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protracted consequences. Parliament Squared UK slips up According to the WEF the UK has by Derek Wyatt a strong scientific research base and in global good collaboration between universities and business. The UK also fairs well competition in its ability to engage with the global By Emily Eaton economy. However, where the UK fell short was in the lack of public finances available to businesses and the inability of firms to obtain loans. The latter is often cited by business lobby groups as one of the reasons why promoting business growth is difficult in this country. Speaking to , a WEF spokesman said; “Where the [UK] falls short is in its macroeconomic environment, where government debt and the budget deficit conspire to place it 108th out of 140 countries. It could do better, too, with the quality of its education system (21st) and maths and 2 science in particular (46th), both long- term problems.” P The report also found a close link between competitiveness and an economy’s ability to nurture, attract, leverage and support talent. The GCI . J. Rousseau the enlightened Swiss Fast forward to Jeremy Corbyn’s The UK has slipped from its ninth confirmed that; French philosopher wrote a pithy speech at the Labour Party conference at place position in the World Economic “The top-ranking countries all Jand thought provoking book called the end of September. It was essentially Forum’s (WEF) annual Global fare well in this regard. But in many The Social Contract. It was about the a genuflection to Rousseau. It was about Competitiveness Index, published on countries, too few people have access to responsibilities of government. He had in rights and duties. It was not about the 30th September 2015. The index rates high-quality education and training, and mind Geneva, a city state, where he lived harder edge of how more rights and 140 countries based on their ability to labour markets are not flexible enough,” and though it was written in 1762, before duties inevitably means higher taxation. drive productivity and prosperity. In meaning businesses are deprived of the French Revolution, it profoundly Indeed, like Ed Miliband last year the 2015-16 report, despite managing talent they need to drive competition resonated then and still resonates today. (when he forgot to mention, he refused to remain in the global top 10, the levels. In short, he wrote about “duty”. He an autocue, the economy) Corbyn hardly UK is clinging to tenth place having Despite this, India, in particular, asked what was the duty of government mentioned how he was going to pay for been overtaken by Sweden, now in made stunning progression as one of (the monarch) and therefore what was more rights. Of course, he batted it into ninth position. According to the WEF, the world’s emerging markets, jumping the duty of the citizen? the long grass just as David Cameron the UK made some progress over the from 71st position to 55th. This was His answers were that the citizen did when he was first elected to lead past year, but they were overtaken by attributed to Narendra Modi’s reformist must surrender his/her rights to the the Tories in 2005. Let’s set up this Sweden’s efforts, particularly in the area government, which has set out to state. And by doing so they must be be commission and that commission was his of business sophistication, or rather the liberalise the country’s economy. provided with even greater rights. It was mantra. level to which companies use the latest As well as the UK, there was also a a delicious idea. But what were these For the moment his speech, aimed at techniques and technologies. decline for Finland, who slipped to their rights? Labour supporters, was enough to stifle The 2015-16 report found a distinct worst place ever at eighth, having been In Rousseau’s day there were two. dissent. Over the next year, when there correlation between highly competitive fourth in overall world rankings last year. are elections in Scotland, Wales and countries and those that have either The top three competitive countries The first was that there would be a Northern Ireland plus mayoral elections withstood the global economic crisis, remained the same, with the USA in civil society at home watched over by in London and Bristol with local or made a swift recovery from it. The third place, Singapore in second and magistrates to enshrine these rights (but elections and possibly an EU referendum failure, particularly by emerging markets, Switzerland first. However, Germany no police force). (brought forward), he must tell us how to improve competitiveness since the is fast climbing the rankings and has The second was that the citizen much extra taxation we will have to pay recession suggests that future shocks to moved from fifth position to fourth over should know that they would be free (or to end austerity. the global economy might have deep and the course of the last year. rather safe) from external factors like What he did not say was anything wars. Thus, the monarch would provide about a new constitution for the UK or an army and/or a navy. Simple really. a change in the voting system. So, whilst it was a decent and respectable speech What do we ask of our government it lacked an over arching vision for our today? Well, in essence, not much more. nation. We now have to have an army, navy and No doubt by the time you read this air force alongside a secret service to Cameron and Osborne would have protect us. We also need good laws but laid into the fact that once again his this time by elected representatives. economic policies, such as they are, What else do we hope for? Since will both increase the debt and increase 1944, we have demanded a proper taxation by £thousands for every working education service, a welfare state held citizen. together by a national police force. All The political noise over the next else has been a bonus. Bonus or not this year will clearly be the economy. If civil society has to be paid for. Labour cannot provide us with a clear Crudely, the Tories have wanted a set of accounts properly audited and thinner state with a basic offering and are therefore heavily defeated in the less taxation whilst Labour has wanted a elections, the Tories will be in power for more comprehensive set of solutions with a decade. 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the Tories, which would continue the trend is sponsored by multiple pharmaceutical Multiple parties from May’s election where London bucked companies, estimates 5,500 patients will Met expresses the national trend and swung further to miss out. announce mayoral them. However, this was before Khan was The National Audit Office, which concerns announced as the candidate, and some recently published investigation findings over future Carnival policing candidates polling has him behind Goldsmith in the into the Cancer Drugs Fund, found that By Fergus Coltsmann race. between October 2010 and March 2015, By Fergus Coltsmann over 74,000 patients were approved to receive access to drugs through the Fund. However, it also found that the between Cancer Drugs 2013-15, the ten most common drugs accounted for 71% of patients supported. Fund cuts list of The move comes prior to an expected treatments overspend by the Cancer Drugs Fund of Photograph © The Met The © Photograph

Photograph © Policy Exchange © Policy Photograph £70 million this year. Its annual budget By Fergus Coltsmann has been £340 million since 2014, up from £200 million when it was set up in 2011. The Cancer Drugs Fund had been On the 4th of November, the Cancer expected to spend £410 million this year Drugs Fund will cease to pay for sixteen without the de-listings. Despite these medicines that are currently used in cuts, the Fund is not expected to be back twenty three separate cancer treatments. on budget until the 2016-17 financial eptember saw the field of candidates The announcement was made on the 4th year. for next year’s Mayoral election fill of September as part of a ‘de-listing’ of up, with multiple parties announcing The Cancer Drugs Fund was set As arrests at Notting Hill Carnival S treatments paid for by the Cancer Drugs up by the Coalition Government to rise to highest levels in a decade, the their candidates. On the 2nd of the September the Green Party announced Fund carried out by NHS England. This allow access to drugs that would have Met expresses concerns over the future that Camden councillor and former is the second such round of de-listing otherwise not been available on the policing of the event Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry this year. The number of treatments NHS. All the drugs on the list that Arrests at this year’s Notting Hill will stand for them. More recently, the Carnival rose to the highest levels in over Liberal Democrats announced on the a decade. Over 400 arrests were made 17th of September that London Assembly for offences including an attempted Member Caroline Pidgeon would be their murder and the stabbing of an officer. candidate, having run unopposed for the There were also fifty-seven arrests for nomination. possession of knives or bladed articles. Sadiq Khan will stand as Labour’s The Met has warned about its Wiki © Ragesoss, Photograph candidate, having won the primary on capacity to continue to police the the 11th of September. He saw off Tessa event. When questioned by the Jowells convincingly, winning on the London Assembly’s Police and Crime fifth round with 59% of the vote, though Committee on the 24th of September, it had become obvious that he had the Commissioner of Police of the nomination much earlier as he began Metropolitan Police Service, Sir Bernard picking up second preferences. Khan is Hogan-Howe said: “The Carnival’s got currently the MP for Tooting, and has said great tradition but it’s also got great he will stand down if he becomes Mayor. responsibilities….. We cannot continue On the 2nd of October, the Conservatives announced that Zac to provide policing at that level…. Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park, Considering our financial situation, was their chosen candidate. Goldsmith this is the time to draw the line…. It received 70% of the vote, in a race that could be done cheaper and better….. had no real head-to-head contenders. On Health and safety can be improved but announcement of his success, Goldsmith that were paid for by the Fund has now the Fund paid for had previously been we cannot take responsibility from the said he wants to build on the progress halved since the start of the year, from rejected by the NHS on a cost-benefit organisers. We’re writing to them about of current Conservative Mayor, Boris eighty four to forty one. analysis. our concerns”. Johnson. UKIP have yet to announce Among the treatments being cut are “Since its introduction, the [Cancer Police force budgets have faced cuts either a candidate or a formal selection those that treat blood, pancreatic, and Drugs Fund} has helped tens of of 20% in the last five years, and it is process. breast cancer. The announcement will thousands of patients in England thought that they could face further cuts George Galloway, former MP for a not affect patients already receiving the access vital… drugs needed to treat of between 25% and 40% in the next number of seats, most recently Bradford axed drugs through the NHS. or control their cancer,” says Thomas five as the Conservative government West where was unseated by Labour’s The Conservative Election manifesto Cottam, policy manager at Macmillan continues to slash spending. This Naseem Shah in May, announced back pledged “we will continue to invest in Cancer Support. “However, it was never has recently led to some leaders in in June that he was running for London our life-saving Cancer Drugs Fund”. intended to be a long-term solution”. policing saying that they will not be Mayor. Lindsey Garrett, a social housing Andrew Wilson, chief executive of The Fund was originally due to wind able to respond to many crimes that are campaigner, is standing for the Something the Rarer Cancers Foundation said: down in 2014, but was extended then for reported. New party. There are also a number of “These cuts will be a hammer blow to two years. Funding is now due to run out Stephen Kavanagh, Chief Constable independents running. many thousands of desperately ill cancer in March 2016. of Essex Police, told BBC Essex that Labour is currently polling ahead of patients and their families. Professor Peter Clark, the chairman his force was now ignoring “minor “Ministers told us they wanted to of the Fund, said: “There is no escaping complaints”, such as complaints about work with charities to develop a solution, the fact that we face a difficult set of anti-social behaviour, and went on to but now the NHS has announced big choices, but it is our duty to ensure we say “we get 1,200 calls a day — we can reductions in access to existing life- get maximum value from every penny respond to about 600 of those.” extending treatment, with no action available on behalf of patients. Sara Thornton, head of the National

Photograph © Steve Punter © Steve Photograph to make available the newest game- “We must ensure we invest in those Police Chiefs’ Council, warned in July changing drugs.” treatments that offer the most benefit, that budget cuts and staff losses may The Rarer Cancers Foundation, a based on rigorous evidence-based clinical mean that police stop visiting burglary charity that tries to support treatment analysis and an assessment of the cost of victim as they shift their focus away from of more uncommon types of cancer and those treatments”. “traditional crimes”. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

questions to ministers on behalf of Dispatches has taken the Sir Malcolm companies without revealing their unprecedented step of referring itself identity. While Rifkind said, and the to the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom. Rifkind cleared Telegraph reported, that he would not be A Channel 4 spokesman said: “This able to access “privileged information”, programme raised important questions of wrong doing Rifkind did say “there is an awful lot of which concern voters about how senior by Parliamentary Committee information which is not secret which politicians are able to use their public if you ask the right questions you’ll get office for personal financial gain. This Pictures courtesy of Transport Museum Transport courtesyPictures of on Standards the answer” and “I wouldn’t name who I is a matter of public interest and was a By Fergus Coltsmann was asking for, but I would say, ‘I’ve been legitimate journalistic investigation. asked to establish what your thinking is “Full transcripts of the interviews on X, Y, Z, can you tell me what that is?’ are in the public domain and we are in I can get a reply either from the minister the process of making the programme or from one of the senior officials”. available on All4, our online platform, ir Malcolm Rifkind, the former The Committee on Standards’ report to enable people to make up their own MP for Kensington and Chelsea, cleared Rifkind of any wrong doing. Of minds”. Shas been cleared of breaking the “self-employed” comment, which The Telegraph is now reporting that any Common’s rules by Parliament’s Rifkind admitted was a “stupid remark”, MPs who are members of the Standards Standards Commissioner and the the report found that it “would not, if committee have expressed “serious Parliamentary Committee on Standards, proven, constitute breaches of specific misgivings about the Parliamentary made up of MPs. rules”. In regards to the “useful access” system which led to the former ministers Channel Four’s Dispatches programme he could provide, Rifkind argued that being exonerated over questionable and the Daily Telegraph carried out the undercover video had been unfairly conduct”. an undercover sting on the former cut, and had excluded him repeatedly Conservative Foreign Secretary earlier stressing his business experience in this year, as well as on Labour’s Jack the private sector. The commissioner, London Transport Londoners were able to use the city for Straw, who has also been cleared of any relating to Rifkind writing to ministers, work and play, from the enticing bright wrong doing. The investigation led to said that he “could find himself in breach Museum lights, to the theatreland. Rifkind’s resignation as Chairman of of the rules if he wrote to a minister By Fahad Redha Brighter London, looks at the end Parliament's Intelligence and Security without disclosing any relevant financial of the First World War which saw light Committee and to him not seeking re- interest which he had in a matter, but he flooding in as people were persuaded to election. made no offer to do so for the fictional reclaim their city. Jazz thrived and flood In what became known as the company. lighting became a form of entertainment ‘cash-for-access’ scandal, Rifkind “The discussion was a hypothetical with even zoos and underground told undercover reporters, posing as one. Having considered carefully the stations lit up. This section also features employees of a Chinese company, that transcripts of the unedited interviews, I London’s most experimental after dark he was “self-employed. So nobody pays am satisfied that this was in the context station, that of Sudbury Town, which me a salary, I have to earn my income, of seeking information already in the had a huge neon sign until 1958. but when I’m not doing something, I public domain”. Blackout travels to the Second World can do what I like” despite his MP’s The Telegraph and Dispatches are War, dramatically different from the salary of £67,000. He also talked of the standing by their story, despite coming lit-up pre-war years. Posters shied away “surprising” amount of free time he has, under fire from Parliament’s Standards from bright lights, focussing instead on saying “I spend a lot of time reading, I Commissioner Kathryn Hudson. the darkness of the blackout and helping spend a lot of time walking”. He also Hudson was critical of the journalism, residents travel safely, and abide by the told the reporters of the “useful access” saying “If in their coverage of this story, capital’s strict curfew. he could provide to ambassadors, saying the reporters for Dispatches and the Daily Never had it so good takes you “I can see any ambassador that I wish Telegraph had accurately reported what through the post-war prosperity, when to see. If I ask to see them, because of was said by the two members in their A new exhibition at the London cars increased in number and public having been a foreign minister… it is interviews, and measured their words Transport Museum shines a light on transport decreased as a result. It also almost automatic that they would do that against the rules of the House, it would London’s dark side. Night Shift - London looks at the maintenance to stations and and that provides access in a way that is, have been possible to avoid the damage After Dark delves into the history of tunnels. is useful”. that has been done to the lives of two travel after dark, and how the city met Nightclubbing delves into London The Telegraph also reported that individuals and those around them, and people’s nocturnal travel needs since Transport’s new audience, the disco Rifkind had claimed he would submit to the reputation of the House". 1913. It also reflects on the capital’s goers. A campaign was launched glittering nightlife as well as the darker targeting this crowd, and the night bus wartime years, including when the tube route began to expand the network into served as shelter for many people. what we know today. Posters, photos, as well as historic And finally, 24 hour city consists tube and bus maps, from the museum’s of contemporary commissioned art, archives document the history of the including a new ‘kirigami’ by Marc Photograph © Frank Plitt © Frank Photograph transport needs of everyone from Hagan-Guirey. This piece was produced night workers of Fleet Street and the in conjunction with the National subterranean lives of rat catchers and ’s production of The Curious ‘fluffers.’ Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Further in the exhibition is the Night Shift – London After Dark burgeoning 1980s clubbing scene will run until the 10 of April 2016 as through to the hard hitting safety part of the London by Design season. campaigns. It also explores London’s Tickets cost £16 and a special London night transport from the spread of by Design pass is £20. electric power through the jazz age to the For advance booking information, present day and beyond. call +44 (0)20 7565 7298 The exhibition is divided into six For more information on the London sections. First, the pleasure seekers by Design season and its events, visit: and shift workers, which analyses how ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/transported- electricity fundamentally changed how by-design 6 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

“touch by all means”. Chelsea. Campaigners argue that as the The New 508 Downstairs, Rosie Casselden is holding Crossrail nearby South Kensington and Sloane art classes in an innovative, acrylic-based Square will benefit from these upgrades, King’s Road medium called Powertex, using her skills campaigners & the proposed King’s Road Crossrail 2 as an art teacher in a primary school in station is unnecessary. Chelsea Gallery North London, right through to setting up RBKC clash over Chris Lenon, the campaign as a guest tutor for various organisations chairmen, highlighted Kensington and art societies. On a recent trip to India TfL plans and Chelsea council’s silence on TfL’s she was sponsored by Etihad Airlines and announcement of the plans, and stated ran workshops for young male offenders in By Fergus Coltsmann it was “because this fundamentally the notorious Tihar Prison. Rosie’s passion is to aid non-artists to realise that they, undermines any transport case for too, can create wonderful pieces of artwork the Crossrail station they have been with guidance and encouragement. In campaigning for, but which local people addition to the above, Rosie has done do not need and do not want?” freelance illustrative work on children’s A spokesperson for Kensington and Photograph © TfL text books for OUP, including a Big Chelsea council, with whom NCIC Book for children at the National Trust in have been warring over the station, Morden. For Powertex free trials and 3D also welcomed TfL’s plans, but added: classes talk to Rosie on 07950 037772. “These very welcome improvements to Andrea developed breast cancer in the District and Circle lines in no way 2010, but through the NHS Breast Cancer allery opening times from undermine the case for a brand new Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 7pm Unit and The Royal Marsden, she has Crossrail 2 station, bringing 5,000 homes [email protected] or conquered this, and works tirelessly for in Chelsea within a ten minute walk of G other charities including Mencap, Teenage call andrea 07950 037772. an underground station for the first time. Make no mistake, these ‘painted ladies’ Cancer Trust, Macmillan Nurses, etc, to “This is not the first claim put are a formidable bunch, with Andrea whom she donates works of art. Although The No Crossrail in Chelsea (NCIC) forward by the No campaign which does Brown, a local, self-taught artist, recently she has dabbled in folk art, watercolours campaign have welcomed Transport not stand up to scrutiny. For months and pastels, she has developed her opening a new World’s End gallery on for London’s (TfL) announcement to [NCIC have] been claiming that a the King’s Road before the junction with own style in found art, collages and in particular mosaics and ceramics, and her increase Tube capacity, arguing that Crossrail 2 station on King’s Road could Edith Grove. In their first exhibition, it undermines the case for a Chelsea have as many as 72,000 passengers an Andrea and guest artist Anne Bachmann, latest project was to teach young offenders are showing examples of their 3-D works how to decorate walls at the Southbank, Crossrail 2 station. hour, spilling out onto King’s Road. We in mosaics, papier mâché, with cast and legitimately, using these techniques. TfL announced in August that is are pleased to see that the campaign fused glass in the gallery space on the She is a member of the British Mosaic it going ahead with plans to upgrade appears to have moved away from this ground floor. Anne has put her interior Society, as well as The London Mosaic capacity on 40% of the Tube network, position. TfL estimate that about 5,000 design skills into producing tactile pieces School, South Bank Mosaics. which includes upgrades to the District passengers would use the station, in the of sculpture, which invite the visitor to Don Grant and Circle lines which run through busiest hour of the morning.”

end foot and sportswear store on our very was, I immediately agreed and was and new knowledge. Apologies to any These boots are own High Street Kensington. Roping ushered down the stairs and soon found sun worshippers, but I can’t wait for in a helpful assistant (who had no idea my feet being examined by a trained the weather to reach temperatures low made for walking what he was letting himself in for), I professional, which I can hardly admit enough for me to take my new purchases was soon examining their well-stocked to being the most common occurrence out on the town. I might not be racing après ski section with the kind of clinical in my life! After talking me through down any mountains any time soon, but As the weather vane swings ever gaze usually reserved for searching for an easy to understand breakdown of I’m sporting enough chalet chic to give more schizophrenically between flaws in diamonds. I eventually narrowed my feet’s strengths and weaknesses, other fashions the cold shoulder this desperately hot and Siberian chill (with my choices down to two top-shelf I left equipped with both new boots winter. a healthy dose of chilly monsoon rain, brands; Olang Boots and of course), it’s clear that the last vestiges the (appropriately named for of the summer are giving way to atypical my purposes) Siberian Chic. British winter. A ‘typical British winter’ in this case being the leading factor that Olang Boots are the more breeds the kind of world weary ennui practical and business-like of that helps define the British in general, the two, combining Italian and Londoners in particular. However, I style with superior build am ignoring my citizen’s prerogative to quality, whilst Siberian Chic’s whine about the weather and, potentially boots were deeply decadent heretically, announcing that I am actually offerings, individually hand- looking forward to the upcoming colder crafted and bristling with weather. The reasoning behind this fur of every stripe. After seemingly masochistic mental process agonising between the two dates back to my return from last year’s for an amount of time which FREE WINTER skiing holiday when I found myself can only be described as HAT WITH loathe to relinquish my après ski boots, embarrassing, I came to the EVERY BOOT after I realised they put the rest of my conclusion that if it meant footwear to shame. The rest of the year not having to pick one over PURCHASED I wore my ‘normal’ boots, constantly the other, I was wholly troubled by a mild sense of anti-climax. prepared to go a month This year, despite not planning any eating ready-meals and alpine adventures, I’ve given in to my decided to purchase both. inner-Eskimo fashion goddess and have It was at this point decided that if I can’t make it to the that the ever-patient shop mountain; I can bring the mountain assistant offered to give me 138 High Street Kensington, experience to me. With my boots a free podiatry examination. blissfully unaware that their days were Rather than show my London W8 7RL numbered, I set off for Altimus, a high ignorance as to what podiatry Tel: 020 7937 7177 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

against plans to build flats on top of the Artistic Director at the Finborough Council rejects venue. Theatre, Neil McPherson says, “We Yesterday (10th September 2015) the are obviously relieved by the Council's plans to build council officially refused development decision to reject the planning plans of an application which was made application that would have threatened Kick-it stop smoking service will have flats by Anil Khosla & Associates on July 16th our future, although we are not out of a specialist team ready and waiting to on top of Finborough earlier this year. the woods quite yet as there is likely to give free support and advice to people Had it been successful, the proposed be an appeal. We are in discussions with Theatre wanting to make that change and give development schedule in the application the developer in the hope of working up cigarettes for good. By Rosie Quigley would have created three self-contained together to come up with a compromise There will also be a roadshow flats on top of the in that would make everyone happy. travelling around Westminster, Earl’s Court. “We are massively grateful to all those Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington However, the council decided to reject who supported us by making objections, and Chelsea, and Richmond before and this proposal on the grounds that the not just from London and from the UK during Stoptober. applicant would provide only ‘substandard’ but all over the world. In a time when The original Stoptober NHS living conditions by virtue of the the whole idea of fringe theatre is under campaign laid out ambitions to get composition of the development space. threat, we have been massively heartened smokers to give up cigarettes for 28 days, Photograph © Kim Traynor © Kim Photograph In conjunction with this, Anil Khosla by how many people think of us with as figures show those who manage this & Associates failed to demonstrate that affection and have come through for us are five times more likely to stop for adequate noise mitigation standards would in our time of need.” good than those who quit for shorter be implemented. The RBKC planning office received periods. The planning application failed to an astounding 771 applications objecting Kick-it has figures showing that one- ensure that the theatre itself would not to plans to develop on top of the theatre. in-five (20%) people in west London be affected by the development of three No applications of support were made in smoke. flats; in a letter of refusal from Graham favour of the development plans made Simon Nadolski, head of Kick-it, Stallwood, Executive Director of Planning Anil Khosla & Associates. said: “Quitting smoking is the single best and Borough Development, Stallwood thing anybody can do for their health, says: Stoptober locals considering joining the national “The applicant has failed to provide By Emily Eaton challenge, should ask for support at a ecent planning applications sufficient information to demonstrate local level, using a specialist service like to build flats on top of the that the residential units would not result Stoptober is upon us and as a part of Kick-it will mean you are 4 times more RFinborough Theatre have been in noise disturbance to the theatre, that the month of quitting a quit-smoking likely to quit for good.” rejected by the council’s planning office. the existing ceiling is suitable for the use roadshow will be travelling through west Kick-it is a council funded stop- A victory has been won for the intended or that the construction impacts London. smoking service based in Hammersmith Finborough Theatre and indeed for would not have detrimental impact on the Based at Harrow Road market in and runs clinics throughout west those who submitted their objections theatre.” Westminster every Wednesday, the London.

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Trinity Hospice Londoners more will also be offering ‘Roastmasters’ the chance to make anxious or amend a will for to get opening Third Third Sector Awards than rest of Britain free during its Free Will Fortnight from windows By Fergus Coltsmann the Monday the 5th By Fergus Coltsmann to Friday the 16th of October. To take advantage of this, all supporters need to do is leave a gift of any size to Trinity, and fill out a pledge form

National Office for Statistics National Office for Trinity’s records. Gifts in Wills are an important source of income for the local Morandarte Au © Photograph Awards for Royal charity. Trinity receives less than a third of its funding from the NHS and must Trinity Hospice raise £8 million a year to continue. By Fahad Redha For more information about Free Will Fortnight, please contact Siobhan on [email protected] or Boris Johnson’s new Routemasters n the 23rd of September the Two years after taking the helm as Royal 020 7787 1094, or visit trinityhospice. will be fitted with windows that open, Office of National Statistics Trinity Hospice’s Chief Executive, org.uk/freewill Transport for London (TfL) announced (ONS) released data on the Dallas Pound, was designated the ‘Rising on the 18th of September. The O temperatures on the Routemasters’ top overall personal wellbeing of the country. Chief Executive’ at the Third Sector Londoners continue to report lower than Awards ceremony. There were over 300 deck have been a source of complaints average wellbeing rates than the rest of nominations over 23 categories and Subscribe to for TfL since their introduction in 2011, the UK, but wellbeing in the capital has prior to the award ceremony, the ‘Rising with London AM Caroline Pidgeon improved since 2012. Chief Executive’ was whittled down to watch YouTube once describing them as “a cauldron on The ONS asked people about their just 4 finalists. Trinity’s Chairman Derek wheels”, and the buses having earned wellbeing in four areas: how happy they Wyatt was also highly commended in without ads nicknames such as ‘the sauna-bus’ and are, how anxious they are, how satisfied the category of Charity Chairman of the By Fahad Redha ‘the Roastmaster’ among commuters. with their life they are, and whether they Year. In 2013, the Evening Standard feel like what they do is worthwhile. Dallas was chosen for her impact recorded temperatures exceeding 30C on Responders were asked to rank each out on both Royal Trinity Hospice and the the buses, which is above the European of ten. While the average results in the wider hospice sector during her two Are you getting sick of YouTube ads? maximum limit for transporting cattle UK saw happiness at 7.5, anxiety at 2.9, years in the post. When she joined For the first time in the site’s ten year and livestock. The Metro once reported life satisfaction at 7.6, and feeling their Trinity in August 2013, she was tasked history, it will offer a paid subscriptions that it recorded one Routemaster work was worthwhile at 7.8, in inner with bringing it into the 21st century, service to watch videos without them. reaching 41C. London happiness scored, on average, and with the motto, “a business head Content owners on YouTube have been TfL’s director of buses, Mike Weston, 7.6, anxiety 3.1, life satisfaction 7.5, and on a charity heart,” she helped make told that they have until the 22nd of told the Evening Standard: “We’re worthwhile 7.7. it a leader in the hospice sector, by October to agree to the site’s new terms pleased they’ve now been able to come London, equal with Yorkshire and modernising the internal structure and or their videos will no longer be viewable up with an affordable and working The Humber, has the lowest reported process. in the . At least that’s what design to install opening windows, which life satisfaction levels in the UK, and In the 21 months since, Dallas an email from YouTube to the content we anticipate will have been installed Londoners, with people from the North has achieved positive cultural change owners says. across our entire fleet by next summer”. East, report some of the lowest levels of throughout the organisation while still YouTube has floated the idea for There are currently 550 of the buses feeling that their work is worthwhile. maintaining a focus on excellent delivery nearly a year but has never publically on London’s streets, which is set to rise London also fares poorly when of care. to 800. Each bus cost TfL £350,000, and compared to other regions regarding Trinity Hospice has launched a new issued a release date. Last spring, executives were telling content owners the refit costs for installing the windows happiness and anxiety levels. London, service to support people with dementia is set to be £2 million. Pidgeon, the Lib that they were aiming for a mid-summer the North East and North West report and their carers living in Kensington Dem candidate for Mayor, said of the launch but that could extend beyond significantly lower happiness ratings than and Chelsea on the 21st of September, announcement: “it simply beggars belief 2015. Sources also say that the site plans the UK average; and the capital, along World Alzheimer’s Day. This is to tackle that such expensive buses were ever to release two more services in addition with The North East and Yorkshire and recognised inequalities in access to purchased by the mayor and TfL with The Humber, also reported significantly palliative and end of life care. Funded by to that, including updates to its music such a basic design fault”. higher anxiety levels than the UK West London CCG, Trinity’s specialist service. Since their introduction, the national average. Community Dementia Nurses will Video industry sources say Google Johnson’s Routemasters have been Glenn Everett, director of well-being support people with dementia, both at has told them it intends to charge $10 plagued with faults. It emerged in July at the ONS, gave this comment to the home and in care homes. A nurse can (around £6.60 at the time of writing) for that many of the buses had had their Evening Standard: “We often talk of identify and manage symptoms including the combined offering, though the music how the country is doing, usually in pain, aggression and anxiety. This can be batteries removed due to faults, meaning service alone was expected to cost that that they were running solely on diesel economic terms. Today’s figures address especially challenging when a patient can much. how people are feeling about their lives. no longer communicate verbally. instead of the hybrid system. Bus drivers “We are progressing according to “Overall, people are generally rating Studies have shown that dementia reported that this made the bus slow, plan to provide fans more options in their lives higher than they did four patients are more likely to die in prone to stalling, and left drivers feeling years ago. But what is interesting is that hospitals and less likely to have their how they enjoy content on YouTube,” that they weren’t in control of the bus. they show a slight growth in inequality pain identified and managed, leading to The company said in an amended The Routemasters were also supposed to between people rating their lives highly unnecessary distress. This is because it statement. “We have support from the have a ‘hop on, hop off ’ door at the back, and those reporting low levels of is not often seen as a progressive life- overwhelming majority of our partners, operated by a conductor responsible personal well-being. In other words, a limiting illness and there is a lack of with over 95 percent of YouTube watch- for charging customers, however this growing inequality that policy makers specialist skills to identify and support time covered by agreements, and more in was quickly deemed too costly and need to consider”. people with it. the pipeline about to close.” abandoned. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

attend and support numerous fundraising of innovative, long-term Generosity can events. Many will be accompanied with solution driven projects and heavyweight, personalised invitations and smaller dynamic community heal communities slick marketing campaigns. It is a time charities dealing with the but donors need to use their of giving, but think before you give – and most vulnerable and isolated give smarter. in society. heads and hearts I am a passionate believer in As investment managers corporate citizenship and conscious we have procedures, processes, capitalism, which could simply be and due diligence governance described as being good but is more than in place when engaging with that. It recognises the fact that without prospective clients, partners, a higher sense of purpose, without suppliers and distributors. exercising individual and collective We simply use these same responsibility, social injustice spreads and practices and procedures in festers, destabilising the communities we the work our foundation live in. For companies, there needs to be does. I meet incredibly a ‘giving back’ to the communities that bright, successful people and afford their success - about purpose and companies who think they profit, not either or. can’t make a giving decision – The truth is that no government or what they need, in my view, is political party will have enough money to apply their heads as well as to resolve some of the deep seated social their hearts. issues facing our society. So to leave Shockingly, less than the world a safe and stable place for our 1% of charities in the UK children and future generations – to generate over half of the plant a tree whose shade we will never sector’s income, leaving the sit under – we have to come together in true charity and community a stream of conscious capitalism that will gifts that lead to photo opportunities heroes, who work relentlessly and see collaboration between individuals for CEOs or board members. Often, selflessly to make society a better place Gina Miller – Miller Philanthropy and the private, public and social sectors. however, they simply go to charities and for us all, battling to attract the money & SCM Direct.com For corporate givers, it needs to be so projects that have ‘charity’ above the and resources they need. Unless funders much more than a day of giving. The door, which in the back room are all fat change their giving habits, thousands During July and September, The Lord give has to be more than money but a salaries, inefficiency, poor governance, of smaller charities that undertake Mayor of London established a City breadth of resources, skills and thinking and poor outcomes. I believe business transformational work will cease to exist Giving Day initiative to raise money for deployed in a smart, strategic manner. leaders, successful individuals and over the next two years. Therefore, I charity and as we approach Christmas There is no shortage of self-serving, professionals should also be leaders urge all donors and philanthropists to there will be many calls to sponsor, corporate philanthropic initiatives or in social problem-solving and funders embrace smarter giving.

