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• It will better connect the UK to the The council is also proposing concessions Heathrow rest of world with an extra 16 million Westminster City for ‘start-up’ stallholders and traders who long-haul seats available by 2040”. live in Westminster. Expansion: Council The proposed new fee strategy • The third runway will allow a 54% Proposes Vendor License published by the council says the What you need increase in take-offs and landings each percentage increases “are high”, but that year, rising from the current 480,000 to Fee Hike this was because the current weekday 740,000. In passenger numbers, capacity daily charge was £10.61. to know The revisions have come due to a will be increased to 130 million, two- £300,000 budget shortfall which the thirds more than the 78 million that flew On June 26th, MPs voted Westminster City Council is Council says it will write off with the to and from Heathrow last year. licence fee increases focusing on creating by 415 to 119 votes, a ratio facing a backlash from city more “sustainable” markets. of 3.5 to 1, to approve the • What will it cost? street vendors as they consider The proposals will go out to public consultation in August. The new charges government’s scheme to build • Heathrow believes the scheme will revising the charges which could affect everyone from produce, a third runway at Heathrow cost approximately £14bn, £2.5bn less must be paid for licensing cheese, and flower vendors to portrait than what was originally proposed. As artists and includes Berwick Street Airport, northwest of the opposed to building a new terminal, vendor stalls. The council has Market, which last year fended off existing pair of runways. savings are expected to be made by confirmed that it would go a council plan to privatise the Soho expanding Terminals 2 and 5. market. The government’s scheme was based ahead with consultation on The Council defended the proposed on the recommendation of The Davies • Although large-scale expansion its charging regime during a fee increase by stating that it was time Commission on airport expansion, to come up with new ways to attract is expected to cause relatively little July meeting of its licensing chosen ahead of two other options: an disruption at the airport itself, it could more tourists, increase environmental extended northern runway at Heathrow, lead to major disruption on the M25. The subcommittee. sustainability, and to recruit the next known as the “Heathrow Hub” project, generation of traders with a focus on stretch between Heathrow Terminal 5 and a second runway at Gatwick. training around customer service, card and the M4 junction, where the runway The proposition increases the license application fee from £93.73 to £169.95. payments and online presence. • According to The Department for will be built, is one of the busiest roads in Transport, the expansion will bring Europe and it is believed that a 14-lane, more jobs and stronger economic 600m-long tunnel would be built first, growth coupled with more flights: ‘A before the existing M25 is diverted. new runway at Heathrow would provide SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT benefits of up to £74bn to passengers and • When will the third runway open? KCW Today. See page 11 for details the wider economy and create tens of thousands of local jobs. • Heathrow says 2026

briefing members of the housing and K&C council: property scrutiny committee about the progress that his department has ‘poor’ at handling made since taking over the Tenant Management Organisation. housing Emphasizing that working with residents was all important, Mr HEAR, HEAR complaints Goldring admitted “there’s a lot still to be done in terms of quality in closing complaints down,”. The housing Book your tour today Kensington and Chelsea management service is responsible for the council’s tenants and leaseholders council has apologised that it’s including improving and maintaining handling of complaints about properties, collecting income, and managing the council’s estates housing has been “poor” over throughout the borough. It also adapts the last few months. homes and provides sheltered housing. Doug Goldring, Kensington “Listening is key to what we are trying to deliver,” he added. and Chelsea’s head of housing The council’s deputy leader Kim management claimed that Taylor-Smith who is responsible this shortfall was due to a for both housing and issues related to Grenfell said the council has backlog of 5,000 cases, though reinstated residents’ meetings and that he stressed that his team has “engagement“ is crucial.“Mr Goldring told the committee the department was brought the number down to in transition after taking over the work 1,000. of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation in March. Mr Goldring joined the council Mr Goldring said he was also in the wake of the Grenfell Tower working with HR to ensure that 020 7219 4114 disaster, during a storm of criticism managers are receiving training. that saw former council leader Nick “What’s come out of this is there is an Paget Brown forced to resign. He was awful lot of work to do,” he added. 4 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

involved”. Kensington & Chelsea Council (K&C) Households must apply for planning are considering Public Spaces Protection Westminster permission if they want to let a property Busking could Orders (PSPOs) to clamp down on prevents illegal letting for more than 90 days a year. Airbnb busking across the borough. Ideas floated said it did not allow users to accept be banned in its public consultation range from more bookings than the legal limit, across Kensington and Chelsea banning of performance in the PSPOs’ unless their owners have planning range to restriction of amplified music. permission. However, the council says K&C Council receive an average of estminster Council’s new landlords and tenants are sub-letting to 1,200 complaints of ‘noise pollution and Housing Standards Task get around Airbnb’s rules by offering the anti-social busking,’ saying they want to force has announced rooms on multiple platforms including work with performers to find a solution. they’veW uncovered sex work, parties and HomeAway. A council spokesperson said: “If we are overcrowding in short-term let properties Council leader Nickie Aiken said to maintain K&C’s proud tradition of throughout the borough. Westminster some people may genuinely not know being a global music powerhouse, more City Council has announced that they’re the 90-night limit exists, however she needs to be done to support and regulate examining 1,200 properties after issuing warned the council was taking a tough our busking community. 75 breach notices to owners using online approach, adding the proliferation “Our goal is to ensure that street accommodation rental sites to facilitate of short-term visitors were upsetting entertainment doesn’t impact negatively the illegal activity. residents in the borough. on residents’ quality of life.” They claim that some of these She said: “We have no problem with Busking pitches suggested for households have let properties to people earning a little extra money by targeting by K&C include the entrances short-term guests on nearly every letting their home considerately within of all nine underground stations in night of the year. Two of the bigger the limits. “But those who are breaching the borough, pitches near the Natural companies, Airbnb and HomeAway, the 90-night limit and letting 365 days History Museum, and pitches the length said they had not received complaints a year are a blight on the lives of our of Portobello Road Market. from Westminster council. An Airbnb residents.” K&C Council had previously looked spokesperson said: “There are many It is estimated that in Westminster at introducing a licensing scheme for home-sharing platforms in Westminster.” there are 4,703 Airbnb listings, buskers in the borough since 2013, but “Airbnb is the only one that works comprising 3,284 entire homes, 1,378 the plans have since been written off as with London to promote the rules and private rooms, and 41-shared rooms. complex and potentially costly. limit how often hosts can share their Westminster Council has invested homes, others need to step up and do the £200,000 in a Housing Standards same.” HomeAway said it was working Taskforce, which it set up last year. The SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT “closely with the council to identify and project will collect evidence on properties address concerns and together with the suspected of breaching the 90-night KCW Today. See page 11 for details short-term rental industry, we work limit, and target landlords renting out on appropriate solutions for all parties sub-standard properties.

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term, sustainable route off the streets for all rough sleepers in the capital. Sleeping rough The plan comes as the most current official statistics for 2017-18, show a in London drop in the number of people sleeping rough in the capital for the first time in a decade. According to a Press Release from the Mayor’s office released in June; “You never forget your first 7,484 people were seen by outreach night,” said a homeless man workers in London compared to 8,108 in 2016/17, an eight percent decrease. in criticism to Ben Judah in Sadiq already spends £8.45 million a the book This is London. The year on services tackling rough sleeping, including outreach teams who work day book was a work of reportage and night to find people sleeping rough, on London’s down and out No Second Night Out hubs to help new rough sleepers, and two teams supporting population published in rough sleepers once they move into January of 2016. accommodation. Last year, 87 percent of people helped by Mayoral services left “The first night is the worst night,” said the streets. one homeless man to KCW Today. With his No Nights Sleeping Rough “Abandon all hope all ye out here!” taskforce, Sadiq has continually lobbied he exclaimed for the amusement of his Government for more funding. In fellows. bids announced this month, London Most people cannot imagine the successfully secured an extra £11.1million sense of hopelessness that overcomes for rough sleeping services, of which £3.3 those who have become homeless. The million will be directly managed by City first night is pure anger and despair Hall. which simply continues to get worse The Mayor’s new Plan sets out the until all hope is utterly abandoned. But immediate action he will take with his according to the Mayor’s office, there is current powers and resources to expand hope. his pan-London services for rough In June, Mayor of London, Sadiq sleepers. It also sets out the investment Khan published City Hall’s first ever the Government must make to be able Plan of Action to tackle rough sleeping, help everyone off the street, and urges demanding the Government invests £574 Ministers to stop ignoring the root million over five years to provide a long- causes of homelessness. 6 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

he marchers gathered at Pall thing we can do…” he said. Mall and marched to Parliament In spite of the mass demonstration, “There are lots of things Largest Square where speakers including a vote on the final deal is unlikely unless Anti-Brexit RemainT campaigner Gina Miller, actor the Labour Party fully backs the move. we didn’t know at the Tony Robinson, Liberal Democrat leader Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Sir Vince Cable, and comedian Andy Corbyn has repeatedly said his party time. We didn't know demonstration Parsons addressed the crowd with rousing was not open to the idea of a second since 2016 speeches, garnering applause, laughs, and referendum but is now under increasing about the cost of the Michael A. Kolarov cheers. pressure to reverse his position on “There are lots of things we didn’t the issue. ‘Labour for a People’s Vote’ divorce bill, about the fact know at the time,” said Sir Vince Cable claiming the effects of Brexit, would of the original referendum. “We didn't make the prospects for a socialist Labour that we’d have less not know about the cost of the divorce bill, government “much worse” and seeks to June 23rd, 2018 saw the largest about the fact that we’d have less not unite the Labor party in calls for vote on more revenue for the NHS, anti-Brexit demonstration more revenue for the NHS, we didn’t the final Brexit deal. know about the Irish frontier problem. On July 3rd, Unite, the biggest we didn’t know about the since the initial referendum We didn’t know that we’re going to union in the UK and Ireland released a on June 23rd, 2016 with an get President Trump or we’re going to statement in which it vowed to mobilise Irish frontier problem. We destroy the trading system on which against the Conservative government estimated 100,000 people Brexit depends. A lot of things have on Brexit. The statement which they say didn’t know that we’re taking part. The demand was changed. The mood has changed.” has passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s KCW Today spoke to demonstrators policy conference in Brighton, the union going to get President for a ‘people’s vote’ on the final near the statue of Winston Churchill stressed that its priority is to push for Brexit deal. Demonstrators in Parliament Square; when asked if a general election in order to deliver Trump or we’re going they believed that Churchill would have a Labour government, which would say that the people of the UK been a remainer the answer was “Yes, be more capable of and committed to to destroy the trading should have the final say on absolutely, Churchill believed in a strong securing the best possible future for united Europe, that’s what he fought for.” working people. system on which Brexit the Brexit deal which Prime Another older gentleman told us that Addressing the conference Unite Minister Theresa May brings ignorance and greed lead to Brexit and general secretary Len McCluskey also depends. A lot of things stressed that the UK is leading the charge emphasised that Unite is not calling back from Brussels, and say to undo the progress made for Europe for a second referendum, but is saying have changed. The mood that ballot should include since the end of the Second World War that voters must be allowed to pass their after it had itself lead the charge to make verdict on whatever agreement the UK has changed.” an option to remain in the it better for everyone. “Turning our backs government secures with the European European Union. on the EU after all that is the saddest Union.

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Prime Minister also promised a £20 billion cash boost to the NHS, which Runway casualty: many believe will be provided for by a tax hike. Ostensibly, such tax-and-spend Greg Hands MP policies carry a distinctly Labour flavour By James Billot to them and Hands is wary of this: “I think that as the Conservatives we have to be true to our core mission and that is to set people free and keep taxes low,” says Hands. “We don’t want to become a Party that taxes more and spends more than we can afford… Today’s deficits are tomorrow’s debts”. A lifelong Conservative, Hands knew that he was a Tory from the moment he picked up a newspaper aged 13. Growing up in 1970s, a bête PARLIAMENT has a habit noire decade for Conservatives, Hands’ of drawing together unlikely parents were forced to move around the country to escape the closure of bedfellows. On June 26th, an grammar schools. “I was brought up with old-school Thatcherite and a a sense that nobody owes you a living and that you have to find your own way socialist who lists one of his in the world,” says Hands. “The state is hobbies as “fermenting the there to provide a safety net, but I was always brought up to be as self-reliant overthrow of capitalism” were as possible”. Since becoming an MP for two of the 119 MPs opposed Chelsea and Fulham, Hands had not once rebelled against his Party before to the motion to build a third the Heathrow vote. Will the vote ignite runway at Heathrow. a new phase of rebellion? “No, definitely not,” says Hands. “I am someone who nfortunately for Greg Hands and is strongly loyal to my constituency and John McDonnell, their unholy their interest to have a Conservative alliance failed to garner enough government rather than a Corbyn-style support in the Commons and they were Labour government. I don’t think my U constituents would forgive me if I was in defeated by a margin of 296 votes. For Hands, his opposition to the runway some way part responsible for the rise of expansion came at a far greater cost a Corbyn government”. than his Labour counterpart. Having Towards the end of the interview, campaigned on a pledge to vote against Hands confesses that his plans for the a third runway at Heathrow in 2017, future remain “unformulated” because the Chelsea & Fulham MP had little he was “never expecting to resign”. The choice but to tender his resignation from MP does express a desire to return to government as Minister for State and government in the future, but in the Trade for Investment. His vote against intermediary period, Hands is more than expansion was the first major party content to focus on “key” constituency rebellion of his political career. in high regard. Tory peers, including a recent speech, Treasury Secretary Liz issues. Besides, it is difficult to criticise “Ultimately, my resignation was about former Chancellor and long-time Truss took aim at the “macho” spending the timing of his departure from office an immediate issue and a wider issue,” supporter of expansion George Osborne, demands of her cabinet colleagues, with a World Cup in full swing. His says Hands. “The immediate issue was commended his ‘principled resignation’, warning Michael Gove that there tournament prediction? Some secrets are Heathrow and the wider issue was about while others praised Hands for his was “enough hot air and smoke at the best left untold. sticking to an election pledge…I said work in government. In the final Prime Environment Department already”. A on about 100,000 election leaflets that I Minister’s Questions of June, Hands is faint grin crosses Hands’ face before he would vote against the proposal before visibly touched when the Prime Minister throws a fire blanket over the comments: it came to Parliament”. To many, Hands’ takes the opportunity to thank him for “I think that was a misunderstanding. I resignation was a rare injection of moral his years of service under successive Tory think that Liz was trying to make some fortitude in a profession that is often governments. The decision to resign, slightly laboured joke by rhyming Gove found wanting. After all, it was Hands’ however, was not at the behest of his with stove and I think maybe too much colleague and fellow Party member fellow expansion-blocking lawmakers, has been read into that comment”. that promised to lay down in front of but rather, on behalf of Hands’ 70,000 Hands continues: “Nonetheless, bulldozers to block the expansion but did constituents. “If you were to break it people need to be careful about making not even appear for the vote. Compared down, it would be around 70-30 against unaffordable spending pledges and to his earlier tweets on Johnson’s the third runway,” says Hands, “but even I don’t mean that as a criticism of absence, Hands offers a decidedly more the people who were pro-Heathrow sent Michael… most of the pledges that diplomatic response: “What other MPs congratulations for sticking by what I Michael is looking at, [such as] his answer to their constituents is really said”. environmental moves, are not big a matter for their constituents,” says At 52-years old, there is still a boyish expenditure pledges”. And yet, what Hands. “Maybe constituents might take enthusiasm about Hands, but if there was is peculiar about so many of today’s In next month’s edition a different view or different approach to any latent puer aeternus streak, it was duly Tory proposals is that they have been (August 13th-September 13th), what they want their MP to do and what expunged in the aftermath of the Brexit predicated on increased expenditure. KCW Today will be running not to do, so I’ll leave it at that”. referendum. Since June 2016, rival Brexit Beyond pleas made by the Home a feature on Labour MP for Following seven years in government, factions in the Conservative Party have Secretary Sajid Javid and Defence Kensington Emma Dent Coad. the erstwhile trade minister returns exposed bitter divisions in the cabinet Secretary Gavin Williamson for to the Tory backbenches still held and across government as a whole. 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Howe at Gibraltar. Blue Plaque: William Bligh was selected as Commander of HM Armed Transport Vice Admiral Vessel, The Bounty. Its mission was to collect young breadfruit plants from William Bligh Tahiti so they could be used in an experiment as a food crop for slaves on FRS, RN British plantations in the East Indies. 1754-1817 Mutiny took place on The Bounty in the Pacific Ocean in 1789. It was led by his Master’s mate, Acting Lt. Fletcher Christian. The mutinous crewmen seized control of the ship, having bound the Captain in his cabin. There was no The London County Council bloodshed. William Bligh and eighteen loyal erected a Blue Plaque at 100 crewmen were set adrift in the launch. Lambeth Road, honouring They were provided with a week’s supply of food and water, four cutlasses, Vice Admiral William Bligh. a quadrant and a compass. They had no charts or a marine chronometer. He was an officer in the Royal Navy and Remarkably, miraculously in fact, they a Colonial Administrator. Controversy survived and arrived at the Dutch East

STATUES has surrounded him since mutiny broke Indies. Proceedings were started to bring out on HM Armed Transport Vessel, The the mutineers to justice. He honestly felt that he had done Bounty which was under his command William Bligh was honourably Lord Shaftsbury, and all his good in 1789. acquitted at the Court Martial in 1790. Eros works in housing the poor of London William Bligh’s birthplace is not By Sir Alfred Gilbert Later becoming Governor of New South and a campaigner against child labour known for certain. It was probably Wales in Australia. He reached the rank conditions, a disservice. Plymouth, as there is a record of his of Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy. He Piccadilly Circus The figure atop the fountain, Baptism in St. Andrew’s Church in that had married Elizabeth Blethan and they having presumably fired his arrow town. His father, Francis Bligh was a into the ground, is cast in aluminium, had a big family. Customs Officer and his mother, Jane he statue in Piccadilly Circus is an unusual metal for that era, as the The causes of the Mutiny have been possibly one of the most famous delicate balance could not have been Pearce, was a widow at the time of her much discussed. Some sources say Bligh and recognisable in the world, and sustained had it been cast in bronze. It marriage to Francis Bligh. was a cruel, sadistic tyrant, who abused he is popularly and mistakenly stands on a paved octagonal platform At the age of seven, William Bligh his crew. It is also said that he was no Tknown as Eros. In reality, the reached by two short flights of low steps was ‘signed for the Navy’ which was worse than any other Captain of his Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, and the bronze pedestal stands within customary and at sixteen years he joined time. Another theory is the crew may depicts Anteros, Eros’s twin brother, as an octagonal basin, rising upwards HMS Hunter as an Able Seaman, rising have been corrupted living idly in Tahiti, the Angel of Christian Charity and the to a platter, made up of shells, fishes, to Midshipman the following year. whilst waiting for the breadfruit to be ancient Greek symbol of Selfless Love. dolphins and other marine life, which it In 1776 Captain James Cook selected ready for travel. Gilbert described Anteros as portraying turn is oversailed by a richly-decorated him to be sailing master of Resolution ‘reflective and mature love, as opposed Vice-Admiral William Bligh died upper basin. A further basin holds a and he accompanied him to the Pacific. to Eros or Cupid, the frivolous tyrant.’ tazza, or cup-like, carving, with a small in Bond Street. London and is buried On this voyage Cook died. Bligh was Gilbert was commissioned to create domed finial, on which is poised the in the family plot at St. Mary's Church. a memorial to Anthony Ashley- delicate figure of Anteros. The model able to provide details of the voyage on Lambeth, which is now the Garden Cooper, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a for this was Gilbert’s diminutive his return. History Museum. His tomb built with philanthropist and social reformer, in Anglo-Italian studio assistant, Angelo William Bligh proceeded to serve on lithodipyra (Coadestone ) is adorned with 1886, and he came up with the idea Colarossi, whose father also posed as various ships. He fought at The Battle a breadfruit in a bowl. The secrets of the of a fountain, but since its unveilling a model for Lord Leighton. Public of Dogger Bank under Admiral Parker, Mutiny remain with him for evermore. by the Duke of Westminster on 29 reaction was loud and vociferous, gaining his commission as Lieutenant June 1893, it has been beset with calling the boy ‘hideous, indecent and at that time. He also fought with Lord Marian Maitland controversy, vandalism, acrimonious ludicrous’, and the memorial ‘ugly, rows between the sculptor and the pretentious, unsuitable, and a decided County Council and a serious loss of nuisance.’ In 1925, Eros was moved money to Gilbert. He had envisaged to Embankment Gardens while the the whole of the upper part of the Picaddilly tube station was being sculpture enclosed within a glassy constructed, with the base stored in dome of water, on which Eros appeared Clapham, and was returned in 1931

to hover, but there were problems of with a slightly higher base. During the © Image water pressure, wind blowing the jets Second World War, Eros was again over passers-by and splashing over the moved and ended up in Egham, leaving already mucky surrounding streets. the base boarded up and covered in There was a protracted argument about propaganda posters. There are, in fact, the shape and size of the bronze base four Eros statues around the world, the of the fountain and cups that were second casting in aluminium being in attached to the fountain from which Sefton Park in Liverpool. There was a people could drink, were immediately further casting in Liverpool’s National liberated. Gilbert’s commission was Conservation Centre, which is now in £3,000, but additions and alterations storage, and another in Fleetwood near cost him around £7,000, which all Blackpool, recently replaced by one in but ruined him. He went to Bruges bronze, with a fourth, cast in 1986-88, in 1901, only returning to England acquired by the Art Gallery of South in 1926, during which time he wrote, Australia in 1992 and displayed in one ‘I am the unfortunate author of the of its galleries. fountain, and I designed it years ago and ruined myself for a sentiment.’ Don Grant 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Ads_July_2018 v2.pdf 1 06/07/2018 14:02

