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2 October April/May 2015 2011 Contents & Subscriptions Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, SW11 3UW Tel: 020 7738 2348 E-mail: news@kcwtoday.co.uk Website: www.kcwtoday.co.uk Advertisement enquiries: editor@kcwtoday.co.uk Subscriptions: subs@kcwtoday.co.uk Editor: Art Director, Production & Boating: Architecture: Art & Culture Editors: Astronomy: Bridge: Chess: Contributing Editors: Classical Music Crossword: Dining Out: Deputy Editor & Head of Business Development Kate Hawthorne Tim Epps Atrium Don Grant, Marian Maitland Scott Beadle FRAS Andrew Robson Barry Martin Marius Brill, Peter Burden Jason Butler, Jonathan Macnabb, Alan Pink, Andrew Ward, Derek Wyatt James Douglas Wolfe David Hughes, Dr Emma Trehane Give a gift subscription for 2015/16 Editorial: Events: Food & Flowers: Gentlemen's Fashion Marketing & Business Development: Motoring: Online, News Editor & Arts Correspondent: Poetry Editor: Sub-Editor: Young Chelsea: Contributors Sporting Calendar Fergus Coltsmann, Rosie Quigley, Fahad Redha Leila Kooros, Jeanne Griffiths, Fahad Redha Limpet Barron John Springs, Lola Aladeshelu, Caroline Daggett, Johan Thomsen, Emma Trehane MA Ph.D, Don Grant, David Hughes, Fahad Redha Max Feldman Emma Trehane MA Ph.D Leila Kooros Max Feldman Emily Eaton, Laura-Jane Foley, Clara Strunck, Compiled by Fahad Redha Contents What better gift than access to a cornucopia of opinion, news and business, a wealth of events and activities and exciting Reviews of Arts, Culture and books, Motoring, Dining Out and Sport, packed full of lively, intelligent content for all age groups. A copy of Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today delivered to your door every month Name Address Get 50% off your storage Whether you need storage for household, business or student purposes, you’ll find exactly what you need with Safestore, with over 40 stores across London. And with our Lowest Price Guarantee, we’ll beat any comparable self storage quote. Terms apply. • Get 50% off your storage for up to 8 weeks with no minimum stay • Variety of room sizes – clean, dry, secure • Access available 7 days a week with 24 hour security • Wide range of packaging materials and transport options • Friendly, professional advice for all your storage needs Visit safestore.co.uk or call 0800 444 800 5 month’s subscription £ 17.50 (Tick box) 10 month’s subscription £ 35.00 (Tick box) Fill out form with cheques made payable to: Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today and send to Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today, 80-100 Gwynne Road, London SW11 3UW or email: subs@KCWtoday.co.uk. Or telephone 020 7738 2348 for further information. London Football Fixtures: Traffic watch October 17 Chelsea v Aston Villa, K/O 15:00 October 20 Arsenal v Bayern Munich, K/O 19:45 October 20 QPR v Sheff Wed, K/O 19:45 October 21 Fulham v Leeds, K/O 19:45 October 24 Arsenal v Everton, K/O 17:30 October 24 Fulham v Reading, K/O 13:30 October 24 QPR v Milton Keynes Dons, K/O 15:00 October 31 Chelsea v Liverpool, K/O 12:45 More comprehensive sports fixtures available on page 68 Contents & Subs 2 News 3 Statue & Blue Plaque 10 Feature 12 International 15 Opinion & Comment 16 Business & Finance 20 Education 24 Young Chelsea 26 Book Reviews 28 Poetry 29 Astronomy 30 Horology 31 Fashion 32 Lifestyle 33 Dining Out 34 Food & Flowers 35 Gardening 36 Events 37 Arts & Culture 46 Travel 56 Health 60 Motoring 64 Sport 68 Crossword & Marketplace 70 Chess & Bridge 71
020 7738 2348 News October 2015 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Parliament Squared by Derek Wyatt P 2 J. J. Rousseau the enlightened Swiss French philosopher wrote a pithy and thought provoking book called The Social Contract. It was about the responsibilities of government. He had in mind Geneva, a city state, where he lived and though it was written in 1762, before the French Revolution, it profoundly resonated then and still resonates today. In short, he wrote about “duty”. He asked what was the duty of government (the monarch) and therefore what was the duty of the citizen? His answers were that the citizen must surrender his/her rights to the state. And by doing so they must be be provided with even greater rights. It was a delicious idea. But what were these rights? In Rousseau’s day there were two. The first was that there would be a civil society at home watched over by magistrates to enshrine these rights (but no police force). The second was that the citizen should know that they would be free (or rather safe) from external factors like wars. Thus, the monarch would provide an army and/or a navy. Simple really. What do we ask of our government today? Well, in essence, not much more. We now have to have an army, navy and air force alongside a secret service to protect us. We also need good laws but this time by elected representatives. What else do we hope for? Since 1944, we have demanded a proper education service, a welfare state held together by a national