Campbell Robb, Shelter’s chief Right to Buy: executive, says: Kensington and Chelsea set to “At a time when millions of families are struggling to find somewhere sell off council homes affordable to live, plans to sell off large © Shelter Photograph by Rosie Quigley swathes of the few genuinely affordable homes we have left is only going to make things worse. Over 60,300 council homes from “More and more families with barely Boroughs across London face being a hope of ever affording a home of their sold off under new government plans own and who no longer have the option to extend the Right to Buy scheme to of social housing, will be forced into housing association tenants. Analysis unstable and expensive private renting. from housing and homelessness charity “The government needs to scrap this Shelter suggests that the boroughs of proposal and start helping the millions Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea of ordinary families struggling with sky and Camden will be hit the hardest by high housing costs. If George Osborne these plans. is serious about turning around the The new extension of the scheme housing crisis, the autumn spending would mean that council houses, worth review is his last chance to invest in the more than a set threshold for the area, genuinely affordable homes this country would be sold once they become vacant. desperately needs.” The profits made would then be used The recent analysis from Shelter to fund discounts of up to £100,000 for comes just as Westminster Council’s housing association tenants who wish to own research has suggested that take up the Right to Buy. Government rent cuts could further Kensington and Chelsea will be restrict the council’s ability to build forced to sell a disconcerting 97% of its new homes. According to Westminster or plans for new affordable housing. Conservative Government’s housing council properties, over 6,600 homes, council, Government imposed rent cuts Westminster Council’s research also plans could sound the death knell for and Westminster will sell approximately of 1% per year for four years will cut the indicates that the Government’s planned social housing in Westminster and 76% of their total council housing stock. Government’s housing benefit bill whilst freeze on local housing allowance in the mixed communities it provides a However, according to Shelter’s analysis, costing Westminster’s Housing Revenue the private sector will see an increased home for. The Council must do more the borough of Camden will be the worst Account £32 million over the next four number of families becoming homeless. to challenge their Tory chums in off in the capital where the equivalent of years. This will mean that Westminster Councillor Adam Hug, Leader of the Parliament and Whitehall to scrap the 50% of its council homes, 11,000, will Council will be forced to make extreme Labour Group, says: forced housing sales and think again be sold. cuts to the quality of current properties “It becomes clearer each day that the about how to finance new homes.” 10 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Statue & Blue Plaque

as members of the Guinea Pig Club Blue Plaque: and continued to meet later in life. Sir Archibald even allowed a keg of beer to STATUES Sir Archibald be kept in the ward! He noticed that survival rates were Francesca, held McIndoe higher for those long suffering young in Birmingham men who had crashed at sea rather Museums and CBE., FRCS than on land. This led to the ‘saline Art Gallery and immersion treatment’, which was very highly influenced 1900-1960 successful. Many patients had numerous

Photograph © Don Grant Photograph by Dante Gabriel operations, some up to thirty, and a good Rossetti. number returned to fly again. John Ruskin In 2000, English Heritage erected a Spitfires and Hurricanes were fuelled was a particular Blue Plaque at Avenue Court, Draycott by powerful and highly inflammable fuel admirer of his Avenue, Chelsea, to honour Sir which gave their engines necessary speed work and Munro Archibald McIndoe. He was a pioneering in battle. In Spitfires the fuel tanks were gave classes at the plastic surgeon from New Zealand who located in front of the cockpit, which Working Men’s achieved international fame. During meant when hit by enemy aircraft the College, as well World War II he introduced innovative fires were fast and furious, and left little as sculpting some treatment for young airmen who had time to escape. Removing goggles and of the portrait suffered appalling burns, disfigurement, gloves for better control of the aircraft statues for the and injury. contributed to the horrific injuries if Museum Sir Archibald's father, John McIndoe, something went wrong. and a tympanum was a printer who died young, and his Sir Archibald was much aware of after a design by mother, Mabel (née Hill), was an artist. the psychological trauma suffered by his Rossetti for the Sir Archibald was born in Dunedin, patients and worked hard to raise their Oxford Union. New Zealand, and educated at Otago morale. He organised shopping trips, He was often in University where he read medicine. visits to the pub, and to local residents’ competition with Awarded the first New Zealand homes. His friends Neville and Elaine his contemporary scholarship to the Mayo Clinic, Sir Bond helped him in this important Thomas Woolner Archibald studied pathological anatomy aspect of his work. for the same there. In 1930, he came to London and A knighthood was bestowed upon Sir commissions Sir Harold Gillies, an otolaryngologist Archibald in 1947 for his work with the and this resulted and distant cousin, assisted him injured airmen. in an unhealthy in finding work as his colleague, After the war Sir Archibald went relationship between the two. This together with Rainsford Mowlem, at into private practice and later took up Nymph may have been instrumental in him St Bartholomew’s Hospital. This was farming in East Africa. He received followed by high ranking posts at other many honours in his lifetime, including By Alexander Munro not being elected to the Hogarth Club, itself founded by former top London hospitals. In 1938, he Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur. (1825-1871) members of the Pre-Raphaelite became a consultant surgeon in plastic He also became President of the Royal surgery for the . College of Surgeons. Berkeley Square Brotherhood; Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, and Rossetti When World War II broke out in In East Grinstead, Mark Jennings, in 1858, and formed as an antidote to 1939 there were only four experienced whose father was a patient of Sir t the southern end the Royal Academy. Another Munro plastic surgeons available: Sir Harold, Archibald, has wrought an evocative of this leafy square, sculpture familiar to Londoners will Sir Archibald, Mowlem, and T.P Kilner. bronze statue depicting a seated airman overshadowed by the be the white marble Boy with Dolphin, They were assigned to different hospitals, with burned hands clawed together and A with Sir Archibald heading to Queen scarred face turned away from the world. limestone and granite canyon set in the rose garden near Hyde of Lansdowne House, stands Park Corner. It was originally in the Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Behind him, resting his hands on the a modest and demure Nymph, Victorian sunken garden that was Sussex, where he founded a centre for injured man’s shoulders, is Sir Archibald carved out of white marble by demolished to make way for widening plastic and jaw surgery. At the time McIndoe; who alleviated much suffering Alexander Munro in 1858. It was of Park Lane, then moved to the plastic surgery was a new science. and gave his patients a reason to live. placed there by Henry Petty- Broad Walk in Regent’s Park, and At the Queen Victoria Hospital This great surgeon has the unique Fitzmaurice, the Third Marquess only returned to Hyde Park in 1995. Sir Archibald created an amazing honour for a civilian, to have his final of Lansdowne, who lived, circa Nymph is a slight figure with bare atmosphere. His ward was relaxed resting place in the Royal Air Force 1825, in the Robert Adam breasts, flowing robes, and holding a and informal, rare at the time. He was Church of St Clement’s Danes on the designed private house, built pitcher, standing amongst some reeds known as ‘the Maestro’ and loved ‘his Strand. between 1762 and 1767; which on a small fountain in the dappled boys’, his patients. They became known Marian Maitland later became the home of the shade of the giant London plane trees, Lansdowne Club in 1935. surrounded by office workers on their Alexander Munro had studied lunch-break. sculpture under Sir Charles The director of the National Barry, most famous for designing Portrait Gallery, Sir Lionel Cust, later the Palace of Westminster, the said of his work that it was “sketchy fountains in Trafalgar Square, and wanting in strength, but full of some additions to Lansdowne’s refinement and true feeling”, which is Bowood House in Wiltshire, a trifle waspish. Munro, the poor man, and Highclere Castle, now the suffered from increasing ill health with famous setting of Downton a lung disease and went to live in the Abbey. Munro was regarded as south of France with his wife, where a sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite he died in 1871 aged just 46 years old. movement, and his most His wife Mary died the following year famous work is probably the aged even younger at thirty-eight. delightfully whimsical Paolo and Don Grant 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

presents an excellent opportunity for council included comments from Business business from all walks of life to engage, Chelsea the director of environmental health, promote and share business interests via Nicholas Austin, who said Gladwin networking regular networking events, workshops restaurant owner appeared to be ‘heavily intoxicated’ as he with Chambers of Commerce and seminars. The Chamber is part of waved the gun around on display without London’s Local Chambers of Commerce arrested due care. He reportedly told police, “I’m By Kate Hawthorne Forum, set up to bring local chambers after pointing shotgun at the bad guy, it’s me, it was fun. I took the together. Each of its events is designed to gun out.” Gladwin further went on to present opportunities for local businesses taxi driver explain, when brandishing the shotgun, to network, make new contacts and By Simran Malhi he did not feel it mattered as it was a develop new business relationships. decommissioned weapon. He was arrested Wandsworth was once the heart of minutes later when police arrived on the industrial activity, with mills running Richard Gladwin, 31, was arrested outside scene, along with two other men (both along the banks of the river Wandle. The his restaurant, Rabbit, in Chelsea by aged 27), on suspicion of possession of borough has one of the oldest brewing armed police in the early hours of Friday a firearm with intent to cause fear of Photograph © Charlie Round-Turner © Charlie Round-Turner Photograph sites at the Old Ram Brewery and a morning on the 28th August. Gladwin violence. All three were later bailed to host of factories lining the Thames. The was caught in a shooting stance pointing return to the station at a later date in Chamber helps these businesses thrive a gun at a taxi driver whilst heavily September. through mutual self-help and meets intoxicated. This comes after a separate Gladwin and his restaurant manager, monthly. For more information on the incident earlier this summer involving who was also arrested, have been banned one of the restaurants chefs, in a domestic Chamber, its networking opportunities, from entering the restaurant until further spat. he Wandsworth Chamber of and to join, visit wandsworthchamber. notice. The Met made a request for the Commerce held its annual org. Passers-by witnessed Richard publicly consuming champagne, even taking establishment’s license to be reviewed and general meeting (AGM) on the There’s also the Kensington and T his threatening behaviour outside the a council licensing hearing took place on 30th of September. The event, at the Chelsea Chamber of Commerce Tuesday 29th September. Mr Gladwin Battersea Quarter in Plantation Wharf premises by pointing the shotgun towards (KCCC) which will be holding a pedestrians. and his manager, have also been banned on the river, was hosted by CEO Steve Networking event at Sloane Square from the day-to-day operation of the Pinto and Chairman Douglas Shanks. Rabbit was launched last year by Hotel, SW1W 8EG on Tuesday the brothers Richard, Oliver and Gregory restaurant; ordering stock or handling any Julia Langkraehr of Bold Clarity, 13th of October. This will be free to Gladwin, who hoped to enthuse a other competent responsibilities of the which offers training and leadership attend but booking may be required. You typically British ‘wild food’ experience for restaurant. for entrepreneurial purposes, was the can do that at kccc.co.uk. its customers. They also own The Shed A spokesperson on Gladwin’s behalf event’s guest speaker. Her talk included Finally, the London Chamber of in Notting Hill. However, after Friday’s stated to the Daily Mail, “There was an a powerful and inspirational presentation Commerce and Industry (LCCI), incident, the likelihood of Richard incident at Rabbit in August which is relating to six key components of a based in 33 Queen Street, EC4R 1AP, Gladwin returning to his position is yet to being resolved in the correct manner. successful business; vision, people, holds over 200 networking events every be determined. Mr Gladwin is fully co-operating with data, issues, process and traction. www. year, including marketing and business A report to Kensington and Chelsea police”. boldclarity.com opportunities, tenders, free business, Wandsworth is a thriving London legal and HR advice, as well as a range of borough with extensive regeneration exclusive discounted services that include projects especially around the Nine a Members’ Lounge that provides a free Elms, Vauxhall area. These developments meeting space. It also commissions and include Battersea Power Station, New publishes research in areas of interest to Covent Garden and the American its members and is the Capital’s largest Embassy which will all be linked by independent networking and business the new Northern Line Extension. The support organisation. For information, Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce visit www.londonchamber.co.uk. London Gas Mains Replacement Public exhibitions left open. 17 year Old The performance, created as a National Grid would like to invite you to a public exhibition to hear fundraising event for the Anna Freud more about the essential work we are planning to replace and upgrade Chelsea Resident Centre, a charity focussed on caring and supporting young people with the old metal gas mains in the Royal Borough of Kensington and raises £2,000 mental health problems raised over Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. To carry for Anna Freud Centre £2,000. “I wrote the play because I out this work, King’s Road needs to be reduced to one-way became interested in the way we use and traffic for approximately eight months. process semantics in our daily lives…… I also wanted to explore how personal We have been transporting gas virtually unnoticed for over a century, Fragile Life insecurities can impact and hinder providing a reliable gas supply to more than two million customers in On Sunday 13 September 2015 at relationships.” Said Carrafiell, who has London. Like other London infrastructure, it needs work to replace and , King’s Road, London, been an Anna Freud Charity patron upgrade it. 17 year old Christina Carrafiell debuted since the age of 15. her play, Fragile Life. “It is wonderful to see young people Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, SW3 5EE on The play written by Carrafiell was using their talents to help other young a 50 minute piece exploring the duality people. Their support is incredibly valued Wednesday 7 October between 12 noon and 8pm between ‘what could have been’ and by the Centre” said Katy Vaughan, ‘what has transpired’. Fundraising Manager, Anna Freud Vialli Suite, level 3, West Stand, Chelsea Football The play explored the journey of Centre. Club, Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road, SW6 1HS on two couples who simultaneously became Carrafiell’s next step is to try to trapped within a lift. As the story take the play to the Fringe Thursday 15 October between 12 noon and 8pm unfolded the characters’ personalities Festival in 2016 and she will continue were exposed leaving the audience with fundraising for the Anna Freud Centre. For further information please contact us via: questions. The characters’ respective For more information on Anna Freud Telephone: 0800 389 8261 relationships, their personal setbacks and Centre: www.annafreud.org Email: [email protected] what would happen upon escaping was Yolanda Mercy 12 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Feature

Sex industry at work within central London by Rosie Quigley

he central London boroughs play host to a large population of sex Tworkers; member of the London Assembly Andrew Boff says: “In the area of Westminster there are many more foreign born sex workers than in other areas…more male sex work...and there is more transgender sex work taking place in Westminster. One of the things I could say is that in Westminster you do have some very long established massage parlours and walk ups”. Anecdotal evidence from organisations supports evidence of these trends in the local of protocols. That is underway at the renowned for its links to human industry. SWISH (Sex Workers Into moment, the National College of trafficking and this remains the most Sexual Health) is a charity with bases Policing is looking at that particular persuasive argument against legalisation in Earl’s Court, Soho and Camden, model of that particular kind of protocol and regulation of the industry. Although which provides confidential support to and developing that with the help of there certainly are cases of human sex workers. Lee Brooker, case worker at sex workers in London who have come trafficking, Lee Brooker says: “SWISH SWISH, says: together under a meeting that I hosted (as per the recent Amnesty support of “Data regarding sex work in to draw up recommendations that there legalisation of sex work) does not concur Westminster specifically is limited due to should be for policing”. with policing models that primarily the underground nature of the industry. Until a definite set of police protocol identify sex workers as victims or likely However, as the most central of inner is issued, many sex workers are turning to be victims of trafficking or coercion. London boroughs, sex work is resident to the NUM scheme, which was set Anti-trafficking groups often quote high and transient in the borough and sex up by the UK Network of Sex Work for instances of sex trafficking in the UK worker projects and sexual health clinics Projects (UKNSP). It allows sex workers which are not based on evidence arising can affirm to high numbers of sex worker workers being unreported. A scheme to anonymously share information about from years of UK policing”. service users. Street sex work is limited called National Ugly Mugs (NUM) has dangerous clients and alerts are then Many working on the frontline of and not highly visible, escorting and flat been set up to alert sex workers to risky sent to other sex workers and third party the sex industry argue that legalisation work is ubiquitous and established”. clients and situations, offering protection support projects. With consent from of the industry is necessary to effectively Tony*, a heterosexual male sex worker where the police do not. The scheme’s the individual, the support projects will protect the human rights of sex who lives and works in Notting Hill, director of services, Alex Bryce, says, share this information with the police so workers. Amnesty International, for describes the area as being quite lucrative “there is some evidence that sex workers that the perpetrator of the attack can be example, have recently called for the for his business, saying: “the location is are made vulnerable by the displacement brought to justice. decriminalisation of sex work. Alex important and if I lived in zones three caused by police enforcement action Bryce says “Sex workers report high Bryce says “sex workers are targeted by or four I wouldn’t be able to see as many in areas where police or local authority job satisfaction levels and only a tiny offenders, partly because the offenders clients. In Notting Hill it seems to be embark on a ‘crackdown’. I believe proportion felt exploited in any way. think they will get away with it. In this quite busy. From my place, seeing one or that sex workers are more likely to be However, because of criminalisation and way they can be vulnerable because laws two people a day is easy”. attacked but far less likely to report the stigma they are forced to be secretive and and stigma marginalise them. That's Despite increased services available incident.” work on the margins of society”. why sex workers themselves and experts to workers and the glamorisation of sex According to Amy*, a transgender Boff supports the NUM scheme and welcomed Amnesty International’s work in programmes such as ITV2’s sex worker originally from Brazil, now says, “the cost of a fatality of a sex worker recent calls for decriminalisation of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the London working in London, many sex workers is around £1.5m and NUM scheme cost sex work as existing laws throughout sex industry is still not without its risks. are deterred from reporting crimes £100,000 per year… You can’t say it the world compromises their human In 2012, Westminster City Council against them to the police. Amy says often enough, that sex workers will very rights and safety. When asked what hosted a multi-agency partnership “People have been bullied or harassed but rarely report crimes against them because change could make their work more model, the Sex Worker Task Group. they don’t call the police because they are they fear the attitudes of police, they fear safe the most frequent answer was A report was produced in order for afraid the police won’t listen to what they that the police will pursue them rather decriminalisation or legalisation”. information on violence against sex have to say and judge them… If we are than the attacker. Therefore it’s vital that The contentious debate on the sex workers to be shared and strategic sure that nothing bad is going to happen there is an intermediary who can deal industry wages on and, without any clear policies to be agreed upon to ensure to us and that they’re not going to treat with their complaints”. police protocol, the industry remains safety. However, sex workers often fall us like the problem, a lot of people will The NUM scheme has been effective in murky waters. Andrew Boff says victim to accusatory attitudes from the come out telling their stories and report in bringing criminals to justice; Bryce “eventually we will get that protocol police, making the reporting of crimes what happened to them”. says “We regularly get sex workers telling in place but things move very slowly. committed against them unlikely. Boff carried out research for the us that as a result of one of our warnings I don’t want to see a situation where In the December 2013 Demontere report in 2012 and believes that a code they've managed to avoid a rapist or we have some tragic news as a result raids, police forcibly seized Soho of conduct is needed when police are violent offender so we know we’re of action that could have been avoided premises which had alleged links to sex dealing with sex workers. Boff says preventing crime and potentially saving by observing a protocol. I think we’re trafficking. Subsequently, relationships “clumsy actions of one group of officers lives. Our work has also resulted directly months away, I hope we’re not years between sex workers in the area and can destroy relationships because as far as in the apprehension and conviction of away”. the Met police broke down. There are these people are concerned they see the at least twenty-five dangerous serial concerns that aggressive, preventative police as one corporate body. Therefore offenders who pose a risk to us all”. * Names have been changed to protect methods have led to more attacks on sex it’s really important to establish a set The London sex industry is privacy 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Left: Divorce papers of Jane Campbell and Edward Addison 1801. Right: Photographs © Parliamentary Archives © Parliamentary Photographs The Victoria Tower that houses the Parliamentary Archive

parliaments that have bound the country through seeing what records of these encounter in my academic years) Parliamentary together since 1497. From certificates of individuals lives they can trace and follow Westminster’s archivists’ raison d’être naturalisation to the warrant for Charles in the years after their naturalisation. seems to be ensuring that the wealth of Archives I’s sudden reduction in height, there are This attention to details causes these documents that they possess are available thousands of stories contained within documents, which would otherwise to any and all concerned. In addition By Max Feldman the Parliamentary Archives. Rather potentially fall by the wayside compared to hosting exhibitions of materials than feeling that familiar pressure of to more obvious fascinations like the exclusively from the Victoria Tower, they drowning in data, the physical presence official act abolishing slavery, to maintain also obtain complementary documents of documents both ancient and modern their own individual mystique and adds from other archives and collections, engenders a grounded sense of wonder to the matrix of stories that the archives recently assembling the four surviving and curiosity. contain and explores. engrossments of the Magna Carta as a The acts themselves range in size The tradition of storing all bills celebration of the 800th anniversary of from small dagger-like rolls to slabs that and acts of Parliament at Westminster the primogenitor of democracy’s sealing. n the era of Wikipedia it is easy to more resembles the rings of an oak tree itself began in 1497, a period where acts The Archives semi-regularly hold feel complacent about information. than a roll of parchment. The largest were written on sewn together goatskin exhibitions and it’s always worth keeping IAny fact or statistic is just a lethargic of the Acts held in the archives (an membranes. Regrettably London’s one’s eyes open for what’s planned. Google away, but rather than utilising 1821 act concerned with the raising of turbulent history has led to dramatic For those who are keen to dip into the this hitherto unimaginable access to taxes) unfurls to a monstrous 348m (a and unforeseen consequences such as archives resources, appointments can be knowledge to better ourselves the mind full quarter of a mile) which reportedly the Great Fire of 1834 which destroyed made to visit reading rooms. can feel drowned by the sheer amount would take two men an entire day to most of the records for the House of When one thinks of the building of information out there. The instant rewind. The reason for its unwieldy size Commons alongside the majority of the of a nation it tends to be in bold, availability of information is actually is because it contains the full name of Palace of Westminster. After this disaster, Hollywood terms. All blood and supposed to be having a negative effect every single one of the approximately the Government of the day made conspiracy peppered with acts of on short term memory as we never have 65,000 commissioners appointed to stipulations that the newly reconstructed heroism and despotism. The silent to strain ourselves. Articles are often collect the tax. This ties into another Palace of Westminster (the iconic and weight of history that the Parliamentary skim-read as the sickly glow of a laptop aspect of the Parliamentary Archives’ seemingly eternal neo-gothic design of Archives in the Victoria Tower contains screen often saps the will to read (and work, in that rather than simply serve the modern Houses of Parliament by Sir offers a far broader scope than the indeed to live). However during a recent as a repository of information, they Charles Barry was actually chosen via a Hollywood story. visit to the Parliamentary Archives in also work alongside other archives in competition) should contain “Fireproof In both the broad strokes of era the Houses of Parliament’s Victoria order to trace the personal histories repositories for papers and documents” defining acts like the Civil War or the Tower, I found my 21st century anxieties of the individuals mentioned in their in an attempt to try and prevent so much execution of Mary Queen of Scots and of information overload unexpectedly documents. This ‘living history’ serves to keenly important information from ever the smaller personal stories of individuals overwhelmed. keep the archives materials from feeling being lost again. Initially Barry, who died who both profited and protested the acts The history of our parliamentary impersonal and distant by keeping the the same month as Victoria Tower was of parliament throughout the centuries, democracy is a long and winding one focus on the personal as much as the completed, was convinced that it would the archive contains a history of a nation whose tendrils curl through huge historical. be this edifice rather than the Big Ben that is not dead and buried, but alive swathes of global events, both major Alongside the more dramatic housing Parliament’s clock tower that and pulsing with life. Preserved both for and minor. It is a history written in ink parliamentary documents stored in the would be his legacy and had Victoria posterity and the present, the archives rather than blood and it’s hard not to repository of the archives, there are also Tower’s elevation engraved on the bronze sheer scope paradoxically provides an feel the immense weight of that history many more ostensibly prosaic articles of his tomb. antidote for information overload. whilst standing amidst the hundreds such as naturalisations (which until 1844 Far from being the jealous of tightly bound documents which could only be accomplished via an act guardians of history (like the ones I For more information, please visit make up the matrix of laws and acts of of parliament) which the Archives work was seemingly destined to eternally www.parliament.uk/archives. 14 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 International online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

climate change. In the original ruling, World’s first Teitiota’s argument was referred to as Fragile “fundamentally misconceived”, and as climate change an attempt to “stand the [UN refugee] Independence: convention on its head”. Despite this, asylum seeker Teitiota has gained much popular Ukraine in 2015 © Ben Robinson Photograph support. By Marian Maitland deported Teitiota’s deportation follows a failed By Emily Eaton appeal against a New Zealand High Court decision that he could not be “Sche Ne Vmerla Ukraina” classified as a ‘refugee’ as he was not being ‘persecuted’. The United Nations (Ukraine has not yet perished) describes a refugee as someone who ‘faces persecution’ at home. ew Zealand has deported a Teitiota was arrested by police and The ceremony, the raising of the was declared when Russia and Poland man seeking to be the world’s immigration officials at his home in distinctive blue and yellow Ukrainian divided Ukraine between them. Nfirst ‘climate change refugee’. West Auckland on the Tuesday morning flag, was performed at their Embassy Toward the end of both World On Wednesday 23rd September, Ioane (22nd September) and detained at the in Kensington, celebrating twenty four War One and World War Two there Teitiota, 40, was flown back to the South Mount Eden private prison until his years of hard won independence. A were brief spells of independence, but Pacific nation of Kiribati, a low-lying flight. At Waitakere district court, Judge moving and ancient liturgy followed, ultimately Ukraine was conquered and island succumbing to rapidly rising sea performed in front of the statue of St. became part of the Soviet republic. Stan Thorburn refused to grant an order levels, extreme weather conditions, and Volodymyr in the presence of embassy Ukraine regained independence in to release Teitiota from custody, saying: pollution. officials and military dignitaries. This 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet “It seems to me that the intent must be New Zealand’s highest court refused recent celebration, which took place Republic. In 2013, there were protests at large that if there were no warrant refugee status to Teitiota and his family on the 23rd August, was jointly hosted when Yanukovych’s government decided of commitment and he was released on in July, after they lodged an appeal by the charity Ukraine Aid and the to suspend the Ukraine-European conditions, he would evade deportation against their failed asylum claim, which Ukrainian Embassy. National costumes Union Association Agreement, seeking was the first of its kind. The family were on 23rd September”. were worn; and little girls had garlands closer economic ties with Russia. determined to stay, highlighting the Teitiota’s family were also booked on of flowers in their hair, looking so serene Further protests, known as Euromaidan, issue of rising sea levels, pollution of the Wednesday flight back to Kiribati, and peaceful in contrast to the tragic took place and Yanukovych was freshwater sources with salt and sewage, but they refused to cooperate and thus turmoil unfolding in their country today. overthrown. Petro Poroshenko was and the possibility of cyclones on the managed to delay deportation. It has Ukraine is a great country with an elected to power. In 2014, the crisis over island, all of which have been attributed been reported that Teitiota’s wife, Angua unsung heritage. It is rich in ancient the Crimea with Russia escalated and is to climate change over the last few years. Erika, and his three New Zealand born culture and is remarkable for its strong ongoing today with continued suffering. Teitiota’s lawyer, Michael Kidd, told the children, would be forced to join him sense of national identity, which has Ukrainian culture was guided by BBC: “He’s very disappointed obviously, back in Kiribati the following week. survived through long adversity. This Christianity, and her Eastern and he wants to be back in New Zealand”. Angua Erika told Radio New Zealand: identity must be cherished and passed on Western neighbours greatly influenced Teitiota and his wife came to New "They said we are overstayers but we are to the next generation. her architecture, music, and art. The Zealand in 2007 and all of his children not. We are trying to find a better life for There is evidence of Neanderthal Communist era stifled creativity, but were born there. The original case was the kids”. settlements in Moldova dating back to the advent of glasnost (openness policy) brought when Teitiota overstayed his In the days since Teitiota’s 32,000 BC. Between 700 BC and 200 gave writers and artists more freedom three year New Zealand work visa, which deportation attracted global media BC, Ukraine was part of Scythia, famed of expression. Ancient traditions of expired in 2010, and was apprehended attention; East Timor’s former president, for its very fine gold wrought work. painting Easter eggs, known as Pysanky, after he was involved in an unrelated Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, spoke out to Later Greek and Roman colonies were have survived together with embroidery, police matter in 2011. His case was the criticise New Zealand in their handling founded, which were followed by the rise weaving, and lace making. Literature first of its kind in the world, with the of the case. Ramos-Horta said he of the Byzantine Empire. can be traced back to the 11th century defence team arguing that, should he was happy to welcome the ‘climate In the Middle Ages, Ukraine was and the Cossacks, who produced fine be forced to leave New Zealand, the change refugee’ family to East Timor the key centre of Eastern Slav Culture, epic poetry, almost Homeric in style. safety of his family would be under and would provide plane tickets and the cornerstone of Ukrainian identity. Literature was spurred on by the threat due to a rapidly changing ecology accommodation for the family whilst Here was the state of Kievan Rus, whose development of print, but Ukraine's in his home region, brought about by securing work for Teitiota. golden age began with the reign of output was set back when publication in Vladimir the Great, who encouraged the the Ukrainian language was forbidden. acceptance of Byzantine Christianity. Today, Ukraine has many fine writers In the thirteenth century Ukraine and artists. was dominated by a variety of powers: Ukrainian architecture has its roots Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, in the Slavic state of Kievan Rus. The Austria, Hungary, and Russia. The Cossacks developed a unique style and Mongol invasion destroyed the powerful there was a heavy Russian influence in state of Kievan Rus. Afterwards, the Eastern Ukraine. Major cathedrals were principalities of Halych and Volodymyr- multi-domed, though some were rebuilt Volynskyi arose and were then merged later in the Baroque and then Rococo into the state of Galicia Volhynia, style. There were grand palaces too. which was very powerful. The year 1569 A photography exhibition, recently saw the establishment of the Polish held at the Ukrainian Community Lithuanian Commonwealth and much of Centre in Kensington, reflected on Ukraine came under the Polish crown. the heritage of Ukraine admirably: The Cossacks, who were prosperous, the beautiful landscapes, the grand challenged Polish rule, but eventually architecture, and the horror of today's Ukrainian territory was divided between conflict and humanitarian crisis in Poland and Russia, and in the long Eastern Ukraine, in which over 8,000 term Russia prevailed. The Thirty Year people have been killed and over War (1657-1686) followed, with the 16,000 wounded. On view are evocative Cossacks, Russia, Poland, and the Turks paintings by children showing that war fighting for the control of Ukrainian is a daily part of their lives. A tragedy lands. In 1686 'The Eternal Peace' that deserves thought and help. 16 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

