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Word investment continued. The project could be more than £3 Crossrail billion over budget, with up to £650 Jessie Mathewson million of overspend still not secured. Photograph © TfL LDRS Reporter Originally set to cost £14.8 billion, the bill for Crossrail will now be £18 billion or more. In an apparent attempt to distance adiq Khan says he can guarantee himself from problems on the line, Mr Crossrail will open next year, and Khan said: “Crossrail was set up as delays will not push the railway an autonomous body and so although back to 2022. the Department for Transport and S Transport for London are sponsors, we The Mayor spoke exclusively to the Local Democracy Service as Crossrail have very little say over what happens bosses announced plans to open the with Crossrail.” central section of the line by summer The Mayor has previously been 2021. criticised for failing to spot problems The railway will link Reading, with the project as they first arose. test running trains along the tracks. subsidiary of TfL and the head of TfL is Heathrow, and Essex to central London, Previously Transport for London (TfL) This trial running will be followed by the Mayor. with a branch to the south east of the Commissioner Mike Brown said he was a final stage of testing when passengers “The idea that he is somehow city. Originally the line was due to open planning for an opening date as late as will be invited to travel. The timetable divorced from Crossrail is complete in December 2018, but has faced a series autumn next year, meaning the rail link for completion remains tight, as trial nonsense.” of embarrassing delays. would be almost three years late. running of trains will take between 9 Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild Mr Khan said: “Because of the huge This assessment has been and 12 months. said his team is doing “everything we problems in 2018 and my anger at the contradicted by Crossrail bosses who Conservative London Assembly can” to open the line to passengers. delay in Crossrail being so late, we’ve got have insisted that the central part of member Gareth Bacon said he was He said: “We have a comprehensive rid of the previous chair.” the line would open by May next year; sceptical about the Mayor’s promise, plan to complete the Elizabeth line and Tony Meggs became chairman of and that the whole project would be stating “We’ve had so many promises the milestones we must hit during 2020, Crossrail in January last year, and Mark complete by May 2022. By contrast Mr broken that I’ll believe it when I see it.” including the testing of the signalling Wild took over as chief executive. The Brown had said the eastern branch to He added: “Early in the Mayor’s term and train systems and safety assurance, Mayor said: “I’ve got confidence in them, Shenfield in Essex could open as late as he was keen to take credit for everything but there are no shortcuts to delivery of and they’ve announced that next summer December 2022. that was happening with Crossrail. this hugely complex railway. the central section of Crossrail should The Crossrail team are currently “But when things started to go badly “Our latest assessment is that open up.” developing essential software that will wrong he started speaking about the Elizabeth line services through central Mr Khan said the new line would be used to run trains along the line. Department for Transport and TfL London will commence in summer 2021 “transform public transport in London” Leaders say this will be finished by being joint sponsors. but we are aiming to open the railway as and it was “really important” that autumn this year. They can then start “Crossrail is a wholly owned soon as we can.” 4 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk News

exhibitions and an events’ programme in May which will include subjects like Record high Major investment Natural History Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature, to inspire young visitors to imagine number of to transform UK’s Museum plans futures where both the people and planet thrive. The museum will also lead a women aged 45 leading cancer for the future partnership across the United Kingdom to tackle urban biodiversity loss, and will and over giving campus The Natural History Museum has transform its five-acre gardens into the birth declared a “planetary emergency” and ‘Urban Nature Project’. Another goal is By Anna Mackenzie released an 11-year Strategy and Vision to build a new science and digitisation Plan to be completed on its 150th centre to house and share some of its 80 anniverary in 2031 which will address million specimens and artifacts. © ICR Photograph such issues as climate change, species’ The plan states that the museum extinction, habitat destruction and aims to become the first museum in The number of women aged 45 and over pollution. the world to set a science-based carbon giving birth is at the highest level since The main goal of the plan is to create reduction target that is in line with the records began in 1938, a report by the ‘advocates for the planet’, who can Paris Climate Agreement, which aspires Office for National Statistics (ONS) speak up for nature and are empowered to keep warming to a maximum of 1.5 showed. to take action to protect it,”said Clare degrees Celsius. The number of live births in this age Matterson, the executive director of group has continued to rise over the past engagement at the museum. “From For more information about current or two decades from 663 in 2000 to 2,366 A new multimillion investment is the children who visit our galleries to upcoming exhibits, please see: in 2018. to drive forward development of The industry titans and international policy www.nhm.ac.uk By contrast, births to women aged 25 London Cancer Hub. It is hoped that makers, we want to inspire, inform and and under have steadily decreased, with this would boost efforts to turn it into empower everyone to make a difference women aged 40-44 now surpassing the the world’s leading life-science campus for nature.” number of teenage mothers. focused on overcoming cancer. The plan is in response to the The figures show the average age of The London Borough of Sutton multiple challenges Earth faces as a © NHM Photograph mothers and fathers increased for the together with The Institute of Cancer result of human activities such as the 10th successive year, rising to 30.6 and Research, London, have secured £8.4 burning of fossil fuels, deforestation 33.6 years respectively. million in funding to prepare land and light, air and water pollution’ The standardised mean age of for development and put in place the summarised by Sir David Attenborough mothers and fathers has increased by infrastructure required for the first wave in the opening sentence of the plan: “The a total of 4.2 years since they were at of commercial life-science buildings. future of the natural world, on which we their lowest on record in 1975 and 1974 The funding comes from the all depend, is in your hands,” respectively. Strategic Investment Pot, administered The different galleries at the museum However, the risk of certain by the City of London on behalf of all will increase efforts to engage the public complications for both mother and baby London Boroughs to support projects with these issues, and will open its rises as women get older. that will help promote future economic collections to share the scientific data Beyond the decline in fertility, the growth. needed to find solutions in fighting chances of having a child with Down The London Cancer Hub will be a climate instability and biodiversity loss, syndrome, needing a Caesarean birth global centre for cancer innovation; a which are also two major issues Earth and the risk of miscarriage all increase vibrant community of scientists, doctors faces. over time. and innovative companies, which will One aspect of the plan is to create A study published by the BMJ deliver major benefits for cancer patients new galleries and future-facing found the risk of miscarriage was lowest and the UK economy. The project hopes among women aged 25-29 (10%), and to create as many as 13,000 jobs, around rose rapidly after age 30, reaching 53% 7,000 in life sciences and supporting Wanderers, 14:00 among women age 45 years and over. activities, and 6,200 in the site’s TRAFFIC WATCH March 7, Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 The shift towards delayed pregnancy construction. LONDON HOME FOOTBALL can be attributed to various social, It will further build the ecosystem WOMEN’S GAMES economic and cultural factors, of research, treatment, training and February 12, Tottenham v Everton, 19:30 along with improved healthcare enterprise in the borough. London Home Football Traffic Watch February 16, QPR v Dartford, 14:00 PM February 17, Chelsea v Man Utd, 20:00 and the availability of safe, effective It will also increase the number of new drugs The Institute of Cancer MEN’S GAMES February 22, Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:30 contraception. February 23, Arsenal v Reading, 14:00 Improvements to women’s Research (ICR) can discover, and raise February 15, Fulham v Barnsley, 15:00 February 15, QPR v Stoke City, 15:00 February 25, Chelsea v FC Bayern München, educational and professional outlooks the chances of each new drug being 20:00 successfully developed for patients. February 16, Arsenal v Newcastle, 16:30 have undoubtedly played a key role February 19, Tottenham v RB Leipzig, 20:00 March 1, Fulham v Aylesford, 14:30 in allowing women to independently The Borough of Sutton has already February 22, Tottenham v Chelsea, 12:30 March 1, QPR v Ashford Town, 14:00 choose if, how and when they wish to invested more than £30 million to February 23, Arsenal v Everton, 16:30 March 3, Chelsea v TBC, 19:45 become mothers. acquire 4.8 hectares of land on the site, February 25, QPR v Derby County, 19:45 March 8, Chelsea v Everton, 14:00 to accommodate up to 100,000 square February 26, Fulham v Swansea City, 19:45 metres of new life-science facilities and February 27, Arsenal v Olympiacos, 20:00 commercial space. February 29, Fulham v Preston North End, 15:00 “The Knowledge Centre will make March 1, Tottenham v Wolverhampton Compiled by Fahad Redha an important contribution to supporting effective collaboration between research, treatment and technology at The London Cancer Hub,” Councillor Ruth Dombey, Leader of Sutton Council, said. “Additionally, it will help to create SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT thousands of new jobs in our borough”. KCW LONDON. See page 21 for details Find out more about The London Cancer Hub at LondonCancerHub.org 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 5 News online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

advice from adults who are friendly Clawing kids and independent, they will find the opportunity to develop as grown-ups in back from gang a more helpful and fruitful environment, enabling them to make decent life culture, decisions. one soul at a time One of the life enhancing charities doing this sort of work is Kids on the By Roger Baresel Green, which was set up by Zoe LeVack immediately after the Grenfell fire. We see a lot in the mainstream media From premises in North Kensington, about knife crime and how ‘something the team organise a range of activities, must be done’ which include: Nature activities such Unfortunately a tougher stop & as Forest School; homeopathy lessons; search policy, a knife amnesty and longer parcour; circus skills; arts and culture. sentences are populist rallying cries but Recently, KotG have completed a 14 what is really needed is intervention and week outreach exercise called Girl Group help at an individual level. helping 13-18 year old girls to learn Some young people live in housing strategies to combat violence.. conditions where involvement in gangs KotG has a small sound studio with is very hard to avoid. But if those decent equipment and have almost young people have access to help and completed a separate video editing suite. Most of the building work was done voluntarily by a local fireman and much of the equipment was donated. Adrian McFarlane is studio manager and keeps a close eye on his young charges, and says, ‘If they are here learning a skill,

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from a vehicle from zero to five, with zero having the most blindspots and London leads New safety five the least. Once fully enforced it the way on HIV features installed will be a requirement for vehicles in the on more than 8000 lorries capital to be rated at least at one on this prevention scale. Many lorries will need additional By Anna Mackenzie in London technological systems such as cameras By Oliver Lloyd and sensors to meet this requirement. Vehicles not complying will be fined at a rate of £550 per day. London saw the fastest decrease in Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) have the number of HIV diagnoses since Transport for London (TfL) announced long been recognised as a significant 2014, national data from Public Health on 23rd January that it has issued safety threat on London’s roads. England showed.While the capital HGV Safety Permits since October Between 2015 and 2017, HGVs were accounted for half of national diagnoses are currently living with HIV but are 2019. These permits certify that disproportionately involved in fatal in gay and bisexual men in 2014, this unaware of their status.” these vehicles meet the world leading collisions, with 63 per cent of those dropped to 39% by 2018. The drop in national HIV safety requirements of TfL’s Direct involving people cycling and 25 per cent The success of the combination transmission rates has been especially Vision Standard for protecting cyclists of those involving people walking. prevention approach, including the use large among men who have sex with and pedestrians and will become a TfL estimates that nearly 250,000 of condoms, regular testing, and taking men, with a 73% decrease between requirement from 26th October this HGVs will need to apply for a permit preventative medicine, was cited as a 2014 and 2018. In addition, the number year. by the deadline although this will be key factor for this substantial progress. of new HIV diagnoses in people who The Direct Vision Standard creates made easier as fleet operators can apply Funded collaboratively by London acquired HIV heterosexually has almost minimum legal requirements for in bulk. Almost 6000 of those currently boroughs, the London HIV Prevention halved over the past decade from 3,400 visibility out of cab windows for vehicles issued have been to fleet operators in this Programme (LHPP) promotes in 2009 to 1,940 in 2018. over 12 tonnes, rating the visibility way. combination prevention through its London Councils’ Executive Member sexual health service. for Health & Care Ray Puddifoot Lead commissioner of the LHPP said: “By working efficiently and Paul Steinberg said: “The capital has effectively together on this public health made very significant progress in challenge, boroughs ensure clear and Photograph © TfL reducing HIV in the last decade, which consistent messages are communicated is testament to everyone involved in to Londoners about the importance of ending the epidemic. Further challenges testing and protection.” remain. We must continue our efforts to The capital has pledged to achieve reduce late diagnosis, to raise awareness three significant HIV goals by 2030: of HIV among our key communities zero new transmissions, zero deaths, and and to diagnose the 2,100 people who zero stigma. 6 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk News

A long way to go London Book to achieve gender and Screen equality in the Week Photograph © British Citizen Award Citizen © British Photograph legal profession March 9-15 2020 By Anna Mackenzie

The 23rd December 2019 marked the A week of events that blends the centenary of the ‘Sex Disqualification artistic media of books, television (Removal) Act’, which allowed women and film is coming to the areas of to qualify as solicitors and barristers, sit Westiminster, Soho and Mayfair this for fighting at school, at which point he on juries and serve as magistrates. spring, known as London Book and risked falling into a life of gangs and Celebrating one hundred years of Screen Week. Londoner crime himself. He said: “Without that women solicitors, the Law Society of The festivities will kick off at the awarded for work support, that belief and at the time, that England and Wales said that while the Groucho Club, taking place from to reduce gang violence in risk of using new intervention ideas, I profession has made great progress there March 9-15 2020. The sixth London wouldn’t be where I am today. I wanted is still a long way to go to achieve full Book and Screen Week will be youth communities to continue to help young people. To gender equality in the law. celebrating 40 years of Yes Minister, the By Anna Mackenzie represent the community I am from, to Law Society president Simon career of Lynda La Plante, and Doctor break down barriers from the past and to Davis said: “The profession has made Who, while exploring poetry, stories, help shift a positive change on how the great strides over the past hundred and delicious food. Our lives are shaped by the community helps the community.” years. However, women are still not Produced by The London Book people around us. Every He has gone on to become an reaching senior positions in sufficient Fair, the events combine readers, ambassador for young people and numbers.”According to Law Society writers, TV fans, games and films in day, individuals take part in was a key team member responding research, women now comprise 50.8% the capital’s largest festival for books, extraordinary endeavours to to the Grenfell disaster as part of the of practising solicitors and 62.1% of new television programs and film. central recovery taskforce, given the entrants, however only 30.1% of partners Festival Ambassador, Lynda positively impact our society responsibility for leading on engagement in private practices. La Plante, will be discussing her and communities. and communication. In spite of women with practising vibrant career, covering everything He said: “It isn’t easy being a certificates now outnumbering men by from performances with the Royal he bi-annual British Citizen young person in London in today’s over 2,000, there are still barriers that Shakespeare Company to writing Awards recognises the age. Violence is on the increase and prevent them from reaching the most award-winning scripts for shows like achievement of those who work the temptation to afford themselves senior roles in the profession. Prime Suspect and Widows. tirelesslyT behind the scenes and often some protection in groups or gangs can In 2018, the Law Society conducted From New York, Johnathan Lynn away from the glare of publicity to make be attractive to them. Everyone has a an international survey to find out why will be joining the festivities with a difference. role to play in being a role model or this is the case.Their research identified comedian Ayesha Hazarika. The two Now in its fifth year, the prestigious guiding voice to help our young people many obstacles to women’s career will be discussing the modern political awards scheme aims to reward to stay on the right path, or to support progression including unconscious bias landscape, parallels between the UK true community heroes who are them in understanding the risks and and a difficult work-life balance.An and the US, and the tour de force of representative of today’s multicultural vulnerabilities that comes with being overwhelming 91% of respondents to the political satire that is still relevant Britain. involved in gangs.” survey cited flexible working as crucial to today. Among the national winners this Mr Forbes hopes to use the platform improving diversity, while only 52% said Exploring intimate details of the year is Londoner Ben Forbes who of the Awards as a means to show young they worked in an organisation where horrors and humour of adolescence, was honoured for his services to the people it is never too late to change and flexible working is in place. Joe Dunthorne and Lisa Owens will community. there is support to help them move onto The unacceptable work-life balance discuss coming-of-age stories. Owens is Mr Forbes said: “It’s firstly a huge a positive path for their future. demanded to reach senior levels was the scriptwriter for Days of the Bagnold surprise, but an amazing feeling to be The Awards consist of nine cited as an obstacle by 49% of those Summer, adapted from Joff Winterhart’s awarded such a prestigious award which categories, all underpinned by the questioned, while 46% noted traditional graphic novel. Dunthorne’s highly relates to services to the community.”He overarching qualities of transparency, networks and routes to promotion successful debut, Submarine, was is from West Silvertown, London, and integrity, determination and remained male orientated. adapted for screen by Richard Ayode. is a Police Sergeant in Essex Police who achievement. Mr Davis said: “Alongside juggling After fifteen years since returning leads a team of officers in charge of Nominations are free to make and demanding legal careers, many women to screen, journalist, broadcaster and delivering visible community policing cover individuals doing exceptional are also the primary caregiver in their huge fan Samira Ahmed will lead a and engagement across Thurrock. He work across the UK, from all cultural family, often at crucial points in their conversation about the iconic Doctor was nominated for his work across backgrounds and from all sectors of the career. Creating a more flexible, inclusive Who. Joining Ahmed will be actress London in respect of developing new community. working environment gives those with and author Sophie Aldred, otherwise approaches to preventing, reducing The awards’ ceremony took place care responsibilities equal opportunities known as the companion to the seventh and diverting gang and serious youth at the Palace of Westminster on 23rd for progression and helps create a Doctor, writer Vinay Patel, author of violence. January 2020, where winners each more diverse senior leadership. The the episode Demons of the Punjab of Mr Forbes was inspired to join received a Medal of Honour. profession has made important steps in season 11, and Simon Guerrier, author the police service after a local officer Find more information about the the right direction, but for real change of Doctor Who stories for BBC Books, supported him following an intervention awards at britishcitizenawards.co.uk. to take root, firms across the country Big Finish Productions and more. must put the right policies in place and Topping off the week will be a work together to build a more diverse special brunch led by “The One Pound workplace for the next generation.” The Chef” Miguel Barclay, who encourages SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT report found while 74% of men reported people to cook easy, delicious meals KCW LONDON. See page 21 for details progress on gender equality in the last at home for £1 per person. He will be five years, only 48% of women felt this serving up tasty, affordable vegetarian was the case. food for all to enjoy. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 7 News online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

of a talking mongoose” with Christopher Josiffe on 24 of February and “W.B Britain’s Best Secret Tunnels at Yeats, the faerie’s laureate” with Nina Antonia on 17 February. All events take Walking Kensington and place at the Kensington Central Library

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Award The event is free and for more The Royal Borough of Kensington information, please see rbkc.gov.uk. he Ramblers, Britain’s largest and Chelsea Libraries will be hosting To register for the event please visit walking charity, is launching the event, “Secret tunnels, folklore of Eventbrite.co.uk. its annual competition to find encourage people to get out more and be underground England, with Antony BritainT’s Best Walking Neighbourhood, active. Clayton” on 27 February from 6:30 p.m. highlighting the excellent work being That’s why Ramblers is campaigning to 7:30 p.m. done by local authorities to make streets to improve neighbourhoods across The illustrated talk, hosted by author Tube watch: and spaces in towns and cities more Great Britain to make them friendly Antony Clayton, will explore numerous Brixton tube maintenance welcoming for walkers. Nominations to walkers. Falkirk in Scotland was examples of unusual subterranean are now open for the 2020 award. crowned the winner for 2019. The folklore across England. He will discuss To nominate a neighbourhood or for shortlist was made up of Aberystwyth, legends of secret tunnels and passages Transport for London (TfL) is confirming more information, contact kate.conto@ Bow and Three Mills, Brighton, as well as strange phenomena such as that essential maintenance on one of ramblers.org.uk by 20 March 2020. Brockley, Cambridge, Chorlton and the Green Children of the Woolpit, Brixton Tube station’s escalators will begin “Too often our towns and cities have Whalley Range, the Deepings, Elgin, the Knockers, of Cornish mining on Friday 14 February. The work will been designed around cars,” Ramblers and Milton Keynes. folklore, stories of fiddlers disappearing mean that the escalator will be closed until says on its website, “whilst our green “We received thousands of votes for underground, rumours of buried treasure early March and customers who use the spaces have been neglected or squeezed all of our finalists,” the charity says, and the treacle mines. station are advised to consider travelling at out altogether. “and the tally of votes was very close, Clayton is the author of Decadent a different time or using alternative public “We want to change that. We want which shows just how great all ten of our London, The Folklore of London, Secret transport to reduce any disruption. neighbourhoods that put people walking shortlisted neighbourhoods are. These Tunnels of England: Folklore & Fact This will mean that there will only first and allow everyone easy access to neighbourhoods showcase some of the and Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister be one escalator down to the platforms quality green spaces within a short walk best of everyday walking; places where Crowley. He lives in Hastings. in the morning peak hours, and entry to of their front door.” local authorities and community groups The talk is part of “Fantasy the station will be managed with a queue Green neighbourhoods that are have improved local streets and routes February”, which is a festival of folklore between 07:00 and 10:00. The closure will inviting to walk, it says, promote for walking and with good access to events at Kensington Central Library. also mean that the both escalators will be good physical and mental health and green space.” Other author talks taking place are running up from the platforms during the well-being. This is largely thanks to For more information, visit ramblers. “Jung the mystic?” with Gary Lachman evening peak, so the station will be No the impact on air quality which can org.uk on 20 February, “Gef! The strange tale Entry from 16:30 to 19:15 on weekdays.

