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London Elections tempers flare between the two parties.
Fact File Previous Election Results:
Turnout: 38.9%
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By James Billot
Labour:
KCW Today. See page 15 for details
Popular vote: 2,626,540
Percentage: 43%
Swing: +8% Officer Electoral Services, 2nd floor, www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/
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Westminster City Hall, 5 Strand, WC2N council-and-democracy
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Popular vote: 1,826,714 For more information about polling Lambeth
councillor seats will Percentage: 29.9% stations and where to vote, please visit: Labour.
be up for election Swing: -4.2% www.westminster.gov.uk/westminster- 63 councillor positions up for election.
in London’s 32 boroughs. city-council-election-2018 Nomination papers to the Returning
Liberal Democrat Officer at the Electoral Services,
In addition, there are four Popular vote: 635,719 Camden Lambeth Town Hall, 2 Brixton Hill,
Percentage: 10.4% Labour. London, SW2 1RW.
mayoral contests in Hackney, Swing: -11.3% 54 councillor positions up for election.
Lewisham, Newham and Nomination papers to the Returning For more information about polling
How to Register
Tower Hamlets. According to The last date to apply for a postal vote, or Officer at the Electoral Services, Town stations and where to vote, please visit:
Hall Judd Street London WC1H 9JE. www.lambeth.gov.uk/elections-and-
a YouGov opinion poll taken to amend an existing postal or proxy vote For more information about polling council/elections/elections-and-voter-
arrangement for the local council election stations and where to vote, please visit: registration-guide
in February, Labour are on on 3 May is Wednesday 18 April at 5pm.
course to win a greater share of The deadline for new applications to vote
by proxy is Wednesday 25 April at 5pm.
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years. The poll found that over www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
half of Londoners (54%) said
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Labour, compared to a meagre YOUR BOROUGH
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recent row over Labour leader Jeremy Nomination papers to the Returning
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V&A Director term loan’.
The French President, Emmanuel From Calais to in Calais the kitchen was serving 2000
servings a day. 2 and a half years later
against returning Macron, pledged in November that the
return of African artefacts would be Camden we are still in Calais. There may be no
camp but there is still a refugee crisis.
looted artefacts to a top priority for France, stating that
“African heritage cannot be a prisoner
By Janie Mac The output of the kitchen at the moment
is around 1400 servings a day and
Co-Founder Refugee
Africa of European museums”.
Hunt however has called this stance Community Kitchen
increasing as wars, famine, dictatorships
continue to drive people out of their
simplistic, and said that it would be homes and countries in search of a safe
wrong to adopt a “guilty all” approach. haven. Up to date we have served over 2
Photograph © Alice
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ristram Hunt, the director The V&A has suggested a long- million meals.
of the Victoria and Albert term loan but ruled out a blanket In November 2016 Refugee
Museum, is refusing the call for breakdown of the museum’s collection. Community Kitchen set up an outreach
Europe to give stolen artefacts back to Hunt has defended the decision by in Camden London. This was a natural
Africa and will instead discuss a ‘long- citing the need for “cosmopolitanism” progression. We had waste food from
in museums, along with legal supermarkets and small donations that
difficulties associated with the removal were unsuitable for Calais, we had the
Photograph © V&A
of items. There are also concerns over skills, the people and the belief that we
whether institutions in Africa will be can make a difference. Feeding 250 meals
able to uphold conservation standards. a week we were able to respond to those
Ethiopia lodged a formal restitution asking us all the time why don’t we help
claim in 2007 for hundreds of our own. For us this wasn’t the reason
manuscripts and artefacts being held we set up the outreach, but took away
by a number of British institutions, some ammunition from those not as
all plundered after the 1868 capture sympathetic as us.
of Maqdala. Other than the V&A, We feed without judgement.
these included the British Museum, In the summer of 2015 we all watched
the British Library and the Royal with horror as the refugee crisis evolved We run entirely on donations and
Collection. before our eyes. The crisis wasn’t in a volunteers. If you would like to volunteer,
At the beginning of this month the distant place, some far away land, this donate or fundraise there couldn’t be a
V&A opened its Maqdala exhibition, was here on our door step. To carry on better time.
