LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. ABOUT US - KCW LONDON KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. The monthly print edition, and its online platform www.kcwlondon.co.uk are renowned for intelligent and thought-provoking journalism. The print edition

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Our latest print issue delivered first class, alongside a downloadable copy PDF copy of our current edition. The perfect way of keeping up with the very best of our news, opinion, features, and interviews, at home and on the go. For more info or specialist needs email subscriptions@kcwlondon.co.uk or call CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

CONTACT US - KCW LONDON KCW London. KCW London is the definitive quality newspaper serving the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster and beyond. The London boroughs catered to by KCW London are the most exciting in the country with a population including some of the most successful members of the professional, political, artistic and business

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THE PRIVATE TUITION INDUSTRY IN THE UK The private tuition industry in the UK is booming. And nowhere more so than in London, where approximately 41% of 11-16-year-old state school students have benefitted from private tuition. Outside of the capital, the figures are lower, yet still substantial. According to social mobility charity The Sutton Trust, over a THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation

and Technology Act

OWNING AN ELECTRIC CAR: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW There are plenty of reasons to make your next car an electric one. Aside from the environmental argument (even when powered by coal according to a study by Bloomberg NEF), there are many incentives to go green. Any car that has CO2 emissions of less than 50g/km and can

travel

THE HISTORY OF HATTON GARDEN: LONDON’S DIAMOND DISTRICT With development in the Capital hoisting up rent and rate prices, it looks like the golden era of London’s world-renowned diamond district, Hatton Garden, could be coming to an end. Since the 1870s, Hatton Garden has been known as London’s jewellery LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. ABOUT US - KCW LONDON KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. The monthly print edition, and its online platform www.kcwlondon.co.uk are renowned for intelligent and thought-provoking journalism. The print edition

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Our latest print issue delivered first class, alongside a downloadable copy PDF copy of our current edition. The perfect way of keeping up with the very best of our news, opinion, features, and interviews, at home and on the go. For more info or specialist needs email subscriptions@kcwlondon.co.uk or call CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

CONTACT US - KCW LONDON KCW London. KCW London is the definitive quality newspaper serving the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster and beyond. The London boroughs catered to by KCW London are the most exciting in the country with a population including some of the most successful members of the professional, political, artistic and business

communities.

THE PRIVATE TUITION INDUSTRY IN THE UK The private tuition industry in the UK is booming. And nowhere more so than in London, where approximately 41% of 11-16-year-old state school students have benefitted from private tuition. Outside of the capital, the figures are lower, yet still substantial. According to social mobility charity The Sutton Trust, over a THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation

and Technology Act

OWNING AN ELECTRIC CAR: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW There are plenty of reasons to make your next car an electric one. Aside from the environmental argument (even when powered by coal according to a study by Bloomberg NEF), there are many incentives to go green. Any car that has CO2 emissions of less than 50g/km and can

travel

THE HISTORY OF HATTON GARDEN: LONDON’S DIAMOND DISTRICT With development in the Capital hoisting up rent and rate prices, it looks like the golden era of London’s world-renowned diamond district, Hatton Garden, could be coming to an end. Since the 1870s, Hatton Garden has been known as London’s jewellery TUDORS TO WINDSORS AT THE ROYAL MARITIME MUSEUM 1 day ago · This classy exhibition, mounted at the Royal Maritime Museum in Greenwich by the National Portrait Gallery, while their own building is under re-configuration, is the first since the lockdown finished, and runs until the end of October. It traces an unbroken TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW Total Eclipse of The Heart: Eclipses Then and Now. 10th June 2021. Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22

PM.

INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES Report reveals how London has been disproportionately hit by the

pandemic

THE RISE OF NFTS: ORIGINALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Rise of NFTs: Originality in the Digital Age. 7th May 2021. In 1935, when Walter Benjamin analysed the theoretical implications of reproducing a work of art in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he would not have believed what the next 85 years would bring. Benjamin’s work is a rumination on the nature of value; a ONLINE DEBATING & LECTURES The Great Courses Plus The Great Courses Plus makes lifelong learning and personal enrichment available to anyone, anywhere. The content-rich, unique courses provide you with a world of knowledge designed to expand your horizons, deepen your understanding, and foster epiphanies. Watch hundreds of courses & lectures when you start

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ARE WE SLEEPWALKING INTO A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE? Douglas Adams (author and satirist, 1952-2001) wrote, “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.” For some years now the state of international nuclear arms control is one best described as experiencing freefall. Perhaps it was American hawks THE DECLINE OF TRUTH The Decline of Truth. 30th April 2021. It can be deeply inspiring to watch another man deliberately place his own head on the block over a matter of principle, especially when that principle is of vital importance to our national identity. Two years ago, Peter Oborne, a conservative journalist who had consistently advocated support for

Brexit

DADS HOUSE CORONAVIRUS REPORT REVEALS THAT THE CHARITY Dads House, originally founded to help single fathers raise their children alone, has recently published its COVID-19 Report which reveals that it has supported families, primarily via its foodbanks, from all over London during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our second foodbank in West Brompton has been successfully operating since March

2020. Our first

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Promising Young Woman captures the “grey areas” and nuanced territory often said to accompany incidents of sexual assault, putting them right back on the audience. The choice to portray Cassie Thomas at this deeper level gives the audience the opportunity to choose for themselves how they wish to interpret her character. THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE BRINGS ‘ART BY POST’ TO SOCIALLY The Southbank Centre has launched Art by Post, a new pilot scheme aiming to provide isolated people, who do not have digital access, with free creative activities packs. Inspired by the Southbank Centre’s visual art, literature, poetry and archive collections, the packs are designed to keep minds active, helping individuals feel connected to others and improving their mental health and LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 14 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 19 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

“JUST ENOUGH” IS NOT ENOUGH: WHY WE’RE FAILING SEN Changes in the system aren’t necessarily positive. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a third consecutive year. In January 2019, pupils with SEN represented 14.9% of the overall student body, while the number was 14.6% in 2018 and 14.4% in 2017. However, as Daulby points out, “it’s hard LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 14 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES Report reveals how London has been disproportionately hit by the

pandemic

US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 19 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported “JUST ENOUGH” IS NOT ENOUGH: WHY WE’RE FAILING SEN Changes in the system aren’t necessarily positive. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a third consecutive year. In January 2019, pupils with SEN represented 14.9% of the overall student body, while the number was 14.6% in 2018 and 14.4% in 2017. However, as Daulby points out, “it’s hard FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 14 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 19 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

MAKING YOUR FUTURE WORK In addition, as soon as you have people working for you there are a multitude of regulations and processes involved as an employer and manager. Behind all this, financial management and understanding the numbers will be necessary to track growth and ensure viability. You may well need to raise money to fund your ambitions; another sales

process

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SILENCE SUPERCARS Kensington and Chelsea Silence Supercars. 8th October 2020. On 22nd September, the first ever UK council-run pilot for high-tech ‘noise cameras’ were installed and made live on Sloane Street and Pont Street. Drivers exceeding the legal decibel limit face fines of up to

�1,000.

THE RISE OF NFTS: ORIGINALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Rise of NFTs: Originality in the Digital Age. 7th May 2021. In 1935, when Walter Benjamin analysed the theoretical implications of reproducing a work of art in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he would not have believed what the next 85 years would bring. Benjamin’s work is a rumination on the nature of value; a DADS HOUSE CORONAVIRUS REPORT REVEALS THAT THE CHARITY Dads House, originally founded to help single fathers raise their children alone, has recently published its COVID-19 Report which reveals that it has supported families, primarily via its foodbanks, from all over London during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our second foodbank in West Brompton has been successfully operating since March

2020. Our first

BOW STREET POLICE MUSEUM Much like religion, taxes and the macarena, the police feel like a perennial concept in human society, dating back into the shadows of prehistory. In reality however police forces as we understand them only started in the furnace of the Industrial Revolution. The ARE WE SLEEPWALKING INTO A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE? Douglas Adams (author and satirist, 1952-2001) wrote, “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.” For some years now the state of international nuclear arms control is one best described as experiencing freefall. Perhaps it was American hawks LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 10 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 15 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

“JUST ENOUGH” IS NOT ENOUGH: WHY WE’RE FAILING SEN Changes in the system aren’t necessarily positive. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a third consecutive year. In January 2019, pupils with SEN represented 14.9% of the overall student body, while the number was 14.6% in 2018 and 14.4% in 2017. However, as Daulby points out, “it’s hard LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 10 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 15 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

“JUST ENOUGH” IS NOT ENOUGH: WHY WE’RE FAILING SEN Changes in the system aren’t necessarily positive. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a third consecutive year. In January 2019, pupils with SEN represented 14.9% of the overall student body, while the number was 14.6% in 2018 and 14.4% in 2017. However, as Daulby points out, “it’s hard TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 10 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 15 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

MAKING YOUR FUTURE WORK In addition, as soon as you have people working for you there are a multitude of regulations and processes involved as an employer and manager. Behind all this, financial management and understanding the numbers will be necessary to track growth and ensure viability. You may well need to raise money to fund your ambitions; another sales

process

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SILENCE SUPERCARS Kensington and Chelsea Silence Supercars. 8th October 2020. On 22nd September, the first ever UK council-run pilot for high-tech ‘noise cameras’ were installed and made live on Sloane Street and Pont Street. Drivers exceeding the legal decibel limit face fines of up to

�1,000.

THE RISE OF NFTS: ORIGINALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Rise of NFTs: Originality in the Digital Age. 7th May 2021. In 1935, when Walter Benjamin analysed the theoretical implications of reproducing a work of art in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he would not have believed what the next 85 years would bring. Benjamin’s work is a rumination on the nature of value; a DADS HOUSE CORONAVIRUS REPORT REVEALS THAT THE CHARITY Dads House, originally founded to help single fathers raise their children alone, has recently published its COVID-19 Report which reveals that it has supported families, primarily via its foodbanks, from all over London during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our second foodbank in West Brompton has been successfully operating since March

2020. Our first

BOW STREET POLICE MUSEUM Much like religion, taxes and the macarena, the police feel like a perennial concept in human society, dating back into the shadows of prehistory. In reality however police forces as we understand them only started in the furnace of the Industrial Revolution. The ARE WE SLEEPWALKING INTO A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE? Douglas Adams (author and satirist, 1952-2001) wrote, “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.” For some years now the state of international nuclear arms control is one best described as experiencing freefall. Perhaps it was American hawks LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 5 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 10 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

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Liddell

CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

“JUST ENOUGH” IS NOT ENOUGH: WHY WE’RE FAILING SEN Changes in the system aren’t necessarily positive. The proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a third consecutive year. In January 2019, pupils with SEN represented 14.9% of the overall student body, while the number was 14.6% in 2018 and 14.4% in 2017. However, as Daulby points out, “it’s hard TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART: ECLIPSES THEN AND NOW 5 hours ago · Early today (June 10th) a blanket of clouds hid a solar eclipse from much of the people of London, however the phenomenon was visible to crowds across the UK with clearer skies. The eclipse, which began around 10:08 AM, hit its peak at 11:13 AM and finished up around 12:22 ST VINCENT: DADDY'S HOME 1 day ago · As a woman who took her stage name from a line in a Nick Cave song about “where poetry goes to die” (the hospital where Dylan Thomas breathed his last), Annie Clark, St Vincent to her fans and foes, knows a thing or two about artifice. The seven albums that US SENATE VOTES TO APPROVE $250 BILLION BILL ON TECHNOLOGY 10 hours ago · This Tuesday (8th June) the typically intensely divided United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill focused on technological advancement, specifically in the realms of artificial intelligence and semiconductor development. After days of debate over the $250 billion bill and its various proposed amendments, the United States Innovation and Technology Act ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

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�1,000.

THE RISE OF NFTS: ORIGINALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Rise of NFTs: Originality in the Digital Age. 7th May 2021. In 1935, when Walter Benjamin analysed the theoretical implications of reproducing a work of art in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he would not have believed what the next 85 years would bring. Benjamin’s work is a rumination on the nature of value; a DADS HOUSE CORONAVIRUS REPORT REVEALS THAT THE CHARITY Dads House, originally founded to help single fathers raise their children alone, has recently published its COVID-19 Report which reveals that it has supported families, primarily via its foodbanks, from all over London during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our second foodbank in West Brompton has been successfully operating since March

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BOW STREET POLICE MUSEUM Much like religion, taxes and the macarena, the police feel like a perennial concept in human society, dating back into the shadows of prehistory. In reality however police forces as we understand them only started in the furnace of the Industrial Revolution. The ARE WE SLEEPWALKING INTO A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE? Douglas Adams (author and satirist, 1952-2001) wrote, “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.” For some years now the state of international nuclear arms control is one best described as experiencing freefall. Perhaps it was American hawks LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE ORIGINS OF VEGANISM IN MULTI-CULTURAL The history of this lifestyle shows that veganism as a term and concept was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, who wished to make the differentiation between vegans and vegetarians, who still eat dairy. Mr Watson co-founded The Vegan Society, which is still run today. But the idea of plant-based eating pre-existed a long time before this. THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

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MESMERANTO: THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA Mesmeranto The Blackheart Orchestra Esoteric/Antenna ASIN : B07WJR9TFN released 2019 Five stars (essential) There is a paradox at the heart (pun intended on several levels) of this review. One wants to praise the album and then discuss its origins, story, and influences yet this

is

WHAT DO THE TUDORS MEAN TO US? You can learn a lot about a national culture from the bits of its history it chooses to celebrate. Whilst modern Britain’s most culturally vibrant and frequently invoked historical narrative is almost certainly the red white and blue heroics of the Second World War; slithering behind like the serpent in the garden is the bloody, paranoid romance of the Tudors. KERRIDGE’S BAR AND GRILL Over the course of its nearly 140 year history, the edifice now containing Kerridge’s Bar and Grill has hosted everything from Jazz Age Cabarets to a stint as the Ministry of Defence’s home away from home. Since 2011 it has been the 5-star Corinthia Hotel and after we

stumbled in

COMMENT: YA BOO SUCKS It sometimes seems, in these disturbing times, that the default mode of general conversation is disparagement. Up in the hills of South Shropshire where I spend much of my time (and where KCW distribution does not penetrate) I am responsible for regular restaurant reviews that appear in a small glossy magazine 75TH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AT ST PAUL'S This year is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day which took place today, 6 June 1944. Code-named Operation Overlord, D-Day was planned in the old St Paul’s School on Hammersmith Road by Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery with visits by Churchill and the King. Little remains of the school apart from High LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE ORIGINS OF VEGANISM IN MULTI-CULTURAL The history of this lifestyle shows that veganism as a term and concept was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, who wished to make the differentiation between vegans and vegetarians, who still eat dairy. Mr Watson co-founded The Vegan Society, which is still run today. But the idea of plant-based eating pre-existed a long time before this. THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

MESMERANTO: THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA Mesmeranto The Blackheart Orchestra Esoteric/Antenna ASIN : B07WJR9TFN released 2019 Five stars (essential) There is a paradox at the heart (pun intended on several levels) of this review. One wants to praise the album and then discuss its origins, story, and influences yet this

is

WHAT DO THE TUDORS MEAN TO US? You can learn a lot about a national culture from the bits of its history it chooses to celebrate. Whilst modern Britain’s most culturally vibrant and frequently invoked historical narrative is almost certainly the red white and blue heroics of the Second World War; slithering behind like the serpent in the garden is the bloody, paranoid romance of the Tudors. KERRIDGE’S BAR AND GRILL Over the course of its nearly 140 year history, the edifice now containing Kerridge’s Bar and Grill has hosted everything from Jazz Age Cabarets to a stint as the Ministry of Defence’s home away from home. Since 2011 it has been the 5-star Corinthia Hotel and after we

stumbled in

COMMENT: YA BOO SUCKS It sometimes seems, in these disturbing times, that the default mode of general conversation is disparagement. Up in the hills of South Shropshire where I spend much of my time (and where KCW distribution does not penetrate) I am responsible for regular restaurant reviews that appear in a small glossy magazine 75TH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AT ST PAUL'S This year is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day which took place today, 6 June 1944. Code-named Operation Overlord, D-Day was planned in the old St Paul’s School on Hammersmith Road by Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery with visits by Churchill and the King. Little remains of the school apart from High

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A “living memorial” to Londoners who have lost their lives to Covid-19 was opened on Monday, May 24th in east London by Sadiq Khan. The London Blossom Garden at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford will commemorate Londoners who have died during the pandemic, featuring 33 ABOUT US - KCW LONDON KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. The monthly print edition, and its online platform www.kcwlondon.co.uk are renowned for intelligent and thought-provoking journalism. The print edition

- KCW LONDON

Dads House Coronavirus report reveals that the charity supported more than 20,000 families over the last six months of the COVID-19 pandemic CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SILENCE SUPERCARS Kensington and Chelsea Silence Supercars. 8th October 2020. On 22nd September, the first ever UK council-run pilot for high-tech ‘noise cameras’ were installed and made live on Sloane Street and Pont Street. Drivers exceeding the legal decibel limit face fines of up to

�1,000.

BBC LOCAL NEWS PARTNERSHIP The stories posted here are sourced the BBC Local News Partnership. The Local News Partnership is a unique entity in journalism, having no equivalent in the UK or the wider world. Founded in 2017 in a joint initiative between the BBC and the New Media Association (which represents the majority THE DECLINE OF TRUTH The Decline of Truth. 30th April 2021. It can be deeply inspiring to watch another man deliberately place his own head on the block over a matter of principle, especially when that principle is of vital importance to our national identity. Two years ago, Peter Oborne, a conservative journalist who had consistently advocated support for

Brexit

BOX HILL SCHOOL: Q AND A WITH THEIR HEAD OF BOARDING Interview with Box Hill School’s Head of Boarding John Attewell. What is the day-to-day life of a boarder like? Although it is reasonably structured, we regard the boarding experience as ‘home from home’ and therefore try to mirror, as far as possible the post school experience of our day students. LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE ORIGINS OF VEGANISM IN MULTI-CULTURAL The history of this lifestyle shows that veganism as a term and concept was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, who wished to make the differentiation between vegans and vegetarians, who still eat dairy. Mr Watson co-founded The Vegan Society, which is still run today. But the idea of plant-based eating pre-existed a long time before this. THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

MESMERANTO: THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA Mesmeranto The Blackheart Orchestra Esoteric/Antenna ASIN : B07WJR9TFN released 2019 Five stars (essential) There is a paradox at the heart (pun intended on several levels) of this review. One wants to praise the album and then discuss its origins, story, and influences yet this

is

WHAT DO THE TUDORS MEAN TO US? You can learn a lot about a national culture from the bits of its history it chooses to celebrate. Whilst modern Britain’s most culturally vibrant and frequently invoked historical narrative is almost certainly the red white and blue heroics of the Second World War; slithering behind like the serpent in the garden is the bloody, paranoid romance of the Tudors. KERRIDGE’S BAR AND GRILL Over the course of its nearly 140 year history, the edifice now containing Kerridge’s Bar and Grill has hosted everything from Jazz Age Cabarets to a stint as the Ministry of Defence’s home away from home. Since 2011 it has been the 5-star Corinthia Hotel and after we

stumbled in

COMMENT: YA BOO SUCKS It sometimes seems, in these disturbing times, that the default mode of general conversation is disparagement. Up in the hills of South Shropshire where I spend much of my time (and where KCW distribution does not penetrate) I am responsible for regular restaurant reviews that appear in a small glossy magazine 75TH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AT ST PAUL'S This year is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day which took place today, 6 June 1944. Code-named Operation Overlord, D-Day was planned in the old St Paul’s School on Hammersmith Road by Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery with visits by Churchill and the King. Little remains of the school apart from High LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. CARTOONS - KCW LONDON The characters in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s (BEK) drawings have a darkness to them that seems to inhabit a Beckett-like universe, whose ontological principles seem to be, as the New Yorker itself declares, ‘Life sucks’. Kaplan has been submitting drawings to New Yorker since 1991, but he has an evening job as well, as a writer for

television

THE ORIGINS OF VEGANISM IN MULTI-CULTURAL The history of this lifestyle shows that veganism as a term and concept was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, who wished to make the differentiation between vegans and vegetarians, who still eat dairy. Mr Watson co-founded The Vegan Society, which is still run today. But the idea of plant-based eating pre-existed a long time before this. THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are:

Under 30s –

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

MESMERANTO: THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA Mesmeranto The Blackheart Orchestra Esoteric/Antenna ASIN : B07WJR9TFN released 2019 Five stars (essential) There is a paradox at the heart (pun intended on several levels) of this review. One wants to praise the album and then discuss its origins, story, and influences yet this

is

WHAT DO THE TUDORS MEAN TO US? You can learn a lot about a national culture from the bits of its history it chooses to celebrate. Whilst modern Britain’s most culturally vibrant and frequently invoked historical narrative is almost certainly the red white and blue heroics of the Second World War; slithering behind like the serpent in the garden is the bloody, paranoid romance of the Tudors. KERRIDGE’S BAR AND GRILL Over the course of its nearly 140 year history, the edifice now containing Kerridge’s Bar and Grill has hosted everything from Jazz Age Cabarets to a stint as the Ministry of Defence’s home away from home. Since 2011 it has been the 5-star Corinthia Hotel and after we

stumbled in

COMMENT: YA BOO SUCKS It sometimes seems, in these disturbing times, that the default mode of general conversation is disparagement. Up in the hills of South Shropshire where I spend much of my time (and where KCW distribution does not penetrate) I am responsible for regular restaurant reviews that appear in a small glossy magazine 75TH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AT ST PAUL'S This year is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day which took place today, 6 June 1944. Code-named Operation Overlord, D-Day was planned in the old St Paul’s School on Hammersmith Road by Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery with visits by Churchill and the King. Little remains of the school apart from High

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A “living memorial” to Londoners who have lost their lives to Covid-19 was opened on Monday, May 24th in east London by Sadiq Khan. The London Blossom Garden at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford will commemorate Londoners who have died during the pandemic, featuring 33 ABOUT US - KCW LONDON KCW London is a monthly, quality, London publication serving Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and select boroughs including Wandsworth, and parts of Richmond, Lambeth, North London and the City. The monthly print edition, and its online platform www.kcwlondon.co.uk are renowned for intelligent and thought-provoking journalism. The print edition

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Dads House Coronavirus report reveals that the charity supported more than 20,000 families over the last six months of the COVID-19 pandemic CITY HALL ANNOUNCES LONDON'S LARGEST EVER TOURIST CAMPAIGN City Hall announces London’s largest ever tourist campaign. 10th May 2021. The Mayor is set to firmly restore some much-needed enjoyment in the capital, as he announced today the city’s largest-ever tourism campaign, entitled Let’s Do London. Revealed during the Mayor’s speech today held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and supported ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser. 4th June 2021. The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three

Liddell

FULL LIST OF MAYORAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED Londoners will head to the polls on Thursday May 6 to vote for the next Mayor of London, and we now know all the candidates who will be appearing on the ballot. A record-breaking 20 candidates have announced they will be standing in the mayoral election, which was

postponed last

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SILENCE SUPERCARS Kensington and Chelsea Silence Supercars. 8th October 2020. On 22nd September, the first ever UK council-run pilot for high-tech ‘noise cameras’ were installed and made live on Sloane Street and Pont Street. Drivers exceeding the legal decibel limit face fines of up to

�1,000.

BBC LOCAL NEWS PARTNERSHIP The stories posted here are sourced the BBC Local News Partnership. The Local News Partnership is a unique entity in journalism, having no equivalent in the UK or the wider world. Founded in 2017 in a joint initiative between the BBC and the New Media Association (which represents the majority THE DECLINE OF TRUTH The Decline of Truth. 30th April 2021. It can be deeply inspiring to watch another man deliberately place his own head on the block over a matter of principle, especially when that principle is of vital importance to our national identity. Two years ago, Peter Oborne, a conservative journalist who had consistently advocated support for

Brexit

BOX HILL SCHOOL: Q AND A WITH THEIR HEAD OF BOARDING Interview with Box Hill School’s Head of Boarding John Attewell. What is the day-to-day life of a boarder like? Although it is reasonably structured, we regard the boarding experience as ‘home from home’ and therefore try to mirror, as far as possible the post school experience of our day students.

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The exhibition starts off in a pretty conventional mode, with faded old photographs, letters, original handwritten manuscripts and objects in vitrines, and an audio tape of a rowing boat paddling upstream on the Isis from Oxford to Godstow, on that ‘golden afternoon’ with the three Liddell sisters on board, with...

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