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the Thames in West London, according to the leader of and Controversy Fulham Council. The idea has been floating around for over closed years without gaining traction with TfL, Hammersmith but Councillor Stephen Cowan said the Rex © George Photograph closure of Hammersmith Bridge makes Bridge grows this the time to “pick it back up”. by LDRS reporters Owen Speaking at a meeting in Barnes, he promised to fully restore the bridge, but Sheppard & Calum Rutter questioned whether it would be able to take the sheer weight of traffic that it will be required to carry. He said: “Do we think a 132-year-old illions of taxpayers’ money British icon, which is how I’m selling it was spent on maintaining to the government when I’m asking for Hammersmith Bridge funding, is going to be sufficient for the while severe structural defects went rest of the 21st Century? The answer is M ‘probably not’. undiagnosed. The 132-year-old crossing was closed “London’s population is scheduled to vehicle traffic in April this year when to grow by 2 million; there’s climate engineers discovered microfractures in The bridge is owned by it can shatter. So the idea that buses change, air pollution. So do we want its cast iron base that may take three Hammersmith and Fulham Council. and cars are going across and this more cars driving across Hammersmith years to fix. But like all major pieces of infrastructure thing could shatter meant we had to Bridge and more polluting vehicles, The shock decision sparked rows in the capital, TfL contributes huge immediately close the bridge.” despite all the advances of technology? and generated headlines about how, sums towards its upkeep. He added: “This is a new problem “So in Hammersmith we have long over the last decade, and under A TfL spokesperson denied that that only came about because in 2015 looked at the idea of a ‘fly-under’, of both Conservative and Labour the £5.3 million had not been a proper we began a series of thorough checks. reclaiming central Hammersmith back, administrations, the bridge was allowed use of public money, and said decisions That’s essentially the issue that led us to getting rid of the ugly flyover, putting to fall into disrepair. to carry out repairs are taken by the close the bridge. It is not a failure of our in a park, building housing, office space TfL spent £5.3 million on council. relationship with TfL… It’s a failure and reconnecting Hammersmith to the maintaining the bridge between 2015 Tory councillor Victoria of a 132-year-old bridge which no-one riverbank.” and 2019, according to Hammersmith Brocklebank-Fowler asked why the checked for decades.” Mr Cowan said he hoped it would and Fulham Council leader Stephen bridge had not been fixed sooner. “There The council has promised to return “drive traffic underground” as it does Cowan, speaking at a town hall meeting was a negotiation with TfL but nothing the bridge “to full working order” and elsewhere in Europe, and free up space last month. happened, which led to this emergency reopen it to traffic. It said checks by for public use. Now, using freedom of information closure… the knock-on effect has been engineers are due to be completed by The tunnel would go from requests, it can be revealed that this horrific,” she said. September. This is when a timeframe for Hammersmith to “somewhere in figure includes £1.65 million that Mr Cowan replied there was no repairing the bridge and a cost estimate Richmond borough”, but probably TfL spent on minor repairs, and “breakdown in relationship” with TfL. will be produced, the council has said. Barnes. £2.61 million spent on “inspections, And he said the previous Conservative It estimated in April that the works When Mr Cowan asked the leader of assessments, monitoring and surveying”. administration, which ran the council could cost £40 million. And a row Richmond Council whether he would be Also since 2015, TfL spent nearly until 2014, had done nothing to assess or ensued over whether the Government “open minded” about considering such a £900,000 on hiring wardens to ensure improve the bridge. should pay for it. tunnel, Councillor Gareth Roberts told only two buses crossed the bridge at He then said questions about the Tory London Mayoral candidate him: “Let’s look at it.” once. This was due to fears about how previously-scheduled repair jobs were Shaun Bailey last week told the Evening Mr Cowan said a “united front” much weight it could withstand, but the a “separate issue”, because they would Standard that TfL should fund the would be needed between the boroughs council said in April that bus companies not have detected the fractures in the repairs, using money it will no longer in order to get funding from the had “consistently breached” this rule. suspension bridge’s base. spend on the recently-abandoned government needed to pay for the During this time, a major repair job Mr Cowan said: “In 2015 we Rotherhithe Bridge plans. underpass. budgeted at £27 million was★ due to be commissioned a thorough review of its A spokesman for Mr Khan said he Mr Roberts told the meeting: “As I carried out on the Grade II listed bridge structural integrity… has asked TfL, which has a projected said to Steve, I’m happy to look at it, but in 2016. Those works which included “What we found in April this spending deficit this year of over £700 I know the difficulties you have when replacing corroding bolts, resurfacing, year was a microfracture, which was million, to work closely with the council you try to build a basement extension in and repainting were postponed to late completely surprising. “The problem on plans for repairing the bridge. Barnes. Try to do a fly-under, you will 2017 but did not take place. with a microfracture in cast iron is that A new tunnel should be dug under appreciate those problems.”

Sophie Linden said the Met was on out onto the streets by the end of the Mayor’s Office argues that uncertainty track to reach its target of 31,000 officers year.” around annual funding made it hard to Met pledges one by the end of 2019; up from 30,000 in The projected increase comes as plan for recruitment. May this year. violence in the capital remains high. A But Ms Hall said: “I’m quite simply thousand new Officer numbers have been falling spate of violence over the weekend left sick to death of listening to Mayor Khan year on year since 2016, and dipped five dead; including a pregnant woman screaming that there isn’t enough money police officers by below 30,000 for the first time in over a and her baby. for officers when in actual fact the decade last year. Conservative assembly member money is in place for those officers. the end of the But the Deputy Mayor, speaking said it was “a great shame” “It’s not the Government’s fault that at the ’s police and that increases in police numbers had not the Met is incapable of getting new year crime committee today, said the Met come sooner. recruits. is “absolutely focused” on increasing The Met had funding for 30,750 “We passionately believe that there recruitment. officers in last year’s budget, but saw should be more police officers. But I One thousand new police officers will She added: “Every sinew has been police numbers fall instead of rising, she also passionately believe that if you’ve be on the streets of the capital by the strained to make sure that they get the said. got the money in the budget for more end of the year, according to London’s applicants in, they train them, they get The majority of police funding officers than you actually have then it’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. them through the process and they are comes from central government, and the disingenuous to blame the Government.” 4 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

it is clear that Sadiq Khan’s crime epidemic is spreading underground. Pickpocketing on “This eye-watering surge will have a devastating impact on hardworking the Underground Londoners, with the theft of items such skyrockets as wallets and phones costing victims By LDRS Reporter hundreds of pounds and causing serious disruption to people’s lives. Jessie Matthewson “Sadiq Khan’s approach to London’s soaring crime rates has been shockingly complacent.” Photograph © Centre for Disease Control & Prevention Disease Control for © Centre Photograph Pickpocketing on the Underground A spokesperson for the Mayor said has doubled in the last two years, new keeping residents and visitors safe while figures have revealed. travelling in London is Mr Khan’s top Theft from passengers on the priority. There are 3,000 transport police months. Overground and DLR has also in the capital. Westminster Councillor Heather Acton, increased, though on buses it has gone The spokesperson said: “Officers Westminster’s cabinet member for down. are targeting the known organised council urges public health, said: “We are lucky that There were 5,128 reported snatches criminal networks operating in busy the situation isn’t worse in the city, on the Tube in 2018/19, compared with places and making arrests, but with vaccination given Westminster falls below the 3,485 the previous year, and just 2,532 about 11 million journeys every day on levels required to be effective against the year before, after Sadiq Khan took public transport, it remains safe and has outbreaks. drive as measles office. relatively low crime. “Measles is a very unpleasant disease That was down on the figure under “We’re not complacent as one crime outbreak and the effects can be devastating, so we , with 3,034 pick- is one too many and we are working to want to make sure parents are aware of pocketing offences the year he left City reduce crime, which has been made far continues to soar the dangers.” Hall. harder by nine years of damaging cuts to The move is to tackle the low level of Crime on the Underground remains police budgets.” inoculations of the vaccine that was first low overall, with just five reported thefts introduced in 1968. for every one million journeys last year. Measles cases are rising across the But Conservative assembly member Parents in West London are again being globe. The World Health Organisation Susan Hall, who requested the figures urged to get their children vaccinated blamed a 50% increase in 2018 from the Mayor, warned the pattern of against the potentially-deadly measles compared with 2017 on an “anti- growing crime was worrying. Page Tom © Photograph virus. vaccination” trend. She said: “With the number of It follows an outbreak in the first half The council said it hopes to achieve a pickpocketing offences across the of this year, with 48 cases detected in so-called “herd immunity for measles”, a transport network doubling since 2016, May alone, compared to only five cases in point when 95 per cent of children will January and two in February. have received the jab. But Westminster This week, health officials from has a high number of children with TfL and the Metropolitan Police are Westminster Council will send letters to family links to other countries. The Tfl & Met to also working with campaign groups to parents of every child registered with a timings of immunisations differ from raise awareness of the work being done GP in the borough. country to country, creating challenges address rise in to prevent dangerous driving, lower The letter reminds parents of the for providers to monitor vaccination speed limits and publicise the range symptoms, which commonly include status or timeliness of vaccinations to motorcycle deaths of motorcycle training courses now on a rash of white a red blotches, a fever, provide community resilience. offer. runny nose and eyes, and a sore throat. In May, Public Health Transport for London (TfL), the TfL considers it to be a matter And it suggests booking a GP (PHE) also wrote to headteachers Metropolitan Police and campaign of some urgency to work with the appointment as soon as possible if any in Westminster, Hammersmith and groups have joined forces in reaching Department for Transport to improve child has had only one, or no, MMR Fulham, and Kensington and Chelsea out to motorcyclists following the tragic the licensing system for moped and (measles, mumps and rubella) jabs. warning them to be vigilant for the deaths of five young men in collisions motorcycle riders in order to make our Mumps cases are also on the rise, highly contagious infection. while motorcycling on London's streets streets safer for all road users and prevent with 235 new cases recorded across Though most cases subside after 10 in the last few days. 16 motorcyclists unnecessary deaths. Improvements London between January and the end of days, a variety of infections can result have already lost their lives this year. could include a requirement for pre- June alone, compared with 147 cases in from further complications caused by The five collisions happened compulsory basic training (CBT), new all of 2018. Though its symptoms are less measles, including of the ears, eyes in Haringey, Croydon, Harrow, training for motorcycle instructors and a serious than measles, NHS officials are and larynx and airways, also leading to Hillingdon and Richmond, bringing the two day CBT. again urging parents to get their children pneumonia and bronchitis. It can also total number of people who have been The measures are part of TfL and vaccinated. cause diarrhoea and vomiting, which killed while riding a motorcycle this The Mayor's Vision Zero approach to The first MMR dose is usually given can lead to dehydration. Complications year to 16, compared to 11 at this time eliminating death and serious injury to children at three months and a second are more commonly suffered by children in 2018. Three other people have also from collisions on the capital's roads top-up dose at three years and three with weak immune systems and babies. been killed in other collisions in the last by 2041. Figures show that motorcycle week, one car driver, a person cycling riders and their passengers accounted and another killed while walking. for 17 percent of serious injuries and 20 August 4 Tottenham v Inter Milan, 15:00 TfL and the a percent of all road fatalities in the capital TRAFFIC WATCH August 1 ,Fulham v Blackburn Rovers, 15:00 range of measures to improve the during 2018, despite making up just one confidence and skills of the capital's per cent of road traffic. August 10 Tottenham v Aston Villa, 17:30 LONDON HOME FOOTBALL motorcyclists, as well as raise standards August 10 QPR v Huddersfield Town, 15:00 within the motorcycle delivery industry. Figures nationally also show LONDON MEN’S HOME FOOTBALL This includes a course for delivery riders, that motorcyclists are 55 times July 27 Fulham v West Ham, 15:00 LONDON WOMEN’S HOME FOOTBALL teaching them vital skills, including July 27 QPR v Watford, 15:00 July 28, Arsenal v Bayern Munich, 12:30 how to secure deliveries, plan routes more likely to be killed, and 81 July 28. Arsenal v Lyon, 15:15 and more about the Highway Code times more likely to be killed July 30 Tottenham v Real Madrid, 17:00 Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha and a free two-hour one-to-one session with an instructor, designed to improve or seriously injured on British confidence on a specific route. roads than car drivers. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

particularly vulnerable to becoming homeless. Rough sleeping In June 2018, the Mayor of London released his Rough Sleeping Plan of has increased Action, calling on the Government to invest £574m over five years to support by 16% in a range of new services, initiatives and preventative programmes that the Mayor Westminster and other partners would be responsible for delivering. From City Hall, the Mayor has This is according to figures released implemented several measures to combat in the latest series of Greater London homelessness, including doubling the Authority CHAIN reports. Londonwide size of his rough sleeping budget and Assembly Member, Tom Copley AM, outreach team. said that it is “chilling and profoundly He has also used his powers concerning to see rough sleeping on to provide housing for homeless the rise on the doorstep of power in our Londoners. In May, City Hall brought country”. the former Clerkenwell Fire Station back The new data has revealed that into use to provide homeless services 2,512 rough sleepers were recorded and shelter to LGBTIQ+ Londoners. in Westminster by outreach workers This followed the Mayor’s investment between April 2018 and March 2019, in April of £11 million into providing compared to 2,165 over the same period temporary modular homes for homeless during the previous year. families across the capital. According to the full Greater Londoners are being encouraged to London report, the overall number of refer rough sleepers to support services rough sleepers logged on the capital’s through the Streetlink app and donate streets rose by 18% to 8,855. The most money to the London Homeless Charities recent figures published by the Office of Group through the Contactless TAP National Statistics (ONS) estimate that points located at different locations in 136 homeless people died in London in the city. 2017. This week, the Greater London In the wake of last week’s release of Authority released a report revealing the rough sleeping statistics in London, the scale of the Government’s underfunding Mayor of London wrote to the Prime of affordable housing projects in the Minister urging the Government to capital. The report concluded that City reverse its damaging welfare reforms Hall needs seven times the amount of and significantly improve the support housing funding it currently receives framework available to those with from the Government, if the Mayor is to complex immigration cases, who are meet his affordable housing targets.

(£25.6m). Of the 343 councils in the study, 278 Councils will get said they expected to record a surplus from parking for the current financial £1bn in parking year. 65 councils said they were preparing fees this year to break even or incur a loss, the research said. The highest budgeted surplus outside A study has found that councils in of London was Brighton and Hove England could make a record surplus of (£24m) in seventh place, with other £1bn from parking charges and penalties authorities in the top 20 including this year. Bournemouth, Christchurch and The study examined budget figures Poole (£13.7m), (£12.5m), and provided by councils to the Ministry Birmingham (£12.4m). of Housing, Communities and Local RAC Foundation director Steve Government. Gooding described £1bn as “quite a The RAC Foundation commissioned windfall from a service that is intended an analysis of the budget which found to be all about managing traffic”. authorities expect to make a total surplus Martin Tett, a spokesman for the of £913m from parking activities in Local Government Association, said 2019-20. However, it also found the councils were “on the side of motorists” amount made in the last three years was but must “strike a balance“ when underestimated. setting parking policy to ensure “there Councils point out surplus money are spaces available for residents, high from parking must be spent on local streets are kept vibrant and traffic is kept transport. Westminster council had the moving“. largest estimated surplus of £72.1m. He added that any income raised 0800 008 6814 This was followed by five other through on-street parking charges was London councils; Kensington and spent “on running parking services”, Chelsea (£36m), Camden (£28.3m), while surplus was “only spent on www.homebuyersofbritain.co.uk Islington (£25.9m), Wandsworth essential transport projects” such as (£25.9m) and Hammersmith and Fulham solving the roads repair backlog. 6 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Architectural News

transformed from an almost derelict and neglected rail yard into a new retail BRICKS AND destination. The result is more than a further addition to the formidable BRICKBATS regeneration around Kings Cross that Argent have been master planning and Photograph © Alan Williams BY SQUINCH developing over decades of perseverance. The original function of Coal Drops Yard was the marshalling and delivery of coal to 19th century London from Britain’s coal mines in the North. Two divergent terraces of industrial RIBA Awards brick arches and cast iron colonnades announced formed a difficult, over lengthy and disjointed space when viewed in its with new direction? dilapidated state a decade ago. That’s where the inventive genius of Thomas Heatherwick comes on to the scene. he Royal Institute of British Somehow, he saw nave, dome and Architects National Award high altar as a way of adapting and winners for Architecture were articulating the space between the announcedT on 27th June. The 54 winners terraces. By a simple twist of the roof include 20 that have creatively adapted shape and some ambitious engineering existing by Arup, a central focus (dome) is buildings. This does prove an created. The sinuous slate roofs just interesting direction towards more touch, a structural kiss, whilst breaking sustainable architectural commissions the original uncomfortable length of and recognition for the complexities arcaded brickwork. At the same time, of reinventing the building stock of an exciting new volume is established previous eras. The Stirling Prize shortlist overhead. It appears to be one of the for this year’s best UK building will be most dramatic and elegant new spaces in announced later this month and will be London. drawn from the 54 regional winners. The original dark grey brown Those selected will have to wait until brickwork has not been over-restored, October for the winner to be announced. thereby retaining the gritty rail yard character of the place. Heatherwick Studio have taken these prosaic Squinch has his eye on two industrial structures and with insight, projects in London. seen the diagram of great cathedral form in order redefine the space between At Westminster Abbey, a gothic rocket the terraces, then added imagination has been squeezed almost invisibly to create a new quarter for London. It behind a flying buttress, between the was a more difficult spatial problem 13th century Chapter House and the to solve than most would think. 16th century Lady Chapel. Impeccably Thomas Heatherwick has made it look Weston Tower at Westminster Abbey researched and detailed by Ptolemy easy; that’s why the word “genius” is Dean, 19th Surveyor of the Fabric of appropriate. Westminster Abbey, the new structure and reimagining of the triforium attic space is a gem. Dean has drawn from meticulous observation of historic details to invent an original, finely wrought, metal, glass and stone, seven storey tower enclosing an oak stair and hidden lift that gives access to new gallery spaces within the triforium. The lift shaft is wrapped in 16 different types of stone drawn from the history of the Abbey and laid in alternating bands. The galleries are entered via a bridge and new opening, to oak beamed attic volumes. The displays are well mounted, whilst shafts of atmospheric sun light carefully avoid the damaging impact of natural daylight. The galleries also give a new perspective into the main volume of the Abbey from the triforium vantage point. This confident, imaginative and scholarly intervention to one of our greatest landmarks will doubtless and justifiably become a valuable new tourist attraction for London. It was built with privately raised funding. Samsung store at Coal Drops Yard At Kings Cross, another era of everyday industrial architecture has been 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

a press release. “This is the first wave of WestwayTrust investment decisions, with more coming in the next few months.” invests £1m The new fund will launch later in 2019 and will focus on working in in North partnership with local organisations as well as groups with a particular focus on SUPPORT OUR Kensington young people. Westway Trust will also be working closely with the emerging MAKE AN community Kensington & Chelsea Young People’s Foundation. This comes after six months of ENTRANCE Westway Trust has committed just research and engagement carried out under £1 million in investments in the by social researchers at Hatch Regeneris North Kensington Community. This with the people of North Kensington APPEAL will include a new £300,000 North who identified the areas where the Kensington Community investment local community needed Westway Trust fund that is dedicated to key areas resources. identified by the community including “Through our research and the employment and enterprise as well multiple conversations we have had Whether you are a regular visitor or expansion of our scholarship programme, as arts and culture. Also included is over the last year we have heard a are yet to explore our events and research and digital capabilities will £15,000 for health programmes and lot about what matters to residents,” collections, we want to ensure the RCM improve access and enhance the RCM access to sports’ facilities for local Interim Chair, Angela Spence, said. is a welcoming space for anyone who experience for all. wishes to be moved by the transformative primary schools and local clubs. In “We have heard people would like more This summer, we begin the transformation power of music. addition, it will bring £250,000 on support for young people with greater of our entrance. This is a signifi cant “public realm improvements” including opportunities that help them to thrive. The More Music: Reimagining the Royal moment in the RCM’s history. The lighting and greening. We will do this in different ways, such College of Music Campaign represents Entrance Hall’s celebrated mosaic fl oor “The new spending plans are part of as working strategically with partners a once-in-a-generation opportunity to – which has witnessed the comings and Westway Trust’s ongoing commitment transform our facilities for the future. Our goings of thousands of young musicians, to deliver exciting new employment, new building will enable us to welcome families and music-lovers – will be to creating more projects designed training and skills programmes, as more visitors than ever before, whilst preserved for future generations. and run by organisations and residents well as providing more employment based in North Kensington,” it said in opportunities at the Trust.” HELP US SHAPE THE FUTURE OF MUSIC Development & Alumni Engagement team +44 (0)20 7591 4353 eight matched the identity suggested by www.rcm.ac.uk/makeanentrance the software. Police facial This means the technology was successful in just 19 per cent of cases, recognition fewer than one in five. ‘ Green assembly member Sian Berry, funding at all so the Mayor is urging software wrong who sits on City Hall’s police and Mayor pledges Londoners to back something in their crime committee, said the technology local area and help bring it to life. “Each in the vast threatened Londoners’ civil liberties. £600k year Crowdfund London goes from majority of cases’ She said: “This report shows how for local projects through strength to strength. I’m proud to back wrong it was for Met to rush this innovative crowdfunding these 23 fantastic projects which have By LDRS Reporter Jessie technology onto our streets. It’s clear the the potential to make a really positive Mathewson police should never have pressed ahead scheme impact on communities across our city.“ with facial recognition trials without a the Mayor commented legal mandate.” The programme is delivered Police facial recognition software could But Conservative member Tony in partnership with online civic be wrong in the vast majority of cases, Arbour, also a police and crime Creating public access to 26 miles of crowdfunding platform Spacehive and is an independent report has revealed. committee member, said despite flaws riverside in Newham and building funded by the London Economic Action Facial recognition technology, the technology was hugely important. a local events space in Lambeth are Partnership (LEAP), the local enterprise currently being trialled by the Met He said: “Facial recognition among a host of community projects partnership for London. Police, compares live images of the technology has the potential to across London backed by the Mayor To explore this scheme learn more public with a database of wanted people. revolutionise how the Metropolitan Sadiq Khan’s crowdfunding programme. and apply at: www.london.gov.uk/what- It then uses biometric mapping to Police catches criminals but it will A total of 23 local projects have we-do/regeneration/funding-opportunities/ suggest matches with the watchlist. require time to get it right. received Mayoral pledges worth as much crowdfund-london Trials of the new tech were carried “The trials have shown that there are as £612,500 through the sixth round out at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and problems to be ironed out but that’s why of the programme. If all the projects 2017, and between June last year and the Met carries out these tests.” hit their funding targets the total will February this year at locations across the Deputy Assistant Commissioner equate to more than £2.2 million, the capital. Duncan Ball said he was “disappointed highest of any funding round so far. But in tests observed by researchers with the negative and unbalanced tone” Since it was launched in 2014, from the University of Essex, only eight of the Essex University report. Crowdfund London has backed more © Garry Knight Photograph of 42 total matches were verified as He said: “The public would expect than 100 successful projects across the correct, suggesting there were errors in the Met Police to use all available and capital, including transforming disused as much as 81 per cent of cases. proportionate means to catch violent garages into a neighbourhood hub in During trials, in Romford, Stratford offenders and it is right that we trial Elephant and Castle, and a community and Soho, 16 of the 42 suggested emerging technology that could help us centre and café in Tottenham. matches were rejected straight away by to do so. While support from the Mayor officers reviewing the software. He added: “While this technology is important to helping make In the remaining 26 cases, police on can be used to assist us, it does not by these proposals happen, under the the ground tried to stop the person: but any means replace the role of a police crowdfunding model each project of 22 people successfully stopped, only officer.” must hit its target or it will receive no 8 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Promotion

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On return he set up home and office in Ely Place. He married Sarah Rowsell Blue Plaque: and they had seven children. He worked hard on commissions which included Sir Charles Barry. the Royal Institute in Greek Revival style and the Royal Sussex FRS.,RA. Hospital in simple Classical style.

Photograph © Colin Smith © Colin Photograph 1795-1860 He and his wife moved to the West End and joined fashionable circles and mixed with the Devonshire Set, where they met high ranking Whig Officials. A Blue Plaque honouring Sir Charles Sir Charles's work is famous and Barry can be seen at 29 Clapham has endured the passing years. He was Common Northside SW4 9SP in the greatly influenced by his travels. Borough of Lambeth. It was awarded by Through his friendship with Sir the London County Council. John Soane, he built several churches in He was an English Architect, best Gothic Revival style; St Matthew’s at known for rebuilding the Palace of Campfield, Manchester and All Saint’s Westminster during the 19th century. at Whitefield, and in Islington, the Holy His works are prolific and include many Trinity, St. John’s and St Paul’s. other buildings and gardens of note. He won competitions and received He often used Italianate architecture in the commission to build the Travellers’ both. Club. His Athenaeum at Manchester has

STATUES Sir Charles was one of the eleven Italianate features. He rebuilt the Royal children of Walter Barry, a Government College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Stationery Supplier and Frances Barry, Fields. He designed Trafalgar Square, nee Maybank. When she died Walter the Cabinet Office and the Town Hall in Barry remarried. Charles was christened that he will best be remembered.’ He Halifax. added, ‘he is seen as playing a vital role at St Margaret’s, Westminster. In the countryside he designed the David Lloyd- in Britain’s victory in World War I Sir Charles was educated at private Italianate entry lodge to Bowood House and in the subsequent Versailles peace schools and apprenticed to Middleton and worked on Walton House. He also George negotiations.’ Charles was a royal patron and Bailey, Architects and Surveyors. remodelled Kingston Lacy. He extended to the Trust that raised £350,000 to have He was gifted and at the age of fifteen Glyn Williams the statue created. Lloyd George was Canford Manor into a Tudor, Gothic Parliament Square MP for Carnarvon and Prime Minister exhibited at the Royal Academy. He style and he gave it a Nineveh porch to from 1916-1922, and he had earlier been spent his youth at Bridge Street, very house Assyrian antiquities. Other works Chancellor of the Exchequer and was near the . included the Reform Club in Pall Mall largely responsible for the introduction His father left him enough money for and Highclere Castle ne tends to forget the furore that of old age pensions, unemployment a very comprehensive Grand Tour and surrounded the erection of a statue benefit and state financial support for The Palace of Westminster was of the former Welsh Prime Minister, the sick and infirm. In 1922, Lloyd he was greatly influenced by the art and his greatest achievement. It was David Lloyd George, which was George was involved in a scandal architecture in the countries he visited, monumental. A life size white marble Ounveiled in October 2007 by the regarding the selling of knighthoods particularly Italy. He went to Paris, statue is at the foot of the Committee Prince of Wales, in the presence of the and peerages. In October of the same Rome, Naples, Vatican City, Venice, stairs. It depicts Sir Charles Barry with a then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, year, the Conservatives withdrew from Greece and Turkey. He also travelled and two former PMs, Baroness Thatcher the coalition with the Liberals over their book resting in his lap. and Sir John Major. In a letter to the opposition to Britain’s foreign policy in widely in the Middle East following an Sir Charles was an active member Daily Telegraph from playwright Harold Turkey, and he subsequently resigned as offer to make drawings in return. While of the Royal Academy and he was a Pinter and others, including journalist Prime Minister. travelling he met, among others, John founder member of RIBA in Portland John Pilger, and former United Nations’ The 2.4m high statue, cast in bronze, William Bankes and a lifetime friend, Place. Its Library holds his Archives. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Denis was sculpted by Glynn Williams, then John Lewis Wolfe. Halliday, they claimed Lloyd George head of sculpture at the Royal College of Towards the end of his life, not had ordered British troops to bomb Art. The figure shows him standing in surprisingly, he became Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran and Iraq an unbuttoned jacket, buttoned waistcoat exhausted. and moved out during the First World War, and left a and trademark bow-tie, in a gale, with to 29 Clapham Northside legacy in the current violence in Iraq. his cape billowing out behind him. He is Anti-war campaigners have criticised holding his hat by his side, as that would where sheep grazed on the a statue to honour the ‘Welsh wizard’, doubtless have blown off. His other arm Common. He died there; the first to grace the streets of London, is held out at a right-angle, as though it was his home. although there is another statue of he is about to turn left. The modelling Sir Charles Barry is him in the House of Commons by Uli of his clothes is lumpen and smooth as buried at Westminster Nimptsch RA sculpted in 1963, at the plasticine, a bit like the truly dreadful RIBA Collection The © Photograph other side of an arch from Sir Winston sculpture of a family by John Rivera Abbey beneath a Churchill in the Members’ Lobby. One called In Town at the south side of brass depicting the foot on each statue has been burnished Battersea Bridge. The plinth is roughly Victoria Tower of the bright by MPs, who touch them for hewn from a six-tonne block of Penrhyn Palace of Westminster, luck as they enter the Chamber, in the Heather Blue Grey slate and is inscribed, which he regarded as same way, the snout of a bronze boar on the front, simply with his name. As in Florence, Il Porcellino, has been expert adviser to Westminster Council, his masterpiece. The polished over the centuries by passers- Williams scathingly commented on Ian inscription reads, by. The historian Kenneth O. Morgan Walters’s statue of Nelson Mandela, defended Lloyd George as ‘a great also in Parliament Square, saying that Sacred to the Memory of Sir radical and a democrat who deserved it was uninspiring. ‘I believe this to be to be honoured. Although the bombing a run-of-the mill mediocre modelling Charles Barry Knight RA. of Iraq was part of his government, in an attempt to get a mimetic likeness. FRS and c. architect of the but so too was the attempt to remake The sculpture proposed is an adequate the world after 1919.’ He added that portrait, but nothing more. In my New Palace of Westminster Lloyd George was the first man to opinion a sculptor of more originality and other buildings who died try to bring the new Soviet Union and inventiveness should have been 12 May AD 1860 and is into the community of nations. In his chosen, so a lasting piece of artistic address, Prince Charles said ‘Though heritage will be left.’ Presumably, he was buried beneath this brass. he never forgot his Welsh roots, it is as referring to himself? a national and international statesman Don Grant Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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river, I was sitting next to him like he actually self-serving. Player two tries was my catch of the day. He opened his something else, and so on, until Player MARIUS BRILL’S eyes and a fist lashed out at me catching Two becomes totally disillusioned. Good me solidly in the arm. “Bastard,” he spat. deeds have the kick back of making you “I want to be dead.” And he wailed. feel good. Help an old chap across the MEMEING OF LIFE There’s gratitude! So I rolled him road and you’re seeking the appreciation, off the pier and watched him sink. No. the moral reward and perhaps even Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... Just kidding. By the time the ambulance paying forward in to a world that you arrived he was in full rant and they desire when you are old and infirm. had to sedate and restrain him on his Etc. Because self-interest can be argued stretcher before trying to navigate him for every act, some, and they tend to up the jetty. be right leaning, maintain that man is I suppose I was hoping to feel good necessarily self-serving and, as soon but I felt wretched. An impulsive act as we realise this, we can stop farting

