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by installing new interactive signage Westminster while Churchill Gardens also harbours wildlife in its large and complex urban Estates among estate. “I’ve lived here all my life and I really the country’s enjoy going into the gardens to find © Diana Jarvis Photograph some peace and relax,” Alex, a resident greenest in Pimlico, said. “The gardens are very peaceful and are especially good for me, because I don’t have a garden of my own to go into. It’s lovely round here and I can’t think of any way they could improve on this place.” hree housing estates in This international award is now in its Westminster have been awarded third decade and is a sign to the public the Green Flag Award in that the space boasts the world’s highest recognitionT of their outstanding green possible environmental standard. It is spaces. These help provide “an oasis for beautifully maintained and has excellent residents in the heart of London.” visitor facilities. The Green Flag Award recognises “We are absolutely delighted to and rewards well managed parks and receive the Green Flag Award for green spaces, setting the benchmark these estates and proud that they are standard for the management of recognised as having some of the best recreational outdoor spaces across the green spaces in the country,” said Cllr UK and around the world. It aims to Andrew Smith, Westminster City ensure that everybody has access to Gardens, also in Pimlico, was awarded delicious crop of honey every year. “It’s Council cabinet member for housing quality green and other open spaces, for the seventh time. Meanwhile Lisson really lovely on the estate,” a Lillington services. “Westminster City Council regardless of where they live, and that Green in Marylebone has won for the local, Florence Heath, said. “I love believes in creating a ‘City for All’ with these places are well maintained and fourth. They join other award-winning walking in from the busy city streets one of our key aims being to create a managed. The award recognises the green spots in Westminster, including into this green oasis, which is beautiful healthier and greener city and we know hard work of those who work to preserve some of the Borough’s Royal Parks. all year round and can really boost your how much quality green spaces matter to these places. Lillington and Longmoore Gardens mood! It’s great for the little ones too our residents. Lillington and Longmoore Gardens Estate was recognised for continuing to as they play in the gardens and enjoy the “This award celebrates the dedication Estate in Pimlico has been recognised be a hub for wildlife and biodiversity. flowers.” and time that goes into maintaining the by the Green Flag Award Scheme for the This includes hosting its own beehive Lisson Green continues to engage green spaces on our estates to such a thirteenth year in a row and Churchill on the estate which helps to produce a the community in their surroundings high standard.”

position now suggests that we are risk of imminent. million was spent on the Shaping a an additional £61 million overspend.” “They’re panicking, I think. It’s heavy Healthier Future programme since 2010, West London’s It says North West London’s stuff. It’s talking about rationing patient including £76 million on contracts with population has grown by 5 per cent since care, and having much worse outcomes private firms who managed the shake-up NHS service set 2015. But demand for acute care surgery for patients. of hospital services. The NHS said this and treatment in hospitals and A&E “This is a reduction in day-to-day expenditure helped “deliver its aim of to go over budget rose 18 per cent in that period. And clinical services. It’s unacceptable.” improving health services”. demand for emergency care went up 25 An NHS spokesperson said: “No The letter says: “Challenging estates by £112 million per cent. matter the financial challenges we face, issues, lack of capital funding and By LDRS Reporter The letter was penned by Mark as a clinically-led NHS body our priority disagreement over previous proposals Owen Sheppard Easton, chief officer of North West will always be the safety of our patients have made it difficult to progress long- London’s Clinical Commissioning and the quality of NHS services.” standing issues. Groups, and by Lesley Watts, CEO of And the letter includes a suggestion “Our position has worsened over Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS that abandoned plans to close and the last year due primarily to increased Foundation Trust. centralise wards and services at Ealing demand for unplanned [emergency] care West London’s NHS service They list several ideas for how to save and Charing Cross hospitals led to in hospital, a failure to achieve savings is set to go £112 million over money. But it warns: “Some of these money being wasted. plans, and a lower uplift to budgets than ideas will be about removing waste and It was revealed last month that £500 the rest of London.” budget this year, more than duplication and will not affect patient double the amount that was services. Some ideas, especially those affecting patients, will generate strong predicted. views, and we will need to make some difficult choices.” A letter from NHS chiefs, sent Seven ways to save money are internally and to local councillors and suggested in the letter, including: MPs, said as a result of the deficit, local More non-emergency surgeries hospitals will have to make “efficiencies” performed within North West London, by “removing waste”. rather than spending money on sending Hammersmith MP Andy Slaughter patients to other specialist centres fears the changes will see a “rationing” elsewhere of services, and said GPs will be Follow-up appointments and discouraged from referring patients to procedures taking place at home, over hospitals, something the NHS denies. the phone, or with their local GP Explaining the soaring costs, the Finding cheaper ways to buy “over letter says: “Our operating plan set out the counter” medicines that we were heading for a £51 million Mr Slaughter, Labour, said: “None deficit at year-end, but our month-four of this has been implemented yet but it’s 4 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

site close to Royal Oak Station near Paddington, but the idea was scrapped Plans to relocate after residents campaigned against it. Sheep graze freely

TFL have instead decided to change © LDRS Photograph Victoria coach the layout of the terminal and are on Hampstead looking at potential ‘satellite’ stations hub scrapped away from the centre of the city, easing Heath pressure from Victoria, which currently for the first time in decades oversees the arrival and departure of a quarter of a million coaches every year. lans to move Victoria Coach TFL have said they will work with Sheep will graze freely on the rolling Station have been cancelled, transport operators, London boroughs grasslands of Hampstead Heath for the according to ‘Transport for and passenger groups to help identify first time in decades. London’. supporting sites. P A small flock of five Oxford Down the sheep and engaging with visitors. The Victoria Coach Station is used Passenger groups breathed a and Norfolk Horn sheep were released John Beyer, vice chair of the Heath by 14 million passengers each year, great sigh of relief at the news. Tim onto the North London park for a week- and Hampstead Society, said the idea providing transport for 1200 UK Bellenger, director of policy and long trial. was inspired by early 19th-century destinations and 400 foreign cities. investigation at passenger body London Their grazing could prove an landscape paintings by John Constable. The news arrives eight months after TravelWatch, said, “Its loss would eco-friendly way of looking after the “This idea came up at a Society TFL announced they were looking have been a terrible blow for coach centuries-old Heath, according to the lecture given by painter Lindy at alternative locations to the current services and their passengers across City of London Corporation, which runs Guinness, who showed paintings by Victoria site, following news that some the UK. It is a well-managed facility, it. John Constable of cattle grazing on the of its leases were set to expire on the in a good location which provides “Grazing is known to play a major Heath.” said Mr Beyer. 3.3-acre plot at present owned by the good connectivity. It also has excellent role in boosting species-rich wildlife “This romantic vision happily property company Grosvenor. facilities. Our view was that there simply habitats and reducing the use of coincided with the aim of Heath staff The Art Deco terminal could not wasn’t a viable alternative location for a machinery,” the Corporation said. to experiment with grazing rather than have been demolished as it is a Grade comparable facility.” “Unlike mowing, grazing produces a tractors to manage the landscape. II listed building, but property experts “This news will be welcomed by mosaic of vegetation heights and types, “We are delighted to work with spied the site’s potential, estimated to be passengers, particularly the elderly and improving ecological sites for species the City Corporation to find more worth up to £150 million. disabled who value the easy bus-to-bus including amphibians, small mammals, sustainable ways of preserving the One proposal was to relocate the interchange”, he added. invertebrates and wildflowers.” Heath.” It follows months of speculation Karina Dostalova, chairman of about livestock being brought back to the Corporation’s Hampstead Heath the much-loved, 790-acre Heath for the management committee, said: “The first time since the 1950s. In March, The Heath has a long history of sheep Times newspaper reported that cows grazing with farmers taking their flock were also being considered. to the site before taking them to market Photograph © Stephen Richards Photograph The sheep are provided by Mudchute in the City… Park and Farm on the Isle of Dogs, East “Reintroduction of grazing has been London. an aspiration for many years, and we are They were released to graze at The glad to be working with our partners on Tumulus, a Roman monument over an this exciting opportunity.” ancient burial ground close to Parliament The pilot will be managed by Hill, that is managed by Historic the City of London Corporation England. in partnership with the Heath & Volunteers from the Heath and Hampstead Society, Heath Hands, Hampstead Society and Heath Hands Historic England, Mudchute Park & will support the project by monitoring Farm and Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

October 1, Tottenham v Bayern Munich, New HIV TRAFFIC WATCH 20:00 LONDON HOME FOOTBALL October 3, Arsenal v Standard Liege, 20:00 diagnoses fall by © NIAD Photograph October 5, Fulham v Charlton Athletic, 12:30 October 5, QPR v Blackburn, 15:00 a third in the UK LONDON MEN’S HOME FOOTBALL October 6, Arsenal v Bournemouth, 14:00 September 14, Fulham v West Brom, 12:30 September 14, Tottenham v Crystal Palace, LONDON WOMEN’S HOME FOOTBALL 15:00 Annual HIV data from Public Health CompiledSeptember and 15, EditedTottenham by Fahad v Liverpool, Redha 14:00 England shows new diagnoses at their Dr Valerie Delpech, Head of HIV September 14, QPR v Luton, 15:00 ForSeptember full sports 15, fixturesQPR v Fulham, see page 14:00 60. September 17, Chelsea v Valencia, 20:00 lowest level since 2000. Surveillance at PHE September 22, Chelsea v West Ham, 14:00 In 2018, 94% of people with HIV September 22, Arsenal v Aston Villa, 16:30 New diagnoses fell from 6,271 September 22, Tottenham v Reading, 14:00 in the UK were successfully virally September 22, Chelsea v Liverpool, 16:30 in 2015 to 4,484 in 2018. Diagnoses September 26, significantly declined in gay, bisexual suppressed and people with or without September 24-25, Arsenal v Nottingham Arsenal v Fiorentina Women, 19:30 and heterosexual populations between HIV have the same life expectancy. Forest, TBC September 29, 2015-18. However, the challenge remains September 25, Chelsea v TBC, 19:45 Arsenal v Brighton & Hove Albion WFC, This continued decline is primarily in ensuring early diagnosis: in 2018, September 27, Fulham v Wigan, 19:45 16:00 due to easier HIV testing, condom approximately 43% of newly diagnosed September 28, Chelsea v Brighton, 15:00 September 29, QPR v Denham, 14:00 provision and anti-retroviral therapy individuals were at a late stage of September 28, Tottenham v Southampton, (ART) drugs that maintains a low level infection. 15:00 Compiled by Fahad Redha of HIV in the body and prevents the PHE currently aims to control HIV September 28, QPR v West Brom, 12:30 For full sports fixtures see P 60 virus spreading. by 2030. “The number of people diagnosed late is lower than ever before.” For more information, visit: www.gov.uk 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

further 62 were injured when the tram driver is believed to have briefly fallen One in six bus asleep at the wheel. Mr Kearney said: “TfL recognise drivers ‘asleep at that they’ve got a problem, and buses the wheel’ cause a huge amount of collisions and By LDRS Reporter Jessie deaths. “But they are knowingly running a Matthewson system that puts the speed and frequency of buses above people’s lives.” The publication of the report ne in six London bus drivers came as the union Unite, the biggest have fallen asleep at the wheel representative of bus drivers in London, in the last year, new research has organised a demonstration at City Hall Orevealed. to draw attention to poor working And a third of drivers have had conditions. a “close call” due to tiredness in the Unite regional officer John Murphy past twelve months, according to a said the Mayor had “done the right Loughborough University study. thing” by requesting the research, but London buses cause a that progress for drivers was “too slow”. disproportionate number of deaths and He said: “TfL must take decisive injuries on the streets of the capital, action and force bus operators to stop accounting for 14 percent of pedestrian flogging their workers to the point of deaths while making up less than two exhaustion. percent of traffic. “The safety of the general public and Now the study commissioned by workers is being placed at risk because Transport for London (TfL) has found of fatigue being suffered by London bus more than 20 percent of drivers fight drivers.” sleepiness multiple times a week. Speaking at the drivers’ The report, which surveyed over demonstration on Saturday, Sadiq Khan 1,000 bus drivers, said demanding shift said the “world first” fatigue report patterns and long work hours increased was a step towards improving working fatigue. conditions. TfL has now earmarked £500,000 to He said: “I’m really proud to be the tackle driver exhaustion. son of a bus driver; what I’m not proud And from next year, the transport about is what I saw when I became network will require all bus companies Mayor; the kind of conditions that bus in the city to have a safety management drivers are working under in our city.” policy; something not currently required. He added: “For those who aren’t Deputy Mayor for Transport, Heidi aware of the fatigue that bus drivers Alexander said TfL’s response was suffer it is eye-opening, and it should “the start and not the end” of efforts to be a wake up call for Transport for reduce driver fatigue. London to do much more to improve the But critics of TfL’s safety record said conditions of bus drivers.” the Mayor has failed to learn lessons A spokesperson for the Mayor said from previous accidents. Mr Khan was taking action to improve Tom Kearney, a businessman and safety on London trams, buses and bus crash survivor, who campaigns on across the network. bus safety, welcomed the report, but said She said: “Sadiq is committed to it showed that the Mayor had “learnt improving safety for staff and passengers nothing” from the Croydon tram crash. across the TfL network. Nobody wants Seven people died when a tram a tragedy like Sandilands to happen ever derailed at Sandilands in 2016, and a again.” Photograph Photograph © Alexander-Dennis

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Royal Trinity Violent crime Hospice on Britain’s is named railways Segrott © Jeremy Photograph ‘Outstanding’ Hoispice Trinity © Royal Photograph By Harry Parsons By Anandi Shah

oyal Trinity Hospice has been Inspectors rated Trinity as Crime recorded on British railways The railway station with the most awarded the highest possible ‘Outstanding’ in three of the five increased 12% last year, according to thefts was Barming in Kent, with quality rating, ‘Outstanding’ by domains assessed by the CQC, with the British Transport Police. 12 thefts per 100,000 passengers in the Care Quality Commission. The top grade being given in the categories 68,313 crimes were recorded in 2018/19, twice as many as Cambridge R of ‘caring’, ‘well-led’ and ‘responsive’. The CQC praised the hospice for “going 2018/19, a 12% increase from the 60,867 North, the station with the second the extra mile” for its patients and said remaining two domains (‘effective’ and crimes recorded the previous year. highest number of thefts per passenger. Trinity provided outstanding care. ‘safe’) were rated as Good. Trinity’s last Violent crime accounted for a fifth of Deputy chief constable Adrian Every year, Trinity provides free CQC inspection in 2014 found it to be a all cases, showing a 16% rise to 13,591. Hanstock noted last year’s increase in palliative and end of life care to 2,500 Good service overall. The number of sexual offences also rose crime was “of concern” but “anticipated” patients living in Wandsworth and “I am thrilled that Trinity has been during the period, an 8% rise to 2,635. as record numbers of passengers parts of Lambeth, Merton, Richmond, found to be outstanding by the CQC. It The most common offence recorded continue to use the railway network each Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster is testament to the expertise, compassion was the theft of passenger property, year. “As stations become increasingly and Kensington & Chelsea, as well as and dedication of every member of responsible for over a fifth of all crime commercial environments, a large providing a range of psychological and the Trinity family and reflects their on railways. proportion of this increase is as a result social support for families, carers and determination to support our patients to British Transport Police figures show of theft of passenger property, anti-social loved ones of all ages. live every moment they have left, to die the following crimes have also increased behaviour or shoplifting,” he said. In CQC’s latest report, it found with dignity and to be there for those on the rail network, including: “Despite this increase, when put into Trinity staff to be “continually kind and left bereaved.” context, it is important to remember compassionate as they put patients and Possession of a controlled that the chance of becoming a victim of their relatives at ease” and “observed that Dallas Pounds, Chief Executive of Royal substance (up 52% to 2,305) crime on the railway is very low.” patients, family members and friends are Trinity Hospice Theft from person (up 36% to “We now police more than 3.3 billion always treated with dignity and respect.” For more information about the journeys each year, the equivalent of a In addition, inspectors found the hospice hospice, visit: www.royaltrinityhospice. 7,593) third of the world’s population passing to be outstanding in meeting the needs london Theft from vehicle (up 26% to 823) through our jurisdiction.” of people from the whole community. Assault on police (up 17% to 750)

“It is a pivotal moment for thousands of people with hidden disabilities People with across the country, many of whom face unacceptable discrimination or even hidden disabilities abuse when using disabled parking can access Blue Badges for the spaces.” first time Justin Tomlinson, Minister for Disabled By Anandi Shah People

In the biggest change to Blue Badges since the 1970s, the Department for Transport has issued new guidance to councils in England on Blue Badge parking permit eligibility, along with a new online eligibility checker to clarify the scheme for people before applying. It is an important part of the Government’s drive for greater parity between physical and mental health. “The scheme, which is already a lifeline for so many disabled people, will make a huge difference to those with non-visible conditions such as autism, dementia, Parkinson’s and arthritis.” The expanded scheme coincides authority to decide if an applicant meets Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary with the launch of a review, which will the eligibility criteria, as is currently the ensure the correct use of the badges case. It will offer a lifeline to people who and enhance public understanding of Councils may need to review parking often find road travel difficult, while non-visible conditions. It will also help provision to increase the number of From August 30th, people also helping combat loneliness by councils tackle fraudulent use of the spaces. helping to stay connected to family and badges. The National Autistic Society with hidden disabilities, friends. At the end of 2018, the Local are ‘delighted’ that these rules including anxiety disorders or To help tackle the expected increase Government Association estimated that have come into effect and say many in applications, the department has the theft of Blue Badges had risen by autistic individuals and their families a brain injury will be able to agreed with the Ministry of Housing, 45% in 12 months. throughout England will be relieved. apply for a Blue Badge for the Communities and Local Government to However, not everyone with non- provide £1.7 million in the first year of visible disabilities will qualify for a For more information, visit www.gov. first time. the programme. badge. It will fall to the relevant local uk/dft 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

The Decorative Fair is the central period design show for the interior design trade, Decorative bringing together specialist dealers in decorative antiques and design, interiorn MARKETING & SALES Antiques and classics, and accessories, of every era from early Georgian to post-modernism. AUTUMN INTERNSHIP Textiles Fair Works of art are offered dating from antiquity to the contemporary. (PAID COMMISSION) returns to West The centenary year of the School London of Bauhaus provides the theme for the Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 2019 Autumn Foyer Display, where is the leading London monthly newspaper. avant-garde 20th century designs will he Autumn Decorative Antiques & We are offering a 3 month internship in Marketing, take centre stage. The School generated Textiles Fair returns to Battersea Sales & Journalism, for a positive powerhouse looking Park London from 1-6 October a rich variety of artistic movements for its third outing of the year, with 160 during its years of productivity, and to build their portfolio over the winter months; start T its’ students experimentations inspired October 2019! exhibitors announced over two floors. diverse developments in the worlds of This is a unique opportunity to work closely with architecture, design and new modes of living. All items in the foyer display are a highly qualified and dynamic team. It is an drawn from exhibitors and are for sale. opportunity for the right candidate to get hands-on The Fair will present a range of Photograph © DAF Photograph experience with sales and marketing, and build client exhibitors from Art Deco Gallery relationships. London to Kiki Design to Villa Rosemaine and more; all offering An extension may be offered based on performance. international collections and exhibits Send CV and letter to: of furniture, artefacts, textiles and costumes. Kate Hawthorne The Fair opens Tuesday 1 October Editor in Chief from 12pm til 8pm, and from 11am daily through Sunday 6 October 2019. KCW TODAY, 80-100 GWYNNE ROAD, Closing times vary. It takes place at LONDON, SW11 3UW Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, T: 020 7738 2348 M: 07903 655 331 London. For full visitor information and to E: [email protected] apply for complimentary tickets, visit WWW.KCWTODAY.CO.UK www.decorativefair.com. Jewellery London, 17th September