marking 150 years since the battle. The about your business as though there More people are on the move and
exhibition will run until June 2019. wasn’t a care in the world was not an need our support. For information:
Hunt is due to meet with Ethiopian option for some of us and on the 1st http://refugeecommunitykitchen.com
Ambassadors to discuss a loan, a December 2015 Refugee Community www.facebook.com/refugeeCkitchen/
concept that has been welcomed by Kitchen began serving hot, nutrient Instagram: instagram.com/refugee_
both the state and campaigners. rich meals. At the height of the Jungle community_kitchen
Hammersmith handpicked by the local authority to lead
Photograph © Chris Christodoulou
the Hammersmith & Fulham Rough
and Fulham Sleeping Commission with John Sparkes
of the charity, Crisis serving as chairman.
founds Fellow commissioners are Michael
Angus, director of the Barons Court
commission to Project; Michael Buraimoh, operations
director of the Upper Room; Steven
end homelessness Platts, senior project manager at
Glass Door; Thomas Neumark, chief
executive of the Peel Institute; and Paul
Doe MBE, former chief executive of
Photograph © Eric Pouhier
Shepherd's Bush Housing Group. They
heard from 108 homeless people who
have had experience of sleeping rough in Prince Charles and built by Flentrop Orgelbouw as part
of the College’s transformative More
the Borough, as well as from experts on
the causes of the problem. marks 25 years as Music development. The ceremony also
featured performances from “exceptional”
In 2016/7 246 people were seen
sleeping rough in H&F, a two per cent RCM president recent graduates.
“The annual visit by our President, HRH
rise from the previous year. The number The Prince of Wales,” Professor Colin
of rough sleepers coming from short to Lawson CBE, Director of the Royal
medium-term accommodation rose by College of Music, said, “is a highlight
about four per cent. There has been a six of the Royal College of Music calendar.
per cent decrease last year in the number The Prince of Wales awarded musical I am delighted to welcome him in this
coming from long-term accommodation, honours as he celebrated his 25th year as anniversary year to hear the magnificent
which is in keeping with homelessness President of the Royal College of Music. new organ and honour the individuals
trends across London Prince Charles also heard the RCM’s who have made important contributions
new organ for the first time during the to the RCM and wider musical
“We have an ambitious aim to reduce ceremony. This instrument was designed community.”
rough sleeping in H&F to zero,
something I’m confident we can achieve
thanks to these recommendations,” said
Hammersmith and Fulham Council
have announced that they are working
council deputy leader Councillor Sue
Fennimore. SUSCRIBE & SUPPORT
with leading charities after pledging “They provide the starting point to make
to end rough sleeping in the Borough. real and lasting change, not just in H&F KCW Today. See page 15 for details
Six homelessness experts have been but far wider.”
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Westminster who abuse the 90 night rule have been
listed as landlords illegally listing their From classical
losing sleep over apartments on Air-BNB for noisy parties
or deliberate overcrowding by renting to techno:
‘unlawful nightly illegally, renting small properties to large
families; sex workers using nightly rentals Queen Elizabeth
letting’ for illicit liaisons and estate agents using
nightly subletting to take apartments off Hall becomes
the market. A council spokesman has
accused these citizens of having “little or nightclub
no vested interest in their neighbours”
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estminster Council has and who reportedly formed the task force
created a new Housing in response to “a high level of complaints
Standards Task force which about noise, anti-social behaviour, and Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth
is investigating hundreds of properties issues of waste.” Hall, best known for staging classical
throughout the borough, and shutting With thousands of properties in music performances, has been
down those which are engaged in Westminster being let for short periods transformed into a 1000-capacity techno
unlawful nightly letting. of time, such as nightly, the task force nightclub.
Currently the law allows property owners is currently investigating hundreds of The hall, which was originally
to let their property online for up to opened by the Queen in 1967, and will donations from the public, Arts Council
properties to make sure they are nightly
90 nights per calendar year, however re-open with a new 2am licence on 9th England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
letting within the law. The task force will
there have been a bevy of complaints April after a three year and £35 million Amy Lame, London’s night Czar, said:
also be speaking to property owners and
across Westminster against many refurbishment. “It is brilliant that Southbank Centre
surrounding residents to ensure they
businesses and residences. Residents The first of its new acts will be ‘Berlin is throwing open its doors and creating
understand the rules.