Photograph © Unsplash Photograph was just a thoughtless one. Not only around trying to be kind and get on had I failed to consider my own safety with our real mission in life, getting before launching into the river and had rich enjoying ourselves and not giving a probably contracted Weil's disease (I monkey’s fart about anybody else. Man didn’t), but I also failed to appreciate is born of original sin… get over it. how virtually impossible it is to fall “Virtue signalling” says so much off a bridge by accident. I was lead to more about its user than its target. It the water but nothing made me think. signals a crushed idealist, someone What sort of terrible point did this defeated in their attempts to be virtuous man get to in his life to climb over a and so trying to recover dignity by handrail and cast himself into oblivion? pointing out its impossibility and He could have spent weeks building up criticising others for “pretending” to try. the courage to end his life and, when It signals someone bitterly woke enough he pushed himself off, he committed to understand that man is alone in life, himself to something so terrifying it is and will live and die feeling dirty. almost impossible to imagine. And there The Romans had 24 major virtues was me, without a thought in the world, including Comitas, “humour”; Virtus, buggering it all up. “manliness” and even Laetitia, “Joy, Sometimes I comfort myself Gladness.” Christians quickly whittled thinking, if he had really wanted to that down to seven pious counterpoints kill himself, why pick a spot on a warm to the deadly sins: chastity, temperance, night near an area full of people enjoying charity, diligence, patience, kindness the riverside? Might there not have been and humility. By the time the OED some forlorn hope for this outcome? defined Virtue its impossibility was But how did my simple attempt inherent: Behaviour showing high moral to do something virtuous end up so standards. (my italics). complicated? Could it be that my If virtue is just about “showing” In a few minutes, the shape would be unconscious desire to show off, and rather than being, if it’s impossible, near our boats. demonstrate how good I was, overrode are we idiots to keep trying? Look at it Virtue Signalling Three of us sprinted down to the any consideration for my drowning man? this way. Evolution is a species’ genetic jetty but the form was too far out. Soon Was I, in fact, just “virtue signalling”? struggle to constantly improve. But our it would pass and be gone. But now The phrase has become a go-to genes would be redundant if we reached n my twenties I lived on a boat. For we could see it more clearly. A body, mantra for right leaning commentators the goal of ideal creature. Impossible 18 hours a day it floated on the river floating face down. Without thinking I to deflate actions associated with liberal goals define a direction not a destination. at Hammersmith, a stone’s throw dropped my trousers and lowered myself and left wing ideologies. It’s used As Browning put it in Andrea del Sarto, from the bridge. The rest of the time, into the ink-cold river. copiously on social media to say that, “a man's reach should exceed his grasp, I At times, even that far up, the river’s far from being virtuous; veganism, / Or what's a heaven for?” If Virtue is when the tide was out, it rested on the shore, on mud and some old car tyres I’d currents can be deadly. Maybe in the feminism, anti-racism, and any an unachievable target, do you just give drilled holes into and sunk beneath; so back of my mind I’d clocked that, as number of socially responsible creeds, up trying to hit it? Do you just criticise the boat remained level when beached. long as high tide hadn’t actually hit, are just empty gestures only made to anybody still naïve enough to keep On summer evenings, with the chances of an undertow were slim. But demonstrate how moral the individual trying? Does that compensate for your other flotsam from the moorings, we if I did, it was unconscious. As it was I vegan, feminist or anti-racist would own sense of failure? Lasting happiness would gather at The Rutland pub to would only have a few seconds before we like other people to believe they are. is equally fanciful but no one seems to drink flat beer, enjoy the night air and would both be swept on, carried back Virtue signallers are not virtuous but argue against trying to go for it. slap midges. It was just after last orders out midstream and up to Chiswick Eyot. self-serving, glory hungry, hypocrites. So. Did I only jump into the water when I noticed a small shadow silently It was ten strokes at the most before The trouble is, for the phrase to mean because I wanted to show off? Sucker drop from the bridge into the black I could grab his shirt in my fist. I was anything, it also suggests that actually people into believing I was virtuous? water. Had I been looking a fraction in fairly sure he was dead. I didn’t try to eating less meat, supporting equal rights Some impossible higher moral being? any other direction I would have missed flip him over, just dragged him back to or stopping discrimination is indeed Am I still signalling right now with it and that evening would have passed the pier and, together, we managed to virtuous. this story? Maybe. I only know that in the same way they always did. It haul his sodden dead weight up on the Which then begs the question, if at the time I reacted thoughtlessly, an was too far to hear a splash, but a few jetty. they know these acts are virtuous why impulse, an instinct. Perhaps it was the seconds later a dark mass surfaced; just We heaved him on to his side and aren’t these critics trying to do them result of parents, school, books and films an absence where the light coruscated whacked his back a few times. He too? I suspect that this goes back to the conditioning what is morally correct. across the waves. spewed out a torrent of water which “altruism dilemma” a game which, with Perhaps it was an injection of adrenaline The tide was near the turn; still ran through the wooden slats to rejoin a certain amount of dope, keeps any kicking in my fight or flight impulse. coming in but slowing before heading the river. He started breathing, shallow number of student parties going in to the As it turned out, in life, back out to sea again. As the river alcoholic puffs. Unconscious but small hours. Player One asks “Is there opportunities to signal an aspiration to sweeps around the bend the currents definitely alive. We draped a blanket and such a thing as a completely selfless be virtuous, a belief in altruism, don’t radiate, driving detritus towards the someone rang for an ambulance. Twenty act?” Player Two suggests something come along that often. When they do. Hammersmith side and our moorings. minutes after being pulled from the nice. Player One then explains why it’s Jump in. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

family, simply because they Secretary of State at DCMS and to the were French. For years, too, surprise of many bested him. It is much I was always conscious of the What a harder to remember what he did to differences presented by skin modernise our digital infrastructure or of another colour than my bloody mess give greater independence to the Science own, a shameful awareness By Derek Wyatt Museum. At the NHS he withstood the that led me clumsily to pressure of the Junior Doctors whilst the overcompensate for any service itself worsened largely because sense of alien-ness I might of Andrew Lansley’s (his predecessor)

Illustration © Jonathan Hills, www.jonohills.com Hills, © Jonathan Illustration have harboured. When our servicemen and women shocking reforms. It is too early to judge In the end, this primitive returned from six years of a dreadful him at the FCO but he stood back from characteristic was finally series of wars in 1945 they voted for involving himself in saying or doing exorcised by the election the hope and aspiration of Attlee’s anything meaningful in the Hong Kong of Barack Obama as US Labour Party in the election held in marches this past month and does not president, when I was July (over two weeks) to the huge shock appear to understand that Brexit means prepared to believe that, at and surprise of Winston Churchill, our we will ultimately lose our veto at the last, the world had grown war time hero. Attlee promised state Security Council to India or Brazil. up, and moved on to a schooling from 5-15, a NHS service It does not really matter. What higher plane of evolution. for all, the nationalisation of our core matters if you are the new PM is what The subsequent election infrastructure and more. Even so, by happens if the Brecon and Radnorshire of Donald Trump has 1951, he too had been turfed out. Prime by-election on 1st August goes to the brought home the palpable minister’s lose elections because the Lib Dem’s (it had been Tory held). If it truth that evolution is a very voters have had enough; in this case, and does then the new PM will have, even gradual process of some it may sound familiar, because of the with the DUP, no overall majority (I steps forward and sporadic austerity and hardships families faced have discounted the seven Sinn Fein ones back, requiring the commitment, having seemingly ‘won the war’. MPs) in the House of Commons. The ultimately, of the whole human race Brexit is like a war; a civil war. notion therefore that there can be a Evolutionary before it can achieve a state of Nirvana It has being going on more seriously Brexit by 31st October 2019 is not or the utter fulfilment of its evolutionary since 2012 when David Cameron possible unless the new PM prorogues Duty goals. foolishly allowed a binding not an Parliament claiming that a new Queen’s By Peter Burden On another bathetic note, this aim indicative referendum vote. He busked Speech would give him the power. It was set back again by the distressingly the referendum on the Scottish will not. shameful sight of the UK’s Brexit MEPs independence in 2014 winning the ‘No’ There are then two further options. have a theory that when they are turning their backs on the playing of vote by 55.3% to 44.7%. He thought he The Leader of the Labour Party, born, human beings inherit a sack Beethoven’s and Schiller’s sublime Ode could busk the EU referendum which whoever that is, could call a vote of full of bad habits, primitive urges to Joy in the European Parliament, in was hard to believe since he came back no confidence which if the DUP MPs Iand inclinations that reflect earlier stages an attempt, it must be supposed, to from his discussions with President Tusk sat on their collective hands might in their evolution, while, as members make some kind of peevish political et al with no more than Chamberlain bring the new PM down and lead to a of an evolutionary species, they are statement, expressing a wish, like a gang had in 1938: though with pieces of paper general election. Fearing this the new obliged to respond to the fundamental of outsiders in the school playground, all pretty pointless. PM might call it anyway. Either way drive that requires them to become not to join in. This regressive step By the time you read this we shall as Hunt has indicated Brexit would more perfectly adapted to the world in was compounded by the sight of one have had our third Prime Minister in have to be delayed. A General Election which they live. This means they have bully, their leader Nigel Farage, prising four years. And if my sense is correct, would create an entirely new party called an inescapable responsibility, call it an apart the flabby buttocks of another, another one will be due in mid- ‘Brexit’ with it winning seats largely Evolutionary Duty, to overcome those the US President, in order to insert November. Boris is fundamentally lazy. off the Tories; if polls are to believed uncivilised tendencies that make life his greasy locks by condemning the He rarely read his boxes as a Secretary the Lib Dems might win as many as a on an increasingly crowded planet less British ambassador for stating (albeit of State and had no overriding vision hundred seats but still, because of the sustainable. for restricted consumption) the bleeding for the office. His pieces to camera were ancient way we vote, Labour would be For reasons of safety and obvious. rushed and unprepared. Yet his Teflon the biggest party. nourishment over many millennia, To hear that there are people in touch has never left him. Jeremy Hunt Spotting this Nigel Farage has said it suited our ancestors to exist as Gloucester who wish to show solidarity has lucked out. The nation would have they could do a deal with the Tories. He members of well-defined tribes, and with Farage and his acolytes by objecting liked to have seen Boris against Rory would likely be made SoS for Europe. this tribal tendency is still rooted to the playing of Beethoven’s Ninth Stewart; the Tory party would have But what if a coalition of these two deep within us, both physically and Symphony at the Three Choirs Festival preferred a Boris-Gove play off. As it is parties did not bring them a majority in culturally. Over the last century or so, only underlines the irrational xenophobia some sly switching Tory MPs allowed Parliament? In this instance, a second however, we have begun to recognise that seems to drive the Brexit tendency. Hunt narrowly through. referendum would finally come into play. that safety and nourishment on Earth, In the meantime, I’m off to get a ticket, We know little about Jeremy Hunt. as it is now peopled, is achievable if there are any left. He stood up to Murdoch when he was Goodness what a bloody mess. only by abandoning all aspects of that tribalism and its traces in our lives. This is the most plausible response to our evolutionary duty, while one of the uglier vestiges of our tribal tendency is xenophobia, not to say out-and-out

racism. Annika Huss © Photograph In trying to achieve a measure of peace and equilibrium in our lives and harmony with those with whom we share it, we should first recognise our own shortcomings and try to rectify them. For myself, I acknowledge that

as a child I was afflicted by congenital peterburden.net xenophobia, when at the age of four, I refused to share a bunk in a sleeper train

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Left: Comparative picture of Venus and Earth Credit: NASA Below: Magellan Spacecraft; Synthetic Aperture Imaging Radar, used to penetrate Venus' clouds to expose the surface. Using false colour to show comparative height. Credit: NASA/JPL

amounts of water. So could Venus have once been a : Blue planet! Climate modelling software Venus suggests it could, with a temperate Our toxic twin climate protected by a shield of thick By Scott Beadle FRAS clouds that reflected much of ’s heat and light back into space. It suggested there could have been shallow oceans covering two thirds of the surface. Indeed, with Venus’s glacial rotation (243 days), the slowest in the Last month we looked at solar system, and retrograde spin axis the genesis of the Earth, and (not understood), then the climate could have remained habitable until about 700 the UN’s Global assessment million years ago. Both Earth and Venus Report that human society could have harboured life at the same time. is in jeopardy from the So, what happened? Well the entire accelerating decline of the surface seems to be only 700 million years old and the only thing that could Earth’s natural life support be responsible is massive volcanism. systems. There are more than 10,000 volcanoes counted so far on Venus. Massive his month I think we should amounts of carbon dioxide would have look at what was once upon a belched out. Temperatures would rise time considered to be our twin rapidly; the oceans would evaporate sister,T Venus, on the inner edge of what until the skies filled with water vapour. astronomers call the habitable zone; a With so much carbon dioxide in the air place where life could have started, and and nothing to remove it, the planets with Mars on the outer edge of that paradise is doomed and only hell awaits. zone. free once again to enjoy the love of men? the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s a runaway greenhouse effect and Early observations showed it was a Sadly, for men on Earth, I can assure Venus’ atmosphere is 96% carbon nothing could stop it. similar age and size to the Earth, with a you there are no women on Venus, and dioxide. On Earth the carbon cycle Today the temperature at the substantial atmosphere. Its impenetrable the name is a bit misleading. starts when carbon dioxide is belched surface is a sweltering 470 degrees cloud cover gave science fiction writers As long as no-one could peer behind out by volcanoes, or exhaled by life, and Celsius, the atmosphere is a crushing free reign to speculate on conditions at its all concealing cloud cover everything finds itself in the atmosphere where it 90 times that of the Earths’ and it rains its surface. Being closer to the Sun it and anything was possible. dissolves and rains out. At the surface it sulphuric acid. It’s a sobering thought was thought to have oceans, swamps and Not until the advent of space probes becomes locked up in carbonate rocks, that we have as much carbon dioxide deserts. was the true nature of Venus revealed; or descends back into the Earth’s mantle locked away safely on Earth as in Nobel Prize winner Svante a world just a bit too close to the Sun, via subduction caused by plate tectonics. Venus’ atmosphere, but our atmosphere Arrhenius, deciding that Venus’s cloud receiving twice as much solar energy as In fact, there is as much carbon dioxide contained only 250ppm pre-industrial cover was necessarily water, decreed in Earth does. A dim world of intense heat in Earth’s carbonate rocks as there is in revolution. It’s already risen to 380ppm the Destinies of the Stars, that “A very and volcanic activity. Similar in size to Venus’ atmosphere. since then and rising. The warning signs great part of Venus is no doubt covered Earth, Venus’ thick toxic atmosphere Earth and Venus were born 4.6 are there, we ignore them at our peril. with prehistoric swamps” and compared traps heat in a “runaway greenhouse” billion years ago from the same inter Earth is lucky it was born in the middle Venus’ humidity to the tropical forests of effect. The scorched world has stellar dust cloud and in a similar of the Goldilocks Zone, one planet too hot the Congo. temperatures hot enough to melt lead at location, and some planetary scientists (Venus), one planet too cold (Mars). Even Zsa Zsa Gabor managed to live the surface. Today, Venus’ atmosphere believe that in their early history the Venus is what we might get if we there in Queen of Outer Space and after contains only 0.002% water, which is a young Earth and the young Venus don’t start treating our planet with the a bit of bother…… the Venusians are million times less than that present in probably were similar, with similar respect it deserves. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 International online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Global Leadership Foundation (GLF), Commission member of Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative (Chair of Energy Security) amongst multiple other Why we need a Summit of Minds prominent international offices. By Kate Hawthorne with Conor Knapp His work in the field of education is impressive. He studied at Cambridge alongside Stephen Hawking, and was one of the original authors of TETRIS. He has been on the advisory councils of Harvard and Chicago universities, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London University, founder of the High Power Annual Conference at the Cambridge University and Professor at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Mathematics of London University. Dr Sarkissian has authored numerous academic articles and publications on theoretical physics, astrophysics, computer modelling, political science and transition economics. In 1997 he received the St. Gregory the Great Award from His Holiness the Pope John Paul II The President opened the Summit outlining the necessity for such an event in today’s world stating: “When I look at the global It is all too apparent that entrepreneurs, academics, prominent learning academies with world partners geopolitics, one thing is clear: private investors. Young entrepreneurs to support them in the understanding uncertainties in the world are abundant. the divide between people brought new perspectives and cross- of technology and the workings of the There are uncertainties about Europe’s and politicians is growing generational debate to the occasion. world. future because of Brexit, in the US, Participants came from China, Armenia is rich in historical and related to the upcoming elections, rapidly. Lack of trust, Switzerland, Germany, Russian cultural traditions and celebrated its in the Middle East, and many other belief and hope in our Federation, USA, France, Italy, 2800th anniversary in 2018. Its capital places. Today, the world is full of new or Bulgaria, South Africa, India, United Yerevan is one of the most ancient in recurrent ideas. A lot of populism, fake leaders needs addressing. Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Spain, the World. The country has a powerful news, misunderstanding. We are losing Communication between Finland, Qatar, Greece, Georgia, Israel, resource; its outstanding human confidence more and more and the Singapore, along with the host country. intellectual capital. It is in the midst ability to talk. From that point of view people and our integration Corporations and Institutes such as of an economic and societal revolution I am very glad to host the small ark, not Google, Siemens, Clean Energy, Institute and is ambitious about its global role Noah’s ark but The Armenian Summit of with the government is in of Global Affairs, Centre for Science and in the world, drawing on its traditional Minds, a small ark concerned with the serious decline. We need our Technology, Dialogue of Civilizations strengths of scientific excellence, future of the world here, in Armenia”. Research Institute, Institute of Global creativity and intellectual prowess. Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan countries’ sharpest minds to Health Innovation, Russian Federation President Sarkissian’s background commented “In general, there are only come forward and address this for International Cultural Co-operation, gives an insight into why this important two factors throughout the existence of National Research Council, Italy, and Summit gathered so many of the world’s our planet which influenced the planet with urgency. Politicians need Starmus (who combine science, art and best thinkers, experts and leaders. There Earth; one is the cosmic factor, the other to collaborate with people. We music to engage humanity in the biggest is a Statesmanship about him that is is the human mind. Speaking about the questions of our time. Previous keynote rare in today’s politics. He is a popular main topic of today’s discussions, global are no longer prepared to be speakers included Neil Armstrong and President and has the loyalty and deep and regional economic, investment the audience to their theatre. Stephen Hawking www.starmus.com), admiration of his people, and as one trends, geopolitical developments, we were among the many contributors. participant said, “In him you have a real see that the greatest investments in the We need a Summit of Minds. The Summit of Minds is typically held human being who is comfortable in his contemporary world are made in the in Chamonix, France. The founders sentiments and cannot be fatigued”. area of the human mind. It has got to CW Today attended the Armenian of The Summit of Minds have been Dr Sarkissian holds a doctorate in the point when the human mind is not Summit of Minds in June of this part of the World Economic Forum top theoretical physics and is the recipient of satisfied with itself and the artificial year to learn more. team, have managed global businesses, many International Awards. He was the mind; artificial intellect developing KThe Armenian Summit was convened invested in new ones and hold impressive Armenian Prime Minister briefly from processes are going on in the world and by The Summit of Minds co-founder backgrounds. Chatham House rules apply. 1996-1997, Ambassador Extraordinary this is, actually in the main economic Thierry Malleret and hosted by the The topics at The Armenian Summit and Plenipotentiary of the Republic trend of the world of the 21st century.” country’s recently inaugurated President, ranged from security challenges in of Armenia to the United Kingdom, The opening plenary was on Dr Armen Sarkissian. the Modern Middle East, Energy, Senior Ambassador to Europe, Geopolitics and the Development The Summit’s outstanding reputation Monetary and Investment Policies, Ambassador to the European Union, of Eurasia and the Middle East, The brings together 300 international Quantum behaviour of Global Risks and Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg Grand Chessboard , and was moderated prominent thinkers and practitioners Policies, Artificial Intelligence, Digital and the Vatican. impressively by Rizwan Kahn creating a think tank of intellectual Economy, Hi-tech and Governance, He has been Special Advisor to International journalist and broadcaster capital with the mutual purpose to better Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the President of the European Bank with CNN, Al Jazeera, and the BBC. understand and improve the world. other contemporary fields of interest. for Reconstruction and Development Eurasia is a unique region Attendees included; world leaders, Education for young entrepreneurs, and Governor of EBRD, Chairman geographically, one that is stuck global CEOs, scientists, military leaders, including those of school age was of Global Council on Energy Security between two strong elite countries, economists, scholars, political strategists, impressive, with Armenia providing (WEFForum). 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Eurasia, and Armenia in particular, and political uncertainty in the EU after has an opportunity to act as a ‘bridge’ Brexit. between powers such as the US, the EU, Authoritarian regimes in western Russia, and China in building stronger democracy were cited as becoming diplomatic relations. smarter about manipulating truth President Sarkissian, a Quantum and that for democracy to persist one Politics practitioner was the founding must “align philosophically with the President of Eurasia House International fundamental question of the rights of a in London which fosters critical dialogue human being”. and cooperation among political and The next session was on Hi-Tech and business leaders and is involved in bridge Governance: Artificial Intelligence, Digital building between the West and the Economy, 4th Industrial Revolution, vast geographic space extending from Quantum behaviour of Global Risks and Eastern Europe to Russia, the CIS and Policies. This was moderated by Ted to China. Souder, Head of Industry in Retail at The focus of the session was around Google, and attended by: Professor the the Caucasus and Central Asia as the Lord Ara Varkes Darzi of Denham, heartland of Eurasia and the role the Director of the Institute of Global region plays in terms of balancing trade, Health Innovation at Imperial College economics, security and the environment London; Alma Donohoe, Partner at Ahren Innovation Capital; Massimo Inguscio, President of the National Research Council KCW Today interviewed Dr. in Italy; Jan-Marc Lischka, The EastWest General Manager at Siemens; Parker about the EastWest Remi Paul, Vice President Institute Institute and the important and General Director at Thales Electronic Systems; and Fabrizio & Conflict role it plays in the world today. Renzi, Director of Research & Innovation Technology at IBM. Q. Could you describe the work of Prevention The EastWest Institute and why it is so This discussed the changes By Kate Hawthorne happening in AI and their effect necessary in our modern world? on how business and political with Arman Aboutorabi leaders make decisions, effectively A. Our approach centers on fostering dialogue between global leaders and

Photographs courtesy of the Press Office of the President of Armenia of courtesy Office of the President of the Press Photographs shaping the near future. Following this was a workshop influencers. We do that by engaging on Social Entrepreneurship focused government, military, business and civil around how positive social and society on major political, economic and financial returns can be harnessed The EastWest Institute (EWI) security issues. We convene opposing for greater social and economic groups, both “above the waterline” in welfare. is an international non open forums, and “below the waterline” Leadership in the 21st Century: governmental organisation, for the discreet exchange of ideas and President Armen Sarkissian DIY Survival Kit was the deliberations that address the most final plenary and held candid founded in 1980, that works to common barriers to trust. Simply, we conversations on topics such reduce international conflict. build trust between groups that may not between other major powers. as; rising un-governability, the toxic otherwise talk. The panel of speakers addressing effect of social media, mounting social he institute has a 39-year track the matter included: Dominique de complexities, and the acceleration of record of convening dialogue Q. What are your top priorities for the Villepin, former Prime-Minister of time. Political and business leaders and back channel diplomacy to Institute? France, General James Jones United reviewed coming challenges and how develop sustainable solutions for today’s T A. To continue to focus on those States Marine Corps (Ret.), Matthew they deal with them. It was moderated major political, economic and security Rojansky, Director of the Kennan by Maxim Kiselev, CEO of the Human issues. It is committed to bringing discrete issues that are very important Institute at the Wilson Center; Mikhail Capital Development Foundation. conflicting parties to the negotiating to world security. In today’s rapidly Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the The Summit was a successful event. table to find common ground on some changing world we have to stay ahead President of the Russian Federation for The people were extraordinary. Their of the most pressing international of the changes. As such, a big part International Cultural Cooperation, and visions, willingness to work together challenges of today. of what we do is to ensure that we James Zhan, Director of the Investment to heal and build on world politics, The EastWest Institute’s legacy understand present-day challenges as & Enterprise Division at UNCTAD. environmental, humanitarian, economic includes mediating the first military- well as project those issues that may Discussions began with Dominique de and educational issues impressive and to-military dialogue between NATO devolve into potential conflict. This Villepin being asked about how Eurasia inspiring. and Warsaw Pact countries during the applies to state actors and non-state would develop as a region in the future. Cold War era. Currently, the EastWest actors, as well as issues like the role Further discussions included the It is time we held a UK Summit of Institute annually convenes the only of Artificial Intelligence on the future distinction between the government Minds and bring forward our country’s three-party dialogue between the United of security. We believe that projecting driven national security of the 20th own intellectual capital. The East States Democratic and Republican issues and tensions is just as important as century, and the inclusive 21st century West influence is rapidly changing the Parties with the Communist Party of addressing existing conflicts, and critical security policies necessary to address dynamics of world politics. We need to China. for helping ensure stability for future emerging areas of threat such as climate recharge and regain our foothold and Dr. William Parker recently generations. security, energy security, and cyber respect here, and participate more fully succeeded Ambassador Cameron security. in these vital international changes. Munter as EWI’s President and CEO. Q. What are the strategies for this? Global investments were discussed With a background steeped in education and the effects on this is mostly due President Sarkissian is married to author and global security, Dr. Parker served as A. To get into some specifics, since to Foreign Direct Investment seeing a and artist Mrs Nouneh Sarkissian, and CEO of the National Defense University 2008, we have maintained the U.S.- sharp decline in recent years after US they have two sons. Foundation and Chief of Staff for the China Sanya Initiative that regularly tax reforms, screening and monitoring U.S. Naval Surface Forces during a convenes retired U.S. and Chinese processes for multinational investment, Visit www.summitofminds.com distinguished military career. four-star Generals and Admirals to 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 International online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