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which she raised the funds. The steel sculpture has part of George Crabbe’s Blue Plaque: poem from Peter Grimes : “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”. The Sir Benjamin laugh on these bigots is that the beach Britten land on which the statue sits is just STATUES outside the curtilage of the town itself. It 1913-1976 is as if Maggi had her proverbial tongue out too. Britten created the extraordinary There are memorial plaques to him Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 with Peter at three of his London homes: 173 Pears and others, which because of Cromwell Road, 45a St John’s Wood its popularity had to be moved to the High Street and 8 Halliford Street in run-down Maltings at nearby Snape Islington. and opened there in 1967. And though It is hard to know where to start with it burnt down two years later Britten Ben Britten, but he was without doubt was not thwarted and it opened again to the greatest composer of the twentieth huge acclaim in 1970. In the immediate century. He wrote copiously for opera, postwar years the greatest composers, for chamber music, for young people poets, writers, artists, playwrights and and especially for his beloved Suffolk. thinkers came to the Festival to meet He was made Companion of Honour in the great man and enjoy his company. 1953 and was given an Order of Merit in As Ronald Blythe put it so beautifully 1963 and at the last he was ennobled as in The Time by the Sea: “Benjamin Baron Britten of Aldeburgh in 1976, the Britten...... might have said to have come year he prematurely passed away. out of the sea like one of those oceanic And yet to the shame of the town beings who blow horns in the cartouches of Aldeburgh, which more recently has They were ready, but Crossrail was of ancient maps.” been known as Chelsea-on-Sea and not. He had a wonderful sense of fun too, Horse & Rider not always affectionately, there is no Elizabeth Frink was one of none more so, if you think about than Dame Elizabeth Frink monument to either him or his life- Britain’s foremost and popular his celebrated War Requiem finished in long partner Peter Pears. There is no New Bond Street sculptors in the twentieth century, 1962 which had been commissioned larger than life sculpture, no bust in the studying at the Guildhall and for the opening of the new Coventry Moot Hall and no portraits. It is as if Chelsea Schools of Art, she was Cathedral. I mean he was a pacifist. I the town, even its current population, elected a Royal Academician in 1977 would have loved to have met him. He is still embarrassed by his sexuality. and awarded a DBE in 1982. She is died on my birthday in 1976. or years, Frink’s Horse and Rider He had a lovely place on Crag Path, well-known for using animals and Derek Wyatt stood patiently on the corner but moved to the Red House out of the of Dover Street and Picadilly Man as her models, with horses way of everyone in the town which now Books & Poetry on Aldeburgh outside a Caffè Nero, surrounded being dominant, although she also celebrates all his work. Aldeburgh: The History of an Ancient by brass-edged tables and cane sculpted dogs, wild boar, cats, birds F There is, though, a beautiful Borough by HP Clodd (Adlard) 1959 of prey and a baboon. She was also chairs, with back-packs and single- memorial stained glass window to a prolific printmaker, working in The Aldeburgh Scallop use cups unceremoniously dumped Britten by John Piper in St Peter and lithography, etching and aquatint, by Maggi Hamblin (Full Circle) 2008 onto the plinth. Then, suddenly, the St Paul, the local church. He would but she always returned to one of The New Aldeburgh Anthology horse and rider were gone, ridden have liked that as he had worked with her abiding motifs, man and horse. Compiled by Ariana Bankes & off into the sunset. The bronze Myfanwy Piper, John’s wife. And The last of three casts of Horse and Johnathan Reekie (Boydell Press) 2009 was originally commissioned by he is buried in the civic part of the Rider was erected in Winchester The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958 Trafalgar House, a property and churchyard where his black-slate stone is for a summer open air exhibition in by Ronald Blythe (Fabre) 2015 engineering company founded in parked next to Pear’s; a kind of double- the 1960s by Sir Nigel Broakes, 1981, on loan from her agent Leslie header. He turned down Westminster Biographies of Britten which lasted until 1990. The Waddington to Hampshire County Cathedral. Published in the centenary of his birth ageless Grade II-listed symbol of Council, who organised three such I know, I know, there is also Maggi Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music man and horse, has been donated artist-specific sculpture biennials in Hamblin’s immense four metre high by Neil Powell (Hutchison) 2013 by another property company Winchester, namely William Pye Scallop (2003) dedicated to Britten Benjamin Britten: involved in the New and Old Bond in 1979, Elisabeth Frink in 1981 which was vehemently opposed by most A Life in the Twentieth Century Street development, Crosstree and Henry Moore in 1983. The Aldeburghers on the beach front for by Paul Kildea (Allen Lane) 2013 Real Estate Partners, to the City sponsor of the 1981 biennial was of Westminster, who placed it as Trafalgar House, thereby linking the a signpost to the new entrance to Winchester cast with the original in the Royal Academy at Burlington London. The cast was permanantly Gardens and have promised to placed outside Trafalgar House in maintain it. The horse’s rear end Winchester in 1983 and was given faces the Ralph Lauren shop on Grade II status for ‘a sculpture of the corner, and the plinth has been high artistic and aesthetic quality, re-cut and is much lower than the cast in bronze from plaster, subtly original. The sculpture was unveiled detailed and well-composed.’ Of the in 2018, to coincide with the 250th sculpture she said, ‘A symbol of a anniversary of the RA, and the man on a horse, a man riding free opening of the David Chipperfield and a horse free…intended to be designed extension, which evolved completely ageless. He could come from the Museum of Mankind. from the past or go into the future. It was also ready to receive the 60 I like to feel that work to’s and fro’s million extra visitors piling off the from past to present.’ Elizabeth line at Hanover Square. 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he first Chelsea History Festival will open on Wednesday 9th October. The inaugural event takesT place along the Royal Hospital Road, at founder venues the National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Chelsea and Chelsea Physic Garden. The festival will host a programme of over 35 events including talks, music and guided walks. Roderick Williams, at the Royal The Festival hopes that a the schedule, together with the Chelsea Wednesday 9th October Hospital Chelsea’s Wren Chapel. History Festival’s creative director, artist The opening day commemorates diverse programme of free and and author Harry Parker. Holland says, the 75th anniversary of Operation Friday 11th October ticketed events will inspire, “It is great to see the Chelsea History Market Garden, one of the most daring British journalist and author Festival join the calendar of history military operations of WW2. Celebrated Max Hastings will headline Friday’s enlighten and entertain visitors events in Britain. Royal Hospital Road Arnhem veteran, Victor Gregg will proceedings with a talk on his new book from near and far. The Festival in Chelsea is so rich in heritage and be in conversation with bestselling Chastised: The Dambusters’ Story, 1943, provides a magnificent setting at the historian Rick Stroud. Following this, set to be published in September. will also provide a platform for heart of one of the great cities of the military historian Antony Beevor will both established authors and world. Being so easily accessible to many give a lecture on the famous military Saturday 12th October millions of people makes it an ideal campaign. Saturday will see out the festival emerging talent to help make location in which to share the stories with over 20 scheduled events taking history more accessible. that have shaped our world.” Thursday 10th October place. Among the highlights are talks In the evening, attendees will listen from war surgeon David Nott about Tickets are on sale now, ranging from to an evening performance of Ralph his experiences in Aleppo, and Sonia Founder of Britain’s Chalke Valley freeto £30. The full programme is Vaughan’s The Lark Ascending, featuring Purnell on her New York Times bestseller History Festival, James Holland has available at www.chelseahistoryfestival. one of the world’s leading baritones, A Woman of No Importance. been instrumental in consulting on com.

in wastewater treatment centres. Consequently, microplastics enter London Design Teenager Fionn waterway systems, rivers and oceans Festival Ferreira wins as by-products from industrial and is putting on special events in cosmetic processes and as microfibers shedding from clothes during washing Broadgate, Paddington and the 2019 Google machine cycles. Microplastics not only South Kensington. Science Award pollute our waters, but fish consume © London Design Festival Photograph By Lina Kurdi these minute plastics mistaking them for food. These fish are then caught for human consumption and microplastics Please be seated Exhibition Road Day of Design On Monday 26th July 2019, have been found in tap water. 14-22nd September 2019 9-5pm Exhibition Road Fionn Ferreira from West Ferreira invented a Ferro-fluid Finsbury Avenue Square South Kensington (a liquid which reacts to a magnetic Broadgate Sunday 22nd Sept Cork, Ireland was pronounced field) by combining oil and magnetite. London 11am – 5pm the winner of the Google This Ferro-fluid was tested in water EC2M 2PP The finale will host Exhibition Road Day contaminated with microplastics.The Please Be Seated, designed by of Design, a street celebration. which Science Fair competition in microplastics bind to the Ferro-fluid. internationally acclaimed British will explore the role of design in food a ceremony at the Google The solution was then extracted with a designer, Paul Cocksedge, is a large- consumption, usage of energy and waste. magnet leaving only water. scale installation fusing innovation and The day will also feature free, drop-in headquarters in California. In the future, with further research, technology in response to the changing installations, talks and workshops as well Ferreira’s Ferro-fluid method of rhythm of the community. as a food-waste feast, hosted by climate The annual Google Science Fair award extracting microplastics from water can change experts; drawing attention to was launched in 2011. This international be up scaled and used in wastewater Paddington central design route huge food waste, enough to feed 870 competition challenges 13 to 18-year- treatment centres. This will potentially 14th-22nd September 2019 9-5pm million people. Visitors will also have olds to use Science, Technology, prevent microplastics from entering Paddington Central the opportunity to discuss Earth’s Engineering or Maths to produce a waterway systems, polluting aquatic and Sheldon Square future. project, which resolves a social issue of marine eco- systems and contribute to London W2 6PY importance to them. tackling this current climate crisis. Paddington Central will also be one For more information on each event, 18 year old, Ferreira won the $50,000 Ferreira is currently in his last year of the Festival’s Design Routes and visit: prize for his project tackling plastic of Secondary school and is presenting will display a vertical-stepped tower https://www.londondesignfestival.com/ pollution. Ferreira’s project focused on talks on his ground-breaking scientific by Paddington-born designer Adam event/please-be-seated the removal of microplastics from water. invention. Nathaniel Furman, who will enliven the https://www.paddingtoncentral.com/ Microplastics are any plastic particles Grand Union Canal with his signature https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/ 5mm in diameter. For more information about Ferreira and vibrancy and impactful colours. exhibition-road-day-of-design In Europe there are currently no his project: www.googlesciencefair.com filtering methods for microplastics www.fionnferreira.com/ 10 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

the Victorian bridge was never designed to carry the weight of multiple buses and Hammersmith thousands of cars each day. In April, several microfractures were Bridge will be found in the iron pedestals that fix the suspension bridge into the ground. closed for ‘three It was feared that the microfractures could cause the whole pedestals to years’ with £120 shatter under too much weight. This led to the decision on April 10 to ban million repairs all vehicle traffic indefinitely, with only By LDRS Reporter Owen pedestrians and cyclists allowed to cross Sheppard it. More money woes for TfL The huge bill comes as TfL continues to grapple with an enormous annual spending deficit. In March, TfL announced that its operating deficit for 2019/20 had been By LDRS Reporter Owen Sheppard revised down to £742 million, from £897 Repairing Hammersmith Bridge will million. cost up to £120 million and take about The council’s statement said it and religious or racial hatred were among the three years, it has been announced. TfL are “continuing to explore the most motivations for attacks. The Grade II* listed, 132-year-old appropriate funding route for the main London is Newham topped the list of 32 crossing was closed to vehicle traffic in construction”. boroughs with the highest number of April, after surveyors found cracks in its Mr Cowan and London Mayor Sadiq named ‘acid acid attacks between January 2015 and iron structure. Khan had called on the Department for December 2018. Work to assess the extent of the Transport to help fund the repairs. attack hotspot of Among the attacks carried out repairs and the work needed to restore it A DfT spokesperson said it still has during this period was when Arthur has been ongoing. not received a formal request for funding western world’ On September 3, Hammersmith and from the council or TfL. with victims as young as 10 Collins, the ex-boyfriend of The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann hurled Fulham Council leader Stephen Cowan Millions already spent by TfL in acid across a packed Dalston nightclub said: “Following detailed investigation years before in April 2017. by a team of world-leading specialist TfL spent £5.3 million on minor He is now serving 20 years for the engineers, Transport for London and repairs of the bridge from 2015, and attack that injured 22 people. [the] council have agreed the works about £900,000 over four years on Acid attacks in London have catapulted, New legislation has been passed needed to repair Hammersmith Bridge. hiring wardens, who failed to control the with some victims under the age of 10. to combat this issue: in November, “The bridge is not only a beautiful number of buses crossing the bridge. According to new figures released by it became a criminal offence for the example of innovative 19th Century In April, immediately after the the Metropolitan Police, the number of public to possess sulphuric acid above British engineering, it’s also a vital 21st- bridge closed, the council said the violent corrosive liquid offences soared 15 % concentration without a licence. century river crossing. wardens’ failure to limit the bus traffic from 66 in 2012 to 752 last year. Offenders face a two-year prison “It can be made fit for purpose for had put too much weight on the bridge’s Of these, seventeen attacks have sentence and unlimited fines. generations to come. That’s what we’re pedestals, and weakened its structure been carried out on children under the The Provisions in the Offensive doing and we’re focused on getting the even more. age of ten, including a two-year-old boy Weapons Act 2019, will prohibit the sale bridge reopened to cars and buses as It was also reported earlier this year who suffered burns to his face when acid of corrosive substances to under-18s quickly as possible.” that a major repair job, budgeted at was thrown whilst in his pushchair near and give police extra powers to stop and A statement from the council said £27 million, was due to be carried out his Islington home in April 2017. His search those suspected of carrying acid. the £120 million price tag was an on the bridge in 2016. Those works, mother, then 36, and father, 40, who However, former delivery rider Jabed “early stage estimate” and includes a which included replacing corroding were out with him were also hurt. Hussain, 36, who was sprayed in his face “contingency due to the unknowns”. bolts, resurfacing, and repainting, were There have been no arrests made with acid by two robbers in an attempted The council also said £21 million has postponed to late 2017, but never took since the attack. bike theft in Hackney in 2017, said: been committed to the first-stage of the place. Another shocking case that occurred “More needs to be done. The legislation repairs. The council’s new statement also said in March of this year in Worcester was is feeble and the criminals are smarter How did it happen? that, once reopened, TfL will continue a three-year-old boy who was sprayed than the law.” The Council has repeatedly said that to limit the flow of buses over the bridge. with sulphuric acid by his own father. Scotland Yard said it would not One of Britain’s leading tolerate attacks and is now working criminologists said: “London has sadly with the Home Office, the Mayor’s become the acid attack hotspot in the Office for Policing and Crime and the western world.” National Police Chiefs’ Council to target Dr Simon Harding, associate offenders through intelligence, as well professor in Criminology at the as the Crown Prosecution Service to TA Rex © George Photograph University of West London, stated increase the number of convictions. that criminals had turned to acid as it is cheap, easily accessible and induces Acid attacks in capital: terror in both rivals and the public. Newham 316 He also attributed the increase in Barking and Dagenham 146 these attacks to surges in knife crime Tower Hamlets 113 in 2017 and 2018 and stated that using Hackney 91 bleach in attacks had often been used as Redbridge 88 a last resort, targeting someone who was Havering 68 truly hated. 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advantages were so frustrating, Spread The Observer journalist Carole Betting surged in the 2000s. This Cadwalladr, currently being sued by MARIUS BRILL’S wasn’t buying or selling actual stocks Brexit backing investor Aaron Banks but betting on those tiny changes over claims that he had a “covert in direction that stocks may take. relationship” with and had been offered MEMEING OF LIFE Opportunities for major profits and huge money by the Russian Government, risks were thin on the ground before the has followed the money. She has, time Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... 2008 crash and even thinner after that and again, exposed the links between as regulations threatened the financial the Leave Campaign’s (and Trump’s) services. They needed a saviour and in investment in Cambridge Analytica, 2016 it came. dodgy data gathering and targeted social Social media has dubbed it ‘disaster media ad campaigns. “Fake News” cry capitalism’. Creating chaos in order Leave supporters. We have our own to profit on market reactions to it. minds, ads don’t make a difference. The more divisive a political climate If that were true you’d think the www.alicestallard.com the more profit there is to make. advertising industry would be worth The disaster capitalism industry has something less than the $1.2 trillion it is form. War profiteering has a long and today. undistinguished history. The shield Directly addressing “the Gods of makers of the Trojan wars didn’t go Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl hungry. Famously Nathan Rothschild Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin got early news of Wellington’s victory and Jack Dorsey” in a TED Talk they at Waterloo. He immediately sold his sponsored, Cadwalladr berated them British stocks triggering the market to for enabling this chaos. “I didn’t think follow suit as all other traders believed it was possible to have free and fair he must have inside knowledge of the elections ever again,” she wrote. “That result and the French must have won. liberal democracy was broken. And they It drove the prices of the entire market had broken it." down, and just hours before news of If you still think that our political the victory came through, Rothschild chaos is just an accidental opportunity it bought the depressed stock which soared is worth having a look at the play book with the news making him a million on disaster capitalism written in 1987. pounds which, in 1815, was quite the Blood in the Streets, Investment Profits in a one knowing where yer money’s going, haul, and just as surely drove anti- World gone Mad delineated how to invest no questions asked. We’re not gonna be Semitism up a notch or two. "The time as the world descends into division and Cash for Chaos the next Singapore chum, we’re gonna to buy,” he apparently said, “is when violence. “A roadmap to under­standing be the next SingaRICH! blood is running in the streets." the relationships between politics, the When Leave politicians talk about Lenin believed that it was only in mechanics of markets, and the way sst. Wanna make some money? Brexit Opportunities they’re not wrong. conditions of catastrophic upheaval that people respond to crisis.” Sweet dough? Moolah? Now’s the As long as you’ve got capital, which humanity progresses fastest. Which “The coming years will be a bad time. Don’t tell no one else, yer most of us don’t, and the empathy of is not so different from free-market time to be ill advised,” warned the know, keep it on the downlow ‘cos this a psychopath, ditto, you, and your disaster capitalists who seem to believe writers presciently, “A time fraught with P opportunities are golden. that economic advances are best won snares for anyone who is unprepared. is just for us, the elite like. I’ll give yer the name of a horse that’s guaranteed to It may sound a bit conspiracy nutty to through the destruction of societies. We could be on the verge of financial lose. Bet against her and you’ll make a link the chaos in British Politics to elite In Naomi Klein’s book The Shock upheaval when blood will, indeed, ‘run fortune. She can barely pound the track wealth creation but it is, increasingly, the Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in the streets.’ Many people will suffer anymore and she falls more often than a only way to make sense of the bonkers she argues that the societal collapses staggering losses. Others, who take the Boing 737. Her name’s Sterling and she’s situation we’re now in. Yes, “first-past that have accompanied so many free- right investment steps, at the right time, running, if yer can call it that, in the 11 the post” democracy is eminently market economic policies aren’t the will earn handsome profits.” o’clock Brexit Sweepstakes 31st October. exploitable by autocrats and wannabe result of stupidity or mismanagement Though they argued that knowledge She’s guaranteed to dive like Gareth demagogues. An unwritten constitution but are integral to the “free-market of political machinations and Bale. relies on shared beliefs and when they project”, which needs disasters and chaos opportunism was the way to profit Don’t like betting? Wanna invest? erode we can no longer rely on it to to advance. Although Klein hints that on misery, they didn’t go as far as Yer’ve probably missed the boat, or let’s protect us. Party systems set up to elect these disasters may be manufactured suggesting influencing policy to start the call it the Cross Channel Ferry, to buy leaders that our representative MPs have by corporations using shady influence “blood” running. What makes one pause them Euros because they’re bloomin’ little confidence in is another recipe for in government, she also concedes that to think though is that Blood On The expensive now but I can hit yer up disaster along with unchecked media “disaster” may just be part of the normal Streets was co-written by one William with some drug suppliers, legit British xenophobia. It all adds up. Possibly, it is functioning of capitalism. "An economic Rees-Mogg. medical ones, they’re a hot investment just the perfect storm that our creaking system that requires constant growth,” Before going into Government, right now. Wait until the sick and dying 17th Century system in a 21st Century she writes, “while bucking almost all his son Jacob started the investment are whining for their meds after the mass communication globalised world, serious attempts at environmental firm Somerset Capital Management. No-Deal Event Horizon, squeeze them, was always headed for. But, as Deep regulation, generates a steady stream According to the Daily Mirror, their they’re in pain anyway, then when a few Throat told Bernstein and Woodward, of disasters all on its own, whether “publicly-available accounts show its have croaked, sell yer stock. Easy money. “Follow the money.” military, ecological or financial. The operating profit rose from £14.7m in the And mate, when yer’ve made your In a stable, liberal, “End of History” appetite for easy, short-term profits year to March 2015, to £18.3m in 2016, dosh, when you’re living it large, you economy, it’s only the billionaires offered by purely speculative investment £27.8m in 2017 and £34.1m in 2018.” wanna pay tax on it? Nah, course yer who get to consistently drip feed their has turned the stock, currency and Now yer can draw your own don’t. Tax is for losers; yer money fortunes. Profits on shorting currencies real estate markets into crisis-creation conclusions chum but the boy’s doing literally given to life’s losers. Yer lolly or buying or selling stocks are measured machines, as the Asian financial crisis, well. Chip off the old block yer might needs to go on holiday if you know what in hundredths of a penny as prices rise the Mexican peso crisis and the dotcom say. And yer got opportunities coming I mean. I got all the offshore accounts and fall in microscopic differentials. So collapse all demonstrate." my old matey. Now’s the time to get you could need. Those johnnies over you need many many pennies to make So is Brexit just a messy accident that your dosh out and splash the cash. Take the channel can launch their “Anti-Tax any appreciable difference. Profit is has been in the offing for some time or a a punt. The stakes were never higher and Avoidance Directive” next year but we’ll slow. For crotch scratching, testosterone cynical ploy to enrich the ballsy British the old nag’s gonna fall before the final be well aaht by then, no regulations, no pumped, city dealer types, these tiny risk takers and re-invigorate the market? furlong. Get in there. 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

deal more than they do to influence both see. the education, as well as the health of A No Deal will be catastrophic their children. A democracy without a delay to the 31st October Any parent knows that it’s easier to deadline. It is clear that Whitehall

www.alicestallard.com no more? indulge your kids when they’re pestering by Derek Wyatt cannot handle the process. The civil you for sweets, fizzy drinks, Big Macs service has failed to be reformed for and computer games than it is to say forty years and is no longer fit for ‘No.’ purpose. Margaret Thatcher introduced It’s always harder to encourage the ‘Agency’ model like the Highways children to do their homework than it Agency and the Electoral Commission is to let them getaway with skipping and much more besides which have it. It’s easier to let them watch junk We are in a double bind. become an arms length model from TV than it is to read them a book. It’s Westminster and which have failed: harder to sit around a table at mealtimes The Government is in charge witness the shambles of CrossRail and communicate than it is to let the of the political agenda in and HS2 let alone our piecemeal road children wander off to do their own programme. Billions of tax players thing. Parliament and at present money has been extravagantly spent Current orthodoxy attributes poor unless the Speaker intervenes, without the Treasury being across them. GCSE results to poverty, and yet This is a failure of democracy. immigrant communities in London, which is unlikely, then Parliament is tired and short on often among the poorest sections of Parliament will have been vision. Brexit has awoken the opposition society, consistently show significantly but once this happens normal service better results, simply because parents prorogued by the time you will be resumed. We are then back to stress the value of education and read this article. President Boris making our country encourage their children to work hard less interested in helping the bottom and finish their homework. It is an extraordinary length of time quartile of our people who have already Similarly, childhood obesity is more that the PM has asked for; five experienced terrible funding cuts to prevalent in poorer sections of society weeks. Normally, when you prorogue their support systems and indifferent not because they can’t eat a healthy Parliament it is for ten days at most. The housing and policing. It shames our Once more unto diet, but because many parents find it Queen will not be amused. nation that this has happened without difficult to confront their children about The Referendum of 2016 has brought the BBC taking the Government to the bleach their choices and behaviour. Advice and the country to a peaceful version of a issue. The Beeb seems more interested By Peter Burden incentive would contribute as much to civil war if that is not a contradiction in in protecting itself and its future than their children’s health as money spent on terms! We did not vote for a No Deal in troubling to make the case. Boris may be hospitals. the Referendum. We voted to Remain or tempted to cut off its funding entirely. A significant proportion of hospital to Leave. By four per cent, the country We are where we are but it is most Since the Prime Minister was elected admission among adults, too, are for voted to Leave. David Cameron and uncomfortable. by just tens of thousands of die-hard ailments which are a direct result of his advisers on the process should have Conservatives a month ago, he has individuals’ own health mismanagement, to spend some time in the Tower of been entertaining the rest of Europe by partly brought about by the generally London. The Referendum was ‘binding’ Strenuous efforts are made by rampaging across the stage of British accepted principle that whatever the not illustrative. It was a simple majority politics like a rogue elephant in musk extent of self-infliction of a condition, no more no less for the biggest decision Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster and a blonde wig. To his many gullible the individual has a right to be treated since going to War in 1939. The bar Today newspaper to ensure that supporters, he has been issuing promises at no cost to themselves. The ugly irony should have been much higher. You the content and information is as seductively as a Ponzi salesman, is that this perception is on its own one could not make it up. The whole nation deploying his famous, bogus charm like of the major contributing factors to the has been failed miserably by our political correct. Kensington, Chelsea & a Mayfair brothel keeper. alarming decline in public health. leaders. Westminster Today newspaper Pledges of money for popular Mr Johnson knows that pledges Our new Prime Minster acts more causes like Education and the NHS of money for Health and Schools will like an English President. He has no reserves the right to report are distressingly easy to make, and always play well with these supporters of majorities in three of the four countries unsolicited material being sent their effects will linger long enough to his No-Deal ambitions. which make up the slightly less United through to the publication. keep supporters onside until after the Now watch while World-King Boris Kingdom. By bribery he holds ten votes General Election that Johnson seeks. It imitates the action of the tiger, stiffens from the DUP in Northern Ireland but Personal views expressed in this is strongly claimed by opposition parties up the sinews and summons up the without a backstop a united Ireland newspaper are solely those of the that the £1.8bn he has promised the blood as he imagines himself engaged seems more likely. And, if that is not respective contributors and do not Health Service is in any case part of in his most ambitious mission yet; to spelt out more clearly the bombings existing funds. close the wall up with our English dead in Northern Ireland will return. As it reflect those of the publishers or Whether or not the £4.6bn pledged economy. is its Parliament has not sat for over its agents. All materials sent to to the Department of Education will a year and no-one seems to mind in turn into extra spendable money remains Westminster. Would the right wing Kensington Chelsea & Westminster to be seen. militia groups in Northern Ireland seek Today are at the suppliers’ risk. With characteristic guile, the Prime to bomb our English cities? I would not Reproduction in whole or in part Minister is exploiting the misconception rule it out. held by most parents of children in The English have had a raw deal. of this publication is strictly state education that if enough money They have no Parliament. The biggest prohibited without prior consent. is thrown into the pot, all the current and wealthiest (England would rank in The appearance of advertising in shortcomings will be resolved. It doesn’t the top ten of of the richest nations in suit his purpose for he and the ministers the world) has no legislature. A more this newspaper, including inserts or involved to spell out that money is sensible arrangement would be for four supplements, does not constitute only part of the solution; the other, lower Parliaments representing our more significant factor in improving four nations and a Senate over the top endorsement by Kensington,

