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KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM kcwAND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHStoday LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0069 FEBRUARY 2018 FREE NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE OPINION EDUCATION © CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ARTS & CULTURE HEALTH EVENTS LIFESTYLE DINING OUT POETRY LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT CROSSWORD BRIDGE CHESS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN #wherenow? 2 February 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0068 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2017/18 FREE 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, SW11 3UW Tel: 020 7738 2348 E-mail: [email protected] Website: 3 News www.kcwtoday.co.uk Advertisement enquiries: 8 Statue & Blue Plaque [email protected] Subscriptions: 9 Architecture [email protected] NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE OPINION EDUCATION ARTS & CULTUREBENJAMIN EVENTS FRANKLIN LIFESTYLE DINING OUT POETRY European & International News Publishers: LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT CROSSWORD BRIDGE CHESS 10 Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited 11 Features 12 Opinion & Comment Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 14 Business & Finance Editors : Kate Hawthorne, Emma Trehane Astronomy Head of Business Development: Emma Trehane 18 Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 19 Education Antoinette Kovatchka, Architecture: Squinch 24 Literature Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 25 Poetry Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward 26 Dining Out Bridge: Andrew Robson Business & Finance James Billot 29 Fashion & Lifestyle Chess: Barry Martin Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, 33 Travel Derek Wyatt 36 Events Music: Geoff Cowart, Crossword: Wolfe 45 Arts & Culture Dining Out: Piers Gorman, David Hughes, Cynthia Pickard 54 Health Editorial: James Billot, Max Feldman, 58 Upstream Owen Fulda, Fahad Redha, Emma Trehane 59 Motoring Education: Max Feldman, Kate Hawthorne, Fahad Redha, 60 Crossword Events: Fahad Redha Chess Lifestyle & Fashion: Owen Fulda, Lynne McGowan, 61 Emma Trehane 62 Advertisement & Public Notices Health: Editorial team Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 63 Sport I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton Motoring: Fahad Redha News, Online Editor, Max Feldman Arts Correspondent & Front Cover image: Picture Editor: Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA PhD Women and the Right to Vote Political Editor: Derek Wyatt February 6th 2018 is a milestone in history as it marks the centenary of Travel: James Billot, Max Feldman the first women in the country to gain the right to vote in the National Elections. This was known as the Representation of the People’s Act Sport: Derek Wyatt 1918 when 40% of women were enfranchised. However it wasn’t until Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros 1928 that women were given the same voting rights as men. To celebrate Upstream: Don Grant this legendary achievement Cambridge University Library is displaying a number of posters depicting the Suffragette movement from the 1910s. 020 7738 2348 February 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk acron definitely held our addressed the crowd and as he is out of will be fined £500. They will be a brand Parliament Square collective feet to the fire. This the country his poll rating went up a new service separate from the NHS Brexit stuff is much more notch or two (I may have just made that for those with Mental Illness. It will be Mserious than we all thought. I suspect we up). To be frank, who would want to hear called National Mind. People over 60 shall end up having to pay an additional from this president? He is tiresome bore. will receive a Health and Care allowance £60bn or half the annual budget of the He daily besmirches the reputation of as an addition to their OAP. This will NHS to escape. It is maddening that the great country he leads. be paid for by a new tax. A new service Jeremy Corbyn finds this acceptable. called the National Care Service separate If he had been cleverer, he would have The NHS: the Not very Healthy from the NHS will be created. It will called for membership of the single Service commission and build services for those 2 market and as a consequence be fifteen needing day and 24 hour care. It will be P points ahead of Mrs May. As it is he is The NHS has become the biggest drop paid for by a tax on plastic, diesel and an four points behind. How can anyone be in centre for sickness in the world. It is additional tax on alcohol. four points behind the Prime Minister? so big (the biggest company in Europe) The NHS will be redefined to offer Unfortunately, Brexit is derailing that no single political party has the the service free to those under 18 and President Macron Whitehall and with it, the political class nerve or the courage to reform