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OODNESS WHAT A YEAR IT HAS BEEN and there are still four Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER Goodbye World: months to go to the New Year! & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS Of course, politics has remained firmly on the front page for all of this ISSUE 0063 JULY 2017 FREE (EXCEPT WHERE SOLD) Hello Little England 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, by Derek Wyatt time. In Washington DC, and frankly the rest of the world, no-one can work out SW11 3UW G whether the President understands the political firmament. One tremor follows Tel: 020 7738 2348 NEVER another tremor follows at some stage, the inevitable earthquake. This is quite scary. E-mail: [email protected] AGAIN Website: 3 News Meanwhile, back in Blighty, we await the Party Conferences in www.kcwtoday.co.uk 14.06.17 September and early October to see if Mrs May faces a challenge GRENFELL TOWER from Michael Gove MP (the Murdoch nominee). We could pick Advertisement enquiries: anyone of six other Tory MPs currently being touted including [email protected] 10 Opinion & Comment Jacob Rees-Mogg MP who was born in the late 17th century. Subscriptions: The problem the Prime Minister has is, no one, not even her [email protected] closest allies, believe she will lead her party at the next general NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE EDUCATION HEALTH EVENTS Publishers: DINING OUT ARTS AND CULTURE LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT 12 Statue & Blue Plaque election due in 2022. Her polling figures are the worst in history. Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited So, the GOM (Grand Old Men; it is always men) of the Tory party will decide whether to cut her lose before the Brexit talks Feature develop much further or wait until the results are published and 14 voted on in Parliament. If the latter, this is likely to be sometime Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne before Easter, 2019. I am not sure the party can continue to haemorrhage support for another eighteen months or so. Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 16 Business & Finance Whilst we wait for black or white smoke to appear from Acting Editor: Dr Emma Trehane the GOM we must take stock of the awfulness of the Brexit Head of Business Development: Dr Emma Trehane discussions to date. We have become the laughing stock of the Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 19 Education entire western world. We are fast becoming just Little Englanders. On my most recent trip to New York and Washington (DC), Antoinette Kovatchka, friends, journalists and academics were telling me that the world Architecture: Squinch 23 Astronomy has already moved on and has made the transition that the UK will Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland be a lesser power. At the UNO, there is open talk that India will seek to replace Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS the UK in the Security Council and has sufficient votes (if it came Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward 24 Literature to it). My bet is that India will be joined by Germany. Whither Bridge: Andrew Robson the UK? Well, we cannot expect much support from the other veto Business & Finance Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, nations: USA, China, France or Russia. Leaving aside how long 25 Poetry it takes to read the mind of President Trump, it is unlikely that Douglas Shanks China, France or Russia will support us. Chess: Barry Martin Brexit is the worst decision the nation has made since Suez in Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Dining Out 1956 when Prime Minister Eden thought Gamal Abdel Nasser, 26 the Egyptian President, to be another version of Benito Mussolini. Derek Wyatt President Nasser sunk ships to block the Canal and our poorly Music: James Douglas prepared Army and Navy returned home with their tails between Crossword: Wolfe 29 Travel their legs. It was made worse by a US warship shooting across Dining Out: Edward Burns, Max Feldman, the bows of a British warship. Eden resigned to be replaced by the towering Harold Macmillan. Should May resign there is no Max Horberry, David Hughes 32 Fashion towering of any description left in the Tory locker. Editorial: Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, The Tory dilemma is not offset by there being a competent Anna Kretschmer, Fahad Redha, opposition despite the favourable media performance of Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader. Recent data suggests at least twelve Antonia Williams Events 33 Labour MPs in marginal seats increased their majority because of Events:, Fahad Redha support for their local NHS hospitals (they were earmarked for Fashion: Lynne McGowan, Antonia Williams closure). All fine and dandy but what is the Labour party’s policy Health: Owen Fulda, John Furse, 42 Arts & Culture on the future of the NHS and care packages for the elderly? We do not know despite an election two months ago. We all know how Max Horberry, Fahad Redha stretched the NHS is but which party will reform its antiquated Travel: Max Feldman, Cynthia Pickard 52 Health practices? Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman Worse, the Labour Party suggested that they would offer free tuition fees for students and over the past few months they have I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton been fudging how they intend to cost that decision. As I suggested Motoring: Don Grant, David Hughes, 57 Motoring in a letter in The Guardian, the first thing any political party should Fahad Redha ask is are all our universities centres of academic excellence? Clearly News, Online Editor they are not. But not a single politician will suggest a solution. 60 Sport The Tories in private are seething about Labour’s “promise” over & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman tuition fees made during the latter part of the election. Seething Picture Editor: Max Feldman because another set of data shows that 900,000 students registered Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA Ph.D Crossword, Classified & Public Notices to vote on the last but one day of registration. Of course, they did 62 not all vote Labour, but Labour did particularly well in university Political Editor: Derek Wyatt seats. The Tories failed to remember that they had changed the Sport: Owen Fulda whole way we registered to vote for the 2015 General Election Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros 63 Chess & Bridge disenfranchising millions of students in the process. This is a tough time for the nation. This is a tough time for the world. The only leader of any class is Angela Merkel. 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Columbia Records president Ferdy work to remove the barriers that black four separate videos reported to them by Unger-Hamilton. QPR set up a relief and ethnic minorities encounter. “This Law amendment the Metropolitan Police since December Strenuous efforts are made by Westminster and centre at their stadium in the immediate additional investment is a huge vote 2016. Hammersmith aftermath of the tragedy, and Ferdinand of confidence in the Bush and its means acid The videos depict gang members Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster revealed his desire to take part in the Artistic Director Madani Younis as role threatening and goading rival gangs, Today newspaper to ensure that and Fulham fundraising game is a very personal one. models for the UK theatre sector,” Joyce attackers face life describing how they would murder them, the content and information is see rising police violence "This is a game about bringing the Wilson, London area director at Arts making shooting hand signals and wav- community back together," QPR legend Council England, said. “It will maximise sentences ing a Bowie knife. correct. Kensington, Chelsea & Ferdinand told Sky Sports News. "The the opportunities that the Bush’s The YouTube Community Guide- Westminster Today newspaper ammersmith and Fulham and reason why I wanted to be part of it was revitalised building provides, supporting cid attackers could face life sen- lines state that “videos that incite others Westminster saw the highest because I grew up on the Lancaster West emerging talent to move beyond artistic tences even if they do not injure to commit acts of violence are strictly reserves the right to report instances of police violence, Estate, right next to the Grenfell Tower. development and begin to programme their intended victims, according prohibited from YouTube,” “threats of unsolicited material being sent with Kensington and Chelsea coming in All through my life from the age of five work for the Bush Studio and the main to new judicial guidelines that have come serious physical harm against a specific H 1 million people. Police at the two- The document, from the London through to the publication. fourth. New figures released show that to 22 I lived on the estate, so seeing it on A individual or defined group of individ- house, eventually providing more diverse into effect. Life terms in prison could there were 12,605 incidents of police fire was quite surreal for me. day west London event will use the work and opportunities for the wider be handed down to those who carry out uals will be removed,” and “it’s not okay School of Economics and the VATT Personal views expressed in this force in London with the majority Former QPR striker Peter Crouch facial recognition system and match sector.” “life-changing” acid attacks, even if they to post violent or gory content that’s Institute for Economic Research, found newspaper are solely those of the faces in the crowd against databases of the rate of home moving would be involving men aged between 18 and will also play in the match alongside his miss their target or fail to inflict serious primarily intended to be shocking, sensa- respective contributors and do not 34 years old. It also shows that 45% of friend, firefighter Gregg Jules, who was people they suspect will cause trouble, harm on their victim. tional or disrespectful”. 27% higher if the levy was completely people were white, 36% were black, and directly involved in the relief effort. More comparing them with images of people Five acid attacks took place in just 90 However, despite the Met’s com- abolished. At the moment, stamp duty reflect those of the publishers or 10% were from the Asian community. than 2,000 complimentary tickets will previously arrested or under bail minutes in London last month, leaving plaints, provided with detailed context, costs £143,000 on a £2m property or its agents. All materials sent to 14% of people were believed to have be issued to those directly affected by the conditions to keep away from the event. at least one victim with life-changing in- YouTube stated that no breach of its £20,000 on a £600,000 home. mental health issues. fire, including families, the emergency Last year’s Carnival led to 45 officers juries and contributing to a total number rules had taken place. Baroness Altmann, a Tory peer and Kensington Chelsea & Westminster The data covers a three month period services, volunteers, local residents and being assaulted and eight were spat at, of 14 live acid prosecutions in the capital. The videos have collectively garnered Pensions Minister, said: “Many older Today are at the suppliers’ risk. from the 1st of April till the 30th of June. those who played their part in the recov- requiring them to take medication in Alison Saunders, the director of public more than 356,000 views. people realise the house they are living Reproduction in whole or in part There were 965 incidents in Westminster, ery efforts in North Kensington. case of infection. There were also 454 prosecutions, said there was a strong The Mayor has stated that online in is probably too big for their needs, but 468 in Hammersmith and Fulham, and Tickets for #Game4Grenfell - which arrests, the highest number in a decade. public interest in authorising the Crown platforms must take a tougher stance on the biggest barrier is the cost of moving. of this publication is strictly 435 in Kensington and Chelsea, just has been organised by the QPR in the In a statement explaining its plans, the Hammersmith © Lyric Photograph Prosecution Service (CPS) to prosecute gang and knife-related videos, put strict- Stamp duty acts as a significant deterrent. prohibited without prior consent. behind Hillingdon’s 445. Havering, Community Trust group, the club's offi- Met said: “The technology involves the acid attackers. er rules in place and act quickly to take Anything that the Government can do The appearance of advertising in with 188 incidents (two fewer than cial charity - will be priced £15 for adults use of overt cameras which scan the faces “You can’t just expect to carry acid down content that violates them. that will encourage them is beneficial.” Richmond) had the lowest use of force in and £5 concessions. For more informa- of those passing by and flag up potential around without an excuse. It counts as an In addition, the Mayor’s Office for A report by Lloyds Bank stated that this newspaper, including inserts or London. tion on the #Game4Grenfell, visit www. matches against a database of custody Average house offensive weapon just as much as a knife Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is seek- in 2016, £8.3bn was paid by buyers in supplements, does not constitute The most reported form of force used game4grenfell.com images. The database will be populated or a screwdriver could be,” she said. “We ing a meeting with YouTube and Google England and Wales, in stamp duty costs, was handcuffing a compliant person, with images of individuals who are prices top are very conscious of the impact of this to tackle concerns around content which an increase of 17% from the year before. endorsement by Kensington, while spitguards, which are being trialled, forbidden from attending Carnival, as crime and how there has been a recent glorifies knife crime. The increase is believed to be due to Chelsea & Westminster Today of the were also used. Dog bites accounted for well as individuals wanted by police.” £1.5million spate of it so we are very keen to make “Every death on the streets of Lon- reforms introduced to stamp duty tax products or services advertised. 17 instances and two are listed as “firearm in Kensington and Chelsea for sure that we do prosecute it and the court don is an utter tragedy, and I am deeply in December 2014 as well as continued rises in houses prices. Photograph © QPR Photograph fired.” The data also shows that taser guns the first time has the right sentencing powers.” concerned about the rise in knife crime were fired in 10.5% of cases. In total, Carrying corrosive fluid with in- across the capital. Social media and the force was used against 10,925 men, 1,643 Arts boost for tent to cause injury carries a four-year internet can be used to inflame tensions women, and 37 transgender people. The average price of a house in prison sentence, rising to a life sentence and escalate violence quicker than ever During the same period, 643 officers Hammersmith Kensington and Chelsea has topped if grievous bodily harm is caused. Those before, and these videos are a shocking were hurt. 10 of them suffered serious £1.5 million for the first time. Prices in who carry out an attack without actually example of the glamorisation of gang injuries and the rest minor injuries. and Fulham the area have risen by 17.1% in the year causing an injury can still be sentenced to culture,” said Khan. The data comes from the Metropolitan thanks to £2.1million to May, up from £1.28m to £1.50m. life if it is shown they acted with “intent “Internet giants have policies in place Police in support of the Home Office investment However contrastingly neighbouring to maim, disfigure or disable”. Carrying around violent content, but they do not Annual Data Review requirement. It is Hammersmith and Fulham saw the acid in a container which makes it easy go far enough. Google, YouTube and broken down by borough, officers’ role, Metropolitan slowest growing prices locally, up 0.4% to throw as a weapon could be taken as other platforms have a responsibility to as well as including the gender, ethnicity, Six organisations in Hammersmith to an average of £777,107. The figures, proof of intent. the millions of young people using their and age of the individual concerned. police to use and Fulham will benefit from a total of which come from the Office for National sites every day, and it is vital that they It also lists location and time of the over £2.1 million per year, starting from Statistics and Land Registry, show toughen up their guidelines, remove incident. facial recognition 2018. These payments are part of the Art London continues to be the region Sadiq Khan calls breaches immediately and work with Council’s 2018-2022 National Portfolio, with the highest average house price at partners to help ensure such horrific vid- software and famous venues such as the Bush £481,000, followed by the South East for tougher stance eos do not reappear. Lives could depend QPR raise funds at Notting Hill Carnival Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith are and the East of England, which stand at on it,” he added. included among those selected. Across £316,000 and £284,000 respectively. The on YouTube knife with Police will use facial recognition software London, 253 organisations will see a second highest growth took place in the to scan the faces of tens of thousands total of £161 million per year. Borough of Westminster, which saw a crime videos #GameForGrenfell of revellers at this year’s Notting Hill These include Bharatiya Vidya growth of 6.80%, rising from £1,007,474 Chancellor urged Carnival even though civil liberties Bhavan Centre for Indian arts, the to £1,076,320.00. match groups believe such an action would be Koestler Trust prison-arts charity based The Royal Borough has been firmly to cut stamp discriminatory. at Wormwood Scrubs prison, Ockham’s in the public eye since the fire at Queens Park Rangers Football Club will The Metropolitan police has Razor Aerial Theatre Company and Grenfell Tower killed at least 80 people. duty in Autumn host a match at Loftus Road on Septem- described the planned deployment as Youth Music Theatre UK. The destruction has highlighted the ber 2 to raise funds for those affected by a pilot project intended to look for The Lyric Hammersmith will receive disparity in house prices within the Black Tom © Photograph Budget the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The #Game- suspected troublemakers to keep those a one-off grant of £350,000 for its capital borough, where despite the high prices 4Grenfell will feature a host of current attending safe. development programme which will see commanded throughout the Borough, and ex-professionals such as David But critics say the use of real-time it refurbish its main 550 seat Victorian North Kensington, where the tower was More than one million pensioners would Seaman, ex-QPR striker Les Ferdinand, biometric tracking has no basis in law Auditorium. This will also include better located, is among the most deprived be encouraged to downsize their homes Alan Shearer and Ally McCoist, as well and that the plan to deploy it during disability access and environmental areas in the country. if the Government offered them an as celebrities including Marcus Mum- the Carnival is institutionally racist, as sustainability, as well as an upgrade to its The lowest average price continues to exemption on stamp duty, new research ford, Jarvis Cocker and Wretch 32. it targets Britain’s main annual African- smaller studio space. This funding will be be in the North East at £127,000. The Mayor of London has called on You- has found. Ministers, peers and think The Loftus Road stadium is just one Caribbean celebration. in addition to its NPO funding of £1.1 average UK house price was £221,000 in Tube and its parent company, Google, to tanks are now urging Chancellor Philip mile away from the North Kensing- The Notting Hill Carnival is the million per year which will continue. May 2017. This is £10,000 higher than crack down on videos that promote knife Hammond, to cut the duty which has ton tower block, and is the brainchild biggest annual public order test for The Bush theatre will see a further in May 2016 and £1,000 higher than last crime and gang violence. been called a "tax on moving", in his of QPR chairman Tony Fernandes, the Met, attracting crowds of up to £100,000 per year from 2018 to fund month. 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mean, took to the streets and protested. It did not fall on deaf ears. President Airbnb faces EU Broadband speeds Germany to Spanish Anti- Germany heads Andrzej Duda vetoed two of three most Climate changing Spain criticised controversial laws. clampdown over in Europe streets resume sending Tourism protests to the polls The EU threatened invoking Article gases not being over child 7 of the EU Treaty which would suspend not paying ‘fair ahead of the UK migrants back to spread across the EU voting rights of a state that is accurately migrant human in “serious and persistent breach” of share’ of taxes Greece country EU values. This was never going to go recorded rights through. Hungary would have prevented it from being voted through as Hungary finance ministers will Germany is set to send a number of Having started in Barcelona at the is along with Poland one of the EU’s One of the conditions of the Paris Spain is holding unaccompanied child discuss how to force asylum seekers back to Greece, although beginning of August, anti-tourism harshest critics. It sent a strong message, climate deal, signed in December 2015 refugees in adult detention centres, in home-sharing platforms reception centres there are overcrowded protests in Spain have now spread to the however. Both Hungary and Poland are by 195 countries, is that every country breach of their human rights, say the EUsuch as Airbnb to pay their fair share and there is a huge backlog in processing Basque Country and Majorca. Hooded countries that are critical of the EU but has to submit an inventory of greenhouse International Commission of Jurists of taxes and in the right tax domains claims. Germany had halted such returns protesters have vandalised the Basque it is a mistake to confuse this criticism gas emissions every two years. Under UN (ICJ). in September after the French minister under a 2011 ruling by its Constitutional Country tourist board’s headquarters with a desire to leave the union. rules, many countries provide ‘bottom- The group has also criticised Spain for for the economy described the current Court, but it can send migrants back in Bilbao by covering it in bright red up’ records which is based simply on car ’ treating unaccompanied child migrants situation as “unacceptable”. under the EU s Dublin Convention. paint and anti-tourism slogans, calling journeys made or the energy needed to as if they were adults under the law. In The European commission announced That convention says an asylum claim on people to join a demonstration next heat up homes and offices. many cases, minors are not able to apply that a joint proposal from France But air-sampling, which records the should be processed in the country where week. France backs new for asylum because they are not Spanish and Germany would be discussed at actual level of gases, can reveal errors and a migrant first entered the EU. Greek The group, who are members of citizens and the law does not recognise a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, on 16 Migration Minister Ioannis Mouzalas left-wing youth organisation Ernai, then omissions. Air monitors in Switzerland law to clean up them as children. In these situations,

September. Brussels will also advise said Greece had agreed to take some asy- posted a video of the vandalism on social Armin Linnartz © Photograph have detected large amounts of one gas many children have been subsequently on how best to deal with the so-called lum seekers back in a goodwill gesture, as media, equating tourism with “nepotism, politics coming from Italy, while Italy submits a sharing economy, in which Airbnb is a there had been ‘pressure’ from some EU exploitation and slavery”. small amount of the substance to the UN forced to live on the streets. On 24th September, Germany will major player. countries to do so. The regional government in the records. Emissions from India and China Advocacy groups, including head to the polling booths. Yet for a It has been revealed that Airbnb paid The German interior ministry said Basque Country called the protest are so uncertain in some cases that the Fundación Raíces, a Spanish charity year a politically tumultuous as this less than €100,000 (£90,336) in French that by the end of July it had asked an “unacceptable demonstration of records are plus or minus 100%. supporting children and young people, one, Germany's election has been a taxes last year, despite the country being Greece to take back 392 asylum seekers. intolerance.” In 2011, Swiss scientists recorded are calling for the United Nations’

Photograph Photograph © Amiga calm moment in Western politics. the room-booking firm’s second-biggest According to the report, the transfers And the director of the Basque samples of a gas called HFC-23 coming committee on the rights of the child to Angela Merkel’s centre-right Christian market after the US. In response, the to Greece will only affect migrants who tourist board, Harkaitz Millan, said: from a location in northern Italy. This issue interim measures. Democrats (SPD) look likely to hold French economy minister, Bruno Le arrived in Germany from mid-March “The perpetrators do not represent chemical, used in refrigeration and air In one case study, the ICJ called the privilege of calling her Madame Maire, informed the national assembly Nineteen European countries, including 2017. In 2015-2016 Germany took in Basque society. We cannot allow them conditioning, is 14,800 times more attention to a young man aged 16 who Chancellor. Her 12 years as Chancellor that the EU’s Franco-German axis Romania, Lithuania and Slovenia have more than 800,000 migrants and refu- to continue sabotage of this sort. "All warming to the atmosphere than CO2. required surgery after sustaining an have been going well and her opposition, would be proposing a pan-European faster broadband speeds than the UK gees, many of whom had fled war and they achieve is to damage the image of The researchers, the Jungfraujoch Swiss Martin Schulz of the Social Democrats injury when he crossed the border into clampdown. “These digital platforms according to a new study. But the UK abuses in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. the Basque Country as a quality tourist France’s Parliament voted backed a air monitoring station, told the BBC that (SPD) may have a hard time as the Spain. As an unaccompanied child, make tens of millions of sales and still comes ahead of 158 other countries At the time Greece, struggling with destination, and put at risk the jobs of new law to clean up politics as part of a the gas is still being pumped into the candidate of change. the hospital treating him required the French treasury gets a few tens of including Italy, France, Ireland and meagre resources because of its financial 100,000 Basques.” campaign promise of President Macron. atmosphere. Yet for all the prosperousness of the consent of a responsible adult to thousands,” the minister said, adding that Monaco. Singapore tops the table with It was the first anti-tourist protest 412 lawmakers backed the bill which The Italian environment agency the country, Germany will be facing authorise his surgery. However, until the current setup was “unacceptable”. an average speed of 55.13Mbps. carried out in the Basque Country, will scrap cash handouts for lawmakers rejected the Swiss findings, telling the challenges in the coming years. Some a guardian had been appointed, no In Brussels, a commission spokeswoman, The UK ranks 31st in the world for following a number of incidents in to spend on areas and NGOs of their BBC that its inventory was correct and European countries, such as France, want consent to the child’s surgery could be Vanessa Mock, told reporters that the broadband speeds and lags behind most Barcelona and Majorca. A group of choice. A week before, the Parliament complied with the UN regulations. to deepen the integration of the euro given. Meanwhile, the public prosecutor, issue was sensitive as any reforms needed of Europe, according to Cable who masked activists set off flares outside a voted through part of a law that bans But the Swiss scientists tell a different zone which may not go down well with following an age-assessment protocol, agreement from all member states. “Tax ranked the UK’s average broadband tourist-packed restaurant in Palma on MPs and ministers from employing story. Germans citizens. America is pushing for decided that the boy was legally an adult. is complicated and it is a unanimity speed at 16.51Mbps (megabits per the island of Majorca, while a number of family members as Macron’s government “Our estimate for this location Germany to raise their military spending issue and that’s why we can’t necessarily second), meaning a Lord of the Rings buildings in Barcelona have been defaced seeks to restore trust in politicians among in Italy is about 60-80 tonnes of this This then left him in the position of 0.8% which would not be a popular race into a new area like this without length movie would take one hour and with anti-tourism graffiti. the public. The presidential campaign substance being emitted every year,” Dr having to pay for the surgery himself. move. The government has not come reflecting on the best approach to taxing two minutes to download. Activists have also been targeting saw Macron’s rival Fillon at the centre of Stefan Reimann, from the Swiss Federal The UN Convention on the Rights up with sufficient plans for integrating a digitalised economy ... It’s essential we Despite being home to some of holidaymakers’ rental cars with stickers a scandal because he employed his wife Laboratories for Materials Science and of the Child obliges signatory states to the 1.2 million refugees that came from maintain a level playing field,” she said. the most technologically innovative with slogans including “this car is as a publicly funded assistant despite Technology told the BBC. “Then we can consider the best interests of the child across the globe to Germany between Airbnb insists that it does not make companies in the world, the U.S. is far unnecessary” and “tourism kills Majorca”. little evidence of any work. compare this with the Italian emission as a primary consideration above any 2015 and 2016. “important, long-term business decisions behind other nations when it comes crisis, complained that it could not cope Arran, the youth wing of the radical “Practices... that were probably inventory, and that is quite interesting other. In the event of any remaining The election, however calm it may on the basis of taxation” and that it to broadband download speeds. That's with the numbers arriving by boat from CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) party, tolerated, maybe accepted for some time, because the official inventory says below uncertainty, the ICJ affirms that the appear in contrast to politics from the follows rules and pays all the tax it aggregating “more than 63 million speed Turkey. Conditions remain harsh in has claimed responsibility for the anti- are no longer accepted today,” Prime 10 tonnes or in the region of two to three international law which affirms that last year will be significant not just for owes in the places it does business. tests had been carried out across the most of Greece's reception centres, and tourism campaign in Barcelona. CUP, Minister Edouard Philippe told French tonnes.” States must accord the individual the Germany’s future but Europe’s. The platform, whose headquarters world in the 12 months up to 10 May there have been some riots by migrants which is propping up the centre-right radio. “They actually say it is happening, but benefit of the doubt and treat him or This ethics bill will surely help is in San Francisco, contends that 2017”. frustrated at bureaucratic delays. nationalist Catalan government, has been they don't think it is happening as much her as a child until effectively proven the overwhelming amount of money Macron who has seen his approval The UK government had previously The influx to Greece subsided last criticised over its refusal to condemn the as we see. Just to put it into perspective, otherwise. generated by Airbnb stays with hosts and rating plummet after a few months this greenhouse gas is thousands of times planned to introduce a legal universal year after Turkey agreed to help the EU attacks. In addition, Spanish civil society their communities in office. One survey found that only stronger than CO2. So, that would be service obligation, allowing customers intercept the migrant boats. New border Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, organisations, international law fences in the Balkans also reduced the has made herself unpopular with the Poland critical 36% of people had a positive view of like an Italian town of 80,000 inhabitants to demand speeds of 10Mbps. Previous groups, and the United Nations High Which? analysis found the Orkney Islands numbers heading to Central Europe. This tourism industry after she introduced a the President who has also come under not emitting any CO2.” Commissioner for human rights have and Shetland Islands are the areas with year the biggest flows have been to Italy, moratorium on new hotels and cracked of EU scrutiny for his labour reform program, all criticised Spain’s age-assessment the slowest broadband speeds in the UK, across the Mediterranean from North down on illegal holiday apartments budget and public spending cuts, and procedure. with an average speed of 6.3Mbps and Africa. in response to growing disquiet over Tensions between Poland and the EU plans to create an official First Lady “The Spanish government is failing 8.4Mbps. Residents of Tamworth in the Most migrants hoping to settle in the tourism in the city, which has grown have been rising. Poland’s ruling Law position for his wife. Macron has U-turned on the latter these children and is failing to respect its Photograph © Linda Grayson Photograph West Midland enjoyed the fastest speeds EU arrive in Greece and Italy, and both exponentially in recent years. and Justice Party (PiS) recently sought of 30.4Mbps. countries have urged their EU partners In the past year there have been a to take control of the independent body which critics saw as a double standard international law obligations,” said the Yemen has the slowest broadband to help ease the pressure. But an EU plan series of protests as residents complain that appoints judges. This would allow while he is pushing legislation against ICJ. speed in the world, at an average of just to move 160,000 refugees from Greece that massive tourism and rising rents are them to politicise the legal system and nepotism. The Commission is working to 0.34Mbps, meaning it would take two and Italy to other parts of the EU is driving them out of their city. Several appoint loyalist judges. The public, Under the new law, hiring a establish a pool of lawyers specialising in days to download the same HD Movie dogged by delays and opposition. The hotels have been paint-bombed this year worried what a Catholic conservative spouse, partner, parent, or child will be the rights of the child, in a bid to address that would take just over 18 minutes in European Commission said just 25,438 and anti-tourist graffiti has appeared in control over the legal system would punishable by three years in prison and a the lack of access to the justice system for Singapore. had been relocated as of 4 August. many parts of the city. 45,000 Euro (£53,000) fine. migrant children across Europe. 8 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 International News International News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