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Photograph © Ham Photograph Iraq, met the famous archaeologist, Dame Agatha Leonard Woolley and his wife who invited her to join their excavations. This Christie. DBE., led to meeting Max Mallowan, a fellow Lady Mallowan. archaeologist, whom she married in (15 September 1890 – 1930. She joined him on his excavations and assisted him with his work. The 12 January 1976) Middle Eastern travelling with him provided splendid material for her books. Max Mallowan and Agatha Christie bought Winterbrook House in Wallingford as a main residence where she wrote many of her books. They also bought Greenway Estate in Devon for holidays. Her brother in law's home, A Blue Plaque was erected at 58 Abney Hall, near Greenway inspired her Sheffield Terrace. Kensington. W8, novels set in country life stately homes. honouring Agatha Christie. She lived The Mallowans also lived in Cresswell there from 1934 to 1941 with her Place, Chelsea. She enjoyed gardening second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, an and choosing furniture and decor for the archaeologist. houses. Agatha Christie was renowned In spite of her fame Agatha Christie for her complex, subtle detective remained shy in public, but always novels, which were very detailed with friendly. I recall meeting her at an sophisticated plots and accurate forensic archaeological event and I have never descriptions. The Guinness Book of forgotten her dynamic, mental energy; were, ‘Oh my country! How I leave my Records list her as the best selling such wonderful gifts to have. country . . . !’ novelist of all time. 2 billion novels Her upper middle class upbringing William Pitt There are a number of statues stayed with her and she wrote about of Pitt the Younger, in Britain and were sold and translated into several the Younger abroad, including a monument in languages. people and for people like herself. Hence Sir Francis Chantrey Westminster Abbey by Sir Richard She was born Agatha Mary her attraction to her readers. Westmacott, which stands over the Miller in Torquay Devon, to wealthy, Edgar Allen Poe can probably be Hanover Square west entrance door, and opposite upper middle class parents. Her credited with inventing the detective his father, The Earl of Chatham. father, Frederick Alvah Miller, was story, but he tired of it. Arthur Conan Westmacott also sculpted a seated a gentleman of substance and her Doyle established the genre with his illiam Pitt the Younger was figure of Pitt in Roman robes outside mother, Margaret Clarissa Miller (nee character, Sherlock Holmes. By Agatha Great Britain’s youngest Pembroke College, Cambridge, his Boehmer), held esoteric beliefs and the Christie's time, two rules for the genre Prime Minister at the age of alma mater. There is a marble statue children considered their mother to were established. The detective was 24, when he took office in of him within St Stephen’s Hall in possess psychic powers. eccentric, and reasoning and logic W1783. His tenure was under the Palace of Westminster, created by were central to the book, the detective George III, and there were turbulent John Edward Carew in 1857. Joseph The young Agatha was well educated times in Europe, including the Nollekens executed a full-size marble at home, the arts and music were showing no emotion when at work. French Revolution followed by statue of Pitt, erected at Senate House, not neglected and she described her Agatha Christie honoured the code. the Napoleonic Wars. As a Tory Cambridge, who worked from Pitt’s childhood as happy. She was a solitary She assembles her characters in statesman, he was the son of William death mask and an oil portrait by John child although she did have a brother various situations and venues, a body Pitt the Elder, the 1st Earl of Hoppner, to produce a full-length and a sister. She was a voracious reader appears, the detective questions them Chatham, who also served as Prime statue. Nollekens capitalised on the and fond of her pets. Her education was all, he reveals the murder, how he did Minister in the 1760s. After many success of the statue by producing a completed in the French Pyrenees, Paris, it and why. It is usual for the culprit to political shenanigans, the Charles series of 74 marble busts, one of which Dinard and the Channel Islands. Her submit to handcuffs without a fuss. James Fox and Lord North coalition is in the Met in New York and one mother needed to spend some time in Agatha Christie wrote her first collapsed in 1783 and the King is owned by the V&A. The bronze a hot climate for her health, so mother detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at appointed Pitt to form a government. standing figure in contemporary dress Styles in 1917 (published in 1920). Her After failure to defeat the French, on a granite pedestal in Hanover and daughter visited Cairo. and problems in Ireland and the Square, was made by Sir Francis Agatha Christie's jobs included reputation was made with The Murder of Caribbean, he resigned in 1801. He Chantry in 1833, and a copy was working in a Devon Hospital in World Roger Ackroyd (1926). Murder on the Nile returned as PM in 1804, and was erected in George Street in Edinburgh. War I and as a Pharmacy Assistant (1934) and Death on the Nile, (1934) were toasted at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet Chantrey made his name in 1811 with later at University College Hospital very popular, And Then There Were None as ‘the Saviour of Europe’ after Nelson a plaster model of a bust of the radical London. She studied pharmacy and put (1939) sold a million copies. Murder on had defeated the French at Trafalgar politician Horne Tooke, and in the her knowledge of poison to good use the Links, ABC Murders, Murder at the the previous year. He responded, same year, he won a competition to subsequently in her books. Vicarage, Partners in Crime; title after ‘I return you many thanks for the make a statue of George III, which Agatha Christie and Archibald title brought pleasure and entertainment honour you have done me; but Europe was his first large-scale sculpture in Christie, a soldier seconded to the to millions. Her characters, Hercule is not to be saved by any single man. marble. His best known pieces include RFC, were married in 1914. They had Poirot and Miss Marple are much loved England has saved herself by her an equestrian statue of George IV today. exertions, and will, as I trust, save in Trafalgar Square, a statue of the a daughter, Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Europe by her example.’ However, inventor James Watt, and busts of and they also travelled frequently going Agatha Christies play, The Mousetrap after the Coalition between Britain, the poet William Wordsworth and to Australia, New Zealand and South holds the record for the longest run ever, Austria, Russia and Sweden had been the writer Sir Walter Scott. He was Africa. The couple were divorced in opening at The Ambassador’s, is still defeated at the Battles of Ulm and knighted in 1831. After his wife’s 1948 running at St Martin’s Theatre. Austerlitz, Pitt said, ‘Roll up that death, he left his £150,000 fortune When Agatha Christie's mother died ‘The Queen of Crime’ died at map of Europe; it will not be wanted to the Royal Academy, founding in 1926 and her husband was preparing Winterbrook House in 1976 of these ten years.’ A prophetic remark, the Chantrey bequest, which is the divorce, she became distressed and natural causes. Her resting place is as Waterloo still lay ten years ahead. administered by the Tate. vanished. Huge searches ensued, it was the Churchyard of St. Mary, Cholsey, When he died in 1806, his last words Don Grant quite a mystery and rumours abounded. Wallingford. Oxfordshire. The ending was happy, she was found Marian Maitland 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 9 Architecture online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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he art and process of building has always required a mixture of skills, teamwork and perseverance.T It is in large part heavy, dirty, physical hard work. To build a major construction company takes courage, time, perseverance and wilful organisational ability and drive. It is a risky business, predicting the pricing against unpredictable elements. The competition is fierce and the margins tight. Seemingly insignificant mistakes in a field of complexities can have devastating consequences. In spite of this, the UK has spawned a number of great family construction companies; Laing was one of them. The logistics of major infrastructure projects, especially innovative works, require long All pictures courtesy of term planning and organisation together Historic England Archive crane (against all H&S regulation and with huge man and machine power. & The John Laing Photographic Collection good sense), one holds huge respect for Then there is the weather and equally the isolated job of delivering materials unpredictable elements of ground from ground, to sky, to precise point conditions and of course, politics. The of installation. Scaffold forms the latter has inevitable involvement, but external skeleton that enables safe rarely exhibits more than superficial working at height. Again, its erection understanding of the real issues, and dismantling are thankless tasks, but problems and price. which involve dreadful danger. Once a Imagine trying to predict the building is complete, the crane and the timeframe and costs of constructing scaffold are soon forgotten. the first UK motorway, the M1 from The RIBA Trust holds the largest London to Yorkshire; or the first nuclear and finest collection of architectural power station. The John Laing building this year. The programme is linked to life the whole picture of realising the drawings, artefacts and photographs company founded in 1848 was one to recorded interviews and stories of dream that begins as a sketch on paper in the World. The Trust looks after such family business. Sadly, it died an the unsung heroes; engineers, project and becomes a finished project. almost a million drawings from Wren economic death in 2002. managers, tradesmen and women Such internet available resources tell and Palladio to Lutyens and Lasdun. It has left an interesting legacy involved in the realisation of these ideas a powerful story of one of mankind’s The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection beyond important buildings such as the that became homes, schools, concert fundamental motivating forces; to make, comprises over 1.4 million images. The Barbican, the London Central Mosque halls, cathedrals, power stations, bridges to invent, to create; a roof, a place. We artefacts held in storage document the in Regent’s Park and countless others. and roads. This resource is being linked call them homes, villages, towns and evolution of the architectural profession The company commissioned thousands to regional educational programmes cities. The setting of civilisation, for across four centuries. The formidable of photographs throughout the last to encourage interest, learning and better and for worse. task of digitising this vast resource is century. They represent a social and interaction with the local built Building has always held danger ongoing, but regrettably will remain building history of works in progress as environment. and risk, whether digging holes, incomplete without major grant funding. well as finished projects, some with their As an architect, Squinch knows mines or tunnels within the earth or Public access through the digitisation royal ribbon cutting. These have been the toil, perseverance, privilege and reaching upwards to the sky to create of such great collections does provide gifted to Heritage England [HE]. rewarding satisfaction of being a part of cathedrals and towers. Some of the most valuable educational resources extending HE is currently digitising and some of these diverse teams that come spectacular images within this collection learning about all aspects of design, cataloguing 10,000 of these images together to deliver major architectural are of cranes and scaffold. Two of the architecture and our actual built for public use with support from the schemes. The Laing archive illustrates most dangerous tasks in construction heritage; ancient and modern. At least John Laing Charitable Trust. 2000 the foundations, the scaffold, cranes, are the erection and dismantling of the Laing Photographic Archive is are complete, the further 8000 are structure, materials, details and people cranes. Having once climbed the narrow being made accessible through Heritage scheduled to be available by autumn working on building sites. They bring vertical ladder to the cab of a tower England. 10 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk News

The Harwarth Mausoleum features carved Built in 1915, the ornamental structure stone sculptures and an elaborate interior is one of 13 examples to survive in the Newly listed that have been virtually unaltered since city and represents one of the few relics it was built around 1918. of the horse age to remain in use. historic sites This stone burial site in the The internal fittings of the oak- churchyard of St Thomas of Canterbury framed building are predominantly spark stories of church was built by the notable architect modern, as is common amongst the Arthur Henry Durand who assisted on remaining London cabmen’s shelters. London through the design of the Eiffel Tower and was However, the original open-plan the ages responsible for the interior design of the galley kitchen and cabmen’s mess By Anna Mackenzie Titanic and her sister ship, the Olympic. arrangement remains, as does the original roof structure beneath the Nursemaids’ Tunnel, Regent’s Park suspended ceiling.

A new year, a new decade. The perfect time to embrace the present and plan for the future. The Curtain Playhouse, Shoreditch An Elizabethan theatre built around Hilton © Christopher Photograph Of course, in order to move towards our 1577, the Curtain Playhouse was the own goals and ambitions, we must first setting for original performances of reflect on the past, both our own and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as well as that of the ever-changing world around Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour us. in which Shakespeare himself is listed as And those keys to the past may a performer. be right outside our own front doors; Substantial archaeological remains historical gems beyond the confines of the Curtain were discovered during of museums, lying in plain sight and excavations from 2011-16, becoming waiting to be explored. some of the earliest physical evidence for Historic England celebrates playhouses in London at this time. the country’s spectacular historic An Elizabethan ‘bird whistle’, environment by protecting, championing perhaps used for sound effects during and saving the places that define who productions, and a floor made from The Nursemaids’ Tunnel is one of the For those looking to explore historical we are and where we’ve come from as a cattle knuckle bones were among the earliest surviving pedestrian subways in sites slightly further afield, newly listed nation. objects and features unearthed. London. It was built in 1821 after local sites from First World War trenches in Chief Executive of Historic England residents petitioned for a tunnel under Kent to the wreck of the SS Faith on the Duncan Wilson said: “By celebrating Porchester Centre, Queensway, the New Road (now Marylebone Road). Isle of Wight are also worth a visit. the extraordinary historic places which The name was given due to the In total, there are over 400,000 items surround us, we hope to inspire in people number of nursemaids taking children on the list of protected sites, covering a greater interest in our shared heritage, from Park Crescent to the gardens in England's most valued historic places and a commitment to pass it on.” Park Square opposite. and promoting a passion not only for In 2019, over 500 historic places The tunnel is decorated with fluted beautiful places across the country, but were added to the National Heritage Doric columns flanking the arched the stories, ideas and communities they List for England, with 28 sites gaining entrance and retains iron hooks and represent. protection in London, and 82 sites across chains embedded in the walls, thought the South East. to be fixtures for oil lamps. Regional director for Historic You can find all listed buildings and P Robertson © Danny Photograph England Emily Gee said: "These Cabmen’s Shelter, search for historic sites in your area at highlights show the range of interest Northumberland Avenue historicengland.org.uk. above and below ground in London and the South East. Bayswater “Together these places offer a glimpse The Porchester Centre in Bayswater is into our history and its relevance to our an unusually elaborate civic building lives today." of the 1920s which survives with little The list identifies the buildings, sites alteration. and landscapes which receive special The Centre’s Turkish bath complex Photograph © Mike Quinn © Mike Photograph protection from the organisation so they was the first of its kind in England can be enjoyed by current and future when it was opened in 1857 and is now generations. exceptionally rare. The bathhouse reflects the continuation of the essential Victorian Whether you are a history Turkish bath arrangement into the enthusiast, or simply 1920s, with three dry-heated chambers, a plunge pool, a body wash area and a interested to find out more distinct, upper-level cooling-room all about the surrounding area, surviving with original features intact. Porchester Baths is considered to be we have collated a selection the best example of a Turkish bath in of the newly listed sites Britain, of which there are only five still in use today. around London that offer an appreciation of bygone eras. Harwarth Mausoleum, Fulham 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 11 News online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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Legatum Institute The Courage in Journalism Award 2020 A selection of some of The presentation of the Courage in Journalism award 2020, commemorating the most informative and one of the 55 journalists killed in service interesting lectures and in the last year. This event is invitation only. discussions scheduled for this 26th February 2020 6pm-9pm month in London. Legatum Institute, 11 Charles Street, Mayfair, W1J 5DW Intelligence2 For an invitation email [email protected] Armando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens on Satire in an Age of Absurdity Institute for Economic Affairs Some of Britain’s top names in comedy IEA Book Club: we still hugely value and appreciate and politics discuss whether political In conversation with Ted Malloch our historic and cultural links to all satire is losing its value or is it still Ted Malloch, former business professor Hammersmith the countries of Europe,” Cllr Stephen essential. and advisor to Donald Trump, discusses Cowan, the Leader of the London 18th February 2020 7pm - 8:30 pm about his new book Trump’s World: GEO & Fulham Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, DEUS. said, “and we look forward to building N1 2UN 26th February 2020 6pm to 8pm announces its new links and relationships across the Tickets at www.intelligencesquared.com 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LA Email [email protected] continent.” intention to twin The council also announced its Demos intention to launch a European festival Millennials or mainstreet: who benefits King’s Fund with every EU of art, culture, and cuisine to be held most from fintech? Bertie’s Book Club: The Night Watch annually on Europe Day, the 9th of Industry and policymaking thought Discussion of Sarah Water’s historical country May and has said that the EU flag on leaders discuss how to regulate the novel The Night Watch set in 1940s the town hall will remain. The council is fintech products transforming how we London. On the day the UK formally exited the also writing to EU citizens to encourage manage our money. 27th February 2020 6pm to 7:30pm EU, Hammersmith & Fulham Council those who haven’t done so to apply for 20th February 2020 6:30pm - 8:30pm Information Centre, King’s Fund, became the first in the nation to pass settled status and underlining that the Balderton Capital, The Stables, London, W1G 0AN a motion opposing Brexit. 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The our population is vibrant, thanks in huge Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Professor Jürgen Moltmann, one of the council is already twinned with 5 part to the presence of people who have Murray Edwards College, Cambridge world’s most widely read theologians towns in the EU; Anderlecht, one of made this their home, from each of the delivers the first of three lectures on delivers this year’s annual lecture in Brussels’s 19 municipalities (Belgium), 27 EU nations.” hope. memory of Charles Gore, former canon Boulogne-Billancourt, a western suburb He concluded: “People from all over 25th February 2020 6:30pm to 7:45pm of Westminster Abbey of Paris (France), Neukölln, one of the world, including all over the EU, Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey 3rd March 2020 6:30pm to 7:45 pm Berlin’s twelve boroughs (Germany), have helped make Hammersmith & Tickets are free but require booking Westminster Abbey Zaandam in Amsterdam (Netherlands) Fulham the great place we all love. We at 020 7654 4911 or institute@ Tickets are free but require booking and Montefiore Conca in the Northern want it to stay that way, and we want all westminster-abbey.org at 020 7654 4911 or institute@ westminster-abbey.org Italian region of Romagna. our EU citizens to stay here, where they “We may be leaving the EU but belong.” Intelligence2 Difficult Women: The Defining Fights of Feminism Research by Historic England It is estimated that 11% of firms in Journalist Helen Lewis discusses her showed the heritage sector provides a the heritage sector have a skill gap in book on the women whose struggles London’s heritage total gross value added (GVA) of £10.4 their workforce, and that 6% operate made modern feminism but are too often billion to London’s economy. with at least one skill shortage. forgotten by society. Joined by activist sector worth Providing over 98,000 jobs in the Historic England Regional Director Caroline Criado-Perez on her book capital alone in areas like construction for London and the South East, Emily about how the male designed algorithms £10.4 billion and conservation heritage is also a Gee said these figures are cause for that govern the modern world are By Anna Mackenzie significant tourism driver. concern because they create a negative discriminating against women. Figures showed £7.4 billion was impact on wages, productivity and 25th February 2020 7pm - 8:30pm spent on heritage-related visits and trips economic growth. Church House, Great Smith Street, in London by 52.8m visitors in 2018. She added: “A crucial response to SW1P 3NZ The most visited paid attractions in these gaps is in-work training and we are Tickets at www.intelligencesquared.com England in 2018 featured several of the leading the sector on the development Historic buildings, monuments and city’s heritage sites such as St. Paul’s of early career support through Centre for London spaces make up a diverse tapestry Cathedral, the Tower of London, and apprenticeships.” The Future for Central London: good that forms a vital part of our nation’s the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last year, Historic England launched growth for London’s core infrastructure, connecting places and However, in order to encourage a brand-new programme providing 11 Panel discussion on the latest research communities with a sense of identity. further employment and economic heritage apprenticeship opportunities in into the pressures faced by central But their value lies not only in historical growth, the sector needs to address skill the organisation. and cultural significance. gaps and shortages. 12 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Opinion & Comment

not alone. It took 12 years from the founding of Facebook to the great reactionary comeback revolution of Brexit and Trump. MEMEING OF LIFE For many, and for conservatives and rightwingers and their spokesmen like Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another... Morgan, a tyranny of words is being overturned and how better to do it than to feed the self-congratulatory word “woke” right back to the tyrants of PC. The wonderful thing about “woke” is it sums up everything that traditionalists Will the Woke Wake? have found oppressive about progressives without being, apparently, racist or sexist. It can be used without inhibition. So hardly a headline went by last month which didn’t damn Harry and Meghan as the Prince and Princess of Woke. Every aeroplane they take, every Being woke means fashion statement they make, every tax-penny they rake is somehow worse because they, like Harry’s dad, expound being aware; knowing environmental consciousness and eschew traditional values. Unfortunately Britain’s traditional values, as much as what’s going on in the its Empire, were indeed built on racial differences and the belief that “a true- born Englishman” was God’s gift to the community, especially as world. But, for those who think “woke” has no racial dimension, just the shift of verb to adjective should signal something. it relates to social justice Linguistic misappropriation is often used by minorities to signal difference to the mainstream, a rebellion against the grammatical rules of the orthodoxy, and even the scant access to education offered. “Woke” as a political term actually originates in African-American culture, specifically from the 60s. he most overused word of the ward off the “guests” he keeps inviting far from each other. Civil Rights activist Marcus Garvey new decade is actually in the past back. A team of publicity hungry, So, to change how people perceived had, in the early 20th century, tried to tense; a state Dorothy Parker professionally woke, characters return to things that conscientious liberals inspire poor black Americans to return describedT as Post-Coital. his show again and again, apparently just believed caused conflict, (ie. fear of to Africa and build a proud, black, First “Woke”, no longer describes what so he can keep shouting “you’re woke,” the non-white, the non-straight or the World continent, saying, “Wake up happened when you stopped sleeping. A with the glee of a man who, in late empowered non-male) all that had Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!” In the 1971 modern chap wouldn’t say he “woke with middle age, has just discovered irony. to be done was change the language. play, Garvey Lives! by Barry Beckham, a stiffening of the loins”, but rather he It’s ironic because those who might Thus began one of the largest social one character responds to the call: “I “woke up with…” well, whatever modern be described as “woke” were, briefly, experiments in history. The role of every been sleeping all my life. And now that chaps wake up with. But, like “privy” happy to self-refer. Erykah Badu’s 2013 enlightened ‘woke’ Liberal was to correct Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' and “hep”, “woke” belongs to a different soul rap mashup Master Teacher brought those who said girl when they meant stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake era, a mayfly word which had a brief life the refrain “I stay woke” which was then woman, chide those who said Indian up other black folk.” between the decline of “awoke” and the adopted by hip liberals and Hollywood rather than Native American, and to be It was also the inevitable first syllable rise of “woke up”. celebs, to signal how caring and aware constantly aware of whatever the current of an extensive catalogue of blues songs, But now, like flares and vinyl, it’s they were, whilst also implying that term for “Black” was which hadn’t been which always started with “Woke up back, with a new meaning and lease conservatives (small c) were somehow overwhelmed by pejorative meaning. this morning…” before describing how of life. The 2020s may just become the sleep walking. As it happens, “Change the depressing being poor and unloved decade of “Woke.” It has become the But, as we found out in 2016, those language; change the culture,” turned is despite having somewhere to wake beloved new adjective used by anybody who kept their laces straight – the out to be a bunch of, in Derridean terms, up and an awesome talent for the erring, note the subliminal messaging, traditionalists, the reactionaries, the coquilles. All that happened was liberals harmonica. to the right, to mock anyone left, squares – they weren’t asleep; they were were tarred as pedantic killjoys and a So headline writers, perhaps calling vegan, PC, environmentally conscious, screaming. huge number of people felt vilified for Meghan “woke” is a tiny bit more about LGBTQ+ sympathetic, racially sensitive One of the key beliefs of the noticing cultural and genetic differences her colour than you like to let on. or just making the effort to be aware of liberal era – 1968-2016 R.I.P. – was in races and genders. Worse, they felt Now, no self-respecting liberal, iniquities and inequities in our culture. that language doesn’t merely describe silenced by “political correctness” and would describe themselves as “woke”. “Wholly Obnoxious Know Everything” the world, it creates how we perceive emasculated by a “thought police.” Apart from the cultural appropriation, one Daily Mail commenter believed it the world. Sexy post-structuralist Instead of their petty or visceral dislikes, the word is almost solely used as a was an acronym for. philosophers like Jacques Derrida argued hatred or fears, dissolving away when collective insult by the, newly voiced, Woke is the mot du jour, happily that discourse shapes reality “both they could no longer be voiced, it illiberal rulers of the West. The question bandied in newspaper headlines because perceptions of reality and the concrete turns out they were just suppressed is, will the “woke” go back to sleep to it is short and unlike the previous reality that is perceived.” I’m actually and boiled away inside. The lid of the dream of their lost Xanadu? Or can incarnation, “virtue signalling” doesn’t paraphrasing because in reality Derrida’s pressure cooker was finally lifted by the they actually wake up now, smell the have the word “virtue” in it. Piers text is impenetrable, long-winded and internet: the opportunity to say things Fairtrade coffee, or Gwyneth Paltrow’s Morgan incants the word like a spell to French; parallel states which are never anonymously and discover that you are Vagina Candle, and start to fight back? 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 13 Opinion & Comment online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

sundering, of nations, whose priorities Positive thinking will be co-operation, not combat; New Year By Peter Burden consensus not diktat; whose people will aspire to an understanding of the world’s social priorities, the just and new thinking balanced distribution of food, water By Derek Wyatt and energy; the value of the arts as Photograph © European Parliament © European Photograph tools of communication and a source of joy; who strive to overcome racist feelings and to embrace tolerance and omething positive,’ the editor empathy; who celebrate the world’s told me. ‘Give them something cultural diverseness; who deplore the to smile about.’ prospect of war anywhere in the world. ‘Crikey,’ as Bertram Wooster And they will seek leaders who view the There has been a change of ‘Sprobably never said. ‘That’s a challenge needs of the many as more important heart by me as we start our – a lofty demand,’ he might have added, than those of the elite, and who know anxious, like his creator, to eschew the that far greater benefits for all humanity journey through this next hackneyed phrase. will be achieved by forgiveness and decade. I was a Remainer. I I considered the Ed’s request. reconciliation than by revenge and ‘What’s not to be glum about?’ I reprisal. think the political system in telling us that he does not believe the muttered inwardly. For those who don’t yet see this as a the UK is broke. overwhelming evidence about the seas Although an incorrigible optimist at solution to the very real problems facing warming and that flood defences are out heart, I was struggling to find the silver the world, it isn’t too late to stand back, But I have concluded that not enough of control - even in his own country. l. within the prevailing nimbostratus to reconsider and to alter perspectives. people care, otherwise the corruption In this ignorant environment what of global warming, Trumpery, the It’s always healthy to revisit one’s at the heart of the referendum and in role is left for the citizen? What should inexorable growth of world population, prejudices; indeed, it’s essential if you the voting system would be regularly on our own private manifesto be? It is this B....t, the oceans contaminated with have chosen to lead an examined life. the front pages of our newspapers and that is beginning to make more sense for plastic, the escalation of antisemitism There is nothing wrong with changing investigated by BBC News. me personally. Less than fifty per cent of and the disintegration of public trust in one’s mind; and there’s a lot wrong with But as we know BBC News is under Americans vote for their President and all our institutions; political, spiritual refusing to. It was John Henry Newman threat not just because of the licence yet they live off their Constitution as and cultural. who famously summed up this concept: fee settlement due in 2022 but by News though it was God writ Large. Many Britons feel uncomfortable, ‘To live is to change; to be perfect is to International’s new foray to create a rival The Democratic primaries have too, by being part of a nation which has have changed often.’ to Radio 4. Meanwhile, our newspaper caused the candidates to have raised cruelly hounded a likeable and sincere In the meantime, it is up to each of owners successfully persuaded the over $60m so far just to stay in the race. young public figure simply because he us to seek out things to look forward to current Government not to go with Trump has already dwarfed these figures had the courage to marry the woman and to hope that the coming generations Leveson 2 even though a majority of for his own re-election campaign. In the he loves, despite the disapproval of have the will and tenacity to set the politicians voted for it. UK election last December there was a many around him. This harassment has world back on course. And to carry on I live in a different space. I think one per cent difference in the total votes been encouraged by a venomous press, doing whatever may lead people to look the old world, the old analogue world for both the Conservatives and Labour and journalists who project their own again at their position and change their has been slow to permeate our public parties. One per cent and yet the Tories version of the news in order to feed a minds. I was encouraged to see that a services including politics. More have a substantial majority in the House craving for malicious influence; the same week after I took part in a great ‘Public and more I find myself living in the of Commons. How do we make our people who whipped up the xenophobia Plastic Unwrap’ at the Ludlow branch digital environment. Every morning voice heard? How do we become mini that drove the vote for Britain to yield of Tesco, the company announced that I wake not just to The Guardian, the versions of Greta Thunberg? its place and influence in Europe. It is they are banishing shrink-wrapped i newspaper and The Times but to the no coincidence that if you scratch the multipacks of baked beans, soup and digital versions of the New York Times surface of a Meghan hater, you will tuna from their aisles as part of a drive and the Washington Post and soon the Start small. Start small but not always find a Brexit voter underneath. to slash their use of plastic packaging. Economist and the FT. My news has in the Schumacher “Small is Unlike Laurence Fox, many other (Unfortunately, Tesco haven’t always started to come more or less exclusively Anglo-Saxon, privileged males will have proved to be an entirely truthful from the online world especially news beautiful” examples. Start with recognised this antipathy for the simple organisation, so it may not happen.) correspondents and academics because I your own small communities; racism that it is. More broadly, Remainers can at am connected to people in Japan, China. However, despite the bleakness of least look forward to a good helping of America, India, and across Europe who the church, the orchestra, the prospect offered by these current schadenfreude when predictions of post- file stories throughout the day. Almost the Lifeboat, the RSPB, the maladies, there are reasons for optimism. Brexit economic troubles, relentlessly all my shopping is online and delivered There are strong signs that newer hailed as ‘Project Fear’ by the Faragistas free thanks to the likes of Amazon primary school, the library, generations are not complacent and are turn out to have been accurate. Prime (to be fair I pay £75 a year for the the transport committee, substantially more aware of the urgency For myself, I’m looking forward to service) and John Lewis. It is delivered and scale of readjustment that must be the arrival of my first grandchild in at 24 hours notice even in Aldeburgh the housing association, achieved if the world is to continue to March; and I’m enormously enjoying where I now have a cottage and spend whatever....bring your own provide food and water for all its people my current day job, assisting that truly more time. in a post-tribal era, with compassion iconic sporting figure and majestic The biggest crisis which our global loveliness and start to make and cooperation, without conflict batsman, Ted Dexter in the writing of political leaders seem ambivalent about a difference. Extend out your and hegemony. Recognizing that the his long overdue autobiography, to be is climate change. Every target has been evolutionary imperative is fundamentally published by Quiller in July this year. pushed back. It was 2030 now is 2050 communities to engage online a force for the attainment of perfect and we know in five years time it will with similar communities. adaptation among all species, and that be postponed again. Thor Heyerdahl Homo Sapiens, the sole possessor of is his trips across the Atlantic in reed Start a ‘best practice’ group reason, has the added responsibility boats named Ra and Ra II in 1969 and link all those together too. of achieving its evolutionary apex and 1970 told us about the pollution only through its own choice, they epidemic of the seas which anticipated Make a virtual world work and know that for the species to survive, the plastic oceans of today. Heyerdahl bring it back into the analogue love must conquer hate; philia must warned us fifty years ago. Who was trump phobia. They understand that listening? Ditto, today when you hear world. 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and get back to the pile by nightfall. He may not realise that we in How vainly Chelsea, Clapham and Battersea are already subjected to the acoustic bullying men themselves and occasionally frozen-people-bombing amaze! of planes bound for Heathrow from 4 in © N Chadwick Photograph By Nick Salaman the morning to 11 and beyond at night, but at least we can comfort ourselves with the thought that they are carrying up to 300 people in their swollen bellies. Experts used to tell us that the planes are getting quieter all the time. That might be so if only the planes didn’t get often think, when I am in London bigger, requiring more powerful engines which is (alas) most of the time, that now make as much noise as the less of the poet Andrew Marvell’s powerful noisy ones of yesteryear. lines from his greenly-amorous poem It all goes to show that so much of grass. Talk to the trees. Consider that in Battersea was granted exemption from I travel narrows the mind. Make your any nuisance claims or compensatory ‘Thoughts in a Garden’ the comforting expert advice we get to hear is so much crap. We can comfort vegetable love grow vaster than empires redress by a government covenant that What wond’rous life in this I lead! ourselves with the thought that now, and more slow. But I digress. cannot be easily revoked. So they rattle Ripe apples drop about my head; helped by new runway 3 at Heathrow I was talking about helicopters. The on regardless. The luscious clusters of the vine whenever it is built, millions more noise and annoyance they cause might What mad politician could possibly Upon my mouth do crush their wine; people will be discomfited with the be acceptable if there were 300 people have inflicted such a penalty on the The nectarine and curious peach rumble and thunder of powerful engines, flying in those rattlebag machines local citizens of London? It was done Into my hands themselves do reach; in Chiswick and Ealing and Acton and (which are far more dangerous than in the early ‘70s when helicopters were Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ruislip and Kingston and Richmond airliners). But since they very often just a gleam in most plutocrats’ eyes. Ensnar’d with flow’rs, I fall on grass... (they are already) and Isleworth and contain no more than a couple of people, Whoever gave permission for this Twickenham and Teddington and so this is an imposition altogether without ongoing pollution did not look into And just as I am entwining myself in on, but frankly sharing pain gives me justification. Go home, plutocrats, and the prognosticator’s magic snowstorm the luscious clusters of our Worlds End no satisfaction, and I hate to think of rattle your own windows. 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MAX looking to collect what he’s owed; a dynamic that leads to an amusingly tense FeldmanMARIUS BRILL’S Passover. Of everyone caught in the orbit

REVIEWS of Howard’s obsessive self-sabotage, only A 24 © Photographs his twenty something mistress (Julia Fox, in a terrific breakout performance) has any patience left for him. It takes a while to recognize her loyalty as its own form of addiction: the devotion of a co- Uncut Gems conspirator in bedlam. Director: Safdie Brothers All the while, the Safdies audaciously Running Time: 135 minutes. enhance the anxiety with one of their most abrasive soundscapes: a mixture of Altmanesque overlapping dialogue, disconcertingly loud noises (like the persistent buzz of a broken automatic he best performances by door lock), and a blaring electronic Adam Sandler, the ones that score that sometimes seems intent on demonstrate what a magnetic drowning everything else out. Of course, actorT he can be when throwing himself the real source of anxiety is Howard into a role, aren’t really in movies that himself, who’s responsible for every one cast him against type. Instead, they tend of his problems. In the last 45 minutes, to be in the ones that take the essential the film reaches a spectacular fever qualities of his comic shtick and somehow pitch of almost suicidal abandon; the deepen them; the films that turn the havoc wreaked by a man who just can’t very concept of an “Adam Sandler resist and would rather stop trying to. comedy” on its ear. In Uncut Gems, the opal from Ethiopia, the new prized then proceed to have their hapless We watch his foolhardy flirtation with exhilaratingly tense and deliriously possession of his collection. It becomes hero completely ignore it; an ingenious ruin in a state of shocked disbelief that funny new movie by Josh and Benny the catalyst for a caper of pure reckless assault on the nerves. They assemble a borders on admiration. The queasy thrill Safdie, Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a compulsion, as Sandler’s incorrigible whole, rich ensemble of character actors of Sandler’s live-wire performance is New York City jeweler who lives his life wheeler and dealer outruns loan sharks and interesting non-professionals, then the way he keys us right into Howard’s in a state of constant, self-inflicted chaos. while compounding the stakes of a reduce most of them to enraged and electric joy, putting everything on the Barreling into every scene with motor- dangerous hustle. flabbergasted spectators. (Eric Bogosian, line, consequences be damned. It’s a pure mouthed brio, the one-time SNL player Set in 2012, the plot partially and the Talk Radio playwright, gets one shot of the gambler’s high, and Uncut taps into a charismatic mania that we’ve improbably revolves around that spring’s of the better roles as a fed-up relative Gems gets us hooked on it, too. never quite seen from him; he’s like a NBA Eastern Conference finals; young Al Pacino, bristling with ego literally keeping balls in the air, Howard and neurotic energy. Yet Howard isn’t ends up roping Celtics forward Kevin so different, in basic profile, from some Garnett, playing himself in an amusing of the other id-driven clowns on the supporting turn, into his house-of- star’s résumé. He’s obnoxious, immature, cards gambit. (The other major celebrity prone to fits of rage and pleasure alike: a signifier of the time period is a cameoing Sandler misfit all the way. The Weekend; “He’s going to be major, Howard is a gambler in the purest even though he’s from Canada,” goes sense. He’s not just hooked on the wins; a line of hilarious off-screen dialogue.) he’s a junkie for the uncertainty, high on Yet the Safdie brothers’ vision of New the queasy death-wish apprehension of York feels, as usual, more out of time: impossible odds. Striking out from his a seedy mirage of the city as it once base of operations, the Brooklyn jewelry looked on screens in the ’70s and ’80s. shop where he hocks blinged Furbies These sibling filmmakers, authorities on to the celebrities guided his way by an Tri-State dysfunction, are addicted to unofficial business partner (Lakeith chaos, too. Their last film, the gripping Stanfield), Howard has a constant stream one-crazy-night crime drama Good of cash running from the pawnbrokers Time, locked us into the headspace of to the bookies. He owes money all over another desperate schemer, a two-bit town, but bets every cent he gets his criminal played by a magnificently mitts on: a habit that’s put him in the scummy Robert Pattinson. Uncut Gems crosshairs of some impatient lenders may be the furthest the Safdies have with hired muscle. They’re not the only strayed into the sphere of mainstream ones totally exasperated by Howard entertainment, but that’s very much and his self-destructive self-absorption. a relative distinction; their style is “You’re just about the most annoying still confrontational and flagrantly person I’ve ever met,” someone says to underground, even with a heavyweight his face. Notably, that someone is his cinematographer, Darius Khondji, wife (Frozen’s Idina Menzel). providing the grubby, claustrophobic The film basically opens with a zoom close-ups. into a glittering gemstone, taking us on The film’s roaring dramatic and a CGI tour of its molecular architecture, comic engine is Howard’s impulse until, in a prankish revelation, we realise control issue, his inability to stop we’re staring at the inside of a colon. This making the wrong decisions. You is the first time we see Howard, lying on watch with a pit-of-the-stomach dread his side in a hospital bed, a camera up usually reserved for people in horror his arse. It’s about the only moment in movies wandering blithely into mortal the movie where he’s not on the frenzied danger. Early in the film, the Safdies go. The gemstone turns out to be a black establish a ticking-clock deadline and 16 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Literature

book takes up 6 pages and is longer than A User’s Guide To Make Believe, of the known universe than we are to Sally Fields’ acceptance speech at the awkward teen fiction-esque title aside, the Planck length. There’s more. Inside Twas the Oscars in 1984. On page 61, there is a is ostensibly about virtual reality. Of a mountain in Japan, a mile deep from warning to readers: ‘the next diary entry the science fiction ‘attach diodes to the summit in a former zinc mine, is a Nightshift Before contains details of a medical procedure your head and become emperor of your thirteen-storey-tall steel tank filled with Christmas that may be upsetting to read. If you own private Idaho’ ilk rather than our 50,000 metric tons of ultra-pure water, By Adam Kay wish to avoid this, please turn to page current bulky headsets and motion known as Super-Kamiokande, which 68.’ So I did. sickness brand. Unlimited virtual reality is part of a $100-million experiment, Picador Books Don Grant as a subject seems to presage Make carried out by scientists in white 148pp, £9.99 Believe as a certain kind of glitzy sci-fi, overalls like some villain’s laboratory but Jane Alexander takes the path less bent on world ISBN 978-1-5290-1858-5 travelled. Whilst exploring imaginary domination. A User's Guide worlds sounds pretty fiction friendly, They are Make Believe’s concerns are unexpectedly looking for to Make-Believe grounded. For Make Believe (the name neutrinos, By Jane Alexander of the VR program) Alexander’s main the smallest ay’s first book, This is Going Allison & Busby interest is the staggeringly addictive subatomic to Hurt, was a million-copy potential that the ability to live in a particles in hit, mainly through word-of- £14.99 universe of your own creation would the universe, Kmouth, as opposed to nil-by-mouth, or ISBN: 9780749025106 engender. Our primary point of view so small they even mouth-to-mouth. It was a funny character Cassie, a former designer for can penetrate and poignant polemic, railing at the Amongst the dead popstars and climate Make Believe. Whilst the company only anything, and NHS for its top-heavy management, catastrophes, one of the central sea allow a scant few hours of Make Believe they are able to underinvestment, vast wastage of money, changes that rocked the previous decade a day, Cassie found a way around the take an image ‘evil’ health secretaries and how the staff was our zig-zagging attitude towards automatic shutdown only to become an of the sun, from where these particles are treated. This new, slim volume, is technology. At the beginning of the imagination junkie. Ignoring food, sleep come from, through miles of rock. the same sort 00s tech was something of a brave new and company to spend endless hours in The sub-title of this book is Blind of confection, world, the encroachment and subsequent the virtual arms of a recreated version of Spots, Hidden Truths and Dangerous only a little domination of society by tech a long gone lover, she’s quietly fired and Illusions, broken down into three forced, like juggernauts like Google and Facebook left to moulder in a cockroach-ridden main topics, biological, societal and squeezing the was if anything deemed as broadly flat. Desperately jonesing for a return civilisational blind spots. The section stuffing out exciting rather than an existential threat. to unreality, her compulsive drive to on food is particularly nerve-jangling. of its plastic The world at large have only recently regain access to Make Believe finds her According to the WWF, 60% of casing. He woken up to the potential dangers of accidentally getting closer to secrets global biodiversity loss is due to land likes a simile, being All Watched Over by corporately that her ex-corporate masters would do being used to feed our food, and in the does Adam designed algorithms of not-particularly anything to hide. deforested Amazon, 80% of the soy Kay, as he Loving Grace. However regardless of Alexander writes with a certain grown is for animal feed. There are an does footnotes our increasing nervousness about privacy stark coolness which helps keep the plot estimated one billion domesticated pigs in abundance. settings, for most people this concern pleasingly grounded and renders Cassie’s on the Earth, one and a half billion ‘Lower than a is something of a background buzz. plight with distressing humanity. Black domesticated cows. ‘If cattle were salamander’s Compared to sociological meltdown Mirror gets a lot of ink for being a grim a country, they would rank third in scrotum,’ or “It’s going to go down and continent spanning bushfires the prophecy of times to come, but for my greenhouse gas emissions’. These figures like a semen soufflé”. There is an manipulation of data seems like small money it’s just too dystopian to seem are nothing compared to the number of unlikely tale involving a man in a pub potatoes. Certainly not worth deleting truly real. When Alexander reveals her chickens slaughtered every year, which surreptitiously topping up a pint of beer your twitter account over at any rate; cards with a shocking extrapolation of is almost sixty-six billion, or in other from a catheter leg-bag, and offering it how else would you keep up with the the end goal of targeted advertising, words, ‘the poultry industry slaughters to Kay’s mate Kevin, who knocked back conversation? Targeted ads may be it feels both earned and distressingly more birds in one day, than it did in the ‘his free piss-beer like Paris Hilton on plausible. Max Feldman year of 1930.’ There are some extremely the Krug.’ ‘I’ve quite enjoyed springing unsavoury facts about chickens, which from bedside to bedside breaking good are not for the squeamish. news like a game-show host telling a She does come up with some contestant they’ve won a Mini Metro.’ The Reality different kind of nuggets, however: ‘To Other descriptions seem somewhat us, reality may appear human-sized, laboured, although, to be fair, he is Bubble but in truth 95% of all animal species working in obs and gynae. ‘Life goes By Zia Tong are smaller than the human thumb.’ on, whether it’s Christmas Day, Boxing Another is that a handful of soil contains Day or Albatross Appreciation Day.’ Canongate more microbes than there are people on Eh? Another strange simile is, ‘Like 366pp. £14.99 Earth. We are blind to the destruction comparing the Hubble telescope with we are wreaking on our planet, through a £1.99 pair of tartan-framed novelty ISBN 978-1-83885-048-7 our insatiable global need for food. ‘Over glasses from a whisky distillery gift shop’ seventy billion animals a year meet the The premise of the book is to table Hot on the heels of Bill Bryson’s The grim reaper in an industrialised setting,’ what happened when he spent six Body comes another fact-packed book, and we have turned a blind eye to gas Christmases out of seven in the hospital with a bewildering and scary array chambers, abattoirs, chicken scalders as a junior doctor over the festive season, of figures, from the farthest end of and animal cruelty. In this entertaining taken from his diaries, and some of it is the subatomic universe, at less than and shocking book, Ms Tong delves into very funny, like the woman who used 0.0000000009 yoctometres; it is what is electricity, renewable energy, lithium, peanut butter as a lubricant, only to find known as a Planck length, which to put biogas, fish and plastics, and in the that her vagina had a nut allergy, or the it in scale, a single hydrogen atom is ten final section, she concentrates on time, list of bizarre objects and baubles that trillion trillion Planck lengths across. At high-frequency trading, shopping, facial people insert into their backsides, and the other end of the scale, the observable recognition and living in the modern elsewhere. Kay writes with a smattering a bit creepy but behind the outraged universe stretches out to 1026 metres, world. We have been asleep at the wheel of expletives in a sort of jerky, cheeky- rhetoric most of us view data mining as or ninety-two billion light years away. for far too long, and this book is a wake- chappy, rabbiting style. The list of an irritating, if mildly dystopian, fact of The author tries to reassure us that we up call we ignore at our peril. acknowledgements at the end of the life. are closer in scale to the farthest reaches Don Grant 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 17 Literature online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

anything the current leader of the free ex-newsman named Lee Sarason. world could aspire too. Sarason believes in propaganda, not Lewis wrote the novel because information, openly arguing that “it he was afraid of the meteoric rise of is not fair to ordinary folks, it just Louisiana senator Huey Long, a wild- confuses them, to try to make them man fighter for social reconstruction swallow all the true facts that would (and who ran his state like a King) who be suitable to a higher class of people.” looked set to potentially unseat President Through a combination of Sarason’s Roosevelt in 1936. Whilst Long was cynical race-baiting machinations and assassinated before the election, Lewis’s his own combination of deception and novel remains a powerful warning about ugly charisma, Windrip ascends to the populist politics potential to place in presidency while the nation’s liberals chains the very people who fall prey to tremble. It’s only after the inauguration, its promises. Whilst Windrip runs on though, that It Can’t Happen Here takes a quasi-socialist platform (promising a truly dark turn, thankfully not one a free $5000 dollars a year for every that (currently) corresponds with reality: so there is still a tendency towards “real American family” and is more Upon moving into the White House, It Can’t Happen complacency, there’s no way that interested in rapid militarisation than Windrip immediately declares Congress America could slide from its position of late night twitter storms, there are an “advisory” body, stripped of all real Here de-facto leader of the Western World some unnerving parallels between power. When members of Congress By Max Feldman to a home for authoritarian terror. this dreamed up-dictator and our resist, he locks them up without the However it’s exactly this kind of liberal current orange overlord. Like Trump, slightest semblance of due process and complacency that Sinclair Lewis (the Windrip sells himself as the champion begins the process of re-imagining the ocked by the continuous first American author to win a Nobel of “Forgotten Men,” determined to US as the Corporate States of America, shockwaves of Trump’s prize) had in his sights with his 1935 bring dignity and prosperity back to where Big Business reigns supreme and tempestuous presidency, it feels scorched earth political parody It America’s white working class. Windrip unchallenged. Ralmost nostalgic to remember a time Can’t Happen Here which details how a loves big, passionate rallies and rails The novel was written at feverish about a decade ago when politics could clownish, proudly anti-intellectual and against the “lies” of the mainstream speed and in some ways serves better be safely ignored without the fear that anti-immigrant populist candidate was press. His supporters embrace this as polemic than literature but its you might miss the announcement of able to seize on public dissatisfaction message, lashing out against the seasick and horribly familiar vision of World War III and Brexit wasn’t even a with the status quo, become president “highbrow intellectuality” of editors and what happens when a culture allows reptilian twinkle in Nigel Farage’s beady and steadily transform America into professors and policy elites. Rather more self-congratulatory complacency to eyes. The world’s current status RE: Hell a Fascist nightmare. Sadly the central alarmingly (and with Windrip’s tacit distract itself from clear and present and Handcart means it’s impossible for difference between Trump and the encouragement) they also take out their constitutional dangers has rarely been even the most wilfully ignorant citizen fictional dictator Buzz Windrip is that frustrations on blacks and Jews. as prescient or as biting. It Can’t Happen to ignore the headlines screaming out Windrip is implied to have a level of The novel even features a Steve Here shows that it can indeed happen dire warnings in 100 point type. Even superficial competence far beyond Bannon equivalent, a coldly brutal here, but only if you let it.

The futility of 1917 the Great War is

Director: Sam Mendes now seen with © E1 Photographs Running Time: 2 hours 20/20 hindsight, highlighted by the bellicose arrogance

any directors have tried to of the officers and take up the technological politicians from challenge of deploying the Mone-take shot, for one of two reasons. both sides. Why do dogs lick their balls? Because they can, is the straightforward answer. And the second is to immerse the viewer in the action, and follow the story more closely, physically and emotionally. The trick is for them not to be distracted by the fancy camerawork and technicalities that a one-take shot involves. Mendes filmed the opening of the James Bond film Spectre with a 4-minute one-shot sequence, so he has dabbled with this before. Birdman was meant to look like 12-minute shot within the film itself. their doom. The audience skid about buttock-clenching event. The futility of a one-take shot right from the opening, All these examples helped to heighten behind them in their muddy footprints, the Great War is now seen with 20/20 but there are various wipes and clever the tension, and bring the viewer closer scramble through bomb craters alongside hindsight in 2020, highlighted by the cuts that make it appear that it is all one to the action. them, scamper through trenches, woods bellicose arrogance of the officers and seamless take. Earlier, Alfred Hitchcock In 1917, this works in spades. The and bombed-out towns in Northern politicians from both sides. The film filmed Rope with the same intention, but two unlikely heroes are rarely out of France, streak across meadows and is set one year before it ended, but even though it was not one continuous shot, as they set out on an impossible farmland, swim through a torrent, get the slaughter of young men went on shot, it all took place in the same mission, as opposed to a mission shot at by snipers, with the action always unabated right to the end, and beyond, Manhattan apartment. Orson Welles impossible, of crossing no-man’s land moving forward, never back. It is quite and twenty years later, they were at it famously used a 3½-minute continuous and enemy lines to deliver an important baffling how the film-makers achieved again. take for the opening title tracking shot message to deter Colonel Mackenzie one particular sequence, as it all appears in A Touch of Evil, and for another from sending his men over the top to to be one continuous flowing, shocking, Don Grant 18 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Astronomy

Left: A flare medium sized(M2) and a coronal mass ejection erupted from the same, large active region in 2017. the coils arcing over this active region are particles spiraling along magnetic field lines. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory. Above: Composite image combining Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope at three wavelengths (171,195 and 284 angstrom) revealing solar features at each wavelength. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO Below left: The image reveals the sun's granular surface in great detail, each cell like structure is about the size of France. rising columns of plasma super-heated to almost 6000 degrees centigrade, show up as bright spots at the centre of the cells. As the plasma cools, it descends via the dark channels between the cells. The Sun Credit:NSO/NSF/AURA Scott Beadle FRAS

hichever way you look at it, we, humanity, have all studied the Sun for centuries, sometimes whether we want light to see by, grow a crop, get a sun tan, stay alive, we all rely on it. We know its importance as do most of ourW cohabitants on our planet and that, no doubt, includes our plant species as well. As arguments arise as to just what is driving global warming and thus climate change, we need to take the Sun out of the argument posited by climate deniers, that we are merely inevitable victims of climate fluctuations caused by natural solar cycles and activities, and set it firmly where it belongs at our own, at times, very understandable mismanagement of the planet, since the Industrial Revolution. To do this we need to know and understand much more about the science, the physics, the dynamics that underpin our life-giving parent star. I have some old astronomy books; some are published 1858/71 only a 150yrs ago, and they still discuss whether the heat from the Sun could be generated if it was made of coal! (to be fair, dismissed as well). Now however, we have two state of the art instruments in orbit around the Sun; NASA’s Parker Solar probe (PSp) and ESA’s Solar Orbiter probe (SOp), each has their own distinct mission goals, but it is these differences in their objectives that will enable them to work in tandem. The PSp will provide information about the solar wind very close to the Sun, and the SOp will provide context and additional information from further afield. Daniel Verscharen of University College London, says, “By combining both, in the coming years we will hopefully be able to understand the corona and solar wind much better. This also impacts on the importance of coronal mass ejections (CME’s), as they are a source of space weather, for instance, geomagnetic storms that create dangerous problems to power grids and satellites. The more we know of the processes that lead to CMEs the more capable we are of predicting dangerous space weather that could damage electrical infrastructure here on Earth and, potentially, threaten a loss of life. Whilst two state of the art probes are no sooner going about their business, than a ground based solar telescope the Daniel Inouye (DKIST) whose construction started in 2012 and was completed last month on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the largest solar scope ever built, delivered back to Earth, some of the most detailed high-resolution images ever seen of the granular nature of the surface of the Sun, and will also seek to find the answer to why the sun’s corona is millions of degrees hotter than its visible surface.The more we learn about our indispensable neighbour, the more we will be able to counter the argument of climate deniers that the problem of global warming lies with the Sun, rather than ourselves. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 19 Education online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

symptomatic of the innate value of the industry. Online tuition allows learning The private to reach every corner of the globe, yet such offerings can never replace the tuition industry impact of -to-face learning. What Ed- in the UK Tech can do, though, is to offer security By May Woods and ease: two of Sophia’s key selling points. McCarthy agrees that the recent plight of state schools has boosted the tuition market, but emphasises the complexity of the dynamics of supplementary education. The private tuition industry “It’s not one size fits all”, McCarthy explains. “Yes, class sizes have increased, in the UK is booming. And I think BBC News actually found nowhere more so than in evidence of a school in West Yorkshire with 46 pupils in one class. But there’s London, where approximately also confusion around changes in 41% of 11-16-year-old state the state education system. The rate of change has left both parents and school students have benefitted teachers bewildered. Often, extra help from private tuition. Outside seems the smartest option”. The practice of constantly evaluating pupil progress of the capital, the figures are through formative and summative lower, yet still substantial. assessments shows little sign of wavering; neither does the demand for According to social mobility extra help. charity The Sutton Trust, over With the tuition market now often enough to prompt others to follow very important for us not to exploit this, estimated to be worth a hefty suit. As such, Riviera Tutors operates and to operate honestly”. a quarter of secondary school £6.5billion in the UK, it seems that almost entirely through the power of For Sullivan, this choice is savvy as pupils have at some point the. private flourishes as the public recommendations. well as ethical. fails. Unsurprisingly, social mobility “Word amongst high-net-worth “Any enterprise which takes made use of a private tutor. campaigners are concerned: more needs clients travels fast”, Sullivan explains. advantage of parental good will and to be done to combat any facilitation “The problem is that this creates a real trust will eventually pay the price. ith record numbers of parents of educational inequality. Yet the vulnerability. It’s natural for parents to Word travels fast; this works both ways. investing in extra educational elite sector continues to thrive. While want the best for their children, so it’s Transparency is key in this industry.” support, it’s clear that a crisis school fees can rise into the hundreds in confidence is, to some extent, fuelling W of thousands of pounds over the course the boom. Underfunded, overstretched of a private education, families with the schools are the new normal; a reality means to do so are continuing to dig that has left teachers reaching into their ever deeper in the pursuit of educational own pockets for classroom necessities. excellence. Research by teachers’ unions suggest FANTASTIC Increasingly, investment comes that 80% of schools in 2020 are set to in the form of specialist, one-to-one receive less funding per pupil in real tuition; tackling core subjects but also terms than in 2015. This is despite COURSES Mandarin, Japanese, public speaking government commitments to invest. It and even chess. For some, it is an also assumes that promises to reverse education arms race. For others, it cuts will be fulfilled. is simply common sense. Learning Whether there exists a link between experiences can be finitely tailored, class size and learning outcome has and communication between teacher long been debated. What’s clear is that and pupil dramatically improved. That students struggling with a particular eureka! moment becomes infinitely more subject face an uphill battle when The course was fantastic! likely. deprived of attention and support. My daughter came back In some cases, explains McCarthy, “much more confident, “ Increasingly large group settings employing a tutor before the leap from have become an unwelcome reality having thoroughly enjoyed primary to secondary can actually for both teachers and pupils. In 2019 the course and the tutor represent a frugal move. the Organisation for Economic Co- was excellent. First class! “If a child gets into a grammar operation and Development (OECD) school, it can save families who would found that British primary schools have otherwise go private over £140,000. A the largest class sizes in the developed lot of emphasis is then put on passing world: an average of 28 pupils in the 11+ exam, the highly competitive every class. For context, this is almost gateway to Grammars”, McCarthy said. double the average size of classes in According to Luke Sullivan, Founder Luxembourg or Costa Rica, where pupil of elite agency Riviera Tutors, the to teacher ratios are fifteen to one. (legitimate) perception of competition David McCarthy is Director of is a key driver in the tuition boom. Education at Sophia, a private home GCSE/A LEVEL REVISION FOR YEARS 10-13: EASTER & MAY HOLIDAYS Sullivan refers to what many of the tuition app which connects tutors, teenagers his company serves might students and teachers. Tech disruption describe as FOMO: the fear of missing 01727 744340 within the industry hasn’t substituted out. The notion of others pulling ahead WWW.JUSTINCRAIG.AC.UK its core offerings; the growth of due to greater investment; perhaps in EdTech and existence of Sophia feels the form of a residential holiday tutor; is 20 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Education

colourful troupe of musicians from Albert’s Band as they celebrate famous Science Museum Radius announces Royal Albert heroes and heroines from the stage and screen. This event is suitable for children Announces New Playwriting Hall’s half-Term of all ages – buggies and babies welcome.

Programme Competition 2020 Events for Young Storytelling and Music Sessions By Krissy Waite (Intern) for 0-4 Year Olds (Tuesday 19 Feb. People 10:00am, 11:00am and 12:00pm) features seasoned storytellers Paul Rubinstein and Samantha Sutherland who will deliver a series of sessions for he Science Museum Group Radius 2020 Playwriting Competition The Royal Albert Hall is offering family- babies and toddlers, aiming to engage [SMG] announced on 5 has been announced in association with friendly activities that aim to grow and encourage interaction between February that a new major public the Finborough Theatre. The shortlist children’s knowledge and imagination of parents/carers and their little ones using programme focused on climate change will be judged by the Finborough poetry, music and storytelling. musical instruments, singing, movement T and stories. and solutions to the urgent challenges Theatre's Artistic Director, Neil The activities being offered are Shlomo’s facing the world such as global warming, McPherson, together with Literary Beatbox Adventure For Kids, Albert’s Down with the Poetry King pollution, and ocean level rise. It was Manager, Sue Healy. Band: Heroes and Heroines, Storytelling (Thursday 20 Feb. 11:00am) is an launched by Prime Minister Boris Entries are free, from 3rd February- and Music Sessions for 0-4 Year Olds, interactive spoken word show for Johnson at the museum this month, 30th March. Shortlist: 4th May, winner Down with the Poetry King and Kid’s children by poet and international rap where guests included Sir David announced 18th May. The winning Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen. battler, Mark Grist, taking place in the Attenborough and the Italian Prime script is guaranteed a reading at the Visit these half-term events to be comfortable surroundings of the Elgar Minister, Giuseppe Conte. Finborough Theatre on the 28th June enlightened by professionals working to Room. This event is suitable for children The Science Museum Group 2020. There will be a prize of £500. enhance how children develop and learn. of all ages. (SMG) has been a leader in raising Submissions should be emailed climate awareness through its public to [email protected] by 5 pm Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kid’s Poems and Stories with Michael (Monday 17 Feb. 1:30pm and programmes. This initiative is in on 30 March, 2020. Entries should Kids Rosen (Friday 21 Feb. 11:00am) presents 4:00pm) features world record-breaking one of the most well-known figures support of the United Kingdom’s Year last between one and two hours in beatboxer SK Shlomo returning to the in the children’s book world, Michael of Climate Action, which aims to performance and can be on any subject. Elgar Room to make music using just Rosen, returning to the Elgar Room to inspire positive action and engagement The competition is only open to UK his mouth and a mic, teaching little ones read some of his best-loved poems and on climate change across the UK in residents and the winner will work with the art of beatboxing throughout the stories for kids. This event is suitable for the run up to this year’s UN Climate a dramaturge at the Finborough Theatre show. This event is suitable for children children of all ages. Change Conference (COP26). The to develop the play. of all ages. Year of Climate Action works across Rules are on the Radius website at To find more information, visit their government and with businesses, www.radiusdrama.org.uk. Albert’s Band: Heroes and Heroines website, call 020 7589 8212 or visit the organisations, civil society groups, Radius's YouTube Channel with (Tuesday 18 Feb. 12:00pm and 3:30pm) Royal Albert Hall at Kensington Gore, creative and cultural institutions and advice for playwrights can be accessed at features the Royal Albert Hall’s London SW7 2AP. young individuals to encourage action www.youtube/RadiusDrama. on climate change. This will include For Twitter updates @RadiusDrama, building partnerships, organising events use the hashtag #RDSPrize2020. and activities that will have a positive www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk and @ impact on climate change. finborough. Sir Ian Blatchford, the director and chief executive of the SMG, said climate will be the theme for this year’s Manchester Science Festival. The The Comedy Wildlife Manchester Science Festival is produced by the Science and Industry Museum Photography Awards from 23 October to 1 November and this year, it will be dedicated to the Are Back! theme of climate and how we should respond through three lenses: our "The Comedy Wildlife Photography cities; our natural world; and ourselves. Awards" is now open. Anyone can At the festival, the Science Museum enter this free competition at www. will present the UK’s first significant comedywildlifephoto.com for a chance exhibition on carbon capture and storage to win a safari in Africa with Alex to explore solutions for greenhouse gas Walker’s Serian and a unique handmade Easter Revision Courses: removal from the atmosphere. trophy. You could be the next Comedy “The moment of climate crisis is Wildlife Photographer of the Year! with us and our planet needs us all to The Comedy Wildlife Photography Monday 30th March—Friday 17th April act now,” Sir David Attenborough, Awards supports the message broadcaster and natural historian, “Conservation through Competition”. said. “The UN’s 26th Climate Change The competition supports conservation  Refine your knowledge  Finetune exam technique Conference in Glasgow is a critically by partnering with the Born Free important opportunity for governments Foundation giving 10% of their profit  Target weak areas  Boost confidence to act decisively. We know what has to to the Born Free Foundation www. be done to cut carbon emissions, and we bornfree.org.uk. Express your love for can’t afford to put off a decision again wildlife images while also thinking because each delay makes it so much about how you can better the planet and Experts for over 40 years harder to avert more damaging climate support conservation. change.” Start taking your wildlife pictures For more information on the SMG because the deadline for all entries is 31 23 Collingham Gardens | London SW5 0HL and sustainability, please visit https:// May 2020. www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ For info: email info@ 020 7244 7414 | [email protected] | collingham.co.uk category/sustainability/. comedywildlifephoto.com. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 21 Enjoy & Donate APPEAL FROM KATE HAWTHORNE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Written RTHOGRAPHY: the information platform, if we are not careful it will decimate the beauty and accepted way of precision of our language and erode writing words with the imagination and writing skills uphold one of the greatest inventions can do for young people in their future O of younger generations further. 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“Narrowing what children learn to get them through exams, and not London schools getting basics of language and reading right early on, do the poorest children a Photograph © NASA Photograph rated above disservice, setting them apart from their more affluent peers.” national average In terms of the proportion of pupils by Ofsted reaching the expected standard in By Anna Mackenzie reading, writing and maths, Kensington and Chelsea also fared well with 76%, above the London average of 69%. Mr Sheridan said: “Being able to Schools in Kensington and Chelsea read is the gateway to learning. A wide came out top in Ofsted’s latest annual vocabulary and range of experiences report as 100% of both primary and in the arts, humanities, sciences and secondary schools in the borough were languages help children to learn more, judged either good or outstanding. and to understand themselves and their The report gives an overview of the place in the world. performance of early years, schools, “Rigour and depth of learning aren’t further education and skills, and social just ‘a nice to have’ for the brightest or care providers across England. most privileged children, but an absolute so much more; you just need to develop As of August 2019, primary and entitlement for every child.” the tools to discover the possibilities that secondary schools in London were rated And while the figures regarding What do are waiting for you. above the national average, with 93% schools are promising, only 77% of Cornell University in Ithaca, New of schools in the capital judged good further education and skills providers in Science Writing, York, is one of many universities in or outstanding compared with 86% London were rated good or outstanding, the United States that offers a major in nationally. below the national proportion of 81%. Communication Science Communication. Ithaca College, Ofsted Director for London Mike Beyond education, the report also located in New York and London (www. Sheridan said: “I’m really proud of the showed the results of an inspection and Magic have ithaca.edu) offers a popular program hard work that goes into the education of local authority children’s services in common? entitled Integrative Studies where one and care of young people in London.” across 11 boroughs according to a new By Dalia Kirshenblat can create an original major, where at There was still some disparity framework. least one student has devised a major across the region, however, as more Redbridge was judged ‘outstanding, (Intern) in Science Communication within the boroughs experienced a decline than an while Barnet, Bromley, Enfield, past two years. Becoming a science improvement in the proportion of good Hounslow, Tower Hamlets and writer or someone who works in science or outstanding secondary schools since Waltham Forest were judged ‘good for communication is like being a translator: 2018. overall effectiveness’. “Writing is perhaps the you’re taking the jargon and complex Havering had the highest rate of Barking and Dagenham, Haringey dialogue of a scientist and digesting it improvement of 11%, whereas Bexley and Lewisham were judged ‘requires greatest of human inventions... into a palatable and approachable topic declined by 13% compared with 2018. improvement to be good’, while Books break the shackles of for the broader audience of the general For primary schools, Bromley Newham was judged ‘inadequate’. public. had the highest rate of improvement Mr Sheridan said: “Like all big time; proof that humans can Science writing and communication across the region, whereas Kingston cities, London has its challenges. We work magic.” Carl Sagan, is all about taking daunting or upon Thames saw a 6% decrease in know that some children are at risk of intimidating topics and making them the proportion of good or outstanding being exploited, drawn into crime and world-renowned astrophysicist accessible to everyone. A large part of schools. associated violence. and science communicator. science communication is storytelling. Mr Sheridan said: “In education, “Protections: like a safe place to call Rather than listing facts and instructing schools need to look past exam results home, trusted adults, the ability to access Many would consider science the closest memorisation, science can be learned and focus on providing a broad and good education, aren’t there for every thing we have to magic, but what is through things like a history of scientific balanced curriculum for everyone. child. Some still fall through the net.” less often considered is that science is discoveries and intimate stories of the not just for scientists. The work of the scientists who discovered them, or scientist is often conducted in a lab, but museum exhibits that show (rather than discoveries are presented to the public tell) a complex idea through some kind through magazine articles, videos, and of interactive experience. museum exhibits. Science writing and Science writers and communicators communication are an excellent platform bridge the gap between tightly knit for any scientist, but also interest people communities of scientists and the who fall in love with science, yet fall general public. It is the job of the science short of fully grasping these topics writer to answer questions like “how do through a traditional classroom setting. we know what we know?” We’ve heard This is where creative nonfiction and about climate change, for example, but museum experiences can really make how do we know what we know about all the difference to a young brain. global warming? Scientists aren’t meant Perhaps you’ve found science courses to be taken at face-value. Science is difficult or uninteresting in high school, not dogmatic. It is reasonable to want but love reading about astronomy, or to know what the evidence is behind a writing science fiction stories, or visiting claim, but more than that, to understand natural history museums. Science information such as the relationship communication takes into consideration between the evidence and the claim the different learning styles each student being made. When we bridge the gap might have. And what’s more, science between science and the public, we communication can take on a breadth of make room for a world filled with more life, ranging from journalism to museum appreciation and more understanding, fabrication, to documentary making, to and with more magic. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 23 Education online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

explore 30 productions, supported with as wide a range of students and teachers teaching resources, showcasing a breadth as possible can take their virtual seats of titles, writers and practitioners and on the South Bank to enjoy and study offering an insight into all aspects of world-class theatre, via Bloomsbury’s theatre-making”. world leading digital drama platform, to The collaboration is a win for inspire and entertain, and to help create many who have campaigned for the theatre writers, performers, designers Theatre © National Photograph greater inclusivity in arts education; and audiences of the future.” particularly as education funding cuts Feedback so far has been have overwhelmingly impacted creative overwhelmingly positive, with teachers initiatives. In 2018, the BBC found that reporting the Collection’s effectiveness nine in every ten schools who responded when used to convey the more technical to its survey had cut back on lesson time, elements of theatre. staff or facilities in at least one creative Alex Harris, Head of Drama at arts subject. It is within this context Torquay College, explained that the that access to these resources is of such resources have helped to demonstrate value, and of paramount importance for what can be achieved through lighting, creative learning. sound, media and stage design. Thanking the rights holders for “Being able to watch the very best of thanks to a unique partnership with making the service possible, King- British theatre allows me as a teacher to Bloomsbury Publishing. The collection Farlow explained that the collaboration share with my students what is possible National Theatre provides high-quality recordings of 24 with Bloomsbury is key to the on stage. Being based in Torquay means world-class productions, drawing from philosophy of The National Theatre. that access to a wide range of styles of Collection comes 10 years of NT Live broadcasts and “All young people in the UK should theatre can be limited and so streaming previously unreleased productions from have the opportunity to watch, make National Theatre productions in the to state schools the National Theatre’s Archive. and explore theatre as part of a broad classroom means that my students can It is hoped that the opportunity to and balanced education”, King-Farlow experience different styles and genres.” free of charge watch the best in British theatre will said. Schools and further education By May Woods ignite in students a life-long passion and Similar sentiments were echoed by colleges can register now via Bloomsbury appreciation for the arts. Jenny Ridout, Global Head of Academic Publishing’s award-winning digital Alice King-Farlow, Director of Publishing at Bloomsbury Publishing. library Drama Online. Learning at the National Theatre, “We are delighted to be further Other academic institutions emphasised the importance of developing our partnership with the including libraries, universities and ll state schools and state funded the archives being made available National Theatre on Drama Online in independent schools can access National education colleges can now nationwide. this free collection for UK state schools Theatre Collection via a one-time access the entire National “No matter where they are in the and state-funded FE colleges”. payment for the full collection, or via an TheatreA Collection free of charge, UK, students and teachers will be able to Ridout continued, “This ensures that annual subscription. National Youth Theatre to transform its North London Theatre Youth © National Photograph home after funding award

The National Youth Theatre (NYT), the UK’s leading youth arts organisation for young talent aged 11-25, has been awarded £2,000,000 from the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund to undergo a major renovation to its Holloway Road building in North London. The radical development will enable NYT to double the number of young people they engage will also be created within the existing The new spaces will be made social inclusion programmes, Playing in the building through their annual building, allowing NYT to double the available to young people from Islington, Up and Stepping Up continuing the programme which provides free and number of young people coming into the London and nationwide to create new organisation’s vital work with even affordable drama opportunities that building. work together. School groups from more young people not in education, champion diversity, creativity and routes The 200-seat studio ‘workshop’ around the UK will also be able to training or employment by providing into the creative industries. theatre will stage performances by NYT participate in regular skills workshops at opportunities to develop creative practice The building will include a new front members from around the UK and the venue and see new NYT curriculum and gain accredited qualifications. pavilion, providing a fully accessible NYT’s flagship free talent development productions, which last year included NYT has worked with hundreds entrance from Holloway Road and a new companies. The NYT will continue Frankenstein, Great Expectations and A of thousands of young people, many rehearsal studio and reception. A new to stage work in the West End, and at Midsummer Night’s Dream. of whom at Holloway Road, including 200-seat studio ‘workshop’ theatre, three leading theatres elsewhere in London These new facilities will enable the Daniel Craig, Chiwetel Ejiofor and rehearsal spaces and a co-working space and around the UK. expansion of NYT’s award-winning Rosamund Pike. 24 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Events

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Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd, W12 7GA the work of over 50 international artists, Knussen Hammersmith, London W14 8UX kidzania.co.uk photographers and filmmakers including Southbank Centre olympia.london Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Paul Hoskins conducts an extraordinary, Opens February 15 Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine colourful programme with the Purcell Ends March 1 Permian Monsters: Life Before the Opie. School Symphony Orchestra and award- Lightopia Dinosaurs 020 7638 8891 winning student pianist Milda Daunoraite. Chiswick House & Gardens Horniman Museum Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS Hoskins recently joined the Purcell School Visitors are presented with illuminated 252m years ago, in a period called the barbican.org.uk from Rambert, where as Music Director badges, featuring the Chinese symbol Permian, life on Earth was dominated by he was known for bold programming. of light, enabling them to explore the extraordinary creatures. It was a time of February 28 – May 23 The Purcell School is one of the UK’s illuminated wonderland, using touch fearsome sabre-toothed predators, giant Sharif Persaud: Have You Ever Had leading specialist music schools, and holds pads and drums to control extraordinary insects and bizarre-looking sharks. The Autograph the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in sculptures. Permian ended with a mass extinction that Placing himself at the centre of his work, recognition of its contribution to music, Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London destroyed 90% of all life, paving the way for Sharif Persaud explores identity through education and international culture. W4 2RP Earth’s next great rulers: the dinosaurs. his experience of contemporary life and 020 3879 9555 chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/event/ 020 8699 1872 autism. He is profoundly interested in his Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX lightopia 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London body in society as a site of investigation: southbankcentre.co.uk SE23 3PQ sneezing, healthcare, hospitals, gangrene, FAMILY & CHILDREN horniman.ac.uk cities, flats, benefits and his independence. March 3 020 7729 9200 Bach to Bach See website for dates February 18-20 Rivington Pl, Hackney, London Handel & Hendrix Family Fridays Half Term Workshops EC2A 3BA London Symphony Orchestra violinist Sadler’s Wells Polka Theatre autograph.org.uk William Melvin and Richard Brasier A new monthly workshop that encourages DelA creative acting workshop for budding (harpsichord) present violin sonatas by young children aged 2-4 and their carers actors looking at developing short scenes MUSIC Handel and JS Bach, coupled with lesser to dance together and have fun at Sadler’s inspired by Polka props and costumes. known keyboard works by Georg Muffat, Wells. Led by professional dancers, this Show off the scenes you’ve created at the February 14 and JS Bach’s fifth son, Johann Christoph unique opportunity is designed to start end of the day to family and friends Beethoven Moonlight Sonata by Friedrich Bach. you and the little ones on a dance journey. 020 8543 4888 Candlelight 020 7495 1685 Sessions will cover a range of dance styles 240 The Broadway, London SW19 1SB St Martin-in-the-Fields 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London and will encourage co-ordination, creative polkatheatre.com An evening of much-loved works for piano, W1K 4HB thinking and social interaction. performed by Dinara Klinton. handelhendrix.org 020 7863 8000 FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY 020 7766 1100 Mezzanine level, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London Ends April 3 Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN Ongoing WC2N 4JJ Rai the DJ sadlerswells.com Moons Beyond Counting stmartin-in-the-fields.org Bush Theatre Royal Observatory Love UK music? Come and join Rai the Ongoing Discover the moons of the Solar System in February 19 DJ in the Bush Theatre’s Library Bar for a Andy’s Clock this brand-new show narrated by our Royal London Chamber Orchestra night of good vibes and even better music. Natural History Museum Observatory astronomers. From the Earth’s Cadogan Hall Fresh from AZ Mag Live, The Official UK See the clock from the CBeebies shows closest neighbour in space, our Moon, to If you like your orchestral music with Black Pride Pre-Party, Rai the DJ returns Andy's Dinosaur Adventures and Andy's the moons of the distant gas giants, this a little flair and lots of drama, look no to the Bush Theatre after providing the Prehistoric Adventures in Hintze Hall. show explores our Solar System’s natural further. Mozart’s virtuosic violin concerto tunes at its press night for Yvette. Andy’s clock is currently at the Museum satellites. sits side by side with Haydn’s Trauer or 020 8743 5050 until Andy needs it back for his next 020 8858 4422 Mourning Symphony, a piece so achingly 7 Uxbridge Rd, White City, London W12 adventure. Check in advance. Blackheath Ave, Greenwich, London SE10 brilliant the composer himself requested 8LJ 020 7942 5000 8XJ that it was played at his funeral. Two bushtheatre.co.uk Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD rmg.co.uk slightly more unusual pieces, baroque nhm.ac.uk composer Biber’s Battalia à 10 and the TALKS, TOURS, & WALKS Ends February 9 20th-century Capriol Suite, provide a See website for dates Shot in Soho collection of sparkling dance rhythms, from See website for dates Go Ape The Photographers’ Gallery European folk to the Renaissance court. Houses of Parliament Guided Tour Battersea Park Although the area of Soho is relatively 020 7730 4500 Discover the history and work of For the fully-grown Tarzans and Janes, small (one square mile) and bordered 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ Parliament on a fun and informative you won’t even feel like you’re in the city, by some of London’s richest and most cadoganhall.com tour delivered by an expert guide. Your as you’ll be fully immersed in conquering commercialised streets, it has remained a 90-minute tour in English includes the some of the longest and highest crossings complex place of unorthodoxy, diversity, February 23 House of Commons, House of Lords and for a full 2-3 hours. Friendly instructors are tolerance and defiance. Shot in Soho is Handel Birthday Concert Westminster Hall. If you have any specific ready to propel the youngsters into a leafy an original exhibition celebrating Soho’s Foundling Museum accessibility requirements, please contact world of canopies too, including bridges diverse culture, community and history of Award-winning soprano Rowan Pierce [email protected] to ensure and zip wires. creative innovation as well as highlighting has appeared on the concert platform your needs are met. 01603 895500 its position as a site of resistance. throughout Europe and in South America, parliament.uk Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ 020 7087 9300 performing with ensembles such as the goape.co.uk 16-18 Ramillies St, Soho, London Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra Ongoing W1F 7LW of the Age of Enlightenment and BBC Deer in Richmond Park See website for dates thephotographersgallery.org.uk Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Pierce is a Richmond Park is a National Nature Kidzania London Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Reserve and deer park with 630 Red and Westfield London Opens February 20 Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at Fallow deer roaming freely since 1637. The KidZania London is a fun-packed, indoor, Masculinities: Liberation through the English National Opera. She made her deer have played a major role in the park's role-play city built just for kids. It spans Photography debut for the English National Opera as history and have shaped the landscape too. across 75,000 sq ft, offering 4-14 year- Barbican Tiny in Britten’s Paul Bunyan. royalparks.org.uk olds plenty of real life activities to have a Through the medium of film and 020 7841 3600 go at. Each child will be given 4 hours to photography, this major exhibition 40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, Ongoing explore and 50 KidZos (the local currency) considers how masculinity has been coded, London WC1N 1AZ Hidden London to spend on activities, or work and save for performed, and socially constructed from foundlingmuseum.org.uk London Transport Museum their own bank card. the 1960s to the present day. Examining This is the London Transport Museum’s 0330 131 3330 depictions of masculinity from behind March 1 exclusive programme of tours and events Shepherds Bush, Greater London, the lens, the Barbican brings together The Purcell School Celebrates Oliver at disused stations and secret sites across 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 27 Events online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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Alexander Owen, said he never Ongoing February 19 – March 14 9 to 5 the Musical imagined the exhibition to grow as big MEAT Savoy Theatre Tribute Ink as it has. Owen came across the idea by 503 Theatre The National Army Museum Tumble outta' bed and stumble to Dolly When Max pays Ronan a visit at his serving as Household Cavalry Officer Parton’s rip-roaring West End musical! 9 Until April 17 and noticed that many members of the restaurant in Dublin, he’s determined to to 5 the Musical is getting down to business prove to her how far he’s come, but she’s Armed Forces had meaningful tattoos By Sydney Keller (Intern) with a strictly limited season at the Savoy! got something bigger to discuss. Over that served as remembrance. Starring Louise Redknapp, Amber Davies, the course of one wine-soaked evening, “I just thought ‘wow’ there's Natalie McQueen, Bonnie Langford The National Army Museum is playing old wounds are exposed and new truths something here to talk about,” Owen and Brian Conley, the smash-hit musical uncovered. MEAT is a story of class, host to The Royal British Legion’s said. features an Oscar, Grammy and Tony consent and how modern Ireland reckons remarkable exhibition, Tribute Ink; Now that Owen’s idea has grown award-nominated score by the Queen of with the transgressions buried in its past. showcasing deep and meaningful stories from a coffee table book to an exhibition, Country herself, Dolly Parton. How can one couple navigate their shared regarding tattoos of members in the he encourages everyone to share their 0844 871 7687 history when their memories don’t quite Armed Forces. own personal tattoos and hopes the Savoy Ct, London WC2R 0ET match up? The collaboration of the Royal exhibition grows from 200 to over thesavoytheatre.com 020 7978 7040 British Legion, National Memorial a thousand stories of remembrance, 503 Battersea Park Rd, Battersea, London Arboretum, and photographer, Charlie sacrifice and service. February 11-15 SW11 3BW Clift brought these hidden histories to “This is all about passing the torch The Great Experiment theatre503.com life of remembrance onto a new generation,” Tara Theatre Tribute Ink is a free exhibit running Owen said. Slavery may have been abolished in 1833, Ends March 21 until April 17, 2020. The exhibition Tribute Ink has four main but in the nineteenth and early twentieth The High Table emphasises how members of the military themes: Rethinking Remembrance, centuries over 2 million Indian migrant Bush Theatre labourers were indentured to work in express their relationship and sense of Remembering the Fallen, A Badge of The dresses are chosen, the venue’s booked achievement with the Army, Navy and plantations around the world. The workers and the RSVPs are flooding in. But Tara’s Belonging and Marking the Memories. boarded ships that would take them Royal Air Force through the art of their perfect Nigerian wedding to her girlfriend Partnering in this aspect of the thousands of miles from home in search tattoos. exhibition is The Royal Hospital Chelsea Leah is suddenly derailed when her parents of ‘a better life’, while the abolitionists, refuse to attend. High above London, The exhibition includes sculptures which is located adjacent to the National and Indian nationalists, called this a ‘new suspended between the stars, three of Tara’s and portraits displaying individual’s Army Museum. system of slavery’ and the ‘international ancestors are jolted from their eternal rest. tattoos, a wall dedicated to the timeline You can get in touch with the shame of the Indian’. Can these representatives of generations of war history and descriptions of each National Army Museum by calling 020 020 8333 4457 passed keep the family together? And will military members personal stories and 7730 0717 or visiting the museum at 356 Garratt Ln, Earlsfield, London SW18 Tara’s decision ever get their blessing meanings behind their tattoos. Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London 4ES 020 8743 5050 Producer behind the exhibition, SW3 4HT. tara-arts.com 7 Uxbridge Rd, White City, London W12

8LJ Ends February 22 bushtheatre.co.uk London. Led by experienced guides, ready looking at an old Roman city. Let lavish My Brilliant Friend to share unusual and little-known stories love poetry roll out through the centuries Rose Theatre March 30 - April 9 surrounding the stations’ varied histories, of London's history around this glorious Based on the celebrated novels by Elena Hamlet these visits offer an exciting opportunity to and breathtaking dome and give you a Ferrante, published in over 50 countries, National Theatre explore locations rarely seen by the public. fresh place to stand. My Brilliant Friend is an epic story of love, 020 7379 6344 London, EC4M 8AD violence, ambition and self-destruction. Running in the Dorfman Theatre from Covent Garden Piazza, London eventbrite.co.uks Following a sold-out run at the Rose, the 30 March – 9 April this energetic and WC2E 7BB February 15 acclaimed two-part adaptation by April De engaging retelling of Shakespeare’s most ltmuseum.co.uk Film Locations Tour Angelis (Jumpy) is reworked for the Olivier well-known tragedy is suitable for ages Meet in Somerset House, Seamen's Hall, stage by Rose Associate Artist Melly Still 8-12. February 14 South Wing (Coram Boy). Rose Associate Artist Niamh 020 7452 3000 Love Poetry of London Walk From The Duchess to X-Men: First Class, Cusack and Catherine McCormack return Upper Ground, Bishop's, London St Paul’s Cathedral find out more about film locations at to play Lenu and Lila. SE1 9PX Feel the beat of your life and the rhythms Somerset House. Visit places that have 020 8174 0090 nationaltheatre.org.uk of London's changing history. Meet In at one time been turned into sinister 24-26 High St, Kingston upon Thames front of St Paul's Cathedral by the white Victorian backstreets, an asylum and a KT1 1HL Compiled & edited by Fahad Redha statue of Queen Anne to enjoy fine grand palace courtyard. rosetheatrekingston.org architecture and discover a new way of 020 7845 4600 Ends February 29 If you have an event that you would like Strand, London WC2R 1LA On Mcquillan’s Hill listed in the next edition, please send any information to: [email protected] 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 29 Events online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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the Festival, and learn about how Kew is fighting the extinction crisis. This aspect Kew Research of the Festival will run from 6:30pm to 10pm on the 13, 14, 26 and 27 February Centre and 5 and 6 March. The centre has been working in Indonesia to help identify, protect and promote the country’s biodiversity Agency Photo Williams © Photograph and said it worked closely with the Indonesian Embassy in London to help The Kew Research Centre is hosting bring Indonesia’s culture to the festival. its first ever Indonesia inspired Kew “Through the Orchid Festival, I Orchid Festival. The event will include hope that visitors can have a wonderful displays of wildlife and plant diversity journey experiencing the magnificent of Indonesia, showcase some of Kew’s Indonesia,” Rizal Sukma, the Steve Garvey, Air Operations work to protect biodiversity in the Ambassador of Indonesia to the UK, Officer. leads the team of paramedics country, and feature Indonesian music, said. “As well as its flora, Indonesia is The Cornish at CAA, also referred to the difference dancing and food. rich in biodiversity, wildlife, nature the AW 169 would make. He referred With over 350 scientists, the Kew and culture which will be beautifully Air Ambulance to its extra fuel capacity which would Research Centre is a global leader and displayed in this Festival.” save time on refuelling back at base. resource for plant and fungal knowledge. For information on the Kew Orchid ( CAA ) Gala Also it offers 360 degree access to the It researches important topics in the Festival, please visit www.kew.org. patient within, presently the patient can science community, from the discovery Dinner only be accessed from one side. During and identification of new species to the a conversation earlier in the evening, he impact of climate change on threatened The Cornish Air Ambulance (CAA) spoke to me of the long training needed habitats. Gala Dinner in aid of the ‘New Heli for his job and the challenges. He said The Festival will run from 8 February Appeal’ was held last month at the that seeing the joy and relief of the to 8 March and is located in the Princess historic Corinthia Hotel in London. family when rescue comes is the greatest of Wales Conservatory. The event’s goal Honoured Speakers and guests reward of all. is to celebrate the biodiversity of plants arrived, glancing upwards at the Emma Ainsworth, Paul's wife, An and animals that the 17,504 islands of magnificent, 1,001 crystal baccarat Ambassador for The New Heli Appeal Indonesia have to offer. According to chandelier shimmering from above. This said she was inspired to help this the center, the region has at least 4,000 hotel was offices of the Government cause after visiting the CAA. She and species of orchids in its tropical climate. Secret Service Personnel during World Paul raise thousands of £££'s at their In Orchids: After Hours visitors can War Two. They, in a different way, were restaurant. She said, “that Paul and I experience live Indonesian music and rescuers and life savers like the CAA, have always felt success should go hand dancing, special talks on the creation of when they helped prisoners of war in hand with humility”. escape and avoid capture. Paula Martin, Chief Executor of the Many people visit Cornwall, CAA, thanked the sponsors for their especially in the summer. A sudden, generous support and all those who are serious accident happens...Then comes helping CAA. She too, stressed the shock and suffering... Family and importance of a new helicopter. friends are involved. Rescue comes in I enjoyed meeting Dr Karen the form of a CAA helicopter. Try to Dickens, a truly active philanthropist imagine a patient’s feelings when seeing and a major supporter of the CAA. a shimmering, speeding helicopter in the She grew up in Cornwall, has a Ph.D skies. in Physical Organic Chemistry which Rescue is a special moment, arrested led to prestigious positions in Esso in time, speed is crucial to survival. Petroleum and the Exxo-Mobil Merger A spirit of Philanthropy and caring which involved her in the Synergy fuels prevailed at the Gala evening. Generous programme. 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development to bring their price down, that people can buy. Pipistrel, also from hydrogen cars are still out of the reach of Slovenia, has its Panthera model which Another type of most consumers. That is not to say that is available with either a regular piston electric car it should be thrown out as another failed engine, a hybrid, or a pure electric. But By Fahad Redha technology. Toyota is one of the biggest even the cheapest model is far beyond manufacturers in the world and it truly the reach of most people. While the believes that this is where the future will aforementioned yachts don’t come cheap, be. Like Honda, it has been a little half- there are a number of used models that ome people may consider electric hearted in development of electric cars. cost a tenth of what this airplane does. cars to be a bit of a step backwards. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to That being said, there are a number Even the best take quite a bit longer both law makers and consumers alike. of models under development, including Sto recharge than it would take a petrol We talk about incentives for you and I some aimed at the airline market. One or diesel car to fill up. For them, the to go green, but there also need to be area where they could have an advantage future is not in battery electric but in the incentives for manufacturers to invest is in shorter range journeys, currently hydrogen fuel cell. money into this. While Toyota and dominated by trains in Europe. Imagine To oversimplify, the fuel cell Honda are investing, Nissan has gone all if you took a silent, zero emissions flight combines hydrogen in the tank with in with electric cars. Only time will tell to say Birmingham or Glasgow rather oxygen in the atmosphere to create which one made the right choice. than the train. This, if large electric water, but not a lot of it. That chemical planes take off, will be the first area process releases energy which is fed into where they can be expected to dominate. the battery. As James May once said, In America, planes dominate even they have their own “on-board power across short distances. For larger states station.” Flying (and like California and Texas, it’s entirely Car makers are a little slower to possible to get a flight that stays within Phantom V, 1953 Jaguar XK120, and invest in this however. It’s much easier to sailing) electric By Fahad Redha the state boundaries. 1956 Rolls-Royce Cloud. As a result, set up charging stations for electric cars The final option, for someone looking prices start from £350,000. than it is to create a whole new refuelling for something quite affordable, though ElectricClassicCars.co.uk is another infrastructure. And storage is a bit of a still more expensive than a plane ticket, one based here in the UK. On its website problem too. The hydrogen fuel needs to is a kit plane. There are a few companies, you can see that the surgery has been be kept under very high pressure in both including Sonex and Van’s, that offer performed on old VWs, a Beetle and a the filling station and the car’s tank. This these with prices ranging from $10- camper, as well as an original Fiat 500 means that it’s up to governments as well 50,000 depending on the model. And and even an early Range Rover. The to decide whether it’s worth investing in there are a number of companies making most controversial one however has got the infrastructure or not. electric motors as well as batteries to to be the Porsche 911. At the time of writing there are not a install, though most are made for cars. The Range Rover even features power whole lot of options. But as three wise men formerly on steering, LED headlights, and hill

Honda has the Clarity. This saloon is the BBC often say, how hard can it be? descent mode. Just like a modern Range Lab Concept Advanced © NASA Photograph unique in being also available as a pure Rover and of course much greener. This battery-powered electric car with a plug goes back to the issue of originality. This rather than a tank to fill. The Clarity was is a model designed as a luxury off- the original hydrogen car as just over a roader, the original SUV. These features decade ago Honda offered the original On the 18th of January 2020 the Teach an old dog (other than power steering) were not for lease in California. The new car will picturesque town of Bruges in Belgium available in the 70s when it was launched be no different, being offered as part of revealed its new electric tourist boats. new tricks but it is hard to deny that it is in keeping a trial. The Japanese firm has been at The first of five e-vessels is 9 metres By Fahad Redha with the spirit of the original. long and 2.2 metres wide and replaces The truth is that people have always diesel boats that the townE used to use. hacked up and modified old cars. Think The downside is that at 200,000, they back to the hot rods of the 1930s and the cost double what their diesel-powered “EV conversions slammed by classic lead sleds of the 50s. And that’s just in counterparts did. As a result,E theE cost of car experts”, Autocar reported in 2019. America (or to be specific, California). the trip has gone up from 8 to 10. This was referencing the Fédération Yet most of us would probably agree As more and more municipalities Internationale des Véhicules Anciens or that if you came across a car from the make the switch to electric, there are International Federation of Historic 1930s that was modified in the 50s, it is still two areas that seem to have been Vehicles (FIVA) which issued a more historically significant to keep it as neglected. Electric power has begun to statement criticising the conversion of it is than take it back to how it left the take over land but air and water are a classic cars to electric. The organisation factory. different story with each one presenting says it is “dedicated to the preservation, Then there’s Project X. This yellow challenges of its own. At the moment, protection and promotion of historic 1957 Chevy has been modified and seen the forefront of this technology while its virtually all electric boats and planes are vehicles” and so “cannot promote, many iterations over the years. “Through electric cars seem a little behind some of small. It may be decades before large to owners or regulators, the use of its existence, the ’57 would serve as a test its competitors. cargo and passenger ships and airliners modern EV components, (motors and bed for multiple engine combinations, Toyota is in a similar boat. The Mirai are converted. batteries), to replace a historic vehicle’s suspension setups, and drivetrain is an awkward looking car that is also on But that’s not to say that electric powertrain.” It recommends that any enhancements”, according to Hot Rod sale. You may have seen some of them sailing or flying are pipe dreams. changes are reversible with “original Magazine. In this case it may be safe to around London working as minicabs. Greenline Yachts is a Slovenian firm components marked and safely stored” assume that there is no way that Project Named after the Japanese word for making a range of yachts which include so that the car can be returned to ‘stock’ X will ever be returned to a stock 1957 future, it is also in its second generation. hybrid and even pure electric. And it’s or factory condition. Chevy, and who would want it to? The difference with the Honda is that not alone. A number of companies, Despite this, there are a number From chopped Roadsters to you can walk into a Toyota dealership including Oceanvolt and Hanse are of companies that specialise in exactly lowriders, there have been all kinds and buy one. Although with the price other options if you’re in the market. these conversions. Lunaz, based in of car modifying trends. And electric you can be fooled into thinking that As we’ve seen with electric cars, Silverstone, says that it preserves “the conversion, the latest, is here to stay. It you accidentally entered a Lexus dealer competition is one of the best ways to past by embracing the future, making will allow you to keep driving many a instead! hasten development. the most beautiful cars in history a classic for years even after the oil runs And that is another problem. While As for electric aircraft, it appears relevant proposition.” Lunaz’s stable out and the last petrol station shuts electric cars have had ten years of as though there are far fewer models includes a 1961 eight-seat Rolls-Royce down for good. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 33 THE FUTURE IS ELECTRIC online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

Westminster Owning an There are over 450 charging points in Westminster, ranging from 3kw to electric car: 22kw. There are dedicated on-street charging bays where you can charge for What you need up to 4 hours from 8:30am to 6:30pm every day and charge points fitted to know into lamp columns alongside resident By Fahad Redha parking bays. For more information, visit westminster.gov.uk/electric-vehicles

Wandsworth Wandsworth has compiled a list of all the charging sites on its website as well as information on tarifs. There are close to 200 charging stations around Wandsworth. Visit wandsworth.gov.uk for more information.

Camden here are plenty of reasons manual or the manufacturer’s website for Kensington & Chelsea Camden has released its ‘Electric to make your next car an more information on charging times as RBKC currently has 43 ‘Source Vehicle Charge Point Action Plan’ to electric one. Aside from the these are not the same for every vehicle. London’ charging points and 225 ‘lamp The Independent. For more information environmentalT argument (even when column chargers’. These charging points visit camden.gov.uk/electric-vehiclesards powered by coal according to a study offer 3kw, 7kw and 22kw charging and helping the Borough go green. It by Bloomberg NEF), there are many the borough that it is “working with currently has over 80 charging stations. incentives to go green. Charging ‘Transport for London’ to introduce Any car that has CO2 emissions of There are three different tariffs rapid chargers very soon.” For more Lambeth less than 50g/km and can travel at least for ‘Source London’: information visit rbkc.gov.uk Lambeth is investing nearly a quarter 112km (70 miles) without any emissions of a million pounds in the “Go Ultra at all qualifies for the government’s Full membership: £4 per month fee and Hammersmith & Fulham Low City Scheme” which includes plug-in grant. For cars that means 35% charged at 13.3p per minute on 22kw LBHF boasts over 200 charging installing charging points throughout of their purchase price up to £3,500. and 5p per minute on 7kw. Residents stations across the Borough, most the borough. At present there are around This includes everything from a little that are full members benefit from a cap of which are ‘Source London’. The 100 in Lambeth. Renault Zoe to a Tesla Model S. Visit on overnight charging; between 8pm Borough’s website lbhf.gov.uk helpfully For more information visit: gov.uk/plug-in-car-van-grants for more and 7am the fee is capped at four hours lists all the locations of these. lambeth.gov.uk information on this as well as to see so you can get 11 hours of charge for the incentives for other types of vehicles price of four. including vans and motorbikes. Drivers of electric cars can drive Flexi membership: anywhere in London without paying the £10 one off fee and charged at 13.3p per congestion charge or having to worry minute on 22kw and 7.3p per minute on about the ultra-low emissions zone 7kw. (ULEZ). They also don’t pay the annual road tax. Pay as you go: Then you’ve got maintenance. no fee and charged at 15.7p per minute Because electric cars have no engine or on 22kw and 8.4p per minute on 7kw. gearbox (at least in the traditional sense) they don’t come with headaches that Full and flexi members can also reserve an internal combustion engine brings. a charging spot. You can download the Even though they have conventional ‘Source London’ app which helps you brakes, they can last longer thanks to find your nearest charging spot. regenerative braking where kinetic Another option is ‘lamp column’ energy is recaptured and fed back into charging. You may have seen the odd the battery and the car slows down. That electric car plugged into a lamp post. really only leaves tyres and lighting. One These charging points are operated by thing to keep in mind however is battery ‘Ubitricity’ and offer a 3.5kw charge. life. Charging and recharging causes it These come at a larger cost however: to degrade over time. But the technology is improving and every day new cars are Smart Cable being released which hope to solve most with subscription: buy Smart Cable for of the issues with battery powered cars. £199, membership £9.99 per month and One of the main barriers for a lot of charged at 16p per kWh people as far as buying an electric car is how and where to charge it. There Smart Cable without subscription: are many different options available buy ‘Smart Cable’ for £199 and charged throughout London. at 19p per kWh ‘Source London’ is a London-wide scheme for electric vehicle drivers. All of Pay as you go: its charging points are in dedicated EV 24p per kWh. These tend not to be in bays and only EVs that are charging may dedicated parking bays however. park there. Thirteen of these charging points are 22kw and the rest are 7kw. The larger the number, the quicker the charge. Check your vehicle’s owners’ In your borough 34 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk THE FUTURE IS ELECTRIC

Current Affairs By Don Grant

hen it comes to transport, electricity is the current topic pulsing through the ether.W We are promised an all-electric solution to combat global warming in a matter of years, with three-fifths of new cars in Britain having to be electric by 2030 to meet greenhouse gas targets. The government is under pressure to bring forward this deadline and ban all sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2032, after a report by a parliamentary committee described its plans as ‘vague and unambitious’. There are around 30 million fuel-powered cars in the UK at the moment, with electric cars accounting for only 1% of new car sales. There are currently 155,000 EVs (Electric Vehicles) in the country, with about 4,500 more being registered every with London, the South-East and The power goes straight to the wheels twin-turbo V8 in combination with month. How this revolution is going to Scotland having the most and Wales for almost instant acceleration, without three electric motors, one mounted play out is anybody’s guess, but there and the North-East the least. The the need to go through a power train, on the rear between the engine and are some seemingly insoluble problems, National Grid are not worried that they with a loss of approximately 15% of gearbox, and two on the front axle like where are the power points for cannot meet demand when all cars are power, making EVs quicker on the producing an eye-watering 986bhp, recharging going to be placed, and electric, but does admit there might be start. However, once the initial ‘instant’ a zero to 62mph time of 2.5 seconds, how many? There are currently 10,500 ‘spikes’ when everybody wants to plug in acceleration, of, say, a Tesla Model S 124mph in 6.9 seconds, and a top number of locations which have a public at the same time overnight; there may P100D reaching 60mph in 2.3 seconds, speed of 212mph. Lotus are claiming charging point installed. The number have to be a cheaper ‘economy’ rate for a Ferrari LaFerrari, Porsche 918 or even more power and speed with their of devices at these locations is 17,400 electricity at unsocial times. McLaren P1 would start to pull ahead all-electric Evija, with which they are and the total number of connectors Electric vehicles generate much more through sheer horsepower. Ferrari have targeting a sub-3.0 second 0-62mph within these devices is nearly 30,000. torque, as opposed to horsepower, than come up with a hybrid model, the SF90 launch, with 186mph from a standstill Connectors can be broken down into conventional gasolene vehicles, which Stradale, (which means we are going to arriving in just nine seconds. The Evija slow (3-5kW), fast (7-22kW), rapid is what drives the vehicle forward. have to learn more acronyms), that is a will have a 200mph-plus V-max, Lotus (25-99kW) and ultra-rapid (100kW+). Furthermore, an electric car’s motor first series production PHEV (plug-in claims. Power gets to the road via an Roughly ten connectors are being eliminates the need for a traditional hybrid electric vehicle). The new car uses electric motor for each wheel, and that installed every day across the country, transmission in many modern designs. a heavily reworked version of Ferrari’s means all-wheel drive and torque- vectoring; both essential when managing 1254lb ft of torque. What is the electric equivalent of a petrol-head. Shock jock? Watt-nob? Batt-bonce? China’s EV firms have an edge on the American firm Tesla for four key reasons: several of the top EV car

Photograph © Rimac Automobil © Rimac Photograph makers in China are state-owned with government backing; they have access to the largest domestic market in the world; the Chinese government’s strategic policies are very pro all-electric vehicles, and they have better battery capability. China is already the world’s leading manufacturer of cars. Today, Chinese drivers buy more new cars, and more EVs, than anywhere else in the world. Global annual sales of EVs surpassed one million for the first time in 2017, and China (where EV sales doubled in 2017) accounted for more than half of those. Of the estimated two million EVs that are expected to be on the roads by the end of 2018, 40 per cent will be in China, according to the International Energy Agency. Elon Musk’s firm said it had hoped to build 500,000 cars by the end of 2018. These figures were rounded down to some extent, and numbers between January and December 2019, were put at some 365,300 vehicles. At 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 35 THE FUTURE IS ELECTRIC online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

about 145,850 units, the Tesla Model 2019 with their eyes set on breaking 3 was the world’s best-selling plug-in the overall course record. Poor weather electric vehicle in 2018. With domestic meant they could not set the new fastest sales of just under 140,000 vehicles; the time during the ‘Sunday Shootout’, but Photograph © Ferrari Photograph Model 3 accounted for almost 40 percent Dumas and the VW ID.R managed of all plug-in electric car sales in the to smash Nick Heidfeld’s time for a United States, which goes to show how Formula 1 car at 41.6s set in 1999 in much Tesla depends on the US market. a McLaren MP4/13 during Saturday However, Tesla is close to finishing qualifying, with the first ever sub-40s a $2billion gigafactory in China, and hill climb run. After the disastrous expects to make 500,000 cars a year ‘dieselgate’ scandal five years ago, when it is fully open. when the German company was found A Croatian entrepreneur, Mate guilty of manipulating emissions, they Rimac, who has allegedly built the are using this electric Volts-Wagon to world’s fastest electric car, was the brains maximise the PR effect. The same car behind the battery-powered E-Type was driven around the Nürburgring in 6 Jaguar driven by Prince Harry and the minutes 5 seconds, but that is still over a Duchess of Sussex at their wedding last minute slower than a Porsche 919 Hybrid year. There is a trend to convert classic Evo, which hurtled round the ’Ring in cars like Ferraris and Aston Martins a staggering 5mins 19.55secs, reaching to electric, but purists are getting very 369 km/h on the long straight back to share put at 25%. Colossal amounts of into the water supply killing fish and animated. The Fédération Internationale the pits, which is about 230 mph in old water are needed to extract the metal, ruining crops. ‘Like any mining process, des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) has issued money. but this region of Bolivia is one of the it is invasive, it scars the landscape, it a statement, in which it stated that it One downside to the EV revolution driest places on earth, and the process destroys the water table and it pollutes ‘cannot promote, to owners or regulators, is the frantic search for the reactive used to filter the lithium carbonate is to the earth and the local wells,’ said the use of modern EV components to alkali mineral that sustains battery ‘wash-and-dry’ the brine extracted from Guillermo Gonzalez, a lithium battery replace a historic vehicle’s drive train’. life, namely lithium-ion, and the beneath the ground, which produces expert from the University of Chile, in The Ferrari Owners Club was even more environmental impact of finding all a mixture of manganese, potassium, an interview conducted ten years ago. sniffy. Enzo Ferrari jokingly said ‘when the lithium required to enable the borax and lithium salts, which is ‘This is not a green solution; it is not a you buy a Ferrari, you pay for the engine transformation to clean energy could then filtered again and placed into solution at all.’ Other minerals used in and I’ll give you the rest of the car for become a serious issue in its own right. evaporation pool after evaporation pool, battery production are cobalt and nickel, free.’ Batteries not included, presumably. South America has vast reserves of the taking up to eighteen months to cure. with virtually all of the world’s supply Having clinched the outright electric mineral, known as the ‘lithium triangle’; It takes approximately 500,000 gallons of cobalt coming from one area, the car record the previous year, Romain thousands of square kilometres under per tonne of lithium. Not only are Democratic Republic of Congo, which Dumas and Volkswagen returned to the Uyuni salt flats, amounting to half local farmers suffering. In Tibet, toxic could lead to another crisis on the road Goodwood for the Festival of Speed in the world’s resources, with Bolivia’s chemicals leaked from a lithium mine to a cleaner environment. Photograph © Doc Searls Photograph 36 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk THETHE FUTUREFUTURE ISIS ELECTRICELECTRIC

MOTORING FIXTURES

June 6 International Jakarta E-Prix, Indonesia June 21 Motorsport Berlin E-Prix, Germany July 11 throughout the New York City E-Prix, USA July 25-26 year London E-Prix, UK

Formula 1 World Endurance Championship March 13-15 February 23 Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne 6 Hours of Sebring, USA March 20-22 March 20 Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir 1000 Miles of Sebring, USA April 3-5 April 25 Vietnam Grand Prix, Hanoi Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, held annually on the last Sunday of June. unique summer weekend that brings April 17-19 Belgium From the first race, an upset victory by together an impossibly heady mix of Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai June 13-14 Rea Lentz while driving a homemade cars, stars and motor sport ‘royalty’ to May 1-3 24 hours of Lemans, France car, to Sebastien Loeb’s record smashing create the largest car culture event in the Netherlands Grand Prix, Zandvoort run in 2013, Race to the Clouds ™ 100 world. Held in the immaculate grounds May 8-10 September 5 Years in the Making” is a 90-minute of Goodwood House, this annual hill- Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona 6 Hours of Silverstone, UK documentary film capturing the history climb event is a true celebration of motor May 22-24 October 4 of America’s second oldest auto race, The sport and all things automotive. Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo 6 Hours of Monza, Italy Broadmoor Pikes Peak International goodwood.com/motorsport/festival-of- June 5-7 November 1 Hill Climb. The greatest challenge in speed Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku 6 Hours of Fuji, Japan motorsports for both man and machine, June 12-14 December 5 founded in 1916 by entrepreneur and July 12 Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal 8 Hours of Bahrain philanthropist Spencer Penrose, has London Cartel Car Show June 26-28 grown into an international event Crystal Palace Park French Grand Prix, Le Castellet World Rally Championship attracting the best drivers and riders The London Cartel International auto July 3-5 February 13-16, Sweden from around the world. show is back for 2020. The same chilled Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg March 12-15, Mexico ppihc.org vibe but even bigger & better, the July 17-19 April 16-19, Chile ultimate mix of classic, retro & modified British Grand Prix Silverstone April 30 – May, Argentina International & UK Car Shows motoring. All makes one place; brand July 31-August 2 May 21-24, Portugal throughout the year new venue. Set on the backdrop of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest June 4-7, Italy historic Crystal Palace August 28-30 July 16-19, Kenya February 20-23 londoncartel.org Belgian Grand Prix August 6-9, Finland London Classic Car Show Spa-Francorchamps September 3-6, New Zealand Olympia August 20-23 September 4-6 September 24-27, Turkey Now in its seventh year, The London British Motor Show Italian Grand Prix, Monza October 15-18, Germany Classic Car Show is firmly established Farnborough International Expo Centre September 18-20 October 29 - November 1, Great Britain as the must-attend event for discerning Test Drives, Live action, the biggest Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay November 19-22, Japan classic car owners, collectors, experts variety of cars under one roof and the September 25-27 and enthusiasts. Olympia will be chance to win £1,000 towards your next Russian Grand Prix, Sochi May 30 – June 12 transformed into a classic car buyer’s set of wheels are just some of the draws October 9-11 Isle of Man TT paradise, featuring some of the world’s of the newly relaunched British Motor Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka The Isle of Man TT is the ultimate 'must finest classic cars and vintage models for Show, which returns as an international October 23-25 see it' event for motorsport fans across sale. event in 2020. The show will not only United States Grand Prix, Austin the globe. Every May and June the Isle thelondonclassiccarshow.co.uk focus on family fun and petrolhead October 30 - November 1 of Man, a tiny country between England entertainment, but will also allow Mexican Grand Prix, Mexico City and Ireland, turns into motorcycle March 5-15 visitors in the market for a new vehicle November 13-15 nirvana as the world’s greatest road Geneva International Motor Show to compare vehicles, test drive, buy cars, Brazilian Grand Prix, Sao Paulo racers gather to test themselves against An exciting programme which, during lease cars, get their own motors valued November 27-29 the incredible ‘Mountain Course,’ a your visit, will allow you to discover and even drive away on the day. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina 37.73 mile beast of a course carved out the very heart of the motor industry thebritishmotorshow.live of the island’s public roads. For over and experience its innovations. The Formula E 100 years the Mountain’s siren call has most renowned manufacturers in the September 11-13 February 15 drawn fans and riders to experience the world will unveil their latest releases. Goodwood Revival Mexico City E-PRIX, Mexico unique atmosphere of the Isle of Man Through forms of transport for today or The romance and glamour of motor February 29 TT Festival. ideas for tomorrow, from the efficient racing as it used to be. If you love to Marrakesh E-Prix, Morocco iomtt.com urban car to the dream hypercar, GIMS listen to the sound of unsilenced V12s, March 21 brings together tradition, passion and V8s, straight sixes or inline fours, this is Sanya E-Prix, China June 28 innovation. the place to be. April, 4 Pikes Peak International Hill gims.swiss goodwood.com/motorsport/goodwood- Rome E-Prix, Italy Climb revival/ April 18 Also known as The Race to the Clouds, July 9-12 Paris E-Prix, France this is an invitational automobile hill Goodwood Festival of Speed May 3 climb to the summit of Pikes Peak, The Festival of Speed is the largest Seoul E-Prix, South Korea America’s Mountain in Colorado, USA motoring garden party in the world, a Compiled and Edited by Fahad Redha 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 37 Travel online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

spiritually (although not physically, in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, site of the disorientating maze of Old City Christ’s crucifixion and tomb. Mostly streets it is easier to happen across recently constructed of these three it them than to find them). The oldest is was built by the crusaders on the site the Western Wall, last remnant of the of an earlier Byzantine basilica, this Photograph © Oliver Lloyd © Oliver Photograph 2nd Temple of Herod destroyed by the extraordinary building is shared by Romans in 70 CE and the most sacred six denominations and is awash with site in Judaism. The scenes at the wall as incense, precious metals and processions. the sun sets on Friday for the Shabbat Queues up to an hour long form of are not to be missed even for gentiles. pilgrims bringing crucifixes and icons Ultra-orthodox jews in their unlikely (often bigger than those carrying them) outfits reverently pray alongside office to bless at the holy sites. The complicated workers and school children dancing and arrangements that govern the Church singing hymns in a way that often more are symbolised outside by a ladder left wouldn’t be out of place in Vienna or closely resembles away fans in a football overnight by workmen in the 1720s and Travels in the Paris. East Jerusalem or Arab Jerusalem, stadium than a religious ceremony. unmoved since as no one can move it was occupied by Israel in 1967 and is The Temple Mount or al-Haram al- without consent from all six orders. The Holy City now sealed off from the Palestinian Sharif to Muslims, which the Western church is best approached along the Via By Oliver Lloyd West Bank by the vast wall Israel has Wall adjoins is the most combustible Dolorosa, route of Christ’s passion along constructed along the border. The Old of these sites. Once home to the Jewish which pilgrims prostrate themselves at What can be said about Jerusalem that City in the middle is defined by its own temples of Solomon and Herod it now each of the Stations of the Cross. has not yet been said at much greater wall, this time built by Ottoman Sultan is the 3rd most sacred place in Islam Outside the Old City, Yad Vashem, length? The holy city has been fought Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th as the mosque of al-Aqsa. Closed to Israel’s memorial to the Holocaust and over by world religions and world powers century and home to the most holy and non-Muslims, and by tradition the the Israel Museum, home of the Dead for millennia; Jews, Christians and contested terrain on earth. second mosque ever built and location of Sea Scrolls are unmissable and in the Muslims, Romans, Turks and Britons The Old City is a rabbit warren, Muhammed’s ascension to Heaven, the former case harrowing experiences. have all left their mark on these few streets built on top of streets, congested presence of the al-Aqsa and the Dome It is advisable to book with a travel square miles of unassuming hillside in markets full of shopkeepers shouting in of the Rock on the Temple Mount has company particularly if one wants the Levant. Bulletholes from its most Arabic and Hebrew selling everything caused vast conflict between Muslims to cross into the West Bank to see recent conquest, by Israel from Jordan in from religious paraphernalia to tourist and Jews. There have been repeated Bethlehem or Jericho as navigating the 1967’s Six Day War, can still be clearly tat of the most unappealing kind. The arson attempts by those who want to complicated procedures of this most seen on the Ottoman wall that encircles narrow lanes filled with smells of incense build a Third Temple and armed attacks sensitive of borders is a task best left to the old city. and baking and often covered with nets on security personnel; while right wing the professionals. Jerusalem is really three cities. West to catch the rubbish residents simply Israeli politician Ariel Sharon’s visit in Note that for political reasons many Jerusalem has been part of Israel since chuck out of their windows are quite 2000 caused the 2nd Palestinian Intifada names and facts are disputed over this its inception in 1948 and is majority unlike anything in Europe. or uprising. city, but care has been taken to apply as Jewish, all broad, elegant boulevards that Three sites define the old city Away from this flashpoint is the dispassionate an approach an as possible.

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does not extend to Bali. It has, after Auckland Awaits India and Nepal, the largest followers Next we flew to Auckland in New of Hinduism. It is therefore ‘freer’ in its Zealand’s North Island. There was a attitude to life. hiccup with my visa but within twenty After a week of being rather boring minutes the airport staff had, via an Photographs © Derek Wyatt © Derek Photographs we upped our sticks and went to online site, re-registered me and all stay in the middle of the island in an was well. You can pay £25-£55 for an enchanting town called Ubud. If you Australian visa but the Kiwi’s do not When all else fails: do nothing else in your life spend some charge. Given that both were available time here. It is rich in people. It is not online, Government's everywhere Go travelling that there is truly much to see, it is just increasingly see visas as a tax. If you pay By Derek Wyatt a place to meditate and beat a path to a high price to enter a country you have the local food shops. It has some arts less to spend.... and some crafts but they are in decline We stayed in Auckland and on (alas). It does though have music and arrival at our hotel there was a heavy some wonderful fusion restaurants. We police presence for us. It took us an hour stayed five days and left ready for more or two to realise HRH Prince Charles adventure. and HRH the Duchess of Cornwall were also about. Two cracking reads to recommend: Tim The following day we drove north to Hannigan’s A Brief History of Indonesia the Bay of Island, five hours on mostly (2015) and Colin McPhee’s still in print: single carriageway, to Paihia, Waitangi A House in Bali (1944) By accident we were faced and Odette! And the Swedish-Japanese and then Russell. We stayed four days. restaurant, Zen not only clocked a two with twiddling our thumbs. star but its menu is highly prized and at Port Douglas, the Barrier Reef We had sold our London pad £450 a head it’s highly priced too! All & the Rain Forests in northern told there are thirty seven restaurants Queensland but had not yet completed on with a one star. We were now about to enter our our new house in Aldeburgh. Singaporeans have understood third week and flew down to Brisbane, the needs of the global traveller. It is switched planes and went up country What to do? upgrading its museums and art galleries to Cairns and then on by road to Port where there still room to manoeuvre Douglas (about an hour). You can fly ell, it did not take us long but we loved the Asian Civilisation direct to Cairns from Bali but we chose to come to the conclusion Museum. The country feels fresh and to use Qantas throughout, not just that the best thing we could ambitious. We loved it but two full days because they gave us the best deal but doW was to complete some of our bucket was enough. they have an outstanding safety record list wishes. And so off we went: to too. Singapore, to Bali, to Australia and to Worth Reading: Michael Barr’s Port Douglas has given up on the New Zealand. We had just under five Singapore, A Modern History (2019) ‘port’ bit but it does have a stretch of a amazing weeks away. beach, fully five miles of it. It is a small Bali community which desperately needs a Flying Times We then flew on to Bali, a five hour connecting airport if it is to survive. It is It is now possible to fly to Perth flight. We were ready for the beach. And not that it is down at heel but its offering direct on Qantas. It takes seventeen to be honest we hardly moved from the as a resort needs some rethinking. hours. But to be frank, who wants to be morning deck chairs to cocktails at five. We came though not for the beach If you have ever posed the question: locked up for that amount of time and It was not too hot and above all else it which is safe under the watchful eyes “What is the point of New Zealand?” who really wants to go to Perth unless was quiet. We stayed away from the of its lifeguards (sharks have been (other than rugby and sheep) then you are interested in lying on the beach bigger resorts and though the in-house known to venture in for a late supper) the sheer beauty of these islands and or straying onto a vineyard? Perth is just restaurant offerings were expensive and but for the Barrier Reef and we were their geography gives new life to the a gateway to Melbourne, Sydney or the no more than three star all we wanted not disappointed. Actually that is an spectacular. Go see. Barrier Reef. But it is still another four was rest. I began to read a book a day. understatement; it was truly, truly Try: Michelle Duff’s Jacinda Ardern or five hours across this vast continent Bali is both part of Indonesia and stunning and whilst there are stories (2019), the first book about NZ’s before you land there! apart from it. Indonesia is the largest about its decline, it is longer than the terrific PM Better, and there is not much in it, Muslim country in the world but that British Isles and it seemed pretty vibrant to split your flight in Delhi, Bangkok, to us in its collection of coral and fish. Singapore or Hong Kong. We decided We took a three hour boat journey to Finally, we made it to the great city of on a few days in Singapore before arrive at the reef itself then hired a Melbourne and the Coastal Road and moving onto Bali. It was fab. helicopter to see the extent of it, we some Vineyards. Flights to Sydney were made use of a submarine and best of all cancelled, sometimes as many as twenty Singapore we did some snorkelling. It was day I a day as the bush fires made visibility Singapore has become almost a shall never forget. difficult for pilots and passengers. cult city for wealthy young Asians best We stayed five days which was a Auckland airport had a lot of distressed illustrated by Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich day too much. There is not really much passengers missing births, marriages Asians which subsequently became a to do in the off-season. To fill our and funerals (let alone a holiday) back Hollywood blockbuster two years ago. time we went croc hunting which was in Australia. We were luckier as we had Singapore moves quickly. It has a frightening....just the sheer size of the decided to see friends in Melbourne, much cleverer congestion charge system beasts.....and made use of a ski lift and drop down to Geelong and en passant, than London. It charges by use of road rail connection to go up to a rain forest take in the greatest coast drive in the rather than by geography. Though it is which was also extraordinary in its size world. in essence a city state it has become a and scale. stopping off point for those in business A week here made us tired and and those in the pleasure industries. A must read: Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu Its restaurants attract Michelin stars, (2014) which has been reprinted thirty long for a holiday. not at the lowest level of one but at the times! Essential reading: Halliday 2020 Wine highest level of three; check out Les Amis Companion (2019) 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 39 Dining Out online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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means that the prices change with the Jacob’s Ladder was a passage from earth dishes, in general most of the mains to heaven and for the carnivorous that’s even out under the £20 as a high waiter exactly what it tastes of. As a closer the mark (sorry I wouldn’t resist). Once we’d simplicity of the Chocolate Pavé was

settled in my colleague and I opened the perfect decadent way to round off © 7 Saints Photographs with an extremely drinkable white (the the meal. Rich yet light as a feather, Albarino Lembranzas Rias Baixas for the Pavé neatly side steps that bloated £30.00 a bottle) which was a rich boozy feeling that is the trade off for far too cushion for the meal to come. To begin I many ‘decadent’ deserts. 7 Saints does leapt at the chance to sample the Scallop what it does simply, cheaply (especially Ceviche with Blood Orange, Smoked for the area) and most importantly it Chilli & Fennel. The scallops were does it well. There are far too many deeply juicy with a hint of fire from the restaurants in West London, whose chilli; levelled out by the tangy flavour high concept approach leads to them of the blood orange. For the main we fumbling the menu at the last minute. went off menu for a truly divine (and They could learn a thing or two from ecclesiastically on brand) Jacob’s Ladder, studying the culinary lives of the (7) often dubbed short rib. The biblical Saints. Max Feldman

white dining area provides a vivacious 7 Saints and convivial atmosphere that can’t help 7 All Saints Road but engender conversation and lead you towards maybe having a second bottle W11 1HA of that rather piquant red. However if T: 020 7460 8566 you’d rather keep yourself at a remove from the hoi polloi (or if a three bottle otting Hill has enough hidden lunch isn’t ideal) there’s a snug 10 person culinary gems to make up private dining enclave upstairs for a small diamond mine and parties or culinary elitists. I’m happy to report that 7 Saints is a 7 Saints is the brainchild of James N Gummer, former front of house at confirmed member of this choir eternal. Despite its seraphic name, 7 Saints is The Wolseley with the deceptively pleasantly earthy; a neighbourhood simple sounding brief of “seasonal, restaurant that doesn’t hold you at arm’s homemade food”. In practice the menu length like some of its snootier brethren. is fantastically mutable; changing Some of this is due to its rather cosy size: dramatically month by month with the cheerful brightly laid out green and schizoid brio. Whilst obviously this De Vere Cotswold Water

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Ah, the Cotswolds; honeyed stone buildings, locals in Hunter wellies, assorted mud spattered Land Rovers, the biggest collection of Barbour and Belstaff waxed coats on the planet (everyone`s got at least 1, and if they all put them on the same day, it might even be visible from space) country pubs owned by celebs, planning committees that make a collapsing barn worth a fortune because you can`t build in the village with anything else, and, of course, Guardian subscribers galore. And there’s the Water Park. Gravel and stone were quarried around here rooms are efficient and well-appointed that you encountered on the way down, style, and I had a very good Sirloin steak for many years and the various pits have rather than grand. You don’t lie back and and if it’s a bit disagreeable outside there and frites, though the artichokes in my now been flooded to form over 150 lakes dream of being the master of Downton are plenty of local attractions. companion’s pasta betrayed their canned and ponds, some of which are quite an here, but you do get a table sized TV, a This isn’t really a ballgown and origins. Bookending the mains, we impressive size. Curiously, Google maps comfy bed, a magnificent view, plus a black tie venue, and for those wanting shared a starter and a dessert: Tempura has no name for the one the De Vere slice of terrace to stroll around on. The to eat at the Old Boathouse Restaurant Tiger Prawns, and a Vanilla Crème overlooks. I’m wondering if it failed to decking was a little slippery the night and Bar a trip across the gravel car Brulée. Prices are in restaurant territory tick a box accepting cookies, and some I was there, but that’s January for you. park is in order as there is no internal for what was on the plate; the Sirloin malgorithym has decide that “Mr Lake” Across the various lakes you can sail, or covered walkway. The De Vere is steak with a sauce was £29, not including does not deserve to get a mention. water ski, go for endless walks, bird pet friendly though, so this might be a service, and the starter and dessert £9 This De Vere somewhat bucks the watch and generally earn the right to good opportunity to take Fido out for and £8 repectively, but the surroundings trend of their grand country house hotel wind down and shed the angst of the 20 his nightly ablutions. Décor and food on a clear day in summer would be image, being four star modern, so the miles of 50mph roadworks on the M4 at the Old Boathouse is pitched pub wonderful. 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 41 Dining Out online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

copper hues; what is a relatively small the lotus stem dumplings with kale; space (65 covers) feels light, bright and while the dish was enjoyable, the lotus spacious. flavouring felt a little overpowering.

No less is to be expected from the The real winner was the truffle rice © Kutir Photograph inaugural solo project of Chef Rohit with goji berries, wild mushrooms and Ghai and front of house extraordinaire fried onion. Although the dish looked Abhishake Sangwan. Both are formerly rather more like a side (aesthetically, of Mayfair’s Jamavar and Gymkhana; the portion was generous), there is no neither are strangers to a Michelin Star. skimping on truffle here. Simplicity Ambitions here at Kutir are evidently allows for the quality of ingredients to no lower. Judging by our experience, I’m really shine; it was rich, earthy, luxurious willing to bet they will be met. and truly enjoyable. Kutir is the latest fine dining Onto desserts, and despite having a establishment to bring luxury to sweet tooth, it is rare that I would crown Veganuary, with the launch of a this course the highlight of a meal. permanent, à la carte vegan menu. The What came next, though, was truly wine menu is stacked with rare finds: I magical. The wine poached pear with chose to savour a glass of wonderfully star anise, raisins and saffron was rich, light Argentinian Sauvignon, while sweet and immensely satisfying, while o gain entrance to Kutir, guests my partner opted for an iced green tea the mango, passion fruit, blood orange Kutir does must ring the doorbell, and wait. so refreshing that the £7 price tag felt and ginger sorbet was doubtless the best From the outside, the smart justified. I have tried. Veganuary in ChelseaT townhouse could certainly pass For starters, we try the rice with As non-vegans, it is a testament to for a Private Member’s Club. Once eggplant dumplings, which pack quite the menu’s strength that we did not once style indoors, though, there is no stuffy air the punch. The chutney and pickle feel that we were missing out. From start By May Woods of exclusivity; only beauty. Kutir is the combination is perfectly balanced and to finish, Kutir is a genuinely special type of high end establishment that excellently compliments the rather celebration of modern indian cuisine; will attract genuine foodies, rather than spicy dumplings. We also opt for the the perfect combination of elegance and those simply looking to flash the cash. Aloo Tikki with tamarind chutney. A tradition. Ghai and Sangwhan promise The restaurant is stunning and fluffy yet crisp potato cake with juicy escapism, to a little cottage in the middle tranquil in equal measure. Ornately pomegranate seeds and chickpeas, of nowhere. They deliver on all accounts. decorated, the furnishings are rich and this dish was a true triumph; elegant, sumptuous; exquisite detailing pays flavoursome comfort food at it’s finest. Lunch service 12–2:30pm, evening homage to India’s exotic wildlife and The choice between just two main service 5:30-10pm heritage. The space feels palatial, yet not dish options meant that we had all Lincoln St, Chelsea, London SW3 2TS overdone. Airy, mint greens blend into bases covered. My partner decided on Visit www.kutir.com

Institute. As the dining area shares Theatre’s relative size The Chelsea space with the front hall it’s necessarily slips into an under- very informal, but anyone expecting catered-for niche for Theatre barebones café fare is in for a significant mid-range productions By Max Feldman shock. I turned up the heat with an and it will be interesting almost vertiginously stacked chili that to see the kinds of Hughes © David Photograph could barely be contained by the plate, productions they book whilst the delicate tart that came as after the grand debut in desert was filling enough to count as a April. meal in itself. Despite the fact that the It’s not just the eatery isn’t positioned front and centre, theatre that’s new, there Appropriately, The Chelsea Theatre as per usual the Tangerine team are is a definite emphasis on the World’s End estate has spent serving up above restaurant quality food on the ‘community’ part years looking sadly post-apocalyptic. A of ‘community theatre’, squat looking bunker with its windows at significantly below restaurant standard prices. Under normal circumstances including two starkly frequently occluded by shutters; upholstered spaces Chelsea’s community theatre was not dining at the theatre restaurant is an exercise in culinary masochism so clearly equipped with Harlequin exactly pulling in the community. floors that will house However, doom and gloom is all very circumstances for The Chelsea Theatre are significantly better than normal. everything from dance to last decade and the entire theatre Pilates. Whether you’re complex has shimmied out of its After gorging ourselves we had a guided tour by The Chelsea Theatre’s hungry for theatre or brutalist chrysalis with a complete re- just hungry for a good CEO and Creative Director Joshua imagining and renovation. This is not a meal, it would seem that McTaggart, formally the man behind wordy way of saying it’s had a new lick the re-imagined Chelsea Southwark’s The Bunker. The most of paint, but rather a complete gutting should enable the slickly designed Theatre is ready to take centre stage. and rebuilding, more phoenix than striking development is upstairs in the form of the newly installed balcony, theatrical space the latitude to stage butterfly. Those suffocatingly shuttered more ambitious productions. Whilst 7 World’s End Place, jutting out over King’s Road that windows have been defenestrated into Kensington and Chelsea is home to Chelsea, SW10 0DR runs around the lip of the upstairs the recycling bin of history and the several performance space, Chelsea T: 020 7352 1967 front-lobby dining area managed to be drinking and dining area. A happy bright and airy even on a grey February side effect is the resultant airy light afternoon, which is no mean feat. glowing from the wall of floor to ceiling Said dining is served up by the windows enlivens the comfortably culinary brain-trust behind the late and stocked bar that curls along the back SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT lamented Tangerine Dream formally wall. The newly restructured 110 seat KCW LONDON. See page 21 for details of The Chelsea Physic Garden and the theatre is substantially bigger than triumphant Café Tangerine at the French most independent theatres which 42 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Health & Lifestyle

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access to all drugs licensed through the innovation, with the high innovation cancer drugs took 3.2 years longer to go European Medicines Agency (EMA) category including new treatments in from patent filing to NHS patients than Most innovative from 2000 to the end of 2016. areas of unmet need. low-innovation treatments. ICR Chief Executive Professor Of the 97 cancer drugs authorised, Moreover, only 38% of highly cancer drugs Paul Workman said: “Our study makes 51% were classed as highly innovative, innovative cancer drugs received a clear that our regulatory systems are yet the proportion of authorised positive appraisal at the time of analysis, facing delays in not keeping pace with advances in the drugs with the very highest degree of compared with 53% of drugs classed as reaching patients science. innovation only slightly increased from moderately innovative and 40% of low- By Anna Mackenzie “At the moment the whole ecosystem 27% in 2000-2008, to 33% in 2009- innovation drugs. for drug discovery and development 2016. And despite the increase in overall is too risk averse. It’s crucial that While the average number of drugs authorisations, the number of licensed academic researchers and pharmaceutical licensed annually by the EMA increased cancer drugs varied considerably by companies should feel the regulatory from a median of six from 2000-08 to tumour type. systems for drug development support 13.5 from 2009-16, the time taken for Large numbers of authorisations were risk taking and innovation, rather than them to be made available on the NHS approved for cancers like skin and breast, Cancer patients still wait discouraging it and slowing it down.” also increased from 12.8 to 14.0 years in but few for several cancers of very high longer for innovative new Drugs were assigned according the same period. unmet need. to high, medium or low categories of The study showed most innovative The report concluded there is a need cancer drugs than for more to create stronger incentives for drug conventional treatments, development and encourage companies to prioritise innovative new treatments a study by The Institute of that can deliver major advances for Cancer Research (ICR) found. patients. The report was published as the Researchers found the higher the ICR develops its pioneering Centre for level of drug innovation, the longer it Cancer Drug Discovery to research new took to navigate the process of clinical treatments that will help millions of trials, licensing and appraisal for public people with cancer. availability. Professor Workman said: “As the In England and Wales, new ICR begins an exciting new ‘Darwinian’ medicines must also be deemed cost- programme of drug discovery to combat effective for use on the NHS, an extra cancer evolution and drug resistance, we barrier to patients awaiting innovative are calling on Government, regulators treatments. and industry to together reshape the Published in Drug Discovery Today, cancer therapeutics ecosystem, so the the study provides an overview of best new treatments can progress to patients much more quickly.” 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 45 Health & Lifestyle online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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these. Keeping the brain active with activities is also important Dementia: “If the brain is to stay healthy, it must remain active, wondering, playing, not just about exploring and experimenting right to forgetting the end. Such activities or dispositions By Dr Serena Foo may not show up on tests, but they are of the essence in defining the health of the & Dr Raj Chandok brain and in allowing its development throughout life.” Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks It had been some time since If you are concerned that you, or a relative or friend may have symptoms of Sean had been to visit his dementia, please speak to your GP. parents as he did not live in Dr Serena Foo & Dr Raj Chandok the same city. His father Pat, are General Practitioners and Health had been diagnosed with Commissioners working to deliver patient-centred, high quality Long dementia some time ago, but important because there are differences such as the Alzheimer’s Society (www. Term Conditions care across North the last time he saw him the in disease progression, prognosis and alzheimers.org.uk) which provide advice West London. treatment options depending on which and ongoing support for people with symptoms were only mild. On dementia type is diagnosed. Nationally dementia, and their family. Dr Raj Chandok this afternoon, as he entered and in North West London over the last FRCGP FRSA MSc MBBS DC few years, there has been a great focus to Can we prevent dementia? As there DRCOG DFFP D Med Ed. Principal, the familiar house of his achieve a timely diagnosis and provide are different types of dementia, there is Dr G Singh & Partners, childhood, Pat stood up to post diagnostic support. no single well defined cause, therefore Vice Chair NHS Ealing CCG, The symptoms of dementia are prevention is not straightforward. Honorary Professor Buckinghamshire welcome him. He stretched varied, and depend on the type. We know that vascular dementia is New University out his hand and took Sean’s Symptoms range from memory loss, associated with conditions which confusion, difficulty performing day to reduce blood flow to the brain such as Dr Serena Foo warmly, saying “David, good day tasks, poor sleep, changes in mood, strokes, high blood pressure,and poorly FRACGP MRCGP MSc MBBS. to see you,”. “No, it’s Sean, personality changes, to difficulties with controlled diabetes. A healthy lifestyle Principal, Westseven GP, Mental speech and language, paranoia and even with a healthy diet, regular exercise, and Health Lead NHS Ealing CCG, I’m Sean”, was the reply. This hallucinations as the disease progresses. not smoking, are the key principles of Clinical Director North West London was met by a blank look, The pace of progression is also different preventing most conditions including Mental Health Transformation Board for different people. “Sean?”, “Yes, your son.” There remained a blank look, There is no single diagnostic test for dementia. Blood tests and brain scans “Oh..I’m sorry..what did you are performed, mainly to exclude other say your name was?” possible causes, for example to rule out a brain tumour. Further tests to assess Sadness and grief passed how a person performs in certain tasks over Sean’s face. are then undertaken. It can take several weeks or even months for a diagnosis of ementia is a complex illness and dementia to be made. can present with a constellation Unfortunately, there is no cure for of different symptoms, and it dementia. 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Regenerative therapies enable your body to use its own in-built regenerative capabilities, and can be an Why struggle with effective alternative to joint replacement surgery for Patient many patients. joint pain? There are many treatment therapies that The case study Regenerative Clinic can offer you in order to reduce pain, inflammation and improve function. These (Laura) treatments are non-surgical day-case procedures, and the patient undergoes light, but comfortable sedation. A new break-through treatment using your own LAURA’S STORY: fat cells is giving hope to thousands struggling with I play sport with my daughter and it’s a dream come true. joint pain. Lipogems® therapy, offered by clinicians at Fourteen years ago, Mum, Laura Jones, was involved Harley Street’s Regenerative Clinic, is transforming in a near fatal road traffic accident. Her joy at surviving the lives of thousands of people, getting them back on such trauma soon turned to sadness at the reality that she their feet and daily activities. Mesenchymal Stromal would face the rest of her life in constant pain. Cells (MSCs) are extracted from your own fat using She says; “Over the years I received incorrect lipo-aspiration, processed and injected into the affected information about the extent of my injuries. I became area under ultrasound guidance for exacting precision. so frustrated that I felt trapped inside my own body. It This therapy has helped over 35,000 patients worldwide affected all areas of my life.” Laura received treatment - harnessing these natural repair cells. at The Regenerative Clinic, being assessed by a team Other treatments include Hyaluronic acid (HA) of specialist surgeons, each one an expert in one of her and Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP), already clinical areas (spine, hip and knee). After Lipogems treatment, using her own fat cells popular with elite athletes for sports injuries, which injected into her spine, hip and right knee Laura had uses growth factors found in blood. This accelerates significant improvement. She says; “Since receiving repair and promotes regeneration of the damaged joint treatment I have been able to sleep. I have been able or tissue. Activated Mesenchymal Pericyte Plasma to return to playing sport and most importantly I have (AMPP) is a new effective regenerative therapy been able to enjoy family activities and interact with my (combination of adipose (fat) derived mesenchymal daughter the way a parent should without the restriction of cells and PRP a potential breakthrough treatment for so much pain.” f you suffer from arthritis and live with joint pain, arthritis. you may have been told that joint replacement These pioneering cell-based treatments can surgery is your only real option. Depending on help repair damaged cartilage, tendons, ligaments, Iyour age, activity level and pain severity – you may also muscle, bones, spine, and even skin. Our team of be told “you need to wait” or “you’re not ready!”. You specialist clinicians are experts in their own field of are also unlikely to be offered appropriate diagnostic musculoskeletal injuries, will advise you during a 30 imaging such as MRI. minute 1-2-1 appointment on the best course of therapy For info: T: 0121 663 6970 This does not have to be the case…. for your condition. www.regenerativeclinic.co.uk/

embraced by many cultures. Many clients diarrhoea or too slow causing constipation includes constipation and gas.” who come in have IBS(Irritable Bowel and bloating, said Ruth Lloyd. Stomach Syndrome) and they find that Colonic As she explained, a person’s normal How often should you have a colonic? Hydrotherapy is one of the only treatments transit time is 24 hours but this can be Three colonics over the course of two bloating: that helps to alleviate their symptoms disrupted by a range of factors including: months is recommended for optimal Could this treatment therapy such as bloating, gas and constipation. We results as it enables a deep cleanse. are one of the largest centres in the UK • Stress “After that it’s maintenance depends on beat your belly bloating once for Colonic Hydrotherapy. Over the last • Poor diet the individual and what their requirements and for all? 5 years we have completed over 25,000 • Disease are,” she advises. treatments. Our clinic has a team of highly • Infection Before having colonic hydrotherapy, qualified, ARCH* registered Colonic • Medication the therapist will ask a person about their Hydrotherapists.” • Sedentary lifestyle medical history to check if they have any TOMACH bloating can seem health problems that might make the like a desperate situation for many What is colon hydrotherapy? This is where colonic hydrotherapy can treatment inadvisable. Loop people in the UK. Despite following Colonic hydrotherapy works by help. “Colonic hydrotherapy can help to Commenting on the health benefits the recommended advice, the problem inserting a tube into a person's rectum and cleanse the colon, stimulate the nerve and of Colonic Hydrotherapy , Mr Songra S then flushing waste material out of the muscle action of the bowels and help the Medical Director of Kings Bridge Private can stubbornly persist. There is another treatment option that people may not have bowel using warm water. colon to work normally again,” said Ruth Hospital said: Anything that improves thought about. Lloyd. digestive health has overall benefits on Stomach bloating describes a range of How can it benefit bloating? “In turn this will help to maintain physical and mental health. Gut health symptoms associated with the gut. People To understand how it benefits bloating, healthy colonic flora and will decrease the is closely linked to mental wellbeing, gut often complain of a stretching sensation in it is important to first understand the risk of abdominal bloating, gas, diarrhoea, problems can often cause anxiety and vice the tummy and painful abdominal cramps. processes involved in the gut, explains constipation and infectious colitis,” she versa. He added: I wouldn’t advise this Growing research suggests that simple Ruth Lloyd who is the senior Colonic added. therapy for patients with certain health self-help solutions belie the complexity of Therapist at the Cosmetech, Chelsea According to Ruth Lloyd, combining conditions such as anaemia, high blood the issue; poor gut health can be connected Private Clinic : “Digestion is a complex colonic hydrotherapy with an abdominal pressure, heart problems, kidney or liver to a wide-range of interactions, both process which can be easily disrupted. The massage also helps to improve overall disease, and any bowel conditions such as internal and external. Treating stomach small intestine is where most nutrients and wellbeing and boost energy levels. The Chrohn’s disease or bowel cancer, as well bloating and its associated symptoms may up to 90 per cent of the water is absorbed. therapeutic aspect of the treatment can as any existing rectal or anal problems require a multi-pronged approach - this is “The large intestine (Colon) is help to break the negative cycle of stress such as rectal bleeding, anal fissures. Call where colonic hydrotherapy can help. responsible for processing indigestible and its impact on bloating. Cosmetech on 020 7565 0333 to book and Colonic hydrotherapy may have made food material and the trillions of bacteria She said: “Abdominal massage is a quote KCWToday to receive 10% off your headlines with high-profile celebrities such in the colon produce substantial amounts great way to create gentle external pressure treatment. as Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Crawford of vitamins by fermentation (K and B along the intestinal tract, which stimulates and Beyonce touting its health benefits, vitamins, including biotin). intestinal contractions (called peristalsis) but Lena Gillespie, MD of Cosmetech’s However as the bacteria ferment gas and helps get the intestinal material to the Chelsea Private Clinic on the Kings Rd in can be produced which causes discomfort rectum before it gets hard and dry. London insists the practice is no passing and bloating “This compliments the Colonic www.cosmetech.co.uk fad: “Colon hydrotherapy has been around Digestive problems can occur when Hydrotherapy Treatment and helps to Chelsea Private Clinic, The Courtyard, for thousands of years, and it has been expelling waste is either too fast causing alleviate the symptoms of IBS, which 250 Kings Rd, London, SW3 5UE 48 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Arts & Culture

Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life Estorick Collection Canonbury Square N1 2AN Until 11 April 2020 Admission £7.50

rali was surely the quintessential Futurist painter. He embodied everything Futurism stood for; it Cwas coursing through his veins. He was eighteen when he took his first flight in 1928 and the following year he contacted Marinetti, the founder of Futurism, and asked to join the movement. In the same year aeropittura, or aeropainting, was launched in the manifesto, as Perspectives of Flight. Many of his subjects feature flying, speed and machinery, and are amongst his best works, although he also painted landscapes, like the stunning Lights at Ostia at Sunset from 1930, industrial views of docks and cityscapes, and even the odd portrait. Many Italian Futurists supported Fascism in the hope of modernising a country divided between the rich, industrial north and the poor, rural South. Like the Fascists, the Futurists were Italian nationalists, radicals, proponents of violence, and were opposed to parliamentary democracy. Mussolini loved aeroplanes, and learnt to fly himself. One was vaguely looking for a mention of the radical adventurer, poet, soldier and one- time fighter pilot, Gabriele D’Annunzio, who saw a gap in 1918 in the disputed city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia), and filled it, by setting up the short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro with himself as Duce. When he was just 8-years- old, Crali played truant and went into Zadar to witness the disembarkation of D’Annunzio’s legionaries, led by him in a little red sports Fiat filled with flowers, like a hearse, which fired up Top: his imagination. During the 1940s, The Forces of the Bend (Le forze della curva), 1930 oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm Above: Crali was one of a number of Futurists Flight (Volo), 1929 Tempera on Cardboard, 20x 25 cm who accompanied pilots on combat and Left: reconnaissance missions, but the politics Broken Engine (Motore in Panne),1931 Tempera on Cardboard 45 x 57 cm of Mussolini were not to his taste, and he held avant-garde cultural events in earlier, when he hit a dog during practice always seated with them at their table. leading figures from the cultural scene. Gorizia on the Slovenian-Italian border, for the Targa Florio. The car crashed They never spoke of it.’ He produced a The exhibition contains pages from to where the family had moved. The into a river and the greatest driver of gloriously vivid, whirling impression of his sketch books, full of drawings and occupying Nazi authorities saw him as his time, was thrown from his Bugatti the Tricolour Festival in the Sky, painted notes, as well as his examples of his a subversive and were about to deport and drowned at the age of 40. But it when he was in his late seventies, and Sassintesi, a word coined by his wife Ada, him. An influential friend was able to was in the skies where he painted his he continued to find creative inspiration meaning ‘Stone Syntheses’, whereby the stop this, but he was then imprisoned most outstanding works. Sadly, not in from the squad, whose training sessions colour, texture, translucence and form by Tito’s militia in appalling conditions the show, Crali’s masterpiece, Nose Dive he still attended. of stones, pebbles, rocks and general for 45 days, before being liberated by on the City, where the viewer is behind Prior to that, he was offered the flotsam, were placed in a harmonious American troops in 1945. the pilot inside the cockpit of a plane post of Headmaster at the Art School composition, but against neutral black or Capturing speed was not just an in a vertical dive-bomb is astounding. in Cairo, where he fired up the white, but never painterly, backgrounds. aerial preoccupation. Crali’s Forces of the He was privileged to fly with an Italian international students with innovative He also experimented with ‘cosmic’ Bend depicts a red racing car, inspired aerobatic team called the Frecce Tricolori, ideas and enthusiasm, in the face of painting, fashion, theatre, graphic by his hero, the racing driver Pietro literally the Tricolour Arrows, and he stiff oppostion from the old colonial design and architecture, but it was his Bordino, hurtling around a corner in was immensely impressed, not just by bastions of conservatism. He also aeropaintings, with their soaring beauty a burst of drifting dynamic energy. their uniforms, but ‘by their character, loved wandering about the souks in and slipstreamed skyscapes, for which he Sadly, this painting was an homage their enthusiasm, their seriousness, their Cairo, visiting mosques, museums and will be best remembered. to Bordino, who was killed two years courtesy, their awareness that death was archeological sites, and getting to know Don Grant 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 49 Arts & Culture online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

feared women. He was certainly a John Cocteau, with music by Erik Satie consumate swordsman, but he had and choreographed by Léonide Massine, long-lasting platonic friendships with who were all based in Rome during the Lee Miller, whom he painted half a First World War. There is a short excerpt dozen times, and who took literally from a filmed version of the ballet hundreds of photographs of him, and produced in 2008, which highlights the gay American writer, Gertrude its humour and charm, intertwining Stein, of Alice B Toklas notoriety. He Cubism and Modernism into a lyrical drew himself as a Minotaur raping or mélange of decorative nonsense. In the caressing sleeping women, although same section, there is a selection of only one example of an erotic etching pencil sketches, of Olga Khokhlova, a or drawing done in the sixties is in ballerina, whom he met on the set of the exhibition. There were really seven Parade, and subsequently married, a important women in Picasso’s life, tremendous drawing of Igor Stravinsky, each representing a distinctive style and a couple of fine self-portraits. in his work. Two women, Marie- One of the sponsors of the Thérèse Walter and Jacqueline Roque, exhibition, along with the City of committed suicide as a result of their Malaga, Picasso’s birthplace, is Viking relationships with Picasso, and Dora Cruises, which boasts that it carries Maar, ended up as a reclusive depressive. ONLY 930 guests in one of its many It brings up the tired old chestnut again; floating Alphaville blocks of flats. should we dissassociate the artist from Admittedly, some ships carry upwards his art in a #metoo climate or condemn of 5,000 people, with another 2,300 and censor him? Should I have to stop crew, but, together, they all produce 60 using my favourite typeface Gill Sans, kilotonnes of nitrogen oxides (NOX) Picasso and Paper because the randy old bugger Eric amounting to 15 per cent worldwide, Royal Academy sexually abused his daughters and sisters, and 10 times more sulphur oxide (SOX) to say nothing of the poor Jack Russell? air pollution around European coasts Until 13 April 2020 Apart from a few bronzes, including than all of the continent's 260 million Admission £22 (1st and final 2 weeks) The Jester from 1905, Head of a Man, cars, as well as pumping a billion gallons 1910, Head of a woman, Boisgeloup, of sewage into the oceans every year. The Mon-Tue £18. Wed-Thu £20. Fri-Sun £22 (Marie-Thérèse Walter), and Man with City of Malaga welcomes cruise ships. www.royalacademy.org.uk a Sheep, cast in 1943, all the remaining Don Grant works are on paper of some description, although a number of oils on canvas have slipped under the radar, notably La Vie, on loan from Cleveland Museum of Art, Top left: his blockbuster exhibition, wrapping paper to invitation cards, on Head of a Woman, Mougins comprising some 300 works, which he scribbled, doodled and daubed. The Village Dance from 1922, Man with © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Béatrice Hatala Guitar, Nude Woman with Necklace, Piero © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019 covers the same acreage as the In the wars, there was a scarcity of paper Below: RA Summer Show with over three times in France, and he kept every scrap for a at the Printing Press, Déjeuner sur l’Herbe Sketch for Guernica, Paris, 2 May 1937. and Les Femmes d’Algers. Bracketing RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Marine Beck- T rainy day Coppola. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019 the number, and yet, Picasso and Paper has more diversity, more innovation, Once he got hold of a subject, he was these larger paintings are dozens of more inventiveness, more range and like a dog with a bone. One example is preparatory sketches and prints, which certainly more skill than anything on Déjeuner sur l’herbe by Edouard Manet, underline the fact that Picasso never the walls during the summer. It does of which wrote on the back of an stopped experimenting. He dabbled seem a little unfair that, when God envelope, ‘When I see Manet’s Déjeuner briefly in theatre set and costume design, handed out artistic talent, he should give sur l’herbe, I think there will be trouble working with Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets so much to one man, and for so long. later on.’ He starts out in the fifties, Russes on a one-act ballet Parade under For 80 years Picasso had been at the with representational pencil sketches forefront of art, forever experimenting of the four subjects, Manet’s regular with different mediums and materials. model Victorine Meurent, his brother This show concentrates on his works Gustave, his wife-to-be Suzanne and on paper, whether it be drawing, her brother, but, by the time he began to painting, printing, cut-outs or collage, put his own take of the composition, it using watercolour, gouache, oils, pastel, is the 1960s, and he produced a series of charcoal, pen and ink, pencil, Conté 27 canvases and 140 drawings, linocuts crayon and tempera, often mixing two or and cardboard cut-outs. The same is true three media in the one composition. One of Les femmes d’Alger dans leur appartment study for The Weeping Woman from 1937 by Eugène Delacroix, painted in 1834. involved drypoint, aquatint, etching and Here, in the mid-fifties, he produced scraper, proofed on Montval laid paper. dozens of preparatory drawings, nine He also experimented with numerous engravings, two lithographs and fifteen printing techniques, including drypoint, vibrant oils on canvas. It is fascinating engraving, etching, erwinography, a how he developed his own interpretation process involving tracing paper, glass of this piece of art from the past, with plates and gelatin, aquatints, mezzotints, deletions, additions and modifications, photograms, lithography, linocuts, and how he broke the compostion down woodcuts and monoprints. He was also into monochromatic aquatints, lithos fascinated by, and acquired, rare and and drawings, and finally bursting into antique papers from around the world, colour. including Japan, but he also drew on Picasso was a diminutive colossus newspapers, cards, magazines and even of 20th century art, possibly the blotting paper. He kept an amazing most famous artist of his day. He amount of ephemora and memorabilia, has been portrayed as a misogynist from bus tickets to cardboard and and a bully, who both idolised and 50 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Arts & Culture

Left: Edward Collier. A Trompe l’Oeil of Newspapers, Letters British Baroque: and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board. © Tate Power and Below: Grinling Gibbons. The Arms of John Montagu. Illusion © Trinity College, Cambridge Tate Britain Until 19 April 2020 Admission £18 tate.org.uk

f Marmite had existed in the late seventeenth century, it would have summed up this exhibition. There Iare many art lovers who delight in the resplendent sumptuousness of the cascading satin and silk, extravagant floral arrangements, grand settings and painted courtesans. One normally associates Baroque with the pomp and grandiosity of the French court of Louis Another exponent was Edward Collier, XIV, the Sun King, at the palace of whose highly-detailed canvases, like A Verseilles, but power and majesty were Trompe l’Oeil of Newspapers, Letters and qualities that could be reinforced in Writing Implements on a Wooden Board Britain through art and architectue in could trick even a trained eye. Simon a country where the monarch no longer Verelst painted floral arrangements with wielded absolute control. The restoration such skilful realism, even Samuel Pepys of the monarchy in 1660, after the was fooled. Samuel van Hoogstraten beheading of Charles 1 and the ten years has two large canvases, one of which of civil war, was greeted in the main with is entitled Perspective Portrait of a Boy public joy. The new King needed to re- Catching a Bird, but he also has another establish the royal court as the epicentre piece of deception, Perspective Box of a of power through a dazzling display Dutch Interior, which comprises a glass- of splendour in lavish surroundings. fronted box which contains an out-of- Portraiture was used extensively to kilter scene, but when viewed from two flatter and enhance the sitter’s status spy-holes at each side, the perspectives and painters were brought in from the line up and the scene makes sense. Netherlands, like Jacob Huysmans and One of the greatest pieces of mimetic Peter Lely, and Sweden, like Michael reproduction was achieved by a Flemish Dahl, to add to the home-grown talent, artist Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, including John Michael Wright, who, in 1670, painted the reverse of a Samual Cooper, a miniaturist and James framed painting on the canvas, and left Thornhill. An Italian, Antonio Verrio, it on a shelf in a gallery and waited for presented The Sea Triumph of Charles II an unsuspecting punter to pick it up and to the King, and in turn cemented the turn it around. What fun! job of a lifetime, decorating the newly- James Thornhill was an immensely built state apartments at Windsor Castle. talented and prolific murallist, with such Wright painted the magnificent study impressive interiors as the Painted Hall at of Charles II in the Royal Collection Greenwich, inside the dome of St Paul’s seated on the throne in his red Order of Cathedral and works at Chatsworth the Garter parliamentary robes edged Minerva, goddess of Wisdom, and, armour, atop a pile of nude figures, House. There are sketches in pen and ink with ermine over a silver tunic and white even more outrageously, as the Virgin in a scallop-shell sea-chariot drawn and oil on display, which were presented stockings, which was the star of the and Child in 1664, to underline just by Neptune with rearing horses, and to clients to demonstrate the complexity show at the Charles II: Art and Power how important she was, or thought surrounded by trumpeting strumpets, of the spaces to be painted. and the exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery two she was. Other young ladies painted plump putti and bare-breasted angels, overall effect. These illusionist murals on years ago, which covered much of the at the time were the Petworth Beauties, with the victorious British fleet in the ceilings, walls and staircases, featuring same ground. painted by Michael Dahl for the 6th distance. Such conceit. allegorical subjects taken from ancient Sir Peter Lely, painter of the sexiest Duke and Duchess of Somerset for One gallery is entitled Illusion history and classic mythology, were a buttocks in any public art gallery in their grand baroque country mansion, and Deception, and focuses on how feature of late Stuart interiors, and the Britain (q.v. Nymphs by a Fountain, Petworth Place. The German portraitist fashionable trompe l’oeil paintings were. overwhelming effect of these grandiose Dulwich Picture Gallery), became Godfrey Kneller painted the Hampton The famous violin hanging on the back scenes was to impress upon the spectator Charles 11’s favourite painter, both for Court Beauties, including more royal of a door from Chatworth House by the power, wealth and taste of their pictures of himself, and ‘court beauties’, mistresses, and Kneller was appointed Jan van der Vaart is in the exhibition, owners. Whole parts of the building particularly the Windsor Beauties, Principal Painter in Ordinary to the as is a cut-out gentleman with a stick, were rendered unusable for months, or some of whom were his mistresses, Crown when Lely died in 1680. The who would trick visitors by being even years, while teams of artists worked including Barbara Villiers, Duchess allegorical Sea Triumph is a ludicrous placed at the end of a corridor or in the from scaffolding. of Cleveland, a particular favourite, as confection, showing the King in classical landscaped gardens of a stately home. Don Grant 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 51 Arts & Culture online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

and entertained them in his home. Twickenham was a fashionable escape Turner and the for celebrities, many had palatial retreats there. Turner’s home was modest. Thames: Ricky Pound, Director of Turner’s Five Paintings house, said, By Marian Maitland “It is the first time since 1826 that Turner’s paintings have graced these walls. That makes it incredibly special”.

Photograph © Bradford Museums and Galleries © Bradford Photograph The house is Georgian, built in 1813 to Turner's design, with help from Sir John Soane. It is Grade 2 listed. Turner’s Five oil sketches of the River Thames father lived there during his retirement by J. M.W. Turner are being exhibited and it was sold in 1826 when his health at his country retreat, Sandycombe failed. Lodge, in Twickenham. They have been The house had a huge heritage Marx (1902 -1998) studied at the Royal loaned from the Tate and are rarely seen restoration and opened as a Heritage site College of Art with a group of students in public. The display is in an upstairs in 2017. Unbound: whom Paul Nash described as, “An bedroom. These works are thought to JMW Turner (1975-1851) RA., outbreak of talent”. be personal experimentation and not was born in Covent Garden, at one Visionary She was a friend of Eric Ravilious intended for exhibiting. time apprenticed to an architect and and Edward Bawden. Jennifer Harris It is not an elaborate exhibition and was a Professor of Perspective at Women built a global collection of art textiles. the works are not masterpieces, however, the Royal Academy. He was a great This coincides with the growth of they do reveal Turner's method of English romantic painter, printmaker Collecting textiles as a contemporary art form. working and his path to development and watercolourist. He excelled in Textiles During her work at Whitworth. to being a great artist. They are painted imaginative landscapes and turbulent 25th Jan-19 April 2020. University of Manchester (1982- on scraps of mahogany veneer, possibly marine scenes. He raised the perception 2016) she influenced how textiles are from broken furniture. of landscape painting to the point where Two Temple Place. perceived. Nima Poovaya-Smith was Sir David Attenborough, celebrated it rivalled history painting. The wonders Senior Keeper of International Arts broadcaster and naturalist opened the of nature appealed to him, especially from 1985 to 1998 at the Cartwright Exhibition, describing Turner, rain, storms, fog and sunlight. His later Hall Art Gallery. Bradford. She “ ...as one of the greatest figures in work was a paean to pure light with his extiles give an intense insight created an outstanding collection of Western painting”, and went on to say, shimmering colours. Evanescent light into social history, providing International Art which reflected “The presence of Turner's paintings was immortalised by him. crucial evidence and they are the changing diversity of Bradford's at Sandycombe Lodge is an important Turner’s influence extended to the often exquisite works of art in their own population collecting traditional textiles moment that conveys proper respect”. French painters, especially Claude T Monet. right. It is time they have an accepted and the work of contemporary artisans The five paintings, Walton Reach, place among the established visual arts. in the Indian Sub Continent and the The Thames near Windsor, On the Thames, Always a quiet modest man, This view is supported by the exhibition UK. The seventh pioneer was Olive Sunset on the River, and Windsor Castle unaffected by success, he became at Two Temple Place as it brings Matthews (1887-1979) who was a from the River all show how much reclusive after his father’s death and lived together material from across a wide specialist. Turner enjoyed painting the Thames. poorly and simply with deteriorating spectrum. Leading expert and Curator, Among the exhibits from the Notice the sky formation at Walton health. June Hill, said, collections of these intrepid women are Reach. On the Thames depicts scenes Turner died in 1851 in Cheyne Walk, “Textiles sit within so many photographs and letters which throw which were close to his home. If you Chelsea and he is buried in St Paul's disciplines it is hard to grasp the light on the times and the challenges look closely at Sunset on the River you cathedral. diversity of human experience they these women faced to collect and will see it is the forerunner of The Do visit the exhibition in the home encompass”. establish the importance of their Fighting Temeraire with the setting sun of this great artist. Collecting has long been in the collections. and orange clouds evoking all that made domain of men and the exhibition tells The contemporary works include Temeraire so mesmerising. If you observe 40 Sandycombe Road how seven women defied the norm and Alice Kettle's huge machine Windsor Castle from the River, you will Twickenham TWI 2LR created remarkable, global collections. embroidered panels, The Three Caryatids see how the artist later produced the T: 020 8892 5485 Women understand textiles, they see and Yinka Shonibare's creation of the masterpiece, Rain, Steam and Speed. Monday Closed. Wednesday-Sunday. them from a different perspective, last slave ship, Wanderer re-imagined Turner found the River Thames 12 pm self guiding beyond their functional use, whilst in 2001 with African batik fabric sails. inspirational. From his country house, 3-4pm guided tours appreciating their artistic importance. Also Sarbjit Natt’s 1996 geometric before the time of the spread of suburbia, Tuesday Learning only. The Exhibition shows how the patterned silk sari. These contribute his view of the river was uninterrupted. Entry fee £ 8 seven women led the way to women hugely to this diverse exhibition. He took friends on fishing trips Ends 29th March 2020 collectors being accepted as professional. Two Temple Place collaborated Their informed insight could hardly be with seven museums and galleries ignored. to create Unbound: Seven Visionary The pioneering women who created Women Collecting textiles. It is unusual, splendid collections are as follows: entertaining and well worth a visit. Photograph Photograph © Tate Edith Durham (1863-1944) was Marian Maitland. an intrepid traveller in the Balkans who created an impressive collection Two Temple Place. of traditional Balkan costumes. She WC2 R 3BD. became a national hero there. www.twotempleplace.org Louisa Pessel (1870-1947) was an outstanding needle woman and advocate Times: of embroidery. She was a teacher and Mondays and Thursday to Saturday. also used embroidery in therapy. Muriel 10.am to 4.30 pm Rose (1897-1986) was an important Wednesdays. 10 am to 9 pm figure in the development of modern Sundays. 11.am to 4,30 pm crafts and a founding member of the Closed Tuesdays. Crafts Study Centre at Farnham. Enid Admittance is free. 52 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Arts & Culture

Drawn to fire By Don Grant

n the early years of the First World War, Britain did not have an official scheme to commission or support Iwar artists. It was only after artists serving on the Western Front, such as Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and Eric Kennington, with his brooding The Kensingtons at Laventie, displayed their works in London, that Charles Masterman, head of the British War Propaganda Bureau, started to recruit artists to paint images from the home Top left: front. The first official war artist was pathological drawings of war injuries for The Kensingtons at the Scottish artist Muirhead Bone, Laventie.1915 the Royal College of Surgeons. Other Eric Kennington. followed by Nevinson, William Orpen, ‘big guns’ were Edward Ardizzone, who Oil painting on glass. William Rothenstein and John Lavery. © Imperial War Museum. served with the British Expeditionary Above: Responsibility for the war artists was Force in France and Belgium, followed He was my Friend. passed to the British War Memorials Arabella Borman. by stints in North Africa and Italy; Oil on Canvas. Committee, and names like George Edward Bawden, who served with Left: Clausen, David Bomberg, Augustus The Queen’s Royal Lancers the British Army in France and the Patrolling the Border, Maysaan John, Wyndham Lewis, William Middle East, having witnessed the Arabella Borman. Orpen, William Rothenstein, Stanley Oil on canvas. evacuation of Dunkirk; Henry Moore, Collection of The Queen’s Spencer and the Nash brothers came to with his drawings of civilians sheltering Royal Lancers. the fore. After the war, the BWMC was from the blitz and miners working wound up, and some large artworks, like the coal-face; Mervyn Peake, who The Menin Road by Paul Nash and the painted glass-blowers making cathode astonishing and deeply moving Gassed by ray tubes for early radar sets; Vivian John Singer Sargent were absorbed into Pitchforth, who painted bomb-damaged the Imperial War Museum collection. buildings and maritime subjects; Although Frank Brangwyn was not an Graham Sutherland, who also painted Queen’s Royal Lancers in the Maysaan Dorman was adamant that it did, and official war artist, he produced dozens bomb damage in London and Wales; desert, although she was not allowed to her work certainly did have an effect of posters for charities such as the Red Stanley Spencer, who had painted the accompany soldiers on patrol. She had in increasing awareness. They agreed Cross and the Belgian and Allied Aid Sandham Memorial Chapel at Beauclere some scary moments near the Iranian to disagree. As well as being a portrait Leagues. in the twenties, then went to Lithgows border when the vehicles they were in painter, Ms Dorman hung a boat upside In the Second World War, the War Shipyard in Port Glasgow to produce became bogged down in the marshes, down in the nave of St James’s Church Artists’ Advisory Committee, as a some massive canvases of Shipbuilding on including their ambulance and two Piccadilly, entitled Flight. The boat had branch of the Ministry of Information, the Clyde. tanks. Even the recovery vehicle became been carrying refugees in the eastern overseen by Kenneth Clarke, Coming up to the present day, stuck, and they were sitting targets for Mediterranean and ended up on Lesbos, commissioned works from hundreds John Keane was commisssioned by the seven hours in the pouring rain, but the but now it was a piece of installation art, of artists, including some that had Imperial War Museum as an official soldiers finally managed to rescue the a symbol of exile, desperation, courage worked in WW1, including Bomberg, war artist in the Gulf War. Peter vehicles, except the recovery vehicle, and hope. She also installed another Kennington, Paul Nash, Spencer and Howson was a British official war artist which they had to abandon. She has piece entitled Suspended in 2018 in the Rothenstein. Evelyn Dunbar was the in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War, also nothing but admiration for the soldiers same church and also in Canterbury and only woman working for the WAAC on commisssioned by the Imperial War on the ground, adding, in an interview Leicester Cathedrals, comprising clothes a full-time salaried basis, painting Land Museum, and produced some harrowing in The Daily Telegraph, ‘They can discarded by the displaced refugees on Army Girls on the home front, although and shocking work of atrocities experience in one day what most people reaching safety, which conjured up a there were a number of other female war committed during the conflict. A far cry may not experience in a year: danger, washing-line put up by Cornelia Parker. artists, including Laura Knight, who from his back-lit nudes, limpet Venetian fear, isolation, boredom, friendship, She gave a moving talk about her life painted the Nuremberg Trials, with the scenes and petricor pavements are Ken humour, bravery, honour and death.’ and work at the National Liberal Club unusual depiction of Nazi war criminals Howard’s paintings of Northern Ireland, She was interviewed by Gerald in January as part of a campaign to raise sitting in the courtroom, which had Cyprus and Berlin, commissioned by the Scarfe, himself no stranger to war zones awareness, and funds, for the ‘Save the no side or rear walls, and through British Army. Linda Kitson became the like Vietnam and Northern Ireland, Valletta Skyline’ Appeal for the restoration which one can see a ruined city, still only female artist to have been officially in a programme called One to One on of St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral in smouldering; Mary Kessell, who was commissioned to accompany troops in BBC Radio 4 in January. He maintained Malta. asked to document refugees ‘moving battle, in the Falklands conflict, back that he doubted whether his work through Europe in the aftermath of the in 1982. Arabella Dorman became the had any influence anywhere, whereas www.savethecathedral.com German surrender’; Doris Zinkeisen first official war artist in Iraq and the worked as a war artist at the Bergen- first woman since Kitson to go to the Belsen concentration camp in April front line, having been looked after 1945, immediately after its liberation; by, first, the Royal Green Jackets in SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT her sister, Anna, worked as a Medical Basra Palace, then 2nd Battalion, The KCW LONDON. See page 21 for details Artist and nursing auxiliary at St. Rifles in Sangin, Helmand province Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and made in Afghanistan, and a stint with the 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 53 Music online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

with a pair of with the distinguished Pavel Haas stylish socks, the Quartet at Wigmore Hall, as they MUSIC childhood friends tackle Shostakovich’s 1940 masterpiece from Copenhagen the Piano Quintet in G minor (Op. 57). promise a night of 7:30pm. From £18 (under 25s free) ROUND UP high-concept pop www.wigmore-hall.org.uk BY GEOFF COWART music guaranteed to delight. Support from former múm Meanwhile, vocalist Kristín the Smith Square concert Anna, who performs material on February 27 Whether you prefer breaking from her solo album, I Must Be is an all-Beethoven solo affair as part of boundaries at Kings Place or the Devil. 8pm. the venue’s Bechstein Piano Series. He will perform the Funeral March (Op. 26) blissful Beethoven at St John’s From £20 www.barbican. and the Appassionata (Op. 57) sonatas, as Smith Square, this winter’s org.uk well as the sonatas in E Major (Op. 109) and C Minor (Op. 111). 7pm. £15 concert season is full of www.sjss.org.uk unexpected delights. Having recently A new series of concerts divided opinion at Kings Place aims to baffle, and field recordings, called Mantis The summer festival season & Bee. Drawing on her 2003 work for his box set of Beethoven sonata inspire and confound. Nunu (originally composed for the may seem a distant point on the horizon. recordings, Russian-German pianist London Sinfonietta and a gathering But that’s not stopped Junction 2 from Igor Levit arrives at the Barbican with The third instalment of Luminate of live insects) the piece incorporates announcing its final line up for June’s a few questions to answer. The 32-year- Festival promises to shine a light into sonic organic materials with classical dancefloor blowout. The party in Boston old, who is playing a series of concerts ‘the crucible of new music creation’ instrumentation, dance, and visual Manor Park confirmed big-name live in the City until April, will perform organisers say with a host of boundary- elements. sets from techno Detroit DJ/producer his adaptation of Beethoven’s Grosse breaking sounds from contemporary For times, tickets and details, visit: Robert Hood, Jon Hopkins and Fatima Fuge with fellow pianist Markus Becker orchestral composition to shimmering www.kingsplace.co.uk Yamaha. They’ll be joined by Four Tet, (piano) and percussionists electronics. Blawan, Hessle Audio, Leon Vynehall, Andreas Boettger and Klaus Reda. The impressive line-up includes Margaret Dygas and Marcel Dettmann The night also includes works by Bartok a Spitfire Audio showcase featuring Rockabilly fans take note. for the weekender. Day tickets from and Brahms on February 19. He’s the London Contemporary Orchestra £39.50. taken some flak for rushing his tempi and haunting singer Alev Lenz in the ‘Nell’s Jazz and Blues Club’ in West www.junction2.london in his survey of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas. afternoon on February 22, followed by Kensington is hosting The Polecats Let’s hope it doesn’t lead to a grosse a dystopian noise collaboration from on February 22. Formed in 1977, the misunderstanding. 7.30pm. From £15 musicians/composers Rafael Anton now legendary band helped launch the You’re not seeing double… Irisarri and Oliver Coates later in the fledgling rockabilly scene in England www.barbican.org.uk evening. thanks to energetic vocalist Tim On February 27, former Arthur Worman. In 1980, the band signed to The Imperial College Russell collaborator and adventurous Mercury Records and scored UK chart New York City trombonist Peter success with David Bowie cover, John, Symphony Orchestra Zummo teams up with experimental I’m Only Dancing. And they’re still will take a short trip R’n’B outfit Military Genius for what rocking hard today. 7.30pm. £14 www.nells.co.uk promises to be a wild night. While to Cadogan Hall on February 29

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of taxpayers and punishing them for conservative investment arbitrarily for Residential Blitz structuring their finances using property Partners to By Doug Shanks as a sensible form of saving following the decline and fall of the banking receive more community. Who is going to stick from intestate estates after rule up for people at the lower end of the change Principal private property relief (PPR) upper-middle-class scale? They will find is a human right but if you take it it difficult to organise themselves into By Oliver Lloyd for granted you’ll lose it, although as protest groups; no one’s going marching. we saw in the flipping Parliamentary A petty measure is that the expenses scandal, it’s a relief beloved additional relief of £40,000 per owner of of rulers. I’ve got clients who ask “what a rented PPR will cease to be available. Spouses or civil partners of those who die if” like law undergraduates on speed will be disappointed as no one believed How much tax can that generate? without leaving a will are to receive up to £20,000 more as the government has but if you’re married you’re not going to a word. The latest ungainly tinkering It's just spiteful; or desperate. On with residential property is worse than updated the rules surrounding intestate qualify for one property each. HMRC any residential property the disposal estates. is cunning. Think of Sir Humphrey mindless, causing discord where none proceeds will need to be reported to the existed, creating a deadline arbitrage Under present law, partners in these running rings round Jim Hacker. The Revenue within 30 days of completion circumstances inherit all of the deceased’s Revenue’s chipping away at the edges of setting buyer against seller. I look at the and all tax paid. Good luck to the personal property, the first £250,000 of PPR’s hallowed ground. Given separate changes and I think, why? Unforgivable accountants calculating the tax and who their estate and divide any remaining value taxation it's inequitable that married given the history of crises in confidence will probably be held responsible for the of the estate equally with their children. couples are penalised but they do gain caused by inconsistent property taxation. doubtlessly Draconian penalties. Does As the government has updated these when one dies; grief tax relief? If you Changes introduced from 6 April the government want to shut down the figures with regard to inflation since the think PPR is automatic, think again 2020 capital gains tax for a UK rental community? Are those having to last review in 2014 this figure will now because the Revenue clearly are thinking resident on the disposal of residential rent out their properties because of our increase to the first £270,000 of the value of the estate from 6th February 2020. again too. They know it's generous and property have been well flagged. If incompetent governments’ inability to you are renting out a property and are Simon Davis, President of the Law have got their teeth into it. If you spend manage the economy with any stability Society of England and Wales welcomed time abroad (even if you don't rent it) a UK resident and you've lived in that since the credit crunch of the mid-2000s property (while owning it) as your PPR the changes, but counselled that under your home’s no longer your principal being punished? If you're a seller you're current law unmarried partners and close private property “and the demands will for a while you need to pay attention. stuffed and if you are a buyer you’ve got friends cannot inherit anything from all be changed so stay awake” with The final period exemption is cut from the opportunity between now and 5 intestate estates. apologies to Billy Connolly. 18 months to 9 months; a completely April to screw the seller to the floor. Davis added that “writing a legally This government’s claim to be arbitrary decision designed purely to valid will with the help of an expert initiating a healing process after the make life more difficult during what is DSC Metropolitan is marching solicitor ensures people’s estate is inherited disastrous conduct on all sides of the already a most stressful time. Horrible. about capital gains relief from tents in a exactly as they would choose and can Brexit fiasco should have telegraphed Picking on a defenceless presumably field outside Nottingham. And it’s cold prevent a whole raft of problems landing a period of healing for taxpayers. Few predominately middle-aged group and wet out here …. on loved ones when they are grieving.” 020 7738 2348 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON 61 Sport online: www.kcwlondon.co.uk

pressure from the governing body of WOMAN’S SUPER LEAGUE European football, UEFA, to finally force the FA to end restrictions on women FOOTBALL playing at its grounds in 1971. That same year, the first Women’s FA Cup Final at Crystal Palace commenced, giving 12th February women the opportunity to start treating 19:00 Chelsea v Birmingham City football as a career. 19:00 Man City v Bristol City The first Women’s World Cup in 1991 19:30 Reading v West Ham was held in China, with USA beating 19:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Norway in the final. The third Women’s 19:45 Brighton & Hove Albion v Man Utd World Cup in 1999 managed to draw a worldwide television audience with 13th February a record-setting 90,000 spectators 19:00 Liverpool FC v Arsenal watching the game at the Rose Bowl in was a huge growth in women's football California. The women’s game was finally 23rd February Women’s when women were called upon to take being taken seriously and given the 12:30 Everton v Man Utd over factory jobs left by the men who recognition it deserved. 14:00 Arsenal v Reading Football had gone to fight. Women began to play As outlined in their Game Plan for 14:00 Birmingham City v Bristol City By Abigail Fraser football during their lunch breaks, an Growth, the FA produced three major 14:00 Brighton & Hove Albion v Tottenham activity encouraged by factory owners strategies for women’s and girls’ football Hotspur in the hopes of increasing morale and to achieve between the years of 2017- 14:00 Man City v Chelsea productivity. 2020. They aim to double participation, 15:00 West Ham v Liverpool FC In 1917, the Lancashire team Dick double the number of fans at matches, Kerr’s Ladies’(named after the munitions and promote consistent success on the 22nd March 12:00 Man Utd v West Ham Women’s football has factory they worked in) was formed world stage. and came to dominate the sport during Chairman of the FA Greg Clarke 14:00 Chelsea v Everton 14:00 Liverpool FC v Man City drastically changed over the the outbreak of the war. In that same said: “By doubling the reach of women’s 14:00 Reading v Brighton & Hove Albion year they managed to draw significant football, from the grassroots to the elite, past century. The actions and 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Birmingham City crowds; 53,000 spectators crammed into we will transform an emerging sport, and 15:00 Bristol City v Arsenal decisions of the England Everton’s Goodison Park to watch them embed it alongside men’s football in the Football Association (FA) play St Helen’s Ladies, another top team. heart and mind of our nation’s favourite 29th March Incredibly, an estimated 14,000 were have greatly improved, leading game.” 12:00 Man Utd v Man City left outside the grounds unable to get in. Last year’s Women’s World Cup also 12:30 Everton v Birmingham City to the vast expansion of The women’s game began to spread like marked a significant change in the 14:00 Brighton & Hove Albion v Bristol City participation and involvement wildfire. history of women’s football. With record 14:00 Reading v Liverpool FC A regrettable decision made by breaking online views of the final at 1.12 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea of women across all ages. the FA just a year later foreclosed the billion, up from 25 million views from 15:00 West Ham v Arsenal possibility of this potential revolution. the previous Woman’s World Cup in 2015, he FA currently runs several In 1921, the FA banned women from interest in the sport was proved to be 5th April women’s competitions at an playing on affiliated pitches, which higher than ever before. 14:00 Arsenal v Man Utd elite level, from the Barclays FA included all grounds with spectator According to the FA, football is now 14:00 Birmingham City v West Ham Women’sT Super League to the Women’s facilities. the top participation sport for women 14:00 Chelsea v Brighton & Hove Albion FA Cup. The FIFA Women’s World At the time, the FA said: “The game and girls in England, with almost three 14:00 Liverpool FC v Tottenham Hotspur Cup consists of 24 national teams and of football is quite unsuitable for females million registered players. 14:00 Man City v Reading takes place once every four years. All and ought not to be encouraged.” The FA’s Head of Women’s 15:00 Bristol City v Everton three competitions mark an increased From this point, progress was virtually Development Louise Gear commented: recognition and acceptance of women’s halted. Even when the England men’s “The growth we’ve experienced is proof 26th April football over the past 50 years. team won the World Cup in 1966, the of the ‘see it, play it’ mantra, which 12:00 Liverpool FC v Brighton & Hove Albion During the First World War, there FA still refused to lift their ban. It took is at the heart of our ethos to inspire 12:30 Everton v West Ham participation across all age groups.” 14:00 Birmingham City v Arsenal 14:00 Man City v Tottenham Hotspur The strategy of consistent success on 14:00 Reading v Chelsea the world stage has proved effective as 15:00 Bristol City v Man Utd the England women's football team will represent Great Britain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after finishing in the top three European teams at the World Cup. This appreciation for the sport is a far cry from the FA’s 1921 ban that once so significantly restricted the sport’s development in England. Players, fans and Associations now seem united in committing to a serious effort to make up for the half a century of lost progress. From decades of heavy restrictions to the remarkable increase in participation and huge investments, the progression of women’s football has not only made a positive impact in terms of sporting success, but also a significant and necessary step in the movement towards reaching equality in the world of sport. LAST YEAR'S WINNERS 62 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk Crossword & Bridge

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extra work to do focussing as they will CHESS not only on his GCT performance to come , his history making in undefeated By Barry Martin Classical games, but also his defence of his World Championship crown with the Candidates matches to decide who that challenger will be, looming into view. Lost End Game The organisers of the GCT have commended the Romanian, Bucharest leg from last year’s tournament as very successful and have given Bucharest the prestige of being the venue for the opening of this prestigious tournament he Grand Chess Tour cycle, the with the first of the two Classical timed annual event which gripped our chess matches for the 2020 season. The attention when it first entered final leg also the 2nd Classical will be intoT the affray of the global competitive in September at The Sinquefield Cup, chess tournaments with its $1,000,000 St. Louis, USA. The latter along with prize money, its top elite world players, Zagreb and Paris will host the 3 Rapid/ and its final destination after globe Blitz tournaments, whilst as already trotting world destinations London, stated London has been frozen out! The has just announced its 2020 tour and comments delivered from the Executive competing players. But London is off the Director included the following reasons list! for London missing out,’ Owing to the The Executive Director of the GCT, busy 2020 chess calendar which includes Mr. Michael Khodarkovsky in his recent amongst the many, the World Chess press release dropped the bombshell Olympiad , the Candidates Tournament that London was off the list of playing and the World Chess Championship venues, and gave the 10 full-tour players match, there won’t be a ‘GCT Final’. names. He commented, amidst the chess The final four top standings will we have lost the GCT’s involvement this from The King Salman World Rapid and world’s speculation of who rightly should be decided based on GCT points coming year with London. Blitz Championship, 26th-30th Dec. be included, and that their selection accumulated by all full tour players over Testing the waters of the new year by 2019 where Magnus Carlsen won a 3rd was fully justified, by consistently the course of the 5 tournaments. Full dipping one’s toe into it and still feeling Rapid title 11.5/15 pts just 1 pt clear performing at the highest standards for tour players will be scored on both their as someone interested in chess, that you of the ‘wonder boy’ Alireza Firouzja, many years!’ A recent criticism of the Classical results, but play only two of are unreplenished and have fallen short, 10.5/15pts the young teenager who GCT tournament over the past few the Rapid/Blitz events and their scores you could do far, far worse than to treat has set the chess world alight with his years has been that too many rounds from those will be added to make their yourself to one of the recently published devastating wins against some of the of the event at successive stages of the final standings. The GCT uses the Everyman Chess books. Practical Chess top ten chess players in the world at competition have produced too few URS, Universal Rating System, a new Puzzles, by Guannan Song, Dachey top flight tournaments. The puzzle, decisive games and the number of draws sport’s rating system ‘designed to assess Lin and Edward Song is one such Magnus Carlsen as White versus agreed by players have been far below the relative strength of participants publication. The three authors, one Utegaliyev Azamat, Black shows the the historical average at such major across a wide variety of competitor vs from Canada and two from the USA position where the latter has sensibly tournaments, with only one tournament competitor sports. It was developed as a respectively, have written a lively and and conventionally played 18...., Bg7, in chess history having more draws at collaboration research project funded by instructive book using a compendium protecting his Knight on f6 against this level of play. The major sponsors The Grand Chess Tour, The Kasparov Chess of games for the reader to solve and White’s raging Bishop on e5. However, for the GCT are Vivendi SA, Colliers Foundation and The St. Louis Chess Club. aimed at ‘aspiring players from novice to White’s next move put ‘the cat amongst International, St. Louis Chess Club, It was realised over a two year period of National Master strength, ..1200-2200 the pigeons’! What move did White play Croatia National Tourist Board and the ‘detailed research’ by leading experts in ELO rated’. GM Farrukh Amonatov that was the beginning of the end for Superbet Foundation. methods of rating chess players. taught Guannan Song, who with his Black, and note some of the delicious The 10 full tourney participants The demise in 2020 of the final friends, Dachey Lin and Edward Song, moves White follows up with against are Carlsen, Ding Liren, Nakamura, destination, as in previous GCT composed this book with something of Black’s meagre attempts at defence! Vachier-Lagrave, ºCaruana, So, tournaments at the London Classic the GM’s wish embedded into it, namely Answer upside down below: Grischuk, Aronian, Nepomniachtchi,

tournament is both a shock and a great a book which he could recommend Giri, but no Anand. The tour, consisting time. good in castling not for Black by

pity. I attended The London Classic to his students and their parents,’ of 2 classical and 3 rapid/blitz events, incurred problems the demonstrates also

which included the final leg of the where they can solve calculation and will see all 10 full tourney players play game This 1-0. 26.Qd7+. 25.Rxf7,Kxf7.

GCT cycle at Olympia last year, and evaluation problems’. The book has 5 in both classical events and 2 of the 24....Qxf7. Queen! lost now his with

was overwhelmed at the excitement chapters starting with Model Games, that Black is forced to take take to forced is Black that ce â 3 rapid/blitz stages. There will be 10 gr de coup

and energy the whole event generated featuring 6 games played by the authors wildcard players with several competing a 24.Bxf7+, 23....fxe4. Black, for surprise

for chess, but also the sheer joy and ‘rich in instructional points’. Chapters at each stage of the tournament, so some a play.23.Rxe4+! Black’s in desperation

incredible high it gave to the thousands 2,3 and 4, are Combinations, 250 players whose followers have been highly of note a signal’s juncture this at Queens

of young school children, boys and positions that emphasise combinational audible but unsuccessful in promoting exchanging 22.Rae1,Qd7, Knight.

equal numbers of girls partaking in vision, calculation and imagination . their inclusion in the 10 full-tour list of Black’s pinning Rae1 of response

the schools’ competitions running Evaluation, 100 positions that emphasise names , will probably be appeased by White’s with right, and sensible seems

alongside the national and international intuition, positional understanding and their inclusion in the wildcard selection, again once, at e-file the blocking and

tournaments. Having the world’s top logic. Tests, a mix of 250 combination- hopefully! The season’s total prize fund Queen White’s attacking 21....Ne4, .

elite chess players together, rubbing and evaluation-type positions that test is $1,275,000 split between the 5 playing first undertaken excitement their in have

shoulders alongside the schools’ chess your understanding of all the critical events. The Classical events each receive may players many which e-file open the

contestants created an energy high skills covered! The final chapter, you $325,000 as prize money, and the exploiting before first, closer in Queen

elation for the latter that they will may be pleased to glean is Solutions, Rapid/Blitz events $150,000 at each of his Qd6,....Bringing 20....Qc8.21.

remember for the rest of their lives and where you may check your prowess and the 3 tournaments. An additional bonus King! Black the attack to e-file the up

inspire them, I’m sure, to up their own increasing understanding of the game of of $175,000 will be given to the top 3 opening BUT Queen Black’s attacking

chess abilities and increase the country’s chess. It comes in at £17.99p. and ISBN; overall tour finishers. Given Carlsen’s 20.Bc7,.. exf5. 19.f5!, Bg7. 18..., future chess standings in international 978 1 78194 561 2. historic miracle 111 games of Classical and national chess play. It is a great pity The following chess puzzle comes chess without loss, all eyes will have 64 FEBRUARY 2020 KCW LONDON www.kcwlondon.co.uk

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