KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM kcwAND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHStoday LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS ISSUE 0064 AUGUST 2017 FREE Photograph © Tim Epps Tim © Photograph ALL OUT FOR SUMMER NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE EDUCATION HEALTH EVENTS DINING OUT ARTS AND CULTURE LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT 2 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 Contents & Offices News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk OODNESS WHAT A YEAR IT HAS BEEN and there are still four Kensington, Chelsea KENSINGTON CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER Goodbye World: months to go to the New Year! & Westminster Today kcwtoday Contents LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS Of course, politics has remained firmly on the front page for all of this ISSUE 0063 JULY 2017 FREE (EXCEPT WHERE SOLD) Hello Little England 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, by Derek Wyatt time. In Washington DC, and frankly the rest of the world, no-one can work out SW11 3UW G whether the President understands the political firmament. One tremor follows Tel: 020 7738 2348 NEVER another tremor follows at some stage, the inevitable earthquake. This is quite scary. E-mail: [email protected] AGAIN Website: 3 News Meanwhile, back in Blighty, we await the Party Conferences in www.kcwtoday.co.uk 14.06.17 September and early October to see if Mrs May faces a challenge GRENFELL TOWER from Michael Gove MP (the Murdoch nominee). We could pick Advertisement enquiries: anyone of six other Tory MPs currently being touted including [email protected] 10 Opinion & Comment Jacob Rees-Mogg MP who was born in the late 17th century. Subscriptions: The problem the Prime Minister has is, no one, not even her [email protected] closest allies, believe she will lead her party at the next general NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS & FINANCE EDUCATION HEALTH EVENTS Publishers: DINING OUT ARTS AND CULTURE LITERATURE MOTORING SPORT 12 Statue & Blue Plaque election due in 2022. Her polling figures are the worst in history. Kensington & Chelsea Today Limited So, the GOM (Grand Old Men; it is always men) of the Tory party will decide whether to cut her lose before the Brexit talks Feature develop much further or wait until the results are published and 14 voted on in Parliament. If the latter, this is likely to be sometime Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne before Easter, 2019. I am not sure the party can continue to haemorrhage support for another eighteen months or so. Art Director & Director: Tim Epps 16 Business & Finance Whilst we wait for black or white smoke to appear from Acting Editor: Dr Emma Trehane the GOM we must take stock of the awfulness of the Brexit Head of Business Development: Dr Emma Trehane discussions to date. We have become the laughing stock of the Business Development: Caroline Daggett, 19 Education entire western world. We are fast becoming just Little Englanders. On my most recent trip to New York and Washington (DC), Antoinette Kovatchka, friends, journalists and academics were telling me that the world Architecture: Squinch 23 Astronomy has already moved on and has made the transition that the UK will Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland be a lesser power. At the UNO, there is open talk that India will seek to replace Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS the UK in the Security Council and has sufficient votes (if it came Ballet/Dance: Andrew Ward 24 Literature to it). My bet is that India will be joined by Germany. Whither Bridge: Andrew Robson the UK? Well, we cannot expect much support from the other veto Business & Finance Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, nations: USA, China, France or Russia. Leaving aside how long 25 Poetry it takes to read the mind of President Trump, it is unlikely that Douglas Shanks China, France or Russia will support us. Chess: Barry Martin Brexit is the worst decision the nation has made since Suez in Contributing Editors: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Dining Out 1956 when Prime Minister Eden thought Gamal Abdel Nasser, 26 the Egyptian President, to be another version of Benito Mussolini. Derek Wyatt President Nasser sunk ships to block the Canal and our poorly Music: James Douglas prepared Army and Navy returned home with their tails between Crossword: Wolfe 29 Travel their legs. It was made worse by a US warship shooting across Dining Out: Edward Burns, Max Feldman, the bows of a British warship. Eden resigned to be replaced by the towering Harold Macmillan. Should May resign there is no Max Horberry, David Hughes 32 Fashion towering of any description left in the Tory locker. Editorial: Max Feldman, Owen Fulda, The Tory dilemma is not offset by there being a competent Anna Kretschmer, Fahad Redha, opposition despite the favourable media performance of Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader. Recent data suggests at least twelve Antonia Williams Events 33 Labour MPs in marginal seats increased their majority because of Events:, Fahad Redha support for their local NHS hospitals (they were earmarked for Fashion: Lynne McGowan, Antonia Williams closure). All fine and dandy but what is the Labour party’s policy Health: Owen Fulda, John Furse, 42 Arts & Culture on the future of the NHS and care packages for the elderly? We do not know despite an election two months ago. We all know how Max Horberry, Fahad Redha stretched the NHS is but which party will reform its antiquated Travel: Max Feldman, Cynthia Pickard 52 Health practices? Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman Worse, the Labour Party suggested that they would offer free tuition fees for students and over the past few months they have I wish I had written that: Dudley Sutton been fudging how they intend to cost that decision. As I suggested Motoring: Don Grant, David Hughes, 57 Motoring in a letter in The Guardian, the first thing any political party should Fahad Redha ask is are all our universities centres of academic excellence? Clearly News, Online Editor they are not. But not a single politician will suggest a solution. 60 Sport The Tories in private are seething about Labour’s “promise” over & Arts Correspondent: Max Feldman tuition fees made during the latter part of the election. Seething Picture Editor: Max Feldman because another set of data shows that 900,000 students registered Poetry & Literary Editor: Emma Trehane MA Ph.D Crossword, Classified & Public Notices to vote on the last but one day of registration. Of course, they did 62 not all vote Labour, but Labour did particularly well in university Political Editor: Derek Wyatt seats. The Tories failed to remember that they had changed the Sport: Owen Fulda whole way we registered to vote for the 2015 General Election Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros 63 Chess & Bridge disenfranchising millions of students in the process. This is a tough time for the nation. This is a tough time for the world. The only leader of any class is Angela Merkel. We must hope she is re-elected on 24th September 2017. 4 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 August 2017 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Columbia Records president Ferdy work to remove the barriers that black four separate videos reported to them by Unger-Hamilton. 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Police at the two- The document, from the London through to the publication. fourth. New figures released show that to 22 I lived on the estate, so seeing it on A individual or defined group of individ- house, eventually providing more diverse into effect. Life terms in prison could there were 12,605 incidents of police fire was quite surreal for me. day west London