build greater military-to-military better situation, in a stable and healthy Q. What are some of EastWest’s greatest guide that we have put out provides understanding between the two environment, with access to clean water, concerns as we head into the future? advice for executives on making a countries and mitigate the chance of food and employment. This baseline cuts smart city secure and safe by managing escalation and miscalculation. across all religions, nationalities and A. I already mentioned the challenges technology effectively. The key issue is Our Middle East North Africa political viewpoints. of rapid change. Can we change policies how to make the world a better place programme assesses potential conflict and decisions at a global scale fast and safer for individuals, organizations triggers and dynamics across the region, Q. Your book Guaranteeing America’s enough to respond to an event that and cities not only from being attacked and currently focuses on building trust Security in the Twenty-First Century, happens halfway around the world, but keeping data secure. between Iran and Saudi Arabia on (2016), outlined a roadmap for the yet is being communicated on social shared interests around economic and American government to prepare itself media instantaneously and possibly Q. What are the Institute’s views on the environmental challenges; is engaged for looming national security concerns. misinterpreted? Because of the increase influence of AI for the future? in thought leadership on the impact Have the past three years altered your in cross border threats and mis- of environmental degradation and the perception of national security? communication, it is easy to see how A. Cyber is still relatively young when resulting security risks in the MENA mistakes can arise. For example, at sea, you look at the history of the world region, and is launching an Algeria- A. What the contributing writers and I what constitutes an accident between and we’re still working through various Morocco Business Dialogue. realised is those areas we addressed and two ships of different nations versus an policies. Similarly, Artificial Intelligence The institute is also a pioneer in the predicted to change are escalating faster act of aggression? So we continue to is now penetrating most of the major area of cybersecurity, having initiated a than we first imagined. Social media and work on initiatives like the Incidents at industries of the world, including global dialogue on cyberspace security, technology have increased the speed of Sea Agreements between the U.S. and healthcare, finance, transportation, diplomacy and deterrence; and co- events and decreased the time available Russia. Also, we are seeing more and education and law. However, while it founded the Global Commission on for leaders to make decisions. In the more countries that are being impacted may increase our ability to come up the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), past we had weeks to make decisions by more than just internal matters, like with a cure for certain diseases rapidly, which promotes mutual awareness and because of the immediacy of today’s Armenia and Venezuela, and I don’t it could also form some disease that it is and understanding among the various systems and responses, decisions have think that’s going to slow down in the difficult for us to respond to. These are cyberspace communities on issues related to be quick and decisive. That imposes near future. areas we have to constantly assess. to international cybersecurity. a great deal of pressure and demands We look at conflict in three ways Look at some of the recent interviews much more advanced knowledge and or in three phases. We try to prevent done by the late Stephen Hawking and Q. You studied at the Air Force foresight. conflict when possible by building trust by Elon Musk and others, and their Academy, Harvard University, and and having conversations between the concerns about getting AI wrong. It is George Mason University. Do you Q. Are we setting ourselves up for right high level people, both discrete and very important that we carefully apply feel that the modern education system a conflict between the West and a non-discrete. If these events turn into AI. The Institute looks very closely at adequately prepares young people for growing alliance between Russia and a conflict we continue to work on this this issue, working with industry around today’s international world?” China. What role will the Institute play very closely to ensure the shortest road the globe, to ensure our approach to AI in navigating mediation? possible to resolution. The third phase results in a net positive for the world and A. Your question is a very important is post conflict resolution or cleaning up not a net negative. one. I think a combination of formal and A. I think it’s important to keep Russia, the mess after events. We look at these It is vital for the world to have informal education is critical over one’s China and the United States as three three pillars; pre-conflict or prevention, leaders that we can live up to and make a career. After my undergraduate studies, separate entities. Unfortunately, I do the clamping down on conflicts that are difference. The EastWest Institute awards it was about 10 years before I went back agree that we are moving towards a happening right now, and on the post- the John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman to get a Master’s degree. During those bipolar or maybe multipolar world. conflict world and returning to normalcy Award annually to members of the 10 years I gained an informal education Here, continued communication swiftly. international community who work as “a by working around the globe, having the and understanding are critical. We trust-builder and catalyst for change.” privilege to visit various countries, and have an office in Moscow and good Q. What is the EastWest being exposed to a range of cultures. communications with the Russian Institute’s stance on the advance of Q. What is the process for selecting the This truly shaped my way of thinking government, its military and civilians. cybertechnology and cyber warfare? recipient of this award? and prepared me for graduate studies. We have a similar relationship with Another 10 years passed before China where we foster relationships A. That’s a very broad question. We’ve A. We believe it important to I returned to university to earn a between the United States and China done a study on encryption policy in recognise individuals who are making Doctorate. In this context, I think and other countries. We always want to democratic regimes and have worked a positive impact and will continue timing is critical. Each professional ensure lines of communication remain with other countries on how to deal with to make an impact on the globe. In challenge and experience prepared me open, because at the end of the day, even this. We recently issued a report on the 2018, Armenian President Dr. Armen significantly for higher education and if you disagree on issues, continuous emerging field of cyber insurance and Sarkissian was recipient of the award vice versa. Of course, the timing will be communication will allow you to arrive systematic market risk. We carried out “in recognition of his distinguished different depending on the individual at a resolution and hopefully avoid open studies in 2018 and 2019 and working career and achievements as a statesman and what they are trying to achieve in conflict. groups to discuss global cooperation in representing the interests of Armenia, their lifetime. cyberspace as well as smart cities. The and for his contributions to the field of global development.” Q. Do you have any particularly We recognised Dr. Sarkissian memorable experiences in that informal because of his long career and distinct education that you mention that you feel achievements in the physical sciences in are especially valuable for young people the private sector, within government today to attempt to experience? and representing the interests of Armenia. He has made profound A. When I was in the United States contributions to global development. His Navy we pulled into numerous ports deep experience and continued efforts in countries that were predominantly to foster a spirit of greater cooperation Muslim, or Christian, or Jewish. We and collectiveness are emblematic of met with political and religious leaders his public service culminating in his and quickly learned how different people overwhelming election as President at think, view the world, and how they the National Assembly. Dr. Sarkissian respond to various issues. What I took has been entrusted with bringing away from that is that at the end of the about stability, offering a new vision day no matter what country you go to, for his country’s path towards a more most people want the same thing; they democratic future. Such efforts deserve want their children to grow up in a to be acknowledged. 18 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk International

geopolitical landscape of the region. For those in favour of Somaliland’s INTERNATIONAL independence, Kenya’s recognition is extremely encouraging. Looking ahead, NEWS it will be interesting to see if Kenya takes back its recognition of Somaliland BY CONOR KNAPP & or fully embraces their new position. ARMAN ABOUTORABI If Kenya becomes the trailblazer in a movement to grant Somaliland its independence, the interesting scenario will likely play out in the African Union’s 33rd AU Summit; its annual meeting to be held in early 2020. While the efforts of self-recognized states such as Taiwan and Kosovo to gain international Tblisi, Georgia recognition appear irreparably stalled, rotests continue to rage in the the debate surrounding Somaliland may Georgian capital after crowds just be beginning. gathered for weeks demand the Presignation of top officials and call for an early parliamentary election. The initial protests began as the result of Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov giving a speech Amazon in Russian from the speaker’s seat in parliament. He addressed delegates as Rainforest, Brazil part of the Interparliamentary Assembly Deforestation in Brazil rose more on Orthodoxy, a body set up by the Greek than 88% in June compared to a year parliament in 1993 to foster relationships ago. Although the figure is preliminary, between Christian Orthodox lawmakers. it was based on a 12-month satellite This angered Georgian politicians imaging and measuring by Brazil’s space from both the opposition parties and Giga Makarishvili report shifting to clans in May and declared what was agency. Deforestation in the first 11 the ruling party, the Georgian Dream more “guerilla tactics” to maintain once British Somaliland, ‘The Republic months affected 4,565 square kilometers, coalition. After Gavrilov addressed the the momentum of the protests going of Somaliland’, a self-declared state a 15% increase in the same period as assembly, opposition MPs rushed to the forward, indicating no plans for de- separate from Somalia. during the previous year. To put that speaker’s seat during a break and said escalation in the foreseeable future. Somalia remains in a state of into perspective the area is now larger they would not let Gavrilov return. chaos to this day, as the Human Rights than the US state of Rhode Island or Relations between Russia and Watch notes “fighting, insecurity and French Polynesia. Georgia have been mired for over lack of state protection, and recurring The deforestation comes after Brazil’s a decade now following the Russo- humanitarian crises” as factors leading right-wing president Jain Bolsonaro Georgian War in 2008. The war began Hargeisa, to the brutal living conditions within the criticized the country’s environmental when Russia established direct relations state. 2.7 million people live internally enforcement agency Ibama for handing with internationally unrecognized Somalia displaced, and the Islamist armed out too many fines. While Bolsonaro is separatist movements in the Abkhazian On 27 June 2019, the Twitter account group Al-Shabaab operates regularly in pro-development in the rainforest, a deal and South Ossetian regions of Georgia. of the Foreign Affairs Office of Kenya the East African nation. Contrasting made between the EU and the South Immediate military action resulted referred to talks between Kenya and the sordid state of affairs in the rest American trading bloc Mercosur could be when the Russian-backed separatists self-declared state of Somaliland as a of Somalia, Somaliland has escaped in jeopardy. began shelling villages, breaking a discussion between “two countries.” much of the national chaos. The self- French President Emmanuel Macron 1992 ceasefire agreement. After a While this tweet may seem innocuous, declared state of 3.5 million people has warned before making the agreement 5-day conflict another ceasefire was it potentially has massive geopolitical its own government, led by President last week that he would not sign off on it negotiated, however Russia still occupies implications, as it is the first time the and retired air force pilot Muse Bihi if Brazil pulled out of the Paris Accord on both breakaway regions to this day. self-declared state on the southern shore Abdi. Somaliland also has a standing climate change; a condition of the deal Russo-Georgian relations continue to be of the Gulf Aden has been recognized police force, a government-run radio which was outlined by the EU and also strained ever since with anti-occupation by a foreign country as an independent broadcast, and even its own currency, the fights deforestation. The deal between being a strong focus of both the people country. Somaliland shilling. the multinational organizations came and the government, including Georgia’s On 1 July 1960, the former colonial By all accounts, the government of after 20 years of talks and allows the President Salome Zurabashivili. holdings of Italian Somaliland and Somaliland is more stable than that of entry of Mercosur country agricultural Protestors have cited Gavrilov’s British Somaliland unified into the the rest of Somalia; however, Somaliland products into the country in a ‘controlled previous votes for the independence Somali Republic, what is commonly has struggled to garner international quota’ to avoid flooding the market and of the occupied regions in Georgia as referred to today as Somalia. This recognition. Prior to Kenya’s tweet, keep European farmers in business. reason for their discontent, his actions republic maintained relative control Somaliland has never been recognized Mercosur will also cancel the import in parliament clearly striking a nerve within its borders until the 1980s, when as independent from Somalia, despite tariffs on 91% of EU export products, with the people and reviving tensions. the country’s government, led by Siad engaging in diplomatic talks in the with the EU annulling 92% percent of Politicians and protesters called for Barre, grew increasingly authoritarian UN and African Union and between products from Mercosur. The mutual the resignation of Parliament Speaker and Ethiopian-encouraged resistance states such as the UK and US. The trade deal amounts to about £110 billion. Irakli Kobakhidze, who stepped down movements ran rampant throughout international community has been loath Greenpeace forest strategist Paulo to meet demands on June 21. When the nation. This hostility culminated to recognize Somaliland’s sovereignty Adario said “all indications” were protestors tried to enter parliament on in the Somali Civil War beginning because of a fear that doing so would that deforestation will worsen under the night of July 20th more than 240 in 1986 and ending in the overthrow result in the complete disintegration Bolsonaro, but he hoped news of a large people were injured as rubber bullets of Barre’s government in 1991 by a of Somalia. According to the African increase would put pressure on the and water cannons were used to repel loose coalition of armed rebel groups. Union, recognizing Somaliland government to take action. With the them. Now Interior Minister Giorgi As the rest of the nation plunged into without the permission of the national 60% of the Amazon in Brazil, and being Gakharia is being called to resign, anarchy and violence within the power government of Somalia would give rise the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the accused of using excessive force to break vacuum following Barre’s ouster, the to numerous other separatist movements fate of such a crucial area for the human up the demonstrations. Organizers for Somali National Movement convened in other regions of the country that ecosystem finds itself in a position of the movement such as protest leader with the elders of Somalia’s northern could not be denied, reshaping the entire political jeopardy. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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dollars by 2027. The age of Big Data estimated 87 million people’s Facebook Most of it done inconspicuously as part isn’t stopping any time soon, in fact it profiles without consent, almost the of what is being called the Internet of Big Data seems as if it’s only just begun. There entire voting population of the US, Things. This refers to the extension of By Conor Knapp is a two-way feedback loop happening along with a significant portion of internet connectivity into everyday here though when it comes to data. Your the UK voter base as well. This was objects, enabling them to send and behaviour is recorded and presented to all accomplished by the permissions receive data. It also means the biggest a government or a company who in turn granted when taking one of those voluntary producers of data are us with change their approach to presenting trivial personality quizzes that we our ‘smart’ technology. The smartphone themselves according to how they all have succumbed to at some point. is connected to the smartwatch is Have you ever had the feeling now know you, creating a constantly After divulging your fears, hopes, connected to the smartcar is connected you were being watched? evolving system of understanding, built and personality traits for free, they to the smartblender and so on. Most of around your actions intersecting with had access to you and your friend’s this connectivity and data production is This is not the work of their interests. Yet one must wonder information. This gave them the obtained with the promise of personal CCTV, or a delusional sense of how long it will be until the two will be data necessary to create complex convenience, which is true. It is also synonymous with each other. Professor psychological profiles for individual bought, sold and processed in order to reality a la Truman Show. This Rust, founder of the Psychometrics Centre voters and tailor political messaging reveal patterns in our behaviour. The is the age of Big Data, and big at the University of Cambridge, warns, around that. If you saw an ad that made creepy feeling you get when something “The danger of not having regulation you feel anxious about immigrants at the you just talked about appears on your data knows you. around the sort of data you can get borders or that discouraged you from newsfeed or an ad. isn’t paranoia. Tech from Facebook and elsewhere is clear. voting, you were most likely a target of companies use computer algorithms to What exactly is big data? In layman’s With this, a computer can actually do that campaign. The architects of these make use of personal data in a process terms, it is the sets of data so large psychology, it can predict and potentially campaigns were those who had both called ‘predictive analytics’ which that they have to be processed control human behaviour. It's what vested interest and the knowledge of can reveal everything from consumer computationally in order to be the scientologists try to do, but much how to use the data. In the US it was behavior, to future markets, to which understood in any meaningful way. This more powerful. It’s how you brainwash Robert Mercer, billionaire Republican children are likely to be in danger at is all the data produced by everyone someone. It’s incredibly dangerous.” donor and computer investment banker, home. The clairvoyant power of these with a digital footprint, a literal ocean of Let’s take a real-world example with who saw major potential in Cambridge algorithms has been able to do things unprocessed information made up of our an impact that only few know about. In Analytica’s psychometric voter targeting, such as predict pregnancy before the collective likes, searches, memories, and the UK it’s the dreaded B word, in the and invested heavily into the campaign mother is aware just by analysing secrets. Whether it be a photo of you US it is the big T causing an endless of Donald Trump with it. In the UK it shopping behaviour, as claimed by an in your favourite café or a walk to work headache. But what do the political was Nigel Farage, longtime friend of the article in Forbes in 2012. with your phone counting your every phenomena of Trump and Brexit have Mercer family, and Andrew Wigmore, The bottom line is that technology, step, we are all doing our part to swell in common? Well populism of course, director of communications for Leave. the gathering and processing of large this great sea. Now you may be thinking but that populism is rooted in a far EU, as reported by national news media. volumes of social and behavioral data, that these activities are all harmless and more sinister knowledge. Everything Some people were awakened by has changed finance, politics, health so what if someone wants to know about became clear with a scandal that this scandal, feeling uncomfortable and the world. The 21st Century looks your binge watch schedule or your trip few understood the importance of, that their personal data was used in to be the undisputed age of technology. to Thailand. Well, it’s not what you’re even though it changed the heart of such a subversive way. Yet perhaps the Whoever will master that technology doing so much as what can be done with modern politics. Cambridge Analytica, most concerning part was that this data will be in control of far more knowledge it. a British political consulting firm that was taken consensually. Buried in the than ever thought possible. Whether In 2011 the global Big Data market combined data mining and analysis with often glossed over terms and conditions that technology works to benefit us all or was valued at 7.6 billion dollars. In 2017 electoral strategy became embroiled in agreement are the rights to some of the a select few will be dependent upon the the number grew to 35 billion dollars a scandal back in 2018. It was accused most intimate knowledge of yourself. agenda of those at the helm of this great and is forecast to grow to 103 billion of harvesting the personal data of an That’s not the only way data is harvested. power. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Business & Finance online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Pakistani cricket players colluded with a gambling. In 2018, the United States US vs. UK: bookmaker to throw deliberate no-balls Supreme Court struck down the at certain junctures in their Test match Professional and Amateur Sports Protection The Sports’ against England at Lord’s. All four Act (PASPA), a ban on sports betting for

schemers served jail time for the offence. every state except Nevada. It is now up Makos © Jim Photograph Betting Industry The Gambling Commission takes measures to the 52 states to decide for themselves By Gill Gross to ensure occurrences of fixing are never if gambling is to be permitted. left unpunished. ‘From a sport perspective that Both the rugby and cricket World would be a concern, because you want Cups have dedicated integrity officers to have some consistency in the way shadowing teams at events. Every team the gambling market is regulated,’ s the United States attempts to were given briefings pre-tournament Thompson said. implement legal sports’ betting around the rules on betting and the Chad Millman, Head of Media at effectively, it may be best served potential of being approached by the Action Network, a sports’ gambling toA follow Britain’s lead. The latest criminals looking to fix games. Since media company based in New York, figures reported by the UK gambling the United Kingdom hosts these events, believes the US could learn from the commission say the sector is responsible oversees the regulation of betting to this they have a responsibility to maintain UK system, but the execution could be for nearly 15 billion pounds of annual day. The Gambling Act was revisited and standards of integrity. The construct challenging. yield and over 100,000 employees. updated in 2014. can be more complicated in sports like ‘Every state has different agendas Sports’ gambling is a delicate institution. Sports’ betting regulation must go far tennis. about what is important to them’, When executed properly, it can be a beyond licensing and advertising policy The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) is Millman said. ‘While the core of perfectly viable leisure activity. But and include safeguards that protect responsible for enforcing the players integrity monitoring will likely be the its perils lie in addiction and sporting integrity. ‘From a UK perspective I ‘zero-tolerance policy on betting same everywhere; dealing with any state integrity. A closer look at Britain’s think we’re in a pretty good place when corruption.’ It is an independent body legislative body leads to differences in experiences with sports’ gambling could it comes to what our sports’ governing funded by the men’s and women’s regulations.’ provide the clues the United States bodies do to protect against risks to tours, the major tournaments and For the United States, even a needs. the integrity of our sports, but you the International Tennis Federation. disjointed regulatory system could be an Britain’s regulatory history in can never be complacent,’ said Leigh Thompson suspects there is a dialogue upgrade from the current state of affairs. gambling began with the Gambling Act Thompson, Policy Manager with the between the Lawn Tennis Association The American Gaming Association of 2005. Its objectives were, ‘preventing Sport and Recreation Alliance, a group (Britain’s governing body for tennis) estimates 150 billion dollars are wagered gambling from being a source of crime that represents over 300 sports’ bodies, and the TIU to ensure the proper illegally every year. Legal sports betting or disorder, ensuring that gambling is including the Sports’ Betting Group, in anti-corruption measures are taken at in the US give leagues a better chance conducted in a fair and open way, and government engagement. the country’s many pro-level events, at achieving fair economic return and protecting children and other vulnerable High profile examples of match- including Wimbledon. controlling integrity in a betting climate. persons from being harmed or exploited fixing have been few and far between For the United States to replicate Even if they find UK-esque success by gambling.’ The act created the in UK sports. The most high-profile the UK’s regulatory cohesiveness, it regulating the industry, the United Gambling Commision, which still incident came in 2010, when three will need to adopt a federal policy on States will likely find a different path.

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Aha, must challenge the perpetrator in a kind of citizen’s harrest and try to make you didn’t know that?) him or her understand that haitching is rather like dropping oral litter; ugly, ut, mysteriously, this is not the alphabet by saying the sound of the and a ‘haitch’ from a Hoxton primary. unnecessary, physically perverse, and pronunciation that is gathering letters aloud as in ‘hur’ or ‘hah’. Very Going west to ski slope land, I found a frankly bad English. traction at the moment. ‘Haitch’ understandable, but unless one is careful, ‘haitch’ from a primary in Hillingdon. ‘Drop your aitches if you like,’ I shall with an aspirate in front of the ‘aitch’ B this is a trap. It can lead to putting the Hammersmith Library likewise held out urge, ‘but for goodness sake pick up your is gaining ground, and is giving me ‘hur’ or ‘hah’ in front of the letter ‘H’ for an aspirated version of the H, and haitches.’ hammer-toes, hiccups and heebie-jeebies. when pronouncing it as well; and so the Hackney Library ditto. In fact, searching Funny how so many London You find it on switchboards, at schools, kingdom of error recruits its devotees. for ‘aitch’ was beginning to seem like boroughs start with an ‘aitch’. in reception, in box offices, in police And it’s not just the children. There looking for a needle in a haitch-stack. Thank you. stations, even on television. ‘Hhhhaitch!’ are also the grown-ups. Many of the The verdict was ‘haitch’ at Hounslow, It makes me sad, partly because it is people who use ‘haitch’ are, whether so I harked back east; cheating a bit incorrect and mostly because it flies in they know it or not, actually trying to since it is not in a London borough, to the face of nature. be correct. One of the basic lessons Hornchurch where, a year or so ago, I Nick Salaman H is, of course, a very useful sound of elocution or of acquiring so-called was given a resounding ‘haitch’ from Tel 07740 435 101 and letter. It is an emphatic, giving respectability is the commandment a 6 year old at a local primary. Just as I [email protected] vowels a good firm start in life as in ‘hey!’ that ‘thou shalt not drop thy aitches’. or ‘hello’ or hen, hospital or harlot; just as How better to remember this than by it does in a name like Horatius or Hero; inserting it in front of the name of the or in Hitler who particularly liked the letter! But…wrong again. For me. the sound of his own name with an ‘H’ in ugly practice of calling the letter H front of it as in ‘Heil!’ though Churchill ‘haitch’ is worse than dropping an H in dropped it and called him ’itler’. the first place. Where is the fons et origo The strange thing is, it is actually of all this haitching? Who is teaching an effort to pronounce ‘haitch’ the way the young aspirants of today to put their that, say, the DHL or HSBC recorded aspirations into the good old English messages and switchboards do these ‘aitch’? days. ‘Haitch’ is a push-me-pull-you I haitched a lift and went on a noise. It starts off pushing well; the voyage of investigation round some of H-sound involves a chestful of air and a the Boroughs of London, starting with considerable exhalation from the mouth; a primary school in Kensington. At but the early promise of the ‘H’ is fatally Bousfield School, they try to take great weakened by the pull of the sneezy ‘tch’ care to teach the children about calling at the end; and you end up disliking it. It the letter H ‘aitch’, a particular triumph is full of sound and fury, but it signifies since they are teaching in a catchment nothing. ‘Aitch’, on the other hand, where over 100 different languages are requires little more effort than opening prevalent. It was ‘aitch’ again at the and closing your mouth. Burdett Coutts Primary in Victoria as In general, as spoken English has is only right for a school founded by a evolved over the centuries, the difficult philanthropist whose father was MP for bits have tended to be smoothed out. Westminster for 30 years. (The dropping of the pronunciation of So ‘aitch’ is apparently safe in at least the letter ‘L’ in milk is an example.) But two schools in KCW Today’s catchment in this instance of ‘haitch’, we find people area. But what of the fate of ‘aitch’ choosing the awkward over the easy. outside the epicentre? It is strange if not perverse, but these I called Haringey and asked for the days common sense is going out of the Education Department. The person I window so fast, there’s a bottle-neck at spoke to told me that in her opinion the casement; and it is perhaps to be ‘aitch’ was correct. I was heartened. Then expected that the difficult, unnatural and I spoke to a representative at Tower contrary should become, in due course, Hamlets who gave me a ‘haitch’ without the norm. needing to think about it. Perhaps I am being too hard, though. I received a ‘haitch’ from Harrow Primary school children are taught the (the Borough Council not the School), 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 Education online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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CAMERON HOUSE SCHOOL House School © Cameron Photograph 4 THE VALE, LONDON SW3 6AH Headmistress: Dina Mallett T: 020 7352 4040 www.cameronhouseschool.org In short: ‘Happy children thrive’. In life, playground, on the sports field, during as in school the happier one is, the more one of our educational visits or many open to learning, success and growth one themed learning days. During our Year will be. It is important to understand 6 leavers’ assembly, the children spoke what it is that makes a child happy in of their memories of their past seven school: beyond lessons being fun, it is years at Cameron House School. None having the trust in your teachers that mentioned grammar lessons or the they will listen to you, help and advise algebra they had learned, but of the you; the security that school is a caring opportunities to perform on stage, play environment and the knowledge that the in concerts, visit historic buildings, bond role of every adult in the building is to with their friends on residential trips look after you. and the roles of responsibility that they We have high expectations of our earned in their final year here. children: the challenges that we set show It is not just the academics that are them that we believe they can achieve impressive here but also the experiences A Springboard for Life them, instilling the confidence and drive that our children will take away with to do so. We place great importance in them. We make memories at Cameron kindness and respect being mutual. The House School; and they are happy ones! children are well versed in the school’s •A Soaring Start moral code; they both abide by and Dina Mallett •Challenging Curriculum appreciate it. Headmistress •Established Excellence There is a tangible buzz of happiness Cameron House School at Cameron House School, which 4 The Vale, London, ISI Report “Excellent" in all Categories emanates from children, teachers and SW3 6AH parents alike. We do have a great deal Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 4040 of fun here, whether in the classroom or cameronhouseschool.org

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t is a year of artistic exploration where you can dedicate the entirety of your time to being creative whilst being surrounded by likeminded people. It is amazing but that doesn’t mean it is easy. My art foundation at the University of IRavensbourne was rewarding as it was rigorous. You are thrown into the deep end from Day 1, undergoing a rotation of different disciplines, namely: Fashion Textiles and Promotion, Media Production, 3D and Contemporary Practice as well as Visual Communication (Graphic Design). In overcoming the different pathways, you gained a variety of new skills but also a hunger and eagerness to continue with the one pathway that resonated with you the most. For me that was fashion and textiles. Highly competitive and demanding in nature it pushed my creativity and adaptability. At times it felt unforgiving but in the end it was fruitful for I managed to navigate the exhaustive UCAS process consisting of interviews and online portfolios with each university calling for different requirements. This would have been impossible without the skills that my foundation taught me. In September I am starting Fashion Design at Westminster University. Art foundations are invaluable in equipping and preparing you for studying an art degree so I urge anyone with the opportunity to take it while they are still available. A free year of freedom, what else could you want? www.ravensbourne.ac.uk •www.art.ac.uk •www.kingston.ac.uk •www.lcca.org.uk 26 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Literature

and sometimes they get hurt,” she said. “Is (the prize) really suggesting Crime writers that they stay at home and knit? But then, the home is no safer. According condemn prize to the Crime Survey of England and which implies their novels Wales, an estimated 1.2 million women prejudice rape trials experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2017, and an estimated By Max Feldman 4.3 million aged 16-59 have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16. Are we just not allowed to write about this?” Sarah Hilary, author of the Marnie rime novelists have reacted with Rome crime series, called the Staunch fury at the implicit claim that award “not a prize so much as a gagging their fictional depictions of rape order”. and sexual assault have a direct affect “Violence against women takes many C forms, perhaps the most insidious of on the result of rape cases, due to a recently unveiled prize for crime fiction which is censorship. We’re discouraged that features no violence against women from going to the police in case we’re not claiming that portrayal of such attacks believed, taught to expect resistance to ‘seriously affect justice’ our version of events, silenced by shame The Staunch Prize, awarded to a or fear,” she said. “This prize reinforces thriller in which no woman is beaten, all those negative messages, and ignores stalked, sexually exploited, raped or the very real good that crime fiction can murdered, was launched last year to do by reflecting the violent reality of “offer an alternative narrative to stories many women’s lives.” based around violence to women”. Staunch Prize founder Bridget When it was announced, it was widely Lawless said that the award had not criticised by major writers including claimed that “crime writers who deal Val McDermid and Sophie Hannah. with sexual violence are contributing McDermid said that “as long as men to it in real life … But we are commit appalling acts of misogyny and concerned about the way that women violence against women, I will write are depicted as the victims of extreme about it so that it does not go torture, rape and murder, graphically unnoticed”, and Hannah described, bloody, terrifying told her publishers not to and prolonged, normalised and submit her books for the offered up as entertainment. And prize. guess what, so are lots of people, The prize, which is including readers who reject it by now looking for entries for preference, and those working to 2019, this year points to end violence towards women,” she what it calls a growing body said. “How does celebrating violence of research suggesting that towards women like this deepen our jurors are “reluctant to convict understanding of social issues, as is ‘ordinary’ men accused of so frequently claimed? rape, as they don’t fit the idea Where is the research of a rapist they’ve internalised that demonstrates that through the stories and images this kind of writing they’ve received through popular does anything positive culture”. socially?” Its website adds: “Fictional She pointed to the stereotypes of night stalkers, dark- recently reported fall alley attackers, serial killers and in prosecutions for rape menacing strangers are dangerously despite growing incidence. misleading when 90% of rapists are “Those researching and known to the victim and the majority advising about rape myths of women murdered knew their will tell you that the the public killer. That this can so seriously affect don’t recognise rape in many justice for women is alarming, to say situations that actually are the least, and must be addressed. For (rape). Could this be because these reasons, and because we love great they have in their mind an idea writing, we invite thriller writers to of what is a ‘real rape’ and a ‘real bring us strong stories that don’t resort rapist’? The kind they see on TV or read about in books?” she said. to the same old cliches.” sensitivity, compassion and insight. “Is it true perhaps, that the research Steve Mosby, whose latest novel You The message given out by the organisers the female which tells us that many of our Can Run follows a killer who has been of the Staunch Prize suggests they experience and voice. I jurors have very fixed and wrongly abducting women for 20 years, called haven’t read very much of the genre at know for a fact that women who have held ideas about rapists are part of the implication that crime writers who all,” said Mosby. experienced violence can find it helpful the reason they fail to convict in so many write about violence against women Crouch said that novelists tackle to explore it in fictional form.” of the 90% of cases where the victim foster it in real life “not only offensive, violence against women because “it Julia Crouch, whose novels include knew their rapists? but backwards and wrong-headed”. is our lived experience … To say that Cuckoo and Her Husband’s Lover, said “The Staunch Prize celebrates thrillers “Many crime writers explore this exploring it in fiction is somehow she loves to write about “women who that are an alternative to novels which kind of material because they believe reprehensible seems to me to be yet behave ‘badly’ … Because of this, they feature violence to women. If you have a it’s important not to brush it under the another way of sidelining and silencing carpet; and they do so carefully and with find themselves in dangerous situations problem with that, ask yourself why.” 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 Literature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