MARIUS BRILL’S MEMEING OF LIFE

her slut status. retailers, which sells outfits with names Sex and fear ‘Slut-shaming’ is still an all-girl like Little Bo Peep Show and Miss Foul sport in America. Feminist websites are Play, reported that, “Probably over 90 to What can I do fighting Slutoween’s sexy dressing up 95 percent of our female costumes have pressure, ridiculing the costume choices, a flirty edge to them,” adding that sexy you for? advising girls on outfits they can make costumes are so popular the company themselves and enlisting the girl band had to break its “sexy” category into three Molugo © Stacey Photograph EmotiStyle who have produced a song subdivisions. “What big eyes you’ve got called Things You Can Be On Halloween So has America, the world’s largest Grandma.” Besides Naked. consumer market, led the global costume In this country where, on any industry to capitalise on one of its All the better to ogle you with my Saturday night out in any provincial greatest fears, sex itself? And has that dear.” city the dress code is pure skin and then turned the tap off on all the under stilettos, have we simply become inured selling frumpy costume alternatives? “So this red cape, thigh boots and to the likes of the Sinderella or Captain Of course if Britain led the world cleavage thing is working for you is Hooker costumes? Or is prudish, party consumer market then we’d all be it Grandma?” pooping, puritan founded America dressing up as embarrassment on actually expressing its horror of sex Halloween. Grandma drools and howls at the itself? Halloween is all about what we The marketing genius who came moon. fear. Sex is one of the most confusing up with “Sex sells” forgot to add “but isn’t it/is it taboo areas for teens and fear sells faster.” If Slutoween is fear tweens and they’re the ones buying the and sex bundled together its appeal is f you’ve popped into a costume shop Sexy Firefighter/Nurse/Cat/Dinner Lady unstoppable. I’m just waiting for the looking for a little something for costumes. marketing geniuses in ISIS to catch on IHalloween it’s almost guaranteed it In an article in The New Times to this one. Watch out for Sexy Jihad. will be a little something indeed. called Good Girls Go Bad For a Day, one Have a frightful Halloween (if you’re In the last decade shop-bought of America’s biggest Halloween costume not having a filthy one). Halloween costumes have become markedly less about the vampire and all about the vamp. This trend to sexualise our dressing up and put the whore into horror has been dubbed “Slutoween”; DUDLEY SUTTON’S a meme that is currently exercising feminist debate especially for our puritan I WISH I HAD dissident descendants in America. Fancy dress has always had a frisson WRITTEN THAT of ‘what you fancy’, a chance to fantasise for a moment and unbutton from our daily uniforms. But in the last decade To Speak Of The Woe That Is Marriage costume shop stock, especially for women, has been increasingly more Robert Lowell (1917-1977) revealing. So, if you are a female habitué of in the shape of the pantomime dame It is the future generation that presses into being by means of Halloween attire, you can forget the become an institution? There was a time these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ours. seasonal “beach-ready body” pressure, in the 80s when you not only assumed SCHOPENHAUR the sand and sunshine will bleach out that every party was fancy dress, the the bumps anyway, you’ll need all your influence of the New Romantics made will power to get fit for October 31st sure that every photo we own from that 'The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open. to strike a pose in your Sponge Boob No period is excruciating. Our magnolia blossoms. Life begins to happen. Pants, Princess Lay-Her or Fairy Queen In America fancy dress is more My hopped up husband drops his home disputes, Titty-ania outfit. With costume choices for special occasions and their special increasingly about how bare you dare it’s occasion par excellence is Halloween. and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes, not long until we see gyms advertising But ‘moms’ are getting distressed because free-lancing out along the razor's edge. programmes that promise to have you ‘fit their teen and tween daughters are going This screwball might kill his wife, many take the pledge. to frighten’ for Halloween. straight from Pumpkin Pies to Treacle Complaints about the sexing up of Tarts. Oh the monotonous meanness of his lust... Halloween have a particularly American In the 2004 high school melodrama It's the injustice...he is so unjust- twang and a whiff of the Scarlet Letter. Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan says, whisky-blind, swaggering home at five. In Britain where, it seems, many of us “Halloween is the one night of the year would rather express through dress than when you can dress like a slut and no My only thought is how to keep alive. talk it out American style, dressing up other girls can say anything about it.” What makes him tick? Each night now I tie is an integral part of life. All our youth Unfortunately, in the real world, Lohan ten dollars and a car key to my thigh... movements had dress codes, an Oxbridge needed every day to be Halloween degree does not come on a certificate because, until her publicity machine Gored by the climacteric of his want, but confers the right to wear a particular eventually buried her, just about every he stalls above me like an elephant.' gown and where else could transvestism day was filled with people calling her on 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

but there are at least as many who are fair choice – they either give up the fags The fashionable bloody miserable, with not enough to and booze (and a large contribution to Signs of the occupy their minds as they descend into the Exchequer) and live another twenty field of Inequality a quicksand of self-obsessed paranoia. years with no guarantee of happiness, times By Peter Burden Some might even be aware that they and probably at the tax payers’ expense, are contributing nothing to the world’s or carry on shelling out duty on tobacco wisdom or happiness while they create and alcohol, in the knowledge that overwhelming problems for those who they will at least have paid for their come after them. In a culture where hospitalisation before an early death and ir Michael Marmot works in the corporeal existence is chief, those who avoidance of all the unpleasantness and fashionable field of Inequality, in achieve a great age are admired and dreariness of growing old. Shis case that of the Health of the lauded for that simple fact, irrespective Does Sir Michael have any authority British population. It defines hisraison of any contribution or, more likely, lack to dictate to them what choices they d’etre as Director of Health Equity; it’s thereof they may have made to society should make? More confusingly, he also his metier, how he earns his living. Now during their exceptional span. claims that even the middle-classes, who I noticed two trucks in the traffic that Inequality has become a prevailing Sir Michael tells us that many lives have as ready access to health education the other day, and the first was a Big Topic among social commentators are being lost unnecessarily as a result as their richer contemporaries, lose out Wandsworth Council van with a sticker and political hacks, he is taking every of the ignorance of the uneducated. The by six or seven years of life expectancy, on the rear stating CAUTION: THIS opportunity to beat his chest and implication is that the Government suggesting that the wealthy are enjoying VEHICLE STOPS FREQUENTLY. castigate a society in which statistics aren’t doing enough. But, although life so much that they are more reluctant Behind it was a laundry van with show that the poor live less long than smoking has been fatuously banned in to let it go. Or perhaps the practical another sticker reading CAUTION: people with more money. Add to this the some great public open spaces, in private, characteristics that made them rich in THIS VEHICLE FREQUENTLY fact that longevity at any cost is the Holy where individuals are free to make their the first place also nurture a mental STOPS. These two were eclipsed by Grail for most of the modern medical own choices, they carry on doing it, in attitude that encourages life. In any case, a bus which sailed past the other two profession, and Sir Michael becomes a the full knowledge that it will shorten Sir Michael’s claim is obfuscated by the and his sign said CAUTION: THIS very big cheese; people sit up and listen, their lives. use of the term ‘middle class’, which VEHICLE MAKES FREQUENT and – worse – accept some very broad We are all going to die; we are, I currently seems to include anyone who STOPS. Subtle differences these, assumptions he makes about individual believe, entitled to have some say in the can read and isn’t a millionaire. but infused with slightly different human aspiration. timing and manner of this event, unless One of the more specious aspects interpretation, a bit like that between a First, he appears to have no doubt we wish to live like Sub-beta World of the claims of commentators of a maternity dress and a paternity suit, or that longevity is a Good Thing; nor State Citizens in Brave New World. Toynbeeish persuasion is that the poor that thin line between free alcohol and suffer worse health and obesity because alcohol free, or a large cat and a big cat. they can only afford to eat rubbish I saw a sign on the back of a security food. This is demonstrably not true; it van - POLICE FOLLOW THIS VAN, does, however, require more work and but whether that was an instruction or a commitment to eat well and cheaply. warning was unclear. Those who choose not to have the right There are a number of, dare I to spend their time how they want to. It say, witty signs and slogans, such as

Photograph © NHS Confederation Photograph is also their right to drink tooth-rotting, the one of a now defunct oil drum girth-swelling Coca-Cola, instead of manufacturer in Battersea, who had the free, healthy tap water. The unfairness motto.“Nobody can beat our drums”. lies in the fact that, unlike the fags and A plumbing firm in Battersea caused booze consumers, as long as there is no a bit of a stir by painting their vans taxation on sugar-based foods, the tax bright pink and calling the company payer, not the consumer is paying for the “U-Benders”. In Wandsworth the resultant health care. other day I spied a sign on a West One As the Nation’s Nanny, Sir Michael Bathrooms van, which read. “Even is entitled to inform, but not to dictate. bathrooms as good as ours need a little It might be simpler to rubber stamp plug.” Not bad. In the US, where they the bottom of every new born babe are less shy, there was another plumbing in Britain with the message: “HM company proclaiming “Don’t sleep with Government Health Warning: LIVING a drip. Call our plumbers”, and a sign CAN BE DANGEROUS AND MAY on a Septic Tank Truck boasting “We’re LEAD TO DEATH.” number 1 in the number 2 business”. I was sent a rake of photographs taken in does he doubt that anyone who reads People who smoke and booze pay for Africa, one of which on a door marked his work will accept that sweeping their resultant healthcare needs through Dark Room had, “Keep door closed!!! assessment. People are so universally specific and substantial taxation. Those If it is left open, all the dark leaks out’, enthralled to the notion that longevity who eat themselves into porcine obesity and another of a man at a stall selling must be a Good Thing that they simply contribute very little towards the cost of torches, with a sign reading, “Ministry of don’t ask for the evidence. But do those their future healthcare, but at least have eliminating darkness”. who have died at 70 feel more deprived enough consideration to die sooner than One of the very best of signs was a than those who have died at 90? Are the they otherwise would. While the widely bilingual one put up by Swansea Council longer-lived chuckling to themselves accepted public perception is that these a few years ago declaring “No entry for at their good fortune – happy to have self-destroyers would be happier if they heavy good vehicles. Residential site an extra twenty years of breaking wind, didn’t die earlier than the norm, it is only”. The translation underneath read chronic incontinence, increasing deafness their right to choose. “Nid wyf yn y swyfddfa ar hyn o bryd. while watching dreary TV shows, It is false to claim, as some Anfonwch unrhyw waith i’w gyfiethu”. between crabbing at junior relatives, or commentators do, that any people are The Welsh language translator actually manipulating them by changing the will unaware of the health dangers; they sent an automated reply, saying, “I every few months? are absolutely aware – the warnings am out of the office at the moment. No doubt there are legions of jolly are embedded in all aspects of popular Please send any work to be translated.” old folk – think of all those happy culture. But individuals are entitled to Priceless. In Welsh, that’s amhrisiadwy. smiling wrinkled faces in advertisements carry on doing what they like doing, and Honest. for denture fixatives and laxatives – are happy to risk the consequences. It’s a www.peterburden.net Dong Rant 18 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

sometimes slept four hours in the day as allocation in Uber. The buses have been 3. Ask your consultant to explain what Introducing well as nine hours at night. I was taking surprisingly easy, though I do not travel type of replacement knee is going to be a range of heavy pain killers and using in rush hour. Uber has been a joy and used “Knocked”: frozen peas to ice my knee most days their drivers most helpful. By contrast 4. Search online for references about this (you could also use a Cryo/Cuff Cooler most of the black cabbies will not move knee especially on YouTube my new knee at five times the price!). from their driving seat to assist. by Derek Wyatt Initially, I had to sleep on my back It was a good decision to have knee On leaving hospital in hospital, as I could not move my leg replacement. Knocked is already in better 5. Loan Crutches because it was so painful. On returning shape than my left knee (worrying). The 6. Loan an ice machine or use frozen home, I found lying in one position led pain is manageable, my support network peas from your freezer to heavy snoring, which was not always has been outstanding, and my wife has appreciated by my dear wife. It took a been exceptional. Home care further week to be able to slide and sleep I know of a friend in Washington 7. Use Traumeel for bruising if not on my side (I was kept in hospital for six state who is having both knees done at prescribed days). 8. Rent Stretch machine from Phoenix Illustration © Gray's Anatomy © Gray's Illustration the same time but has only been allotted My wife was adorable. She took two days as an in-patient, which will Healthcare Products Ltd 0115 965 6634 eight days off work to look after me, be challenging (and doubly painful). I 9. Fix extra Physio time and was run ragged; I could not dress was asked if I would consider having 10. Consider occasionally sleeping myself, going to the loo at night was both done but felt the risks were too separately from your partner (to give complicated, my meals had to be high. The only case I came across in my you both a chance to sleep without prepared, I could not put the weekly research told me nonetheless to have interruption) ver the past five years, I have dustbins out, I was unable to drive. both! He had, and was cycling and skiing twice been told I needed a Much worse was that intimacy took a as never before. Key web sites for Knee new knee. Off I trundled O dive. I am not out of the woods quite yet. Replacement to consultants at the Chelsea & Allison, my physio, came by most I am still taking pain killers but each Westminster and separately to the days to treat me (“to give me hell”). She day there is slightly more movement. Type of Knee National Orthopaedic Hospital. Because recommended I rent a CSM machine Knocked is in fine fettle and I am www.zimmer.co.uk I was in no pain and could still do knee to stretch Knocked. It worked. She had hopeful that Roger Federer will drop by www.smith-nephew.com bends both consultants told me to come me stretching and walking. Incidentally, anytime soon. www.conformis.com back when the pain was unbearable. I had had eight sessions with her before Whilst I could not run for a bus, I my op to strengthen my hamstring and Orthopaedic Consultants could still play tennis (well, knock up for muscle groups around the knee. It made Knee Top Ten Tips Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital: an hour a week) but walking down stairs 10 sense. www.moh.nhs.uk was becoming more difficult. My right My GP practice saw to it that their Beforehand Fortius Clinic: www.fortiusclinic.com knee would give way. Still though there District Nurses called in at home every 1. Arrange Physio through GP was no piercing pain. Gradually I noticed other day in the early stages. They gave 2. Buy or ask Social Services for an Physio that when standing upright my right me regular tests for blood clots and I “enlarged” loo seat & urine bottles www.lightcentrebelgravia.co.uk knee began to rest against my left one. took Warfarin tablets for six weeks as a Clearly, it was time for a third opinion. precaution. Back I went to see my dear friend, Dr unstuck in others. But the present is a My mobility (compared to pre- Ken Kennedy, a former Irish and British foreign country and we do things the surgery) is excellent, my posture is The Poldark Lions hooker. Now semi-retired, he has Poldark-way here. hugely better, and I am walking about seen me through three arthroscopies as Let me explain. Ever since the BBC 500 meters a day (though I tire towards Effect a result of my own rugby career. He was ‘discovered’ that the Mr Darcy Effect the end). I went to see the film45 at the By Emily Eaton adamant I should have knee replacement could be ratcheted up to Turbo, with the Curzon Victoria after two weeks and and recommended I saw Mr Jonathan arrival of the bristling Ross Poldark and though I enjoyed it, I was exhausted Webb, an orthopaedic surgeon and his half-naked scything, we have been afterwards. former Bath and England full back. treated to a bevy of beautiful beef-cakes The following week we braved Kinky The result was that in the middle of rollicking across the English countryside. Boots at the Adelphi and risked eating August, I underwent knee replacement I’m not complaining, it’s nice to have out beforehand, which was quite a trial surgery. Beforehand, I talked to friends the focus shifted, but some of the more as there were fifty stairs to contemplate and relatives, including my sister flagrant titillation felt more comic than

at the restaurant. I had acute pain during TV © BBC Photograph who had already had the operation. I classic. the show (the staff were unbelievably diligently searched Google and YouTube Though marvellously restrained in sympathetic) and again tired too quickly, for further information. I noticed that some respects, there were quite a few though the musical was an absolute hoot. Boston seemed to be city centre of the scenes in The Go-Between where poor Slowly, we learned to do one thing cosmos for knees with companies such old Ted seemed to have mislaid most at the weekend and we always had an as Zimmer, Conformis, and Smith & (read, all) of his clothes. That could be additional chair for Knocked to rest Nephew. It must be the confluence of forgiven though, but for the sickeningly on. In our fifth week we had tickets for universities and hospitals. What were you doing with your Sunday pretty Oliver ‘wasn’t he supposed to be England v Fiji, at the start of the Rugby I had a contact at Smith & Nephew evenings in September? Mine were a bit of rough?’ Mellors strutting around World Cup, but sadly, I felt it would too and she suggested I look at their Journey spent indulging (and that is absolutely shirtless in the absence of context, in much of a strain and sitting in tight seats ll replacement knee, which is made of the right word) in the BBC’s season of the rain, cuddling fluffy baby birds and did not appeal; we gave the game a miss. titanium and oxinium. This model came adaptations of 20th Century literary batting his long eyelashes. I was keen to try driving but I could in nine sizes and was relatively new to classics. Over four weeks we were given; Luckily all this oiled-up posturing not manoeuvre Knocked into my car the UK. I asked my consultant whether Lady Chatterley’s Lover, An Inspector Calls, provided an attractive frame for a without considerable pain. I did manage he would consider it and luckily he The Go-Between and National Museums display of the incredible female talent a hundred meter drive just to repark it, agreed, and I now have a new friend Scotland, if you missed them they will we have in this country at the moment. but I knew it would be at least another inserted in my right knee, which I have remain on iPlayer for 30 days after Like Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza in month before I could seriously burn christened “Knocked” broadcast so; QUICK! Poldark, Holliday Grainger, Chloe Pirrie, some rubber. Mr Webb says it will be Having Knocked is no laughing You have to give it to them, cash- Joanna Vanderham and Ruby Serkis, safe to drive once I did not need my matter. It is very intrusive surgery and strapped though they may be, the Beeb along with old(er) hands; Miranda crutches. I still had heavy bruising four weeks can still lay on a lavish costume drama Richardson, Lesley Manville and Unable to drive and being a mile after my operation. By then, I could better than anyone else. Sure, they Samantha Morton - prove that female from a rail or tube connection, I can walk indoors with one crutch but used didn’t stick rigidly to the texts in all the roles can be exciting and dynamic, even only use a bus or increase my share two when out. I tired very easily and places they should, and came completely in a period piece. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Americanisation of our public services,” ‘Our’ NHS? she says. And we all know the ‘Don’t Get by John Furse Sick In America’ mantra. The Imperial Trust has other non- executive private sector notables on its Survey © Ordnance board, Jeremy Isaacs, founder of hedge fund JRJ with an arm in tax haven Jersey. His CV includes spells as a Goldman Sachs director and a Lehman’s overseas CEO until 2008, Lehman’s annus implodius. Rothschild executive vice chairman Dr Andreas Raffelm and Sarika Patel, partner in Zeus Capital, idden behind its trusted logo ‘our’ an investment bank heavily into HNHS is becoming ‘their’ NHS, infrastructure and real estate, are also its services increasingly outsourced Imperial Trust board members. to private sector providers. And at a Patel has held ‘key roles’ at far greater cost to the NHS than if it accountancy giant Grant Thornton. Such occupiers of those properties will be remained its own provider. Because accountancy behemoths are the ‘enablers’ Offshore tax used legitimate businesses using them private providers incur hefty additional between corporate and investment big for completely legitimate means. For legal and management fees, profit hitters and their targets. Imperial has havens and example, 99-121 Kensington High margin requirements and private finance a biggie in Sir Gerald Acher, a senior Street, the building which M&S, H&M, costing a lot more than State funding. partner at mega auditors KPMG. London property and Gap are in, is owned by Cartina Is it surprising that NHS costs, as a Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Tax avoidance and money Kensington Limited, registered in the percentage of GDP, have doubled since NHS Foundation Trust’s non-executive British Virgin Islands. the first major privatisation legislation in chair is Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, a laundering Tax avoidance is, however, not 1990? former banker who promotes the line the dark side of offshore companies ‘NHS Detectives’ (http://bit.ly/join that “The NHS can’t afford to treat us all Let’s say you’re a gardener and fancy based in secret jurisdictions purchasing TheNHSDetectives) is a 999 Call For for free”. Begging the obvious question not paying some tax. What you’d do is properties, that honour goes to money The NHS website for the public to pool that if we could bail out his lot why not work cash in hand and not declare your laundering. Let’s say you’re a minister in their discoveries about who their local the NHS? earnings. This is tax evasion, and illegal. a developing country, and you routinely service providers really are - Healthcare His vice-chair is Sir John Baker, Now let’s say that you’re very rich and syphon off international aid funds to & Transport Services, G4S, x9 Services, whose CV includes leading the UK fancy not paying some tax. What you line your own pocket (in 2014 the ONE Serco, ICS, Care UK, BUPA, InHealth, electricity privatisation programme would do is register a company in an campaign, an international nonprofit Bain Capital, Virgin et al. These private before becoming CEO of privatised offshore tax haven – ideally one that that fights extreme poverty, estimated companies already provide blood, National Power plc. Chelsea & is, as most are, also a secret jurisdiction that at least US $1 trillion is taken agency nurses, scanning and diagnostic Westminster Trust non-executive so you can control it anonymously – out of developing countries each year services, ambulances, disabled transport, director is Jeremy Jensen, director and then move your money into the through corrupt activity). Anyway, you portering, cleaning, catering, hospital of Aaronite Partners, specialists at company. This anonymously-owned now possess ‘dirty’ money. In order to buildings, post-operative beds and care ‘restructuring’ distressed businesses. offshore then buys and sells your clean this cash, you first set up a series homes. And the list grows. He’s also director of MPG Hospital residential property. Congratulations, of transfers through trusts, companies, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Holdings who own, operate and lease you have just avoided a whole swath and bank accounts in various secret Trust - a mash-up of Charing X, UK hospitals. Adding her mergers and of taxes - stamp duty, possibly capital judiciaries, a process called ‘layering’ Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & acquisitions expertise is former BP exec gains, maybe inheritance tax. This is tax done in order to conceal your identity. Chelsea, St Mary’s and Western Eye Eliza Hermann. avoidance, and legal. You then purchase property, let’s say hospitals - has Sir Richard Brook Sykes The US-based Commonwealth The reality is more complicated, but an ‘ultra-prime’ (valued at over £2000 as chairman. A prominent biochemist Fund recently found NHS performance that’s the general gist of things. The cost per square foot) in Westminster, and his cv includes chairmanships of to be at the top of their league tables to HMRC of this sort of ‘tax planning’ thus ‘integrate’ the funds into the legal GlaxoSmithKline and currently three despite chronic underfunding (the US is hard to calculate. Transparency market; clean money. biotech/health tech companies. He’s also came bottom). And a publicly funded International UK (TI-UK), using data As with tax avoidance, London is chair of think-tank Reform who want and serviced NHS is far cheaper from the Land Registry from July 2014, a good spot for this sort of activity. total public spending cut along with taxes than a privatised one. Bank bailouts estimates at least £122 billion worth Expensive properties mean more money so that individuals can provide for their and Quantitative Easings (QE) have of property in England and Wales was can be laundered at once, the UK is own healthcare needs and obtain high been a revelation - governments can held by companies registered in offshore politically stable, and, perhaps most quality services more ‘efficiently’. Paying actually print billions without causing secrecy jurisdictions. importantly, anti-money laundering for your GP visits is one such idea. rampant inflation or the collapse of their London, especially Westminster, regulations in the UK only require estate This doubtless chimes well with big currencies. Kensington, and Chelsea, is a hot agents to carry out due diligence on the hitters like United Healthcare, the USA’s Whether through QE, taxes and/or spot for this sort of activity. As of seller, not the buyer. largest health insurance and services bonds our government could in fact fully 2014, 40,725 properties in London The scale of this activity is hard to provider, lining up for the rich pickings fund the NHS, particularly with interest are registered to overseas companies, gauge. Since 2004, over £180 million to be had from the marketisation of the rates set to remain at historic lows. It’s representing at the time 1.3% of worth of property in the UK has been NHS, the fourth largest business in the also an investment that produces tens of London properties. Of these foreign brought under investigation as the world. And with Simon Stevens, United thousands of jobs, healthy workers and company owned properties, 89.2% are suspect proceeds of corruption. Of Health’s former head of global health, consumers old and young with spending incorporated in secret jurisdictions, and those properties, over 75% used offshore now CEO of NHS England. power to stimulate the economy. 48% of those are in Westminster or corporate secrecy to conceal the owner’s As NHS funding is bled away by But the NHS, like most of our Kensington and Chelsea, 11,457 and identity. And most importantly, the costly private providers NHS services politicians, has been infected by 30 years 5,836 properties respectively. Almost one UN estimates that, typically, only 1% become overstretched, wrung-out of a free-market ideology whose true in ten (9.3%) properties in Westminster of money laundering flows are detected staff quit and waiting lists mount. The workings have been exposed by the 2008 are registered to a tax haven based by law enforcement officials. Even if privateers’ hope is that we will seek Banking Crash and its aftermath. The company, and 7.3% in Kensington and we generously bumped that percentage expensive private health insurance. A boards of our local hospitals overseeing Chelsea. It is reasonably safe to assume up for a first-class police force like the US-style insurance-based health service the turning over of NHS assets and that these boroughs are popular because Met, chances are that millions of pounds is what leading health and social policy services to the private sector are they are so expensive to buy in; it’s worth of dirty money is being laundered, expert Professor Allyson Pollock sees symptomatic of that infection. the hassle to avoid the tax. unnoticed, through the ultra-prime being prepared for us. “We’re facing the www.johnfurse.wordpress.com It should be noted that a lot of the London property market. 20 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance

are owning property through, typically, from the 2011 Census indicate that The annual tax an offshore company. The reason RBKC considers roughly 10% of the borough’s housing offshore companies are used to hold stock is vacant, however it is likely that on enveloped properties, often high value London its limited some second homes were counted in properties, is usually to protect against this figure. Regardless, in conjunction dwellings UK inheritance tax. It’s not generally options with other sources of data, the council Not just a tax on the rich appreciated that even those who have on ‘Buy to Leave’ properties concluded that “a large share of the nothing to do with the UK, beyond research points towards the south and By Alan Pink holding some investments here, are liable east areas of the borough, particularly to inheritance tax when they die, the tax Brompton and Hans Town ward which is on assets situated in the UK. So what should be an indicator that there may wealthy non-domiciliaries tend to do In a recently published report, it emerged be higher than normal levels of vacant is move their properties into offshore that Kensington and Chelsea council properties”. companies, so that the asset held by the have examined the extent of ‘Buy to The report also noted that “the he annual tax on enveloped individual is a non-UK asset, i.e. the Leave’ residential properties in the combined effect of overseas investment dwellings (ATED) was ‘sold’ shares in a non-UK company, rather a borough, and are considering the options into property within the Royal Borough Tto the public when it was UK property. open to them that could discourage this is to increase prices while decreasing the introduced two years ago as a response to Very often the reaction of those behaviour. The council defined ‘Buy to number of households who reside here”. tax avoidance engaged in by the ‘super- affected by ATED will be to extract the Leave’ properties as those which the The council’s policy options that rich’. But, even if owning a property property from the offending company owner purchased with no intention of it could discourage ‘Buy to Leave’ worth more than £2 million makes you or partnership. However, counter- being occupied full time, by themselves purchases of property are limited. In ‘rich’ these days, the government haven’t intuitively perhaps, many will actually or a renter, and so includes properties 2013, the discount off council tax for stopped there. The tax already applies seek to set up an offshore holding purchased solely for investment purposes. second home owner ended, and the to homes worth between £1 million and company structure for UK property even The Royal Borough of Kensington Council agreed in its Budget Proposals £2 million, and is set to apply to any in the face of the ATED charge. Imagine and Chelsea (RBKC) has occasionally for 2015/16 that owners of properties dwelling worth more than £500,000 a person who’s domiciled in the Middle been referred to as ‘the Dark Borough’ that have been empty for more than from next April. East, and who currently owns a property due to its large number of empty homes, two years would be charged at a 150% What is ATED? Basically it’s an worth £10 million in a prestigious part left unoccupied with the lights off for council tax rate, however the report extra ‘rates’ bill which applies wherever of the West End. What ATED has done extended periods of time. admits that this is only a “small financial you have a home, including a second or is highlight the fact that there are very Establishing the scale of this incentive” to bring properties back into third home, which is owned wholly or good reasons why this individual may phenomenon is difficult, however the use. Aside from this, acknowledging that in part by a company, or a partnership want to transfer the property into, say, a council’s research indicates that it is other local policy options are equally which includes a company. So anyone Channel Islands company. Even paying more prevalent in RBKC than in other limited, the council does note, “There who simply owns their residence directly over £100,000 a year ATED may well be parts of the UK and London. Their is an option to lobby with other local in their own individual name can breathe preferable to the individual’s estate facing findings suggest that areas in the south authorities to use the London Local a sigh of relief and turn the page. But a tax charge of somewhere between £4 and east of the borough, and notably Authorities Act. This would require ATED is an issue if you have a company million and £8 million on the owner’s the Brompton & Hans Town ward (see demonstrating that ‘buy to leave’ is a anywhere on the horizon, whatever the death! What’s more, this sort of action image), are particularly unoccupied. London issue that requires a London nature of the residential property that has arguably become much more urgent council tax data from 2012 and data response”. is owned. The annual tax for properties recently, because non-residents have worth between £1 million and £2 million now been brought within the charge possibility of an e-money license with is £7,000. For properties between £2 to UK capital gains tax on UK based Bitcoin start-up the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), million and £5 million, this jumps to property, something which they have allowing it to operate its digital wallet £23,350 a year, and properties between been free of ever since its introduction. comes to service here, and add the pound to the £5 million and £10 million pay a colossal Putting a property which is currently roster of currencies its clients can hold. £54,450. The charges for properties owned personally by a non-resident into the capital Circle is now one of the most well- between £10 million and £20 million, a company triggers a capital gain based known and successful bitcoin companies and properties worth more than £20 on the market value: however, if you are By Emily Eaton in the United States. However, founder million, are £109,050, and £218,200 non-resident, your “base cost” for this and CEO, Jeremy Allaire has sought respectively. transfer is the value at 6 April 2015, to curtail Circle’s exclusive connection It’s no good saying that you, or the when the new capital gains tax charge to bitcoin, looking to establish the company, only own a fractional share was brought in. So there is a ‘window company as the go-to app for any digital in the property. The full tax is still of opportunity’ to set up these property transactions, small or large, in any chargeable on the value of the whole holding envelopes over the next few currency, anywhere in the world. Circle property. And there are reporting months before the advance of property began by offering a digital bitcoin wallet requirements, complete with penalties prices makes that set up expensive in that let people perform transactions for non compliance, for everyone who CGT terms. through bitcoin as well as hold bitcoin in is even prima facie within the scope of their online accounts. ATED. Alan Pink FCA ATII is a specialist tax Now, Allaire says this was just After all this bad news, it’s time for consultant who operates a bespoke tax the conceptualization of an idea and some good; which is, firstly, that the tax practice, Alan Pink Tax, from offices that Circle is set to develop, using the doesn’t apply to commercial properties, situated in Tunbridge Wells. Alan technology that underpins bitcoin to only dwellings. Secondly, dwellings advises on a wide range of tax issues make sending and receiving money in which are held for the purposes of a and regularly writes for the professional any form as easy as sending an email. business letting or developing property press. Alan has experience in both This would allow two parties to, for are also excluded, but you have major international plcs and small Circle, the bitcoin service company example, forgo foreign exchange fees specifically to claim these ‘reliefs’. If local businesses and is recognised for backed by Goldman Sachs, is planning when agreeing on a transaction. Circle’s the property is let for a part of the year his proactive approach to taxation and to open a London office, as revealed by money transaction service is free. but available for your use, or the use of solving tax problems. The Business Insider on 1st October. Circle has raised $76 million (£50.7 someone connected with the owner, on Alan can be contacted on: This office will head up a European million) since launching in 2013 and, a non-business basis for the rest, the tax T. 01892 539000 or email: alan.pink@ expansion. Executives from the company more recently, $50 million (£33.1 charge is scaled down. alanpinktax.com. were reportedly in London recruiting million) in a funding round led by One class of investor that ATED His book, The Entrepreneur’s Tax a country manager for the UK and Goldman Sachs back in April and is will hit are those who are non-resident Guide, is on sale from Head of Zeus for scouting office locations in the capital. one of the most high-profile bitcoin and non-domiciled in the UK, who £20, or from all good book shops. The firm has been talking about the companies in the US. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