first president, Jomo Kenyatta who was can be forced to sleep in huts or cattle similar discrimination or untouchable under pressure to abandon peace talks. It elected in 1963 when Kenya became sheds. They are banned from touching and inhuman behaviour”. is easy to see why they would be nervous. Venezuela’s independent. Kenyatta is a member of cattle and men, denied access to some But a women’s rights activist, Pema What the UN’s There are also mixed messages Israel to speed Apple complies the country’s largest tribe, the Kikuyu. foods and can be barred from toilet and Lhaki, told AFP news agency that the coming from the White House. Secretary uncertain future Raila Odinga is the son of Kenya’s washing facilities in the house, forcing law was unenforceable because it related new sanctions of State Rex Tillerson has publicly up construction with China’s first Vice-President and is a former them to walk long distances from their to a deeply entrenched belief system, tried to reassure all that the US wants Prime Minister. He is a member villages. and one that women played a part in against North talks and not a regime change, while of Gaza ‘tunnel VPN crackdown of the Luo tribe who generally feel They can also be exposed to extreme perpetuating. President Trump has said that North unrepresented. He lost his past four cold in the winter, and young women “They need to understand the root Korea will Korea’s threats will be met with “fire and barrier’ attempts at the presidency and in 2007 cannot go to school. Last month a cause, have strategic interventions and achieve fury.” These mixed messages could be Apple has complied with China’s and 2013 he was suspected of cheating. teenage girl died after being bitten by a then wait a generation,” she told the dangerous. It is clear that China will play crackdown on virtual private networks Kenyatta took the lead. Odinga is snake while sleeping in a hut outside her agency. Chhaupadi was formally outlawed a major role in any negotiations. In the (VPN): apps which allow people to claiming the election was manipulated by home during her period. by the Nepalese government in 2005 but case of a US strike against North Korea circumvent internet censorship. China’s a computer hack. Kenyatta was suspected Her death followed that of a 15-year- no penalties were put in place, and it still or a dismantling of the Kim regime, “great firewall” blocks access to sites such of rigging the 2013 election. Kenya’s old in December 2016, who suffocated continues in remote western rural areas China will be faced with US troops at as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, elections can be violent. In 2007, 1,100 after lighting a fire in the shed where of Nepal. their border and an influx of immigrants. Wikipedia, and The New York Times. Kenyans died after a disputed election. she was sleeping to keep warm. The new A US state department human rights Beijing want to avoid this. What VPNs are apps that allow a user to access On the 31st July, the chief technician in law, passed on Wednesday, states that report, citing figures from a survey in happens next is unclear but the key will web pages from a remote location. For charge of electronic voting systems was menstruating women or those who have Nepal in 2010, said 19% of women be for the international community to Photograph © Hossein Zohrevand Photograph example, someone in China could use a found dead with signs of torture. just given birth should not be “kept in between the ages of 15 and 49 practised apply pressure to North Korea without VPN to browse as if they were in Japan There have been reports of protests chhaupadi or treated with any kind of chhaupadi across the nation. Farley © Pete Photograph having their actions misinterpreted as and access sites that would otherwise enezuelan President Nicolás being met with tear gas and other violent aggressive. be unreachable. The list of blocked sites Maduro celebrated the election actions from the police. he UN has imposed its harshest in China is enormous and at times of a constituent assembly on 30th sanctions yet on North Korea. seemingly random. A large portion of the VJuly which would have supreme power In reaction to Pyongyang’s English-language web is blocked. in the country including the power development of long-range ballistic Special counsel Apple have provoked criticism after T Israel is to accelerate the building of a to rewrite the constitution. His party missiles, all 15 members of the Security removing a number of VPNs from their boasted that 8 million Venezuelans voted Council voted unanimously in favour of Robert Mueller huge barrier along its boundary with app store after pressure from China. This to choose the body’s 545 members. This the sanctions, including China, North Gaza aimed at preventing militants from has been seen as taking part in internet figure is generally considered a lie and Korea’s closest ally. selects grand jury tunnelling under the border. The 64km censorship. Apple CEO Tim Cook the electoral authority (known through On the 4th and 28th July, Special counsel Robert Mueller is (40-mile) long construction will reach said, “We would obviously rather not a leak to Reuters) have the count at 3.7 North Korea tested Hwasong-14 the man tasked with leading the a depth of 40m (131ft) below and 6m remove the apps, but like we do in other million. intercontinental ballistic missiles which investigation into Russian meddling in above ground, at a cost of 3bn shekels countries we follow the law wherever we Opposition members have been have a range long enough to reach the US the US presidential election of last year. ($833m). do business.” arrested, with opposition leader Ramon mainland. North Korea has many short The latest significant news is that he has An Israeli army commander said the This will make it harder for tourists, Muchacho currently in hiding. Attorney and medium range missiles. A working now impaneled a grand jury. A grand barrier should be completed in 2019. foreigners based in China and, of course, General Luisa Ortega Díaz, a former long distance missile that could deliver a jury are used for complicated cases such Israel has sought to neutralise the threat Chinese citizens to access social media supporter and now vocal critic, was fired. nuclear weapon, however, would tip the as these to allow the Mueller and his of cross-border tunnels since its war with and many western news sources. China’s She had said the vote was a “mockery of balance of power between the US and investigation to subpoena documents and militants in Gaza in 2014. During 50 government is known for being strict on the people.” North Korea on to more equal ground. compel people to testify. They help indict days of fighting, fighters from Gaza's internet freedom and at times of crisis Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Until now the US’s nuclear capability and investigate. They decide whether ruling Hamas faction used tunnels will sometimes shut down all access to Colombia have all refused to recognise has been the strongest factor preventing there is evidence for probable cause to infiltrate Israeli territory on four the internet completely. the assembly. The US have imposed North Korea from striking its neighbours, and it is the grand jury who issues the occasions, killing 12 soldiers. Apple may simply be trying to keep sanctions and added Maduro to the list South Korea and Japan. It is unclear how charges. Israeli troops destroyed more than peace with a country in which its sales of people blacklisted from entering the accurate or effective the Hwasong-14 It is not surprising this has happened 30 tunnels and have found two since the have been dropping but, with Russia

Photograph Photograph © ART US. would be and whether North Korea can but it means the investigation is end of the war. The conflict left at least following close behind China in internet A full embargo by the US would be a develop a nuclear weapon small enough progressing, widening and it may mean 2,251 Palestinians dead (including more censorship, Apple’s future on how to deal huge blow to Maduro. The US purchase to arm the missile. Regardless, the US than 1,462 civilians, according to the with different countries’ internet laws ’ that Mueller is close to having enough 40% of the Venezuela s exports. Yet it is has little in the way of protection should evidence to charge individuals. He has UN) and 11,231 injured. On the Israeli may remain uncertain. likely that it would simply make food Nepal a strike occur. already hired 16 prosecutors which side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were shortages worse and it would only be The new sanctions will prohibit new means he clearly thinks there is evidence killed, and up to 1,600 injured. the citizens rather than the government criminalises foreign investments in North Korea, new for charges. It is also significant that he Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Maj Gen who would suffer. Escalating violence business ventures with foreign companies has impanelled the grand jury in such Eyal Zamir said the hi-tech barrier from the public could mean the army banishing as well as limit the amount of workers a short period of time, just over two would be completed, even at the risk of would intervene. 120 people have died North Korea send abroad, an important months. As a comparison, it took Robert renewed conflict with Hamas. "If Hamas in protests since April and the number is menstruating source of income for the country. They Fiske five months to assemble his grand chooses to go to war over the barrier, it rising. will be prohibited from exporting coal, jury for the Whitewater investigation of will be a worthy reason [for Israel] to go It is unclear how things will play out women to huts iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore, and seafood the Clintons. to war over. But the barrier will be built," but what is almost certain is that this which make up a third of the country’s This news is not enough to draw Israeli media quoted him as saying. will mean more repression in a country exports and could cost them $1 billion. any conclusion or guesses about how Last year, Hamas's leader in Gaza, already on course for dictatorship. 83% of North Korean exports go to the investigation will progress but it is Ismail Haniyeh, said the group was Lawmakers in Nepal have passed a China. China’s support of the sanctions likely we will see many subpoenas in the still digging tunnels, without specifying law criminalising a practice that forces is significant and Beijing have long been coming months. whether these extended into Israel. Part women from their homes during under pressure to curb North Korea, most of the new barrier will protrude into the Kenya’s election menstruation. recently and publicly by US president Mediterranean Sea, in an apparent effort Under the law anyone who makes a Donald Trump. to thwart attacks by frogmen. met with conflict woman observe the custom faces a three- Pyongyang have predictably not Four such Hamas militants tried to month jail sentence and a $30 (£23) fine. responded well. State-run KCNA have swim out to attack an Israeli army base The practice, known as chhaupadi, has said that North Korea plans to make during the 2014 war, but were killed After Kenya’s election on the 8th August been in the spotlight recently after two the US “pay a price for its crime” and by the IDF. According to local media the country is still conflicted. The two women died while sleeping in sheds. have threatened a strike against the reports, the machine used to dig the presidential election candidates for the Under the ancient Hindu practice, US territory of Guam. It is possible new barrier will destroy any existing presidential office were Uhuru Kenyatta women who have their periods or the sanctions could only serve to make tunnels, while the barrier itself will use and Raila Odinga. Kenyatta is the current who have just given birth are seen as matters worse and aggravate Pyongyang. sophisticated technology to detect any sitting president and is the son of Kenya’s impure or as bringers of bad luck, and South Korean president Moon Jae-in is new tunnels being built. 10 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

that he reminded everyone of her first admission that that he had been unaware recipients of private education. husband. Trump must remind people of Truth, Education of the precise sums involved. One of the difficulties in discussing this MARIUS BRILL’S their first wife.” He should have had the honesty to issue unemotionally, without self-interest DUDLEY SUTTON’S Noonan writes from the heart of and Fairness tell the ‘debt’ burdened beneficiaries of skewing the logic, is that of terminology. American conservativism where the By Peter Burden higher education that they shouldn’t The money which the former students I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT MEMEING OF LIFE deepest insult possible is to be likened to lose sight of their sense of justice. may or may not need to repay is always a woman. Overwhelmingly their reason for referred to as ‘Debt’. But it is not a debt. Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... So, if we cannot take these politicians choosing to go to university was that It could, at a pinch be described as a at their word, how do these leaders, they believed it would give them an ‘Conditional Debt’, although it isn’t a My American Childhood neither of which were voted in by a advantage over those who hadn’t, the debt at all, in as much as the individual is by Jehane Markham Like so many innovations, the brits majority, have the gall to carry on, and Anyone who is at university or was until opportunity to get better jobs and earn only liable for it under certain conditions did it first. Trump saw Brexit as the why do we let them? recently must feel at least a little inclined more money. Of course, a percentage fall which may never apply. It isn’t even a Shameless template for populist revolution. The to think warmly of Jeremy Corbyn – not by the wayside, either because they were straight liability; it is a supplementary It was inappropriate behaviour above the stables Brexiteers can’t give the NHS £350 just because he wears a scraggy beard never bright or committed enough for tax, which would best be called an in the old mews. million a week, so what? May backed that makes him a natural target for further education, or because they chose ‘Education Tax’, which will only be paid It was Peggy Lee singing you Give Me Fever, Remain, who cares? She swore she Shame monstering by the non-thinking media, courses that were never going to lead by those in a good position to pay it. If wouldn’t call an election and yet… and In 1945, concerned about war breaking and thus a man with whom they feel anywhere. Nevertheless, that there is a I had a degree, which as it happens I do it was the blues. e said what!?” yet for some reason we do nothing or out again in the future, the American they can identify, nor even because he has career advantage in holding a degree is not, having left school before my 17th It was an adult hand on my growing breasts, War Office didn’t blindly send soldiers For those of us who can still have no effective mechanism to hold promised to release them from a long- an incontrovertible statistical fact. birthday, I’d be happy to pay for the any it was something I didn’t choose. recall how politics was done politicians to their words. on to the streets to give out sweets and lasting potential financial commitment, The reasoning behind the Government’s advantages or privileges I might have pre-2016, with at least an appearance of Trump turns on a dime. So does “win hearts and minds”, as they did but more because he has the air of saying imposition of a level of liability for the gained from it, albeit retrospectively and It was Buddy Holly and Ray Charles singing their heart out, “H in Iraq, they actually thought about diplomacy, consistency, courtesy, grace May. But you’ll struggle to find the word what he actually believes. cost of tertiary education is impeccable. when I was in a position to do so. it was the blues. what they didn’t know. They sent the and manners each outrageous statement “Sorry” in Hansard. This quality alone is rare and If the state has provided you with a very Had Jeremy Corbyn taken the time It was watching the seniors dancing, Donald Trump makes is greeted with a What if this is an improvement anthropologist Ruth Benedict to Japan refreshing to the millennials, for since substantial advantage in life, if you reach to look at the numbers involved over slack-jawed disbelief. though? Blind conviction politics of the to study the people and commissioned the heady days of New Labour and the a position where you are able to return student ‘Debt’ before talking about it, it was net petticoats and patent leather shoes. “He did what!?” like of Margaret Thatcher was heartless. her hugely influential book The proliferation of truth-benders in world some of the cost, you should do so, in he might have caused far less trouble for It was New York in technicolour, Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Benedict With every newscycle a new low seems ISIL, like all despotic regimes, are deeply politics there has been a strong sense that order that those that come after you can himself by pledging not to abolish the it was yellow cabs set to cruise. to be reached, and the unavoidable convicted to one way of doing things. noted that the reason Americans the facts are far less important than the apply for the same benefit. tax increment by which students pay for question recurs, just what does a man There is no room for doubt. Jeremy struggled to understand notions like concept. It is generally agreed (and the fact their advantage, but by raising the point It was Coca-Cola in High Street Wimpey bars – have to do to get impeached around Corbyn hates changing his mind, he is a suicide kamikaze pilots, or ritual suicide In reality, spin is at least as old as the widely disparaged) that private (i.e. paid where it kicks in to a level few people it was the songs that gave me the clues. aka Hari-kari, was that the West had here? When is enough enough? politician of conviction (possibly not for Norman monarchy which successfully for) primary and secondary education would object to, certainly to a point It was something I had to find within me But then the self-styled ratings king the freedom fighters of the IRA but a what she called a “Guilt Culture” whereas fooled the inhabitants of Britain for a also offers a substantial life advantage. higher than mean national earnings, and is set on keeping his audience entranced. man of conviction none the less) which Japan had a “Shame Culture”. Western thousand years that their history began But nor can it be argued that a university at a rate which would make up for some And had to lose, like pennies tossed in the fountain, He seems to think that he’s giving is admirable even if those unswayable people internalise their moral compass, in 1066. And earlier, all that attractive, degree does not give its possessor of the shortfall caused by taking out the it was the blues. politics the same makeover that TV was principles distances him from the views they value their own judgement and implausible stuff about King Arthur and significant privileges, too. lower end of ‘Education Tax’ payers. The given thirty years ago. Bugger regulation of the major electorate. act correctly to avoid feeling guilty. his chivalrous cohorts was put together The notion that the small minority more privileged and successful graduates and Reithian ‘entertaining, informing But conservatives hate doubt and The Japanese moral viewpoint was retrospectively by some medieval Alastair of the population who have received the couldn’t object to that; and nor should and educating’; the system was wrested there is a feeling that the Tories are performative, your society enacted Campbell in tights and wrought-iron benefits of private education should be the poorest and least advantaged. from the hands of elite ‘tastemakers’ and tolerating May for fear of something punishment, they shamed you and they cod-piece. Conceivably, Julius Caesar reimbursed for its cost would clearly have thinkers and into the hands of populist worse taking her place. In the US, watched as you did the right thing. himself had his own medicus circumacti no traction. “reality” and the race to the bottom. conservatives are starting to find Historians seized on this dichotomy lurking in a back office ready to brief the Similarly the larger minority who Take a subscription of KCW TODAY The most successful drama series, Trump’s vacillation incompatible with to explain the enlightenment (guilt) editors of the Roman tabloids. have the benefit of tertiary education are commissioned by elite producers, just their homoerotic vision of bullheaded emerging from the dark ages of a shame In the 21st century, though, the now expected to pay for it. However they took reality TV and showed us the face leadership. society. scrutiny of politicians and public figures are only expected to pay for it once that for 2017/8 and receive of its future nadir: Shameless. “Half his tweets show utter weakness. The social media revolution is relentlessly intense and amplified advantage has been realised in terms of But Trump is only the premier They are plaintive, shrill little cries, introduced a new shame culture to the instantly through so many media financial reward, via a supplementary tax. a copy delivered peterburden.net cheerleader for reality politics where, usually just after dawn,” Peggy Noonan West. We tweet to seek approval from channels, that they can’t afford to drop If they haven’t benefited they need not just like real life, you get to change your wrote in the Wall Street Journal (Prop: our followers. We update our society at their guard and expose an unpalatable pay, never an option for thick or indolent www. every moment with what we are doing mind whenever you want to and you Rupert Murdoch) “He’s not strong and truth, even for a moment. Name get to say whatever you want to say, self-controlled, not cool and tough, not and they can like hate or even star rate There must be times when MPs even if a few “pussies” and Mexicans get low-key and determined; he’s whiny, our behaviour. Perhaps this is why the of any persuasion are accosted by offended. Real life, that is, in our western weepy and self-pitying. He throws ramifications of Social Media’s global constituents and find themselves Address world which a system of elites has spent himself, sobbing, on the body politic. societal judgement was understood thinking, ‘Oh, no! Not another centuries promoting and defending He’s a drama queen. It was once said, far faster by shame cultures like the doddering old fart coming to moan at PAGE freedom of speech. sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush movement for global jihad than liberal me about the inadequacy of a pension he democracies which simply decried its probably doesn’t deserve.’ invasion of privacy. Robotically, they respond by 1 1 But as more people defer to their composing their features into a screens and their ‘followers’, there is no prostitute’s smile and nodding doubt we are once more becoming a sympathetically at the punter. ‘Yes, yes of shame society. And in the kingdom of course, we intend to give priority to cases BIRDS “Half his tweets show the shamed, the shameless are kings. exactly like yours.’ Trump and May are apparently without But Jeremy, for a long time, has had shame. Unapologetic, each represents so little to lose that telling the truth 11 month’s subscription someone that many, caught in the gaze couldn’t harm him much. We look UK £ 46.00 (Tick box) utter weakness. of social media, might love to be. The forward to seeing how long that can Overseas on request obscenely successful in this world we’ve last, once political success imposes an made, are the shameless. The bankers, obligatory disingenuousness. 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Number 41 was their HQ from 1938 to Authorities. ‘The Ladies in Green’ sorted A bill was quickly passed 1966. The WVS was founded to assist out evacuees, immigrants, billets, clothing and everything and Joseph Bazalgette with Civil Defence tasks before World and tried to make powdered eggs in resolved the problem by War II was declared. It was a charitable recipes edible! They collected aluminium building new sewers, the organisation, an integrated structure for aircraft manufacture and books for in between. Embankment and the operating all over the country. the servicemen. Western Pumping Station. The Plaque was unveiled by Dame The WVS ladies were never defeated The dozens of squares and streets were Patricia Routledge. She spoke of Stella, and made millions upon millions of cups Thomas Cubitt designed as Italianate stucco terraces, Lady Read, saying, of tea and found time for kind words and By William Fawke many of which had the now-familiar “A pioneer of the WVS, she was support for those in distress.They were ‘Pimlico porch’, which translated as a tireless in her effort during the First hailed ‘as the greatest women’s army in Denbigh street, Pimlico Doric portico with a balcony over. Both World War and it is wonderful to see the world’ and later became known as the Dickens and Thomas Carlyle knew both her legacy and that of the WVS Royal Voluntary Service. 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It’s you we value. of the squares and terraces in Belgravia, Theatre, marking the opening day of Pimlico, Clapham and Bloomsbury, the Leith Hill Musical Festival 2001, including Tavistock and Eaton Squares. which had been held in the Surrey By the mid-eighteen-twenties, he town since 1931. He was commissioned was active not only in Belgravia but to sculpt Cubitt by the Sanctuary ‘in almost every other expanding Housing Association in conjunction metropolitan district’. He also extended with Grosvenor Estates, unveiled by the east front of Buckingham Palace, His Grace the Duke of Westminster built Osborne House on the Isle of in May 1995, while Adrian White of Wight, in collaboration with Prince Denbies donated the one in Dorking. Albert, which was completed in 1851, It is quite a ‘busy’ piece, and he is the same year of the Great Exhibition, shown standing on a raised platform, a project that Cubitt persuaded the supported by various forms of ‘stone’ German consort to pursue. 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The US launched Tomahawk missiles task of taking a historical subject that is pentacycle, which was trialled by rural sorting offices and delivering over four on an Syrian airfield from where it of relatively niche appeal and attracting postmen in Horsham before it was million letters a day for over seventy five Understanding is believed the chemical attack was The Postal jaded Londoners who are already burnt consigned to the dustbin of history with years, from the 1920s to its closure in launched. This marked the first direct out by the exhaustive list of exhibitions extreme prejudice. Whilst the name 2003. Originally delayed by the outbreak the Syrian Civil action in the war from the US. In July Museum and and museums found in the Capital. sounds like the kind of bicycle preferred of the First World War, the incomplete War 2017, US-led forces took Raqqa (Syria) Mail Rail However, even damp and grumpy over by Satanists, it is in fact a five wheeled tunnels were used to stash treasures By Max Horberry and Mosul (Iraq); ISIS’s two capitals, By Max Feldman my unnecessary tour of Lewisham, I had vehicle that looks like the offspring of a from London’s museums such as the

killing a number of civilians in the Giannopoulous © Georgios Photograph to acknowledge that the Postal Museum Penny Farthing and a shopping trolley Rosetta Stone so they could be protected process. had done a good job of making its and bizarre incidents as when in the case of a full scale Axis invasion. On 9th July of this year there was a potentially dull subject matter an escaped lioness from It ran with such efficiency that when it ceasefire in Deraa brokered by Russia hilst I am perfectly au fait lively and London Zoo attacked suffered a direct hit from a bomb during and the US after Putin and Trump met. with using the a passing mail coach World War Two it was only shut down Russia is deploying troops to police the Great (“neither rain, nor sleet for a day before it was up and running ceasefire zone. Since January 2017 Russia British Postal Service nor snow nor lions” sadly again. However rising costs eventually has been in talks with Iran and Turkey W (at least when it never caught on).There’s accomplished what the Blitz couldn’t and about “de-escalation zones” in three comes to regrettable also plenty to keep by 2003 the costs of its upkeep compared southern regions where there are fewer Photograph © www.kremlin.ru Photograph late night impulse children entertained; to road delivery led to Mail Rail’s death extremists and the fighting is less intense. purchases off Amazon), from a dress-up area knell, until now. The conflict has had repercussions I have never, it must be around the globe. 4.8 million Syrians said, been particularly have fled to neighbouring countries, curious about the history according to the United Nations High and inner workings Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). of one of our oldest Neighbouring countries have welcomed institutions. Indeed many of them; Egypt has accepted most of my knowledge 122,000, Jordan accepted 660,000, about the intricacies of

Lebanon accepted 1 million, and Freedom © Syria Photograph the post comes from a interesting, Turkey has accepted the most, 3 million, teenage reading of Charles both to mail nerds (whom I while Gulf states, specifically Saudi Bukowski’s scabrous Post Office, which is presume must exist) and to your average Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, more of a primer in aggressive nihilism family looking to while away a Sunday and Bahrain, have accepted none. The and the importance of being drunk afternoon without murdering each other. UNHCR were not prepared for the scale whenever possible than a documentation The secret of the museum’s success of this migration and many camps are of how the mail gets where it needs to comes from its esoteric approach to over-crowded and under-supplied. go. As a result when I set off for the its subject matter. Rather than getting There have been 952,446 refugees newly re-designed Postal Museum, I was bogged down in the mechanics of applying for asylum in Europe between an effective blank page (though after how the mail gets from A to B, there April 2011 and May 2017 (UNHCR). an accident with Google maps which is instead a focus on the unusual and n the 6 years of the Syrian Civil 2012, Al Qaeda set up a Syrian branch covered both Syria and Iraq. They called The Dublin Regulation means that a initially sent me to Lewisham in the forgotten parts of the industry’s history;