James Cromwell in the film version of This Storm L.A. Confidential, and Ashida return as By James Ellroy point of view characters, real life LA Police Chief William H. Parker and artsy Out Now dilettante Kay Lake are swapped out for real-life police whistleblower (and

pimp) Sgt Elmer Jackson and a fiery Publishing © Penguin Photograph redhead called Joan Conville. Jackson is nder the shadowy umbrella something of a flat character, something of crime fiction, James Ellroy of a composite between previous Ellroy has spent decades rewriting protagonists Bill Parker and Buzz Meeks, UAmerica’s history. From the glamour but Conville, introduced blowing a of classic Hollywood to the rise of the Native American’s foot off for hitting Kennedys, he’s scraped off the glitz to her is like nothing else in Ellroy’s reveal the maggots writhing underneath. notoriously male world. The whole thing Steadily his prose has evolved (or holding you back), This Storm, ostensibly Japanese population of the United States rockets along, taking Ross Macdonald’s devolved depending on your tastes) from readable as a standalone novel, requires [even down to those who were only dictum that in the ideal crime story ‘it’s a lugubrious evocation of Chandler into so much knowledge of Perfidia as to be 1/16th Japanese] into internment camps. all one case’ that ties together in the a telegraphic rat-a-tat that reinterprets functionally impenetrable to neophytes. LA is blackout paranoid and ready to end to a deranged apogee. This Storm is Mickey Spillane as a free jazz maverick. The first book started on the eve of party, cataclysmic rain storms batter the fervid, fevered and just plain deranged. The prose doesn’t so much jolt as skitter the Pearl Harbor attack and introduced city and unearths a long buried victim Even the casual downtime is keyed up to a machine gun pulse, each short us to Hideo Ashida, a brilliant closeted of the Griffith Park fire and begins to Boscian excess; a simple drive down sentence a different little snapshot of LAPD forensic scientist and only a veritable mudslide of unintended the main drag in Tijuana is rendered horror that laid together comprise the Japanese citizen on the city payroll. consequences. When starting the book, thusly: “The child-beggar swarms. The hellish zoetrope of Ellroy’s America. Caught in the patriotic stew of race hate initially the beginning is a tad bumpy, cat-meat taco vendors. The women-f...k- After making his name with bestsellers and fledgling war profiteering of LA’s due to Ellroy attempting to fill in any donkey clubs … Liquor stores, Niteklubs, like The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential’’ underworld he throws his lot in with the new readers, the momentum jerks in Prowling sailors and Marines, Strolling and American Tabloid, the time period has satanic ex-IRA assassin and Benzedrine fits and starts rather than the runaway putas. He-shes in bullfighter garb.” It’s dissolved back to Japanese Internment- enthusiast Sergeant Dudley Smith train madness of the mid-section. Soon crass, loud and overloaded with slangy era America for a four book prequel to through helping frame a Japanese murder though, the janky exposition gives way to vernacular, but with the sheer power of his canonical works starring the same suspect in a last ditch attempt to keep new threads reaching up to ensnare the his dissection of the bloody underbelly characters as younger people. his job and his liberty. This Storm begins principals. A gold heist, murky Soviet- of ‘the greatest generation’ inThis Storm Whilst the first novel in the series two weeks later on New Year’s Eve 1941: Nazi alliance and blood feuds bubble Ellroy proves himself yet again as one Perfidia could be picked up context anti-Japanese paranoia is reaching its up sinisterly from the cracks snaking of the premier prose stylists (and secret free (barring not understanding some terrifying climax. President Roosevelt is through Wartime America’s ever more moralists) in the American canon. Keep references in how these characters end only weeks away from issuing executive isolationist social contract. it on the Q.T and very Hush-Hush. up in the earlier books there’s nothing order 9066, deporting nearly the entire Whilst Dudley Smith, played by Max Feldman

reversal from Michael Gove, who puts events are either free or 5 pounds. as talks on other great Victorians such political interviewer Nick Robinson in www.edbookfest.co.uk as William Morris, John Ruskin and British Literary the hot seat. Edward Lear; all of whom had ties to Festivals buxtonfestival.co.uk/whats-on A former fishing village in Wales Chiswick. Running alongside it is the By Isabelle Groenewegen transforms into a celebration of the 2nd Cookbook Festival, a tantalising Theakston Old Peculier Crime written word for the weekend of August side order that provides the opportunity Writing Festival is celebrating its 16th 9–11 with the Llangwynn Literary to meet cookbook authors, taste their year from 18 – 21 July in Harrogate, Festival. Literary talks and workshops recipes and take part in culinary North Yorkshire. Special guests include are accompanied by artist exhibitions and workshops. hallmark crime fiction authors James musical performances. www.chiswickbookfestival.net British summertime rarely Patterson and Jo Nesbo, while a murder www.llangwmlitfest.co.uk fails to confound with mystery dinner offers a bone-chilling For a blend of escapism, fine cuisine immersive experience for thrill-seeking For an immersive experience, the and literature, the Northcote Hotel unpredictable weather spells, literary lovers. Festival of Writing in York provides in Lancashire is hosting Food & yet it doesn’t seem to deter the harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/ a writing conference from 6-8 Conversation from August 15-18. crime-writing-festival/ September. Workshops, keynotes and Attendees can enjoy Michelin-star unwavering spirit of festival- the opportunity to meet with agents and dining at its Restaurant in the company goers. Set in the leafy Charlotte Square publishers make this the perfect event for of world-renowned authors. Gardens, The International aspiring authors. www.northcote.com/food-and- While music festivals get Book Festival is the largest worldwide jerichowriters.com/festival-of-writing conversation/ the most media coverage, celebration of literature. Between August 10 – 26 authors from all over the The Graham Greene Festival in School’s out, but the Summer Reading literary festivals are thriving world, in collaboration with illustrators, Berkhamsted, celebrates Challenge will keep young bookworms across the nation, celebrating musicians, actors and comedians explore its 21st year from September 19-22. occupied. Sign up at the local library and themes ranging from the culinary Events include a walk through Greene’s read six books to complete the challenge. Britain’s literary heritage as delights of The World on a Plate to the Berkhamsted, viewings of his screenplays It is free to participate and rewards along well as global talent. Here’s imminent threat of climate change and talks by authoritative figures on the the way will keep children motivated. with The Fragile Planet series: literary renowned writer as well as an appearance summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ a round-up of this summer’s celebration of nature and a warning for from Lib Dem’s Vince Cable. join-in events for literature lovers. the future of our planet. Other themes grahamgreenebt.org/festival include Telling New Stories, Playing with Little Londoners can enjoy outdoor Buxton Festival, set amongst the Books, We are all Citizens, Indigenous For London locals, the 11th Chiswick storytelling with Barbican Children's rolling hills of the Peak District in Voices, Babble On, Telling Her Story and Book Festival takes place from Library and Culture Mile Explorers on Derbyshire, it ends on July 21. A variety Stories that Make Scotland. The Baile September 12 – 16. Highlights include Saturday July 20 12:00-16:00 of talks by literary experts and authors Gifford Children’s Programme provides a talk by A.N. Wilson on his biography www.culturemile.london/events/ include Perspectives: Are gender stereotypes over 200 events to inspire literary Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the culture-mile-explorers-outdoor-kids- damaging our children? as well as a role curiosity in a younger audience. All Monarchy at Chiswick House, as well club-2 28 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Fashion

Taking the Devil out of Prada © RCA Photographs Why study fashion? By Olivia Herz

There are more requirements to become a successful fashion designer than just watching The Devil Wears Prada on repeat. It requires creative freedom, expressive fearlessness, and years of education.

ashion design is the art of creating to be educated in social responsibility, clothes through the application of diversity, and fashion sustainability. It different techniques, designs, and explains that “better lives” is a term the materials and students who dream of College uses to describe how it uses F fashion as a discipline to drive change, pursuing a job in the industry must learn every step of the creative process. build a sustainable future and improve Inspiration is at the forefront of any the way we live.” Fashion Colleges creative process, especially Fine Arts. across the world have emphasised the The first step students take in importance of fashion sustainability understanding inspiration is exploring in the curriculum as global warming the different influences of fashion over becomes more of a vital issue. The time. This is a course commonly known fashion industry is a leading contributor as History of Fashion. Students are in global warming through the required to explore fashion from each production of clothes, manufacturing, decade and the transformation of trends and the dumping of extra fabric in through time. This process is essential to landfills. In a New York Times article developing one’s own ideas. titled, “The Biggest Fake News in Design is the next step in the creative Fashion”, it was stated that “nearly process; where the designers create a three-fifths of all clothing ends up in plan or a visual representation of their incinerators or landfills within a year of desired garment. Students take art being produced”. As these clothes are classes to learn a variety of drawing dumped into landfills, the fabric dye can techniques, to support their ideas into leak into the ground causing irreversible a reality on paper. Today, drawing on damage in surrounding parks and bodies paper is considered to be “old fashioned” of water. Fashion designers and institutes due to technology's influence. As the are taking on the responsibility of trying world changes the fashion industry to combat this serious issue. continues to shift their expectations Central St. Martins has become and being proficient in the online one of the many schools to emphasize programs Photoshop and Illustrator has sustainability. The school provides become a necessity. Fashion institutes a page on their website about what have developed courses where students sustainability is and what it is doing to learn computer-based design skills. combat this issue. Administrators asked Kensington and Chelsea College, in “how can design be regenerative [and] London, offers a course called Digital what materials should we be designing Fashion where students learn programs with?” Through these questions, Central such as Photoshop. St. Martins has been able to explore In order to bring designs to life, sustainable practices and then add students start by draping and sewing them to their curriculum. As the world fabrics together. Courses, such as Sewing changes, fashion institutes shift their Techniques, Introduction to Draping, and curriculum in order for the students to Fundamentals of Sewing, are fundamental be successful and impactful in the ever mandatory skills for fashion students advancing fashion world. The Fashion Design curriculum When pursuing an education in includes professional practices; such fashion, there are a wide range of as “innovation”, “team building”, and degrees students can explore. The “how to present products”. At the most common degree is a Bachelors of London College of Fashion students Arts (Honours), or BA (Hons), which and professors talk about “better lives”. typically requires 3-4 years of education. The College expects its fashion students The second most common degree is a 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 Fashion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Fashion, Parsons School of Design, and fashion space [email protected] for Pratt Institute. more information. Younger students interested in Zoe Grinfeld is a perfect example of fashion don’t have to wait until college a modern day fashion design student. to take classes. At the London College of Zoe has been featured in magazines Fashion, there is a course called Fashion like Seventeen Magazine and Hartford Practice for 16 to 19 Year Olds. This Magazine. Zoe Grinfeld has “been course is offered in the summer and drawing or making clothing ever since allows teenagers “to experience varied I can remember. When it came time to disciplines across fashion design, media apply to colleges, it only seemed natural communication and fashion business.” for me to study fashion.” Zoe is now completing her BFA in Apparel Design What are the Career at the Rhode Island School of Design. Opportunities? After graduating she hopes to move to Receiving a degree in fashion opens New York City and take the fashion up a range of potential careers. Here’s a scene by storm. list of popular careers for students with a Kensington and Chelsea College fashion design degree: Fashion Designer, recently showcased the work of many Garment Technologist (create new fabrics), fashion design and fashion styling Retail Buyer (decides what goes out on students. Around every corner of the the racks for different retail brands), and showcase were extravagant clothing and Fashion Illustrator (illustrates designs). scattered across the counters were the The London College of Fashion has a series of events where education in sketchbooks from where the ideas of the fashion are showcased. The first is The garments originated. The students who London College of Fashion: School of participated in the showcase all have Design and Technology #LCF 19 Degree similar educational experiences, but Show on July 18th-19th. Contact their final products are all dramatically different from one another. One student [email protected] to request access and more information. The used a mod podge of non traditional second event is an immersive installation clothing materials, and another exploring textiles in performance titled presented a geometric, structured jacket. Break Factor. The event takes place The Kensington and Chelsea College from May 24th to August 2nd. Contact showcase illustrated perfectly how receiving an education in fashion will lead to endless creative possibilities. 50m is a venue “devoted to supporting and showcasing emerging designers, providing them a platform to sell and present their collections”. Recently, they launched a popup showcase for the centre for entrepreneurship. On display were fashion, homewear, and jewelry products all created by Royal College of Art alumni. Many of the artists who had work on Bachelors of Fine Arts, BFA, which courses in fashion design. Here are just display expressed how is typical of students in the US and a handful: Kensington and Chelsea College pursuing an education Canada who gain an undergraduate of Art, The Royal College of Art, Central St. in fashion created a degree in visual or performing arts. Martins, University of Westminster, and strong community of Lastly, there is the Master of Arts Nottingham Trent University. artists who support degree, or an MA. This is a well There are similarities in curriculums one another. As an respected post graduate degree in the found in fashion schools across the artist, support from fine arts. world. Fashion Design students at the peers is essential for the Not only is there a variety of Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, to creative process and for degrees students may gain, but there is students studying in Italy at the Istituto finding opportunities an even wider range of specific topics Marangoni, will all be exposed to similar to showcase work. students can be educated in. From foundational courses. The sense of support costume design to fashion business & One notable city that is home to and gratitude was communication and more. If there is an numerous fashion institutes is New apparent at 50m and interest in a specific aspect of fashion, York City. NYC is the location of the made viewing the students will be able to pursue it. glamorous Met Gala but is also the wonderful products There is a plethora of esteemed stomping ground to these prestigious even more enjoyable. schools in and around London that have fashion universities: Fashion Institute of 30 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Design Promotion Photograph © J&D Design Photograph © J&D Design Photograph Photograph © Orchid Furniture © Orchid Photograph Image © Callaghans of Shrewsbury Image

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All The Decorative Antiques and a varied array of lighting solutions, vintage posters. products are made using natural Textiles Fair: Chelsea Town Hall together with high-end design products, sustainable materials and traditional 1st-6th October 2019 including luxury textiles, furniture, The Space to Play: wooden play production processes and accompanying 21st-26th January 2020 flooring and ceramics, as well as spaces for children LED bulbs, using up to 90% less energy 21st-26th April 2020 numerous kitchen and bathroom ideas. www.thespacetoplay.com than their incandescent or halogen Jonny Allams designs and builds “Play counterparts. Jane Duncan Spirit of Summer Fair Spaces” for children. Projects include #jddesignlondon Spirit of Summer brought together a school playgrounds, school libraries, www.jddesignlondon.com 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 31 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk TAL TRIBAL ART LONDON 19

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TribalArtKC&W19.indd 104 09/07/2019 18:07 architectural language that is known throughout the world, and this led on to Serpentine the appearance of a scree growing out of the grass surrounding the cave-like Pavilion structure, which was both waterproof Junya Ishigami © Don Grant Photographs and womb-like. Until 6 October 2019 So, what is the budget for these serpentinegalleries.org annual follies? The Serpentine maintains there is no budget, and relies on sponsorship and support from industry, but Building Design stated that the Chilean architect Smiljan Radić’s deeply silly shell-like building t’s not just the Serpentine Galleries from 2014 cost £968,000, £432,000 who erect a temporary pavilion more than it recouped in its sale to the every year on their land; Dulwich Hauser and Wirth Gallery for their IPicture Gallery has built The Colour Somerset outpost, plus sponsorship. In Palace designed by Yinka Ilori in 2013, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s association with architecture studio pavilion cost a total of £838,682 to Pricegore, as part of the London Festival design and build, which was sold for of Architecture. This is the nineteenth £500,000 and attracted £140,000 pavilion since the first by Zaha Hadid in sponsorship, resulting in a loss of in 2000, which was built as a temporary £189,500. Frank Gehry’s 2014 Pavilion shelter for a fundraising dinner. Since building in the landscape, which has interior, and the inside to the natural was acquired by Irish property developer then, world-class architects, including become part of the landscape. ‘I wanted landscape out of which this structure Paddy McKillen, and transported to Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, to create the landscape inside the emerges. his property near Aix-en-Provence. Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Herzog building, as a theory of the landscape One frustration for the 45-year-old The 2012 Pavilion by Ai Weiwei with & de Meuron have all designed and built that the stone creates outside.’ Again, architect was his entanglement with the Herzog and de Meuron was bought by their fantasies, confections, frivolous in his own words, he likens it to a UK’s Health and Safety regulations, Lakshmi and Usha Mittal for their 340- conceits, follies and ego-trips. Last year, giant blackbird, blown by the rain and which required more columns than acre estate in Surrey for an undisclosed the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, ‘floating in the leaden London skies, he originally envisaged, and a run of sum, but probably near the half-a- who used dark concrete roofing tiles dragging its vast dark shadow on the awkward-looking polycarbonate walls, million pound mark. If one sets these as a latticework breeze wall, or celosia, ground, slipping, sliding, flying away.’ which were installed following wind large sums against the number of visitors around a Mexican-style courtyard, to The hundred or so slim white steel rods analysis by engineers Aecom, to prevent to the site, plus the usage of the pavilion great effect. This year is the turn of the supporting the 60-tonne Cumbrian slate the furniture from blowing away. Sounds for related artistic and musical events, Japanese avant-garde designer Junya roof, could represent streaks of rain, more like hot air than wind. Simple and entertainment, it could just wash its Ishigami, who has cleverly placed a further connecting the outside to the stone roofing is part of a common face. Don Grant 32 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events

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When Nelson July 25 These regular lunchtime performances Navigating Brexit for SMEs feature artists from The Royal Opera, said he could The Scratch Hub Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Jette The London Growth Hub is providing Parker Young Artists and a range of guest SMEs with tools to anticipate changes artists in performances inspired by the see no ships – how Brexit will impact on their business heritage of the Royal Opera House, its activity and their industry. In this free operas and music. The Jette Parker Young he hadn’t session, businesses will be equipped to Artists also return to St Clement Danes spot relevant developments in the Brexit for two additional lunchtime events. seen our process and anticipate new trading In April, Aigul Akhmetshina gives a terms. The practical, interactive event recital accompanied by Patrick Milne. In will be facilitated by presenters who are May, Patrick Milne conducts a chamber sails! experts on the subject of Brexit. concert with soprano Jacquelyn Stucker 020 8871 7807 and counter-tenor Patrick Terry Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, 020 7304 4000 London, SW11 5TN Bow St, Covent Garden, London wandsworthchamber.org WC2E 9DD roh.org.uk Fine Art | Ship Models | Instruments | Objects July 29 In Conversation with the Mayor of July 20 6 Imperial Studios, There’s more to navigate at Tel: +44 (0)20 7806 5530 London Dancebites 2019: 20th Anniversary 311 Imperial Road Fax: +44 (0)20 7806 5531 charlesmillerltd.com Greater London Authority, City Hall New Wimbledon Theatre London SW6 2AG [email protected] This event will provide an excellent Dancebites Academy of Dance and opportunity for members to hear from Performing Arts is celebrating its 20th the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, anniversary and doing it in style: It’s on the key issues that impact London’s teaming with Flawless, one of the business community. Key topics country’s biggest dance sensations. 020 8985 2424 at them; from wars and politics to likely to be covered during this event Marlon Wallen and his team have Hollywood and Fox News. include, housing, transport, devolution, worked with some of the biggest names: August 7-31 020 7863 8222 connectivity and skills, related to LCCI’s Beyoncé, Rhianna, Kylie, and JLS. Since Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet: Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2A 2HT, Towards a Greater London Agenda. This bursting onto the scene they’ve been New Adventures London event will be attended by up to 150 turning Street Dance on its head for the Sadler’s Wells peacocktheatre.com senior-level LCCI members. Restricted last 10 years. Now, for one night only Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet to three attendees per member company. in July, they will bring their charismatic is a passionate and contemporary EXHIBITIONS 110 The Queens Walk, London and revolutionary style to the re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic SE1 2AA Wimbledon stage to ensure Dancebites love story. Confined against their will Ongoing londonchamber.co.uk has a birthday like no other. by a society that seeks to divide, our Museum of the Moon 020 7206 1174 two young lovers must follow their Natural History Museum August 6 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon, hearts as they risk everything to be A six-metre spherical sculpture, features Kensington & Chelsea Chamber of London SW19 1QG, UK together. Bursting with youth, vitality detailed NASA imagery of the lunar Commerce Summer Party 2019 thenewwimbledontheatre.com and Matthew Bourne’s trademark surface. Allowing visitors the chance to All Star Lanes storytelling, London’s brightest see the far side of the Moon, the artwork A summer party of relaxed networking July 20 young dance talent join the New will offer a new and exciting perspective and fun at All Star Lanes in Shepherd's The Lisa Gilbert Academy of Ballet Adventures Company, with direction of Earth’s celestial neighbour. The Bush between 6.30 and 9.30pm. 10 Year Anniversary Show and choreography by Matthew Bourne, sculpture is accompanied by a surround- Westfield Shopping Centre, Ariel Way, Dancing Through the Decades design by Lez Brotherston, lighting sound composition by BAFTA and Ivor London, W12 7FU Hackney Empire by Paule Constable, sound by Paul Novello award-winning composer Dan kccclondon.org Get set for a fantastic evening of dance Groothuis and new orchestrations of the Jones. Suspended from the ceiling and as the Lisa Gilbert Academy of Ballet Sergei Prokofiev score by Terry Davies, lit from within, the Moon will create a August 7 and Performing Arts celebrates its 10th played live by the New Adventures show-stopping centrepiece within the Scratch Hub Socials: anniversary. Pupils aged from 3 to 21 Orchestra. 19th century Waterhouse architecture of Creativity & Business years from East London’s dance school 020 7863 8000 the Jerwood Gallery. Offering a space for Battersea Arts Centre: will take you on a trip down memory Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R reflection within the Museum, visitors Come and take part in a new series of lane as they perform Dancing Through sadlerswells.com can contemplate their own relationship free inspirational and dynamic sessions the Decades. Classics such as Benny with the Moon and its influence on life at Battersea Arts Centre’s co-working Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing from the August 31 – September 7 on Earth. space, Scratch Hub. Scratch Hub Socials 1920s to modern day hits from The British Youth Opera: Scoring a Century 020 7942 5511 features trail-blazing and inspirational Greatest Showman will be performed on The Peacock Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, voices from across a range of sectors to the night in what’s set to be a sensational The Jedermanns, a pair of eccentric London SW7 5BD stimulate conversations and networks for spectacle of dance suitable for music fans ‘song and dance merchants,’ start out on nhm.ac.uk new ideas and ways of working. Learn of all ages. an epic 100-year performance in 1901. Ongoing about how creativity can enrich business, 020 8985 2424 As they peddle their wares to an ever- First World War Galleries make new connections and inform your 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ changing world, they struggle through The Imperial War Museum everything the 20th century throws Discover the story of the First World 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 33 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Through a series of interviews, we delve into what it is like to be a female dealer and collector in an otherwise male-dominated industry. A newly published book, Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa by Herbert M. Cole will be available from Charles Vernon Hunt. It explores the theme of motherhood across the continent and over time, with a focus mostly on sculptural representations, and on mother/child sculptures in particular. Tribal Art London is an important focal point for international and UK collectors. It is renowned for offering an exciting diversity of works for sale with prices ranging from the low hundreds to over £20,000. Tribal Art London attracts dealers, art institutions and private buyers from across the world.

Entry to the Fair is free: for information www. tribalartlondon.com. The Fair opens 10.30am daily from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 September.

Above: Yombe figure, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wood, pigment, Late 19th Century Left: Punu mask, Gabon, First half of 20th century 28 cm high Right: Painted Nioge/Tapa (bark cloth) by Nelly Haruko Keme Depicting the design of her great grandfather’s tattoo in initiation rites. Omie people, Papua New Guinea 117 x 58 cm

collectors. The ‘Mother’ figure is seen in almost London Tribal every tribal African society and its meaning besides the maternal can also Art Show signify the protection and growth of a tribal society. A saying from the Luba people of Democratic Republic of Congo Tribal Art London is the UK’s premier is that ‘kingship is a woman’, meaning Advertise collectors’ event in the field of that to be a good ruler you must look at ethnographic culture and indigenous the traits of women. tribal art. This year the Fair opens 4-7 Whilst feminine beauty is depicted September 2019 at Mall Galleries, though some exhibits such as the Punu London SW1 with a Preview on mask from Gabon, it is not exclusively with us Tuesday 3 September. Now in its focused on aesthetics but also harks back 12th year, TAL 2019 takes the theme to important female founding ancestors. Mother, Muse and Maker and brings In the creation of tribal art, gender together more than 20 international roles are strict. Throughout primary To put an advertisement in KCWToday dealers; each a reputable specialist in societies around the world there is a fine, original purpose works of art drawn tendency for men to create works out from all corners of the globe. Every item of hard objects such as wood or metal email: [email protected] offered for sale is chosen for its quality while women have focused their creative and authenticity. talents on softer materials such as hides, or telephone 020 7738 2348 Tribal art, be it African, Oceanic fibres, and clay. This year TAL will or South American, centres on organise a series of tours around the fair performance and ritual. Objects that go including a focus on textiles by women with these pursuits, however, are tied and the role of adornment in tribal into the ritual of life: birth, puberty, culture. The annual TAL Catalogue marriage, and death. Tribal art at first will contain articles covering the role of glance seems male-dominated, but the females in tribal societies including the contribution that women have played importance of carved hairstyles in Sowei as muses and makers is undeniably masks, and the roles of women in Zulu important. This year, Tribal Art London society. sets out not only to explore the history With six female dealers exhibiting, SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT of women within the tribal world, but TAL will also look at the women who KCW Today. See page 9 for details also to discuss the role they now play have shaped and continue to influence in the tribal art market as dealers and the world of tribal art in the UK. 34 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events

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t’s not just flowers that bloom in only been marketed as a ‘pop-up art fair’ For Saatchi expand to fill the gap left a triptyich of moody Francis Bacon self London during summer: each year rather than the official start of a new by the departure of contemporary and portraits, a Hockney and a Auerbach a kaleidoscope of art fairs blossom dynasty, but looking around the works stalwarts Art London and self portrait, whilst Venice’s Andrea Ibriefly across the Capital. The pattern on offer it’s clear vaunting ambition is 20/21 International. Tardini Gallery went in almost the of one year is no way of predicting the practically stamped into its DNA. The show was made up of a selection entirely opposite direction, featuring the next, but this year a new star in the Apparently the show was put of 25 dealers, mostly from within first substantial exhibition of holocaust artistic firmament flared into life in the together in a frenzied six weeks; not that the M25, but several from further escapee Suzanne Perlman. Of the form of FFS at the Saatchi Gallery. The this fervid pupation especially showed, afield. Each one pugnaciously came London crowd my eyes were particularly Fair spanned four days and drew the the sheer variety of styles, studios and out swinging with different galleries drawn to Plus One Gallery’s explosive usual glitterati, but the question to be artists assembled by founder Robert taking very different approaches. For collection of Hyperrealist art. If Fair considered is will the Fair be returning Sandleson (who bought the British Art example ‘Castlegate’ from Cockermouth for Saatchi does end up being a regular next year? Fair For Saatchi, to give it Fair and moved it to the Saatchi last in Cumbria doubled down on name occurence I can’t think of a single person it’s more dowdy full title, has ostensibly year) speaks to an intention to see Fair recognition with a selection including who’d greet the news with ‘FFS’.