it. We those over 60. For those aged 18-60 only By Derek Wyatt in Parliament. desperately need a health service that cancer, heart disease and brain injuries works. We need to reform it. We need will be free. There will be a sliding scale Davos to ask the Health Select Committee to of fees for all other illnesses. Citizens spend the next year writing a proposal 18-60 would be expected to buy a health The visit to the UK of It is hard to find anything good that for fundamental change and for its report insurance policy. If you are not a UK President Macron currently has come out of Davos these past four to be accepted by all political parties. taxpayer or do not have a UK passport hundred years except a half decent you will be charged for treatment. These seen as the hottest political ski resort. It is miserably small and Here’s my two pennyworth: changes to be brought in over five years. property in Europe, now takes over two hours to arrive there Any family member over 18 who does Of course, I recognise that no from Zurich airport by train. And yet not use the NHS each year will receive political party would sign up for any that Chancellor Merkel is somehow the world of extreme wealth an additional tax free allowance of of this, but we know that the current struggling to make any kind of and the world of politics both good £1,000. All prescriptions will cost £5 political class is behind the curve. There and bad are annually persuaded to (cost of a glass of wine) and the money is such waste in such a large organisation coalition work, went down like come to this rock fest. Nothing much raised will go to training additional that something drastic has to be done. a lead balloon. We Brits simply happens: nothing much is achieved nurses and doctors. Nurses will no Just offering a £1bn here and £2bn there though occasionally the fusion works. longer need a first degree to nurse. is crass. do not like it up us, especially But the event does go on and on and Visiting a GP will cost you £5 (cost of when it is from a country on. Promises are made, committees are a pint). Money raised will go to Brain A Second Referendum formed, work is processed, but does Research. Unnecessary use of A&E; it Expect to see 5m signatures on a petition we defeated at Waterloo and anyone care? It feels mediaeval to me and is an emergency centre, not a drop in asking for a second referendum on the rescued twice last century. woefully outdated. But President Trump for people with headaches or drunks, deal struck to leave Europe. ’ 300,000 square metres of office floor A Shard s worth space converted to residential space between 2013 and 2017. It stands to of office space is lose a further 730,000 square metres, including in business centres such as lost each year Victoria and Oxford Street, as a result By Fahad Redha of ongoing schemes. In less than a HEAR, HEAR decade, town planners estimate a loss of as much as 1,000,000 square metres, or 110,000 square metres a year, if left Book your tour today unchecked. This is the equal to the total floor area of the Shard. Westminster currently houses 120,000 business who Enough office space to fill collectively employ 650,000 people. the Shard is being lost from “If this trend continues Westminster risks losing business to other global Westminster each year in cities, like Paris and New York,” what has been described as an Councillor Daniel Astaire, cabinet “unprecedented decline,” as member for planning said. “We have experienced a rapid loss of office space workspace gets converted to in Westminster. It’s a worrying trend. housing. “Not only does this change the character and feel of our communities Westminster City Council said that but our reputation as a political the trend could threaten the area’s and professional centre relies upon status as a hub for international maintaining the office spaces which business as developers cash in on the allow business to flourish.” Government’s easing of planning rules. The government is looking to This has been to encourage office-to- make the planning rule on office-to- residential conversions. The council is residential conversions permanent. now looking to change its planning In response, the council will exempt 020 7219 4114 policy to protect office space and halt itself with a policy that will require the decline. developers to seek planning permission Westminster has seen as much as to convert office space. 4 February 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News Ambassador’s, London Rail & Brixton Road Westminster you spoil us Tube changes exceeds yearly air Council axes pollution limit resident ballots policy esidents of Courtfield Gardens Plans to extend the Northern Line to For the second year in a row, Brixton According to a letter seen by Insider are rushing to object to a planning Battersea will help regenerate the area Road is the capital’s first road to breach Housing, the leader of the Westminster application which was left and support 25,000 new jobs and more annual air pollution limits for 2018 City Council Nickie Aiken has dropped Rblowing in the wind.