War over 470,000 have died, 13.5 while the Kurds in the north seceded. it the Caliphate. The US launched an refugee has to stay in the country they pouring rain rather than the museum’s from how the 18th century version of a Museum © Postal All Photograph million are in need of humanitarian In mid-2012, the Iran-backed airstrike against ISIS in September 2014. arrived in, which has put a huge amount actual Clerkenwell location, I found postman’s uniform included a greatcoat Iassistance and there are over 5.1 million Lebanese militia Hezbollah stopped The Pentagon began a programme for of pressure on countries like Italy and myself unexpectedly back in touch with and a brace of pistols (which would refugees, according to the Human Rights patrolling the border and invaded to training rebels but only those fighting Greece. my furious inner-Bukowski). certainly add where you can kit Mostly unknown to the average Watch and the UN. Europe has faced its support Assad. By late 2012, Iran, in ISIS, not Assad. The programme failed Jordan has accepted 660,000 refugees. The Postal Museum is tucked away some glamour to yourself out in the flat Londoner, the reopened Mail Rail worst migration crisis since the Second support of Assad, began sending daily and openly showed that for the US UK has 67 times the GDP of Jordan, yet behind the Royal Mail’s London sorting the profession if cap and trench coat of exhibition has a strangely broad appeal World War. Syria’s conflict is complex cargo flights and there were hundreds fighting ISIS was a bigger priority than will allow only 20,000 refugees to enter depot and initially opened in 2004 as the Royal Mail a travelling postman, with the quote “Mail Rail was like and unclear and the web of allegiances of Iranian soldiers on the ground. Iran, fighting Assad. between 2015 and 2020. The British Postal Museum & Archive: were to consider budding megalomaniacal having your own giant train set to and military backers has added to the a Shia country, has a vested interest in In August 2015, Turkey, an ally of the The former head of the UNHCR, the latest in a series of exhibitions and reinstituting dictators can create run” (the words of Ray Middlesworth, complexity. backing Assad who is an Alawite, a sect US, bombed the Kurds in Iraq but not Antonio Guterres has said that “Syria public records that date all the way back it), the original stamps featuring their one of the last engineers on London’s During early 2011 a number of Arab of Shia Islam and a minority in Syria. ISIS which demonstrates the confusing has become the great tragedy of this to the 1838 Public Records Act, which sculpture of the own head rather than the underground postal network, now etched and African countries saw protests, The Gulf States then began funding the alliances that were playing out in Syria. century.” There are 13.5 million in ordered the first formal organisation Queen that was Queen. A functioning into an information plaque) summing demonstrations and uprisings. The rebels to counter Iran and the civil war Then, a month later, Russia, who had need of humanitarian assistance and and cataloguing of government archives. used to model pneumatic tube system up why Londoners who would never period came to be known as ‘The Arab became a proxy war. been supporting Assad, became directly the UNHCR’s funding appeal has After having closed for 18 months for a the postage of the kind seen in normally be drawn to such a museum Spring’. Some countries, such as Tunisia In December 2012, the rebel group involved in the fight and began airstrikes. reached only 23%. The conflict has £26 million pound renovation, the newly stamp which is rather larger than you Mad Men, (though the family friendly are already pondering a visit. Visitors can and Egypt, toppled their governments; coalition known as the Syrian National They claimed to be targeting ISIS but become a complicated web of warring retooled museum has the unenviable might imagine and the notably bizarre museum thankfully doesn’t also recreate hurtle through the industrial tunnels in others, such as Libya, fought short civil Coalition was recognised by Friends of instead bombed rebels including those factions, proxy war and power play. It the fully stocked drinks cabinets and snazzy looking replica train cars which wars. Syria was not an exception and the Syrian People Conference. backed by the US. has become morally ambiguous and atmosphere of casual sexism) which kids with their Perspex domes and two- protesters took to the streets against 2013 was a significant year in the By the end of 2016 Assad, with the almost impossible to take sides. The (along with larger kids like your humble by-two seating look rather more like a President Bashar al-Assad who inherited conflict. The Gulf States intensified their help of Russian and Iranian militia, newest ceasefires will not spell harmony reviewer) can send messages speedily to roller-coaster than your average train the position of President from his father support for the rebels via Jordan and took control of Aleppo, the rebels’ last and it is unclear how much longer it different parts of the museum. I must carriage. The complete experience takes in 2000. In March 2011, Assad’s army US president Obama ordered the CIA stronghold. Assad’s forces surrounded will continue. Even if a victory is found, confess to finding this more entertaining over 15 minutes, using audio-visual fired shots against peaceful protesters. to train and equip the rebels. Then, in the city and cut off food supplies while either outcome will bring with it its than I was expecting and realised I was technology to transport passengers back During these protests 15 boys were August, Assad used chemical weapons airstrikes bombed the city filled with own problems. Unrest will continue if embarrassing myself when I saw that to the Blitz and other key events in the detained and tortured by Assad’s forces against civilians in an area of the suburbs civilians as well as rebels. Aleppo had Assad wins. A dangerous power vacuum I was getting contemptuous side-long Mail Rail’s history. and one of them, 13-year old Hamza around Damascus. Once the CIA been the most populated city in Syria will appear if he loses. There are many glances from a feral looking gang of Between the Postal Museum’s Ali Al-Khateeb, died. In July 2011, the training and arms arrived in Syria in the and was left in ruins. UN humanitarian countries that have significant stakes in eight year olds. extensive collection and its underground protesters began shooting back. Some same month, the war became a power spokesman Jens Laerke called the attack the outcome: Russia, the US, Iran, Saudi Of course the real pièce de resistance, counterpart in the Mail Rail (tickets will soldiers defected and the rebels became war including the US on one side and a “complete meltdown of humanity.” Arabia. the Mail Rail (not a gay bar), isn’t open encompass both from September, but the Free Syrian Army. The uprising had Russia on another. Early this year Assad used chemical In all this the victims are the 6.6 to the general public until September. the Postal Museum is open now) there become a civil war and 60,000 would die In February 2014, a faction of Al weapons against his own people, killing million displaced within Syria and The Mail Rail was an underground are plenty of reasons to go postal this in the first 18 months of the conflict. Qaeda broke away due to internal 85 including children. This attack is the 5.1 million who are fleeing and network of rails and tunnels which autumn. Assad encouraged Jihadist groups disputes and called themselves the being investigated by the UN as a seeking asylum outside of it. Europe hosted the first driverless electric railway to join the rebels so that the movement Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). potential war crime. Assad has called and the countries surrounding Syria (the Neanderthal to the DLR’s Homo 15-20 Phoenix Place, would be associated with extremism They fought with other rebels and the the reports of chemical weapon use are struggling to cope with the levels of Sapiens), that snaked over six and a half London WC1X 0DA and it would be harder for any foreign Kurds and created their own state, in as a fabrication used to justify US refugees and this problem will intensify miles from Paddington to Whitechapel, 0300 030 0700 backers to aid the rebels. In January a region about the size of the UK that intervention. as the conflict persists. linking mainline railway services with six www.postalmuseum.org 16 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Business & Finance Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk K-C_Sept 2017:Layout 1 9/8/17 20:30 Page 2

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their passion and ideas into creating average pass rate increased since 2007- The Royal Albert unforgettable events, but also equip them Driving lessons 8 from 44 percent to 47, the number How long have we got? with skills essential to pursue a career in By Fahad Redha of tests conducted has dropped from By Scott Beadle FRAS Hall launches the arts. 1.8 to 1.5 million with young drivers “The Hall is committed to fostering a accounting for most of the drop. Young Producers love of music in young people, attracting “Put simply, young people are being new audiences and creating a uniquely priced out of learning to drive,” ‘Honest outreach scheme diverse programme, so we’re incredibly The number of 17-year olds taking their John’s Managing Editor, Daniel Powell, excited by this new project.” driving test has fallen by over 100,000 said. “Ten years ago, a typical 17 year old The events will be held in the Hall’s since 2007-8 with the overall number would have booked a driving lesson as apiens by Yuval Noah Harari (what a brilliant name) has been on of under-25s learning to drive down ’ second space, the Elgar Room, where soon as they were legally able, but today the best sellers list for months. Back in England it’s the focus of ince 1871, the Royal by 20 percent. This is according to new Dame Judi Dench and Sir Laurence most young people simply cannot afford my wife’s book club; other friends there have read it and wished research from automotive consumer site Albert Hall has played Olivier once trained, and Sinead to drive. to discuss it, but alas I’m at the end of the queue and haven’t read ‘HonestJohn.co.uk’ “Increases in IPT and changes to Sit yet, much to my chagrin. I’m now in Spain observing Jupiter and O’Connor, Paloma Faith, Laura Mvula host to everyone from The research also found a difference and Britain’s Got Talent winner, Tokio the way major personal injury claims are Saturn and, lo and behold, everyone seems to be reading it here too; the on regional grounds. East Sussex saw Edward Elgar to Ed Sheeran, Myers have appeared, alongside two calculated have pushed up premiums members of the local book club in Tallara are reading it, and everyone the largest drop (61 percent) followed by an average of eight per cent. But for S other venues: Verdi and the North Circle seems to have a copy to hand and eager to share some new revelation on via Winston Churchill, The by the County of Bristol (45 percent). younger drivers the real world increases Bar. almost every page. Cambridgeshire and the Vale of are probably much higher.” Beatles and Adele. No previous experience is needed to So as members of the genus I would think there are few topics of Glamorgan were joint third (40 percent) apply for the programme, but a passion greater interest and intrigue to everyone who has ever contemplated Now, the Hall’s new Young Producers and Worcestershire completes the top the cosmos than the question, what will happen to life on planet Earth? scheme will give 18 to 25-year-olds the for the arts and an interest in pursuing five with a 39 percent decrease. a career in the creative industries is Everyone alive on the planet today all 7 billion of us, has an interest in chance to curate their own mini-series A teenager in a city driving a small the question of Earth’s habitability; and the approximately 100 billion essential. While degree holders may of events, providing a pathway into the hatchback of £8,000 can be quoted up to people who have ever lived on the planet would probably have been apply, that isn’t a pre-requisite. Those industry for prospective programmers. £13,498 for a comprehensive 12-month interested in this as well. taking part must, though, be able to Applications are currently with insurance policy. Even in a rural area, this From an astronomer’s viewpoint, the standard feeling about Earth’s commit to the programme schedule those selected announced in September, can be as high as £8,750. This cost could habitability goes something like this: The Sun is about half way through of fortnightly meetings from 1-4pm before a six-month crash course in be one reason some people are delaying its main sequence life, about 4.6 billion years old and with 5 billion between late September 2017 and early programming, marketing and event learning to drive. years left, so life on Earth should be about half way through, as well, management, climaxing with the April 2018. But they face high costs even before right? two nights of events on Friday 6 and The Young Producers scheme is part buying a car. The average learner can Wrong. The earliest microfossils, primitive, bacteria-like life, Saturday 7 April, 2018. of the Hall’s Education & Outreach spend as much as £1,529 to get their date to about 3.8 billion years ago and come from the northern Artistic Director at the Royal Albert programme, which includes everything license and an average of 47 hours Australian desert. Such cyanobacteria, or ‘blue-green algae’ are larger Hall, Lucy Noble, said: “We want to from music therapy to free tuition and of professional lessons are required, L than ordinary bacteria and can leave behind fossils that scientists can give young people a voice; and a chance. workshops with the likes of Churches, according to the Department for radiometrically date to a very high precision. Moreover, these bacteria The Young Producers scheme will not Sigma and Jake Bugg. The closing date Transport, to gain a license. create stromatolites, dome-shaped structures that grow in aquatic just allow those taking part to funnel for applications is 8th September 2017. DVSA records show that while the environments and can leave behind fossilized remains. Dating these colonies of microbes gives us our earliest view of life on Earth. Sir Peter Lampl, chair of the Sutton So, we know that life on Earth has been around for at least 3.8 Trust, said: “It is no surprise that there billion years. Why shouldn’t it be around for another 3.8 or even 5 Number of has been a fall in the proportion of billion years, until the ancient Sun leaves the main sequence and young people hoping to go into higher becomes a red giant. prospective education. Our own separate research has The Homo genus is about 2.5 million years old, but all other shown that graduates will be paying back versions died out leaving just the one species Homo Sapiens, modern university their loans well into middle age, affecting man, us. They had already proved their ability to wipe out most other their ability to go to graduate school competitors and certainly today our species yet again demonstrates its students at an and afford a mortgage, and decisions on murderous intolerance of its fellow man and serious lack of concern for having children. the future wellbeing of the planet, its climate and its resources. eight year low “With debts up to £57,000 for So outside of our own responsibilities which we can at least try poorer graduates and soaring student to fulfil, what are the other significant problems that will challenge loan interest rates, the system is badly future life on Earth. And bear in mind for all the damage we wreak, The proportion of schoolchildren who in need of reform. This reform should human beings are among the more fragile types of life on Earth not the think they are likely to go to university include means-testing tuition fees and hardiest. has fallen to its lowest level in eight First is the looming rise in the temperature brought to us by the restoring maintenance grants so poorer ’ years, with many deterred by tuition fees students face lower fees and lower debt Sun s radiation output. This will happen long before the Sun swells into and student debt, according to a new on graduation.” a red giant. Second is a decrease in global carbon dioxide, also a result poll. of the Sun’s increasing luminosity, that could cut off the influx of carbon Responding to the Sutton Trust ’ The survey, carried out among almost useful barometer of schoolchildren’s of those who said they were likely to go report, universities’ minister Jo Johnson into the planet s biosphere. Third will be the gradual loss of water on the 3,000 pupils aged 11-16 in England expectations. It will be used by on to higher education were concerned said the reality was that young people planet, and the inevitable depletion of the oceans. and Wales, suggests that the recent campaigners to add to pressure on the about the cost of higher education (51%), were more likely to go to university The evaporation of water into the space surrounding Earth will debate over the fairness of tuition fees government to re-examine its student up from 46% last year. than ever before with entry rates for mark the final gasp of any life left on the planet. This will occur about and £50,000-plus student debt may funding system, which became the focus Of those “unlikely” to go on to 18-year-olds rising every year since 2012. 2.5 billion years from now, but the oceans themselves could be largely be starting to have an impact on the of political debate during the general higher education, more than half (54%) He said students from disadvantaged gone by 1 billion years into the future, a mere blink of the eye in cosmic aspirations of children before they even election when Labour promised to scrap said they would rather do something backgrounds were now 43% more likely terms. The planet’s surface temperature will increase dramatically and take their GCSEs. be too hot for most life, also within a billion years. And the decrease in tuition fees. practical, and 36% said that they did not to enter higher education than in 2009. Top: Three-quarters of pupils who took Significantly, the poll shows that the enjoy learning (36%). Two-thirds (64%) “Our student finance system ensures that carbon dioxide and a significant alteration to the atmosphere could take our planet and life. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). part in the poll (74%) said they were place well before 1 billion years from now. Homo Sapiens as a species is far more likely to be the architect of A shot of the Earth (Central Africa) proportion of pupils from “low affluence” cited a financial reason (up from 57% in costs are split fairly between graduates with the Moon's Compton Crater in likely or very likely to go on to higher households who believe they are likely to 2013) with half saying they wanted to and the taxpayer. However, there is still Considering that life has been on the planet for at least 3.8 billion its own demise than any of the above. We have only been around for the foreground. education, down from a high of 81% in years, the story of life on our planet could be some 80% over, far more 200,000 years and have had and are having a colossal impact on the NASA/ Goddard/ Arizona State go on to university has fallen to an all- start earning money as soon as possible more to do to ensure that students get University 2013. Whereas almost a decade ago 8% time low of 61% for the seven years for (51%). value for money. That is why we have than the halfway mark we tend to think of as an analog to our Sun’s planet’s wellbeing. We might enjoy another 999,800,000 years aboard Above: thought it was unlikely they would go on lifetime. And this simply looks at life’s endgame: It does not take planet Earth if we can change our selfish, grasping, short term mindset Massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's which data is available. The Sutton Trust is calling on the created a new regulator, the Office for Larsen C ice shelf... to higher education, that figure rose to Overall, a third (33%) of pupils polled government to review the case for Students, that will hold universities into account a host of other mechanisms that could wipe out human and learn to husband and share our planet’s resources with the rest global warming perhaps? NASA 14% this year. said that they were “very likely” to go means-testing tuition fees and to change to account for teaching quality and civilization. Killer asteroids or comet impacts, a nearby supernova or of the Earth’s inhabitants, from termites to Blue whales, and from The Ipsos Mori poll for the on to higher education and 41% said it the system to ensure that students get a student outcomes through the Teaching gamma-ray burst, global warming, and supervolcanoes are just some of penguins to Polar bears. Sutton Trust education charity is a was “fairly likely” they would do so. Half fair deal on repayment. Excellence Framework.” the climate changing events that could have a catastrophic impact on Here’s hoping…! 24 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Literature Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

his month we’re The novel soon found itself a whole host a popular name for sinister looking cats. Edited and compiled by Emma Trehane, PhD of celebrity champions and detractors Dickens proclaimed the novel as “genius” looking back to the The Beauty of Sonnet XVI Anniversary Margaret Oliphant hailed it as “a new and Prince Albert was so impressed by John Milton (1608-1674) Victorians and meet beginning in fiction”, while at the same that he sent copies out as gifts to his time Edward Bulwer-Lytton dismissed it intimates. If Collins had been working a the Sonnet Wilkie Collins’ Woman In Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud as “great trash”. And while Henry James hundred years later, his only peers would Not of war only, but detractions rude, T disliked the “ponderosity” of The Woman have been four guys with mop tops and N THIS MONTH’S POETRY Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, White The Woman In in White (calling it “a kind of 19th- scouse accents. PAGE we will be examining the To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed, century version of Clarissa Harlowe”), At the time of The Woman In White’s beauty of the Sonnet form and the And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud White he acknowledged that the book had debut Collins was no freshman author differences between the Italian and Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued, “introduced into fiction those most (by 1859 he had published four novels, I The Woman In White was first unleashed English sonnet. Meaning little poem, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, upon an unsuspecting Victorian audience mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries two collections of short stories, along the sonnet originated in Italy in the 13th And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, in 1859 between the pages of Charles which are at our own doors”. with numerous other books and essays) Century. This was the start of a poetic And Worcester's laureate wreath: yet much remains Dickens’s (perhaps slightly lazily named) Whilst the literary establishment and had achieved a level of success, but convention which has been developed To conquer still; Peace hath her victories weekly literature magazine All The turned itself inside out with arguments not so much that he was able to give up by numerous poets throughout literary No less renowned than War: new foes arise, Year Round. The opening instalment over novels artistic merit, the general his day job as a journalist (the shame, the history. Francesco Petrarch established Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. appeared across the page from the final public (yeah, those animals) weren’t shame!), but when The Woman In White the sonnet in the 14th Century as a major Help us to save free conscience from the paw instalment of Dickens’s own A Tale Of bothered what the great and the good was released all bets were off: The novel form of love poetry. His subject matter Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw. Two Cities (there are hard acts to follow made of it and bought it in droves, and lifted the circulation of All the Year Round was generally about conflict and sexual and then there’s the literary equivalent raised the since unmasked 35-year-old to even higher levels than Dickens had. love within the courtly love tradition. The of the charge of the Light Brigade). author, Wilkie Collins into a household Sampson Low’s first printing of 1,000 sonnet was also adopted by Spain, France The audience were suddenly thrust name. copies of the three-volume edition in and England in the 16th Century and Sonnets: into the story of a man named Walter During its serialisation in All the Year August of 1860 sold out on publication Germany shortly after. This type of poem No 60 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hartwright and came face to face with Round (from 26 November 1859 to 25 day. One of the main tools in Collins’s is made up of 14 lines and follows strict the mysterious Anne Cartwright, the August 1860), and upon its publication arsenal was his mastery of the effective rhyme schemes and poetic structures. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, eponymous woman in white. in book form, The Woman in White cliff-hanger (we will reveal more about There have been some variations on how So do our minutes hasten to their end; The story was not credited to inspired not only a series of imitators Collins’s use of cliff-hangers next many lines to use in a sonnet by writers Each changing place with that which goes before, an author but soon became a bona- but also what would be recognisable month!) with over forty in the novel. like Gerald Manley Hopkins and some In sequent toil all forwards do contend. fide sensation, to the extent that it is today as a franchising explosion similar When Collins auctioned the publishing of the Shakespearian sonneteers, but Nativity, once in the main of light, generally singled out as the originator to whenever Marvel fires out a new rights to his new novel, they sold for an most sonnets conform to the 14 line Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, of what became known as ‘sensation superhero thrill ride: Manufacturers almost unheard of £5,000. To this day it rule. While the sonnet has retained this Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, ’ fiction’, which as a genre tended towards produced Woman in White perfume, is regarded as Collins best novel, a view structure, the conventions have evolved And Time, that gave, doth now his gift confound. the electrifying, suspenseful along with Woman in White cloaks and bonnets, with which Collins concurred, as it is over time. In the 16th Century for Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, sometimes horrific plots, as well as its and music-shops displayed Woman in the only one of his novels named in his example, John Donne used the sonnet to And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, unsavoury themes of intrigue, jealousy, White waltzes and quadrilles. Babies were chosen epitaph: “Author of The Woman in examine Religion, and later in the 17th Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, murder, adultery and all that good stuff. named after Walter, and Fosco became White and other works of fiction” Century Milton adopted the sonnet to And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. discuss Politics. The sonnet form lost And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, some popularity with writers in the 18th Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Amoretti such as poet Ted Hughes (who wrote a century, but was taken up again with by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Michael poem, Barley, for Morpurgo, which is on great enthusiasm in the 19th Century display) that Morpurgo began writing his by poets such as William Wordsworth, What guile is this, that those her golden tresses first book, It Never Rained, published in Charles Baudelaire and John Keats. She doth attire under a net of gold; Morpurgo: The two most popular forms of And with sly skill so cunningly them dresses, 1974. sonnet: the Italian sonnet (aka the That which is gold or hair, may scarce be told? Next comes the slightly more child- A Lifetime Petrarchan sonnet after the Italian Is it that men’s frail eyes, which gaze too bold, friendly stuff, like a shepherd’s hut which poet Francesco Petrarch) is split into 2 She may entangle in that golden snare; in Stories children can duck and watch a notably Photograph © V&A Museum of Childhood © Photograph stanzas. The first part consists of an 8 And being caught may craftily enfold V&A Museum of Childhood inspirational video in which Morpurgo line (Octave) and is designed to present Their weaker hearts, which are not yet well aware? Price: Free explains his writing process: “First rule: a problem. It has a rhyme scheme that Take heed therefore, mine eyes, how ye do stare never put pen to paper unless you care often follows the pattern abbaabba. The Henceforth too rashly on that guileful net, By Max Feldman about it deeply.” Curators encourage second part which consists of 6 lines In which if ever ye entrapped are, children to take a “dreamtime” postcard, (Seset) reveals a resolution to the problem. Out of her bands ye by no means shall get. Morpurgo’s word for the walks and The rhyme pattern for the seset may Folly it were for any being free, thinking space he allows himself before follow as either cdecde or cdcdcd. To covet fetters, though they golden be. sitting down to write each story and from The English sonnet (aka as the Everyone knows that war is his mouth shut. The original puppet, books, meaning any adults looking the writer's perspective it must be said Shakespearian sonnet after William constructed by the Handspring puppet for an academic version of the ‘Tough that the advice offered isn’t just useful Shakespeare) consists of three sets of hell, and there were few wars company, is a feat of workmanship and Mudder’ assault course will have to for children. After that is a quick blow 4 lines known as quatrains and a final that can claim to be more design that is even more impressive keep on looking. The exhibition initially through the author’s greatest hits, starting rhyming couplet. The rhyming pattern London 1802 Visions up close and it’s a fitting welcome into got its start in the children’s literature with his 2003 novel Private Peaceful, the for the Shakespearean sonnet often by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) devastating and traumatic than Morpurgo’s mental world. museum Seven Stories in Newcastle- moving story of a Devon-born soldier follows the ababcdcdefefgg pattern. There the First World War. Over forty years Morpurgo has Upon-Tyne and in the transition seems on the battlefields of Flanders called is an important variant to the English Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: Being one day at my window all alone, written over 150 books for children to have been polished till it practically Thomas Peaceful and his brother Charlie sonnet called the Spenserian sonnet after England hath need of thee: she is a fen So manie strange things happened me to see, Edmund Spenser, the famous author of Joey, the war horse (or at least the elegant (along with being one of the founders sparkles. Once you move past Joey’s (based on a true story). Under glass, there Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon. The Faerie Queene, which connects three Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee, puppet version from the eponymous of the Children’s Laureate), so any leathery haunches, an exhibition-goer is a marksman medal worn by the real quatrains by rhyme. The rhyme pattern Have forfeited their ancient English dower So faire as mote the greatest god delite; War Horse theatrical production) star exhibition has its work cut out to gets a sense of Morpurgo the man in Charlie Peaceful, near by a script and a for the Spenserian sonnet is often set Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace. attraction at the V&A’s Museum of successfully slim all that down into an a biographical section: his marriage to clapperboard for Steven Spielberg’s War out as ababbabccdcdee. Regardless of Oh! raise us up, return to us again; Of which the one was blacke, the other white: Childhood’s exhibition on the works of exhibition that doesn’t also double as Clare Lane the daughter of Penguin Horse film, alongside a small maquette whether the Spenserian or Shakespearian And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. With deadly force so in their cruell race author Michael Morpurgo, is not only a an endurance contest, particularly as founder Allen, his career as a teacher, his of Joey from the National Theatre’s form is adopted by a poet, the final Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast, veteran of that dreadful conflict, but also this exhibition is very much aimed at work in Iddesleigh, Devon, and setting stage production. For lifelong fans or couplet adds significant impact to the end Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: That at the last, and in short time, I spide, of something even more likely to cause children. Thankfully, the V&A’s Bethnal up a still existent company: Farms for parents keen to introduce their children of the verse. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest, lifelong PTSD: Performing in endless Green outpost is able to pull it off with City Children (no prizes for guessing to Morpurgo’s world, this is a tasteful Here are a short selection of both So didst thou travel on life's common way, Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide. family matinees for deafening West flying colours and provide a must- what it does). It was in Devon, with help examination of the life and works of one Italian and English sonnets we hope you In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie End audiences. It’s no wonder he keeps see experience for fans of Morpurgo’s from other (soon to be) famous friends of the giants of children’s literature. enjoy. The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire. 26 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Dining Out Dining Out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