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because the couple had no business majority living in informal settlements,” land from the government and many with the EPA. This was later proven she said. South Africans have been taking to EPA boss false when public EPA records and According to official data from the social media to express their fear that the lobbying disclosure forms revealed that city of Cape Town; there are almost growing tensions will lead South Africa resigns citing Hart was, at the time, representing a 350,000 families on a waiting list for back into an Apartheid mind set of black large manufacturing company, fossil fuel government-owned rental homes with versus white. ‘unrelenting company and a major airline which had a supply of about 15,000 units a year. business before the EPA. One of Hart’s According to a United Nations economic attacks’ clients had also been ordered by the report on Africa published in 2017, EPA to pay more than $100 million in South Africa is one of the continent's environmental clean up costs and was at most urbanised countries, with two- South Korea’s the time fighting the EPA order in court. thirds of people living in towns and Pruitt is also under investigation cities, and this is projected to reach 80%. Fertility Rate for ignoring proper procedure to secure Land expropriation in South Africa a pay increase for two long-time staff has been a major and controversial issue Sinks Below members, including a staffer who helped at the forefront of the nation’s politics him find a house in Washington DC. since the resignation of President Jacob Japan’s Her salary was increased by $48,000 Zuma in February. His resignation since her tenure began, which would came in the wake of a massive and still have been an increase of 72% until he ongoing graft and corruption scandal. He Japan is well known for its aging announced that the second pay raise was immediately succeeded by African population and low birthrates, but the most would not go forward after media National Congress President Cyril recent data has shown that South Korea scrutiny. Pruitt denied any knowledge of Ramaphosa as President of South Africa. has now overtaken Japan with its birth the pay increases. Upon taking the Presidency, one of rate falling dangerously low in 2017. Only Pruitt has also misused the sirens of Ramaphosa’s key policy pledges was 357,000 babies were born in Korea in 2017, his police escort to rush to meetings and so-called ‘Land Reform’ in which he according to government statistics, the first time the figure has fallen below 400,000. reach the airport in time. He has also at called for the expropriation of land The number of deaths in 2017, meanwhile, least once been caught using sirens to without compensation. This policy has reached an all-time high. In December speed to a high-end French restaurant in polarised South Africans while the 2017, South Korea saw more deaths than n July 6th, Scott Pruitt resigned Washington DC. The EPA denied that nation is still struggling to confront births for the first time. as head of the Environmental Pruitt requested the sirens or that their systemic corruption in its government Some Nongovernmental Organizations Protection Agency (EPA) due use was a violation of existing security and services. blame South Korea’s highly competitive to what he claimed were ‘unrelenting guidelines. The issue of Land Reform came work environment for the declining birth O rate. South Korean woman feel they cannot attacks’ against himself and his family He has also been under fire for before the South African Parliament in from the media. spending more than $160,000 on air March with the ANC and the Economic be both a worker and a mother, and many President Donald Trump took to travel across the US and world using first Freedom Fighters (EFF) joined forces low income women end up leaving the workforce to be full time mothers, leading twitter to announce that he had accepted class tickets or charter plane services. The and called for the expropriation of land many women to believe that they must his resignation and to announce that EPA defended the luxuries as a necessity without compensation. continue to work and forgo motherhood the Senate had confirmed Deputy of Pruitt’s security. Abuse of travel The parliamentary motion established altogether in order to be economically Administrator Andrew Wheeler as the funds lead to the ousting of Health and a Constitutional Review Committee, stable. This also reinforces entrenched acting head of the EPA. Wheeler has Human Services secretary Tom Price in comprised of different political parties, gender stereotypes in the workforce, served as a coal industry lobbyist and like 2017. which has the stated purpose of where companies believe women are only Pruitt refuses to acknowledge man made reviewing and amending section 25 of temporary workers who will leave as soon climate change. the South African Constitution which as they have children. “Within the Agency Scott has done would make it possible for the state to Seoul, the capital of South Korea is the an outstanding job, and I will always be expropriate land in the public interest 7th most expensive city in the world in thankful to him for this,” Trump said in without compensation to land owners. 2018, in terms of cost of living according The Ongoing to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual his tweet on July 5th. However, Constitutional experts in Cost of Living ranking which assesses the South Africa have pointed out that this His tenure at the EPA has been Debate Over cost of living across the world and ranks under constant fire due to Pruitt’s denial was already in the constitution, but that them accordingly. of Climate Change, his ignorance of Land Reform in it must be shown that it is ‘just and President Moon Jae-In is now focusing Climate Science, and his dismissal of equitable’ for the land’s price to be set at on the issue of the low birth rate in evidence contrary to his opinions on the South Africa zero. his country with new policy proposals Human Impact on Climate Change. He By Michael A. Kolarov The polarisation of the South African intended to create more favourable was also heavily criticised for repealing public stems from the question of what conditions for families to have children. EPA regulations rather than enforcing should be considered ‘just and equitable’ South Korea is currently spending the least them. with no agreements yet being reached on on family services among wealthy nations Pruitt’s conduct as head of the EPA The issue of urban land reform has the definition. who provide such benefits. The policies are intended to better support single parents is being scrutinized by more than a been raised by Musa Gwebani of the Many white South African farmers and improve current child care services. dozen investigations into his spending Social Justice Coalition, a campaign had previously begun to arm themselves The government also helps to arrange and abuse of his office. He is also being group based in Khayelitsha, one of with firearms and weapons training to marriages between rural men and investigated for alleged misconduct and the world’s largest slums. Khayelitsha defend their property from an already “imported” brides from poorer Asian abuse of office for his spending, staff was established in the 1980s during existing and ever increasing crime rate. countries, but does so in an environment assignments, and misuse of staff. In one apartheid as a vast dormitory for the White Activist groups in South Africa which is very much against immigration. instance Pruitt instructed his staff to call thousands of workers who moved to claim that one white farmer is murdered There have also been a number of high Republican donors to seek employment Cape Town in search of jobs. According every five days on average in 2018, profile crimes committed against women for his wife with a six figure salary. Mrs to the 2011 census, it is home to nearly however there are no official statistics who have been brought into the country Pruitt is a former school nurse. 400,000 residents, 99% of them black. to support the claim that white farmers for these arranged marriages. As part of its Pruitt was slammed for renting a Gwebani said that the people of are more likely to be targeted than black response in 2011 the Ministry of Justice has introduced the International Marriage room in a Capitol Hill townhouse for Khayelitsha wanted to be included in the farmers. The official position of the Guide Program. The program aims to lower 50 US Dollars per night, and only paid land reform debate. “The declaration ... government is that this phenomenon is friction between couples by introducing for the nights he stayed there. The house that there will be expropriation without part of an overall increase in crime all them to various aspects of their cultures was owned by the wife of high-profile compensation fuelled a hunger for land across South Africa. and lowering their language barriers. fossil-fuel lobbyist J. Steven Hart. Pruitt and brought to the fore the levels of However now farm groups are Since then the divorce rate has fallen from insisted there was no conflict of interest desperation of the dispossessed black preparing to defend themselves and their 115,000 to 7,100 in 2017. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 International online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photograph © Michael A. Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph

Gordon Brown, where he served as to the Jewish people had made that to survive Olmert’s government? Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, difficult for Palestine itself. Britain had Olmert also brought up the topic of Should the Leader of the Commons, and Justice also promised Palestine to the Arabs Jerusalem for the Palestinians. Referring Secretary. in return for Arab help to defeat the to Palestinian villages which surround world recognize The question comes on the heels of Ottoman Empire. Though this is a gross Jerusalem, villages which various human the United States relocating its embassy simplification of the complexities of the rights organizations refer to as open air Jerusalem as from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite ongoing conflict. prisons, Olmert said the Palestinians international condemnation at the UN Hausdorff went on to present could have them. Israel’s capital? General Assembly and global grassroots some alternative facts, and throwing Jack Straw began his arguments by By Michael A. Kolarov protests, particularly in Gaza where the logic, nuance, reason, and decorum apologizing for the anti-semitism scandal opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem to the wind by telling the audience which has plagued the Labour party of was marked with violent demonstrations that not recognizing Jerusalem as the late, though we are still waiting to hear in which 62 people were killed and 2771 Capital of Israel is the same as not what this had to do with the issue of injured by the Israeli armed forces. recognizing that the world is round. international recognition for Jerusalem The UN General Assembly voted She failed to acknowledge that the as the capital of Israel. However, he did to condemn the move by the US with audience understood that Jerusalem is rebuff the speakers for the motion by Intelligence Squared is an 9 voting against, 128 voting in favor, 34 the functional Capital of Israel; no one reminding them that the Occupation is abstentions, and 21 not participating. disputed that fact. However, there is a very real, “They’re called ‘the Occupied organisation founded in 2002 Though Israel claims Jerusalem as its difference between Jerusalem functioning Territories’ for a reason,” he said. He which holds and broadcasts Capital, the international community as the Capital, and being recognized also called the living conditions of the does not recognize this. This is because as the Capital. Political recognition Palestinians an “affront.” debates around the world on the issue of Jerusalem is largely of states, capitals, or even waterways “Jerusalem must be the shared Capital various topics of interest. On considered an issue to be settled in a are tools of the trade in international of both the Israeli and Palestinian states. final peace plan between the Israelis and relations and diplomacy. The city has huge significance for both June 18th, at the Emmanuel Palestinians, hence the reason diplomatic Hausdorff was rebutted by Karmi the Jewish people and the Palestinians,” Centre in Westminster, it held missions are located in Tel Aviv instead who received resounding applause when Straw went on to say. However the of Jerusalem. The Trump administration’s she said “If you believe that, you’ll believe topic of whether or not a shared Capital a debate on a controversial relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem anything.” Karmi also rebuffed the could actually work was touched upon, subject asking the question, without the issue being settled is seen by assertion that Palestinians do not, and but not in any serious depth. No other many as an abandonment of the United never have existed by simply stating; “I city in history has ever been the Capital “Should the world recognize State’s commitment to the peace process. exist.” of two nations, and as such, there is no Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?” Highlights from the debate begin When Ehud Olmert took the precedent for it. with Hausdorff, who opened with the podium he proceeded to raise his voice Ultimately, the question of whether or he debate was chaired by argument that the Israeli occupation to dismiss the number killed by the not Jerusalem should be internationally Emily Maitlis; presenter of of Palestine is a myth because there is IDF during protests of the US Embassy recognised as the capital of Israel was not BBC Newsnight and one of no state of Palestine, and that it never opening in Jerusalem, claiming it was answered by the weight of the arguments theT UK’s best known broadcasters. existed. 62 instead of the 120 claimed by the of those who rejected the idea, but by the Arguing for the motion was former This might be technically correct, as Palestinians. (Most official estimates failure of those who supported the idea Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert there never has been an official nation do place the number of dead on that to provide a compelling argument for it. and Natasha Hausdorff, director of the state named Palestine. Prior to the single day at 62). Olmert also lamented The audience was polled upon entry to non Governmental Organisation ‘UK dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at how close he was to a peace deal with the debate and the results announced Lawyers for Israel’. Arguing against the the end of WWI, the region had been the Palestinians, but put the blame on were 27% for the motion, 46% against, motion was Ghada Karmi, a research occupied by the Ottomans for 400 years. them for not accepting it; he did not and 27% undecided. At the end of the fellow at the Institute of Arab and In the period leading up to WWII mention that talks broke down while he debate a further poll was taken with Islamic studies at the University of many nations around it had gained was under investigation for corruption, 37% in favour of the motion, 61% were Exeter, and Jack Straw; Cabinet minister independence but the Balfour Mandate, and eventually convicted. How could the against, and 2% remained undecided. A in the governments of Tony Blair and in which Britain had promised Palestine Palestinians have expected a peace deal rather resounding defeat. 12 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

“The people of this country have had Look at what really happens when we enough of experts.” face this democratisation of opinion; now MARIUS BRILL’S The most terrifying thing about that we’re forced to try and understand Gove’s blinkered pro-brexit-despite- value and worth from the massed all-the-evidence pronouncement is its judgements of equally ignorant amateurs. MEMEING OF LIFE insight, its awful truth, we really have Booking a holiday? Want to know if had enough of experts. I mean obviously you’ll love the place you’re going? Go Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... we still want them flying our aeroplanes on Trip Advisor of course. This is why and diagnosing our tumours, but bugger your heart sinks when you think about their opinions, that’s not democracy. it. Because you know that now you’re The reason a national newspaper going to have to painstakingly trawl through journalism, they became trusted could get away with calling our judiciary through hundreds of reviews paying as knowledgeable experts in their fields “The enemies of the people” (Daily attention to what’s being said but, at Everyone’s and then they would find inventive and Mail 4 Nov 2016) is because, since the the same time, trying to assess the entertaining ways to praise, admonish, advent of online consumerism, we have character of each reviewer from their a Critic suggest improvements and inform accepted that the only valid judgement digital signature. With a Sherlockian eye readers about what was good or bad is by the people. Not twelve peers good to human psychology you must review in the world. It wasn’t easy: universal and true, but hundreds, thousands, even each reviewer: who is holding a grudge, ideas of “taste” had to be found, agreed millions, and the only criteria for their who brought the rose-tinted specs, who No. Literally. Everyone is and applied. Mozart’s music was good, judgement to be counted is being in a is petty minded, who is OCD about William McGonagall’s poetry was bad wealth and age bracket that puts them bathroom sanitation, who got a freebie, a critic. Not just personally and nobody bothered to have an opinion online. We have become conditioned who was “a bit menstrual”, who was paid, judgemental, but you, me, about All Trade Adhesive Cloth Duct to populist ideology through the who got laid and who just wanted to Tape. relentless drive of giant online retailers get their review read, their opinion, and we’re all verified published Now, A.B., the duct tape gets four desperate to sell stuff. Even satire, the experience verified, who’s hungry for the critics, our words heeded by and half stars and 193 people have, biting funny bone of personal criticism, approval of other users? apparently, reviewed it on Amazon; it’s has been overwhelmed by the internet Forming judgements by aggregating countless others, our opinions received more user insight than my last meme. Produced, shared and adapted by judgements is exhausting, time disseminated around the novel, but then it’s stickier and, I have to hundreds of thousands of anonymous consuming and usually self defeating. accept, a lot more effective at preventing photo-shop users, they’ve collectively Eventually you just shrug and book world. kidnapees from screaming. elevated the idea of the repeated joke ad anyway based on the price, location and “Feedback” used to describe Professional critics are hard to find infinitum et absurdum. photos. nowadays, mainly because most of Now we numbly accept that No one, however well read, or the ear piercing noise made them are stuck at home, chained to judgement must be crowdsourced, experienced, or educated in the nuances when a microphone got too their laptops, zero-hour minimum- despite the well-worn fallacy: “faeces of a thing being reviewed, has a voice wage contractor drones hired to big up is good because a billion flies can’t any louder than anyone else’s. In fact the close to a speaker. Now we’re products on online market places. For be wrong.” But we should probably loudest voices are the ones that game all squawking, screaming, today’s critic, “Verified Purchaser” is the be asking, is it really “the wisdom of the system, who know how the machine only expert credential needed because crowds”? Or is it a “mob mentality”? works, who sock puppet and put the feedback. work in rating their own opinions to feature higher on the site. So now we nything we buy, any hotel need to search through the 193 Duct or tea shoppe we visit, every Tape reviews to see if we can find experience we have, from a someone, anyone, who thinks a bit like hospital appointment to the dog kennel, us, who might fit the voice of our own A echo chamber or, failing that, someone we’re expected to rate and review. Our digital opinion matters. Soon, you can who might have had a duct that actually forget getting a eulogy at your funeral: needed taping. Brill © Marius Photograph I’m expecting three and half stars, six One day we may look back and realise likes and a bunch of negative feedback that “Critic” was the first non-manual job reviews; five of them rated as “helpful”. to be entirely wiped out by computers. Between the penis enlargements and Not by artificial intelligence, but by the diet pills, a third of my spam is the hive mind. And yet, even though feedback requests. And the requirement we may have had to start thinking for feedback has mechanised me; I’ve like machines to get our judgements become a human response bot. I’ve heard, programmed by the system to be applied artificiality to my intelligence opinionbots, the critic, however inexpert and learned to be like a computer; I have or unpaid, may also be the last human a document with a list of stock feedback voice to succumb to the singularity. phrases that I copy and paste to fulfil my Alan Turing proposed that a human social network contract. might judge Artificial Intelligence “Brilliant eBayer, great successful when he or she fails to tell communication, thanks.” the difference between a computer’s “On time, well packaged, delivered response and a human one. The flaw safely, many thanks.” though, was not in his understanding of “Stiff for hours, best blue pills I’ve come computers, but of humans. The human across [winky face].” urge to judge and be critical and superior, But the question is: why are they would never allow us to admit a failure asking me? Why don’t they ask someone in our judgement, we love the sound of who actually knows what they’re talking our own voices too much. So it’ll be our about? Or maybe even someone who voices, our vicious little opinions and gives a f***? petty judgements, which will be the very B.B., Before Bezos, “Critic” was an last thing the robots wrest from our dead actual, real life, job description. Budding larynxes. wannabe reviewers worked their way up IMHO 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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Nature, that washed her hands in milk by Sir Walter Raleigh

Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, At love’s request to try them, If she a mistress could compose To please love’s fancy out of those.

Her eyes he would should be of light, tomorrow. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, one civil servant by the name A violet breath, and lips of jelly; A Global Britain of Rex Leeper created both the British Her hair not black, nor overbright, Council and the BBC Empire wireless Vision needs service which eventually became the And of the softest down her belly; BBC World Service. These two wonderful As for her inside he’d have it fixing examples of Soft Power are still our best By Derek Wyatt shot to date. Leeper was knighted for his Only of wantonness and wit. vision. We did have a vision and it was At love’s entreaty such a one There is real anger across Continental not so long ago. We all celebrated the Europe about the UK’s decision to coming of the second Millennium back Nature made, but with her beauty pull out of the EU. This anger is felt by in 1999/2000. I was at the miserable She hath framed a heart of stone; most who were persuaded by us to join, Millennium Dome event which has especially Ireland. But there is as much subsequently been transformed into So as love, by ill destiny, anger in France and Germany which will the finest host of concerts and sporting Must die for her whom nature gave him, take decades to fix. events in the world. But the Dome Because her darling would not save him. After all, being in Europe meant we was part of a Lottery inspired play to did not need as many diplomats there, as celebrate the Millennium across the they were centralised in Brussels; so we nation. And one part of that was the ten But time (which nature doth despise, are short across the board in expertise £50 million bids to add to the nation’s in how to create what is being called tapestry. And rudely gives her love the lie, Global Britain in the Foreign Office. This was the press release the Makes hope a fool, and sorrow wise) The Treasury has upped their budgets the Millennium Committee put considerably which can only mean higher out following awards to create Tate His hands do neither wash nor dry; taxes in the long run. Modern, The Lowry, the Eden Centre But being made of steel and rust, Global Britain is a poor title. (part award), a pathway around the Turns snow and silk and milk to dust. Scotland may not find another way back coast, the seed bank at Kew Gardens, to secede from the Union in my life time the Millennium Centre in Cardiff but the country is disaffected. Northern and connecting the canals between The light, the belly, lips, and breath, Ireland is a chimera. It ought to be part Edinburgh and Glasgow (quite of Ireland as it has mostly been. sensational) and more. He dims, discolours, and destroys; The Conservative Party, by aligning “We wanted to make a statement With those he feeds but fills not death, itself with the even more right wing about our generation in the Millennium; Which sometimes were the food of joys. DUP to stay in Government will cost what we could do, who we wanted to both of them dearly. The border dispute be, and what we could achieve.” The Yea, time doth dull each lively wit, which still festers and which seemingly results changed our landscapes across the And dries all wantonness with it. no-one has an idea of how to keep them Nation and we are richer for them. open despite protestations, shows us all So, you can almost guess what is how short of ideas we are, even though coming; here’s a thought. Rectify the Oh, cruel time! which takes in trust the Referendum was over two years Millennium Commission process for ago. A joint Northern Ireland-Ireland Global Britain. As it is transparently Our youth, our joys, and all we have, Government for fifty years and then a obvious our current crop of politicians And pays us but with age and dust; Referendum would be welcomed by a are pretty light on vision, let us give the Who in the dark and silent grave majority, particularly the English tax chance to tell the world who we are and payer. what we stand for, to anyone but the likes When we have wandered all our ways The real problem post Brexit is of BoJo et al. Let the Lottery and the Shuts up the story of our days. there is no current Secretary of State or Government create a fund for £1 billion Permanent Secretary with a vision on and ask for solutions as to how we can how we tell the world we are changing. become the world leader in Soft Power. There is a paucity of thinking beyond After all, that is all we have left. 14 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance NEWS

that it will be investigating Glencore’s possible involvement in bribery in Glencore faces Congolese business. The news of the DOJ’s potential investigation investigation spooked investors and from both sides of the pond shares slid to its biggest low in two years. Although Glencore recuperated some Shares of Glencore, the world’s largest losses, it ended down by 8%. Likewise commodities company, fell by 8% on investors in Glencore’s bonds, which also Tuesday as the US Department of Justice hit a two-year low. (DOJ) requested documents that could It is widely believed that investors be related to corruption and money are concerned that the investigation laundering. could reveal wrongdoing at the company, According to the DOJ, the resulting in a large fine. The largest fine investigatory body wants to see so far imposed for breaking FCPA rules paperwork relating to Glencore’s business being broken was close to $1 billion. the copyright law back to the drawing dealings in Nigeria, Democratic Republic Glencore has a reputation for board.” of the Congo and Venezuela since 2007. operating in notoriously difficult regions MEPs block BPI Music, which represents UK In response, Glencore will review the and many investors believe that the record labels, had supported the bill request and will provide information as company’s stock should be worth less controversial and tweeted: “We respect the decision... appropriate. as a result. Trading millions of tons of we will work with MEPs over the next The DOJ is examining whether commodities in 50 countries means copyright law weeks to explain how the proposed Glencore breached the Foreign Corrupt Glencore, along with other miners, might directive will benefit not just European Practices (FCPA) which makes bribery not be able to escape corrupt regions. MEPs have blocked a law that would creativity, but also internet users and the of foreign officials illegal and the Money In 2016, Liberia indicted some of its have put greater responsibility on technology sector.” Laundering Control Act. own government officials and a mining individual websites to check for In comments made to the BBC, In the UK, Glencore has also come company on bribery charges and last year, copyright infringements. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said under scrutiny from the UK’s Serious the DOJ charged five people over bribery The Web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners- that he hoped the music industry would Fraud Office, which stated last month plots in Venezuela. Lee was among those who had expressed find a compromise before the September concerns about the proposed rules, debate. arguing that it threatened internet “Don’t think about filtering everything freedom. everyone uploads to the internet. That’s Opponents of the law greeted a pipe dream but you are never going to the decision as a victory. Julia Reda, get that,” he said. a Party Pirate MEP, tweeted: “Great Instead, he added, they should look to success: Your protests have worked! renegotiating deals with platforms such The European Parliament has sent as YouTube to get “fairer remuneration”.