domiciled in the UK are liable to IHT A place in the sun on worldwide assets. However, any death duty also payable overseas can be offset against the IHT bill in the UK so double taxation is usually avoided. Assets pwards of 850,000 Britons passing to a surviving husband or wife already own a property abroad; are free of IHT whereas an IHT charge many more aspire to do so. U will arise if assets pass to children. So the France and Spain remain by far the most ability to arrange one’s will to overturn popular choices for a second home. a foreign law requiring a share be left to Testamentary freedom is an essential children might lead to substantial tax tenet of English law (in principle, you savings. can leave your property to whoever you Buying into a sunnier climate and choose). There are, of course, exceptions attractive culture no longer requires us to that basic principle. Certain gifts to assume all the facets of a less-than- are invalid if they, or the conditions attractive legal system. Bon vacances! attached to them, are contrary to public heirship, whereby the law, rather than will apply to property you own elsewhere policy (e.g. conditional on the recipient you, determines where your property in the EU. All good stuff, save that the By Jim Sawer marrying someone from a specified ends up when you die. In Spain, for UK (and Ireland and Denmark) didn’t Private Client partner, Thrings race or religion) or are too vague (“the example, the law provides that two- sign up to the change. regulars at the Red Lion”). And cutting thirds of your property passes to your What this means is that Spanish/ out your dependants will prompt a claim children and a third to your husband or French law will continue to apply, on under the Inheritance (Provision for wife. death, to a property in these countries Family and Dependants) Act 1975 for a Solicitors who prepare wills should unless the English will specifically share of your estate. always enquire about property abroad, elects that English law will apply to the The 1975 Act is construed widely direct you to take local advice/draw up a property. by the courts. You may well have read separate will in the country in question, Should those who own a property of the case of Mrs Jackson who left and take steps to ensure that a new in an EU country revisit their wills? all her estate to charity and nothing English will doesn’t inadvertently revoke Absolutely, unless they’re entirely to her 54-year-old daughter, Heather, an existing foreign will that deals with satisfied that their pre-Brussels IV from whom she was estranged. The overseas assets. arrangements still do the job. And for court ordered a substantial payment to Life (or should I say, death?) has been those who haven’t got round to making Heather from her mother’s estate, even made much easier since 17th August a will at all, perhaps Brussels IV is the though she was an adult and in no way this year when a new EU succession prompt they need to put one in place. dependent on her mother. regulation, commonly known as Brussels Brussels IV doesn’t affect UK inheritance On the other hand, most continental IV, took effect. For deaths after that date, tax (IHT) liability, nor any equivalent countries have a regime of forced the law of the EU country where you live death duty in the other country. Persons

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and Yorkshire and the Humber are the Small businesses strongest two regions of the No vote, at 48.7% and 47.8% respectively. likely to vote to Drawing from an online forum of which 124 FSB members, representing a remain in EU cross section of all members, were invited By Fergus Coltsmann to take part in, the FSB are making a call for more neutral information on the EU referendum to be made available. Mike Cherry, FSB Policy Director, said: “The study attempts to understand mall businesses likely to vote to current attitudes towards EU remain in EU, however less than membership among our members. Shalf feel informed “from a business This research is a vital starting point point of view” in outlining the key issues and areas of On the 17th of September, the concern for small businesses in the EU Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) referendum debate. Regardless of what published a “comprehensive” study of its a firm’s current position is, there is a VISIT OUR members’ opinions and voting intentions shared message that small businesses feel GALLERY ON regarding the upcoming EU referendum. they lack clear, impartial information on Among a range of questions, one which to form their views. asked “Imagine that the referendum “This is only the beginning of on whether the UK should remain a our work to support our members member of the European Union was throughout this complex debate. Our held today. Based upon the information role will be to ensure the small business you know today, how would you vote?” voice is heard in the discussion, and that The Yes vote edged out the No vote, our members have all the information 47% to 40.9%. Just over 10% of FSB they need to make a decision which is members are undecided on how they right for them and their business”. would vote. Nearly 80% of FSB members surveyed had formed an opinion on the EU, however only just over 40% New Apple store feel either informed or very informed on the upcoming referendum “from a in London business point of view”, while 37% feel uninformed or only slightly informed. When asked about the potential impact that either leaving or remaining in the EU, small business indicated that leaving would have a negative impact on them, 41.3% saying that it would compared to the 17.2% that thought it would have a positive impact. A third (33.6%) said that leaving would have no impact on their business. Just over 20% said that remaining in the EU would negatively impact their business, while 35.4% felt that staying would have a positive impact. Slightly more (37.7%) The iconic Apple Store on Regents felt remaining would have no impact on Street is set for a radical redesign, after their business. Apple bigwigs revealed that they felt the However, those that would have voted current layout was “tired and outdated” in favour of staying within the EU would in new plans for the building. also like to see further reform or a claw The first feature to go will be the back of powers, those options receiving familiar four Apple logos, that grace the 21.4% and 34.7% respectively. Only high arched windows, on the shopfront, 12.9% they would like to see further allowing more natural light to enter the integration into the EU, while 25.8% building and create a calming shopping said they would like to see the EU experience for customers. remain in its current form. Apple have engaged Foster & Partners to Just over half of FSB members work with internal head of design, Jony *10% EXTRA FREE WITH REF CODE: KCW1 surveyed (55.5%) felt that the EU was Ive, who recently unveiled a chic and beneficial to the UK economy, while typically minimalistic store in Brussels. 34.4% do not view it as beneficial. Just Foster & Partners are the firm behind over 40% do not see the EU as beneficial London’s famous ‘Gherkin’ building, and to their business, while just fewer than it is no doubt hoped they will recreate 35% do (40.6% and 34.9% respectively). some of the same magic here. Amongst the design plans were details FSB members in Scotland and of the neutral ‘white, grey and natural 376 KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON SW3 5UZ London, both seen are largely pro EU oak tones’, and the deconstruction of the 020 7351 3133 I [email protected] areas, are unsurprisingly more likely to recognisable glass staircase, making way KALLKWIKCHELSEA I WWW.CHELSEA.KALLKWIK.CO.UK say they would vote to remain in the for two new dramatic staircases, drawing *SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS. SEE INSTORE. EU; with the Yes vote at 59.9% and visitors up to a refurbished mezzanine 55.4% respectively. The East Midlands, level. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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or higher education. Such differences The second big gender gap in HE, Summer babies to may therefore have potentially serious which has received some prominent press Westminster Uni consequences for young people’s post- attention recently, is the sort of subjects be given delayed compulsory education decisions.” that men and women take and the lack invests in iPads It is for this reason, then, that Gibb of women choosing STEM (science, school start has decided to amend The Code and its technology, engineering, and maths) By Rosie Quigley rules regarding academic admissions in subjects. For example, more than 85% of what can only be assumed as an attempt intakes onto engineering and computer to provide the best start for students who science courses in 2014 were men. This are at risk of underachieving. Gibb says gap is further illustrated if we examine that the current Schools Admissions a couple London universities. Imperial Code is to be amended so that, “summer College London, one of the world’s born children can be admitted to the best science institutes, is predominantly reception class at the age of five if it is male – men represented 66% of its

in line with their parents’ wishes, and 2013 intake. Compare this with the east University Westminster © Photograph to ensure that those children are able to London artsy Goldsmiths, where 66% of remain with that cohort as they progress its 2013 intake were women. There are through school, including through to some STEM areas where women lead secondary school.” though, for example in ‘subjects allied For the time being, Gibb’s proposed to medicine’ – which includes nursing amendments are still awaiting and midwifery – 81% of the 2014 Parliamentary review for approval and in-take were women. However many inister of State for Schools, a public consultation is soon to be commentators are quick to suggest that Nick Gibb has called for the launched. the crucial point of this issue is that there Mneed for changes to school are some subjects, such as the STEM admission rules aimed at children born ones, which are seen as ‘traditionally in summer. In a recent open letter, MP male’, and others, like education and Nick Gibb announced that a new set other arts, which are seen as ‘traditionally The University of Westminster is of rules would allow for children, born Gender Gaps female’; and that it is this perception equipping over 2000 of its students between 1st April and 31st August, which should be tackled. with iPads. The second and third year to begin reception a year later if their in Higher Does this gender gap in HE play students, studying with the Faculty of parents believe this to be beneficial. out further in life? While only 6 of the Science and Technology, have been given Parents of children born within the Education CEO’s of FTSE 100 companies are the iPads to use until their graduation, specified dates will be given the right to By Fergus Coltsmann women, it does appear that a prevalence along with 250 members of staff. postpone their child’s school start for a toward the arts is not the reason for The pilot, costing over £1 million, year, without the child needing to skip this. Of the six, only Imperial Tobacco’s is a part of the university’s ‘Learning an academic year to catch up. There are a number of prominent Alison Cooper studied the sciences at Futures Project’, one of which’s aims is The current Schools’ Admissions ‘gender gaps’ at play in the Higher university, reading Mathematics and to eventually lead to a paperless learning Code requires a decision to be made Education (HE) sector in the UK. Statistics at Bristol. However, according environment, and is self-described as by the admission authority based on Women are currently more likely to to the app ‘Where do CEOs come from’ “a dynamic new programme which has the best interests of the child. The enter HE than men. Women made up using data from July 2014, BAs are the been set up to develop new forms of Code also requires that the admission 55% of the 2014 intake to undergraduate most common qualification for leaders learning and teaching”. authorities provide admission of all courses. Women aged 18 were around of FTSE 100’s, followed by MBAs and With the tablets, students and staff children on September following their a third more likely than men to both then BScs – with fifteen CEOs having will be able to share content across the fourth birthday; this is usually the apply for and enter university, and by a BSc as their highest qualification. tools available on the iPad, and interact time when the parents feel confident 19 years old 44% of women were in HE Economics (which varies between through the use of video and audio in their child’s ability to cope with the compared to 35% of men. Women from being a BA and a BSc from institution content on a single platform. The hope classroom environment. However, in his disadvantaged areas were 50% more to institution) followed by Business is that by providing students with iPads letter, Gibb describes the current Code likely to enter HE than men from the Administration were, as you might it will allow them to interact closely with as ‘flawed’. He describes the concerns same areas. expect, the two most popular courses. lecturers. Students and staff are receiving of parents who have experienced training in how best to use the devices. difficulties with the current Code and Professor Jane Lewis, Dean of the the implications it has for their children: Faculty of Science and Technology said “It is clear, however, that this system of the project: “Students today require is flawed, with parents and admission a more technologically focused student authorities often failing to agree on experience that enables them to learn what is in the child’s best interests.” The anywhere, anytime; and at the University consequences of this, Gibb says, is that: of Westminster we are committed “They either feel forced to send their to providing this dynamic learning child to school before they are ready and environment. Mobile learning has been before they are required to do so, or else a core part of our existing strategic plans miss out on their reception year at school to improve student learning experiences where the essential teaching of early and their interaction and collaboration reading and arithmetic takes place.” with staff. It reflects our commitment A 2013 report compiled by the to advancing our teaching methods and Institute for Fiscal Studies shows stark ensuring that we are at the forefront of differences in academic capability developing and implementing cutting between students born at the beginning edge learning through the use of of the academic year and those born technology. Being one of the first UK at the end. The report states: “August- Universities to launch such a wide scale born pupils are 6.4 percentage points push for mobile learning is a testament less likely to achieve five A*–C grades to our focus on enhancing the learning in GCSE or equivalent exams, which experience for students and making it is the standard typically required for relevant in a rapidly changing digital young people to continue into further landscape.” 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

members act as “apostles of a self- Bindman LLP, acting on behalf of Over 30,000 School-to- contained faith, concerned very largely NUS, sent a judicial review pre-action with matters of religious orthodoxy and letter to , the Secretary of alleged crimes academy perceived heresy”. The Panel also “heard State for Business. NUS are demanding linked to schools reported repeatedly that action over concerns the equality implications of the policy conversions about the conduct of the Islamic Society are properly reviewed and assessed in 2014 cost councils £30 million had not been taken for fear of appearing before the Government moves ahead. By Fergus Coltsmann Islamophobic”. NUS president Megan Dunn said: By Fergus Coltsmann The report into inclusion at the “There is also strong evidence that University, where the militant known as removing this support will mean our The cost to local authorities of schools The number of alleged crimes relating to ‘Jihadi John’ studied, details the alleged education system becomes less accessible choosing to convert to academies was school has risen to more than 30,000 in sexist discrimination of the Society, to minority groups. We know the huge revealed after the BBC made a number 2014, up from 28,444 in 2013. A BBC stating “according to a number of damage that this change will have if of Freedom of Information requests. investigation revealed the data through those interviewed, the views of women it is allowed to happen. It is obvious The requests revealed that councils in a series of Freedom of Information Muslims were not given equal weight that the government is attempting to England are forced to spend millions of requests to thirty-two police forces. and standing even when positive advice rush through these changes with no pounds on paying for schools to convert The data covers England, Wales, was given to the Islamic Society from consideration on future generations of to academies, totalling £30 million. and Northern Ireland, and excludes the Students’ Union”. The Panel also students”. Under the 2010 Academies Act, when universities. It is unknown how many of heard evidence that members of the A spokesperson for the Department a council run school chooses to become the reported crimes led to convictions. society’s committee “would not engage for Business, Innovation, and Skills said: an academy, the Local Authority that Of the total 30,394 alleged crimes with Muslim female employees, or even “We have noted the letter from the NUS maintained the school has to cover the reported, theft, burglary and robbery listen to them”, and that these employees and will respond in due course”. cost, including any debts and legal fees. were the most common, accounting for had to seek the help of male colleagues The move by NUS comes during The Local Government Association has 13,003 of the reports, some 43%. This to conduct their work. The report notes their #CutTheCosts campaign, which said that this takes vital cash away from was followed by violent crime reports, that the Society’s “attitude to women has seen Students’ Unions from across schools not involved in the academies which accounted for 31%, a total of students or officers is sometimes hostile the country lobby their local MPs to scheme. 9,319. There were 4106 reports of or intimidatory”, and that one officer take action against the planned changes Since the Act’s introduction, councils criminal damage or arson; 14% of the stated that “this behaviour is ‘tolerated to student maintenance. total number of reports. Other crimes in London have racked up over £5 thus far’”. million in school debts. That figure was The report stresses that the only topped by the North West region, Islamic Society represented “just one Four London whose related debts are over £7 million. ultraconservative and highly inward- David Simmonds, chairman of the looking form of Islam”, which “many universities are Local Government Association’s children other Muslim students on campus do not and young people board, said: “It is not find appealing or enlightening”, as well best in the world fair that some schools are burdened as noting that some of the complaints with a deficit while other schools can By Emily Eaton

Photographs © West Midlands Police West © Photographs and evidence it had received came from walk away and leave that debt behind Muslim students and staff. to the detriment of other schools in the Fiyaz Mughal, a former adviser to community. A total of four London universities Nick Clegg on interfaith matters who have made it into the list of the top 30 “It is not right that the taxpayer foots sat on the panel and now runs the Faith the bill. This money could instead be best institutions in the world, marking Matters thinktank, said that the Society the first time so many of the capital’s spent in ways which directly benefits were not necessarily extremists as there pupils.” education establishments have featured. was no evidence of members encouraging Those achieving top accolades were; The Department of Education hatred. He stated “It’s not a breeding has defended the scheme, with a Imperial College London, who moved ground for extremism, but it’s a breeding up from ninth to eighth place this year, spokesperson saying: “Councils are only ground for very ultra-conservative views”. required to cover a school’s deficit when University College London was 14th, it has become a sponsored academy after the London School of Economics a prolonged period of underperformance, Maintenance came 23rd and King's College London and the deficit was accumulated under rounded out the list at 27th. All scored accounted for council control”. very highly in the Times Higher the remaining grant legal row Education ranking. 12%, including London Mayor, Boris Johnson, 754 drug Ultra- begins immediately spoke out saying, "The offences. capital continues to be the global leader One conservative On the 23rd of September the National in education, innovating and inspiring former teacher Union of Students (NUS) announced top talent from both across the country described to Islamic society that it was taking legal action against the and overseas." the Victoria Government over its plans to scrap the The California Institute of Technology Derbyshire “tolerated’’ current university student maintenance came first on the list for the fifth programme grant. consecutive year. Both Oxford and how he was due to fears of ‘Islamophobia’ George Osborne announced as a part featured in the top five, at threatened By Fergus Coltsmann of the Summer Budget that the current second and fourth place respectively. with a hammer by a pupil, and eventually maintenance grant available to students This 12th edition of the rankings left teaching as a series of harassments from the poorest backgrounds would be featured 34 British universities amongst led to him being throttled in a school An inquiry reports Westminster replaced with an increased maintenance the world’s top 200, and the UK came playground by the same pupil. University’s Islamic Society ultra- loan. NUS notes that this would mean second only to the United States overall Only twenty-five of the police forces conservative and that action was poor students would graduate with for higher education standards. released data on sexual offences, the not taken due to fears of appearing £12,500 more debt than they previously Europe-wide, the top 200 featured others citing the Data Protection Act. ‘Islamophobic’ would have, to a total of £53,000. NUS 105 universities from this continent, The number of sexual offences reported The University of Westminster: argue that this would disproportionally compared to 87 last year. Germany by forces was 1502. Diversity and Divergence report, affect black and ethnic minority groups, contributes 20 institutions, followed The Metropolitan police reported produced by an independent panel and that the Government has failed to by the Netherlands (12), Switzerland the highest number of alleged crimes, unconnected to the institution, found properly meet its obligations in regards (seven), France (five), Spain (three) and reporting 7002. that the University’s Islamic Society’s to the equality impact of the policy. Italy (three). 26 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Young Chelsea

Young Chelsea is hitting the town this month as we (along with Freshers countrywide) prepare for the perfect big night out. We introduce you to the seven people that you will (whether you like it or not) meet in your first week of university, provide the ultimate guide to a night out that won’t leave you having to skip lunch in order to save cash. We follow Max Feldman on a desperate quest to avoid falling over at the Kitchen whilst Chelsea Nanny deals with the inevitable hangover...Remember if you want to write for Young Chelsea, contact us @ KCWToday on Twitter or email news@ kcwtoday.co.uk.

undiscovered, agonising illness, I have and a cascade of tears ensues. I think make that bad call, so at least the first Chelsea Nanny staggered into work today to look after longingly of the ‘night-time’ Calpol. few hours won’t hit the wallet hard. the Brats because that’s the kind of The Middle One has provided a For student readers, Friday night at Big Night Out dedicated, conscientious nanny I am. ‘sick bay’ as refuge; she has recently Student Central up in Bloomsbury is Luckily, American Mom is out. started reading Malory Towers, and the a good shout. Previously run by the Unluckily, the absence of their mother Eldest has slinked off to his room to defunct University of London Union has resulted in highly increased levels message his friends from his iPad. I’ll and now in the hands of a dedicated of the Brats’ screeching and jumping leave him to it. It won’t be long before management team, it’s open till two and around. The Small One turns on the he’s suffering this affliction too. I feel the drinks are cheap as you’d expect at Wii and starts playing a dancing game. as if my night out was almost worth it a student bar (from £2 all night). The Some of the shapes he is throwing are when American Mom texts me later that music is so-so, usually pop-ish, and the not dissimilar to what I saw on the night saying that the Middle One ‘now clientele are there for the same reason as dingy dance floor of an East London wants to be a doctor’. I drink to inspire, you; it’s a cheap Friday night. club lastnight. The Middle One, the it would seem. Having said that, I won’t If you’re looking for something to do only Brat to show any hint of sympathy, make that mistake again. on weekday nights, you could do worse diagnoses me with a fever and disappears than Los Locos, just off Covent Garden. to the bathroom in search of a remedy. Happy Hour runs all night Tuesdays When an amount of time that would London on the to Thursdays (selected beers from £2, put A&E to shame has elapsed, I go in selected cocktail pitchers from £11, and search of my doctor. I follow the sound cheap selected spirts+mixer from £3) and it’s of items falling out of the bathroom open till three. From ten Tuesday night cabinet, to find the Middle One standing is Rock-Indie-Pop (R.I.P.) night and and grinning in a sea of Minion plasters, London is infamously expensive to get Thursday is dedicated to Retro. It’s a holding a large bottle of Calpol. drunk in. Hell, London is infamously small venue, so it doesn’t take a lot of I willingly accept my dose. The Small expensive, which is why the price of people to get a good atmosphere going, One wants some too. I consider giving drinks is such a kick in the teeth. Many but it can get a bit uncomfortably quiet. him a tiny spoonful of the ‘night-time’ a starry eyed student, stumbling fresh Finally, for those of a particular variety. That would send him off into off the coach from home and into the persuasion, there is G-A-Y Bar in Soho. the Land of Nod far quicker than me Big Smoke for the first time will find Other than being where bad pop music reading aloud to him; a minimum of their enthusiasm dampened with a cry goes to die and home to the stickiest he Eldest looks at me. I can’t four Mr Men books in a row, his usual of “you’re charging HOW MUCH for a floors in the known Universe, it is decipher his expression. It is fear, bedtime routine. I eventually manage pint?!?”. redeemed by the fact it’s a bar slap bang Tconcern, or suspicion. All three, to coax the Small One into his room. It is possible, however, to enjoy a in the middle of London where you can probably. ‘Why is your face grey?’ he I am just turning the light off when he night out in central London provided drink (Sunday to Thursday) for £1.70. If asks in a very loud voice. I am extremely sits bolt upright in bed and asks me in a you’re smart about things, though in this the mood to dance hits you, head round hungover, and therefore more sensitive rather panicky manner whether or not reporter’s experience the drunk, two AM the corner to G-A-Y Late, open till to light and loud noises, particularly he will ever have to have ‘ant-biotics’. self usually makes the bad call of “let’s three, but expect a queue to get in. when one of those noises happens to be Evidently the subject of medication has go somewhere else” and ends up in a far Our final piece of advice, for any night the accusing voice of the Eldest. ‘I don’t got some cogs whirring. ‘Maybe one day’ more expensive club, spending far more out, is stay safe. Watch your drinks, and feel very well’ I say, trying to adopt a I say, ‘but probably not’; hoping this is a money than was ever intended (or indeed plan your bloody journey home; a cheap martyrish look that will hopefully give sufficient answer to put his mind at ease actually possessed). Anyway, here at night out can become very expensive if the impression that although I am, in and let him go to sleep. It isn’t. ‘But I Young Chelsea, we thought we’d compile you decide to stumble into a Black Cab all likelihood, dying of some previously don’t want ants in my tummy!’ he wails a short list of our favourite places to rather than onto the night bus. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Young Chelsea online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

the bar’s shuttered windows and moody The Blues lighting (and inexpensive cocktails), it is incredibly easy to lose all track of Kitchen time, which can be either good or bad, By Max Feldman depending largely on whether you have to get up early the next morning. Photograph © Blues Kitchen Photograph One of the main draws that distinguishes the bar from its hilst sitting at (or leaning competitors in Camden and beyond, drunkenly on) the bar in is that at 9.45 every night the stage ’s The Blues overlooking the mid-sized dance floor W is occupied by a revolving door of live Kitchen, it’s possible to feel that you’ve somehow fallen into the Louisiana acts. Genres wind through rock’n’roll, bayou. The walls are strewn with torn country, blues, soul depending on the and faded posters of blues legends, whilst night in question, but people whose the lighting is as low and smoky as you’d tastes leave them stranded in the era expect from a place whose foundations of dubstep and Miley Cyrus will find are rooted in whiskey. Throughout the plenty to enjoy. Whilst there is generally day a mutant selection of blues, early a fee on the door for live music nights, rock n’ roll and soul is a constant pulse simply arriving before 9pm guarantees through the bar’s cavernous interior, free entry so it’s easily dodged. Most before live bands and DJ’s take over nights attract a late 20’s crowd rather after 9pm. Theme bar/restaurants can than the beards and ponytails that blues often feel tacky and artificial, but the bars can sometimes attract. The Blues artistically weathered interior and the Kitchen’s atmosphere of dim lights, hard tunes, cheap spirits and stuffed alligators sheer staggering variety of alcohol on fruit. catfish. The food is reliably smoky and engenders a cool blues oasis in an area offer more than balances any potential In addition to drowning you in fans of slightly spicy southern flavour over populated with bars that are trying misgivings (considering the strength whiskey the Kitchen also has a large should feel at home. Whilst a bit pricey too hard or not trying at all. For those of most of the bourbon, it does its fair dining area in the front, with a focus for bar food with most mains averaging with a love of whiskey, retro music and a share of unbalancing as well). Even those on American cuisine. Whilst this does somewhere around £10.00, many of mythological view of America’s past will of the most cynical persuasion might include the expected massive burgers the small touches like cutlery being find little to give them the blues. find themselves loosening up when for which the American continent has presented in 50’s style condiment tins sipping their second zombie from a glass become (in)famous, the menu also adds charm. From around 8pm onwards pineapple. As most cocktails are under ranges into much more unusual territory, it becomes increasingly difficult to find Blues Kitchen the £8.00 range, it’s hard not wish more offering everything from cornbread and a table however, and those not booking 111-113 Camden High Street, London, drinks couldn’t be served in crystalline Buffalo wings, to gumbo and pan fried would do well to arrive early. Due to NW1 7JN T: 020 7387 5277

mouth. Cue a week-long You met them earlier when there hangover. It’s as though was an absence of vodka and they were no one actually wants lovely and wholesome. But as the night you to attend the lectures progresses this person has snogged half that you’ve essentially the university and is, drink by drink,

paid thousands of pounds launching their sexual awakening. Caird © Frank Photograph for. Anyway, whichever university you’re studying The Lad at, here are some people The Lad is always prepared with top whom you are guaranteed notch banter and a plethora of padded to meet during Freshers’. gilets. This bantersaurus rex is as cheeky as they come and is always up for a The Mature Student ‘messy’ night out. He can usually be He looks as though he found pursuing very ‘naughty’ antics. should be at a parent- He’s also listed his Fifa ‘15 personal best teacher meeting or playing as a skill on LinkedIN. golf to escape his mid- life crisis. Instead, he’s Nutty Nigel swigging on a WKD and You’re pretty sure that this guy hasn’t fist pumping to Taylor slept or eaten since Monday, and it’s Swift. But you can’t help now Friday and he’s an unsettling but admire this guy’s shade of grey. He subsists on a diet of spirit and silently register grated cheese from the bag, Fosters, his unflappable energy as a definite and whichever tablets he can score. of passage. Getting riotously tanked is #LifeGoal. Most probably wearing a bucket hat. People you are promoted by members of your students’ Approach with caution. union who excitedly dole out neon Homesick Helen guaranteed to wristbands and flyers to ‘Your Mum’s While everyone is enjoying the University is one of the most broadening House’ events. Next thing you know hedonistic delights of their first taste of experiences of your life and you will meet at Freshers’ you’re doing shots with your friends freedom, this person is gazing forlornly meet many strange people along the way. By Rosie Quigley who you met just hours ago. One thing into her vodka and coke, and texting her You may even befriend a few of these leads to another and you find yourself mum. You can bet your student loan that weirdos and enjoy cheap beer together in professing your love to a traffic cone. she has a special comfort ‘blanky’ in her a sub-temperate student house one day. Student nights during Freshers’ week The rest is a sambuca-scented haze dorm room. So embrace the weirdness of the journey may not seem worth it the morning and all you have to remember the you’re about to embark upon; it doesn’t after but they’re every student’s right night by is the foul kebab taste in your The Secret Freak last forever! 28 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Books