DJs Pan Daijing’ and JASS at a monthly a new club night which will welcome
club night, Concrete Lates. This has been some of the most celebrated DJs and live
Photograph © Pixabay
curated by Boiler Room and will be held electronic acts and, most importantly,
in the foyer. Tickets will be affordable to will be accessible to all Londoners.”
ensure the space is open to everyone. Techno beats will be a change of pace
The night’s launch will be from the hall’s usual headliners, which
accompanied by an exhibition in the has included classical artists such as
neighbouring Hayward Gallery by Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim and
German photographer and techno fan Leonard Bernstein.
Andreas Gursky. Attendees will be able However, the venue has also hosted
to view the gallery until 1am with an a pre-fame David Bowie as well as a
ambient soundtrack. performance of Pink Floyd’s unreleased
The programme was made possible by debut album.
keep patients from being referred back
several tests at various stages. This is
because some patients face delays if
they show non-specific symptoms. The
concept of ‘rapid diagnosis’, which would
be followed by treatment, can save lives.
Though cancer survival rates are
improving over the last few decades,
those who do not display obvious signs
of cancer can struggle to get the help
and treatment that they need. Some have
even more vague symptoms including
unexplained weight loss, reduced
appetite, or abdominal pain. This could
lead to them being referred several times
for different tests for different cancers
which is a waste of valuable time needed
to start treatment. Symptoms also
include fatigue, unexplained sweats, or
generally feeling unwell.
One-stop NHS England will adopt an
approach developed in Denmark that
shops to aid will see 10 specialist rapid diagnostic
and assessment centres where patients
in cancer receive all required investigations under
one roof. “Early diagnosis is crucial to
diagnosis saving lives and providing peace of mind
for patients, which is why we are driving
forward plans to revolutionise our
approach to cancer in this country,” Cally
NHS England are introducing new Palmer, national director for cancer at
‘one-stop shops’ hoping to hasten cancer NHS England said. “These new one-stop
diagnosis which will be rolled out across shops represent a real step change in the
London. The hope is that they will help way people with unclear symptoms are
to catch the disease earlier which would identified, diagnosed and treated.”
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TfL been handed over to a developer for
Photograph © Delta
a project that will see office and retail
developments on space as well as a new West End Theatre.
Planning permission has already been
Elizabeth line granted for this 285,000 sq ft project
that encompasses 209,000 sq ft of offices,
to bring major 36,000 sq ft of retail and 40,000 sq ft
for the “first new West End theatre in a
revenue generation.”
Plans are also in place for 12 major
property developments around the new
Airlines face at the time the ticket is booked. All
airlines will be required to be completely
Elizabeth line stations and construction
sites. More than three million square
government transparent over charges when quoting
prices for tickets so people can make fair
Transport for London (TfL) has
proposed a “huge programme of
feet of high-quality office, retail, and
residential space between Paddington in
crackdown on comparisons.
Airlines could also be asked to
retail, commercial and residential
developments” on a number of proposed
the west and Woolwich in the East are
covered by these plans.
hidden rip-off review their charges if it’s decided they
are excessive. The new rules are likely
Elizabeth line stations in central London
as we approach the launch of the new
“The Elizabeth line is set to redefine
travel across our city and it is fantastic
fees to cover all add-on fees that are added
through the ticket-buying process,
railway. These developments, TfL says,
could raise £500 million which could
to see the sites above some of the major
central London stations progressing,”
including booking fees, seat reservations, go towards improving transport in the Graeme Craig, Director of Commercial
charges for bags and charges for extra leg capital. Development at TfL, said. “These
room.
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Agreements have already been signed schemes will result in income of around
xtra charges that are added to The Civil Aviation Authority ordered for developments above Bond Street and £500m and this will be reinvested in
the cost of an airline ticket just a review of the terms and conditions Farringdon stations while Tottenham modernising and improving the transport
as you’re about to click ‘buy’ are used by airlines almost two years ago. It Court Road’s eastern ticket hall has network.”
to be banned under a government plan. announced then that it was looking into
Ministers are also drawing up plans to admin fees and add-on charges to see
force airlines to scrap other rip-offs, such whether they were fair, easily understood
Photograph © TfL
as charging up to £160 just to change and clearly displayed. The government
the name on an airline ticket, check in said it wanted to ensure that passengers
luggage or print boarding passes. were “not being penalised by unfair
The plans are in an aviation strategy contract terms”. Some of the proposals
to be published by the Department of are due to be published within weeks
Transport. This will state that all fees with a more detailed paper following
and extra charges must be made clear later in the year.
New Quietway Bayswater to Wormwood Scrubs, as well
as a number of ‘link’ routes.
cycle routes arrive All the routes feature innovative
new signage and road markings to help
in Kensington & cyclists find their way along roads they
may never have cycled along before,
Chelsea and new infrastructure including
two new ‘parallel crossings’, allowing
Westminster is offences.
Westminster also took the top spot cyclists to cross busy junctions without
dismounting and changes to road layouts
London’s crime for theft, in which 8,063 crimes were
reported. Behind Westminster were Kensington and Chelsea’s first Quietway
routes are now open and TfL and
to help reduce traffic speeds and raise
visibility for road users.
capital Islington (5,905), Camden (5,893) and
Hackney (3,589). the Royal Borough are inviting local
residents to try them out for themselves.
The new routes are part of the
Mayor Sadiq Khan’s commitment to
Using the police data, the top five
crime-ridden London boroughs have New cycle routes of around 8km are record levels of spending on cycling.
Contrary to its tourist-friendly image, been revealed: now in place, complementing a number £169 million will be invested per year
new research by property buyers Good Westminster - 68,888 crimes of other cycling initiatives across the on average over the next five years. The
Move has shown that Westminster is committed Capital such as mini-Hollands and Cycle Council is exploring the next phase of
London’s worst borough for crime. Tower Hamlets - 44,548 crimes Superhighways. routes that could be delivered in the next
With over one million crimes committed Quietways are designed to make few years.
committed in London in 2017, Camden - 44,546 crimes committed cycling more attractive by providing Councillor Gerard Hargreaves, Lead
Westminster was the largest contributor Lambeth - 44,117 crimes committed continuous cycling routes away from Member for Planning and Transport
totalling 68,888 reported incidents.There Newham - 41,787 crimes committed the busiest roads. The routes are ideal said: “Residents are rightly concerned
are a number of causes behind this figure: Ross Counsell, Director at Good for people who are new to cycling but about local air quality and helping
anti-social behaviour, which constituted Move, said: “With crime rising in the provide useful clearly marked links for more people to cycle is one part of
a fifth of the crimes, remains a major UK, we think it’s essential for people to experienced cyclists too. our plan to get people out of their
problem in the borough. The second be aware of exactly what’s happening in The new network includes two longer cars, reduce pollution and improve air
worst crime, constituting 14% of the their area, as well as any area they might numbered routes; Q15 which runs from quality. I’d encourage all cyclists, new or
reported crimes, were violent and sexual be thinking about moving to.” Belgravia to Earl’s Court and Q2 from experienced, to try out these routes.”
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Battersea Cats home.
The charity has warned of an increase
London Home Football
and Dogs home of online ‘impulse purchases’ after buyer’s
spot animals on social media auction
Traffic Watch
blame Facebook sites instead of visiting a shelter.
A new ‘dog for sale’ advert is created
for drop in online every two minutes, while a new
‘cat for sale’ ad is created every four
Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, QPR
rehomed pets minutes in the UK.
The result is that new owners are April 10 April 22
turning their back on cats and dogs Fulham v Reading, 19:45 Chelsea v Southampton,
without a home. Last year Battersea 15:00
rehomed 8% fewer dogs and 16% fewer April 10
Photograph © Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
cats than 2016 as more people turned to
the internet to buy a new pet.
QPR v Sheffield April 28
Peter Laurie, Battersea’s Deputy Wednesday, 19:45 Fulham v Sunderland,
Chief Executive, said: “You can buy 15:00
a pet with the click of a mouse, often April 14
with no idea if you’re going to get the Fulham v Brentford, April 28
same animal as the cute photograph that 17:30 QPR v Birmingham City,
caught your eye and with no real idea of
its background or personality.
15:00
“It’s animal rescues that then pick up April 14
the pieces. In the first three months of QPR v Preston North May 5
this year alone, we've taken in more than End, 15:00 Arsenal v Burnley, 15:00
100 dogs bought online, whose owners
can no longer care for them, often due to April 21 May 5
veterinary problems or behavioural issues
they didn't know they had.”
Chelsea v Huddersfield Chelsea v Liverpool, 15:00
Comedian Sue Perkins has joined the Town, 15:00
Charity’s awareness campaign. She said:
“Buying online is so risky; you don't April 22
know what you’re getting and you could Arsenal v West Ham Utd, Compiled and edited by
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Statue & Blue Plaque
Blue Plaque: stage acting and producing plays for a
Photograph © Don Grant
low budget repertory company. It was
STATUES
Jerome Klapka Jerome. a dreary life in dingy digs. However,
his play, On the Stage and Off had
(1859-1927) some success in 1885. It relayed his
acting experiences. Next Jerome tried
journalism and submitted essays, satires
and short stories which were mostly
rejected. He also worked as a school
A Blue Plaque was erected at 91-104 teacher and solicitor’s clerk.
Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road. Jerome persevered with writing and
SW1 8RQ in 1989, honouring Jerome produced many plays, novels and essays.
K Jerome, who wrote his best seller, Plays included Paul Kelver, considered
Three Men in a Boat, while living at to be autobiographical, also The Passing
flat number 104. Jerome, a renowned of the Third Floor Back (1908) which had
writer and humourist was the “Toast of religious themes and was made into a
Victorian England”. film. Among his collections, Idle Thoughts
His father was Jerome Clapp, who of an Idle Fellow were popular. Short
changed his name to Jerome Clapp Stories included The Haunted Mill and
Jerome. He was a non-conformist, an The Dancing Partner
ironmonger and an architect. Jerome’s Jerome was rewarded with one very
mother, Marguerite Jones, was the great success, his novel, Three Men in a
daughter of a solicitor and there were Boat; this humorous travelogue was set
four children. Jerome also changed his on the River Thames and written during
name, becoming Jerome Klapka Jerome. his honeymoon. Jerome had married
Street Orderly with two pounds of rubbish per head
per day. But that modest quantity,
Klapka was taken from a family friend
who was an exiled Hungarian General.
Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris
(Ettie). This novel was immediately
Boy
multiplied by the number of London’s The Jeromes were a very poor family, popular and increased boating activity
population, means a year’s work of due to a bad investment in the local coal
over 1,300,000 cart-loads, and 300 on the Thames by 50%! The honeymoon
By Donato Barcaglia mines. Jerome was born in Walsall in the couple were replaced by his friends,
of such carts, if paraded in single file,
West Midlands, but grew up in London. George Wingrave (George) and Carl
complete with horses, would take up
Paddington Street Gardens a mile. He lost both his parents during his Hentschel (Harris). Jerome created a
The inscription on the main plinth teenage years. light hearted comedy for serious minded
reads ‘Street Orderly Boy presented to Jerome always wanted to be an MP, readers. It is very entertaining, not
S
itting on a plinth in this leafy St Marylebone by Alderman David but poverty enforced the abandonment particularly sophisticated, and relies on
backwater a stone’s throw from Isaacs 1943’. The name on the base is of his education from the Philological understatement with wry and whimsical
Marylebone Road’s relentless of the sculptor Donato Barcaglia of College (Later Marylebone Grammar humour. It brings to mind the genre of
teeming traffic sits a young boy, Milan. He was born in 1849 in Pavia, School) and he had to start work. He A Diary of a Nobody by brothers, George
cleaning one of his shoes. He is and then trained in Milan and Rome, had various jobs for which he had no
wearing a floppy hat in the shape of and Weedon Grossmith. Three Men in a
becoming acclaimed for his fine, enthusiasm. He was employed by the
an ARP Warden’s helmet from the neoclassical works, the first of which Boat was translated into many European
London and North West Railway, at first languages, made into films, TV and
last war. He would have been one was carved in marble when he was
of a brigade of about five hundred picking up coal along the tracks. Later Radio Shows and a Musical. It gave
just seventeen, entitled Vendemmiatore,
men, women and boys, whose job or the grape harvester, which was being influenced by his sister, Blandina, Jerome financial security. The sequel,
it was to clean the City, under the installed in the Palazzo Reale in who loved Theatre, he drifted on to the Three Men on the Bummel (also known
watchful eye of the superintendent Milan. Later subjects included as Three Men on Wheels)
of the Honourable Commissioners beautiful young nymphs in various was not as popular. It
of Sewers, setting out at eight in the poses with a pet dog, or startled by was about a cycle trip in
evening to remove all the slops, house a mouse. A naked girl with Cupid France.