educational outcomes is parental peterburden.net but as we stumble through the next Chelsea & Westminster Today of the engagement and input; but it’s now year, the voice for England will become deemed politically insensitive to suggest louder and a consequent break up of the products or services advertised. that parents themselves could do a great www. Kingdom seems more likely. We shall 14 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

was declared suspected, to the Brexit question. As the against poet says: ‘Even the weariest rivers wind Germany. I somewhere to the sea.’ Ballade of have watched I am a Leaver by heart and a Good Tidings dogfights in the Remainer by head. I am a Remainer in By Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) brilliant blue the morning (I think of the Ode to Joy skies of 1940. I and the London property market) and saw the alarm, a Leaver at night (Britons never shall fear even, on be slaves etc). But whatever I am, it The other day the £ fell out of bed, my mother’s makes me hot under the collar and gats With consequences that are far face, listening, me a very great deal of heat to hear the from clear; when the news cries of disaster from the two eminent For instance, Eldorado Deeps, about Dunkirk faint-hearts I’ve mentioned and a whole instead came through lot of others like them. Leaving Europe Of jumping up, incline to lurch and on the wireless. will not be a disaster almost beyond the I travelled with Kuiper Belt of contemplation. We had veer; her by train that in 1939 (there were people, masters And while Commander Turtle from Oxford to of Europe, who wanted to destroy us) thinks it queer, Taunton one day and we managed to deal with it. After Professor Gruff is willing to in 1942 when the No Deal is done, if it should come explain; we were held to it, it will be an exercise in the greater But anyhow, the quiet profiteer up on a stifling or lesser pulling-in of the belt, nothing summer’s more. Will miss the Riviera and morning and Whether it is a good thing or not Champagne. afternoon, that we might have to do it is another with no water question, but the enduring of it is not The out o’work will miss his loaf of on hand, for impossible. If we cannot tolerate the bread. nine hours in thought of discomfort to be experienced The half at work will miss his pint our railway in the interests of removing ourselves carriage due to bomb-damage on the from the tyranny of the unelected, then of beer, line. I have crouched under our little we are indeed a fat and lazy nation. The city clerk - who might as well The fear of losing school’s kitchen table, when the sirens Is leaving without a Deal a thing be dead – went off, as a seven-year old in 1944, we could do? Yes it is. Is it a thing Will miss the slight advnce in his our entitlements and seen stout beech trees blasted by we should do? It might well not be. By Nick Salaman career. doodle-bugs in the woods near Henley, But conjuring up pictures of disaster And very many of my friends, I and I have run after seemingly-never- is no argument against it. Hammond ending convoys of American trucks, and Carney should be ashamed of fear, crying out ‘give us some gum ,chum’ themselves, but then they weren’t even Like Algernon (who hasn’t got a (which they did). I have been caned by in trousers when the bombs were falling brain) was lucky. They taught me, with an the headmaster after lunch at school and the doodlebugs were crashing all A-pacing hollow-eyed on Brighton iron rod, what was called Scripture for trying to secrete the bouncy-fatty- around. They were twinkles in their Pier, (later known as Divinity) at school gristly thing that passed for meat-stew mothers’ eyes, and sometimes one wishes Will miss the Riviera and when I was nine. It does leave me at a (was it whale?) into my handkerchief. I they still were. The thing about the I Champagne. disadvantage in terms of computers and wore ill-fitting clothes and painful leaky prospect of national cataclysm is, it’s contemporary gadgetry where, frankly, I shoes made of something like cardboard, rather like love. It s all been experienced flounder. We didn’t have those; but what marketed under the Utility label. many times before. That’s why a sense Ladies and Lords who once on we do have is an inexhaustible supply of We all did things like that, and we of history is so important. History not glory fed, good stories and characters in the Bible experienced the wartime British in hysteria is the watchword. Renaldo, Pharamond and which devotees of PG Wodehouse, for conditions of austerity and adversity I commend to you Hilaire Belloc’s Guinevere, instance, will certainly recognise. unimaginable, it seems, to the likes of Ballade of Good Tidings, published I One of my favourite quotes is: ’Now Philip Hammond and Mark Carney. think around the time we came off the And Francis, that in glittering King David waxed old and well-stricken Yes, I am coming, as you may have Gold Standard in 1931. armour led, in years, and they covered him in The long defiles of lance and clothes. But he gat no heat.’ halberdier, I am sure that, in one translation High Captains of an elder world, of that particular Kind David passage, give ear - it is rendered as ‘they covered him in rugs but he gat no heat’. I may be wrong Caesar and Buonaparte and but I prefer ‘rugs’. I like the idea of Charlemagne - © Raoul Mee Photograph the king peeping out of a roll of rugs The nobler masters of our modern like those Indians a friend of mine sphere described, a year or two back, when Will miss the Riviera and visiting the deserted Raj bungalows of Champagne. Ootacamund. It is cold up there in the hills at certain times of year and some of the people, he said, go up to the deserted Envoi bungalows and roll themselves in the Prince, Oh my Prince, ’tis heavenly old Raj carpets for warmth, their heads to hear! peeping out at each end, like cream in a Stroke the piano; croon it once brandysnap again... I am older than old King David by some years (he died aged seventy) and ‘The Rich, the Very Rich, this very not many things get me hot; at least, not year, hot under the collar these days, but... Will miss the Riviera and I was a small boy of three when war Champagne!’ 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

avalanches of:

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Photograph © Unsplash Photograph 2. The peer pressure of another The plastic toy industry friend, cousin or classmate The tale of how we wrote off the future of our children 3. Our inability to spend quality time with them, and succumbing By Ali Borhani in substituting our guilt with a toy after a business trip

The question here is not how we can cut their addiction to plastic toys, but perhaps how we can substitute their craving to a more meaningful form of entertainment? What if tomorrow USD 20bn of the money that we as parents spend on toys would have been allocated to setting up a fund to fight the polluted seas, oceans and around the planet? Why can’t we cut our budgets on toys for only one year by a quarter, globally and to set up an SPV, perhaps we can even call it the Monster Fund, an SPV that could invest clearly in fighting this malaise. A fund that could hire the best brains, stellar anthropologist, environmentalists and infant and children psychologists that could help the fund to not only identify new games for the children, but also to engage the best financial experts to develop a game plan that can be free from a Plastic Footprint in the game-rooms of our here are days when each of us of a modern society one can find the comprehensive analysis of the integrated children. has a moment of epiphany when footprints of this Monster. damage that the toy industry has on the We have to stop making our children reality hits us on the forehead, The total global toy industry is worth environment. numb from childhood. We have to shakes and reverberates our ribcage and UK£73.7bn (USD 89bn) and the share According to some estimates a good remind them that being in nature, being T out there being able to swim, to fish and gives us goose bumps about what we of United States market is a strong and 50% of these batteries are not recycled have been blind to. staggeringly with a dangerous 25% properly and could end up littering the to eat without the worry of pollution is I had one of these moments this market share of the total industry sales, environment. After all which mum the biggest joy in life. summer; my six-year-old son asked standing at UK£17.1bn (USD 20.7bn). with two infants would make that extra The idea for an SPV/fund is not a me, wordlessly by simply smiling and The total global toy industry is equal trip to a designated outlet or facility to fantasy. The fund raising is a matter of accelerating his pace, forcing me to to the GDP of Kenya or 2 times bigger dispose the batteries in a responsible will; we have to have the courage to fight follow him from one toy store to another than the GDP of Tunisia. manner. the Monster, to fight together and to do from the ELC (the Early Learning It is almost impossible to step into a The very toys we buy for these so by allocating in cash a mere quarter Center) to Hamley’s and several other toy store and not be overwhelmed by the future heirs of planet earth, are made of our annual toy budget for only one toy shops. Shop after shop and, my amount, weight and vulgar presence of in various forms, shape or fashion as if year. sense of bewilderment only grew, my plastics. not seasonal, monthly or in most cases The fund can then pull in further stomach twisting and dropping. At one Now embedded in each of those a weekly stepping stone to boredom Private & Public benefactors and we point I went deaf and could not actually toys are at least 2 or sometimes 6 AA before a new toy is launched, and before can draw on various countries like hear his voice only the echo of his sheer batteries and then you need another our children are taken over by the three Scandinavia, Japan,and the EU. excitement to be buying yet another toy The dividend? The future with a that he would be bored with within 2-3 clean, sustainable, meaningful and weeks max. purposeful environment in which our I pinched myself and I sat down and children, grand-children and future tried to explain to the young man that generations can live, thrive and flourish.

Photograph © Unsplash Photograph at home he had a room full of different, I once read “little things matter and but similar other toys that he seemed all those who say they don’t, have never but forgotten about. spent a night in a bed with a mosquito”. He became silent but then he started The Monster is in our children’s nodding appreciatively, as I suggested bedrooms. Let us not lose sight of what to him a day-out on the beach, followed we can accomplish together. by a visit to the painting class that he enjoys attending, and where he draws Ali Borhani is the Managing Director his Sea Monsters, the cutest and most of 3Sixty Strategic Advisors Ltd. It attractive monsters I have seen in my is the readers’ responsibility to verify entire life. their own facts. The views and opinions Well, now I want to talk about expressed in this article/commentary another Monster, which has grabbed the are those of the author’s and do not headlines of late. This monster has been necessarily reflect the official policy or polluting our seas, oceans, rivers, jungles position of any other individual, agency, and forests; from landfills to every corner organization, employer or company. 16 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk International News

Johannesburg prohibited the display competition. ALA Architects designed years. There's been some success but we of the country’s old apartheid-era flag, an amazing and unique building that need to do more, and so we are here INTERNATIONAL ruling that its ‘gratuitous’ use espouses takes all the elements most desired by to announce some of the next steps we hate speech and racial discrimination. customers into account. […] The Public are taking." DeSantis has said that the NEWS The ‘Apartheid Flag’, nicknamed Library of the Year award tells us that state will double its resources for python Oranje, Blanje, Blou, consists of three the world has also taken notice of this”. removal and that the state Department BY HARRY PARSONS horizontal blue, white and orange stripes The Finnish library system has of Environmental Protection and the with three small flags of Great Britain, always strongly supported the education Department of Agriculture have reached the Orange Free State and the Transvaal system, providing access to information a crucial new agreement to begin in the middle. It was first adopted in and literature. In 2016, Finland was hunting pythons in 130,000 acres of 1928, pre-dating the arrival of apartheid named as the most literate country in the state parks. laws in 1948. The old South African world. Nigeria: 6800 flag has often been seen as a symbol of hate and bloodshed. It was used by the Florida, USA: Campaign to remove people impacted Union of South Africa and its successor invasive Pythons. . state, the Republic of South Africa by floods until 1994, when it was replaced by the current ‘Rainbow Flag’, ushering in a ccording to the Norwegian new democracy and marking the end of Refugee Council (NRC), the apartheid-era. over 6,800 people living in © PixaBay Photograph During the ruling, Judge Phineas displacement camps in Maiduguri have A Mojapelo condemned those who been impacted by floods in recent weeks. continue to wave the flag. “Those who “They are essentially displaced within a display the old flag choose deliberately displacement camp”, said Eric Batonon, to not only display the old flag, but also Director of the NRC, referring to the consciously and deliberately choose to thousands who were left homeless after not display the new, multiracial flag,” torrential rain in northeast Nigeria said Mojapelo, “They choose oppression destroyed makeshift tents and caused over liberation.” severe flooding to displacement camps Mojapelo conceded that the ban throughout the region. is a partial one, stating that use of the Many have sought shelter in the old flag is protected by law for artistic, overcrowded tents of their relatives and academic or journalistic purposes. friends. Such conditions are a petri-dish The ruling followed a petition for water-borne diseases such as Cholera. to the court by the Nelson Mandela The Adamawa State Government has Foundation after the flag was displayed officially declared an outbreak of the in October 2017 during a protest by Two huge Burmese pythons have disease in three local government areas Mexico: Dozens killed in arson white South Africans against the killing been caught in Big Cypress National during the rainy season. The total attack. of farmers. The foundation, a non-profit Preserve, as part of an ongoing initiative number of cases reported as of August An arson attack in the Mexican port organisation established to promote to remove the invasive species from the 16th is 633, a number expected to rise city of Coatzacoalcos has left at least 28 Mandela’s vision of freedom and equality state. due to the forecast ofextra rainfall. dead and another 11 severely injured. for all, took to Twitter to celebrate the Native to Southeast Asia, it is The rainy season presents On August 27th, armed assailants burst decision; “The Apartheid flag is gone! believed that as many as thousands opportunities for armed groups to target into the Caballo Blanco nightclub, The Equality Court has today ruled that were shipped to Miami to be sold as and infiltrate displacement camps. On opening fire on revellers before setting gratuitous displays of the old flag are exotic pets in the 1990s. Estimates of August 20th in Dikwa, a female suicide the building ablaze with gasoline and legally hate speech! A win for democracy how many Burmese pythons currently bomber detonated a bomb, killing Molotov cocktails. and all South Africans!” occupy the state range between the tens herself and injuring four civilians. This President Andrés Manuel López to hundreds of thousands. According to was the first attack of its kind in the area Obrador called for local prosecutors research, their arrival has coincided with since December 2018. Helsinki’s Oodi named public to be investigated as “the alleged the severe decline of several mammal “Additional financial support is library of the year perpetrators had been arrested, but On 27th August, Helsinki Central populations in southern Florida. urgently needed to reach the 6.2 million they were freed.” Veracruz governor Library Oodi was named as the Public On July 26th, Kevin Reich, member people targeted for humanitarian aid in Cuitláhuac García identified the Library of the Year for 2019 at a of the Python Action Team, hand- 2019. People will die if they don’t receive principal suspect as a man known as conference in Athens hosted by The captured an 18-foot female python urgent assistance now.”, Batonon said. La Loca. García said the man had been International Federation of Library weighing nearly 84 pounds. According The United Nations and partners have detained by marines in July, but was Associations and Institutions (IFLA). to The Florida Fish and Wildlife appealed for $848 million to address the released after being turned over to the The annual award is presented to a Conservation Commission (FWC), problems in northeast Nigeria this year. state prosecutor’s office. public library that is either newly built the creature was the second-largest About eight months into the year, less In Mexico, the number of violent or set up in premises not previously snake ever to be removed by the group. than 40 percent of this sum has been crimes continue to rise after hitting used for library purposes. 16 libraries Remarkably, moments later, fellow received. record levels in 2018. The deaths from over the world were considered for hunter George Perkins announced his follow an attack in April in Minatitlán, the award, including the Green Square capture of a snake nearly identical in South Africa: ‘Apartheid Flag’ Veracruz that killed 13 people. The Library and Plaza in Australia, the length. attack on the nightclub was the worst Forbidden Bibliotheek LocHal in the Netherlands These two high-profile cases arrive On 21st August, a landmark ruling single act of violence since President and Tūranga, New Zealand. amid news that Florida will expand its from South Africa’s Equality Court in Obrador took office in December, who Library Oodi opened in December efforts to collar the growing number of was sworn in on a pledge to bring peace 2018, and has already welcomed over Burmese pythons that have long plagued to the nation by curbing corruption and two million visitors through its doors. the Floridian ecosystem. drug wars. The President pointed to past Anna-Maria Soininvaara, director of Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, governments for laying the groundwork Oodi, attributes the success of the library expressed his concerns over the for the crime. ‘This is the rotten fruit of to its participatory design process, “Oodi growing problem, “As these pythons the economic policy that was imposed, was designed together with customers have permeated through, they've the policy of pillage’, the President for a long period of time. We received really disrupted the natural food chain declared. more than 2,000 ideas from customers balance, […]. We've been advancing to serve as the basis of the architectural python management policies for several 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Astronomy online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Top Left: This artist's concept allows us to imagine what it would be like to astronomers, amateur or professional, stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST - 1f, located in the we’ll just simply sigh, and stroll off in TRAPPIST - 1f system in the constellation Aquarius. Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH, Spitzer St Team, T Pyle the hope of a good night’s viewing. After Left: all, 100-500 light-years is next door in Artists concept of exoplanets Kepler-186f, the first Earth-sized, rocky planet found in its stars habitable zone. galactic terms, our own galaxy is over Credit: NASA/AMES/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle 100,000 light-years from end to end, and Above: M101-The Pinwheel Galaxy. 27 million light-years away in the yet still so far, so very far to reach, for constellation of Ursa Major lies the spectacular spiral galaxy Messier the distances involved are immense. 101. Over 70% bigger than the Milky Way at 170, 000 light years across, this gargantuan system contains approximately one trillion What’s the problem? Well today’s stars. rockets go about 10 miles a second. Extraordinary, these numbers suggest there are many, many more planets than stars in the universe. By mid-century and with maximum whose taken out a second mortgage to Credit: Subaru Space (NAO), Hubble Space Telescope, Robert Gendler financial resources, we might get to go go eclipse hunting and found themselves ten times faster. Fast enough to pass the Another Earth under a cloudy sky in some god-forsaken planet at a comfortable distance from Moon in a half hour. That would get us By Scott Beadle FRAS mosquito infested dump on the other its star, We’ll even find one whose air is to New Earth in 112,000 years. side of the planet can attest too. And wonderfully packed with water vapour Let’s leave it, maybe wait until we that’s not to mention my own experience and oxygen. can do 1000 miles a second, by the end of building a sophisticated observatory Oxygen is abundant, however, no of the century. Such a rocket could take Of all hobbies and pastimes in E Sussex, but which seems to have its sterile planet should have free oxygen, astronauts to New Earth in 11,000 own perpetual micro climate above it, because that element bonds with just years. We could of course freeze them, astronomy has to be one of consisting of one continuous rain cloud! about everything to form oxides, leaving some version of suspended hibernation. the most relaxing. You don’t Nonetheless astronomy is an no loose O2 floating around. The only Our descendants can perform a quick observational science, so observe we reason for free oxygen is life, which thaw 220 centuries from now, followed worry as a bird watcher do, and in a similar time frame to me continuously releases it. Here on Earth, by a welcome home parade. Would the might, whether you will observing Sagittarius, so too have oxygen appeared only after life began. ships electronics last that long? What astronomers been using both ground Astronomers believe that will be true if all their data was lost and they had ever see that infrequent and space-based telescopes to discover everywhere. nothing to show for the trip? Moreover migratory visitor again next over 4,000 exoplanets so far, within Sooner or later, we’ll find such a language, theirs and ours, would have approximately 100-500 light-years of the planet, and then we’ll know where life greatly evolved; we’d be hard pressed to year. We’re not gardeners Sun. almost certainly exists, and which will understand anything they said. Their watching rabbits eat the new Most of these planets are found by produce headlines around the world. speech would be utter gibberish, (a bit observing the light curve, as the planet “READ ALL ABOUT IT! like Parliament dealing with Brexit). planted vegetable patch. Nor transits the face of their parent sun. Earth-like planet with oxygen Star travel isn’t going to happen in fisherman wondering whether First, we obtain the spectrum of the discovered, only 60 light-years away, our life time, nor our children’s. Once host star (composition), then another aliens next door, read all about it!” found, New Earth will remain the stuff the monster pike, even bigger spectrum when the planet and its Everybody, from your boss, priests, of dreams and fantasies. It will be the this year, that still hides in the surrounding atmosphere pass in front, parliamentarians, bankers etc., who subject of star parties, film production, then subtract one from the other and hay normally discuss science about as often and an endless desire to understand the reed bed, will fall for your lure presto, you now have the composition of as your parrot does, will excitedly mysterious new planet, with tantalizing again! the faraway exoplanet’s atmosphere. The speculate about the New Earth. lifeforms in another world, for which first success with this technique was of a Then nothing more will happen. we’ve always dreamed. o, our subjects essentially live planet 63 light-years away in Vulpecula In every other discipline, an amazing Homo Sapiens is an endlessly curious forever. I’ve watched Sagittarius (The Little Fox) and it consisted of discovery leads to a flurry of enterprise. species, there are probably trillions of for the last sixteen years rise over sodium. Weird but no-one really cared Headline breakthroughs in chemistry, planets throughout the universe, if we the Beznar dam in southern Spain, a as it was so brutally close to its star no genetics, or technology get developed survive and grow up and truly respect N our own planet, then sometime in the magnificent site and I know it will do it life could exist anyway. further. Researchers pursue possibilities. again, at the same spot, all the years of However the technique worked The public will clamour for NASA very, very far distant future we might get my life, every year into perpetuity and over 800 exoplanets have had their or ESA to launch a probe, or even to meet some of the rest of our cosmic Astronomy can of course be a bit spectrums analysed, all in the hope that study the feasibility of a manned trip travellers, at least in our own, most exasperating and expensive, as anyone we will finally find a more earthlike to investigate New Earth, but for us beautiful galaxy. 18 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance

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space. platform Maecenas used blockchain Cryptocurrency The industry is in 2018 to sell a 31.5% stake in Andy By Harry Parsons nascent even today; Warhol’s painting 14 Small Electric the relative size of the Chairs, the first instance of a valuable cryptocurrency market piece of art being sold through the ($276.6 billion) is still technology. The rise of cryptocurrency started with small (Apple: $950.6 Recent news points to an exciting, Bitcoin. Amid the 2008 economic crisis, billion. Amazon: yet turbulent road ahead in the the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, $891.06 billion) and, blockchain landscape. The outcome a Banksy of the financial world whose according to the that cryptocurrencies will become as identity still remains a mystery, posted House of Commons ubiquitous as Euros and Dollars is an a paper to a cryptography mailing list report, no existing unlikely one. Blockchain might never outlining his concept for an online cryptocurrency bears be as disruptive as it was touted to be. currency. a true likeness to a Instead, the technology continues to The House of Commons Treasury traditional currency; be used as a method of streamlining Committee outlined their definition of ‘Functioning business practices; maximising efficiency a cryptocurrency in a 2018 report on the currencies are and improving transparency and trust subject, ‘cryptocurrencies are intended and transacted solely in Bitcoin; over generally understood to serve as a store along the way. to function as a means of payment for $1.2 billion worth of deals were made of value, a medium of exchange and Nevertheless, optimism remains. goods and services. They differ from on the site before its closure in 2013. a unit of account. As yet, there are no In June 2019, Facebook unveiled its traditional currencies in that they are Bitcoin achieved a status of notoriety for so-called ‘cryptocurrencies’ that serve plans for Libra, a new digital currency not issued by central banks, and in that its proximity to the site, many dubbing all these functions. Well-functioning supported by more than two dozen they can be transferred electronically the virtual currency as no more than a cryptocurrencies currently exist only as a companies ranging from Visa and PayPal between users without the involvement vehicle for criminal activity. theoretical concept […]’. to Uber and Spotify. The project is the of intermediaries or the control of a Despite this, cryptocurrency Outside the payments sector, the largest of its kind, designed to bring central authority.’ became very popular and its growth opportunities for blockchain are vast, cryptocurrency to the mainstream, and Nakamoto’s vision was made continued. In December 2017, the peak and many are already in place today. targeting the 1.7 billion people without possible by the underlying technology, of cryptomania, there were well over Take Provenance, for example, a start- access to a bank account. The project blockchain; a distributed ledger 1,000 different cryptocurrencies in up utilising blockchain to help track must overcome many obstacles before its system designed to record economic existence and Bitcoin had a total market physical products along the supply chain. proposed rollout in 2020, and whether exchanges between two parties. capitalisation of over $313 billion. This Using the platform, buyers can verify or not it can achieve its desired effect Blockchain brought to each transaction growth was accompanied by a host of that the product they are receiving is depends on regulatory changes and the guarantee of both permanence new problems in the space: phishing exactly what they paid for. Founded in greater awareness around the potential and privacy. It was these features that scams, fraudulent ICOs and the high 2013, the company has over 200 retailers of cryptocurrencies. What it does signal, attracted many to it in the first place. environmental cost of cryptocurrency in the food and drinks industry, with however, is that many large corporations Enter Silk Road, the online black mining. These issues pointed to brands as big as Unilever and Sainsbury’s are at least entertaining the idea of a market for illicit goods; founded in 2011 significant teething troubles within the using their software. Elsewhere, auction decentralised economy. 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Reforming planning laws for mobile Mark Bridgeman, Deputy City of London 5G rollout infrastructure is part of the Prime President of the Country Land and By Harry Parsons Minister’s plan to level-up connectivity Business Association, said: hit by nearly one for communities across the UK, further “The vast potential of the rural support the roll-out of 5G and boost our economy will only be fulfilled when million cyber- economy. The consultation on potential everyone in the countryside has full changes to permitted development rights mobile connectivity, and we welcome attacks every for mobile infrastructure in England DCMS’s intent to deliver the Prime £30m to spark rollout of next includes proposals on: Minister’s promise of internet access for month. generation 5G in rural areas all. by Harry Parsons Changing the permitted height of new “The current situation, where only and help countryside capitalise masts to deliver better mobile coverage, 67% of the country can access a decent on tech revolution promote mast sharing and minimise the signal, is unacceptable and Government need to build more infrastructure; is right to focus on planning reform as a New competition launched means to removing current barriers, but to test groundbreaking 5G Allowing existing ground-based masts there must also be a balance between to be strengthened without prior the interests of landowners and mobile applications in rural areas approval to enable sites to be upgraded operators.” comes alongside proposed for 5G and for mast sharing; Hamish MacLeod, Director at planning reforms to improve Deploying radio equipment cabinets on Mobile UK, said: and extend mobile coverage. protected and unprotected land without “The current planning system does prior approval, excluding sites of special not support the fast, efficient rollout igital Secretary Nicky Morgan scientific interest; and of 5G technology that is vital for the has launched a £30 million UK’s digital economy. We welcome the UK-wide competition to Allowing building-based masts nearer Government looking at simplifying spark a tech revolution in countryside to roads to support 5G and increase planning processes to deliver better D mobile coverage. connectivity, and we stand ready to work communities and help rural Britain seize the opportunities of 5G technology. in partnership to ensure these much- uring the first quarter of Up to ten rural locations will be The Government is also seeking views needed reforms happen as quickly as 2019, the City of London chosen to run innovative trials of 5G on what measures industry could offer possible.” Corporation, the municipal applications and stimulate commercial to mitigate the impact of any new governing body of the City of London, investment in 5G technology which infrastructure, including assurances of Julian David, CEO, techUK said: D offers mobile speeds 10 to 20 times faster a greater use of existing sites and the “5G is an essential component of the main site of the UK’s financial district, was targeted by nearly one than previous generations. removal of redundant masts. the UK’s digital fabric. It underpins million cyber-attacks per month. The Rural Connected Communities innovative technologies from drones Data made available under the competition is the latest wave of £200 Minister of State for Housing and to AI. techUK welcomes this initiative Freedom of Information Act indicates million funding to pioneer 5G testbeds Planning, Rt Hon Esther McVey and sees this Government has long that the governing body was hit by 2.8 across the country and deliver the MP said: recognised the benefits offered by 5G million cyber-attacks during the first benefits of the highest speeds of mobile “We’re committed to delivering to businesses and consumers, making three months of 2019, amounting to an connectivity available. the homes people across the country considerable investment already in average of 927,000 attacks per month. This technology is already being need, and that includes delivering the 5G testbeds and trials, including 5G This figure is a 90% increase from used in the Orkney Islands to remotely right infrastructure such as broadband RuralFirst, led by techUK member the number of attacks recorded between monitor salmon fisheries and improve connectivity and good mobile coverage. Cisco. April and December 2018, which saw an the efficiency of wind farms, and in There is nothing more frustrating than “As important as the financial average of 489,000 attacks per month. Shropshire, the 5G trials are showing moving into your new home to find the support for innovative uses for 5G is, Between April 2018 and March how farming can be transformed signal is poor.” the recognition that the way planning 2019, the City of London Corporation through targeted crop-spraying and soil “That’s why we are proposing to rules are implemented is a big factor in received a total of 7.2 million attacks. analysis with drones and tractors. simplify planning rules for installing the level of connectivity. I am pleased Among these attacks, a total of 17,566 The new funding will build on the latest mobile technology, helping the Government is now proposing to were identified as ‘top malware’, projects like these and trial other uses of to extend coverage and banish more of simplify those rules as they apply to malicious software designed to infiltrate 5G in rural communities to help drive those signal blackspots, particularly for mobile masts in England and urges them and damage computers. The substantial business growth, enhance lives and those living in rural areas.” to move swiftly to make these changes.” majority of these attacks (6,9185,80) encourage innovation. were categorised as ‘spam’. Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan said: Andy Heather of Centrify, an online “The British countryside has always security solutions company, stated, been a hotbed of pioneering industries “The high volume of sensitive public and we’re making sure our rural information contained within the communities aren’t left behind in the systems and databases of organisations digital age.

Photograph © Christopher Scholz © Christopher Photograph like the City of London Corporation “We’re investing millions so make it a top target for cyber-criminals. the whole country can grasp the Malicious email scams such as phishing opportunities and economic benefits of and malware attacks form a substantial next generation 5G technology. part of the wider cyber threat facing “In modern Britain people expect to councils across the country, in London be connected wherever they are. And so and beyond. we’re committed to securing widespread “With so many attacks taking place mobile coverage and must make sure every day, it’s vital that all organizations we have the right planning laws to give adopt a zero trust approach to user the UK the best infrastructure to stay activity, to prevent hackers gaining ahead.” access to council systems using The Government has today also legitimate log-in details that may have launched a consultation on proposals to been stolen or purchased on the simplify planning rules to improve rural dark web.” mobile coverage. 20 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Literature

as an American salesman on a road-trip. Turkish author Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes, Booker Prize 38 Seconds in this strange world, which Shortlist 2019 stark title refers to the final moments of THE ABA CHELSEA contains an unpublished brain activity of a fatally assaulted sex worker in Istanbul, Nigerian Chigozie Margaret Atwood novel Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities; RARE BOOK FAIR a tale of a poultry farmer who must sacrifice everything for love, and his he shortlist for the 2019 Booker second time on the Booker Shortlist, Prize has been released, and Londoner Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, includes a Margaret Atwood Woman, Other the story of 12 British novel that hasn’t even been published T black women and American Lucy yet. The Testaments, Atwood’s decades in Ellman’s over 1000 page stream of the making follow up to The Handmaid’s consciousness doorstopper Ducks. This Tale is as yet unread by anyone except shortlist was cherry picked from 151 for the Booker Prize judges. Atwood’s longlisted authors with the winner of the mysterious sequel is up against five other Chelsea Old Town Hall writers including Salman Rushdie’s 50,000 pound prize is to be announced Kings Road Quichotte, a reinvention of Don Quixote at the Guildhall on Monday October 14. London SW3 5EE The new upwards momentum Whilst it seems certain that both Atwood and Rushdie should prove bestsellers whether or not they take home the prize, the Booker has been November 2019 renowned for transforming the careers of Friday 1st 2–7pm lesser know writers. Last year’s winner Saturday 2nd 11am–5pm Anna Burns sold 963 copies of her novel Milkman in the week before the prize; she sold 9,446 the week after. Her book, Free entry with this advert set in the Northern Ireland Troubles, has now sold more than 500,000 copies and been translated into 40 languages. The prize rules were changed in www.chelseabookfair.com 2013 to open it up to writers beyond the Commonwealth provided they wrote in English and published in the UK. KCWT Chelsea 2019.indd 1 08/08/2019 13:49 Weekend

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the same day, putting the city under Hugo, Zola, Rodin, Turgenev, Wilde, without a cravat, his shirt open at the martial law and killing any buzz about Degas and many more show up in an neck and his head shaved, just as if he Pages from their debut stone dead. This is merely the endless whirl of dinner parties, bars were going to be guillotined.” There is a first sling and arrow that the brothers and brothels, where these titans of the definite unusually novelistic satisfaction the Goncourt take as a personal slight from fate itself. 19th century all behave in a uniformly that comes from the selected passages Journals Already long since jaded by the awful fashion. Bizarre sexual exploits, (in English it is only possible to get a By Max Feldman time the journals begin, the Goncourts backbiting, jealousy, plagiarism and 400 page condensed edition) that makes glide through the artistic heights of incredibly crude humour are the glue the Journals an unlikely page turner. the Parisian Belle Epoch like sardonic that bind these beatified saints of culture Admittedly this all comes with the vipers and dismiss most of it with into what is less a friendship than a proviso that those who are repulsed by little more than a contemptuous sniff. cold war. arrogance should look elsewhere, as Andre Gide noted, “It is impossible to read a page by them where that good The Prix Goncourt is perhaps opinion they have of themselves does not the biggest literary prize burst out from between the lines.” Between them they witness some in France. First awarded in of the most important events in Paris’s 1903, its stated intention is to recent history, giving ground eye and deeply involved views of everything uplift fledgling authors and from the Franco-Prussian War, the provide them with the support Revolutionary Commune, the erection of the Eiffel Tower and the Dreyfus to be able to write a second. Affair. But whilst the self proclaimed Initially this ‘support’ was a ‘John the Baptists of modern neurosis’ offer a scintillating and Pepysian hefty monetary reward, but window of 19th century Paris that as the prize’s reputation has most biographers and historians would cheerfully sacrifice their first born to grown, the prize money has obtain, the question does remain how become a symbolic 10 Euros much can you trust them. The surviving Goncourt, Edmond began to publish [though if the exchange rate it in 1886-7 after becoming terminally falls any lower it could render frustrated with the continued lack of critical and commercial appreciation that any British winners overnight he felt was their god-given right. Some millionaires] due to the cocky, of the figures in the journals contest their representation and being what it if justified, assumption that is the journals are fairly teeming with bestowment of the prize will unsubstantiated and spiteful rumour that Edmond was clearly only too happy to earn the writer far more in reprint. So how much did they make up? immediate sales. It’s impossible to say, Edmond was noted for constantly scribbling notes on his he prize is famous enough that shirt cuffs even mid-conversation which Edmond and Jules Goncourt: he would recycle into the journal so The novelist brothers who perhaps all of it is 100 percent authentic. foundedT the prize has long receded Those of a cynical mindset however into functional anonymity. The novels should be referred back to Andre Gide they wrote together are forgotten, who, on being assured by an angry often deemed unreadable to modern acquaintance that the Journals cannot sensibilities. Though of course you can be trusted remarked “the words that he still see some poor lost souls reading puts into the mouths of various people, Varney The Vampyr so perhaps there however false they may be according are some serious Goncourtheads out to you, are almost never uninteresting. there apoplectic with rage at that last Watch out, for the more you reduce his comment; but for the most part their stature as a stenographer, the greater you novelistic output has vanished. make him as a writer, as a creator’’ There is one major exception to this The works are certainly a product of rule and that is their shared journal, Coming from a moneyed, aristocratic The thing about the journals their time; the brothers initially embody which was written between 1851 and background the brothers were able which makes them stand out beyond a casual misogyny in their relations with 1896, unimpeded even by the agonising to survive the various failures of the being the 19th century equivalent of women, though Edmond’s protracted death of Jules Goncourt from syphilis novels, plays and magazines they Motley Crue’s The Dirt, is the fact friendship with Princess Mathilde in 1871. For over four and a half released in their “hard and horrible that in all the Goncourts’ striving for Bonaparte slowly reverses it in a way that decades the Goncourts’ poured their struggle against anonymity”, with artistic recognition and jealousy, the Edmond doesn’t even seem to notice. anxieties and poisonous anger at their nothing more than an increase in their actual Journals are almost certainly There is also an unfortunate tang of lack of success into the innocent paper. already heroic supplies of bile: “Oh, their magnum opus in terms of quality. anti-Semitism that becomes apparent A colossal and vituperative sense of if one of Dostoevsky's novels, whose Unshackled from their desperate need towards the end, which if nothing else, entitlement runs through the journals, black melancholy is regarded with such to be on the cutting edge that has does paint the kind of social atmosphere which has the side effect of making it indulgent admiration, were signed with helped their novels become increasingly that led to the Dreyfus Affair itself. 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District, particularly Coniston Water books. Writers’ Country and Lake Windermere in Swallows and Dublin’s fair city belongs to James by Don Grant Amazons and Swallowdale, were it not Joyce, while north of the border in for Beatrix Potter, who is comfortably Scotland there are several contenders ensconced in Peter Rabbit’s burrow and for the literary ownership of Edinburgh, surveys the whole of the Lake District most notably Robert Louis Stevenson, from her famous hill-top farmhouse but recently Ian Rankin and his ‘Hill Top’. Others call the whole Lake detective Rebus, have colonised parts District ‘Wordsworth Country,’ which of the City. The Borders belong to Sir could be contentious. Geoffrey Chaucer Walter Scott, while Ayrshire is definitely reat Britain is not made up had pretty well sewn up Canterbury as ‘Robert Burns Country’, centred on his of counties, but ‘countries?’ his own, but not as a country, more a birthplace in Alloway, and Kirkoswald, Had you not noticed? If one is city destination. A. A. Milne’s domain where he lived briefly and went to Gtravelling in Hampshire near Alton, is in the Ashdown Forest where Winnie school. London has such a diversity of one is in ‘Jane Austen Country.’ A the Pooh, Christopher Robin and writers and poets, that no one person trip across Exmoor, and suddenly a his pals would muck about playing can claim it as his or her own, although road sign announces ‘You are entering Poohsticks, but it only amounted to a Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Lorna Doone Country’, and a few miles hundred acres of woodland, and does Doyle and John Keats can all lay claim further on, as one clatters past a fog- not really constitute a country. H. E. to parts of it. Again, it is problematical bound Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor in Bates was an author who wrote about with Oxford, as so many great writers a coach and four, one is told one is in ‘the countryside’, although his Larkins either studied there or set their books ‘Daphne du Maurier Country.’ Along series of novels The Darling Buds of May, there, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. the Winterbourne Valley and on to A Breath of French Air, When the Green Tolkien and most famously, Philip Dorchester in Wessex, better known Woods Laugh and Oh! to be in England Pullman who started His Dark Materials as Casterbridge in ‘Thomas Hardy deserved to have a country named after trilogy amongst the dreaming spires. It Country’. He disguised some towns, them in Kent. Jerome K. Jerome’s Three is also, of course, the City of Morse, and but not others, so that Winchester Men in a Boat is more of a journey, from there are Morse Tours out to Burford became Wintoncester, Christminster Kingston to Oxford on the Thames and and Blenheim, as well as sorties to the was Oxford, Melchester was Salisbury, back down with the stream, and does Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian Newbury became Kennetbridge, and not really constitute a country. E F Library. Poor Colin Dexter hardly gets Budmouth, Weymouth. The most Benson wrote ghost stories, but became a mention. Nottingham boasts two famous use of a writer’s name to fix equally famous for his Mapp and Lucia personages, one an author and the other it topographically in the mind, is series of novels, set in Rye, but which he a quasi-legendary figure, namely D undoubtedly Shakespeare, although called Tilling. H Lawrence in Eastwood, and Robin some Yorkshire folk would argue that The Barsetshire Chronicles does not Hood, who has the whole 450 acres of ‘Brontë Country’ takes the high ground really have a dominion, as Barchester Sherwood Forest Country Park to call morally, and geophysically, as the sisters is a fictional cathedral city made up by his own. based most of their novels around Anthony Trollope in the fictional county Over the Severn in Wales, they make Yorkshire, and in the case of Wuthering of Barsetshire, ‘a little bit of England a big thing about Dylan Thomas, and Heights, the wild and windy moors of which I have myself created’, but drew quite rightly so. He virtually has the West Yorkshire and East Lancashire on both Somerset and Dorset as possible whole of Wales, which technically is a Pennines, whereas the Bard never once models, with Winchester being the principality, but he gravitates towards used Stratford-upon-Avon as a location most likely candidate. It is said that the south, his birthplace and family for any of his plays, although Richard the original St Trinian’s School films home in Swansea and his home later on III took ownership of Warwick Castle. were located in Barsetshire, and M. R. in his tragically short life in Laugharne Scotland, Verona, Venice and Denmark, James used the city for his ghost story in Carmarthenshire. One can visit yes, but never Warwickshire by name, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral in his the Boathouse and eat soup, as well as although the Forest of Arden was the 1911 collection More Ghost Stories. James home-baked welsh-cakes, scones and setting for As You Like It. There are was more associated with East Anglia bara-brith (a fruit bread made with tea a few other contenders in Yorkshire and the north Norfolk coast with such and spices) in the tearoom, as well as for the right to have a country named scary tales as Whistle and I’ll Come to walk up to his writing hut, from where after them, and James Herriot’s part You from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary there are stunning views of the Taf of the North Yorkshire Moors and and A Warning to the Curious and Other estuary. In the town, Brown’s Hotel Dales, was amongst the first to cash Ghost Stories that chilled the blood, has a portrait of the poet on their pub- in, with an immensely popular series although he never seemed to warrant a sign, as this is where he and Caitlin of books about a vet, with such titles whole country. Catherine Cookson is used to drink. Roger McGough, whose as All Creatures Great and Small and It forever associated with the North-east appellative name was not a country, Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet. That spawned of England, where she based many of but the City of Liverpool, along with an equally successful TV series running her books, but visitors to South Tyneside two others, Brian Patten and Adrien from 1978 to 1990 about the trials and are no longer being advised that they are Henri, had a glorious, but affectionate, misadventures of the staff of a rural entering ‘Catherine Cookson Country’ swipe at Dylan Thomas, from his book veterinary practise in 1940s Yorkshire, put up by the council signs hailing her Dylan the Eavesdrop, where he used to known to millions as ‘Herriot Country’. association with the area. After 25 years sit in Brown’s Hotel in Laugharne, and Cornwall, also, had another author they are being replaced, and it said that according to local legend, eavesdrop on to challenge the mantle held by du ‘while it was proud of the success of bar-room conversations to provide lines Maurier, and that was Winston Graham, the branding, it was considering a new and characters for Under Milk Wood. ‘Let whose Poldark books have been serialised one to promote South Tyneside and us imagine the scene in the snug on a on television and sent a few hearts attract new investment’. Laurie Lee cold winter’s night as the landlord greets fluttering. Rosamunde Pilcher was is hopefully safer from the vagaries of one of his regulars. “Well, if it isn’t Dai another Cornish writer, who based her Stroud District Council, as he has his the Fish. Had a good day boyo?” “Aye, romantic fiction around Padstow, and own country, namely the Cotswolds in I’ve been out on the sloeback, slow, was incredibly successful in Germany, general, and will forever be remembered black, crowblack fishing boat -bobbing but never quite warranted having a for his evocative and beautifully-crafted sea, and l’ve got a thirst like a dredger, whole country named after her. Arthur descriptions of rural life in the Slad so give me a pint of stout, will you.