obsession of his dread captain. Mount is quintessentially English, Moby Dick Unlike Ahab however, Melville (and complete with humour and hat. He by extension Ishmael) is easily distracted had a traditional, classical education and the novel positively squirms with at Westminster School and Magdalen In our new literature page, we look back chapter-length digressions on almost College, Oxford. He found banking on great works of literature released any subject; from the perfect way to and law uninspiring careers, and chose on this month, for October we grab a cook scallops to a dissertation on the journalism instead, writing regularly for harpoon and set off in pursuit of Moby history of whaling. Whilst at first The Spectator, The Daily Mail, and The Dick (October 18th 1851) Melville’s rambling approach to his Daily Telegraph. Mount has also had narrative can be slightly exasperating books published, a particularly popular A titanic portrait of obsession, divinity, (alien civilisations will probably be able example of his work being Amo, Amas, madness, and love, Herman Melville’s to reconstruct the 19th century whaling Amat… and All That (Shorter Books). Moby Dick uses 19th century whaling industry down to the smallest detail Homer’s The Odyssey relates Odysseus’ as a springboard to cover a whole raft from a close reading of the text), the long journey home from fighting in the of human experience, both physical sheer volume of detail means that as the Trojan War, which Mount chooses to and spiritual. A worthy contender for book wears on Melville feels comfortable follow. Odysseus was an outstanding the title of the ‘Great American Novel’, rapidly running through what would readers. Greek hero, described by Homer as Moby Dick was critically heralded at the otherwise be opaque and impenetrable A Little Life is Hanya Yanagihara’s “great hearted, god-like, and lord of time of its writing as a half-baked mess, technical descriptions during the more searching tale of four friends growing up men”. I’m sure we can cast no aspersions and only went on to sell a paltry 3,149 action-filled back half of the novel. in New York. The New Yorker praises its on Mount’s opinion of himself by the copies over the remaining thirty years Scholars have argued fiercely over the ‘subversive brilliance’, as the mysterious fact he decided to replicate the same past of the main character reframes this of Melville’s lifetime. The text was out exact meaning of the White Whale itself. odyssey! coming-of-age story. This is Yanagihara’s of print by the time he died, penniless Moby Dick has been argued to stand In a laconic and entertaining style, second novel, and was received to rave and forgotten (to the extent that his in for the uncaring universe, western littered with personal anecdotes, Mount imperialism, and even God; and Ahab’s reviews. obsessive and vicious pursuit has been Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen painted in every shade of philosophical is, says the New Statesman, ‘searing, meaning imaginable. But the novel incandescent, darkly mythic’. The story is not one that has to be discussed in of four Nigerian brothers haunted a seminar to understand, it is both by a violent prophecy, this is ‘part intensely metaphorical and exactly what Bildungsroman, part Greek tragedy’, it is on the surface. Whether the reader according to The Economist. – is the only is interested in musing on the nature of debut novel on this year’s shortlist. humanity or simply fancies an adventure At the other end of the spectrum, A on the high seas, Moby Dick delivers both Spool Of Blue Thread is Anne Tyler’s in spades and justifiably wears its crown twentieth book, about a Baltimore as one of the great American novels. family, the Whitshanks. Tyler is the own obituary misspelled his name as master of painting what the FT calls ‘a ‘Henry’). Hopefully this isn’t an early loving, funny and yet never simplistic sign of the much derided 50 Shades Of Man Booker portrait of family life’, and her latest guides his readers from Troy through Grey emerging as an unsung masterpiece novel follows this pattern. ancient Greece, making sure they are safe of 21st century fiction. prize The Year Of The Runaways, Sunjeev from the dangers of Calypso, the Cyclops, Moby Dick is one of those novels By Clara Strunck Sahota’s second novel, is a particularly Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens; all that hovers ominously above the head timely one; an examination of the of whom presented grave dangers to of the casual reader, accompanied by The Man Booker is one of the best- hardships of Indian immigrants in Odysseus. The journey ends at Ithaca, fellow doorstops such as War and Peace regarded prizes for literary fiction. It Britain. More resonant than ever during Odysseus’s homeland where his wife, or Ulysses. It is instilled in the collective celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2013, the current crisis, The Spectator points Penelope, and his son, Telemachus, have unconscious as a seminal work of searing and has always been a benchmark for out that ‘novels of such scope and waited many a long year for his return. quality and, like most classics, is painfully the most outstanding novels of the year. invention are all too rare’. His dog, Argos, overjoyed at the sight of easy to spend years avoiding in favour Nominated authors enjoy a dramatic Each book thoroughly deserves its him, died on the spot. of something that doesn’t feel quite so increase in popularity and sales, and, place on this year’s shortlist, which Mount holds the reader’s interest much like hard work. as ever, the 2015 shortlist is a diverse represents a breathtaking array of the as he makes an erudite examination of This attitude is unfortunate because selection of incisive, thoughtful titles. best English literature from around the Christianity, the Greek language and unlike some ungainly works of genius Marlon James imagines the stories world. The winner will be announced on its dialects, punctuation and alphabet, (looking at you Finnegan’s Wake), of seven gunmen implicated in the the 13th October. democracy, philosophy, Greek sculpture, Melville’s magnum opus is positively a attempted murder of Bob Marley in architecture, and even vase painting. breeze. From “Call me Ishmael” onwards A Brief History of Seven Killings. The His chapter on the very nature of epics our quixotic narrator is personable, Telegraph dubs it a ‘vast and teeming and Homeric problems is illuminating friendly, and wise; and it’s a pleasure story of Jamaican violence’, and The Harry Mount’s and the chapter on the identification of to spend time with him as he rambles Guardian applauds the novel’s focus on Priam’s Troy is very clear. around Nantucket. Herein lies the some of Jamaica’s most defining decades. Odyssey: Mythology and ancient heroes will second surprise about Moby Dick, the A Brief History is James’s third novel. Ancient Greece in the forever remain mysterious, but Mount eponymous leviathan only gets his first Tom McCarthy’s novel C was has risen to the challenge well. It matters mention in chapter 22, prior to that nominated for the Man Booker in Footsteps of Odysseus. not that he had to be rescued from an our narrative mainly concerns Ishmael’s 2010. The author has been likened to By Harry Mount attempt to swim the Hellespont and befriending (or significantly more than Kafka and Joyce, and Satin Island is finished theMarathon in a taxi; this is ‘befriending’ depending on how you read appropriately reflective and confusing Bloomsbury £18.99 an excellent book, and well-illustrated Melville’s rather enthusiastic descriptions to merit these comparisons. The ISBN 9781472904676 by some 19th century drawings and of male bonding) of ‘cannibal’ harpooner protagonist, U, works for an organisation photographs. The map of Odysseus’s Queequeg. Ishmael effectively wanders whose aim is world domination; U’s travels is helpful and including a potted into the crescendo of Captain Ahab’s job is to gather data. The Independent An ancient and a modern odyssey come history is a good idea. apocalyptic quest to destroy the White notes that McCarthy is ‘more interested together in this unusual book, which I look forward to another book by Whale entirely by accident, and has his in concepts and subverting norms’ tells of the wanderings of the author, this author, who respects our classical original thoughts and desires entirely than character or plot. Satin Island is Harry Mount, and those of the Homeric heritage. sublimated by the monomaniacal an experimental novel, for ambitious Odysseus. Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

N THIS MONTH’S POETRY PAGE we head into October with some offerings “Hope” is the Ulysses (1833) from Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Emily thing with By Alfred Tennyson Dickinson. Tennyson was moved to write IIn Memoriam A. H. H. and Ulysses after the feathers It little profits that an idle king, untimely death of his best friend Arthur Henry Emily Dickinson (1891) By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Hallam in 1833. In Memoriam, in particular, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole “Hope” is the thing with feathers Unequal laws unto a savage race, is considered one of the greatest poems of the That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. nineteenth century and was written over 17 That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words I cannot rest from travel; I will drink years. The prologue, which we include here, is And never stops - at all Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those believed to have been one of the last passages And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard to have been written. In Ulysses, Tennyson uses That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when And sore must be the storm Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades techniques of dramatic monologue and action to That could abash the little Bird Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; draw attention to the protagonist’s heroic deeds, That kept so many warm For always roaming with a hungry heart determination and strong desire ‘to strive, to seek, I’ve heard it in the chillest land Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men to find and not to yield.’ While the character of And on the strangest Sea And manners, climates, councils, governments, Ulysses is a subject of great interest with poets and Yet - never - in Extremity, Myself not least, but honor’d of them all, It asked a crumb - of me. And drunk delight of battle with my peers, playwrights throughout the centuries, Tennyson’s Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. engagement with the virtues of perseverance and I am a part of all that I have met; endurance was in a large part his way of coping In Memoriam Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ with his deep sense of grief. Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades A. H. H For ever and for ever when I move. Alfred, Lord Tennyson How dull it is to pause, to make an end, In a very different vein Dickinson’s poem “Hope” To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! is the thing with feathers arose from an almost Strong Son of God, immortal Love, As tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on life reclusive life. She rarely left her home and Whom we, that have not seen thy face, Were all too little, and of one to me By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Little remains; but every hour is saved mostly communicated with friends through a Believing where we cannot prove; tireless series of poetic exchanges in letters. That From that eternal silence, something more, Thine are these orbs of light and shade; A bringer of new things; and vile it were Dickinson lived in such isolation gives rise to the Thou madest Life in man and brute; For some three suns to store and hoard myself, question of how she was able to express her ideas, Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot And this gray spirit yearning in desire thoughts and feelings with such keen authority. Is on the skull which thou hast made. To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Perhaps Dickinson’s greatest quality is her ability Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Thou madest man, he knows not why, This is my son, mine own Telemachus, to use abstract ideas and material objects to to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle, explain one another and in doing so introduced a He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill unique style of poetry to future generations. This labor, by slow prudence to make mild Emma Trehane Ph.D Thou seemest human and divine, A rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees The highest, holiest manhood, thou. Subdue them to the useful and the good. Our wills are ours, we know not how; Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Of common duties, decent not to fail Our little systems have their day; In offices of tenderness, and pay They have their day and cease to be: Meet adoration to my household gods, They are but broken lights of thee, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. And thou, O Lord, art more than they. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; We have but faith: we cannot know; There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, For knowledge is of things we see Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me, And yet we trust it comes from thee, That ever with a frolic welcome took A beam in darkness: let it grow. The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old; Let knowledge grow from more to more, Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. But more of reverence in us dwell; Death closes all; but something ere the end, That mind and soul, according well, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, May make one music as before, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. But vaster. We are fools and slight; The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; We mock thee when we do not fear: The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep But help thy foolish ones to bear; Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends. Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; Push off, and sitting well in order smite What seem'd my worth since I began; The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds For merit lives from man to man, To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths And not from man, O Lord, to thee. Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; Forgive my grief for one removed, It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. I trust he lives in thee, and there Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ I find him worthier to be loved. We are not now that strength which in old days Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, Confusions of a wasted youth; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Forgive them where they fail in truth, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will And in thy wisdom make me wise. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 30 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Astronomy

On October 4th 1957, Soviet Russia Cosmonauts: launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, and with it opened the way Birth of the to the stars. The new ‘Great Game’ had begun again, although this time it was Space Age up against America and not the British Science Museum Empire. Exhibition Road SW7 2DD And the exhibition, it is fantastic. From 18/09/2015 I loved their Lunar lander LK-3; it was everything a space craft, a vehicle to 13/03/2016 to explore new worlds should look like, and although it never went to the www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Moon unlike the American one, it was everything I understood from Eagle Comic in the 1950s, together with its highly successful Lunokhod 1 (which "Nothing will stop us. The road to did go to the Moon) and sent back the stars is steep and dangerous. thousands of pictures of the Lunar But we are not afraid…..Space surface and soil analyses covering over flights can’t be stopped. This isn’t Yuon K. New Planet. 1921. The State Tretyakov Gallery. 10.5 KM of the lunar terrain. the work of any one man or even Sadly the Soviet a group of men. It is a historical Moon programme process which mankind is carrying faltered, its Chief out in accordance with the natural Designer Sergei laws of human development." Korolov died in 1966 Yuri Gagarin and subsequently technical and he rocket rose slowly from its financial problems launch pad in a Dutch pine just overwhelmed Tforest, but accelerated rapidly it. But in some ways as it burnt off its fuel load of 19,000lbs that gave impetus of alcohol and liquid oxygen. To those to orbiting space below there was a sharp crack like stations and long thunder as it passed through the sound term experience barrier and SS Gruppenführer Hans in space for which Kammler knew it was well on its way, 10 Russia has become a miles above the coastline and climbing world leader. rapidly over the North Sea. It’s hard to end Accelerometers told it what heading the plaudits for this was required and what course to steer exhibition; it’s truly and when to reduce trim and angle to LK-3 Lunar Lander. (Engineering model 1969) wonderful. But 45 degrees. 63secs later at 17miles and two things spring 3500mph its engine shut down and it after World War 2. Whilst to mind. How incredibly brave the now became a free flying projectile ever there I took a look at the people were who were fired into space ascending to the near edge of space to its American Lunar lander in capsules that just seem so crude and apogee 52 miles above the Earth. Then and Apollo spacecraft for simplistic with instrumentation that it began its ever more rapid descent at up comparative reasons to see would have made my Dan Dare radio set to five times the speed of sound. how they would differ from (10/6d) look more sophisticated. Fifty odd miles below in Chiswick © Science Museum the Soviets’ solutions. And to end this incredible journey in a young 6yr old boy John Clarke was of Motion, for every action there is a For me Cosmonauts is a must see the science museum I want to end with getting ready for dinner and his 3yr old reaction exhibition since most exhibits have never a shaggy dog story and a replica of the sister Rosemary Anne was playing in her It took German ingenuity and before been released for general viewing. capsule that sent Laika off into history. bedroom. engineering to make a reality out of The Soviet Union’s contribution to space Before the launch a scientist involved At 6.41pm the rocket slammed rocket science albeit for malign purposes, science was truly remarkable. The first with the programme Dr Vladimir silently into Staveley Rd at mach 3 and but it took no time for the United satellite (Sputnik), the first mammal Yazdovsky took Laika home to play with its 1600lb warhead exploded creating States of America and the Soviet Union (a dog called Laika a husky/terrier her children “I wanted to do something a crater 10mts wide and 3mts deep; six to realize the potential for the future, cross found on the streets of Moscow) nice for her. She had so little time left to houses collapsed, walls blew out and mainly for military purposes and then ,the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin), live”. basements filled with rubble. Then the ever increasingly for scientific and the first woman in space (Valentine At the launch all the flight sonic boom arrived to add to the terror economic uses. Tereshkova), the first spacewalk (Alexei technicians kissed her on the nose and and confusion. Young John saw that Interestingly, two of the most Leonov) and the first crew in space bid her Bon Voyage knowing she was his sister’s bedroom had survived intact important pioneers of early rocket (Komorov, Yegorev, Feoktisov). doomed. Nevertheless, this unloved feral and his sister seemed totally unharmed. developments were a Russian called All these events turned science fiction mongrel trying to eke out a living in Sadly when he shook her there was no Konstantin Tsiolkowsky and an into reality transcending both the Earth’s harsh conditions in Moscow became the response as the blast wave had collapsed American called Robert Goddard. atmosphere and the Cold War political first pioneering mammal in space. her young and vulnerable lungs. So before visiting the Cosmonauts: climate. It all started with death in Britain The first V2 had announced its Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Russia’s century-long fascination with and Holland and ended with cooperative arrival. Science Museum I went to see the V2 space travel has been fuelled by a unique endeavours in space; now we all seem to Rockets, of course, had been known rocket and its engine. Very impressive mixture of spiritual, cultural and political be moving apart again. for centuries with the Chinese making for all the horror it would deliver, it was ideologies. Russia’s revolution in 1917 This exhibition should help to gunpowder fired projectiles, but the beautifully engineered and it was easy encouraged many to contemplate new remind us to re-engage. We are better science wasn’t really understood until to see that it was the birth mother of worlds, both on Earth and out in the together than apart. Sir Isaac Newton set out the Third Law every rocket developed by both sides cosmos. Scott Beadle FRAS 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Horology online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Westward Horologia By Jonathan Macnabb

isitors to the Science Museum will be able to see a broad range Vof familiar but less noticed items when the refurbished Time Gallery is open to the public towards the end of October. The decision to move the collection of the worshipful Company of Clockmakers Company Worshipful The courtesy of All photographs of Clockmakers from its home in the Guildhall in the city of London to South Kensington was prompted by the ending of their lease and the fact that this remarkable collection can be examined in appropriate surroundings by some of the three million people who visit each year. As much of the collection contains a wonderfully decorative range of early European images dating from the 1580s there is a wide range of of interesting Harrison 5 and Harrison wooden clock precision watches which illustrate a story around a £20,000 prize offered to create examples with various forms of included cases made of rock crystal and the achievements of each stage of a Sea-Clock which could determine refinement such as auxiliary temperature decorated with coloured enamel. This development in producing the modern the longitude. Whilst it is shown at the compensation. compensated for the fact that they did timekeeper. Royal Observatory at Greenwich that Of the individual clocks which stand not keep very accurate time. The move was made possible by the Harrison made the original designs for out the Samuel Watson astronomical Other watches included are generous support of DCMS/Wolfson his successful clock, his early wooden table clock from the 1690s has a dial timekeepers which developed into the Museums & Galleries Improvement clocks have long been highlights of the with a year calendar showing the phases more accurate watches of the 20th Fund. clockmakers’ collection and show how as of the moon and sunrise sunset. Edward century. There is a small range of watches a 20 year old he had created a long case East is represented by an early longcase by Breguet and several Tourbillon www.sciencemuseum.org.uk clock with a movement made of lignum clock and his apprentice Thomas watches by English and continental vitae for which he designed his extremely Tompion by several watches. There is a makers. accurate grasshopper escapement. fine late period repeating clock by him The story of Smiths Industries and The Harrisons’ gradual domination and a possible apprentice piece being the modern English wrist watch is well of the collection was helped by the a pre-numbered longcase clock. There documented. The collection also retains acquisition of a complete and original are a number of watches by George many records from early members of the longcase clock by John’s younger brother Graham. One of the most prominent company and has been a great research James and his final complete copy of his watches of the collection is a watch by source yielding in recent years an successful timekeeper H5 with which he the first Master David Ramsey from extraordinary mathematical musical scale fulfilled the requirements of the board of 1625 which is a beautifully engraved 6 devised by the Harrisons using chromatic longitude by providing a copy of H4. pointed star watch worn as a pendant. intervals based on the numerical Chronometers by other makers have This belongs to the earliest part of the differences of vibration. been donated by different firms over the collection and includes amongst 600 The Science Museum Time Gallery years and include some rare examples watches some made before the balance traditionally displays the story of by John Arnold, Thomas Earnshaw, spring was invented; they were created timekeeping from the earliest times Barraud and several, more commercial, with extremely detailed decoration which and to the present day and outlines

Left: C18th Engraved Skull watch Right: David Ramsey tiny star shaped watch. 1625. 32 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Fashion

Studio One Twenty, 120 Islingron High using unusual elements of wood, felt, September Shows Street, London N1 8EG embroidery and ceramics to create by Lola Aladeshelu texture, intrigue and difference to the Dame Zandra Rhodes & garments. The evening event occurred Caryn Franklin MBEs at Shoreditch Town Hall Hotel on 21 Five Decades of Fashion September 2015. eptember is a poignant Conde Naste hosted a series of Nicola Bacchilega’s edgy 3D pyramid Kathryn © Jemma Photograph time, marking the end of insightful seminars open to ambitious rippled front panelled black dress, Ssummer and the beginning fashion designers and the media. One Bryony Sansone’s streetwear inspired of autumn. A season filled with in particular involved Caryn Franklin turquoise and black leather cut-out freshness and warmth emanating MBE’s live and informal conversation skimpy outfit and a gold lattice beaded- from the yellow and brown hues with Britain’s highly regarded Dame of falling leaves. Zandra Rhodes (21 September 2015). For fashion enthusiasts Dame Zandra, a textile and arts designer September is an exciting provided the audience with an overview time consisting of fashion of her professional experience spanning shows, exhibitions and book 40 years of involvement within the releases. Below are just some fashion industry. of the fashion focused events Below are Dame Zandra Rhodes top Aladeshelu © Lola Photograph throughout the month that tips on how to survive and succeed in KCWT attended: the world’s most competitive and fierce fashion industry. BHMFashionweek SS16 Although London may be Self belief. Have belief in your work respected as UK’s fashion capital, a (in spite of what others might say or strong contender racking up favour is and forge future network support. think about your work). You are your Birmingham. The £750m refurbishment Birmingham International Fashion brand. completion of New Street rail station Week: www.bhmfashionweek.com Individuality. The self-styled and the NEC attracting international trademark pink haired Dame remarked exhibitors all muster favour. London Fashion Week SS16 that being different with creative styles is Two weeks ahead of London Fashion September 19-22 entailed fashion not a faux pas. Week SS16, Birmingham International frenzies in and around London’s Soho Supporters. At the beginning of Fashion Week (BHMFW) held its 3rd district. Britain’s fashion designers, her career, Dame Zandra experienced annual fashion week at the Macdonald traders and retailers epicentre. difficulties and directional uncertainty, Burlington Hotel, Birmingham New Brewer Street Car Park being BFC’s a situation not uncommon for fashion Street. elected choice of venue to host the designers and creatives alike. She back tutu ruffled ankle length dress, On 4 -5 September BHMFW’s SS16 LFW SS16 catwalk exposes and press emphasised the importance of having likely to be one of Feven Yohannes’ catwalk runway designer collections previews. The ripple effect produced supporters and people around that designs, were strong statement pieces. coincided with a fashion platform for collaborators’ and sponsors’ participation encourage. Other creations featured Deborah Allick, aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs. in forming their own scheduled fashion Keep a copy of your work especially Nellie Bailey’s tailored debut designs and The SS16 fashion lines included shows and talks within neighbouring press coverage and reviews. many other designers. attractive plus size shoes by Arabel areas. Appealing to mass fashion and All of the designers’ exhibits clearly Manner and the colourful, pinks and media journalists, press, photographers, demonstrated the present influences purples of eco brand Green Embassy’s emerging designers, bloggers/vloggers emanating within the Shoreditch ‘silent rainforest.’ The shows featured and enthusiasts. To say there was fashionistas. 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So why do it, what is it for? undulating move called Qigong The practice is holistic and can ‘Dragon’ entails the hands facilitate awareness and coordination in prayer posture moving Questions between the mind and body. The across the face, then Chinese, experts in preventative back across the heart, Answered medicine, consider blockages stop Qi flipping the hands down By Lynne McGowan flow causing illness (mental as well as and across the stomach physical) so by enhancing the energy whilst swaying the hips flow, circulatory systems and vibrancy simultaneously. are increased and the whole person can Let’s start with the obvious, become balanced and well. How does it compare to Tai Chi? what is it? Give me details? There is a Tai Chi form In China it is used to help combat called Yang Sheng Zhang Qigong literally means ‘Life Energy many health problems like stress and many Chinese people Cultivation’ in Chinese or rather disorders, heart disease, diabetes and consider Qigong to be as the cultivation of vitality. Qi as in tumors but back here in the west important to their overall the universal energy force flowing it is generally accepted as a safe, health and fitness. In through everything and Gong meaning complementary exercise and relaxation fact many scholars state accomplishment through effort. There practice. qigong predates Tai Chi are as many as 75 forms but generally the but essentially qigong practice comprises gentle and focused Some say it is a meditative practice, is primarily focused on flowing moves using mind and body in is it? benefitting health and order to ‘harness’ the Qi. The Taoists, Buddhists and Tai Chi is a self defence Confucians believe it can help attain martial art. They share I presume it is ancient, enlightenment. many similar fluid how old is it? Calm, coordinated, rhythmic moves movements with subtle It is said the Daoists have been combined with deep breathing can still differences and both practicing a form of qigong for around the mind benefiting the nervous system. practices are designed to 4000 years to clarify and balance the promote the flow of Qi or Chi. mind. Not only spiritual philosophers Tell me about the moves enhance balance. In addition to standing but many martial arts such as Kung These are variable from static poses, Can anyone do it? there are lying and sitting moves so it Fu and Tai Chi have used Qigong as a stretching and tapping to stimulate Absolutely. The beauty of the practice is highly flexible and can be adapted to focusing prelude to their practice so they circulation and slow sinuous balletic is that it is beneficial to everyone from specific needs. If Qigong sounds like can perform such forceful strikes like moves with animal names like ‘Soaring a school child to an OAP. The aims are ‘Your cup of Cha’ the best thing to do is ‘Iron shirt’ or ‘Iron Palm’. Crane’ and ‘Wild Goose’. A wonderful the same, to increase concentration and find a local class and have a go.

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supermarket, red plastic baskets filled the thing in a few minutes washed down with soy and chilli condiments and those with Asahi beer (served in a chilled pint curiously uncomfortable chairs that were glass!). in every bar ever when I last ventured It’s a great end to an evening with over to Thailand - because, who needs your mates, and their Vietnamese coffee comfort when authenticity is king? is perfection in a glass. So much so, I’m Luckily, the food manages to knuckle now occasionally treating myself to a down both comfort and authenticity generous helping of condensed milk in and is delicious and generously served. my freeze dried - thanks for the ensuing Though it’s not the absolute cheapest dentist bill East Street. place to eat (starters are between £4-£7 and mains are £10-£15) the nosh reminds me of excellent street food. We had the East Street reservations: sharing platter to start with, demolishing 020 7323 0860 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Food & Flowers online: www.KCWToday.co.uk This month’s recipe Apple Tarte Tatin Photograph © Irene Brown © Irene Photograph By Limpet Barron You will need an all-metal ovenproof frying pan for this dish, ideally 10 -12” across

Ingredients 5 - 6 large, crunchy, and not too sweet eating apples, peeled, cored and sliced vertically into 1 cm wide strips. Granny Smith work well 50g butter cut into small cubes 100g golden caster sugar 100 ml of Calvados or Armagnac 1 vanilla pod / tsp of vanilla essence 500 g puff pastry

Foodie Method treats n a lightly floured surface, roll out the puff pastry to about 4mm thick, sufficient to overlap the edges of your frying pan by about 25mm. The slight chill Put your pan on a medium heat and add the sugar, Calvados/Armagnac, and butter until they are beginning to form a light golden tells us autumn O is arriving, and caramel. Take the pan from the heat and using tongs place the crescents of apple into the mixture, overlapping each segment slightly with its that a whole neighbour. Return to the heat for approximately 4 to 5 minutes until the apple is just beginning to soften, then carefully place the puff pastry host of delicious over the pan, tucking in the edges. Put into a pre heated oven at 200 C for approx 20 minutes, or until the pastry has risen and is golden foodie treats brown in colour. are coming into Allow to stand for a couple of minutes before placing a large plate or serving board over the pastry and spinning it over to turn out the season. dish. It’s advisable to use a long oven glove for this as even a few drops of escaping hot caramel can cause burns. On the plate Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving with ice cream, custard, or crème fraiche. Blackberries & autumn Raspberries Blackberries Physalis Pears, Plums, and Quinces Salsify Leeks Beetroot Main crop Potatoes Marrows Squash and Pumpkins Wild Mushrooms Walnuts

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up from ground-level each year The Chelsea taking every ounce of heat twixt April and late October to finally Physic Garden produce glorious rich red flowers gets a handle on aloft its 3m stems. It’s worth the wait. © Nick Bailey Photograph the Handlebards Elsewhere, in a cosy corner By Max Feldman of the Garden, lurks an unusual Acanthus. It hails from Ethiopia and positively demands month after month of heat and light hilst Hamlet might open before it will even consider with two frightened sentries popping a bud. For this reason, Wshivering on Elsinore’s like the Salvia, it’s grown virtually battlements in the dead of night, the nowhere else. When it finally Handlebards’ sold-out production took decides to bloom, following 9 The Handlebards are an all-male four strong troupe of place during a glorious blazing hot actors who are biking 1,500 miles performing Hamlet and months of growth, it proves itself September 12th in the idyllic confines A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream across England worth the wait. Like the more of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Far from common Acanthus mollis, whose interfering with the atmosphere however, production of Hamlet are an opportunity distinctive leaf shape can be found the Indian summer of the day, combined to see a completely different side of carved into Roman buildings, with the picnic-ready atmosphere of the The Physic Garden, with the burst of Acanthus sennii has whorled spikes Physic Garden, twinned perfectly with greenery at the heart of the borough of flowers and glossy leaves. the Handlebards’ efforts to twist one of proving itself to be an unexpectedly Unlike its common cousin its Shakespeare’s most cerebral tragedies fantastic stage for events of all kinds. leaves are viciously spined and into a feel-good slapstick comedy. Whilst recharging in the Garden’s instead of white flowers it is resplendent garden. It’s a South American native but Since the Physic Garden’s relaxing environs is not to be set aside, in glossy, ribbed, peachy-orange blooms. most famous as the street tree of choice establishment in 1673 (then referred it’s a good idea to keep an eye on their With a potential cold snap only in South Africa and Australia where it to as the more ‘Prog-Rock’ sounding events calendar to see what’s coming up weeks away the team are beginning flushes each spring with an explosion of Apothecaries’ Garden) it has attracted in the future. Whilst the Handlebards preparations for protecting the most lilac blooms, so prolific that the whole Londoners looking for peace and quiet have packed up and cycled off, they are tender plants. The Physic Garden might tree becomes a purple haze. In theory amongst the plants, but thankfully the scheduled to return to the garden next boast the largest outdoor olive tree and it won’t grow in London, but then they garden’s denizens were more than happy year and the Physic Garden will be grapefruit in the country but we are not said that about our Olive tree 100 years to intrude upon that calm with some providing plenty to keep you entertained totally immune to the cold. Some of ago... hearty belly-laughs. The Handlebards’ until they return. the boundary-pushing plants we try do are an all-male four strong troupe need wrapping up for winter. This year Nick Bailey is head gardener of actors who are biking 1,500 miles The Chelsea Physic Garden we have introduced a Jacaranda to the at the Chelsea Physic Garden performing Hamlet and A Midsummer’s 66 Royal Hospital Rd, London Night’s Dream across England, bringing SW3 4HS all the props and sets that they can 020 7352 5646 carry on their backs. 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True, the garden comprised exclusively of a sieve holding has its share of autumn glory with the up a white sheet, the ‘Shakespeare on columnar Liquidambar flushing red a shoestring’ approach was worth its and the Turkish oak turning a grass- weight in comedy gold. The cast’s good fed butter yellow, but it’s the flowers A Lasting Gift natured performance and eagerness to that make the Physic Garden unique in involve the audience belied the level of autumn. Thanks to the heat island effect skill it takes to perform any Shakespeare of the city, coupled with river thermals Leave your legacy to support our with only four cast members. The whole and the Garden’s walls we have one afternoon had a festival atmosphere of the longest growing seasons in the future for generations to come... (fuelled in part perhaps by the generous country. 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EMMA KENNAWAY Bill Newton PROFESSIONAL ARTIST AND AUTHOR An Exhibition of his paintings at The Barbican Library Foyer in the City of London from the 3rd December to the 29th December 2015

This is Bill’s fourth show there. The first three being extremely successful in 1996, 1999 and 2010.