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Exceptional Talent Visas are available specifically to talented overseas Exceptional individuals working in digital technology, talent visas science, medicine, engineering and the for tech sector up tenfold in arts and humanities for 5 years. There are 2,000 made available each year and two years the applicant can work across any sector in any field, once approved for a visa by the designated competent bodies and the Home Office. Tier 2 visas are more restrictive and only allow people earning over £30,000, coming to work in the UK who have been sponsored by a company in a range of different sectors. However, there is a monthly limit of 2,200 of these visas, which has been hit every month for the last 6 months. Currently, the total number of exceptional talent visas granted by the Home Office in all sectors remains far he number of exceptional talent below the UK Government’s 2,000 visa and the 20% fall in the number of visas granted to people in the limit. The number of visas issued has Wherefore art property sales in London since 2014 tech sector by the Home Office remained relatively unchanged in the affected their bottom line. Last week, hasT increased tenfold in two years from past year, rising from 490 in 2016 to just thou, estate shares in Britain’s biggest estate agent, 19 to 214, says Collyer Bristow, a private 492 in 2017. Countrywide Properties, dropped by client law firm. James Badcock, Partner at Collyer agent? 25% after it issued its fourth profit According to Collyer-Bristow, rapid Bristow, notes “Exceptional talent visas By James Billot warning in eight months, asking growth in the UK tech sector coupled have been great in supporting the vibrant shareholders to raise new funds to with a vibrant start up culture, has tech sector, but across the board are still reduce its debt. made the UK an attractive destination being woefully underutilised. London remains the worst-affected for skilled technology workers from “The UK tech sector is one of the region in the property market, largely across the globe. Some of the largest most innovative in the world, and people as a consequence of Brexit. Last month, tech companies in the world have major Ostensibly, this crude insertion with the skills are queuing up to come London-based Foxtons reported a offices in London including Amazon, and work here. However, the question of an overly cited and oft- 65% fall in profits, further exacerbated Google and Apple. remains why the fast track system is not by the extra stamp duty surcharge of First introduced in 2011, Tier 1 being replicated across other sectors.” misinterpreted (as this header proves) Shakespearean line 3% of the value of a buy-to-let home. In a bid to cut costs and stave of the may seem ill-fitting, but it does threat of insolvency, industry analysts highlight Britain’s complicated believe that a viable route may be Take a subscription of KCW TODAY through mergers and acquisitions. In relationship with the real comments made to The Independent, for 2018 and receive a copy estate agent. Neil Wilson, a senior market analyst at ETX Capital, said: “a merger of equals delivered Last year, over 150 estate agencies’ firms or takeover are definitely options that declared bankruptcy and in the face of would make sense, given what the greater online competition, a depressed market conditions and share prices Name property market and cuts to lettings are,” says Wilson. “The more traditional fees, a further 7,000 are also at risk. letting agents must be looking for a The question is: should Britons care? way to cut costs in this environment. Address According a Daily Telegraph survey There is a clear rationale for M&A”. released earlier this year, respondents Such defensive manoeuvres are a were asked which industries they had clear response to the growth of the most and least trust in. After bankers, online property market. The rise of

Telephone and email real estate agents were among the least online firms including Purplebricks, trusted professions in the UK, with RightMove and Zoopla have forced only 11% of respondents expressing a downward pressure on their brick- trust in the industry. This is statistic is and-mortar counterparts with lower SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT a trifle sobering for an industry that transaction fees, but cost alone does prides itself on its customer service, but not dictate whether a customer buys as home-buying moves into the realm online or not. The sheer magnitude of 11 month’s subscription of automation and human interaction the decision to buy or rent a property UK £ 46.00 (Tick box) recedes, perhaps British schadenfreude demands a human presence because Overseas on request towards the industry is misplaced. the process of finding a property, For the past two decades, real estate negotiating its price and ultimately accepting or rejecting it is immensely Fill out form with cheques made payable to: agencies have enjoyed an unfettered stressful. As more and more brick-and- Kensington, & Chelsea Today Limited expansion on Britain’s high streets. and send to Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today, Their ubiquity reflected a housing mortar agencies fall by the wayside, 80-100 Gwynne Road, London SW11 3UW or email: [email protected]. market in good health, but good health Britons should be careful what they Or telephone 020 7738 2348 to pay meant high transaction activity, not wish for. A good estate agent, in By BACS or visit www.KCWtoday.co.uk to pay by PayPal. rising house prices. Estate agents human form, provides prospective depend on transaction activity rather buyers with a calming influence in ways than house prices to earn commission that a computer simply cannot. 16 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance

of 30 organisations to trial a new tool, Applied, that requires applicants to fill in a series of questions based on work they might be expected to do in the role. The aim was to focus on what they can do, rather than what they have done in the past, or the sort of person that they are. As recruiters adopt more sophisticated methods of sorting of this nature, the playing field will invariably level. It is difficult to ascertain the true scope, influence and timing of the incoming wave of automation, but recruiters have been slow to embrace it. Due to the proliferation of digital be worst affected. The report cites and recruiter. While it may be reduced recruitment companies like Upwork, that mortgage brokers, paralegals and in the initial stages of the recruitment Shiftgig and Catalant, it is imperative Automating the accountants were most vulnerable to an process, the relationship is likely to for traditional recruiters to be more automation takeover but, importantly strengthen in the latter rounds when the responsive to these shifts in order to future: for recruiters, their industry did not sorting process has already taken place. stay competitive. The growth of new The recruitment industry feature in this list. In fact, the primary Thus, clients can gain a better qualitative and more agile platforms will mean should seize not shun function of automation in automation is and deeper understanding of the that candidates can directly contact not to eliminate the recruiter but, to aid candidates that they are interviewing. employers, thereby posing a greater risk automation them, especially in the early stages of the Another advantage is the removal of to the legacy recruitment industry. By James Billot recruiting process. Automation is turning unconscious bias that can occur in the When used effectively, automation a process that was highly individualised screening process. Unconscious biases are is a powerful tool that not only helps and time-intensive into a faster and more social stereotypes about certain groups recruiters find the best candidate from a efficient way of screening a wider range of people that individuals form outside vast pool of talent, but it also eliminates here are very few industries in of candidates. According to Hasting’s their own conscious awareness and it leaden, time-intensive tasks. Through a the world that have escaped the Direct, even rudimentary changes is far more prevalent than conscious gradual implementation of automation clutches of the Internet and the to the second stage of its interview prejudice. In recruitment, this may take in recruitment processes, recruiters are recruitmentT industry is no exception. process made a drastic difference: by the form of rejecting candidates on the spared from the tedium of administration Gone are the days in which puff-chested changing from telephone interviews to basis of their social background or even and will be pushed to think more baby-boomers marched up and down the a pre-recorded video assessment, the their home address. It is something that strategically. By creating a culture of streets from dawn until dusk delivering administrative work for recruiters fell the Civil Service has sought to redress by innovation and not stagnation, firms can hand-written CVs to prospective from 55 minutes per candidate to 10. implementing AI features in their own fully tap into the power of the digital employers. Now, job-seeking millennials These time-saving benefits and recruitment process. Last year, it was one world. can obtain gainful employment, a piping fringe adjustments have thus far hot pizza and a new gym membership failed to persuade recruiters to begin without even having to leave the supine adoption. Based on a global survey of position. Conversely, employers have over 1,400 recruitment professionals also learned to harness the power of across agencies in all sectors, Bullhorn’s t’Internet, freeing themselves from the 2018 report found that when recruiters boostresearch shackles of newspaper advertising (at were asked about what their top three their peril…) in favour of newer tools considerations for 2018 were, only 29% of modernity (LinkedIN, ZipRecruiter of responses featured any mention of etc.). automation whatsoever. This delay in In the wake of this fourth industrial implementation of automation illustrates Are you an investment revolution, the industry remains divided a staggering disconnect between the as to whether these technological proven advantages of automation and advances have augmented or supplanted the desultory response given by industry research analyst? recruiters, but a much greater threat leaders. Even Jack Ma, CEO of Tencent, lingers on the horizon: automation. warned in no uncertain terms that Boost Research is the world’s first accelerator According to the Bullhorn 2018 report “artificial intelligence and robots will on recruitment trends, recruiters have kill many jobs”. For a man who made for independent research entrepreneurs. been resistant to the adoption of large- billions in the world of e-commerce, it is scale automation systems, due to fears a strangely apocalyptic view. that they will lose their jobs. The fear To be sure, automation presents a is unjustified. Over the past 20 years, number of challenges to the recruitment technology has helped recruiters industry but they are not existential. • Administrative Support • Grants • Mentoring efficiently source candidates with more Arguably the most damaging effect of precision and there is little evidence to the mass-scale adoption of automation • Flexibility • Distribution suggest that automation will not further lies in the client-candidate relationship. enhance this process. By automating the Recruitment is a relationship-driven early stages of recruitment (identifying industry that thrives on fostering long- Apply to join the Boost Research and screening), a largely quantitative term partnerships between recruiters programme at boostirp.com task, recruiters can broaden their focus and clients. Without these relationships, towards more strategic and qualitative candidates are left demoralised by elements of hiring. the constant beat of rejection-by- Over the past two years, hysteria automation and over time, this dearth of POWERED BY surrounding automation has accelerated. human interaction could de-incentivise Last year, a BBC report warned that candidates from applying to jobs in the robot automation would ‘take 800 first place. Yet it is important to note that million jobs by 2030’ around the world automation will not eliminate the entire The World’s Premier Investment Research Network www.smartkarma.com and that developed companies would human relationship between applicant 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photograph © Bryan Fury © Bryan Photograph

Parade. known as ‘aerial policing’ and was first part of the Berlin Airlift which saw over The RAF 100 Aircraft Tour travelled proposed by the future Prime Minister in 8,000 tons of fuel, food, and other crucial Per Ardua ad around the country with a selection of the House of Commons in March 1920, provisions delivered to the German aircraft making their way to Cardiff, before the unrest had even started. capital. Of these, 100 were from the Astra Horse Guards Parade in London, During peacetime the RAF had RAF. Newcastle in Northern Ireland, to justify its existence as its own In the years since it has continued to The RAF at 100 Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester. independent entity and avoid its duties take part in humanitarian aid, helping By Fahad Redha RAF Cosford, Portrush in Northern being returned to the Army and Navy. people affected by conflict, natural Ireland and the Royal International Air To do this it had to keep itself in the disaster, and drought. Tattoo at RAF Fairford. public eye through air shows such as in The RAF also took part in Operation People also came to enjoy the Hendon. It also supported a team for the Gritrock from October 2014 with the spectacle of airshows at RAF Cosford, Schneider Trophy air racing competition Royal Navy, British Army, Irish Defence Portrush in Northern Ireland and the and even produced documentary films. Forces, Canadian Armed Forces, to help n the 10th of July the Royal Air Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF But it would be the early 1940s fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Force continued its 100 days Fairford. Meanwhile the Earl of Wessex that would prove to the nation and the Africa. This resulted in Sierra Leone of celebration with a stunning reopened the RAF Museum after a government just how important it is. being declared Ebola free in November Oflyby of some of its most iconic aircraft. multi-million-pound renovation. As state of the art fighters and bombers 2015. These included helicopters such as the The RAF is the world’s oldest bearing the swastika made their way When the Caribbean was struck Chinook, Puma, and Juno, wartime independent air force, first formed in over the Channel it was up to the RAF by Hurricane Irma in 2017 it brought legends the Spitfire, Hurricane, and 1918 by merging the Royal Flying Corps to defend Britain’s skies. The Spitfire, assistance in the aftermath and did so for Lancaster, as well as modern hi-tech and the Royal Naval Air Service. During Hurricane, and Lancaster have since five weeks. 15 RAF squadrons flew 1,500 machines, the Lightning, Tornado, and peacetime it had to justify its existence, become legendary. The efforts to push tons of freight and humanitarian aid as Typhoon. facing reduction in size. One of its roles back against the enemy caused the well as 2,000 passengers into and around The centenary itself will not end there was ‘policing the empire.’ Nazis to reconsider Operation Sea Lion, the affected areas. as events are scheduled to continue till One such case saw the RAF act a planned invasion of Britain. In August From a shaky start after the Great November. These include the Centenary to quell uprisings in Iraq. More than 1940 while leaving a bunker at RAF War to becoming a British institution, Baton Relay which set off on the 1st of 100,000 troops were deployed at a cost Uxbridge, Churchill, now Prime Minster the RAF continues to be a crucial part of April and finished on the 10th of July, too great for post-war Britain. The war Churchill best summed it all up: “Never our armed forces. It also helps to provide 100 days later. The specially designed secretary under Lloyd George’s coalition in the field of human conflict was so a future for many young people. The baton was taken to 100 sites linked government was Winston Churchill much owed by so many to so few.” RAF Air Cadets has kick-started many with the RAF in that time, beginning who had to balance military cuts with a The Cold War saw RAF planes flying careers in the air force since its founding at the Royal Court of Justice and finally need to maintain control over Britain’s into Germany though with entirely and will continue to do so for years to concluded its journey on Horse Guards mandate in Iraq. The policy came to be different intentions. 200,000 flights were come. 18 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

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point of the group is to learn from to look at evidence…and seeing things each other and how we can improve”. with your own eyes in a world where we Each year, board members, directors are seeing everything on our phones”. and communications teams convene Candler is positive about the future of to discuss how these three principles museums, noting that adult and child can be improved. Issues pertaining participation has risen by 10% over 10 to experience, for example, can be as years to over 50% and in London, the granular as changing the queue system figure is “much higher”. Figures from the for the cloak room, whereas others Department for Digital, Culture, Media Photographs © Exhibition Road Cultural Group Cultural © Exhibition Road Photographs demand a thicker slice of the Group’s & Sport (DCMS) buttress Candler’s attention. One such issue is the lack of optimism: in 2016/17, there were 47.3 million visits to DCMS museums, up by approximately 7 million visits in 2008/09. So what has been the driving force behind Kensington’s Cultural Quarter? Candler responds without missing a beat: “It is thriving because everything is about interdisciplinary studying and collaboration now,” she says. “If you’re studying product design for instance, you work with artists at the Royal College of Art and scientists at the Natural Albertopolis: History and Science London’s Cultural museums”. Encased Quarter within a By James Billot 500-metre radius, the propinquity of these n 1851, Prince Albert and inventor institutions to Henry Cole organised The Great one another Exhibition, the first event of the encourages IWorld’s Fairs. Held at the opulent step-free access at South a deeper inculcation and, importantly, Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, The Great Kensington tube station, cross-fertilisation of knowledge. Exhibition showcased a gamut of the main point of access Collectively, therefore, the Group is technological innovations ranging from for the V&A, Science fulfilling (and excelling in) Albert’s Frederick Bakewell’s precursor to the fax and Natural History original mission: to create a hotbed for machine to the ‘tempest prognosticator’, museums. Candler learning, innovation and research. This a leech barometer that indicated the delicately addresses holistic approach to education imbues probability of a storm. The Exhibition was the subject: “It is an itself in other areas of learning too, an overwhelming success: an estimated History museums alone. “Prince Albert absolute disgrace,” she says, “that this namely through school engagement. six million people, equivalent to a third created very global institutions,” says leading centre of education doesn’t have Over the past 12 years, the Exhibition of the entire British population at the Emily Candler, Executive Director of step-free access at its main point”. Given Road Cultural Group have run a series time, passed through the gates of the the Exhibition Road Cultural Group, that around 30,000,000 tube-riders tap of annual workshops known as Creative Crystal Palace, turning a £186,000 profit “they were looking out to the world but through the station’s barriers each year, Quarter, which gives teenagers insights (around £20,000,000 today). A thrifty also inviting the world in”. This worldly the criticism is warranted. “We are in into creative careers. Speaking in 2016, couple, Queen Victoria and Prince invitation was not limited to visitors talks with TfL (Transport for London) Candler said: “80% of the young people Albert avoided blundering into another either: nearly 30,000 people work or to sort this out,” she concludes. who attended Creative Quarter last year war with France and instead used this research at Albert’s institutions, all There is a sense of urgency in said they were more interested in the surplus to build a number of cultural and drawn together “not just by geography Candler’s voice, undoubtedly cognisant creative careers as a result”. This year, the educational sites including Victoria & and common history, but most of the fact that problems like these can director’s aim is to include even more Albert Museum, the Science Museum importantly, by a common mission,” invalidate a visitor’s experience. “My schoolchildren so they too can have “the and the Natural History Museum. adds Candler. “We are all about learning focus is on visitor experience,” says chance to create, explore and discover for Alongside the Imperial Institute, these and innovation in the arts and sciences, Candler, “I look at what goes on around themselves what creative jobs are really grand edifices formed the organ system which makes us distinct from any other coming in and having that awe-inspiring like”. of Albertopolis, a cultural hub based in cultural quarter that I can think of ”. moment with the object, because that Few (not least of all Prince Albert) South Kensington in which the main Comprising 19 educational and actually affects how you feel about the could have predicted Albertopolis’ artery, Exhibition Road, led towards The cultural institutions, the Exhibition museum… crowding and queues inside flourishing metamorphosis from a royal Great Exhibition itself. Road Cultural Group formalised as the museum and places like the tube vanity project in 1851 to one of the most Whether Albert’s grandiose vision a charity group in 2006. The Group’s station have a subliminal effect on your venerable collection of institutions in for Albertopolis was borne out of a membership boasts a menagerie of experience”. Having spent 20 years in the world today. Perhaps Candler has nationalistic desire to project England’s cultural institutions including the and around museums, Candler is highly become accustomed to it in this line of greatness to the rest of the world or part Goethe Institut, Serpentine Gallery sensitised to these considerations, but work, but the director does not permit of an altruistic quest for humanitarian and its latest addition, Japan House. her antennae perk to full attention herself to indulge in this momentary betterment, his institutions succeeded Ostensibly, there is little to tie this when probed about the boom period flash of nostalgia. Rather, as Albert in making vast global inroads. 167 years eclectic group of institutions together that museums are currently enjoying. did 167 years before, she is looking on, an estimated 20,000,000 people beyond their geographical proximity but, “Museums are great for our society ahead: “We have to keep evolving as an visit Kensington’s Cultural Quarter as Candler points out, they all “share a because it is so much more than a organisation and keep attracting new each year, 12,000,000 of which visit the common objective based on ‘experience, great day out,” says Candler. “It’s about people. That is why these buildings have V&A Museum, Science and Natural exploration and exchange’…The whole learning how to question, learning how been so successful”. 20 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