what little I tasted practically had me coming out in jealous hives (a hereditary Gillray's Steakhouse ailment). For the mains, I went straight for the T-Bone Steak, a 600g behemoth & Bar costing £42 and worth every penny. London County Hall, Conversation mostly ceased as I tore Westminster Bridge Road, into what can only be described as the steak equivalent of the Platonic Ideal. I Photograph © Gillray's Steakhouse & Bar © Gillray's Photograph SE1 7PB ordered it with a ‘topper’ of Grilled King Bridge Putney Square Thai © Photographs 020 7928 5200 Prawns which were perfectly succulent, but felt notably superfluous at £8 and even felt like a bit of a distraction by the end. The steaks are also served with a side of Bone Marrow that whilst chewy nce when I was in university, and not usually what I’d go for ended I found myself deep in up getting hoovered up in what felt like conversation with a reformed five seconds so make of that what you carnivore who was trying to convert me will. Meanwhile my guest sprang for the O excitement that my guest and I arrived Mondays and Sundays where a guest can to her vegetarian ways. Whilst I had Dorest Lamb Cutlets that were almost enough self-knowledge to be aware that at Gillray’s Steakhouse and Bar inside the save some cash or elaborately show off to absurdly soft and tender that seemed her efforts were pointless (I probably surprisingly imposing Marriott County their friends by bringing their own wine to make a believer of her in about three love meat more than some of my family Hall Hotel. The Marriott has set up shop to the restaurant, free except for a £5 mouthfuls. members) I felt that in tribute to my in what used to be the home of the ‘corkage’ charge. By this point the heavy wine and status as an open minded undergrad I Greater London Council and, perhaps For our starters I elected to hold off the sheer quantity of meat had begun would give her a fair chance to turn me as a result, Gillray features a lot of the on plunging straight into the meats, to engender an almost reptilian level of green in tooth and claw (it also probably kind of wooden panelling common in choosing an Asparagus & Roasted Garlic torpor (perhaps Gillray isn’t the perfect didn’t hurt that she was extremely the British corridors of power along with soup (at a reasonable £7) which featured choice for a first date for exactly this attractive). Once she’d finished her spiel, I some fantastic views across the Thames. a Poached Burford Brown Egg floating reason) but being decadent westerners asked a single armour piercing question: After getting firmly ensconced my like an alligator just beneath its surface. to the very core we managed to happily “Yes, but what about steak?” Visibly guest and I kicked the evening off with Whilst the Brown Egg was particularly split a wonderfully creamy Chocolate Pot wilting, she acknowledged that giving a bottle of an incredibly rich Baigorri pleasant the liberal seasoning of Truffle between the two of us before waddling up steak was a major stumbling block, a which would go on to pair fantastically Oil unfortunately stopped me from off into the night for a long lie down. significant underestimation considering with the vast quantities of meat that really savouring it as a starter. My guest’s Whilst there are plenty of reasons to that a great steak can be held up as would be coming our way. It’s worth choice of the Pan Fried Scallops, served be a vegetarian, in this reviewer’s mind, empirical evidence for the existence of a noting that whilst the restaurant have a with a Garden Pea Puree and Smoked restaurants like Gillray’s are something of typically well-stocked selection of wine kind and loving God. Bacon Jam was the far better choice. I an argument ender. had nothing in common with fish and on offer, Gillray also offer a service on As a result it was with some was only able to snag one scallop but Max Feldman Thai Square: chips. The platter consists of a Whole Lobster salad, Miso black cod (which is momentarily Putney Bridge was regrettably out of stock during our enlivened by a 2-4 Lower Richmond Rd, visit so was substituted with the Steamed Lupita classic racing green Seabass Fillet, with a zingy infusion of 7 Kensington High St, Triumph TR6 and Putney, SW15 1JN Lemongrass, lime, spring onion and chilli London W8 5NP a bus plastered 020 8780 1811 which left my friend delighted, but I was somewhat less impressed), Scallops, with “Emerging Hughes © David Photograph Open: 12–10pm Pakistan”. It didn’t Lamb chops and Beef ribs. £95.00 is Fri/Sat: 12–11pm let on what it was notably expensive but you can’t say that emerging from s a North London ‘intellectual’ Thai Square doesn’t pull out all the stops, T: 020 3696 2930 though. (read: pretentious quasi- both in terms of quantity and quality. The www.lupita.co.uk OK, it’s time to step alcoholic) trips south of the river lamb chops might, hand on heart (and back into the room, areA only undertaken under extraordinary with apologies to my mother) be the and focus on the circumstances (read: someone has heard best I’ve ever tasted and the lobster salad main event, which of a bar where all of the drinks are served (which features the posed exoskeleton of is the food. First by trained badgers), however soon after the sea creature squatting atop the bowl up its some home- arriving at Putney Bridge’s Thai Square, like a bird of ill omen) was practically This is a Mexican restaurant, but the made tortillas with a long thin building that resembles a inhaled. The beef ribs were perhaps the name didn’t seem very resonant of the house guacamole, modernist drawing of a ship overlooking weakest part of the ensemble but taken Mexico to me so I looked it up. It’s which is mashed up, the riverside, I couldn’t help feeling right by themselves without the competition, primarily a feminine Spanish word, but then put together at home, even though there wasn’t an began with One Night In Bangkok (the anything our only complaint would be would have had nothing to worry about can be a diminutive for both sexes of by your waiter as a animal serving drinks to be found. aforementioned tea pot) which managed we could have done with more of them. on the flavour scale. Guadalupe. It’s not obligatory to have little bit of theatre. My friend and I decided to begin by to be both as refreshing as a glass of My friend sprang for the Duck Salad, By this point the possibility of big hats, extravagant emotive looks and Both are very good undertaking a thorough investigation of mint tea with a wicked whisky aftertaste which had some nearly heartbreakingly bursting had become ominously real, mariachi music everywhere, and this because, sorry the cocktail menu, which was a veritable lurking like an alligator just beneath flavourful chargrilled sliced duck breast but being professionals we pushed on establishment eschews all of that sort of Doritos, you can’t minefield of drinks served in everything the surface and my friend selected a with a side of zesty longan fruit. Whilst recklessly with desert (and they say there motif in favour of some non-specific very beat fresh for this kind of food. should you wish to become El Presidente) a distinctive character. I should not from impassive tikka heads (perhaps the Watermelon Mojito out of curiosity; the tiger prawns were great, if you are no more heroes!) My friend chose a dull corporate art. For me, you can only really drink beer a Lupita Salad, a Volcan with steak and have doubted it, but Lupita passed with Easter Island monuments were just shot the resulting drink was a practically have to pick between the two I have to Lychee Mousse which, whilst sounding I’m seated with my dining partner and Margarita with this kind of cuisine, spicy salsa guajillo, which was quite a flying colours. The secret, if secret it be, is glasses for a race of prehistoric giants?), luminous Corbynite red, but went down say with some regret that my friends bizarre, actually was so moreish that near the front of a long room, sipping and the fact that UNESCO endorses hot little number, Tuna Tostadas with that despite being part of a small chain to teapots (drinking through the spout pleasingly/alarmingly quickly. instincts were better than mine and the he ended up being tempted to order a an excellent Margarita looking through tostadas and the like as an “intangible the chipotle mayo which lay on a bed everything is made fresh downstairs is invigorating if undignified) and a Moving onto the food we decided Duck Salad is not to be missed. second, whilst I stuck it out with some open windows and shutters on to sunny cultural heritage” led me to order 1 of of caramelised onions and topped with from daily delivered items by a team glasses that seem to have been woven to go with the aquatic theme of the For our mains we elected for Surf and more traditional topper of chocolate, Ken High St watching the world go by. each to ensure I was getting a good some strands of crispy leeks, and finally who clearly have some pride. I wish the together from resin coated grass (it’s restaurant and tucked into the Grilled Turf, not the most auspiciously named which did the job more than serviceably. It’s a stream of cars and tourists, dull cultural grounding in the drink too. I some Mexican rice. “art” buyer would get some too, because that kind of establishment). All of this Wild Tiger Prawns, delicately arranged, choice on the menu admittedly, but this Once the staff had rolled us out, I found Mercs in sinister black with heavily added to that a Gobernador: prawns on This looks like quite a feast, and it apart from that, this is a perfect place to would of course be excessive and kitsch they looked positively extra-terrestrial groaningly stacked £95.00 platter (whilst myself reflecting that if all the food south shaded windows, and a parade of corn tortillas with cheese and a chipotle was, but small plates mean lots of choices hang out, eat well, and watch the daily if the concoctions within didn’t kick on the plate due to their positively my friend and I devoured it jealously, it of the river tastes like that, I might have BMWs, Aston Martins and Uber drivers. mayo and pico de gallo (something the and the measure of this is do they still panorama of Kensington glide past your like mules. Thankfully our drinks menu behemoth size, however they were as could easily be shared by a trio of friends picked the wrong side. This standard Kensington backdrop management encourages you to go for delight at the end, and do they all have window. David Hughes was a veritable game of Buckaroo as I tender as they were gigantic and if which would make more economic sense) Max Feldman 28 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Dining Out Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

curve above you as if you Because they only do pizza. Their mains are entering the mother menu consists of pizza, pizza and pizza. of all pizza ovens. Rather Nothing else. Mother first opened in ingeniously the management Copenhagen and came up with the Photograph © Mother Photograph have played the narrowness idea of making their pizza dough with and length of the space to distilled sea water. There is no need their advantage. It divides for added salt and the water gives the into three. The front area is a dough an extra lightness. Owner David casual dining experience with Biffani is a perfectionist when it comes a mixture of long communal to ingredients. Almost everything is tables and two-to four-person brought over from his home country of tables. Italy. In fact, back when he started in The middle section is a Denmark, he was so dissatisfied with combination of the open-plan the state of mozzarella there that he set kitchen on one side and the up his own mozzarella factory. Biffani is bar on the other. This is where originally from Rome and the antipasti one might sit and watch the selection takes its inspiration from Roma food being lovingly crafted or street food. Baked tortino, baccala fritto perch at a bar and supplì ‘al telefono’ are all highlights. stool and get acquainted What is most reassuring is that, for with a glass of Mother Red all this careful attention to ingredients 2013 wine. (A pizzeria and a and cooking methods, the prices are profitability of the derelict architectural winery!) reasonable. £8.50 for a Margherita and Mother icon and drive up the house prices in The final section, at the back, is a between £11.50 and £15.50 for the Sea Salt Pizza Restaurant the area in the process?”. When it was more conventional and formal dining pizzas with toppings.0 announced that a number of restaurants set up. The accumulated achievements It is refreshing to find a place so By Max Horberry would be opened, it was not without of this three-part layout is two-fold. focussed on quality yet remaining confidence we imagined highend, Firstly, it means that you can design your unpretentious and affordable. This upmarket and unaffordable menus. experience. If you feel like a casual meal is a reassuringly good start for the Battersea is set to become the new with friends or a more formal pizza date Power Station and word of Mother will hen it was announced that the Chelsea, is it not? A slice of the power with your significant other, you can do undoubtedly spread through Battersea Battersea Power Station was station office will go to Apple, after all. either. The second achievement is that and across the river. destined to be renovated into What a relief then to find Mother it never feels empty yet maintains the luxuryW flats and office spaces, residents Pizzeria in the mix. The restaurant takes capacity for huge crowds. It could be Mother Restaurant in the area murmured a quiet groan of its place under the train-line bridge half-full and still feel bustling, something 2 Arches Lane, Battersea, SW11 8AB Berlin: City of Shadows scepticism. beside Chelsea Bridge. A long narrow very few places achieve. [email protected] By Max Feldman “Yet another soulless ploy to boost the space with exposed brick walls that Now we come onto the pizza. www.motherrestaurant.co.uk

that they recognise. ometimes a plan for a holiday across the channel more like an appropriate introduction This gives them comes on as rapidly as a fever; one and as a result we to Berlin. More so than almost any Grand Marque the reassurance moment an old university friend were greeted with comparable capital, Berlin is littered of quality and the and I were indulging in a Londoner’s slate grey skies that with monuments to its own past. Champagnes: knowledge that S Whilst most cities dress up their favourite privilege (namely complaining stuck with us for the Are they worth the money? their guests will about London in the wryly affectionate entire trip and made respective history with bombastic pomp know they are tones of someone who is in denial a mockery of my and circumstance, Berlin shivers under drinking “the good about the fact their spouse is an abusive friend’s alarmingly the long, black shadow of Nazism and stuff.” That is not to monster) and the next we were on extensive selection the Holocaust and the bleak experience There has been a lot of talk recently say that there are Expedia desperately searching for a of extremely short of East German life under the brutal about how you can find some extremely not some gems to weekend break literally anywhere; we’d shorts. There are two aegis of the Stasi. It’s easy to find good Grower Champagnes; these are be found amongst have gone to Hell if we could have got a airports in Berlin incredibly hard-hitting exhibitions the small Houses where a family is the increasing package deal. Fortunately for the state of (both on the western detailing the excesses of both regimes producing its own label rather than array of Grower our eternal souls, we ended up stumping side; a fact that had which have an intensity that ranges selling its grapes to the Grand Marques. Champagnes on for Berlin rather than Pandemonium. history-altering towards the nigh-on self-flagellatory. If such quality exists then it begs the offer; however, it We managed to swing flights and a three significance during Of particular note is the so-called question: Is there any point in buying the is undeniable that night stay in what purported to be a the Berlin Blockade ‘Topography Of Terror’, a bombed Grand Marque Champagnes? you will experience four-star hotel (which was admittedly and subsequent out blank space in Berlin’s heart that At Burns & German Vintners we a frisson of pleasure named The Hotel Angleterre but you airlift of 1948-49) used to house the central offices of have done a lot of tasting in the region if you arrive at an can’t have everything) in the centre of so infuriating. Teaming with (extremely) and it only takes a cool 35 minutes to the SS and Gestapo, where now free and back here in the UK, all in the name event and find your town for all of £250, which seemed late night bars, cafés and clubs, Berlin get from passport control to the centre exhibitions offer detailed explanations of research! We have found most of the host offering you almost alarmingly cheap, but considering might never sleep, but it parties its nights of town. Our hotel was dead-on the of the mechanics of mass murder, Grower Champagnes that measure up a glass of Dom that we never woke up in an ice bath away with a kind of laconic loucheness symbolic (if not literal) centre of Berlin, liberally illustrated with pictures; or to the household names we all know and Pérignon, Pol missing a kidney (one of my few holiday rather than the louty binge culture so right next to ‘Checkpoint Charlie’, there is the legitimately shattering love in terms of quality, are frequently Roger Winston deal-breakers) my reservations about our common elsewhere. But whilst this the best-known crossing point of the Holocaust Information Centre; a small priced comparably with famous Houses Churchill or Krug, reservations were unfounded. famous nightlife is heavenly for the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. museum underneath the Holocaust such as Pol Roger, Bollinger or Laurent it says something Less frenetically chaotic than New vampire set, Berlin’s dramatic history These days the area is about as close Memorial (a small labyrinth of thrusting Perrier. It is also worth noting that even about the host, it York and not as ‘I have to sell my means that the city is overflowing with to a tourist trap as Berlin gets, and grey columns that has become an the acclaimed sparkling wines emerging says something first-born in order to afford breakfast’ fantastic sightseeing opportunities that emerging from the Metro to be greeted iconic landmark in a city full of them) from vineyards in the UK are usually as Grower Champagne, the Grand Marque the bottle covers were removed, they about you and it says that you are worth expensive as Paris (or London for should entice travellers whose idea of by the sight of actors dressed as military which even by the standards of similar expensive as these well-known Houses will invariably win. At a recent tasting changed their minds and went for the the money! that matter), Berlin notably stands a good time does not involve taking police sweeping tourists up for photo museums is painful and human in a way too. for a family to choose the Champagne second place Grand Marque because out amongst its stuffier Bavarian ketamine with a completely hairless man opportunities is far more of a surreal that nothing can prepare a prospective Despite this we find the lure of the poured at a forthcoming wedding we they did not want to be thought of as counterparts like Munich or Nuremberg. named Rolf in a club named Das Pümp sight than anyone who had to leave visitor for. Whilst Britain often hides the famous labels is still strong with our served the bottles blind, to let the wines cheap. Piers German A genuinely cool city, Berlin suffers from Haus at 4am. for the airport at 2.30am needs to deal more shameful aspects of its history as customers and when forced to choose speak for themselves. The family initially And therein lies the answer to the Burns & German Vintners Ltd, none of the try-hard hipsterism that We arrived in Berlin during the peak with. As we got to know the city better far from the tourist circuit as we can get between serving a Champagne everyone chose a Grower Champagne Blanc de question at the top of this article. Most Chelsea, SW3 renders such large swathes of London’s of London’s own heatwave, though it however, this odd blend of the historical away with, Berlin’s unflinching approach knows, as opposed to an unknown Blancs as their favourite however when people will opt for a Grand Marque label www.bgvintners.co.uk rather self-consciously ‘happening’ areas hadn’t seemed to have made the leap and the modern seemed more and can only be commended. 30 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Travel Travel online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

is full of antiques and Communist pizza are to be found on the menus, as Kale Fortress one can admire the town’s memorabilia as well as souvenirs, and well as the ubiquitous freshest of salads. position surrounded by distant hills on Off the Beaten the Ethnographic Museum is actually Journeying past lakes and dams, stone all sides. It’s worth stopping nearby at Track a beautifully detailed and preserved roofed houses and pomegranate bushes the tiny C19th Eastern Orthodox church in the Undiscovered Balkans Ottoman house. we embark on the gentle two-hour of Sveti Spas Monastery to see the most Our friendly welcome dinner ferry ride through the soaring tree- intricately carved wooden screen.