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f the dozen most expensive cars ever sold at auction, ten were Ferraris, and the most money Oa classic car has fetched privately was also a Ferrari, in this case a 1962 GTO, which reputably sold for $70m, which was $20m more than another GTO which sold in the saleroom for $48.4m, including fees. Way down in eleventh place was the only British car, a 1956 Aston Martin DBR1, which went for $22.8m. Slightly less practical was a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 ex-Juan Manual Fangio Formula 1 GP winning car, which notched up $29.6m at a Bonhams car auction at Goodwood in 2013. The beauty of buying classic cars, or clocks and watches, is that they do not attract Capital Gains Tax, as it is authenticity. We have all been party to The wine inside the bottle is usually than a fully-restored model at a recent still regarded as a wasting asset, which the paradox known as ‘my grandfather’s incidental, as these wines are for buying auction in the States, so maybe the makes sense when dealing with race axe’, whereby ‘my father’ replaced the and selling or just plain showing-off. In steering-wheel is turning the other horses, and to some extent, wine, as steel head of the proudly-displayed tool October 2018, Sotheby’s sold a bottle way, and that there will be an increase they have a useful life of fifty years, but when it shattered, and ‘my son’ replaced of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in ‘fake originality’ and ‘fake patina’, when applied to say, the Duc d’Orléans the beechwood handle when it split. ‘My Grand Cru for the staggering price of and will there be a speciality business Breguet Sympathetique quarter striking daughter’ added some tape for a better $558,000, so the Chinese and Japanese in restoration work that looks like clock, it was still ticking and still grip, but is it still ‘my grandfather’s axe’? markets are ripe for expoitation, as they no restoration has been done at all? striking over 170 years after it was made, This paradox is also know as the ‘Ship are relatively unsophisticated when it The largest classic car restorers in the and it sold a few years ago for $6.8m at of Theseus’, as, over time, the planks of comes to matters oenological. A couple world are not in East Sussex, or even in auction. Apart from some deeply vulgar wood were replaced as they began to of years ago, a Japanese millionaire Switzerland. Nor are they in America. Graff, Chopard and Jaeger-LeCoultre rot, as were the masts and sails, until on-line writer bought a dram of 1878 They reside in the Phillipines and are diamond-encrusted watches, festooned every piece of the original vessel was Macallan single malt in a hotel bar in St run by an Australian businessman Jim with gems and gold, and worth tens replaced. Is this still the ship of Theseus, Moritz for 10,000 Swiss francs (£7,600), Byrnes, of the Byrnes Motor Trust of millions, a beautiful Breguet Grande carrying him and the youth of Athens which he declared at the time, ‘it had Restoration who have anything up to Complication Marie-Antoinette pocket back and forth across the Aegean? a good taste. It’s not just the taste, but 400 Rolls-Royce and Bentleys, E-type watch from 1827 fetched $30m. Supposing the shipyard had kept all also history.’ Sadly, neither its history, and XK120 Jaguars, MGAs, MGBs, There is a thin line between the rotting planks, and made another, nor taste, stood the test of carbon dating Sunbeam Tigers, Mustangs and Porsches. ‘restoration’, ‘reparation’ and presumably unseaworthy, ship out of the carried out by researchers from the On one trip he bought 37 Jaguars ‘conservation’, and there are some old, discarded timbers. Is this the ship of University of Oxford, who smelt a rat, languishing in a scrapyard in Texas, unscrupulous dealers around who Theseus? Some unscrupulous classic car which suggested it was created between from which they managed to reassemble do little to respect the integrity of a restorers have been known to fabricate 1970 and 1972. Further lab tests by five. There is a newer trend, namely vehicle’s provenance. Define ‘repair’ (to two, or more, vehicles out of one crashed Fife-based alcohol analysts Tatlock ‘continuation cars’, which are entirely make good), as opposed to ‘renovate’ car. A recent landmark court ruling put and Thomson indicated that it was new, with previously unused chassis (to make new), ‘restore’ (to reinstate) or the onus firmly on would-be buyers to probably a blended Scotch, comprising numbers and all new components. ‘conserve’ (to preserve by protection). confirm a car’s provenance, after three 60% malt and 40% grain, ruling it out These ‘remastered’ or ‘reborn cars’ Key to all these is the word ‘provenance’; judges overturned an earlier ruling that as a single malt. The hotel apologised are born again, thanks to extremely this is crucial to the value of the classic saw Stanley Mann being sued by a Mrs and Mr Zhang was reimbursed. Surely thorough restorations done in the newly- racing or sports car which involves Mercedes Travis Brewer over a 1930 everybody knows that a whisky, like created workshops of the cars’ original establishing the precise identity of Bentley Speed Six. Mrs Brewer claimed brandy, left in the cask for more than manufacturers. The hope is that people the vehicle, a complete history of the dealer said the car had an original twenty-odd years will start to deterioate, will buy into an extra authenticity now ownership, and documentation attesting Speed Six engine, but she argued that as the spirit takes on the impurities revealed as not entirely present in a car the specific events in which the car was not the case, and said other parts of of the barrel. Once in the bottle, it restored by a specialist. In Italy, a court participated, with reference to specific the car were not original either and so becomes inert. Glenmorangie used to recently ruled that the iconic Ferrari teams or drivers. Classic car collector the Bentley could not be considered a buy quercus alba (white oak) bourbon GTO was a ‘work of art’, and could not par excellence Nick Mason bought the Speed Six model. One ingenious gang of casks from America, because their laws be replicated, after Ferrari brought a case charred remains of a camera car that restorers went so far as to source 1920s stipulate that it can only be barrelled against a company in Modena, Ferrari’s was burnt out during the filming of steel from discarded railroad tracks once with sour mash bourbon whiskey, home town, who were planning to Steve McQueen’s turgid film Le Mans in India to build the chassis of a fake little realising that any residual raw oak produce replicas. Of the 36 models made in 1971, whilst being driven by Derek Bugatti, enabling the car to withstand flavour had disappeared and gone into between 1962 and 1964, it is believed Bell. As he had the chassis, engine and even the most stringent metallurgical the bourbon. Up to 60 per cent of the that 36 still survive, including the gearbox serial numbers, he was able analysis. flavour and colour of whisky comes from one that was sold for $48.4m by Greg to ‘restore’ the Ferrari 512S to pristine There are wine fakers out there as wood. Whitten, a software tycoon and early condition. There are occasions when cars well, who go to extraordinary lengths An unrestored Mercedes-Benz employee of Microsoft, who had bought surface with the most slender grasp of to get the correct bottle, cork and label. Gullwing 300 SL went for 35% more it in 2000 for an undisclosed sum. 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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introduced him to flying in 1928. Staniland, won the 1931 Double-12 in Freddie agreed, shrewdly retaining They flew one of the latest Avro Avian what was at that time MG’s greatest ownership of the land. Legendary Motoring at biplanes from Hendon to Goodwood, sporting triumph. His team MGs won legless ace Douglas Bader commanded Goodwood landing on the home lawn. the Irish Grand Prix and the major Westhampnett units, and flew his last op By Doug Nye Upon his grandfather’s death RAC Tourist Trophy race in Ulster. from its grass field amongst Squadrons Freddie’s father became the 8th Duke In 1935 after his grandfather and of Spitfire, Hurricane and later Typhoon of Richmond and Gordon, and Freddie father had both died in quick succession, fighter ’planes based there. But most the Earl of March and Kinrara. In 1929 he became the 9th Duke of Richmond significantly, to service them a tarmac he competed at Brooklands, driving and Gordon, known henceforth as perimeter track was built around the an Austin Seven, won a time-trial gold Freddie Richmond which was in many site… he Goodwood Estate, between award, then finished third in a one-lap ways a poisoned chalice. Crushing Freddie March served with the RAF, the South Downs and Chichester handicap race. death duties were due; 246,000 acres mainly as a ground controller until in the county of Sussex, is He left Bentley to found a car of Scottish estate, including Gordon 1946. Immediately post-war Britain was synonymousT with two great sports; top- dealership with Bentley’s former sales Castle, had to be sold to cover them. grey, cold, austere and near bankrupt. class horses, and motor racing… manager, Hugh Kevill-Davies. Trading Freddie’s enthusiasms survived. He The only fun was to celebrate survival. While Glorious Goodwood’s horse- as ‘Kevill-Davies & March’ the company ran a one-off Lancia Club driving test Freddie remained President of the Junior race connections go back over 200 years proved an instant success. and hill-climb up his home driveway Car Club, but not a single motor racing to 1802, when the then 3rd Duke of Freddie was an attractive man of easy at Goodwood House. It was a sociable, circuit survived anywhere on the British Richmond & Gordon introduced the charm with considerable artistic talent. skylarking fun day for friends but mainland. And then emerged the idea sport on his land for the amusement At Kevill-Davies & March he virtually provided the seed for what would motor racing on redundant wartime of local army officers, three of his aerodromes might be possible. descendants have continued to earn After May, 1946, the Goodwood the respect of racing car enthusiasts Estate found itself left with an worldwide. abandoned aerodrome, the former Setting the wheel rolling was Freddie RAF Westhampnett, with its surviving Richmond, as he became known to perimeter track intact in Freddie's back the motor racing world. He had never yard. In June 1946, the Cambridge Image © Grant Archive expected to become the 9th Duke of University’s motor club won permission Richmond and Gordon. The title should to run an airfield race meeting. Freddie have devolved upon his five-years older used used thia as a precedent to steer his brother Charles. When Freddie was new ambition through the bureaucratic born in 1905 he was plain Mr Frederick maze of 1940s government. He had to Gordon-Lennox. charm the Ministries of Air, of War, It became Freddie’s ambition to Town & Country Planning, Agriculture, become an engineer, and he and big Works, Supply and Fuel...the Board brother Charles cycled to visit Sir of Trade; plus the Sussex County and Henry Royce, of Rolls-Royce fame, in Chichester Councils. retirement at nearby West Wittering. Freddie was well-regarded locally The Great War broke out, and in and in June 1948 it was announced that 1918 Charles enlisted, but was captured a motor race meeting was to be held after being knocked unconscious by at ‘Goodwood’ on the former RAF artillery. After being freed, as an Westhampnett aerodrome, plus a British officer taken prisoner, he faced a Court Grand Prix, soon after, at Silverstone Martial. Aggrieved and humiliated, airfield near Northampton. he volunteered for further service, Saturday, September 18, 1948 saw was posted to Russia and in action at the Goodwood Motor Circuit opened, Archangel in the far north, he was using the frost-heaved, hastily-laid killed. wartime perimeter track resurfaced with Freddie was devastated but as the a non-skid asphalt mix. It measured 7th Duke’s surviving heir became Lord 2.4 miles round, and 30 feet wide. Settrington and a new life seemed Sponsorship of £500 came from The mapped out for him. First Eton, then Daily Graphic newspaper. The eight-race Oxford University before ultimately the programme attracted 96 entries. BBC Dukedom. At Oxford he spent most of radio broadcast live commentary, and his time and energy in the University 15,000 excited spectators packed in. motor club. On a motor-cycle he won Paul Pycroft’s special-bodied SS several minor sprint events and became originated what became the ‘traditional become his grandson’s Goodwood Jaguar 100 won the opening race, and entranced by Brooklands, the great British sports car body style’, with flared Festival of Speed, over a half-century the day after his 19th birthday Stirling Speedway at Weybridge. front and rear wings looping down later… Moss became the day’s youngest race His studies suffered, and in 1923 he beneath low-cut doors. His March body Freddie and Edmund Hordern winner, while the feature Goodwood abandoned Oxford for a job, “wangled designs were bought by Riley, Hillman designed and built a twin-engined Trophy for racing cars fell to Reg through a friend”, in the service and AC. aeroplane that was “… as easy to Parnell, in a sensationally exotic new department of the dynamic new Bentley Brooklands’ biggest race of the era maintain and fly as an everyday Maserati Grand Prix car. Motors company at Cricklewood, was the 24-hour ‘Double-12’, run over passenger car. Their Hordern-Richmond The Goodwood Motor Circuit was North London. Lord Settrington two days, 12-hours each day. In 1930, Aircraft Company flew its prototype active as a frontline International course became a shop-floor mechanic keeping Freddie March and Captain Arthur ‘Autoplane’ in October, 1936, before from 1948-1966. Sir Stirling Moss his title secret from his work-mates, Waite co-drove an Austin 7, and won specialising in making propellers. recalled it as “...a very special place, a and was known to them as plain ‘Fred their class. He was then teamed with The new Duke also became President circuit with a unique atmosphere, and Settrington’. The friendships he made Bentley’s past Le Mans 24-Hour race of the enterprising Junior Car Club, of all the British aerodrome circuits the with his workmates became, “…the most winner ‘Sammy’ Davis to co-drive a organising motor races at Brooklands most rewarding whenever you got it enduring of my entire life”. works Austin Seven in that year’s BRDC and elsewhere. War with Germany exactly right...”. At Bentley Motors, Freddie became 500-Miles race, again at Brooklands. loomed and Freddie was approached by In his long career ‘Golden Boy’ won a racing mechanic, then a salesman in They won outright… the Ministry of War. They wanted to 22 of his 60 races there as Goodwood their Mayfair showroom and excelled at He ran his own team of three little take over part of his Goodwood Estate, became a stage for superb motor racing at it. 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and production sports cars to Formula were appearing in 200mph sports 1 and World Championship sports and cars, and Freddie Richmond saw such GT cars. Emergent new car makes like development as a threat to Goodwood Cooper used Goodwood to test its new safety; and he closed his Motor Circuit designs, ultimately to win back-to-back to future frontline racing. Formula 1 World Championship titles From 1967-1997 the circuit survived Fong © Jayson Photograph 1959-60. unchanged, hosting interminable racing Goodwood became a place of car testing, driving tuition and occasional inspiration hosting British legends competitive weekend sprint meetings, Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Peter one car at a time covering a few laps Collins, Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill, against the clock. Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart et al, plus Freddie March died in November such towering racing greats as five-times 1989, aged 85. His son Charles March World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, became the 10th Duke of Richmond & his Argentine compatriot Jose Froilan Gordon, and as a chartered accountant Gonzalez, the first-ever Formula 1 had fought to sustain the family Estate. World Champion Driver ‘Nino’ Farina, Freddie's grandson Charles, was given and the great Piero Taruffi all racing responsibility for the family Estate in the there early 1990s. He was a passionate admirer Sports car endurance racing became of his grandfather Freddie’s wide-ranging Festival of Speed has blossomed into the participate wearing period dress from a real Goodwood forte, initially with the interests and entrepreneurship as well nation’s annual moving motor show; an the 1940s-1960s, there to play out a day-into-night Goodwood Nine-Hour as a dyed-in-the-wool motor racing fan always spectacular four-day jamboree weekend’s script of their own devising. classics of 1952-53 and 1955. Jaguar’s who regretted the Motor Circuit’s closure hosting crowds of 155,000 and more, Upon the 10th Duke’s death aged factory team cars regularly led them, when he was just 11. Picking up the cue giving unique access to racing and road 87, in September 2017, his son Charles but broke, always to the profit of deadly of Freddie’s 1935 Lancia Club hill- cars, and celebrities, of every conceivable March, creator, mastermind and British rival, Aston Martin. In 1958 the climb, he and some like-minded friends age, era and description. ringmaster since 1992 of these modern RAC Tourist Trophy race was revived at conceived what became the Goodwood It had always been Charles March’s Goodwood events became the 11th Goodwood. Aston Martin shone again, Festival of Speed, first run in 1992 in the ambition to re-open his Goodwood Duke of Richmond & Gordon. His winning both that year and in 1959 home park at Goodwood House. Motor Circuit for serious racing. And tight-knit Goodwood Motorsport team, when, despite setting fire to their leading For the inaugural Festival a paying the success of the Festival of Speed some who have been with him “from car and the pits (for the second time), crowd of maybe 7-10,000 was the helped make this possible, with the the beginning” strive each year to find the company became the first British ambition. Yet well over 22,000 attended, first Goodwood Revival Meeting held something fresh and new to sustain manufacturer ever to win the Sports Car the gatekeepers ran out of printed on the revived old course in 1998. the century-long connection between World Championship title. tickets and it proved a huge success. An inspired keynote of the Revival Goodwood and motoring on the Sussex In 1966 Formula 1 engine size was Goodwood Motorsport was suddenly up has been its presentation as a period site where, every year, motor sporting doubled, big American V8 engines and running. Since then the Goodwood movie set, to which all are invited to history returns to vibrant life.

In those days the star driver could qualify in a second team car, which Goodwood Moss duly did. Thank God he did for Aston Martin, the Tourist Trophy and Tourist Trophy Goodwood that September day. At the start the Aston led away, but at the pit Photograph © GPP Archive 1959 stop after two and a half hours, disaster, By Maitland Cook as fuel from the refuelling hose spilt onto the hot exhaust and the car caught light, the whole pit and car including the crew were engulfed, and that was the end of n 5th September 1959, 60 years ago it, and probably Aston Martin’s hopes. the works entered Aston Martin However thanks to the generosity of the ODBR1/300 won the 6 hour Tourist Whitehead brothers, who retired their Trophy race at Goodwood to clinch the privately entered car to allow the works Sports Car World Championship for the team a pit, and also to some decent team and to seal their most successful year team management by Aston Martin, ever, having won the Le Mans 24 Hour who could see a way back if Moss was Race and the Nurburgring 1000 km three results. Aston Martin did not again Moss was to influence the result. given his chance in the number 2 car, race. Behind the wonderful success that plan to go to the Nurburgring in May, His demon pace during the first hours but particularly thanks to the genius warm summer afternoon lays a different but Stirling Moss offered a deal to John of the race trapped Ferrari into running that was Stirling Moss in those days, tale…… Wyer, the CEO of Aston Martin, where far above a sensible pace and their attack from the jaws of disaster, victory was 1958 was supposed to be the year he would pay all the expenses if they was mortally wounded as one by one the snatched. Moss was installed in the that Aston Martin won the World would supply the car. In the event Wyer works cars retired through the night and second car and gave a lesson in the art of Championship and Le Mans, but as so agreed and in addition to transport the early Sunday morning allowing the Roy sports car driving to all who witnessed often the best laid plans go awry. They car to Germany and back and throw in Salvadori/Carroll Shelby car to cruise that day. His sublime car control enabled won at the Nurburgring, but failed at Le the services of two works mechanics. through to glorious victory after 10 years him to carve into the lead of the Ferrari Mans, and after leading all three cars The effort was totally justified as Moss of endeavour. team; he set fastest lap after fastest lap retired by early morning leaving the team driving brilliantly dragged the car back So the Championship decider was eventually doing a lap of 1.31.8, just to drown their sorrows….quite literally at to victory after his team mate Jack at the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood. 0.4sec off pole. He powered the car a mammoth 6 hour drinking party back at Fairman had crashed and lost several Aston Martin entered 3 cars against four back into the lead, supported of course the village of La Chartre. minutes digging the car out of a ditch, works Ferraris. Stirling Moss was paired by Carroll Shelby to bring the Aston For 1959 the team effort was to be before getting it back to the pits. Next with Roy Salvadori, Jack Fairman/ home to win by thirty two seconds, and focussed on the Formula 1 Programme was Le Mans where Aston had entered Carroll Shelby, and Paul Frere/Maurice with it the world Championship for with the sports car racing programme works cars every year since 1949, and Trintignant. In practice Moss set pole Aston Martin. It was indeed “Glorious hampered by lack of budget. The never managed outright victory, and position time at 1”.31.4 ahead of the Goodwood” that September afternoon Championship was measured on the best after 1958 hopes were tempered, but Ferrari, Shelby was 7th in practice. sixty years ago.” 34 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Motoring Events

