images of by Man Ray. Punin is portrayed by Exhibition. Some regional Museums There are several works by Vanessa Bell Admission £18 revolution in October saw the Bolshevik Lenin, including the enigmatic portrait Kasimir Malevich in a flamboyant London WC2 3BD have fine collections of Modernists’ work. and Duncan Grant and an excellent Party under Vladimir Lenin replace the of Lenin in Smolny by Isaak Brodsky, outfit, while he has his own gallery, Until 23rd April 2017 Her visits included Townes House Art nativity scene where Sussex farmhands www.royalacademy.org.uk Provisional Government and Civil War with a dust-sheeted empty armchair which replicates his own hanging of Gallery in Eastbourne, Pallant House acted as models. It is wonderful to see soon followed. opposite the leader, another of him in the 1932 exhibition, including his Gallery in Chichester, Sussex Museum works of John Piper, especially the View The exhibition brings together his coffin by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and infamous Black Square, hung high up in and Galleries, Brighton Museum and of Chichester Cathedral. This comes from the art produced during those years a stiff portrayal of Joseph Stalin in 1927, a corner, where an icon would have been Art Gallery and Ditchling Museum of the Piper Estate/IDACS 2016. The n his book about The House of of radical upheaval, through painting, again by Brodsky. Man and Machine traditionally placed. As the peasants . Trustees of the David Jones Estate Jones of the David Trustees Madonna and Child in a landscape . Jones, David Arts and Crafts. Exhibition provides a great opportunity Wittgenstein, A Family at War, sculpture and some electrifying film, as celebrates the physicality of the workers still made up 80% of the population, a he magnificent, Neo-Gothic Her visits to Artists’ homes included Ditchling where Eric Gill and David to see some paintings of . Alexander Waugh succinctly well as ceramics, textiles and posters. in painting and a series of graphic black large section of the exhibition is given mansion built on Victoria Charleston, home of Vanessa Bell and Jones lived in the Catholic community Glass cabinets contain some interesting Idescribes the extraordinary scrimmage The avant-garde is represented by Marc and white photographs. The great Social over to paintings depicting rural life in Embankment by William Duncan Grant, whom the Bloomsbury and West Dean home of the surrealist exhibits from Edward James and Peggy of nations roused to action in the name Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Realist Brodsky appears again with the Stalin’s collective farms, supplemented WaldorfT Astor is currently the venue set often visited. Farley House Farm in Edward James. Angus. One can sense the political unrest of honour in the immediate aftermath Malevich, Lyubov Popova, Alexander dramatic Shock-worker from Dneprostrol, by posters, photographs, printed textiles for an eclectic exhibition of Sussex Muddles Green near Chiddingly, home The Exhibition reveals an unexpected of the period from Sketch of a Reclining and, surprisingly, Modernists’ work. Paintings, furniture, of Roland Penrose and Lee Miller who network between Serge Chermayeff, Nude by Angus. The Nude is reading porcelain. Trains photographs, poetry and sound often entertained Picasso, Miro and Eric Ravilious, Moholy-Nagy. Henry The Crisis of Capitalist Culture smiling were decorated installations are on view. Lazslo Moholy-Nagy. She also visited Moore and John Piper. They may mysteriously. This work has never been with bright images well have shared views on Socialism, exhibited before. and slogans, and but their work was very different and Dr Wolfe has gathered many sent into the vast the Exhibition displays some striking interesting exhibits which help us countryside to sculpture, architecture and new forms of to explore the Modernist legacy of educate the illiterate photography and film. intellectualism and optimism, but the populace with the Dr Hope questioned why the attraction of Sussex for the Modernists propaganda of countryside, charming villages and still remains a mystery. Communism. The State Russian Museum , Burylin Tractor Sergey seaside towns of Sussex attracted many Marian Maitland writer Alexander Modernist artists in the early 20th Samokhvalov said and Adonis Venus © Tate Duncan Grant, century. They formed communities there Opening Times: Gallery Moscow Tretyakov Bolshevik State The Kustodiev, Boris ‘revolution demands and sometimes lived in domestic and Mon: 10 am-4. 30 pm slogans, symbols sexual life styles which were considered Tuesday. Closed. and posters’, and bizarre at the time. It is possible the Wed: 10 am- 9.00 pm many were made by artists were escaping or seeking a retreat. Thurs: 10 am- 4.30 pm artists who shared Maybe it was easier to flout convention Fri: 10 am- 4.30 pm its political beliefs. in Sussex than elsewhere. Sat: 10 am- 4.30 pm Some artists clung The idyllic Sussex scenery certainly Sun: 11 am- 4.30 pm. onto a romantic inspired them, but there was tension Two Temple Place. view of Old Russia, among themselves and anxiety in their London with Konstantin work. They seemed to challenge the WC2R 3BD Yuon painting pastoral, rustic atmosphere and some www.twotempleplace.org Cupulas and saw horrors in scenic beauty spots. They T: 020 7836 3715 Swallows and The Day of Annunciation in 1922, and Bottiglia e Tre Oggetti, a hand signed of the Sarajevo assassination. ‘On 31 Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin, while 1932, depicting an heroic man on Mikhail Nesterov spending the decade etching, priced at £40,320 and William July 1914 Germany declared war on the Social Realists represented by Isaak a gantry with a naked torso. Shock leading up to the October Revolution Winter Pictures Gear’s Two Heads in watercolour, Russians, who were mobilising troops in Brodsky and Alexander Deineka toiled workers were those that performed painting his ambitious Russia (Soul of the For Sale charcoal and gouache, priced at £5,800. Serbia’s defence: France, in honour of its alongside, until Stalin decreed that art especially arduous or urgent tasks. The People), which was meant to embody the at the Works On Paper Fair A Loan Exhibition from the Eton agreement with Russia, moved against belonged to the state and not to the apportionment of food coupons was ‘Russian ideal.’ College Collection was on view in the Germany; Germany, to protect itself individual, and should express Soviet determined by the number of calories Following two years of famine in Royal Geographical Society. Fair which provided the opportunity to against the French, invaded Belgium, ideology. For a few brief years, the earth each category of worker required, and 1932 and 1933, during which time Exhibition Road see some of the finest works from the whereupon the British (who had not the tilted and the traditionalists and the the Suprematist painter Malevich millions died, due entirely to the abject Classic period of English Watercolour slightest interest in the Serbian quarrel) avant-garde were swept along in a wave constantly argued for more, so art could failure of agricultural collectivisation, London SW7 2QJ painting. These pictures are rarely declared war on Germany in defence of post-Revolutionary euphoric fervour. now be valued in food coupons. Deineka Stalin feared civil unrest from within 9th-12th February. 2017 exhibited and no other school has such a of Belgium’s neutrality. On 5 August Art in Russia was in a state of flux. The painted young, fresh-faced, shoeless and embarked on a series of vicious fine collection. Austro-Hungary declared war on Russia: RA has taken as its starting point the girls in scanty shifts, working in a textile and brutal purges, which saw the arrest, Works by John Constable, David on the 6th Serbia on Germany; and the major exhibition at the State Russian factory or constructing new workshops. imprisonment, torture and execution Cox, Thomas Gainsborough and day after that, Montenegro declared Museum in Leningrad in 1932, curated In the Brave New World section, a giant of countless thousands of early heroes JMW Turner were displayed. A large itself against the Austro-Hungarians and by the prominent art critic Nikolai Bolshevik, by Boris Kustodiev, strides of the Revolution, artists, writers,

This unique Fair was organised by watercolour by Julius Caesar Ibbetson of and Fellows permission of the Provost by reproduced Picture the Germans. On the 10 August France Punin, which represented fifteen years through the city, higher than the snow- intellectuals, peasants and even members Hodgson Events Ltd and a large showing figures skating on the declared war on Austro-Hungary and on of diversity and contrast, where art and capped onion domes, red flag aloft, with of the army. This exceptional exhibition selection of pictures were on sale at Serpentine was on view. This picture was the 12th Great Britain did the same. By politics were inextricably intertwined. the collective masses milling around tells this turbulent story, in an episodic varying prices. Forty specialist art dealers first exhibited at the Royal Academy engraving. Tim Sayer also spoke. These talks the 23rd Japan, thousands of miles away, A few months after Stalin’s death in his feet. Konstantin Yuon’s New Planet way that is both absorbing and revelatory. presented drawings, watercolours and in 1796. Also on display was a work Celebrated Art Historians gave talks provided a splendid opportunity for had pitched in against Germany with the 1953, Punin, who was in a civil union is an extraordinary composition, with An American reporter Lincoln Steffens original prints from Early, Modern and by Alexander and John Robert Cozens in the renowned Ondaatje Theatre twice academic discussion and debate. immediate effect that Austro-Hungary, with the famous poet Anna Ahkmatova, dozens of tiny, black figures gesticulating visted Petrograd in 1919 and wrote to Contemporary Styles. which is interesting because Alexander a day during the Fair. Eminent speakers The Royal Geographical Society in honourable defence of its ally, declared died in the Gulag camp of Vorkuta, after at enormous spheres in the sky, split by a friend, ‘ I have seen the future, and it Pictures included Paul Maze’s The taught drawing at Eton College in the included Dr David Boyd Haycock, was an excellent venue for this unique war on Japan. On 28 August, two short spending the four last years of his life jagged shafts of light. Deineka’s Defence works.’ One wonders what he would have Lancer's Uniform in pastel, which is 1760’s. The Exhibition also presented Frances Spalding. Andrew Grahame- Fair which has been very popular and months after the Sarajevo shootings. locked up for so-called anti-Communist of Petrograd (previously St Petersberg) thought fifteen years later? Or even a priced at £4,500, Giorgio Morandi’s Turner’s Chateau d'Arques near Dieppe Dixon, Henry Little, Phillippa Martin successful on previous occasions. Austro-Hungary declared war on activities. Many artists, poets, composers depicts strong, determined soldiers march hundred? Grande Natura Morta Circolare Con which was first published as an and Anne Desmet. Simon Wallis and Marian Maitland. Belgium. More countries would follow, and writers fled Russia, including past the viewer, while the wounded help Don Grant 54 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