War through the eyes of the British Pop Up Art Gallery will explore Manga’s global appeal and Lyric Hammersmith people and the Empire, both on the Original Works, Limited Edition Prints, cultural crossover, showcasing original Lyric Fest is back for 2019. Join the Lyric home and the fighting fronts. On display Lighting and Video Performance, Japanese Manga and its influence across Hammersmith Theatre for a fun packed are over 1,300 objects from IWM’s as well as interactive footage and the globe, from anime to cosplay dressing summer festival in Lyric Square. collections including weapons, uniforms, poetry. Preview Evenings: Mondays, up. This influential art form entertains, 020 8741 6850 diaries, keepsakes, film and art. Each Wednesdays & Fridays 6.30-9.30pm inspires and challenges, and is brought Lyric Square, King St, London object on display gives a voice to the 134 Alderney Street, Pimlico, London, to life like never before in this ground- W6 0QL people who created them, used them or SW1 breaking exhibition. lyric.co.uk cared for them, and reveals stories not juliebloomdesigns.com 020 7323 8299 only of destruction, suffering and loss, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London July 20-28 but also endurance and innovation, duty Ends August 21 WC1B 3DG London National Park City Festival and devotion, comradeship and love. The Mapping of the Moon: 1669-1969 britishmuseum.org 9 days of free events for the National 020 7416 5000 The Map House Park City Festival from pedal powered Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ Coinciding with the 50-year anniversary Ends September 15 film screenings to open air theatre iwm.org.uk of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective and wildlife photography. Help make this July, the exhibition explores 300 House of Illustration London the world’s first National July 19 – August 31 years of lunar and celestial cartography Posy Simmonds’ sharp satire and Park City and make more than half of Joshua Hagler: from early astronomers in the 17th progressive female characters have the capital green. 100s of events and Chimera Unit London century to the Apollo 11 mission in July defined a career spanning 50 years. activities to mark London becoming the A new solo exhibition by American 1969 and beyond. Free entry The exhibition will feature her early- world’s first National Park City this July. contemporary artist, Joshua Hagler. 020 7589 4325 career pastiches, iconic cartoon strips See website for more information Chimera centres around Hagler's 54 Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, for and children’s books nationalparkcity.london/festival fascination with trying to paint what London, SW3 1NY such as Fred, which became an Oscar- he recognizes, even when it evades easy themaphouse.com nominated film. It will also include the July 26-28 definition. The Chimera originates in first ever British graphic novel, True London Film & Comic Con Greek mythology, a beast with the head Ends August 26 Love, unseen pages from Olympia of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail Manga and drawings from Simmonds’ new 2018 Bigger and better than ever before, of a serpent. In everyday language, it’s book, Cassandra Darke. London Film and Comic Con returns to come to mean something which is hoped Enter a graphic world where art and 020 3696 2020 Olympia London. The event that brings for, but is impossible to achieve. storytelling collide in the largest 2 Granary Square, King's Cross, your favourite stars from TV, film and 020 7494 2035 exhibition of Manga ever to take place London, N1C 4BH comics as well as a whole host of fun 3 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London outside of Japan. Manga is a visual houseofillustration.org.uk activities including photo shoots, panels, W1S 1HD narrative art form that has become a autograph sessions and hundreds of stalls theunitldn.com multimedia global phenomenon, telling FAIRS & FESTIVALS full of merchandise to browse. You can stories with themes from gender to pose questions to your favourite stars Ends July 25 adventure, in real or imagined worlds. July 20-19 in a host of talks and purchase signed Eclectic Immersive and playful, the exhibition Lyric Fest memorabilia. Meet your favourite stars 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk from shows such as The Vampire Diaries, Electric Soul Festival Doctor Who, Star Wars and many more to The O2 be announced. Four iconic acts will appear on the FREE Auction 020 7385 1200 smoothest line-up of the year at The O2 with Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith, on Saturday 7 September 2019, in what Valuation Day London W14 8UX will be the key date in the calendar for T V ’s Thomas Forrester olympia.london funk and soul fans, the inaugural Electric Soul Festival. This one-day-only-festival July 27-28 for soul brothers and sisters across the SAS Director & London Triathlon 2019 UK, hosted by legendary DJ Trevor T.V. 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FAMILY & CHILDREN 020 7902 0212 appointment by calling 01635 Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western See website for dates 580595, or emailing mail@ Gateway, Royal Docks, Family Fridays specialauctionservices.com London E16 1XL Sadler’s Wells excel.london A new monthly workshop that Valuations are FREE, but donations encourages young children aged 2-4 to the Stroke Association August 1-3 and their carers to dance together and are gratefully received. The Prudential Ride London have fun here at Sadler’s Wells. Led by Cycling Show professional dancers, come along to this Excel unique opportunity designed to start you The Prudential Ride London Cycling Show and the little ones on a dance journey. Next Valuation Day will be: will connect and inspire cyclists and These sessions will cover a range of Monday 19 August 2019 would-be riders of all ages and abilities. dance styles and will encourage co- Many of the major cycling brands will ordination, creative thinking and social FREE valuations at J McCarthy Ltd, 11 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RH be represented, as well as a multitude interaction. of other exhibitors who will be showing 020 7863 8000 and selling everything from designer Mezzanine level, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, water bottles to the latest must-have Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN devices. sadlerswells.com n Parnham 020 7902 0212 Joh ’s Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Ongoing School Summer Holiday Gateway, Royal Docks, Go Ape London E16 1XL Battersea Park excel.london For the fully-grown Tarzans and Janes, ALL RIDES you won’t even feel like you’re in the JUST 1 TOKEN August 16 city, as you’ll be fully immersed in the 11am - 1pm Friday Late; pursuit to conquer some of the longest Woodstock 50th Anniversary and highest crossings for a full 2-3 EVERYDAY! Handel & Hendrix hours. Friendly instructors are ready and Come and help celebrate the 50th waiting to propel the youngsters into a anniversary of Woodstock with a party leafy world of canopies too, including dedicated to Jimi Hendrix’s legendary bridges and zip wires. headline performance. Expect live 01603 895500 2019 music, DJs, drinks, film projections and Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ exclusive access to parts of the house goape.co.uk usually closed to the public 020 7495 1685 July 11 – September 1 RAVENSCOURT PARK 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K Summer Holidays 4HB The Museum of Brands HAMMERSMITH W6 0UG handelhendrix.org Let innovation be your guide and explore how our children’s favourite rd th September 3-7 toys are inspired by technology at Tues 23 JULYPARK FACILITIESto Sun 18 AUG Tribal Art Show the Museum of Brands. 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had a wonderful Peter Lanyon Climb Out on their stand, as well as Masterpiece a large Walter Sickert oil for a not Chelsea Royal Hospital unreasonable £300,000. Opera Gallery had a number of rare and exciting works from Matisse, Miro, and Keith Haring, with six works by the Columbian artist Fernando Botero, including the bizarre The First Lady, for which they were asking £1.12m. New York-based Adam prefer to call this annual circus The Williams Fine Art had a seventeenth Unaffordable Art Fair, as there seems century Dutch trompe l’oeil painting A to be no limit to the number of Brace of English Partridges by Cornelis Irich folk who are prepared to shell out Biltius, which was sold at Sothebys only thousands and thousands for , a year ago for £50,000. These conceits jewellery, sculpture, antiquities, were known as bedriegertjes, or ‘small silverware, watches and antiques. In imposters’, or even ‘small crooks’, as the a previous review a few years ago, I artist’s aim was to playfully deceive the stated ‘Masterpiece is a great place for viewer. Another Dutchman working people-watching: the jeunesse-dorée, at around the same time was Cornelius perma-tanned Eurotrash, chancers, Gijsbrechts, who painted the reverse of arrivistes, parvenus, bounders, cads, the canvas on the front and displayed elegant ladies tottering about on 4-inch it on a shelf. This completely fooled the heels, swarthy Mediterranean dealers in Danish King Frederik III, to whom he sharp Armani suits and rough diamond was court painter, as he thought the Russian jewellers.’ Well, nothing much 2nd reduction, a Jean Debuffet acrylic on Many of the exhibits mentioned have artist was being offhand and rude by just has changed, except that, at the opening paper, a late First Century AD Marble POA on the caption, in the same coy leaving the painting facing the wall. 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Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD on the main stage or the corner of an in 2018 and during its debut season 020 3879 9555 dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk old barn, the boys treat each gig with has been made resident orchestra at St Belvedere Road, London, SE1, the same gusto and aim to make people James’ Church, Piccadilly, with a packed southbankcentre.co.uk Ends September 29 smile and bounce. schedule of concerts planned for 2019- Robert Capa: D-Day In 35mm 0207 278 3966 20 in London, Manchester and further August 1-22 Imperial War Museum 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, afield. Launched under the artistic Siren On 6 June 1944 Robert Capa landed on London WC1h 8JF direction of British concert pianist Southbank Centre the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach harrisonbar.co.uk Warren Mailley-Smith, the orchestra Have a banging night and strike a blow with the 16th Infantry Regiment of the is formed from some the UK’s leading for women and non-binary artists on the US Army. Born in Hungary, Capa made July 23 young professional talent, with notable techno scene at the same time. SIREN his name as a photojournalist covering Bowjangles: Excalibow guest leaders so far having included is a collective formed in 2016 with the the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Brasserie Zédel violinists Zoey Beyers and Harriet purpose of creating a space for those capturing evocative images that were Award winning comedy musicians, Mackenzie. under-represented in dance music, both

forces, successfully make another invasion, but they underestimated the Captain Corelli’s Greek Resistance. There seem to be too many people on the stage, with soldiers, Mandolin resistance fighter, farmers, islanders, Harold Pinter Theatre one on a bicycle, with animals rushing Adapted by Roma Munro about the set at terrific speed, chasing each other, dancing, falling over, being Directed by Melly Still shot at, being killed and hiding from the Until 31 August 2019 enemy. Enter Captain Corelli, played by Alex Mugnaioni as a sensitive soul, who www.atgtickets.com is really not interested in warfare, but would rather compose concertos on his mandolin and sing with his troops in the morning. The doctor’s daughter Pelagia hen I was first recommended (Madison Clare) wants to follow her Louis de Bernières’ book father into the medical profession, but twenty-five years ago, I was she slowly falls in love with the Italian informedW that it took 92 pages before you musican/soldier. This, surely, is the story even begin to get into it. He was right, we want to hear, but it is stiffled by the and I was reminded of this when I took chaos being enacted all around. There is my seat to watch this version adapted an infuriatingly ‘cute’ goat, played by a for the stage. It took the equivalent of Luisa Guerreiro, a creature performer, 92 pages, or virtually all of the first who bleats plaintively throughout act, to really get going, aided by the the first act, but whether for laughs appearance of the good Italian Captain or not, one is never sure, although right at the end of it. The first half is a when the starving Italian soldiers eat condensed version of the cod-history of her, there was an audible sigh of relief Greece and Cephalonia, as seen through in certain sectors of the audience. the eyes of the philosophising Doctor There is a caricature of a white-haired loud and brutal war going on all around, and killed and injured thousands of Iannis, played with avuncular affability Greek mother of a soldier, whose son, but that was maybe the intention of people. This was always going to be an by Joseph Long. It is a complex history, Mandras, confusingly played by a black this adaptation? The set comprised a ambitious project, levering off the lid with the invading Italians first of all actor, Ashley Gayle, is also in love with beaten metal sheet hanging in space, off a quart pot and expecting it to be being beaten back into neighbouring Pelagia. A German officer is played with onto which are projected bomb blasts, faithful to the intertwined narratives of Albania in 1940, while the Germans strutting gender-fluidity by a woman of spilling blood, the surrounding sea and the book, without losing the love story invaded Greece six months later. The colour, Kate Spencer. The story of the an earthquake, which virtually destroyed swirling about at the bottom. Italians, with German and Bulgarian star-crossed lovers is submerged in the most of the island’s buildings in 1953, Don Grant 38 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Events on line-ups and in crowds. Throwing years of his life, is one of the most Ends July 27 queer parties in London, their music This is the London Transport Museum’s significant of Morris’s homes. Whilst Rust explores techno in its broadest sense, exclusive programme of tours and events living at the property he began carpet Bush Theatre covering everything from electro to at disused stations and secret sites across weaving, wove his first tapestry Acanthus Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In minimal, acid to breakbeat. London. Led by experienced guides, and Vine in his bedroom and continued fact, they have quite a few. They’ve just 020 3879 9555 ready to share unusual and little-known his innovative approach to design, signed on the dotted line for a studio Belvedere Road, London, SE1, stories surrounding the stations’ varied printing and dyeing techniques. When flat. Under a pseudonym, naturally, Mr southbankcentre.co.uk histories, these visits offer an exciting away from the house, Morris longed to and Mrs White. After years of school opportunity to explore locations rarely return to these practical crafts pick-ups, TV takeaways, and the day August 11 seen by the public. 020 8741 3735 to day drudgery of married life, this is Courtly Lute Music in the Time of 020 7379 6344 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London their chance to wipe the slate clean. But Handel Covent Garden Piazza, London, W6 9TA as much as they try and re-define the Foundling Museum WC2E 7BB williammorrissociety.org rules, and themselves, the outside world Be transported to the eighteenth-century ltmuseum.co.uk is closing in. Ultra-contemporary, sexy with lute music performed by Andrew THEATRE and funny, Rust pushes the boundaries Maginley. Acclaimed lutenist Andrew July 22 of trust, love and lust to the limit. Maginley returns to the Museum in this The Iron Man Window Painting with Ongoing 020 8743 5050 programme of music by the eighteenth- Chris Mould Queen of the Mist 7 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8LJ century virtuoso Sylvius Leopold Foyles Charing Cross Theatre bushtheatre.co.uk Weiss (1687-1759), the highest-paid Come and meet award-winning Queen Of The Mist, which received its instrumentalist in the Dresden Court illustrator Chris Mould (The Truth UK premiere in a sold-out run at the July 23-27 Orchestra. Pixie; Pirates ‘n’ Pistols) as he stops by Jack Studio Theatre in April, is based on Edfringe Preview: Baby, What 020 7841 3600 to decorate the balcony overlooking the the astounding and outrageous true story Blessings 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, flagship Charing Cross Road Children’s of Anna Edson Taylor, who in 1901 on Theatre503 London WC1N 1AZ section with illustrations from his new her 63rd birthday set out to be the first Meet Billie. 19 at the start of the play. foundlingmuseum.org.uk version of the Ted Hughes classic The person to survive a trip over Niagara Hilariously self-aware and hopelessly Iron Man. Mankind must put a stop to Falls in a barrel of her own design. With naïve. She’s at the age where every TALKS, TOURS, the dreadful destruction caused by the a soaring score that incorporates turn single thing she sees and learns causes & WALKS Iron Man and set a trap for him. But of the century themes with LaChiusa’s her to utterly reassess her life. And the when a terrible monster from outer space insightful and engaging style, this largest thing to happen is Amal. Baby, See website for dates threatens to lay waste to the planet it is award-winning musical is the story of What Blessings follows the trajectory of Family tour: Take One Picture the Iron Man who finds a way to save how one woman risked death so that she a relationship through student years. National Gallery the world. could live. Darkly comic, the visceral impact of Walk and talk through the Take One 020 7437 5660 08444 930 650 first love, jealousy and joy is sometimes Picture exhibition of children's artwork 107 Charing Cross Rd, Soho, London The Arches, Villiers Street, London, as gutting as physical violence as Billie on an interactive tour and learn about WC2H 0DT WC2N 6NL learns to hold herself responsible. the painting which inspired them. foyles.co.uk charingcrosstheatre.co.uk 020 7978 7040 Meet one of the friendly Educators in 503 Battersea Park Rd, Battersea, the exhibition to take part. Featuring August 7 Ends July 20 London SW11 3BW original works by children from 31 McMindfulness: Sweat at the Gielgud Theatre theatre503.com different primary schools, from a Ronald E. Purser in conversation Donmar Warehouse multicoloured fabric print to wire Foyles Centred around the friendships of Ends August 31 sculptures, the exhibition showcases the Hear from Mindful Cranks podcast factory workers and set in an all- Hamilton richness of children's creative responses host and Professor of Management at American bar, the play explores the Victoria Palace Theatre to Joseph Wright of Derby’s An San Francisco University Ronald E. relationships, resentments and fears Hamilton is the story of America's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Purser in conversation with Professor of a community left divided by de- Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, 020 7747 2885 of Organizational Behaviour at Cass industrialisation. Simmering racial an immigrant from the West Indies who Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN Business School, Andre Spicer to tensions and mounting anger lead to a became George Washington's right- nationalgallery.org.uk shine a critical light on the so-called devastating outcome for the residents of hand man during the Revolutionary War ‘mindfulness revolution’. Drawing on Reading, Pennsylvania. and helped shape the very foundations of Ongoing his perceptive new book McMindfulness, 020 3282 3808 the America we know today. The score Deer in Richmond Park Purser will challenge continuing 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B Richmond Park is a National Nature narratives about self-imposed stress. He WC2H 9LX UK and Broadway; the story of America Reserve and deer park with 630 Red will suggest that corporations, schools donmarwarehouse.com then, as told by America now. Hamilton and Fallow deer roaming freely since and governments have co-opted spiritual has book, music and lyrics by Lin- 1637. The deer have played a major role practices for social control, and will Ends July 27 Manuel Miranda, is directed by Thomas in the park’s history and have shaped encourage us to look at the history of Noises Off Kail, with choreography by Andy the landscape too. The special grassland mindfulness in order to harness its true Lyric Hammersmith Blankenbuehler and musical supervision habitat depends on grazing and the liberating potential. With technical brilliance and split- and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire parkland trees have a distinctive 'browse 020 7437 5660 second timing, it takes us behind the and is based on Ron Chernow's line' as the deer eat all the leaves and 107 Charing Cross Rd, Soho, London scenes with a company of actors in a biography of Alexander Hamilton. twigs growing below about 1.5 metres. WC2H 0DT hilarious and heartfelt tribute to the 0844 482 5138 Deer grazing also prevents tree seedlings foyles.co.uk unpredictability of life in the theatre. Victoria St, Westminster, London from growing, keeping the grassland Hailed as one of the funniest plays SW1E 5EA open. During the autumn the deer Until October of all time, Noises Off makes its victoriapalacetheatre.co.uk 'rut' (breeding season) takes place. The ‘The Dear Warp and Weft at triumphant return to the Lyric almost Red stags and Fallow bucks compete Hammersmith’: 40 years on, in a bold new production by for females (known as hinds and does A History of Kelmscott House Jeremy Herrin (All My Sons, Wolf Hall, respectively). At this time, the large William Morris Society This House) for fans to enjoy and new males roar, bark and clash antlers in an When William Morris reported to audiences to discover. attempt to fight off rivals and attract as his wife Jane that he proposed leasing 020 8741 6850 Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha many females as possible. Kelmscott House, Hammersmith in Lyric Square, King St, London royalparks.org.uk 1878, he said ‘the house might be made W6 0QL If you have an event that you’d like very beautiful with a touch of my art’. lyric.co.uk listed in the next edition, please send Ongoing Certainly this 18th century riverside any information to: fahad@kcwtoday. Hidden London house, where he spent the last eighteen co.uk 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk FESTIVAL ROUND UP BY GEOFF COWART

• Down in Clapham Common, the The festival offerings outside South West Four festival gets cranked up on August 24 and 25 as the dance- of London are even greater friendly event welcomes grime boss with huge line-ups and Wiley, Craig David and the Basement Jaxx to the park. Fans of Islington exotic locations pulling in the club Fabric should also check out their punters. dedicated stage, complete with Dillinja back-to-back session with Benny L. • While it’s not always about size, www.southwestfour.com you’d be hard pressed to find a more expansive and daring rock and folk • Soaring disco and thumping house bill than at End of the Road festival. at east London’s Three Mills Island The Wiltshire countryside plays host can only mean the return of the One to the impressive line-up featuring a Day at the Disco festival. The one-dayer veritable ‘who’s who’ of Radio6 Music on August 24 welcomes Todd Terje, including Mitski, Spiritualized, Cate 2ManyDJs and veteran American DJ Le Bon, Low, Deerhunter’ Jarvis Cocker, Derrick Carter to the party. Tucked away Courtney Barnett, Sleaford Mods, in Bow, the island venue is surrounded Beirut, Metronomy and Wire. It’s also Festival season is in full swing by the Lee Valley River. got a strong reputation with families and it’s your chance to catch a www.onedayatthedisco.co.uk for being small and comfortable enough for the little ones. The food is Following two sell-out years new band; or at least make a • actually decent and they have showers. in Finsbury Park, the Southport It’s hands down the best festival in new friend. Weekender will move to Crystal Palace England right now; book yourself in park on August 31. The festival calls © Gladdywax Photograph from August 29-September 1. www. itself ‘the world’s friendliest party’ as it endoftheroadfestival.com combines DJs and the next generation

of artists flying the flag for house, disco • The other eclectic Wiltshire-based and soul music. This includes Seventies festival that’s been turning heads for Los Angeles R&B sensations Shalamar,

Photograph © Simon Pauly Photograph years is WOMAD. Created to show off New York DJ David Morales and soul weekend. Running from Sunday the best of the globe’s music and arts, the singer Omar. (August 25) to Monday (August 26), www.southportweekenderfestival.com weekend is always guaranteed to produce the street festival once again welcomes a line-up of major talents you’ve never legendary sound systems such as Gladdy Rounding off London’s festival heard of. But the world is a big place Wax’s Road Show in Portobello Road • season with a bang will be this year’s when it comes to music and this year’s and Saxon Studio in St Lawrence Gunnersville from 6-9 September. The acts including Mali afro-pop legend Terrace, as well as steel bands from new event will be staged in a big top Salif Keita, Juan de Marcos’ Afro-Cuban across London.The Caribbean party tent on the site of the bewildering All Stars, Pakistan’s only surviving Surti vibe has something for all ages. Families part-motorway, part-forest confines singer Ustad Saami and techno marching ere in London, the summer should aim for Sunday morning’s of Gunnersbury Park. The three-day band Meute will not disappoint. It’s also season wouldn’t be the same children’s parade before the action gets concert series promises plenty of big the one festival where you can hire a without the annual BBC hot on Monday’s all-day blowout finale. names such as Echo & The Bunnymen, yurt without an eyelid being batted. Proms festival. Running from July 19 to www.nhcarnival.org H Doves, Badly Drawn Boy on Friday From July 25 to 28. September 14, it sees some of the world’s September 6, The Specials and Ocean www.womad.co.uk greatest orchestras and soloists descend • Down on the South Bank you Colour Scene on the Saturday, and You Me on the Royal Albert Hall. Look out can catch the return of its nine-day at Six and Deaf Havana on the Sunday. for the Vienna Philharmonic, Finnish Meltdown festival. Kicking off August • Which leads us to the www.gunnersville.com folk star PekkaKuusisto and Mozart’s 3, this year’s festivities will be led by festival to end all festivals if Requiem featuring South African tenor Chic frontman and producer Nile SunnyboyDladla. www.royalalberthall. Rodgers who’s invited Los Angeles you’re safely in your teens; com bass guitar maverick ‘Thundercat’, Reading Festival. The biggest London Afrobeat crew ‘Kokoroko’ and • Some of the most compelling concerts young Brazilian singer Anitta. www. secret about the festival is of the Proms will be held at Cadogan southbankcentre.co.uk Hall. The majestic Sloane Square that, despite its black-clad venue hosts eight one-hour Monday • If you’re looking for an even more young clientele and its rather lunchtime concerts during the festival. colourful party, look no further than This includes performances by London Elrow Town. You’ll have to move out to inauspicious location, it’s soprano Louise Alder, the Amatis Piano Trent Park in north London to find the actually pretty fun. Trio, Cappella Mediterranea and the revered club night experience, but the Knussen Chamber Orchestra. delirious and surreal one-day party on The Foo Fighters are playing (again) this www.cadoganhall.com August 17 is always a sight to behold. year, alongside Royal Blood, Frank Carter Expect big name DJs, a ship threatened & The Rattlesnakes, Charli XCX and • But nothing truly says summer in by a giant octopus and a massive rapper Lil Uzi Vert. Take wet wipes, but west London like the Notting Hill playground for adults. What could go leave your standards behind. Carnival over the August Bank Holiday wrong? www.elrowtown.com www.readingfestival.com 40 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Out of Town

enjoy high-quality musicianship and Blooming lovely menus celebrating the best that the By Talia Hull garden of England has to offer. Head Chef is Shane Hughes, whose culinary career includes stints at The Connaught, the Michelin two-starred The Landmark, old! I arrive at The Salutation, a Whatley Manor in the Cotswolds and, © Salutation Hotel Photographs boutique hotel in the charming another Michelin star at Ynyshir Hall town of Sandwich in , to in Powys, Wales. And wow, the food is Gfind owner John Fothergill in celebratory wonderful! mood. Head Gardener Steve Edney has A well-priced tasting menu allows just won a Gold Medal at the Chelsea the chefs to showcase their talents as we Flower Show for his display of seed heads watch them through the glass-fronted which showcase the importance of these kitchen. We are brought some ‘snacks’, beautiful gardens, enjoyed by visitors all fresh peas in the pod and deep fried mac year round. & cheese with a fermented chilli sauce The hotel used to have a lively I could have eaten by the spoonful, and reputation thanks to the ebullient former Guinness bread with smoked butter. owners who, finding fame on Channel Jason the Head Waiter looks after 4’s Gogglebox and with burgeoning telly an attentive team and Sous Chef Jack careers to manage, didn’t do the place Grundon, a rising star, delivers a superb justice. Thankfully, The Salutation today is meal, testament to the great training verdant not just with stunning gardens, and passion in this kitchen. Rabbit loin but creative ideas from owners whose comes with smoked sausage. Octopus, celeriac and dill were well matched with a South African Viognier. Perfectly cooked scallops with lentils is paired with a Sauvignon from the Loire Valley. A lamb dish with aubergine and an insanely good lamb jus stands up well to a Haut Medoc full of black fruit and cigar box overtures. I have and work from the soil upwards. Throughout the meal the garden is Armed with practical tips and creative ever present, with chefs collecting wild inspiration, I am determined to make herbs, courgette flowers and, finally, something of the next patch of earth I’m edible flowers to accompany desert. I lucky enough to call my own. retire to my large room, full and happy. The course includes a delicious lunch Each suite has its own quirky décor high standards are evident in every gardens, our small group listens as Steve of gazpacho, asparagus with quail’s egg and huge, comfortable beds. I take one area of the property. After a period of tells us about seasonal tasks and helps us and lemon parmesan butter; the rest more look at the beautiful gardens from extensive refurbishment and a substantial plan our own approach to planting. of the afternoon passes by in a haze of my window, before it’s time to sleep, amount of money spent, this stunning There is so much to see here and we sunshine and colour, sweet scents and the perchance to dream. A magical place. Grade 1 listed property is now making a drink in the views; an avenue of poplars, heat of greenhouses. name for itself for all the right reasons. a wildflower meadow, sheltered nooks to The feast for the senses continues The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent Sandwich is nestled near the River rest weary legs, a kitchen garden and a this summer when the gardens will host [email protected] Stour with a pretty medieval town centre, jungle area casting architectural shapes. The Pelagian Opera Festival, bringing www.the-salutation.com a few good eateries, boats to take you seal There is strong emphasis on planting the essence of Glyndebourne to this T: 01304 619 919 spotting and The Salutation Hotel and its for nature and for the future. You’ll find lovely slice of Kent. A production of extensive gardens designed by Sir Edwin ivy because it is vitally important to Mozart’s The Magic Flute brings together The Garden Convivium is a six night Lutyens in 1912. There are many reasons nesting birds and mining bees who love a creative team including Dorothy residential gardening course with Head to visit and I came for one of their it. We admire the mature trees and agree Fothergill as costume designer and Gardener Steve Edney. Arriving on regular gardening courses. As a novice that one of the most satisfying things scenography by Simon Costin, the Sunday 13 October and departing on gardener I was slightly nervous to be you can do in life is to plant a tree. internationally acclaimed set designer Saturday 19 October, guests will spend taught by an award-winning professional, A mature beech tree provides enough who reinvented the catwalk show time in the gardens with Steve, visit some but Steve could not have been more oxygen for ten people and 300 species; whilst working with fashion designer of the most famous English gardens in helpful and his passion for these gardens it is the centre of its own ecosystem. Alexander McQueen. Fergus Moffat’s Kent, take part in round table talks with is infectious. When he first started here Not all gardeners are champions of the concept is, ‘an immersive, picnic-with- guest experts, and have the opportunity 11 years ago, it took him a year just to environment, but Steve’s philosophy is to promenade version of Mozart’s occult- to visit some of the county’s medieval cut down the brambles, and whilst the work with nature, not against it. imbued masterpiece, relocated from the towns. Accommodation in the hotel as original path structures remained, there We are taught how to think in layers Pyramids to Arcadia in midsummer.’ well as breakfast, lunch and dinner is was no original planting which allowed and I find myself sketching out a dream Young musicians from across Europe included in the price of £2,600pp him creative carte blanche. He and garden in my head; bamboo, an obelisk, are given a platform to help bridge the his team work tirelessly to ensure that roses, borders popping with colour, gap between conservatoire training and 1-day gardening course including lunch: there is always dynamic action in the lavender, evergreens, bronze fennel with the professional world. The emerging £90 garden and much of interest for visitors alliums. Sunflowers; bullfinches love talent receive mentorship from the Tasting menu from £48 at all times of the year. As we walk the sunflowers. I need to find out what soil professionals, and paying guests will B&B: from £245 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 41 Out of Town online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

times turned out such well-known the back of the building, so it’s not all names as Jeremy Irons, John le Carre, grand columns and lofty ceilings, but Hugh Bonneville and genius WW2 it is light and has about 150 degrees of code breaker Alan Turing. Connecting views onto the garden. Even those not us to a bit of history, the Yew suite at The going for the tasting menu get to enjoy Eastbury sports a fabulous 17th century a stylish amuse bouche of Gazpacho, local Photographs © Eastbury Hotel Photographs 4 poster bed that has been beautifully breads and tomato butter (cunningly refurbished and which makes you feel disguised as a real tomato, complete suitably regal. If serfs were still available, with stalk). I liked this place so much I this would have warranted at least two decided to forego my usual rule of trying each. somewhere in town for the second night, The Eastbury is an interesting place so prepare yourself for what seems like a that is well over half way through its rather extensive meal. Starters over the de Savary transformation from the very two nights included Devon Crab (which trad (evoking thoughts of an Agatha was subtle & skilfully executed, but not Christie murder or two in the pantry) to ground breaking) Braised Ox cheek something which, whilst not forgetting Ragu (with exquisitely thin, hand cut its recent past, wants to add some quirky pasta, a subtle dash of truffle oil and Old and modern touches. How about a Winchester cheese; absolutely perfect Hobbit Mound hidden at the bottom of in every aspect)and the Carpaccio the garden? Sounds a bit risky (perhaps of Octopus which was generous and The Eastbury Hotel By David Hughes