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Become immersed in deep lustres September 15 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Kelmscott House, Hammersmith in of black punctuated with luminous Children in distress Handel & Hendrix 1878, he said ‘the house might be made 24-karat gold and opulent ultramarine Foundling Museum Guy Withers (tenor) and William Cole very beautiful with a touch of my art’. blue hues in Lina Iris Viktor’s singular Listen to a new composition alongside (harpsichord) explore some of Handel’s Certainly this 18th century riverside artistic universe. Her photography, works from Vivaldi, Schubert and most heroic and exciting music, and house, where he spent the last eighteen painting and sculptural installations are Brahms, on the theme of children. The characters in the form of three Kings: years of his life, is one of the most infused with cultural histories of the Avant Piano Trio and singer Natasha Bajazet (Tamerlano), Grimoaldo significant of Morris’s homes. Whilst global African diaspora and preoccupied Day present a programme of music (Rodelinda), Belshazzar (Belshazzar). living at the property he began carpet with multifaceted notions of blackness: exploring stories of children in danger, 020 7495 1685 weaving, wove his first tapestry Acanthus as colour, as material and as socio- and the safety of a home. Enjoy a 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London and Vine in his bedroom and continued political consciousness. To Viktor, black newly-commissioned piece alongside W1K 4HB his innovating approach to design, is the proverbial materia prima: the music by Vivaldi, Schubert and Brahms. handelhendrix.org printing and dyeing techniques. When source, the dark matter that birthed 020 7841 3600 away from the house, Morris longed to everything. 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, September 30 – October 4 return to these practical crafts 020 7749 1240 London WC1N 1AZ Lorna Luft loves London: Go to L! 020 8741 3735 Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA foundlingmuseum.org.uk Brasserie Zédel 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London autograph.org.uk Lorna Luft's acclaimed career has W6 9TA September 17 encompassed virtually every arena williammorrissociety.org October 6-26 Moonlight and Bach by Candlelight of entertainment. A celebrated live Hidden Figures: Euzhan Palcy St Martin-in-the-Fields performer, stage, film and television THEATRE Despite winning the Silver Lion at the Gunel Mirzayeva was born in 1987 in actress, bestselling author, recording Venice Film Festival, directing Marlon Baku, Azerbaijan. She began studying artist, Emmy-nominated producer, and Ongoing Brando to an Oscar nomination, and aged seven at the Bul-Bul School of humanitarian; she continues to triumph 9 to 5 the Musical having created a range of acclaimed Music with Professor Tatyana Ryabuha in every medium with critics labelling Savoy Theatre dramas that explore race and liberation and in 2004, with Professor Yuri her one of the most versatile and Tumble outta' bed and stumble to Dolly across the world, Euzhan Palcy’s work Sabayev at the Baku Music Academy. exciting artists on stage today. Parton’s rip-roaring West End musical! remains neglected in the UK, and her In 2006 she commenced her Bachelor 020 7734 4888 9 to 5 the Musical’is getting down to films are rarely shown. The season of Music with Professor Ronan O’Hora 20 Sherwood St, Soho, London business with a strictly limited season at includes her feature debut, Sugar Cane at London’s Guildhall School of Music W1F 7ED the Savoy! Starring Louise Redknapp, Alley (Martinque/France 1983), which and Drama, where she is continuing brasseriezedel.com Amber Davies, Natalie McQueen, remains one of cinema’s great coming- on the Master’s degree. Gunel has a Bonnie Langford and Brian Conley, the of-age films about a mischievous orphan particular interest in Bach’s keyboard TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS smash-hit musical features an Oscar, and his indomitable grandmother. Palcy music and she intends to specialise in Grammy and Tony award-nominated subtly criticises French colonial rule this field. Ongoing score by the Queen of Country herself, throughout the film. 020 7766 1100 Deer in Richmond Park Dolly Parton. 020 7638 4141 Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, Richmond Park is a National Nature 0844 871 7687 Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS London WC2N 4JJ Reserve and deer park with 630 Red Savoy Ct, London WC2R 0ET barbican.org.uk stmartin-in-the-fields.org and Fallow deer roaming freely since thesavoytheatre.com 1637. The deer have played a major role MUSIC September 24 in the park's history and have shaped September 24 the landscape too. The special grassland What to do with Granny’s Jewellery, habitat depends on grazing and the Wear it, Change it or Sell it parkland trees have a distinctive 'browse Olympia line' as the deer eat all the leaves and Jewellery specialist Anabel Yorke twigs growing below about 1.5 metres. provides tips on what to do with unworn Deer grazing also prevents tree seedlings jewellery. All proceeds go to West from growing, keeping the grassland London Action for Children. Jewellery open. During the autumn the deer specialist Anabel Yorke provides tips on 'rut' (breeding season) takes place. The what to do with unworn jewellery. All Red stags and Fallow bucks compete proceeds go to West London Action for for females (known as hinds and does Children. respectively). At this time, the large 020 7806 5541 males roar, bark and clash antlers in an 25 Blythe Road, W14 0PD attempt to fight off rivals and attract as olympiaauctions.com many females as possible. royalparks.org.uk Ends September 28 Anahera Ongoing Finborough Theatre Hidden London 11-year-old Harry Hunter is missing. London Transport Museum While they wait for news, Anahera, a This is the London Transport Museum’s newly qualified Māori social worker, exclusive programme of tours and events supports Harry’s distraught parents. at disused stations and secret sites across But as the hours pass and the situation London. Led by experienced guides, pushes everyone to their limits, Anahera ready to share unusual and little-known is forced to take a stand. New Zealand, stories surrounding the stations’ varied it was chosen for Auckland Theatre histories, these visits offer an exciting Company’s workshop Next Stage in opportunity to explore locations rarely 2015 and was a finalist in the’ Adam seen by the public. NZ Play Awards’ in 2016. It premiered 020 7379 6344 in September 2017 at Circa Theatre Covent Garden Piazza, London, in Wellington, receiving rave reviews, WC2E 7BB and won Most Outstanding New New ltmuseum.co.uk Zealand Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards 2017 Until October 26 01223 357851 ‘The Dear Warp and Weft at 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, Hammersmith’: A History of Kelmscott London SW10 9ED House finboroughtheatre.co.uk William Morris Society When William Morris reported to September 14 his wife Jane that he proposed leasing The Weatherman 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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which has a flat roof with a balcony where Murrow; a famous American journalist time, but if I booked online, there would journalists holed up in the Second World who did outside broadcasts from St be no queue. As I was quite tired after Westminster War. It was an ideal viewing point for Martin’s Le Grand as the bombs fell. the walk and the guide said you needed 2 at War them as German bombers on moonlit He put his microphone on the ground hours in the War Rooms, I decided to call London Walks nights would follow the contours of to record the sounds of people calmly it a day. the River Thames which reflected the walking to bomb shelters, “like ghosts Joanne was so good I wanted to give By Stephanie Hawthorne moonlight and enabled the bombers to with steel shoes.” He wanted to show her a tip, but had no change so gave her a find their way around, despite the total there was no panic in London. He was tenner. She was really over the moon with blackout and total darkness. As a hotel also instrumental in bringing America that. I think I made her day as people on the riverfront, what could be a better into the war. generally do not tip the guides. I enjoyed viewing station? The overseas journalists We passed Eisenhower’s headquarters the walk more than a film which in Just how well do you know London? were even briefed on the progress of the in St James’s Square and de Gaulle’s central London costs about the same. As a Londoner of more than 50 years’ Second World in the Savoy’s American headquarters of the French Government There were about 30 to 40 people on standing, I thought I knew the capital Bar. Incidentally, the guide told us, there in exile; the Vichy Government passed the tour with an average age of about 50 inside out. One of London’s leading was a huge increase in traffic accidents in a law to guillotine him for treason. Near to 60, although there were three young guided walks companies proved me the war as a result of the blackout which Carlton Gardens we saw the Foreign men in their 20s and a couple of children. wrong. you never hear about. Secretary’s fabulous perk of a grand One third was American, one third from At a loose end on a quiet Sunday in We learnt dozens of other snippets private mansion in Carlton Gardens; London and the other visitors did not say August and needing some gentle exercise, such as the site of the first Headquarters must be worth £200m, at least! where they were from. I rediscovered London Walks www. of the RAF in the Strand in the former Off the Mall, we saw statues of the This is the fourth walk I have done walks.com and chose pretty much at Hotel Cecil where there is a plaque to Queen Mum and George VI and brand with London Walks, and they are all random a walk entitled Westminster at commemorate the 90th anniversary of the new friezes of the Queen Mum which I exceptional with the most well prepared War; it was brilliant with the main thrust founding of the RAF in 1918. have never noticed before; one depicting and knowledgeable guides. One walk the Blitz and the Battle of Britain. I The guide also told us that the Blitz her in among the bombs with St Pauls includes the Old Jewish Quarter around discovered so many new facets in a well- spirit was sometimes a bit of PR. We in the background, and the other more the East End, which incorporates a visit trodden area, even though I thought I walked at a steady pace to Piccadilly recently at the races surrounded by to the historic Bevis Marks Synagogue, knew the route backwards Circus where an underground dance hall veterans. Just near the Mall we saw the Literary Bloomsbury and Brunel's We started by Embankment Tube (Café de Paris) supposedly the safest filming of the next instalment of ‘The London with a bonus of a short river trip station at 13.45pm for a two hour tour. dance hall in London was hit by a bomb Crown’ with dozens of vintage cars which and a couple of tube rides. Our first stop was Cleopatra’s Needle and on 8 March 1941. 34 people were killed put us all in the right spirit. These urban walks, which take place the Sphinx where we saw damage in the and around 80 injured. Our guide told The lecturer aged about 50, Joanne every day of the week, throughout the plinth from the First World War caused us of an eyewitness who said, as the Lee, was brilliant- a former criminal year, cost £10, £8 for concessions; just by fragments of a bomb dropped close by, ambulance men were treating the bomb barrister, who brought the whole period turn up and pay. They are far from the in the first raid on London by German victims, thieves would steal the jewellery alive. At the end of the walk, I was the usual banal tourist fare. More details are planes a few minutes before midnight from the glitterati, in a couple of instances only one with enough stamina left to go available at http://www.walks.com/ on 4 September 1917. The damage was even chopping off the victim's fingers to to the Churchill War Rooms. 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project to record the complete set of sonatas. He will give more than 50 MUSIC Beethoven performances across the world over the next season, which requires a level of dedication, practise ROUND UP and organisation that must be daunting. BY GEOFF COWART Right? “I’m very organised,” he says with a smile. “I’ve got a big chart! I’m playing these pieces all over the world. I know when I need to begin practising certain What does it mean to be works and when they need to be ready. At some point, I just have to let go and human when technology is play them. I can’t go on practising a changing everything? That’s single piece for hours. I need to move on.” the pressing question behind the Barbican’s new ‘Life Concerts begin at 7.30pm. Tickets from £18. Rewired’ autumn season. And www.wigmore-hall.org.uk considering the musical talent on offer, it looks as thought- provoking as it is handsomely unexpected. 8pm. £17.50. One man who knows how to spin priced. The final concert of the series sees a good yarn about humankind is East the return of celebrated veteran analogue London rapper Kano. He makes his lug in and drop out on Saturday synth pioneer and composer Suzanne homecoming debut at the Royal Albert 28 September as London-based Ciani to the Barbican on Saturday Hall on Monday October 7 as he brings techno producer Max Cooper October 19 as she supports Nine Inch tracks from his new album, Hoodies All Pexamines our obsession with the infinite; Nails keyboard player Alessandro Summer, complete with a full band. It’s from the explosion of computer data Cortini. The double bill will be your his first release since 2016’s Mercury- to the depiction of the unobtainable in nominated Made in the Manor. 7.30pm. religious art. Cooper’s live music score From £17.50.www.royalalberthall.com will be set to new visuals. 8.30pm. Tickets from £17.50. The season continues with an Interview: Biss tackles evening of film, live performance Beethoven at Wigmore Hall and conversation with Beatie Wolfe Review: Eels slither their way on Tuesday October 8. The Anglo- “Terrifying.” That’s how American American singer/songwriter explores into Apollo hearts pianist Jonathan Biss describes the what music can look and sound like in prospect of his forthcoming season the digital age, while reflecting on what’s The self-proclaimed ‘world’s number performing all 32 of Beethoven’s Sonatas one entertainers’ jumped onto the been lost as a result of our technological at Wigmore Hall. advances.7.30pm. £12.50. Hammersmith Apollo stage to the Rocky He readily admits that he’s been theme song blaring out. Fists up; guitars The season’s highlight is an evening fixated on Beethoven since the age with American composer and sound at the ready. of nine or 10. “As long as I’ve been It was a statement of intent from the artist Holly Herndon. Following the interested in music, it’s been about release of her superb new album PROTO California quartet Eels late last month. first chance to hear tracks from Cortini’s Beethoven,” he says. “And particularly And they proceeded to power through on independent London label 4AD, she ambitious new album Volume Massimo his Sonatas.” brings a new vocal ensemble to the stage two hours of tunes for their devoted on indie London label Mute, alongside It’s those mighty Sonatas that will fans. What began as a seated show new visual displays. Don’t miss it, as occupy him at Wigmore Hall for the suddenly saw the crowd on their feet as the Italian producer has a knack for next year. The 38-year-old pianist gets frontman Mark Oliver Everett goaded wringing fireworks out of his electronic underway on Sunday September 29 his faithful into a frenzy. The opening toolkit. 8pm. Tickets from £17.50. with five Sonatas, including the Funeral three covers didn’t hurt; The Who’s Out www.barbican.org.uk March (No. 12) and the Waldstein (No. in the Street, Bobby Gentry’s Mississippi 21). And by the time he finishes in 2020 Delta, and Prince’s Raspberry Beret, as he’ll be just in time to mark the 250th the band turned up the amps and let Hoodies all summer anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. loose. “There are few places that I’d A display of Everett’s new castanets rather play Beethoven,” he admits. “It’s was met with applause, as was his intimate; the audience is so close. And frequent self-deprecating humour: “That everything just explodes from the stage. was a lot of consecutive rock of a man It’s almost technicolour. my age...” Whether the tunes were old; “And there are no other pieces that Novocaine for the Soul, or new Bone Dry, attract me as strongly or widely as the Everett proved that his 24-year reign as sonatas; their territory is so broad. I bandleader extraordinaire is no fluke. on Wednesday October 16. Holly, artist/ always knew I might try to play them philosopher Mathew Dryhurst and A rasp may have crept into his voice in a concert cycle. I wake up thinking and a more than a touch of grey in his ensemble-developer Jules LaPlace, have about the Sonatas. I go to bed thinking developed a unique way of using AI for hair, but he can still write and deliver a about the Sonatas. And sometimes I mean ole’ song. sound generation, vocal processing and dream about them!” visual manipulation featuring Spawn (a Wigmore Hall approached Biss nascent machine intelligence, housed for the major anniversary cycle as he in a modified gaming PC). Expect the approaches the end of his nine-year 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Reviews online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Left: Helene Schjerfbeck journey from rosy-cheeked mannequin, Self Portrait with black background, 1915 to ever-abstracted cadavers, with Above: Helene Schjerfbeck faces resembling three kicks in a mud Portrait of Helena Westermarck, 1884 wall. The haunted eyes blindly stare out at the viewer, the mouth a mere slit and the skin tones dissolving into flattened smudges. They are powerful and raw evocations of mortality, tinged with a mixture of resignation, regret in Helsinki, even though the minimum purchased by the Finnish Art Society, and resolution. Self-portrait (Black age of enrolment was twelve. She studied but she would soon turn away from that Background) was commissioned by the Helene there for four years, being taught the style of painting. Society in 1914, and, for her, was an Schjerfbeck academic side of painting and drawing Her return to Finland, to live with acceptance by the art establishment Royal Academy: The Garrielle through copying, and then spent a her mother, with a reputation as a skilled after years in the wilderness, and this further two at Von Becker’s private academic artist, led her to be sent to the is exemplified by the self-confident and Jungels-Winkler Galleries academy in Helsinki, learning how to Hermitage Museum in St Petersberg to defiant pose, with just the possibility Until 27 October 2019 paint in oils. She won a scholarship make copies of paintings by Franz Hals, that she might just smile. When her from the Senate of Finland with her Diego Velázquez and Gerard ter Borch mother or friends were not available Admission £14 naturalistic painting of Wounded Soldier for the Society’s collection, and then to as subjects, she turned to the mirror, www.royalacademy.org.uk in the Snow, which attracted a great deal Vienna and Florence to make further saying, ‘This way the model is always of attention. Later she moved to Paris, copies of Holbein, Fra’ Angelica, Filippo available, although it isn’t at all pleasant where she she studied at the Académies Lippi and Georgione. Between these to see oneself.’ She subscribed to Trélat and Colarossi, where she met a trips, she taught at the Society’s drawing European fashion magazines and would number of Nordic students, with whom school, but sorely missed painting her incorporate the latest hairstyle, headgear he RA seem to have an she made friends, including Marianne own work, which she found frustrating or dress into her paintings, sometimes extraordinary knack of conjuring Preindisberger and Maria Wilk, with and stifling artistically. with audacious effect, as in Circus Girl up exhibitions of ‘neglected’ whom she went to an artists’ colony at The exhibition is arranged in and Girl from Eydtkuhne II. artists, as though from a cupboard under Pont-Aven in Brittany. After a further five stylistic sections, with the first The Modern Look includes family, T stint in Paris, she went to the artists’ displaying early portraiture, and friends and models, with mask-like the stairs. The last ‘overlooked’ artist was Felix Vallotton, still in the Sackler colony in St Ives, where she stayed with landscapes done in Brittany and St Ives, faces, including the two mentioned Galleries until 25 September, which Marianne and her husband Adrian with the unusual Shadow on the Wall, above, and The Skier (English Girl) or The exposed the Swiss to a wider audience. Stokes RA, an accomplished landscape painted in Pont Aven. Moments of Silence Motorist, based on her nephew Måns, Helene Schjerfbeck’s name does not painter. During this period she met and contains larger canvases, including but he was merely masquerading, as exactly skip off the tongue, and she is fell for an unknown artist, described portraits of her mother done seven he had neither a driving license nor a not particularly well-known in the UK, variously as English, or French, but he years apart. There is a definite influence car. Her still-life, Blackening Apples, although she had great success in the broke it off under the pretext that he of Whistler, not just because they are painted in 1944, has the same morbid Nordic countries, particularly her native did not think she was strong enough to painted in profile, and of a mother, fascination with death and decay as Finland, and across mainland Europe, bear children. On her return to Paris dressed in black, but because she had her self-portraits, although, in this from the late 1800s until well into the for the last time, as she was running out started to simplify her application of case the apples really are blacker than Twentieth century. She was precociously of funds, she exhibited The Convalescent paint and use of flat space. The most black, although Three Pears on a Plate, talented from the age of eleven, and she at the Paris Salon, an insightful and fascinating gallery contains 17 self- the last work she did, is another vanitas was ‘discovered’ by a fellow Finn and touching scene of a sick child engaged portraits, painted from the age of 22 painting, where, at least, the pears might genre painter Adolf von Becker. He in some distraction at the kitchen to the age of 83, the year before she still be edible. shoed her into the Finnish Arts Society table, whilst wrapped in a sheet. It was died. They depict an extraordinary Don Grant 48 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Reviews

MAX box via long scenes of characters driving Feldman through LA’s REVIEWS tangled roads in mute silence which, whilst atmospheric,

can’t help but drag Pictures © Columbia Photograph when it recurs for what feels like the Once Upon 9th time. However, A Time In... beyond the technical wizardry, Hollywood a hangout movie Director: Quentin Tarantino lives or dies on its Running Time: 161 Minutes performances. Pitt in particular does some of the best work he’s done in years; his inhuman good Quentin Tarantino is not looks have always obscured the fact broadly thought of as a that he’s essentially thoughtful director. Whilst his a character actor caught in a leading films frequently overflow with man’s body. By obscure references to cult film is Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading cowboy when Rick notices that megastar director casting him as the less emotionally star Rick Dalton, who perhaps non- Roman Polanski and his actress wife rounded secondary character, Pitt’s ‘arcana’, this trait is generally coincidentally, is beset by many of the Sharon Tate have moved in next door; natural charisma burns through all the assumed by his detractors to same problems as the foot enthusiast if he could just score an invite perhaps brighter and his comic timing has only behind the camera. Having originally he could score a role and resuscitate his improved with age. DiCaprio on the be the actions of a magpie made his name in the black and white dying career. One thing’s for sure, if the other hand effortlessly communicates savant as much as an auteur. In cowboy TV serial Bounty Law in the right person comes to the door they’ll be the internal tsunamis raging inside 1950s, he junked the role to go chasing making a killing… the kind of man who previously other words that Tarantino is Hollywood stardom only to find Tarantino’s beloved editor Sally thought emotional introspection was layering his references less for Hollywood unreceptive to his charms. Menke tragically died in 2010 and it’s a kind of cologne. He rages, he sobs; By ’69 he’s not exactly washed up, but interesting to imagine what Once Upon still projecting movie star charm but audience benefit, than for his it’s the next turn-off on life’s highway. A Time...In Hollywood would have erratically, like a sputtering engine. The own; a directorial tic. Spat back into television, he’s only cast been like with her still in the picture. supporting actors also acquit themselves as one-off villains and that’s only so Tarantino’s films with Menke were to a high standard. Margot Robbie as ith Once Upon A Time... fledgling stars can trade off his, now rapid fire machines, whilst Hollywood is Sharon Tate in particular performs In Hollywood however, fairly threadbare, tough guy image by a meandering 161 minutes. The length almost exclusively with her face and Tarantino has clearly been trouncing him in a fight. According to a seems part of the directorial design, body language, a lightning in a bottle thinkingW a great deal. Not about his sympathetic agent (Al Pacino in a rather as Tarantino has made what he calls a performance that is getting drowned usual preoccupations (well, the film is distracting cameo role) the only way out ‘hang out’ movie; the plot secondary to out in controversy over her relatively few chock-a-block with breathless shots of his downward trajectory is to head to the pleasures of the viewer getting to spoken lines. Tate in the film represents of women’s feet, so that fetish is still Rome to star in Spaghetti Westerns; an spend time with the characters. Richard a kind of rising balloon contrast to running hot) but about rather un- option the thoroughly American Rick, Linklater’s stoner classic Dazed and Rick’s falling one; all wide-eyed Tarantino themes like obsolescence disdains. Confused is perhaps the ultimate example enjoyment cut with a piercing unease for and a fear of the future. It’s perhaps Beyond his crumbling career and of the form, but Tarantino thankfully the audience haunted by their knowledge taken longer than usual, due to his fancy Beverly Hills pad, all Rick seems doesn’t quite go to Linklater’s lengths of of history. Rather than ghoulishness unusual preoccupations, but somewhere to have is his relationship with Cliff having no plot at all. That said, there is a though, this simple portrait of a young down the line the perpetual enfant Booth (Brad Pitt) his stuntman/driver/ deliberate shagginess to the story; a lack woman enjoying her first real taste of terrible of Hollywood has mutated handyman/paid best friend. Rick is of a central thread binding individually stardom is a rare reassertion of Tate into a member of its Old Guard. Even high-handed and insensitive to the point stunning scenes together; anyone hoping as a living human being, rather than his grossly cherubic head which has of obnoxiousness in his interactions with for the crackerjack plotting of Reservoir her usual depiction as merely a famous been forestalling the ravages of age for the seemingly laid back Cliff, but the Dogs is out of luck. corpse in the Mansonic myth. what feels like decades has begun to friendship seems genuine, even if it’s Still the world Tarantino has created Of course this wouldn’t be Tarantino concede ground. For years, Tarantino all take and no give. Whilst Rick is all is fantastically drawn; In Hollywood without a dip into the old ultraviolence has claimed that he would only make fraying charisma and dissipating talent, manages to recreate the popular image and during a brief ten minute burst, he ten films before retiring and his latest Cliff has something of a nihilist’s calm of LA of the late Sixties to a truly delivers it in spades. It will undoubtedly marks his ninth. His self-imposed to him, behind which the shape of a incredible degree. This is a world that put off many, but it’s so excessive the artistic catflap is swinging closed and, chained down attack dog is occasionally throbs with the constant noise of scene plays more like Tom and Jerry for a director who has always obsessively glimpsed. Whilst seemingly unruffled adverts, top 40 radio hits and blaring than Hostel. Far more unnerving is looked backwards, is it any wonder by anything life might throw at him, televisions; In Hollywood is practically Dakota Fanning’s unrecognisable turn that rather than a foreign country, Cliff’s career as a stuntman has stalled drowning in Pop culture. There’s an as Squeaky Fromme at Spahn Ranch in Tarantino’s version of the past is instead, due to some seemingly credible rumours interesting parallel between the fairy- the film’s tense centrepiece [well, tense a golden age? that he murdered his wife and got away tale evoking title of the film and the for people who aren’t unnaturally well Its early 1969, the hippie dream with it. As a result, his gig as Rick’s fact that the cultural image of ‘60s informed on their Manson lore anyway]. is at its zenith, with Woodstock only major-domo is basically all he has and Los Angeles has become as much of a That’s not really what Tarantino’s going months away. As a result, Los Angeles the two’s co-dependency has deepened modern folk memory as anything in the for however, this really is a fairytale teams with longhairs and the venerable to the point where they are each other’s Brothers Grimm’s canon. What is less of a bygone age, with a director who frilled shirt is experiencing its last gasp entire support structure and social circle. interesting is Tarantino’s unfortunate desperately wants to rewrite history and of relevance. Outside this bubble of hip Things seem to be looking up, however tendency to show off his immaculate toy make it last forever. 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Reviews online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