MAX rearranging its nonlinear plot into three a number of hidden doors, distinct chapters. Both he and the play’s The Girls the actual stagecraft Feldman author, Tarell Alvin McCraney, grew Phoenix Theatre proves a delight. This is REVIEWS up in the Liberty City housing projects, vital in building audience where Moonlight is set, their shared © Sub Pop Photograph Playing until 22nd April investment in the lives of background seems crucial to the film’s the close-knit community vital specificity. during a first half which Moonlight is obsessed with cycles, can initially seem overlong, Moonlight even from it’s opening shot where a but on reflection is perfectly Dewynters © Matt Crockett, Photograph Director: Barry Jenkins camera obsessively swings around a car pitched to earn the on a street corner. Cycles of crime, drugs, emotional catharsis of the Running Time: 111 minutes poverty envelop Chiron like the links or the professional cynic the very far zippier second half. The of a chain, whilst Moonlight may be an idea of The Girls, a technicolour musical’s order of events are intensely personal story, its concerns bright musical version of Calendar dramatically shifted around are perennial. As the film begins the FGirls co-written by Gary Barlow, might from both the play and primary relationship we see Chiron be enough to bring one out in hives. the film with events now fter the echo-chambered build is with Juan (Mahershala Ali), However even those who wear cynicism culminating in the notably shitstorm that was the the drug dealer who discovers young like a uniform might grudgingly have to uproarious nude photoshoot, #Oscarssowhite scandal, it Chiron (Hibert) hiding in a vacant acknowledge that even if The Girls just which certainly makes for a would have almost been a miracle if building and starts looking after the wants to have fun, it’s able to wring out dramatic ending (if causing A some unexpected poignancy along with Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, a throbbing, boy. A viewer might doubt the man’s the first half to feel a tad emotional howl tracing the life of a motives (is he grooming another kid the toe-tappers. Barlow’s co-author Tim stretched, as mentioned poor, gay black man didn’t take home for the corner?) were it not for the great Firth also scripted the film and the play, before). In addition, new subplots have approach. Riding’s two stand out songs When the climatic photo-shoot takes the Best Picture. Moonlight took home paternal warmth Ali conveys, especially so you could be excused for wondering sprung up to help fill the gap, with pride Kilimanjaro and Scarborough are deeply place, the musical manages to leap over the statuette, (though not before a during the deeply moving scene where whether artistic fatigue was in danger of place taken by the teenage trials of heartfelt explorations of loss of a kind any feeling of grubbiness and succeeds further shitstorm where La La Land Juan and his girlfriend ( Janelle Monáe) of creeping in by this third instalment, the Larkin-spouting son of one of the that might come as a surprise after in becoming surprisingly empowering. was accidentally awarded it), not just talk to Chiron, with honesty and without but Firth seems to have been positively eponymous Girls, whose hilariously the feel good flair seemingly promised Coming down hard on ageism without just providing the Academy with some judgment, about his sexuality. with No Cities To Love in secret over the energised by the challenges of giving inept seduction of a newly transferred by the opening pæan to all things being didactic about it, The Girls much needed artistic credibility, but is The question of what it really means course of 2014, less of an album than a musical remodelling to the by now female student could probably have been about Yorkshire (the creatively named succeeds in serving as the very best of also one of the best films of a year that’s to be a man hangs over Moonlight, and Sleater-Kinney a breakneck ride of 10 white-knuckle familiar real-life story of the group of extended into an entirely separate spin- Yorkshire) but it’s this balance of no-holds this kind of popcorn entertainment already been frontloaded with some Jenkins gets into the expectations put Sleater-Kinney Live In Paris songs that simultaneously felt densely middle-aged Yorkshire women from the off musical on the strength of its comedy. barred show-biz stomp coupled with the whilst flavoured with that vital hint of extraordinary cinema. on boys (and that boys put on each packed and ready to explode, many of local Women’s Institute who raised over The Girls wisely makes the tragic emotive undertones of less conventional something more. It certainly can’t be held In the immediate post-Boyhood other) to act, talk, and feel a certain way, which get pride of place on Live In Paris. 5 million for charity by stripping off for a death of Annie’s ( Joanna Riding, subject matter (let’s face it, cancer isn’t up as high art but if you are prepared to landscape, it was hard to imagine that to always fight and to never cry. The The live album comes with a taut feel nude calendar. a stand-out) husband its dramatic the easiest subject to turn into an all- meet The Girls on their level it’s hard not a director would attempt to step-on film jumps, in its second chapter, into that belies its thirteen-track running With an ingenious set constructed centre, which enables a light touch of singing all dancing extravaganza) that to agree that they can hold their own Richard Linklanter’s time-lapsed toes the social battleground of high school, length. Choice cuts from No Cities to from rolling hills made out of green- melancholic pathos to suffuse what seems to point towards The Girls proving against any of the other musical big boys with a film that followed such a similar where Chiron (now Sanders, playing a Describing something as ‘a great reunion Love seemed to have been plucked hued cupboards, which spin and conceal could otherwise be an unbearably frothy a big hit with West End audiences. in the West End. coming of age arc for at least a couple chronically self-conscious teen) weathers album’ tends to be as backhanded specifically for their urgency whether of years. But Moonlight’s beautiful harassment from his peers, who can tell a compliment as describing an snarling at the high cost of low prices and sensitive approach manages to do he’s different from them. But he also acquaintance’s plastic surgery as, “barely of the simmering opener Price Tag or stripped-down follow-up, most intimate, as Ty Segall’s back half effortlessly with three distinct actors gets closer with Kevin ( Jharrel Jerome), noticeable.” If you can tell at a glance, the never-more-danceable Surface Envy Ty Segall: Freedom, a scrappy, acoustic- yields the prettiest, most pristine pop what Boyhood pulled off with one; introduced as a young boy in the previous it probably wasn’t worth it. Yet in 2015 being cases in point, and the approach Ty Segall powered number that recalls songs he’s ever written: Orange Color the three actors who portray main segment, and the film shows how their Sleater-Kinney managed to defy that to the rest of the back catalogue follows John Lennon’s frantic Queen is a mash note to his girlfriend character Chiron at different stages of bond, a friendship teetering on the edge particular piece of damning faint praise a similar tack. 1997’s Dig Me Out was Abbey Road curio Polythene rendered in T. Rex’s mystic-lady his life might not look the same but of something more, is both defined and by unleashing an album No Cities To Love an almost exclusively breakneck affair, Pam. language; the piano-rolled Papers wraps But that’s not the only the album’s catchiest chorus around a their performances lock together like a threatened by what they’ve been taught that could only be described as great with so it’s no surprise to see both the title Back in the ’60s, when bands like the move Segall has cribbed cluttered-desk scene straight out of a late flipbook: any missing pieces would bring Stars All Rock Kill Segall ©Ty Photograph about masculinity. a capital G; accept no substitutes, and track and Turn It On included, but Rolling Stones were averaging three the whole portrait crashing down. By the third chapter Chiron has from the second side of 60s Kinks album. And on Take Care (to the newly released Sleater Kinney Live In more gripping still is Start Together , the new albums a year, they’d also drop Chiron is the son of a crack addict developed into a fearsomely muscular that Beatles classic. Freedom Comb Your Hair), Segall shrewdly builds Paris recorded during the victory lap tour opener from The Hot Rock that set the quickie compilations along the way to mother (an unrecognisable Naomi young man who bears more than a immediately gives way a deceptively hippy-dippy folk song for that album should serve as a perfect tone for that album’s nervy atmospherics summarize a particularly prolific period Harris, who amazingly shot all of her passing resemblance to Juan and that introduction for casual listeners and and is even tenser in its live form, with to an epic sequel, Warm into a Who-sized barrage of finger- (or just cash-in on more casual fans). As scenes in under a week whilst she was blurring of character proves key to the anyone not aware of the band’s impact on Corin Tucker’s vocals battling hectic Hands (Freedom Returned), slicing windmill strums and kit-toppling someone who aspires to a ’60s Stones playing Moneypenny in Spectre) growing film’s final act. Moonlight reaches for big the last two decades of indie rock. overlapping guitars for prominence. a 10-minute multi-sectional drum rolls, effortlessly bridging the ideal (in terms of both his sheer level up in the avid night-blue wastelands that insights on identity, race, culture, and For the uninitiated Sleater-Kinney Live In Paris finds Sleater Kinney suite that ricochets between troubadour and trouble-maker sides of of output and his ever-evolving garage- lurk behind the glitz of the Miami strip. sexuality, but never at the expense of the are a three-piece all-girl ensemble who tearing through their back-catalogue warped glam-folk, proto- his personality. rock aesthetic) Ty Segall is also wont to Jenkins, returning to feature filmmaking small, heartrending character study at its rose from the ashes of the Riot Grrrl like a rabid wolf, frenzied but never metal ferocity, sneering Of course, Segall can’t help but follow some seven years after Medicine For centre. Jenkins has done more than just movement in 1995 armed with a furious sacrificing their pop sensibility, with drop the occasional summary collection self-titled album in his discography (after British Invasion swagger, overdriven up these handsomely packaged songs Melancholy, adapted the script from