Somewhat tempted by last month’s KCW Today back page, I was then reminded by Lady H that I owe her a weekend even towards the beautifully presented. away “somewhere nice” I can`t bonkers end of For mains we ranged from the special remember if this was for some offbeat in this of Faggots (done properly, and a big environment) but nostalgic hit with Lady H) to the Rump long forgotten (by me at least!) all the signs point of Lamb served with caramelised red misdemeanour or deferred to it becoming the onions, Greek yogurt, courgettes and funkiest private oregano. Cod with a Garlic & Herb payment on a cancelled Paris room in town. Crust sat upon a throne of Leeks & trip, but anyway, it seemed an Not many saw Crispy Capers and came with Roast that one coming, Cauliflower, and the Venison Loin ideal time to explore Dorset. nor the recently arrived with a neat quenelle of salt baked constructed swede mash, spiced red cabbage, sage Victorian Potting and almond pesto, and a juniper sauce. he weather forecast became Sheds which are Produce is mostly locally sourced, but slightly worse as the day 118 years too the inspiration for the dishes extends approached, but I decided it was late for her reign. joyfully from the local farm gates all timeT to waken my old Jag from its garage These will house the way to Mediterranean Sea. Stand- slumbers, and, just for the hell of it, see Spa treatment out dessert was the Valrhona Chocolate how far I could get with the sunroof It’s an inspiring feeling, hearing the rooms for those in need of hydrating, Cremeux, with passion fruit cream & unfurled. exhaust roaring like constantly tearing manipulating, steaming and generally toasted hazelnut ice cream, and although Even after spending more than a calico, and watching the speedo heading patting and primping. Despite being there’s enough to share, very little got few quid, I still had to hop from one effortlessly towards license losing a bit of an unreconstructed bloke for passed over. mechanic to the next to get it properly territory, but before long, reality bites much of the time, I’m not immune to I was sorry to be packing my bag for ready for the trip. To be fair, old cars can and we slow to the inevitable crawl past the charms of the odd treatment, though the return trip, but hopefully the next be like that; at times inspiring plenty Stonehenge. you can delete the word “beauty” in time my glamorous companion calls of love and elbow grease, at other times After outrunning most of the rain my case. It’ll take more than an extract for a weekend away, she will be voting you feel like chucking the key over a we reach Sherborne, the ancient market of some rare seaweed to turn me into for a classy room “somewhere in the hedge and having a good cry at their town that has many ancient things, anything resembling a cover star. Sherborne area”. The old Jag will know petty failings. But I kept the faith, and from castles and an Abbey to nearly What I can do justice to, though, is just where to head for, providing it`s not fuelled up to the brim we nosed out of 30% of its population being over 65. a top quality restaurant, and although feeling grumpy and in need of a visit to town heading for the delights of the It’s a delightful place though, and has this place is currently awarded 2 its favourite mechanic. M25. It was a relief to see most of the history both ancient and modern from AA rosettes, I’m told that’s set to be traffic piled up in the opposite direction, King Alfred the Great and Sir Walter upgraded, which would be a fitting but I didn’t really relax until we reached Raleigh, through to schools which can reward for head chef Matthew Street The Eastbury Hotel the M3 and let the unfashionably large trace their origins back over a thousand and his team. The Seasons restaurant T: 01935 813131 V12 motor properly clear its throat. years, and who have in more recent is, essentially, a conservatory built on theeastburyhotel.co.uk 42 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining out

hall, built by the North London Railway Company at the end of Amhurst Rd in 1870 for a pint and a bit of hearty nosh was appealing. Adrian Watters is now the man in charge of the kitchen, and he

has a long history going back to Harvey © Oslo Hackney Photographs Nicks 5th floor, Soho House group and Electric Brasserie in Notting Hill. Readers of Grazia and the gossip columns will know that he also had a hand in Megan and Harry’s wedding last year. The kitchen is where the railway’s staff used to dispense tickets from, and the old counter forms the pass, which is waited for my partner’s chicken to turn at right angles to the long bar. Professor up; a small error by the front of house Green is in for a cleansing craft beer staff which the kitchen soon corrected. tonight. High ceilings, dropped industrial When it arrived it was ok rather than lights, long sharing tables; it has all the spectacular, but I think on reflection she ingredients one needs for a fashionable rather regretted not ordering the chuck local venue that also has an upstairs gig rib and bone marrow patty Oslo Burger. room. About that pint and food, let’s get This is a place to hang out as much as stuck in, and kick off with a bit of a fry eat, but being the driver and not wanting By David Hughes fest. To start, simple and unpretentious to hang out with an orange juice, I opted Oslo Hackney Courgettes and Squid. The courgettes are for a sticky toffee pudding to share and nothing like as delicate as Zucchini Fritti, a coffee, whilst my companion sunk ackney still has that edgy feel. In recent years another group has being sliced 4 ways down their length to another Rioja. It’s less all-out trendy than slipped into the mix, the unpretentious be the equivalent of very chunky chips; Job done, John, let’s get back to Shoreditch, and a big Victorian restaurant run by a bit of a name. It’s Rustic, but a bit unsubtle. The squid rings my Drum (= place: Drum and Bass in explorer’s beard is very much optional never too high end, more gastropub with I initially mistook for onion rings; they rhyming slang), as Chas and Dave might H had that sort of batter. I think a bit more say. here. It’s diverse, hip, and still clinging on an edge, and in keeping with the vibe of to a bit of its myriad roots. Landmarks ethical/local/I want a burger, but I want gastro and a bit less old style East End like the Hackney Empire attract big to feel good about it (and I can`t be seen might be a benefit here. Oslo Hackney, name comedians anxious to cement their going into a fast food place cos I can`t be On to a Gilt Head Bream, sautéed 1A Amhurst Rd, Kingsland, working cred, and corner shops run by bothered with ironic and I just signed a new potatoes, spinach and wild garlic London E8 1LL, just yards away from Windrush generation locals still count petition – arggh!) pesto, which fully hit the mark; crispy Hackney Central station yams, Malt drink and Ting amongst I like a little bit of exploring myself, skin, succulent flesh, spot on potatoes, Menu: oslohackney.com their best sellers. and the idea of visiting the old ticketing lovely. I ordered another drink whilst we T: 020 3553 4831

Put to the Test: a trip down to leafy Hampshire in search of

Salmo Trutta Hotel © Stafford Photographs By David Hughes

Running a top hotel involves making people happy. Happy can take many forms, but for those with a bit of whippy rod, centerpin reel, and the odd hand tied fly in mind it doesn’t get much better than a trip down to Hampshire’s river Test; river royalty when it comes to fly fishing for trout. It’s not easy (or that I used to visit. We used to catch and after a couple of minutes studying to rely too heavily on amateurs when it cheap) to find yourself on one of the roach, rudd, carp, perch, the odd tench, our pro teacher from afar, magically comes to providing lunch. famous beats, so it helps to have friends but very rarely trout. Trout had to be it all (mostly) came back to me. The When I asked the pro if we had done with influence, or know a man who stocked, fished for with flies and were next problem was the day; bright and O.K, he wryly replied “well, you didn’t does. The Stafford Hotel was hosting an altogether more exclusive, and elusive sunny and by now heading towards late bring your strongest team, did you?” this piscatorial adventure, so it made quarry, and I’ve rarely sought them out morning; the time when the smarter He was right of course, but we all had a sense to have a delicious breakfast in over the years. trout likes to loaf around in the shade, wonderful day, ate a splendid lunch on the restaurant before setting off. Full Enough of laying down my excuses, not rise to temptingly cast flies. After the open dock of the Lodge, and had a of anticipation, by 8.15 we were on the now it’s time to confess. My first 15 an hour or so of ceaseless casting and lot of fun. It’s a great sport, and as in all road for Stockbridge, and our stretch of minutes reminding myself of the correct roaming, help was at hand. There was a sports there are winners and losers. This the river for the day technique for casting and retrieving shout from down river, and with the aid time the trout beat us 5 to 1, but we’ll be When I were a lad, fishing used to the fly looked a bit like a man being of the river keeper one of our number back! involve heading off on my bike with electrocuted, in the dark, whilst trying had caught and landed a Brownie, our Great hotel, great food, and on this a simple rod, reel, a couple of floats, to do macramé. Those not fishing, and only fish of the day. Thoughtfully, The day, great fishing. a few chunks of bread, and maybe 6d the assorted staff at the Lodge loved it; Stafford had released Ben Tish to cook of maggots. “Yeuggh!” I hear you say, certainly the best comedic turn they had this splendid offering, and even more The Stafford Hotel: maggots! Fish love ’em, at least those seen for a good while. thoughtfully he’d turned up with plenty www.thestaffordhotel.com that lurk around in lakes and streams I slunk further up the riverbank, of other delights as well. It doesn’t do T: 020 3481 9572. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Dining out with Pets online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

of the afternoon, as Reggie’s three-course we devoured almost the entire selection Egerton House meal arrived. Three tasteful blue doggy put before us and melted into our bowls, separated by a three-tiered stand, regal armchairs; the flowering tea then Hotel gave the meal the grandiose illusion it appeared. Presented in glass teapots, deserved and Reggie’s senses wreaked the flowers, placed in water, opened in

By Ellen Harper © Ellen Harper Photograph havoc as he realised what was coming front of our eyes and finished off this to him. The top bowl contained dog- extravagant, exquisite and exuberant friendly ice cream; the middle bowl afternoon tea with the cleansing we both contained peanut butter covered dog very-much needed. When the dog you have taken biscuits and the bottom contained chicken and beef meatloaf. Never has this Served from 12pm-6pm daily. to afternoon tea is gifted little toy poodle eaten so much food in Egerton House Hotel with his very own bottle of one sitting and when he finally fell into 17-19 Egerton Terrace, London, his well-deserved food coma, our own SW3 2BX. pawsecco; a non-alcoholic, food arrived and brought with it more T: +44 (0) 207 589 2412 grape-free, animal-friendly ravishing delights than we could ever For info: www.egertonhousehotel.com have expected. rosé ‘wine’, you know your Layers and tiers of springtime expectations are about to be colours; purples, pinks, greens, reds. Summer berries, parfaits, sandwiches, blown out of all proportion. champagne, Reggie was offered rosé scones, clotted cream and tiny pots of or red pawsecco; and our vegetarian jams and marmalade. The bite-sized eggie, the adorable, enthusiastic afternoon tea order was put into the sandwiches were quaint and as full and inquisitive Toy Poodle found kitchen. In the meantime, Reggie of British simplicity as strawberries his own station, on arrival. At was gifted a red neckerchief, with the and cream with a glass of Pimms at a House Hotel © Egerton Photograph Rour table were two doggy water bowls, a Egerton House Hotel engraved on the Wimbledon tennis match on a warm July blanket and special sitting space, placed front, which he proudly wore for the day. A standard for English afternoon strategically at our feet. We took our inevitable photoshoot later. The managers tea, egg mayonnaise (with a light coating seats at either side of a round window treated us to the story of Hugo the of almonds), cream cheese & cucumber, table that let an encouraging amount pug, whose family had brought him in roasted vegetables, guacamole & of sunlight in, set up in what I can only to the hotel for a birthday treat and as rocket and cheddar & tomato filled the assume was the likeness of a royal tea the staff brought him his birthday cake sandwich centre. table (complete with miniature pots of (the hotel’s speciality Chicken and Beef The macaroons; cheekily eaten jams and marmalades and fancy china) meatloaf covered in peanut butter), they as an appetiser before we tucked into Reggie meanwhile, couldn’t contain his all joined in with the family to sing a the sandwiches were bite-sized, jam- excitement. round of Happy Birthday. filled treats. By the time we got to the As we were given our glasses of What came next was the highlight scones the food struggle was upon us,

Tempah. It is common for vegetarians to be an after-thought when it comes to The Duck & Rice cuisine; in a society that is still getting By Ellen Harper to grips with the concept of a meat-free lifestyle, however, The Duck and Rice created this dish with superior levels of © Duck & Rice Photograph care. The mock duck was suspiciously Good quality Chinese food (not the take realistic and its pairing with sweet and away variety), dog-friendly, vegetarian- sour sauce, delightfully recreated a friendly and in Soho? The Duck and Rice classic Chinese dish. provides all of the above at an affordable Reggie meanwhile, enjoyed his time price. as much as us, finding himself a doggy The restaurant encouraged us to companion in the corner. Quietly and bring along Reggie the Toy Poodle aggressively staring each other down, who was greeted with as much gusto as running in the air towards one another ourselves. The Duck and Rice is a place against the great human force holding that clearly welcomes dogs, but also them back; replicating the action of a encourages their presence with treats toddler walking in the opposite direction and enthusiastic hospitality. A casual of some gale-force winds, or a seagull dining experience, in an aesthetically trying to fly against a light sea breeze. exquisite venue; complete with blue Whilst amusement crept across the faces willow Chinese porcelain tiles on the of all involved and with us getting ever- walls, a spiral staircase and speakeasy so-slightly more tipsy as our flutes of style furniture. that the dumpling dough of one plate 1980s, making a close-enough chicken prosecco grew emptier, dessert arrived on Vegetarian diners, in restaurants presented, told us all we needed to know. replica allowing vegetarians to indulge the table. The Chocolate cake and sticky across the country, are often Both dishes; trendy takes on Chinese in ‘chicken’ nuggets and ‘chicken’ pies. toffee pudding were as similar to each disappointed by the lack of meat-free classics, brought a warm reminder that When Seiten, made from wheat gluten, other as two desserts can be, but both diversity on many restaurants menus. without the overpowering presence of and Tempah made from Soy were found finished off the meal delightfully and left However, The Duck and Rice offers an meat on a plate, flavours and textures to make the best veggie chicken yet and a sweet note about the evening on the exciting selection of vegetarian options, can very much rise to the forefront and seitan restaurants became vogue, people tips of both of our tongues. to a level of excellence that could make remain there. began turning to an animal free lifestyle even the most headstrong meat-eaters Our main course dishes were black at an incredible rate. Opening times: Monday-Friday, challenge their identity. When our pepper mock chicken and sweet and sour The Duck and Rice definitely caught 12pm-11pm, Sundays 12pm-10pm. Goji Berry and Spinach dumplings and mock duck. The first of which was one onto this concept, making a ‘chicken’ 90 Berwick St, Soho, London Sichuan Vegetable dumplings arrived, of the best vegetarian takes on chicken above anything I have ever tried. Made W1F 0QB it was obvious which was which; as I’ve experienced in a long time. Quorn from primarily Soya and egg, all of T: 020 3327 7888 the beautiful shade of spinach green, radicalised vegetarian food culture in the their mock meat is a close equivalent to www.theduckandrice.com 44 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Health QUALITY DENTAL IMPLANT

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Pilates is a must for mobility and an exercise for life

By Rosa Reeve Reeve © Rosa Photographs

s we age mobility does decrease unless you do exercise to prevent this. Pilates is an amazing exercise that has many forms and has evolved to assist us all whatever our age or physical capability. It is a brilliant 1 exerciseA for daily life or simply to facilitate any other sporting activity you like to do. Rosa from Pilatespluswellness has given us a few exercises that we can do daily to mobilise our whole body and ease any aches and pains.

NB please note this is a brief description and Rosa recommends attending either a Pilates class or having 1:1 sessions to make sure your technique is correct. Tip: With Pilates exercises, always pull your tummy in and pelvic floor up before you move.

1. Spine curls: Mobilise the spine, stretch out the front of hips which strengthens back of legs and bottom. Start position: Supine (laying on your back) Back of the head, ribcage and tailbone are heavy into the floor (Neutral Pelvis and Spine) Breath in to prepare, pulling your tummy in and pelvic floor up. Then as you exhale, tuck your bottom under so you imprint your lower back and then lift your bottom and spine off the floor until you get to the lower border of the shoulder blades. Hold at the top and breathe in. Then 2 exhale as you lower down from below the shoulder blades and lower your spine bone by bone until the lower back inprints into the floor and you can release your pelvis back to neutral start position. Repeat 8 xs.

2. Cat stretch: Stretch and mobilise your back. Start position as shown in picture 4 point kneeling. Breath in to prepare pulling tummy in and pelvic floor up. Exhale as you tuck your bottom under and then flex your spine sequentially from your tailbone to your neck and head last. Making a c shape in your spine as shown. Breath into the back of the ribcage holding the c shape and as you exhale, lengthen your tailbone and head together til you come back to start position. Repeat 8 xs.

3. Thread the needle: Mobilise upper back and shoulders with Rotation. Start position as shown; 4 point kneeling. Breath in to prepare pulling tummy in and pelvic floor up. Exhale as you bend the elbows like a half press up and then thread the arm through as you twist your 3 ribcage away from the supporting arm and the other arm threads through keeping your head in the midline but looking at the arm that threads through. Breath in to the stretch and exhale to come back to start position. Repeat on each side. 8 xs.

4. Chalk Circles; Mobilise upper body and spine as you keep your hips and knees still. Start position as shown laying on your side with your arms shoulder level in front of you. Put a pillow under your head and neck for good alignment. Breath in as you raise your arm above your head and exhale as you then circle your head, neck and ribcage and let the arm circle around down past the hips and back to start position. As if you are drawing a circle around your body, but make sure you keep your spine long and not let the ribs flare at the front or let the back arch as you circle your arm around your body. Repeat 8 xs on each side.

5. Hip rolls: To mobilise the spine. 4 Start position: Lying on your back with your feet and knees together as shown; neutral pelvis and spine. Breath in to prepare and as you exhale let your hips roll over to one side making sure your lower body moves as a block and you keep the lower border of your shoulder blades grounded into the floor. Only take the legs as far as you can whilst not letting your ribcage lift or back arch. Also, ground the shoulder blade down into the floor the side you are stretching away from. Breath in to the stretch and exhale, use your waist and tummy muscles to wheel back the ribcage, waist and the knees and feet come back last. Repeat 8 xs on each side.

Rosa Reeve has been running PilatesPlusWellness for 12 years and is a Supervising Pilates teacher for Body Control Pilates Students as well. She draws from her medical knowledge of conditions as well from when she used to be a Senior Radiographer at various London Hospitals.

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commonest fracture sites are the hips, spine and wrist, all of these fractures can Maintaining bone result in severe pain and disability. A and joint health fragility fracture is defined as a fracture that results from any fall from a standing © Unsplash Photograph height or less. Our bodies should be able in later years to sustain a fall from this height without a fracture unless there is an underlying cause that makes the bones fragile such as osteoporosis .As the longevity of our population increases, so will the Bone is a living tissue incidence of osteoporosis and fragility fracture. and plays an important Frequently, we do not even know structural role in our bodies we have Osteoporosis until we suffer a fracture, but if your Practice Nurse throughout our lives, as we or GP suspects you are at risk of get older optimising bone developing Osteoporosis, they can make an assessment using an online tool and and joint health becomes advise you of your risk of a fragility even more important as it has fracture and then investigate further your risk if required. Further investigation is implications for mobility and likely to mean having a bone mineral physical activity. density scan. Unless you have particular risk factors for Osteoporosis, women Musculoskeletal conditions should have their fracture risk assessed are the leading cause of pain from 65 years onwards and men from 75 years onwards. and disability in England and The main risk factors for developing account for one of the highest Osteoporosis and fragility fractures are increasing age, having a family history causes of sickness absence and of Osteoporosis, being a woman, being productivity loss. of Asian or Caucasian descent, having a low body weight, a diet lacking in here is often confusion between sufficient levels of calcium and vitamin the various conditions, such D, not exercising, excessive alcohol as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis consumption, being a regular smoker, and rheumatoid arthritis, whilst all having had previous fractures, having Accordingly, exercises such as walking from our diet and also can be generated T and jogging will help to strengthen bones from our own bodies. Exposure to UV are related to our bones and joints, anorexia as a low food intake can cause they are very different conditions with calcium deficiency, having treatment and muscle tissue surrounding joints. The light from direct sunlight converts a differing symptoms. In these series with steroids and thyroxine medication, stretching and strengthening from low pre-cursor of Vitamin D into Vitamin of articles I summarise the important women having experienced a premature impact aerobics, swimming, tai-chi and D, hence a lack of direct sunlight musculoskeletal conditions that we are menopause and men having low levels gentle yoga will also assist. However, as has we may experience in the winter likely to experience in later years. of testosterone. People with diabetes, always, it is vital to first check with your months between October and March particularly type 1 diabetes, often have Practice Nurse before starting any new does require us to ensure we have poorer bone quality and an increased risk exercise programme. enough Vitamin D in our diet or to Osteoporosis of fractures. Those with long-standing take a Vitamin D supplement. During With age, our bones lose density and disease and poor blood sugar control, autumn and winter we should consider become weaker, our bones are therefore Calcium & Vitamin D taking a daily supplement containing and who take insulin have the highest An adequate intake of calcium and more prone to fracture; Osteoporosis 10 micrograms of Vitamin D. Dietary fracture risk Vitamin D is essential in all people to means “porous bone” and is a disease sources of Vitamin D are oily fish . ensure healthy bones.The living bone characterised by low bone mass and such as salmon, sardines, herring and tissue is hardened by calcium salts and structural deterioration of bone tissue, Lifestyle mackerel, red meat, liver and egg yolks. other minerals; calcium also has other leading to bone fragility and an increased It is desirable to take early steps to Interestingly in the UK, cows‘ milk is important roles in the body such as risk of fractures. try to address bone health before any generally not a good source of Vitamin making sure blood clots normally and Osteoporosis is diagnosed by a bone problems arise. These include lifestyle D because it isn’t fortified, as it is in some regulating muscle contractions. Sources mineral density scan scan known as changes such as stopping smoking, other countries. of calcium include dairy foods such as DEXA or DXA scan. Patients receive reducing alcohol consumption, increasing A number of tablet medicines milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese; a bone mineral density scan [DEXA/ dietary Vitamin D during winter and injections are prescribed to treat green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, DXA scan] either because they have months, maintaining an optimal weight Osteoporosis and Osteopenia; this has cabbage and okra, but not spinach; soya experienced a fragility fracture or have and avoiding a sedentary lifestyle. revolutionised our treatment approach beans, tofu, nuts, sardines and pilchards. risk factors for osteoporosis. This scan over the last three decades from what was Adults aged 19yrs and over need 700mg is a short, painless procedure that takes thought to be an inevitable consequence about 5 minutes, depending on the part Exercise of calcium a day, and we should be able We should aim to be active daily and of the ageing process to a treatable of the body being scanned. A diagnosis to get all the calcium we need from our over a week, activity should add up to at condition.The National Osteoporosis of osteopenia is made when your bone daily diet by eating a varied and balanced least 150 minutes; one way to achieve Society website is a particularly useful density is lower than that of an average diet, therefore calcium supplements this is to do 30 minutes on at least 5 days resource for those wanting to read about adult of the same age and sex as you, are unnecessary and could be harmful. a week. Osteoporosis further. but not low enough to be diagnosed as Occasionally your GP may prescribe A combination of weight bearing and osteoporosis. calcium supplements whilst you take non-weight bearing exercise will help, Osteoporosis affects over 3 million medication to treat Osteoporosis or have Dr Raj S. Chandok, by way of example, resistance exercise people in the UK and more than 500,000 a diet lacking calcium. FRCGP MSc MBBS DC DRCOG has been shown to be key to protect people experience fragility fractures each Vitamin D helps the body to regulate DFFP D Med Ed; Principal, Dr G the bones of astronauts as they can lose year, as a result of having Osteoporosis; how calcium is maintained and is Singh & Partners.; Vice Chair NHS around 1% to 2% of their bone mineral this is a considerable number. The three required for the intestinal absorption Ealing CCG, Honorary Professor density each month they are in space. of calcium. 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pregnancy, or in points of pre-existing a stop-over in Kenya. When he touched wall is now stronger than ever. He has weakness such as the umbilicus (‘belly down he was met by an ambulance and been rebuilding his strength by walking Having problems button’) or in the groin. These defects or taken straight to hospital. Surgeons three times a day, is back in training and weaknesses are called hernias, and can determined that he had a twisted large is aiming to complete a full Iron Man with a Hernia? often require repair and/or restructuring intestine and rushed him straight into come July. of the entire abdominal wall. theatre where he had a major operation Oliver Warren, Consultant Surgeon to remove the affected section. at the Abdominal Wall and Hernia Complex Abdominal Wall Five days later, Luke’s abdomen Unit at The Lister Hospital (part of Reconstruction became distended and the agonising HCA Healthcare UK), where Luke was is a ground-breaking new surgical pain returned. Further surgery was treated, says: speciality, in which a number of undertaken and Luke continued to “The Abdominal Wall and Hernia

Photograph © Lister Hoispital Photograph different surgical techniques are used to recover in hospital and was told he could Unit at The Lister Hospital is the largest restore the abdominal wall, reposition soon go home. However, on the morning private unit in the UK, and comprises the abdominal tissues and attempt of his discharge, Luke once again woke a team of world-leading abdominal, to move them back into their natural up in excruciating pain, this time due gastrointestinal and plastic surgeons, position. This may or may not involve to a ruptured spleen, and was rushed supported by specialist anaesthetists and augmentation of the tissues with a mesh, back into theatre for his third major physiotherapists. Our multidisciplinary to reinforce the repair and the muscles, operation. As anyone can imagine, three approach allows us to manage all aspects leaving patients with life-changing repeated openings of the abdomen took of the abdominal wall, as well as giving results. its toll, and Luke developed a complex the best cosmetic outcome for our incisional hernia. patients. Just ask one of our patients, Luke Desperate to regain his health and Under our care, you'll benefit any people do not realise Matthews. ability to compete in triathlons, Luke from highly specialised surgeries and quite what an important role At the age of 32, Luke was travelling set about researching the top surgeons ongoing post-operative support – whilst our abdominal walls play in back from a holiday in Zambia, when and hospitals to treat this condition, and also having access to the latest mesh Meveryday life. he started experiencing excruciating came across Mr Oliver Warren, at The and reconstructive dermal matrix Made up of multiple muscular and stomach pain. Being an elite triathlete, Lister Hospital. technologies fascial layers and covered by fat and Luke was incredibly fit and had no idea After flying over to London Whether you need treatment for a skin, it helps to house and protect some that he had an underlying defect in his from Dubai for a consultation, Luke recurring hernia, reconstructive surgery of the major organs in your body. It intestines, which was about to make him decided to undergo Abdominal Wall after other operations (like Luke) or also supports your spine, and aids the gravely ill. Reconstruction, carried out by a very wish to get your abdominal wall back performance of daily bodily functions, Sitting on the plane, Luke developed specialist multi-disciplinary team, to normal after childbirth, you’ll benefit such as walking, climbing stairs, a stomach ache which he first dismissed involving surgeons, anaesthetists and from the highest quality multi-speciality coughing and going to the toilet. as nothing serious. However, the pain in intensive care unit doctors. care. This will result in good long term Sometimes, the abdominal wall his stomach quickly worsened until he Luke underwent the procedure, surgical outcome but also the best can become weakened or develop a was in unbearable agony. stayed in hospital for under a week, aesthetic result.” defect. This may be following surgery, Luckily for Luke, his flight back had which was a success, and his abdominal Search: HCA Abdominal Wall

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Courage and

Creativity © I-Stock Photograph By Simon Hatchard-Parr

Achievement of pretty much any sort has value precisely because of the fight that has to be engaged to gain it, to be tough enough to overcome what is thrown at us and to keep on keeping on. Those born with a disability, whether of mobility, hearing, vision, cognitive or a learning disability and those born with, or who fall victim to, complete immobility as a result of neurodegenerative disease, face challenges every Foot Painting Artists (VDMFK) presently his technique, he became influenced opportunities to interact with the day which often only extreme has 802 artists in 76 countries and the by Balinese and Indonesian design and world around them. The results speak determination can overcome. UK MFPA partnership was formed in spent time living and painting in Bali. for themselves. Playing music has been 1957 as part of this cooperative. Eric Richly naïve and stylised, the creative shown to increase attention and improve here are many causes of complete Stegmann, a polio victim who lost the inspiration for his work, he believes, cognitive function, auditory processing or almost complete immobility. use of his arms grew up in Germany, and comes from the unknown and he feels art and verbal skills. As we age we are more prone to built a successful career painting with a is about embracing that unknown force. It’s not surprising that music therapy degenerative conditions, such as arthritis brush which he held between his teeth. Throughout the UK a number of art for depression has been shown to T He formed the VDMFK cooperative studios are dedicated to helping those improve mood and mental health. In the or Alzheimer’s disease, for example, which reduce our ability to interact with with colleagues to make it possible for with disabilities. Action Space, Shape Arts jargon of such research, active music- the world in their own ways. Somewhat artists who painted using their mouths or and Rocket Artists are among those who making in the therapeutic frame offers less publicised however is the plight of their feet to make a living through their have these studios. Although lottery opportunities for new aesthetic, physical youngsters and young adults who live work which, until then, was not possible. funding and university participation in and relational experiences. with a wide spectrum of immobility Leanne Beetham, 28, was born some of the programmes is available, One doesn’t have to reach for the every day. with the disease muscle arthrogryposis, they are dependent almost entirely on research however to discover how In the UK there are many who live which meant her muscles didn’t develop donations and volunteers. music and art can enhance and change with profound disability and forge a life properly. As a young child she learnt Friendship Circle UK joined the our lived experience whether we suffer of creative achievement that sustains to do everything using her mouth and international Friendship Circle in 2008 from a disability or not. Art of every and upholds the best of the human began painting when she was three. and became an independent charity in type, whether making it or sharing in spirit. Such is the story of Christy Leanne loves painting wildlife, and says 2010. It’s an organisation dedicated to it connects us to a deeply enriching Brown who only had control over his her degree in Applied Animal Behaviour helping those with special needs. In our seam of vitality that can repair the left foot and whose remarkable life as a helped her understand her subjects better. social, media-savvy world it is difficult disconnected self. Fortunately it’s not an writer, poet and artist was well told in “My grandma, whom I live with, and my to imagine those who are trapped inside arcane mystery that when we open up the celebrated film My Left Foot. When teachers, have always pushed my art. I a body unable to communicate, whose the windows through which we sense Christy was born in 1932 there were didn’t think about doing something good, creative yearnings cannot find an outlet. ourselves and the world around us, the few, if any, charities or organisations to I just enjoyed doing it, and now I’m Friendship helps to support them and world expands and our experience of it help those born into such circumstances making a career out of it, which is great,” to become members of an inclusive and of ourselves expands at the same and the medical profession gave parents she says. She gives art demonstrations community to which they can contribute time. no hope of their children growing up to and talks in schools about the work of and support others with their own needs. accomplish anything of value people with disabilities. “I’ve never been UK indie band, The Autistix, play a Simon Hatchard-Parr M.A practices as Today, there are many more charities, able to use my hands, so you just adapt. unique form of experimental rock music a healer and therapist in North London. government sponsored organisations and I have personal assistants who help with heavy guitar riffs underpinning their For information visit: community assisted programmes in place out, but I try to do everything with my classic garage sound, but what makes www.sanctushealing.com to help. Thanks to the internet dedicated mouth. Only your mind stops you doing their achievements unusual is that three websites and resource forums are readily anything.” She is fundraising for a trip of them have autism. Their difficulties For further information on resources available. One such is Ableize which to Africa to paint wildlife. “The only time with interpersonal relationships made the www.ableize.com has links to a number of sites including things are impossible is if you give up.” prospect of playing with other musicians www.dasharts.org theatre companies, dance groups, In 1983 Londoner Andy Baker lost problematical, so they formed their own www.mfpa.co.uk music therapy, photography, painting, an arm and suffered paralysis in the band in 2010 and continue to create www.vdmfk.com drawing and a mixture of both physical other as a result of a motorbike accident. their own brand of rock. Many parents www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk and learning disabled arts groups and Already an artist, Andy began painting with autistic and developmentally www.actionspace.org activities throughout the UK. with his mouth after leaving hospital impaired children find that in learning www.shapearts.org.uk A number of charities are under the and, encouraged by his early efforts, to play any kind of musical instrument www.rocketartists.co.uk umbrellas of international organisations. was determined to continue. Eschewing offers a medium through which to www.disabilityarts.online The International Association of Mouth and formal training and driven to improve express themselves and find enriching www.friendship-circle.org.uk 50 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking Dulwich Picture Gallery Until 8 September 2019 Admission £16.50 dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