hand at dancing with a background in vaudeville, the Kelly-induced stress Singin’ In The was still enough that he was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day for the Rain entire shoot. Far more vulnerable was Directors: Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, who was only 19 and Stanley Donen had never danced professionally before. There was only time for three months of Running Time: 103 training before shooting started which minutes was nowhere close to enough for what Kelly had in mind. Constantly screamed at, belittled and forced to dance for hour after hour, her salvation only came when she was found crying under a piano by o say ‘they don’t a visiting Fred Astaire who felt so bad make ‘em like this no for her that he gave her personal lessons more’ is significantly which helped give her the edge she undersellingT the distance needed to get through the scenes. For between the current production – her part Reynolds channelling Buddha based models used by Hollywood somehow managed to avoid having a studios and their pre-1969 status grudge against Kelly (the fact that he as something closer to medieval held himself to equally insane standards, fiefdoms. Actors from the biggest even dancing the titular Singin’ In The stars to the lowliest extra were Rain with a fever of 103, probably kept in contracts seemingly drawn helped) but later mused “The two up by the same firm that represent hardest things I ever did in my life are Satan, which gave the studio power childbirth and Singin’ In The Rain.” to stage-manage nearly every aspect of Beyond the technical aspects of the their personal lives to a nearly fetishistic movie, which include some really degree. Immense back lots containing nifty effects that still everything from Arabian bazaars to look striking today, floating naval ships meant that studio the script is genuinely executives recreate the whole world funny, with more of a at the snap of their fingers and, most mean streak than the importantly, stars were drilled within an movie’s reputation might inch of their lives to be singing, dancing suggest. However the entertainment machines. The luxuries of transition by falling underlying storyline of the basic human existence were for the little back on his abilities beloved studio head R.F. people. as a song-and- (Millard Mitchell) being Whilst most Hollywood musicals dance man. Once bullied and manipulated by of the 40s and 50s were adapted from they’d arrived at the all powerful star Lina Images © MGM Images Broadway shows, Singin’ In The Rain is the concept they Lamont (Jean Hagen) does entirely its own thing. Arthur Freed, were stuck for ring slightly bizarre considering MGM’s head of musicals and songwriter an opening, the dictatorial powers and in his own right, decided; with the kind flipping frequent sexual dominance with of epochal arrogance reserved for studio desperately which they policed their female executives with no real oversight, that between employees. R.F as a character the time was ripe for a musical made opening was based on Arthur Freed; who up exclusively of songs he’d written with a silent is mentioned in Shirley Temple’s in the past. Not wanting to have to movie premiere, a autobiography as exposing himself do all the work himself, he called in magazine interview with a to her when she was a child during a the newly signed up musical-comedy Hollywood star, and a star-meets-girl, casting meeting for the Wizard of Oz, writer duo Betty Comden and Adolph star-loses-girl sequence. Increasingly fresh only to throw her out in a fury when Green from New York to come up with lost in writers block Comden and Green off the back of she laughed uncomprehendingly at him a story to tie the songs together and to considered breaking yhe contract until the more conventional so the kindly image of R.F. perhaps write the script. Comden and Green Comden’s husband casually suggested musical An American In Paris, had rings a little hollow. Despite all this at first refused the assignment, as their they slice through the Gordian knot been brought on as both the lead, co- darkness behind set, and indeed it’s title, agent had assured them that their new by combining all three. This proved director and choreographer, positions Singin’ In The Rain is an unbeatably contract with MGM guaranteed them the breakthrough they needed and he occupied with the intensity of a sunny experience; showcasing Classic/ the right to write the lyrics to all songs. the antic energy that came from drill sergeant or perhaps a rabid dog. Totalitarian Hollywood at the height of After a tense two weeks they discovered combining so many subplots helped set As one of the foremost dancers of his its powers. A little over 15 years after their agent had invented this clause out the tone of the film, which both moves day he demanded the kind of lock-step Singin’ In The Rain’s release the world it of whole-cloth and they had no choice at breakneck pace and is unusually perfection from his co-stars that verged portrays would vanish forever. Television but to concede. Whilst their agent mutable for a musical of its day. Subplots on mechanical and would verbally and declining audiences would eat into might have been the kind of snake that bubble through the film like a slow lacerate them for even the slightest the studio profit margins until by 1969 gives the profession a bad name, he pulsing volcanic vent: at one point it’s misstep or flubbed line. Whilst Stanley the studios would sell their backlots, cull inadvertently did cinema a favour as a love story, then a satire of pre-sound Kubrick usually gets all the ink as one of their featured players and whirl confused Comden and Green proved a dynamite Hollywood, a nigh on psychedelic cinema’s great directorial sadists, Kelly’s as Manson and Altamont proved the combo. musical-within-a-musical; never vicious perfectionist tendencies were so harbingers for the gritty auteur driven As most of the songs had originally lingering on any aspect long enough for unrestrained that the choreography for dramas of New Hollywood. Singin’ been written during the time when silent even the faintest whiff of inertia to set Good Morning, Good Morning took over endures, may it never stop raining. films were giving way to "talkies", the in. 14 hours of continuous takes, to the screenwriters came up with the concept However fast-paced the script, it point where Reynolds feet were bleeding Singin’ In The Rain is being screened of swashbuckling romantic hero with a can’t hope to keep up with Gene Kelly at the end of the day. as part of the BFI Musicals Season vaudeville background who survives the and Donald O’Connor’s footwork. Kelly, Whilst O’Connor was an old October 2019-January 2020 50 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining out

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hen considering the Church of England, fine dining is unlikely to be the first associationW that springs to mind; communion wafers might be spiritually filling but the Body of Christ isn’t included in our Five a Day for a reason. Beyond such theologically suspect diets; Parliament Square isn’t exactly food and drink referred to in Latin as centrepiece is naturally the Full English makes Cellarium worth checking out overloaded with culinary temptation a cellarium, which one would assume is (priced at a not unreasonable £9.75) is the upstairs lunch area and terrace. to the point where Cellarium rather probably not a coincidence. which better men than I have failed to The ancient ceilings give way to huge took me aback. A cafe-restaurant that’s Whilst part of the original structure, resist. The platter wasn’t exactly heaving, skylights revealing a striking, quasi- sprung up in an unused undercroft in you thankfully don’t have to buy a ticket but the quality of the meat and eggs left interior view of the Abbey’s towering the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, to the Abbey proper every time you’re me very satisfied and not so stuffed I crenelations stretching into the sky Cellarium has the kind of setting that feeling peckish near Parliament. No couldn’t move, which felt like something in all directions. Whilst autumn is would cause a restaurant entrepreneur meal has seen more drastic re-invention of a novelty. My date went for the Eggs disturbingly closen this is worth a visit to start hyperventilating. The by London’s culinary high priests than Benedict (a slightly pricier option in whilst we still have some blue skies left breakfast area is in a vaunted ceilinged the humble breakfast so it was with regards to bang for your buck at £8.00) to us as it’s really quite a sight and one vault, thankfully with more than some trepidation that my date and I and reader, I would love to comment on which is completely invisible from the accommodating windows and a spiffy arrived to see what arcane interpretation it, but she had scarfed the lot before I outside. Whether driven to the Abbey white paint job to make the space feel Celerium had arrived at. With some even thought to ask to try some, which for sightseeing or a desperate compulsion surprisingly light and airy rather than relief we can report that the Cellarium is probably quite the comment on its towards absolution, there are definitely evoking the Cask of Amontillado. The breakfast menu does not try and reinvent quality in itself. worse temptations you could yield to undercroft was originally constructed in the wheel but instead simply serves Beyond good hearty and (mostly) than a visit to Cellarium. the 14th century as a storage space for up the classics very tastily indeed. The reasonably priced fare, the real gem that Max Feldman

from larger parties. My companion moved on to thali, everybody seemed to be happy and Masala Zone My companion chose a non-alcoholic comfort home cooking. Loved by many receiving food on time, without any 147 Earls Court Road cocktail to start. A welcome relaxer with Indians and now by us. Among our feel of rush; the staff swift, smiling and a combination of apple, orange, lemon, favourites was a delicious prawn curry unobtrusive. London SW5 9RQ lime juice and ginger ale. I went for a accompanied by chapatis, dahl, and A slight confession; I love dahl. (and Reservations online only: regular gin and indian tonic. The crisp broccoli in a creamy coconut sauce. I had have made it myself). And although spicy pappadums arrived with three a delicious mixed grill of meats, chops there was a dahl dish among the thali www.masalazone.com delicious chutneys to dip into. One with and kebabs, but, of course, I had to taste combinations, I spotted a black dahl on red heat, one with a mint and coriander my companion’s choice, too! the menu and had it as a side dish. What and one sweet mango. All these dishes were beautifully a beguiling, smoky, spicy taste. A stand Well settled, enjoying the lively cooked and prepared; the dahl and other out choice for me. Must get that recipe! The Masala Zone is not marked on the scenes around we were guided by Luca accompaniments are prepared fresh Arms duly twisted, we shared a kulfi map of London Transport, but it should our charming, knowledgeable maître D three times a day. indian dessert, with raspberries, ginger, be; definitely Zone 1. to consider the next courses. The service for a restaurant of this coconut and cream (probably some Situated a few metres from Earls Smoky grilled squid and the exotic size was extraordinarily good. The staff other subtleties too), a new and unusual Court underground station, the Masala street food stuffed puri puffs to start. arrived and disappeared seamlessly and dessert taste. Zone Indian restaurant is an inviting The Puri puffs were a wonderful light were hardly noticeable in spite of the This was a confidently and and warm environment to settle into. crisp puff with a mash, tamarind and large amount of covers they manage. We imaginatively presented meal. Some In spite of the restaurant’s large yoghurt filling. Such a unique texture were told that a great deal of care and simple, but extremely tasty dishes made interior (over 110 covers) the lighting, and taste combination. All those time is spent training the staff. Each for interesting and unusual dining. subtle decor and exquisite displayed craft street folk can’t be wrong and they is given a three month introduction to Refreshingly far above your ordinary objects provide a personal atmosphere. weren’t. One of my favourites. I chose the culture of the restaurant and how Indian meal. Although large, smaller intimate areas a Sauvignon Blanc to accompany the to serve with courtesy. Time well spent. And yet, not expensive; Thali £15-19, for couples are comfortably separated meal. In what was a large and busy room, Main courses up to £18. Biryanis up to £15. A good house wine around £ 14.50 and many very good quality wines for those with more ambitious tastes. Finally, we chose a refreshingly aromatic Assam tea and my companion a mint tea. A clean finish to send us happily out into the bustling street. © Masala Zone Photograph This same experience can be enjoyed in Bayswater, Camden Town, Covent Garden, Islington, Soho and Selfridges Get into your comfort zone. Tim Epps 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Dining out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Afternoon Tea at the Copthorne Tara Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London W8 5SY Tara © Copthorne Photograph

ituated in Scarsdale Place, the the changes have been rung: brown and Copthorne Tara is an easy 2 or white are no more, but instead welcome 3 minute stroll from the heart of tomato bread, lemon bread, cocoa bread, Sthe shopping area on Kensington High olive bread and pesto bread to partner Street, which is just far enough away to their various fillings. provide a serene retreat. The tea room at I’ve become slightly immune to the the Tara has recently been remodelled level of skill the pastry cooks display; to bring a little bit of English country have you ever tried to cut a cream filled drawing-room ambience to what is a multi-layered concoction into 5cm distinctly modern hotel. Our waitress squares without it all squidging sideways? Roxana was engaging and full of Let alone the complications in making it enthusiasm for the different Whittards’ in the first place; they then have to dream herbal choices, but first we just had up some elaborate, but tiny chocolate disc to sample one of the intriguing house that contains four Shakespeare sonnets cocktails that present a great alternative or something equally tricky, then plant to the traditional glass of Champagne or it all on a sliver of fresh strawberry to Prosecco also on offer. avoid it looking too dull. We made short Earl Grey Citrus Bloom was work of all that artistry, then descended wonderfully delicate and refreshing, to the lowest shelf for the fruit scones, majoring more on the lime infusion jam & cream. Back on familiar territory and cucumber than the Earl Grey, and and loving it, we finished on a coffee with only a single shot of vodka in and for Keef, a Laphroaig. Anna Russell, each, you can certainly afford to order Duchess of Bedford is credited with Children welcome. The hotel is pleased another. ‘A fternoon Tea’, is, after all, ‘inventing’ afternoon tea nearly 200 years to offer readers a glass of prosecco to an indulgence! With no need to rush ago, and it’s still going strong. Long may accompany their Afternoon Tea, please off, designer Keef and I nibbled away it continue. just mention the newspaper when you at the various treats with only a small The Tara Tea Lounge is open 12.00 make your booking: twinge of nostalgia for the demise of noon to 17.00, 7 days a week. Traditional [email protected] ordinary bread. For this line of soldiers, Afternoon Tea £19.00 per person. T: 020 7937 7211

back, particularly considering how easy it is to get sucked into a conversational Brown’s rabbit hole about any of the galleries or Mayfair’s artistic history. Art Walks Our four galleries were the John

By Max Feldman © London Matt Photograph Martin Gallery, LAZINC, the Maddox Gallery and 20th Century and Contemporary Art gallery, all of which were substantially different experiences. Obviously each tour depends on what exhibitions are currently running, but In London’s most fashionable areas, for our run we pin balled between John eye-watering rents see floor space change Cable’s moody twilight river landscapes hands so often that three month old to Jamie Hewlett’s psychedelic Tarot coffee shops are practically hallowed selection and step back in history to as venerable institutions. There’s no Basquiat. The highlight of the tour, substitute for genuine experience at least for this pop art fiend, was a however; Brown’s Hotel has been stopover in a print making workshop running since 1837 and since the days where we were giving a crash course and its doors were first opened to London’s got to keep the fruits of our inky labours. cognoscenti, the venerable hotel has built tiles; my unconscionably bright eyed anything else. A veritable sage of art, she By the time we made it back to Brown’s up two things: a list of famous guests friend [she’s one of those morning people balanced out her intimidatingly broad we were all firm friends and Maeve once longer than most guest books and an you hear about] were joining a group library of knowledge with a wicked again skillfully took us through what inimitable sense of style. Mayfair has of strangers for an alluring selection sense of humour and soon had all of we’d seen with a little personalised quiz long been one of the central arteries for of scones, brioche and tea. The reason? us at ease, laughing and joking whilst that had each of us analysing the art art in London; the elegant streets fairly All of us had traded in our lie-ins for subtly drawing us together with pointed we’d seen like seasoned professionals. studded with galleries. Brown’s chic a guided tour of Mayfair’s greatest questions and personalised info drops After a really first class lunch and corridors reflect the predilections of its galleries and hidden secrets officiated by that had us happily bound together by perhaps more than a little worse for wear borough and are decorously festooned BBC Art Correspondent Maeve Doyle. the time we set out from Brown’s at from our sommielier’s selection, we all with art of all stripes. It’s Brown’s There were approximately six of us 11am. On the tour you have around a regretfully parted ways full, happy and proximity to Mayfair’s galleries that not counting Maeve and I was the only cool 2 hours to perambulate through fairly sparkling with joie de vivre. Lie ins has led me to be standing in the hotel’s one who’d brought a guest, so we were the four galleries before heading back are overrated. English Tea Room at 10.30am on a thrown straight in to getting to know to Brown’s for a three course lunch and To book a place on one of the Art Saturday. Whilst most decent, god- each other. Whilst I rather lucked out a sommelier curated wine selection at Walk Tours, please contact Brown’s fearing Londoners are either writhing with a selection of sociable, interesting 1pm. Whilst this feels like a lot of time, Reservations on +44 (0) 207 518 in a hung-over purgatory at this time tour companions, I do feel that this had in practice there is actually a faint rush 4172 or email reservations.browns@ or, perhaps more likely, still out on the as much to do with Maeve’s hosting as to get through everything to make it roccofortehotels.com 52 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel

Sri Lanka: A distant Emerald Isle Davis © Paul Photographs By Paul Davis

destination outside of Africa” (www. took the Vedda case all the way to the Forbes.com). Their economy is heavily International Court in Geneva and won dependent on tourism and has been through an inspired speech about how badly dented by the Easter bomb attacks. his people had nurtured the forests for As long-distance travel is increasingly thousands of years. There are now several seen as a source of climate change, it is tribal reservations within the national hard to predict how long this revenue parks that have as many as 350 extended will continue. families living in their traditional way of The landscape, temples and ruins are life. At Dambana, there is a fascinating appropriately spectacular attractions. museum of the ancestry, characters The people and the food are delightful. and lifestyle of these forest dwellers. The train rides and surfing beaches The previous village leader, Tissahamy, have become top ten world experiences. allegedly lived to the ripe old age of 109, Young backpackers are happily flocking but then, time is not recognised by their back, but not in the numbers that the culture. UruWarugeSububanda, otherwise economy needs. known as Sudda, one of the elder Long before this, the Lord Buddha spokesmen shows his lost jaw under his visited the island 3 times in the 6th beard from chewing betel. He carves century BC and the most sacred relic, fine axes and small spears from ebony as his tooth, is housed in a formidable well as making delicate bows. He may shrine in Kandy. The Perahera that lead a primitive life but he pulls a hard annually celebrates the remnant is bargain from the visitors. arguably the longest running pageant At a time when modern man is erendipity is not always what it The Dutch were the next to attempt on the planet; in one form or another it destroying the planet’s forests, the life seems. The island variously known domination of the spice trade and exploit has been held each July for over 2000 of the Vedda may last longer than the through millennia as Serendip, the wealth of the island. Then in 1796, years. Lasting 10 nights, as many as current world politicians meeting at the SCeylon and Sri Lanka has a landscape the British arrived and established a 80 palanquinned elephants in exquisite G7. close to a vision of paradise and a history colonial base. Again, desperate battles bejewelled cloaks, thousands of dancers, littered with human atrocity. were fought and as many men died drummers, fire jugglers, sword bearers, An exemplar of man’s inhumanity from exhaustion, tropical diseases stilt walkers and burning torch bearers to man. Before the arrival of Europeans and leeches as in battle. Eventually, a set out from 5 temples and slowly in the 14th century, rivalries between hundred years of peace was achieved. process for hours through streets lined wealthy kings for over 2000 years In 1867, the introduction of carefully with half a million roadside spectators. had precipitated intrigue, battles and selected varieties of tea by James Taylor, It is like rolling back in time and is retribution for treason of the most a Scottish planter, brought a new form surprising that it’s not on more people’s unimaginable invention. Elephants of prosperity and reputation to Ceylon bucket lists. have long been integral to life and war; through the export of the world’s finest One aspect of Sri Lanka that is much execution, being trampled by 5-ton tea. Roads and the railway were built to less known, is the presence of the Vedda tusker was one way of dispatching a assist trade and control. or WanniyalaAetto, (Forest People). They traitor’s disloyalty. In World War II, the natural deep- are the original indigenous inhabitants The age of exploration brought water harbour of Trincomalee was an of the island. Their ancestry can be Marco Polo and Ibn Batutta to the essential base for supplies in the fight traced back well over 150,000 years. Island in the 14th century. They both against the Japanese. Lord Mountbatten They are genetically related to the better marvelled at the beauty and civilisation held his headquarters in the magnificent known, Australian Aborigines who of the island. The following century botanical gardens at Kandy. migrated from around the Indian ocean was more about exploitation and violent In 1948, Sri Lanka was granted when the landmass of India, Indonesia colonisation; the Spice Wars had begun. independence. Since that time, it has and Australia were all connected. In The island was first invaded by the suffered nearly 30 years of desperate the Mesolithic era 30,000 years ago, Portuguese when its name was changed civil war, the Tsunami of 2004 and the the Vedda began to settle in the forests to Ceylon. The target was cinnamon terrorist bombings of April 21st this and retained their hunter gatherer skills. and nutmeg; both thought to be cures year. In spite of these recent years of Like the Native American Indians, for the plague in Europe. Medieval turmoil and destruction, Sri Lanka is they progressively lost their traditional acts of genocide were enacted and often still recognised as the Lonely Planet top hunting grounds. 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the company of Mick Jagger or the Going deeper Dalai Lama. He spoke of his main 2019 Buddhist Society aim to reach a wider audience with the key concepts of Buddha’s dhamma Summer School (teachings) beginning with the Four By Lynne McGowan Noble Truths. These teachings of The Way are profound and go deep. In life

there is unsatisfactoriness and suffering, Green-Geograph © Sarah Photograph furthermore lacking true insight is disabling. In his view the ability to let week filled with Buddha’s go is paramount and that sometimes teachings and meditation held in we imprison ourselves to the point the Royal Agricultural College. of being stuck. In accepting anicca OhA what bliss, it appealed on paper (impermanence), overcoming delusion and proved in reality to be better than and doing the right thing, we can lose expected. New friendships were struck our inflated sense of self and be happier. amongst fellow travellers on the same It sounds simple, but life’s path is strewn road, a community of seekers trying to with stumbling blocks for everyone, from various institutes and viharas spoke compellingly on a new kind find wisdom from the ancient texts and so attending regular Society talks are (monasteries) and in between the canteen of intelligence and different types of by meditation, mastering the skittish supportive and the yearly Summer kept us fortified with a wide choice of happiness. An unforgettable speaker for ‘monkey mind’. School an immersive refuge. dishes for carnivores, omnivores and me was the Venerable Dhammasami Founded by the merrily named Mornings began at 6.30 with qi herbivores alike. from an Oxford vihara who arrived with Christmas Humphreys in 1924, gong stimulating acupressure points and Returning teachers Martin, Colin a bevy of beaming Burmese and Thai the Buddhist Society is one of the doing gentle stretches, the afternoon and Roy gave insightful talks with monks and lead a penetrating 5 minute most historic in Europe and much tai chi class went deeper into the Chen humour and eloquence and Mary mudita, a meditation on appreciative respected throughout the world. Based short form. Two morning sessions and Stewart explained the Bodhisattva Green joy. With wit and charm the 84 year old in Ecclestone Square and boasting a one evening meditation session began Tara with her many manifestations. Venerable Phra Kru Samu Lom from beautiful garden and large library on under the austere guidance of Venerable A fascinating speaker was the lofty Wimbledon was star of the week. His Buddhism; classes, courses and seminars Sogan, a zen monk dressed in a black and enigmatic Venerable Kassapa who fervent chanting of sutras in Pali and his are held for both general public and Japanese Koromo robe. Thankfully whilst leaving Barnes at the tender age of 13 exulting devotion to the dhamma were members only. Presided over with genial delivering his delightful instructive tales joined a Thai Temple. He later spent a delight to behold as was his matching courtesy by the Society’s President Dr he was smiley and informal. Talks were over 20 years with the Forest Tradition outfit of saffron robe, socks, briefcase and Desmond Biddulph CBE, a man as ministered throughout the day and monks of Sri Lanka. Alan Wallace bobble hat. much at home in his own skin as in early evening by teachers and monks from the Santa Barbara Institute www.thebuddhistsociety.org

