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experts were able to specifically identify them as coming from the site of Tello British Museum in Southern Iraq, where by a remarkable coincidence the British Museum’s Iraq returns looted Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme has been conducting Photograph © British Museum © British Photograph art treasures archaeological excavations since 2016. Three of the objects carry Sumerian inscriptions in cuneiform script which identify their origin as the Eninnu Eight 5000 year old historic temple at ancient Girsu (modern Tello) in southern Iraq. This temple was sacred artefacts, which were stolen to the god’s patron deity Ningirsu and from Iraq in the chaos of is located in the area of Tello known to modern scholarship as Tell A and where Saddam Hussein’s fall, are current excavations are revealing the plan to be returned after being and extent of this important complex. The other items are also identical to identified by the British objects known from excavations at Tello Museum. and most likely also originate from the same site. In 2015, a potential crime scene was he Metropolitan Police initially recorded as part of an initial survey of of Antiquities & Heritage authorities is now protected once again. suspected that the items had been the site at Tello, and in more detail in (Nasiriyah), Thi Qar archaeological Iraq's ambassador to the United looted and seized them from a 2016 as part of the Iraq Scheme and police and local tribesmen. Kingdom, Salih Husain Ali, praised the now defunct London antiques dealer in shown to consist of dozens of shallow These 8 objects were removed from museum's staff for their “exceptional T the site in 2003. This activity would efforts” in identifying the antiquities. May 2003. The dealer failed to supply pits, usually less than a metre deep and proof of ownership and subsequently up to three metres across. These are have been clandestine, probably carried “Such collaboration between Iraq and ceased trading, and the eight objects were concentrated in certain areas of the site: out at night and possibly conducted by the United Kingdom is vital for the retained by the state for over a decade the largest number are on the northern a small number of individuals over a preservation and the protection of the until they were passed to the British side in the Sacred City, followed by limited period of time as the scale is not Iraqi heritage,” he said in a statement Museum for analysis this year. an area known as Mound of the Tablets as extensive or systematic as witnessed issued by the museum. Normally the detailed provenance of where many cuneiform objects had been at other sites in southern Iraq. Since “The protection of antiquities is an such items would be hard to establish, found previously. The site of Tello then then looting was brought to an end with international responsibility and in Iraq, but three of them, fired clay cones, remained untouched until looting began the establishment of the archaeological we aspire to the global cooperation to carried Sumerian inscriptions that gave a at the beginning of 2003 according police of the State Board of Antiquities protect the heritage of Iraq and to restore clue to their origins. As a result museum to information from the State Board and Heritage in Iraq, and the site of Tello its looted objects.” Take a subscription of KCW TODAY for 2018 and receive a copy delivered

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August 21, QPR v Bristol City, 19:45 Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph August 25, Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 August 25, Fulham v Burnley, 15:00 August 25, QPR v Wigan Athletic, n July 25th Benihana on King’s 15:00 Road hosted an event celebrating September 1, Chelsea v the one year anniversary of the Bournemouth, 15:00 official friendship between Chelsea and O Hammersmith Bridge will be closed Kensington and Motomiya City. The purpose of the event was to mark the past to traffic from Monday the 20th of and recognise the help the borough offered August until Thursday the 23rd of the area after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. August (7AM to 7PM). Drivers will Among the VIPs in attendance at the a happy ending though. The memorial the future. To that end it brought students be diverted via Chiswick Bridge and event were Gigyo Takamatsu, Mayor of event placed a great emphasis on how together for a cultural exchange from Putney Bridge but footways will Motomiya. Toshiyuki Hatano, from the Fukushima prefecture has bounced back Motomiya High School and Shirasawa remain open to pedestrians. Cyclists Japanese Embassy. Yoshio Mitsuyama, of in a big way. Life has returned to normal High School in Japan, and the U.K. must dismount to go across. the Fukushima Prefectural Association in and Motomiya City will be hosting events students came from various places of the UK. Mamoru Shoda, General Manager at its venues as part of the 2020 Summer Japanese interest in the borough such as Buses 33, 209, 419, 485 of Benihana UK. Toshio Suzuki, Executive Olympics. the Budokwai Martial Arts School, who Will terminate before the bridge while Chef of Benihana UK, and Naomi Suzuki, The future looked bright for the are coincidently celebrating their 100th some 72 buses will be diverted to Singer & MC. prefecture as images were shown of anniversary this year and are the first judo Chiswick Bridge. The Earthquake was a magnitude a British style garden called “Prince club in Europe. Friendships were forged Follow @TfLTrafficNews on Twitter for 9.0 event 23 km under the ocean which William’s Park” built in Motomiya City and many exchanged email addresses to the latest updates. tfl.gov.uk/buses triggered a massive tsunami. It was the to commemorate the assistance received keep in touch. most powerful earthquake ever recorded from the UK in the wake of the disaster. in Japan, and the fourth most powerful Britain’s Prince William visited the garden earthquake in the world since modern in February 2015 for a firsthand look at record-keeping began in 1900. 15,896 areas hit by the earthquake and tsunami. deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,537 people He shared some time with local children SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT missing. It also resulted in a nuclear and planted an English oak sapling in the meltdown which triggered the evacuations park which bears his name. KCW Today. See page 3 for details of more than 200,000 people. The memorial event was not only about The sad story of that disaster does have honoring the past, but also to celebrate

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“The latest A merry-go-round of buck-passing evidence and Grenfell Inquiry Arconic, the company which provided In Recess testimony has the cladding panels, said that while the after ‘merry-go-round of only served core material in the panels was “obviously buck-passing’ combustible”, the panels were “at most a to raise more contributing factor” to the fire. It claimed Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph questions no one would have died if the uPVC windows had been built with greater fire than it has protection. It also stated that it was also up answered to purchasers to decide if its panels could ” be “safely and appropriately used.” he Grenfell Tower Inquiry went “We submit that the evidence does into recess on August 2nd and not justify the conclusion that the resumes again on September 3rd. cladding panels supplied by the company The latest evidence and testimony has only were anything other than, at most, a T contributing feature to the fire,” it said. served to raise more questions than it has ‘stay put’ policy which ‘totally failed’. a mandatory requisite for buildings answered while we wait for the Inquiry to The Tenant Management more than 50 metres high. This meant “The panels did not render inevitable the resume and hopefully deliver answers to Organisation, which was responsible high-pressure water could not reach the catastrophe which ensued.” the many lingering questions. for the management of Grenfell Tower, top of the building. A ‘dry riser’ is an It said it was not the firm’s responsibility to ensure products were used Dr. Barbara Lane, one of the experts replaced 106 flat entrance fire doors in empty pipe which can be connected to a in line with building regulations and that commissioned by the Inquiry, said in her 2011. According to Dr. Lane, none of the pressurized water source by firefighters. “at relevant times there was no legal bar to testimony. “I am particularly concerned doors on any of the flats, including 14 A ‘wet riser’ on the other hand is a the use of combustible materials within a about the maintenance regime of which were not replaced, were compliant system which is permanently charged cladding system”. the active and passive fire protection with fire test standards used at the time with water and ready for use in an During the proceedings Counsel measures,” and “I note that multiple of installation. Dr Lane commented emergency. Richard Millett QC warned organisations automatic systems such as the control that it “would have materially affected Charles Batterbee, one of the first involved not to “indulge in a merry-go- of the fire lift and the smoke ventilation the ability or willingness of occupants to Firefighters, described it as “a war zone”. round of buck-passing”. system, appear not to have operated as escape independently through this space He and other veteran firefighters fought Dr. Barbara Lane concluded Arconic’s required.” to the stair”. back intense emotions as they tried to product Reynobond 55PE, “contributed to Fire safety experts who gave testimony explain the harrowing experiences they the most rapid of the observed external fire at the inquiry stated that there was “a Firefighters commended and had come face-to-face with on the night. spread” and the cladding system, including culture of non-compliance” at the tower. scrutinized The LFB was praised for their the insulation, was “substantially to blame Major contributing factors to the scale incredible bravery as well as heavily for the tragedy”. Professor Luke Bisby, a of disaster were 100 non-compliant fire As they commenced battling the blaze scrutinized for their ‘stay put’ strategy, consultant to the inquiry, had said they doors, a non-functional ventilation system, Firefighters discovered the building and lack of knowledge on the were the primary cause of fire spreading a firefighting lift ‘that didn’t work’ and a had a dry riser, rather than a wet riser, combustibility of cladding systems. across the building.

Westminster City Council. Relationship abuse is most common Young people among 16-24 year-olds with women particularly at risk. Since most young in Westminster people would only speak to a friend about relationship problems, making sure encouraged to they know how to respond to signs of abuse is vital to fight it. ‘Speak Sense’ to The project has the support of Hannah Witton, a relationship vlogger end abuse and YouTuber who features in the #SpeakSense film. The film features young actors interpreting common reactions to real life abusive situations and is inspired by findings from extensive consultations with youth on their Photograph Photograph © ACVC relationships. “Domestic abuse, including unhealthy relationships, are common issueswith serious consequences for health and wellbeing,” Councillor Rachael Robathan, Cabinet Member for Adults and Public Health at Westminster City Council, said. “We are deeply committed to finding more ways of preventing this unacceptable crime. The fact that young people are more at risk of abuse is alarming and requires immediate attention. With #SpeakSense, we want to engage young men and women in spreading the message that everyone can help prevent abuse, even if they are not #SpeakSense is a new campaign to directly affected themselves.” raise awareness in young people of the The film also features additional different ways a relationship can be information on both the local and abusive or unhealthy. It was launched national level. For more information visit by young people and has the backing of speaksense.org. 6 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News

new independent, resident-led policing and crime commission New H&F will review how the H&F council and police can better work with commission A © PX Bay Photograph residents to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in all neighbourhoods across to work with the borough. As part of the wider effort to crack residents on down on crime in the borough, the council will also allocate budgets and crime crackdown devolve some neighbourhood decision- making to each of the borough’s 16 wards to allow for quicker, better, and more coordinated actions on a range of issues. Crime prevention remains a number one concern for H&F residents and the commission will review how members of ward police panels can be a part of a more streamlined, efficient process that leads to a more coordinated however, is substantially lower than series of anti-crime actions. some of their European counterparts: Hammersmith & Fulham’s deputy Londoners are Germany, the Netherlands and leader, Cllr Sue Fennimore said: “At Switzerland are known to recycle 60% of this time of increased serious crime, UK’s worst their waste. an on-going threat of terrorism and In Scotland, residents living in government cuts to police numbers we recyclers Mid Scotland & Fife are the UK need much greater community resilience. leaders, recycling up to 55.15% of their “…Crime is rising, especially violent household waste, followed by Lothian crime involving young people. These Londoners recycle as little as 25% of (51.26%) and Central (48.46%). challenges simply mean carrying on their household waste, according to new Tara Hall, spokesperson for Hillarys, with the same community engagement research from home interior specialists said: approach cannot be an option. We’re Hillarys. “The findings from this research are determined that all in our community In spite of a bevy of green initiatives certainly interesting, and seeing these will feel empowered to have their launched by the Mayor’s office, facts presented visually really helps concerns properly listened to and acted Londoners still fall well below the us to understand our impact on the upon.” national average of 45%. The UK average, environment.”

the way.” This is a part of Upstream, H&F Affordable Council’s new partnership with Imperial College London. The goal is to turn the biotech hub borough into one of the nation’s leaders in biotech as well as digital and creative launched in industries. “We want to put H&F firmly on Shepherds Bush the biotech map as we become the next Kendall Square in the tech world,” Shepherds Bush is the new home of said Cllr Andrew Jones, H&F Cabinet innovation in biotech according to Dr Member for the Economy and the Arts. Tom Meany, the co-founder of Open “We want to bring the borough into Cell. He and co-founder Helene Steiner the 21st century and we want to ensure have launched one of the capital’s none of our residents are left behind but most affordable biotech hubs at the instead benefit from the jobs, investment Old Laundry Yard in Shepherds Bush and improvements we’re bringing to Businesses fined over illegal workers Market. With prices as low as £4 per H&F.” London businesses have paid over and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, square foot, new start-ups are racing to £400,000 in fines for hiring illegal and Harrow all had just a single business grab one of the 45 shipping containers workers in a three-month period, caught hiring illegal workers in that made up of labs, workshops, and office government data has shown. period. spaces. The figures, released by the home Employers are required by law to Open Cell launched its space in June office show that a total of 19 businesses check that anyone they hire has a legal 2018 and is thriving. It sees start-ups were fined a total of $437,000 from right to work in the country. If the Home making bespoke furniture out of potato October 1 until December 21, 2017. Office discovers that the checks were not skins or training flies to pollinate flowers These include hotels, restaurants and carried out the employer would receive dry cleaners between Westminster and better. a referral notice while the case is being Uxbridge. Any business found to have “There is little or no infrastructure investigated, followed by a civil penalty available to help talented scientists, hired a person who does not have the notice. designers and early stage biotech legal right to work in the UK can receive Three restaurants, Taste of Lahore in businesses to take their concepts to up to £20,000 per employee in fines. West Ealing, Hounslow Lahori Karahi in the next stage,” said Open Cell co- In west London, over the three-month founder Tom. “Open Cell is a meeting period, 10 of the 19 that were fined were Feltham and South Ealing Dosa in South place for anyone in the sciences or in the hospitality industry while four are Ealing were issued with the highest fine design disciplines to contribute to the retailers including supermarkets and off- of £60,000. As many as five businesses burgeoningB biotech sector in London A licenses.C Ealing had the highest number on the list have been faced with closure, with Hammersmith & Fulham leading of businesses fined while Hammersmith possibly due to the fines. 0207 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 7 News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

street littering from the current £80 to £150, or a reduced early payment fine of Central London £95. The fine will apply to discarded food, littering picks up drink, cigarettes and gum, with charges a hefty fine for fly tipping remaining unaffected. Photograph © Michael A. Kolarov A. © Michael Photograph Public protection and licensing cabinet member Councilor Ian Adams approved the increases. “Westminster residents Litterers across central London will find take immense pride in the beauty and themselves picking up hefty penalties, as cleanliness of their streets, and there is fines for dropping rubbish and cigarette no excuse for littering in Westminster,” butts are planned to double. Councillor Adams said. Due to a change in national law that The government introduced a range was filled with fun for all with children allows local councils more flexible control of fines targeting littering which councils Charity Rubber playing and staying cool in a water over fines, Westminster City Council can apply from next April, ranging from fountain, sunbathers lining the canal to has elected to dramatically increase £65 to £150.If the local authority does Duck race was watch the festivities and soak up the sun. the penalties for littering, using the not choose a rate, it defaults to £100. In It was all surrounded by food vendors maximum penalty allowed by the new 2016 and 2017 it cost local authorities a a big hit in and full restaurants. People donated law. According to the plans, Westminster total of £682 million, £29 per household, money to COSMIC in order to get a will increase the fixed penalty charge for to keep the nation’s streets clean. Paddington duck in the race and the chance to win a Eurostar Train Ticket. The winner was a woman named hildren Of Saint Mary’s Rebecca who entered with Rubber Duck Intensive Care (COSMIC) held #460. its annual charity Rubber Duck According to their website, COSMIC Crace in Paddington’s Merchant Square was founded in 1994 to raise money on July 26th which was a big hit with for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit locals who attended in the hundreds (PICU) located at St. Mary’s Hospital despite the cloudless day giving way to in Paddington, London. The unit the oppressive sun and accompanying treats approximately 400 desperately ill soaring high temperatures. children each year. COSMIC also fund The event was held on Grand Union internationally significant research into Canal supported by Active360 who the causes, effects and treatment of life- provide paddleboarding on the canal threatening childhood diseases. Find out and Merchant Square itself. The day more: cosmiccharity.org.uk

entirety of the summer holidays, when Mayor publishes crime rates have historically increased. The published will include activities interactive map from at least 17 targeted projects funded of events for young by the Mayor to help divert young people from gangs and spending time on the Londoners this summer streets, projects for about 1,700 young people to participate in sports activities and projects in 15 schools to support 2,100 of the most vulnerable primary The Mayor of London’s office has school leavers to make a successful published an interactive map of hundreds transition to secondary school. of activities for young Londoners The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, this summer to provide them with said: opportunities across the capital. “Our new interactive map highlights The map, hosted on the City Hall the hundreds of events, projects and website at www.london.gov.uk/our- programmes available, which will give london, features more than 200 activities parents an opportunity to plan their stretching across the capital, and summer holidays around what’s going including the 10 boroughs most affected on in their local area. We want boroughs, by knife and violent crime. youth centres and community groups By opening up some of his £45 to get involved and tell us what they are million Young Londoners Fund, Khan doing so we can provide a one-stop shop has said that there will be diversionary of summer activities for young people in projects and activities available for the our great city, all year round” 8 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Statue & Blue Plaque

Royale. Dr Curtius became the young Marie's Blue Plaque: mentor. He realised she had a gift for wax modelling and he nurtured this and Madame Anna introduced her to famous people. By the early age of 17 years she had modelled Marie Tussaud. Francois Voltaire, writer and philosopher. Photograph © The Royal Collection Royal The © Photograph 1781-1850 She also modelled American statesman Benjamin Franklin. They can be seen at Tussauds today Marie’s work appeared in Curtius English Heritage honoured Madame Exhibition in Paris which led to her Tussaud with a Blue Plaque erected at being invited to the Court of Louis XV1 24 Wellington Road. St John’s Wood. and Queen Marie Antoinette. She was London. NW8. It was unveiled by her given the job of being in charge of the great, great, great grandson, Anthony artistic education of the King’s sister. She Tussaud in 2001. lived there for nine years and made many Madame Tussaud was an artist in wax influential friends. She made models of the and founded the world famous collection Royal Family and obtained hair for them of waxworks now in Marylebone Road. from the thoroughbred horses in the Royal The business was family owned for several stables. During her time at Versailles, she generations. made several sketches of Architecture and Juliet Simpkins, Head of the Corporate Nature. Communications, the Tussaud group Dr Curtius called her to return to expressed delight at the honour of a Blue Paris, when the clouds of revolution were Plaque Award and said, gathering as he considered she would be “As an untiring Showman and artist in safer there. He was involved in politics. wax, she founded one of the most famous Paris descended into lawless chaos and and enduring visitor attractions in the violence as the French Revolution ran its world”. course. Marie Tussaud undertook the grim

STATUES The Exhibition which bears Madame task of making death masks of executed Tussaud’s name has now expanded into Nobles, many of whom had been her Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Las Vegas and festooned with thousands of bunches friends at Versailles. They too can be seen New York. of flowers from a ‘nation in mourning’ today at Tussauds. Madam Tussaud was born Anna Marie William III after Princess Diana’s motoring mishap Marie Tussaud and her mother were Grosholtz in 1761. Her father died in the By Heinrich Baucke in Paris. imprisoned in the notorious La Force Franco Prussian War two months after Soon after they ascended to the Prison. The reason is not known, but it her birth. Her birth place is not known, Kensington Palace throne in 1689, King William and is likely to have been through Marie’s but was probably Strasbourg as she was Queen Mary began to look for a connections to the Court. Dr Curtius baptised there. Her mother took the post suitable home, away from smokey managed to intervene and they were of housekeeper to Dr. Philippe Guillaume aiser Wilhelm II was the eldest London, which aggravated William’s released. Mathe Curtius who was German-Swiss grandchild of Queen Victoria and asthma. Later that year they purchased Marie Tussaud came to England and and they lived in Bern. He was to become related to many monarchs and Nottingham House for £20,000 from toured with her Collection for 35 years. a serious influence on the life of his princes of Europe, most notably, the Earl of Nottingham, as they felt the She eventually settled in London and housekeeper's daughter. KKing George V of England and King would benefit from the healthy opened her Exhibition in the Baker Street Dr. Curtius, strangely for a man in Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. The air of Kensington. It was enlarged Bazaar and it came to its present site in that profession could not tolerate the sight American historian David Fromkin, by Sir Christopher Wren and they 1884. She inherited Dr Curtius’ Collection. of blood, so he worked with wax models stated that, from the outset, the half- became the first monarchs to make Marie Tussaud married an engineer, instead of dissecting corpses. Significantly, German side of him was at war with Kensington Palace their home, where Francois Tussaud in 1795 and they had two he was aware that life-like sculpted models the half-English side. ‘He was wildly they had parties à go-go. Heartbroken sons and a daughter. The daughter died in of famous people had a commercial value. jealous of the British, wanting to be after Mary’s death from smallpox in infancy. He had several in his home and moved on British, wanting to be better at being 1694, William retreated to Kensington Marie Tussaud died at home in Baker to exhibit them in Paris. Crowds received British than the British were, while and embarked on a further building Street in 1850. them enthusiastically which led him to at the same time hating them and programme, one of which, completed What an extraordinary legacy she left start the Cabinet de Cire in the Palais resenting them because he never could in 1695, was the South Front. William to the world. Marian Maitland be fully accepted by them.’ He caused died of pneumonia, after a complication something of an embarrassment to from a broken collarbone following a the British Government, when he fall from his horse, Sorrel, in March made a gift of a statue of William III 1702. Because his horse had stumbled to King Edward VII and the British into a mole’s burrow, many Jacobites people, a replica of one of the five toasted ‘the little gentleman in the greatest rulers of the House of Orange black velvet waistcoat.’ The twice Assmann © Mark Photograph from the Charlottenburger Gate at life-size statue itself is made of bronze the Berliner Schloss, to celebrate the with green patination, cast by the the close links between between the Berlin foundry Gladenbeck and stands houses of Hohenzollern and Orange on a Portland stone pedestal, which and connecting both the German was designed by Sir Aston Webb, and English royal houses. There was who designed the principal façade a certain amount of sabre-rattling of Buckingham Palace and the main from the Kaiser at the time, as well building of the Victoria and Albert as an unhealthy interest in building Museum, The King is magnificently bigger and better battleships. Finding bewigged, booted and gowned, and the right location was paramount, is the work of the German sculptor so as not to offend either the Kaiser Heinrich Baucke, who lived from 1875 or the King, and Kensington Palace to 1915. He received much patronage proved to be the right spot, at the from the German Court and his work south façade, which technically was on can mainly be seen in Berlin, most private grounds, yet the public could notably the royal statues, which have see the statue through the ornate black recently been restored. and gold Crowther Gates, later to be Don Grant 0209 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 9 Feature online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

"I often ask myself, where does our social responsibility kick in?" Photograph © Hammersmith & Fulham Council & Fulham © Hammersmith Photograph

offences. Borough Commander Chief involved) or the high number of arrests, from local bodies, which also serves as a Superintendent Detective Raffaele but it also marked the advent of new preventative measure against crimes that Operation Puglia D’Orsi, one of Operation Puglia’s chief safeguarding measures for juveniles. Over may be resorted to in the future. By James Billot coordinators said: “As a cadre, those 71 the course of the interdiction week; the Amid rising crime across the country individuals were responsible for 840 week in which the dawn raids took place, and trenchant cuts at the Met, the UK’s crimes in the area… Given that the 18 teenagers were arrested and detained largest police body is undergoing a police only detect one in 10 crimes, we in a dedicated juvenile custody suite. colossal self-reckoning. As it seeks to are talking about possibly 8000 crimes This suite insulated the teenagers from come to terms with its evolving role in that they could have been responsible potentially dangerous adults and, as the society, officer numbers are declining t is 4am and a gaggle of bleary- for”. D’Orsi concedes that this figure Safeguard Lead for Operation Puglia DI in their thousands, which has pushed eyed journalists and cameramen is a “guesstimate”, but the impact of Leanne Alleyne notes, “…it [gave] them the Met into a perpetual state of flux. have congregated at Kensington the operation on affected communities an opportunity by asking “do you want Following a 31-year career, D’Orsi IPolice Station. In lieu of coffee, press has been overwhelmingly positive. “I’m to move away from this?” …Because is introspective in his final week as officers dole out reams of confidentiality really pleased to see that in some cases we knew that some of them are being a police officer: “I often ask myself, agreements for us to sign before we neighbours were heard cheering when exploited”. where does our social responsibility depart for the rendezvous point, or ‘RVP’, police arrived,” says D’Orsi. “Some It is too early to determine the kick in? says D’Orsi. “Sometimes I’ll in West Kensington. This is the fourth reports said that there was a street success of this measure, but Alleyne look at a case and wonder if this is the day of Operation Puglia, one of the largest party atmosphere…because the major and Puglia’s Partnership Lead Inspector police’s job?” In the short term, it will ever Met Police operations targeting ‘men problems had been removed from the Meredydd Jones, are buoyed by level become increasingly difficult for the of violence’ and their associates. Thus far, borough”. of the support that they have received Met to demarcate its own boundaries 61 individuals have been captured and, One of the major community from local authorities and third sector of responsibility as it extends into deo volente, a further 11 will be arrested problems that D’Orsi alludes to is bodies. In addition to the installation unchartered territories with new today. We are the final van to arrive at the drug trafficking. Of the 77 arrested, 46 of a dedicated custody suite, local partners. Further afield, what will be RVP, tucking in behind one of seven Met individuals were charged with 210 drug authorities provided a reception centre left behind for posterity is a new set police vehicles and two City of London supply and related offences, leading to staffed by social workers as ‘a place of of ethical quandaries as to what the riot vans, where officers are streaming the elimination of entire drug chains safety’ for any children found at the role of a police officer entails, but this out. In a bid to capture the Hollywood across borough lines. “Drug dealing addresses who needed to be taken into should not dissuade Cressida Dick, shot, one maladroit journalist causes goes hand-in-hand with anti-social Police Protection to remove them from Commissioner of the Met Police, and a minor bottleneck by tripping on his behaviour,” says D’Orsi, “whether it’s immediate risk. They also dispatched other senior figures from pursuing this shoelace, but the synchronised canter of music, cars or people gathering at all neighbourhood officers to affected course of action. The success of Operation the officers continues unabated. Upon hours of the day”. Given the illicit communities; patrolled areas with high Puglia was reflected not only by the high reaching the address, the officers huddle nature of drug dealing, it is a peculiar drug activity to deter any potential new percentage of arrestees that pleaded around a hydraulic jam, pump it, and paradox of the trade that while drug entrants vying to fill the market and, “on guilty, but also by the consummate within seconds, the door blasts open. All exchanges are conducted in a clandestine the flip side of that”, Jones points out, professionalism of the officers, who that can be heard from below are the manner, the surrounding culture around deployed outreach services to “try and performed admirably well in trying testosterone-ridden cries of ‘POLICE’ it is considerably, if not defiantly, more engage with the addicts who [have lost] conditions. After the final arrest was until a silence washes over the estate. It ostentatious. Invariably, ordinary citizens their dealers”. This encapsulates what made at around 6:30am on the fourth does not take long for the silence to be become collateral. “There’s a fallout Alleyne describes as a “big change in day of Puglia, I caught up with one of punctured: a confirmation is received from these people meeting,” says the [police] culture”. Beyond the execution the officers to ask him some rather banal via radio call that the suspect has been D’Orsi. “Assaults, violence and aggressive of warrants and arrests, officers have been questions about the state of policing arrested. behaviour that people are subjected to as encouraged to “think about the wider and how he was coping with the cuts. In the remaining hours of the they try to live their normal lives”. picture” by assessing the risks posed to Without breaking stride, the officer morning, the Met conducted 10 more Over a year in the making, Puglia was individuals hitherto overlooked. Through elegantly summarised in four words what raids, resulting in seven arrests. As this a historic operation not only for its sheer such partnerships, at-risk individuals this feature attempted to do in 1000: “It’s newspaper goes to press, 71 subjects size (2,775 police and staff officers were like addicts can gain the necessary help what we do”. have been charged so far with over 300 10 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Opinion & Comment

thousands of times. Good for Facebook were: eating live animals, beatings from MARIUS BRILL’S school bullies, disturbing images of Will of the self-harm and eating disorders. Racist British people content and hate speech was flagged to By Peter Burden MEMEING OF LIFE stay; far-right pages supporting Britain First and Tommy Robinson got special Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... protection thanks to their large and rabid followings. Censorship was simply “bad for business”, the reporter’s boss pointed out. What kept people on the site was shocking content and extreme It was during that week in early July, politics, more clicks mean more exposure when the England football team reached to advertising and more money for the semi-finals of the World Cup, that Facebook. the NHS celebrated its 70th birthday. It’s Extremism is in the DNA of social worth remembering that, in achieving ON/OFF media. When you see something these goals, both of them relied heavily moderately likeable you might read it on that part of the British population and forget it, but something repulsive or which Enoch Powell and his modern Battleship, Earl, Slate, Ash, ideas and even think. incredible you’ve got to react, like, share day standard-bearers would have had My kids claim their constant screens and drive advertising as you do. deported. Enoch, if he is any position to Dolphin, Overcast, Elephant, make them more connected than any Every day we find ourselves needled observe this truth, should be squirming Silvery, Smoker’s Lung, it’s previous generation, they’re more in-tune and prodded to react by our social with shame. with their peers, and the world, than I networks courting controversy. Our Regrettably, many British people with easy to forget there used to be ever was; limited to a land-line and a tiny knees involuntarily jerk as we decry or the same mindset as Powell, who voted innumerable shades of grey. circle of geographically local kids. And promote, like, share, frown and retweet for Brexit, will not be squirming; they yet, for all that, all they seem capable of the messages that appear to agree or appear completely blind to the rights When the Apple Macintosh communicating is endless self-contained, disagree with the bare surface of our own and contributions of the non-white was launched in 1984 its unarguable, micro statements and polarising opinions. We are being lead members of our community. These are gurning snapchat, emoji aping, poses. into extremism by a digital version of a the inward-looking Little Englanders screen boasted 256 shades of The idea that they are both connected happy slapper, someone who spills their who disparage any kind of considerate or grey. By the time E. L. James’s and simultaneously disconnected, that own drink in order to get into fight with non-discriminatory language as Political the medium both enables and limits and you, someone who will inanely insist on Correctness. soft-porn bonkbuster was changes and shifts the very multilogue the opposite to any orthodoxy as long Thus, there is a grim irony in that published, there were only 50 they believe they are having in a million as it offends and baits clicks. Forget they themselves, indeed, the whole Brexit different subtle ways, seems impossible. research, forget reasoned argument, movement, have been the beneficiaries of (even if she found a few more Either they are connected or they’re not. forget ethics. Facebook, Twitter, one of the most disingenuous examples for the sequels). On/Off. Reddit, Buzzfeed etc. is mass personal of Political Correctness to have emerged There is no ‘conversation’ on social sensationalism, it’s Piers Morgan, it’s since David Cameron’s disastrously ow shades of grey, along with media. The intricacies of different blood sports, it’s the Colosseum in ill-structured referendum, the result stretched metaphors for subtlety, rhetorical devices utilised to argue or ancient Rome, it’s bread and circuses, of which is referred to, contrary to the are so last century. persuade or flirt or cajole or urge or who would be surprised if it was the actuality and with laboured political One of the main causes for the elicit are lost and the only audible voices decline and fall? correctness, as the ‘Will of the British N People’. death of our cognitive greyscale was are the ones in caps, with the simplest Before global warming, Britain a little invention, also in 1984, of messages. LEAVE, REMAIN, TRUMP offered a vast array of drab greys, from The actuality is that the British psychiatrist Karen Kempner and dentist IN, TRUMP OUT, LIVE, DIE, the soot covered buildings to the smogs people were asked if they wished to Ed Zuckerberg: Little Marky, the Dr WHATEVER. and endless overcast rainy skies. We overturn the status quo of 45 years and Frankenstein of Facebook. So do not wonder why our elected understood our greys. When looking leave the European Union. Thirty-eight In the early 90s, when Ed bought an representatives seem to have no way of out of a window, rather than at a screen, percent of them said, ‘Yes’; the rest (sixty- Atari 800 to teach his son some BASIC understanding, or feel empowered to was still a thing, we understood how two percent) did not. programming, he thought he was ahead work through, a negotiated settlement. to look for the tiniest chink of light Despite this clear evidence that only of the curve, little realising that the very For them you either have a deal or no in the unvarying gloom. Our dreary a minority of the nation’s electorate idea of a curve, with all the continuous deal. You’re in power or you’re out of environment taught us to interpret all wished to leave Europe, somehow the subtle gradations of angles it implies, power, you’re anti-Semitic or you’re our greys, and gave us the skills to spot idea quickly took shape that a democratic would be an anathema to his kid who not anti-Semitic. The black and white the tiniest disparities of brightness decision to turn our constitution on its found more empathy with the machine. referendum question allowed no room that might be trying to shine through; head had been taken, and that decision Things are much simpler in computer for subtlety or “third ways” which is and maybe even appreciate the barely reflected the ‘Will of the British People’. languages, ultimately, everything is either presumably why it was originally billed perceptible subtleties of life’s often Of the 633 Members of Parliament on or off. Things either are or they are as an advisory straw poll; a fact ignored infinitesimal variations to find some elected in 2015 as our democratic not. It is the Danish distillation: “to be because it is incomprehensible in the on/ colour within. Socialising, conversation, representatives, 475 (75%) declared or not to be” – why bother with anything off digital binararium we now live in. with all the body language and facial themselves in favour of retaining else? Even if the switch is 52% off and 48% expressions that accompanied it, was the status quo and remaining in the And the political climate that Mark, on, then we’re off. Obvs. multi-layered, complex, alchemical, and EU. Most of these are now showing and our other techno i-dols, grew up in Is it any wonder that we feel we’re nuanced. It took effort and maturity to themselves severely lacking in spine, was dominated by Dubya Bush’s rhetoric living in an age of extremes when decipher; everything our spectrumed in as much as they have kowtowed to and the neo-con world view. There was extremes are all that are talked about? geeklords found disturbing growing up. right wing media pressure and will not good and there was evil, right and wrong, And there’s money in extremism. Last Why try to work out the human challenge the prevailing Politically Correct black and white. month, Channel 4’s Dispatches sent when you have a machine? And slowly notion that the vote of a minority of the So when the blessed geeks inherited an undercover reporter to work for their software and interfaces have eroded British electorate to leave represents the the Earth, maybe it was inevitable that Facebook and find out how Zuckerberg’s all our subtleties, now “we’re all on the ‘Will of the British People.’ their genius for binary, designing a new minions decide what is good for the spectrum.” It turns out that, far easier It is baffling to watch these world out of ones and zeroes, would platform to share. than programming machines to interpret representatives of their constituents end up seeping through everything they Working as a Content Moderator, humans was making machines to allowing themselves to be pushed made becoming the dominant factor in the reporter discovered videos of child programme humans. Perhaps it’s time to around by the crass, dishonest PC jargon the way we receive information, process abuse allowed to stay and being shared Make Britain Grey Again. employed by loud-mouthed Brexit 02011 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 11 Opinion & Comment online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

supporters, who also studiously ignore by Humphrys to concur that a no-deal an essential element of democracy which Brexit would be ‘a catastrophe’, Carney they also claim to support. carefully, and considerately describe DUDLEY SUTTON’S That is that those who choose not that scenario is as ‘highly undesirable’. to vote in a referendum still have the Humphrys seems increasingly to have I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT fundamental right to be intelligently descended into an area of broadcasting and honestly governed by those who occupied by journalists addressing have been elected to represent them in politically unsophisticated audiences who Parliament. MPs are far better informed expect to be bombarded with hyperbole MY SOUL than their constituents and should be by lazy, shouty talk-show hosts; a world by Stevie Smith better equipped to assess the long- in which the most mundane of events is term dangers posed by Britain leaving generally described as ‘Fantastic!!’ Europe. The 75% of MPs who advocated If, to this irritating habit, which is In the flame of the flickering fire retaining Britain’s membership of the a long way from justifying Humphrys’ The sins of soul are few EU should do their duty by telling enormous BBC salary, is added the well- And the thoughts in my head are the thoughts of a bed their constituents that the best course aired reports of his relationship with the With a solitary view. to avoid the quicksand into which the apparently maniacal Paul Dacre, reasons government is blindly dragging the for his unsuitableness as the frontman But the eye of eternal consciousness nation (as Boris Johnson and David for this important news resource are Must blink as a bat blinks bright Davies stagger off into the wilderness) becoming clearer. Dacre is the man who Or ever the thoughts in my head be stilled is to abandon entirely the whole Brexit sanctioned a Daily Mail front page that On the brink of eternal night. project. must be one of the most heinous, if not Now only a handful of Tory MPs, downright treacherous, of recent years with Ken Clark in the vanguard, have among British newspapers. The headline, Oh feed to the golden fish his egg the courage to tell their constituents the ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, Where he floats in his captive bowl, obvious truth; that Brexit will be very accompanied pictures of three judges of To the cat his kind from the womb born blind, bad for Britain on almost every issue the High Court, who, with a reputation currently being negotiated with the EU, for British jurisprudence unsurpassed And to the Lord my soul. and that they will vote against any moves throughout the world, ruled that the final to change our relationship with Europe. decision over triggering Article 50 and They could also stand up and declare that Britain’s departure from the EU should the result of the referendum, by a wide be decided by the House of Commons, margin, was not the ‘Will of the British rather than the government. This perhaps television every week. It is clear that very People’, it is the expressed will of just is why Dacre has finally received his soon we will be accessing the internet 38% of our population. marching orders from the Mail’s owners British more than we do television. The referendum and subsequent and will not retain even token supremacy Then last week, the viewing and discussion about Brexit have encouraged over his replacement, Geordie Greig. Broadcasting listening public figures for the BBC, a startling and misleading growth in And I don’t suppose Coral will offer me especially the Today programme, went Hyperbolism. Even the BBC’s Today better then evens on Richard Littlejohn Crash AWOL. Heart overtook Radio 1 and all Programme, purporting to be a bastion of being shown the Mail’s back door. By Derek Wyatt of the main BBC radio stations except balanced reportage, is beginning to show Six were down on listeners and do not be signs of this dangerous trend. Listening surprised when they respond by telling to John Humphrys interviewing Mark Over the past month with the us its reach is up. Reach is an excuse to Carney in a keynote item on the hide the numbers. And anyway, what was programme offered a clear example Brexit Tornado unrepentant their reaction to these developments? To of this hoary, old and decreasingly you might have missed some announce a decade too late that they and politically astute presenter positively C4 and ITV are trying to put together rather interesting media

urging his interviewee into uttering the peterburden.net their own version of Netflix. I have news kind of hyperbole that makes for heavy statistics. for them it will be a total flop. You have headlines in the rubbish press. Pushed www. to remember when a group of techies Netflix, an online streaming video service inside the BBC proposed a version of which shows such dramas as Breaking Facebook before 2004, the BBC turned Bad, Mad Men and The Crown was only it down. founded in 1997. It has become the My sense is that there is something number one channel in USA capturing going on in our media waters. over forty percent of the viewing public. I think the days of a single source for It has 125m global subscribers. In news and entertainment paid for by a tax the UK it has already overtaken the aka as the licence fee has had its day. The Advertise BBC’s iPlayer. Netflix has revenues of BBC must prepare for a no licence fee $11.692bn compared to BBC licence fee scenario and make the case for a single tax of $5.2bn. This is a revolution. The News and Documentary platform to be licence fee is passed its sell by date. sponsored by the Government much as Amazon Prime, another streaming the British Council is today. But they with us video service was only launched in 2005 must also be prepared for there to be but already has 100 million subscribers a competitor: another publicly funded and a turnover just over $6bn. You may News and Documentary channel, maybe To put an advertisement in KCWToday remember that Top Gear defected in a ReutersTV, ITV News and Sky News 2015. If you are a member of the BFI merger. or Curzon Cinema you can receive any In the past five years the BBC’s email: [email protected] number of films directly to your iPad or continued arrogance on women’s pay, wide screen television. women’s promotion to the highest levels, or telephone 020 7738 2348 Google’s audience in the UK amounts an appalling and wasteful management to 41.9 million unique visitors a week. structure including the current Board We spend an average of 21.6 hours on which remains tight lipped in every crisis, the internet and 24 hours watching tells us the BBC belongs to yesterday. 12 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk International NEWS

drawn the ire of audiences and been the Zimbabwe’s first post Mugabe election. time has come to establish the US Space butt of jokes from late night comedians Mugabe, who was the world’s longest Force,” he said in a speech from the INTERNATIONAL over its use of Must Run segments sitting president, finally resigned after Pentagon. written by the company itself to be a coup d'état following the sacking of Pence also asked for an addition $8 NEWS broadcast by all TV stations it owns. Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. billion to establish the sixth branch. (This Sinclair also compels its TV stations to The sacking of Mnangagwa fuelled on top of the additional $100 billion BY MICHAEL A KOLAROV broadcast segments from its Terrorism speculation that he intended to name already granted to the U.S. military in Alert Desk which uses vague and out of his wife Grace Mugabe as his successor. 2018.) context stories and language to warn The former first lady of Zimbabwe was The administration defended against viewers arrests and threats in order to extremely unpopular with the old guard naysayers by stating that the Space Force of the Zimbabwe African National was needed to defend against Russia Disturbingly Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), the and China whom he claims “have been ruling political party in Zimbabwe since conducting highly sophisticated on- Orwellian 1980. orbit activities that could enable them Grace Mugabe was infamous for her to manoeuvre their satellites into close Sinclair-Tribune luxury shopping sprees, which earned proximity of ours, posing unprecedented her the ire of the population through new dangers to our space systems.” Merger Off the derisive nickname “Gucci Grace”. No mention was made of the October The threat of “Gucci Grace” becoming 1967 Outer Space Treaty, of which President of Zimbabwe was enough to China, Russia, and the United States are stoke fear and finally telling them to spark the military coup which forced the signatories. 'stay tuned for more information' which resignation of the 93-year-old Robert Formally: The Treaty on Principles n what would have been the naturally never comes until the next Alert Mugabe. Governing the Activities of States in the realization of one of George Orwell’s Desk segment begins the cycle anew. After Mugabe was ousted, the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, worst nightmares, Sinclair Broadcast people of Zimbabwe were promised including the Moon and Other Celestial Group and Tribune Media fostered a Another Must Run segment which drew free and fair elections by Emmerson Bodies. The treaty prohibits states from I infamy for Sinclair was its broadcast Mnangagwa, the former vice president, placing weapons of mass destruction deal worth $3.9 billion which would have enabled the companies to form a right- about “Fake News” which found its who filled the power vacuum caused by in Earth orbit, installing them on the wing TV network able to reach seven way into a viral video. YouTube channel the coup. At the end of July, Mnangagwa Moon or any other celestial body, or out of every ten American homes. The Deadspin produced a video showing was been contentiously elected as the otherwise stationing them in outer space. objective was to compete with Fox News the news anchors of various Sinclair next president of Zimbabwe. The days It exclusively limits the use of the Moon for conservative viewership by effectively owned TV stations broadcasting the following the election have been marred eradicating local journalism from coast same message and really strikes home by reports of beatings and intimidation to coast. the clear and present dangers posed by a of opposition supporters. Soldiers even Fortunately for Americans who do heavily consolidated media monopoly in opened fire on protestors, killing six and a deregulated free market space with no not consider 1984 to be an instruction wounding dozens. © NASA Photograph manual, the deal, which had the full oversight or accountability and backed Opposition leader Tendai Biti support of President Donald J. Trump, by the President of the United States attempted to flee the country in August fell apart after getting caught up in himself, who has frequently defended to neighbouring Zambia, but was regulatory red tape. Tribune Media is Sinclair's Orwellian tactics simply deported back to Zimbabwe where he now suing Sinclair for breach of contract because they have offered him favourable was arrested to face trial for his alleged and is seeking $1 billion in damages. coverage in return for a helping hand role in the election violence. According It had been expected that Tribune with regulators. Something which Trump to a U.N. spokesperson, U.N. Secretary- would walk away from the deal after was unable to deliver. General Antonio Guterres asked the FCC referred the deal to an Mnangagwa to rein in his security forces and other celestial bodies to peaceful administrative judge hearing, which is in a telephone conversation after the purposes and expressly prohibits their usually a death sentence for such deals in violence. use for testing weapons of any kind, the U.S., as courts are typically reluctant Zimbabwe: The European Union, United States, conducting military manoeuvres, or to approve such mega mergers. A missed opportunity for Canada and Switzerland earlier issued establishing military bases, installations, In a bid to appease regulators Sinclair Reform a joint statement calling on Zimbabwe’s and fortifications. said it would divest itself of some of its defence forces to act with restraint and However, the Treaty does not prohibit TV stations, but concerns were raised, protect human rights. The United States the placement of conventional weapons because they were being sold to people further signaled that Zambia could face in orbit. Which China did in 2007 who are very closely aligned with consequences for its role in handing Biti by destroying one of its own weather Sinclair; additionally the sale agreements back to Zimbabwe. satellites with a ‘Kinetic Kill Vehicle’ would have allowed Sinclair to continue fired with a multistage solid-fuel missile. to operate the stations. In its referral China stated that it formally notified the order, the FCC said, “The record raises U.S., Japan and other countries about the significant questions as to whether those test in advance. proposed divestitures were in fact ‘sham’ New U.S. ‘Space China was not the first nation transactions.” to work on and deploy anti-satellite The FCC’s position on the matter Force’ weaponry. That distinction belongs to seems backed up by Tribune Media’s The November 2017 resignation of On August 9th, U.S. Vice President the United States with development lawsuit, which alleges that, “In an effort Robert Mugabe who ruled as Prime Mike Pence had the dubious distinction beginning in the 1950s. The U.S. to maintain control over stations it was Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to of being the one to announce the conducted a successful anti-satellite obligated to sell if advisable to obtain 1987 and then as President from 1987 creation of the new sixth branch of the missile test in 1985 using an ASM-135 regulatory clearance, Sinclair engaged in to 2017 sent waves of optimism and United States Armed Forces, the Space ASAT to destroy the P78-1 ‘Solwind’ belligerent and unnecessarily protracted hope through all of Africa just as the Force, which he said would debut in satellite. negations with DOJ and the FCC toppling of Egyptian President Hosni 2020. Senator Bernie Sanders responded over regulator requirements... all in the Mubarak had once sent a wave of hope “The time has come to write the next to the announcement succinctly and service of Sinclair's self-interest and in and optimism throughout the Middle great chapter in the history of our armed truthfully over Twitter, “Maybe, just derogation of its contractual obligations.” East during the Arab Spring. But that forces, to prepare for the next battlefield maybe, we should make sure our people optimism appears to have faded after where America’s best and bravest will are not dying because they lack health How are they ‘Orwellian’? security forces killed six people at the be called to deter and defeat a new insurance before we start spending Sinclair Broadcast Group has frequently end of July while protesting the results of generation of threats to our nation. 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a sobering reflection of today’s ongoing crisis that housing has regressed to the point that ‘warm’ and ‘dry’ have become the new baseline for an acceptable flat. The Dent Coad has long been drawn to the intersectionality of architecture, politics and socio-economics in her Unreasonable career. During her time as a fledgling journalist, the Kensington MP worked for several design architecture magazines Woman before completing an MA in design architecture where she wrote her first Emma Dent Coad MP book. Importantly, Dent Coad never lost sight of what mattered to her: “It has By James Billot always been political for me,” she says, “I can’t just write about lovely buildings. I have to look behind: how they look, how they function, who uses them, how are they funded… and all those other issues around them. That has put me in very good stead as a councillor”. Dent Coad was elected to the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in 2006, representing Golborne Ward, which she still represents today. As councillor, the problems that Dent Coad encountered in Golborne were emblematic of the problems that she faces as an MP today. For nearly a decade, Kensington and Chelsea has held the dubious title of the Capital’s most unequal ave for a few Liberal Party unleashed a scathing broadside on the damp coming through the walls because Borough; mean income as a proportion dalliances in the late nineteenth government’s leaden response to the they didn’t put a membrane in the of median income for residents (the and early twentieth century, the Grenfell disaster, lambasting Theresa walls”. Grenfell, by contrast, was “built figure reached by adding up all of the Conservative Party reigned supreme May’s ‘shattered’ promises to the victims to last” and harked from a generation incomes in the Borough and dividing S that by the number of households in for the better part of a century in and families of the Grenfell fire. The of architects that “focused on how South Kensington and Chelsea. North post attracted thousands of page hits people lived in their day-to-day life”. By the Borough) is 209%, over 40% higher Kensington, conversely, pinballed and it was characteristic of Dent Coad’s focusing on micro-living (designing the than Westminster, London’s second most around the political spectrum until it iconoclastic style. In conversation with kitchen to overlook the communal area, unequal Borough. Inside Kensington, was abolished as a constituency in 1974. KCW Today, her parlance is no different having a window with two angles to trap the country’s wealthiest constituency, Thereafter, Kensington denizens were to her prose: “They have been treated more light, having a garden or outdoor the disparity between residents is even placed under the joint custody of North like second-class citizens,” says Dent space etc.), Nigel Whitbread, Grenfell’s starker: in 2014, overcrowding in Dent and South when the two constituencies Coad. “I’ve seen that for many years in chief architect, turned the tower into Coad’s ward, Golborne, for instance, merged for the first time in the Borough’s Chelsea… anyone who lives in social a “pleasant little village”, Dent Coad was three times higher than in the more history. In the nine succeeding general housing is regarded as a second-class notes. Now, the 63-year-old laments that affluent wards in South Kensington, elections, Kensington, aided by the citizen. “tenants are shoved into a warehouse… according to the Mayor’s Office. In the brief inclusion of Chelsea in the 1997, In my world, everyone is first class… [where] the quality of space inside same ward, child poverty rose to 43% in 1998 and 2005 elections, emerged as a everybody is as important as everybody them is appalling”. Such Dickensian 2015; a far cry from the demonstrably steadfast outpost for the Conservative else”. conditions may have been permissible in lower 7% in Queen’s Gate. Dent Coad, Party. Election after election, victories Speaking on the first floor of London homes 200 years ago, but it is undoubtedly the choir to this preacher, were won by the landslide, and when Portcullis House, where oak-panelled nods along politely: “When I go to visit Tory MP Victoria Borwick won by 7,361 walls are lined with looming portraits of people of all walks of life,” says Dent votes over her Labour counterpart, there yesteryear’s prime ministers, Dent Coad Coad, “not everyone realises that”. was little to suggest that the tide may be is discernibly unruffled by the building’s Saddled with a seat in Parliament, turning. prestige. Rather than succumbing to Dent Coad now returns to her home Perhaps the Conservative Party fell any kind of idolatry, she is forceful in in Kensington with the weight of foul of their own hubris. Perhaps it was her remonstrations over the problems of Westminster on her shoulders. It is Borwick’s outspoken support for Brexit social housing in London: “The search unlikely, however, that this will hamper in a Borough that heavily voted Remain. for profit margins has decimated any idea the pugnacious MP. For over thirty Or perhaps it was the arrival of Labour of decent quality architecture in the new years, Dent Coad has lived as an ardent candidate Emma Dent Coad, described generation of social housing,” says Dent socialist in a Tory heartland and won by her peers as a tireless champion Coad. “There are actually buildings that an election in the process. During the of the underprivileged, on the ballot are being taken down and demolished election and throughout her political box. Regardless as to whether it was a after three years because they were such career, she never sought to soften her combination or collection of all of the poor quality”. message to broaden her appeal. Rather, above, June 9th 2017 proved a historic Born in Chelsea and a resident of they came to her. day. Following a 24-hour delay and three North Kensington for over 30 years, Thus, to modify George Bernard recounts, Emma Dent Coad was elected Dent Coad witnessed this deterioration Shaw’s 124th maxim for the 21st as Kensington’s first Labour MP by a first-hand. “One of my tenants who is Century revolutionists: ‘The reasonable margin of 20 votes. The celebrations, not very well and has a disability was in woman adapts herself to the world; the however, were short-lived: five days later, an old flat that was warm and dry,” says unreasonable one persists in trying to a huge blaze consumed Grenfell Tower. Dent Coad. “In the new flat, there is adapt the world to herself. Therefore, all In a blog post published by black mould, a collapsed floor, a leaking progress depends on the unreasonable ‘LabourList’ last March, Dent Coad ceiling whenever it rains and there is woman.’ 02015 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 15 Advertisement online: www.KCWToday.co.uk 16 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Business & Finance NEWS

such an extraordinary company,” Nooyi said in a statement. “PepsiCo today is in PepsiCo CEO to a strong position for continued growth with its brightest days still ahead.” step down As the food and beverage landscape has drastically altered over the years, PepsiCo has contended with shifting trends towards healthier products by purchasing a stake in hummus producers Sabra in 2007 and, more recently, KeVita, a kombucha eating, drinking and keeping cool. Food maker. sales had their best July in five years, Under Nooyi’s World Cup and while fans and cooling equipment flew leadership, Pepsi sales off the shelves”. rose by 79%, compared to heatwave help “However, total sales growth slowed Coca-Cola, which grew as the heat laid bare the underlying by 109% over the same UK retailers in weakness in consumer spending.” period. The Indian is the Pub spending rose by nearly 17 latest in the line of CEOs July percent, the most since April last year, that have departed from helped by the World Cup. “It will be their roles since the start England’s run to the semi-finals of the interesting to see if this strong level of of 2016. After Campbell World Cup and a sweltering summer growth continues,” Barclaycard director Soup Company, Kellogg’s, led to a spending rise on food, drink, Esme Harwood said. epsiCO CEO Indra Nooyi will be Mondelez International and Coca Cola, and electric fans in July, causing a minor “It’s clear that some consumers stepping down from her role after Nooyi is the third of five female CEOs spike in spending in July. remain cautious about what’s to come 12 years in charge. to have resigned from the food and Total retail sales values grew by 1.6% with interest rates rising and overall PNooyi, one of the longest-serving, beverage industry. compared with July 2017, the weakest confidence in household finances down high-profile female CEOs spent a total The Indian’s departure will also increase since February bar a fall in slightly from June.” of 22 years with PepsiCO. The 62-year- leave just 23 CEOs running S&P 500 April, which was affected by the timing Earlier this month, the Bank of old will be replaced by President Ramon companies, less than 5% of all companies. of Easter, according to the British Retail England raised its benchmark interest Laguarta on October 3rd, becoming In spite of the fact that women now Consortium (BRC). rate for the second time since the PepsiCo’s sixth CEO. make up half the workforce, there has Helen Dickinson, the BRC chief financial crisis more than a decade ago, “Growing up in India, I never been little change in female CEO executive, said: “Last month’s sweltering but stressed it would continue to raise imagined I'd have the opportunity to lead appointment over the past decade. temperatures kept shoppers focused on borrowing costs only gradually.

year. Overall, the company posted a loss of $353 million, or 27 cents per share, Snapchat compared with a loss of 36 cents per UK fintech sector share last year. experiences first Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said attracts record that Snapchat’s drop in daily users drop in users “was primarily driven by a slightly investment following unpopular redesign lower frequency of use among our user base due to disruption caused by our redesign”. Six months after the relaunch, he Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, added: “We have been working hard to The UK’s fintech sector attracted over announced its first fall in daily active iterate and improve Snapchat based on £12bn investment in the first six months users after an unpopular redesign. the feedback from our community”. of 2018, accounting for over half the In a bid to stay in competition It has been a brutal few months for total fintech investment into Europe with rivals Facebook and Instagram, Big Tech companies, which saw huge (£20bn) and attracted more money than Snapchat’s daily user total fell declines in the valuations of Twitter the US (approximately £11bn). unexpectedly by 2% to 188 million users and Facebook. Spiegel has warned that In spite of Brexit concerns, investors from 193 million. year-on-year growth had slowed down have maintained a bullish outlook for However, the company beat analysis “significantly” and that its user growth the UK fintech sector with four of predictions when they reported strong had suffered from the implementation Europe’s top 10 deals happening in the second quarter revenues of $262.3m, of Europe’s General Data Protection country. The spike in investment this up from 44% over the same period last Regulation. year was caused in large part by Vantiv’s, an American payment processing and technology provider, acquisition of fintech sector has also benefitted from Worldpay for £10bn. the government’s continued support Around the world, fintech investment with the launch of the Fintech Sector has soared to record levels in the first half Strategy. of the year, with £45bn invested in 875 “Fintech investment is always fairly deals, up from £29.5bn invested in all of volatile, but the UK tends to enjoy higher 2017. highs and lower lows than most, the According to Anton Ruddenklau, blockbuster acquisition of WorldPay by Global Co-Lead, KPMG Fintech, said: Vantiv certainly means H1 2018 was “The year has got off to an exceptionally a real high for UK fintech investment. strong start for the fintech sector. Whilst the rest of the year will struggle In addition to the bullish levels of to replicate the first half, I’m optimistic investment the UK has attracted, our that we will remain in robust shape.” 02017 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 17 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

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For starters, I chose the poached huss and Harvey Nichols baby fennel doused in a Knightsbridge lobster bisque. The creamy 5th Floor and well-seasoned bisque

complemented the huss Nichols © Harvey Photograph 109-125 Knightsbridge delightfully and its portion Belgravia size almost merited itself as a main course of its own. London SW1X 7RJ In keeping with the marine theme, my dining companion had the oyster mushroom terrine with Yorkshire rabbit. This pairing struck us as a peculiar combination, but ity the driver commuting through the pickled prunes and carrot Knightsbridge. Wending through bread acted as an important one of London’s busiest districts, bridge between the two. Pthey must contend with throngs of star- To refresh our palates, my gazing tourists who marvel at the red- guest and I were treated to a bricked flagship stores, glass-panelled cocktail apiece. My whiskey- designer outlets and camouflaged 4x4s based ‘maker’s luck’ and for speedy passage through the Borough. my guest’s cherry Prosecco As perturbed beeping descends into were both commendable violent honking, unsuspecting jaywalkers in terms of flavour and pause for a fleeting moment before they presentation. In retrospect, continue on their flight path across we both could have been more expedient Brompton Road. in our rationing of the drinks over the exemplary. A dish that would satisfy stroke of culinary expertise and I would On the other side of the road awaits three courses! Nevertheless, the timely the herbivore and, dare I suggest it, the implore any guest wavering over their Harvey Nichols, a fashion emporium arrival of our mains came as a welcome carnivore. order to go for this option. that has occupied the North side of distraction to that fact. Unfortunately, To close, I opted for the yuzu £24 is a reasonable price for the menu Sloane Street for 138 years. This month, my roasted Scottish salmon with shaved crème brûlée with apricot and pistachio on offer. While the fifth floor is airy and the department store released their new cucumber was disappointing; it did little cantuccini, which had a gorgeous capacious, it is certainly worth booking a summer dining menu, offering three to distinguish itself and was perhaps the underlying zest. My companion’s table in advance to ensure that guests can courses and a cocktail for a set price of least memorable dish of the evening. pistachio cake with chocolate mousse, get a seat on the terrace where they can £24. Available until September 30th, my Conversely, my dining companion’s however, stole the evening. With a soft revel in the road rage of Knightsbridge guest and I were eager to give it a go. spinach and goat’s cheese ravioli was nougat texture, this dish was a masterly below. James Billot

Ukai 240 Portobello Rd, London W11 1LL. T: 020 7792 2444 Closes 12am. Order: deliveroo.co.uk, just-eat.co.uk. By Max Feldman

The cliché about Portobello is that it’s a melting pot and, whilst there are few observations more trite than observing the truth in said cliché, it’s true. There’s a mélange of cuisines on offer along the brightly painted street and competition to stand out is understandably fierce. At first glance Ukai seems to do the opposite; the frontage looks more like an Asian-accented gastropub than it does a restaurant and indeed inside the

door is a bar pitched somewhere between swank cocktail club and 90s Notting Hill cool. Around the side Babb Tom © Photograph of the bar is the restaurant side of the equation and if it doesn’t stand up and shout its presence to the rooftops, that’s only because it’s confident that its food will do the talking for it. Being no stranger to both cocktails and the politics of the radical left, I settled in with a Russian Spring Punch: a sweet concoction which hid a deceptively sharp alcoholic after-shock to balance it out. The fusion of vodka, crème de cassis, raspberry, champagne and lemon came in a tall glass which gleamed as red as Bolshevism. Perfect for a hot summer day, it was refreshing along with the kind of hefty kick that leads to best kind of bad decisions. We started with the Ukai Salad, a vegetarian’s paradise of rocket, lettuce, soy beans and seaweed; all garnished with sesame dressing. Delightfully zesty with a satisfying crunch, the salad still came out as the least impressive course of the meal, which is more a comment on the general standard than the salad. Each course is easily large enough to be shared by two people, though thankfully the pricing does not reflect this. The salad came in at a very reasonable £6.60, which split between my guest and me is pretty good value for money, especially in Portobello. As a further appetizer we tried the Salmon Tataki: seared salmon in spicy citrus sauce [£10.00], much like the salmon it was ideal for grazing, with the soft flesh of the salmon tastefully enlivened by the wicked sharpness of the spicy citrus; a mysterious, yet playful little dish. However, the lion’s share of the praise has to be saved for our main course of the Seabass ceviche,Ukai style [£9.00]. Restaurants often promote certain dishes being cooked in their style which can be very difficult to decipher when you haven’t been there before, so let me translate: Ukai style means very nice indeed. More tender than the finale of Toy Story 3 the fish was also doused in that same spicy citrus that made the Salmon Tataki so compulsive. The portion was gigantic and disappeared from the plate in what felt like minutes. We were so stuffed that we had to be cajoled into dessert which turned out to be a selection of mochi [£7.00]. My only prior experience with “mochi” was a particularly aggressive dog of that name that traumatised me as a child, so I was fairly relieved that instead of a psychotic Pomeranian the plate contained sweet rice cakes filled with ice-cream in all kinds of unusual flavours. Bizarrely textured yet oddly satisfying each went down a treat, with the exception of the green tea flavoured option, a bridge too far as it turned out. It’s rare to find such a well- priced, yet high quality restaurant hidden away in Portobello in 2018. Highly recommended. 02019 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 19 Promotion online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Fulham Market Halls Announces its New Opening By Simon Anderson Photographs © Fulham Market Halls Market © Fulham Photographs

e’re very excited to bring the Fulham Broadway ticket hall back to life “Wand think we’ve created something new and unique for Fulham and London. We’ve studied the local area and pulled together a varied roster of traders, from local favourites to street food stars, that we hope will please everyone. All of this under one roof alongside a bar selling the best British craft beers and spirits, open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner” Market Halls, a group of UK-based, community-minded property investors and restaurateurs are redefining the British concept of food halls and turning unloved public spaces with special architectural or historic interest, public again. With two major London

launches secured for this year, a site Our Fulham venue has nine kitchens, North London favourite Seb Holmes beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks. This which will become the largest food hall a coffee shop, a deli, a fully stocked bar with his new Thai street food concept is where you can taste our very own lager in the country launching in early 2019 with the best British craft beers & spirits Thima, Hawaiian poke pioneers Ahi Poke Market Helles which we created together and numerous regional launches to be and over 250 communal dining seats. and fried chicken connoisseurs Butchies, with North Cornwall brewers Harbour, announced in 2019, Market Halls is set We are open seven days per week for not forgetting something sweet, from as well as The Fulham Spritz our signature to make an unprecedented mark on the breakfast, brunch (weekends only), fun-loving ice cream bar Soft Serve summer cocktail. UK’s dining scene. lunch, dinner and drinks, with a wide Society with their premium ice creams We encourage people of all ages to Market Hall Fulham is our first selection that will suit everyone’s tastes. and bubble teas. come and enjoy what’s on offer, and location, housed in the ornate and well- We provide a diverse and eclectic food The bar, located in the original even have a dedicated children’s play preserved entrance hall of an Edwardian offering, cheerleading local talent and Fulham Broadway London Underground area from morning to 5pm everyday. Underground station in Fulham transporting highlights from East ticket office booths, is where you’ll We are also dog-friendly so please bring Broadway, which has retained the former London’s culinary scene to West London. find a wide selection of hand selected, your furry friends to join the action. No ticket hall from the original 1880 station. From local hero Claude Compton to predominantly British, independent reservations, just walk in. 20 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Dining out

A faint tang of a good cigar being smoked on the terrace drifted lazily Brunello into my consciousness, along with the Restaurant subdued drone of traffic as I took my at the Baglioni Hotel first sip of the mystery wine, which we © Brunello Photographs both agreed was excellent, and in my case By David Hughes the prefect partner for my cooked-to- perfection lamb, truffle potato and side of spinach. M’s veal covered a substantial portion of the plate, and for those with ethical doubts about veal, this could he Baglioni has a covered walk not have been from a crated infant. It way to the lobby that’s quite had a texture and grain to the meat that reminiscent of some high end needed a good squeeze from the lemon apartmentT blocks in New York, and to wedge, and some boldness with the salt reinforce that 5* style I was twice greeted and pepper grinders. This was like the at reception, then led through to the bar My starter of Black Truffle Risotto authentic veal they serve in a Milanese in case I wanted to wait for my partner has exemplary bite, there’s a discernible trattoria, not some prissy lightweight there, but there was no need. She’d gone salty tang from the aged parmesan, and, version. from “I might be a few minutes late” hallelujah!, the truffle has a pleasing Not presenting a flawless exterior to to bagging one of the best seats in the aroma and decent presence. A good the world for some time, I had to sample house, and already had a glass on the go. white truffle is still my ultimate choice, the dessert billed as “anti-ageing” and A cold beer for me started the process but alas not around yet. M’s Crab and with the “calorie equivalent to 2 apples” of going from rush hour London to Prawn ravioli were well stuffed parcels, Hazelnuts, honey, Pollen, Orange and a unwind-and-relax, and all was beginning served scattered with courgette and mousse-like ice cream have yet to make a to be right with the world. spring onion and needed only a light big impact on my visage, but who knows The interior rather reminds me of smattering of seasoning to pull out all of how much worse I might look without Theo Randall’s eponymous restaurant the flavour. it. M embraced the potential wrinkles at the Intercontinental, so it’s very As we had chosen the Lamb Cutlets that a Grappa might bring, and damn it comfortable and soothing, if a little and the Veal Milanese for mains our if I didn`t potentially undermine all that anonymous. M’s delightful Italian white waiter asked us 1) if we would like to good work with a coffee too. One-all on is hidden discreetly around the corner, go onto a red and 2) if we would like to whirled the wine list silently around in the ageing front, but no doubt there’s an but I bag a taster glass as breads, oil and see the wine list. The answer was “yes” a manoeuvre reminiscent of a Toreador’s App for that. an amuse bouche are served. Advocates to both, and he approached a couple cape as the bull approaches, and turned of not mixing your drinks take note: of moments later to ask what wine abruptly away. Of course, technically I Brunello at the Baglioni, Moretti and a good Italian white are we preferred. He duly recommended couldn’t fault him; we had seen the wine 60 Hyde Park Gate. 5* fine dining, excellent bedfellows! something from southern Tuscany, list, albeit only from the outside. bookings on 020 7368 5900

Cup. A couple of Margaritas that crept Frankies Sports Bar & Grill at Chelsea Football Club two thirds of the way up the glass was Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road, London SW6 1HS our opening play, along with some Chipotle Buttermilk Chicken Popcorn By David Hughes and Breaded Zucchini with Harissa

Yogurt which got us nicely through the Hughes © David Photograph first half of the first half. The kitchen was obviously well beyond the Vauxhall Conference t the Fulham Road entrance to league, so I went for the 10oz Ribeye one of London’s (and one of the and another beer. Madame tapped in a world’s) most famous stadiums, request for Lemon and Parmesan Crispy FrankiesA is opposite the Millennium Chicken, a large glass of Patagonian Hotel, with a roped off terrace to give it Malbec, and we split some sweet potato a mildly VIP feel. Inside its revamped fries and a colourful mixed salad. There interior is all cool modern dark blues followed much happy munching, and a and greys, with a nod to classical Dutch chance to listen to some of my favourite interior paintings in the form of a black classic tracks as Lou Reed followed and white floor. I just thought I’d throw Bowie, and even Mink De Ville got that in for all you architecture and an airing. I was in a famous American interior design students out there, but Sports Bar earlier this year (in one of the now back to the rest of you footie and classier parts of the Deep South), and I food fans in the studio. As pre-match couldn’t help thinking that whilst they chat we wondered if Frankies would be had caught up a bit with the current craft playing a blinder, be good in midfield beer revival, the food was no match for but lacking a bit of finishing power, or what I was enjoying today. (forgive the pun) just huddled around Not feeling the need for an orange the pass wedge and a pep talk from the manager, We visited whilst England was still we decided to skip half time and make debating whether football was coming a play for some desserts. The lemon home, so there was an expectant buzz Verbena Panna Cotta lacked a little pace in the air, even though there wasn’t a on the wing, but we forgave it. My post- significant match on that night. Being match notes have Frankies down as not sports themed, we had to make do with quite a 5 – 0 drubbing, but the kitchen most of the screens showing American had played well, and it was a comfortable Football or a Golf Open, definitely the win. poor relations compared to the World Frankies Reservations on 020 7957 8298 02021 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 21 Dining out online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Dragon Inn Club By Emma Trehane

he Dragon Inn Club on 16-18 Upper Tachbrook Street purports to be a Inn Club © Dragon Photographs “secret hideaway venue featuring ancient dark wood bamboo, authentic ornaments and decor recreating the voyage of the Silk Road …” The clue is inT the name Dragon Inn Club, as on entering the front door you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking you were in a local pub. Staff smoking outside the front door, sticky floors and a shabby interior. Yet, the smell of incense drawing the diner down to the lower levels suggests there is a little more in store. Go downstairs and the ‘authentic’ Eastern experience begins. The dining area is vast with floor to ceiling dark woods and bamboo, low lighting, numerous red lanterns, ceiling tiles, ornaments and ceramics. This seemingly ‘authentic’ oriental journey seems rather questionable. That said, in some ways the rather kitsch appearance adds to the atmosphere. The Brazilian waiter could not be faulted. Attentive and eager to point out what the menu had to offer and which wines would go nicely with which dish. Jasmine tea to wash the palate clean was the first order of the day. To follow, 8 parcels of Dim Sum (£12.50) prawn, scallop, fish and spinach and saffron vegetables. Sadly, these had little taste and were over heavy for a starter. The Duck salad with yuzu dressing (£10.80) was much nicer, although the waiter did have to go and ask the chef what yuzu sauce was, and which is still an enigma. The wok grilled Kagoshima Wagyu rib- eye with barbeque sauce was tender, tasty but costly at £65.00. The Scallops, with wild mushroom, asparagus and goji berries at £14.80, was the better of the dishes, however on this occasion the goji berries, which would have added a little extra character and flavour, were missing from the plate. There are many qualities about this hidden London venue not least the helpful staff and quirky interior. However, while the menu was interesting the quality did not match up to expectations.

Dragon Inn Club (18 Upper Tachbrook Street, London SW1 T: 020 7821 0105 dragoninnclub.co.uk

A Good Night’s Sleep By Cynthia Pickard Photographs © Stansted Radisson Blu Photographs

If you have ever experienced that sinking feeling thinking The huge atrium is home to the Wine about leaving home at some Tower Bar, the centerpiece is literally a unearthly hour to cross tower holding hundreds of wine bottles stretching up towards the ceiling. There London in order to reach are two restaurants, Collage, an informal Stansted Airport in time for Brasserie, and for more upmarket dining, with delicious dishes such as roast an early morning flight, worry cauliflower and Mojito ice cream, Station no more! 169. The name and decor reference the airport’s World War Two historic past as Arrive at leisure the day before for a a US Army Air Force Base. good night’s sleep in one of Stansted The hotel has invested £660K in Radisson Blu Hotel’s 500 comfortable meeting and event spaces, part of a £6M bedrooms. From your room at the refurbishment shortly to be completed. hotel it takes but a few minutes to walk So an ideal venue for weddings, leisure or directly to the airport check-in desk and business events and presentations too. the train station. The hotel provides early So banish those early morning fears, morning breakfast, either sit down or check in and get your holiday off to a an ‘on the run’ option. One of the other good start! important attractions is the 200 space car park with competitively priced ‘Park, Radisson Blu Hotel London Stansted Dream and Fly’ options. Airport (https://www.radissonblu.com/ You can enjoy the facilities of the en/hotelstanstedairport ; 01279 661012) Pace Health Club; pool, sauna, gym offers standard rooms from £119 on a and classes, even a dedicated spin room. B&B basis 22 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Lifestyle Photographs © Vatican Archive Photographs © Vatican

Top left: Sistine Chapel Rome, but it’s not in Italy. Originally Top right: the Popes had commanded Rome and The Vatican St Peter's Basilica Left: much of the surrounding area around The Vatican it as absolute monarchs in what were through the ages referred to as the Papal States. However By Max Feldman this period came to an abrupt end during Photograph Photograph © Travelguide.com the forging of Italy into a single nation in 1870, when Victor Emmanuel was able to steamroll the papist forces and claimed hen the Roman Emperor Rome as a sovereign capital for the new Constantine was baptised a state. The then Pope Pius IX decided Christian on his death-bed in to wait out this whole ‘Italy’ fad by 337AD (whether or not he was sincere hunkering down inside the Vatican, fairly W confident in both his impressive walls and in his conversion, or even properly understood the religion’s tenants are the fact that invading the headquarters another matter) both the Empire and of one of the largest religions on earth Christianity were changed forever. Early 476 AD Rome was a finished power. Or smarter idea to book online beforehand, is not great optics for a fledgling nation. Christians surged to take advantage of at least it would have been if not for the which will allow you to jump the queue This stalemate continued until Mussolini; this unprecedented recognition and by rise of the papacy. at little extra cost. The Vatican Museums in an attempt to legitimise his, shall we 356 AD had affected the closure of all Christianity had only been Roman are collectively (it’s just one long building say, ‘controversial’ regime, used his tough pagan temples in Rome. Whilst this orthodoxy for a little over 100 years, culminating with the Sistine chapel) the strong-man powers to solve this problem rapid destruction of their religious rivals but now without an emperor to kow- world’s second largest museum behind by... giving the Papacy everything it isn’t exactly the greatest showcase of tow too, the post-Roman, Popes found the Hermitage in Russia. However wanted on a plate. The Lantern Treaty Christianity’s innate tolerance, it would themselves in a position of authority there’s precious little to be found by way of 1926, named after the palace it be that fateful baptism by a lifelong that would very rarely be challenged over of signage or information on any of the was signed in, created the separate pagan, which would end up earning the next millennium. As Christianity functionally unaccountable quantities sovereign state of the Vatican City (one Rome that ‘Eternal City’ soubriquet. filled the vacuum of Dark Age Europe, of statues, friezes and swirling paintings of only seven absolute monarchies left The issue with the Roman Empire it rose to a level of power and moral that make up the collection. In addition in the world) and guaranteed full and was that it was just too big to govern in authority that in many ways outstripped to this, due to some ancient quirk there is independent sovereignty to the Holy the days before an emperor could angrily the imperial age. Catholic Rome was no distinguishing between masterpieces See. The Pope was pledged to perpetual tweet that he was building a wall and the Empire continued by other means and the merely well crafted; all are neutrality in international relations Scotland would pay for it. As a result it and, like any empire, its seat, the Vatican hung next to each other in what was and to abstention from mediation in a was split into two; the Western Empire became the storehouse of some of the apparently a genuine attempt to prove controversy unless specifically requested of which Rome was the capital, and greatest treasures to be found within its the subjective quality of art. This is all by all parties, but in return for this the Eastern, which was governed from global borders. Modern Rome feels as very noble but can be a bit of an issue if concession, the Italian state agreed Constantinople (founded by our friend, if it was deliberately constructed within you’re not as up on your Roman statuary to pay 750,000,000 lire immediately Emperor Constantine, who was not the glittering bones of its past, and as you could be. This lack of information plus consolidated bearer bonds with a a big one for modesty) now modern- nowhere does that feeling of temporal is presumably designed to inspire one to coupon rate of 5% and a nominal value of day Istanbul. Unfortunately for Rome, dilation hold truer than in the Vatican hire a guide, but there is simply too much 1,000,000,000 lire. The Holy Rollers had whilst the Eastern Empire grew in museums, where all of these separate for anything but the most mercilessly come up double sixes. power and prestige, Rome’s military and eras of Rome blur together into one concise guide to even make a dent. Far There are few institutions still extant economic power faltered and declined. absurdly lavish spectacle. From the better to flow under your own steam that have exerted a bigger influence over As the Empire was bound together by imposing dome of the Basilica to the and just allow yourself to be born on a history than the Catholic Church. To fear and violence as much as civilization borderline overwhelming Sistine Chapel, raft of context free masterpieces. When visit the Vatican and its treasure horde and knowledge, it was not long until the Vatican that a tourist sees is such you come to the close of the museums is to momentarily glimpse the historical the entire Western side finally met its a sensory overload that the phrase with the Sistine Chapel, even the crush giants whose shoulders the modern ignominious end on the sword points of ‘embarrassment of riches’ might as well of people can’t detract from the sheer world perched on, wrought in marble and some very large European men in little be described by waving a picture of the potency of the combination of the art gold. Regardless of one’s personal feeling furry hats. Whilst the Eastern Empire Dome of St Peter. of man and the power of God that the on organised religion in general and went on in the form of the Byzantine The queues to get into the Vatican Vatican is built on. Catholicism in particular, it’s a pilgrimage Empire for another thousand years, by are punishing and for a visit it’s a much Of course the Vatican might be in everyone should undertake once. 02023 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 23 Travel & Lifestyle online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Van Go! By Fahad Redha

With temperatures reaching record highs it seems as if there is no need to go abroad for a sunny holiday. Why not get yourself a campervan and travel the country with all the comforts of home, including the kitchen sink! hether you plan on buying or hiring, it is one of the best ways to see some of the country’sW many wonders. One of the most stunning sites in the south of England has got to be Cheddar Gorge. Situated near the Somerset village of the same name, this natural wonder is home to the caves that inspired Helm’s Deep in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The monks were So much of Scotland’s sites are the Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, taken completely by subject of myths and legend and few Cheddar Man also called this place his surprise, many were more so than Glencoe. Many visitors are home over 9,000 years ago while other killed while some not prepared for the beautiful scenery human remains have been found to be younger members and the vast sweeping pass. Whether you over 12,000 years old. were captured to go in the summer or wait until the winter At nearly 400ft deep and 3 miles long be sold into slavery. it will leave its impression on you. it is the largest gorge in England with After they took Glencoe is one of the UK’s most historic some of the country’s most remarkable gold and silver they sites with some finds there dating back sights. It plays a vital role in specialised burned a part of the to the Bronze Age with new wonders plants and wildlife, some of which you monastery down. being discovered all over the area. One might just see on your walk there. It remained under example is the Ballachulish Goddess, also Keep an eye out for horseshoe bats threat and sometime known as the Goddess of the Straits. This which are known to roost there. At dusk around 875 it was life size carving of a woman, cut from a you will see the endangered animals abandoned with single piece of alder wood and featuring coming in and out of the caves. Just goods being moved quartzite pebbles for eyes, dates back to a stone’s throw away is King John’s to the mainland 600BC and can be seen at the Museum Hunting Lodge in nearby Axbridge. nearby. of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was dug Built in 1460 it now houses the museum At 3,560ft up in 1880 in the gravel of an old raised which documents the history and high, Snowdon is beach 120m from Loch Leven. It is geology of the area. the highest Welsh thought that the 145cm (5ft) sculpture In 635AD Saint Aidan arrived from mountain and higher once stood near a pool. Iona and chose to build his monastery on than any in England. Glencoe Mountain Resort has some The Holy Island of Lindisfarne near the Around Snowdonia of the best downhill mountain biking eastern border with Scotland. Little over are over 150 you’re ever likely to come across. Take a century later “a ravaging of wretched attractions to see. You the chairlift and enjoy the very steep and heathen men destroyed God’s church can take a boat to technical black track, said to be one of at Lindisfarne” marking the beginning Anglesey or see the the toughest in the UK. Or instead you of the Viking age which would see weaving and water can take the red track with its jumps and raids across England and mainland driven turbine that bumps. If you don’t have a mountain bike Europe. Today the site remains a popular make Welsh tapestry of your own you can hire one. destination with over 650,000 visitors bedspreads at the Or for something a little calmer, there from around the world coming every Trefriw Woollen is the Dragon’s Tooth Golf Course. The year. a calling from god and so he travelled to Mills. 9 hole 18 too course, open from dawn to Many of them are going on a the monastery at Melrose and asked to You may consider taking the dusk, is said to be one of the finest in the religious pilgrimage to see the final be admitted as a Novice. Snowdon Mountain Railway. If you do country, offering an experience for the resting place of St Cuthbert. At 17 years After his death, people came to pray be sure to book well in advance. Visitors whole family. old he was looking after a neighbour’s at his grave and miracles of healing have travelled to Llanberis since 1896 to Or why not hop the ferry across the sheep on the hills when it is said he saw were claimed. The monks believed this experience truly exclusive rail journey to Irish sea to visit some of the attractions a light come down to the Earth and to be a sign that he was now a saint in the summit. It is one of the most breath- there, from the Giant’s Causeway all the then return. He believed to be seeing a heaven and that this should be declared taking railway journeys in the world. way down to Blackrock Castle in Cork. human soul being take into heaven. That to the world. Pilgrims continued making With amazing scenery and spectacular Or, if you have more time, head over the same night, the 31st of August 651, Saint the island very wealthy until the 8th of views, it is a must see for anyone visiting Channel and explore what the rest of Aidan died. Cuthbert believed this to be June 793 when the Vikings attacked. North Wales. Europe has to offer. 24 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Travel & Lifestyle Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie… 2018’s Swimwear trends By Lynne McGowan

men’s swimwear Love Brand & Co in Park Walk, Chelsea; they help save wildlife by supporting elephants by donating 5% of the company’s revenues to charity projects. Laurie Nouchka is a London-based artist and designer selling architecture- inspired swimwear. Immersing herself in each and every city, her vivid and unique approach is drawn from urban landscapes throughout her travels around the world. A lingerie and swimwear label catering for the generous bosom shape began with founder Sarah Tremellen, a former researcher for the BBC struggling whilst pregnant to find a good choice of bra that fitted when she went up to a G Cup. Sarah and her friend Hannah Griffiths took an eight-week business course finishing with a business plan they presented to the local bank manager. The presentation won them a £10,000 bank loan to help start Bravissimo, now a successful High Street brand. Cutting a dash by the pool or posing on the shore is a challenge to most unless blessed with model measurements, but here’s a few sneaky tips: an hourglass shape can carry a swimsuit and bikini with a halter neck, a pear shape needs emphasis on top with a bold print, twist or bow, a rectangular shape needs a deep neckline and vivid colour and an apple shape is best in a black one piece with a hint of glamour. We’ll leave those cheeky girls with the slim as a pencil shape to the Itsy Bitsies. Top right: www.prismlondon.com Above: www.auria-london.com Bottom: www.laurienouchka.com

…Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is the jaunty 60s number credited in promoting the said skimpy swimwear. Until then, it was seen as too outré to be acceptable in a municipal pool or public beach. Yes, polka dots are back, but this year we see a modest swing back to the 50s with high waisted bikinis and athletic belted leotards ranging from sleek chic to fancy and feminine. Big ruffles are a plenty off and across the shoulders together with smocking, ruching and frills, charming details, but with a slick, modern slant. Other notable looks are racy corset lacing down fronts or sides and bold tropical palm leaves waving with pineapples and bunches of bananas. Luxury feel fabrics like velvet contrast with quick dry technical and the choice is limitless. Fiery reds, burnt oranges and sunflower yellows make a splash yet subdued dusty pinks and olive greens suit the prettier costumes with finer trims. Looking at locals, London based Prism serves both the beach bunny and the pond patroller, with a chic resort wear shop in Chiltern Street. Cuts are flattering to all ages and shapes with high-waisted bikini bottoms and carefully placed front tie knots to hide and enliven. Speedo in Neal Street is for proper swimmers, not poseurs, who want effortless design, support and a long life in their lycra. Creative swimwear can be found in brands such as Auria London founded by Diana Auria in 2013 who studied at Central St Martins and went on to specialise in lingerie and swim design at the London College of Fashion. Putting environmental and social responsibility at the heart of the brand, swimwear is made using regenerated yarn recycled from discarded fishing nets; it can be found in Selfridges. Another London brand on a global mission is luxury 02025 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 25 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

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OPENING PREVIEW 4 SEPTEMBER MALL GALLERIES, THE MALL, LONDON SW1 travelling to participate. Rather than FULL DETAILS AND EXHIBITORS LIST CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB SITE simply focusing exclusively on buying WWW.TRIBALARTLONDON.COM Tribal Art and selling, the show also contains talks

and presentations that makes the art TribalArtKCWTodayB18.indd 104 12/07/2018 18:21 London 2018 movement a living, breathing thing. In By Max Feldman an interview with ARTKHADE in half of the making of the book. They in Shri Lanka in the 18th/19th century. 2016, Reeves summarised the show as aim for their exhibition at Tribal Art Amongst other items included are a “a cultural fair. Our exhibitors cover all London to be both a source of learning ceremonial female figure from Bathurst fields of tribal art around the globe, and and inspiration for young people. The Island, North Australia, a shrine figure we have a well-developed conference exhibition includes 85 photos and 10 with four heads from West Nepal, and he world has changed an programme, offering debates in fields as short films taken from across 45 African a female dinka corset from the 19th unthinkable amount in the wide as culture or ethnography, the aim countries. Dr Donald Johnson, Director century made with glass beads, cowrie 250 years since Captain Cook being to increase understanding of tribal and founder of Institute of Human shell, and textile. embarked on the first of his famous T art without contenting ourselves with Origins, says of their work “Carol Advance tickets are available for voyages to the Pacific. Cook’s world merely being a strictly commercial fair.” Beckwith and Angela Fisher are not only a series of lectures including Jonathan contained thousands of beautiful truly remarkable photographers, but their Hope on Indonesian Art and Link textile idiosyncratic arts and traditions, many dedication to preserving for all time the traditions, Janie Lightfoot on the African of which have sadly been lost in the Oceanic Art This year’s fair will focus on both the dazzling diversity of African ceremonies Headwear, Conservation and Display, intervening years. The 21st century 250th anniversary of Cook’s voyage by is unparalleled. Their celebration of Roberto Grisci on Indigenous bronzes has seen an explosion in popularity in spotlighting Oceanic Art, supported by African cultures will forever serve as the and alloys from the interior delta of so-called Tribal Art, once the exclusive exhibitions at the British Library and most compelling and passionate portrayal the Niger River from the ninth to the preserve of specialists and museum the Royal Academy as well as African of the splendour of human creativity fourteenth century along with an array of curators, but far more than other art, the art tied in with hosting the launch of from the very continent that gave rise to new exhibitors’ collections. authenticity of the piece is paramount. the astonishing African Twilight; the all humanity.” The fair is in support of EdUKAid, a Tribal Art London, which is returning latest volume of photographers Carol Reeves will be exhibiting a notable small charity based in southern Tanzania to London for the 11th time from Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s visual £620 fine bronze equestrian figure that brings education to disadvantaged, September 5th-8th, was the UK’s first recording of African culture. Beckwith ring made by the Dogon people of rural children. 40% of children drop and remains the only specialist event for and Fisher’s collaboration is the result of Mali, crafted in the first half of the out of school before they turn 10 years collectors of tribal art. 15 years’ worth of work and the 846 page 20th Century. He is also exhibiting a old. Since 2003 EdUKAid has affected Bryan Reeves, the co-organiser collection, is a searingly powerful vision rare £2400 Luvale mask, made in the 14,000 children’s lives. of the fair, has been dealing tribal art of a world that is already disappearing Zambia and Angola border region. and adornments he uncovered from into legend. Of the astounding rituals Reeves partner in organising the fair, Free admission across a vanishing world for over 25 and ceremonies, religion, and culture Adam Prout will be exhibiting a 19th 5th 8th September years. Over the 11 years of it’s existence that feature in the book, over 40% of century Kris board depicting a British Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 Tribal Art London has become one the images represent cultural practices redcoat equestrian figure, made in the For more information visit: of the key nexuses for tribal art, with that have died out in the decade and a 19th century, and a Jewellery Box made www.tribalartlondon.com collectors from around the world 26 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

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Drawing on superb design included, from cooks to Codebreakers. even Kensington Palace being walkable, to negotiate the most favourable terms and evocative scores, choreographers 01908 640404 there is more than enough to do right on for L/Cs, as well as helping them to Liam Scarlett, Russell Maliphant and The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood our doorstep. reduce the risks and costs associated with Akram Khan have created dance pieces Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB T: 020 7937 7211 presenting documents to the bank. full of unforgettable and haunting bletchleypark.org.uk Scarsdale Place, Kensington 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP images. London, W8 5SY londonchamber.co.uk 020 7863 8000 Ongoing www.kccc.co.uk Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London Special Forces: In the Shadows October 1-3 EC1R 4TN National Army Museum September 18 United Nations Procurement Company sadlerswells.com The exhibition will look at the work Putney Business Hub Mission of these units through seven distinct 6.00-9.00 pm See website for information September 27-29 areas: UK Special Forces, Making the Networking event The Enterprise Europe Network at Remembrance: The Four Seasons Cut, Training and Skills, Operations, 020 3876 7556 LCCI is organising a United Nations Peacock Theatre Popular Culture, Why the Secrecy? and Lahore Central Restaurant, 240 Upper Procurement company mission. The A visual and musical feast of passion, Your Reaction. A wide range of objects Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 6TG mission will visit Geneva and will offer hope and remembrance. 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Also included Wandsworth Chamber Big Breakfast & DANCE & OPERA the whirlwind romance between the will be personal testimonies, video and AGM great Marie Rambert and the dashing photography. 8-10.30 am August 31 playwright Ashley Dukes and the 020 7730 0717 Venue: Bread Central, Unit C, Molasses Show & Prove the Battles personal anguish created by their sudden Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London House, Plantation Wharf, Battersea, Rich Mix separation as Dukes is called back to the SW3 4HT SW11 3TN An exciting spectacle in collaboration horrors of the battlefield. This beautiful nam.ac.uk 020 7978 5055 with Tramp Haüs Collective. A battle piece is set to Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s For more information: www. event with an all-star judge line up, Day which will be played live. August 22 – September 3 wandsworthchamber.org/events cash prizes and free giveaways to be 020 7863 8222 Summer Fine Art Group Exhibition won. Show & Prove the Battles aims to Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, 508 Gallery King's Road attract some of the highest talent, in Holborn, WC2A 2HT A celebration of International Art with September 27 competition to prove who really is the peacocktheatre.com over 17 artists coming from Austria, MyLifeMix – Free Business Start Up best of the best. Previous years have seen USA, China, Germany, India, France, Course for Women in London entries from Got to Dance competitors; December 3 – January 15 Switzerland, UK, Israel and Japan. A unique opportunity for creative, Kieran Lai known as the ‘Tinman’, The Nutcracker 020 3719 3109 enterprising women interested in Theo ‘Godson’ Oloyade, Mindtrick, Royal Opera House 508 King's Rd, Chelsea, London exploring self-employment is coming Savage Saint of IMD Legion and well- A Christmas treat for the whole family SW10 0LD on 27th September. This course for established dancers such Frankie J and and a classic with a special place in the 508kingsroad.com budding women entrepreneurs of any Toby ‘Shush’ Jackman. hearts of ballet fans around the world. age deliver not just business skills, but 020 7613 7498 020 7240 1200 Ends September 1 structured support with the process of 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London Bow St, London WC2E 9DD 50 Glorious Shows! thinking through the complex issues E1 6LA roh.org.uk Cartoon Museum around balancing other responsibilities richmix.org.uk This exhibition celebrates the world 02027 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 27 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk of British cartoons and comics with Freud, his wife, Martha, and their over 170 original works, many by the daughter Anna left Vienna forever. On past masters of the British tradition of the same day, Freud sent a note to his cartooning. For those who love a laugh friend, the writer, Arnold Zweig. In it there are many great joke cartoonists he wrote, briefly, “Leaving today for both past and present. 39 Elsworthy Road, London NW3.” 020 7580 8155 Featuring original documents, letters 35 Little Russell St, Bloomsbury, and objects, many of which have never London WC1A 2HH been on public display before, this major cartoonmuseum.org new exhibition will reveal the stories of Freud’s and his family’s escape and Ends September 23 exile. Key items include the original Aftermath: Art in the Wake of documents required for Freud and his World War One family to leave Austria and enter Britain, Tate Britain Freud’s personal correspondence – Marking the 100 years since the end of including with celebrated figures such as World War One, this exhibition looks at Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells – and how artists responded to the physical and personal belongings. psychological scars left on Europe. Art 020 7435 2002 was used in many ways in the tumultuous 20 Maresfield Gardens, London period after the end of the war; from NW3 5SX documenting its destructive impact, to freud.org.uk the building of public memorials and as a social critique. This fascinating and September 5 – 8 moving exhibition shows how artists Tribal Art London 2018 reacted to memories of war in many Mall Galleries ways. Celebrating Oceanic Art and African 020 7887 8888 Culture, Indigenous and tribal art and Millbank, Westminster, London artefacts, no longer the preserve of SW1P 4RG museum curators and ethnographers, tate.org.uk are an important element of today’s art market. 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O2 Arena with gold hands and roman numeral hour markers. 020 7921 0943 Dinosaurs will once again roam when Estimate: £5,000-8,000 Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank the globally-acclaimed production, Centre, London SE1 8XX Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena southbankcentre.co.uk Spectacular, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series, returns in 2018 Ends September 30 for its final ever tour, starring Michaela Jewellery, Watches & Coins: 12 September Money and Medals: Mapping the UK's Strachan as ‘Huxley’ the palaeontologist. numismatic collections The show stops at The O2 between Antiques & Fine Art: 13 September British Museum 14-19 August 2018. This updated Numismatics is the study of coins, production will showcase spectacular and Clocks & Antique Furniture: 14 September medals, banknotes and associated objects. colourful changes to the dinosaurs based The Money and Medals Network builds on the latest scientific research, including and develops relationships between UK the likely feathering of some species. Viewing: museums with numismatic collections. 020 8463 2000 This display explains the project and Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX Saturday 8 September: 10am-2pm showcases highlights of its work across theo2.co.uk the country so far. Monday 10 September: 9am-5pm 020 7323 8299 August 16, September 6 Tuesday 11 September: 9am-7pm Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London Walking Tour: Bat Walk WC1B 3DG Kensington Gardens Days of sale britishmuseum.org This hour and a half tour takes place at dusk, as London's bats are coming out Ends September 30 to play. 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noctules. Play a fun quiz to separate bat and promote London as the design This year the V&A, Natural History snapping up tickets to experience the facts from bat fiction and enjoy using capital of the world. With over 300 Museum, Imperial College London, truly hair-raising experience! Measuring bat detectors that make the bat's echo- partners across the city, operating in 9 Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, 178m, The Slide is the world’s tallest and location calls audible to the human ear. Design Districts, in 2017 the festival Royal College of Music and Goethe- longest tunnel slide. Travel down the Bats are not the only creatures out at welcomed an estimated audience of Institut will welcome young people UK’s tallest public artwork through light night, owl calls may add to the evening's 420,000 visitors from over 75 countries. considering careers in the creative and dark sections as London’s dramatic atmosphere and perhaps a curious fox 2018 will be the 10th year of the London industries to a day of talks, workshops skyscape passes by. The Slide twists will cross our path as well! Design Festival at the V&A, and to and behind the scenes tours on Friday and turns 12 times, including a tight 0300 061 2000 celebrate this the museum is planning a 23rd November. For more information, corkscrew section named the ‘bettfeder’ London W2 2UH bumper festival programme of exciting please visit: after the German word for ‘bedspring.’ It royalparks.org.uk and cutting-edge installations, displays discoversouthken.com ends with a 50 metre straight run to the and events by some of the world’s most ground. In the exhilarating 40-second August 24-26 exciting designers. FAMILY & CHILDREN trip, riders are expected to hit speeds of CarFest 2018 020 7242 6022 up to 15 miles per hour. The unmissable family festival is gearing londondesignfestival.com Ongoing 0800 0722 110 up for its seventh year this summer. Explore the Galleries See website for how to get there Offering a medley of incredible cars, November 30 – December 2 Natural History Museum queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk great food, live music and a rich mix of Amaze From dinosaurs to mammals, explore family entertainment, this year, CarFest Olympia the amazing diversity of life on Earth. Ends August 26 will be bursting with fun for CarFesters Amaze Expo, formerly known as Big Follow our planet's evolution and The Everywhere Bear of all ages. Final tickets for CarFest Boys Toys, is the innovation and luxury walk beneath a 25.2-metre blue whale Polka Theatre North and South 2018 are now on sale lifestyle exhibition launching at Olympia skeleton. Take a journey through the The Everywhere Bear has a wonderful on the CarFest website. In the last six London. Come explore the world's most spectacular Earth sculpture and find out time with the children in Class One, but years the two annual events have raised groundbreaking, state-of-the-art and about the tremendous forces that shape one day he gets more than he bargained an incredible £10.5 million for BBC innovative products and services from our planet. See scientists at work in the for when he falls unnoticed from a Children in Need, whilst entertaining an array of global manufacturers. There Darwin Centre and enjoy the tranquil backpack and embarks on his own big more than 600,000 festival-goers of all is something for everyone, even if you habitats of the Wildlife Garden. adventure! He’s washed down a drain ages with its unique and wonderfully are just 'window shopping', you will 020 7942 5511 and whooshed out to sea, rescued by a eclectic mix of music, cars, food and fun, discover new and desirable cars, yachts, Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 fishing boat, loaded onto a lorry, carried and 2018 promises to be the best year private jets, holidays, fashion, beauty, art, 5BD off by a seagull… how will he ever make yet. technology and more. nhm.ac.uk it back to Class One? See website for venues +91 80 500 40 777 020 8543 4888 carfest.org Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith, Ongoing 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London London W14 8UX Ride the Slide at the Arcelormittal Orbit SW19 1SB September 15 – 23 amaze-london.com Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park polkatheatre.com London Design Festival London’s most exciting attraction, The London Design Festival is an annual November 23 Slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit opened August 18-19 nine-day festival that exists to celebrate Creative Quarter 2018 in June 2016 and visitors have been Teletubbies Live 02029 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 29 EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

he new academic year offers that define this era of profound change. its Learning Academy, a new initiative 10 fascinating subjects, each High Renaissance to Baroque will to offer adult visitors unprecedented led by expert historians and bring to life how seismic social changes access to the museum’s world-renowned practitioners.T Across 3 terms, students produced new artistic imaginations. collections and expertise. Of all the will gather at the museum in South Ceramics: Ancient to Modern celebrates Learning Academy’s diverse adult Kensington for one inspiring day of masterpieces of the material as objects learning programming, the museum’s gallery talks and lectures per week. With for daily use, religion or ritual, collecting Year Courses offer the most in-depth and very limited tickets remaining, the V&A and display and as art objects. immersive way to experience different is offering the chance to experience a Arts of South and Southeast Asia, historical periods. Jenny Phelan, the Year Course by joining for the full year, Islamic Middle East will offer insights Learning Academy Course Programme one of three terms, or a single day. into identifying distinct regional Manager explains how the V&A strives Reflecting the wealth of expertise that characteristics across a vast range of to make adult learning more accessible exists within the V&A, the Year Courses artistic practices. and rewarding: bring the 5,000 years of human creativity The Classical World and its Afterlife ‘We are very excited to launch this that the museum collects and exhibits to explores limitless source of inspiration vibrant and exciting selection of Year life. that Ancient Greece and Rome have Courses with a great mix of new and provided European artists. familiar lecturers and subjects. Working The History of Performance places the European Art & Innovation will closely with passionate course leaders, Studying spotlight on the greatest pioneers of the illustrate one of the most dynamic we have designed an extensive choice stage across Opera, Theatre, and Dance. periods in the history of western art of experiences that take students on an at the V&A Textiles: Ancient to Modern will weave through extensive access to V&A inspiring journey across 36 weeks. Due through the most outstanding techniques collections. to exceptional demand last year, we are Offering unrivalled insight and designs from around the world that London Life and Times: Medieval to also thrilled to be able to offer lower into the history and practice of exist in the museum’s collections. Modern travels through the city’s early prices this year on all courses, plus price Early Medieval offers rich historical days as a feudal kingdom to a modern reductions for Seniors (60+), Disabled art, design and performance, context across the 4th to the mid-13th metropolis. Persons and Jobseekers.’ the V&A’s hugely popular century through a study of captivating buildings and artefacts. Having delivered high-quality learning To view all V&A courses and find out year-long courses begin in Late Medieval to Early Renaissance experiences for adults for over 30 years, more information on tickets available, September. will uncover the stylistic developments in 2017, the V&A officially launched please visit vam.ac.uk/courses

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are making significant progress. This, of they return to us in September. course, does not happen by accident. As For me, the highlight of the year, Ofsted highlighted, “Leaders have used and evidence, if we needed any, of the expert advice, including visits to other children’s progress, was the Chinese schools internationally, in order to realise Class Assembly presentation given in their intentions of creating a setting June; every child spoke and sang in

Photographs © Kensington Wade © Kensington Photographs where children become proficient in Chinese so eloquently and confidently, English and Mandarin.” Mrs Jo Wallace, I was, quite frankly, filled with awe, and our school’s Head Teacher, last year, not ashamed to say, very proud and before the school opened, attended the quite emotional. What was particularly National Chinese Language Conference, impressive was a comment made by run by the Asia Society, in San Francisco. one of our Chinese parents after the During this trip, she also had the presentation, who observed that it was opportunity to visit several immersive virtually impossible to tell the difference bilingual English and Mandarin schools, between the Mandarin spoken by the of which there are nearly two hundred children for whom it was a new language in the USA. Jo came back with a model and those for whom it was their mother she knew could, and did, work. This year tongue! returning to the conference, now held Inspired by the children’s progress, I adult English speaker to learn. Nara and in Salt Lake City, she took with her have over the summer break been trying The Language of her classmates have had the advantage our Chinese Curriculum Co-ordinator, hard to grasp some more Mandarin, of being exposed to a fully immersive Wang laoshi, and our Chairman, to prove Nara wrong; that the English the Classroom: bilingual English and Mandarin Professor Hugo de Burgh. We are so teachers are learning as well as the Giving pupils an early head education for a whole school year, and, excited to put in place all they learnt and children. However, I know that with the most importantly, from a very early age. observed at many seminars, informal benefits an immersive education that start So, have the children made significant talks with Mandarin teaching experts, she, and her cohort, will experience in Wendy Archibald, progress in learning Mandarin during and visits to other immersive bilingual the months and years ahead, the gap this historic first year in the life of schools, as we take our children on the between their progress and mine will Deputy Head, Kensington Wade? Ofsted’s answer next part of their bilingual journey when only continue to increase. Kensington Wade School would be a resounding, yes. The school was inspected by Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) in May this year; it judged Kensington Wade to be rs Wallace,” says Nara an Outstanding school and the report (aged 4), “I notice that the included the following statement: children are learning the “Children, many of whom do not come “MChinese words to the song better than from Chinese-speaking families, make the teachers.” Nara, of course, is right. excellent progress in learning to speak, The context for her observation is the read and write Mandarin. Staff promote 肯辛顿・威德 learning of a song, about the days of the children’s language and communication Dual Language English-Chinese Prep School week. I, as their music teacher (with no skills in both languages very effectively”. previous experience of Mandarin before It also went on to say: “In the Chinese 3-11 years joining Kensington Wade), taught them classroom, children are immersed in a the verse in English, then Zhang laoshi, Mandarin-speaking environment. This, “A unique and inspirational school”- Ofsted Report, 2018 one of our Chinese teachers, taught together with focused adult-led activities them the same verse in Mandarin. All for mathematics, reading and writing Rated “outstanding” in all areas children (aged between three and five in Mandarin, has enabled children to years old), were singing both verses understand and use the language well. equally confidently regardless of their All children, and particularly those mother tongue, within a couple of who do not speak Mandarin at home, weeks. This was not the case with the make very strong progress in this area of English speaking members of staff. learning.” Why? The answer is almost certainly It was, of course rewarding for the because, Mandarin is, arguably, the most staff to have confirmation of what they difficult language in the world for an already knew; that indeed, the children

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or those with time to study during the day we have Certificates / Diploma courses in Arabic, FChinese and Japanese. These recognised qualifications have been proven to advance career prospects in variety of international companies and organisations or they can lead to an undergraduate degree. SOAS is one of the few places in the UK that offers recognised postgraduate qualifications in the Communicative Teaching of Arabic or Chinese. We are perhaps best known for our evening courses, which cover an unparalleled range of European and Wade © Kensington Photographs non-European languages at levels from Beginners to Advanced. Language teaching is both our passion and our expertise. We continually diversify and up-date courses to give as much choice as possible. We now teach European languages, though the languages of Africa, Asia or the Middle East remain central to our mission. We believe that these languages are the key to understanding the distinctiveness of African, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures and their contribution to multicultural societies around the world. Language diversity is a phenomenon to be valued and preserved through increasing the number of speakers of different world languages. Knowing the language(s) of a society is the key to accessing its distinct ways of formulating and communicating ideas and this enriches our understanding of the global village in which we live today. The “Language teaching presents its own unique challenges and We hope that you will come and increasing interest of the UK in forging dealing with them is part of the fun and explore with us how learning a new trade and commercial partnerships is both our passion the satisfaction of mastering a foreign language will open up new horizons for beyond the confines of Europe make the language. you and change the way you view the gaining of at least functional competence and our expertise” All that can confidently be said world. You will definitely find language in one of these languages even more about learning any language is that study, whichever language you choose, relevant than ever. regular systematic study, interesting and a rich and rewarding experience. What Some people are hesitant about interactive learning activities and the better way to kick off the autumn than learning a non-European language, support of an enthusiastic and inspiring to discover a new world by learning a especially if the pronunciation involves teacher are key to success. You will language? different tones or because the writing find these key ingredients at SOAS is not based on the Latin alphabet. Yet Language Centre. Our fun interactive English is also full of strange expressions classes, taught by native speaker teachers, Language Centre, that puzzle its learners and the European are scheduled on weekday evenings or SOAS University Of London languages that we teach (French, Italian, Saturday mornings or afternoons, so you www.soas.ac.uk Portuguese, Spanish) also have their can take a class that fits in with your 22 Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG own idiosyncracies. Every language lifestyle. T: 020 7898 4888 34 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

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While it is no secret that children are the of 20 outperformed native speakers in a It’s worth pointing out the difference best at learning a language, a new study Facebook quiz. This is despite many in in the learning process for young Learning a from MIT has shown that adults are the media claiming that it’s impossible children and adults when it comes to completely capable of passing as native to reach the level of a native if you start languages. Someone under the age of language as an speakers. If you start learning before you after the age of 10 (or 18 in some cases). 5 is not spending an hour or two every adult turn 18 you are at a much better chance While on average it is harder for late day learning with a book studying By Fahad Redha of mastering a language’s grammar than learners to reach that level, it is certainly the language. They are exposed to it if you start later. not impossible. This data from MIT constantly throughout the day. Someone However, many students who seems to show that there are thousands over the age of 20 is unlikely to have started learning English after the age of people who started learning after the enough time to go to school for several age of 20 and achieved a hours a day just to learn a language. score in the quiz that a But all of this shows that it is certainly native would. possible to pick up a new language as an This was of course adult and learn to speak it proficiently. after years of studying Whether you want to take a course such the language, though as one at Westminster Adult Education you could say the same Services or try your luck with an app like for natives! How many Duolingo, there are plenty of resources to years? It seems that by aid you. 8-10 years of “exposure” Depending on what that language is, it to the language, learners may have very unusual grammar rules its perform just as well as own writing system, or even words and native speakers. While concepts for which there is no equivalent they did score below those in English. One example is that spoken who began at a younger by some Australian Aborigine groups. age, this shows that we These tongues have no concept of left or are still more than capable right, or forwards and backwards. Instead of learning a language they would refer to one hand as their well into adulthood. By ‘east hand’ until they turned around and 20 years of study there it became their ‘west hand.’ This is known is a negligible difference as absolute direction. between those who started But this is what makes it so much before or after 20 years more appealing. Tell your friends and old, with only those who family you can draw and they will smile started much earlier politely. Tell them you speak Guugu scoring significantly Yimithirr and they will sit up and take better. notice. 02035 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 35 EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

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Ends September 8 women who choose to practice this speak to heart, head and soul, exploring Dafydd Jones: The Last Hurrah tradition. through songs and readings the great Ongoing Photographers’ Gallery 020 7749 1240 classical music of our religious heritage. London Duck Tours British photographer Dafydd Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA Free entry. A retiring collection is taken Hop aboard one of London Duck Tours’ Jones (b.1956) has worked as social autograph.org.uk to support the work of St Martin-in-the- distinctive yellow vehicles and enter photographer since the early 1980s, Fields. the wonderful world of amphibious contracted by such publications as Tatler, Ends November 3 020 7766 1100 travel. It is far more exciting than just Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, Liberty / Diaspora Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ an ordinary sightseeing bus tour or river The Sunday Telegraph, The Times and Autograph stmartin-in-the-fields.org trip. See some of London’s most talked Independent. After winning a prize Liberty: A Universal Chronology of about sights, learn interesting facts in a photography competition run by Black Protest reinterprets defining August 30 about the city and be entertained by an The Sunday Times magazine in 1981 moments of historical revolt and black There is Nothin’ Like a Dame action packed live commentary before with a set of pictures of the ‘Bright struggle in Africa and the diaspora, Cadogan Hall the thrilling splashdown onto the river Young Things,' Jones was hired by exploring what unifies and defines these Celebrating 100 years of women in Thames! Tatler magazine editor Tina Brown to fights for freedom and human rights. Musical Theatre, four of the most iconic 020 7928 3132 photograph Hunt Balls, society weddings These images challenge monolithic West End’s leading ladies of our time 55 York Road, Lambeth, London and debutante dances. This exhibition history-telling, featuring key events such come together for one night only as SE1 7NJ explores Jones’s behind-the-scenes as the Alabama marches on Washington they journey through the last century of londonducktours.co.uk images taken in the years that followed, (Selma 1965), lesser known resistance musicals. Louise Dearman, Ria Jones, between 1981-1989, known as ‘The movements against colonial oppression Alexia Khadime and Rachel Tucker August 15 Tatler Years’. in south-eastern Nigeria (The Women’s will blow you away with their never- My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa 020 7087 9300 War 1929) and the more recent before-heard renditions of some of your Moshfegh in conversation 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London Million Hoodie March in New York favourite songs in a once in a lifetime Foyles W1F 7LW which inspired the Black Lives Matter concert. From Porter to Lloyd Webber, Booker shortlisted author of the critically thephotographersgallery.org.uk movement. Hammerstein to Schwartz, hear these acclaimed Eileen Otessa Mosfegh 020 7749 1240 ultimate musical show-stoppers sung by presents an evening of conversation Ends September 30 Rivington Place, London, RE2A 3BA some of the best actresses of our time. around her new novel My Year of The Great British Seaside autograph.org.uk 020 7730 5744 Rest and Relaxation; a dark and often National Maritime Museum 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia, London hilarious trip down the rabbit hole Celebrating beach photography by some MUSIC SW1X 9DQ with a narrator who has chosen to leave of Britain’s most popular photographers, cadoganhall.com the world behind in favour of a drug- featuring Tony Ray Jones, David Hurn August 17 induced hibernation. Ottessa will discuss and Simon Roberts and new work by Laura Frances Full Band Show September 24 – October 26 her new novel along with the disparate Martin Parr at the National Maritime Harrison Bar Das Rheingold and spiritually dispossessed characters Museum in Greenwich, London Laura Frances is a haunting new voice Royal Opera House that she creates followed by a signing – National Maritime Museum in UK alt-folk, with a startling depth Antonio Pappano conducts the first chairperson. 020 8312 6565 and a richly intense tone that instantly opera in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des 020 7434 1574 Park Row, Greenwich, London marks her out as one to watch, a unique Nibelungen, with a cast including John 107 Charing Cross Road SE10 9NF new addition to the folk world. A dark, Lundgren and Johannes Martin Kränzle. foyles.co.uk rmg.co.uk contralto Joni Mitchell, her songs are Bow St, London WC2E 9DD delivered with a refreshing brevity, 020 7240 1200 September 1 October 18-November 9 wrapped in a cloak of misty melodies roh.org.uk Wheel of Life Explained Lorfords London from a world rich in mystical imagery, Kadampa Meditation Centre London Iconic Moments where everything is half-hidden. She TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS (Kensington) Exhibition of Photographs plays tonight with her full 5-piece band. Join Guest teacher, experienced Buddhist by Michael Ward 0207 278 3966 See website for dates Nun, Gen Kelsang Lekma for an Michael Ward (1929 - 2011) was a 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, London Hidden London inspiring day course that will change renowned photographer with an eye for WC1H 8JF London Transport Museum your life. The Wheel of Life was a the unexpected and the authentic. He harrisonbar.co.uk Hidden London is London Transport diagram drawn by Buddha and teaches worked as a press photographer on the Museum’s exclusive programme of tours the complete path to enlightenment Sunday Times for more than thirty years, August 19 and events at disused stations and secret as well as detailing the six realms of specialising in pictures of actors, writers, Old Time & Bluegrass Session sites across London. Led by experienced existence. Included within it are Buddha’s painters, politicians and even the royalty. The Harrison Gastro Pub & Hotel guides, ready to share unusual and little- teachings on The Four Noble Truths, Curated by Daniel Mankowitz. Come and join Sleepy Ed Hicks & known stories surrounding the stations’ telling us what we should know, what we 9 Langton Street, friends for an evening of Old Time varied histories, these visits offer an should abandon, what we should practice London, music. Open session for musicians exciting opportunity to explore locations and what we should attain as well as SW10 0JL of all levels. Free to listen or to play. rarely seen by the public. the twelve-dependent-related links 020 3133 3434 8-11pm on the ground floor. Come… 020 7379 6344 that reveal the inner mechanism that www.lorfordsantiques.com eat, drink and be merry. Sunday Roasts Covent Garden Piazza, London perpetuates a life of suffering. Open to are served all day until they run out and WC2E 7BB all, everyone will enjoy this enlightening, Ends November 3 a full dinner menu will be served from ltmuseum.co.uk practical and contemplative event. Purdah - The Sacred Cloth 6-9.30pm. 020 7937 7567 Autograph 020 7278 3966 Ongoing 27-33 Earls Court Road, Kensington. Arpita Shah’s photographs portray 28 Harrison St, Kings Cross, London Guided Walks W8 6ED women from the Muslim, Sikh and WC1H 8JF See website for more kmclondon.org Hindu communities in Scotland, who harrisonbar.co.uk Guided walks and treasure hunts which practice the tradition of head covering or hope to enable you to discover new September 5 – October 7 veiling. Shah highlights the significance August 23 places and look at London with new Overcoming Stress & Frustration with of the Purdah – the ‘sacred cloth’ – and Great Sacred Music: Mendelssohn Hear eyes. These walking tours are for those Buddhist monk, Gen Kelsang its deeply personal meanings to the My Prayer who love London and want to make Gomchen women she collaborated with as part of St Martin-in-the-Fields the most of their time here, no matter Kadampa Meditation Centre London the project. Her portraits seek to address An exploration of Mendelssohn’s famous whether it's a weekend or a lifetime. (Kensington) the common misconceptions around the choral work, alongside other choral Who knows, you may love London a Stress, frustration and anger are common tradition of head covering and veiling works reflecting on the text and the little bit more! experiences in modern life. These painful through representations of contemporary composer. A 35-minute sequence to londonguidedwalks.co.uk states of mind can easily arise when 02039 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 EVENTS SUPPLEMENT online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Stafford Deputy Military Lieutenant, The Auxiliary Mrs Lesley Knighton MBE DL. Andy Comyn, Col ( Rtd) Alison Brown, Territorial Service Vice President of WRAC Association, Photographs © ATS and Padre Reverend Sue Wing of the (ATS) WRAC Association. Celebrates the 80th Another heroic lady present was Charmaine ‘Bimbo’ Coleman, who Anniversary of its Founding. acquired her nickname from a Jim Reeves song popular at the time. She has recently endured wind pressure up to 100 miles per hour on a ‘wing walk’ The National Memorial she undertook for charity. She has also performed skydives in tandem, also for Arboretum at Alrewas in WRAC aged 17 years as a heavy goods charity. Charmaine served in the WRAC Staffordshire set the scene for vehicle driver. She has also won two and in the Royal Military Police in the gold medals for Team GB at the 2004 Middle East, Cyprus, Germany and an evocative reunion of brave Olympics. She said, Northern Ireland. She is a happy resident ladies, heroines actually, of “I am so proud to have served my of Royal Hospital Chelsea and harbours country and served alongside so many a wish to abseil down the Shard! World War II who had served inspirational women”. Helen Andrews was recruited to in the ATS and the Women's Nancy Tipton, who was present at the work at Bletchley Park at a very young Celebrations, joined the ATS aged 17 age as she had excellent language skills. Royal Army Corps (WRAC). years and she referred to happy memories The work at Bletchley was so secret even dancing in RAF aerodromes and doing her parents did not know what she was The July sun shone on the peaceful route drills in Guildford. doing. The operation remained secret countryside as Dame Kelly Holmes re The oldest member of the WRAC until 1975. There are many unsung dedicated the 'Lady ATS Statue' in the Association present was Betty Webb. heroes of World War II and those who WRAC Association Plot. This life-size She is President of the Birmingham worked at Bletchley are among them. statue by Andy Comyn shows an ATS Branch. Betty was a code breaker at Their work shortened the War, thus woman wearing basic khaki uniform. Bletchley Park. She believes the value of saving huge loss of lives. It was originally unveiled in 2006 as a the WRAC Association is maintaining The 80th Anniversary of the memorial of the role played by women camaraderie, making new friends and, Founding of the ATS was celebrated at in World War II. It has recently been most importantly, sharing something all the National Memorial Arboretum, in restored and moved to the WRAC Plot these women have in common. July, 2018 in a fitting manner with pride, at the National Memorial Arboretum. Several Dignitaries attended the patriotism and dignity. Dame Kelly Holmes joined the Anniversary Celebrations including Marian Maitland we encounter challenging situations implemented, and can further be used to and difficult people. If anger is not predict sounds of liquid methane lakes recognized early on it becomes a on Titan, returning to Earth to explore Come and support poison that destroys our happiness and the interaction between sound and King Edward VII’s Hospital can interfere with our relationships. bubbles used by whales and dolphins. This revealing series of meditation 020 74 51 2500 classes will introduce several methods 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, for recognizing, reducing and finally SW1Y 5AG removing this destructive habit from our royalsociety.org mind, helping us to experience the peace AUTUMN AUTUMN and freedom that we all long for. Each Annual Reception session will include a combination of September 15 APPEAL APPEAL teachings and meditation with an Alcohol and Humans: A Long and 2018 2018 opportunity to ask questions at the end. Social Affair Past Present & Futur e Everyone Welcome. The British Academy 020 7937 7567 The prevailing tendency to view alcohol An evening of commemoration and celebration 27-33 Earls Court Road, Kensington. merely as a ‘social problem’ or the popular at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London W8 6ED notion that alcohol only serves to provide AUTUMN kmclondon.org us with a ‘hedonic’ high, masks its on Thursday 27 September 2018, 6.30pm – 9.30pm importance in the social fabric of many APPEAL September 5 human societies both past and present. Champagne2018 reception Military Wives Choir The acoustic bubble: climate change, To understand alcohol use as a complex Pipes & Drums of The Royal Dragoon Guards Raffle prizes spaceships, dolphins, and the antibiotic social practice that has been exploited apocalypse by humans for thousands of years King Edward VII’s Hospital is one of London’s foremost independent hospitals, The Royal Society requires cross-disciplinary insight from with a proud military heritage dating back to 1899. Gas bubbles submerged in liquids are a wide range of science and humanities 120 years later, we continue to support men and women who have served in the powerful sources and scatterers of sound disciplines. This conference will examine British Armed Forces. We are a charity providing the very best medical care for Veterans, fields. 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London's Victoria Palace 18th September Theatre. The Origins of Romanticism 0844 482 5138 The Museum of London Victoria St, Westminster, Jonathan Bate take us on a journey London SW1E 5EA through the history of Romanticism and victoriapalacetheatre.co.uk asking the question 'What do we mean by Romanticism?' Ends August 28 6pm The Last Days of Anne 020 7831 0575 Boleyn Gresham College, Barnard's Hall, Tower of London Holborn, EC1N 2HH This summer step into [email protected] 1536 and follow the last 17 days of Anne Boleyn August 25 in a new outdoor theatre Flypast at Bletchley Park performance on the South Visit Bletchley Park for the day and Lawn at the Tower of experience a fantastic Flypast Spitfire London. The Last Days over the historic grounds. Timing of the of Anne Boleyn explores flypast is to be confirmed. her tragic final days at 01908 640404 the famous fortress, from The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood her imprisonment and Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB interrogation, through to bletchleypark.org.uk her trial and execution. Suitable for all ages, the THEATRE performance is a theatrical spectacle that tells the Ongoing story of this extraordinary Bat out of Hell woman, who continues Dominion Theatre to fascinate us nearly five Meat Loaf has joined forces with the hundred years later. songwriter who helped make him a St Katharine's & Wapping, world-class rock star, to create a long- London EC3N 4AB awaited stage musical featuring a host 0844 482 7777 of his best-loved tunes. The very best hrp.org.uk of all three Bat Out of Hell albums has been combined to create a musical that Ends August 26 no serious rocker will want to miss, with Hamlet a futuristic plot twisty enough to satisfy Globe Theatre the fussiest theatregoer. Welcome to Learning of his father’s the future, where young Strat will do death, Prince Hamlet comes anything for love… including risking the home to find his uncle wrath of Falco, the despotic leader of the married to his mother and dysfunctional, post-apocalyptic world. installed on the Danish London SW10 9ED First of England get his trade deal? 020 7927 0900 throne. At night, the ghost of the old finboroughtheatre.co.uk 020 7928 0060 268-269 Tottenham Court Rd, Fitzrovia, king demands that Hamlet avenge Brad Street London SE1 8TN London W1T 7AQ his ‘foul and most unnatural murder.’ Ends September 30 waterlooeast.co.uk dominion.theatre-tickets.com Encompassing political intrigue and Sounds and Sorcery Celebrating sexual obsession, philosophical reflection Fantasia September 14 – October 13 Ongoing and violent action, tragic depth and wild The Vault The Outsider The Book of Mormon humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the story This summer the underground Coronet Print Room Prince of Wales Theatre of the English language and the fullest world of The Vaults presents a new The Outsider is the story of Mersault, a The Book of Mormon has book, music expression of Shakespeare’s genius. immersive music concert experience young French clerk in 1940s Algeria, and lyrics by South Park creators Matt 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT inspired by Disney Fantasia; Sounds disengaged from a world in which Stone and Trey Parker, and the mind shakespearesglobe.com and Sorcery. Arrive at your destination he doesn’t really fit. Following his behind the hit musical Avenue Q, Robert underneath Waterloo station, collect unemotional response to the death of Lopez. The show follows the journey of Ends September 1 your headphones at the door and step his mother, and his senseless killing of two Mormon missionaries who travel Homos, or Everyone in America inside the tunnels. It's time for a dance someone he barely knows under the glare to Africa to preach their religion. They Finborough Theatre with a funky hippo, walk in a prehistoric of the Algerian sun, he finds himself on share their scriptures with a small village Equality is here – now what? In a wasteland, seek out the fairies in a trial not only for the murder but also in Uganda but find it difficult to interest supposedly ‘post-gay’ America on the magical forest and, if you dare, sneak into for his refusal to conform to society’s the locals who have much bigger things brink of passing marriage equality, the Sorcerer's lair. expectations. to worry about: AIDS, famine, and local a first date at a New York bar starts 0207 401 9603 020 3642 6606 warlords. It features hilarious songs like two men on a fearless, funny and Launcelot Street, SE1 7AD 103 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, Hello, All American Prophet, I Believe and fragmented journey leading up to a thevaults.london London W11 3LB I Am Africa. historic moment of change. Jordan the-print-room.org 0844 482 5115 Seavey’s raw and provocative portrait of September 11-23 Coventry St, London W1D 6AS a love story explodes attitudes, emotions Trump the Musical! princeofwalestheatre.co.uk and prejudices that sit at the heart of Waterloo East Theatre relationships across the world. This From the perpetrators of Boris the Ongoing dazzling kaleidoscope of a play asks us all Musical! comes a new satirical, songtastic Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha Hamilton the question – are personal and political extravaganza: Trump the Musical! 2020 Victoria Palace Theatre choices really all that different? Time to make Donald Great Again! But If you have an event that you’d like listed The critically-acclaimed and multi- 0844 847 1652 will Putin work his cyber magic once in the next edition, please send any award-winning Broadway musical at 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, more? 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frozen hills. Meanwhile dark surface blotches appear as extended melt water features. Outside of the Earth these were the first known pools of water in the universe and when sodium atoms were discovered floating above Europa, it quickly became apparent that scientists were dealing with oceans of salt water, albeit deep beneath the icy crust. The problem for scientists, is liquid water exists only in a very narrow pressure and temperature range. Europa is airless and cold between -160 and -220 Celsius, so something else must be at work. The pressure is exerted by the ice which is between 80 and 170kms thick floating on the surface. Then mighty Jupiter exerts its massive tidal forces and so do the other Galilean moons especially Io. Europa is tugged with every orbit, tidally stretching its entire body. The net result is a continuous heat supply, such that its oceans remain in liquid form. Just as with Earth, Europa was bombarded with icy comets containing complex amino acids, the building blocks of life. Since life began in Earths oceans there is no reason to suppose that the same processes couldn’t have simultaneously occurred on Europa, both have had 4.5 billion years to try, and we EUROPA BY SCOTT BEADLE FRAS know one succeeded. A 2016 study suggested that Europa

Top: ere in the valley of Lecrin in order to the right. HR image of Europa's frozen surface; Andalucia, southern Spain, Europa (3100kms/1900mls) is Left: about fifty people gathered similar in size to our own Moon Lineae and ruddy 'Freckles' on Europa to watch the Blood Moon on the (3475kms/2159mls), but there the Europa's stunning H surface detail evening of the 27th July, at La Conca similarities end, for the Moon, vital Below: Arts Club, next to the lake at Beznar. though it may be to the existence of life Europa's stunning We had my old 4” Vixen refractor on Earth (see: What if there was no surface detail Images: Galileo. © telescope on an equatorial mount, a pair Moon, KCW Today June 2000), is a rocky, NASA/JPL/DLR of superb 16x70APM binoculars on a dead world. tripod, and others had brought various Europa on the other hand is an other binoculars, and a small Celestron ice moon, suspected of harbouring a reflector that some of the children had subterranean ocean, and the subject of for Christmas. The seeing conditions that numerous projected NASA and ESA night, other than when the Moon came missions in the early to mid-2020’s. out of the shadow of the Earth around In 1610 when Galileo Galilei 0130-0200hrs in the early morning were discovered the four moons of Jupiter, superb. he could never have known that one, Besides the obviously exciting event Io is the most volcanically violent place itself, there was plenty more to be seen known anywhere and whose surface that night. The incredibly bright Venus suffers a radiation intensity, greater in the constellation Leo following the than any other known object, 5 times produces 10 times more oxygen than setting Sun, and to the south of us, the lethal dose for a human being, and hydrogen, which is very similar to Earth. magnificent Jupiter, “King of the Planets” that the other, Europa may be one Recently water plumes have been in Libra. In the south east you could see of the prime candidates that harbour spotted jetting out from Europa’s the most beautiful planet in the solar extraterrestrial life. South polar region suggesting active system, Saturn, tracking its way through Only after a series of spacecraft cryovolcanism and now scientists are the dense star fields of Sagittarius, missions, the Voyagers in the 70s, Galileo suggesting that there is evidence for a and then low in the east the dazzling in 1989 and New Horizons in 2007 was form of plate tectonics, also considered red planet Mars, moving through the each moon transformed into a unique helpful for the evolution of life. constellation of Capricornus. living world. Spacecraft will visit and one day a The Blood Moon lived up to all In the case of Europa, it was as if lander will drill into the icy surface. The expectations, I think everyone thoroughly something had driven all over it, tracks search for life other than ourselves, will enjoyed the spectacle, but some people crisscrossed its otherwise smooth white never end, but one thing you can be sure were already interested in seeing the surface. Scientists analysed the data of, no human is going there. Although other planets and the brightest, in the and realized that Europa is covered in not as bad as Io, Europa gets a steady best place was Jupiter and interesting, floating ice sheets. These lineae (lines 540 rads of daily radiation from Jupiter, because as you could see our own moon, to the rest of us) indicate where sheets enough to kill a human in 2 days. you could also see all four Galilean rub against each other and where water I think I’ll stick to La Conca Arts moons, Io, to the left of Jupiter and oozes into the airless sky and settles on Club, the telescope and a bottle of fine Callisto, Ganymede and Europa in that both sides of the crevices to form parallel Rioja. 42 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk

Literature "and that little screaming fact from throughout history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed" John Steinbeck

patchwork of tiny farms in an apocalyptic patina of dust. Nothing could grow and, Anniversary bolstered by consecutive droughts, the Dust Bowl reduced a way of life for hundreds of thousands of people into a distant memory. Banks and landowners foreclosed on the arid, almost lunar, The Grapes Of farms and the families who had seen

their livelihood destroyed were forced out Association Securities © Farm Photographs Wrath into an uncertain future. In keeping with their forefathers over 350,000 newly- t a time when the world has destitute Americans desperately decided been baking in a summer which to strike west in the hopes of a better life seems to have no end and in California. The vast majority would headlinesA scream that the only thing not find it. separating mankind from annihilation John Steinbeck had previously been is two degrees on the thermometer, a commissioned to write a series of Non- current reader of The Grapes of Wrath Fiction articles for The San Francisco can keenly appreciate the uncertainty News called The Harvest Gypsies about and fear that even the smallest change the plight of Dust Bowl migrants which in the natural environment can wreck. had sold over 10,000 copies. He took However what happened to the natural that informed knowledge to write a novel environment in America during the that crackles with so much fury and Dust Bowl could not have been referred injustice that it sometimes feels it might to as a ‘small change’ by even the most combust in your hands. Steinbeck follows demented optimist. Decades of bad the (mis)fortunes of the Joad family, farming practices had seen the deep their travails to cross the thousands of rooted grasses which covered the miles of distance to California via Route Midwest, trapping soil and moisture even 66 and the mortal disappointments that tone; Wrath has been publically burned stuck in the past, but there is something in drought conditions, had been torn up await them there. He will frequently pull on several occasions and is the 6th most about Wrath that is strangely un-tethered by farmers and replaced by cropland. As the perspective up to a more God’s eye commonly banned book in American to the period it so effectively records. a direct result of the dust storms which perspective to rail at the malfeasance history. Despite (or because of) its The injustices faced by the forced mass hit mercilessly between 1930-38 in the of the banks, landowners and moneyed notoriety it was the best-selling book movements of displaced peoples are Midwest, were catastrophic. Without classes, who both fear the displaced of 1939 with more than 430,000 copies as relevant as ever and in a world that those hardy grasses there was nothing yet are keen to exploit them for cheap printed by February 1940. Novels that feels increasingly unstable, The Grapes to anchor the fragile topsoil and it was labour. Steinbeck found himself accused set out to hold the writer’s present to Of Wrath is as relevant as the day it was whipped into the air covering the vast of communist sympathies for his raging account naturally have a way of getting written. Pray for a day when it isn’t.

neural network, perhaps reassuringly, had some problems with expressing both Can scientists emotion and meaning. So compared to Shakespeare’s famous ‘Shall I compare create a thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more ‘Robot Frost’? lovely and more temperate.” one of the Photograph © Anamorphium By Max Feldman artificial intelligence efforts begins: “was full his light/so long upon his train/ He softly left from dark, of shining plain/and to the morn, to set her on the way’. Whilst the neural network’s effort is admittedly better poetry than Accomplishments in artificial intelligence most angst ridden 14 year olds write, is often suffer from the problem of moving unfortunately hamstrung by the fact that goalposts: As soon as a machine or the team from IBM and the universities algorithm can accomplish something of Melbourne and Toronto asked non- that has traditionally been the province specialists to distinguish between the of humans, we generally dismiss it. To computer-generated sonnets and the replicate something with a machine is to works, each judge was asked to read 10 show that it has always been mechanical, sonnets and decide whether they were we just had the wrong machines. One written by man or machine. However, aspect of human behavior that has sadly for silicon life forms hoping to reliably eluded mechanical reproduction break into the fine arts; none of the is the creation of art. In Spike Jonze’s judges was fooled by the neural network’s Her, we are presented with a future in efforts. As we move further into the which A.I. is so advanced that it can 21st century the shadow of automation produce a Siri type operating system will only increase, for good or ill. Whilst that Joaquin Phoenix’s moustachioed bots have been making some alarming shut-in falls in love with, but even that Unfortunately for those of us who system to work writing its own poems, (for journalists anyway) strides into level of technological achievement is paid attention during Terminator it following the Shakespearean rhyming automating news writing, it would seem not enough to mechanize his job as a would seem that poetry is no longer scheme. However any professional that the literary arts are still out of reach. writer of romantic correspondence. Or exclusively the purview of carbon- sonnet writers [there must be one or two Considering emotions and artistry seem as summarized more or less by many based life forms. Computer scientists out there] don’t need to worry overly to be one of the few stubborn hold- a person: “Sure, a computer can win at have programmed a “neural network” about being automated out of their outs that can’t be effectively automated, Go. But it could never write a poem or using 2,600 sonnets taken from Project day job just yet. Whilst the AI scripted perhaps the scholastic drive away from compose music that would make you Gutenberg, a free online database of sonnets tended to trump the carbon- the arts into STEM subject might end weep!” out of copyright books, and put the based poets on rhyme and meter, the up doing more harm than good? 02043 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 43 Poetry online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

From Page to Performance

UGUST’S POETRY PAGE SEES A SELECTION OF POEMS from Mahali Isaac, an intern of 16 years who recently spent time working at KCW Today. Poetry is a complex animal. It requires the ability to interact and describeA feelings and experiences that are often complex and confusing at any age. Part of the challenge is to filter these experiences down to a series of fundamental truths, to analyse the causes and effects, and make some sense of the impression they leave behind in words and meter. Then there is the processes of condensing these experiences down, over and over, and into a coherent, yet objective message. What strikes the reader about Mahalia’s poems is that they appear to represent a new era in the making of verse. Here within lies a musicality behind words that is becoming the signature tune of a new generation of writers.

In recent years, we have seen poetry return to an oral tradition that favours poetical improvisation as means of expression. We are revisiting the power of the live performance as a means of delivering lyrical song. In part this could suggest that poetry is looking back nostalgically over its shoulder to its ancient roots. Yet, on the other hand, it appears that the art form has embraced a new world of noise and theatre, continually looking to modernise and be inclusive of different classes and cultures, to incorporate different art forms into the genre. Perhaps the most popular choices are music and theatre. While, the ancient Greeks had the amphitheatre, modern poetry is fed to an audience through YouTube, Poetry Cafes and Slam Sessions. Poetry has become staged and verse lifted from the page into performance. It is here that a new next generation of poets have found their artistic expression and the means to challenge the poetic conventions that have gone before. Arguably, this is purpose of Poetry and what keeps the art form exciting and to be celebrated.