On display will be paintings reflecting his travels in Europe and elsewhere. Many of the pictures displayed are original artwork from two highly successful books on watercolour painting. Part of "The Kicking Off" Series. Red Pencil 24" x 30". Painting With Watercolours, which sold in huge numbers worldwide in many different languages and his new book William Newton’s Complete Guide To Watercolour Painting which has been received with five star Emma Kennaway is showcasing her work at critical acclaim. Also on show will be twelve pictures commissioned by a The Tattersalls Yearling Sales, Newmarket, Railway Company in 1996. one of the year's most prestigious sales 12th-15th October. William Newton's Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting ISBN: 9781844488308, RRP £17.99, Published by Search Press, Wellwood, [email protected] North Farm Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 3DR. Tel: 01892 510850 Email: [email protected] 46 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Ai Weiwei Royal Academy Until 13 December 2015 Admission £17.50 www.royalacademy.org.uk Photograph © Royal Academy of Art, Photograph@Dave Parry Photograph@Dave Art, of Academy © Royal Photograph

n every sense, this show is a blockbuster. Two exhibits are based Ion the destruction of buildings, which is what the eponymous 4,000 lb bombs did so successfully in the Second World War. In Straight, 2008-12, Ai has collected thousands of steel rods used to reinforce concrete buildings, salvaged from the wreckage of the devastating Magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province which killed upwards of 80,000 people. The Chinese government refused to release the number or names of students who died, but one official report estimated that up to 10,000 died in the collapse of 7,000 classrooms and dormitories. Ai managed to retrieve 200 tonnes of twisted rebar, destined for recycling, which he took back to his studio and straightened by hand; and nearly half of which are at the RA. The effect of the rods in the middle of the floor is one of order, but in a seismographic wave pattern, and is a powerful and moving image, flanked, as it is, on the walls by the names of over 5,000 schoolchildren who perished. He has said that the materials for this sculpture are; “history, individual stories, blood, tears, and labour”. The second ‘blockbuster’ element consists of the destruction from his studio outside cartwheel, and surreal tables walking up objects, Surveillance Camera and Video Christos. Shanghai by the authorities, who were the wall. Recorder, are beautifully fashioned out of Some exhibits that did not quite trying to gag this turbulent artist. They The artist is fascinated by all sorts white marble, as is a child’s pushchair in gel were the cosmetics bottles, jars, and beat him up and imprisoned him for 81 of materials, including porcelain, glass, a field of marble grass, but it seems like sex-toys made of jade, and his attempts days, without trial. Again using concrete iron, marble, and tea - yes, tea. In one a conceit and a heavy-handed way to at wall-paper, which in one case was just and brick rubble, and fragments of rebar, minimal display, there are four one metre make such a simple point, even though plain childish, and the other bordering he has erected Souvenir from Shanghai, cubes. One is called Crystal, and would they are obviously more meaningful to on the bling with none of irony. 2014, with a Qing Dynasty rosewood have been a perfect glass cube were it him. He is defiant, fiercely political and However, from the trees in the courtyard bed-frame running through it like not for a six-inch metal rod resting at an outspoken, about human rights, shoddy made from reclaimed temples, to 2000 Rock. angle at the bottom, and a chip on one building regulations and government year-old Qing dynasty vases having been Ai has an overwhelming sense of of the corners. Apparently, while they cover-ups, which ended with him in the dipped in brightly-coloured paint, which Chinese history and culture, as he were waiting for this cube to cool after chokey, itself immortalised with six large drips down their sides, and a witty one watched ancient temples being pulled firing, which took a staggering twelve iron rectangles entitled S.A.C.R.E.D. with a Coca-Cola logo painted on it, down to make way for new buildings in months, this length of rebar fell into the There were hatches in the top and little and to the bicycle chandelier (Very Yao, the mad scrum of so-called economic molten glass and made its way slowly to windows in the sides, through which 2009-14) hanging in the rotunda, there progress. He has turned the timbers into the bottom. A ton of black tea leaves, the visitor could observe dioramas of is enough in this exhibition to suggest a towering structure, which, we were sourced from the famous tea-growing various routines of prison life, which are that he is not only the most important told, was a map of China. “If only we province of Yunnan, is compressed into spelt out in the acronymous title: Supper, artist in China, but he is now a big could see it from above” said the curator another cube, with another called Ebony, Accusers, Cleansing, Ritual, Entropy, global figure. The Chinese authorities Tim Marlowe. Well, why not? A simple but made of rosewood, and the fourth and Doubt. In each scene, two half- only recently realised that, by suppressing video link or a photograph would suffice. a complicated Treasure Box, made from scale fibreglass guards are never more his creative output and trying to silence In his Furniture series, made on his honey-coloured huali wood. than a metre away from our half-scale his opposition to them, they were in fact return from America to China in 1993, Parts of this gigantic show are a bit of fibreglass hero, whether he was sleeping, increasing his popularity, and gave him his inventions include a set of parallel a puzzle, and a Chinese one at that, but showering, eating or being interrogated. a visa to fly to Berlin and now London, bars compacted with wood from temples, it is the sheer scale of some of the works For some unexplained reason, all the where he helped with the installation at a totemic Table and Pillar, dozens of makes one’s head spin. At the other end furniture in the cell was wrapped in the RA. three-legged stools doing a gymnastic of the scale, two seemingly spurious plastic tape, even the walls, like mini Don Grant 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

artists who dominated Pop. Rampant Some works, however, really do famed for her enormous installation The The EY consumerism, comics, Hollywood, music, stand out and demand attention, like Dinner Party, with 39 place-settings for the media and protest were at the heart the highly colourful Doll Festival, women in history, with every featured Exhibition: of Pop, onto which Roy Lichtenstein, painted in 1966, by the Japanese artist, woman represented by a vaginal plate, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol Ushio Shinohara, who was at the press from Emily Dickinson’s frilly lace one The World latched in the US, while David Hockney, show, looking as though he had been to Virginia Woolf ’s tough ceramic muff. Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Patrick transported from a Star Wars film-set. Here, she has three car hoods (bonnets) Goes Pop Caulfield, Allen Jones and Eduardo The Frenchman Henri Cueco has a spray-painted with acrylic lacquer, Tate Modern Paolozzi were the main proponents in number of large, colourful cut-outs, and with more vaginas, but the inclusion the UK. a bas-relief, called Les Hommes Rouges, of male genitalia as well. Jerzy Ryszard Until 24 January 2016 Admission £16 www.tate.org.uk Photograph © Don Grant Photograph

raditionally, Pop Art is associated almost exclusively with Britain Tand America, and yet, Tate has travelled the globe in search of other strands of the artform that emerged as a subversive language for protest and discontentment. Most of the work on display has never been seen before in the UK and many of the artists will be unfamiliar to the majority of visitors. Indeed, many of the artists were unknown or neglected in their own countries. One has to ask oneself why this is and the reasons are twofold; much of the work has not stood the test of time, and secondly, many of the artists represented are just not very good. Tate Modern is in the throes of ‘re- discovering’ artists, particularly female ones, with two recent shows featuring Agnes Martin and Sonia Delaunay, and prior to that, the Lebanese Saloua Raouda Choucair, and Ellen Gallagher with AxME. This show boasts 160 works from 64 artists, of which 27 are women, which ticks all the right boxes in terms of gender balance and challenges the notion that it was Anglo-American male

which had enormous energy and vitality, Zielinski’s Bez Buntu (Without Rebellion) with revolutionary figures springing out comes out of the wall at the visitor of the ground. Evelyne Axell was an with a plush red tongue nailed to the actress who was taught to paint by René floor, and another of his paintings has a Magritte, and her work has the same pair of luscious lips, either spelling out Belgian precision as the great surrealist, kisses, or they could be stitched sutures, except her work is more erotically denoting lack of free speech in Poland

charged. The Austrian Kiki Kogelnik, at the time. For no apparent reason, Joe Cueco. © Henri Les Hommes Rouges who died in 1997 and is honoured with Tilson and Colin Self have been singled an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford out to represent Britain, amongst artists until 18 October, was a friend of from Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Lichtenstein and Warhol in New York Slovakia, Croatia, Peru, Argentina, nine in the 1960s. She brought a rare snatch from Brazil, Colombia, Greece, seven of humour to the feminist movement, as from Spain, five from France, Italy, in Friends and Hanging, taking fashion, Austria, Iceland, Cuba, Finland, Libya, the space race and technology as her Iran, Israel and the USA. The curators inspiration, although her Bombs in Love must have earned quite a few air-miles borders on the cute, and she was slowly in their global quest. Self was obsessed airbrushed out of Pop Art history. with Cold War politics, while Tilson Natalia Lach-Lachowicz’s output has Pages, a series of wooden grids with was doubtless considered risqué forty- clippings from radical publications odd years ago, with her photographs and printed onto cushioned cloth. This is an films of girls eating bananas and sausages uneven, patchy and contrived exhibition, and regurgitating what looks like cream, spirited out of not very much, like a but this is tame compared to what boxer trying to punch above his weight, anyone can access on YouTube today. and promoted beyond his ability. Judy Chicago is probably most Don Grant 48 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

funny, and at every turn, there was a slogan or piece of graffiti that just nails it. For a pound, one could steer a remote-controlled boat packed full of migrants against a backdrop of the Photograph © Don Grant Photograph White Cliffs of Dover. In the gallery spaces, deemed “the finest collection of contempoary art ever assembled in a North Somerset seaside town”, there were examples of extraordinary works of art from all over ther world, including Damien Hirst’s The Fragility of Love, in which a beach-ball hovered over an array of shiny blades, and Polly Morgan’s Rabbit, which had just eaten the conjuror. One gallery was dominated by a vast installation by Jimmy Cauty titled The Aftermath Displacement Principle, a model of an entire town seen at night with 5,000 policemen and hundreds of flashing blue lights, trying to restore order after civil unrest. Ronit Baranga is an Israeli ceramicist, whose creepy anthropomorphic pieces of crockery have sprouted fingers and mouths, and, as she says “It’s as if the beasts have been invited to feast but the plates are planning a feast of their own”. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the venue was the ticket price

delapidated turrets and towers. Inside and-Judy show created by writer Julie Dismaland was the overturned pumpkin coach Burchill, and a fire pit in which to burn with a dead Princess Diana, I mean, Jeffrey Archer novels. The whole 2.5 Bemusement Cinderella, hanging out of the window, acre park was created by the grafitti her straps being held up by two cute artist Banksy from the derelict Tropicana Park Disney bluebirds and a pair of dead lido and leasure centre on the front of By Don Grant white horses with their legs in the air, Weston-super-Mare which closed in surrounded by a posse of paparazzi, 1999, announcing that it was “a festival cameras flashing in the dry ice. So, of art, amusements and entry-level anarchy and subversion rule, OK. There anarchism”. The humour is certainly was a Jimmy Savile-themed Punch- dark and thought-provoking, but very

nyone who has ever endured the sugar-coated schmaltz that to “the UK’s most disappointing new Ais Disney will readily take a visitor attraction’, a mere £3 entry, or a spoonful of bitters to help the medicine fiver if one booked on-line, and, once go down in this, the antidote to theme inside, a pint of Estrella lager was a parks. I have always wanted to use the © Flo Grant Photograph modest four quid. Apart from instigating word boustrophedon in a review, and the event, Banksy had a dozen new now I can, as it described the manner pieces on show, including a pensioner in which visitors, even those with timed on a bench being attacked by seagulls, tickets, were made to queue by rude a painting Big Wave and the boat pond. security personnel. Nobody seemed to There was a cinema mounted on a mind the half hour it took to get in, truck showing a programme of short as they thought it was all part of the films, and in the lake, a derelict armour- dismal experience, which is as clever plated riot control vehicle, complete psychologically as Disney’s “are we with water-canon, grenade launchers there yet?” queuing methodology. Once and a blue plastic children’s water slide. through the cardboard security entrance Artist Nettie Wakefield would draw designed by artist Bill Barminski, your portrait, but only the back of your complete with indifferent, miserable head. There were a couple of slightly and unhelpful security guards, one is more conventional rides, an up-and- greeted by more indifferent, miserable down horses carousel, but with a sinister, and unhelpful staff and I was soon put blood-splattered butcher/surgeon sitting in the mood, when I was shot at by an on boxes of lasagne with a horse hanging attendant operating the shooting gallery. from his hind legs on chains, and a ferris I saw another visitor painstakingly wheel, which appeared to spend a great just about to hook-a-duck, when the attendant threw another duck at it. deal of time, not going round, with Others would step in front of visitors people stuck at the top. After a couple taking pictures, ruining the shot. of hours in the hot September afternoon In the middle of the park was the sun, however, the energy began to leak enchanted fairy castle, a smoking wreck out, as the crowds and queues increased, seen across a toxic green lake, with its making it, well, quite dismal. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, Mark Rylance Farinelli and the or little baker, who was castrated at (Philippe V) the age of ten to preserve the purity Iestyn Davies King and range of his voice, which was not Until 5 December 2015 an uncommon practice in the 17th (Farinelli century in Italy, even though it was - singer), Photograph © Simon Annand © Simon Photograph Duke of York’s Theatre illegal. The King in question was the Sam Crance grandson of King Louis XIV of France St Martin’s Lane, (Farinelli) and and his father was Louis, the Grand WC2N 4BG Dauphin. The play written by Claire Melody Grove 0844 871 3051 van Kampen centres around the effect (Isabella) Farinelli had, not only on the King, but on the entire royal household, including an unrequited love-affair between the castrato and Queen Isabella Farnese. his is an extraordinary tale by The stage is entirely candle-lit, as it was any standards. King Philippe in the previous production at The Sam TV of Spain is suffering from Wanamaker Playhouse, and the audience mental depression, with a history of are stacked up with the musicians in the understated, subtle and totally believable for laughs. The music itself is divine, intense bipolarity, so his Queen travels galleries at each side of the stage, while performance as both a sensitive romantic and performed in a very clever way by to London, where one of the most delightful Baroque tunes are played on and a deranged monarch, with a raised having the actor and the singer on stage famous singers in Europe is performing, violin, guitar, cello, bass and harpsichord. eyebrow here, and a minimal gesture at the same time, wearing the same and persuades him to return to Madrid Music is the gentle driving force of the there, and aspects of his ‘madness’ are clothes. The finale, where Farinelli with her to help cure her husband. This play, and when we first hear the voice really very funny. sings Handel’s Lascia Ch’io Pianga from he agrees to do, and the effect on the of Farinelli, sung by the countertenor Melody Grove is perfect as his wife, Rinaldo, is sublime. He spent 20 years in King is immediate and astonishing. As Iestyn Davies, a collective tingle ran as is Sam Crane as the little baker and Spain, and he abandoned a flourishing Dr Tim McInerny, consultant forensic though the theatre raising hairs on the the rest of the cast, while the staging career in London, Paris, Milan, Munich, psychiatrist at Bethlem Royal Hospital backs of the audience’s necks. Claire harks back to an elegant Georgian era, Venice and Vienna, preferring to states in the progamme notes: “Music van Klempen used to run the music where there is a hint of haunting magic stay with the royal family and being has been recognised throughout human department at the Globe for its first ten in the air. Van Klempen has utilised a constantly asked to sing at all hours, history as having powerful effects on our years with Mark Rylance in charge, and theatrical device whereby the mannered which, it seems, he was happy to do. It emotions and in assisting individuals’ she not only wrote it, she is the musical language of the court is interjected is estimated that he sang the same four recovery from mental and physical arranger as well. She is also married to with contemporary profanities, which arias three thousand, six hundred times, illness. Creativity and and healing Rylance, so it is not inconceivable that sometimes has a jarring effect and one which makes one wonder which one was interconnect”. she had him in mind when writing it. He wonders whether she could have been the madman. The singer in question was an Italian is quite superb as the King, turning in an just a little bit smarter in her quest Don Grant

on either side of the wide image of Seurat’s bridge on her studio Looking for an entrance to the gallery and, wall. But it’s not just other artists’ at some distance, pleasingly, work influencing her. Two years ago, equivalent of one can see both images Riley borrowed her own work Ecclesia together. (1985) from the Arts Council in order a dot Fans of Riley’s black and to return fully to this earlier artwork white abstracts will not be and let it have some influence over her By Laura-Jane Foley disappointed. The vibrancy contemporary work. This small, but Schubert Karsten Riley/ © Bridget of Tremor (1962) is almost perfectly formed display, highlights the palpable. From different importance of engaging with the past in Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat is viewpoints around the room, order to produce the art of the now. the latest in a series of special displays different images emerge at the Courtauld Gallery which presents almost sculpturally rising out Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat works by major contemporary artists. of the canvas. is on at the Courtauld Gallery The special display of seven Pushing her optical from 17 September to 17 January paintings is inspired by Georges Seurat’s In this display, Riley’s copy and the art even further and looking for an Admission £7.00 (concessions) The Bridge at Courbevoie (1887), which is original are displayed together for the equivalent of a dot, Riley found the owned by the Courtauld. first time. Riley’s version was actually stripe, which she viewed as In 1959 Bridget Riley (b.1931) made from a reproduction she saw in a just an ‘elongation of the made a version of this iconic work in book; consequently her version is larger dot’. Of particular interest order to understand how French Post than Seurat’s. The importance of the in this display, Late Morning Impressionist George Seurat (1859-91) work to Riley was emphasised by Karen I (1967), Vapour (1970) created light through his use of colour. Serres, the Curator of Paintings pre- and Ecclesia (1985) neatly The aim was not to produce a copy but 1900, “it is the only work on display in show Riley’s progression of instead the painting was to act as a tool Riley’s studio; the only artwork she has engagement with the stripe. to understand Seurat’s perception, and made which she has actually hung on the Studying the art of use, of colour. Riley’s encounter with wall, rather than kept in the racks”. the past unlocked Riley’s this painting has profoundly influenced Due to its significance then, it is no creativity and allowed her and shaped her development as an artist. surprise that Riley herself was actively to find her own language It was the engagement with Seurat involved in the hanging of this small of painting based upon which led to her black and white pure show. Barnaby Wright, Curator of 20th repeated geometric forms. abstraction canvases with which she Century Art, explained the 84 year-old As this display shows, Seurat is most associated. She translated and artist did not want to have her version was important to Riley transformed Seurat’s radical pointillism and the original side by side in the throughout her career. She of the 1880s into her own emboldened display. And yet, they do need to be came back to him over and artistic language of the 1960s and together for comparison. An ingenious over again. Serres says Riley onwards. solution sees the two paintings displayed still has the reproduced 50 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Music

St John’s Smith Square 15 September 2015 Bampton Classical Opera Paul Wingfield, Jeremy Gray La Grotto Di Trofonio

o one embodies the dictum ‘no such thing as bad publicity’ like NSalieri. Commentators agree that Salieri’s rehabilitation owes much to Shaffer’s fictional demonisation in Amadeus. While it’s hard to understand why Salieri has been largely ignored since his death in 1825, this too happened to his contemporary rival Mozart for much of the nineteenth century. Think of Salieri as to Mozart’s that underpins the plot and transcends Above: The Beatles. The latter pairing’s pre- Nicholas eminence undoubted; gigs by the former an absurd device, echoing the paranoid Merryweather psychedelia of & Aoife O'Sullivan are still a major event, so I rocked up at Their Satanic Majesties Top right: St John’s with high expectations, all met Request. Opera, we’re told, should be Christopher Turner heard in the native tongue of audience Right: or exceeded. (a L to R: blockbuster in its day) had the cultural or performer, and Gray’s and French’s Christopher Turner, Nicholas misfortune to precede, by eighteen translation is vibrantly humorous Merryweather, months, Le Nozze Di Figaro, arguably (‘nymphs incessantly providing’). The James Harrison one of the most perfect works of art in detailing was equally excellent. Trofonio’s any genre, and in plot (and significant cave was a blue police box, and the influence) a forerunner toCosi Fan Tutte, Doctor Who imagery extended to his the libretto which was given to Salieri multi-coloured scarf, hat, and velvet coat. before Mozart. Ultimately the evening The darkness of the character-switch reinforced the view that comparisons is emphasised, and perhaps rendered with Mozart are inevitable but unhelpful, plausible, by Artemidoro and later Ofelia, and that the broadly held belief that dressed in period swinging sixties, Salieri deserves his own place in the munching presumably magic mushrooms pantheon now prevails. from paper bags. Matthew Stiff (a memorable Trofonio), impact on a one-night guest appearance. Bampton Opera co-founder and Trofonio is most definitely a and Triona Adams. The missing Anna Paul Wingfield’s outstanding orchestra artistic director Jeremy Gray co- masterpiece but one suspects it would Starushkevych, becalmed in Ukraine, brought out fantastic menace in Salieri’s wrote the translation, designed the take no prisoners if the production were was considered so important she had to arrangements; an effect enhanced by the set, and wrote the programme notes, to have a weak link. This one didn’t. The be substituted by the equally fabulous evening’s show-stealers the gothically and still topped all that by directing whole cast deserve a mention; James Catherine Backhouse and Marieke dark, ethereally exotic Chorus Of Spirits. the complicated masterpiece. Gray’s Harrison, Aoife O’Sullivan, Christopher Bernard-Berkel. Bampton Opera are Trofonio brought out the bi-polar edge Turner, Nicholas Merryweather, to be congratulated on making such an James Douglas

Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, With the only requirement being a Autumn Wrap and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with desire to sing and no auditioning you Gergely Bogányi on the piano and Tibor might want to read the full text of Sam’s The summer recess symbolically ended Bogányi conducting. interview on the KCW Today website. with torrential but refreshing September At the north-eastern end of our We featured Warren Mailley Smith’s rain, in the spirit of renewal for la rentrée manor, the Wigmore Hall’s acoustics Complete Chopin Cycle quite extensively reviewing our venues’ websites, one is have my ears salivating (scientists last month and online, so this is just a reminded of the huge musical privilege say our noses hear smells) and I look quick reminder that we’ve got the second of being KCW Today’s classical hack. forward to catching up with you on and third instalments coming up at St With a massive November ahead, which Friday 23rd October at half past seven to John’s Smith Square at seven thirty on includes Mahler’s Ninth and Strauss’s hear Bertrand Chamayou on the piano 23 October and 27 November 2015. Die Fledermaus, the Royal College of playing (amongst other Ravel pieces) the We’ll carry more in-depth reviews over Music has plenty to take you there in the three fantasy pieces of the “fiendishly the coming year of the Complete Chopin meantime, including a rare opportunity difficult”Gaspard de la Nuit. In Wigmore Cycle; but, briefly, it was even better than to attend a John Lill masterclass (10.30 Hall’s own words: “Chamayou is blessed I’d hoped and I’ll carry the memory of am on 13th October 2015). with the rare ability to cast fresh light my daughter nudging me in appreciation I’ll be off to what I’ve come to think on even the most familiar works in this of the Nocturne No 1 in B flat minor Opus of as my home venue Cadogan Hall on unmissable programme”. All reports 9 to the grave. For all the pyrotechnics of 23rd October 2015 at half past seven for indicate they’re right. the Polonaises it’s the reflectiveNocturnes the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra’s Away from the major venues, I’ve the latest news from the amateur women’s that carry Chopin’s soul. 1956 Revolution Memorial Concert, been catching up with Sam Evans from choir with professional standards based James Douglas which will include Beethoven’s Egmont the Barcarolle Choral Society, hearing at Christ’s Church, South Kensington. Visit: kcwtoday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Ballet online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

maneuvered with elegance; the only National Youth hiccup in the scene was when two dancers took a tumble, nevertheless Ballet handled so impeccably that it looked hosts Gala for its 28th Season deliberate. The NYB was joined onstage by the By Rosie Quigley National Youth Jazz Orchestra for a

Other Photographs © The Royal Ballet Royal The © Other Photographs riotous performance of Trotters in which Last month the National Youth Ballet dancers jived and strutted to rousing (NYB) gave a formidable performance jazz. During a beautiful rendition of at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre to celebrate Tarantella small but mighty younger its 28th season. Dancers from a range of dancers showed their power, creating a ages took to the stage with perfect poise wonderfully colourful display. Wayne and panache as they moved through the Sleep staged the show’s dazzling closing plethora of changing scenes. These were scene Cinderella in which Molly Rees, directed and choreographed by some Cinderella, danced a stunning and of the industry’s leading names. The heartfelt performance. The scene itself Gala showcased the work of emerging was spectacular, with all the magic and choreographers in the Beyond Ballet imagination of a fairy tale. At one point, section: Athena by Arielle Smith, Venn tiny mice flooded the stage, using their by Eleanor Marsh and Trotters by Jamie tails as skipping ropes as a pumpkin Neale all premiered in this section. gambled around them. Costumes were A particularly notable piece was Athena, vibrant and complemented the fantasy of a contemporary piece choreographed the set design. If this year’s NYB Gala is by NYB alumnus Arielle Smith. Taking anything to go by, I look forward to the inspiration from the famed Giselle delights of 2016. ballet, Athena puts a much darker twist on the love story; the section is set in a Romeo & Juliet gloomy underworld where two lovers by The Royal Ballet at fight for doomed love. An ensemble, The Royal Opera House. lead by Bryony Harrison, clad in

horned headpieces and leather jackets © NYB Photograph By Andrew Ward performed as an unbroken, fiery unit - their movements were mesmerizing to watch. One couldn’t help feel sorry for he stage was set for the 468th Chris Thomas, the male protagonist in

performance of Romeo & Juliet © CharlotteMacmillanPhotography.com picture This the scene, who was being tracked around Tby The Royal Ballet at The Royal the set by the hostile pack. In the Four Opera House. It was very fitting that Seasons scene, dancers were challenged in the 50th Anniversary Year since Sir by the Vivaldi score but none the less Kenneth MacMillan created his first full-length work for The Royal Ballet, this now timeless Classic opened the at least. Sarah danced with a delicious portray real people, who could act in a Royal Ballet’s 2015/16 season. This was sensuality which in the final scene of the way that was credible in order that the not just a performance for the sell out act was clear to see. narrative ballets he created could last the audience at the ROH, but with thanks Steven McRae danced with style and testament of time. to BP’s sponsorship, the performance certainly rose to the occasion. You could It is important to note the inspiring was to be televised and shown live on not fault his ability to dance every turn collaboration that Kenneth created with the big screen at venues around the UK and jump with unfaltering ease and line John B. Read and Nicholas Georgiadis and relayed to audiences in the millions that was pleasing to the eye. This was at the outset of his choreographic around the globe. very much in evidence when Steven was journey. Romeo & Juliet and many of his The whole company, from the dancing for his new found love in the celebrated works might not have taken principal dancers to the corps de ballet, Ballroom scene and the opening 2nd Act centre stage without the brilliance of rose to the occasion. Kenneth would Market scene, when in a dreamy state he these two influential people. Kenneth have been proud that his work is still sprung to life taking full use of the stage understood that if you cannot see in such good shape and continues to with blisteringly fast turns ending with a the dancers on stage it is lost on the challenge great dancers as much now superb series of saut de basque that most audience, no matter how brilliant as it did when it was first created 50 male dancers could only dream about. the choreography or dancers might years ago. Kenneth created the ballet Other performances to note in equal be. A lesson even some of the more on Lynn Seymour, his muse for many measures were from the young Alexander recent celebrated choreographers have years, and Christopher Gable, a dancer movement that brings audiences into the Campell who played Mercutio with great yet to learn. John B Read’s lighting with engaging skills as an actor too. moment. gusto, wit and the devilish behaviour design is powerful and works to great However, back in 1965 the premiere was Sarah danced with a fluidity and that the role requires in abundance; effect in creating a sense of drama, performed by Fonteyn and Nureyev at expression from the moment she entered Gary Avis whose Tybalt has to be one especially in the dark scenes such as the the insistence of the management and the stage. As a young and innocent of the best and most memorable of this famous Balcony Pas de Deux. Equally, the impresario of the upcoming tour of teenager playing games with her nurse difficult and fierce character that stands Georgiadis’ set designs are sublime the USA. who at the end of the scene pointed and fights for his family till the end of and have not been changed since the This evening Sarah Lamb played out that adulthood was upon her and his dying moments, when he is left in opening night fifty years ago; the stairs Juliet alongside Steven McRae as her that she should put aside the dolls and the arms of Lady Capulet, played with and balconies work at every level for all Romeo. As a pair of star crossed lovers prepare herself for marriage. Sarah had real dramatic understanding by Elizabeth three acts! Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo both were in complete command of the clearly thought through the role as McGorian; and finally Christopher & Juliet is a timeless Classic that can and choreography and its technical demands Juliet. You could see in her expression Saunders, who took on the key character should be seen more than once. that enabled them to tell the story at the ballroom that she had found her role of Lord Capulet, that for many years through their artistry and Kenneth’s first and only love; it did not matter that was played by the great Michael Somes. Performances till 2nd Dec. incredible dramatic vocabulary of Romeo was not a Capulet, in her eyes Kenneth wanted dancers to be able to Booking 020 7304 4000 roh.org.uk 52 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