expand and rearrange his source material; twin guitar attack. The band, always the kind of brio that bands half their that allows the average listener to play his 2008 eponymous debut), seemingly fuzz-punk, and a jazzy guitar jam that with Untitled, which is really just a four- a short, autobiographical stage play he also gives it an urgent cinematic critical darlings, if never a household age would give their eye teeth for. The catch-up. Except Segall is so restless because its 10 tracks offer a complete attempts to out-Santana the Stones’ second blurt of guitar noise that closes called In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, rhythm, a heartbeat. name, unleashed a string of classic obvious downside of being a band with and relentless, of course, that these portrait of his many capabilities. But Ty Can’t You Hear Me Knocking. It’s the the album with all the subtlety of a fart albums between 1996-2006, each more serious history, however, is that fans compilations actually comprise all new Segall is more than just an easy entry most ambitious, audacious piece of music let out in the most crucial moment of a nuanced than the one before, anchored who prefer the old stuff are probably material. point into his imposing catalog. The Segall has ever produced, but he whisks wedding ceremony. But that throwaway with fiercely polemical views on gender always going to be a given. Considering In the fall of 2012, Segall dropped new album shows Segall has not only through the song’s train-like structure gag nonetheless serves as a reminder of and politics and tied together with a sly that Sleater-Kinney were playing fan Twins, an eclectic album that took a mastered several, stylistically divergent with such manic glee that this colossal Segall’s most essential quality: his refusal Photograph Photograph © A24 sense of humour. They also delivered favourites like Little Babies, Words and tasting-menu approach to the three strains of rock, he’s becoming ever more track ultimately feels as brisk and to settle. Rather than chart a typically balls (ovaries?) to the wall rocking that Guitar and You’re No Rock and Roll Fun aesthetically discrete albums that adept at seamlessly stitching them economical as a seven-inch single. linear course from raw to refined, Segall kicked most of their better known (and on the 2015 tour their absence on the immediately preceded it. Likewise, together. Given that it’s dropped early on in has constructed a discography more like male) peers up and down the street. album feels a little hard to explain, when Segall’s new album feels like a sampler Segall’s mischievous zeal is the the No. 3 slot, Warm Hands (Freedom a zig-zagging thrill ride liable to careen After 2006’s The Woods (a career placed next to some of the selections of what he’s been up to in the half- glue that ultimately holds this album’s Returned) casts a long shadow over the off into any direction. And whether it’s highlight) the band unexpectedly called from No Cities To Love. This is a minor decade since: the melancholic acoustic disparate pieces together, particularly rest of the album. In its wake, even the the jarring track-to-track juxtapositions it a day, leaving indie rock drowning in a gripe though. Live At Paris’s quicksilver meditations of Sleeper, the classicist when they collide in the same song. sludgy stomper The Only One and the or within the shape-shifting songs quagmire of beards, acoustic guitars and assault and witty lyrics should draw in craftsmanship of Manipulator, the Marc Bulldozing opener Break a Guitar forges wild, glass-smashing roadhouse rave- themselves, Ty Segall shows that, overly sensitive young men that we are the old fans and serve as the perfect Bolan séances of T Rex, the diseased, a holy communion between Big Star up Thank You Mr. K feel a bit rote in nearly a decade into the game, the only still trying to claw our way out of to this primer for the neophyte. dementoid psych-punk of last year’s melody and Black Sabbath brawn, and comparison. But Segall wisely balances predictable thing about Segall is his day. Sleater-Kinney explosively returned Emotional Mugger. Ty Segall is the second its cocksure attitude spills over to the his most epic gestures to date with his ability to continually surprise. 56 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Paintings typically come in the form journalist in Communist China, where patently thought would Classical and of hanging scrolls which are unrolled he was Reuters’ correspondent between Electricity: enhance their product and displayed on a wall, and hand scrolls 1956 and 1960. through the novelty of Modern Chinese which are unrolled gradually, right to left, Whilst at a party, Chipp The Spark of Life electricity. Alongside is along a flat surface. Many works are now inadvertently stepped on the toes of Wellcome Collection a photo of an electric Photograph © Wellcome Paintings framed for the convenience of display Chairman Mao, the notorious leader chair from Sing Sing 15 May 2017 and storage. and founder of the People’s Republic of Until 25 June 2017 Prison, New York, and a Works often bear the signature or red China from 1949 to 1976. His published Free admission 2 minute clip from James seal mark of an earlier artist and part of memoirs recollect that the leader was Whale’s 1931 classic the fun of studying Chinese paintings greatly amused by the incident, a tribute www.wellcomecollection.org film Frankenstein. The for connoisseurs is deciphering how close to Chipp’s charming and personable exhibition is notionally a painting is to the work of the original manner. split into three core artist. In his memoirs, Chipp mentions or an exhibition about electricity, t has been three years since the I am afraid this just lacked spark. sections; generation, Perhaps one of the most accessible that his translator “encouraged me to supply and consumption. V&A’s blockbuster exhibition of areas of Chinese are the works of buy paintings by the 93-year-old Qi I could go on and say it didn’t classical Chinese paintings but the really turn me on, but there were enough In Supply: Wiring the Chinese modernist painters working Baishi. These proved a great investment”. F World is a ten minute capital’s reputation as a go-to place for diverse objects and some fine film clips I during the 20th Century. At the same Indeed, the last Qi Baishi painting sold film called Berlin: Chinese paintings may be set to continue time as Matisse and Picasso were by Chiswick Auctions fetched £48,800 to just about galvanise the visitor. In Symphony of a Great City with London’s first ever dedicated sale of transforming Western art, artists like (including premium) in November 2016. spite of the neo-brutalism pylon-like by Walter Ruttman, Chinese paintings. The sale will be held Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian were Lazarus Halstead, Head of Asian Art steel cabinets, it had an old-fashioned showing many aspects of at Chiswick Auctions, West London, transforming the hallowed traditions commented “The painting is not only look, falling back on the things-in-glass- the effects of electricity, which has already established a strong of Chinese ink paintings. The artists an important work in its own right but cases school of display. One contained from shop windows to reputation in the field. now have annual global sales which it also bears testament to Anglo-Sino a copy of a science-fiction book called The watery landscapes which make rival their Western counterparts and relations at a time when few Westerns The Coming Race, written in 1871 by stage shows and neon up the primary genre of ink paintings hold an important and increasingly were allowed to visit, let alone live in Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton, signs to trams. Another are often considered to be inaccessible to acknowledged place in World Art. China.” who coined the phrase ‘the pen is extract shows the moving a Western audience, and yet the prices A work by the artist Qi Baishi, Provenance, the history of what has mightier than the sword.’ In the novel, boardwalk at the Paris achieved in UK auctions have never been dubbed the ‘Chinese Picasso’, from the happened to a painting since it was the plot centred around a superior race World Fair in 1900, made so strong. collection of esteemed journalist David first created, is a key consideration of of people, the Vril-ya, who derived by Thomas Edison. In Indeed Chinese painters have Chipp (1927-2008), will be offered successfully selling Chinese paintings their powers from an electromagnetic Consumption: The Silent Servant is Wellcome had become relied upon to has become such a part of our everyday been less interested in direct pictorial in the Classical And Modern Chinese from the Modern and Classical periods. substance called ‘Vril’. Bovril added that another 2-minute film clip, this time provide in previous shows. One of the life and is a component in virtually representation for much longer than Paintings Sale at Chiswick Auctions on The sale will be on view for the week to the Latin for ox, namely bos, and came from Buster Keaton’s The Electric House, three commissioned works of art is a everything we do, including the function artists of the West. Thus many works will May 15th, 2017. up to the 15th May and is open for up with the famous beef extract in the which is as mad as it gets. Apart from zoetrope installation featuring origami of our brains and the structure of the attempt to evoke an emotional response The painting is from the collection consignments. If you have a painting and 1870s. One grotesque press ad shows book illustrations, a pair of ‘rayographs’ animals made from folded electricity atom. This show goes some way to tell in the viewer through a combination of David Chipp (1927-2008), former would like a free valuation please get in two oxen strapped uncomfortably into by Man Ray and an Underground poster bills, but, as it involved intense strobe how ‘the great invisible’ has been viewed of brushwork, shading, calligraphy and editor-in-chief at Reuters and the Press touch before the 10 March 2016. electric chairs with the caption ‘Bovril for Lots Road Power Station, there is lighting, the only effect it had on this over the years, but it needed more charge. poetry. Association, and the first Western www. chiswickauctions.co.uk by Electrocution’, which the company not a great deal of art, something the visitor was to make him dizzy. Electricity Don Grant