Cynthia Pickard introduces us to a selection of local covered rocky mountains, following the A 60 billion euro face-lift has Pickard © Cynthia All photographs dishes, burek, cheese and spinach pies, flooded valley created by a hydroelectric converted the centre of Skopje into a olives, cubes of white cheese, stuffed vine dam, towards the Valbona National species of Las Vegas with flashy add-on leaves, corn bread Park. Albania’s dams provide adequate facades and hundreds of mind-boggling and addictive electricity for the country, but there oversized statues. The remaining streets Balkan yoghurt. is a fear that building more of them continue in their Communist era state Fresh fruit is could deprive the surrounding land of reminding me of an earlier East Berlin. served with much needed water. Our lunch stop is There are obviously complaints that kabuni, a nutty at an unassuming local café amongst people’s taxes would have been better rice pudding crumbling Communist apartment blocks spent on amenities for Macedonia’s incorporating where the affable patronne produces a population. But Skopje Old Town’s ram’s neck meat mean dish of stuffed vegetables and the attractive Ottoman Bazaar is a must; and spices. prettiest plates of mixed salad. shops selling shoes, handbags, silver and The night is In Valbona, it’s time to take our first gold jewellery, wedding dresses and many accompanied by serious walk; the experiences of this lively restaurants. the thump of journey improve moment by moment, We drive to the Sarena Dzamija wedding party surrounded by the majestic peaks of the Mosque in Tetovo, unusually financed music, explosions ‘Accursed Mountains’, the riverbed seen by two sisters in 1438 and exuberantly of fireworks, an below through pine and beech. We stop early morning at a traditional shepherd’s house for a 2008, however the Serbs still dispute Just as I imagine that things can’t get cockerel and glass of mountain herb tea, follow paths this. So visiting the stunning UNESCO any better we start our spectacular drive finally the call to lined with wild flowers and herbs and the heritage Decani Monastery (built 1327) through the Rugova Gorge; I run out of prayer broadcast delight of wild strawberries gathered in entails entering one of the Serb enclaves superlatives as on either side the rocks from the local handfuls. After our four hours of exertion protected by the UN KFOR guards. The rise as high as Manhattan skyscrapers. mosque. Albania we are rewarded by a picnic and siesta interior of this Serbian Orthodox church Up in Boga there’s a tough hike to is a mainly in a peaceful alpine meadow. If stunning is completely covered in brilliant frescoes a lake through forests redolent with Muslim country scenery excites you, this trip is a winner. depicting saints, bible stories and a huge birdsong, butterflies, tinkling cowbells practicing what head of Christ as well as framed icons. and cuckoos, followed by lunch on a one might term Kosovo Money has been donated for the cool terrace. Everywhere we go there are ‘soft’ Islam. Eventually crossing the border into rebuilding of Kosovo and the streets beehives, I watch an old farmer hand- We travel Kosovo one is immediately struck by two of riverside Peja are witness to the shearing his sheep and forking hay in on via Shkodra things, the large numbers both of new reconstruction that has taken place; new the traditional style of farming that where in the houses being built and of cemeteries. decorated mosques and an Ottoman style continues in this agricultural country. inhabitants live in Tirana and there is cooler evening This should not come as a surprise as bazaar street where groups of men meet We wander around the Serb Patriarch plenty to see; the impressive Skanderbeg hours glammed 90% of Kosovo was destroyed in the in cafés nursing cups of coffee for hours Monastery, another visual gem, listening Square, smart areas of the city that ur driver’s name is Fatimir, up girls and hopeful youths parade up war of 1998-9 and over a million ethnic and shops sell heaps of nuts and seeds. to the singing of the ancient nuns and were once out of bounds to any but translating as Good Luck, and down the Italianate pedestrianised Albanians were displaced. Kosovo We are lucky and catch a performance at notice Kiwi fruit growing near the graves the Politburo, The Museum of Secret thankfully his driving doesn’t streets where veal, seafood risotto and became independent from Serbia in the annual International Guitar Festival. of the deceased. In contrasting Pristina, Surveillance called the House of Leaves, depend on luck but judgement as he the modern bustling capital of Kosovo, the National Art Museum containing O international brands abound as well as steers us calmly round narrow mountain a great collection of Communist era hairpin bends nudging past flocks of examples of Brutalist architecture and painted both inside and out, then approved and non approved paintings, sheep and sidestepping congested urban nods to friendship with the USA in continue up to Mavrovo National Park, BunkArt; an exhibition of communist traffic. We are travelling in a circle statues and street names. a popular winter sports centre, but times built in a nuclear bunker. 750,000 in short hops through the stunning Prizren is a much more attractive quite lovely in the summer and I could indestructible dome shaped bunkers landscapes of Albania, Kosovo and proposition with its famous stone bridge imagine staying a week here hiking remain all over Albania built by a Macedonia and back to Tirana, Albania’s crossing the river, narrow old town in the hills. We move on to Ohrid paranoid Enver Hoxha to defend against capital. It’s impossible to visit without a streets, Ottoman villas and over 40 town situated on the lake of the same an invasion that never happened. To strong awareness of the long, sometimes mosques as well as the obligatory ruined name, both UNESCO protected, and escape the heat of the city, we board the troubled, history and politics of the castle above the town. Restaurants and no wonder, the town with its narrow 15-minute cable car ride 1000 meters up region so our tour leader Alfred keeps us cafés line the riverbanks. The slopes of Ottoman streets, Roman amphitheatre, Mount Dajti for a refreshing walk in the up to speed. nearby hills are covered in vines; from monasteries and mosques is truly wooded hills and take lunch overlooking bottle and barrel in cellars we sample characterful and Lake Ohrid one of the rapidly expanding city. Albania Chardonnay and Riesling and the unique the oldest and deepest in Europe with The facilities of all these countries are This is the land of the fabled ‘Accursed Balkan Vranac red wine as well as Raki, unique biodiversity. developing fast so services can be variable Mountains’, once ruled by a self-made a liqueur only to be taken safely in very but hotel and restaurant staff are usually King named Zog and then for 45 years small glasses! Albania Tirana eager to help achieve our sometimes by the hard-line dictator Enver Hoxha Roads are generally in a good state The lake is divided between Macedonia unknown sophisticated expectations! who turned the country into the world’s in Kosovo with ribbon development and Albania, another border crossing These are all countries of impressive first atheist state until 1991. Now on either side, a plethora of car washes brings us to Pogradec where we join the scenic beauty and amazing cultural emerging from its infamy as the world’s and petrol stations in a huge variety of friendly fairground atmosphere of the highlights, well worth discovering. most extreme Communist country, unknown brand names. There is a feeling evening promenade along the lakeside with the bonus of its west coast Riviera, that even though so much reconstruction amongst the go-carts, sweet-corn With thanks to Explore. 14 day it is fast blossoming into a successful is happening, Kosovons are yet to recover barbecuers and mini doughnut purveyors. Undiscovered Balkans trip from £1,499 tourist destination. We are travelling from the horror of the war; that so Atop the small fishing village of Lin the per person. This includes return flights, from its sole airport, Tirana, towards the much was damaged both materially and C6th church ruins boast Roman mosaics, 14 nights’ hotel accommodation on a bed northern mountains; first to Kruja from psychologically that some people still Macedonia the tidy vegetable plots of the ancient and breakfast basis, some other meals, whose citadel Albania’s national hero, seem to exhibit a lack of connection and Skopje, destroyed by a huge earthquake houses are full of apples, quince, white transport and the services of an Explore Skanderbeg fought off the Ottoman trust. in 1963, is the capital of Macedonia, mulberries and fig trees. Leader, driver and local guides. invaders in 1443. The cobbled bazaar part of Yugoslavia until 1991. 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responsibility for keeping ‘something’: a romantic dinner, a summer September 20 – 23 London W14 8LZ Simon Copeland his team’s handicraft skills cocktail party in the country, or full Giselle leightonhouse.co.uk By Antonia Williams alive. It’s this dedication that blown banquets and formal events. “I Sadler’s Wells explains why his clients are guess it’s about the fact that the client is Following its sensational 2016 world Ends August 13 still wearing his clothes many on show, and that if you don’t get it right, premiere and UK tour, Akram Khan’s Hokusai, beyond the Great Wave years on. Keeping these highly you’ll be remembered as the one who Giselle, “a beautiful and intelligent British Museum disciplined skills going are a didn’t get it right!” remaking” (New York Times) – returns Experience the beautiful and sublime must, for “even though there are He got them right. to London by popular demand for six work of one of Japan’s greatest artists. machines which can do it for By the time I looked at my watch, an performances only. 020 7323 8299 you,” Copeland acknowledges hour had flown by. We were still looking 020 7863 8000 Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London “machines don’t give you the through the dresses, and admiring every Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London WC1B 3DG love.” type of style. I couldn’t resist telling EC1R 4TN britishmuseum.org Simon walked me through him that I felt his garments had an sadlerswells.com every step of creating the architectural structure to them. Ends August 18 perfect garment. First and He turned to me and said “Funnily September 21 – 30 People Power: Fighting for foremost it starts with creating enough, I tend to get inspired by Cabaret Peace a silhouette for the unique architecture, especially somewhere like New Wimbledon Theatre Imperial War Museum shape of the client, followed Florence. You just look, and everywhere In the role that earned him an Olivier Learn what it really means to be a by a cornucopia of choice of you look, you find a design idea or detail, Photograph © Simon Copeland Photograph award nomination and WhatsOnStage pacifist by exploring over 300 objects colours and types of fabrics. which will take you so far.” award, Will Young reprises his critically connected to peace movements, This way the client determines Reflecting on the start of his career, acclaimed performance of Emcee in from banners to anthems, including met Simon at his Battersea studio. the ultimate brief with Copeland recounted his experience of Rufus Norris’ production of Cabaret. photographs of anti-conscription It was a humid, wet Monday Copeland offering up various applying to The London College of 0844 871 7646 marchers in 1939, CND paraphernalia morning in London, with everyone options to enhance the design. Fashion “I went up for my interview with 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London and the women of Greenham Common. plunged into a fatigued mood, alleviated “Also, the event itself will trunks of clothes and a huge portfolio, SW19 1QG 020 7416 5000 I have certain requirements for and as I got out of the taxi, the cabbie somewhat by the offer of my first coffee Lambeth Road, SE1 with his Collection hanging all around what we go with, and whether said ‘Good Luck mate’ I answered I’m September 26 6HZ me, radiating the most delicious colours that be in the City, a diplomatic going to need it, I’m going to need it!” The Breath iwm.org.uk in contrast to the grey skies outside. fits you so well, your inner confidence or social event, there are things you “So I went in terrified, and they A new project from former Cinematic Simon Copeland is a London- blossoms.” have to adhere to and watch.” In clear offered me a place unconditionally; it Orchestra members and Rioghnach Ends August 20 based designer, specialising in ‘occasion The beauty in Copeland’s work is not excitement of discussing his work, really was the right college for me; I Connolly (Honeyfeet, Afro Celt Sound Summer Exhibition 2017 wear’ for a very discerning client base. only an acute attention to proportion Simon couldn’t resist standing up and loved every minute. When you find the system). Drawing on the influences of Royal Academy of Arts “Everyone is different in size, and of the designs (each dress is executed to picking out individual pieces on the rail, right place for you, it changes everything; August 2017 traditional Irish folk song, Connolly’s Everything you’ll see at the Summer tailoring a piece specifically for that perfection), but also the juxtaposition explaining that “clothes can convey so a bit like the right dress.” original lyrics pour forth from her own Exhibition represents the art being made individual is my great interest and of keeping his traditional art in a effectively, important messages with each life in a torrent of meaning. She sings today. 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Exhibitors will be offering a variety of tribal art from across the globe, from traditional sculpture to clothing and tattooing. This is the only tribal art fair of its kind in the UK. Organiser Bryan Reeves has been running adornments such as lip plates, earplugs, an art gallery, Tribal Gathering London and necklaces. Tribal artefacts can make in Notting Hill Gate, for twenty years. Drive your family a striking complement to modern and The idea of a Tribal Art Fair originated contemporary artworks, and they appeal ten years ago and looked to providing to fledgling and seasoned art buyers alike. opportunities for dealers from around The talks and lectures on specialist round the bend. the world to exhibit and sell their pieces subjects include the history and in one place. London had no fair or show development of tribal tattoos. Live that encompassed global tribal art so it demonstrations of traditional polka was a brave first step, and one that has In a tank. tattooing will take place. Younger buyers, proved to be increasingly popular. who have embraced body adornment Tribal Art London has grown and tattooing from different cultures and Explore four floors of interactive exhibits. significantly and now boasts 23 traditions, are also showing a growing exhibitors from the UK, Europe, Africa interest in collecting tribal art objects. and the USA. Indigenous tribal art This is a great opportunity for those and artefacts, no longer the preserve of who are curious to learn about tribal museum curators and ethnographers, art to come and talk to the variety of have emerged as an important element exhibitors and attend lectures on the of today’s art market. Tribal Art London subject. Prices range from high to low, is now the UK’s most important focal perfect for first time buyers as well as 6 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 point for collectors, and has stamped its seasoned collectors. Celebrating 10 years in the making mark on the international fair circuit by The show is open to all from offering an exciting diversity of works for Wednesday 6th to Saturday 9th 5 SEPTEMBER ‘OPENING PREVIEW’ RSVP sale, as well as hosting lectures and talks September at the Mall Galleries, The on many subjects. Free Admission MALL GALLERIES, THE MALL, LONDON SW1 Mall, London, SW1. Sloane Square | nam.ac.uk Objects on show have been made OPEN TO PLAY for traditional use and are authentic Royal Hospital Road | Chelsea | SW3 4HT WWW.TRIBALARTLONDON.COM and carefully vetted; from masks and Visit www.tribalartlondon.com for more figures to textiles, garments and even information. TribalArtKCWToday17.indd 104 03/08/2017 12:48 40 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 EVENTS Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Since then there have September 6 Around the World in 80 Days 0844 847 1652 been a number of developments for An evening with Sir Michael Parkinson Cadogan Hall 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, women in the army, culminating in last Brasserie Zedel The mysterious and fabulously wealthy London SW10 9ED year's lifting of the ban on women in Celebrate the life and career of a man Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune finboroughtheatre.co.uk combat roles. who has interviewed over 2000 of the that can circumnavigate the globe in just 020 7730 0717 most important cultural figures of the 80 days. Join Fogg and his loyal valet, August 29 – September 9 Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London 20th and 21st centuries. In conversation Passepartout, as they voyage from the Out in Africa SW3 4HT with his son Mike and showing misty alleys of Victorian London to the Arcola Theatre nam.ac.uk highlights from the Parkinson archive, exotic subcontinent and the Wild West In November 2015, Islamist rebels this is a unique opportunity to get an in a race against the clock. kidnapped 15 Western tourists from a August 12 intimate, entertaining and informative 020 7730 4500 resort near Mombasa, Kenya. Reports YA Feminism Panel: A Faber look at his remarkable journey from a pit 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London about the Mombasa hostages, who Takeover village in Yorkshire to the top of those SW1X 9DQ disappeared without trace, were Foyles famous stairs whilst reliving the best cadoganhall.com overshadowed by news of the Paris Authors Alwyn Hamilton and Laure moments from a show that for many attacks at the same time. Eve who will be discussing the role of defined their Saturday night. Ends August 5 020 7503 1646 feminism in Young Adult fiction. 020 7734 4888 A Tale of Two Cities 24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL 020 7434 1574 20 Sherwood St, Soho, London Regent's Park Open Air Theatre arcolatheatre.com 107 Charing Cross Road, London, W1F 7ED “It was the best of times, it was the worst WC2H 0DT brasseriezedel.com of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was September 5 – 9 foyles.co.uk the age of foolishness; it was the spring Judith: A Parting from The Body September 22 of hope, it was the winter of despair; we Arcola Theatre August 12 EngineeringLate had everything before us, we had nothing This firecracker adaptation reimagines Walking Tour: Beyond the battlefield EngineeringLate, a night of exploration, before us.” Sound familiar? How much the apocryphal legend of Judith – the National Army Museum extravagance and entertainment finding more do those in power think Europe’s daring widow who, on the night before Walking from Brompton Cemetary to out how our complex capital works. poor can take? When will the people battle, infiltrates the enemy camp the National Army Museum, discover One Great George Street, Westminster, take to the streets of the cities and roar with her Servant to seduce and kill stories of the soldiers linking our two London SW1P 3AA enough is enough? the blood-crazed head of the invading organisations. Led by guides from ice.org.uk 0844 826 4242 army, Holofernes. Her land is at stake; Brompton Cemetary and the National Inner Circle, London NW1 4NU but what of her heart and mind? In his Army Museum, this unique walking tour THEATRE openairtheatre.com radical reimagining of a legend, Barker will uncover the personal stories behind lays bare the complex sacrifices of human cemetery monuments, linking them with Ends August 12 August 10 – October 14 beings at war. the National Army Museum’s unique Committee... King Lear 020 7503 1646 collections, and highlighting the historic Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare’s Globe 24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL relationship between Chelsea and the What happens when something goes King Lear has three daughters, but no arcolatheatre.com military. wrong? Who holds us accountable? On sons. Boldly he makes a decision to 020 7730 0717 15 October 2015, as part of an inquiry divide his kingdom among his children, September 6 – October 7 Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London into ‘The collapse of Kids Company’, but fails to anticipate the consequences Thebes Land SW3 4HT Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan of his actions. His generosity is cruelly Arcola Theatre nam.ac.uk Yentob gave evidence to The Public repaid and Lear finds himself adrift, In this exhilarating multiple-reality Administration and Constitutional wandering homeless and destitute. As he drama, a playwright struggles to stage August 25 Affairs Committee. Hadley Fraser, Josie comes to realize the false values by which the incredible story of Martin Santos, Refugees from the Partition of India Rourke and composer Tom Deering have he has lived, he finally encounters his a young man serving a life sentence for National Army Museum transformed that evidence session into a own humanity. killing his father. As their interviews Are refugees’ experiences valuable to the new musical. 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT progress and opening night approaches, story of India’s road to independence? 0844 871 7624 shakespearesglobe.com both of their worlds begin to unravel 2017 is the 70th anniversary of the 41 Earlham St, London WC2H 9LX with shocking consequences. Will the Partition of India. A time of huge donmarwarehouse.com August 11 – September 23 truth be found, and can it be told? upheaval, leading to the mass migration Jesus Christ Superstar 020 7503 1646 of over 13 million people. Travelling for Ends August 26 Regent's Park Open Air Theatre 24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL hundreds of miles across borders, leaving Touch Following its overwhelming sell-out arcolatheatre.com their homes and most of their belongings Soho Theatre success in 2016, Jesus Christ Superstar is behind, refugees were split by religion Dee’s sexual escapades are messy and back. Winner of the Olivier Award for September 11 – 30 and resettled in new countries. To mark temporary; just like her shoe box London Best Musical Revival - and Best Musical Half Breed the anniversary, we’re bringing together flat. New to the city and in a stop-gap in the Evening Standard Awards - the Soho Upstairs a panel of experts to discuss the impact job, Dee has the chance to reinvent production returns in an extended Jazmin feels different. She doesn’t want that refugees have had on the story of the herself. But how can you change your life engagement (now playing until 23 Sept), to stay in the village. She doesn’t want to Partition of India. when you don’t know what you want? giving audiences one final chance to see have a baby. She doesn’t want to laugh 020 7730 0717 Welcome to the secret life of a 33 year it in its original home. at racist jokes in the local pub. She’s got Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London old woman. Following the international 0844 826 4242 to get out. A partly autobiographical SW3 4HT success of Fleabag and the Verity Bargate Inner Cir, London NW1 4NU dark comedy about finding your voice. nam.ac.uk Award-winning play The One, Soho openairtheatre.com Written and performed by Alfred September 6 Theatre and DryWrite reunite with Fagon Award shortlisted writer Natasha Iain Sinclair and Will Self in Touch, a shamelessly funny and brutally August 19 Marshall. conversation honest play about sex, connection and Just to Get Married 020 7478 0100 Foyles control. Starring Amy Morgan (Mr Finborough Theatre 21 Dean St, Soho, London W1D 3NE Iain and Will invite you to join in the Selfridge, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Hay Approaching her 30th birthday in early sohotheatre.com conversation as they discuss their lives, Fever, and Travesties), with the full cast 20th Century England, the clever and their work and their new books. to be announced this year. poor Georgiana Vicary is waiting for the Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha 42 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

to a French-born painter, Thamas Ehretsmann, for the painting of his BP Portrait wife walking in the park, enigmatically Matisse in the Award 2017 entitled Double Portrait, which is all the Studio National Portrait Gallery more mystifying, as there is only the one, Royal Academy Sackler unless one counts her unborn child, but Until 24 September there is no clue as to its presence. Anastasia Pollard © Photograph Galleries Third prize and £8,000 went to

Admission free Until 12 November 2017 Art © Philidalphia Museum of Photograph Antony Williams for a partial nude npg.org.uk portrait of his friend and model, Emma, Admission £15.50 one of two nudes in the entire show www.royalacademy.org.uk of 53 works on display, selected from a short-list of 218. There are only four . . . and the winner is . . . a selfies, and fewer celebs than last year, husband’s portrait of his wife with many sitters being family or friends, mall, but perfectly formed’ is a which may be indicative of something. good description of virtually any and young baby. One intriguing part-portrait is exhibition held in the Sackler entitled Ear (Oreja) by Colunbian artist Galleries. Matisse in the Studio is the enjamin Sullivan’s oil painting of Simón Ramírez Restrepo, focusing S perfect example of just how the right his wife breastfeeding their eight on his girlfriend’s ear and painful- number of pictures and objects in four of work, where he juxtaposed abstract month old daughter is an intimate looking pimple on her neck. The BP rooms make a cohesive and containable shapes on flat colour backgrounds. ‘I have Bcomposition of a tender moment in any Young Artist Award worth £7,000 show by telling stories. After the attained a form filtered to the essential mother’s life entitled Breech! He had went to Henry Christian-Slane for Introduction, the exhibition divides into . . . and of the object which I used to been selected a record thirteen times for his painting of his partner Gabi, in an five main themes: The Object is an Actor; present in the complexity of its space, I the award, coming close last year with a eyes-closed and downcast pose, looking The Nude; The Face; The Studio as Theatre; have preserved the sign, which suffices.’ third prize for his honest portrait of the contemplative. The Language of Signs. In the first section, Many artists, and art students, have poet Hugo Williams, looking frail after There is a charming portrait by he stated ‘A good actor can have a part tried to distill what makes a Matisse so kidney failure and dialysis treatment. Madeline Fenton of her grandchild in ten different plays; an object can play quintessentially alluring and seductive, This year he was awarded £30,000 and Cecilia, which is redolent of Renaissance a role in ten different pictures.’ And but no-one has yet come up with the a commission from the NPG worth artists, using natural and traditional the portrait by Anca Luiza Sirbu of the including curators, a broadcaster, Kirsty so they do. A green Andalusian blown formula. Take any one of those startling £5,000. As with last year and the years materials, grinding the pigments and artist’s 6-year-old son, Alejandro, who Wark, and Michael Landy, an artist glass vase appears in a number of works. oils, like Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue before, the standard of portraiture is mixing them in egg tempera and oil had come indoors to the warmth of the definitely not known for his painterly Two silver choclatières reappear in an Table, or Purple Robe with Anemones, or extremely high and varied, with many and then applied to a gesso panel. There family home after playing outside during skills. One such work is by Anastasia even larger number of drawings and Yellow Odalisque, or any number of life- artists opting for the realist, hyper-realist are four other portraits of children, the winter in Spain. Pollard of her friend, Corinne, a singer paintings, even featuring as a vase for enriching paintings, and one realises that and almost photographic view, some of the prettiest being Annabel by Emily The judging is somewhat arbitrary, as songwriter, which has enormous depth a bouquet of flowers. A rocaille chair, he was, and still is, in a class of his own. which are patently aided by that medium. Stainer, the artist’s neice looking very any number of portraits could, or should, for such a small and simple painting. a decorative Venetian Rococo seat of In a word, unique. Second prize, worth £10,000, went serious, and the most atmospheric being have won a prize, chosen by a panel Don Grant swirling, reptilian shapes, cockle shell- Don Grant like back and seat and carved rock-like or is he just ‘avin’ a larf? One suspects ‘serious’, ‘reasonable’, ‘prudent’ and ‘wise’ legs, became a great favourite of his, the latter. One critic Jonathan Jones in the intestines of the animal, just to using it as a base on which to place fruit series and demonstrates the complex Grayson Perry - described his work in the Guardian as add to the inpenetrability of the work. and flowers. In an almost childlike way, relationship he had with his objects. ‘suburban popular culture’ and ‘he is what Does it matter whether it makes sense he talks about it as being splendid. ‘I am Fashionable at the time were depictions The Most Popular happens when art becomes a pseudo- or resonates with what’s going down? bowled over by it. I am obsessed with of odalisques, concubines in a harem, with an emphasis on the exotic fabrics, intellectual entertainment for a world Probably not. This is Perryland. It can Perry © Grayson Photograph it.’ None of his objects was particularly Art Exhibition valuable, yet they meant the world to wall-hangings, clothing and furniture

that is too busy to look and too distracted also be cute, twee and deeply silly, and so Losi © Jean-Louis Photograph to feel’. Ouch. Perry incorporated one of beyond kitsch that it has gone full circle him. He started buying African sculpture from the world of Islam. He focused on Ever! his quotes onto a ceramic vase, but that and come out the other side. If one treats in 1908 from a dealer in Paris, and thus the pattern and the object, and, in the Serpentine Gallery only elicited the riposte, ‘it is exactly the his output as just a bit of fun, then one began a lifelong fascination with art case of Odalisque on a Turkish Chair, he Until 10 September 2017 kind of oh-so-knowing gesture that he can probably extract some enjoyment, but from non-Western cultures, along with diminishes the role of the female model. offers instead of any true creative fire.’ as soon as he tackles social issues, we are Picasso, to whom Matisse showed him He seemed to be very attatched to his Admission free I am sure Perry can take it. He has meant to nod sagely and then shake our a mask from the Dan region of Africa, collection of objects, in spite of detesting www.serpentinegalleries.org a healthy following on social media, heads in tut-tutting agreement about the purchased from Emile Heymenn’s shop collectors and collections in early life, and a groundswell of populist punters injusticies and inequalities in modern- of non-Western artifacts in Paris. He when he could only afford fragments of waiting on his every uttering. Art day Britain. believed that African art showed him faience and tapestry. When he finally Is the title of this show an example of is whatever you want it to be. Art is The works at the Serpentine are ‘a freedom of expression and revealed a accepted the fact that he was ‘a bit of a litotes, or just plain irony? Perry has this pastel-coloured bicycle. It is this all technically well-executed, and one truer, more essential character beneath collector’ himself and an extension of become the darling of the media, not just divided Britain throwing up issues of wonders how much involvement Mr the superficial existence of beings and his work, he collaborated with Hélène because he is articulate, informed and masculinity, class, the environment, Perry’s had in such a diverse range of things.’ Picasso was a great friend, but Adant, a cousin of his studio assistant, entertaining, but because he backs up politics, sex and religion. Art is a self- disciplines and mediums, from tapestries, also a rival, and they both shared an to make an inventory and document his what he says with some socio-political portrait of him lying naked on a sofa in ceramics, wood-cuts, painting and obsession with the simplicity of African objects. On the back of one photograph work, steeped in the raw underbelly of his studio sporting both tits and bollocks, sculpture to one-off props, such as his art. taken by her, he wrote ‘Objects that have British life, from Brexit to grafitti, from surrounded by piles of books, junk and pink and powder blue motor-bike called Matisse used both sculpture and been of use to me all my life’. This was in motorways and flyovers, to celebs and pictures. Art is a side-swipe at the City, Humility/Patience, which I remember photography as influences for his 1946, eight years before he died. When the homeless. His enormous, dystopian featuring an enormous phallus decorated from his British Museum show in 2011, nudes, including Bamana figures from he travelled to temporary studios, and he tapestry, Battle of Britain, has some of with images of bank-notes and George and his shrine containing himself and his Mali and statues from Thailand, along asked his family that certain objects be these elements, with a cheesy rainbow in Osborne, called Object in Foreground, wife in folk costume. His brand of self- with African masks that he owned. By moved from Paris to Nice, or wherever the middle, perhaps representing hope, cut through the polarity of two-party which is all about masculinity and consciousness is a bit trying-too-hard simplifying his sitters, he believed he was he was working. Art © Philidalphia Museum of Photograph and a murmuration of starlings against politics, and threw up some surprise gender imbalance, not a particularly from one of Britain’s most popular artists, able to portray a more truthful version. In later life, after he had an operation a backdrop of the English Channel, a results both in the referendum and the subtle statement, that’s for sure. Animal as he terms himself, and does not really Examples of this approach is seen in the for stomach cancer, his movement was grafitti-scrawled skateboard park and General Election. Spirit is a very large wood-cut, depicting expound any new ideas. The targets are heads of Jeannette, which shifted over impaired, but his creativity was marked a car on fire. Perry, and his alter-ego He lampoons the art world and a cut-away hairy beast, half ursine, half old chestnuts warmed-up, which could the years from the representational to by a simplification in his approach to Claire, in Alice in Wonderland frocks, has ridicules the collectors of contemporary bovine, with a very hairy penis and have come from a degree show twenty the abstract, the last one, with bulbous his work, paring down influences from become the acceptable face(s) of British art, but he now commands colossal a ring through its nose, rampaging years ago and not a 21st century visual forehead and large eye sockets, similar to Chinese objects and African textiles. art, daring his critics not to laugh at the amounts for his ceramics, tapestries and through a forest of oil derricks. There are shock-jock and social commentator. a Mboom mask from the Congo which These became known as his ‘cut-outs’, absurdities of life, and how the populace wood-cuts. Is this champagne socialism, meaningless captions, ‘common sense’, Don Grant he acquired after he had finished the a gloriously rich and defining body 44 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and turns, beginning in the modest The Beaded Yoruba thrones, A date with The Spanish fishing village of Getaria, and Royal Gifts presented to the Queen by the peoples ending in the hallowed Parisian salon The State Rooms of Nigeria in 1956, are a striking exhibit. Master of couture magic, via San Sebastian, Photographs © V&A Beadwork is associated with royalty in By Simon Copeland Madrid and Barcelona where he also Buckingham Palace. their culture and they represent status opened houses. Whether in Spain or Buckingham Palace Road and wealth. Woven motifs represent in France, he proved adept at steering spiritual life, power, past, present and Collection © Royal Photographs his way through the political minefields London. SW1A 1AA future. The triangular and zigzag designs of the day whilst the respective wars 22nd July -1st October 2017 create visual tension and movement. hristobel Balenciaga was called (Spanish Civil and World War II) raged There is the image of a lion and in ‘The Master’, and for anyone in around him. Of course, the constraints Yoruba culture only a monarch can sit any doubt, a walk around the such events inevitably built up simply on a lion! Another exhibit showing local current celebration of his work at The C went to fine tune Balenciaga’s creativity, ifts galore and gift horses craft work is a pair of baskets woven Victoria & Albert Museum will explain which we are still able to witness in (models!) are displayed from coconut leaves given by Queen why. Despite the fact he died in 1972, his the legacy he left behind. Such was the throughout the State Rooms for Salote Tupou 111 of Tonga in 1953. She influence can be seen in silhouette after strength of his design, he managed to the Summer Opening of Buckingham revived this industry on her island. silhouette on the catwalks today, with weather any storm which appeared on G A hand-beaten silver bowl, given Palace this year. These gifts reflect Her many of his design trademarks being the horizon; even the Nazis who unveiled Majesty The Queen’s role as Head of on the Queen’s visit to Namibia and highlighted behind the display glass in plans in 1940 to move Haute Couture to State, Head of the Commonwealth Zimbabwe for a Head of Governments’ this wonderful exhibition. Balenciaga Berlin which would ‘become the new and Head of Nation. During her long Meeting is very pleasing. It was would cut as a true couturier; directly on centre of culture and style under the reign she has frequently travelled afar presented by President Kenneth Kaunda a stand with fabric and shears, literally Third Reich’ did not impede Balenciaga. both bearing and receiving gifts which on behalf of the Government of Zambia. modelling the fabric, and allowing it Fortunately those plans were shelved are symbolic of friendship. Many gifts This bowl is unusual because it is filled to dictate where it wanted to go and when another esteemed couturier Lucien are presented to the Queen by visiting with the fruits of that country, wrought what it wanted to do. His technique Lelong, proved the economics of such a Royalty and Heads of State during their in silver; a cornucopia of bananas, pears, came from an acute understanding of all move would simply not work. However, formal visits to Buckingham Palace. apples, oranges, plums, paw paw, cherries the disciplines, from initial inspiration Balenciaga simply managed to continue Gifts to Royalty cannot, of course, and grapes. through pattern draughting and toile being fêted as heading one of the most be sold or exchanged and they mostly In 1972, The Queen and Prince making, to cutting, dressmaking and expensive, and successful couture houses. become part of the Royal Collection, Philip toured Malaysia and Brunei. The finishing. For man of genius, he was also What is quite remarkable about thus belonging to the Nation. This Sultan of Brunei bestowed on them a an intensely private man, believing his his work is that his progress can be eclectic Exhibition of gifts celebrates gold octagonal box decorated with pine work stood up for itself and did not need viewed as consistent throughout his sixty-five years of the Queen’s travels cones and a stepped foot in repousse and any further embellishment; he never career. Creatively, he simply continued and gives us a splendid opportunity to chased gold work. The cover has sixteen took a bow at the end of his show, and ever upwards, perhaps like an athlete view them at the Palace. Many reflect oriental flowers around the edge and he never gave interviews … Imagine that building up their muscles, with each the arts, crafts and traditional skills of the centre reveals a lion and a leopard in the world of self-promotion we live in season, Balenciaga got better and better. their country of origin. It is noticeable of the Brunei coat of arms. A handsome today? There was however, one blip on the how many gifts are equestrian related present, indeed. This exhibition gives a fascinating creative trajectory, and that came with showing how the donors were aware of A particularly evocative gift is a insight into every aspect of his talent, the sudden and unexpected death at the Queen’s love of horses. bag of salt! It is from Salt Island, one and goes one step further by showcasing 49, of Christobal’s longterm partner On display is a bronze model of a of the archipelago of British Overseas alongside the actual creations, x-ray Wladzio d’Attainville. The subsequent Lipizzaner horse given by Janez Jensam, territories, known as the British Virgin photographs of those pieces, allowing, Collection of Mourning showed with Prime Minister of Slovenia in 2007. It Islands. It is a linen tie-bag labelled with from the inside out, the viewer to acute accuracy the devastation of his represents a sixteen-year-old stallion its provenance, bearing a drawing of an literally understand the construction and loss, when Balenciaga retreated to his given to the Queen during a previous islander, Clementine Smith, collecting execution of his craft. Such an effect is studio and allowed his grief to take over. visit to Slovenia, but it remained at salt from the edge of a pool. It was a masterstroke in bringing every detail However, from this point, he would the Lipica Stud Farm. The Queen has presented to the Queen for her 90th centre stage, where to those who rate go on to experiment and execute the received other living gift horses; a mare, Birthday marking the reintroduction of this extraordinary man highly, believe his most beautiful clothes of his career, yet Valentine, presented by Queen Beatrix the tradition of paying the Monarch with creativity should be given such treatment. again heading towards the pinnacle of of the Netherlands.The Royal Canadian a bag of salt on her Birthday. This gift The Balenciaga story has many twists excellence. Mounted Police gave her a black mare, brings to mind one of the Crown Jewels; Balenciaga: Shaping Perhaps it is because we can view ‘The Exeter Salt’, a jewelled container of Fashion Exhibition, Burmese in 1969, who attended eighteen V&A Museum Balenciaga against this backdrop that ‘Trooping The Colour’ Ceremonies. salt that graced the table at Coronation On now until Sunday 18th his work takes on a deeper significance, Banquets at Westminster Palace until February 2018. £12 Among other live gifts were two sloths Open Daily: 10-17.30 or perhaps it is the fact he succeeded from Brazil and an elephant named the time of George IV. Important guests Friday 10-21.30 and indeed flourished in spite of such were placed above it and less important T: 020 7942 200 Jumbo. Yes, Jumbo, from Cameroon! vam.ac.uk challenges in an industry known for its Perhaps, the most unusual of all the gifts guests below it, giving the expression ability to crush even the strongest talents, was the specimen of a stallion’s semen ‘below the salt’. by its constant requirements to bring from an enthusiastic breeder! One gift stays in the mind for its forward new ideas and silhouettes for an More suitable for exhibiting is a majestic beauty. It is the model of a ever ravenous fashion elite. delightful porcelain model of a horse 15th century Chinese treasure ship of Christobal Balenciaga’s work is by the artist, Bruno Ecault, which was a galleon-like appearance with sails a source of huge enjoyment to those presented to the Queen by Francois billowing in the wind. It was sailed by intrigued by the cut and drape of fabric, Hollande, then French President, in navigator and diplomat, Zheng He. It and what that can achieve in dressing 2014. Another porcelain model shows was presented by Chinese president Xi a woman. He died aged 77, following a the Queen when she was the young Jinping during the Chinese State visit sudden heart attack in Javea, in Spain, Princess Elizabeth on horseback. It was in 2015. It is decorated with a dove and and was buried in the modest fishing first issued when she was eleven years old an olive branch, Chinese symbols of village where he was born. His death and remade in 1999 by Arpad Goncz, friendship and peace. Its name is The made the front page of The New York President of Hungary, who presented it Vessel of Friendship. Times; interestingly he had given his only to the Queen. An unusual equestrian gift Marian Maitland ever interview just before to the London is the traditional fiddle-like instrument, Times where he is quoted as saying a morin khuur, presented by Nambaryn Advance Tickets and Visitor “Nobody knows what a hard métier it Enkhbeyer, Speaker of the Great Khural Information. is, how killing is the work under all the of Mongolia. It is adorned by a horse’s www.royalcollection.org.uk luxury and glamour.” How very true! head. T: +44(0)20 776 7300 46 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

keeps the viewer transfixed to the screen almost muted performance, mostly done as the tension mounts and the editing with his eyes, and we rarely see his face. becomes more frantic, cutting from scene That doyen of war writers, Ben McIntyre, BRICKS AND to scene with mind-boggling speed. pointed out a couple of anomalies, one I have had the privilege of sailing about the Spitfires ditching in the sea. BRICKBATS © Squinch Photographs

Photograph © Warner Brothers Warner © Photograph more than once on one of the Little He maintains that the all-metal aircraft, Ships, Bluebird of Chelsea, commissioned weighing in at 6,000lbs, would sink like BY SQUINCH in 1931 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, which a stone if ditched, and not bob about is a larger version of the motor yacht on the waves. There are a number of Moonstone used in the film and skippered harrowing underwater scenes, when a by a crisp and determined Mark ship is torpedoed and the soldiers, who Rylance, giving a powerfully restrained thought they were safe, scramble to get The Enchanted performance (as ever). On board this out. In another, the sea above is a mass of gem of mahogany and brass, it was easy flames, and the choice is either to drown Hill to imagine the cramped cabin rammed or surface and suffer horrendous burns. with dozens of exhausted, injured and Ultimately, this is a film about survival, oil-soaked soldiers just praying and or as Churchill called it ‘a miracle of thinking of one thing; home. Above the deliverance.’ In a clever twist, his most earst Castle is not Xanadu and boat, three Spitfires fly past. ‘Rolls-Royce famous ‘we shall fight on the beaches’ William Randolph Hearst was Merlin engines,’ he says without looking speech is read out by a young soldier not Citizen Kane. Assumption is the mother of all errors. Driving up up. ‘Sweetest sound you could hear from a newspaper on a train taking him H pacific Coast Highway from LA to out here.’ In the sky, Tom Hardy, with home. Ragged Point, I was curious to visit W.R. flying mask, helmet and goggles, gives an Don Grant Hearst’s extravagant folly on top of a hill above the tiny harbour of San Simeon. Hearst’s father, George, had made a fortune through mining in the 1860s, military historians; one proposal being Photoplay, Lord John and Take Six, to then he made his own fortune through Tit-bits, Harp lager, Honey and Clarnico that the Panzer divisions were advancing This is 64 newspapers. He invested his many dollars Mint Chocs, as though he’d been spending Dunkirk at such a rate, they had to wait for the Dir: Christopher Nolan By Joseph Connolly an inordinate amount of time leafing in land. One such acquisition was a infantry divisions to catch up, plus the Riverrun through back numbers of 60s periodicals 250,000 acre ranch just south of Big Sur. running time: 120 mins fact that the British Expeditionary Force at the British Library at Colindale. He As a boy, W.R. played, rode and learnt to had staged a surprise counterattack ISBN 978 1 84866 632 0 has not had to venture too far from home love that landscape. His mother, Phoebe, at Arras, which the Germans had to 438 pp. £19.99 for his locations: Hampstead, Kilburn and one of California’s most generous deal with. This opened a small window St John’s Wood, although he does wander philanthropists was highly educated t has not passed many commentators through which the Allied forces could down to Chelsea, where he goes, not and cultured. She imbued William with by that the Dunkirk spirit is alive evacuate. infrequently in later life, to the Arts Club, a fascination for art and architecture. and well after the EU referendum On May 29 1940 more than 47,000 although he is not a member (surely, they She had mentored and commissioned voted we leave Europe: Britain standing men were rescued, more than Churchill would not accept such a grouchy old fart as America’s first leading lady architect. and giraffe. George?) I envisaged and nearly three times as many Until mains electricity arrived in alone against Europe and the world; Connolly writes in a hesitant, faltering, Julia Morgan had trained at Berkeley and as the previous day. Each following day the nation united against the common staccato style, which is how he talks the Beaux Arts in Paris in 1896, when she 1924, power was generated by the site’s enemy; defeated and ridiculed, isolated the numbers grew, rising to 68,000 on himself. There is nothing wrong with this © Riverrun Photograph also travelled around Europe. Julia was own hydro-electric plant and reservoir. and independent. Christopher Nolan has May 31. By June 4, effectively the end of device, except that all the other characters aged 47 and at the height of her career Because of earthquakes and forest taken the raw elements of the story and the operation, 338,000 military personnel in the first person singular speak in the when Phoebe died of flu in the epidemic fires, the construction is of reinforced unfolded them into human-sized dramas, had been carried to England, including same jerky way. ‘But no, we don’t really of 1919. concrete, some stone veneered, some one on land, or more accurately, on the 125,000 French troops, who would form talk . . . because when we come down to Until then, the ranch above San rendered, some left raw. The inclusion Mole, a jetty at Dunkirk: one in the the basis of the Free French forces in it . . . what is there to say? Barbara . . .! Simeon was wild west country and of historic features into the composition air and the third at sea. Two have their England. Although the majority of the Oh Christ yes, of course. It was Barbara, family visits were in tents with camp fire is fanciful, but it works. The influences own versions of fear, heroism, stoicism, men were taken back to England on that’s what she was called; the one that cooking. One imagines, more like turn of and component elements from European cowardice and courage, while the fighter naval ships, there was a flotilla of 700 got away Amazing I couldn’t remember the century glamping? Phoebe had kept architectural history, blended with skilful that. She was round here here quite a fishing boats, pleasure craft, Thames contemporary Arts and Crafts design pilots in their Spitfires are all dedicated, lot. Nice girl, nice person. Very clever a tight rein on William’s spending. barges, tugs and motor yachts, that either brave and selfless to a man and operate woman. Pretty little laugh. Fabulous legs. On inheriting the family fortune, W.R. At the height of his wealth, post Indulgent it is. A triumph of creative, and workmanship is a revelation. The with an almost Boy’s Own daredevilry and ferried men from the shore to larger Barbara . . . yes of course.’ George does wanted to build. He commissioned World War 1 Europe was impoverished painstaking architectural invention detail that Julia Morgan patiently fused comradeship. Everyone knows the story ships offshore or took them back to not endear himself to the reader, so does Julia Morgan to design a modest house, and many aristocratic families were and detail, it most certainly is. Ms. into the whole composition is joyous. of Dunkirk, the greatest military defeat England, ready to make another journey. not get the sympathy vote. If he were an a bungalow, to enjoy the landscape selling their art collections and built Morgan was an exceptional character By 1926, the castle and guest houses in modern times, so Nolan wastes no When Commander Bolton, played by even bigger shit, perhaps he would, but he and views of the ocean on the top heirlooms. Through the auction houses and architect. Imagine the logistics were sufficiently complete to begin the time in charting the whys and wherefores Kenneth Branagh, first sees this armada is merely a self-obsessed and dreary youth of his favourite hill. Even a modest of New York, Hearst bought prolifically. of building a road up a mountain entertaining for which the place became in operations rooms with prim gals of ‘Little Ships’ through his binoculars, it and a self-satisfied grown-up. The story construction, high on a hill many miles The contents of French chateaux, Italian miles from anywhere, employing (and renowned. The house parties hosted moving boats and planes around a map is one of the more emotional episodes in is told in flashbacks from the stance of from anywhere, would have been a palaces and especially Spanish castles, all retaining) over 100 workmen, with by William with Marion Davies, his with croupier rakes. 400,000 men were the film, accompanied by wave after wave being sixty-four, involving his friendships, logistical achievement. What evolved shipped from Europe to New York then burning heat in summer and wind and long-term lover and devoted starlet love, his daughter, dysfunctional son, dull trapped on the beach with the Germans of Elgar’s Nimrod. The dialogue is sparse, over the following 27 years is remarkable. by freight train to the West Coast; art, rain storms in winter. Ms. Morgan companion, mixed movie stars with wife, with his past catching up with him a few miles away, and the first time but the soundtrack is both dramatic and Hearst, flamboyant, insanely wealthy, artefacts and huge sections of buildings. directed works from a safari style tent. politicians and writers; Clark Gable, Joseph Connolly in real life is an urbane like a long-distance lorry. He professes the camera follows one young soldier menacing. In Nolan’s The Dark Knight in colourful suits and hand-painted ties Part of Julia Morgan’s improbable task She was responsible for recruiting the Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Jean sort of chap, dapper in attire and that this, his fourteenth novel, is in no onto the sand is a truly awesome sight, Rises, the composer Hans Zimmer would become patron and collaborator Harlow, Bob Hope, Winston Churchill, flamboyantly flocculent, a member of the way autobiographical, although he does was to record, collate and incorporate workforce, interior design, shipping, utilised a ‘Shepard tone’ to create the with line upon line of soldiers waiting Garrick, the Groucho and the Chelsea have a lifelong passion for The Beatles, with the serious, prim perfectionist, this obsessive collection of impeccable landscaping, finance and the welfare H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse and patiently to be taken off by British sound of the Batpod, a motorcycle that Arts Club, who is a Hampstead boy particularly Paul McCartney, who he says Ms. Morgan. She would patiently architectural salvage into a cohesive of Hearst’s growing menagerie of wild George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few navy vessels. They are sitting ducks for the director did not want to change through-and-through, having once owned he really did meet in Chelsea Arts Club, and brilliantly respond to continuous whole. animals. Influenced by certain English of the fortunate to be entertained. The the terrifying Stuka dive-bombers and gear but to constantly accelerate. He the Flask Bookshop. The protagonist in just like George. As a reader, one wishes changes and ever more grandiose ideas, On arriving at the California State country houses, Hearst collected later was erroneously reported to have ground attack aircraft. The reason given uses the same device in Dunkirk, which his new novel, George, is an ill-tempered, that the characters were just a little bit to build his dream. Through regular Welcome Centre, (the property was animals from around the world with declared, “the way that god would have in the film as to why the German Panzer creates the auditory illusion of a tone sexist oik, looking back on his miserable more interesting, or even likable, as there meetings, thousands of letters, sketches gifted by the Hearst Corporation in characteristic verve. done it, if he’d had the money”. artillery and tank regiments didn’t simply that continually ascends or descends life and remembering 1964, which was are some well-observed passages and and immense vision, the building 1957) it might be assumed Hearst Castle Bears, polar bears and the big cats Hearst Castle transcends assumption, wonderfully non-PC moments involving continue to advance until all the soldiers in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to punctuated by E-types, Julie Christie, The evolved. William himself would sketch would be at best a hodgepodge, at worst had proper zoo enclosures. Roaming it is still enchanted without the movie casual racism and sexism, but this is, in no ‘ were driven into the sea, is because get no higher or lower. The effect of the Beatles and The Dave Clark bloody Five. ideas and sign them Viollet le Duc vulgar; Trump in Californian imported wild across the ranch lands were not just stars and wild animals. If you happen to It is also peppered with sixties references way, an uplifting or rewarding read. ’ hitting us from the air was more effective. relentless drumbeat like a ticking clock Hearst , the nineteenth century French Renaissance. How wrong assumptions indigenous bison, cattle and deer, but be driving up Highway One, it really is from Paynes Poppets, Double Diamond, Don Grant The real reason is still disputed amongst or time bomb is immensely dramatic and conservationist that he greatly admired. can be. zebra, elk, yak, llama, kangaroo, ostrich worth a visit. 48 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

much with Wakeman’s own stamp. I’ve Campra and Fischer edged it on what his librettist Da Ponte to create La scuola young French girl, Giselle, arriving in lives depended on the success of the show invited Kirsten’s older sister Hannah (tall, was outstanding entertainment over degli amanti, better known as Così fan the Argentinian dockyards of Buenos that night. The three main characters (CLASSICAL) blonde, gay) to join me on 27 November. and above the great art that has become tutte. BALLET Aires as one of the first waves of were worthy of their principal status: I’d better warn her that the sobbing synonymous with Richard Heason’s Setting a sharply cynical libretto by BY ANDREW WARD European immigrants at the start of Melody Celatti’s Giselle was fiery and during Life On Mars? will be just as bad. tenure at St John’s Smith Square; Caterino Mazzolà, this opera buffa was the 20th century. She meets Lorenzo, a full of ecstasy but also touching at times MUSIC I had been hoping to hear the third in speaking of which ………. written in Venice and first performed dockworker, who falls in love with her at and filled with daring leaps and lighting BY JAMES DOUGLAS that trilogy of accompanist virtuosity at the Teatro San Moisè in 1778. It first sight. Gaudencio, a crook involved fast footwork; both Dabel Zanabria’s The News From Spain (Al Stewart), and was selected to inaugurate the Emperor in drug dealing and pimping, has other Guadencio and Estaban Domenichini’s Rick, if you’re reading this, or if your PR Joseph II’s new Italian opera troupe at ideas for Giselle and entices her into his Lorenzo had power, precision and control brings it to your attention, I think you’re the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1783, with world of sleaze with promises of a better in their tango that had the audience a genius, and if you play The News From Antonio Salieri an outstanding cast including the star life. Giselle, once pure and innocent, spellbound with excitement, and Giselle Spain on 27 November I promise I’ll pay English soprano Nancy Storace (later Tanguera gets sucked up into a life of prostitution too, with their hypnotic dominance £100 to the charity of your choice. As Caterino Mazzolà one of Mozart’s favourite sopranos and and becomes a tanguera, an erotic tango coming to the fore every step of the way! Rick Wakeman for the rest of you, I’ll see you there, or Bampton Classical Opera the first Susanna) as the Countess, and dazzles dancer that seduces men with her moves. In production terms, perhaps the only Piano Portraits you want your head examining. If you The School of Jealousy Francesco Benucci (later Figaro and She quickly becomes the number one disappointment was the introduction think you’ll like it, you’ll love it, and if Guglielmo) as Blasio. Salieri revised the audiences at tanguera at Gaudencio’s night club and of the renowned singer Marianella, Cadogan Hall you think you won’t, you’ll be pleasantly (La scuola de' brothel and has the visiting men in the not because she did not sing well but Monday 27 November 2017 surprised. gelosi) palm of her hands with her seductive rather the random nature of a handful of Sadler’s dancing luring them into the darkest songs that did not add anything to the half past seven Preview It’s been a great month; what’s next? St John’s places. The dockworker, Lorenzo, production and seemed an afterthought Thursday 22 June 2017 Review Oh yes …. Smith Square Wells has other ideas and grows up to be a so one could call it a tango musical. brave young man. He is determined to The six-piece orchestra packed a punch ick Wakeman is a national 12 September understand the underworld of Giselle’s playing Gerardo Gardelin’s original music treasure, famous for Yes and 2017 7:00 pm, dark life so that he can, despite the and arrangements. The musicians were the Strawbs and solo classics Bach Goes To dangers, confront her captors and woo certainly a major component in making like The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, as a with a pre- her back with a life of true love. the evening that one will remember for Rcharming raconteur, and for the virtuoso Paris opera talk at Tanguera has been on a remarkable years to come. One word of warning. The Orchestra of the Age of evening had three encores which one accompanying of Bowie, Cat Stevens Hall/Bampton Classical Opera Anthony © Photographs journey thrilling audiences from around and Al Stewart amongst many others. Enlightenment half six the globe. Why so successful? Put simply should not miss as it had an uplifting Indeed his two most famous pieces Life it is great entertainment. The production crescendo to the evening with the dancers On Mars? and Morning Has Broken are Bach and his contemporaries This really is great values are superb: the clever use of back having a sense of ‘anything you can do I news. Forget all given starring roles in this magical tour. Rameau, JCF Fischer and drops and front cloths enabling superfast can do better’ and they certainly did that I know Wakeman’s work really quite well, the nonsense about changes of scenery; clever lighting design and more. Bravo to Tanguera’s production and hadn’t had to research the evening, Campra why Salieri was that enhances the different atmospheric team, dancers and musicians. ever forgotten so the wonderfully intimate, beautifully St John Smith Square moods including the red and black down revealed repartee was a huge bonus. I (from before his lights creating the overall ambience of a had expected John Lill-like silence and a André Campra: death in 1825 night club, but also individual spaces on Voices of the hugely polished performance; well I was Suite from Les fêtes vénitiennes until his highly stage for the couples to have their tango half right. The evening started with the fictionalised role moments and we are talking passion and Johann-Caspar Ferdinand as Darth Baddie lust bursting out of the beams of light; Amazon… fabulous non-album hit After The Ball a Grimm Tale with nothing to written for the 1976 Winter Olympics. Fischer: in Amadeus) and costumes that had subtle undertones with I won’t try and rewrite the entertaining just take my word Giselle arriving with a white underskirt shout about! story that went with it, but encourage Suite No. 7 in G minor from Le for it that this is depicting her innocence followed by red you to go along on 27 November 2017 Journal du Printemps Op. 1 one of the true \Rumford Alex © Photograph underskirts whilst working in the brothel Great expectations from Sister’s Grimm when I imagine you’ll hear the horse’s cultural highpoints production team of Ella Spira and mouth. I dreaded the emotional impact Johan Sebastian Bach: across all London Pietra Mello-Pittman. After all, Voices of Morning Has Broken so was glad Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D throughout 2017. of Amazon follows their first endeavor we got it out of the way early; what a Jeremy Gray, Gilly in 2014 as a production company. privilege to hear a track played by the BWV1069, Orchestral Suite No. French (writers of Their INALA was an award winning uncredited original composer that has 3 in D BWV1068 this translation) production with South African choral not only been part of the music of my and the whole legends Ladysmith Black Mambazo. life but also that of my daughters, the Jean-Philippe Rameau: team at Bampton Voices of Amazon was something younger one of which, Kirsten (petite, Suite from Les indes galantes are to be lauded altogether different. It lacked any real brunette, straight), accompanied me on for their Salieri imagination or excitement. With no star the night. If Morning Has Broken left me William Christie conductor revivals. Their performers to guide the production it was racked with sobs, what on earth was Life Trofonio’s Cave clear that neither Spira or Mello-Pittman on Mars? going to do? Much more of The publicity for what was a magical blew me away have any talent or creativity as producers. the same as it transpired. Rick’s faux- evening, enhanced by a lengthy in 2015; if you Both have, or have had, budding careers, rage about the session fee is a great story. discussion with Chain Gang Ian on one can be bothered with Spira as a composer and Mello- The first half ended with an interesting of the great unpublished novels of the see the review Pitman as a dancer. exercise, reprising one that Wakeman first quarter of the twenty-first century in the KCW Lighting design can make a had been set as a student at the Royal (my own A House For Sale), hypothesises Today archive: production look great even when it

College of Music, whereby he played on what would have happened had www.kcwtoday. Navarra © Manuel Photograph is actually mediocre. It can also kill nursery rhymes in the style of various JSB visited Paris during his lifetime. co.uk/2015/10/la- a production. The same can be said composers, a selection that was both Would he have met Rameau, often grotto-di-trofonio/ score for these performances including of choreography and costume design. hilarious and divine. And so a delightful credited as being as great a Baroque Following revelatory productions new arias specially for Nancy Storace, he Tango dance is seductive, sexy seats. Tanguera, originally created in and finally white and black as she plots Sadly all the creatives of Sister Grimm’s session rolled on, with a Michael Caine influence as Bach, but remaining of Salieri’s Trofonio’s Cave and Falstaff and the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and full of intrigue. It creates a 2002, by producer Diego Romay with her way out to find her true love and production team were out of their depth moment when we got to Space Oddity, relatively unknown in comparison? Bampton Classical Opera continues added some textual adjustments. I steamy atmosphere with deep choreography by Mora Godoy, has been new life; at the end of every dance scene as part of a production that aired on a big Wakeman having accompanied Bowie Fischer was heavily influenced by his its exciting rehabilitation of one of the can’t tell you how badly you need to be lunges juxtaposed with lighting fast a sensational hit musical at home in each of the lead dancers would finish in stage like Sadler’s Wells. there. It’s conceivable you will never get T a white spot light on the very last beat The story line was simple and there on the original; not a lot of people know Parisian contemporaries, despite never most misunderstood of composers. The flickering foot work followed by erotic Buenos Aires and around the globe. The that. The finale was a real tour de force, studying in Paris, and his music is full School of Jealousy, with its sharp libretto another chance in your life to see what use of the eyes between partners that can production is slick and professional and of the music creating its own sense of is nothing wrong with that if all the Help! played as a lullaby, apparently as of French influence, which can be heard and glittering ensembles, quickly won drove Mozart and Ponte to Così fan embrace the dancers and audience alike. the dancers from Buenos Aires ooze that excitement knowing there was more to artistic elements come together to engage Lennon originally intended, and then the beautifully in his Le Journal du Printemps. a place in the repertory of opera houses tutte. All that for a few quid, at one of Every tango has a story to tell same aura of being the best and proud come. and entertain an audience. The dancers climax of an enchanting evening, Eleanor Rameau and Bach should have been across Europe. In Vienna in 1783 its London’s most gorgeous venues; with and Tanguera did just that to bring of it! The cast of twenty plus Argentinian and musicians did their best but it was a Rigby rewritten as a classical piece, very the stars of the show but I thought runaway success encouraged Mozart and great pubs, and plenty of parking. the audience to the edge of their The story is simply told with a dancers worked and danced like their grimm tale with nothing to shout about! 50 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

MAX the system to fail women like Vicki. the floor, desert-skimming hover-jeepneys The film opens in suburban Perth with the chassis of 20th century school Feldman in the mid-’80s, as we watch John and Valerian And buses, and the attendant alien planets: one Evelyn picking up a young woman on her where the pale, leggy inhabitants live in REVIEWS way home from netball practice, offering The City Of A giant conch shells and harvest billiard-ball- her friendly faces and a ride home in the sized pearls from their planetary ocean; © Polyador Photograph heat. She’ll never be seen alive again. John Thousand Planets another where clouds of different colours Persson © Johan Photograph and Evelyn have worked out a seemingly Running Time: 137 minutes puff across the sky. And there’s Alpha, successful and extremely sick domestic the metropolis of the title, an interstellar Hounds Of Love routine, where they kidnap women Director: Luc Besson melting pot of some 30 million inhabitants Director: Ben Young using Evelyn as bait (a couple is more that grew over the centuries around Running Time: 98 minutes trustworthy than a single man, after all), what was once the International Space chain them up in their spare bedroom, Station, large enough to support multiple torture them for a couple of days, and kill Whatever one may think of Luc Besson’s biomes (including an internal sea) for its them. We witness the completion of this futuristic space opera Valerian And The City population of humanoids, amphiboids, cycle as John drives out to the wilderness to Of A Thousand Planets, the idea of spending aquatic giants, and cybernetic lifeforms. It’s bury the body while Evelyn washes blood a cool $225 million so that Rihanna can a lot to look at and even a little bit to think out of the sheets, all before the film’s title mount a stripper pole and recite some about. The generic MacGuffin-chase plot card appears more than 10 minutes in. lines from the poet Paul Verlaine’s A Poor turns surprisingly political (it involves a n trying to understand what would Hounds Of Love patiently develops its Young Shepherd to an audience of one (in covered-up planetcide, a refugee crisis, and make someone commit such a heinous characters, spending enough time with full high-tech space suit, sans helmet) unpaid reparations) and reads like a mea crime as serial murder, you run the risk Vicki, her boyfriend, and her divorced in an extraterrestrial red light district culpa for Taken and the other xenophobic of minimising, or, just as bad, fetishising parents for maximum payoff later in the named after a lesser-known Sylvester action movies that Besson has spent much I Stallone movie with a following among those crimes. Hounds Of Love, the debut film. Then Vicki sneaks out one night of the last decade writing and producing. feature from Australian writer-director to go to a party; on her way there, she’s French cinephiles (all the while being In short, it’s fun, provided viewers don’t accompanied on keys by a leather-cowboy- Ben Young, avoids these traps by leaving approached by John and Evelyn on the mind the lackadaisical pacing, sputtering and It Felt Like A Kiss; raising eyebrows days long suicide by hunger strike, a hatted, multi-facial-pierced Ethan Hawke, its physical and sexual violence mostly off hunt for a new victim. Vicki is street climax, and the fact that DeHaan and and sparking earnest internet thinkpieces shattering set-piece which closes the first screen, heard but not seen behind boarded- as a character named Jolly The Pimp) has smart enough to know not to jump into a Delevingne have no chemistry, and can Lana Del Rey: left right and centre. Shrugging off Road half ) Road careens through the hours up windows or locked doors. At the same stranger’s car, but through a series of small got to count as some kind of art. Because stomach the sexual politics. Royal Court Theatre time, the little that we do see, as well as concessions she ends up first standing in what’s the point of making stupidly Besson, bless his heart, can’t even Lust For Life concerns by firing off the similarly with frenzied ebullience. Cartwright is the emotional violence that permeates the their driveway, then coming inside, then expensive, effects-smothered movies if you imagine deep space without throwing in Length: 71:56 sable-dark album Honeymoon, many Running Time: 150 minutes more interested in dark humour than film, is absolutely brutal, so much so that it accepting a drink, then fighting for her can’t do things on a whim? some dawdling, loud American and British commentators felt that Lana Del Rey including interval darkness for its own sake and (minus the could potentially be a trigger for survivors life as John and Evelyn chain her to the Valerian, which was adapted by Besson tourists to ruin everything, which of course had found her lane and would be content aforementioned suicide) the vignettes of sexual assault or domestic abuse. But bed, Nights In White Satin blaring in the from Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude raises the question: Is the cosmopolitan to roll in it indefinitely, thrilling devotees Playing until September 9th that make up the play have a grotesque Young isn’t wallowing in the heroine’s pain background. Mézières’ long-running French sci-fi Alpha supposed to be France? The movie and outraging the offenderati until the comic energy to them; aps the various and fear for his own sadistic purposes, as is For a first-time director, Young displays comics series Valérian And Laureline, is the almost supports that reading, but much heat death of the universe. As a result characters desperately scramble for unfortunately often the case with “horror” remarkable control over Hounds Of Love; sort of movie where the best and worst like the 23rd century world of The Fifth hilst Morrissey might still this new record comes as something of alcohol and casual sex in an attempt parts seem to happen on a whim. There that revolves around the rape and murder he even gets cocky sometimes, with showy Element, with which it shares both its glumly balance the papal tiara a surprise, even down to the front cover: to beat back the brutal reality of daily of women. Instead, Hounds Of Love is more is, for instance, an inspired but difficult- shots like a drone swooping over a dry macabre and sappy sensibilities, Alpha of mope on the demolished She’s smiling! Not even an ironic smile life. Considering Chelsea’s ascension along the lines of a film like Henry: Portrait to-succinctly-describe chase sequence in grove of pine trees or a long slow-motion could just as accurately represent the inside either, she seems genuinely happy, which from rich to stupendously unthinkably Of A Serial Killer, an uncompromisingly tracking shot through John and Evelyn’s which the space-man-special-agent hero, of Besson’s head. remnants of his quiff, millennial waif/ W is about as off-brand as it would be rich over the thirty odd years since the dark character drama whose content is neighborhood. Thankfully, these visual Valerian (Dane DeHaan, who sounds It speaks to all of his visual obsessions, time displaced background character in disturbing enough to classify it as a horror flourishes are deployed sparely, enough here weirdly like Keanu Reeves), gets his whether it’s statuesque women with an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel Lana Del possible for Del Rey. When Jim Cartwright’s Road, a play’s debut, a certain uncomfortable film. not to be too intrusive, as are the pop hand and blaster gun stuck in another model looks (The Fifth Element was the Rey (nee Elizabeth Grant) has been icily Perhaps the most significant biting acerbic portrait of an unnamed atmosphere of being on a poverty safari Although it’s never explicitly stated, songs from the Moody Blues, Cat Stevens, dimension, which he is still able to see breakthrough role for Milla Jovovich, who ruling over her own Instagram ready So- departure here is evident from Lust for Lancastrian community decimated by runs through the well-heeled audience; the story parallels that of real-life serial and Joy Division which are peppered using a special pair of goggles; this leads was Besson’s wife and muse for a time) Cal purgatory since she broke through Life’s first song:Love a warm, grainy, unemployment and Thatcherism was a feeling that is intensified by a series killers David and Catherine Birnie, a throughout. him to run around an empty desert strip, or the ocean, which is represented here with the seminal baroque-pop ballad ’50s-style anthem (and by far the album’s first staged in the Royal Court Theatre of vignettes and monologues that take couple who murdered four women in Mostly, though, Young’s style is dodging invisible walls and pedestrians, by a beach planet and an entertaining Video Games and its parent album, the best single) in which Del Rey shifts focus back in 1986 there were three million place in a glass box which rises from the Western Australia in the 1980s. In Young’s fastidiously realistic, with little touches like while his disembodied hand exchanges submarine sequence set in the murky notably less seminal Born To Die in 2011. from her own internal struggle to address people unemployed. Whilst currently floor (the stage is otherwise minimalist, gunfire up and down bustling alleyways retelling, the main characters form a the planes constantly going by overhead depths of Alpha’s sea. Orson Welles called Channelling 50s-60s chanteuses via her audience directly. The album’s title (if unemployment quivers at 1.49 million, it just bare brick walls and the halved chillingly perverse love triangle: John in another layer of the multi-verse. There, and Evelyn’s high-waisted jeans giving a movie studio the biggest electric train thoroughly modern slick pop production; we ignore the sacrilege of appropriating doesn’t take a communist fanatic to draw street sign which gives the play its name) White (Stephen Curry), a man small in too, are the big-assed, Neanderthalic toad a specific sense of time and place. Some set any boy ever had, but in the tentpole- Iggy Pop) reflects a genuine happiness some parallels between the grim situation which feels uncomfortably close to a fish both stature and status who takes out his details, like the box of stuffed animals creatures who catch Valerian’s partner and franchise-superhero-coming-soon era, the Del Rey seized a territory between indie faced by the ragged unfortunates who toxic anger on women; his emotionally that lets viewers know that John and co-pilot Laureline (model-turned-sort- trains are expected to run on time. It’s rare, ice queen and pop diva which came with in engaging with the non-mythological tank or even a cage. These digressions disturbed wife, Evelyn (Emma Booth); Evelyn keep their victims in the room of-actor Cara Delevingne) with a human- then, to see a film this extravagant that also a public persona that seemed almost like version of America outside her own head, scrape by on the eponymous unnamed include some of the best scenes in the and Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings), that once belonged to Evelyn’s children, sized fishing pole and cart her off to a feels, for better or worse, like the work of a a parody of vapidity and white privilege. the only problem is that she’s found it Road (unnamed because someone stole play such as Michelle Fairley’s (who a rebellious, resourceful teenager who are downright devastating. The script is feast. This, mind you, comes not long after single personality. The longer action scenes Considering that her lyrical concerns just as Trump seems intent on destroying half the street sign) and the thousands takes multiple roles and is great in all of realises that, if she’s going to survive her similarly carefully constructed, with no she’s had to stick her head into a memory- may not always rank with Besson’s early primarily focus on being idly rich, it. Songs like God Bless America- and All of disenfranchised poor who have fallen them) failed seduction of a catatonically captivity in the Whites’ lower-middle-class subtle visual cue or offhand comment left eating space jellyfish’s anus on the advice ’90s highlights (Léon: The Professional, La dispassionate sex and the emptiness of the Beautiful Women in It are honest to through the cracks created by austerity drunk soldier or a skinhead’s paen to the tract house, she’s going to have to play unexplored. Hounds Of Love is a remarkable of a trio of waist-high gargoyles who finish Femme Nikita) or the mania of the more dreams she could probably serve as part god protest songs (replete with gunshots policies and the ugly underbelly of joys of what A Clockwork Orange dubbed the couple against itself. Through them, achievement in that it does exactly what each other’s sentences. There are strange recent Lucy, but there isn’t a moment in of an ISIS recruitment video about the for punctuation. Whilst there is still globalisation. “the old ultraviolence” and the minimal technologies:guns that cover the targets Young explores the cycles of misogyny and it sets out to do, and what it sets out to do this ludicrous, lushly self-indulgent movie evils of the west. To say she was divisive the requisite navel-gazing about broken The original production was a staging of the box helps hone the jagged abuse that compel women like Evelyn to in magnetized ball bearings until they is traumatise the hell out of you. You just that doesn’t feel like its creator is having is something of an understatement, but relationships (she rhymes ‘summer’ with promenade performance featuring edges of Cartwright’s commentary into participate in unforgivable acts, and allow might not want to watch it twice. become so heavy that they fall through the time of his life. her aching deadpan (if you can wrap ‘bummer’ on two separate songs fer Blockheads’ lead singer Ian Dury as razor sharpness. your head around that contradiction) chrissakes) but with dreamy highpoints Road ’s Junkyard Puck figure Scullery With all this in mind, it’s Scullery and her darkly glittering empty world like 13 Beaches, it’s hard for even the who lead the audience physically down who proves one of the play’s few of luxury and sublimated rage seemed most seasoned Del Rey sceptic not to be the road of the title and was, by all disappointments as his direct address to offer a funhouse mirror up to culture overcome by the record’s surging ebb and accounts, a scorching revelation. Director to the audience, presumably punky and at the beginning of the 21st century, flow. However with her best (read: non- John Tiffany (who recently directed necessary when staged promenade style, Photograph © Lionsgate Photograph whilst pumping some damnably catchy solipsistic) foot forward, nothing can the almost absurdly successful Harry comes across as hammy and forced to a melodies to the bargain. overcome the fact that at sixteen tracks, Potter and The Cursed Child) has opted seated audience. Other than that though,

Photograph © Gunpodwer and Sky © Gunpodwer Photograph Her next album (Ultraviolence) was Lust For Life is just too much ennui for for a more traditional approach and the whilst the production fully commits to cut from same ostentatiously expensive anyone to handle. Still the patron saint of results might not be quite so epochal, but its eighties setting (shoulder pads and cloth, though if anything had an even wearing a flower-crown at Coachella has Cartwright’s play still packs some jagged all) its urgency and anger feels right at darker worldview. The unsavoury outdone herself, arms spread wide, boats teeth and Tiffany and a talented cast home in the age of austerity. Whilst it’s undertones of the glorification of sexual against the current (she’s not the only know exactly how to sink them into an tempting to grumble about rehashing old abuse that lurked alligator-like beneath one who can inappropriately quote The audience’s throat. plays and concerns rather than writing her lyrics, was thrust into open thanks Great Gatsby) but her unceasing journey Framed as taking place over the new ones, the burning anger at the heart to a lyrical tribute to The Crystals’ 1963 into the past has unexpectedly made course of a single night (with a couple of Road is sadly just as relevant now as it hosanna to domestic abuse He Hit Me landfall somewhere vitally present. of exceptions like a couple’s presumably was then. 52 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Health Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

to report suspiciously large stated that there is “conclusive evidence” department has been The deadliest orders of drugs. that marijuana would be an effective extremely positive. In 2014, the treatment for chronic pain. Suffering from a They always show drug epidemic in Drug Enforcement It is currently predicted that 22 sports injury a high degree of Administration re-classified million Americans will lose insurance or something more serious? professionalism and US history some opioids from Schedule under the current changes in Medicare. great personal warmth, By Max Horberry 3 to Schedule 2, making Many of these will be addicts seeking Bupa Cromwell's Therapy and explain the reasons it harder for doctors to treatment. To compensate for cuts, the for each treatment prescribe. Treatment Senate bill includes $45 billion over team can aid your recovery exceptionally well.” for addiction is difficult 10 years to target the opioid epidemic. Henriette Du and requires individual This, however, it is not nearly enough. Toit, Therapy diagnoses. Controlled usage Additionally, it only covers drug Manager at Bupa or opioid agonist therapy treatment and mental health in general Cromwell Hospital, n 2015, drug overdoses accounted for pain the spreads throughout the body. makes many feel uneasy. 2014 federal and does not include related problems adds; “Our highly 52,000 deaths in the US, surpassing The real danger that most addicts data stated that at least 89% of those that addicts face such as treatment for experienced team even gun homicide, and this rose faced was what to do when they no meeting the definition of drug disorder HIV and Hepatitis B. hether you’ve sprained an offers everything from to 65,000 in 2016. These total a greater longer received prescriptions. If a patient do not get treatment. The real number is Banning opioids would be ankle on your morning run, physio and massage I likely much higher as this does not take counterproductive. Addicts end up or need ongoing treatment number than all of the American deaths was cut off or a doctor was restricted in therapy to speech and in the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined. their prescriptions, the addicted patient into account the homeless and those in risking their lives while criminals profit followingW surgery, many of us will need language therapy and (58,000 died between 1955 and 1975 in is unlikely to stop there. In the aftermath jail. and for every drug banned, many new physical therapy at some point in our occupational therapy. the Vietnam war, 4,500 in the Iraq war.) of certain clampdowns on the over- Chronic pain is still a problem in alternatives appear. The public concern lives. We focus on both The National Health Institute on prescription of opioids, the number of the US. Therapy, surgeries, lifestyle and the treatment of the epidemic as Kensington’s Bupa Cromwell Hospital physical recovery and Drug Abuse says that deaths from drug medical opioid overdoses dropped yet changes and even finding ways to live a public health issue are productive offers a wide range of therapy treatments helping people to regain overdose in the US are 90 per day and the number of street-drug overdoses rose. with the pain are important alternative attitude changes. Addiction is a complex using state of the art equipment, and their independence, this is forecast, by STAT, to climb to 250 Since 2000, heroin overdoses have risen solutions to consider. Although problem and treating it as a disease can they focus on both physical recovery and which can be just as per day by 2027. This means that 650,000 by 500%. Heroin is cheaper, stronger opioids are not out of the question help open up the conversation to the maximising quality of life. important.” ‘ ’ may die in the next decade. The cause and easy to find. The Centres for Disease for treating chronic pain, it has to be variety of options for recovering addicts. Physio is probably best known for of this alarming climb in drug-related Control have said that 3 out of 4 new prescribed on an individual basis and The death rate for drug overdoses in treating conditions like back pain, sports deaths is opioids. Not simply street-sold heroin users first abused opioids. for many the risk of opioids outweigh the US has long surpassed car crashes injuries and rehabilitation after surgery, To discuss your heroin but legally prescribed opioids such In addition to heroin, addicted the benefits. One alternative that has and gun violence and it is set to increase but there are a host of other conditions treatment needs as OxyContin. patients have turned to fentanyl, a received attention is medical marijuana. at a rate that will kill 94,000 annually that can benefit from therapy treatment. contact Bupa Cromwell Over the past decade medical opioids synthetic opioid brought illegally from Marijuana is an effective pain killer, is in 10 years (STAT). Attitudes towards People who have had a stroke, head be treated for everything from feeding patients with daily activities, relatives are Hospital’s Therapy Department on 020 have been heavily over-prescribed China. It is 50 times more powerful than less addictive and there have not been the treatment of drug addiction need to injury, or suffer from a neurological problems to club foot and developmental given guidance on supporting their loved 7460 5749. Opening hours are 9am to for pain relief and those suffering heroin. 2mg is enough for an overdose. any recorded examples of marijuana continue to grow more compassionate condition like Parkinson's disease, can delay. one, and massage therapy can reduce 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, with evening from addiction have not received the The Centers for Disease Control and overdose. The National Academy of and awareness of what is needed to improve their motor neurone skills Therapy can also counter the side- pain, swelling, tension and stress. appointments by prior arrangement for appropriate treatment. Since 2007 Prevention even requires their first Sciences, Engineering and Medicine prevent it needs to increase. through therapy. Asthma sufferers can effects of cancer and its treatment. A patient comments; “My experience some specialities. ’ people with opioid disorders rose 493% responders to wear protective masks and combat breathlessness, and children can Exercise programmes help cancer of Bupa Cromwell s physiotherapy www.bupacromwellhospital.com while those receiving treatment, such as clothing if fentanyl is reported as a scene. screening, all newly registered patients methadone or buprenorphine, which are Carfentanil, a drug 100 times stronger were given the test unless they used to wean addicts off opioids, rose by than fentanyl, has begun appearing on Screen new specifically asked not to have it. The only 65%. the street. researchers then estimated the cost of By 2012 physicians in the US wrote The opioid crisis is being patients for HIV, either providing or not providing GP- 259 million prescriptions, enough for treated differently by the media and study suggests based screening. Health outcomes in the A healthcare hub one bottle of pills per American adult. policymakers largely due to the fact it By Fahad Redha borough, whether people were or were This “over-prescription” resulted in affects the white and the wealthy. The not offered screening were also predicted much of these making their way into the epidemic is being treated as a public including how people’s HIV progressed in the heart of black market. Between 2007 and 2012 health crisis as opposed to part of the and how it would impact their quality of shipments to West Virginia of Vicodin war on drugs. The crack and meth Routine HIV tests to people who register life. and OxyContin rose to 780 million, epidemics were met with a “tough on with new GP surgeries in high-risk Diagnosis rates were four times Kensington enough for 433 per resident. crime” approach that resulted in harsher areas could save lives, as well as being higher in the screening group. The The Mews at Bupa Cromwell Hospital Over-prescription began with policing and sentencing. The crack cost effective. Researchers from the total cost of GP-based screening was treatments for chronic pain. The Institute epidemic largely affected poor minorities London School of Hygiene and Tropical estimated to be £127,724 and the average The Mews at Bupa Cromwell hospital is home to a range of high quality of Medicine stated in 2011 that 100 in urban environments and while the Medicine conducted a large trial in the cost for each newly diagnosed patient health services, from private GPs to a dedicated Women’s Health Centre, and million adults suffered from chronic meth epidemic affected mainly white London Borough of Hackney. They was £7,096. our state-of-the-art Kensington Diagnostic Centre. pain in the US, 1 in 3 American adults. people, the large majority were from poor wanted to see if offering more HIV Based on their findings, in 33 years, Just a five minute walk from Earl’s Court or Kensington High Street, the Typically sufferers of chronic pain are backgrounds. screening to new patients registering screening would become cost effective. Mews is right next door to West London’s leading private hospital, ensuring treated on a case-by-case basis which Much of the damage has been done with GPs would detect more people with Over 40 years the cost would actually quick and easy onward referral if required. is time-consuming and expensive and and even though steps are being taken it. They found that it led to four times reduce and by 50 years would be well Private GPs with walk-in appointments doctors were faced with increasing to clamp down on the prescription the number of people diagnosed without below. Heart diagnostic testing 6 days a week pressure to find a more practical solution. of opioids, for many it is too late. The screening. “Although anti-retroviral therapy In 1997, OxyContin was sold as a safer, big push of opioids that were said to The researchers’ calculations as a prevention intervention is very Assessment of respiratory and sleep conditions less addictive, more effective opioid and be safe and effective between 1990 suggested that with quality of life and effective,” the researchers said, “and Neurology diagnostics, including a memory clinic it was prescribed to patients regardless of and 2000 by drug companies is nearly lifespan improvements over 30 years, treatment coverage in the UK is high, the Dedicated Women’s Health Centre - gynaecology and sexual health, whether they were suffering from mild impossible to unravel. Purdue Pharma’s it would provide value for money. They estimated number of people living with menopause, breast care, nutrition back pain or from something so severe parent company has since had to pay calculated that it would cost the NHS £4 undiagnosed HIV remains substantial Our services are available to everyone, whether using health insurance or self they could barely move. They all received $600 million because they had claimed million annually to roll out the screening and the number of people living with funding. the same treatment. that OxyContin was safer and less programme to all areas with high rates of HIV continues to increase. Treating chronic pain with opioids prone to abuse. In December 2016, the the disease. “Patients should be diagnosed and is risky. Apart from being addictive, Department of Justice arrested former 40 GP surgeries took part, half treated earlier to effect meaningful To discuss your treatment needs contact Bupa your body builds a tolerance to them, senior officials at Insys Therapeutics for of which offered screening to newly reductions in transmission, along with Cromwell Hospital on 020 7460 5700 or email requiring stronger doses and they can leading a conspiracy to bribe doctors registered patients while the other half ensuring that for those with a negative [email protected] also make the pain worse. Numbing to unnecessarily prescribe a medication did not. Screening involved a rapid finger HIV test other prevention interventions, bupacromwellhospital.com physical pain can often lead to increasing based on fentanyl. Earlier this year, the prick test. The trial took over 28 months such as condom use and pre-exposure stress on the affected area. Additionally, San Francisco-based pharma distributor and HIV diagnosis rates were recorded. prophylaxis, are accessible and withdrawal symptoms include a physical McKesson, paid $150 million for failing In those surgeries that did offer promoted.” 54 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Health Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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These cars suspension that constantly monitors good summers the transition While the vitamin can be absorbed were owned by icons and adjusts itself, reacting to movement, to autumn can be a challenge. from a small number of foods including including Fred Astaire, steering input, and even camera ToW help ease the change, we have put oily fish such as salmon, mackerel and John Lennon, and Field information; the ‘Flagbearer’ (named together some autumnal wellness tips to herring, red meat and eggs, one is well Marshall Montgomery. for the old law requiring a red flag to be get you ready for the colder months and advised to invest in supplementary But the all new carried ahead of early cars) integrates keep your mental (and physical!) health tablets. Taking relatively non-costly Phantom VIII was a camera in the windscreen to scan the in check. vitamin D supplements on a daily basis the main attraction. road ahead. This is part of what the Late Summer is the perfect time to reduces blood sugar and has strong anti- £5, the lowest price in the history of is important to maintain healthy bones, Built on an all new company calls ‘Magic Carpet Ride.’ boost your natural immunity and give inflammatory and antioxidant properties immunisation. They pledged 100,000 teeth and muscles. aluminium ‘Architecture The original Phantom was developed your body the best chance of defending purported to support the lungs and large £5 flu vaccinations at pharmacies in Lovely warm temperature and sunny of Luxury,’ as Rolls in great secrecy, codenamed ‘ Eastern yourself against some of those pesky intestine. Try also boosting your diet around 255 of its stores and should be weather allows many of us to move our Royce calls it, the new Armoured Car’. This led, some to change-of-season bugs that will soon with foods that are naturally orange, red, repeating the offer in 2017. Nationwide, bodies naturally, using gentle movements car promises to deliver believe including T.E. Lawrence, that be floating around, not to mention, the yellow and deep greens, autumn-like one in three people are entitled to a free such as a morning stroll with the dog “a whole new level of the company was working on a military dreaded cold and flu season. on the beach or in the park. But, don’t colours. Think parsnips, sweet potatoes, flu vaccination, yet people risk catching luxury. vehicle for the First World War. The first Traditional Chinese Medicine teaches oranges, carrots, and swede. the potentially deadly illness rather than let cooler temperatures stop you from Aside from the standard car went into production in 1925 and the five-element theory where foods are Before the leaves turn brown and the have the vaccine. moving your body! Far too many people navigation and media, one of the most became an immediate success. Sir Henry inextricably linked to season, flavour, nights draw in, there's often one tell-tale You are eligible for a free flu jab on stop exercising and spend more time he black cab is not the only colour, and organ. Foods that reflect the sign that we are heading into winter, the National Health Service (NHS) if doing sedentary activities indoors. New Phantom British automotive icon that unusual new features is what Rolls Royce Royce’s desire was to “take the best that season’s colours are most beneficial to and it is the familiar sound of a sniffle you: One way you can keep moving during has been reinvented. The Rolls is calling ‘The Gallery,’ which takes the exists and make it better.” our bodies during that time of the year. or cough. Every year, it can be tricky to • are 65 years old or over, the cooler season is to bring your activity Rolls into Royce Phantom has been the longest bespoke nature of the car to a whole After the Phantom VI was discontinued T new level. 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was hard to draw firm conclusions from the data available. But he did highlight Life expectancy his belief that “miserly” levels of spending on health and social care in recent years, rises at a time of rising health need linked to 'grinding to halt' in England the ageing population, had affected the amount and quality of care older people receive. The long-term trend for NHS budget increases is 3.8% a year, with rises of 1.1% a year since 2010. “If we don’t spend appropriately on social care, the quality of life will get worse for older people and maybe the length of life, too,” After seeing overall life expectancy rise he added. Marmot cited the growing consistently over the last century, figures numbers of deaths among the over 75s have shown that British life expectancy and over-85s and continuing high death has stagnated since 2010. Until this time rates from heart disease as other key overall life expectancy was rising at a potential factors in the stalling rise in life rapid pace with men gaining an extra expectancy. year of life for every three and a half However The Department of Health years, with women not far behind at spoke out against Marmot’s comments; one year for every five years. Since 2010 a spokesman pointed out that in July the however these numbers have almost NHS had been judged to be the best, halved with men now taking six years for safest and most affordable healthcare every year and women falling to one year system out of 11 rich countries analysed per decade. in a major review published by the “Life expectancy has been increasing Commonwealth Fund, a respected US year on year for a generation, to the thinktank. “Life expectancy continues extent that we had begun to take it to increase, with cancer survival rates for granted as inevitable. But this at a record high whilst smoking rates authoritative analysis suggests this long death for both sexes, among women 80 policies, stating that he was "deeply are at an all-time low. We continue to period of improvement may now be and over and men 85+. concerned" by the situation, calling it invest to ensure our ageing population coming to an end, with big implications Former government advisor Sir "historically highly unusual". Marmot, is well cared-for, with £6bn extra going for us all,” said a spokesman for the Michael Marmot spoke out on the who has also advised the World Health into the NHS [in England] over the last charity Age UK. Cases of dementia and importance of properly funding health Organisation, did not claim that the two years and an additional £2bn for the Alzheimer’s have been rising so rapidly services and his belief that the stagnating introduction of austerity had led to life social care system,” he added. that they are now the leading cause of life expectancy was related to Austerity expectancy stagnating, insisting that it 58 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 59 Motoring Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

From the back seat. LONDON’S ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY SPECIALIST Part 43 established 1977 By Don Grant

peed-hillclimbing is one of the oldest forms of motor sport in Britain, originating in France as Searly as 1898, with a meeting being held the following year in England, when 40 competitors drove the 325 yds up Petersham Hill in Richmond. The speed limit was 12 mph at the time, so there Rolls-Royce GT1 was not much chance of speeding tickets diagnostics for being handed out. The Hon. Charles Rolls-Royce Stewart Rolls in his Panhard-Levassor Phantom and Ghost. averaged 8.75mph, while the fastest time of the day was recorded by a Barriere tricycle of 14mph. The descent was the Full body off most exciting part of the event as brakes restoration. were in their infancy and the vehicles 8e. Rallye Lyon-Charbonnières 1955. Gregor Grant and Peter Reece in Triumph TR2. were mostly out of control. There were Bentley GT rumblings about using public roads as Mans disaster in 1955. Back in 1932, did during the many rallies in which and Flying Spur race-tracks after a number of accidents 46,000 French and Italians went to he competed in the 1950s and 1960s, Latest ODIS diag- involving spectators, but it took the Mont Ventoux to see Rudolf Caracciola including the terrifying Stelvio Pass. As nostic software. British Government until 1925 to ban in an Alfa Romeo Monza power up the Autosport had funded our expenses, we Access to technical road racing completely. Ever resourceful, mountain in 15m 12.4s. and three years took a tent and combined these trips database direct from the speeding motorists began to look later Hans Stuck in a works Auto Union with a little extra holiday en Suisse. Crewe. Full Geko at hill-climbs on private land, with Type A climbed the same course in 13m Once, my brother Gregor had driving accessibility allows one venue becoming prominent before 38.8s. Over 138,000 Germans watched around Europe chasing rally cars in a coding of all the First World War, Shelsley Walsh the Freiberg hillclimb in 1937. He also powerful 3-litre Ford Zodiac Mark III immobiliser 3 and 4 in Worcestershire, starting in August recorded fastest time of the day at the on loan from Dagenham, covering the components 1905, and going on to become the oldest Grossglockner, the highest mountain Alpine Rally with George Phillips the including kessy, engine control surviving motorsporting venue in the pass in Austria, becoming the bergmeister chief photographer. He dropped him THE module and world. Other hills soon followed, like ahead of Hermann Lang and Manfred off at Nice airport, from where he flew 2nd generation keys. Aston Hill in Hertfordshire, the place von Brauchitsch, both in Mercedes Benz back to London with the photos for CHELSEA after which Lionel Martin named his in front of 30,000 spectators. the piece that G had mostly written en legendary Aston Martin marque, and In the 1960s, my brother and I were route, and his girlfriend Jeanie came in Full engine Prescott in Gloucestershire, which sent to cover these events as part of the on the same flight, so he picked her up WORKSHOP upgrades was run, and still is, by the Bugatti European Hill Climb Championship and at the same time and then me from the Owners Club. Many famous names the World Sports Car Championship, railway station, where I had come down have appeared on the hillsides of Great with Gregor doing the report and me overnight from Paris. Très propre. He had Britain, including Stirling Moss, Alec doing the photographs. Ollon-Villars finished his report after the end-of-rally £80 HOURLY RATE FOR SALE: Issigonis, designer of the Mini, and and St Ursanne-Les Rangiers were two party, at which Stephan Grapelli had his Lightweight Special with rubber of our favourites, along with Sierre- played jazz violin, so the writing may not ON ALL MODELS suspension, Raymond Mays, who went wicker picnic-hampers, egg and cress Montana-Crans, and soon I was driving have been as accurate as he would have on to run BRM, Dennis Poore, who sandwiches, flasks of tea and tartan down on my own to Switzerland in a liked, but it was still within the tradition funded dad’s new magazine Autosport travelling rugs. Although Bugattis were Mini and doing both words and pictures. of journalists called Gregor Grant FIXED PRICE SERVICING in 1950, and went on to own Norton- the car of choice in the early days, there In 1965 Jim Clark gave demonstration writing race reports after a bit of a night. FROM £695 PLUS VAT Villiers-Triumph, and the deeply were many other marques represented, runs in an Indianapolis Lotus 38, with Paddy Hopkirk won that year in a Mini eccentric John Vernon Bolster, who raced including Alta, ERA and Frazer Nash. which he won the Indy 500, at St Cooper, so the celebrations were even LHD Rolls-Royce Corniche his two air-cooled 1000cc JAP vee-twin The glory of Prescott nowadays, along Ursanne in the Canton of Jura, but with more protracted and animated than usual. FULL BODY & PAINT SHOP engined special Bloody Mary. After with Shelsley Walsh, is unadulterated, symmetrical suspension fitted. Poor We swanned around the South of France a terrifying crash in the 1949 British 100-octane, cask-strength, bottled Jimmy was really struggling to get the camping on the beaches at Villefranche FACILITIES Grand Prix at Silverstone in an ERA, he nostalgia. We went with dad to Prescott 500 horse-power down onto the damp and Ste Maxime and ambled back to retired from ‘proper’ motor racing and when we were quite young, and bumped and slippery road. I snapped him coming Blighty when the mood took us.When Bloody Mary’s last competition outing into Bolster and his cronies, who looked out of one of the tighter corners, and we finally got back, there had been an SALES was at Prescott in August 1963. After the part. The cars are pretty much the the photo duly appeared on the cover avalanche of testy messages from Ford’s that it was retired to the National Motor same, but apart from the fact that they of Autosport. His only comment about competition manager, Henry Taylor, Museum in Beaulieu, loaned by his are now worth millions rather than the experience was that it was ‘different.’ an ex-Grand Prix driver for Lotus and FULL BODY-OFF widow Rosemary, where it is one of the a few thousand, nothing much has There was a modest British contingent, a great friend of dad’s, about where we star attractions. changed. They are the same competitive, with such drivers as John Whitmore in were and why had we not brought the RESTORATION Dad used to go to Prescott meetings enthusiastic romantics that have been a Lotus-Cortina and Peter Westbury car back immediately after the rally. Our Partners: Larry Hawkins & Peter Eatenton run by the BOC in between going to driving up the hills against the clock for in a Ferguson and a BRM, both four- attitude was that we had done nothing Grand Prix, just for the fun of it all, decades. Across the Channel, in France, wheel driven, with Grand Prix drivers wrong, and that if Henry Bloody Taylor Nell Gwynn House Draycott Avenue Chelsea London SW3 3AU and loved the atmosphere. It was like a Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Jack Brabham, Jo Bonnier and Jo Siffert wanted another Ford, he should nip out T. +44 (0)20 7584 8363 [email protected] time-warp of smells and sounds, with speed-hillclimbing was even more also turning up. Dad never did any into the car-park and take one. Dad took www.chelseaworkshop.com Castrol ‘R’, Nortons like ripping calico, popular, particulary in Switzerland where hillclimbing after the war, but some the point, but I don’t think Mr Taylor flat caps, shooting sticks, acres of tweed, motor racing was banned after the Le were included in the special stages he would have seen the joke. 60 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61 Sport Sport online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

his first T20 ton for the inside a drivers’ briefing! Something county as his side chased extra for the fans at a race weekend. Joe Root down a total of 224 to win It's been quite the eye-opener. We’re 2017 Premier branching out by 5 wickets with 5 balls to technically slightly past the halfway mark League preview in new role as England Test spare. The swashbuckling in the season as Hungary was the 11th By Owen Fulda Hales is an established race of 20, but the hiatus begins now and captain England opener in limited- F1 doesn’t race again until Spa at the end Illustration © AliceStallard.com © @CFC Unofficial Photograph By Owen Fulda over matches and has of August. played in 50 One-Day We’ve been waiting a long time for Internationals and 47 T20 a proper championship battle between Internationals, as well as 11 Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, he Premier League is on course Test matches. since 2007 in fact, when both made their to break its own record of Joe Root’s tenure as captain of England’s Meanwhile, on the Formula One debuts in the same season transfer fees spent this summer, Test cricket side has begun in earnest same day, Joe Clarke, (Vettel became a full-timer on the grid with Champions Chelsea and the two opening for Worcestershire a year later). And at the halfway stage T fashion, not dissimilar from his batting Manchester clubs leading the way. style. England lead South Africa 2-1 Rapids, also posted a of the season, you have to say it’s Vettel But Tottenham Hotspur chairman, going into the fourth and final Test at 45-ball century against who’s top of the class. But not by much. Daniel Levy, has mocked the Premier Old Trafford, a match which looks set Durham Jets in the T20 Both drivers have four wins, but the League’s summer spending, labelling to be rain-affected. From the high of Blast match at New Road, German has led the title chase since it “unsustainable”, while stating that making 190 in his first innings as skipper, Worcester. Responding taking the opening round in Australia, “he has a duty to manage (Spurs) ’ to the low of the crushing 340 run defeat Test at Trent Bridge. They need to have to Durham s innings of 201 for 2, and has been his ever consistent self appropriately.” at Trent Bridge, Root’s early days of a structured process in place, for reviews, which included a maiden T20 hundred since. He’s finished all 11 races, eight More than £850 million has been captaining his country have quite the and soon. from former England veteran Paul times on the podium, and has a worst spent by top-flight sides in the transfer broad spectrum of emotions. “You often see a captain who comes Collingwood, Clarke saw his side home finish of seventh at the British Grand window, which ends on 31 August. But The 26-year-old Yorkshireman in and thinks he's got to do the speech by 8 wickets, spanking 6 sixes and 10 Prix, when he suffered a puncture in Tottenham, who sold Kyle Walker to has already faced criticism from some at the start of his reign, saying that this fours in his hundred before finishing sight of the flag. It's hard to see how he Manchester City for £45m, have not quarters for his stoic refusal to budge is what he wants,” said Cook of his unbeaten on 124, scored off 53 balls. could have done much more. made any signings. Accountancy firm from his position at number four in the Clarke has been a revelation in the The intrigue in this battle is how Deloitte said Premier League sides are new captain. “Then you've forgotten ’ batting order. Undisputedly England’s everything he’s said after two minutes. opening role after last year s Walter both protagonists go about achieving on course to surpass the record £1.165 most talented batsman, he’s certainly Lawrence Trophy winner Tom Kohler- the same goal in different ways. Vettel’s billion they spent last summer. But actually because he didn't do that, ’ skilled enough to handle the inherent everyone was still waiting for it and Cadmore s departure to Yorkshire left metronomic approach contrasts sharply No sooner had Chelsea owner dangers of the newer ball. In fact he still a vacancy at the top of the Rapids with Hamilton’s peaks and troughs. Roman Abramovich dipped into his near when he did speak, he spoke very clearly ’ averages over 50 when batting at number and very concisely on what he wanted to order. The 21-year-old, who was born When the Mercedes W08 isn t in the £7 billion fortune to sign Real Madrid penny in the transfer market, will have to three. When Tom Westley was drafted in do.” in Shrewsbury, has represented England set-up sweet spot, Hamilton has been striker Alvaro Morata for a hefty £60m, It remains to be seen whether the Chu-Young, who managed just one goal contend with playing their home games to make his England debut at The Oval, On the domestic scene, Birmingham Lions and England Under-19s, and is outshone by new teammate Valtteri than Manchester United upped the ante same can be said of Morata at Chelsea, in seven appearances for the club. Add at Wembley while White Hart Lane is he was not afforded the luxury of batting Bears lead the way in Division One of rated as one of the most exciting young Bottas, who seems better equipped to by pilfering Everton’s Romelu Lukaku or for that matter Arsenal’s big money Francis Jeffers, Baptista, Jose Antonio ’ rebuilt into a 61,000 seater stadium. The down at number six, as Root had when the Natwest T20 Blast after a thrilling batting talents in the game. cope with a car that s not quite there. for £75m. It’s not the first time the Red signing, Alexandre Lacazette who arrived Reyes and Davor Suker to the list, and Wembley playing surface is 7,245m², he debuted in 2012. two-run win against Northants at the Now in its 83rd year, the Walter But when the Mercedes is dialled in, Devils have paid big money to prize from Lyon for £46.5m this summer. the curse begins to look legitimate. The compared with the 6,700m² pitch of But Westley displayed a calm County Ground. Birmingham looked to Lawrence Trophy, awarded for the Hamilton has been brilliant in qualifying Everton’s best player from their grasp. Morata revealed recently that he turned only semi-success was classy Brazilian White Hart Lane, a difference of 545m², assurance during England’s 239 run win be heading for defeat when Alex Wakely fastest hundred of the season, is open (he has six poles in 11 races), and Wayne Rooney was Everton’s home- down the opportunity to join Spurs striker Eduardo, but he was cut down more than the area of two tennis courts. which saw them regain the lead in the hit a six in the final over to bring up to all domestic county competitions as occasionally utterly dominant in races, grown superstar back in 2004, and he because he feared a rivalry with their in his prime by that horror-tackle from The size difference has contributed to the series. His well-crafted second innings’ his half-century, but he was run out by well as One-Day Internationals, T20 his Silverstone weekend was as emphatic proved to be a stellar signing by Sir Alex number one frontman; Harry Kane. Top Martin Taylor at Birmingham City diabolical record Spurs have at Wembley, knock of 59 came in particularly testing Aaron Thomason off the final ball as the Internationals and Test Matches in as it gets. Ferguson. More than a few eyebrows quality sportsman relish competition which left his ankle almost severed from where they won just a single Europa conditions, and reinforced his chances visitors sealed victory. But with Yorkshire England. You can't help but wonder if the were raised when United stumped up an rather than fear it, so perhaps the his leg. League game last season. of retaining his place in the side beyond Vikings and Derbyshire Falcons just a three points Hamilton relinquished eye-watering £25m for the then 19-year- Spaniard’s self-confidence needs a boost. The bookmakers have installed Pep Of the three clubs promoted from the series. Not since Jonathan Trott, point behind, it’s all to play for as the in Hungary after pulling over to let old, but Rooney amassed 253 goals in his Lacazette was a prolific scorer at Guardiola’s Manchester City side as the Championship, Newcastle will who averaged 44.08 in his 52 Tests, pressure mounts. Bottas finish third to honour an in-race 13 year stint at the Red Devils, forever Lyon, racking up more than 20 league favourites to win the Premier League, undoubtedly be the best equipped to have England had a reliable batsman at Despite the scorching early summer F1 mid-season agreement will come back to bite him etching himself into club folklore by goals in each of the last three seasons just as they did last season when they swim with the big fish. Manager Rafa first drop. Since the start of 2014, many weather, Division Two has been later in the season, though. The in-house overtaking Sir Bobby Charlton as their in France, but he will need to adapt ended up 15 points behind Champions Benitez has seen it all before but fans have been tried: Nick Compton, Gary decimated by no less than nine ‘no results’ review: tension at the Silver Arrows since the all-time leading scorer. quickly to life in the Premier League. Chelsea in third place, but they have of the Magpies will be happy with a Ballance, Ian Bell and Moeen Ali, but due to inclement conditions. Somehow Hamilton vs. Vettel apolitical Bottas replaced the cunning So when Rooney, 31, made the switch He has spoken of “having moved into recruited splendidly this summer. season of consolidation, otherwise known none has made that position his own. Glamorgan lead the way, and had they Nico Rosberg has dissipated almost back to his boyhood club this summer, another world” at Arsenal, but there’s no Spending almost £120m on three By Owen Fulda as avoiding relegation. Brighton and Head coach Trevor Bayliss has made not been hampered by four matches completely, but what if that new-found Lukaku made the opposite journey time to survey your surroundings in the full-backs and £34m on a goalkeeper Huddersfield are Premier League first no secret of his desire to see Root return which couldn’t produce a match they harmony comes at the cost of a title? down the M62. The passing of the frantic pace English football, just intense does sound rather frivolous, but if City timers, with the former likely to punch to No.3, the position where he had would surely be further ahead than their The verdict on Formula One so far in Force India also deserve plaudits for baton complete, with the Belgian now pressure to hit the ground running. harbour true league-winning intentions, above their weight with their attacking played for the previous 12 Tests before two point lead at the time of writing. 2017? Pretty positive. There's genuine their performances this term. Fourth in shouldering the burden of expectation The Frenchman has been handed then cutting down on the 39 goals they ’ philosophy. Huddersfield will do very being appointed skipper. Root believes Surrey are sitting nicely in third place, competition between teams for race wins last year's constructors championship, of England’s most successful club. It the Gunners’ number nine shirt, a digit shipped last term is a must. well to avoid going straight back down. batting at four will ease his transition but Middlesex in sixth will need to get and the drivers' championship, which the Indian-owned British-run team has certainly feels like Lukaku has been which is beginning to seem almost Liverpool’s chances of silverware this Singing Aaron Mooy from Manchester into captaincy. It begs the question, some form together if they harbour real there hasn't been in some time. The consolidated that in 2017, with Sergio around for far longer than his age cursed at the club. Previous incumbent season will depend massively on whether City for £8m was a shrewd move but why is he being granted such special hopes of progressing. new-for-2017 regulations have delivered Perez and Esteban Ocon both finishing would suggest. Still just 24-years-old, Lucas Perez was outraged that he was they can keep Philippe Coutinho out treatment? His predecessor Alastair monstrously fast and mean-looking in the points nine times in 11 races. The incidentally the same age as Morata, the stripped of the number after just a year of the clutches of Barcelona. But with I can’t see them scoring enough goals Cook was captain in the even more cars that look spectacular on track, but pink-liveried team has clearly established self-assured Belgian seems ready to step at the club and now seems set to leave Barca’s own Brazilian playmaker Neymar against Premier League defences to stay New leaders in this year’s Walter ’ ‘ exposed role of opener for all his 59 struggle to overtake one another, as the itself as the best squad outside F1 s big straight into Rooney’s boots. in acrimonious circumstances. “The looking almost certain to join Paris St up. Lawrence Trophy ’ matches in charge. Michael Atherton Hungarian GP made rather evident. Add three ; now, all it needs is for its drivers to Lukaku already has 53 Premier thing of taking the shirt number without Germain (at the time of writing), it While last season was never going to live up to Leicester City’s incredible had 54 as skipper going in first, while Elsewhere, Alex Hales of to that, the craziest race in recent times stop tripping over one another in races. League goals to his name, having bullied telling me to give it to a companion, it appears that Jurgen Klopp will have little fairytale success of 2015/16, this Premier Andrew Strauss had 50. Nottinghamshire and Joe Clarke of in Azerbaijan when Daniel Ricciardo Respect is also due to Ricciardo. defenses during his time on loan at West seems to me the last straw,” Perez said. choice but to bid Coutinho goodbye. League looks like it really could be But Cook, now back in the ranks, has Worcestershire are the new joint- battled back from 17th position to win Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Brom and during four years with the “I can not continue this way. I have With Liverpool battling on two fronts ‘ ’ ’ a classic in the making. With all the vocally supported the low-key approach leaders in the battle for this year’s Walter an incident-packed race, and there's a lot he s always there, pressing on relentlessly Toffees. He’s registered a very respectable given everything, but that has not been this season, it’s tough to envisage them managerial big dogs out to surpass their adopted by Root. We should not forget Lawrence Trophy, with 45-ball hundreds. to like. like a honey badger attacking a hive of 20 goals for his national side too. The reciprocated, so I can’t stand it any finishing in the Premier League’s top ’ points haul of last year, and Guardiola that Root had only captained in four Opening the batting, Hales smashed What s more, the look and feel of an bees. His Azerbaijan win was almost six-foot-three-inch hulk of a striker is longer.” four, especially without Coutinho who going head-to-head with Conte and previous first-class matches before taking his century for Notts Outlaws against F1 weekend in the post-Ecclestone era unsurprising in that he made the best entering the prime years of his career Prior to Perez, the shirt was worn by contributed 13 goals from midfield last Mourinho for the title while Wenger, on the England job. He does not have Yorkshire Vikings in a thrilling T20 Blast has been a breath of fresh air. Ladies and of what was on offer on a crazy day, and and as a player who is also rarely injured, Lukas Podolski who fell out of favour year. ‘ ’ Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino scrap it great experience in the role, a facet that match at Trent Bridge on July 30. The gentlemen, social media! Among various that best was good enough for a fifth he fit the bill as the man who Jose with Arsene Wenger despite being a But I’d probably still back the Reds out too, there really will be little room for was somewhat exposed by England’s 28-year-old hit 4 sixes and 14 fours in new enhancements to the television career win. Is there a better or ‘cleaner’ Mourinho will look to construct his side favourite with fans. Before that was the to finish above Tottenham, who, in poor use of DRS reviews in the second coverage, we’ve seen actual footage from driver in wheel-to-wheel combat? around. disastrous signing of South Korea’s Park conjunction with having not spent a manoeuvre. 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21 22 23 24 3 Female court attendants used to hanging 9 Nonsense remarks found for Tom boy. (7) one of his early memorable attacking M A R K P E R P E T R A T E 30. 29.....Ke6. nevertheless! Rb7+, 29.

about. (6-2-7) at the bottom of the boat. (6) 21 Have in mind and in ballpoint games, that like the Kramnik-Bluebaum T I H M O I O Bishop. Black the defending 28.....Qc8

25 26 4 Currently on this spot is actually no place. 16 I condemn if you lose company to give endeavours. (6) game above, gives the opponent very F I L L E T A A R D V A R K Queen. Black the capturing and Rb7,

(7) guarantee. (9) 23 Useful attribute on the balance sheet. little chance of recovery after the fierce O N H I E E C 29. threatening Kt.c4, 28. Answer: 27 28 6 Fearlessly fondle nicest fly, bizarre! (4- 17 Four suits with assistant works on the (5) I N K S T A N D M A R S H Y attack and sacrifices that begin early in 11) boat. (8) both games. David Edward Rumens v

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WORRIED ABOUT BEING anonymous. Copies of all representations will be public can be accessed online by visiting at 0. 1- resigns. Black 35.Bf1 Qe1+. Kg1, 34. Qg3+ 33.Kh2, 32...Qe1+ g7! or h7 h8, on now almost certain to be worth nothing. Even ♥3 could have failed. included in the papers presented to the Licensing www.westminster.gov.uk/Licensing and mate threatening Qh6, 32. moves. viable real no has Black that indicates h4., 31. of West led ♦A, followed with ♦K, and then switched safely to ♣9 (best). Declarer won ♣Q,

AN EXECUTOR? Sub-Committee and will therefore pass into the following the link to the public register. ♥ ♣ ♣ options especially along the h-file and attacking Black’s two rooks. Black’s response response Black’s rooks. two Black’s attacking and h-file the along especially options cashed AK drawing the opposing trumps, followed with AK, and then trumped 4.

public domain. Representations must relate to one The Licensing Authority must receive ♥ ♠ ♠ ♠ after delay from move 25! 29...gxh5. 30.g6!, Kg8. 31.Qg5, giving white a variety of of variety a white giving 31.Qg5, Kg8. 30.g6!, 29...gxh5. 25! move from delay after He crossed to J, then led dummy’s 4. East followed with 2 and he played 9.

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public nuisance and the protection of children from ♠ it’s just obtaining the grant of probate any such representation in considering the 26...Bc7. pawn. g the protecting Qg3, 26. Qe7. 25.... b7. on attack further a Plus from one hand and trump in the other, and if he led a spade, then declarer’s K would

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