The earliest objects Celts: art and show ambiguous and abstract art-forms, identity Museum British based around stylistic British Museum natural forms, but not

naturalistic, which National Museums Scotland Until 21 January 2016 was the way with the Admission £16.50 Greeks and Romans. Two of the most britishmuseum.org/celts beautiful objects on display are Iron Age mirrors, made before o, who were the Celts? Even the the Roman invasion, academics have differing views the Desborough and Sand are constantly reassessing their St Keverne Mirrors understanding through recent research made of copper alloy, and new archeological discoveries. There highly polished on one was never a pan-European ancient side and exquisitely people called the Celts; there was no decorated on the back. single culture; there was no single The Celts expressed language; there was no nation. But their resistance after maybe there was a notion, and that they the Roman conquest share a single style, even though they of most of Britain are not a single people. This exhibition through their designs, takes a fresh look at Celtic art from and once Christianity its origins around 500BC in western took a hold after the Europe, through its tranformations in art-forms. It was a Welsh naturalist, mystery. The base was hammered out Romans left in AD410, there were the Roman and medieval periods, up linguist and geographer, Edward Lhuyd, of one piece of silver, which supported further influences, as there were when to its re-discovery in the 18th and 19th who noted the similarity between two a double skin of ornate plaques, so that the Vikings arrived on our shores in centuries and right up to the present day. Celtic language families, the Breton, both inside and outside were decorated AD793. Inscribed stones reveal the The Greeks first recognised them as a Cornish and Welsh grouping, and the with hunting scenes, gods, dogs, bulls, diverse regional identities across Britain bunch of barbarians, far away from the Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic, the deer, eagles, boars, and other mythical and Ireland, including the myterious sophiticated Mediterranean cultures, first group originating in Gaul, and the beings like winged horses, with serpents’ Picts from north of the Firth of Forth, and a most non-Med way of thinking latter in the Iberian Peninsula. From this tails and double-headed wolves. Even who used their own non-alphabetic about politics, religion and identity. The period on, these peoples became known the base, which the visitor does not see, symbol script, much of which has yet to geographer, philosopher and historian as Celts, and are regarded as the modern has another bull-slaying scene depicting be deciphered. Strabo, said of them in AD17 “The Celtic nations today. a female warrior with three hounds. There is rich array of materials on whole race . . . is war-mad, and both Some of the objects on display are The craftsmen who fashioned some show, including gold, silver, bronze, high-spirited and quick for battle”. breathtakingly beautiful, but the star of these objects, whether jewellery, copper alloy, enamel, amber, glass Sounds like a typical wet Saturday night of the show has to be the exquisite carved stone, buckles, reliquaries, and niello, which is a black mixture in Sauchiehall Street to me. Gundestrop cauldon, the first time it illuminated manuscripts, bowls, weapons, of copper, silver, and lead sulphides. This brilliantly-displayed exhibition has been seen outside Copenhagen’s helmets, shields, amphorae, combs The illuminated manuscripts of the tells the long story of the Celts, even Nationalmuseet. This massive silver or armlets, all had a high degree of early medieval period are magnificent, though the peoples at the centre of it vessel was dug up from a peat bog in expertise and attention to detail which particularly the St Chad and Lindisfarne did not refer to themselves as such. 1891 in Northern Jutland, and experts would shame some people working Gospels, which demonstrate the It was only when Greek and Roman are still debating where it was made and in these fields today, even with all the elaborate curvilinear spiral art practised historians became more accessible by whom, as well as what it represented. modern-day technical aids, optical by the monks. Even if the story of the through the advent of the printing press Some see it as a Western Celtic object, devices, computers, lathes and tools Celts is still in dispute and not fully in the later medieval period, that these while others place it in south-eastern available to them. It is only when one understood, and the visitor may not go threads became more apparent, but it Europe, the world of the Thracians. looks at, say, a silver, gold, amber and away from this stunninig exhibition with took until the beginning of the 18th It probably dates from c. 150-50BC, glass brooch from a Viking grave at a true comprehension of what constitutes century that their identities became although this, too, is uncertain. What is around 600AD, through a close-up lens, Celtic, the objects on display are of such cohesive through a commonality of certain is that this piece is of outstanding the fine decoration and design become beauty, it hardly matters. language, as well as the curvilinear quality, workmanship, beauty and apparent and are truly astonishing. Don Grant

winter fair, the Winter Olympia Art & Dickenson, from the BBC’s Highlights of Antiques Fair opens with the Collector’s Antiques Roadshow, will be there Preview Reception on 2th November. to demonstrate how to identify the the 25th Winter The Fair attracts 22,000 visitors, who authenticity of a piece of silver. come to see over 30,000 pieces for sale Art consultant Vanessa Curry Olympia Art & from the 120 hand-picked dealers. will be conducting highlights tours A glamorous highlight of the art of the fair throughout the duration Antiques Fair and antiques calendar in the run up to of the fair. Christmas, the fair takes place alongside The fair remains the only Asian Art in London. event of its kind to be run in For this year’s events programme, association with both of the UK’s Historic wallpaper, Art Deco travel, Arts the organisers have teamed up with top trade associations, BADA and & Crafts Silver, Gillows of Lancaster, the V&A who will be giving talks on LAPADA; both of whom endorse Tiffany & Co, and iconic jeweller Paul historic wallpaper, Art Deco travel, and quality in the trade. What will be Flato will all be a part of the celebrated late 19th century and early 20th century especially appealing to new buyers Winter Olympia Fair, opening on the artists’ houses. Other talks throughout is the knowledge that every single 2nd of November at Olympia, and the week will cover topics such as piece is checked by experts before running till the 8th. Chinese sculpture, Arts & Crafts silver, the Fair opens to ensure that it is Celebrating 25 years as London’s top and pre-Raphaelite drawings. Alastair authentic. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Celebrating five centuries of Andrea Palladio

ndrea Palladio (1508-80) was the most influential Western Aarchitect of all time. The second was the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) whose legacy is now a global phenomenon. But what unites, and what separates, these two giants, born centuries apart? The parallels are powerful and often surprising. The Renaissance architect is best known for taking the pediments of classical temples and applying them to domestic architecture, whether country villas or relatively modest farm buildings in his native Veneto region. They are religious works. In a curious inversion, other religious. And while UNESCO centuries, not just in continental Europe symmetrical and have proportions based Corb’s latest and greatest works could be has bestowed World Heritage status but the US (both the White House on the ‘golden section’. Other common said to be religious; namely, Ronchamp on Palladio’s output, none has so far and the Capitol building, for example), features are Venetian windows (also Pilgrimage Church and La Tourette, been awarded to his later, even more its adoption by the English Palladians called Serliana or Palladian) and the use even though he was agnostic, while the prominent peer. The Fondation Le such as Inigo Jones, Lord Burlington, of one of the classical Orders. architect of the magnificentS Giorgio Corbusier in Paris was hoping for an Colen Campbell, William Kent and Sir None of these is to be found in Le Maggiore and Il Redentore, in Venice, is accolade this year, half a century after his Edwin Lutyens; and various twentieth Corbusier’s works, far from it. But a better known for his houses. death, but it has yet to happen. century abstractions, distillations and detailed investigation reveals more than Both have more work finished in A question that may reasonably be simplifications. a dozen comparisons worthy of further stucco than stonework (or concrete for asked is, just how far did Le Corbusier Curators Charles Hind and Vicky study, beginning with their domestic that matter); both favoured white over self-consciously model himself on Wilson have done a great service to the circumstances and what the latter said he other colours; both suffered at the hands Palladio? In the 1930s he told us himself exhibition and Palladio’s legacy with learnt from the former. of clients and had problems collecting that his architecture was influenced this show. There are films, models and Palladio’s father was a miller and their fees; both were the target of rivals “by the spirit of Palladio”. The late photographs as well as drawings; and small-time entrepreneur, Le Corbusier’s a and enemies; both survived into their architecture critic, Colin Rowe, showed a series of talks, events and workshops watchmaker. While it’s true that, just like seventies; and both had major projects us how in his seminal article of 1947, The over the coming weeks. other professions such as medicine and completed after their respective deaths. Mathematics of the Ideal Villa. There are also various corruptions law, architecture tends to be hereditary it And both gave a name to their respective This enunciated modernism’s debt to of Palladio’s ideals, for no style has ever was not so in this case. Both were largely movements; Palladian and Corbusian. classicism, by comparing the plans and proved so popular for contemporary self-taught, through reading, writing and Neither became wealthy. elevations of Villa Foscari (known as the houses by spec developers. His noble doing, though in the former’s case also Where they do differ is often in their Malcontenta) outside Venice, and the designs confer status on their owners. through studying classical ruins at first form-making, beliefs, travels and family Villa Stein-de Monzie at Garches. “Passion can make drama out of inert hand. life. Three other aspects support this theory stone”, Palladio might have said it, but One was born Andrea di Pietro della For Francis Terry, architect son of of copying: his acquired name (and also in fact it was Le Corbusier in his book Gondola, the other Charles-Édouard contemporary neo-classicist architect various motifs); his prodigious literary Toward an Architecture. The “passion” Jenneret-Gris. Palladio was a given name, Quinlan, Palladio was a “one-trick pony”. output (knowing this would have much and “drama” he refers to are real enough, after the Greek goddess of wisdom, He was highly derivative of what came greater impact than just his buildings even if the “stone” often turns out to be and Corb chose his own. Both believed before him, an imitator rather than an themselves); and publishing his own stucco, in the case of our Renaissance in the transformative power of design, innovator. The same could be said to a work alongside great works from history. architect, or even reinforced concrete in and they were brilliant marketeers: both certain degree about Corb, but the latter There are several other tell-tale signs, the case of our Neo-Renaissance one. were, ultimately, more famous for what was exceptionally clever in covering his such as Palladio’s decision to choose just they wrote and published than for what tracks: he tended to steal other’s work, one other near-contemporary architect to Palladian Design: The Good, they built. Palladio’s Quattro Libri (Four whether approaches, ideas and forms, mention and publish alongside himself, the Bad and the Unexpected Books) was published in 1570, just 10 and claim them for his own. As his namely Bramante (1444-1514); Le is at the Royal Institute of British years before his death, while Toward an friend Picasso maintained, “Bad artists Corbusier ditto, but in his case Tony Architects, 66 Portland Place, London Architecture, first published in 1923 and copy, good artists steal”. Garnier (1869-1948). W1B 1AD, until 9 January 2016. never since out of print, was a relatively Corb travelled widely but not The greatest collection of original Admission free. early proclamation of Corb’s radical Palladio; the one had strong political Palladio drawings in the world is held by The Architecture Gallery is open 10am- ideas, influences and early designs. beliefs, fundamentally totalitarian, the RIBA Library. In a new exhibition 5pm Monday to Sunday and until 8pm Both were prolific in output, across a whether of Left or Right (Corb was at its headquarters in Portland Place, every Tuesday. wide range of building types, but they are accused of being both a Fascist and a and open until January 2016, visitors More at www.architecture.com/ best remembered for their domestic and Communist during his lifetime); the can trace Palladio’s influence down the PalladianDesign 54 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

not particularly fast-selling) Pet Sounds. and record label Capitol to put their Essentially unable to work and unable to MAX Blasting the DNA of baroque classical faith in Brian for the intended magnum be fired due to The Beach Boys contract Feldman and psychedelia through the prism of opus of follow up album Smile. stipulating that he had to be involved surf music, the album’s melancholy Unfortunately for all concerned, in each album, the rest of the band REVIEWS themes and intricate production raised Brian Wilson’s fracturing mental state insisted that he submit to radical therapy the band’s profile to the point where a (exacerbated by psychedelic drug use, under the care of Dr Eugene Landy 1966 NME poll voted them above the which almost immediately inspired if he wanted to see any of his residual Beatles as the most artistically creative auditory hallucinations) meant that his percentages. However under Landy’s Bad Vibrations dictatorial and unethical care Wilson was reduced to the status of a prisoner, while Landy ingratiated himself into every element of Wilson’s life, living in his n the wake of the recent Brian house and even involving himself in his Wilson biopic Love and Mercy, Max musical career. IFeldman takes a look at the later life Having diagnosed Wilson as and career of the Beach Boy’s troubled schizophrenic (a diagnosis that was later genius. overturned), Landy proceeded to over Brian Wilson, the tortured genius who medicate him, occasionally to the point served The Beach Boys as a mercurial of relative catatonia. Witnesses were combination of George Martin spliced often unnerved by sights like Landy with both Lennon and McCartney, has refusing to let Wilson eat until he wrote lived the kind of life that few would a song or obsessively calling Wilson call Fun Fun Fun. Chafing under his every 20 minutes if they were apart. Add abusive father’s draconian rule as the in the fact that Landy had bodyguards band’s business manager cum producer (or just regular guards) accompany and publisher, Brian (who was deaf in Wilson nearly everywhere he went (he his right ear because his father beat him was occasionally allowed out by himself savagely across the face with a 2X4) to do a weekly shop) to prevent him fired him and effectively took control from seeing any of his friends or even his of the band as a vehicle for his more family; the rogue psychologist seems to progressive musical ideas. have more than a little in common with Always less comfortable in the Wilson family’s old acquaintance the limelight than his brothers, the Charles Manson (Brian’s brother Dennis introverted and stage-fright prone had a short songwriting partnership with Wilson retreated from live performances the cult leader in the late sixties before with the band in the early sixties, in the Tate/Bianca killings. For obvious favour of exploring the possibilities of reasons Dennis tended to keep this fact the recording studio. Fed up with the to himself). Landy exercised this total constraints of surf-rock and driven by control over the troubled artist for almost a (mostly one-sided) rivalry with the band in the world. Though serving to perfectionism and creativity warped a decade. Beatles, Wilson (with the help of The alienate the rest of the band (especially into something more schizophrenic. Eventually Wilson’s maid alongside Wrecking Crew, a studio band who rival Mike Love, who saw no reason to tinker Installing sandboxes under pianos and the woman who would become his Motown’s The Funk Brothers in sheer with a proven hit-making formula) the insisting on a dress code that included second wife were able to send Carl expertise) expanded the boundaries of massive critical and commercial success red fireman’s helmets was the order of Wilson (a brother pleasantly untainted both the Beach Boys’ sound and popular the “pocket symphony” of the Good the day with the band endlessly and by any bloodthirsty old associates) hard music in general with the masterful (and Vibrations single inspired both the band elliptically tinkering on songs that evidence of malpractice. Thankfully the the cracking Wilson was unwilling or ensuing legal battle managed to both perhaps more likely, unable to finish. free Wilson from living a combination Under intense internal and external of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and pressure and terrified of rejection, The Master for the rest of his life and Brian retreated from the heights he had also get Landy disbarred. Expressing aspired to, claiming he had run out of far more control and focus than he ideas “in a conventional sense” and was had since the sixties, Wilson released a “about ready to die”. It was under these series of critically acclaimed solo albums disintegrating circumstances that an before in 2004 finally releasingBrian exasperated Mike Love seized control Wilson Presents Smile, a re-jigged and of the band, cutting Smile down to a re-recorded version of his masterpiece cut-down and compromised (though which finally netted him a much certainly not bad) version entitled Smiley deserved Grammy. Smile that eschewed the Dylan on (even Wilson’s life recently received the more) amphetamines word salad, lyrical Hollywood treatment in the form of the approach that Wilson had been working excellent Love and Mercy which focused on with lyricist Van Dyke Parks. exclusively on the Pet Sounds/Smile era After this, Brian’s involvement with and his escape from Landy’s destructive the Beach Boys began to slide as his care. In a move straight out of Todd work and persona began to take on an Hayne’s many faced Dylan biopic I’m increasingly manic edge. After his father Not There, the young and old Wilson secretly sold the publishing rights of the are played by two separate actors: a band’s early catalogue for the relatively magnetic Paul Dano and a noticeably low price of $740,000, a depressed less magnetic John Cusak (whose casting and steadily deteriorating Wilson fell seems needlessly cruel, has Brian not into increasingly heavy drink and drug suffered enough?!). It’s a great primer for abuse. Brian ballooned to over three anyone interested in delving into the life hundred pounds and in his own words of an enigmatic titan of popular music. MF George Schreiber, actor, playing Brian Wilson. Riverview Entertainment Riverview Wilson. Brian playing actor, Schreiber, George “didn’t get out of bed for two years”. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

that wouldn’t be out of place in a rough cause some of the material to blur into and tumble folk ballad and proceeds each other. Vile offers a wealth of subtle to present himself as an “outlaw on the musical shimmies over the course of the brink of self-implosion/alone in the record, particularly at the beginning and crow/going nowhere slow.” In the hands end of the album, which should delight of his backing band The Violators (much those attuned to his particular muse but like his parents, Kurt knows a good pun don’t quite serve to differentiate to the when he sees one) alienation has rarely necessary extent. Photographs © Kill Rock Stars © Kill Rock Photographs had so much groove to it. Whilst Vile’s Whilst those who are happy to frequently funny and snide words are luxuriate in sound will find plenty to love always a pleasure, it’s his delivery that over the 14 tracks it is perfectly easy to really sells the record. Possessed with the imagine this record fading from memory kind of accent that could conceivably be relatively swiftly due to the dreamlike from anywhere (he’s from Philadelphia), qualities that make it so appealing. B’lieve his little yelps and twangs help the songs I’m Going Down doesn’t quite match up pop out from the soporific mid-tempo to Smoke Ring for My Halo but offers far grave that is always a risk with this kind more spiky lyrical twists and turns than of music. it’s fuzzy tone might initially suggest and A potential deal-breaker for some is definitely worth your time. Whilst his may be the comparative lack of strong detractors would claim that he sleepwalks hooks compared to previous releases, through his records, if B’lieve I’m Going often songs will simply unwind Down is anything to go by, he clearly preternatural casualness that serves to hypnotically which whilst pleasant can sleeps with one eye open. MF Kurt Vile-B’lieve belie his range. All of his work contains a similar warmth however and Vile’s I’m Going Down lackadaisical yowl (which owes more than a little to Neil Young and Dinosaur Matador Records Jr’s J Mascis) is one of the more relaxing £10.00 sounds to be found in the modern rock landscape.

Initially breaking into the mainstream © Sony Photograph on the strengths of 2009’s career-best musician named ‘Kurt Vile’ Smoke Ring For My Halo, Vile carved will inevitably dredge up out a niche for himself, spending his Asome assumptions. It’s easy subsequent releases subtly refining to immediately imagine a crusty (and the sound that brought him acclaim. probably mostly naked) punk, covered in As a result his albums usually vary in sweat, spittle and, if he really cares about small details rather than bold leaps and not caring, blood. However, far from a whilst B’lieve I’m Going Down takes a wannabe Sid Vicious with delusions of step back from the lush psychedelia of Brechtian eloquence, in reality Kurt Vile 2013’s Walkin On A Pretty Daze it feels is a beatific slacker-hippie crossbreed like a logical progression. Apparently whose (quite literally) Vile parents composed quietly late at night “when knew a good pun when they heard one the wife and kids were asleep” the record and saddled him with a name that was is driven by Vile’s pleasantly spidery guaranteed to turn heads, clearly Philip acoustic lead (which is complemented by Larkin wasn’t that far off the mark. everything from country style banjo to The set-up, such as it is, is typical Throughout his career Vile’s most hissing reverb) but more than anything Until Dawn for a teenage slasher. Something bad obvious stock in trade has been twisty else B’lieve is a record fuelled by a wry happened a year ago when eight friends and cynical narratives married to the melancholy. went to a remote cabin for a winter kind of blissfully stoned melodies that On the surging serpentine album- Unlike almost any other genre, there is getaway and they’ve returned this year induce a dreamy floating feeling with opener Pretty Pimping Vile narrates a an obscure comfort to be found in horror to salve guilty consciences and also get an almost pharmaceutical efficiency. moment of existential dread common to film clichés. The formulaic nature of as drunk as humanly possible. However This is far from the only arrow in his many: “I woke up this morning/Didn’t having a bunch of over-sexed mostly there is somebody/something there quiver however and over the course of recognize the man in the mirror/Then I unlikable teenagers being murdered by with them and the situation swiftly goes his six album oeuvre he’s yo-yoed from laughed and I said, “Oh silly me, that’s a seemingly indestructible serial killer/ straight to hell (sometimes literally). bruising psych-rock assaults to stripped- just me”/Then I proceeded to brush werewolf/vampire/blood drenched There is a fair amount of variety down acoustic laments with a kind of some stranger’s teeth/But they were my Theresa May actually offers its own in the various of combinations of teeth and I was weightless”. pantomime style delights. Half the circumstances and grisly murders each The dry tone of Vile’s entertainment of low grade horror playthrough will create which offers a singing voice throughout is placing a bunch of unwitting and fair amount of replayability. Being placed the album is a doorway into unlikable characters into a meat-grinder in control means that rather than be the humour of much of his and inviting the audience to indulge in a stuck shouting “Don’t go in there!” at writing (having spent many spot of “He’s behind you!”. the screen, you can instead have your a hungover Sunday’s staring Playstation 4 exclusive Until Dawn character find a weapon or avoid the in horror at my reflection, fully understands this particular quirk room altogether (of course half the fun the lament of “Who’s this and takes it a step further by placing the comes from sending your charges to stupid clown blocking the player in a position akin to a director, you their certain doom...) bathroom sink?” carries direct the eight characters’ actions and So with Halloween on the horizon, more than a faint sting of whether they live or die horribly in your instead of renting guilty pleasures like recognition). hands. You pick the characters’ dialogue 2 Scream 2 Furious instead consider Later in the Flannery and tell them to go this way and with Until Dawn for a different kind of O’Connor quoting I’m every choice tabulated by the game and entertainment. Based on how cruel you An Outlaw, Vile takes subtly informing the particulars of the can/will be to your charges, the pleasure a swaggering banjo line worst night of your heroes’/victims’ lives. is still likely to be pretty guilty. MF 56 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

off demolition and the Rock Garden A Visionary’s was recognised and funded so that the work carried on until the 1990’s. Since garden in India then Nek Chand’s work has become By Cynthia Pickard well known - he exhibited sculptures all over the world - and the Garden is now supported by the international Nek Pickard © Cynthia Photographs Chand Foundation and visited with great pleasure by thousands. n June this year Nek Chand passed Our experience of Chandigarh away, aged ninety. He was the was coloured by the hotel that we Icreator of one of the world’s most inadvertently booked into, the name of impressive examples of Outsider Art, which I have conveniently forgotten. the twenty-five acre Rock Garden of After viewing and rejecting several Chandigarh. Over fifty years, Chand rooms with damp beds and unclean built this extraordinary landscape using linen, we accepted what they called waste material and filled it with over the 'Honeymoon Suite', complete with 2000 sculptures of people, animals, and circular bed and cinema-style curtains. fantastical inventions. The henna-haired owner tried to pacify us with promises of providing anything we might wish for, however the bottled Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect, Nek Chand started building in water never arrived. Breakfast the as the capital of India’s Punjab region, secret on unused city land while he was following day was not an improvement: created after partition in 1947. It was working as a roads inspector during the waiter wiped glasses with a dirty described by Jonathan Glancey in the construction of Le Corbusier’s new tablecloth plucked from the floor and glowing terms as one of the architect’s city. He started using waste material to searched ineffectively amongst the greatest achievements. Sorry, but ageing create not only sculptures but a massive cutlery to find a clean spoon. The huge pillared concrete buildings and identical landscape of buildings and waterfalls. TV in the dining room swamped us with blocks of flats, spread over a vast area Recycling reached new heights: hundreds Indian pop videos and nonstop adverts. of numbered sectors and reached by a of fluorescent tubes were used to form a The masala omelette contained near profusion of roundabouts, admittedly via wall, pastel coloured bathroom fittings raw onion and an unidentifiable gritty much green space, is not the India that were broken down to make mosaics. coating, the yogurt was sour, and the this romantic is entranced by. Give me Electric plug parts and broken bangles, boiled egg was stale. We visited the Rock Garden a traditional villages and painted palaces bottles and pots, everything was used to Never mind, added to the pleasure of few years ago on the way from Delhi any time. Images of post-War ribbon build his vision. The authorities tried to our visit to the Rock Garden, it provided up to the Himalayas. The entire city developments and Milton Keynes kept shut down the illegal construction in the yet another experience to write home of Chandigarh was designed by Le popping into my head. 1970’s but admirers of the work fought about. A six day cultural tour... Cultural Crossroads of Malta & Gozo the Mediterranean MONDAY 11-SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2016 Join us on our specially arranged visit to Malta, exploring its varied cultural heritage, from ancient walled cities to Megalithic temples. With over 7,000 years of history to explore, Malta is a true treasure- trove of artistic, archaeological and historical delight. Based at the 4 star Hotel Victoria in Sliema, our tour will explore the very best these islands have to offer. Highlights include:

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main shopping street, Republic Street. Malta It was designed for its prominent site by Cultural Island in the Renzo Piano, best known in this country for the Shard on the South Bank near Mid-Med Sun London Bridge Station, and for the By Charles Castagno Pompidou Centre at Beaubourg in Paris, won in competition by Piano and Lord (Richard) Rogers. Views are mixed. One part is an office complex for members, the other the chamber and ancillary facilities. It alta has been my annual almost ‘reads’ as one, but is separated by destination of choice for a diagonal gash obscuring the entrance. Malmost half a century, not Local limestone was used for the that I have neglected other destinations, external walls, but this is steel-framed far from it. But its unique attributes construction with the stone used as are hard to beat and, combined with just a cladding material. As a massive a very favourable exchange rate of presence, it should hit the ground as a sterling against the euro, this makes it solid but doesn’t; an inset curtain wall exceptional value just now. of glass does that. Also, the stone is cut Let’s start with location and size: Malta, with its smaller sister islands of Gozo and Comino, is at the centre of the Mediterranean, 50 miles south of Sicily and 200 miles north of Libya. Its climate is as one would expect, a welcome antidote to autumnal blues and post- Christmas excess. The best months are April to July, with August just too hot, and September variable as the season changes. Last month we were caught in what could only be called a monsoon that lasted for four hours. highly competitive room and half-board In terms of size, think of the Isle of rates, especially out of season, however. Wight, small and easily manageable. But there is another side to Malta Hire a car and you can drive round it in entirely, enough to quench the cultural a day, say two days if you also make the curiosity of the most discerning traveller. short ferry crossing to Gozo that takes It boasts three UNESCO World about 20 minutes. Added to which, Heritage sites encompassing nine everyone speaks English and driving is locations, from its megalithic temples of on the left-hand side. British tourists, standing stones such as at Mnajdra and who make up by far the majority, are Hagar Qim, and troglodyte tombs of the warmly welcomed, even though their Hypogeum, several of which pre-date numbers can put a strain on resources at Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of certain times. Giza. and that is good for Malta in the longer in such a way that is unique, producing The native population is less than Add the Knights of Malta, who saved term especially when it comes to culture. an attractive pattern to otherwise bland 425,000, tiny compared with other it from enslavement by the Turks during The National Museum of Archaeology, walls, but also totally alien to any local countries within Europe. The other the Great Siege of 1565, and built the National War Museum at the newly- tradition spanning thousands of years. surprise for first-time holidaymakers is new capital of Valletta, and the island revived Fort St Elmo, the National Two massive flights of stairs inside how few sandy beaches there are, and becomes a very different type of offer. Museum of Fine Arts and the Palace the bastion walls lead down to entrance these are likely to be monopolised almost Valletta has been designated European Armoury and State Rooms are among level, while externally there is a to the exclusion of others by local people. Capital of Culture for 2018 which will the top attractions, as well as St John’s passenger lift from the bottom of the So the choice is often to swim off the help to transform many perceptions of Co-Cathedral. Heritage Malta offers ditch on a slanting trajectory. rocks or use a swimming pool. . multiple tickets to all these and more for Just after British architect Edward But it must also be said that Malta is British visitors who lived there for a a flat fee. Views over the natural Grand Middleton Barry completed the Royal not to everyone’s taste: visitors tend to while or who were just passing through Harbour, ring-fenced by the dramatic Opera House, Covent Garden (1857- love or hate it in equal measure, a holiday included Byron and Coleridge, Sir fortifications, may be had for free, 58) he did the same for Valletta (1860). Marmite test if ever there was one. Walter Scott and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; however. So too exhibitions and other It was virtually obliterated by the Since opening up to the ‘golden more recently anthropologist and writer displays in St James Cavalier, converted during the Second World hordes’ on package holidays from the Desmond Morris, architect Sir Basil Victorian water cisterns in a prominent War but has just been given new life 1960s and 1970s, Malta has struggled Spence and artist Victor Pasmore, in position next to the Prime Minister’s next to Piano’s Parliament. One would with its tourist identity: is it another whose memory a new gallery has just office. like to say that it almost steps up to the Costa del Sol or Benidorm? Or it is opened next to the Central Bank. A few Caravaggio, for many the greatest mark, but not quite. It is open to the something much more, a Paris or Rome years ago David and Victoria Beckham painter who ever lived, spent time here. elements, with fixed green plastic seats, or Florence? To most the former resorts bought an apartment in the Portomaso His ‘savage masterpiece’, The Beheading inflexible, with few gantry lights, and are likely to be an alternative option. marina development in St Julians, a of St John, is to be found in the Cathedral lined with what look like temporary But many would argue that the island tourist hotspot. Contemporary home- Museum along with other work. plywood sheets. It is all rather bizarre, an missed an opportunity to go up-market, grown stars who add to the cultural mix After your cultural fill, you may installation on the cheap even though it sacrificing quality for quantity. Simply include the tenor Joseph Calleja, sculptor favour a trip to Sicily for a day or more. is reputed to have cost €8m. put, in terms of infrastructure and other Gabriel Caruana and architect Richard Local ferries offer a daily service. It takes There is still time to do a proper amenities it is not a five-star place. There England. a few hours by powerful catamaran. job by 2018, but given a typically is oversupply of five-star hotels, no At each general election power What are the latest finds in Valletta? 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Elephants and hippos kept us company fire a Ping-Pong ball filled with powerful on the river. chilli oil. It’s the elephant equivalent of The sun sets regularly at around six in paintballing. The ball bursts on impact this part of Africa so we went back to the and causes temporary but major skin bar, where our numbers had swollen with irritation, and being intelligent the