of elegant colonnades in Bologna, and Even so, the detail, at time, is so dense, Violette Szabó, immortalised in the feature pages from the score of J S Bach’s one wonders how Stroud can possibly book and subsequent film Carve Her Neural Architects Lonely Courage know every single event, from lighting Name with Pride. The cryptographer Unicorn Publishing Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) By Rick Stroud on one side, and UCL’s eleven Nobel a cigarette, to crossing the road, to what Leo Marks, who clearly appreciated 136pp. £30. prizewinners on the other. On the back Simon & Schuster was said in a Gestapo interrogation, female beauty, was smitten with her, but the stories rattle along at a pace. and gave her, for encryption, his moving ISBN 978-1-910787-48-9 of the building, the same lamellar device 296pp. £20 is used as a screen, but ice-white, which Three things emerge whilst reading this poem moves and ripples in the wind. The ISBN: 978-1-4711-5565-9 book, the first being the extraordinary courage these women displayed, in facade is a series of undulating vertical ‘The life that I have some cases, right up until their capture waves, punctuated by triple-glazed Rick Stroud has been buiding up a small and subsequent torture and death. The Is all that I have windows that actually open. The book arsenal of true stories from the Second second is the incompetence shown by is also puntuated with spurious pictures And the life that I have The president of Stanford University World War, if not to rival Ben McIntyre, some of their British masters back in of neurons and neural circuits, alongside Is yours. Marc Tessier-Lavigne states rather certainly to fire a warning shot across his SOE headquarters in Baker Street, photographs of other laboratories across vauntingly that ‘the whole idea was to bows. He wrote no less than three with particularly by Col Maurice Buckmaster, in the US. Some will find the ‘cluttered’ design the building from the inside Victor Gregg, Rifleman, King’s Cross Kid whose ineptitude was only matched by lab at the Salk Institute, where Joseph The love that I have out’. Is that not how all buildings are and Soldier Spy, followed by a fascinating his stubborness. On one occasion, an Salk discovered the vaccine that so designed? The architect Ian Ritchie account of camouflage in the Western agent Gilbert Norman had been captured Of the life that I have nearly eradicated polio worldwide, more professes to not doing any preliminary Desert, The Phantom Army of Alamein, and the Germans carried on transmitting Is yours and yours and yours. drawings, preferring to use mind-maps appealing than the squeaky-clean white then Kidnap in Crete, about the capture as though he was still at liberty. When and poetry to establish the parameters. work-stations in the SWC. How soon of a German General by Patrick Leigh a decoded message arrived, it was noted ‘My architecture starts in the space I before the neuroscientists introduce a Fermor from the Special Operations that the transmitting hand had been A sleep I shall have create in my mind,’ he cooed. This book framed photograph of their children or Executive and the Cretan resistance. ‘stilted’, and the secret security check had A rest I shall have tells the story of how the Sainsbury a postcard from a friend or a model of a In this tale, he focuses on seven of been omitted. He ordered a message to Yet death will be but a pause. Wellcome Centre for Neuroscience Star Wars Stormtrooper onto their desks? the 39 brave women agents who were be sent, in spite of loud protests from his the George Cross, as was Violette Szabó. was designed and built in Howland The building certainly does brighten trained by the SOE and infiltrated into staff, reading, ‘You have forgotten your After the war, Marks wrote Between Street, off the Tottenham Court Road up an otherwise dull street, particularly occupied France to help and organize double security check. Be more careful in For the peace of my years Silk and Cyanide, which was critical of in London. It has to be said that in as the building for the Structural Civil the Resistance against the Nazis. Stroud future’. The Germans were thrilled and In the long green grass the leadership of SOE, which had been spite of the self-congratulatory tone of and Building Services Engineers for the uses an episodic narrative technique showed the message to their prisoner at described as ‘a mixture of brilliant brains the design process, it is quite a pleasing SWC, Ove Arup, is across the road, with to draw the reader in, threading many the Avenue Foch, who was both amazed Will be yours and yours and and bungling amateurs’. There is one building from the outside, at least on its phoney ducting, described by one different strands, which eventually are and angered at his crass stupidity, as they yours. . .’ quotable throwaway line in this absobing a dingy evening in February, where observer as ‘an alien parasite sucking the woven together to produce a coherent carried on using his radio transmittor. book. Some German officers went to it exuded an inner glow. Above the life out of an office block’. One question story, like a patchwork quilt. There The third factor to come out, is the shear He also took a shine to Noor Inayat meet Picasso, described by their Fuhrer colonnaded walkway hang row upon row remains; who would buy this book? are a bewildering number of names to brutality of the occupying forces and how Khan, a delcate and slender woman, as a ‘degenerate artist’, and coming upon of rectangular flags, or ‘pixels’ as Ritchie Architects, designers or neuroscientists? remember, and the author has made it disgracefully they treated their captors. who was the first wireless operator to be a reproduction of Guernica, asked him calls them, inspired by the pennants It’s a no-brainer. easier for the reader by trying not to mix One of the most famous agents featured infiltrated into occupied France, and who who did it. Picasso replied, ‘You did.’ that used to hang in the 40 kilometres DG real names with code and field names. by Stroud is the young and stunning was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Don Grant 58 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Travel Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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e travelled to San Jose in Costa Rica by BA; the flight arcelona is one of Spain’s most was delayed by 90 minutes as visited cities, but just down the theW fuel gauges did not match (the recent coast to the south, Valencia offers crash in Columbia was a thought but its own unique alternative architectural not spoken) so understandably we had to B wait for them to be rectified. experience. Due to the city’s more compact size, it’s easy to see most of the The flight was packed and given it delights on foot; a lot can be covered should have left at 08.30 most people in a short stay of a few days, but go for must have started out around 02.00 or so longer and you can take advantage of the to arrive at an already heaving Gatwick. long sandy beach stretching the length of Still it is such a better experience than the city, ideal for hot summer days, and Heathrow. The flight was ten and a there’s a good public transport system half hours.....which in cattle class is for getting around town and to outlying hard going....no internet, not a single areas. You might be surprised to find that film worth watching, no games to play, Spanish isn’t the first language spoken rubbish wines and indifferent food. This here; Valenciano is a dialect of Catalan, is not the BA we once knew. It feels like signage is written in Catalan too. the airline equivalent of Debenhams. It would be hard to describe the The Turia River that used to bisect We arrived just after three in the house we rented. There was not another the town was re-routed after a dramatic afternoon local time (a six hour time one in our sight lines as we looked over flood and the old riverbed has been difference); customs was a struggle with the pool to a wondrous beach with converted into a 9 km long park. two planes arriving within five minutes. waves crashing around us. We were not One of the highlights of my visit As ever there were not enough staff or its only inhabitants. We were joined by was the extraordinary architecture of booths and it took a further hour to clear. the pelican fly pasts (the Black Arrows) the futuristic City of Arts and Sciences Finding the Avis car rental desk was on the hour every hour, the iguana designed by Spanish architect Santiago a nightmare. It was not at the airport...... competitions to see which one of them Calatrava that includes a planetarium, and no-one could tell us in our GCSE could climb up the palm trees the fastest, an opera house and a science museum. Spanish where it was, which was two the humming humming birds and the I then went back in time to the 15th miles away! Naturally, there was no extraordinary vultures, parrots and century; Lonja de Los Mercaderes, known signage at the airport and somewhat butterflies. And at night the frogs took a as the Merchants’ Market or the Silk tired we floundered. Eventually, by luck We spotted a taxi and with good grace we did not fancy any more driving (well free dip. Market was a forum for banking and and gesticulation we made our way to we followed him to our destination: the I didn’t). Aside from playing Pandemic or commerce in the late Middle Ages. Avis where naturally, dear reader, they Hotel Grand De Oro. On Monday we woke to torrential Piquet we read, caught up with the With its mix of Gothic and Renaissance could not find our details even though I awoke the next day feeling poorly rain... buckets of it...... I guess we should gossip, ate, swam, walked and played in architecture and its unique twisted I had them on my iPhone with all and so, given we would be up in the have been a tad smarter given we were the sea or simply slept. Day after day columns it has justly won its place as a their references et al. This was another mountains today and tomorrow and then actually in a rain forest. We managed a after day we chilled. Chilled champagne, World Heritage Site. wasted hour and another crappy service a long way from life on a beach, I called a Butterfly centre, saw some monkeys and chilled Chilean whites and plenty of The central square of Valencia is the company just wanting to skin you. doctor. He said he would be at our hotel parrots and simply lusted after the sun. mixers. Plaza del Ayuntamiento, from here we Someone will do an Uber on hire by ten and arrived just before midday. In Gratefully, we drove next to Playa Of course we talked endlessly about wandered through streets and narrow cars some day soon and modernise the fifteen minutes, I had lost $200 to his Azul on the Pacific coast where we had Brexit and Trump and of Obama whose walkways resplendent with creative whole process with a single card which fee. hired a five bedroom house with three eight year presidency has been so quickly graffitied wall art to the Mercat Central, both pays for the experience and opens Finally, we set out for Nepenthe, a bathrooms, an infinity pool and a cook forgotten, plus naturally, the end of the a fine example of Modernist architecture the car. After all this is what the Oyster small hotel, high up in the hills close courtesy of Airbnb. (In 2006, just under world as we understood it. There was one housing a profusion of air-dried hams, card is morphing into. The process is a to Lake Arenal about 160 miles away. one thousand people used Airbnb this wondrous surprise when my daughter’s fruit and vegetables and decorative scam. You hire a car for £500 in the UK It took us longer than we could have last year, nearly 2m have hired a house or boyfriend proposed to her on our last architectural details. The equally lovely but by the time you have paid for the anticipated and we were grateful that the rooms in a house). En route and a dozen night. Hooray. All too soon planes were Mercado Colon built in the Art Nouveau a table at Casa Carmela in the Malvarosa Mar where you pick your can of fish insurance and satnav at the rental desk, weather was warm and the roads quiet calls later, we wore out Avis’s patience dispatched to take us home. Except. style has been converted into an area of district. Snails, mussels and horsemeat from the shelves and have it opened up it has doubled and that’s just for a week! and largely free of potholes. I was tired and swapped our car for a 4x4 at Budget. Except we were heading next to Havana bars and restaurants. Next to the Central are all used in the local cuisine; another and served with a salad, then on to bars Maybe a UK insurance company could and nearly five hours of driving added to It was the best decision we made all for the New Year to join the celebrations Bullring is the main train station, Estacio peasant dish is All i pebre; eels with such as La Paca bar in Calle Rosari which offer a deal to insure us for a week to my general feeling that we should have holiday! Whilst we were keen to see the of the 58th year of the Republic. del Nord, another exceptional Modernist potatoes paprika and garlic. Fish now will give you a drink and a tapa for 2 drive a rental car overseas for £100. It just gone straight to the beach! animal and bird life here in Costa, we I had previously been to Venezuela, design still covered throughout by comes from the Atlantic and the price euros. is a £multi billion business waiting to The wish for a 4x4 began to dominate really just wanted to be by the beach Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina so Costa original Art Deco tile work. has soared. There are some great up- There is still a lot of traditional food happen. our conversation as it took nearly fifty with our children. Rica was a first. I cannot recommend Valencia is a paradise for restaurants market venues including three from in Valencia, look out for horchatarias; bars We set off for our hotel exhausted but minutes to make our way off the ‘main’ Our families live in Seattle, New it enough. The countryside people are goers, and claims to be the original home international chef Ricard Camarena; try selling Horchata, a milky drink with a strangely exhilarated. This was a first for road by the Arenal, a huge man-made York, and Brixton and had friendly, helpful, kind and generous. of the paella. The Albufera is a rice his Central Bar in the Central Market. very particular taste made from crushed both of us. Six miles down the road in lake, for us to reach our destination. It travelled via LA and Houston to Liberia The animal and bird life is fantastic growing area; its lake and wetland area, There’s Mexican and Japanese, the tiger nuts. Then there are bakeries San Jose we found all the roads blocked was barely five miles but the dirt track a small town in the north of Costa and and on the Atlantic side there’s a an hour from the city, is a haven for birds option of fusion at Seu Xerea and for an displaying breads baked with olives, nuts, which confused us and of course our Mrs made it more difficult in our car as we from there to Playa Azul. The road chance of seeing cougars and jaguars. and wildlife. Go to El Palmar village to excellent choice of wines, Tasca Montana vegetables or fish inside. A few days in Waze. We went round and round and bounced from side to side. Our eco-style system was impressive and though On the Pacific coast, there is sailing, try the traditional version of the paella, in Cabanyal, the old fishermen’s area. A Valencia will give you a taste, but you will round. This was not the start we would lodge was cold and uninviting. This is Highway 190 remains unpaved for 20 snorkelling and surfing, but be wary of here made with rabbit or chicken and huge variety of atmospheres and prices find yourself wanting to come back for have wished. It felt as if the sun had set not what we planned. We settled for miles or so, it was an easier drive than the riff tides if you swim. Most of all beans, or in the centre of Valencia, book including the funky La Cooperative del more. on us; we were completely in the dark. supper a mere 100m down the road as Arenal. remember that 4x4! 60 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Health Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

What sorts of symptoms prompt urgency and/or incontinence can happen "Would the costs seamless. The whole process took two Specialist people to come and see you? at any age and can also affect women The body needs of a body MOT be visits and were within a two-day period Patients who are pregnant or post- who do a lot of physical activity as well to suit my diary. as post-menopausal women. hazardous to my Once completed, I returned to see physiotherapy natal often report pain in their pelvis, © Lister Photograph an MOT in the heart of Chelsea lower back or hips. Some women have health and would the GP and was presented with my PGP (pelvic girdle pain) which can cause What sort of treatment do you Kate Hawthorne looks at own ‘health folder’. This contained pain around the pelvic area or in the advise? the benefits of visiting the the benefits of the all the results; detailed blood tests, lower back which might be worse when For women who have lower back information make CDs of all the scans and a summary of walking, going upstairs or standing on pain or PGP during pregnancy it’s Advanced Screening Centre advice, recommendations of lifestyle one leg. really important to work to activate the the investment and medication to support the results. isling Finn, women’s With patients who are having pelvic pelvic floor muscles and to build up worthwhile?" The factors that were highlighted health physiotherapist floor problems, they might report feeling core strength, so we advise patients on from the diagnostic procedures would a heaviness or a pulling down in that mobility and strengthening exercises, aving been through various not have been picked up from normal at The Lister Hospital area, particularly at the end of the day posture correction, or even using aids health checks, house moves, health checks and would have been left and Chelsea Medical Centre, or while lifting something heavy, which such as a maternity support belt, and we different GPs and hospital visits undiscovered and untreated. The ‘health A could indicate a pelvic organ prolapse. also perform manual therapy techniques. over the last few years I was concerned folder’ forensic records on each part of both part of HCA Healthcare H Other women complain of leaking when In patients who have pelvic floor that all the information pertaining to the body, together with the summary, UK, talks about her role and they cough, sneeze or laugh and/or problems, our work may involve my health would be impossible to track addressed the remedial action required bladder urgency. educating them on how to strengthen when needed. With different specialists now and for the future. some of the conditions that Patients who have had a recent their pelvic floor muscles, or others who treating only individual parts of my she treats. surgery or a tear with childbirth might have a very tight pelvic floor may require anatomy, and the various data housed The Result report a painful or sensitive scar or have breathing and relaxation exercises. in different places, there was no full Peace of mind and a gratefulness What are some of the main pain around that area, which we can treat For people who have bladder urgency record of my overall health to support GP who takes you through your family neurological examinations as well as a that this information would prevent conditions that you see in your with massage techniques. or incontinence we would work on individual medical issues as and when history to assess any relevant genetic full set of blood tests. undetected problems developing in the clinic? bladder re-training techniques along they occurred. and health related information. This is The whole process was conducted future, and that my current medical As a physiotherapist specialising in Do you see lots of pregnant women with information and advice on fluid and But would the costs of a body MOT followed by a thorough examination, pleasantly and efficiently, and no issues will now be addressed. In a perfect women’s health I see a wide range of in your clinic? dietary intake. be hazardous to my health and would from tip to toe, and a detailed discussion waiting time. The only unfortunate world, this service would be on our conditions, from pelvic floor problems I do see many patients who are the benefits of the information make about health fears, current conditions glitch was my decision to hear classical excellent but fading NHS system. In a to pain associated with pregnancy, to pregnant or who have recently given Where should people go for more the investment worthwhile? This was and medical history and from this a music in headphones during the Pelvic perfect world, our NHS doctors would women who would like to learn more birth. It’s a time when your body information? overridden by a quest for peace of mind decision as to what diagnostic screenings Scan, which resulted in Wagner’s most have the time and facilities they need about exercising safely during pregnancy undergoes lots of changes so it’s Visit www.thelisterhospital.com for and supported savings accrued from would be most appropriate. We selected tempestuous score accompanying me to treat their patients. It is why such and after giving birth. I also see women important to listen to it and seek help if more information on the women’s health some serious self denial! a Bone Density Scan, a pelvic MRI, a through the tunnel. The surrealness dedicated, brilliant people turn to this pre-and post-gynaecology surgery, as you do have pain. physiotherapy services we offer, or to get An appointment was made with Mammogram, and a chest screening. of this untimely performance did profession. We need to support them to well as patients who have bladder or But it’s not all about women who have in touch about an appointment contact the Advanced Screening Centre at the I was also given a separate eye test, a help me to see the humour of the receive whatever they need. bowel urgency or incontinence, prolapses, had babies. Pelvic floor problems such us at [email protected], Harley Street Clinic. respiratory examination, skin, neck, situation however, and the rest of or have had a caesarean section. as pelvic organ prolapse, bladder/ bowel or T: 020 7824 8041. The first appointment was with a musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and the appointments were peaceful and www.advancedscreeningcentre.co.uk

Harley Street Clinic “outstanding” among London’s private Clinic Street © Harley Photograph hospitals By Ione Bingley The Lister Hospital is a private hospital located in the heart of Chelsea. It has This year saw Harley Street Clinic been providing care and treatment for rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality over 30 years. Commission, making them the first private hospital in London to lay claim to this impressive accolade. Our service is bespoke to your medical The hospital puts it down to their world-class intensive care units that needs with access to the capital’s leading are central to their specialist services, specialists and treatments. allowing the hospital to offer the latest technology and advanced care to patients their unique groups of specialists that Testament to their cutting-edge Harley Street Clinic receives the very requiring complex procedures, many of work across several different medical approach, The Harley Street Clinic best, high quality, patient centred care We want you to feel like family from the whom are children and babies. disciplines for the treatment of each were the first hospital in the Britain to in modern facilities,” says Sullivan. “Our “Our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, individual case. offer Cyberknife treatment, the only staff culture is steeped in compassion and moment you walk through our door. the largest in Europe, is the bedrock of “Our Multidisciplinary Teams mean radiosurgery system that uses advanced individualised care, whilst our medical our children’s hospital, which is one of that patients’ care and treatment plans robotics to treat tumours anywhere in facilities are among the most advanced in the largest, most vibrant and innovative are assessed by a network of the most the body. They were also one of the first Call now to book an appointment: the world.” centres for paediatric medicine in qualified and experienced clinicians in health centres to offer the Rosa Robotic While the Harley Street Clinic does Europe,” says Chief Operating Officer at medicine,” says Sullivan. “Whether it’s System allowing their neurosurgeons predominately offer private treatment, The Harley Street Clinic, Clare Sullivan. diagnosing hard-to-detect cancer cells greater precision and safe navigation they do work closely with Chain 020 3733 0253 With a focus on cardiology, or using the most advanced techniques during brain surgery. of Hope, a charity set up by world www.thelisterhospital.com neurosciences and oncology, the 103- to treat previously inoperable cases, our “While we offer pioneering new renowned heart surgeon Sir Professor bed hospital is celebrated for its tackling expertise and innovative techniques treatments and advanced technologies, Magdi OM, offering heart surgery and of the most complex patient cases. enable us to offer a world-class service our key focus is always centred on treatment to children from overseas. Sullivan believes this success is due to across all our treatment areas.” ensuring that everyone who visits The www.theharleystreetclinic.com 62 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 March 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 63 Health Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

‘associated with’; this doesn’t mean it is Freud spoke of risk of infection. definitely causal; it’s just they often ‘go all those years If cancer is found, many men can now Sleep, perchance together’. ago; suppressed A major advance benefit from 'focal therapy' treatment, to dream… Sleep is also used for homeostasis; desires, in prostate cancer which has a far lower risk of side-effects in this day and age, why that is allowing the body to return to emotions, as only the tumour is targeted, not the equilibrium. There is a circadian rhythm impulsions that whole prostate. Focal therapy can use a bother? (Part 2) which is a rhythm through the 24 hours, can valuably diagnosis number of energy sources to destroy the By Dr Tony Hughes with variations for example in hormone be explored in cancerous tissue precisely. Men return levels. Scientists at Surrey University psychotherapy; to normal activities 2-4 weeks after over the last 10 years or so have been though this is rostate cancer is the most common treatment, whereas recovery from surgery working with white blood cells (called usually now in cancer in men in the UK, with over and radiotherapy can take over three bloodromics!) and have demonstrated up a much broader 40,000 new cases diagnosed every months. ell, apart from the value in or down regulation of genes involved in context than at year. It often causes no symptoms, but Advanced imaging, and less invasive laying down memory and repair and immune responses; so right that time. P biopsies and therapies mean men will men who are worried about it can request wiping the plate clean for down at the gene level there is progress There are a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. have fewer and better biopsies, and newW memory acquisition, about which in understanding. We may recall a many causes Your doctor will explain the pros and treatments that have a lower rate of side- I spoke last time, what else do scientists couple of years ago in the press there was of poor sleep. cons of this, as an abnormal level isn't effects. So, the outlook for men who are know about this strange state called considerable coverage of studies in mice One to watch out for is sleep apnœa, form of ‘tough love’ involves restriction of specific to prostate cancer (it can also worried about prostate cancer, and those sleep which takes up to a third of our demonstrating changes in the size of often in heavy people liking a tipple sleep in order to increase sleep efficiency indicate urine infection or inflammation who are then diagnosed, is improving lives? Are there not more profitable the ‘canals’ in the brain containing fluid who snore. Ask the partner to watch i.e. the percentage of the time spent in of the prostate), and many men have significantly. ways of spending one’s time or is it similar to lymph that allow convective out particularly in the later hours of the bed actually asleep. This is achieved with unnecessary invasive tests as a result. I have been working with Bupa indispensable? exchange and clearance of debris. Others night when dream sleep occurs to see if a form of CBT (cognitive behavioural If your doctor does suspect cancer, the Cromwell Hospital and Bupa's London We surely all know the problems studies showed build up of tau protein breathing seems to stop, typically a pause therapy) adapted for sleep treatment usual next step is to take tissue samples Health Centres to create a new patient of a few poor nights’ sleep; irritability, and amyloid, both relevant to dementia followed by a big snort! In which case (CBTi) incorporating many of the ideas through a rectal biopsy, but there are years via active surveillance. all for those with medium to high risk pathway for prostate cancer diagnosis limited attention, general malaise, in sleep deprivation. sleep studies should be undertaken. If of general CBT. It is evidently necessary problems with this; the needle might Also, once a man is diagnosed with cancers. and treatment, available whether you often low mood; though, interestingly, A question one is always asked is there is sleep apnœa there are methods to explore the background issues also to need to be pushed through the prostate prostate cancer, and advised to have Things are finally changing for the have health insurance or are self funding. sleep restriction is sometimes tried ‘What do dreams mean?’ Even this has of helping, one of which is CPAP with see if there are other remediable causes, several times to find cancerous tissue, and treatment rather than active surveillance, better. We can now find significant This provides a seamless journey from for depressive illness with a degree been contested in the scientific world; a machine that gently increases the as it is usually not just a case of treating there is a risk of infection. the entire prostate is treated with cancers in the prostate by carrying out the first abnormal PSA result through of success, though dependent on the some even suggesting dream sleep is intake of air past the collapsed airway. the sleeplessness on its own. Transrectal biopsies can also find radiotherapy or surgery. Both cause an MRI scan. If the MRI is clear then MRI, biopsy and treatment as required. individual. Long term poor sleep, termed unnecessary. There are new studies This really can be transformative making cells that look like cancer but do not damage to surrounding tissue, which men can avoid a biopsy altogether, and For more information about this see ‘chronic’ insomnia is associated with recently, however, reporting that during patients feel refreshed sometimes after grow or spread in the vast majority of leads to side-effects. 5-20% of patients if they do need a biopsy (to confirm www.bupacromwellhospital.com/ increased risk of high blood pressure, REM (dream) sleep memories are also years of misery, helping weight loss even. Dr Tony Hughes cases. These mean that men commonly can become incontinent, and 30-60% a cancer flagged up on the scan), they prostate. diabetes, cancer, heart problems. This consolidated during this phase. Clearly, Chronic insomnia can be hard to treat GP at Princess Grace Hospital die with prostate cancer, not from it. suffer from impotence. So the benefits of can have a MRI guided biopsy through doesn’t mean you are going to have some dreams amount to ‘cognitive litter’ as the habits have been deeply ingrained. Consulting Rooms However, many men have unnecessary invasive treatment need to outweigh the the skin rather than rectum. This is Professor Hashim Ahmed, these problems if you have poor sleep, of no consequence. However, there are To a certain degree it depends on the 47, Nottingham Place W1U 5LZ treatment ‘just in case’, when these so- risks, but there is only a 5% improvement more accurate, can be done under local Consultant Urological Surgeon, it just means it appears to increase also dreams that represent all the things patient’s willingness to break this. A www.sleeptreatment.co.uk called cancers can be safely watched for in survival over giving no treatment at anaesthetic and sedation, and has a lower Bupa Cromwell Hospital the likelihood. And notice the words

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“By vaccinating with a live, fully virus epidemic of 2015/16 that was as well as the poetry of Baudelaire and Verlaine. I went to France active pathogen, it seems clear that we linked to thousands of babies being born whenever I could, mostly to Paris, where I had friends, which was were able to set of a very strong immune with underdeveloped brains, a disorder From the Back made easier by ‘borrowing’ my dad’s Townsend Ferry season pass, response,” said study leader Benjamin known as microcephaly. Part 40 which the company had issued to him, if he mentioned their name

Photograph © Nephron Photograph Seat Mordmueller. Malaria’s long history includes many By Don Grant in an article whenever he crossed the Channel. “The researchers analysed the bodies' historic attempts to defeat it. Quinine, a When I heard that Bolster’s favourite restaurant in London was immune reactions and identified protein substance derived from the bark of the Le Cellièr du Midi in Hampstead, and I took her there on our first patterns which will make it possible cinchona tree, has been considered an date. Because it was in the basement of a large house in Church to further improve malaria vaccines,” effective method against malaria since Walk owned by the Temperance League, they did not have a license, explained co-author Professor Peter the 1600s. so customers took their own, and added a modest corkage to their Kremsner. After the role of mosquitoes in bills. On a student grant, it was a struggle to make ends meet, but Additionally, subjects who received malaria transmission was understood, I had a weekend and holiday job driving a Victoria Wine van, lower concentrations of the vaccine scientists focused on controlling the delivering booze, and I was able to pay my way, and buy wine at a dose still show some protection against mosquitoes themselves, known as vectors. had recently passed my driving discount. However, this was my treat, even though I knew, and she infection, with one-third or two-thirds They hypothesised that that by killing test and was eager to drive anyone knew that I knew she knew, it was easy enough for her to pay for of vaccinated people demonstrating the vector, they could halt the cycle anywhere in anything. Standing in everything. The evening seemed to go in the right direction, and immunity, depending on the dose. of infection. Consequently, DDT and for dad, who was away in America, I later that week, when she took delivery of a Porsche 911 Targa, No severe human side effects were other insecticides came into fashion in I with the registration BOO800, in homage to a character from volunteered to drive my mum Eba in found during the trial, with the frequency the mid-1900s and have been used ever her little red drophead MGB to a Grade Yogi Bear, she suggested that we take it to Switzerland for a skiing of adverse reactions to the vaccine the since. Mosquito nets hung over beds to II listed Georgian pile set in 12 acres of holiday. It wasn’t as though they were in the throes of a blissful same for those who received a placebo. protect sleeping people from bites are parkland in Essex for a summer party marriage; in fact they were living separate lives and shaping up for Malaria was the reported cause of another prevalent form of control that is given by a very glamorous motor racing a divorce, so I had little hesitation in saying yes. I borrowed some 429,000 deaths in 2015 with 212 million extremely cost effective. couple. It was alleged that the house Swiss francs from dad, explaining who I was going with. He was University of Tübingen in Germany new cases in that year alone. Children The development of several different had been won in a game of cards in the never judgemental about having an affair with a married woman. Malaria vaccine created a vaccine that, in limited trials, under the age of 5 accounted for around anti-malarial drugs has changed the 19th century by our host’s grandfather. She was running the car in and she drove us steadily down to Lydd offered 100 percent protection against three quarters of global malaria-related way travellers view malaria-endemic They had quite a lavish life-style, with to board a Silver City Bristol Freighter plane to Le Touquet. I took sparks new hopes infection for at least 10 weeks after the deaths in 2015 and it is estimated that a countries and the risk associated with an apartment in Mayfair, fast cars and her to Roger La Grenouille, in the heart of Saint Germain de Près, final dose. child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. them. In fact due to the aforementioned holidays in the Alps and the Caribbean. a restaurant that Bolster and dad frequented. It was better than I of control The Tübingen study involved 67 Mosquitoes carrying the deadly measures, estimated deaths from malaria He was a talented and successful racing expected, with every scrap of wall space being taken up with old By Owen Fulda healthy adults, with the best immune malaria parasite have existed alongside fell 13 percent, from 755,000 in 2000 to driver, becoming the British and photographs, posters and paintings, tables with white linen occupied response shown in a group of nine humans for thousands of years with the 655,000 in 2010. European Saloon Car Champion and by furtive couples and a menu written on a blackboard at the far people that received the highest dose disease appearing in documented reports Cases of the disease continued to ended up driving GT40’s at Le Mans end of the restaurant, which one had to read through opera glasses. of the vaccine three times at four-week as early as 2700 BC. fall, although less dramatically, from 223 and AC Cobras all over the world. He "and later that week, when she My date was most impressed that I knew of such an off-beat and alaria’s devastating impact intervals. At the end of the trial, all nine Mosquitoes are known carriers million in 2000 to about 216 million in was a friend of dad’s and I had met took delivery of a Porsche 911 eccentric place. could be dramatically reduced individuals had 100 percent protection of several serious diseases and are 2010, but have failed to fall much further her before, first at the Doghouse Club Targa, with the registration After a night in Paris, she drove south for about 150kms, where, after scientists from the from the disease. responsible, more recently, for the Zika in recent years. caravan at Goodwood, when she drove BOO800, in homage to a on a long stretch of road, there was sound of someone shaking an M an enormous Ford Galaxie station character from Yogi Bear, Oxfam tin from the back of the car. We pulled in and I peered into wagon, which she referred to as her she suggested that we take one of the carburettors and noticed a fine, white powder in the opening. A piston had vaporised. We managed to limp into Auxerre, husband’s estate car, into the paddock, it to Switzerland for a skiing reversing the beast into an impossibly where she organised a Porsche dealer to pick it up and take the holiday." small space. I then watched her perform horrid thing away. We stayed one night in a dingy hotel, and set off in a Doghouse Ball cabaret at the Savoy, next morning on the Trans-Europe Express with all our luggage, to dressed up as a schoolgirl with shorts, Martigny, where we got a taxi up to Verbier. She was a particularly freckles and bunches. My heart fluttered. competent skier. I, on the other hand was not, although I made Eba, who was one of the organisers and up for having no style at all by having no fear either. It became perfomers asked whether I would help her mission to get me to ski properly. After a few knee-trembling her take her tombola prizes up to her moments before launching myself down Mont Gelé and Tortine, I room, which I dutifully did. felt I had cracked it. At least, I was soon able to keep up with her She was elegant, sophisticated, so and follow her pert bottom down through the trees in fine powder. very welcoming, very, very beautiful, The bar bill we ran up was more than the hotel, and she had to and way out of my league. I had never get a racing driver friend Jo Bonnier to send some money up from met someone who was so captivating Lausanne. The Porsche, which had been taken back to Paris for and poised. She was also ten years older repair, was delivered by a middle-aged woman, who had run it in on than I was. When she learnt that I was the way down. I was given a chance to drive a Porsche at last, and an art student, she showed me some of soon realised that this was the life. Sunglasses, a beautiful woman their paintings and asking my opinion at one’s side, skiing tan, driving down mountain roads under a crisp of them. What can one say about a Swiss regulation blue sky. What deep joy to feel this wonderfully Canaletto, or, come to think of it, six of balanced car do exactly what one wanted it to. We zoomed back them? I wrote her a thank-you letter on to Paris for another mischievous night, before heading back to behalf of me and Eba, and somehow England. A few weeks later, we were in Kitzbuhel in Austria,where slipped in a surreptitious invitation to she ‘loaned’ me her personal ski instuctor for the afternoon, who have dinner. At this stage of my life, taught me more in three hours than I had learnt in three weeks. He I was deeply impressed with anything took me down the awesome Hahnenkamm run, which they use in French. I put this down to the influence the downhill championships. That alone was worth the trip. Our of dad and his technical editor, John little fling was fun while it lasted, but as is the way of the world, Bolster. I went to see Truffaut and the fire had gone out, and so, that was that. After we separated, Godard films playing at the Everyman so did they and they sold their magnificent house to some friends Cinema in Hampstead. I tried to and years later it was sold again, it being turned into a hotel and smoke like Alain Delon and Jean-Paul restaurant, and a favourite venue for Essex couples to get married. Belmondo, except the Gauloise fell out of In 2007, a fire broke out, not in a bedroom, but in the kitchen, and my mouth when I tried to puff and speak it was burnt to a crisp, and with it, all the family portraits, that at the same time. I played Juliet Greco displayed the characteristic family trait, a prominent nose, as well and Francois Hardy records relentlessly. as photographs and documents relating to the history of the house. I wore black polo-necked jumpers. 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y the time the 2017 Formula One June Formula One has long faced criticisms season gets underway on March of being a ‘high-speed procession’, and 26 at the Australian Grand Prix, June 11: Montreal, Canada now its biggest draw, Lewis Hamilton, BLewis Hamilton will have been stewing 2016 Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton. has voiced his agreement. While testing on last season’s disappointment for over 2016 Winner: Lewis Hamilton. his new car in Barcelona, the Mercedes four months. driver spoke candidly of his desire for the Hamilton suffered a series of June 25: Baku, Azerbaijan race format to be mixed up, if F1 is ever mechanical failures last year as he 2016 Pole Position: Nico Rosberg. 