etween the wars, there emerged a radical and vibrant art movement in Britain called , using Bthe medium of lino-cut. You may think that Power and Flight and were just two of the subjects touched on, along with Urban Living, At Work and Play, and Pastoral Life, but , and Cyril Speed were at the forefront of this new art-form that had its roots in Top left: the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, Lill Tschudi, yesterday, and not 85 Gymnastic Exercises, 1931, years ago, except that which emerged from , , Photo Bonhams and , which itself collapsed at © Estate of Lill Tschudi, in the mid-thirties, courtesy of everyone wore a hat the outbreak of war. The School was Mary Ryan Gallery founded by a Scottish wood engraver New York and would have been Top right: absorbed in their Ian Macnab in 1925, and amongst , other students were Sybil Andrews, The Windmill, 1933, newspapers rather Photo Osborne Samuel, than on their mobile Lill Tschudi, William Greengsass and London . The exhibition © Estate of phones. In this scene, Sybil Andrews one can make out the opens with David Bomberg’s Russian Left: Ballet series, Christopher Nevinson’s Leonard Beaumont, patterned upholstery In Flight, 1933, commissioned by The Bomber lithograph, Paul Nash’s Photo Museums Void of War and Edward Wadsworth, © Estate of Leonard Pick and designed who famously produced those black and Beaumont by Marion Dorn in white woodcuts of the Dazzle Ships in the 1930s, known as Dry Dock. Colindale Moquette. Other galleries display woodcuts More sport in the final with the subjects Town and Country, gallery comprising On the Move, and, finally, London posters designed for Transport, which includes some classic London Transport by examples commissioned by its legendary Andrew-Power, which Managing Director Frank Pick to was the composite advertise sporting events that could be signature of Sybil reached via the underground and bus Andrews and Cyril networks.The relative simplicity of the Power. Although one linocut technique was ideally suited to can detect the stylistic portraying modern city life and reflected characteristics of the energy of contemporary living, each artist, they still which was readily recognisable to the themselves to the limit in Power’s The movement and energy. presented the finished man-in-the street, both at work and Eight, or a streamlined and fluid racing Commuting provides great scope poster as a collaboration. The poster for play. Each subject has its own dynamic car in his Speed Trial, to Andrews’s for more dynamic imagery depicting the Epsom Derby, 1933 is definitively and rhythm, from the extraordinarily astonishing Speedway and elegant Full motion and travel in On the Move, with by Andrews, while Cricket at Lord’s and exuberant Merry-Go-Round by Cyril Cry, with runners, sledgers, skiers, ice possibly the most iconic and best-known the Oval, and Wimbledon, featuring the Power to the dramatic Sledgehammers hockey and tennis players, equestrians, impression of city travel, Cyril Power’s French tennis star Jean Borota, would by Sybil Andrews, reminiscent of the skaters, cricketers, gymnasts, rugby The Tube Station. Alongside the final have been drawn by Power. The sheer dramatic scene in the 1941 film Dumbo, players and footballers all featuring print are six proofs in pale blue, dark elegance of these sportmen is captured in where the roustabouts and elephants heavily. When it comes to leisure, the blue, green, red, chinese blue and all a few deft lines, and the birds-eye view struggle to put up the big top during a circus, jazz bands, orchestral concerts the colours together, which gives the of the Derby horses possesses a sweeping storm. Everyday occupations, like Lill and dancing girls, sit alongside Parisian visitor the perfect example of how the angularity that makes this poster both Tschud ’s Fixing the Wires, with two men Café by Tschudi, Tea Under Umbrella process works. His studies of escalators eye-catching and dynamic, as does her up a telegraph pole, and Sybil Andrews’s by Greengrass, people dancing and Wet Whence and Whither, or The Cascade, other well-loved print entitled Racing, The Gear Cable, with seven men working Afternoon by . Landscapes bring to mind scenes from Fritz Lang’s showing the field rounding Tattenham in harmony, are examples of dynamism are also given the linocut treatment and Metropolis, while Claude Flight’s Speed, Corner. London Transport were also and energy portrayed through simple work surprisingly well, with examples with an open-topped bus careering down encouraging people to hire a bus or graphic expediency. Sporting endeavours from , Eveline Syme and Regent’s Street at night, celebrates the coach to get to places further afield, like are particularly well-suited to the Greengrass, and a stunning Windmill bustle of modern life in the city. Power’s the Aldershot Tattoo. linocut style; whether rowers stretching by Sybil Andrews, a whirling pattern of The Tube Train could have been done Don Grant 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Royal Academy Summer Show Until 12 August 2019 © Don Grant Photograph Admission £18 royalacademy.org.uk

ast year, it was the Grayson Perry 250th Summer Bonanza, with the omnipresent colourful showman Lvirtually everywhere. This year, in charge of hanging is the Scottish painter Jock MacFadyen, and he stamps his mark in the very first gallery, the Wohl Rotunda, with a menagerie, featuring paintings, photographs, sculpture, prints, drawings and taxidermy of all kinds of animals, by all sorts of artists, including Cathie Pilkington’s jesmonite pooch, Best in Show, Nicola Hicks’s plaster bear, Laura Ford’s Blue Pipe- smoking Cat, reminiscent of Grayson Perry’s Red Ken, David Mach’s pink striped tiger, Humphrey Ocean’s delightful matte gouache birds, Matt From over 16,000 submitted works to Collishaw’s pigment and screen prints, choose from, the committee selected just Banksy’s disappointing KEEP OU, a under 10% for display, including roughly customs roller shutter, salvaged from one third from the Royal Academicians. Heathrow Airport, and Polly Morgan’s The main problem with the Summer stuffed snakes. Plus ça change. Show, yet to be resolved, is the shear The usual RA suspects are there, number of works to be displayed, hanging on the walls amongst their enlarged in recent years by the inclusion peers, submitted and chosen by of more architectural and photographic themselves. Each Academician is submissions. There are simply too many allowed six works, and a few take small paintings hung too high up on up the maximum quota, including the walls to appreciate them. It would Diana Armfield, Tom Phillips, Ann surely make more sense to reverse this Christopher, Brian Catlin, Stephen trend, and hang the larger ones at the Chambers, Fred Cuming, Nick top and the smaller ones at eye-level? Joe Grimshaw, Neil Jeffries, The President Tilson is still knocking out his Stones of of the RA, Christopher Le Brun, Cathie Venice, in various guises, while Norman Pilkington, Professor of Sculpture, Ackroyd continues with his series of Bryan Kneale, William Tucker, precise etchings of coastal views around David Mach, Bill Jacklin, and Bob Britain, many in the Outer Hebrides. A and Roberta Smith, who has curated new name is Claire Douglass, who has Gallery VIII, which focuses on art’s storms, but he has gone into the big course, a silver-plated coffee-pot and its submitted an extraordinary painting in relationship with science, mathematics outdoors, painting the night sky and flattened half-brother, each suspended acrylics, entitled The Garden of Earthly and cosmology; Mick Rooney has nature, which is a departure, and not a on wire. Surely, we saw that print Delights, which loosely references six of his delightful magic realism wholly successful one. The series Dance of hers with a contagion of red-dots Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych painted paintings in the manner of Commedia of the Clouds and Breezes, with attendant within framed frames last year? Or some 500 years ago. Naturally, it dell’arte narratives, and Hon RA, Wim dogs, horses, dancing girls, and birds, is even the year before? Richard Wilson is a modern take on sexual mores, Wenders, has half a dozen super-wide- slushy and romantic. has filled Gallery II with sculpture celebrities, sport and popular culture. screen C-type landscapes. Most of the David Remfrey’s paintings are a and two-dimensional works, including The artist explains, ‘I hope it can be artists mentioned have distinctive styles, delight, with a deceptively simple oil the monumental Scottish whinstone seen as a work of joyous hedonism, but which are instantly recognisable from portrait of Sadie, and a larger graphite sculpture called Epicentre by John Maine also a memento mori for an unsustainable 50 Paces, and many have not changed and watercolour of a dancing group, and a colossal work by Richard Long, culture on the cusp of great change.’ The their signature dishes in decades. This entitled Habaneros. Ken Howard, comprising mud from the River Avon work is over 2.5m. long and took her formulaic approach to art is, in some another accomplished, but formulaic slapped on a sheet of linen mounted on seven years to complete, with over 400 cases, just down to laziness, tempered painter, has begun to travel more wood, both Untitled and unpriced. The figures painted in great detail across the with an innate inability to change, in extensively, beyond St Ives and Venice, prize for the longest title of any work verdant gardens, and includes President case that rocks the boat. One artist who and he ventured as far as the United must go to Thomas Joshua Cooper, Trump playing golf, Lady Gaga, HM has embraced change, more in subject States of America, with paintings of whose selenium-toned silver gelatin The Queen, Wolves Football team, matter than style, is Bill Jacklin. Since New York and San Francisco. Having print, has the caption: St Columba, St couples making love in the bushes, Jeff spending more time in rural Rhode had such an extraordinary debut, with Columba’s death site, looking east and Koons’s balloon dog, R2D2 serving Island, he has developed an appetite such seminal early pieces as Cold Dark remembering, the Sound of Iona, Isle of ice creams from a Mr Whippy van, for big skies and wide landscapes. He Matter, Breathless and Edge of England, Iona, the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. St unicorns, Grayson Perry (him again), has not quite abandoned his trademark Cornelia Parker seems to have run Columba (497-521) is the most prominent Ant and Dec, you name it. All jolly good swirling crowds of people in urban out of puff, with a rather languid Celtis saint to be remembered in the West of fun. More of this, please. settings, with umbrellas and snow- approach to recycling ideas, with, of Scotland. 2014. Pretentious? Moi? Don Grant 52 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

Cartoon Museum 63 Wells Street London W1A3AE Admission £8 www.cartoonmuseum.org Photograph © Cartoon Museum Photograph IFF! The Cartoon Museum has moved from its old home in Bloomsbury, where it had been for over a dozen years, to a swanky new site in Wells Street. WHIZZZZ! Rarely can one use the word ‘playful’ architecturally, but Sam BJacob was given a pretty open brief to turn the new premises into a fun experience, by using the language of cartoons and comics. POW! Before it moved to Chelsea via Marylebone, The London Sketch Club’s first permanent home was just up the road at No. 79, and many of their members have works included in the opening show of some of the Museum’s collection, including Phil May, William Heath Robinson, H M Bateman, Bert Thomas and Dudley Hardy. The Museum opens on 1 July with two shows, namely Comic Creators: the Famous and the Forgotten, curated by Steve Marchant UNNHHHH! and Drawing Life, curated by Steve Bell, which charts the history of comics, WOW! cartoons, and caricature, mostly British, from Hogarth and Gillray right through to Ronald Searle, Max Beerbohm, R S Sherriffs, Wally Fawkes (Trog), Gerald Scarfe, Ralph Steadman, Peter Brookes, Marc Boxer and Martin Rowson. 6,000 examples of cartoons and comics, and a library of 18,000 comics and cartoon There is a paucity of American cartoons, because, as Museum Director and books, thanks to donations from the artists themselves and their families. Over the cartoonist Oliver Preston explained, the Golden Age of New Yorker cartoons past 25 years, the Cartoon Art Trust has hosted the Young Cartoonist of the Year produced myriad gems and now command prohibitive prices. Mark Birley cornered Awards, facilitating embryonic ‘drawers’ to become professional cartoonists and the market in suave and sophisticated cartoons from the 1930s on, with the largest comic artists, and, to encourage children further, there is a Clore Learning Studio collection of Peter Arno cartoons in the world for his club Harry’s Bar, along with a within the new building. smattering of Charles Addams and Whitney Darrow Jr. The Museum now boasts Don Grant

neutered a much darker, sexier play: equivalent of premature ejacualtion.’ the “dream” of the title is more Dr Here she cites the Hysteron proteron This is Freud than Dr Seuss, and the vanilla proverb of putting the cart before the framing device of marriage creates horse, as the marriage takes place in the Shakespeare erotic space for a much raunchier and middle of the play, so ‘there is nowhere Emma Smith riskier set of options, from bestiality good to go’. She states that, but for a Pelican Books to pederasty, from wife-swapping to few mishaps, like Juliet waking up a few sexual masochism. This really isn’t a seconds earlier, or the friar’s messenger £20. 350pp. play for children . . . ‘ She suggests that not being quarantined by the plague, ISBN 978-0-241-39215-7 Bottom really is hung like a donkey, and it could easily have been a comedy. references the Book of Ezekiel as being Really? In Coriolanus, she obsesses about the root of that particular comparison, why the battle-scarred hero failed to embodying ‘a trangressive sexual remember the name of a poor man who encounter’ straight out of Shakespeare’s gave him shelter, so that the Volscian favourite reading material, Ovid’s collaborator could be given his freedom. Metamorphoses. There’s more: violent, Hamlet was one of his most popular uncontrollable, animal desire is the real plays in his lifetime, and it has been A neologism that is currently trending dynamic of the play, with heavy phallic performed on stage, and innumerable is ‘gappiness’, and it seems to be symbolism, Carry-on innuendoes and films, ever since. It is also his longest. central to Emma Smith’s new take on even more excessive sexual desire. She argues that this play, along with Shakespeare. She states that his plays The twenty plays are examined many others, are not anything to do ‘are incomplete, woven of what’s said and and scrutinised in the order in which with his perceived emotional life, which what’s unsaid, with holes in between.’ they were written, so The Taming of the led many critics to question whether Or gaps. ‘Gappiness is his dominant Shrew is the first to get Smith’s modern Shakespeare actually wrote Shakespeare, of his plays, and as soon as one embarks take on all things Shakespearian. Of because ‘his life could not adequately and defining characteristic.’ She uses on them, one realises, by actually other streetwise words and phrases, course, attitudes to gender, relations, sex explain the plays and created an reading the lines she has selected, equality and women’s obligations to their interpretive dissonance which logically and cites artistic parallels in films, how little one knows them, and their like Bringing up Baby, Billy Wilder’s husbands, have changed mightily in the precluded his authorship, a view Freud characters. In the theatre, the plot rattles past four hundred years, but there are also espoused.’ Some Like it Hot, The Wizard of Oz and past at a pace, with some lines that Modern Times, writers James Thurber, still parallels to be drawn, even though In her own Epilogue, Smith describes resonate, some that do not, and even the bullying, proto-psychopathic, the Bard as ‘permissive, modern, Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Frayn’s though one thinks one knows the play, Noises Off, Friends,The Simpsons, and, in misogynist Petruchio still exists in our challenging, gappy (there’s that word there is always another facet to discover society. She argues that the ambiguity again), frustrating, moving, attenuated, her chapter on The Taming of the Shrew, through the interpretation of the she describes Bianca as ‘a woke reboot over whether Katherine is tamed at the beautiful, ambiguous, resourceful, production. Each chapter in this riveting end of the play is intrinsic to it, and that provoking, necessary.’ No mention of of Shakespeare’s ditsy kid sister.’ So book unearths forgotten or previously supercool is she that she adorns Measure if the twenty-first century iteration of witty, however. As The Bard himself unknown gems, but is never dry in her the inter-sex relationships looks different said in The Taming of the Shrew, ‘I would for Measure with a #MeToo plot, and descriptions. She describes King Lear, quotes Trevor Nunn’s description of the from its sixteenth century counterpart, challenge you to a battle of wits, but in pithy terms: ‘In ancient Britain, life’s the questions still remain. In Romeo and I see you are unarmed.’ This scholarly First Folio collection as ‘the first box a bitch (not to mention your daughters), set.’ This is all very jolly and fresh, and Juliet, Smith fixates on the rush of events work certainly places Shakespeare and then you die’. that overtake the two young lovers, bang up-to-date in the hashtag world underlines her thesis that Shakespeare, She opens up a healthy debate about who posed unanswered questions, is galloping towards their destiny, heedless of politics, uncertainties, ambiguities, the suitability of A Midsummer Night’s of Friar Lawrence’s warning: ‘Too swift idiosyncrasies and sexual anxieties of the forever open to interpretation across Dream for a younger audience. ‘Our cultures and time. She has taken twenty arrives as tardy as too slow,’ and likens twenty-first century. schoolroom version of A Dream has coming too soon to ‘the structural Don Grant 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Monarch does not attend the Commons. When Black The Palace of Rod calls to summon the Westminster Commons to the State By Marian Maitland Opening, the doors are closed against him (now her).. The Black Rod must knock three times before being admitted. hen visiting the Palace of Westminster Hall or Westminster, you will see the Great Hall is the oldest the works of many famous part of the Palace, built sculptors,W architects and painters set in 1096. Look up again! amidst countless frescoes, murals, tiled The hammerbeam ceiling floors, vaulted ceilings, heraldic badges, built by Hugh Herland is coats of arms and State Regalia. impressive. It eliminated You will walk along the corridors of the need for supporting power, view the Chamber of the House pillars and aisles making of Lords and the Chamber of the House the Hall very open. Notice of Commons where history was made the statues of the Kings over many centuries. and heraldic badges of The Palace of Westminster is the Richard II. The Hall served seat of Parliament, where momentous as a court and was the decisions were and are being made and scene of the State Trial of Acts have been enshrined in Law. As Charles I, Thomas More this country is a Democracy the public So, Charles Barry was the architect Pitt and Fox. It leads into an octagonal and Guy Fawkes. Coronation Banquets votes for the MPs they wish to represent and Pugin the designer. The first stone Central Lobby. This is a very busy hub were held there in the 12th to 19th them in the House of Commons. was laid in 1840, The Lord's Chamber of moving people. Look at the vaulted centuries. The Hall has been used for This historic Palace has an completed in 1840 and Commons' ceiling and notice the panels between Lying in State Ceremonies over the years. ecclesiastical, academic and judicious Chamber in 1852. the vaults are covered with Venetian The Queen Mother had this ceremony atmosphere and it resonates with the Frescoes were suggested for the glass mosaic showing floral emblems in 2002. Winston Churchill was so great oratory of famous statesmen of the interior, but they did not weather well. and heraldic badges. See the statues of honoured too. past. Oil paintings, however, on canvas Monarchs of England and Scotland in During the State Opening, the Royal The Palace is owned by the Queen proved more satisfactory. Visitors will arched niches in the walls. You will not stairs are lined with sword bearing and retains its original status as a royal see work by John Robert Herbert, be able to miss the dominant statue of troopers from the Household Cavalry palace for ceremonial occasions, the State Charles West Cope, Frederic Watts and Gladstone. Frescoed corridors lead away Life Guards and the Blues and Royals. Opening of Parliament being the most John Callcott Horsley. and you come to the anteroom of the They are the only troops allowed to bear significant. The Palace was severely damaged in House of Lords. arms in the Palace as it is a royal palace. The first royal palace on this site World War 11. The House of Commons This Chamber has red leather The Queen has a Robing room, within dates to the 11th century and the had to be rebuilt under supervision of benches and all surrounding areas are it is the Chair of State. The decorative Monarchs lived there until a fire in Giles Gilbert Scott. red. There is a stained-glass window theme is the Legends of King Arthur by 1512. It was rebuilt, became home Big Ben never stopped chiming. and six allegorical frescoes representing William Dyce. There is a series of 18 bas for Parliament and was also used by Barry chose Clipsham stone, a honey Religion, Chivalry and Law. At the reliefs by Henry Hugh Armstead. the Royal Courts of Justice. There were coloured stone from Rutland, but it end is the Throne with its canopy. The In the royal Corridor through which major renovations and complete interior needs constant renovation. The Palace Monarch, having processed into the she processes are two large paintings by refurbishment in the late 17th century. became quite a hybrid with so many Chamber, sits on the Throne. Before Daniel Maclise showing The Death of In the 18th century there were several alterations and additions over a long the Throne is the Woolsack, it is a red Nelson and The Meeting of Wellington and alterations and new buildings were period together with a mixture of styles. cushion stuffed with wool to represent Blucher after the Battle of Waterloo. The added. Remodelling was carried out There are three main towers; Victoria the importance of that trade. It is used visitor can also see the 8 gilded statues of by Sir John Soane. He added the neo Tower is the tallest and is on the South by the presiding Officer of the House, Caen stone by John Birnie Philip. Each classical features which clashed with West corner. The Sovereign's Entrance historically, the Lord Chancellor and depicts a Monarch in whose reign a key the Gothic. Neo classicists and Gothic is at its base. The archway is decorated now the Lord Speaker since 2006. battle or war took place. Revivalists do not get on well together! with statues of the Patron Saints; St Behind the Woolsack lies the Mace when This intriguing Palace with its In 1834 a second fire destroyed all George, St Andrew and St Patrick. This the House is sitting.. tradition and quirks glories in its Gothic the Palace with the exception of the tower flies the Royal Standard when the The Peer's Lobby is an ante chamber Revivalist and Neo Classic style. Great Hall (Westminster ), the medieval Monarch is present and the Union Jack where Peers have informal discussions It will be closed in 2025 for extensive cloisters of St Stephen’s and the Chapel of on other days. and collect messages from door keepers. and necessary repairs. Do visit before St Mary Undercroft, also the Jewel Tower. The second Tower is the Elizabeth Look down this time and notice the that date. Nobody wanted to move out and Tower, the whole of which is loosely floor centre piece, a radiant Tudor Rose the decision was taken to rebuild. The known as Big Ben. It houses the Great made of Derbyshire marble within an attraction to history and tradition of Clock of Westminster which was built by octagon of engraved brass plates. The You can book audio tours, or fully the Palace was strong. Decimus saw Edward John Dent from the design of remaining floor is tiled with heraldic guided tours and have tea overlooking the opportunity to design a new neo- an amateur horologist. Its accuracy was designs and Latin mottoes. the Thames. Overseas visitors and UK classical Palace, adorned with the Elgin not thought to be possible at that time. The Peer's Corridor has eight murals residents are welcome. Marbles. He did not think the vaulting, Five bells strike the chimes, the largest, by Charles West Cope from the English Resident UK visitors can obtain tracery and flying buttresses suited a the Great Bell of Westminster, correctly Civil War period. tickets from an MP for entry to the Parliament Seat. known as Big Ben strikes the hour and The House of Commons Chamber was Stranger's Gallery in the House of The Prime Minister, Robert Peel, the other four strike the quarter hour. opened in 1950, having been bombed Commons. Or they can obtain seats did not favour his views. His committee The third Tower is octagonal, during the War. It is the work of Giles from a Peer in the Lord's Gallery wanted Gothic or Elizabethan. designed for ventilation and it has a spire Gilbert Scott. The benches are green. Free Tours are available for UK , a Catholic Gothic to balance it against the other two larger The Speaker's Chair is at the North end Residents. Application via a Lord or an expert submitted a design in the name towers. The public entrance, St Stephen's with the table in front. The ceremonial MP of Charles Barry, who, being Catholic, bears its name. Mace is laid on the table. Members of the was not allowed to submit and his design St Stephen’s Hall houses marble Government sit on the Speaker's right www.parliament.uk/visit won. statues of Prime Ministers, Walpole, and the opposition is on his left. The T: +44 (0)20 7219 4114 54 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

His mind was enigmatic and mysterious. Leonardo was fascinated by the Leonardo da movement of water, whirlpools and storms. He made an exact record of Vinci: A Life in a flood weir in the River Arno and Drawing designed a drainage plan for the Pontine Queen's Gallery. Marshes. He saw the rhythm of water as like a man's biceps entwining. He Buckingham Palace. combined vision with craftsmanship. At London. SW1 times, he was attracted to the grotesque; there are studies of a beautiful young Until 13th October. 2019. woman transformed into an aged, ugly man. Leonardo had always had a deep interest in anatomy and had the opportunity to dissect corpses which were usually hanged criminals. This was necessary for accurate representation eonardo da Vinci sought to of the human form, but it led to a kind understand fully both nature and of obsession. Scientists agreed his human life in all their mystifying anatomical works were the most lucid complexity and he did not yield in this ever seen and as such they were used in L medical books for students. quest. The Muse of Drawing bestowed upon him her tools and led him to use Leonardo enjoyed cartography, his genius for drawing. Five hundred surveying multiple strongholds round years later, we still have his drawings Florence; he produced several maps, which are a testament to a great artist. some of which were for Cesare Borgia. The Exhibition at the Queen's He worked for him during the 1500s Gallery marks the 500th Anniversary for a short period and he made several of Leonardo da Vinci’s death. It is the drawings of formidable weapons. largest exhibition of his work in sixty- Horses were dissected and drawn five years and more than two hundred from every angle. On view is the of his finest drawings are on view. They drawing for the lost painting, The Battle come from a single album, compiled by of Anghiari. Observe the movement of the artist himself, passed to a pupil and the horses as they advance, retreat, fall have been in the Royal Collection since and maybe rise up again. Harnessed for his death in Amboise, France in 1519. war, some are mounted, some are not. They were acquired by Charles 11 of There are many Botanical works. England.. Pictures © Royal Collection Trust They seem green and fresh even now. These drawings are an important Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II On view is a vast reproduction of The legacy as they give some insight into Last Supper. Notice the sketch where the workings of Leonardo’s mind the artist shows how he worked out the and the full range of his interests, seating plan and the drawing of the which included painting, sculpture, Apostles. architecture, engineering, cartography, drawings of various kinds of military Do not miss the drawings of a geology, astronomy, botany and anatomy. cannons. woman’s head in a revolving sequence The Exhibition opens with a self Leonardo da Vinci firmly believed of torsions as she gracefully turns from portrait of the handsome artist, and universal laws were the foundations of every angle; an extraordinary solo scholars say there is another portrait all creations and he used drawings as performance gracefully executed. made shortly before he died, possibly he tried to understand how these laws The very detailed drawing, The the work of an assistant. It was worked, but not all his research reached Cardiovascular System and Principal discovered at Windsor by Martin fruition. The world was not ready for his Organs of a Woman is very impressive. Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings scientific investigations and their value When drawing muscles and tendons, the at the Royal Collection Trust. The were often not recognised. artist arranged them so it could be seen Exhibition has divided the exhibits into Leonardo was a man of many parts how they fitted together with sections groups, maintaining an approximate and this painter, sculptor, architect cut out to reveal knuckles and joints. chronological order. Martin Clayton and engineer used drawings to capture These drawings are annotated in the arranged this and has also published a fleeting moments. He tested his artist’s tiny mirror script. superb catalogue. Some large paintings understanding of life with countless The Exhibition ends with several are on view with the original drawings drawings and made sure he examined drawings of turbulent tempests and involved in their production close by. artists were experimenting in Florentine minute details. Animals, humans and storms which interested the artist in his The subjects of the groups often link. Art and they used drawing for new plants were observed and dissected from later years. e.g wavy water and flowing hair, a seed compositions and for the study of figures every angle. He would fill pages with Leonardo da Vinci has left us a before it is grown and a womb holding and faces. They also made drawings repeated drawings of the same face and lasting legacy in his noble drawings of an embryo. of the world around them. Leonardo’s draw hands cradling roughly sketched the infinite variety of nature and life Leonardo da Vinci was born early work is displayed and it is quite fingers. His subject matter was prolific; in the world. One can touch on trying in 1452 near the town of Vinci, 25 conventional. In 1840 he had begun figures, engineering diagrams, maps, to understand the mind of this genius kilometres West of Florence. He was an ambitious painting, The Adoration botanical drawings and architectural through his drawings, but he remains the illegitimate son of a lawyer and a of the Magi. He added a profusion of plans. enigmatic and mysterious. peasant girl. His paternal grandfather animals and figures, and this work was He was dedicated to analysing and Marian Maitland provided his home and education. There unfinished when he left Florence for deconstructing. He did not draw for was never any doubt about Leonardo's Milan. the public; his drawing was personal for Booking Advised. talent and by the age of 20 years he was His time in Milan is revealed in himself, a means of unravelling thought Royal Collection Trust an established artist in Florence. his drawings. He designed masques, processes. As he corrected mistakes and T: 0303 123 7301 In the 1470s Leonardo and young banners and armaments and made adapted, his curiosity knew no bounds. rct.uk 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 55 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet Royal Academy Sackler Galleries Until 29 September 2019 Admission £16 royalacademy.org.uk

he RA have come up with yet another ‘neglected’ Swiss artist, the previous one being Jean- EtienneT Liotard, an eighteenth century pastellist, whose astonishing display of painterly skills, bravado and invention, left many visitors open-mouthed. This time, it is the turn of the ‘overlooked’ Swiss painter and printmaker, Felix Vallotton (1865-1925), who worked in Paris from the age of sixteen until his death of cancer at the age of sixty. He enrolled at the relaxed Académie Julian, which attracted pupils from all over the world, including John Singer Sargent, Christopher Nevinson and Diego Rivera, rather than the more formal École des Beaux-Arts. His early style displays a fastidious attention to Above: detail in such works as La Malade (The The Black and the White him with what could be interpreted as Sick Girl), which resembles a theatre (La Blanche et la Noire) contempt. We are informed that the 1913. set, with a young, and completely Royal Academy of Art girl is his wife’s daughter, and the man disengaged, maid carrying a cup and Left: is Vallotton himself. Another The Ball, Red Peppers saucer, while la malade sits up awkwardly (Poivrons Rouges) depicts a young girl chasing after a ball in her non-Feng Shui bed, facing the 1915 across a lawn; a scene taken from one Kunstmuseum, Solothurn wall. Reflections of the window in the © SIK-ISEA, Zurich of his photographs, but the way the water jug on her bedside table hint at shadow of the trees behind encroaches Dutch interiors, and his realist approach on the scene renders it threatening. reveal his admiration for Holbein and His nudes are less successful, with an Dürer, at the expense of Impressionism. obvious homage to Ingres, as well as He soon became involved with a group Cranach, in his smooth and flawless of artists called the Nabis (Prophets), treatment of naked female flesh, and a which included Vuillard and Bonnard. certain clamminess about his models in They were particularly interested in a completely unerotic way, both in The his woodcuts, themselves influenced White Woman and the Black Woman (La by the great Japaneses ukiyo-e artists, Blanche et La Noire) and Models Resting Katsushika Hokusai and Kitigawa (Le Repos des modèles). Utamaro, whose works were admired La Loge de Theatre shows a couple in across Europe. His Bathing on a Summer a box, with the woman in deep shadow, Evening caused a minor scandal at uncovering hypocrisy, intrigue, infidelity woodcuts Intimacies (Intimités), which and the only sight we have of the man, the Salon des Indépendants in 1893, and erotically-charged liaisons in the he developed into a group of paintings, is the top half of his head, as though not supposedly due to his awkward depiction everyday life of its bourgeoisie. He used and these narrative works hold the same wanting to be seen, hinting at an illicit of women, many of whom were painted large areas of black in the most bold and unease as his woodcuts, described as affair, rather than simply a night out at in a manner that portrayed them, not daring way, with dramatically reductive ‘short stories.’ the theatre. He was immensely prolific, as classical nymphs or naiads, but as and hard-edged cuts. He became the His still life paintings range from and when work on the Journal dried up caricatures of ordinary people, with principal illustrator of the influential masterful to brilliant, with his stunning at the end of the century, he largely gave modern hairstyles and facial expressions. literary and artistic journal La Revue Red Peppers arranged on a white marble up printmaking in favour of painting, Although he was forever switching Blanche, and was involved with the table-top with a knife, whose blade looks with portraits, still lifes, landscapes, his style of painting, from realism high octane jeunesse dorée of the literary as though it is soused in blood. Demijohn kitsch sunsets, scenes of domestic life, to flat-coloured oils on canvas, and world, mixing with, and drawing, such and Box is another late painting, social scenes and nudes, which became smooth-skinned nudes, his woodcuts luminaries as Stéphane Mallarmé, completed the year he died of cancer, his principal focus after 1904. He would maintained an astonishingly high Marcel Proust, Alfred Jerry of Ubu which is an object lesson in reflections apparently do a single pencil sketch quality and drama. There is something Roi distinction, and composers Claude and refractions. One family portrait, Le of a model and complete the painting unsettling about most of his work, Debussy and Erik Satie, all of whom he Diner, effet de lampe, is full of menace, back in his studio, which may explain hence the subtitle Painter of Disquiet, did in graphically economic woodcuts with the sinister silhouette in the the disengagement of the artist to the and he scratched away at the surface to perfection. He received enormous foreground of a large man dominating model. beneath fin-de-siecle Parisian society, critical acclaim with his series of searing the scene, and a young girl staring at Don Grant 56 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