“It’s like being wide range of social, cultural, economic Chelsea Open in an adventure and racial backgrounds, reflecting the with the trees multiculturalism of London today. The school prides itself on being Air Nursery and the bees 90th Anniversary Celebrations exceptionally inclusive, “We have a buzzing round!” diverse cohort of children including By Diana McCormick those with complex learning needs,” says Head Teacher Talia Robinson who is also a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities specialist. The longstanding staff team are utdoor learning is at the heart of testament to the fact that there is a the core values of the desirably strong parent-teacher relationship, positioned Chelsea Open Air creating a consistent and secure ONursery, which celebrates its 90th environment for pupils. anniversary this July. “Having a great ethos is one thing but One of only two state funded Early like being in an adventure with the trees for adult led activities,” senior teacher putting it so successfully into practice is Years schools in the Borough of and the bees buzzing round!’” Alex Kelly says, quite another,” explain current parents Kensington and Chelsea, it really is a In the early twentieth century it It’s no wonder that the nursery has Simon and Chloe Tindall, “the outdoor hidden gem. Nestled in the corner of a was recognised that many city children received an OFSTED ‘Outstanding’ setting coupled with a highly organised, quiet residential street, it boasts its own did not have enough access to fresh rating for four consecutive occasions, enthusiastic and caring management private garden allowing children access to air, sunlight and exercise for healthy reporting that, “The outdoor learning creates the perfect platform for children outdoor learning all year round. development, and this has never area is a labyrinth of exciting places for to learn in a relaxed, healthy, yet Founded in 1928 by Dr Susan been more important today with ever children to learn and play, whatever the structured environment.” Isaacs and Natalie Davis, the ‘Open Air’ increasing research on the benefits of weather.” “Always fun with each day being philosophy it was built upon is still very outdoor learning. In 2006 it became one of the first carefully planned in a wonderful friendly much alive today. Nursery Officer and Forest School is based on a children’s centres in the Borough, atmosphere, and at the same time giving Forest School Leader Felicity Masters Scandinavian approach to teaching that providing a ‘one stop shop’ facility, which children the mental and physical space explains, “Being outdoors among the highlights the importance of children offers free services to families with they need to develop at their own pace, trees and plants increases their sense of having contact with nature from an children under the age of five. Chelsea Open Air, in our opinion offers wellbeing, and having the opportunity to early age, the school’s mission statement A commemorative mosaic will be an outstanding nursery.” see the effects of the changing seasons “Open Hearts Open Minds, A Healthy unveiled which is a joint collaboration Next month children, parents, staff helps to develop a sense of awe and Start to Education” certainly endorses of past, present and future pupils, and local residents will join together wonder in the natural world.” this belief. highlighting the strong community feel to celebrate ninety years of exceptional “A wonderful example of this “The majority of the time children are that flourishes within the school, as learning, but undoubtedly, come rain or occurred just a few days ago when one of outside engaging in child-initiated play, well as poetry workshops, dancing and shine, the school’s garden will be at the the boys ran up to me saying, ‘Felicity, it’s but there are also plenty of opportunities a mobile zoo. Children come from a heart of the festivities.

widely held, with an additional 21 per cent saying this area should be explored Teach children with children when they are just 5-7 years old. Nearly quarter (28 per cent) about work thought it should be left until they are at a younger age, teachers say aged 9-11. The survey of 250 teachers and members of senior leadership teams was commissioned by Education and As many as half of primary school Employers in collaboration with the teachers (47 per cent) believe children NAHT heads' union and Tes to find should start learning about the world of out how UK primary schools are work aged 5 or under, a poll has shown. responding to the Department for The overwhelming majority (97 per cent) Education’s Career Strategy, published responsible for organising these activities. said that introducing children to the last December. Employers’ engagement in career world of work can be a move towards This strategy emphasises the role that Curriculum- learning activities was also highly valued, broadening aspirations and help bringing primary schools can play in introducing with as many as 94 per cent saying they their learning to life. Similarly, 98 per children to the world of work. linked activities believed it was vital to invite volunteers cent said it would also help to challenge The poll also explored what schools are from the world of work to be involved in gender stereotypes about jobs and doing on the ground to develop pupils’ activities offered to children in primary. subjects. understanding of the world of work and Despite widespread support for careers- Asked what barriers had gotten in the The view that this should start early was the challenges they face in doing so. related learning, only one in three (33 way of them doing more with employers, per cent) had heard of the DfE strategy. time constraints were said to have been That being said, the vast majority (81 the biggest hindrance (60 per cent) per cent) said they had already organised with one teacher calling the curriculum activities in their schools to increase their overcrowded. Over a fifth of teachers understanding of the world of work. (22 per cent) said the pressure on data- The most common types of activity driven results squeezed the curriculum cited were curriculum-linked activities and restricted time to organise activities followed by “aspiration days”, numeracy linked to employers in schools. and literacy activities and “enterprise “I only organise things that fit in with days”. Nearly half (43 per cent) said their the curriculum objectives I am teaching,” schools organised such activities every one teacher said. “But I ask the visitors year, with almost as many saying these to be ready to talk about their jobs, were every term. alongside the other reasons why I have Just over half (53 per cent) said that invited them and invite the children to a member of the school’s staff was ask questions about their jobs.” 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

and The Fulham Boys Schools went on to argue the Grand Final motion: “This London Debate House would ban transport workers going on strike.” Challenge While London Debate Challenge is a competition, the focus is on teaching oracy – speaking and listening – skills which will be valuable far beyond the CAMERON HOUSE SCHOOL contest itself. To this end, the early stages 4 THE VALE, LONDON SW3 6AH of the competition comprised of teaching workshops and feedback sessions. Headmistress: Dina Mallett The competition, now in its 17th T: 020 7352 4040 www.cameronhouseschool.org year, was launched to tackle the lack of debating in the comprehensive school system. Working in line with the ESU’s efforts to broaden access to opportunities previously only found in the private Hammersmith and Fulham school sector, the competition aims state school crowned to inspire students of all educational backgrounds to discover their voices champions at London-wide and to practise debating in a fun and debate competition accessible way. “Being part of the ESU London ulham Boys’ School triumphed Debate Challenge has made our students over Lambeth’s Dunraven School much more politically aware,” Clare at the English-Speaking Union’s Arnold, a teacher at the runners-up FLondon Debate Challenge finals day. school Dunraven, said, speaking about A Springboard for Life The finals, which took place at how the competition has benefitted Dartmouth House on July 3rd, saw her students. “They’ve got so involved; schools from across London take part in the amount of research they’ve done •A Soaring Start a day of debating contests. is incredible and the workshops that The students, all aged between 11 we had with the ESU prior to the •Challenging Curriculum and 14, debated a range of topics such as competition greatly advanced their oracy whether smoking and nuclear weapons skills. For our school it’s been a fantastic •Established Excellence should be banned, to whether 14-year- opportunity from beginning to end and I ISI Report “Excellent" in all Categories olds should be allowed to vote in local would really recommend that all schools elections. Finalists Dunraven School do debating.”

Dylan. When Dylan discovers a cute boy named Boy Meets Jayden-Lee is staying in a neighbouring caravan, the Hamster holiday seems more bearable for him. Each of his By Birdie Milano thoughts and actions becomes centered around his dreamy crush. However, Kayla and the reader spot Publisher: Macmillan Jayden-Lee’s ignorance and disrespect for anyone Children’s Books different from him chapters before Dylan himself reaches this realization. Until about halfway through ISBN: 978-1-5098-4865-PB the novel, Dylan fails to notice another boy who is Reviewed by Erin Adelman striving for his attention behind the scenes. It is frustrating to watch Dylan strive for Jayden- (aged 18) Lee’s attention, especially after Jayden-Lee calls Dylan’s disabled brother retarded. Insecure and passive, Dylan is unable to stand up for his brother A human-sized, orange or himself to this gorgeous yet narrow-minded bully. hamster. A caravan holiday However, he is a lovable and funny narrator for whom you cannot help feeling secondhand park. A teenage boy hiding embarrassment as he is repeatedly caught in his sexuality from almost awkward situations. One moment his unique voice makes readers chuckle over an embarrassing everyone in his life. incident; only pages later, his subtle yet profound These seemingly unrelated elements are remarks will make readers ponder complex issues the foundation of Birdie Milano’s Boy such as sexuality and disabilities. Meets Hamster, a young adult novel As Dylan’s story unfolds, the reader partakes of with an LGBT focus. Narrated by a the burden he carries regarding his sexuality. Once humorous, quirky, fourteen-year-old it reaches its climatic peak, he decides to muster the named Dylan, the story begins with courage to be truthful with his parents. what will certainly be Dylan’s most Though the final chapters feel prolonged and boring summer holiday: a week in a burdened due to the inclusion of unnecessary events, caravan park with his family and best Dylan’s comical and compelling voice is enough friend, Kayla. Despite being named encouragement for readers to finish his story. After Park of the Year, Starcross Sands does his eventful stay at Starcross Sands, he emerges not have much going for it besides its confident and happier. Pie-O-Rama and fluffy, orange hamster Readers will be pleased with the novel’s ending mascot who seems to have it in for because it does not feel like an ending but like a new beginning for Dylan. 22 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Education

SUMMER ART GRADUATION SHOWS It’s Summer time and the graduation shows have been drawing in the crowds throughout London's Colleges and education institutions. This month KCWToday visited some of the graduates' work at Art Institution's in Wimbledon, Kensington, Westminster and Hammersmith & Fulham. Do keep a look out in your borough for the MA graduate shows which will be exhibiting their students' work soon.

and the following Awards were made: previously shortlisted for the Lynn film making...I write a lot of spoken The Mercers’ Prize for Music, Drama and Painter Stainer Prize, as well as the word pieces and put them through a University of the Visual Arts to Rose McGill. The Sculpture William Morris Prize said, computer voice, like a ‘siri’ voice online. I Prize to Iman Gay. The space Studio “...Painting for me is a pure field paste that on top of the visuals...” Arts: Award to Adam Baker. The Painters’ which deserves total devotion by Luc Wilkinson, in his final year on Wimbledon College of Art and Stainers’ Company Prize to Lizzie creators...I think the painting language the PTBM course, whose Summer Show Delandri. The Project Retreat Prize to leaves room for reform...I intend to piece was played during the evening, said, magnificent kaleidoscope of Charlie Ratcliffe. The Studio Award for combine Eastern Philosophy Theories “...I am creating soundscapes Artworks in various media, by generosity was won by David Head and with the Western way of realisation.” instrumentally. I use a guitar, a little final year students, formed the Laurie Hill won the Video Club Prize. Michelle Bondulich, Final Year keyboard, a synthesizer, drums and 'SummerA Show' at Wimbledon College Agate Hoffman won the Practical Prize Costume Design student from Germany, sometimes a vocal. I have 15 effect pedals this year. Dignitaries were full of praise, and Ming Ying was shortlisted for the who grew up in Spain, said, that process the sound and make it like prize winners beamed, their friends Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize. “My work focuses a lot on the something from the other end...I do dark cheered them wildly and music played The ‘Live Events’ were both relationship between the performer, ambient soundscapes vaguely inspired by loudly as proud parents surveyed the professional and entertaining. Agate space and the costume...What inspires horror tracks...” scene with bewilderment! Hoffman gave a live painting show called me is finding a way to tell the story Sculpture student Rebecca Brennan, Exhibits were displayed from the The Dining Room, Zak Tunda presented or character within the garment and who was homeless at 13, said, following disciplines; MFA Fine Art, a fascinating tattoo show and Antonio movement. I tend to move away from “My pieces for the show are based on Painting, Print and Time Based Media, Sideras was popular with his show, Will fabrics and use silicone and fabric that German wartime sniper tents which were Costume Interpretation and Design, You Be Mime? can be dissolved...I spend a lot of time in worn as clothes and then could become Sculpture, Set Design for Screen, There was a wonderful atmosphere the casting workshop...” a tent...I am working in concrete so the Technical Arts and Special Effects and of youthful creativity in the Exhibition Laurie Hill, final year student in tents can be permanent shelters..." Theatre Design. Halls and the students were keen to talk the Print and Time Based Media The Summer Show at Wimbledon David Crow, Pro Vice-Chancellor, to viewers. Here are are some of their Department (PTBM) said, College revealed much talent, enthusiasm Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and thoughts voiced in interviews: “It is a really interesting Course and originality. Good luck to the young Wimbledon Colleges, welcomed guests Ming Ying, a previous winner of because it is so experimental...You can do artists. They have worked very hard. and opened the Prize Giving Ceremony The Khojaly Peace Prize for Art and also anything you want...I do a lot of video Marian Maitland

my surroundings and the people in it... use it to amplify history...... My piece for the show is a metal chair The support and drive of the students University of the construction, composed of or emanated here will be something I hope never to Arts: from, a sixth of a circle. That initial lose” Chelsea College of Art unit can be enlarged into three sixths While viewing the art works of the whole, which creates a seating displayed I particularly liked Emma arrangement in the form of a semi Aparici Fortuny’s Race to Take Off, circle..." an airport themed game which, she Danai Batskou, Graduate Diploma explained to me, children can practise The newest names in Art Design, Interior Design student, said “her chosen challenges in case they ever happen, Art of Chelsea College © Mary Lo. Photograph Fashion Communication and piece focuses on a coffee shop design improve their travel knowledge and gain Performance had their chance to show inspired by city life...This project is part confidence. We discussed age range and their work at the Chelsea College of Arts the design for my own business idea, a she thought 6 plus was appropriate. 'Summer Show'. Graduating students coffee shop in Brighton..." I was intrigued to meet Mary Lo in BA Fine Art, BA Graphic Design Molly Burdett, from the BA Graphic showing her exhibit of lovely clothes, all Communication, BA Interior and Spatial Design Communication Department, hand made, including the dyes. It was Design, FdA Interior Design, BA Textile said, entitled, Not your f***ing Chinese Doll Design, Graduate Diploma Fine Art and ideas. It was noticeable how they cared “For the 'Show' I have made a Mary, who is from China spoke movingly Graduate Diploma Interior Design also about each other and how they all had short documentary film about the last about racism and misrepresentation exhibited their designs. an overpowering drive to create. They pigeon racing communities in London, symbolised by the clothes she created. Chelsea College is an impressive were very politically aware of the many exploring the problems they face today... Congratulations to the Graduates building in a prestigious location. It problems facing society today. Their Why are there so few women involved?... and their Tutors for an enjoyable, mind has several spacious studios and work artistic output was amazingly varied and it is an overlooked sport...” provoking Summer Show set in that shops and the huge courtyard is perfect gifted. Nikitah Patel, studying Fine Art, said, centre of excellence, Chelsea College of for ceremonial occasions. It added to “For my project I have chosen to Arts. the pleasure of this Summer Show with Records of Interviews are revealing: follow the journey of the Phoenix Palm Marian Maitland the Cheer Leaders, prize awards, and Lukas Gschwandther from Salzburg. Tree on Lambeth Bridge Roundabout 'live performances' setting the mood of Austria said, for its origin to future location...... I University of the Arts: celebration. "I have tried to achieve a have now developed a particular Chelsea College of Arts. It was an uplifting experience to concentrated sensitivity towards my work approach which takes an object,as 16 John Islip Street mingle with the students and hear their in the form of shaping the awareness of seemingly ordinary as a houseplant, and SW1P 4 JU 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

more bite-sized approach makes the show less approachable to the casual Royal College of attendee, but the sheer ‘gee-whiz’ quality of many of the exhibits makes up for it. Art: Kensington The kind of projects on display have no common theme, devices that allow Show you to create 3d sculptures with your

By Max Feldman own flesh and blood hands sit next © RCA Communications Photographs to sleek neo-futurist undersea diving equipment that resembles a second skin he Royal College of Art’s more than a bodysuit. Whilst some of Kensington Show takes place the products can be appreciated without just a couple of steps away from corralling it’s respective graduate and the great Victorian shadow of the Royal shining a bright light in their face [the T slightly Mad Max looking outfit that Albert Hall. In stark contrast to the richly historical setting however, the absorbs carbon dioxide is fairly self exhibits on display belong wholly to the explanatory] there are others which future. Whilst most of the Royal College purposes are defiantly oblique. Whilst of Arts graduate shows are effectively art perhaps having more text explaining exhibitions, the Kensington Show is a each exhibit [one or two sentences is the platform for the RCA’s design students norm] could have made the audience and as a result more resembles a tech- experience flow quicker, its frequently showcase crossed with an apocalyptic fascinating to have a creator to proudly fashion show. explain an exhibit’s function and allay This TED-talk ready atmosphere is any suspicions about whether its use both the show’s greatest weakness and could unintentionally plunge humanity strength; all of the exhibits have a brief into a Black Mirror-style dystopia . descriptor next to them, but to really get Personally I was drawn into the a proper understanding of their form/ Myror, which appeared to be a normal utility you need to have a chat with the mirror, covered by pulsing data which designer themselves. Said graduates faded in and out of existence across hover around their work like butterflies its surface like sparking neurons. The admittedly sounds somewhat terrifying, app in your phone. Technology in the and are all enthusiastic to explain what explanation revealed that the Myror is the reasoning is that it’s able to use 21st century has practically rocketed they’ve been building towards over their to be used like a normal mirror, but with this data to evaluate everything from forwards; a visit to the Kensington Show studies, but the sheer volume of exhibits the catch that the whole time you check your posture to how long you brush certainly demonstrates that this forward means that it’s borderline impossible to your reflection the Myror is constantly your teeth and offers you health data momentum will, if anything, only fully experience the entire show. This watching and scanning you. Whilst that and advice on everything through an increase.

fields, users could feel and hear normally- undetectable electromagnetic fields, RCA which highlighted how the minutiae of day-to-day activities can lead to a stress Communications build-up. Show Over the course of its 30 years, the By James Billot Animation Department of School of Communications have become recognised as a world leader in the field. Students can choose from one of documentary animation, experimental animation and narrative animation in the three specialist routes available From 20th century Iranian postcards to them at the school. Through a to a 15ft inflatable sheep, the Royal combination of expert tutoring and College of Art’s Communication independent research, students are Show was a sensory emancipation for a well equipped to handle the countless gaggle of journalists whose specialisms changes in developments not only in rarely extend beyond grammar, syntax production methods, but also how and a fancy word or two. The central it is conceptualised, distributed and themes of the exhibition, animation, positioned. And no, in spite of what the information experience design and visual inset photo may suggest, students are not communication, showcased the ways in all budding Wallace and Gromit creators which automation has revolutionised the (though some may be). work of this year’s RCA students and The exhibition also offers a marked infused itself into the broader artistic degree of comic relief for visitors. After landscape. passing the inflatable sheep by the While such exploratory themes entrance, one can find a wall adorned may not have existed in the troglodyte students, as with the entire College, are gender dysphoria to plastic wastage in with Portsmouth F.C. scarves, perhaps pre-Internet age, they have since not merely creating art for its own sake the ocean. Courtesy of virtual reality left neglected after the club’s honourable become a mainstay in the artistic world. but rather, they are exhibiting design tools, visitors could gain wholly unique retreat from the Premier League. Past the At the School of Communications, solutions to pressing global problems perspectives into these problems through wall, there are a series of other displays fast-becoming one of RCA’s most that, they hope, will enrich the worldview the immersive nature of the displays. including a forensic examination into the popular, postgraduates are encouraged of its visitors. This level of immersion was particularly culture of British hen parties, a graphic to discover new methods of expression In the exhibition, held at The pertinent to the animated portrayal of novel about Cumbria and Kendal Mint through technological innovation and Westworks in White City, students mental health. By wearing a headset Cake sculptures. The exhibition is as incorporating it into their work. Comms grappled with issues ranging from device that amplified electromagnetic comprehensive as it is eclectic. 24 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

Literature “Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing. But stealing his car, that's larceny” James M Cain

path that seems to wind privilege; he had even wanted to sing straight to hell. Cora, sick opera as a young man. When that dream Anniversary of her life, convinces Frank was frustrated, he got as far from it as that getting rid of her he could, creatively and geographically; husband is the only route to by the time he wrote Postman he was freedom and a better life. in Los Angeles, having fled his birth Predictably, things and breeding on the East Coast, into The Postman don’t exactly work out as the welcoming arms of the de rigueur planned. Death, when it heavy drinking and inner demons which Always Rings comes is not the elegant define any tortured artist worth their salt. murder of a hit, but the Like many of the great alcoholic writers Twice messy and inefficient work of his day he turned to screenwriting By Max Feldman of a man with no talent for Hollywood to keep the lights on. for the task, but the grim He was contemptuous of the industry determination to finish. that would treat him so well, going as rom its first sentence ‘they threw The novel was instantly far as to sneer “there’s no such thing as me off the hay truck around noon’ notorious and shocked even a good (film)” to which an unusually James M Cain’s The Postman Cain’s fellow crime writers. accommodating Hollywood answered FAlways Rings Twice unveils a bleak Raymond Chandler, who with nearly instant adaptations of three world throbbing with sexual obsession, was years from finishing his of his novels, including the immortal spasms of lurid violence carving its own debut, The Big Sleep Double Indemnity. boiling nights like degenerate lightning. (1939), was appalled at the Postman was the last of these Dashiell Hammet (who like Cain was moral turpitude of Cain’s adaptations to be released which feels born in Maryland) had helped to create work compared to his own somewhat inevitable. Whilst it was at the hardboiled noir, but with Postman, comparatively uplifting time the most (in)famous of his works, almost unthinkably released as early as tale of pornographers even managing to get itself banned in 1934, Cain took it to places it would and nymphomaniacs. Boston for a period, the atmosphere take decades for other writers to dare “Everything he touches,” was just too fervid for the cinematic to approximate. The book tells the story Chandler fumed about standards of the day. Even Cain himself of Frank, a drifter who takes a job at a Cain, “smells like a billy found it necessary to step back from the dusty motorway diner and falls for the goat (…) He’s every kind of long breathless shriek of the novel in his Greek owner’s seductive wife, Cora. Their writer I detest (…) a Proust later works. But regardless of the dubious affair, full of lust and overtones of frenzy in greasy overalls (…) the merits of this respectability, we can be (“Her lips stuck out in a way that made offal of literature.” thankful that Cain was able to carve this me want to mash them in for her” is not Unlike Hammett who black diamond from some deep seam a conventional line for a romantic lead) had been an actual detective, in our collective unconscious. It glitters leads Frank and Cora down a frenzied Cain came from relative darkly to this day.