police force. All else has been a bonus. Bonus or not this civil society has to be paid for. Crudely, the Tories have wanted a thinner state with a basic offering and less taxation whilst Labour has wanted a more comprehensive set of solutions with higher taxation. Fast forward to Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the Labour Party conference at the end of September. It was essentially a genuflection to Rousseau. It was about rights and duties. It was not about the harder edge of how more rights and duties inevitably means higher taxation. Indeed, like Ed Miliband last year (when he forgot to mention, he refused an autocue, the economy) Corbyn hardly mentioned how he was going to pay for more rights. Of course, he batted it into the long grass just as David Cameron did when he was first elected to lead the Tories in 2005. Let’s set up this commission and that commission was his mantra. For the moment his speech, aimed at Labour supporters, was enough to stifle dissent. Over the next year, when there are elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland plus mayoral elections in London and Bristol with local elections and possibly an EU referendum (brought forward), he must tell us how much extra taxation we will have to pay to end austerity. What he did not say was anything about a new constitution for the UK or a change in the voting system. So, whilst it was a decent and respectable speech it lacked an over arching vision for our nation. No doubt by the time you read this Cameron and Osborne would have laid into the fact that once again his economic policies, such as they are, will both increase the debt and increase taxation by £thousands for every working citizen. The political noise over the next year will clearly be the economy. If Labour cannot provide us with a clear set of accounts properly audited and are therefore heavily defeated in the elections, the Tories will be in power for a decade. If they can, then Corbyn may yet surprise us all. UK slips up in global competition By Emily Eaton The UK has slipped from its ninth place position in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual Global Competitiveness Index, published on 30th September 2015. The index rates 140 countries based on their ability to drive productivity and prosperity. In the 2015-16 report, despite managing to remain in the global top 10, the UK is clinging to tenth place having been overtaken by Sweden, now in ninth position. According to the WEF, the UK made some progress over the past year, but they were overtaken by Sweden’s efforts, particularly in the area of business sophistication, or rather the level to which companies use the latest techniques and technologies. The 2015-16 report found a distinct correlation between highly competitive countries and those that have either withstood the global economic crisis, or made a swift recovery from it. The failure, particularly by emerging markets, to improve competitiveness since the recession suggests that future shocks to the global economy might have deep and protracted consequences. According to the WEF the UK has a strong scientific research base and good collaboration between universities and business. The UK also fairs well in its ability to engage with the global economy. However, where the UK fell short was in the lack of public finances available to businesses and the inability of firms to obtain loans. The latter is often cited by business lobby groups as one of the reasons why promoting business growth is difficult in this country. Speaking to The Guardian, a WEF spokesman said; “Where the [UK] falls short is in its macroeconomic environment, where government debt and the budget deficit conspire to place it 108th out of 140 countries. It could do better, too, with the quality of its education system (21st) and maths and science in particular (46th), both longterm problems.” The report also found a close link between competitiveness and an economy’s ability to nurture, attract, leverage and support talent. The GCI confirmed that; “The top-ranking countries all fare well in this regard. But in many countries, too few people have access to high-quality education and training, and labour markets are not flexible enough,” meaning businesses are deprived of talent they need to drive competition levels. Despite this, India, in particular, made stunning progression as one of the world’s emerging markets, jumping from 71st position to 55th. This was attributed to Narendra Modi’s reformist government, which has set out to liberalise the country’s economy. As well as the UK, there was also a decline for Finland, who slipped to their worst place ever at eighth, having been fourth in overall world rankings last year. The top three competitive countries remained the same, with the USA in third place, Singapore in second and Switzerland first. However, Germany is fast climbing the rankings and has moved from fifth position to fourth over the course of the last year.
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