2016 to rival football in global popularity. endured a frustrating campaign which Winner: Nico Rosberg. “With the way these cars are, with saw him finish second overall. Following the continued direction in design which team mate Nico Rosberg’s shock July makes it difficult for us to overtake, Rolls-Royce GT1 retirement upon winning the 2016 F1 we’ve got to come up with some different diagnostics for Rolls-Royce Driver’s Championship, the stage seems July 9: Spielberg, Austria races,” said Hamilton. “Maybe every set for Stevenage-born Hamilton to other race is a different scenario?” Phantom 2016 Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton. and Ghost. claim his fourth World title this year. 2016 Winner: Lewis Hamilton. “When we get to Monaco we can’t The popular German Grand Prix at just do the same race format because Hockenheim has been dropped from this July 16: Silverstone, United Kingdom nobody can overtake there. Maybe they Full body off year’s F1 calendar while the European 2016 Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton. need to spice it up and do something have installed a dynamic duo of Chase restoration. Grand Prix will once again take place 2016 Winner: Lewis Hamilton. different. Maybe have a sprint race? Carey and Ross Brawn to ensure the in Baku, Azerbaijan. In something of a There are lots of ideas but I’m not going future wellbeing of the sport. fixture clash, the British Grand Prix is to share them.” Brawn recently suggested that F1 Bentley GT July 30: Budapest, Hungary and Flying Spur set to take place at Silverstone on July 16, 2016 Pole Position: Nico Rosberg. 2016 The implementation of the Drag could reintroduce a non-championship race to experiment with new formats Latest ODIS the same day as the men’s Wimbledon Winner: Lewis Hamilton. Reduction System (DRS) in 2011 made diagnostic software. final. overtaking somewhat easier for drivers, and ideas if such an event could be Access to technical Dutch prodigy Max Verstappen is the August but more needs to be done to stop made commercially viable. 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May 6: June 17-27: August 9-26: happen again Eddie Jones will have a Plan Kentucky Derby (Horse Racing) America’s Cup (Sailing) Bermuda Women’s Rugby World Cup, Ireland A, B and C in place. Sports Calendar Louisville, Kentucky June 17-July 2: August 10-13: Six Nations England should be too strong for By Owen Fulda May 5: FIFA Confederations Cup (Football) The PGA Championship (Golf ) By Derek Wyatt Scotland but with nothing to play for but Ireland vs England 1st ODI Russia Quail Hollow, Charlotte, NC pride the Irish, buoyed by St Patrick’s Day Bristol on 17th March, will offer the toughest he lack of a football World June 21: August 28-September 3: resistance. They have already shown they May 7: England v South Africa, 1st T20 Judo World Championships can raise their game for an important Cup or Olympic Games this an England win back to back Six year means the spotlight has Ireland vs England 2nd ODI Ageas Bowl, Southampton Budapest fixture having defeated the All Blacks in Lord’s Nation championships? If they beat Chicago back in November (a first ever shifted to other sports. Andy Murray Scotland they will have established June 22-25: August 28-September 10: win for the Irish). I count myself lucky T a record - 18 - consecutive wins in a row in will attempt to defend his 2016 May 13: Aegon Championships (Tennis) US Open (Tennis) C that I have a couple of tickets for Aviva Wimbledon title and hope to achieve European Champions Cup Final Queens Club Flushing Meadows, International rugby without having to play Stadium which should see an epic finish to New Zealand. French Open glory on the clay of (Rugby Union) this year's competition. 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This is the fifty fourth Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 competition, and last autumn announced 9 Polo cap may be an American malternative. her boycott and protest on social media 9 10 CHESS Wolfe Cryptic Crossword (7) forming a Change.org.petition that This is the Fifty Fourth Wolfe Cryptic 10 Ask 14 down before Australian pick up By Barry Martin raised 16,800 signatures, ‘asking FIDE Crossword. Joanne Heys of CR8 by email was poison to the environment. (7) to relocate the championship, or, at least last month’s winner, congratulations. Please 11 Reportedly do wrong on him but means 11 12 make wearing a hijab headscarf optional let me have any comments or suggestions you the same. (7) with a guarantee that female players may have and remember if you haven’t totally 12 Read poems as if put in a new place (7) would not face discrimination’. This finished the whole crossword still send it in 13 Victory or follows the heir. (9) What’s your 13 14 15 also has implications for international as the first correct or substantially correct 15 Nine in the french sea goes well with gin. travel, it seems, as having an Iranian answer picked at random will win a prize of a angle? (5) stamp in your passport may bar you bottle of Champagne kindly donated by Lea 16 By laying off their risks they surround the entry into the USA. Paikidze stated and Sandeman send your grids either by post field. (7) 16 17 18 19 that by participating ‘she would have to Wolfe, at Kensington and Chelsea Today 19 Lawyer reportedly shouldn’t spill the 80-100 Gwynne Road London SW11 3UW beans. (7) to submit to oppression designed’ or scan it in and send by email to wolfe@ 20 I fret about restoration. (5) omen’s world tournament specifically for women’. She continued kcwtoday.co.uk. 21 Its normal if drunk to get you kicked out 20 21 22 23 24 chess and women's chess this would set the wrong example ‘for of the church. (6,3) worldwide has significantly young girl players interested in chess’, www.leaandsandeman.co.uk/Fine-Wine. 25 Left in a trance mixed in the middle. (7) improved over the years, yet recently it and ‘cements the status quo in the man, 106 Kensington Church St, London, W and freezes any change possible....’. A 26 If out the cars no good but still applauded. 25 26 27 has become embroiled in gender politics, W8 4BH. T: 020 7221 1982. Contact Sandor. (7) particularly female gender politics. spokesperson for FIDE when pressed, Women have been antagonised to the stated they were ‘reviewing all possible 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 28 Knock up or say goodbye for now in E P I L O G A L T E R E G O rodent. (3-1-3) extent that much social unrest has been solutions for the players’ comfort’. O I A T W A O 28 29 9 10 29 Type of water that’s neither vegetable nor unleashed in many parts of the world, However, this complacent attitude was O U T B U R S T O L D B O Y animal. (7) not least by the election of Donald picked up by other top players and T E I O F I D 11 Trump as president of the USA. resulted in further dissension and flight R E S E R V A T I O N S 12 It is fair to say that several of the with Yifan Hou the reigning world female grandmaster threw a game after a beautiful move she is liable to think C A H N C E 13 14 15 Down recent disturbances in chess are not down woman’s champion excluding herself continually being made to play against also about how beautiful she looks in N O W T E Y E G L A S S 1 London business college is after 16 station. (5,5) 18 Perhaps suit male ape. (8) to the female chess players themselves, from the playing list. She was followed other women!’ Our own country's most making it. Then there is that sale she N E D Y D I S blackcurrant product. (6) 17 18 7 Sus extra tithes over and above the norm. 22 The Queen came about flowering from a but are the result of negligence by the by the other heavy hitters of the chess outspoken pundit on women’s chess who saw advertised. Oh, and so many other S C U D D I N G T O M B 2 Thus about US coin cut to produce the 19 (8) common stem. (6) organisers in the Women’s World Chess world including Koneru Humpy, Irina also played in the tournament finishing things. You always say chess trains one to E M E P H E prettier route. (6) 20 21 8 Is reason confused about feeling organs. (8) 23 Reportedly excellent honey collector is Tournament being played in Tehran, Krush, and Mariya Muzychuk who 12th commented,‘Hou Yifan’s last round concentrate. I don’t believe a word of it! P R U S S I A N B L U E 3 Made yarn like a web. (4) 22 14 They sound as if they choose to speak of marvellous. (6) Iran, as I write this column, and a lack were eventually informed they were only game will go down in the annals of chess As I commented above, ‘it’s all a question T P N E I S G 4 Froths like wild horses approaching the 23 24 voters. (10) 24 Ten odd lessons hold what you use to be of perception by the organisers in the going to be allowed to compete if they history and will long be remembered of perception.’ Hikaru Nakamura won D I W A L I R H E T O R I C beach. (6) 16 Roads foundation materials describe blue sensible. (6) Tradewise Tournament, Gibraltar, earlier wore a hijab in keeping with Iranian as the quickest loss ever made by a the event for the third year running after N S S A R M R 5 Tasty item produced for Eve. (8) 25 26 films. (8) 27 Primarily a child nearing eighteen often in February. These incursions into the law. The event running from February Grandmaster’, and GM Stuart Conquest, winning a tiebreak against David Anton T A J M A H A L S E E M L Y 6 Dark Callas to take the arrested to the 17 Describe clearly about it to be sure. (8) suffers from this. (4) practice of playing chess with the hot 11th to 3rd March was to feature 64 director of GB Chess, said the Yifan who also finished on 8 points. Michael issues the subject of which are currently players, but apart from the dissenters, was game was ‘the biggest crisis’ in the 15 Adams finished 5th 7.5 pts and David down to 63 at its outset as one qualifier Howell 10th 7 pts.  global and defined by female gender years of the tournament. Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates CLASSIFIED ADS subjects, is highly relevant at this time. died. The last 8 players through to the The founder of the Tradewise The following game between Hikaru with Andrew Robson More’s the pity that the organisers, quarter finals were; Anna Muzychuk Tournament, Gibraltar, Brian Callaghan Nakamura and Maxime Lagarde in the including FIDE the governing body v Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra in defending the pairings said ‘... these tenth round is this issue’s puzzle. The 34 who had enough time to filter out the Kosteniuk v Ni Shiqun, Ju Wejun v Tan things come out of a machine.. and aren't moves ended in a victory for white and o bid and make a small slam, only one trick can be lost. However it most definitely obvious problems that playing a world Zhongyi,and Harika Dronavalli v Nana made by people... clearly nothing was shows Nakamura’s very precise use of his does not follow that a defender holding two aces should double a small slam. TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS championship in Iran would throw up, Dzagnidze, with their seedings 1, 2, 3, 4, going on....sometimes the odds fall that white squared Bishop. We join the game AssumingT the opponents have not lost their senses, they are likely to have a void didn’t get their act together for whatever 5, 7, 9, 38. way!’ In all fairness to the organisers with his tempting black to throw safety somewhere; one (or more) of those aces may not win a trick. OR SERVICE HERE, That said, you have to feel sympathy for this month’s East who, holding no less than reasons! Yifan Hou in deciding not to defend it has gone a good way to encourage to the wind and risk all in a cavalier three aces, watched his opponents bid and make a small slam: I feel that the distraction such her crown in Iran led her to declare female players to participate in its Open charge, which he did. 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