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By Anandi Shah of Leeds and also became the Oxford © ICR Photograph Professor of Poetry. His work has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S Eliot Prize and he also writes for radio, television, film and the stage. once received a lovely gift a couple of years ago; it was a grain of rice I can’t configure inscribed with my name. I could only a tablet Ienvisage the level of meticulous precision chiselled by God’s finger which it would require to painstakingly etch my mere six-letter forename. or forge By that logic, it would be a scrawled prescription, inconceivable to imagine, perhaps, even but here’s an inscription, formed a poem engraved on a similar surface… shall we say… a pill? on the small white dot However, that is ‘precisely’ what has of its own been achieved by the new Poet Laureate, full stop, Of course, as inspiring and rousing as unfathomable to some, nevertheless, Simon Armitage, who has composed Armitage’s poem is, we must not forget cancer ravishes countless lives globally a 51-word poem, entitled Finishing It, the sugared pill the man who made it possible, Graham and cancer evolution is one of the most which has been micro-engraved onto of a poem, one sentence Short. obstructive challenges that researchers a 20mm long, 10mm wide replica of that speaks ill Short, who is 73 is a micro-artist endure, as cancer cells which may an anti-cancer pill by specialist artist, who resides and works in Birmingham respond well to initial treatment, are Graham Short for the Institute of of illness itself, bullet and is best known for having engraved capable of mutating to evade it. Cancer Research, London, specifically with cancer’s name a portrait of Jane Austen onto the So, what could be more powerful to for its Centre for Cancer Drug carved brazenly on it. transparent section of four polymer spread this important message, other Discovery, which will open next year. £5 banknotes, a portrait of the Queen than “… something so minimalist This ‘Poem on a Pill’ serves to highlight “I liked the sense that poem and onto a needle and the words ‘nothing could aim to bring down something so the astonishing precision science, which pill might collaborate to produce both is impossible’ along the sharp edge of enormous and destructive…”? will hopefully mark the end of cancer. a medical and emotional cure… the a razor blade. His unique methods of shortest poems are always the hardest to working include working from 12-5am, The Institute of Cancer Research, “Science and poetry are closer write, their smallness making them so consuming beta-blockers to reduce his founded in 1909 is one of the world’s associates than many people assume…” much more conspicuous and vulnerable.” heart rate and swimming 10,000m per leading cancer research organisations. Simon Armitage Simon Armitage day. Visit: www.icr.ac.uk/about-us for A poem on a pill may seem more information.

The expansion of Vocal Beats to The Royal Marsden’s Oak Centre for Trust Arts Children and Young People in Sutton, will also facilitate five musicians in Programme the early stages of their career to gain valuable experience in working within receives the clinical setting with 1:2:1 mentoring.

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Vocal Beats has recently launched its ‘Youth Ambassador Programme’, which provides young people with the opportunity to co-produce music using an online network alongside those Youth Music, an arts programme based music making. The sessions are ‘conducted’ by who are also inpatients with chronic at Royal Brompton and Harefield This marks the first creative singer-songwriter Heather McClelland and/or life limiting conditions. Four Hospitals has awarded £110,000 to Vocal partnership between the two hospitals and State Dowdeswell, and champion ambassadors have since been appointed Beats, a music education project run by and is supported by The Royal Marsden beatboxers Bellatrix and MC Zani. and so the funding means more are able the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Cancer Charity. “Vocal Beats has boosted my to get involved. Trust in Sutton. Vocal Beats is a weekly music project confidence in singing and allowed me to The funding, provided by The which enhances young patients’ hospital come out of my shell a bit more during National Lottery via The Arts Council experience and wellbeing, through my stay. Reminded me of why I love For more information on Vocal Beats: England, will enable the project’s developing musical skills, which include music”. rbht.nhs.uk/arts expansion, giving people aged 0-25 learning how to ‘beatbox’, play the From a participant, aged 14 For more information on Youth Music: improved access to creative ukulele and sing. youthmusic.org.uk 020 7738 2348 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk KC W Today Sept 2019

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oaching fish has two meanings. One involves placing a whole foiled salmon in a fish kettle with Pa slosh of dry white wine, a few sprigs of fresh herbs, a couple of bay leaves, slices of lemon and onion and a sprinkling of black peppercorns, then put in the oven for under half an hour. The other involves going down to the river at night with hooks, lines, marlin spikes and nets. The urban view of the poacher is seen romantically through rose-tinted glasses, with a roguish farmhand taking a rabbit, pheasant or fish for the pot of an impoverished family kitchen table, but, in reality, the theft of fish from rivers and lakes has attracted organised gangs, often armed, and frequently ruthless, catching salmon, sewin and trout to order. Salmon poachers take every shape and size, and so do amateurs with pitchforks or gangs with snares attached to the end of poles, or gill nets, and harpoons. Recently there have been a series of thefts from ponds and lakes of carp, which is a delicacy for Eastern Europeans in general, and Poles in particular, who eat is as the main course on Christmas Day. It is not just carp that are being targeted, removing all species of coarse fish: roach, bream and perch. the back and they either net the fish or trout. ‘Been fishing, sir? Could I see trout season in Scotland lasts a tad Although Eastern Europeans have have anglers fishing, maybe legitimately, your rod license, please?’ The man longer than the six months down south, repeatedly been linked with fish theft on their behalf. A runner will go to the explained that, no, he has not been starting in mid-March and ending in the in the UK, all the evidence and reports angler with a suitcase to put the live fish fishing, and that the trout were in fact first week of October. There is no closed in these cases point the finger of blame in, then load it into the van.’ If caught his pets, and he was taking them out for season for rainbow trout, as they are at organised gangs of Britons intent on and prosecuted a poacher can be fined up their daily exercise. The officer is totally not an indigenous species to the United supplying unscrupulous fishery owners to £2,500 or, in extreme cases, given a unconvinced by this explanation. ‘No, Kingdom and they can be fished for all with cut-price specimen fish, with prize jail sentence. In a typical year there were seriously,’ said the man. ‘I take them year round, with pike fishing, coarse and carp selling for between £500 and 200 related prosecutions in Somerset down to the river every day, put them sea fishing also permitted all year round. £10,000. The owners of well-stocked and Devon, with more expected in the in the water, and walk upstream, and Salmon fishing varies from river to river rivers and lakes can charge up to £100 weeks leading up to Christmas. they keep abreast of me.’ ‘Come on, pull in Scotland; the Findhorn opens from a day to anglers or fishing syndicates It is not always illegal to catch the other one,’ he sighed exasperatedly. 11 February to 30 September, while the keen to hook a heavyweight champion. riverfish and keep them. However, there ‘Listen, when I think they have had Tweed season lasts from 1 February to Gangs will also pre-sell their catch are strict limits on the size and number enough exercise, I put the bucket on 30 November. Soon, it will be time to through the back-door to hotels and of fish that can be caught, and when. the bank, whistle, and they leap back clean one’s rods and lines for the last restaurants, rather than drive about the Anglers also require a ‘rod licence’, into it, and we all go home.’ Clearly, the time, and pack up the kit for the winter, country looking for a buyer. A few years effectively a fishing tax, and must have warden is unimpressed, and reminded putting away the colourful patterns of ago, police in Hertfordshire arrested and permission to fish in the water, often the man that it was an offense to fish Grey and Royal Wulffs, Parachute Adams, questioned four Eastern European men for a fee. Restrictions, however, are without a license and he could be fined Olives, Iron Blues, Blue Winged Olives, seen with snorkels and a spear gun near routinely flouted and ex-policemen from heavily. ‘Alright, if you don’t believe me, Wateries, Caddis or Sedge, Coachmen, a lake stocked with at least 100 protected the West Midlands police are currently watch,’ as he put the trout into the river. Daddy Longlegs, Hares Ear, Cul de Canard carp. The Environment Agency, which working with the Angling Trust, the ‘Go on, then,’ said the officer sceptically. and Black Klinkhammers into their has produced waterside warning notices Environment Agency and the police, to ‘Whistle to your pet fish and let’s see airtight boxes, to stop the moths from in more than a dozen languages, track down the criminals. One fishing them jump back into the bucket.’ ‘What munching them during the six months recently put up signs in Russian after tall tale involves a Water Conservation fish? asked the man.’ hibernation. Just after the winter solstice fish were stolen from rivers and sold to Officer, leaping out from behind a tree It’s drawing towards the end of the around 22 December, the days get longer unscrupulous dealers to stock lakes for on the Test and confronting a shifty- trout season, when the leaves are on and the nights get shorter and it’s only anglers. ‘The theft of carp is organised,’ looking man in a flat cap, Wellingtons the turn, the hedgerows are groaning four months until one gets one’s rod out said one officer, working with the and a Barbour, carrying a bucket in with blackberries and apple trees are again. O deep joy. Angling Trust. ‘Their vans have tanks in which there were two handsome brown dropping their fruit. 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had 4 bonus points, Scotland had 2 whilst Japan had none. This was the first Japan at the time a country having won three of its four games failed to advance. Be sure centre of the that this has not been lost on the major Photograph © Bahn Frend Photograph World rugby playing countries who will want By Derek Wyatt to score upwards of a hundred points against lesser nations just for the security of the bonus points. s we have seen with Ben Stokes’s As it stands I am not in favour of the wondrous innings at Headingley Rugby World Cup. I can see no reason recently, sport has a way of to humiliate lesser nations, known as capturingA a Nation’s attention and for tier 2 or tier 3, by sixty or seventy points. days afterwards it was, at least amongst Since 1987, only Argentina from the most men, the first and frequently the ‘younger’ nations has made it through to only topic of conversation. a semi-final; neither Ireland or Scotland Similarly, in 2015, at Brighton’s has ever advanced past the quarter finals soccer stadium on the south coast of and the winners have been NZ (1987, England at the outset of the Rugby 2011 and 2015), Australia (1991 and World Cup, Japan beat South Africa, 1999), South Africa (1995 and 2007) one of the favourites, with the last play and England (2003). There have been of the game. Thirty thousand delirious no breakthroughs from such countries supporters of rugby (and now all things as Italy, Georgia, America, Canada, Japanese) went absolutely nuts. The next Russia, Fiji, Samoa or Tonga. The World day at least a million people claimed Cup needs fundamental reform. they were there. In Japan, such was the I would rather have a senior World sudden and unexplained euphoria for the Cup for men and women at the same night of this season’s Vitality Blast T20 game, its main newsreaders and weather time; ditto tier 2 and 3. The tier 2 and competition, at Chelmsford on July 19. forecasters on NHK (think BBC) started tier 3 fixtures could start earlier in the Knight’s Double The 30-year-old South African, who wearing the Japanese national rugby overall World Cup competitions, if you Walter Lawrence Trophy holds a British passport, put Surrey to jersey when broadcasting! are still with me.....so they would start in Women’s Award 2019 the sword finishing his innings on 129, In a few weeks’ time, the 2019 Rugby Week 6 whilst the tier one finals would scored off 49 balls and including 7 fours World Cup begins. For the first time start in Week 3 with all the finals being and 14 sixes. On a drizzly evening, with since it started in 1987, it will not be played over two days (week1) at the end the match shortened to 15 overs per side, held in a Six Nations country or one of of the competition. It will never happen. Delport and his partner, Dan Lawrence, the Tri-Nations (South Africa, Australia It will never happen because the old flayed the Surrey attack for 135 runs or New Zealand). Quite extraordinarily, ‘white’ countries have two votes each on England captain Heather Knight for the fourth wicket in just 6.5 overs. they will be in Japan, where rugby ranks the main rugby world board, whilst the has won this year’s Walter Lawrence Essex’s total of 226-4 proved too much fourth to soccer, baseball and sumo. newer rugby playing members or unions Women’s Award after scoring a for Surrey who fell short by 52 runs. Japan will be the centre of the sporting have one. Until democracy finally arrives sparkling unbeaten 159 for Berkshire Oliver Batchelor of Leeds/Bradford world not just for the six weeks of the in world rugby it will never be a global against Cricket Wales. Knight’s innings, MCCU is the winner of this year’s Rugby World Cup, but also for the game. which was scored off 125 balls and MCC Universities Award with a mighty summer Olympics which they host next As for who will win RWC19, most included 15 fours and 1 six, saw her side 215 not out, scored against Cardiff year. My take is that our Features editors of the sound money is on the All Blacks home by 3 wickets after chasing down MCCU in the 3-day drawn match across all media will suddenly “discover” winning for a third consecutive time Wales’ total of 232 for 9 in the Division at Usk CC on April 25. During his Japanese fashion, food, saki, music, which would be a first. I am not so sure. 2 match at Pontarddulais CC on May remarkable innings, which included 29 literature, architecture and technology. I think Australia, England or South 26. fours and 1 six, he shared a 3rd-wicket Hooray. Africa have as good a chance. Sounds Knight has been an England stand of 247 with Ben Pearson and Like a number of other rugby playing familiar though...these are the only regular since her debut in 2010, helped his side post a total of 458 for 5 countries: Argentina, Italy, France, NZ, nations to have won the competition. attaining the captaincy in 2016, and declared. Australia and South Africa, the Japanese Maybe then it is time for Wales though to date she has played in 7 Tests, 98 The quartet of Walter Lawrence Rugby Union does not own any of its they never travel well. And France? Well One-Day Internationals and 63 T20 Trophy awards, supported by Veuve stadia and so has had to borrow from its they have lost two finals in 1987 and Internationals. The 28-year-old all- Clicquot, encompass four distinct areas soccer counterparts for the World Cup. 2011, but it is not a case that they do not rounder led her country to a thrilling of the game: the Walter Lawrence In 2015, Japan won three of its four travel well, it is a case of what mood they win in the 2017 Women’s World Cup, Trophy, for the fastest century of the games in the opening rounds, but failed are in on the day! So, why not then dear which climaxed with a nail-biting season; the MCC Universities award to make it through to the quarter finals old England just to make Eddie Jones victory over India at Lord’s. Following for the highest score by a batsman from beaten by Scotland and South Africa smile. the team’s success she was awarded an the six MCC Universities against the simply on bonus points. All three had Have some fun looking at my OBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Years first-class counties or in the MCCU won three and lost one but the former animated CV: vimeo.com/223960456 Honours list and in April 2018 was Championship; The Walter Lawrence named one of the five Wisden Cricketers Women’s Award for the batsman who Of The Year. makes the highest individual score in a Knight joins her England colleagues, season from the ECB Women’s One- Nat Sciver and Tammy Beaumont as Day Cup and all England Women’s a second-time winner of the award, matches played on home soil, and, having previously won with a score of finally, the Walter Lawrence Schools 157 for England against Australia in Award for the highest score by a school 2013. She will receive a special silver batsman against MCC. medallion and prize of £500 at the Now in its 85th year, the Walter Walter Lawrence Trophy Presentation Lawrence Trophy, awarded for the Dinner in The Long Room at Lord’s on fastest hundred of the season, is open November 13. to all domestic county competitions as Cameron Delport of Essex still leads well as One-Day Internationals, T20 this year’s Walter Lawrence Trophy with Internationals and Test Matches in a 38-ball century scored on the second England. 62 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Crossword, Bridge & Public Notice

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back tournaments that top players feel CHESS obliged to engage in at this present time and FIDE needs to have a better By Barry Martin constructive time line in positioning top tournaments with adequate recovery times between them. Carlsen talking with Maurice Ashley felt he could expose his It was the evil innermost thoughts and jolted the chess world into realising the reality for him twin brother that of playing so badly in the recent GCT Rapid and Blitz tournament, and what’s done it it really like at the top of the tree when everything is going so badly wrong. Carlsen,’ Everything’s going wrong, my confidence is long gone and now I just he focus, expectancy and burning don’t really care anymore. To be honest, question of the first round of my number one wish now is for the the 7th Sinquefield Cup, St tournament to be over; it cannot come Louis,T 15th-30th August, was the soon enough. So, yeah, you’re probably Carlsen-Girigame, and… had Carlsen going to see more of the same tomorrow, exorcised his ‘evil twin brother’ who had ( 3 losses in a row). I just cannot really crippled his confidence and play at the be bothered at this point!’ It has been board in the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz quite astonishing for the the chess world Tournament, 8th-15th August, that to hear such defeatism and probably immediately preceded the Sinquefield a cry for help buried in Carlsen’s Cup? confession, but coming from a world However, Carlsen wasn’t the only champion, particularly in a sport that player to lose and astonish his audience not only prides itself but operates from with blunders; so did numbers of the mental self control in its participation. other players in this tournament. Garry In explanation Carlsen went onto say, Kasparov immediately commented Carlsen had a month’s rest column when I mentioned the internet ‘I feel ok in general but I guess when on the overall debacle and said what before this event, but up to then had blogs damaging effect on some players things start to go wrong, it’s easy to many were thinking, that the main won 7 tournaments, what a huge with adverse random comments. start doubting yourself. I’ve tried to play explanation lay in the increased effort. Everybody expects him to win Kasparov. ‘I don’t have a solution. I more aggressively, then I tried to play number of top flight tournaments that every tournament he enters, but that’s feel sorry about my former colleagues , a bit safer but it doesn’t really seem to top players were expected to play in. a huge amount of pressure. The cram because seeing them making blunders work out anyway. When I’m playing I’m Kasparov stated ‘They, the players,are packed schedule is affecting the players and looking at the internet, seeing constantly doubting myself’. This loss overworked, because it’s hard, there’s so adversely. For example, the Sinquefield lol,lol,lol,lol, from a bunch of amateurs, of confidence is a critical issue and one many mistakes, so many blunders!’ He Cup came in the immediate aftermath that makes me feel sick! People are hopes he manages to cast out ‘the evil continued, ‘Wow, I don’t know where of the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, so celebrating when MVL or Magnus are twin brother! to start! When I made blunders 2 years it was decided to combine the closing making a blunder. I don’t like it.’ One Carlsen has started after 6 rounds ago, I could justify it by being old and ceremony of the latter tournament with comment from a blogger on the subject in The Sinquefield Cup to achieve 6 rusty, these guys are making blunders the opening ceremony of the Sinquefield of too many rapid and blitz tournaments draws giving 3 points , and seems to that even I’m getting confused!’ He Cup, that took place on Thursday summed it up, ‘ Chess used to have class. have stabilised his ship, thankfully! referred to MVL’s, ‘..blunderous howlers’ evening 15th. August in the St. Louis It’s become bit of a freak show recently’. Despite the messy journey against Richard Rapport that led to the World Chess Hall of Fame. Surely a Kasparov, ‘I’m nostalgic about the outlined above he started the ‘ disaster latter’s easy win. And, Carlsen losing breathless affair knowing that many of times when I played Karpov. We could ‘tournament with a fine win over one of a rapid game ‘he (K) could finish off the players were appearing twice in both make a blunder and nobody dared to the favourites MVL. As white, Carlsen blindfold ‘, against Levon Aronian, on what was and what was to come. It could criticise us, fans today can see instantly outwitted MVL’s typical positional missing 23...Re4+!’ become quite confusing for the tired from computer evaluation that they ( the exchange sacrifices which ran out of ‘I could have missed that today or player and devotees alike ! players now) that they’ve blundered’ ‘It steam in the long run. This month’s maybe 2 years ago, but 25 years ago. I Kasparov continued, and picked was FIDE that done it’, he said ,placing puzzle from round one of the St. Louis doubt it !’ ‘Something is dead wrong! up where I left off in my last month’s the blame firmly at the feet of FIDE Rapid and Blitz tournament joins the for the packed schedule. For example , end game battle with Black having the Grand Chess Tour was extended for moved his King out of check,80..... this year making 8 tournaments instead h1-h2, and White’s response was 81.?, of 5 or 6, as there wasn’t an Olympiad, the beginning of a 10 move checking Candidates or World Championship, sequence leading to Carlsen’s win? giving more host countries like Africa, Answer upside down below. An India, Romania tournament possibilities, instructive demonstration in an end-

Photograph © Andreas Kontokanis Andreas © Photograph but FIDE then suddenly introduces game position avoiding a drawn result!

4 more qualification events into the

calendar, which players are not likely to instructive!

refuse as they are FIDE qualifiers, and highly and class master a is f3 on guard

that means numerous top players have standing King White the with corner the

to play almost every week to keep up if into first King Black the manoeuvring

they want to qualify for top events!’ This sequence, mouse and cat The

pressure is certainly exerting a negative 1-0. Rook. the losing

effect overall on players’ games and more 90.Qh7+ 89.Qc2+,Kh1. 88.Qc1+,Kh2.

likely seen in rapid and blitz matches 87.Qd2+,Kh1. 86.Qe1+,Kh2.

where the rest period between each 85.Qh4+,Kg1. 84.Qd4+,Kh1.

game is extremely short too! 83.Qh4,Rg8, 82.Qh8+,Kg1. Garry is right in putting the Qe5+,Kh1. 80...... Kh2.81. Answer: emphasis on the number of back-to- 64 September 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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