the arrival of farmers and their families elephants get the message and stay © Nick Hewitt Photographs from southern Zimbabwe. That evening out in the bush. Nick does this work we sat under a spectacular starlit sky at voluntarily. a long table and were fed like royalty The rest of the week was serious by Iona’s kitchen. Afterwards everyone quality time. We fished during the day. gathered around a large fire to sink more Sundowns were taken in the water up to wine, talk bollocks, and listen to the our knees out on the sandbanks with the African night; hippos are the most vocal. elephants, hippos, waterbucks, crocs, and Later, one came munching the well-kept a myriad of birds. Dinners at the long lawn next to my tent, followed by an table, followed by colourful banter round elephant. The following night lions came the fire till the early hours. Everyone had by. They were close, so close I could hear a good story. Particularly the farmers, their soft exhale of breath that follows a who have been thrown off their land, roar. Being right on the edge of the camp harassed and threatened, and now rent and with only a sliver of canvas between their farms back and still scratch a living. them and Their resilience, tenacity, and above all me was a tad good humour is astounding. Where was petrifying. the British government? On holiday Fishing in Now a chap with Berlusconi probably. doesn’t Sadly the week came to an end Africa...... and shout for and it was time to get back up the road. fear of Exiting Zimbabwe was easy but on other stories startling re-entering Zambia a customs official By Nick Hewitt the animal, decided to supplement his income. Each or waking vehicle owner was made to hand over the rest of US$200 for a ‘security bond’. If you kick the camp off you can get stuck; not for hours but and looking days. A foreigner in a vehicle can be a iger fishing on the Zambezi stupid; but target and all the people I know have sounds a bit odd. The tiger is not one also their paperwork 100% tight to avoid any Ta fish. The Zambezi is in Africa, doesn’t hassle, but it doesn’t always work. As we where there are no tigers. The tiger fish want to die. put miles between us and the border the is green and white. It has stripes, but I lay there foul taste subsided and we stopped for nothing like a tiger’s. It does have teeth fantasising the night at a roadside camp. With an though, big sharp ones. about the early start we continued north the next My trip started at a large dinner in possible day for our last night in the hot springs , visiting some old friends who agents’ and money changers, so caution headlines in the papers back home at Shiwa Ngandu. live in Tanzania but were back in the and polite evasion is the order of the when, after an eternity, two local soldiers The roads are good here and you UK for the summer. Head and heart, day. You need a ream of papers for each appeared and the animals’ sounds can sit at 150 kph most of the way. We lubricated by fine burgundy, made the vehicle and if the man in the glass box became more distant. arrived at Shiwa in perfect time for a decision to go easy. East Africa is also decides one is missing it can usually be When I got up I picked up some cold tincture to wash the dust down at my spiritual home. I grew up there and it substituted with dollars. The rub is all fresh lion shit a hundred metres from the river’s edge and everyone decided to takes little to encourage me back. the anti-corruption posters plastered my tent, dried it out, and brought it back lux it and stay the night in a chalet. After An early morning start followed by a everywhere. home. It’s great for keeping cats out of more drinks, whilst wallowing in the hot long flight can be rough, but the views Four and a half hours later we were the garden. Wonder why? pools, the lodge gave us a great dinner from the daytime flight compensate. on the road again going south for the The next morning Nick told me and we retired early ready for another On arrival in Dar es Salaam I stayed second overnight stop at Shiwa Ngandu. about the problem they are having with dawn start. Zambia is a big country and the night in the New Africa Hotel. Not We stayed at the Hot Springs Camp, run elephants coming into town, drawn by the north is vast, remote, and sparsely the most exciting place in the world but by one of the original owners’ grandsons, easy pickings from the litter, like London populated. It would be perfect for a game it serves well for a stop-over. I met my and camped the night by the river. Later foxes. He invited me to go on a drive conservancy on a massive scale. But that mate Noel the next morning at six and I went and lay back in the hot springs, with him that evening. He has two guns, would be too easy, so let’s put humans on we drove out to the domestic terminal a series of natural pools surrounded by nothing fancy, but they have the calibre Mars instead. and jumped into a light jet. After an a canopy of strange palms and other of a Ping-Pong ball and get the job done. The crossing from Zambia back to hour and a half we were landing in exotic vegetation. I was the only person We drove into town, rounded some Tanzania was easy but needless to say Iringa. A short drive got us out to the there and the setting sun burnt gold shacks, and faced our quarry: a good- the ‘bond’ refund question was met with Mufindi Tea Estate, where he lives with on the water through the foliage. The sized young bull with an impressive pair shrugs and blank stares. his wife Nell. Mufindi is at 3500 feet, peace, tranquillity, and sense of well- of tusks. He hadn’t heard us because We were back amongst the tea by so can get quite cool in the evenings. being swallowed me. I returned for the we were close to a nightclub and the lunchtime the following day, feeling Regardless, we had dinner on the morning sunrise. music drowned our approach. Nick was dusty and a little flat. We’d clocked veranda under the huge African sky and Forty-eight hours later we arrived at quick to react and placed a perfect shot 2000 miles in six days driving. No Louis stars. Jecha Point. 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complete with medieval Utah Rocks: hats and ruffs. For me, Canyonlands A trip through provided the most magnificent and science Arches & fiction-esque drama, with astounding views McGowan © Lynne Photograph Canyonlands across landscapes straight By Lynne McGowan out of Frank Herbert’s Dune. The National Park is one of the largest in the US, covering 527 square miles wide, and eeing is believing. In this hot, arid home to countless creeks, desert region of the US, there canyons, and ravines. Sare sights of wonder and marvel, Across a vast, flat valley bizarre enough to widen your eyes and floor forty miles across drop your jaw. Previously, I had not given sit several immense Utah much thought, other than knowing citadels all exactly Salt Lake City sits on a Salt Lake and aligned and perched that it’s some kind of Mormon Mecca. atop tall buttes of rock Okay, I knew there was skiing, the complete with moats and Sundance Film Festival is held there, and ramparts, as if built by not to forget Donny Osmond & co. some brilliant yet crazed But Utah is, in fact, brimming with emperor, determined to natural attractions. The epic Monument repel invaders. Valley, the Great Salt Lake, and Bryce Carved out by the Canyon are three famous ones. It Colorado River and was the two National Parks, Arches Green River, this swathe and Canyonlands, that opened up of ancient land, often extraordinary other worlds, and you don’t described as a magical need a rocket to get there. place, seems to be the On approaching Moab there is a taste plunging negative terrain of things to come with the previously to the positive uprisings repetitive scrub-lands slowly giving of the Arches area. way to enormous pleated cliffs of rock. Canyonlands has its own Excitement mounts and on entering fair share of arches and Arches National Park the impact of the hike up to Mesa Arch the natural architectural splendours hit was well worth the effort with full force; compared to this scenery, in order to drink in the the little town of Moab pales into breathtaking vista of an insignificance. immense canyon with Just imagine travelling across the a kingdom of towers universe to arrive on Mars or some shimmering purple similar red rock to find yourself beneath. stepping forth and gazing upon an alien Spending only one landscape that is surreally familiar to day in Canyonlands Earth. There is something mesmerizing National Park prevented about the divine wizardry of nature us from seeing all there creating structures that imitate man- The natural monuments of the under these arches is a rock fall or an is to offer such as the ethereal Island in made buildings on such a colossal scale. Arches National Park, granted National arch suddenly collapsing. As recently as the Sky, a plateau of rock with La Sal The results are astounding: towering Monument status in 1929, defy 1991, on one chilly winter afternoon, Mountains above, seemingly suspended monoliths, fortresses with buttresses, and superlatives. Stretching over a geological a group of hikers witnessed a slab of on a layer of cloud. Other major areas crenelated walls whipped and licked into province known as the Colorado sandstone weighing several tons hurtle include The Needles, featuring hundreds shape by wind and water. Gothic-like plateau and over 76,359 acres in area, from Landscape Arch with no warning. of red sandstone spires, and The Maze is pinnacles, turrets, and spires simulating there are as many as 2500 documented Luckily no one was injured but it must rated as one of the United States’ most castles and cathedrals soar upwards and natural arches. These arches vary from have been one tremendous sight, and not enchanting but remote hiking areas. everywhere there are countless alcoves the spectacular Delicate Arch, standing to mention fright. Finally, Lin Ottinger’s Moab Rock and arches. twenty meters tall and depicted on Not only grand edifices are aped Shop must be mentioned as it surely How on Earth did this landscape Utah license plates, to the Landscape by nature but also primitive domestic must be one of the most beguiling and come to be? Well, naturally, it is down to Arch spanning 100 meters and the eerie objects such as kiln-fired terracotta pots, eccentric museum shops ever the salt. The region sat under an inland Windows, which looks like a pair of giant cauldrons, and huge amphorae rimmed Housing an impressive collection sea during the Pennsylvanian Period eyes peeping over the scrub. with rolled necks. 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biological age and their risk of failing Chest Physician, Lymington Predicting James Timmons, Professor of New Forest Hospital, added. Precision Medicine at King’s College “Amongst older adults, who are Alzheimer’s London stated. “We use birth year, or more vulnerable to infection, chronological age, to judge everything this type of pneumonia is a disease from insurance premiums to whether you significant reason for hospital By Fahad Redha get a medical procedure or not.” admission and can cause “Most people accept that all death. With an increasing, 60-year-olds are not the same, but there ageing population, it is vital has been no reliable test for underlying that appropriate preventative biological age,” strategies are put in place now “Our discovery provides the first to ensure that the vulnerable robust molecular ‘signature’ of biological are better protected ahead of age in humans and should be able to The installation was commended winter. Each bed featured in the image transform the way that age is used to for highlighting the strong levels of represents one of the hundreds of adults make medical decisions. This includes existing support for greater action to who will sadly need hospital treatment identifying those more likely to be at tackle this problem. Leading figures in each week for pneumococcal pneumonia. risk of Alzheimer’s, as catching those at ageing health and respiratory medicine We must take action to protect these at- early risk is key to evaluating potential gave their backing to the ‘pneumonia risk individuals and their families.” Scientists from King’s College have treatments,” he added. wake-up call,’ and stated that “Adult Three quarters of all pneumonia developed a blood test to estimate how pneumococcal pneumonia places a heavy cases are admitted through A&E with quickly someone is ageing. They believe burden both on patients and the NHS pneumococcal pneumonia being the it could be used to predict a person’s risk Pneumonia and these striking images really bring most common type. Older adults are not of developing Alzheimer’s disease as well By Fahad Redha home the scale of this important public only at a greater risk of infection and as the “youthfulness” of donated organs health issue,” complications but generally spend more for transplant operations. Without rapid and decisive action to time in hospital than younger adults. The test measures the vitality of Parliament Square Gardens was address this, we are set to face another Estimates suggest that preventing just certain genes to indicate a person’s subjected to an unusual protest as 730 winter of heightened pressure on 65 cases of pneumococcal pneumonia biological age, which may differ from bed-bound dolls occupied the green hospitals, with pneumococcal pneumonia could free up a hospital bed for almost 2 their actual age. A study has shown on September 16th. The eye-catching placing a significant strain on an already years and save the NHS over £210,000 that the test can distinguish between installation was designed to represent pressurised health system.” commented on hospital care alone. There is therefore healthy individuals and patients with each person over 65 hospitalised with Baroness Sally Greengross, Member of an urgent need for a rapid, transparent Alzheimer’s, meaning it can be used to pneumococcal pneumonia every week in the House of Lords and President of the and comprehensive review of current identify people in the early stages of the the UK, drawing attention to the burden International Longevity Centre. prevention strategies to help minimise disease, before symptoms appear. it places on the NHS; 400,000 days spent “Pneumococcal pneumonia is often the impact of this life threatening It could also be used on donated in hospital at an estimated cost of £124 overlooked, but it can be a dangerous infection on the NHS ahead of the organs for transplants to assess their million per year for hospital care alone. illness,” Dr Richard Russell, Consultant winter peak in the disease. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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received more awards and was Archives © GPP Photograph persuaded to limbo under a bar; the British Motor Racing Marshals’ ne thing that occurred to me in Club held their annual Dinner- my trawl through those dusty, Dance at the Bull’s Head Hotel at Obound volumes of Autosport, Aylesbury, with Raymond Baxter trying to verify facts and correlate dates, and Bolster making the speeches; was that drivers in ‘those days’ used the Ferodo Trophy was presented to actually drive a bit more than the to Jim Clark at the Dorchester, present-day grand prix pilotes. Take a with dad as Chairman of the panel; sample year for Graham Hill: he ended the ERA dinner at the Public 1961 at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, Schools’ Club, with Raymond driving a 3-litre Ferrari sports car Mays and Rivers Fletcher giving entered by Scuderia Serenissima, having speeches, and many old drivers dropped the flag to start the Formula present; the ORMA dance at the Junior race dressed as Father Christmas. Royal Hotel, Woburn Place, where Apart from the eight F1 Championship Jimmy Clark presented Graham races he competed in a BRM, there detect a line of conversation that were a number of other international was both obtuse and rhetorical, races at Silverstone, Goodwood and contrived to entertain, and/or Oulton Park. There were sports car impress the assembled scribes to races at Snetterton, Nurburgring for the accept his point of view, which 1000 Kilometres race, where he came could sometimes be rather thin, third in a Porsche, Le Mans for the in terms of believability. I learnt 24-hour race, where he came second in at school that this was known as an Aston Martin he shared with Richie the Socratic method, which is a Ginther, and the TT at Goodwood, dialectic debate, whereby, in dad’s where he came second to Innes Ireland case, he gained more information in a Ferrari 250GTO. At many of these than he had given away. Whether events, he also raced E-type and Mk 2 he knew he was consciously doing Jaguars in the supporting races, most this, I do not know. Whatever of which he won. He also competed in fact he had gleaned, it would duly the Monte Carlo Rally with Peter Jopp appear in the mag, much to the in a Sunbeam Rapier, coming in a very annoyance of a fellow journo, respectable tenth. On the 29 December, who saw his story trumped by he won the South African GP and dad’s. He was an avid reader, and secured the World Championship loved nothing better than trashy for himself and the Constructors’ American crime fiction, but he Championship for BRM. What a year, also liked classier stuff by Elmore and there is no mention of his guest Leonard, Dashiell Hammett appearances, charity work, filming and Raymond Chandler, and commitments and miles and miles of Hill with the BRM Trophy; the BRDC Issue of Autosport, Simon Tayler said, devoured the monthly Ellery Queen testing. At a children’s Christmas party, honoured Jim Clark at a cocktail party at “Gregor’s unparalleled contacts and Mystery Magazine. The local librarian organised by the Doghouse Owners’ the Dorchester, where he was presented hectic social schedule, meant that if there would keep a stash of these kinds of Club at the Master Robert Motel on with the Club’s road-racing Gold Star was a whisper of a story anywhere he’d books with lurid covers under her desk. the A30, featured Father Christmas, by Graham Hill; the Diamond Jubilee of get to hear of it, and Autosport became He could finish mostTimes crosswords aka Eric Tobitt of the BBC, arriving in AC Cars was celebrated with a Barbecue renowned for always getting the news in under ten minutes, saying that all one his MGB sleigh being driven by - guess Dinner-Dance at Gatwick Manor. Phew! first. Sometimes his tales were perhaps had to do was get into the mind of the who? - Graham Hill. At the West Essex Then it was time for motor racing. a little ahead of the truth, but equally compiler, whilst smoking endless Senior CC at the Park Lane Hotel, he was At a number of these social occasions, often, he would come up with a wildly Service cigs and downing jug after jug seen prancing about on the top table in dad was expected to deliver a speech, or implausible story which would astonish of strong coffee, before lugging his London Rowing Club cap, ankle socks, make a presentation, and he was never everyone by turning out to be true”. In battered Remington onto the kitchen singlet and underpants, surrounded by nervous about standing up in front of the same publication, Stirling Moss said table, on which he would rattle off a few hysterical guests, including Colin and several hundred people and speaking of him: “He was an easygoing bloke, he hundred words for an article, a report, an Hazel Chapman, his wife Bette, and my on a given subject, or telling jokes and liked a party, and he liked a drink - in editorial or a book, of which he wrote a mum and dad. outlandish stories. He had an easy fact, his nickname was Grogger. Mike handful, mostly about motor racing. He 1963 ended well for Jimmy Clark manner and was very popular as an after- Hawthorn had a bulldog who liked wrote because he liked it, but he was also as World Champion, too, having won dinner speaker, usually done without beer, so he called it Grogger in Gregor’s passionate about the subject. His books the South African GP on 28 December, any notes. 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By Don Grant © Goodwood Photograph one of the best races I have ever seen at Goodwood, either back in the sixties or in the past few Revivals, was for the St he old Brooklands’ snobbish Mary’s Trophy Part 1 for Saloon Cars slogan ‘The right crowd and made between 1960 and 1966 on the Tno crowding’ was hi-jacked by Saturday. The first lap around Woodcote Goodwood when the banked Weybridge had the entire stand on their feet gasping circuit fell into disrepair after the war, and cheering, with two Lotus-Cortinas and the action moved to the disused locked in a metallic ménage-à-trois with West Sussex airfield of Westhampnett Frank Stippler’s Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA, on the Goodwood estate. In the fifties continually swapping positions, nudging each other onto the grass, and driving up and early sixties, Goodwood, with the Lord March is only allowed five racing strafing the airfield with their wing-tips Brooklands’ magic successfully recreated each other’s exhaust-pipes. It was behind days at the circuit, due to stringent a couple of hundred feet off the ground, them, though, that gave this race its by the General Secretary of the British noise abatement restrictions, and was is the aeronautical equivalent of the bag- Automobile Racing Club (BARC) John drama, as Tom Kristensen’s 7-litre Ford only using three for the Revival, so pipes. Sadly, the Vulcan bomber was a Morgan, was certainly seen as a venue Fairlane Thunderbolt, which started at the balance was now available for the no-show on Saturday, due to a fuel leak the back of the grid, was slicing through frequented by the ‘smart set’, tooling two-day Members’ Meetings, with the over Littlehampton a few miles away, but down from London in their Astons, the field and catching up on the battle at seventy-fourth coming up in 2016. Book having seen it a couple of years ago, when the front. Kristensen has won Le Mans Jags, and Lagondas, with their flat caps, now, if you can. Soon, the GRRC, too, it suddenly shot up, I swear, vertically tweeds, picnic hampers, shooting brakes, 24-hour race no less than 9 times, so he will lose its exclusivity, as more and more over the infield, flames spewing from knows a bit about pace and timing. The and shooting sticks. With something strive to get away from the crowds; and the four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines, trio up front did not stand a chance as he approaching 150,000 paying punters on where does one go from there? Whatever was an earth-shattering moment, like reeled them in and picked them off one each of the three days of the Revival, the problems with just getting into something out of Armageddon. The by one to win. Sensational stuff. or possibly more if one includes the the car-park, an unnecessary irritation, mix between airplanes, cars, and bikes From the vintage trade vans and thousands of behind-the-scenes catering the reasons one goes are immediately is a heady cocktail, and there is always the period Tesco store to the effort staff, role-playing actors, security teams, apparent. The sounds of unsilenced something to watch. nearly everyone makes in dressing-up in marshals, officials, drivers, air-crews, ERAs, Ferraris, and Manx Nortons For me, the TT cars are the most appropriate gear, the attention to detail and mechanics, the slogan becomes less revving up in the paddock. The sight exciting: Lightweight E-types taking on is superlative, and it is no wonder that so like a ‘right’ crowd and more just plain of a Second World War Spitfire and the AC Cobras, a mélange of brutalism many people flock to Goodwood to revel over-crowding, and could be described by a Hurricane, flanked by an American and the beast, beauty supplied by a in revival nostalgia and mourn the loss of some in the maelstrom as the Goodwood Mustang and a Curtiss Warhawk, Ferrari 330 GTO and the Aston-Martin an era. Revile. One can sympathise with the Earl of March’s dilemma; he has two highly-successful and oversubscribed events during the year, the other being Westminster: the highly-polished and relentlessly ELECTRIC CARS • Abingdon car park, SW1P 3RX, corporate hill-climb on a very narrow BY FAHAD REDHA • Burlington Street car park, W1S 3AS, road up past Goodwood House held in change, never worrying about • Butlers Wharf car park, SE1 2NE, mid-summer, which also attracts over the dipstick level mysteriously • Chinatown car park, SE1 2NE, 150,000 people. dropping and no smoke from • Harley Street car park, W1G 9HF, What does he do? He formed the under the bonnet. On top of • Knightsbridge car park, SW1X 8EA Goodwood Road Racing Club (GRRC) that, you can wave goodbye to and SW1X 9SA, in 1998 as a private members’ club with petrol stations. • Oxford Street car park, W1G 0PR, • Park Lane/Marble Arch car park,

Photograph © Karlis Dambrans © Karlis Photograph privileged access to Goodwood’s main Then there’s the driving events, and opened with the seventy- experience. An internal W1K 7TY, second Members’ Meeting in 2014, combustion engine takes time • Pimlico car park, SW1V 4LR, which continued on from the seventy- to get to its peak performance. • Queensway car park, W2 3RX, one club meetings held at Goodwood A sweet spot in the rev range, • Soho car park, W1F 7NQ, in the Fifties and Sixties for members usually near the redline, is • St John’s Wood car park, NW8 6AA, of BARC. As it was a club, with only ecause of the environmental where it’s making the most horsepower • Trafalgar car park, SW1A 2TS members and their guest being able benefits of electric cars, the but that is not so for an electric motor. To find more chargers near you, to buy tickets, that put it back in the Bgovernment offers many incentives They produce all of it from the moment visit zap-map.com realms of the ‘right crowd’, but there to own one. For the initial purchase, you they begin spinning, 100% of the were murmurings about exclusivity and could be entitled to up to £5,000 towards horsepower and 100% of the torque And today, the plug-in offerings have accusations of elitism and, so he had to the cost of the car (or £8,000 it it’s an from 0 rpm. It’s something that once never been better, including small family release a limited number of tickets to the electric van). As of April of this year, you’ve experienced, will leave a lasting cars like the Renault Zoe, luxury cars like the Tesla Model S and supercars hoi-polloi. With his venture into ‘de- over 6,000 cars and vans have been sold impression. This comes with only a faint elitising’ golf, he came up with a cunning under this scheme. hum from the motor. like the BMW i8 and its baby brother plan to try to create an “inclusive If it’s a company car, you would As well as all of that, if you register the i3. The days of the milk float and experience in an exclusive environment” receive 5% benefit in kind (BIK) and with Source London at sourcelondon. the golf cart are long gone as battery by having cheap membership, but with 100% first year allowance until April net, you can use charging stations in the development offers a range of at least a specified number of ‘credits’ that 2018. Speaking of tax, you would not following locations: 100 miles in most models. members had to buy and use over the have to pay either the congestion charge year, and play at times when the course or road tax and no showroom or luxury Kensington and Chelsea: Next month, we’ll be looking at was less busy. The idea loosely based vehicle tax. • Seville Street, just off Knightsbridge, some of the more exotic electric on the easyJet principle that the cost of But the benefits of an electric car go outside the side door of Harvey Nichols, cars soon on the market, including service is directly linked to demand; the beyond government incentives. Because SW1X 7RN a Croatian with over 1000hp, a lower the demand, the cheaper it will be. there’s no engine or gearbox, servicing • Talbot Road, near Portobello Road Finn that will sail way past 200mph It can still take anything up to two would be much easier. Imagine never Market, W11 2DT and we’ll be taking deeper look at years to get membership to the GRRC. having to take your car in for an oil the BMW i8. 020 7738 2348 October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 67 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk ORACLE New London Offices EC2 08450 944 911 FINANCE

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it a 0-60mph sprint of just 2.8 seconds Redha © Fahad Photographs and, potentially a top speed far north of 250mph. But these are not the only reason you go to Salon Privé. There’s also the concourse. This year, 69 cars and motorcycles competed for the coveted best in show. The cars ranged from a 1902 Oldsmobile Curved Dash, the first car ever built on a moving production line, to a 1974 Porsche 911 2.8 RSR. In addition to that was the Concepts & Prototypes class, made up of the Arash AF8, the aforementioned Volvos, the one of their icons but usually, it’s in Ferraris and Jaguars were the most Ford GT, the electric Toroidon and the Salon Privé the shadow of the new crossover SUV. common with plenty of 275 GTB/4s and Aston Martin DBX. By Fahad Redha Because that’s obviously far more critical! E-Types. Joining them was Bloodhound’s The winner was the 1952 Jaguar But at Salon Privé, the tables have F-Type R coupe and, from the Italians, XK120 Jabbeke that in 1953 set the world turned. Even when the new car is the an FXXK alongside a LaFerrari. The mile record of 140.789mph with Jaguar very year all over the world, from Koenigsegg One:1, there’ll be a bigger 488 GTB, the turbocharged replacement test driver Norman Dewis at the wheel. It LA to Tokyo, manufacturers unveil crowd around an old estate car. Of for the 458 Italia sat next to it with a then went on to break that record, setting Enew models. After years and course, that estate happens to be a Ferrari California T and an F12. an average of 172.412mph, which it holds billions of dollars, the finished products Daytona Shooting Brake, one of one ever You wouldn’t think a Volvo would to this day. are finally revealed to the public. And made. There’ll be six One:1s made. belong in the same show as the new What’s great about Salon Privé is the occasionally they’ll be joined by concepts, This year’s event, the 10th one, took Ford GT or the Pagani Huayra but you’d juxtaposition of old and new cars. While either previewing a future direction for place in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, be wrong. The company bought three many fear the days of the enthusiast are the company, or a wild dream that will rather than Syon Park where it used to be. concepts, a coupe, a Subaru Outback style numbered, it’s refreshing to see what the never see the light of day. This is great because it brings it closer to hatchback and a shooting brake estate. future holds, from Ford and Koenigsegg Trips down memory lane however the centre of the country, making it easier These preview the next generation of to a menagerie of electric supercars just are not as common in these shows. for enthusiasts all over the country to the Swedish firm’s models and looked around the corner. Although I am going Occasionally, a manufacturer will bring get to it. stunning. to miss the sound and smell.

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This death of distance has given birth to an empire. The statistic usually bandied around is that the eleven games held at Wembley since 2007 have averaged 85,000 bodies per contest, but the league’s globalization shouldn’t be measured in flesh and bone. Unlike those © Orbisnonsuficit Photograph who bore witness to the first attempt in 1991, the current generation of fans have the Internet, and with it, 24-hour access to an American football hive-mind. Through the NFL’s own video packages, U.K fans can watch the 256 regular season games, 10 playoff games, NFL and the Super Bowl, wherever and whenever we want. Not to mention the endless global network of articles, podcasts, videos and blogs, all of which, and much more, can be found through the hyper-connected wormhole of Twitter. The breaking down of global boundaries has even extended to traditional media. More televised football is being shown in 2015 than ever before, including three separate British channels broadcasting NFL content this season. With all of this on offer, do we really need a London Monarchs 2.0? Why would the league give itself the headache of implementing a full- time franchise to prove that they have s an Englishman, I've always conquered the U.K, when, through the been envious of how all- power of the internet, they already have? Aencompassing the American Besides, fans are already full-up as it is, sports schedule is. Its scope is such that happily paying their subscriptions to for an entire year, a sports nut from, let’s take terabyte after terabyte out of the say, Boston, might never have to come source itself. There’s no incentive in Photograph © TonyWebster up for air. With the combined efforts of untangling miles of red tape when the the Patriots (American football), Bruins existing platforms are enticing enough as (Hockey) , Celtics (Basketball) and Red is, and due to a couple of stadium sell- Sox (Baseball), (s)he can completely outs a year, profitable to boot. submerge from January through It’s enough to just keep the idea December. alive, because U.K fans have been This multiplicity of interests has fattened up enough by the online trough always been the backbone of American (21 percent of the NFL’s social media fandoms. Theirs is a nation of sporting mentions come internationally), and polyglots, and the rest of the world a permanent team might just take the doesn’t speak the languages. But this whole experiment to bursting point. All year-round extravaganza always has they have to do is keep selling the dream struggled to translate internationally, of long-term stability, and short-term which, as the National Football League options like the Wembley Series will be (the governing body of American enough. football) has found in the past, is a The NFL may never get enough problem when it comes to expansion. dedicated ink in the back pages of In the , we don’t British newspapers, more slots on its have an equivalent mindset, because television channels, or the real estate there’s never been much room for to build a stadium, but the U.K doesn’t anything other than soccer. Yet, need any of those things in 2015. With unperturbed by this, Wembley Stadium the rise of pick-’n-mix media, there has continued to host the annual The NFL has a rocky history with football’s sole claim to English soil. is finally diversity, and new-age fans International Series of NFL games, Europe. From 1991 to 2007 the NFL There were numerous problems are able to adjust to the presence of where travelling franchises play a regular funded a foreign professional American with the league’s first attempt, namely American sports themselves. Free from season game in England. There are football league on this continent, first that placing a franchise in London was a their domestic chains, most are choosing currently three regular season games called the World League of American premature move, and after the Monarchs to push this presence to saturation, held here each season, and the continued Football (later becoming NFL Europe), folded in 1998 and NFL Europe which can only be good news for the interest has led to the belief that there which featured teams in Amsterdam, followed suit in 2007 the NFL changed future of the NFL in the U.K, regardless may well be a permanent NFL franchise Berlin, Düsseldorf, Barcelona and, of tactics, deciding they would no longer of whether a franchise ends up here or eventually based in London. But, as the course, London. Our capital’s side, fund a permanent league in Europe, but not. 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CHESS By Barry Martin

is with some sense of satisfaction that it is the game of chess that both stimulates and excites the scientific body in its progress Photograph © Andreas Kontokanis Andreas © Photograph to understand the workings of the human brain. Chess at its highest level has been seen recently in a number of high profile world tournaments, including the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour, the

Sinquefield Cup, Tournament was between the eventual resigns. black

which Lev Aronian winner, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and Rc5, Rd8.41. Bd4, Kb3.40. Rc1+,

won. There was also white, and Marina Guseva, black. Kc4.39. pawn.38.Bc5, a her advances

the Russian Men’s (See diagram.) White has just played white as square a8 the covering Nec7,

Championship held her black squared Bishop to e5 from a7, f6.37. a6, Kb3.36. Bd4, Rd7.35.

in Chita, Russia, c3, seemingly giving up her pawn for Bxa7, Kb4.34. 33.... continued, game

and won by Evgeny nothing on c5, and Black’s King quickly The Queen. eventually to a5 and pawn

Tomashevsky, whilst took it. What was White’s plan? And her for a-file the on way a preparing

the Russian 65th what had Black overlooked? Answer a7, on pawn black's attack's now and

Women’s Superfinal upside down below. Bd4+! 33. Kxc5. 32.Be5, Answer: was held in tandem from 9th to the 20th August. This Far Eastern destination is not too distant Monthly Bridge Tip for Intermediates Computer case from Mongolia and China, and featured nearly all the top names currently playing with Andrew Robson Chess in women’s chess in Russia, including Valentina Gunina, Moscow, a winner The chess player’s motto; “When you have found a good move, see if you can find on three previous occasions, Natalija a better one” is equally applicable to bridge. Here West’s defence was theoretically Pogonina, Sarator Region, who won in sound, he had made a clear signal to partner. But East, as partners can be, was blind 2012, and Aleksandra Goryachkina, the or ignorant, and the contract was allowed to make. East’s fault? Yes, but only in part. ecent developments in cutting winner of this year’s Superfinal. West had an idiot-proof way to defeat the contract. Cover up East and South’s hand edge computer science have seen After the collapse of the Soviet and see if you can find it. a new chess programme entitled Union, the Russian Championships R ♠ Giraffe. This artificially intelligent were re-established as a National Dealer S machine can self-teach, taught itself Championship, and players from E/W Vul ♥ ♠ to play chess in just three days, and Moscow and St. Petersburg were allowed ♦ ♠ has attained a level better than most to participate, since, prior to the 1992 ♣ humans. Its designer Matthew Lai, rebirth, both these cities held their own ♠ ♠ Imperial College, has stated that it is of Individual Championships and their ♥ ♥ (1) Close to a 2♥ overcall, but the International Master strength. players were ineligible to play in the ♦ ♦ adverse vulnerability and lack of heart The difference between Giraffe national event. There have been twenty- ♣ ♣ intermediates puts him off. Double is and Deep Blue, the latter an IBM four consecutive championships since ♠ another possibility, but this will not locate supercomputer, is that the former is then with men and women playing in ♥ a 5-3 heart fit. Eventually he settles for a quiet pass, prepared to enter the bidding thought to be the first working chess AI separate tournaments. In the women’s ♦ featuring an artificial neural network, 2015 Superfinal, the average ELO later, if appropriate (e.g. if North raises to ♣ 2 and it is passed back to him). that being a system that mimics the rating of the twelve players was 2460 ♠ human cognitive processes in its points, with Gunina at 2531, Kosteniuk thinking. The breed of computers to on 2526, and Lagno 2530. If we take West led ♥A and East remembered to signal with ♥9 to encourage a which Deep Blue (DB) belongs use the top twelve women players’ ELO continuation. West duly played ♥K and carefully led ♥8 to the third trick, a “suit- colossal number crunching systems, ratings for England, they average out at preference signal” for partner, after trumping, to return the higher ranking of the with DB employing 480 processors 2180 points, a massive difference that other suits, here ♦s (if West had wanted a ♣return, he’d lead his lowest ♥to the third and calculating 200 million moves per shows not just the interest in Russia trick). Such signals are most useful in trumping situations, but only if partner is aware second. Giraffe, like the human brain, is toward chess, but also towards women’s of them. Evidently this East was not, for after much agonising and mental coin- more efficient at rejecting bad moves as chess as well as that of men’s chess. Pity tossing, East returned ♣3. Declarer gratefully won ♣A, led ♠A, and cashed dummy’s it moves towards a conclusion. This level we in this country can’t show similar ♣KQ discarding ♦10. Contract made. of sophistication and ‘learning as it goes’ enthusiasm! (See previous column, issue West criticised East for failing to obey the suit-preference signal, but West had an has, of course, far reaching possibilities, 44). idiot-proof defence - he should simply have cashed ♦A before leading the third ♥ for not least in other board games, but also The following game from the East to trump. in the replication of the human self. It 2015 Russian Women’s Superfinal ANDREW’S TIP: A victorious defence is better than a victorious post-mortem! 72 OctoberApril/May 2015 2011 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement K&C Oct15:Layout 1 26/9/15 13:48 Page 1

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