MAX new “Aladdin”) is not required] and explodes them and even those outwards like a technical blueprint. Feldman bemoaning the The individual stems of the record have REVIEWS cultural barbarians been unthreaded and laced together tearing down the throughout the space: in one room

music industry’s silvered in reflection and pulsing © Saatchi Gallery Photograph gates aren’t innocent with ultraviolet lights you’ll find the of some light synths, whilst outside along the gently Googling whilst undulating corridor the bass jitters and the proverbial reels pops and hidden inside a telephone like spin. The only way the sound of waves in a shell, you’ll to remake the wheel find a delicate quivering vocal. Sound resumably when the Gregorian is some outside- leakage between the rooms means that chant first exploded onto the the-box thinking the album swirls around in a vortex, theological music scene in the 11th and Beyond The constantly changing and evolving century, there were plenty of old monks Road, a highly depending on which room of the P unusual immersive space you currently occupy. The rooms moodily complaining about how these young monks were slaves to cynical that the sheer availability of music via exhibition squatting in the rafters of the themselves would all be happy inside marketing. Sentiments like ‘it’s not even the internet has led to something of a Saatchi Gallery, certainly qualifies as a David Lynch movie; dreamlike does music; the Old Roman Chant was a magpie approach. People like a bit of “outside the box”. There are immersive not begin to describe it. An immense proper liturgical plainchant repertory, everything and often they like to be versions of everything from films to dinner table drips neon wax like a carpet this is just noise ’ and ‘Pope Boniface doing other stuff when they listen to dinner, so perhaps it’s no surprise that of lava, screens before and behind you VII was a real Christian music pioneer, it. Schizophrenically genre-hopping the venerable institution of the album is reveal endless corridors and nameless people just like Pope Sergius IV’s stuff playlists abound and the preponderance next on the block and that the mention crimes, a church baptismal pool reflects because he’s good looking and nuns like of screens means that even when we’re of the world ‘immersive’ causes more an endlessly swirling mandala. In short, him.’ would have abounded. Meanwhile listening, we’re generally not just sitting than a flicker of an eye-roll. However it could definitely be accused of being the younger monks would have rolled and focusing entirely on the music. Even this cynicism is somewhat mollified pretentious. But this charge doesn’t their eyes at these old fogies unable to if we give the occasional song our full by the knowledge that this exhibition stick, because of the sheer power of the see how Gregorian chanting was where it attention the idea of doing that with has been years in the making by two musical approach. The dreamlike artistry was at; ‘only stuck up Coptic Patriarch’s a full album has become unrealistic to of Punchdrunk Theatre’s behind-the of the physical location absorbs your listen to the Old Roman Chant; do you many people, almost tragically retro. -scenes wizards, Colin Nightingale mind as you wander, through allowing even self-flagellate brother?’ As a result a lot of , particularly (creative producer) and Stephen Dobbie your subconscious to fully interface with The point is that every generation in the pop sphere, seem to be moving (sound designer and creative director). the music, free to give its swirls and stretching back into antiquity is linked backwards to a more 1950s conception Punchdrunk are the godfather of the ripples total commitment. The piece lasts by a symbiotic belief that the music of the album: just jam all the singles immersive boom and understand better for 30 minutes, but we hung around for culture of their youth was great and in there and call it a day. Internal than anyone else how to make the art a full hour and a half exploring how that the new generation’s approach to consistency or concept is strictly for the form sing. different rooms achieved alternate peaks music is not only wrong, but possibly rubes. Beyond The Road takes UNKLE’s and gullies. The immersive album isn’t the harbinger of the total collapse of So to quote Lenin, “What is to be The Road: Part I and The/ Road: Part II/ exactly something you can take home civilisation. One of the flashpoints in done?” Some genies can’t be put back Lost Highway by UNKLE [familiarity with you, but it’s got a beat and it can the current generational culture war is into the bottle (example: just watch the with the albums or UNKLE themselves dance with you.

craftsmanship of its predecessors. For all involved here Toy Story 4 its dubious necessity, the film taps back tried to match Director: Josh Cooley into the bittersweet magic of the most the fatalism and existential of family-friendly franchises, even pensiveness Running Time: 100 minutes where life is tough and then you get of Toy Story 3; © Disney/Pixar Image boxed away in the attic, or donated to there would have charity, or thrown on the landfill. The been no topping Toy Story movies are breathless, state- that film’s twin ou wouldn’t be wrong to wonder of-the-art entertainment contraptions climaxes, the if Pixar was pushing its luck, that also happen to be, at heart, moments when cracking the toy box open tragicomedies of neurosis about the Pixar forced its again.Y After all, the studio, one of the inner lives (and fears and desires) of most beloved last in Hollywood to truly deserve sentient playthings. The basic pleasures creations to the designation of “dream factory,” of this fourth installment may be at once nearly meet already achieved something like the more hectic and more shopworn, but the their maker, ideal conclusion to its flagship saga. film preserves, at least, the pathology the core ensemble: Woody’s enduring then to say goodbye to the boy who Even those who saw a little dramatic of its series: that anxiety about finding fear of being replaced by someone/thing gave their lives meaning. Toy Story 4 is redundancy in the nearly decade-old meaning and your own place on the shiny and new gets an ironic realisation a breezier affair, up to and including Toy Story 3 would have to admit that shelf. in the way Toy Story 4 relegates Rex, an ending that feels a few hankies shy the second sequel left Woody, Buzz, Capably directed by first-time Pixar Hamm, the Potato Heads, Jessie, and the of full tearjerker, landing on a note of and the rest of the bedroom gang in the helmsman Josh Cooley, from a story rest of the original cast to the literal conclusion that the movie barely seems perfect place, after pushing them to the with no less than six credited authors, backseat. Even Buzz Lightyear (Tim to pretend will really hold this time. Yet precipice of fiery oblivion and then on Toy Story 4 is so fast and light on its feet Allen), Woody’s original competition the relatable insecurity the series has to a big, gooey farewell perfectly timed that it’s easy to ignore that it’s a pretty for adolescent affection, doesn’t have a always located in its pint-sized heroes, to reduce anyone who grew up on these minor adventure: the least substantial whole lot to do, though there’s at least the quality that makes them more characters to puddle form. Who but the of the series, so far and by far. The sense a touch of philosophical tension to human than the humans they worship, stakeholders at Disney needed more? Let of danger, of being small and vulnerable his subplot, in which the thick space regardless of what their manufacturing sleeping slinky dogs lie. in a human’s oversized world, doesn’t ranger confuses his preprogrammed stamps read, worms its way into every Yet Toy Story 4, Pixar’s new whirligig entirely come across. And parents catchphrases for an ethical navigation stray crack and crevice of the U-rated technological marvel, isn’t some cheap and kids alike headed to the movie in system, the “inner voice” his cowboy material. Toy Story, in other words, cash-in, a breakable Happy Meal search of their own reunion may be buddy is on about. remains a uniquely existential crowd- prize subbing in for the artisanal disappointed by the marginalisation of It’s probably for the best that no one pleaser. 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Fishing online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

"a chilled glass of From the Provençal rosé, in Riverbank a shapely bottle; Part 12. a good rule of © Don Grant Photograph By Don Grant thumb is the colour; the paler the better, with the best having

he English countryside has a shade of flinty settled comfortably into summer, pink, when held with trees heavy in leaf, and the bordersT along the little lanes leading up to a cloudless down to the river brimming with sky" wildflowers; cornflowers, irises, poppies and celandine with pink willow-herb and thistles towering over them all. Robert Byron, in his prose-poem All I have learnt, put it better than most:

If I have a son, he shall salute the lords and ladies who unfurl green hoods to the March rains, and shall know them afterwards by their scarlet fruit . . . . He shall see June red and white with ragged robin and cow parsley and the two campions. He shall tell a dandelion from sow thistle or goat’s beard. He shall know the field flowers, lady’s bedstraw and lady’s slipper, purple mallow, blue chicory and the cranesbills, dusky, bloody, and blue as heaven. In the cool summer wind he shall listen to the rattle of harebells against the whistle of a distant train, shall watch clover blush and scabious nod, pinch the ample vetches, and savour the virgin turf.’

There is a line of poplar trees a hundred yards away and parallel to the river on one of the beats, and, even when there is virtually no breeze, one can still hear the sussurant silken rustle of leaves across the meadow. A stronger breeze With the mayfly binge-fest now over, five panels, the first four of which read egg, nymph, subimago, and imago. will dislodge the catkin flowers of the the trout are becoming more choosy, and ‘Too Hard!’ and the fifth ‘Too Soft!’ My Some species can release anything up to giant weeping willows that proliferate it becomes more difficult to lure them up children are very sniffy about me eating 10,000 eggs, laid on water, and allowed along the bank in the summer, filling to the surface. When it is hot, they tend a prawn cocktail, anyway, Heston or not, to float down and settle on plant-life or the air like snow in a mist and settling to sink to the coolness of the bottom, as they think it is naff 70s retro-food, gravel, where they hatch within a couple on the grass and forming little white anyway, and eat fresh-water shrimps, along with Chicken Kiev and an Arctic of weeks and turn into nymphs, and dams where an overhanging branch worms, smelt, fish eggs, crayfish and roll. The perfect foil for the Heston is they stay at that stage for at least a year, trails in the water. Butterflies, too, other crustaceans, but if there is a hatch a chilled glass of Provençal rosé, in a and sometimes two. When a certain flit about amongst the wildflowers, of, say, sedge or caddis, they will take shapely bottle, but one has to be careful, size, the nymphal skin splits down the Common Blues, yellow Brimstones, them as nymphs on their way up to the as there are now so many rosés out back and a winged form, called the Painted Ladies, Wood Whites, as surface, and maybe follow them up. there now, some the colour of Aperol or subimago, or dun, emerges and flies though they have no control over which As I only cast to rising fish, this is the Tizer, and many of them are virtually to the safety of some foliage, where, direction to take. Yet, their journeys moment I am waiting patiently for. The undrinkable, a bit like Aperol or Tizer. overnight, more skin is discarded, and it are not randomly taken by the wind. middle of the day is possibly the worst A good rule of thumb is the colour; the turns into an imago, or spinner. Mayfly Painted Ladies make a journey of many time to catch fish, which thankfully paler the better, with the best having a nymphs are preyed upon by carnivorous thousand of miles, from Africa in the coincides with a picnic lunch, followed shade of flinty pink, when held up to a invertebrates and fish. Winged stages spring, and then, amazingly, fly all the by a snooze under a willow tree next to cloudless sky. Minuty, Whispering Angel are devoured in flight by birds, bats, and way back in the autumn. Something like the hut, or, if feeling energetic, paint a and Domaine d’Ott all deliver the flinty predatory insects, including dragonflies, 11 million Painted Ladies enter the UK, little pastoral watercolour of the bend in element, but the prices of these classy damselflies and hornets. Winged and an astonishing 26 million depart, the river. So, while Tommy the Trout is rosés could make one blanche, if not existence only lasts a matter of hours, so flying at around 3,000ft, at speeds of tucking into his raw prawn concoction blush. finding a mate as quickly as possible is up to 30mph, a fact that was picked up down below, I am doing the same with a Even at the end of June, I was paramount. Just imagine being the last by marine radar in Hampshire. These Heston Blumenthal Bloody Mary Prawn seeing singleton mayfly come off the mayfly standing, like Will Smith in I am tiny creatures weigh less than a gram, Cocktail spooned into an avacado. I was water, looking forlornly around for a Legend. You have avoided being eaten with a brain the size of a pin head, and nervous about buying a large avocado at mate. Suppose he or she did not find by a fish on your way to the surface and undertake these epic intercontinental Waitrose, where they were trumpteted one, having spent all that time living struggled to get off the surface, missed migrations in order to find plants for as being ‘perfectly ripe.’ Would it make on the gravel at the bottom of the being gobbled up by a swift or bat once their caterpillars to eat. Some have even it down to the riverbank in time? I recall stream, waiting for the right moment in the air, only to find there are no other been spotted as far north as the Arctic seeing a strip cartoon in Private Eye to enter the world? The life cycle of mayfly to dance and mate with. What a Circle. showing The Life of an Avocado, with mayflies comprise four stages, namely life. Then you die. How sad is that? 58 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Sport

sports such as golf, tennis, baseball, etc.’ A life on the professional tour involves weekly tournament travel over the course of 11 months. In 2016, the last time Murray was healthy for a full season, he played 17 tournaments and 87 total matches. It can be a grueling lifestyle for top pros. Not even Murray himself seems to know how much one can accomplish with a ‘steel’ hip. The only guarantee is that on-court results won’t define the two-time Wimbledon champion anymore. He is already an iconic and beloved sportsman in the United Kingdom. In May 2019, he was knighted by Prince Charles in Buckingham Palace, becoming the second tennis player in history to receive the honour. The rest of Murray’s career feels like bonus time, and his mindset is better for it. ‘I’m going to have a completely different perspective on things for sure than what I had for most of my career,’ Murray said in an interview with Prime Video, ‘I would want to enjoy it a lot more than what I did and not just concentrate on the winning and success. That was what I was always basing success on,’ Enjoying life on tour was impossible covering, whereas in hip replacement it Therapy at Belmont University. with Murray’s old hip, which he says is removed and replaced entirely with a ‘The hip works in all three planes caused him pain for a task as mundane as Andy Murray’s metal implant. of motion and with weight bearing putting socks on. The surgery was always ‘Hip resurfacing allows a higher rotation combined with other motions, about improving the quality of life for Metal Hip level of activity than hip replacement, the hip is inherently at risk. This is true Murray. For that, it was already a success. By Gill Gross said Professor Justin Cobb, Chair in with athletes who participate in rotatory Turns out, he can still win titles too. Orthopedic Surgery at , ‘after resurfacing, most patients ndy Murray leaned over his return to the level of sport that they left hip and bounced the ball enjoyed before the hip became arthritic.’ against the manicured Queen’s American doubles champion Bob FUSION OF ClubA grass court. It was championship Bryan claims to be the first player to FORM & FUNCTION point. He caught his bounce with the ever come back to tennis with a steel left hand, shifted his weight to the right hip. He returned to the doubles court With Wimbledon upon us, we can see leg, tossed the ball up, dragged his right this January after undergoing full hip the difference between winning and losing foot forward, and exploded up towards replacement. Murray’s comeback is even comes down to a blade of grass. That’s why the ball. His legs suspended him in the more ambitious. He said that he hopes ALTIMUS stock Tecnifibre alongside brands air, his right arm extended skyward, and to eventually play singles, a much more like Babolat, Head and Wilson. With 40 years his hips torqued open towards the net physically taxing game than doubles. as he sliced the serve violently towards Already, Murray’s triumphant of innovation behind them, Tecnifibre have the service box. Joe Salisbury framed comeback is nothing short of developed a range of tennis racquets specifically the return wide. Murray swung his extraordinary. But his injury, for tennis for women. They use a unique radar system to fist through the air with just as much players, is all too ordinary. collect over 20 variables such as swing & ball ‘In tennis, there’s a lot of loading fervour as he had served with. It was speed, point of impact, net clearance, spin a perfect return to professional tennis. on the body and specifically on the On June 23, 2019, Andy Murray and hip,’ Jeff Salzenstein, a former top-100 and accuracy. The data shows that Feliciano Lopez won the Fever-Tree professional tennis player and founder of strength differences in women cause Championships doubles title. Tennis Evolution said. 25% less spin and 14% less speed, Before the tournament, Murray Dr. Sean Drake is Vice President of resulting in 29% more unforced hadn’t played competitively since RacquetFit, an educational organization errors. The Radar data allowed mid-January, a 5-set loss to Roberto dedicated to the study of how the human Bautista Agut at the Australian Open. body functions in relation to tennis. Tecnifibre to create a women’s racquet ‘I was in bits for days after that match,’ Drake believes hip injuries are a product that increases efficiency by 25%, has Murray told Prime Video. Prior to the of a larger problem in tennis. 10% more spin, 33% more control and loss the Scot tearfully informed the ‘The reason we see so many hip allows more manoeuvrability. Tecnifibre’s media that he might not ever play tennis injuries is they’re constantly playing new women’s Rebound Tempo is perfect professionally again. His hip pain was on different surfaces and I think there if your looking for the edge. too much to withstand, both on and off is a lot of overtraining,’ Drake said. the tennis court. ‘We are wearing down our athletes Swing by Altimus for a Murray underwent hip resurfacing with the amount of tournaments that surgery on January 29. The surgery is they’re playing. There’s an active role in FREE SHOE FITTING & an alternative to total hip replacement recovery.’ FREE Tecnifibre Trial Racquet surgery. In hip resurfacing surgery, the The rotational nature of tennis is head of the thigh bone (femoral head) another factor, as pointed out by Dr. W W W . 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jets to the accompaniment of a lusty rendition of the French national anthem, Le Mans 2019: the Marseillaise. As to the race itself the victorious Toyota the only Toyotas of last year returned as the

quality act of the leading prototype class Wright © David Photograph cruisers! and would undoubtedly win providing By Maitland Cook they did not have any problems. The race really was about third place. However the organisers have developed formulas that offer very competitive racing, and he race week was one of in all the other categories the qualifying anniversaries as it is seventy years times were almost identical. In each since the race recommenced after case there were a minimum of three cars theT Second World War, the sixtieth within one second of each other. In the since Aston Martin scored its only GT professional driver class. British outright victory and the fiftieth since hopes were raised by the performance bonus for the paying spectators. Porsche. Ford recorded its fourth straight victory of Aston Martin which led the way. The As the battle ebbed and flowed Eventually the Toyotas finished in with the Mark 2 cars and the GT40. The American actor and now team owner, behind the leading Toyotas, it was a the first two places 5 laps ahead of the closest finish ever recorded by the Gulf Patrick Dempsey, proudly surveyed his splendid competitive battle, particularly next car; The French crowd loved the sponsored GT40 in 1969 was when the team performance with the quickest in the other classes; there were always Alpine winning the junior prototype Porsche of Hans Hermann was beaten time in the amateur driver class. 5 cars within a lap of each other with class, while Italian pride was preserved by less than 100 metres. Of course Le Mans is the one place pit stops determining the gap. It was as Ferrari won the professional GT class. During the build up on Saturday where qualifying speed is not necessarily exciting stuff through the night, except There has since been major drama as afternoon as Princess Charlene of the portent of a good race. The start saw sadly two Aston Martins retired in the the stewards have disqualified two cars Monaco, the official starter, was paraded the two team Toyotas lead comfortably early hours; although the second team for technical infringements in relation to in front of the stands, the venerable from the start and disappear slowly, car in the professional class did finish fuel tank capacity; both being Ford GTs, GT40 was presented to the crowd, but surely into the distance, Michael despite a spin resulting in body damage including the winner in the GT amateur doing one lap of the circuit driven by the Conway setting consecutive fastest and other delays seventeen laps back. class. winning drivers of 50 years ago, Jacky laps to cement the lead over his team The highly professional Ford team, Despite appeals, the result has been Ickx and Jackie Oliver. mates. In the GT class the pole winning with the most sophisticated GT car in confirmed and the two Ford GTs have The theatre that is Le Mans pre Aston Martin had been penalised by the field was totally reliable and ran in been excluded from the results. An start included the starter’s flag being the balance of performance (BoP) convoy behind the leading Porsches and unfortunate end for both. delivered from out of the sky by French regulations and at the end of the first Ferrari, again handicapped by the BoP Except at the very front of the race commandos dropping from their hour was tenth in its class, although regulations. Some small consolation the spectators witnessed some titanic helicopter, while the tricolour was only 10 seconds down on the leading being that in the amateur drivers’ section battles, this “manufactured” racing does blazoned across the skies by fighter Corvette…close racing indeed, a real the Ford won by less than a lap from the give value and excitement.

An Aston Martin DB11 or a Bentley Continental GT is superior in every single way to the Lincoln. They have An ode to America’s land yachts better interiors, handle better, are faster, By Fahad Redha and even get more miles per gallon from their hi-tech engines. Their counterparts from the 1960s and 1970s were also performance cars, leaving the yank tank in their dust. We often laugh at big American cars. But that’s because they weren’t really designed with us in mind. America’s long and seemingly endless highways are perfect stomping grounds for them in the same way that a Peugeot 208 feels more at home in the tight and narrow European streets. Swap them around and they’d each be a fish out of water. So, what happened to the land yacht? Over time they became diluted. The Eldorado for example became a compact car before disappearing entirely. But Cadillac has teased a future ‘full- It’s hard to imagine how a modern car known as a personal luxury car. At least, brethren. The Cadillac Eldorado for size’ coupe with the Escala concept, could incorporate a ‘rumble seat’ or what that’s the American name for it. Think example shared the General Motors’ and Buick has been considering a new a 2019 Phaeton body style would look of those great big two-door Lincolns stable with no less than four or five Riviera (the original shared a platform like. Just as brands and models come and Cadillacs from the 1960s and 1970s. muscle cars (if the Buick GSX counts), with the Cadillac and an Oldsmobile). and go, so do body styles. While we can Big luxury coupes today always try to not to mention the Corvette. While BMW brought its new 8 try to imagine a 1960s version of today’s become GT cars, sacrificing an ounce But customers of today’s personal Series, Mercedes will streamline its crossover SUVs, they are little more of comfort for a pound of performance. coupes want to know that their car can model range with the S-Class coupe than taller Hatchbacks and Estates, it’s Those ‘land yachts’ however were keep up with best exotics out there. They on the chopping block. That leaves a often much harder to go in the opposite interested in just one thing, comfort. want eight or twelve cylinders tuned as great gap in the market that the Yanks direction and imagine a now extinct Unlike today’s big coupes, these much for smoothness as for horsepower. could easily exploit. Nostalgia, even for body style being made that fits with didn’t try to get around a corner A 1974 Lincoln Continental was rated at something you’ve never experienced, can today’s cars. quickly. They’ll reach the quarter mile, 250 horsepower from titanic 7.5 litre V8. be a powerful thing. One type of car that is very much an eventually. But that was never the Hit a corner and you will understand endangered species is what used to be point. Those same cars had performance why they were known as ‘land yachts!’ 020 7738 2348 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 61

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attention as expected given their World Championship encounter last year. But, CHESS as then as now, after an exciting middle By Barry Martin game it resumed to normal play as usual, as a draw was eked out. However, a brilliant win for Carlsen as Black after White’s 14th move was revealed during the game’s commentary and which the Ripples of World Champion had not seen. This forms the basis of this month’s puzzle to redemption for follow. After 3 rounds the positions were: women’s chess 1 Nepo 3/3; 2 So 2/3; 3 Carlsen 2/3. 4 Vachier-Lagrave 1.5, whilst those continue to languishing on bottom spots were, Liren, Anand, Giri, and Nakamura all resonate with 1/3. The UK Chess Challenge started in 1996 and has since grown into ‘the largest children’s chess tournament in the world’. This event welcomes all- comers from beginners to National Champions and schools from across the United Kingdom. The Giga finals with 2400 children taking part and the penultimate event before the Terafinal where 200 children participate and Grandmaster commentary accompanies the games, with ‘thousands of pounds in prize money’ forthcoming, and this year take in the wider social and financial potential and be rewarded accordingly. is held at Orleans School Twickenham, implications that need to be Finally, FIDE aims to increase women’s TW1 3BB, rectified,enlarged and acted on. participation in executive roles within 29th-30th June. Children finishing ‘FIDE’s renewed policies are rooted our organisation, as well as to promote first in their age group qualify for the in our firm commitment to women female leaders as our international Judit The Look Polgar Terafinal. The Delancey UK Schools’ Chess empowerment and gender equity. We partners and ambassadors of the game,’ Challenge London Gigafinal which is believe that sport equates fairness, and We hope that some if not all of these the first one of 4 tournaments spread equality of opportunity requires the aims are acted upon sooner than later, he Russian chess superstar, around the country, with the Midlands, recognition and understanding of social and more women placed into executive Ian Nepomniachtchi could Northern and Southern scheduled for context. It is also our responsibility to positions within FIDE’s organisation soon become a member of the 6th-7th July; 13th-14th July; and 20th address and dismantle any barriers that who have the power to exercise and exclusive over 2800 ELO rated club, and -21st July, following respectively. The girls or women face at engaging in this realise these aims is sorely needed. T contact for anyone interested in the UK be immortalised in the firmament since sport. FIDE can only fulfil its global The May issue of The British winning his first three games at The Chess Challenge is 77 East Avenue, Heald mission if we can inspire young girls Chess Magazine devotes almost the Grand Chess Tour currently being played Green, Cheshire, SK8 3BR, and email and pave their way to immerse in the whole of its space to womens’ chess, in Croatia and on track! [email protected] game, foster their talent and provide history, development and carping In similar vein and on home territory, For those interested in Women’s every opportunity for them to compete comments from male players. The latter news that Gawain Jones GM has broken chess and its development, the Four at the top level. With the aim to increase encapsulated in an article entitled, through the 2700 barrier and is now our Nations Chess League is steaming ahead women’s participation in the professional One Male English GM Told Me: ‘Oh, Is highest rated player. with keen plans to set up an all-women’s game, FIDE maintains a female track in That Your Rating? Good, You Know the In the history of chess only 13 players chess league for 2020 to run alongside all professional series and an open track Difference Between a Knight and Bishop. have achieved an entrée into this 2800 their existing chess league divisions. for all athletes. It is one of our goals to Another article is titled, The Best (and stratosphere of exclusivity, and Nepo’s They are asking for women players to establish specific corporate partnerships worst) Countries to be a Female Chess 3/3 score in Zagreb places him as the notify their interest to them, and could, to help female athletes reach their full Player. It is a good informative read and fourteenth! He previously racked up if desired be placed in a women’s club those wishing to catch up on the state of his ELO by winning The FIDE Grand side, avoiding the difficulty that the play for women’s chess and its ranking Prix in Moscow and went up to a 2790 player may not already have a club side world wide will make sound use of these grading. entering into this new league. They are chapters and opinions. Whilst Magnus Carlsen’s train has also asking for potential team managers The chess puzzle is taken from the yet to be derailed this season, and he to register their interest with them Caruana-Carlsen game, mentioned thunders forward winning consecutive if they have a team/ or part team to earlier, and the brilliant win that Carlsen tournaments with ‘high accuracy and compete in this initiative. Contact Claire missed after White’s move 14.Nxa4...... clean play with a dash of sacrifice’, Summerscale, [email protected] What was Black’s next move that if Nepo’s play has been described as Support for women’s chess and its played would have resulted in a forced more closely associated with Mikhail development at both grassroot and global win in 4 moves? Tal’s apposite saying that conjures levels is in full swing and it’s gratifying Answer upside down below.

more the psychological thriller and to see that a recent statement by the new

suspense that lies hidden deep within President of FIDE, Arkady Dvorkovich, 0-1. ++ Re1 Qxg4,

our subjective and intuitive sides. Tal 10th June 2019, entitled On Gender 17. works. Rook either Rxe8, forced,

stated, ‘You must take your opponent Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Rxe8, 16. Black!. for checkmate rank

into a deep dark forest where 2+2 = 5, substantiates his pre-election promise of back a to leading also but Queen White

and the path leading out is only wide developing women’s chess and redressing the attacking Bg4!, .15.Nc3, better are

enough for one!’. Whilst Nepo was the historic neglect women’s world chess neither options 15.Nc5..are or 15.b3,..

leading Mamedyarov astray in a ‘deep has experienced from top to bottom. although Knight.15.Nc3, White’s dark forest’ and winning as Black, The I give his statement in full as it covers Attacking Qe8! 14.Nxa4, : Answer Caruana-Carlsen game drew the visitors’ much ground and its ramifications Alina Kashlinskaya 64 July 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement