Issue No. 9 LIVING IN LA LA LAND RICHARD GODWIN THE CIGAR AWARDS WITH KELSEY GRAMMER BOISDALE WOMAN OF THE YEAR WHOOPI GOLDBERG PLUS A LIFE REMEMBERED CHUCK BERRY F.W. DE CLERK ON DEVELOPING LEADERS OFF YER’ BIKE! NICK FERRARI LONG LIVE THE LONG LUNCH TOM PARKER BOWLES £4.95 $7.40 €6.70 ¥880 302883 | AD | UNICEF | UK | Doué | Boisdale Life | 420 x 297 mm | en | t 3, b 3, r 3, l 3 mm ed by Montblanc. by ed o March 31 2018, Montblanc will UNICEFdoes notendorse brandanyproduct. or everyFor piecethe“Montblanc in forUNICEF Collection” t sold from April 2017 1 % ofdonate the proceeds 3 to support UNICEF and its literacy projects, with a minimum amountguarante of million US$1.5 being Hugh Jackman and the Montblanc for UNICEF Collection Montblanc supports With the Montblanc for UNICEF Collection, we celebrate the gift of writing and in partnership with UNICEF aim to improve the learning conditions for over 5 million children by providing quality learning materials and better teaching. 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Orthodoxy is the enemy of mankind because we should never accept that we are completely right about anything, apart from of course our taste and political opinion! Clare Fox questions our right to laugh, whilst Tom Parker- Bowles only wants to lunch. Meanwhile Nick Ferrari takes it out on bicycles. Hopefully your sensibilities will be satisfactorily tickled. On a less serious note I have always felt a very special and inexplicable umbilical bond with Jamaica and I only very recently discovered why. Usain Bolt and his team-mates wearing Jamaican tartan after success in the 4x100m relay at the Commonwealth I obviously adored this drop dead Games 2014. Bolt is returning to London for his last ever race this August at the IAAF World Championships gorgeous island, particularly the coast – if you can’t make it to the race, celebrate at our Jamaican Terrace in Canary Wharf instead! p.42 around Port Antonio (literally nowhere more beautiful on earth apart from South Uist!), and also found the Jamaican line, which had recently been replaced of Jamaican Independence in 1962. It people incredibly engaging and friendly by an act of parliament with the porcine, is now the world’s most recognised with a wicked sense of humour and an pudding faced Protestant, non-English national flag and is coupled with the almost poetic lilt to their conversation. speaking Hanoverians, from whom poignant Jamaican National motto “Out However what amazed and surprised our current Royal family descend, and of Many, One People”. me was to discover that Jamaica and who were at the time only 50th in line To celebrate 55 years of Jamaican Scotland are literally joined at the hip. to the British throne. The Darth Vader Independence Boisdale, THE Scottish There are more Scottish surnames to be for the Hanoverian “dark side” was restaurant, are creating the Jamaica found in Jamaica than anywhere in the the dastardly John Campbell, Duke of Garden Terrace at Boisdale of Canary world other than Scotland. Argyle, the hereditary mortal enemy of Wharf to be launched by His Excellency I have now done my homework. the Macdonald Clan. Again the leaders Seth George Ramocan, the Jamaican A combination of deported Scots and were executed, in many cases far more High Commissioner on Monday 3rd waves of emigration caused mostly by cruelly, and vast numbers of Highlanders, July. The 130 metre Jamaica Garden failed Scottish rebellions and colonial including numerous Macdonald’s, Terrace with palm and banana trees, adventures (The Darien Scheme 1698) emigrated to Jamaica. From that time the tropical fauna and exotic flowering drove massive numbers of Scots Scots continued to voluntarily migrate to plants will be host to an all-day jerk and Highlanders to Jamaica in the Jamaica in large numbers. barbeque, live music and cocktails until seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The extraordinary thing to report 31st August. Do have a look at our web The first botched escapade was led by now and the principal sadness of site for exciting Jamaican events that James Scott, the Duke of both Buccleuch this tale is that by 2017 with 60% of will soon be announced. We very much and Monmouth, supported by Archibald surnames in Jamaican being Scottish, I hope that you will find the time to join Campbell, Duke of Argyle (of whose am truly sorry to say that by far the most us to celebrate 55 years of Jamaican Seymour III, made on last 373 family more later!), who in 1685 populous name in Jamaica is regrettably, Independence in a place that may is further enhanced by hand polishing and burnishing attempted, as an illegitimate Protestant Campbell! Apparently there are more well become known, given that “yard” creating an unforgettable English patina son of Charles II, to take the throne from Campbell’s per head of population in in Jamaica means home, as the NEW his uncle, the Roman Catholic Stuart Jamaica than there are in Scotland!! The Scotland yard. King, James II. He was beheaded for his good news is that old clan enmity is now MADE IN ENGLAND | SINCE 1879 audacity and the more fortunate of his long forgiven (my mother is a Campbell) followers were transported to Jamaica. and most importantly, reflecting this And then ironically in 1715 and 1745 symbiotic national relationship, the LONDON BIRMINGHAM NEW YORK BRUSSELS PARIS the Jacobite Rebellions, supported Scottish Saltire (St Andrew’s cross) Ranald Macdonald JERMYN STREET BURLINGTON ARCADE, NEW ST 11 EAST 55TH STREET RUE DE NAMUR LA MADELEINE incidentally by my family, valiantly was rather beautifully incorporated Editor-in-Chief Boisdale Life Magazine BURLINGTON ARCADE COLMORE ROW RIVE GAUCHE fought to bring back the rightful Stuart into the Jamaican flag on the occasion Founder Boisdale Restaurants & Bars KNIGHTSBRIDGE LE MARAIS ROYAL EXCHANGE CANARY WHARF CROCKETTANDJONES.COM #MADETOBEWORN 7 sprIng 2017 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.9 CONTENTS DISCOVER THE PANERAI FOR PURDEY WATCH COLLECTION Chuck Berry Remembered p.24 Omega Speedmaster p.53 Portrait of the Artist p.57 DON’T ROCK THE BOAT STARTERS’ ORDERS PEOPLE Jacob Rees-Mogg Colin Cameron 38 65 LUNCH WITH A PUNK OFF YER’ BIKE! THE GREAT FESTIVAL MYTH Harry Owen Nick Ferrari Hugh Phillimore 18 40 69 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER... ACTOR! THE SERIOUS BUSINESS THE WORLD AS I SEE IT Arabel Windsor-Hoye OF LAUGHTER Santiago Elordi 21 Claire Fox 71 45 CHUCK BERRY: ‘THERE’S ROCK, SMOKIN' HOT! BUT IT’S THE ROLL THAT COUNTS’ THE CRUELTY OF CIVILIZATION Nick Hammond Jonathan Wingate Bruce Anderson 77 24 48 WHAT MAKES THE LOVEABLE CURMUDGEON JOBS FOR THE BOYS ME LAUGH John McEntee Roger Bootle Countess of Carnarvon 28 50 83 COMMENT LIFESTYLE FOOD & DRINK DEVELOPING WORLD, DEVELOPING LEADERS SIZE DOESN'T REALLY MATTER JUNIPER DREAMS F.W. de Clerk Michael Karam Valentine Warner 31 53 76 INHERITANCE TAX EXPLAINED PORTRAIT OF THE PLEASURE Katharine Arthur THE ARTIST OF CALVADOS 34 Matthew Bell Douglas Harrison 57 78 THE END OF HUMANITY: SYRIA AND THE MORAL DILEMMA LIVING IN LA LA LAND LONG LIVE THE LONG LUNCH Michael Karam Richard Godwin Tom Parker Bowles 35 61 80 Editor & Chief Editor at Large Managing Editor Any facts stated or opinions expressed Ranald Macdonald Paddy Renouf Michael Karam anywhere in the magazine are the responsibility of the individual [email protected] [email protected] Super Sub-Editor writers and contributors. All material Design Bruce Anderson omitted intentionally is the sole Managing Director responsibility of the individual bevanhoward.co.uk Harry Owen Subscribe to Boisdale Life contributors. Boisdale Life and the Editor are not responsible for [email protected] Digital Telephone: 0207 259 1261 any injury or loss relative to such vitaminlondon.com Publishing Director material. All material is compiled by sources believed to be reliable, but Cartoons by Alice Macdonald Barbara Widera BPA Audited circulation published without responsibility for [email protected] alicemacdonaldillustration.co.uk of 161,152 errors or omissions. 9 sprIng 2017 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.9 CONTRIBUTORS NICK FERRARI FW DE KLERK CLAIRE FOX Nick Ferrari is a TV and radio presenter. FW De Klerk was president of South Claire Fox joined the Revolutionary He hosts the weekday breakfast show Africa from 1989 to 1994. During that Communist Party as a student at the from 7.00-10.00am on the talk and time, he oversaw the end of Apartheid. University of Warwick and later became phone-in radio station LBC, as well as Today, he is chairman of the Global co-publisher of Living Marxism. Taking The Pledge, broadcast weekly on Sky Leadership Foundation, a non-profit, the position that “left” and “right-wing” News. In this issue, Nick argues that NGO advisory, which he established no longer should carry any meaning, London’s cycle lanes are causing traffic in 2004. In this issue, FW explains she founded the Institute of Ideas as congestion and that when it comes to the role of the GLF, which makes a forum where ideas can be contested two wheels, the capital is not fit for available, discreetly and in confidence, without any constraint.