found clout to be seen as something of a kingmaker in literary circles. Its rise The Man Booker wasn’t painless, however, as it found itself at 50 caught between the relative indifference By Max Feldman of the broader public (for some reasons

literary awards are seen as less sexy than Man Group The © Photograph the Oscars or Golden Globes) and the snobbishness of the literary intelligentsia who denounce the whole thing as nothing but a popularity contest, and forum for the judges to show off their If the average man’s life is eighty-one taste. years, than the Man Booker Prize is In 2002, the Prize was acquired by probably getting to the point where he the mysterious Man Group (they’re the would be buying Ferraris and leaving his world’s largest publically traded hedge wife and children for a wild fling with fund company for those desperate to someone far too young and immature know) who added their name to the for it (say the Costa Book Awards). prize. Since the acquisition, the redubbed The point being is that whilst the Man Booker Prize began a process of self-styled ‘premiere English language gradual detente towards the previously literary prize’ has been able to cloak verboten subject of American literature, itself in respectability due to its relative finally relenting completely and allowing venerability, albeit nothing like the been the spiritual home for this kind of Krishnapur; Heat and Dust; Staying On). them into the competition in 2013 as respectability that its foreign cousins thing. Man Booker winners from Hilary This was only the beginning as the the final demise of the Prize’s original the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes lazily Mantel to Kazuo Ishiguro offered their Booker then went on a multicultural spree Britcentric mission statement. command; it’s not above making the thoughts on everything from the art of through the English-speaking world However in the 21st century the prize occasional populist swerve. As a result, writing history to the future of the novel. (excluding America as being far too has unexpectedly come into its own. to mark its fiftieth the Man Booker is The breadth of authors and subjects on gauche a step). The next two decades of The return of physical books to market inviting the British Public (yeah, those display show something interesting about Booker recognised writers from Australia supremacy as desirable physical objects animals) to vote for what they’re calling the Man Booker (along with literature (Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey); India (in retaliation to e-books) have made the Golden Booker out of the five decades in general) over the years: namely (Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry); the kind of taste-making that the Man of varied winners. that the rise and influence of foreign Nigeria (Ben Okri); South Africa Booker goes in for a hot ticket. The Prize Alongside the white hot excitement literature has been able to subsume even ( JM Coetzee), and Canada (Michael may never be quite as important as it of this popularity contest, in early July, the ostensibly British-focused prize. Ondaatje). Literary commenters began to wants to be, or indeed thinks it is, but the Man Booker’s organisation also threw Even in the first decade of its existence use the phrase ‘the Empire strikes back’, it has spotlighted a huge array of great themselves a one-off literary festival at the then Booker prize went to three presumably whilst smirking insufferably, literature over its 50 years on the scene. the Southbank Centre, which has long separate novels about India (The Siege of and the Booker began to use its new Here’s to 50 more! 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

NDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) is the subject of this month’s poetry page and here are a The Mower to selection of poems considered to be some of his finest. the Glow Worms Bermudas, The Definition of Love and The Mower to the Glow A Ye living lamps, by whose dear light Worms demonstrate the breadth of Marvell’s poetic abilities and The nightingale does sit so late, the range of themes, uses of imagery and language he employs And studying all the summer night, in his work. Her matchless songs does meditate;

Marvell (who in 1657 had been Latin secretary to John Milton, the famed author of Ye country comets, that portend Paradise Lost) is celebrated as one of the 17th Centuries greatest poets. He wrote in No war nor prince’s funeral, the aftermath of the English Civil War and under the rule of Oliver Cromwell; the Shining unto no higher end English Civil War had thrown the country into turmoil setting man against man, Than to presage the grass’s fall; family against family and faith against faith. The country was torn apart and under Cromwell’s leadership it was believed that the nation would be healed. Marvell’s Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame poems provides interesting insights into these times. In Bermudas, a group of men To wand’ring mowers shows the way, in exile spot the Bermudas in the distance and begin to sing a song in its honour, That in the night have lost their aim, celebrating paradise and a new way of life free from religious persecution and war. And after foolish fires do stray; The origins of this poem clearly demonstrate to whom Marvell offered his political allegiance. William Dutton, a student of Marvell’s, was a ward of Oliver Cromwell’s. Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Dutton and Marvell had been lodging with John Oxenbridge at Eton who had been Since Juliana here is come, recently elected a commissioner for the government of the Bermudas. In turn Marvell For she my mind hath so displac’d paid tribute to Oxenbridge with this poem in his honour. That I shall never find my home. Marvell excelled in writing about love too, as seen here in The Definition of Love. The key point to this poem is that ‘divine’ love can only be reached through despair and unrequited love, rather than a love that exists with the hope of being realised. It is hopeless love that touches the soul most deeply. It has been suggested that Marvell was gay and therefore this was a coded poem about the hopelessness of his own The Definition Bermudas situation although there is no firm evidence for this. Mower to the Glow Worms is a charming example of Marvell’s poetic versatility and of Love Where the remote Bermudas ride his observations on nature. As he is cutting his way through the grass the narrator In th’ ocean’s bosom unespy’d, praises the glow worms for lighting up his way. Yet, distracted by thoughts of his love From a small boat, that row’d along, for Juliana, he is saddened by the fact the glow worms’ efforts to make his job easier My love is of a birth as rare The list’ning winds receiv’d this song. are wasted. In terms of language Marvel plays with ideas of light and dark not only As ’tis for object strange and high; for literal but also emotional purposes. It was begotten by Despair What should we do but sing his praise Marvel had always been considered a fierce and loyal patriot. He was also a loyal Upon Impossibility. That led us through the wat’ry maze friend to John Milton who during the Restoration had been jailed for his political Unto an isle so long unknown, leanings. Marvell used his own political status to have the poet freed and it has been Magnanimous Despair alone And yet far kinder than our own? argued that he probably saved Milton’s life. His life was cut short by a sudden fever Could show me so divine a thing Where he the huge sea-monsters wracks, and he died in 1678. Where feeble Hope could ne’er have That lift the deep upon their backs, flown, He lands us on a grassy stage, But vainly flapp’d its tinsel wing. Safe from the storm’s and prelates’ rage. He gave us this eternal spring And yet I quickly might arrive Which here enamels everything, Where my extended soul is fixt, And sends the fowls to us in care, But Fate does iron wedges drive, On daily visits through the air. And always crowds itself betwixt. He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night; For Fate with jealous eye does see And does in the pomegranates close Two perfect loves, nor lets them close; Jewels more rich than Ormus shows. Their union would her ruin be, He makes the figs our mouths to meet And her tyrannic pow’r depose. And throws the melons at our feet, But apples plants of such a price, And therefore her decrees of steel No tree could ever bear them twice. Us as the distant poles have plac’d, With cedars, chosen by his hand, (Though love’s whole world on us doth From Lebanon, he stores the land, wheel) And makes the hollow seas that roar Not by themselves to be embrac’d; Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) Unless the giddy heaven fall, The Gospel’s pearl upon our coast, And earth some new convulsion tear; And in these rocks for us did frame And, us to join, the world should all A temple, where to sound his name. Be cramp’d into a planisphere. Oh let our voice his praise exalt, Till it arrive at heaven’s vault; As lines, so loves oblique may well Which thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Themselves in every angle greet; Echo beyond the Mexic Bay. But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Thus sung they in the English boat An holy and a cheerful note, Therefore the love which us doth bind, And all the way, to guide their chime, But Fate so enviously debars, With falling oars they kept the time. Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. Compiled & Edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD 26 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining out

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at The Stafford, Stafford The © Photographs 16-18 St James Place SW1 By David Hughes

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an knowledge improve thirst? the Mauritania, but few such bars have of one of Fleming’s baddies. See, I told Drink has always had a mixed survived today. you the connection was sometimes set of reviews; for every red wine By tradition, the Stafford has a tenuous, but as you sip on your artfully Cdrinker who has sighed with relief that French Head Barman, and whatever the blended Sipsmith Gin, ‘Rhubarb liqueur, it contains healthy statins, or every beer outcome of Brexit, we should definitely Framboise, Champagne and Elderflower’ drinker that has smugly noted that it keep the current incumbent Benoit do you care? I suspect not, though I’d can reduce stress, and therefore heart Provost, who has been in this place advise tucking into some bar snacks problems, there have always been the since 1993. The latest line of cocktails (which are very good) to offset your scientists and naysayers to offer some have the locale as their theme, which exploration of this rather excellent new doom-laden counter balance. It turns out you may find a trifle tenuous in places, cocktail list. that statins only benefit women between but if you are like me, this will become After such a happy time at the bar the the ages of 49 and 54 who have blue less and less important as the afternoon devil urged me to carry on, but the angel eyes, a squint, and wear a size 6 shoe, progresses. The Oppenheimer celebrates said time to quit, so I compromised with and the beer only gives real effect when the auctioneers Christies who gratefully just one more for the road. Three Dots taken as part, and I have to have a small flogged The Oppenheimer Blue, the world’s and a Dash was Morse code for victory, titter at this point, of a healthy lifestyle. largest and most expensive vivid blue and so much better a sign off than the Apparently, a derisory 0.859 of a pint is diamond ever to appear at auction. potential SOS of any more booze. In the optimum amount, and no doubt it’s That’ll be a mere $57.6 million please. case you fear this place is a recruiting recommended to walk a mile to get to Cash or card sir? Your version will come shop for alcoholics, most drinks do come it. Drink is popularly supposed to see off in a cunningly angled glass filled with with Titanic threateningly generous a few otherwise healthy brain cells, but Beluga Vodka, Italicus, St Germain and slabs of ice, so you are hydrating in a I wanted to test the theory that I might All were very interesting, and Frank is lemongrass syrup. It sits on a revolving rather gentle fashion whilst getting in have a few more to sacrifice if I took in obviously a well-known and beloved black plinth, spot lit from below and your alternative 5 a day. I’m not sure if I some interesting facts first. Taking the character having spent half of his glowing an enticing and luminous blue. came off smarter or not from this little angel on one shoulder, and the devil on life at the Stafford, but after all this Yum. encounter, but I like to think I still retain the other, I set off to St James to find out. intellectualism I felt that I had stored up I sampled my partner’s Birdcage enough to answer questions, and “When Head concierge Frank Laino of the enough credit to take him up on his offer (Rum, Rum, Frangelico, Pistachio have I next got a free afternoon coming Stafford Hotel was offering a 2 hour of a trip to the American Bar. There used Syrup & lime) then ordered The QM. up?” might be top of the list! walk around the locale taking in such to be a lot of American Bars in central Keeping on the gin led me next to The delights as the Greco-Roman splendour London hotels in the 1930s, and they Moonraker. MI5 and MI6 officers used The American Bar of Spencer House, hat specialists Lock were all vying for the lucrative North to hang around the local clubs, as did at the The Stafford, and Co, John Lobb the bootmakers, American visitors steaming over on Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, 16-18 St James Place SW1. Pickering Place and Berry Brothers. luxury liners such as The Queen Mary and and The Moonraker was the invention Cocktails from £19.50 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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The views are beautiful www.bateauxlondon.com dance floor over the course of the meal, and Apricot Torte served with apricot with plenty of space to oneself (unlike By Max Feldman but thankfully we were able to evade her coulis, crème anglaise and mint poached the experience of taking a crowded predatory gaze. apricots which was crisp and creamy and river taxi where you’re crowded inside The meal itself consists of five brought the meal to a satisfactory close. on plastic seats), perfect for a romantic The concept behind Bateaux Cruises is distinct courses, all included in the fee The real delight of the cruise comes evening. For the Dinner cruise, the a simple one: if eating on the riverfront for the cruise itself (sadly drinks are from wandering up from between courses price comes out to 82.00, which is is good than eating up and down the extra), which are served staggered over and relaxing of the open air top deck, pricey for a good, but not scintillating, river can only be better. There are several the cruise. The jewel in the crown was delightfully coated with Astroturf and meal. However when you combine it different kinds of meals/voyages for undoubtedly the Smoked Mackerel cushioned sofas perfect for watching this with cruising through the best scenery the hungry would-be mariner to select Rillettes, served with Horseradish glorious summer weather. Travelling on that London has to offer on a beautiful from: Lunch, Dinner, Afternoon Tea mousse. The whole dish had a wild, the Thames is to travel through London’s summer evening and it’s worth its weight along with Black Tie events on Sunday sparklingly fresh taste that came together history, towering Victorian factories in gold. evenings. My girlfriend and I sprang for the mid-week dinner cruise and, despite The views are my best efforts to ruin our evening by being late enough to miss departure, we beautiful with were safely ensconced on board when the plenty of space floating restaurant slid out of its harbour next to Embankment Station at 7.45pm. to oneself. The cruise lasts a cool two hours and Perfect for © Eleanor Nelson Photograph forty five, first wending its way as far a romantic south as Wandsworth before steaming up to Canary Wharf before returning evening. to its berth at 10.30.The dining area is in the ship’s hold, to protect against any ill-timed storms presumably, though the chamber is lined in pleasingly large windows. 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Join Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa- light installations that examine the sense rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory and chill out surrounded by relaxing music, Laa and Po in a show full of love and of intimacy yet anxious unfamiliarity animal lanterns and entertainment. And laughter as they explore the magical we experience with our own bodies. Ends July 31 when you’ve worked up an appetite, enjoy world of Teletubbyland. Look out for the She particularly focuses on the means Camera Ludica an array of street food vendors offering Tubby Phone, Noo-noo and the Sun Baby we deploy to control these bodies, both Photographers’ Gallery exciting flavours and unique dishes from in a fun, bright and safe world which technological and cultural. The exhibition Camera Ludica follows recent around the globe. This is no ordinary captures young children’s imaginations presents a group of recent work from phenomena of in-game photography, from feeding time at the Zoo, and herbivores and encourages them to explore the world the Zabludowicz Collection: three films screenshotting to photography simulations, and carnivores are kept equally happy. around them. Join in and enjoy beloved The Udder (2014), Blood (2015), and Blue from game mods created by players to 020 7722 3333 features from the TV series along with Roses (2016): installed as a trilogy for the photo modes developed by game studios. Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY brand new songs. first time, alongside a sound and light Through three chapters, we reveal a new zsl.org 020 8985 2424 installation Faint with Light (2016). understanding of photography and its 291 Mare Street, London, United 020 7428 8940 relationship to simulations and computer July 18 Kingdom, E8 1EJ 176 Prince of Wales Rd, Belsize Park, games. Chamber Tots: In Space hackneyempire.co.uk London NW5 3PT 020 7087 9300 Wigmore Hall zabludowiczcollection.com 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London Music-making workshop for children FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY W1F 7LW aged 3 – 5 and their parents or carers. The Ends July 22 thephotographersgallery.org.uk workshops are specifically designed for the Ongoing Insight Astronomy Photographer of the set age groups so please ensure you book Meet the Neighbours Planetarium Show Year Exhibition July 28 for the appropriate session. Maximum 3 Royal Observatory Royal Observatory Topsy-Turvy child, 2 adult tickets per booking for each Tour the solar system and beyond and Every year astrophotographers from around The Wallace Collection event. 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Packed manner of celestial spectacles: moons, stars, ( Jim Broadbent) and Arthur Sullivan wigmore-hall.org.uk full of spectacular sights and fun facts, this planets, galaxies, nebulae and some of the (Allan Corduner) looks set to split after interactive show will be presented live by great astronomical events of the last year. the comparative failure of their latest Ends August 26 an astronomer from the Royal Observatory. 020 8858 4422 collaboration, Princess Ida. Sullivan is keen The Everywhere Bear 020 8858 4422 Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ to prove himself as a serious composer, Polka Theatre Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ The Everywhere Bear has a wonderful time rmg.co.uk with the children in Class One, but one day he gets more than he bargained for Ends July 22 when he falls unnoticed from a backpack Marianna Simnett SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT and embarks on his own big adventure! 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Wilderness Festival spas and therapies to nurse away those 2-5 August 2018 Oxfordshire hangovers. Price: £189.00 Headliners: Chic & Nile Rodgers, Reading and Leeds Festival: Bastille, Jon Hopkins 24th-26th August. Reading and Leeds. If there’s one thing Britain’s festivals do Genre: Pop/Rock/Metal. Price: £212.50. brilliantly, it’s boutique bashes. One of Headliners: Fall Out Boy, Kings of Leon, the more posh and pretty gatherings Kendrick Lamar in the event calendar, Oxfordshire’s Definitely leaning towards harder Wilderness Festival is the type of place rocking stuff than your average festival, where you can watch a bona fide legend Reading and Leeds tend to attract a hard on the stage, enjoy a banquet feast, partying crowd. Fans of pop-punk played a science lecture, soak in a hot tub, at ear-splitting volume will find plenty to and watch a one man performance of like and the addition of Kendrick Lamar Shakespeare’s Hamlet. should pull in rap aficionados in the hundreds. However those looking for a Boom Town: 9th-12th August more chilled out festival might be better Matterley Estate, Winchester. served elsewhere, SUMMER FESTIVALS Genre: Alternative. Price: £212. Headline Acts: Gorillaz, Die Artwood, Limp Bizket An artsy rollercoaster of a festival, BoomTown is an actual mock ‘town’ Beat Herder: 17th-19th July hilst June’s heat-wave packed with live music, stand-up Orbital, Soulwax, Django Django comedy and arts and crafts. Blending might have lulled Genre: Dance/Alternative. Price: £158. ska, reggae, dance, dub and swing with a Headline Acts: Crystal Fighters, Sleaford festivalW goers into a false sense dash of hard rock, the festival is covered Mods, Kelis. For those whose tastes run with incredibly elaborate stages and of security, even the threat of more towards musical outliers. There’s decorations with fancy dress heavily plenty of Breakbeat, Reggae and Dance- torrential rain and rivers of encouraged. Boomtown comes complete Punk for those with more specialised with an ever evolving backstory which mud can’t keep music festivals tastes than an average festival caters for. sets the theme of each year’s festival. from being an integral part of South West Four: 25-26 August the British summer. Houghton Festival: 9-12 August 2018 London King’s Lynn Genre: Electro/House Price: £112.50 Whether you’re a bearded Headline Acts: Ricardo Villalobos, Headliners: Marshmello, Chase & hipster or a head-banging Andrew Weatherall, Ben UFO Status, Armin van Buuren, DJ EZ Price: 212.00 Whilst London isn’t exactly crying out black metal aficionado there’s Few festivals, if any, make as remarkable for more clubs South West Four manages a festival for every taste. After an impression after only one edition as to justify its existence; an open-air party Houghton. Curated by British electronic palace that sorts out the essentials first: Glastonbury it can be easy to music veteran Craig Richards and music, music and more music. A coming assume that you’ve missed produced by another firm favourite together of the EDM world, their Gottwood, the festival’s debut won praise understudies, and up-and-comings stars, the boat as far as festivals are on basically all counts: lineup, scheduling, the four stages of house, techno, minimal, Benicassim: 19th-22nd July sound quality, location, atmosphere. Let’s trance and electronica will fill your ears concerned, so KCW Today are Spain. hope they can keep it up. for the evening, before you head out to Genre: Pop/Rock. €142. Headline Acts: offering a list of some of the one of the countless after parties. Travis Scott, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, best festivals going this late in Liam Gallagher Festival No.6: 6-9 September, Due to the nearby beaches and good summer; both old favourites Portmeirion weather, Benicassim manages to draw Price: £180.00 and underground hits. in as many as 50,000 festival goers Headliners: The The, Franz Ferdinand, determined to have fun in the sun. Much Friendly Fires more of a party festival than the relatively Almost every festival claims to be chilled out Primavera, Benicassim is ‘unique’, but in the case of this North regularly attended by huge numbers of Wales’ curiosity it’s a fairly solid claim. Britons hoping to escape the inevitable Partly due to its setting in a faux- mud of the traditional English festival Italian village, and partly because of its and the music reflects this, with a strong intriguing programme of music, arts Anglo influence. & culture, debates, workshops, food &

Green Man Festival: 16-19 August, drink, comedy and more. Cambridge Folk Festival: Brecon Beacons 2nd-5th August, Cambridge. Headliners: The War On Drugs, Fleet Bestival: 7th-10th September Genre: Folk/Pop. Price: £167 Foxes, John Grant, Grizzly Bear Isle of Wight: Latitude Festival: 12th- 15th July .Headliners: First Aid Kit, Patti Smith, As far as festival locations go, Green Genre: Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Alternative. Henham Park, Suffolk. John Prike, Man Festival is one of the best in the Price: £196. Headliners: The xx, A Tribe Genre: Pop/Indie. Price: £197.50 The Cambridge Folk Festival has been business with its stunning backdrop of Called Quest, Pet Shop Boys, Justice Headline Acts: The Killers, Solange, going strong since 1964 and is steeped the Brecon Beacons’ Black Mountains Coming at the close of festival season, Alt-J in tradition and atmosphere. Though in Wales, and the folk-led lineup fits Bestival has something for everybody; More of a European type of festival recently with its increasingly more pop it perfectly. Hidden in the hills are with circuses, poetry readings, comedy, with an emphasis given to Comedy, Art, oriented line-up, the Folk aspect is 1,500 performers to discover across the live performance on top of a lineup Poetry, Dance and Literature rather than sometimes found more in the audience comedy, theatre and literary worlds, unconstrained by genre, it’s almost a purely musical experience. than the artists. complemented by the host of ’ local guaranteed that even veteran festival ales and ciders on offer, and the various cynics will enjoy. 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 EVENTS online: www.KCWToday.co.uk 8 1 TRIBAL ART LONDON TRIBAL ART TAL

traditions and ceremonies of the African past are lost forever. African Twilight: African Twilight The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of The African Continent by the famous & Tribal Art photographers Carol Beckwith and London 2018 Angela Fisher is the culmination of By Max Feldman 15 years of work. The pair travelled thousands of miles to some of the remote 5 - 8 SEPTEMBER 2017 places on earth to capture photographic evidence of these vanishing traditions OPENING PREVIEW 4 SEPTEMBER frica is a continent in flux. The and their practitioners. Shockingly, at MALL GALLERIES, THE MALL, LONDON SW1 myriad countries and cultures the time of writing over 40% of the FULL DETAILS AND EXHIBITORS LIST CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB SITE WWW.TRIBALARTLONDON.COM which that stretch across the photography the pair captured represents cradle of humanity have leapt forwards cultures and practices that no longer A exist. Top: Young Sala mpasu Initiates Leave the Sacred Forest on dramatically over the course of the 18 African Twilight is a monumental the Shoulders of their Masked Mentors, DR Congo. upcoming exhibition consisting of 85 years of the 21st century and show no Bottom: Hadza hunters overlooking Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. piece of work, an 864 page journey photographs from the vast collection signs of slowing. Whilst Africa has The Hadza are one of the last three remaining hunter/ alongside 10 short video films. There will always been a crucible of change, the through a world already fading into gatherer groups in Africa history. Alongside the book is an Photographs © Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher be many events organised by Portobello downside is many of the most ancient Road’s Tribal Gathering London gallery. Founded over twenty years ago by Bryan Reeves, the Gallery has become the heart of tribal art in the capital. The upcoming Tribal Art London (5-8th September) organised by Reeves at the Mall Galleries is the UK’s premier and only specialist collectors’ fair for tribal art and is the only way to get an early look at African Twilight. Among speakers this year are Rebecca Bray, Assistant Curator of the upcoming Royal Academy exhibition, Oceania, (29 September-10 December 2018) and Tony Eccles of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. In addition to helping promote vital pieces of art and history like African Twilight and fairs and events throughout the year, Tribal Gathering also hosts free lectures and talks covering a huge variety of subjects related to indigenous culture. Whilst the modern world is borne ceaselessly into an uncertain future, it has never been more vital to celebrate and preserve our past.

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present her Arts Council funded project in progress Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway July 19-20 Prison. This collection of dramatic Killymuck monologues aims to creatively retell the Omnibus Theatre story of the notorious London prison from Inspired by real events, Killymuck 1852 (when it first opened its gates) to is a housing estate built on 1955 (when the last woman to be hanged a paupers’ graveyard in 1970 in Britain was executed within its walls). vb √ v s Ireland. Niamh The poems adopt a range of interesting navigates life through the parameters of perspectives, including the voices of actual growing up, with the trials and tribulations prisoners, staff and other influential people of being a kid from the benefit class system. involved in the prison’s history, to create a Lack of opportunity, educational barriers, polyphonic (many-voiced) retelling. impoverishment, addiction and depression 020 7955 7229 are the norms as the struggle to escape the 10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD underclass stereotype becomes a priority. lse.ac.uk 020 7498 4699 1 Clapham Common North Side, London August 1 SW4 0QW Before Shakespeare omnibus-clapham.org The National Archives A research project, based at the University Ends August 28 of Roehampton and King’s College The Last Days of Anne Boleyn London, that explores the earliest Tower of London commercial playhouses of Elizabethan This summer step into 1536 and follow England. These were pioneering, unusual the last 17 days of Anne Boleyn in a new and sometimes shocking spaces. They outdoor theatre performance on the South also hosted a range of extraordinary and Lawn at the Tower of London. The Last innovative plays, which warrant greater Days of Anne Boleyn explores her tragic presence in contemporary performance. final days at the famous fortress, from her In this talk, the project team will ask imprisonment and interrogation, through the fundamental question, ‘what is to her trial and execution. Suitable for a playhouse?’, and explore surviving all ages, the performance is a theatrical documents that tell us what we know about spectacle that tells the story of this these spaces, and rethink the builders, extraordinary woman, who continues to managers, and audiences who brought fascinate us nearly five hundred years later. them into being. 0844 482 7777 020 8876 3444 St Katharine's & Wapping, London EC3N Bessant Drive, Kew, TW9 4DU 4AB nationalarchives.gov.uk hrp.org.uk

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as a National Tourism Festivity and Badajoz Carnival we had to wait five years to apply for By James Billot international recognition. Since then, we have been working very hard and for the past two years, we have been going around the world to promote our Carnival. Notting Hill is our last stop © Badajoz Carnival Photograph and we really hope that after this touring NBEKNOWNST TO MANY that we can be recognised. is the plucky province of Badajoz that sits snuggly next to Portugal Q. What, in your eyes, makes Badajoz inside the south-west border of Spain. Carnival so special? U A. Everyone engages in the street Its eponymous capital is steeped in a rich history of conquest, culture and creativity, Carnival, everybody is welcome and the latter of which goes on full display nobody feels excluded. This is a very during the Badajoz Carnival in February. welcoming street Carnival where Originally incepted as a celebration of everybody in the city will welcome you. Lent, Badajoz Carnival has since become Q. And is that what drew you to Notting renowned as one of the most exotic street Hill? festivals in the world. Over the course In 2012, Badajoz Carnival proved Q. Good morning, Miguel. How long A. We feel our Carnival identifies closely of this five-day period, the population of so popular that it was recognised as a have you been working with the Council? with Notting Hill Carnival in particular, Badajoz triples to around 600,000 people Festivity of National Tourist Interest in A. Good morning. I joined the Council which is why we made it the final leg as locals and visitors alike flock to the Spain. Now, six years on, organisers have in 2003 and my position is devoted to all of our tour. Notting Hill Carnival has city. The Carnival prides itself on its spirit been travelling around Europe and other of the facilities, celebrations and sports in always been our point of reference of inclusivity and openness, which is parts of the world as part of a wider Badajoz’s cultural affairs. because it is so participative. Everyone reflected by the overwhelming number of effort to gain international recognition Q .What brings you to London? gets involved! adults and children that participate in the for Badajoz Carnival. On the final leg of A. The main reason for our visit is to festivities. As comparsas or music troupes their whistle-stop tour, organisers arrived Q. What plans do you have for the present Badajoz Carnival as a National fill the streets garbed in outfits ranging in Notting Hill to deliver a presentation remainder of the year? Tourism Festivity and get it recognised from the flamboyant to the ridiculous (a to councillors from the Notting Hill A. The 2018 Carnival took place in as an international festivity. We have dozen rotund Donald Trumps featured Carnival Enterprises Trust. Here, KCW February but now we are already getting also travelled to Amsterdam, Cologne, last year), everyone is welcome to dance Today was granted an interview with one ready for 2019. Next year, we are hoping Bucharest, China and Australia. and sing along as they please. But for of Badajoz Carnival’s chief architects, to celebrate it as an international event. Brits who may struggle with the notion Miguel Angel de la Calle of the Cultural Q. Why have you chosen to bring We will begin filing the recommendation of singing, dancing, and general frivolity, Affairs Council of the City of Badajoz. Badajoz to international attention this and getting ready to apply for do not despair: fine Spanish wine and year? international recognition. food is available at every street corner. A. Six years ago, we were recognised The preparations never end! The Dorset Coast Express Thursday 26th July, 9th, 23rd August and 6th September 2018

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Comets pose another hazard, and deposits of nickel, copper, platinum and we occasionally get a visit from these gold, amongst others. The area’s economy large icy bodies when they become is highly dependent on the nickel mines gravitationally disturbed in the Oort and other deposits. It also explains why Cloud and begin their journey into there is much future interest in being the inner Solar System, mostly passing able to mine asteroids for rare and exotic harmlessly through it, whilst others crash materials. into the surface of the Sun. The most famous of all, is Chicxulub Probably the best-known crater on the northern coastline of the Yucatan here on Earth is the Meteor Crater Peninsula, in Mexico. The impact is in Arizona. Some 50,000yrs old it is a thought to be associated with the death bowl-shaped depression 1.2Kms across, of the dinosaurs. The K-T (Cretaceous- caused by a 50mt nickel-iron meteorite Tertiary) Boundary, a layer of ash, rich Dinosaur striking the ground at around an angle in iridium, (high content only found of 90 degrees. Centre that crater on in asteroids), delineates the division Killer Trafalgar Square and you can imagine between two geological periods. The the blast zone would be everything inside Cretaceous lasted until 66billion years the M25! ago and the Paleogene from 65billion The largest known impact is The to 23billion years ago. It was during Warburton Basin in Australia. It is some this period that saw the demise of the 400Kms across and was discovered in dinosaurs and the rise of mammals as 2013 during some geothermal research, the dominant species. Fossil evidence This is the "Killer Crater" called Chicxulub in the north of the Yucatan peninsula, responsible for the end of 75% of all species including the that required drilling to a depth of 2Kms. points to their extinction approximately dinosaurs. The picture itself is a gravity anomaly map showing the remnants of the impact crater. Credit: NASA The drill cores contained rocks that had 65million years ago when these deposits been turned to glass and quartz crystals, were laid down. The asteroid was about org to learn more about the potential with fractures that could only be caused 10 kilometres across and released the threats out there and add your signature instantaneously by extreme temperatures equivalent of 1000 billion tons of TNT Armageddon or donation, to help encourage more and pressures only experienced during and left a crater 180Kms wide and 20 Er, not in KCW’s patch research work in this area. an impact. It is estimated to be over 300 Kms deep. Earthquakes, tsunamis and we hope? Of course, life on Earth can be million years old. planet-wide atmospheric dust, blotting difficult and dangerous at the best of The Vredefort impact site in South out the Sun for decades, were just too By Scott Beadle FRAS times, with volcanoes, earthquakes, Africa is 300Kms across and still visible much for these relatively large creatures. hurricanes, droughts, famines and although the characteristic bowl of They were the most successful species plagues visiting upon its hapless the original has been eroded away by on the planet at the time, now we are. inhabitants some pretty nasty deaths. 2Billion years of weathering. The town They couldn’t do anything about their y the time you read this the But we ourselves have a lot to of Vredefort is at the centre of a series of fate, but possibly we can. Will we? I’d ‘celebrated’ day will have gone, answer for. A recent study shows the circular hills uplifted by one of the largest like to think so, but our struggles with but the dangers are still out there; transformation of the planet by human impacts experienced by the Earth since tackling climate change, or general some can be dealt with but others are activity has led scientists to the brink the Late Heavy Bombardment, which husbandry of our planets resources, don’t B of declaring a new geological epoch ended 3.8billion years ago. Seen from give me a great deal of confidence, but beyond our control. Every 30th June, Asteroid Day is the Anthropocene. The new work, above the rocks still show the” ripples” nevertheless we can but try. ‘celebrated’ around the world, in a series published in the proceedings of the caused by the shock waves which once The Earth itself is resilient, after all, of events, a juxtaposition of public National Academy of Sciences, reveal reverberated through their molten forms. it’s survived many catastrophic events entertainment with a serious message, that scientists believe this is the start of The Sudbury impact in Canada is in its 4.6billion year history and it will that it’s happened before and will happen the sixth mass extinction in the Earth’s unusual as it was over 250Kms wide but survive our own follies as well, until again, that somewhere lurking in the 4 billion year history and it’s down to has been distorted by the movement of its own ultimate end in 5billion years, cosmos is an asteroid with our name on us, about half the Earth’s wild animals the Earth’s crust into an oval. However when the Sun swells into a red giant and it. are thought to have been lost in only the besides massive destruction, this asteroid swallows it whole! The date was chosen because the last, last 50yrs. We can also add the potential brought a bounty in the form of large large impact, a 50/100mtr asteroid, came for another man-made scenario; nuclear in at a shallow angle and exploded in warfare that could seriously damage life an air burst above the Tunguska region on the planet, especially us. of Siberia on the 30th June 1908 and Space and its natural hazards are flattened 2000 square kilometres of of course an order of magnitude above trees, in a very sparsely populated area. our own planet’s natural dangers. If an Fortunately, there were no people lost, asteroid no bigger than 50mts can wipe but sadly a lot of reindeer went the way out a city, you can start to realize how of the trees. If that event had been over an asteroid the size of the Isle of Wight London or New York both densely for instance has the potential to create a populated cities, it would have wiped out global catastrophe. everything. Nothing would survive the The impact would gouge out many devastation, the conflagrations, tsunamis, cubic kilometres of the Earth’s crust, blast and seismic shock waves, creating a creating a planet wide dust cloud massive crater. blotting out the sunlight for many years To try and raise public awareness, and plunging the Earth into a new Ice Brian May, Lord Martin Rees and Age. With planet-wide crop failures, film producer Grigorij Richters and plants would wither and die, followed numerous well-known scientists and rapidly by animal species and humanity. media professionals signed a declaration Fortunately, large asteroids like this occur calling for increased efforts in detecting very infrequently, about every 10million and funding our ability to recognize years or so. The ones we really need to potentially hazardous objects and to find and track are the city busters in the subsequently develop the means to 100mtrs to 1km range; those that can Meteor Crater, Arizona.A simple crater 1.2km in diameter and 175mts deep.This was a 50 mts wide iron-nickel asteroid about 50,000yrs old. deflect them away from Earth, or totally cause mass destruction to a city and a Credit:NASA destroy them instead. 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hristo and his late wife and partner Jeanne-Claude have been working with barrels since 1977 The London Mastaba and this is the first public sculpture by him to be erected in London. He is primarily famous Christo and Jeanne-Claude for wrapping things up, like a section of coastline in Australia, The Wrapped Pont Neuf in Paris, The Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin and Wrapped Trees in Riehan in Switzerland, but has always been Serpentine Gallery C playing around with barrels, even wrapping them in various sizes, from full-scale down to some the Until 9 September 2018 size of a can of beans. His installations include The Gates in Central Park, comprising some 7,000 gates with their free-hanging saffron-coloured fabric panels, which seem like a golden river appearing Free Admission and disappearing through the bare branches of the trees in New York in 2005, a Running Fence in serpentinegalleries.org California and, most recently Floating Piers on Lake Iseo in Italy in 2016. He thinks on a grander scale than any other sculptor, apart from maybe Claes Oldenburg, whose Giant Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus surrounding Eros was never realised, but Christo’s amazing Mastaba was. A ‘mastaba’ was an Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian, flat-roofed, pyramidical tomb, or technically, a trapezoidal prism, from the Arabic word for ‘stone bench’; only this one comprises 7,506 horizontally-stacked red, blue, mauve and white barrels, specially fabricated and secured to a floating platform. The effect is at once arresting and it changes a familiar landscape into something extraordinary. On the ‘launch’ day itself, it was sunny with a few fair-weather cumulus, and the colours of the Mastaba transformed with the changes in the light and reflections in the lake, which the artist hoped would be like an abstract painting. He hoped right. Back on dry land, the Serpentine is staging the first major exhibition of their work since 1979, and focuses on the sixty-year history of them working with barrels. Christo has been working on a project for 40 years, which is even larger than the one in London. The Mastaba (Project for United Arab Emirates) in Abu Dhabi, will be a mainly orange mosaic of 410,000 oil barrels, rising to 150 metres and it will not only be the largest sculpture in the world, it will also actually overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza by 3.4 meters, if he can get the permission to build it. In comparison The London Mastaba is ‘only’ 20 metres high and sits on a platform 30m x 40m. Working drawings, photographs, models and collages explain the complexity of his work, originals of which he sells off to help subsidise his next project. The current sculpture has been totally funded by himself, with no sponsors, although Bloomberg Philanthropies helped support the exhibition. Amongst other realised projects using barrels, was a barricade across the Rue Visconti on the Left Bank in Paris, although permission was not applied for. As he recalls, “What I remember is Jeanne-Claude doing a lot of explaining to the police to allow it to stay in place for a few hours. She was very forceful.” One outside MOMA in New York never materialised, and a much larger dam blocking the Suez Canal never saw the light of day, for obvious reasons. At 82 years-old, the Bulgarian artist is a sprightly, modest man, with an engaging smile, immense energy and colossal talent. The Mayor of London, The Royal Parks, under the Chairmanship of Loyd Grossman and the Serpentine Galleries, all collaborated to enable this outstanding landmark work to grace London for the Summer months. Don Grant 40 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture Photographs © Lee Mawdsley Photographs

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he Japanese Government has designed for Japan House by artisans of the Future, some realised, others only is serendipitous, and what lies beyond already initiated two other across Japan. The aesthetic is said to be visions. Fujimoto is a leader among them is a prelude of new architecture. Japan House operations in taken from the concept of the doma, Japan’s new generation of architects, and Within this concept should underlie LosT Angeles and São Paulo, with the which is a space that sits between designed the Cloud Pavilion in 2013 the question of discovery by chance vs. third opening in London this summer. indoors and outdoors in a Japanese house for the Serpentine Gallery. His designs creation with intent. Architecture could With around 70,000 Japanese nationals and has various purposes, namely part range from wacky to fantastical, with come into being from anywhere. I believe living and working in London, this new kitchen, part social space, where family, some so audacious, one wonders how fostering that architecture-to-be into venture could become a cultural and friends and neighbours gather together. they will ever be realised, until one reads real architecture itself is also architecture. social hub for them, as well as offering Certainly, the kitchen is in full view of the captions, and finds out that some Onward architecture continues.’ Londoners a chance to see what’s new the diners, chomping away on their sea have been. In addition to these confections, is in Japanese retail, food, aesthetics, crafts, urchin, salmon and tuna egg crêpe roll Fujimoto also presents Architecture is The Shop, or ‘cultural retail experience,’ creativity and performance. As soon as with truffle cream sauce for a modest Everywhere, an exhibition on the ground and a bookshop, called The Library, one walks in, one is struck by the cool, £18, or spicy fried chicken karaage on the level, which illustrates the concept in which the curator is said to have measured interior design, with objects, bone for the same price. of discovering architecture within the revolutionised the way books are artworks, kitchen utensils and books all Japan House sits on three floors of forms of everyday objects: as he puts it, displayed, but not noticeably. The whole displayed in a very Zen-like manner. what used to be the Derry and Toms ‘the serendipity of finding numerous experience is minimally recherché, if not From the hand-made kawara floor tiles Grade II* listed Art Deco building, and possibilities for new architecture’. He a touch precious, but we are dealing from Japan’s Awaji Island, pleasingly then became Biba in the 1970s, with the cites Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle with a totally different culture here, and laid diagonally to the main axis of the famous Kensington Roof Gardens, also to legitimise one of these concepts. one which the West still has problems building, to the squeaky-clean white listed, still at the top. In the basement, Some of this is a bit far fetched, but fun in understanding its nuances and walls, black fretwork screens, square- there is a clinically-designed theatre, anyway. Tiny figures are seen juxtaposed philosophy. The shop has some exquisite cut ash tables and comb-back Windsor which will be used for film shows, theatre with everyday or found objects, such as items on sale, from attractive stationery chairs in the Akira restaurant, everything productions, presentations and product a sponge, paper clips, staples, ping-pong to beauty products, and it is difficult to has been meticulously thought through, launches, as well as a large exhibition balls or an upturned ashtray, and he differentiate where The Shop ends and the as one would expect. Named after the space, which is currently filled with continues, ‘we would soon start to read exhibition begins. But maybe that was restaurant’s chef, Akira Shimizu, the architectural models and photographs of these objects as architectural spaces. The the intention? bowls, glasses and dishes have all been Sou Fujimoto’s projects, called Futures discrepancy in scale in these pairings Don Grant 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Arts & Culture

simplify Britain’s complicated postal system by Sir Rowland Hill, and it meant Intriguing single- that letters of up to a quarter of an ounce, owner stamp were able to be delivered at a flat rate of

one penny, regardless of distance. © Ewbanks Photographs Among the eight Penny Blacks on collection on sale sale, is an unused one from 1840, the first year of issue. This is a fine unused stamp, at Ewbank’s with no gum, with four margins, and has been valued at between £300 and £500 The Cripps stamp collection, plus EWBANK’S, Surrey’s leading many other collectibles, will be on sale at auction-house, is preparing for 10am on August 23. Viewing for the sale takes place from its Stamps, Books, Militaria, August 20 to 22, and on the morning of and Photographic Sale on August 23. August 23 which will feature often found visiting the local stamp an intriguing single-owner shops when on holiday along the South stamp collection. Coast, in particular Eastbourne. His collection is being split into 47 longside the single-owner lots, and will be of interest to stamp collection of just under 50 collectors of all levels. stamps, which includes many The most valuable stamp within the PennyA Blacks, will be items of militaria, collection is a Queen Victoria 1882 scientific instruments, photography, £5 orange stamp, which carries a pre- books and other collectables, such as sale guide price of between £1,000 and postcards and cigarette cards. £1,500. There is still time to consign items for Another of note is a lilac 6d stamp, sale for this late August sale, so do get in with hair lines, from 1864, which has touch with the team at Ewbank’s for a been valued at between £400 and £600, sale valuation of items to be appraised. It has four imperforated margins and adhesive postage stamp used in a public Ewbank’s: T: 01483 223 101 or The collection of just under 50 early upright watermark, and has gum on postal system. It was first used on May email [email protected]. British stamps, was assimilated by a local reverse. 6 1840 and featured a profile of Queen Live internet bidding through: stamp enthusiast, the late Dennis Cripps. The Cripps collection also features Victoria. www.theauctionroom.com and He collected stamps all his life and was eight Penny Blacks, the world’s first The Penny Black was introduced to www.ewbankauctions.co.uk

The market is attracting both established and new collectors to this fascinating History in your field.’ Highly sought-after miniatures in the hand sales at Chiswick Auctions are early 17th Portrait Miniatures century works, as well as British and

Continental examples by eminent artists Auctions © Chiswick Photograph from the 18th century, which was widely hailed as the ‘Golden Age’ of miniature painting. That being said, collectors are appreciative of miniatures for a plethora First painted in the French of reasons, whether it be the sitter, the artist, a particular school or their and English courts from the aesthetic value and with works starting 1520s, portrait miniatures were at as little as £200 for a signed miniature in good condition, the sales are excellent created as intimate keepsakes way of adding to or starting a collection. largely worn as bracelets or Zack goes on to say, ‘I always advise collectors to buy work that visually necklaces and often with appeals and to pay close attention to a lock of hair sealed in the quality and condition. Portrait miniatures with named sitters hold a distinctly reverse side as a token of love. higher value and their provenance adds an interesting level of intrigue.’ The As portable objects, miniatures could be forthcoming sale of British & European concealed as pocket watches or set into Fine Art at Chiswick Auctions offers the lids of snuffboxes; the ideal accessory a private collection of more than sixty for political or romantic intrigues. portrait miniatures, including fine Collecting miniatures originated examples from the 18th and 19th century at the Court of Francois I and spread insight into history; hairstyles, hats, wigs Portrait Miniatures. Head of Fine Art by leading exponents such as George rapidly to England, flourishing during and clothing are rendered in exquisite at Chiswick Auctions, Suzanne Zack, Englehart, Andrew Plimer and John Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth’s reign. detail and reveal the latest fashion trends. comments ‘There has been a revival of Smart Jnr. These intimate objects were cherished by With branches in Chiswick and interest in miniatures in the last year, The sale of British & European Fine Queen Elizabeth, who kept a personal South Kensington, Chiswick Auctions’s with important collections appearing Art including Portrait Miniatures at collection locked in her bedchamber. established Fine Art Department hosts at auction as well as the remarkable Chiswick Auctions will take place on Executed with a fine pencil or brush, dedicated sales in British & European sale of the diamond-glazed gold Maria October 3rd. Entries for the sale are these miniature masterpieces give us an Fine Art, with a section devoted to Fitzherbert Jewel by Richard Cosway. invited until 27th July. 42 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

great Empire. They were descended from the Timurid rulers of Iran and Central Asia. They were Muslims and spoke Persian. Many exhibits date back to their mighty Empire which held sway over much of the Indian Subcontinent. The Prince’s Tour of India lasted four months and he visited twenty one areas. Today, this means that it encompassed India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The idea was Queen The HM Collection. Royal The © Images to build links between the Indians and the British Monarchy; The Prince held Durbars, (royal receptions) and audiences with Indian rulers. The Prince received many beautiful diplomatic gifts, made with skilled craftsmanship and several fine paintings and manuscripts. There was a remarkable range of gifts and designs associated with places which he had visited. The producers, no doubt, had an eye on the European market. There was a growing interest in Indian Design following several Exhibitions showing their produce. The Great Exhibition encouraged this interest. When the Prince returned to England the treasures were placed in the South Kensington Museum ( now the V&A). He wished many people to see them and they were moved to Museums throughout England and went to Paris and Copenhagen. The wide range of gifts ranged from brooches to swords. A large proportion were traditional armour, Splendours of the jewelled daggers and the swords were intricately wrought and jewel encrusted. Subcontinent: There was gold and silver ware and a gold A Prince’s Tour of India. fish (articulated!). These exhibitions should not be 1875 to 1876. rushed, they are well worth your time. Notice how gemstones are backed with reflective foil to enhance the hue and depth of the jewels. Strips of Four Centuries gold secure them into a metal frame; a practice unique to India and still used. of South Asian I liked the enamelled and diamond set inkwell in the form of a state barge Paintings and (enamelling started in India in the late 16th century). The Durbar set from Manuscripts Mysore is interesting, made of gold with Queen’s Gallery. a floral decoration, it includes plates, a tray, a perfume holder and a betel nut Buckingham Palace. holder. These objects were all associated Until 14th October.2018 with welcoming guests to the Indian Courts. The morchals (fly whisks), made of peacock feathers and diamonds, were used to fan the guests at durbars. There was definitely competition among the rulers to impress the Prince with their gifts. He was very keen on the walking stick which turned into a gun! Its handle represented a sea creature. One amazing exhibit in the Four Centuries of Paintings and Manuscripts Exhibition is The Padshah: Opening he first of these two Exhibitions, and Art Gallery, Leicester. It was power. The Exhibition displays some Shamsa (sunburst). Splendours of the Subcontinent: previously exhibited at both places in very important Mughal Manuscripts and The Shamsa is a divine light which A Prince's Tour of India 1875 to 2017. Paintings from the Royal Collection. God directly transfers to Kings without 1876, explores the visit of the Prince of The second Exhibition, Four Centuries They were gifts from Indian Rulers and the assistance of men. This one is the T opening page of a Royal Manuscript Wales ( the future King Edward V11) to of Paintings and Manuscripts, explores the East India Company. the Indian Subcontinent and is presented the relationship between the British When viewing the splendid treasures, created for the Great Mughal Emperor, through the treasures which he received Crown and South Asia. This changed manuscripts and paintings, remember Shah Jahan. It symbolises Royalty and as diplomatic gifts. The Exhibition is between the 17th and 20th centuries as that in the 17th century a dynasty of visually represents the unity, infinity, and in collaboration with Cartwright Hall, British ambitions in South Asia evolved rulers, now known as the Mughals, were harmony of the Divine. Bradford and the New Walk Museum from seeking trade to wielding political at the zenith of their power and had a Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Images © Plus One Gallery Images

Pedro Campos and Hyperrealism By Max Feldman

yperrealism has attracted artists from many unusual backgrounds, drawn to the Hnew possibilities of an art form offered by the razor-sharp clarity and almost hallucinogenically bold colours enabled by digital photography. An example of one of these non-standard influences can be found in one of the most famous and idiosyncratic artists of hyperrealism: the Spanish artist Pedro Campos, whose background and work in art restoration helped shape his distinctive oeuvre. His works are representations of everyday items; drinks cans, marbles, fruit glistening in plastic packaging, rendered in monumental sizes with oil on canvas. The sheer size and crystalline sharpness of Campos’s works can’t help but transfix the viewer; his paintings are suffused in art restoration and harks back to Old striking works in its collection and is well will close 30th September 2018 and is a with an inner-glow and dynamism that Masters like Francisco de Zurbaran and worth seeking out. fantastic opportunity to view the best in belie his subject matter’s superficiality. Jan Van Eyck, though his work could be hyperrealism today. Campos’s work brings the mundane to called nothing but modern. Campos’s Plus One Gallery is currently following its apotheosis, realised with a style that artwork gains particular power from its up their 2013 exhibition, with their For more information please email: some ‘Pop’ artists might cheerfully kill titanic size and should be seen in the second collaboration Hiperrealisme [email protected] for. flesh to fully experience it. The work has opened 21st June at the Museu del Tabac, or call the gallery on 020 7730 7656. Whilst Campos’s art, like all a visceral, shocking power, in line with Andorra. This exhibition focuses on hyperrealism, prizes the photograph as the almost quasi-spiritual quality that the three major themes in the genre: Plus One Gallery much as the paintbrush, he is notable hyperrealism’s total digital focus is able to Still Life, Urban Landscape and Human is located in the Piper Building, amongst the movement in that he creates instil. Campos’s artworks are represented Figure, featuring work by the most highly Peterborough Road SW6 3EF using traditional realist techniques. His exclusively by Plus One Gallery in respected hyperrealist artists including Open Monday-Friday: subtle brushwork was honed by his years London, which has several of his most Pedro Campos. This must-see exhibition 10am-6pm by appointment only. 44 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Mary Beard in Conversation: Women and Power at Intelligence Squared By Emma Trehane

At the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster, Intelligence Squared recently hosted a lecture about women and power, inspired by the book of the same title by Professor (now Dame) Mary Beard. The three panelists invited to speak on Women and Power are Laurie Penny (Radical Commentator), Miriam González (Lawyer and Campaigner), and Mary Beard (Classicist and Editor at the TLS), with Afua Hirsch (Writer and Broadcaster) in the chair.

pening with why a debate to having buried experiences of sexual your own work, the loom and the distaff panellists what they would do to about misogyny was more harassment, and come to normalize and … speech will be the business of men, all overcome current attitudes to women relevant now than ever, the accept it. men, and of me most of all; for mine is and power. Beard suggests the answer Opanelists were asked their thoughts on What is most concerning about the power in this household.’ On hearing lies with language. ‘What is surprising the #metoo movement and first hearing normalizing sexism, which is ultimately this, Penelope turns around and heads is how unreflective we are culturally about the charges of sexual assault made what we do by ignoring its existence, is back up to her chamber. How can it be about the language we use’ she claims. by numerous women against the film the impact it has on the ‘next generation’. the case that a women is silenced by a If we hear of a man being ambitious, producer Harvey Weinstein. ‘Conflicting It is the future generations that will ‘weedy teenager, her son!’ Beard protests. he is going places. If we say a women and certainly not surprising’ claims continue to live out these preconceived Beard offers further examples of how is ambitious ‘that is not a compliment’. Beard. That sexism in Hollywood is power structures unless we provide them these power structures have become Having received death threats for being assumed to be normal means we have with the tools to dismantle the culturally ingrained in our cultural identities. She a radical outspoken activist, Penny a tendency not to be shocked by the accepted beliefs, which have led to states the case that in order to be heard believes that the answer is too ‘fight allegations made against Weinstein. women having been disenfranchised. and listened too by her male colleagues, sexism wherever it appear’. In defense Consequently, Beard admits to feeling So can #metoo really make a Margaret Thatcher was given speech of men, González makes the point that a degree of guilt for not standing up difference? Beard, fears not. The answer, lessons to lower her voice. To make silencing women is not just something sooner and discussing the problem. she suggests, is to ‘explore the ways in her sound more reasoned, more male. that men do but for which women are Penny’s reaction is simply ‘here we go which women have been excluded from When Trump won the US election in equally responsible. A point thrown again…as if this is the first powerful power for thousands of years’. May last year, Beard describes how the out by Penny who argues women will man who has been publically exposed.’ Beard offers a winning example internet was littered with images of ultimately be the beneficiaries of her As she identifies during the debate, the of how women have been historically Donald Trump as a ‘Perseus type hero’ battle against sexism. A final suggestion media have tended to react to Weinstein silenced and the power imbalance celebrating his victory by holding up the González makes was perhaps the most as if he is the first powerful man to be between the sexes constructed during head of a decapitated Hilary Clinton in refreshing and promising comment of exposed for ‘alleged’ sexual abuse charges. this part of the debate. Citing a passage the image of Medusa. These images are the evening, stating that we can only Yet, there have been numerous cases from Homer’s The Odyssey, she describes available in our domestic spaces explains resolve the problem by understanding of sexual abuse in the past and present, how on coming down from her private Beard, ‘on tee-shirts, on mouse mats, that men and women should share one which Penny claims have been ‘a running chambers into the great hall, Penelope, on mugs, on tote-bags’. In contrast, model of society. It is important not to theme’ throughout her work as a feminist the wife of Odysseus, discovers a ‘boring when Kathy Griffin participated in a forget that many men have joined in the activist. ‘It is common practice that old bard’ singing to a roomful of would- photo shoot featuring her holding up fight against misogyny and therefore it powerful men are exposed, followed by be-suitors on the struggle Odysseus a decapitated head resembling Donald is time for the feminist movement to a public backlash until eventually the is having returning home from the Trump she was sacked. The real problem acknowledge progress has been made. women involved are silenced…what is Trojan war to his wife. Aggravated by here is that these are culturally learned perhaps interesting however is that none this Penelope asks the bard to ‘choose tropes designed to silence women, and in of us knew this would be a watershed another, happier number’ only to be told doing so, they have become naturalised For further events held at moment.’ by her teenage son, Telemachus, to ‘go in our culture. Intelligence Squared see: Like many women, González admits back up into your quarters, and take up To conclude, Hirsch asks all three www.intelligencesquared.com 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

sexual harassment and women’s rights resulted in an impeded view for the all had an added impetus in the wake of women. While The Cage did not quite the revelations surrounding the sexual have the same dank quality to it as The misconduct of Harvey Weinstein and Ventilator, it more than recuperated its other high-profile male figures. losses with a sauna-like stuffiness. For Images © Parliament WOA © Parliament Images As the fallout from these cases 84 years, women were forced to wedge deepen, there has been a societal self- their heads through the bar grilles of reckoning in attitudes towards gender The Cage to gain a clear view of what akin to what Britain experienced for was occurring beneath them. It is a stark much of the 20th century. At the reminder of the struggle and sacrifice epicentre of this struggle, Parliament, that early suffrage pioneers made, later a newly launched exhibition in culminating in the Representation of the Westminster Hall aims to shine a light People Act in 1918. Not only did this on the hidden ‘her-story’ of this period. Act give 8.4 million women the vote, but The Voice and Vote Exhibition, open until the Act also meant that women could October 6, showcases the ways in which stand as an elected representatives for women overcame a plethora of barriers the first time. Though she never took her preventing them from participating in seat, Constance Markievicz of Sinn Fein democracy. Through interactive features became the first elected female MP that and hitherto unseen historic objects, same year. pictures and archives, visitors can Continuing the theme of ominous- experience a sliver of what it was like for sounding nicknames, women were women seeking to gain the right to vote. granted their first members’ room The Exhibition opens with an known as The Tomb in 1918. It was the immersive space known as The Ventilator, only private space that female MPs a loft space above the House of had in Parliament and as more women Commons chamber from which women were elected, it became so crowded watched and listened to Parliamentary that women would work on floors. debates 200 years ago. Women were Its cramped dimensions and Spartan banned from the public galleries and décor (there was only one wall peg and had to resort to this dark, claustrophobic three chairs) made The Tomb a very apt space to watch the discussion of issues description. The room was first used they were campaigning for, such as the by Nancy Astor in 1919, which was, as abolition of the slave trade. Entering into Luke Pollard MP for Plymouth Sutton the space, visitors can peer downwards and Devonport notes, a vital first step into the chamber and listen to the loud in “paving the way for more women bellows and rather sinister laughter of standing in and winning elections”. The final part of The exhibition is The Chamber, which explores the experience and work of female MPs and Voice & Vote: the members of the House of Lords today. Since the Peerage Act of 1964, Women’s Place in women have now occupied the highest positions in Parliament, including Betty Parliament Boothroyd, the first, and only (so far) By James Billot woman Speaker and Baroness Hayman, the first Lord Speaker in the House of Lords. A remarkable feat considering where women were sitting, let alone “However benevolent men standing, decades before. may be in their intentions, they Standing on the shoulders of suffragist giants, there are now 207 cannot know what women want female MPs, a record high of 32%, 206 and what suits the necessities of female peers, 26% of Members of the House of Lords and a female Prime women's lives as well as women Minister. Four years in the making, the know these things themselves.” Voice and Vote Exhibition illuminates a journey that has long been overlooked Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929 years on from the seminal rambunctious male MPs. Positioned next in history, drawing more attention to Representation of the to the exhibit is a watercolour sketch the campaigning, the protests and the People Act 1918, the of The Ventilator, on loan for the first achievements of women in British struggle for women’s equality continues time from the Shakespeare Birthplace political history. As the Hon Maria 100 Trust, which gives a chilling depiction Miller MP, Chair of the Women and to this day. The Act, giving men and women (over the age of 30 and with of the reality of women’s exclusion from Equalities Committee and the 265th property) the right to vote, laid the political life 200 years ago. woman to be elected to Parliament, bedrock for an arduous and painstaking It was not until a fire ravaged the wrote: ‘This exhibition is not just about struggle for women’s political equality. old Palace of Westminster that women equality, and the anniversary of some Now, the focus has shifted to women’s ‘graduated’ to The Cage, the next women gaining the right to vote, it’s social equality. In the same spirit as their immersive feature of the Exhibition. In about women’s right to stand for election, suffragist foremothers, women around the new House of Commons, a Ladies’ to sit in the House of Lords, and as the world took to the streets in their Gallery was built to allow women to view hundreds of people visit this exhibition millions for the 2018 Women’s March, the Chamber from above the Speaker’s it will allow each of them to learn more a reprise protest march of the inaugural chair. The gallery was blockaded with about what it has taken for us to get to 2017 Women’s March. At the March, the bar grilles, which were installed to where we are now and what still needs to treatment of women in the workplace, stop MPs seeing the women, but also be done.’ 46 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