FAKE: I AM DEFINED BY SOCIETY: By Mahali Isaac By Mahali Isaac

I am the person behind the screen, I am defined by the social sphere that we call society. The one who cannot and will not be seen, According to society, The one you speak to everyday, I am ugly. I am weird. I am an outcast. I will never become what I want to be. I know everything about you, your habits and traits, I am defined by society. You tell me everything, never leave me to guess, Society has told me, I will never succeed. My purpose is to 'live'. My sole purpose. You tell me how you think your life is a mess, I am defined by society. Your mother's too controlling and your father's lost his way, Society has made me, shaped me, moulded me, made me, broken me. And you listen and believe me whenever I say: Never fixed me. “I love you, I will never forget you, I miss you” I am defined by society. You are impressionable and tracking you is easy to do, I am idiotic. I am free to speak, but I will never be listened to. When you are so in love which one will you choose, I am too weak to be strong. So you don't lose...me. I am defined by society. Me? I know I am doing wrong, Society's judgements are etched on my skin, leaving scars. Permanent tattoos. But talking to someone like you is fun, They can never be taken away. Here to stay. For the rest of my days. You see me in the street, you pass me by, I am defined by society. You don't know me, you know the 18 year old, guy. Who helps you get by. I am not a size 0 so I am fat. I do not wear makeup so I am ugly. You do not recognise, my disguise, my lies. I am defined by society. So cunningly wise. I do not own the latest fashion. So I have no taste in clothes. I creep into your heart, I communicate with my family, so I am not independent. In there I make my home, down to the bone, I am defined by society. I stay, in here, I am secure, I am a puppet. Society has told me my strings can never be cut. Yet I will try. You never see me and my strange flaws, And despite these labels, I slowly begin to realise that, To you, I am perfect, utterly amazing, Society has become twisted. Society has a distorted view of life and beauty. Strangely fascinating, staggeringly dazing. It is FAKE. Hazing. I am not defined by society. My mask is one that you cannot see, I am beautiful. I am strong. Look a little closer, what do you see, do you still believe? I am not a size 0 that does not mean that I am fat. I do not wear makeup, but I am Yes, you believe still! Forever, I am so sly, not ugly. Stare, be aware, but still, you can never see my lie. I do not own the latest fashion, I am still fashionable. My lies. My many lies. I am not defined by society. 'Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck' Macbeth did say, I communicate with my family, yet, I am independent. Still you cannot understand, you are lead astray, by my way, I am not ugly. I am not weird. I am not an outcast. My ways, my many ways. I am another member of our community. There are many of me, many like me, You are not defined by society. Many like you, who cannot see. It is our uniqueness that makes our society amazingly diverse. Be careful. You are beautiful, you are not ugly. You are strong. I am the person behind the screen. You are another member of our community. Do you still know me? We are UGLY not defined by society.

Compiled & Edited by Emma Trehane MA PhD 44 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

e is held by some to be the illustrators’ illustrator. Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Certainly admired and respected by his peers and Add to that heady list, The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll’s less John Vernon fellow daubers, this small, but perfectly-formed well-known epic poem, that had been illustrated by many artists, Lord Hexhibition at the House of Illustration is a tribute to his including Mervyn Peake, Max Ernst, Helen Oxenbury, Ralph House of Illustration skills. Small and perfectly-formed could also describe Steadman and Peter Blake. Amongst the dozens of artists to his technique. The level of detail he achieves in such tiny illustrate Alice have been Sir John Tenniel, Carroll’s first choice Admission £8.75 formats is extraordinary, although some detractors see this in 1865, H M Brock, Charles Robinson and Arthur Rackham, all houseofillustration.org.uk, as a severe form of anally-retentive behaviour, with an in 1907, Harry Rountree in 1908, Harry Furniss in 1909, Mabel emphasis on obsessive neatness and an attention to detail Lucy Attwell a year later and Harry Riley in 1945. Graham that sometimes overwhelms the actual message he is trying Ovenden published a book in 1972 listing all the illustrators of to convey. He has taken two of the most difficult books Alice, including himself, but he was found guilty of indecency in the English language, namely Ulysses and Finnegans with a child and Tate removed all his paintings from their online Wake, both by James Joyce, and two of the most popular collection. Whether it was a conceit or a genuine attempt to and illustrated books ever produced, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s show what Alice saw and experienced, Lord made a somewhat controversial decision of not including any images of her at all. He argued that you can rarely see yourself in dreams. So, no Alice, but there are plenty of other characters that we have met in various forms in print. I never finished the almost impenetrable Finnegans Wake, only getting as far as ‘riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,’ (which happens to be the opening line), but I did devour Ulysses, and was very proud of myself. In preparation for his 19 illustrations and endpapers to describe the walk Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus take around Dublin in a single day,

he read the book no less than twelve times, and he spent 633 hours Lord Vernon © John Image at the drawing-board, including the binding and slipcase designs. Finnegans Wake has eleven deeply complex illustrations, the first being The Fall, depicting Tim Finnegan, a drunken hod-carrier from an old Irish Vaudeville song, falling to his death, tumbling alongside the tools of his trade, the whiskey bottle from which a splash revived him mid-wake, Humpty Dumpty, a Newtonian apple and a snake representing the Fall of Man. A black square in the corner contains the first of the ten one hundred-character words in the book. The second is entitled A Cad with a Pipe, and shows said cad, having indecently exposed himself to a couple of maidservants in Phoenix Park, behaving ‘with an ongentilmensky immodus.’ The story unfolds through the fable of The Mookse and the Gripes (the fox and grapes), The Washerwomen, Tristan and Isolde and The Tavern, to the heroine Anna Livia Plurabelle’s last line of the book, ‘A way a lone a lost a last a loved a long the’, an incomplete sentence being the start of the opening line. Lord uses a device called a praedella, which is a strip of images at the bottom of each illustration, referencing the Linati schema, a way of navigating through the text created by Joyce for his friend Carlo Linati. The last picture is also the first in the next strip. At the bottom of The Tavern, there is Tenniel’s Alice! At the start of Ulysses, Stephen leaves the Martello tower, having had a contretemps with the ‘stately plump’ Buck Mulligan, and walks along Sandymount strand to his teaching job. ‘Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls,’ adding to the breakfast a pig’s kidney, bought from the butcher. We follow Bloom and Dedalus separately on their peregrinations through Dublin, eating and drinking along the way, until they meet in a brothel and go to a pub, where Stephen has a fight with a British soldier and is rescued by Bloom. They repair to Bloom’s house where they talk late into the night. Stephen leaves and Bloom falls into bed, where his wife Molly is thinking about her lover of that afternoon, her concert manager Blazes Boylan. An immense novel, with references, quotes, puns, parodies and allusions like a fast-flowing stream, it is also imititive of the styles of different periods of English literature. Lord has managed to pare it down to a score of exquisite drawings, which is an achievement in itself. The number forty-two crops up again and again in Lord’s work. In The Hunting of the Snark, forty-two is the number of the Baker’s items of luggage, each numbered from 1-42, and in the Preface to the first edition Carroll mentioned Rule 42 of the ‘Bellman’s Code’, which states that ‘No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm’. A page from his sketchbook is used as a tailpiece in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and there are 42 instances of the numerals in the drawing. The number 42 also appears in Finnegans Wake: ‘fortytwo hairs off his uncrown’ and ‘as a taste for storik’s fortytooth.’ How spooky is that? Not when one considers that Tenniel drew 42 illustrations for the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Don Grant 02045 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 45 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Photographs © Estorick Collection © Estorick Photographs

Davide Campari, championed the use of Sputnik, depicting a bottle of Campari avant-garde artists, including Marcello orbiting the earth chased by the spikey The Art of Nizzoli, Leonetto Cappiello, Ugo Mochi, little Russian satellite. Bringing the Bruno Munari, Fortunato Depero and brand more up-to-date, Modernist Campari the American graphic designer Milton artist and designer Bruno Munari in Estorick Collection Glaser, although his iconic poster from 1964 created a montage of the changing Canonbury Square NI 2AN 1992 with the chequerboard table-cloth face of the Campari logo for the then is sadly omitted. Leonetto Cappiello’s newly-opened Linea Rossa underground Admission £6.50 posters of an impish, yellow polka-dotted in Milan. He conceded that the logo www.estorickcollection.com sprite in a red onesie encircled by orange was ‘so well-established and so self- peel and the same figure back-to-back representative that there was no need with another in white representing the to include a bottle in the advertisement cordial liquor, are beyond surreal in their or indeed explain anything.’ He was ccording to the curators, Campari concept for a major brand. interested in the limits of legibility and is more than just a ruby-red The Italian artist, architect, industrial reconstructing the image of an object or alcoholic spirit obtained from the and graphic designer Marcello Nizzoli an idea from some fragments. infusionA of bitter herbs, aromatic plants was on the money with his cubism- The artworks in the exhibition have and fruit; it is also a life-style drink meets-futurism painting of a soda- all been loaned by The Galleria Campari that has inspired some distinctive and syphon self-squirting into a glass in in Milan, and include packaging, bottles, innovative graphics since the 1920s. The 1926. Despero created a full-blown glasses, publications and wooden carmine colour was originally derived Futurist art poster, simply using an crates. The brand has been expanded from the dried and crushed-up carcases extruded typographical block in 1931 into film and calendars and they even of the cochineal beetle, but a few years and he also used Futuristic puppet-like commissioned Federico Fellini to direct ago, an artificial dye was substituted, characters in his black-and-white poster a commercial in the 1980s and got of which Negroni purists complained work, while his drawings were used as the architect Matteo Thun to create that it just was not the same. Campari a basis for the iconic conical Campari gadgets and promotional merchandise could be considered the Marmite of Soda bottle, which was launched in 1932. for the marque. The Woman in Red was a cocktail drinkers, leaving many imbibers Carlo Fisanotti, known as Fisa, defined pretentious short Campari film starring gagging for more more, while others the brand in post-war Italy with clever Clive Owen by Paolo Sorrentino, who are left to wonder why one would want ‘revealed’ images. Franz Marangolo made the self-conscious The Great Beauty, to go through that bitter experience produced some stylish posters, which are about a superficial man who is trapped again. The purpose of this exhibition, very 1960s, and some of his drawings between the nostalgia of his past and however, is to showcase a rich vein of are reminiscent of Leroy Neiman’s the uncertainty of the future. Certainly Italian poster art and design, from Belle Femilins that appeared in Playboy during this exhibition glories in nostalgia, and Époque, through Art Nouveau, Cubism, that decade. Nino Nanni designed an rightly so. Futurism and Minimalism. The boss, extraordinary poster in 1958 entitled Don Grant 46 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture Photographs © The Royal Collection Royal The © Photographs

Raphael, Rubens and Titian all casually displayed. The Tribuna of the Uffizi was Summer Opening commissioned by Queen Charlotte in 1772. Prince Charles has surrounded the of State Rooms painting by Old Masters, two drawings by Holbein, Georges de La Tour’s Saint at Buckingham Jerome Reading a Sheet of Paper and enthralling story of Napoleon himself Afghanistan who studied at Turquoise Bassano’s Adoration of the Shepherds. which it conjures up”. The cloak was Mountain. Another student of The Palace. recovered from the Emperor’s Imperial Turquoise Mountain,Naseer Nasua, Buckingham Palace. (Usually in Kensington Palace). Work by young artists associated Baggage Carriage after the Battle of produced a geodesic dome in walnut for Until 30th September. 2018 with three Charities founded by Prince Waterloo in 1815. Field Marshall Prince the Exhibition. A walnut and mother of Charles are also displayed. These Gebhard Von Blücher presented it to the pearl chest is displayed made by Syrian Charities are The Prince’s School of future George IV. and Jordanian artists in Amman. Traditional Arts, The Royal Drawing Other exhibits include the triple Adding to the enjoyment of this his year, the Ball Supper Room School and Turquoise Mountain. The portrait of Prince Charles which reflects eclectic exhibition is a photograph of has been made into an octagonal last was founded by Prince Charles the triple portrait of Charles I by Van Prince Charles holding a sleeping Prince gallery for an Exhibition entitled, in 2006 and was established to revive Dyck, the portrait of the Queen Mother, George in his arms as Prince William Prince and Patron, which has drawings, traditional crafts and historic areas. It greatly admired by Prince Charles, looks upon them...Three ‘Kings’, rarely T ebony veneer tables by Adam Weisweiler photographed together. paintings, classical sculpture, curiosities, started in Afghanistan and is now global. and personal memorabilia jostling for In Afghanistan this Charity tracked (1744), a porcelain Chinese jar and cover Vanessa Remingron, Senior Creator space. HRH The Prince of Wales has down remaining master craftsmen and of Jiangxi province, an Indian tiger’s head of Paintings at the Royal Collection said, created this Exhibition from both the women to train a new generation of and Franz Xaver's Linked Hands of Queen “...It is not a standard museum Royal Collection and his own private artisans. Many students of Turquoise Victoria and Prince Albert an example of display, and the works aren’t shown in Collection in order to mark his 70th Mountain have progressed to work in ‘love token’ painting. isolation, they’re shown in profusion Birthday on 14th November. It is a very craft businesses or to undertake further Adding to the enjoyment of this very, very densely...this is a very personal personal show. There are no labels, just study. Turquoise Mountain now performs eclectic Exhibition are the occasional show”. audio information. valuable work in Saudi Arabia, Myanmar tables laden with diverse exhibits and This original Exhibition, which I feel Prince Charles found the inspiration and Jordan. much personal memorabilia cherished Prince Charles enjoyed ‘curating’ greatly for the Exhibition from the well known Among the 100 or so exhibits is by Prince Charles. In juxtaposition with adds to the pleasure of this year’s opening painting, The Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772- Napoleon Bonaparte’s Berber style cloak, a stunning necklace, cascading with 365 of the State Rooms at Buckingham 1777) by Johan Zoffany, in which a made of wool and embroidered with emeralds is a 19th century Maharajah’s Palace. large group of English travellers observe silk thread. Prince Charles, seeing it as a emerald girdle. The necklace was made Marian Maitland the wonders of the Medici Collection. child in Windsor Castle, was fascinated by Saeeda Etebari in conjunction All around the painting are classical by “the sheer magic of the colour, the with Pippa Small, a British Jewellery Pre booking recommended. sculptures and masterpieces by Holbein, dashing pattern of the lining and the designer. Saeeda is a deaf refugee from www.royalcollection.org.uk 02047 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 47 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

Walton, who retired five years ago, in years in Lots Road. There did seem to of little orange figures worshipping at Heatherleys attendance. Anne Waller displayed some be a preponderance of female artists, her feet. Eugenie Slyusarenko offered excellent work, including a portrait including Kamilia Harchi, whose up a load of blue balls. While Yvonne Diploma bust of a man with a satisfying lack of sculpture of the lower half of a female Langley’s assemblage was well anchored. detail, while other graduating students, nude pissing into a basin, was set up in There was the usual quota of works done Exhibition 2018 friends, alumni, tutors, trustees, visiting a shrine-like grotto. Speaking of which, by the enfants terribles of the School, lecturers and galleristas all tucked into another earlier student was the architect primarily out to shock, as students are some ‘proper’ champagne (none of this and grotto designer Vernon Gibberd. wont to do, but the overall calibre was ersatz Prosecco at Heatherleys, thank Ana Maddox displayed figurative female excellent. you very much), and a magnificent cake nudes with a twist, while Hero Johnson's made by Kate Hopkins, celebrating ten newsprint female sculpture had dozens Don Grant

One of the oldest independent art schools in London,

Heatherley's School of Fine © Heatherleys Image Art has been in their new- ish premises for the past ten years, and they have continued to teach figurative painting, portraiture and sculpture.

he school still maintains a strong link with draftsmanship, perspective and painterly skills, whichT have become unfashionable to teach in many art institutions today. It is a long tradition, having been founded in 1845 by James Leigh and a few rebels from the Government School of Design in Somerset House. The School’s alumni make an impressive list that included the Pre-Raphaelites Burne Jones, Rossetti and Millais, the romantic Orientalist painters Sir Edward Poynter, who was the first Principal of the Slade and President of the RA, and Lord Leighton, who died the day after accepting his life peerage. Thomas Heatherley took over from Leigh as Principal when he died, and the school changed its name.They had several homes in the intervening years, from Maddox Street to George Street and from Hampstead, where they met in a scout hut, to Warwick Square. Then, after a brief period in the disused College of St Mark and St John in Chelsea, with evening classes in the Black Bull pub in the Fulham Road, close to Stamford Bridge, they moved into the old school building on the corner of Lots Road and Upcerne Road. Other students included Russell Flint, whose tasteful erotica sells in their thousands in print form, Michael Ayrton, the English artist and writer and the children’s illustrators Kate Greenaway, Mabel Lucie Attwell and Walter Crane, who became the first Principal of the Royal College of Art. Walter Sickert was also a student, but one would have thought that he would more likely have been a tutor. The standard of work was reassuringly high and several students were handed out Diplomas and prizes at the Private View by the doyenne of Chelsea painters, Richard Foster, assisted by Veronica Ricks, the Principal. It was good to see the former Principal John 48 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture Photograph © Marina Tabassum © Marina Photograph

The Short List Exhibition presents painted by hand.. Brass elements were Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure the work of 8 artists and designers added and the entire work was smoothed des Arts Decoratifs Paris (1974- 2008). Jameel Prize who have been shortlisted for the 5th by hand to mimic the smoothness of His prize winning entry was Deux Carres Edition of the prestigious Jameel prize. a woman's shawl. The two sisters have dont un encadre. Note the lower framed Short List This prize was founded in partnership formed the Naqsh Collective. square crosses the line between the well Exhibition with ‘Art Jameel’, and is awarded every I was intrigued by Younes Ramoun's and the floor, with the meeting point Victoria and Albert Museum two years and is worth £25,000. It is Taqiya Nor ( Hat Light). This installation between the two surfaces playing the role an International offer to artists and was made of 77 woollen hats with of the baseline used in writing Arabic Until 25th November 2018 designers whose work is inspired by the different patterns. They were illuminated calligraphy. By Marian Maitland Islamic Tradition. and arranged in 10 groups of parallel Marina Tabassum was born in Dhaka, The Exhibition is curated by Tim rows. To the artist odd numbers suggest Bangladesh, where she still lives and Stanley, Senior Curator of the V&A's an infinite number, and here 77 alludes works. She is the first Architect to be great historic collection from the Middle to the innumerable sub divisions of the shortlisted and she founded Marina East, together with Salma Tu Tuqan, Islamic faith, but which are all part of Tabassum Architects. Bait Ur Rouf, her the V&A Curator of Contemporary one religious community. Rahmoun is prize winning entry, was inspired by Art and Design from the Middle East. from Morocco and lives and works there the Mosques built in Bengal during the Art Jameel supports artists It presents a splendid opportunity to in Tetouan. This work was entrancing sultanate period (13th to 16th centuries). and creative communities. It see how Islamic tradition is reflected in and spiritual. The form was historical, but she has contemporary Art and Design. When I saw the photo and model presented it in a contemporary way. The organises Heritage Institutes, The panel of judges who selected the of Marina Tabassum’s Mosque, Bait Ur Mosque celebrates local materials and restoration programmes and short list was chaired by the Director of Rouf in Dhaka, I thought that she would customs. The Prayer Hall has 8 columns the V&A, Tristram Hunt. He remarked win the prize. At this time the winner contained by porous brick, and skylights educational Initiatives for all the Judges found beauty, spirituality, had yet to be announced. She did, she let in streams of sunlight throughout ages. This is important work as complexity, humanity and humour in the won half of it! The other prize winner the day. The photo gives out an aura of exhibits. was Mehdi Moutasher. spirituality and you can almost hear the the world is in a state of flux I enjoyed meeting Nisreen abu dail, Mehdi's entry was 4 bold works of prayers being chanted. and change. an Architect and her sister, Nermeen, a minimalist abstraction rooted in Islamic Both prize winners have produced graphic designer. Their sculptural work Geometry. works of outstanding quality in a rt Jameel's major constitutional created a contemporary visual language Mehdi was born in Iraq in 1943 and contemporary manner. They have drawn partners are the Metropolitan that drew on embroidery traditions now lives and works in Arles, France. together past and present in different Museum of Art, The Prince's of the Levant regions ( Jordan). Their He is a graduate of the Institute of art forms. The Islamic tradition shines SchoolA of Traditional Arts and the V@A exhibit was made of walnut wood, with Fine Arts Baghdad and the Nationale through lucidly in their work like the sun Museum the pattern laser cut into the wood and Superieure des Beaux-Arts. He was a streams into the Mosque at Bait Ur Rouf. 02049 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

London, but its initial impact did not register on the Richter scale of political reform, and it took until 1872 for it to be re-published, again in German, picked up and taken seriously. And it is quite

Photograph © Self Made Hero Photograph a serious pamphlet, as Rowson’s serfs, miners and exploited factory workers are trampled underfoot by the rich and powerful elite. He makes the point that, 170 years after it was written, ‘just 43 individuals possess as much wealth as half of the rest of our entire species.’ His whole career as a satirist is based on the notion of ‘laughing at the crimes committed by these arseholes because, when you laugh at them, as Orwell said, every laugh is a tiny revolution.’ Right from the opening lines, ‘A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism: all the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German political spies,’ it made ‘complete and immediate sense’ to the young Rowson, fired with social injustice and views on Capitalism. He visited Russia when he was still a teenager, in his father’s footsteps, but unlike the American reporter, Lincoln Steffens, who famously went there in 1919, ‘saw the future, and it works’, he became increasingly aware of the Soviet Union’s many shortcomings, later becoming disenchanted with Stalin, who took over from Lenin after his death in 1924, and switched his allegiances to Trotsky. Patently Marx’s ideology did not turn out how he hoped or prophesied, and many revolutionaries have sheltered under the umbrella of Marxism to promote their own version of dialectical materialism. Rowson is liberal in his treatment of the text, and conjures up nightmarish Boschian scenes of a seedy and dark underworld, populated by the downtrodden peasantry, while above ground, gigantic robotic machines roam the earth, surrounded by lavatories and cash registers, spewing money, and flying pigs with bat-wings and top-hats representing the ruling class. One giant machine has The Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster swinging between its legs like a large penis; Big Ben, indeed. The Proletarians & Communists chapter is set up as a stand-up comedy routine in a Kapitalist Komedy Club, with Marx spotlighted on stage against a red artin Rowson is the political and the use of speech-bubbles is in the curtain, telling gags. and being heckled. cartoonist for The Guardian long tradition of James Gillray and The launch of this book was held in a The Communist newspaper, and has a splatter- George Cruikshank. Unlike Rowson, pub in King’s Cross called The Water gun style that is instantly recognisable. who read the Manifesto when he was a Rats, which was previously named The Manifesto M Pindar of Wakefield, where Marx himself Adapted by Martin Rowson Fathered by both Ralph Steadman and callow sixteen-year-old, until I picked Gerald Scarfe, with the Maxx artist Sam up this graphic novel, I am ashamed used to prop up the bar. Lenin, also, was Published by Self-Made Hero Keith as midwife, the flicked ink-splash to confess that I had never read it. The known to drink in the boozer, and much £12.99 technique was their trade-mark, although nearest I ever got to Karl Marx was later, Bob Dylan; The Pogues and Oasis Rowson himself cites Ronald Searle as his grave in Highgate Cemetary, in the all played their first London gigs there. ISBN 978-1-910593-49-3 being the grandfather; Rowson admits company of George Eliot and Max Wall. Martin treated the whole evening as a www.selfmadehero.com that, whereas his results look like shit, Marx wrote this short-ish book with bit of stand-up, telling gags against a red blood and vomit, Searle’s broken nib inspirational support from his friend, curtain and then signing copies of the effects resemble Champagne bubbles. collaborator and co-author, Friedrich book to delighted fans. Working men of Cross-hatching is another device Engels, over a long weekend in Brussels all countries unite. You have nothing to Rowson used to great affect, lending a in January 1848 when he was 29 years lose but twelve pounds ninety-nine. You Hogarthian quality to the illustrations, old. It was first published in German, in have a world to win. Don Grant 50 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

London in 1941. Pip pip. APEROL When civil airlines became more BITCOIN Foxtrot Oscar commonplace in the mid-thirties, they By Don Grant introduced their own alphabet, mainly CHLAMYDIA using the names of countries and cities. DETOX The use of place names proved to have A lone Sopwith Camel banks an inbuilt flaw and led to a level of ESPRESSO confusion that far exceeded the clarity FEVERTREE over a cluster of farm buildings such a system was meant to bring. An set amid swaying cornfields Alitalia airliner en route from Roma GOOGLE (Roma Oslo Madagascar Amsterdam) HARRY and turns towards the airfield. to New York (New York Edison The year is 1924 and the Washington Yokohama Oslo Roma iPHONE Kilogramme) via Paris (Paris Amsterdam JIHAD leather-helmeted aviator Roma ltalia Santiago) would send any air radios to the control tower. International Pilots Phonetic Alphabet traffic controller into a flat spin. In 1956 KIM has been in use, unchanged, both by the Peter became a Papa, Roger a Romeo, LEXUS ip Harry Orange Nuts Edward RAF, and civil airlines worldwide, since George took up Golf and William Toc Ink Charlie’ ‘Roger’ crackles 1956. ‘Papa Hotel Oscar November turned to Whisky. MEME back the reply. Just under twenty Echo Tango India Charlie’. Charlie, Surely it’s time to update the whole OTTOLENGI ‘Pyears on and a blond, tousle-haired, Mike and Victor are the only survivors alphabet, using consise words that reflect PINTEREST steely blue-eyed pilot is returning to from the Second World War. X-ray the zeitgeist of our age? Lottery funding the same airfield after a dog-fight with made it too, but then X has always should be made available to sponsor QUINOA Jerry over the Channel. He can see his been a problem letter; illustrators of a nationwide competition to find the little sports MG parked outside the children’s alphabet books must dread most apt and understandable alphabet. ROLEX mess as he makes his final approach. getting towards the end. There have Careful thought needs to be given to the SELFIE His standard issue black labrador, with been numerous changes since the first choice of word, so that they have ‘staying TRUMP a non-PC name, sits in the passenger phonetic alphabet was devised by the power’. Fashion has always been a high seat, and cocks his ears as he hears the RAF in 1924. It was developed to avoid risk, if not cut-throat, business, more so UBER unmistakable whine of the Merlin engine any confusion, particularly when ground since the news of Versace, so delicately VIOGNIER throttling back. ‘Peter Harry Orange to air communication was in its infancy described by Auberon Waugh as ‘frock- Nuts Edward Tommy lnk Charlie’. In and difficult to hear. It has a certain maker slain by shirt-lifter.’ Fifteen years WAITROSE 1943 Peter and Charlie are still there period feel to it, conjuring up an era best ago, Filofax would have seemed a sure- X-FACTOR but the rest have been replaced by new remembered through watching black and fire contender, as would Internet, Yuppy boys; Peter How Oboe Nan Easy Tare white movies on Sunday afternoon. Beer and Walkman. How times change. At YOGA Item Charlie. What are we talking? We and Nuts with Freddie, Charlie, Harry, right is a list of mots justes for 2018, and ZARA are talking Phonetic. The present day King George and Uncle Edward in beyond.

"the effects of pipes in varying diameters and metals, which is most satisfying. Sean Scully Frieze Sculpture light cast by the has gone back to sculpture after years Regent’s Park overlapping layers of producing monumental paintings. Until 7 October 2018 Shadow Stack comprises a pile of large are constantly square steel plates oxidised to a yellow Free admission changing and ochre hue. Another piece that uses light to great effect is Rana Begum’s No. 814, lend the work an 2018, The Third Line, a structure made ethereal quality" of sheets of coloured glass, but it is the There are 25 artists in Regent’s Park for effects of light cast by the overlapping the second summer, represented by some layers that are constantly changing and © @sol_cielo_estrellas Photograph 814 . No. Rana Begum, of the top-class galleries in Britain and lend the work an ethereal quality. around the world, selected and curated by Elmgreen & Dragset’s Si par une Claire Lilley, the Director of Programme nuit d’hiver un voyageur is a black bronze at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Richard sculpture of a vulture perched on the Woods Holiday Home is the first piece branch of a dead tree, known as ‘The one sees when one enters the park from Critic’. On 16 August 2012, police fired the south, and is a beach-hut sized on striking mineworkers at Marikana cartoon house in bold colours, simplified years ago, with a seemingly endless Displacement 4 Leg (DIA 1800), a in South Africa who had demanded a windows and door, outlined in black. production of prancing hares. On show number of bright orange ‘things’, in wage increase at the Lonmin platinum He had previously plonked his Holiday in the Park is a seven-metre-high Large metal slings, which is not only ugly, but mine, killing 34 of them. In Haroon Homes on beaches and cliff-tops, which Nijinski on Anvil Point, a dancing hare meaningless. Tracey Emin has five small Gunn-Salie’s Senzenina, two headless is meant to comment on the wealth gap, atop a gigantic anvil. The American bronze birds on 4-metre poles, entitled men represent the cowering figures as the immigration, the housing crisis and other artist John Baldessari has produced a A Moment Without You, which she says police opened fire. Conrad Shawcross has social and economic issues in south-east rather bland and pointless self-portrait ‘continues to spread its message of hope; produced a sort of maze, entitled Optic England. The tallest work is a 14-metre- Penguin, which measures 2-metres, while connecting people who are far away from Labyrinth (Arrangement I), comprising high tower A Needle Woman: Galaxy was Kiki Smith has a somewhat awkward, each other but remain together in their numerous metal screens that catch a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, by South hydrocephalic white sculpture of Alice minds and hearts’. Simon Periton has a the light and cast patterns on each Korean artist Kimsooja, and the smallest called Seer (Alice I), with her legs flying large, edge-painted, tracery leaf called other, while Dan Graham has made an are Laura Ford’s Dancing Clog Girls I-III, out from under her dress behind her Outdoor Miner, which changes colour optical pavilion called London Rococo a disturbing trio of black bronze, masked almost as an afterthought. She explains as one walks around it, while Monika that obscures and reflects the viewer. bergères whose clogs have developed that she ‘reflects on contemporary Sosnowska’s Rebar 12 is a knotted mass One annoying, but no doubt necessary roots, the very antidote to those cute female sensibilities’, whatever that of steel rods, that is all but lost in the addition, is of little rope cordons around Alice in Wonderland garden sculptures. means. The least successful and in-yer- trees amongst which it hangs. Virginia each piece, which were not in situ at the Barry Flanagan became a bit of a face work is James Capper’s Treadpad Overton’s, Untitled (122 x 244 View) is launch and do nothing but detract from one-trick pony by the time he died nine B-Pair 2 Walking Ship 40 Ton Standard a steel framework with densely stacked the works. Don Grant 02051 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 51 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

featuring Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer specialist Sir András Schiff returns to Night’s Dream overture and Beethoven’s present the complete second book of J. S. MUSIC Fourth Symphony. Bell himself is the Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto. ROUND UP Tallis Scholars: BY GEOFF COWART Before the Ending of the Day Grieg’s Piano Concerto September 6 – 22:15 August 13 – 7:30pm Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars Georgian virtuoso Khatia Buniatishvili recreate the Christian office of Compline, is the soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto, weaving together a sung meditation joining Paavo Järvi and the Estonian spanning over 1,000 years of sacred Festival Orchestra for a Prom that music, including works by Arvo Part, Proms season is also includes Sibelius’s stirring Fifth Padilla and Gallus, and Allegri’s exquisite Symphony and Arvo Pärt’s Third Playing the Islington Academy Miserere. here: Enjoy it! Symphony. last month, Reverend Horton Heat is

a Dallas guitar slinger and veteran of From now until September the rockabilly scene who leads a fun, if 8, venues across London play Sir Simon Rattle conducts Proms at deranged, quartet of misfits.Signed to Sub Pop records in the early 90s, The host to what is rightly billed as L’enfant et les sortilèges August 18 – 7:30pm Alexandra Palace Reverend (aka Jim Heath) spreads the “the world’s greatest classical Ravel’s magical opera L’enfant et les gospel of girls, booze and cars in typically sortilèges will be performed by the Theatre gonzo fashion. music festival”. London Symphony Orchestra and But look under the hood and there’s a After a £19 million refurb, the Alexandra Chorus and sung in French with lot more to his sound. His guitar playing Palace Theatre is ready to be revealed. surtitles. It follows his fairy-tale ballet is a stylistic ‘who’s who’ of traditional First opened in 1875, the theatre held Mother Goose and the Eastern sound American music as he effortlessly moves audiences of up to 3,000 for pantomime, world of Shéhérazade. between rock, blues and country music opera, drama and ballet.You can have a influences, all wrapped up in a high sneak peek at 3pm on September 1 when octane freak out. Heath is criminally Iván Fischer & Budapest it hosts a concert performance of Gilbert underrated guitarist. Find him. & Sullivan’s one-act comic masterpiece, Festival Orchestra Trial by Jury, performed by the BBC August 22 – 7.30pm Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. The tireless Iván Fischer and his WIN! Budapest Festival Orchestra return to the Proms for the first of two concerts. End of the Road festival They pair Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Proms at goodies with Rough Trade music by Bartók and Enescu.

Cadogan Hall We have teamed up with The Royal Albert Hall is open Closer to home, Cadogan Hall in Sloane Rough Trade West to offer you a Square again hosts a series of chamber chance to win one of five End of all night for the Proms. music recitals with the hottest stars of the Road/Rough Trade festival CD And its late-night Proms offer up some his year’s gala pays tribute to the classical scene. All concerts are held compilations and an End of the Road of the most daring concerts of the legendary American composer at 1pm on Mondays and last one hour, tote bag! Festival. And for a night of supreme and conductor Leonard making it an ideal lunch break. The long-running independent music from a veritable star, look no Bernstein.On August 11, Bernstein’s The August 13 concert sees award- record shop in Portobello and the T further than Youssou N’Dour. The long-running independent festival revered musical West Side Story will be winning British percussionist Colin Senegalese legend makes his Proms performed twice at Royal Albert Hall by Currie join forces with contemporary in Dorset are firm friends and both debut with his Le Super Étoile de Dakar the John Wilson Orchestra, at 3.30pm music specialists, the JACK Quartet, for offer great way to hear hot new band on August 31. Expect his signature and 8pm. a programme of 20th- and 21st-century bands. mix of mbalax, Cuban rumba, hip hop, The Royal Albert Hall will feature works. This includes world premieres by Rough Trade West co-owner jazz and soul. another notable concert of Bernstein’s Simon Holt and Suzanne Farrin, as well Nigel House has run the shop since music on August 27 when Bernstein- as two pieces by Xenakis. the early 1980s. He’s tipping End protégée Marin Alsop returns to the On September 3, hear some of the of the Road acts Big Thief (‘female- Proms leading the Baltimore Symphony Other top picks Berliner Philharmonic’s finest players fronted amazingly brilliant’), Jim Orchestra. The politically charged perform as soloists in a concert of 20th- White (‘skewed country – just keeps programme that includes Shostakovich’s of the late-night century French chamber music. Includes getting better’) and Caroline Spence Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein’s own music by Ravel and centenary composers (‘fantastic up-and-coming folky Second Symphony. 8pm. Proms include: Debussy and Lili Boulanger, as well as a singer’) as his festival favourites. world premiere by Slovenia’s Nina Senk. To win a free 18-track End of the All Proms concerts can also be heard Road compilation CD and tote bag, Benjamin Grosvenor & just email your answer to this easy Other highlights on BBC Radio 3. For more details about National Youth Jazz Orchestra the Proms, visit: www.bbc.co.uk/proms question: “Where is the Rough Trade August 16 – 10.15pm West shop?” to gdcowart@yahoo. from the Proms An all-American concert by the UK’s com with your full name, address National Youth Jazz Orchestra, led and daytime phone number. Winners at Royal Albert by soloist Benjamin Grosvenor in will be notified and prizes must be Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Rev Horton collected from the shop. Normal Hall include: rules apply. Editor’s decision is final. Heat rocked the End of the Road runs from Joshua Bell & the Academy of Sir András Schiff plays The August 30 to September 2 in Larmer St Martin in the Fields Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 2) Academy Tree Gardens. For line-up, tickets and August 12 – 4pm August 29 – 9.30pm While there’s been no shortage of details, visit: endoftheroadfestival. A concert from Joshua Bell and the Following his performance of Book 1 sunshine in London, it was a guitar com Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in 2017, distinguished pianist and Bach player from Texas who brought the heat. 52 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Arts & Culture

MAX a little. These characters are confined, and the screenplay by Akhavan and Cecilia Feldman Frugiuele (based on Emily Danforth’s

REVIEWS novel) doesn’t exactly figure out how © Rise Photograph to generate story momentum from that confinement. The revelation that Rick and Lydia don’t have the faintest goddamn idea what they’re doing in The Miseducation terms of nurturing kids going through a process of self-discovery isn’t enough of Cameron Post on its own to sustain a movie that Director: Desiree Akhavan understands their inherent flaws long Running Time: 90 minutes before Cameron starts to point them out in sessions with Lydia, following a school tragedy. t doesn’t take long for The Cameron isn’t slow on the uptake, Miseducation Of Cameron Post It’s this cosmic injustice that amusingly fumbles into more physical but she isn’t especially interesting, either. [with apologies to Lauren Hill] ultimately sends Cameron to “God’s territory. In an article of great faith or, Moretz, while convincing enough in Ito fulfil some of the promise director/ Promise”, while Coley faces far less more likely, foolish self-confidence, the balancing Cameron’s fear, confusion, co-writer Desiree Akhavan showed in severe punishment. (Further salting the administrators pair lonely kids with and sense of self, hasn’t shaken her eerie her first feature, Appropriate Behavior. wounds, Cameron later learns that Coley emerging sexualities in residential rooms child-actor poise, perhaps exacerbated Miseducation, this year’s winner of is not exactly holding a torch for their together and expect them not to hook up. by the fact that she’s now an experienced the U.S. Grand Jury drama prize at forbidden love.) That Cameron’s aunt Still, many students attempt to performer in her 20s trying to recede Sundance. She introduces its teenage can pull her out of public school and play along. Despite her attraction to into adolescent gawkiness. She needs title character (Chloë Grace Moretz send her off to a sketchily credentialed Cameron, Erin so earnestly attempts and receives a lot of support from the of Kick-Ass and...er...dating Brooklyn institution falling somewhere between to acquiesce to the school’s anti- ensemble, even if, say, Lane’s Jane Fonda Beckham fame) having a rendezvous juvenile detention and mismanaged homosexuality teachings that she feigns feels more like a charismatic attitude with her secret girlfriend, Coley summer camp illustrates the a crush on Reverend Rick March ( John with legs than a fully realized character. (Quinn Shephard), then moving with capriciousness of how some kids can end Gallagher Jr). Rick himself is “formerly” This may be by design: Adolescents an admirable fluidity to their prom- up in this situation. At the same time, gay, and runs the school with his sister, are not always fully formed people, night parking-lot tryst, the discovery Cameron’s intractable aunt feels like an Dr. Lydia March ( Jennifer Ehle), playing especially when they’re being specifically of their relationship, and Cameron’s odd narrative shortcut, downplaying the the sorta-good cop to her stricter bad trained to un-form their true selves. That subsequent enrolment in a new “school” heartbreak of one’s own parents having cop. Gallagher flips the empathy he this movie comes out now, at a time that’s actually a gay-conversion camp. such a cruel, misguided reaction to their showed in his superficially similar Short when the Vice-President of the USA is Throughout this sequence of events, child coming out. Term 12 role, here playing someone a man who supported the use of federal Akhavan takes on some of the most Settling in to her drab new life, who truly believes he has been saved, funding to treat people “seeking to thankless tasks in movies; exposition and Cameron buddies up with other rather than oppressed, blinding him to change their sexual behaviour”, couldn’t setup, and makes it not just palatable, but students like Jane Fonda (Sasha the damage he’s doing to others in his be more timely. However something about actively involving, right down to the early Lane from American Honey), whose situation. He makes relaxed friendliness Miseducation feels overly timid. There’s ’90s period with details like Cameron’s parents were hippie enough to name downright chilling. something frustrating in its meandering alt-rock cassettes (banned at her new her after the actress/activist but not Akhavan’s introductions are both tone, a centreless quality which stops ‘school’, naturally). Akhavan trusts understanding enough to spare her graceful and efficient, and she teases the film from being a genuine triumph. her audience to follow along without from this hell, and Adam Red Eagle plenty of rueful humour out of a dire It’s well-acted and solid and yet one narration, speeches or, say, awkwardly (Forrest Goodluck), whose father sees situation. But once the movie settles into can’t help wishing that it had some more over-explanatory dialogue about how his son’s sexual orientation as a liability. the camp’s routines of therapy sessions, teeth. It’s the right time for a movie like Cameron’s guardian is her aunt because She also befriends her roommate, Erin bed checks, and clunky imitations of a this, but despite the ephemeral pleasures, her parents are dead. (Emily Skeggs), a relationship that real high school curriculum, it stagnates it’s not quite this one.

shoot at them for sport; dragging the organising them into an impromptu One thing that’s not ambiguous is The Captain corpses of their comrades behind them unit and marching them into the Schwentke’s commentary on how Willi Director: Robert Schwentke as they’re picked off one by one. The Aschendorfermoor prison camp, where Herold’s story, and the rise of the Nazi final days of World War II have reduced he told the officers on duty that he had Party in general, is a rather damning Running Time: 118 minutes everyone in the film to their basest come to inspect the camp on the orders indictment of the Fox Newsification animal selves, willing to commit all of Hitler himself. A pretty clever plan to of political discourse. Schwentke’s manner of atrocities in exchange for the avoid being executed as a deserter, right? observation that all you need to turn tiniest and most temporary of luxuries. Then the story takes a turn so dark, ordinary people into Fascists is to tell But the most shocking part of the film the only way to even begin to fathom them what they want to hear, is an astute is at the end, when you find out that it is to allow for the existence of evil. one. But the point is made in so many what seemed like a brutally pessimistic Writer-director Robert Schwentke, violent, unsettling ways, with so little

Photograph © Robert Schwentke © Robert Photograph thought experiment is actually based on returning to his native Germany after variation on this basic psychological real events. a decade and a half wandering in the theme, that the brutality starts to feel The Captain is based on the true story wilderness of Hollywood journeyman crushingly repetitive. However the film of Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), one gigs, approaches these events with a is consistently beautiful to look at in an of the thousands of Nazi soldiers who nihilistic, pitch-black sense of humour, “industrial metal album cover” kind of abandoned their posts when it became for scenes combining thrilling repartee way, pairing dimly lit, black-and-white A lot of shocking things happen in clear that the war was over, and their side and unchecked cruelty that play like cinematography and artfully composed The Captain. A man is summarily had lost. Fleeing through the German Salò as directed by Armando Iannucci. mise-en-scéne: one shot of a group of executed for the crime of stealing eggs countryside, Herold miraculously Schwentke also remains vague as to soldiers pulling Herold in the back of a from a barn. Quicklime is thrown on stumbled upon an abandoned car whether Herold’s actions are a byproduct broken-down car evokes the iconic photo the gasping bodies of dozens of dying containing a Nazi officer’s luggage, of his new uniform, à la the infamous of U.S. Marines raising the flag over Iwo prisoners after a botched attempt at including a full dress uniform. Thinking Stanford prison experiment, or if he Jima, which cannot be a coincidence. a mass execution. Four prison camp quickly, Herold donned the uniform was already a psychopath who’s finally With a grinding, metallic ambient score, inmates are tied together and forced to and began gathering soldiers he found found circumstances amoral and chaotic The Captain is a bleak film, but then race across a muddy field as Nazi officers wandering the countryside around him, enough for him to thrive. again, these are bleak times. 02053 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 53 Arts & Culture online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

its name, mostly takes place in 1986, a Nature Boy to a politely disinterested own battle with addiction, provides the Nico 1988 year after her final album, as an aging dining room. The tour is a simulacrum film’s central drive, but we move toward Director and deeply dissatisfied Nico (going by for Nico’s career at that point: disordered, it slowly. The film, brief as it is, dwells her birth name, Christa) makes her depraved, and unfairly overshadowed in this unhappy space, drawing much Susanna Nicchiarelli way through Europe on a late-career by her career-starting stint as Warhol’s of its power from it. This is a portrait of Runtime: 93 minutes tour. There is no glamour here: She designated femme fatale. an unlikable woman producing difficult plays to half-empty rooms, sharing Writer and director Susanna art to miserable ends, finding most of sleeping quarters with a band for which Nicchiarelli seems interested in creating her happiness in the ways she no longer she has little professional respect. We some sort of resolution for Nico before conforms to the image that made her ico largely endures in the popular see one bandmate dozing off mid-set, her death in 1988, an event which famous. imagination for her work with high on heroin; Nico, shooting up in hangs over the entire film by dint of its Like Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, the Velvet Underground, an bathrooms and dressing rooms, has the title. Nicchiarelli intersperses the bleak Nico, 1988 is at its best in these liminal unhappy marriage arranged by Andy air of a professional user, soldiering on travelogue with moments from the day moments, its creation of a cognitive N cogently enough afterward. She varies of Nico’s fatal bicycle accident, grainy space to ponder an artist’s legacy, as Warhol in part for the model’s aesthetic virtues, the contrast she cut against between curt and outright cold to the flashes of her swinging Factory heyday, well as literal spaces that reflect it: faded the scuzzy band. On 1967’s The Velvet people around her, particularly her long- and memories from her childhood ballrooms, twilit monuments, bleary Underground & Nico and the same year’s suffering lawyer ( John Gordon Sinclair). wandering through bombed-out Berlin. countrysides. Unlike that movie, though, solo debut Chelsea Girl, she plays the The happiest we see her in the early It handles delicately the trauma the war Nico, 1988 occasionally succumbs part perfectly; icy and impassive and to hoary biopic clichés, awkwardly darkly enigmatic, her hollowed-out alto imposing narrative beats. (There are a bringing to life songs by Lou Reed, Bob lot of contentious, didactic interviews.) Dylan, Jackson Browne, and others. Dyrholm captures Nico’s gradual They’re classic LPs, and Nico hated reawakening, from fuck-everything Photograph © Vivo Films Vivo © Photograph them; she wept upon hearing Chelsea nihilism to hard-won sentimentalism, Girl the first time. The next year, she with a raw and brave performance; she began elucidating her own artistic vision also, for what it’s worth, fucking nails with The Marble Index, the first in a Nico’s unearthly singing voice. But trilogy of immaculately gloomy, glowing, for a concert travelogue, the film has and abrasive albums, full of dissonant little interest in the actual concerts, drones and funereal dirges, that’d go settling repeatedly for a camera whirling on to inspire waves of goth, punk, and counterclockwise around Dyrholm’s experimental musicians. In the ’80s, she stomping, incantatory performances. dabbled in post-punk on the serpentine It’s a strange but effective music biopic, Drama Of Exile, and then embraced delighting in the far end of fame and synthesizers on 1985’s Camera Obscura, stretch is slamming a bowl of spaghetti instilled in her, mostly informing her making a studious critical case for the her final album. in the dead of night, stopping only to suffocating pessimism. “I’ve been on the artist’s later work that nevertheless Nico, 1988 is obsessed with this divide down a glass of limoncello. Later, after top, I’ve been on the bottom,” she says lionizes the early stuff. “I think her music in her work, both artistically and from shooting up before a gig, she requests at one point. “Both are empty.” Music is is hideous,” Nico’s much-abused assistant the public’s perspective. “My life started that her assistant (Karina Fernandez) no salve. She talks openly about quitting, says at one point, watching a gig, and to after my experience with them,” Nico fetch her another bottle of the after- and seems haunted by her failures as a the film’s credit, it doesn’t demand you (Trine Dyrholm) chastises one eager dinner drink, then walks out to perform mother. The desire to reunite with her agree or disagree. In that spirit, it’s as interviewer early on. The film, despite a glassy rendition of Nat King Cole’s estranged son, who is undergoing his uncompromising as Nico herself.

good stuff!”), whereas others whet the can’t help but mourn the loss of what circumstances. Good Manners appetite for what’s to come. The Brazilian had appeared to be a superlative drama, So far, so terrific, with Estiano and Director: Marco Dutra, creature feature Good Manners, written featuring subtly incisive commentary Zuaa performing a beautifully calibrated and directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco on race and class that gets replaced by a emotional duet. The film could easily Juliana Rojas Dutra, achieves something unique: Its blunt metaphor. have continued in this vein. There are Runtime: 135 minutes low-key place-setter of a first act is so For a while, the film concerns the hints, though, of something unusual damn good that the subsequent shift complex relationship between two lurking in the background. For one thing, from precisely observed naturalism to very different women. Ana (Marjorie Rojas and Dutra repeatedly employ psychotronic mayhem proves slightly Estiano), who comes from money and gorgeously forbidding matte paintings disappointing. There’s nothing especially demonstrates a corresponding sense of in exterior shots, for no apparent reason. Horror often begins by establishing a wrong with the arty horror movie that entitlement, is several months pregnant There’s also a certain mystery involving patina of normalcy, the better to rupture Good Manners becomes, mind you, and and conducting interviews for a live-in the father of Ana’s unborn child, which it later. Like anything else, these initial, the metamorphosis (unexpected, for nanny. She hires Clara (Isabél Zuaa), may be related to her penchant for eating comparatively ordinary scenes can be those who haven’t seen the trailer or even even though there were many more raw meat and eventually, live animals executed skillfully or poorly; some the damn poster image, anyway) offers qualified applicants; Clara may have in the middle of the night. Oddities feel like a waste of time (“Get to the pleasures of its own. All the same, one no experience and no references, but escalate, building to an abrupt leap she instinctively responds when Ana forward in time that sees Good Manners experiences sudden pain during the become a very different two-hander. interview, putting her employer at This recalibrated narrative hits a lot of ease. It also soon becomes clear that familiar genre beats, flattening the film’s

Photograph Photograph © A24 Ana perceives the desperately poor thematic inquiry; monster-as-outsider Clara as someone who’d be willing to is inherently potent, but here the trope perform menial chores, serving as more feels less vital and inspired than does of a combination maid/nanny. Ana’s the small-scale intricacy that precedes assumption about their respective roles it. Still, there are moments to treasure doesn’t take into account Clara’s ironclad throughout, from lovely out-of-nowhere sense of dignity and self-worth, however, musical numbers to the beautiful hand- and the two gradually develop an unusual drawn stills that depict a key flashback. friendship that largely, but not entirely, Think of it as getting two good movies disregards the chasm separating their for the price of one.

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London’s Royal Brompton Hospital, ablation itself. available to talk to in spite of several calls also on the NHS. Several technicians Ablation works by creating scar tissue about my condition. Correspondence Matters of the and participants are required for this on the inside surface of the heart which relating to my case took over 3 months Heart procedure and it is not surprising costs blocks the rogue electrical impulses to arrive at my address and also my GP’s To ablate or not to ablate, that for this privately range from £9k to £30k. causing AF. The scars can take up to medical centre. Well out of the remit of most people’s three months or more to form and heal, The outcome from AF ablation, is the question. purses and certainly this journalist’s one. and that period is often referred to as as with other procedures, differ for By Editor-in-Chief Kate With fatalities of 1 in 1000 and risk of the blanking period. Rest is an essential many reasons and origins of the AF stroke 1 in 300 it is not a decision to part of the recovery as the heart has are also contributing factors. Before Hawthorne be taken lightly. The Royal Brompton suffered some trauma and will take time proceeding with ablation, you should took every care to ensure the risks are to recover. ask the electrophysiologist about his / understood before proceeding. Success rates vary but are generally her personal level of experience and the Catheter ablation procedures are high and may prevent the need for long- results and risk factors. Cardiologists carried out as day cases or require term medication and can result in a cure, who specialise in heart rhythm here are approximately 1.4 a short stay. They take place in an or, cessation of the AF for several years. disorders are usually referred to as an million people with Atrial electrophysiology laboratory similar to The heart may still find other pathways electrophysiologist (EP) and manage Fibrillation which is a major risk an operating theatre and take between 1 resulting in the AF breaking through all aspects of heart rhythm diagnosis factor for strokes, and contributes to one and 4 hours depending on the condition again. Further ablations, or in some cases and treatment, including ablation T being treated. pace makers may be needed. procedures.There can be many reasons in five strokes in the UK. Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most Once ‘wheeled into the lab’ I jokingly Post procedure I received constant and circumstances that affect individuals’ common arrhythmia (heart rhythm mentioned to the technicians and nurses care and attention, remained overnight treatment and experiences; a supportive disorder), and occurs when chaotic that there were more people, wires, and was seen twice by the registrar EP, correct diagnosis, understanding of electrical activity fires off from different leads, and equipment than backstage at and the Consultant Cardiologist and the condition and its treatments, will places in the atria causing the heart a Carnegie Hall Rock concert.Luckily, Electrophysiologist, Dr Julian Jarman, help with managing these. rhythm to be irregular, too fast or too I chose to write this article to slow. share useful information and forums AF can have a considerable impact (below) about AF and to highlight the on an individual’s quality of life. It can be hard work and treatment at the Royal an unpredictable and stressful condition, Brompton Hospital which inspired me with potentially serious complications. to do so.This hospital, like many others, Some people cope well, but for others it was under threat of closure. Thousands can be debilitating and disabling with of people campaigned long and hard significant symptoms of palpitations, to keep this specialist Heart and Lung dizziness, breathlessness and fainting. London Centre open. NHS England has The heart’s pumping action is controlled now reversed plans to close three of the by tiny electrical messages produced country’s heart surgery units, including by the sinus node which is sometimes that of the Royal Brompton Hospital. referred to as the heart’s ‘natural Professional advice should be sought pacemaker’. These regular electrical before making any decisions. Below messages tell the heart to contract and is a guide to related AF organisations, pump blood around the body. AF occurs charities and forums. when in addition to the regular electrical The Royal Brompton Hospital has impulses sent by the sinus node, the atria an evening Rapid Access Arrhythmia produces irregular electrical messages. Clinic to establish whether a patient’s These irregular messages cause the atria symptoms are caused by an important to twitch, which is known as fibrillation arrhythmia and consultant cardiologist and felt as an irregular and sometimes and electro-physiologists suggest fast heartbeat, or pulse. appropriate treatment plans. Medication such as beta-blockers and anti-arrhythmic drugs can help Clinic appointments: control the rate and rhythm of their I had a pre-med at this time and was who admitted me originally. This Wednesday 5.30-9.00pm; heart, or procedures such as ablation or not too alarmed at the number of attention to my well-being remained Outpatients 020 7351 8011 cardioversion may be needed. participants required for this procedure until I was discharged with follow up www.rbht.nhs.uk/healthprofessionals/ Ablation or, pulmonary vein isolation, or the wall-to-wall monitors. medication and contact details of nurses clinical-departments/heart-assessment/ means that attempts are made to ablate Catheter ablation is used to treat a and departments to ring with queries or rapid-access-arrhythmia-clinic/ the areas within the atrium which are variety of heart rhythm disturbances. worries. The pre and post medical care at www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/ causing the fibrillation. Targeted areas of the heart’s electrical every level at the Royal Brompton was conditions/atrial-fibrillation With one Atrial Flutter ablation tissue are ablated, to prevent the exemplary. Even the paperwork was first- www.c-r-y.org.uk/catheter-ablation/ procedure behind me, a condition similar abnormal electrical circuits responsible class, the content accurate, the arrival www.heartrhythmalliance.org/resources/ to AF, which had made no difference for the condition. The tissue is ablated by timely, and the administration at all ports view/329/pdf to my worsening Atrial Fibrillation being heated (radio-frequency ablation, swift and professional. healthunlocked.com/afassociation/ condition, I was left uncertain what to RF) or frozen (cryo-ablation). Long The previous experience for my posts/136655600/cost-of-ablation-for- do next. My heart was beating regularly wires, called catheters, are placed in the Atrial Flutter ablation, also treated in af-in-the-uk at over 170 bps, at random times day or heart via the bloodstream. An X-ray another NHS London hospital, was very www.stroke.org.uk/sites/default/files/ night, breathlessness was a normal state camera, moves around the chest to help different. The registrar carrying out the eng1.pdf of being and driving was becoming out position the catheters correctly inside procedure introduced himself to me for Atrial Fibrillation Association: of the question. Severe bouts of AF can the heart. The catheters sense electrical first time minutes before I was taken into T: 01789 451837 cause fainting (syncope) episodes, which activity in the heart and deliver electrical the ‘lab’ and I was discharged without Arrhythmia Alliance: T: 01789 450787 in my case resulted in concussion and energy to make the heart beat (‘pace details of the results or follow up from hospitalisation. the heart’) in a combination of ways. anyone who had attended the procedure. • Waiting time on the NHS There were only two real alternatives; These ‘pacing manoeuvres’ can be used to No information on medication or is approximately 6 months. face another ablation or stay on heavy identify the abnormal electrical pathways. advice on what to expect was given. doses of medication permanently. 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slow but steady move towards treating Health NEWS everyone who is unwell.” The Mental Health Foundation risk of premature ‘could spot early has found that 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in death dementia signs’ any given year and 50% of these cases A US led, UK based study has found The test that is usually used by opticians Boys aged 13-14 will have arisen by the age of 15. that six cups of coffee a day can decrease to spot signs of eye disease. 950,000 prescriptions were issued your risk of premature death by 16%, the 32,000 people between the ages of 40 will now be given between April 2015 and March NHS says. and 69 participated in the study, and it 2018, however, there is speculation A European study in 2017 showed was found that those with thinner retinas the HPV jab, as to whether this number should be that out of over 450,000 people who were more likely to fail one or more a vaccination that is routinely increasing at all. The BBC also reported drank the highest amounts of coffee tests of their memory, reaction time and offered to girls aged 13-18 at on the death of Reece Burrowes, who had a 12% overall reduced risk of cancer reasoning. was found dead after committing and cardiovascular and digestive and This had led to doctors believing that secondary school. suicide days after being prescribed respiratory conditions related death. thinner optic nerves are connected to Sertraline. It was soon proved that NICE Women who also drank the highest memory-loss and lack of reasoning. PV is a group of viruses that (National Institute For Health and Care amount of coffee had a 7% lower risk of When tested two years later, the affect your skin and moist Excellence) guidelines had not been death than non-consumers. participants were three times more likely membranes in your body, the followed in order to avoid a potentially The more recent study, between the to have experienced a mental decline. HNHS website says. This can affect your long waiting list for a more popular drug, years 2006-2010 asked participants how This research can be linked to findings cervix, anus, mouth and throat, and can Camhs. many cups of coffee they drank in a that these changes can lead to cases of result in cancer. Girls have been offered The Department of Health in day, including types of coffee (ground/ total dementia in the future. this as a protection against cervical cancer England told the BBC it had pledged instant) and whether they drank Other scientists have argued that this and genital warts since 2008, as well as £1.7bn to transform Camhs in order to decaffeinated or caffeinated coffee. link is not strong enough, as it doesn’t other health threats caused by the viruses. provide a wider access to more therapies. 498,134 participants took part, aged predict cognitive ability. HPV can be caught through any kind This would not prevent patients who between 40 and 69 from across the UK. The BBC reported that UCL of sexual contact, and it is therefore would benefit from antidepressants from Results were taken 10 years later, where professor from the Institute of thought to be important that boys are receiving the treatment they need. despite the fact that 14,225 participants Ophthalmology and co-leader of the also offered the jab, as they are also open had died, coffee drinking generally was paper that released this information, said to contracting cancer of the anus, penis, shown to be linked to a lower risk of “It is likely that treatments will be mouth and throat. early death. more effective in slowing or stopping This is following the discovery that Mothers with The NHS reminded readers that this dementia at earlier stages of the disease. Doctors and health professionals have should in no way be used as a substitute “Also, by targeting people in the earlier been paying for their teenage sons to more than five for a healthy diet and regular exercise. stages, it should be possible to design have the jab. Having this done privately better clinical trials for treatments that costs hundreds of pounds, meanwhile healthy habits are make a real difference and improve teenage girls get the jab routinely and for people‘s lives.” free. less likely to have Optician’s eye test Chief Executive of the Throat Cancer Foundation Jamie Rae was diagnosed in obese children 2010, and had to go through a lengthy The NHS have recently released details “However,” Dr Brown writes, “without rehabilitation period that he told the of a study that took place in the US, Gendered drinks the input of food scientists, or even basic BBC was “excruciating”. He added that: reporting that children of the ages 9 to clinical trials, it is impossible to make “Had the HPV vaccine been available 14 with healthy mothers were less likely Not your cup any robust claims for beneficial effects when I was a boy, I believe I would not to suffer from obesity. Out of 24,000 for womankind, as one will have no idea have developed throat cancer more than children who were studied, 5% were of tea if these ingredients make the perilous 30 years later.” obese. journey though the stomach and into The ‘five healthy habits’ include a the bloodstream, and if they do, are healthy BMI, regular exercise, being a they found in sufficient quantities to do Antidepressant non-smoker, drinking in moderation and anything good for the body?” following a healthy diet. The study found There are many different types He also disputes the marketing prescription for that children of mothers who adopted all claims, describing them as being “so 5 habits were 75% less likely to be obese. of tea on the supermarket scientifically illiterate it makes my test children on the More than 22,000 children were found shelves, from green to tubes weep.” This, he notes, is part of a to be severely obese in data from 2016- trend in which people turn to alternative rise 17. peppermint. But a recent trend treatments such as homeopathy or detox Caroline Cerny of the Obesity has been those which claim which either have no evidence of any In the last three years there has been Health Alliance said: “It’s very benefit or have been debunked entirely. a 15% rise of antidepressants being concerning that the number of children to be “specially blended” for In some cases, this can be harmful such prescribed to children in Britain. with a weight that is classified as women. as for those with endometriosis which Scotland’s figure has increased by severely obese is now at an all-time high. affects a tenth of women. 10% and Northern Ireland rose by Children with obesity are five times more Tea itself does have “biologically active “It is unlikely that these teas will do 6%. However, rather than signalling a likely to have obesity as adults, putting compounds” that are good for you. It is much harm, he concludes, “other than decline in children’s mental health, this them at risk of diseases including Type 2 second only to water in being the most lightening the bank accounts of those actually shows an incline in the quality of diabetes, cancer, heart and liver disease, drunk beverage around the world. It has who feel obliged to purchase them, but treatment on offer to children. as well as associated mental health even been said that its discovery held it is equally unlikely that they will be Chair of the child and adolescent conditions.” back Chinese innovation for centuries. any more beneficial than drinking other faculty at the Royal College of It’s no surprise therefore that there are so forms of tea.” Psychiatrists, Dr Bernadka Dubicka said many different kinds from Earl Grey to All this is not to say that they should to the BBC: Camomile. be avoided entirely. But the idea that “Currently only one in four children Study finds that But recently there has been a trend these types of tea are uniquely beneficial and young people are treated for their in teas claiming to be targeted towards to women is not based on any real mental health problems.” She added coffee could women and for particular health benefits. evidence. If you are going to drink it, that. “The fact that prescriptions for These can be flavoured with ingredients say because you like the taste, it’s best to antidepressants are rising could reflect a decrease your such as cranberry, rose, and vanilla. keep that in mind. 02057 7738 2348 AugustAugust 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 57 Health online: www.KCWToday.co.uk

explored for ‘bioengineering.’ say, will look into this as part of the that were given supplements to mimic a But the UTMB has transplanted experiment and if everything works out high-fibre diet showed reduced signs of New tech offers entire lungs into pigs that were grown we could see this same procedure applied stress and had healthier functioning guts. hope from the animals’ own cells. They began to humans within five to ten years. But this does not necessarily prove the to transplant patients by removing a lung from another pig and same or even a similar effect in people. bathed it in a solution to strip out all the Eating the recommended amount of By Fahad Redha blood and living cells, leaving behind fibre does have some health benefits. It a “scaffold” made up of proteins, that High-fibre diet is thought to reduce your risk of disease resembles a lung. They then collected including bowel cancer. But as of yet, cells from the lung of a test pig. The could lower stress reducing stress cannot be added to the scaffold was bathed in a tank of nutrient By Fahad Redha list of benefits. housands of people in the UK medium and the lung cells were added. There are other ways however of fighting alone are waiting on the organ Over the next 30 days they spread out it. Sharing your problems with family transplant waiting list with some across the scaffold to form a new lung Researchers from the and friends is first on the list. Making waitingT for years. Many people, for ready to be transplanted. University College Cork, time for interests and hobbies as well personal reasons, choose not to become The researchers then examined the as taking a break or holiday is another. organ donors after they die. However, pigs at intervals of 10 hours, two weeks, and Teagasc Food Research Eating healthy and exercising has also recent changes to the law would see one month, and two months following been proven to work. Finally, making people needing to ‘opt-out’ if they don’t the surgery. Each animal was healthy Centre, also in Cork, Ireland, sure you get enough sleep is highly want to donate, rather than ‘opt-in’ if they for the whole time and the lungs had have found that a high fibre recommended. Sleep deprivation can be do. Even for those that do however, their successfully grown the required blood very dangerous and has been linked to next of kin will have the final say. And vessels within the two weeks. diet could help to relieve stress heart attacks, depression, and suicide. even if a person’s family gives doctors the “We saw no signs of pulmonary and anxiety. On nhs.uk is a list of other activities that go-ahead, there is still the fear that the edema, which is usually a sign of the you may want to try if you are feeling body may reject the new organ. vasculature not being mature enough," The researchers particularly looked at the stressed. But if the new organ was grown from lead researchers of the study Joan role of short-chain fatty acids which are If these self-help techniques do not work, the recipient’s own cells it may not be a Nichols and Joaquin Cortiella said. the small molecules produced when the you can receive psychological therapies, problem. Researchers from University of "The bioengineered lungs continued digestive system breaks down high-fibre including cognitive behavioural therapy, Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have to develop post-transplant, without any food, including fruits and vegetables. on the NHS and without a referral from transplanted bioengineered lungs into infusions of growth factors, the body It is already known that they have a your GP. You can refer yourself directly pigs with no complications caused by the provided all of the building blocks that positive impact on biological processes to a psychological therapies service. procedure. the new lungs needed.” such as the metabolism and immune However, you can talk it through with The hope is that in the future, patients However, while this did show system, so the researchers set out to your GP first if that’s what you prefer. could have new organs grown or even 3D how well the bioengineered lung discover if they could help in relieving You can find more information as well as printed from their own cells. In recent would survive and grow in the pig, the stress. psychological therapies services on nhs. years muscles, blood vessels, kidneys, researchers did not test how well it It should be noted that this research uk. Finally, you can find mental health bone marrow, and skin have all been provided oxygen. Future studies, they involved mice not humans. The mice apps and tools in the NHS apps library.

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Ponds, with another tributary coming from the damned lake at Kenwood From the House and then into the chain of Riverbank Highgate Ponds. By the time the two Part 7 sources unite at Camden Town, it has disappeared underground, passing By Don Grant under the Regent’s Canal, past King’s Cross, Farringdon Road, Holborn, up to where it was navigable until the 1730s, where it finally flows into the Thames

at Blackfriars Bridge. If one stops and Alken Thomas Henry by Aquatint 1850. Fishing, Trout lthough there are now few UK listens at a drain in Clerkenwell, one can rivers, certainly less than 15%, hear the Fleet sewer below! for which the flow regime can The Tyburn also arises on Hampstead beA considered natural, the rivers and Heath from the Shepherd’s Well and streams have basically followed the flows southwards down to Regent’s Park, same course since the last Ice Age, then under Oxford Street and Piccadilly around 12,000 years ago. The need to towards Green Park and Buckingham drain land, to protect it from flooding, Palace, flowing into The Thames at to control the flow of water for water Westminster. Beverley Brook is a minor supply or hydropower, or to use the open stream rising in Worcester Park, watercourses for navigation, fishing or then flowing north through Wimbledon recreation, have all imposed change to Common, and Richmond Park, and the riverscape. As has been mentioned joining the River Thames to the north of here before, there are 161 chalk streams Putney Embankment at Barn Elms. in England, from Wessex flowing south To the north of London, there is a into Christchurch Harbour, The Solent charming little stream called Mutton and the Channel, north into the Thames, Brook that rises in East Finchley, flows the Thames Estuary in Kent those that under the Finchley Road at Henly’s flow into the Ouse and the Broads in Corner, then under the North Circular East Anglia, as well as those that flow Road to meet Dollis Brook, which into the Humber and the North Sea in then becomes the River Brent and the Eastern Wolds of Lincolnshire and flows into The Welsh Harp. After a Yorkshire. Chalk streams are defined as circuitous course through Wembley those rising directly from the chalk and and Greenford, it enters the Thames at subsequently flow over younger Tertiary Brentford. The River Lea is the largest (sand and clay) deposits, or those that tributary of the Thames around the rise from chalk which was directly capital and is classified as a chalk stream, impacted by major glacial action during as it originates in the Chiltern Hills the Pleistocene Ice Age. London has near Luton. The master wood-engraver its own chalk stream in the form of the Robert Gibbins, already famous for his River Wandle, which rises in Carshalton Sweet Thames Run Softly in 1940, wrote and flows for nine miles into the Thames and illustrated Lovely is the Lea in 1945, at Wandsworth. It was considered an with some exquisite engravings of the excellent trout stream in the sixteenth natural world. and seventeenth centuries and was In 2005, and again in 2011, a 15lb famously fished by Lord Nelson, until Canada goose was pulled down very industrialisation and pollution turned Perhaps these rivers are not quickly by a large predator, according to it, officially, into an open sewer right ‘lost’, but merely hidden. witnesses, going ‘vertically down’ in the up to the 1960s. It was mentioned in As is suggested space of half a second. It seemed unlikely The Compleat Angler by Isaak Walton, in William Kent’s that a pike could be capable to take who described the trout caught there as Encyclopaedia of London, such a prey, so speculation about what it ‘having marbled spots like a tortoise.’ ‘a river can sometimes was ranged from a caiman, a crocodile, Since then, the Wandle Piscators and be diverted, but it is a a snapping turtle, or, more likely, a the Environment Agency have cleaned it very hard thing to lose it wels catfish, but British Waterways up, and it is now meant to host trout, sea altogether,’ The Westbourne strenuously denied that there might be a trout and salmon, according to a certain flows from Hampstead crocodile in the river. Theo Pike in his book Trout in Dirty Heath, with one source These rivers not only provided water Places, although no-one has actually seen actually springing up in the for the expanding Capital, they powered or caught one yet. crypt of University College dozens of water mills, with more than A River Runs Through It is the title School in Frognal. It thirty on the Wandle alone: tobacco- of a book by Norman Maclean and a flows down through West mills, snuff-mills, copper-mills, oil-mills, film directed by Robert Redford, with would be joined by many springs and Hampstead to Kilburn, where it is joined leather-mills, flour-mills, a parchment- the opening line, ‘In our family there rivulets which cannot enter the enclosed by another tributary, and continues down mill and at least two paper-mills. Cutlers, was no clear line between religion and sewer and will simply follow the original through Paddington and into Hyde dyers, tanners and, of course, brewers, all fly fishing.’ We are told that they live course of the stream, which means that Park, where it used to flow into the needed water and power to produce their in western Montana, ‘at the junction of the watersheds are the same, and below Serpentine. After going down through goods. Other hidden rivers include the great trout rivers…’ In London, several the buildings, the strata are unaltered. Knightsbridge, it famously crosses the Falcon in Clapham, the Effra, flowing rivers run through it, although most Unknown to most Londoners, there is a District and Circle Lines above Sloane through Brixton, the Peck sourcing in Two Gentlemen Fishing, 1817. Soft ground etching by Henry Thomas Alken. R. Ackermann's Fishing Scraps Fishing Ackermann's R. Alken. Thomas Henry etching by Soft ground 1817. Gentlemen Fishing, Two now flow underground. Apart from The whole system of underground rivers, ‘as Square Underground station in a massive Dulwich and Counters Creek flowing Wandle, the Lea, the Ravensbourne, intricate and mysterious as those which iron conduit, flowing into the Thames at through Chelsea, but, in the past, they the Brent and the Crane, most rivers pour from cave to cave in the heart of Chelsea Bridge. were part of daily life, until urbanisation are hidden under our feet. Though the the Pyrenees and, partly like them, The Fleet starts life in the Vale of obliterated all but a handful. As Ella main stream can be encased in some unexplored,’ as Nicholas Barton states Health pond, again on Hampstead Fitzgerald sang, ‘Fish got to swim, birds form of sewer, the brook in its course in his 1962 book, Lost Rivers of London. Heath, flowing through the Hampstead gotta fly.’ And rivers got to flow. 62 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Crossword & Public Notices

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mentor and coach stated to “Chess.com”, by FIDE to the chess world and beyond, “It’s a fantastic achievement by someone was the belief and avowed intention that CHESS so young. Praggnanandhaa is very talented the election of a new leader was to give By Barry Martin and hard working of course. He should back to the organising of world chess by capitalise on this strong foundation and go FIDE, a dignified, exalted and honest face! all the way to the world championship title. This run-up and interim period hardly He has the capacity to do that! It would pays lip-service to such lofty ideals, high be rather wonderful if in the very near standards and worthy intentions. Instead Sitting in the future, sensibly and probably at the earliest the contenders appear intent on character in three years time, the world had a new assassination from the very off! As the world champion who was under 16 years Pope declared to the Crusaders who played square, seasonal of age!” chess for money, chess is the corrupting But, back to the pantomime world work of the Devil, and forbade them to heat of FIDE and the machinations of continue to play the game! an organisation that is spinning like Chess puzzle f you can’t stand the heat, then get IIyumzhinov’s alien space vehicle in which out of the kitchen’, so the saying The following puzzle is taken from the he claimed he had twice been abducted Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Tournament, goes. As the second youngest column, he was the chairperson for the by aliens. The FIDE Ethics Commission Germany 14th.-22nd. July 2018 rnd. 2 ever Grandmaster to attain this title in World Football Championships organising ‘I has sanctioned Kirsan IIyumzhinov for between Nisipeanu, Liviu, Dieter, white chess history is officially ordained by committee in Russia and has the hand of violating FIDE’s code of ethics. The v Duda, Krzysztof, black. See diagram. FIDE, namely the Indian child prodigy god, Putin and the Kremlin’s blessing for FIDE President who has been banned Black has played 25...... Rhc8, doubling Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, the the FIDE Presidency. A recent photograph from ‘holding any position’ effectively up his Rook’s on the c-file, and attacking official body itself is in a state of turmoil has Putin and Dvorkovich together with for 6 months, plans to fight the decision. White’s Knight on c5. What was White’s as the three officially accepted and the former commending him for it! The ban is for 18 months of which 12 next move 26....., and what might White announced nominees for the position of Dvorkovich in critical retaliation to the months are suspended for a period of 2 have played giving a stouter defence?

FIDE President start to roll-out their years. The immediate ban of 6 months charges of bribery, offering complimentary Answer upside down below. O-1. Qxd4,Qc7.

incriminations of each other. Let the mud commenced on 13th July 2018, and will football tickets to the World Football

wrestling season begin in earnest! end on the 12th January 2019. The Board Championships and paying expenses Qxc3,Kb7.30.a5,Qd7.31.Nd4,Nxd4.32.

But first some chess. The Dortmund stated,’ Mr. IIyumzhinov acted in a manner for a number of FIDE delegates of 28.Rxc3,Rxc3.29. 27.Nb3,Rxc3. 26.a4,b6.

Sparkassen Chess Tournament is in its incompatible with his duty to put the various countries to visit, seen by some as went game the Instead KIng. Black the

final round, 14th-22nd July in Germany interests of FIDE above his own personal bribery to gain delegates support in the against attack in Queen and knight has

and Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken the interests and in defiance of valid decisions forthcoming Presidential election. He White now and Qxc3, 28. 27.Rxc3,Rxc3.

lead after winning in round 6 against the of the FIDE Presidential Board by inter has stated that,‘.... the whole system of 26.Na4,Rxc3. gone have could game The

early leader Jan- Krzysztof Duda. The alia seeking to exercise powers which had appointments in FIDE looks corrupted..’ defence. in c3 on rook White’s supports

latter missed his chance with a winning been delegated to the FIDE Deputy- in referring to committee appointments, also which but to, retreat to square valuable

combination in the end game, but his first President, seeking to discredit members for appeals, choices of venues and decisions a lost has knight White’s , square a4 the

round win against Nisipeanu features as of the FIDE Presidential Board, making to allocate subsidies. The forthcoming filling in but pawns, advancing White’s

our puzzle for this issue. The tournament untrue or provocative public statements election looks set to be an historic Punch with attack side Queen a suggest to features Kramnik, Giri, Kovalev, Meier, and refusing to resign following the and Judy bust-up, with all its glory and seems which 26.a4,..., played White Wojtaszek, as well as the three already closure of FIDE’s bank accounts, and in messiness! One of the recent declarations mentioned, and the tournament initiated so doing created confusion and instability in 2003 is one of the annual top highlights within FIDE and further inflicted serious of the chess world. In the recent Leon reputational, operational and financial Masters tournament 6th-8th July, Wesley harm upon FIDE and brought FIDE So retained his title beating Vallejo 2-0 and the game of chess into disrepute’ The Andrew’s Best (and worst) in a blitz tie-break final. Praggnanandhaa Ethics commission unanimously decided With Andrew Robson finished last, but scored his first victory IIyuzhinov was guilty of the violation of Conventions against So. Praggnanandhaa 2529 who has a number of articles of the FIDE code When an opponent opens at the three-level (to show a weak hand with a very long suit), become the 2nd youngest Grandmaster of Ethics and delivered an immediate I strongly recommend that you play double as take-out (asking partner to speak), and all in chess history to attain this title at the suspension. bids as natural. age of 12 years 10 months 13 days, scored This ban may help FIDE to re-establish a There are those who like to play double as penalties, and either the next suit up his third GM norm at the 4th Gredine new bank account which it is desperate to (“Fishbein”) or 3NT as the take-out bid; or perhaps “optional” (even worse, what on earth Open in Ortisei, Italy. He won both of his achieve. Of course, the pantomime doesn’t does “optional” mean?). Those people are, unwisely, happy to lose one or other bid, so that last two rounds against Italian and Dutch finish there! IIyumzhinov in speaking they can penalise the pre-empt. Yet playing take-out doubles does not prevent you from Grandmasters, and finished the tourney with the Russian newspaper Izvestia has as a joint winner, but lost in a tie-break stated that he plans to fight the ruling of penalising the pre-empt, as this month’s deal illustrates. and was the runner up. He achieved a the Ethics Commission, “I do not give Dealer South Both Vulnerable performance rating of 2705 Elo, 100 points ♠ up, I do not surrender. I will fight. I go to +)  "&' $%'# !&' $('# more than the required 2600 pts. For a CAS, the International Arbitration Court. ♥ " ♥ GM norm, in order to be awarded the  I believe that is a violation of human rights, ♦ &% GM title a player has to achieve 3 norms, !$$ !$$ "# !$$ an interference in internal affairs!” One wit ♣ () '&% playing in tournaments with highly ELO stated ‘..... careful he has friends in high !$$ !$$ ♠ (#! ♠ *'& rated players and achieving wins against places, outer space in fact!’ N the majority of them, in layman’s language. ♥ *)! ♥ # This ban effectively is to deter Kirsan WE You will have already a high ELO rating, from meddling in the outcome of the ♦ *+ ♦ ('#! S for example 2500 Elo, to be entitled/ elections for President in Batumi this ♣ *$#" ♣ +! invited to play in such competitions. coming October. The acting President ♠ %$" Praggu first made his name by Makropolis (Vice-President) has ♥ (+ '&%$ winning the Asian Championships announced his team in making his ♦ and 2 world championship titles. He )$" declaration to be elected FIDE President, ♣ was the world’s youngest International and names Malcolm Pein, the English IM , Master at 10 years old, a record he still as his Vice-President on being elected. holds. In 2016 at Chess.com’s Isle of Playing take-out doubles of Weak Threes, West passes with his good defensive hand, Three weeks after the three candidates expecting his partner to reopen the bidding with heart shortage, even with a light hand. Man International tournament he was names had been officially announced nicknamed ‘Double-Anand’ after defeating East obliges, and West converts his take-out double to penalties by passing, then leads the key buzzword on the block was ♦K. He follows with ♦Q, then cashes ♠A, and leads ♠5 to East’s ♠K. East cashes ♦A, GM Axel Bachmann in less than 20 ‘corruption’. As a tail end to the above ♠ ♠ ♣ moves! In the next year 2017, in the same on which West discards 3, then leads 8 for West to trump. West exits with 4 and public announcements FIDE announced declarer, down to just his seven hearts, trumps perforce, cashes ♥A and leads ♥10. West competition he defeated the now chess the establishment of an anti- corruption takes his ♥J and ♥K. Declarer is four down and loses 1100 points. correspondent for”The Sunday Times”, committee, and the ticket members for GM David Howell, a 2700+ player, causing Makropolis have accused the newly ANDREW’S LEAST FAVOURITE CONVENTIONS: the consequent embarrassment such a sanctioned Dvorkovich for the Presidency (2) Penalty doubles of Weak Threes. loss incurs. GM R.B.Ramesh, Praggu’s of bribery! As revealed in my last month’s Next month we begin ANDREW’S TOP TEN CONVENTIONS 64 August 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Advertisement

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