MAX the infant Parr’s sudden, violent flashes of magic (including a backyard brawl Feldman with a raccoon worthy of Tex Avery), but REVIEWS it’s Bob’s compounding exhaustion that earns the biggest, truest laughs. © Disney/Pixar Images It’s clear that Helen, entrusted to save the city, is the Parr for the job. How could she not be, with Hunter Incredibles 2 and her spiky Southern drawl bringing Director: Brad Bird the character back to headstrong life? (There are moments, when Helen is Running Time: 118 minutes leaning into the joy and finesse of her work, that almost play like Broadcast News in Comic Con drag.) Elastigirl, whose adventures unfold through a can-you-top-this daisy chain of eye- arly into Brad Bird’s Incredibles popping spectacle, ends up squaring off 2, Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) races against a mysterious terrorist named down the gridlocked streets of a the Screenslaver, determined to exploit Space Age metropolis on a custom-built public addiction to gadgets and devices E and televised escapism. If that sounds motorcycle: flinging the bike in and out of tight traffic, stretching her impossibly like a cranky screed, keep in mind that malleable limbs around the sleek surfaces it’s coming out of the mouth of the of a runaway ‘maglev’ train. One of villain, whose hatred for superheroes several dazzling set pieces in this madcap, aligns pretty neatly with that of bitter, belated sequel, it amounts to some of entitled fanboy Syndrome from the the most kinetic, wizardly action the original. Bird has caught flak for the superhero genre has produced in the 14 almost Randian bent of his politics: that long years since Bird’s original Incredibles continual insistence, given its loudest added a nuclear family of costumed airing in Tomorrowland, that there are crime-fighters to the Pixar roster. special people in the world who deserve Superhero movies are now privileges, or at least acknowledgement, the dominant form of Hollywood that the mediocre masses don’t. entertainment, but even the most CGI- Incredibles 2, which hides a twist only the heavy of the lot tend to be restricted by youngest in attendance won’t see coming the laws of gravity and physics; the hard a mile away, muddles and maybe even limitations of a flesh and blood world. complicates Bird’s vaguely Objectivist Early and often, Incredibles 2 makes the leanings. Maybe that makes them easier compelling case that animation is the to compartmentalise. ideal medium for stories based on, or at Uncomfortable subtext aside, the least inspired by, comic book fantasias, first Incredibles located something where reality tends to bend and twist as poignant in its comic, all-ages Watchmen elastically as Elastigirl. riff: an amusing, sweet parable about It’s Bird’s ideal medium, too. With midlife crisis and the difficulty of leaving Incredibles 2, the writer-director of The your glory days in the past. Incredibles Iron Giant and Ratatouille returns not 2, which crosscuts between Helen just to the art form he mastered and to reigniting her professional passion, in the dream factory he helped build, but sequences of velocity, verve, and visual also to the out-of-time, retro-futuristic imagination, and the more sitcom woes America of The Incredibles. Bird’s blobby (Bob Odenkirk) and Evelyn Deavor a gauntlet of packed days and sleepless of Bob’s stay-at-home fathering, lacks humans and “supers” may possess telltale (Catherine Keener), billionaire sibling nights for any committed guardian. the straightforward resonance of its signs of technological refinement (e.g., moguls looking to drum up public (“Parenting, when done right, can be a predecessor. But it’s still a sparkling minute details of facial expression that support for the cape and cowl class by heroic act,” deadpans super-suit-maker- contraption of an animated comedy, just weren’t possible to render in 2004), sponsoring their rescue-mission exploits for-the-stars Edna Mode, voiced again funny and often wondrous in its mid- but the place they occupy is more or and affixing cameras to their costumes, by Bird himself.) Teenage wallflower century modern vision of an alternate less as Bird left it: a gee-whiz world of so the world can witness their derring- Violet (Sarah Vowell), who feels as America frozen in the amber of a bygone yesterday and tomorrow, equally indebted do firsthand. Hoping to minimize the invisible as she can make herself, and idealism. To that end, the film could to the jazzy, bebop cool of early 007 property damage, the Deavors select adolescent speed demon Dash (Huck inspire nostalgia for more than just the adventures and the angular, art-deco Elastigirl, a.k.a. Helen, whose touch is Milner, taking over for Spencer Fox), Pixar melée it continues and often loosely, grandeur of the old Fleischer Studios a bit lighter and less destructive than who’s not as quick at learning as he is at narratively resembles. Remember a time Superman cartoons. that of her husband, to pilot the PR everything else, are handful enough. But when the future looked as bright as Bird, in fact, has picked up rather campaign. This leaves Mr. Incredible, there’s also baby Jack Jack (Eli Fucile), the spandex of a Silver Age superhero? literally where he left off, with the a.k.a. Bob (Craig T. Nelson), stuck at assumed by the family to be powerless, Incredibles 2 wants to bottle and disperse super-powered Parr family, a fantastic home, watching the kids while his wife when in fact he has a whole X-mansion’s that optimism, as a tonic for today’s four keeping its incredible skillset secret, saves the world. worth of blossoming abilities, from laser dark, grim comic book blockbusters and rushing into the battle teased by the One might, at this point, begin to eyes to interdimensional travel. Incredibles the darker, grimmer real world they’re final frames of the first film. In what worry that Bird’s retro fetish could 2 gets some truly inspired slapstick out of refracting. feels like a less harsh, Pixarian twist on go full retrograde, straight into Mr. the fallout narratives of recent Marvel Mom territory. There’s no denying that and DC tentpoles, The Incredibles get Incredibles 2 lightly plays on some tired, blamed for all the rubble left in the last-century anxiety about gender roles. wake of the fight; a sign that the anti- (Isn’t it a gas, a few scenes ask, seeing SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT superhero legislation established in the this brawny Goliath of a guy changing KCW Today. See page 11 for details original isn’t going anywhere. A glimmer diapers?) Thankfully, most of Bird’s jokes of hope arrives in the form of Winston are at the expense of child-raising itself, 020 7738 2348 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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A day on the verything was perfect for a day’s fishing. It was warm without being too riverbank, with hot; there was some wispy cirrostratus to take the edge off the summer sun; From the the water was, if not gin-clear, certainly ginger beer clear; there were some enough picnic Riverbank Emayfly coming off the water virtually all day; the picnic had been unpacked and the Part 6 food to feed five Provençal rosé was on ice in the collapsible bucket, with a couple of beers; I had thousand, even remembered the celery salt for the soft-boiled quails’ eggs; the avocado had a sticker By Don Grant on it stating that it was guaranteed to be ripe and ready to eat right NOW; the 50-50 without the two crab was chilling out in the chiller bag; the olives were large Greek ones from the little fish. deli; the rods had been strung up and ready to go, loaded with a grey Wulff dry fly It was about on each; the journey down had been relatively traffic-free; the shop in the village, called The Shop, had pork pies and their own delicious boiled ham; the bench was in communing with the dappled shade of a willow tree; a kingfisher shot past at zero feet from the water. nature, bird- Everything was perfect for a day’s fishing. Except for one thing; there were no fish. watching, just One year, some old colonel had complained to Mr Penny, the riverkeeper, that there were no fish in a particular pool. He replied that when they had to divert the being there, with a course of the stream to put in a small waterfall, they used electrolysis to stun the fish sense of privilege, and remove them to a tank while the drainage work was carried out. The fish came to the surface, where they were netted and counted. There were over two hundred place and history. fish in a pool the size of a tennis court, including trout, tench, carp, grayling, bream, barbel, chub, perch, eel, dace and an enormous pike, which they failed to return. There was even a sea-trout, known as a sewin in Wales, but he could offer no explanation as to how it got there. So, when I say there were no fish, I knew there were hundreds on this beat alone. They were just not rising. Because of a self-imposed restriction of only casting a dry fly to a rising fish upstream, in a purist Piscatorial Society ethos, as there were few rises, there were even fewer fish to catch. Well, in round figures, none. Robert managed to hook one, more through persistence than judgement, but then managed to lose it, purely through driver error. And that was that. I saw two small rises, but failed to capitalise, and I began to think that fishing was not really about catching fish. It was about the day. A day on the riverbank, with enough picnic food to feed five thousand, even without the two little fish. It was about communing with nature, bird-watching, just being there, with a sense of privilege, place and history. Most rivers in England have been flowing since the ice age, and it is sobering to think that, apart from man’s intervention with dredging, irrigation, raising banks, felling trees or creating flood plains, the rivers have been flowing roughly along the same course every minute of every hour of every day for thousands and thousand of years. Photograph © PixaBay Photograph Most chalk streams in Hampshire, like the Test, the Itchen, the Anton and

Frontispiece from the 1790 edition of The Art of Angling by Richard Brookes Richard Angling by Art of The the 1790 edition of from Frontispiece the Dever flow from around the hills south of Basingstoke and into Southampton Water. The Avon, with its tributaries the Wylie, the Nadder and the Ebble, flows through Wiltshire and enters the sea at Christchurch. Calling it the River Avon is tautological, as avon means river, and it would be like calling it the River River. Of the two hundred-odd chalk streams in the world, 160 of them are in England. The River Loddon also has its source in the chalk hills around Basingstoke, but flows north and enters the Thames at Wargrave, while the Kennet has its sources near Marlborough and flows into the Thames at Reading. Across the Channel, in Northern France, there are a handful of beautiful chalk streams, like the Risle, the Charentonne and the Andelle, which were fished by the likes of Eisenhower, Hemingway and Charles Ritz, who penned a great book on angling called A Flyfisher’s Life, the foreword of which was written by Hemingway. He described him ‘as one of the very finest fishermen I know. He is not only a great flyfisherman for trout and salmon but he is an articulate writer and splendid technician.’ The Somme in Picardy is also a chalk stream, or river, as the geology of the region is not dissimilar to the Downs in the Southern counties of England. It still amazes me that, in just over an hour from London, one is in a riverside idyll, with birdsong all around, a cuckoo in the distance, wildlife, woodland, rolling hills, fields swaying with corn and barley, country pubs virtually untouched by the big breweries serving beer that tastes like beer used to taste, and tranquility. Sir Edward Grey, later Earl Grey of Falloden, loved flyfishing so much that he built a cottage on the Itchen near the riverbank on land belonging to his cousin, Lord Northbrook, where he and his wife Dorothy would find refuge every weekend. They kept a diary of the local flora and fauna in the river meadows and fished for wild brown trout. He wrote one of the seminal books about angling on Britain’s chalk streams called simply Fly Fishing in 1899, and in it he said, ‘It became a sanctuary. The peace and beauty of the spot made it a sacred place.’ On 3 August 1914 Sir Edward Grey made his famous quote, ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’, and it was Grey as the foreign secretary, who took Britain to war later in August of that year, and, in 1916, she suffered the greatest number of casualties in British Army history. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 57,470 men were wounded, mostly from German machine gun fire, of which 19,240 died. In one day. In total, the Battle claimed 419,654 killed, wounded or missing in the 141 days it lasted, with 72,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known graves and whose names are recorded on the British memorial at Thiepval, at the heart of the Somme Battefields. It is ironic that the name Somme comes from a Celtic word meaning ‘tranquility’. 54 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Crossword, Bridge & Public Notices

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CLASSIFIEDS (and worst) AVAILABLE PUBLIC NOTICE Andrew’s Best Conventions with Andrew Robson ♣ Section 17 Licensing Act 2003 My least favourite convention of all is Gerber, in which a bid of 4 asks for aces. The bid of 4♣ has far better uses. That 4♣ bid, yet again in my experience, proved useful in Strenuous efforts are made by KCW Today Licensing Act 2003: a non-ace-asking capacity on this crucial deal from the Gold Cup [try not to be too Application for a new discombobulated by the auction – it is the undiluted truth]. newspaper to ensure that the content Premises Licence On this occasion, 4♣ was a Splinter bid [you will learn more of these when I discuss my ten favourite conventions], showing a singleton (or void) club and good spade support. and information is correct. KCW Today NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT: ♠ GIOVANNI INTERDONATO We sailed into 7 (yes, this was marginal, and perhaps my partner Alexander Allfrey newspaper reserves the right to report has applied to the CITY OF WESTMINSTER should have refrained from cue-bidding shortage facing my first suit). We got lucky… on JUNE 25 2018 unsolicited material being sent through to Dealer South Both Vulnerable "&' $%'# !&' $('# FOR A NEW PREMISES LICENCE FOR: ♦ the publication. ‘BLACK STONE, RED FIRE’  84 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RT. ♠ ( ' ♥ &)* '(,, !♣

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Pein continues to appear to swop camps, CHESS having become associated with the Makropoulos team, he recently appears By Barry Martin to be bending towards supporting Nigel Short’s candidacy, and ,’..speaking about running himself for President in 2022..’. Ho, hum, the carousel goes round and around! There does appear to be a chance Big board & in all of this to wrestle the presidency away from the Kremlin this time round, small board but FIFA football Russian style, may trounce a western style FIDE takeover. events Watch this board! Whilst the global ping-pong tactics above are in full combative flow, lesser mortals are pitting their chess wits he latest saga in the year long across the smaller sized boards, one series of world real life chess to one at a number of international moves by the competing sides chess tournaments. The Paris leg of The in the leadership for FIDE is an East- Grand Chess Tour series is under way T and Wesley So, after winning the recent West wrestling match for control of this huge global sport, underpinned Leuven Tournament is in fine fettle unfortunately by the power it can and winning the Paris Rapid section of the does exert on a significant number of above and becomes the World Rapid countries across the world in the form number 2 with an ELO rating of 2851. of soft politics! In the East, Russia, the The Leuven Your next move Grand Chess Kremlin, the West, the rest. A recent in Belgium gave So a $37,000 first prize twist, and expect a few more, in this with 22/27 points. The Paris tournament woeful tale for the chase to become is being held in the company’s (the success’! The Chess.com encounter on is you can’t make any kind of mistake. President of this powerful organisation, tourney is being sponsored by Vivendi June 13th between the machine and And, that’s the hardest part’. Chess.com (the elections in Batumi are on the 3rd. owners of the tv company Canal+ which Nakamura was a sequel to a 4 game will look towards further man v machine October during the Chess Olympics), is televising the event), TV studio in match he played against Komodo 9 in contests in the future, ‘...if only because is that Kirsan IIyumzhinov, until now Boulogne-Billancourt in south west January 2016 which he lost. The present Nakamura stated he likes the challenge the main front man for Russia, is about Paris, along the Seine. Although the match gave opportunity to seek his of beating the computer!’ to be replaced as the Russian Chess tournament hasn’t the facilities for revenge, which he did winning 19 of The following game for this month’s Federation’s nominee for presidency of spectator attendance, it does have the 20 blitz rounds in the first section, puzzle is taken from The Paris leg of FIDE by one Arkady Dvorkovich, a professional technicians, producers and where the human player faced 20 The Grand Chess Tour, Rapid section Russian economist and politician, and directors, producing a high quality one ascending levels of machine difficulty 2018 rd.3, June 20th. between Wesley former member of the Russian Chess hour show everyday that has a popular and losing only the last game at level So v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Black Federation. He has form. His father slot on French television and is being 20. A further three games were played has moved his Rook 24. ....Re7, from Vladimir Dvorkovich is an International broadcast to French speaking countries against the Komodo Monte Carlo latest c7, threatening White’s Rook on e1 and chess arbiter. Chess runs in the family. in Africa; English television companies version which were three different odds giving check, and, exposing the White Arkady is the chairman of the organising please take note! Nigel Short gave positions played at a rapid time control Queen to be taken on b6! What was committee for the hugely successful, running commentary on the games in of 10 minutes plus 5 second increments White’s response? and ongoing as I write this, of the FIFA Leuven. after each move. In game one Komodo Answer upside down below. World Football Cup 2018 in Russia. A recent event that received much as black was absent its f7 pawn, and

The latter has so far run very smoothly, attention was the Chess.com match Nakamura’s pawn is on e4, with white a-pawn. the then and

and will have initiated a good-will factor that they organised having acquired to move. Game 2, Komodo is white c-pawn Black’s taking by havoc create

for Russia and for which Arkady will be the Komodo chess engine and its and black has an extra knight on f7 will White b-pawn White’s attacking

seen as largely responsible. latest incarnation the Komodo Monte instead of a pawn. Game 3, Komodo is b3 to Queen his move can Black

Such international success would Carlo super strength version. This white and all of its pieces were replaced Although squares. surrounding King’s

not be overlooked by President Putin latest program development,‘..chooses with knights, whilst Black’s knights the controlling Bishop and Rook White’s

and the Kremlin, in the present climate its moves by win probability and not were removed. No public odds chess with h8 on imprisoned King his with and

where Russia needs all the good-will traditional evaluation.’ This style echoes match has ever been played between a structure, pawn his disrupting without

it can muster. A Russian news report the probabilistic methods of the machine grandmaster and a chess engine using available move other no with c-pawn his

quotes Arkady as entering the FIDE learning chess programs currently a non-traditional, probability based of protection his relinquish to has Black

presidential race, ‘...after consulting storming ahead across many fields evaluation before this historic encounter. 35.a4,.... After White. for perilous been

with the country’s leadership...’, that having been tested first with chess play, The final result was 20.5/ 2.5 to the have would combination Queen and

is President Putin, the Kremlin and such as Alpha Zero and LeelaChess, Grandmaster with the final 3 rapidplay Bishop Black the since Bishop, Black’s

its international diplomatic core, all of which have’..intuitive styles and fantastic odds games being drawn. In game two remove to order in precise be to had

whom would have to have given their in the latter section Nakamura moved point this to Calculation falls. Bishop

support for his candidacy. This would all of his three knights close to his Black’s 29.Rxf6,..and - to eventually lead

indicate, on first reading, that Kirsan King ,’...resulting in a safe , but slightly Rxf7+...would 26. that seen had White

IIyumzhinov is now out in the cold passive position.’ The machine accepted 1-0. Rc7+,Kh8.34.h4,h5.35.a4.

with respect to the powers that be! LATE NEWS the repetition with Nakamura in time Rxd6,Qxd2.31.Rc6,Qd4.32Kg2,Kg7.33.

It would also suggest that Georgious trouble. The Komodo team stated that Rf8+,Kg7.28.Rf7+,Kh8.29.Rxf6,Qb4.30.

Makropoulos, referred to by Nigel Kirsan IIyumzhinov has if the engines ‘contempt factor’ was 26.Rxf7+,Kh8.27. b6...... ? 24.Qx on

Short as the ‘continuity candidate’, as if withdrawn from the higher it would have played on! There pawn Black’s taken not and position the

IIyumzhinov, as the outgoing President you are , a machine with a ‘contempt the avoided have would Black by laid forthcoming presidential trap the seeing on , players many how

wasn’t re-elected, then Makropoulos factor’ for the human, perhaps a sneer elections for FIDE due to take But move. right the White by analysis as the current Vice-President, acting factor soon with who knows what in

President, would curry favour with place in Batumi during the the future! Nakamura after the match careful with was , Queen his lose process

the elector nations, but really continue forthcoming Chess Olympics said,’ In all the odds matches I got the in and e7... on take to White by

much of the same that IIyumzhinov’s great positions, much better than I was calculation The Rxe7,Qxb6. 25. administration served up. Malcolm expecting’, and ,’ The moral of the story 56 July 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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Group A Group B Group C Group D RUSSIA MOROCCO FRANCE ARGENTINA Quarter-Finals SAUDI ARABIA IRAN AUSTRALIA ICELAND QF1 - 6th July, 15:00 EGYPT PORTUGAL PERU CROATIA Winner R1 v Winner R2 URUGUAY SPAIN DENMARK NIGERIA A helpful little Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod Russia v Saudi Arabia Morocco v Iran France v Australia Argentina v Iceland Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg Kazan Arena, Kazan Otkrytie Arena, Moscow QF2 - 6th July, 19:00 14/06 16:00 15/06 16:00 16/06 11:00 16/06 14:00 Winner R5 v Winner R6 Egypt v Uruguay Portugal v Spain Peru v Denmark Croatia v Nigeria Kazan Arena, Kazan schedule to keep Central Stad., Yekateringburg Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Mordovia Arena, Saransk Kaliningrad Stad., Kaliningrad 15/06 13:00 15/06 19:00 16/06 17:00 16/06 20:00 QF3 - 7th July, 15:00 Russia v Egypt Portugal v Morocco Denmark v Australia Argentina v Croatia Winner R7 v Winner R8 Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Samara Arena, Samara Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod Samara Arena, Samara 19/06 19:00 20/06 13:00 21/06 13:00 21/06 19:00 you on track: Uruguay v Saudi Arabia Iran v Spain France v Peru Nigeria v Iceland Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don Kazan Arena, Kazan Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg Volgograd Arena, Volgograd QF4 - 7th July, 19:00 20/06 16:00 20/06 19:00 21/06 16:00 22/06 16:00 Winner R3 v Winner R4 Uruguay v Russia Iran v Portugal Australia v Peru Nigeria v Argentina Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Samara Arena, Samara Mordovia Arena, Saransk Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg World Cup 2018 25/06 15:00 25/06 19:00 26/06 15:00 26/06 19:00 Saudi Arabia v Egypt Spain v Morocco Denmark v France Iceland v Croatia Volgograd Arena, Volgograd Kaliningrad Stad., Kaliningrad Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don Semi-Finals 25/06 15:00 25/06 19:00 26/06 15:00 26/06 19:00 10th July, 19:00, SF1 ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 Winner QF1 v Winner QF2 fixtures Winner C v 2nd D Winner A v 2nd B Winner B v 2nd A Winner D v 2nd C Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg 30th June, 15:00 30th June, 19:00 1st July, 15:00 1st July, 19:00 Kazan Arena, Kazan Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod 11th July, 19:00, SF2 Group E Group F Group G Group H Winner QF3 v Winner QF4 COSTA RICA GERMANY BELGIUM POLAND Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow SERBIA MEXICO PANAMA SENEGAL BRAZIL SWEDEN TUNISIA COLOMBIA 3rd Place Play-off SWITZERLAND SOUTH KOREA ENGLAND JAPAN 14th July, 15:00 Costa Rica v Serbia Germany v Mexico Belgium v Panama Colombia v Japan Loser SF1 v Loser SF2 Samara Arena, Samara Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Mordovia Arena, Saransk Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg TATES 17/06 13:00 17/06 16:00 18/06 16:00 19/06 13:00 Brazil v Switzerland Sweden v South Korea Tunisia v England Poland v Senegal 135 Hammersmith Road West Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod Volgograd Arena, Volgograd Otkrytie Arena, Moscow 17/06 19:00 18/06 13:00 18/06 19:00 19/06 16:00 Kensington Brazil v Costa Rica South Korea v Mexico Belgium v Tunisia Japan v Senegal FINAL Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don Otkrytie Arena, Moscow Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg 22/06 13:00 23/06 16:00 23/06 13:00 24/06 16:00 London W14 0QL Serbia v Switzerland Germany v Sweden England v Panama Poland v Colombia Sunday 15th July Kaliningrad Stad., Kaliningrad Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod Kazan Arena, Kazan 22/06 19:00 23/06 19:00 24/06 13:00 24/06 19:00 16:00 Serbia v Brazil South Korea v Germany England v Belgium Japan v Poland Otkrytie Arena, Moscow Kazan Arena, Kazan Kaliningrad Stad., Kaliningrad Volgograd Arena, Volgograd Winner SF1 0207 602 6020 27/06 19:00 27/06 15:00 28/06 19:00 28/06 15:00 Switzerland v Costa Rica Mexico v Sweden Panama v Tunisia Senegal v Colombia v Nizhny Novgorod Stad., Nizhny Novgorod Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg Mordovia Arena, Saransk Samara Arena, Samara 27/06 19:00 27/06 15:00 28/06 19:00 28/06 15:00 Winner SF2 [email protected] ROUND 5 ROUND 6 ROUND 7 ROUND 8 Winner E v 2nd F Winner G v 2nd H Winner F v 2nd E Winner H v 2nd G Luzhniki Stadium, 2nd July, 15:00 2nd July, 19:00 3rd July, 15:00 3rd July, 19:00 Moscow Samara Arena, Samara Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don Krestovsky Stad., St. Petersburg Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow www.tatesestates.co.uk