refuse, horse droppings and street- on her shoulders holding his hands Jerome, a lovable
sweepings that had accumulated over her eyes is called Love is Blind.
during the previous day, before and determined man,
He became interested in verismo, or
washing the streets overnight. highly realistic genre subjects, and volunteered for service in
According to a contemporary study he produced a number of variations World War One when
on the disposal of London’s rubbish, of a boy sitting nonchalently on a he was 56 years of age.
a year’s pickings would yield, among socle, one called Spazzacamino, or He was rejected so drove
other things, 15 tons of coals, 63 tons Chimney Sweep, and another bronze ambulances for the
of bones, 100 tons of rags, 60 tons simply called Street Urchin. It is French Army instead.
of old iron, 5 tons of miscellaneous not known whether Barcaglia ever Jerome K Jerome
metal, 14 tons of white glass, and 52 came to London, although he did died from a cerebral
tons of black glass. In 1886, 20,600 exhibit in Boston, Philadelphia, and haemorrhage in
tons of dust were collected, and the Buenos Aires. He died in 1930, and Northampton during the
materials, when sorted out, were in the Alderman gave the sculpture to
the following proportions per 1,000 return journey from a
the borough in 1943, presumably
tons: ashes 536 tons, cinders 288 having purchased it abroad. He had holiday in Devon. He
tons, soft core (being animal and previously donated a large bas-relief was cremated at Golders
vegetable refuse) 142 tons, hard core sculpture by Gilbert Bayes outside Green Crematorium and
(being broken pottery, etc.) 29 tons, Lord’s Cricket Ground, on the corner his ashes are buried at St
coals 1½ tons, bones 2½ tons, rags of Wellington Road and St John’s Mary's Church, Ewelme,
4¼ tons, old iron 3½ tons, brass, Wood Road, which celebrates Sport, Oxfordshire with his wife,
pewter, etc., 5 cwt., white glass 15 and includes tennis, golf, rugby, his sister and his step
cwt., black glass 2¼ tons. Taking the football, rowing, swimming and, of daughter.
whole of London, a ton of house course, cricket, with the inscription
refuse and street sweepings has to be ‘Play up, play up and play the game’,
got rid of each year for every three His epitaph reads:
from Sir Henry Newbolt’s Vitai
of its population. In other words, the Lampada. “For We are Labourers
cleansers of London have to deal Don Grant Together for God”.
Marian Maitland
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“Imaginative Westminster, funding youth clubs, and
Child poverty
Photograph © Flickr
tackling isolation and loneliness. The
initiative” gets scheme is similar to a project that was
adopted in Cornwall in 2016, where on the rise in
green light in second-home owners in some areas were
asked to voluntarily contribute towards London
Westminster funding affordable housing in the county,
raising £38,000 in its first month.
Cllr Nickie Aiken, Leader of
Over half of children in three areas
Westminster City Council, said: “The
of west London are living in poverty,
voluntary Westminster Community
T
according to the End Child Poverty
he Westminster Community Contribution offers a fair way for those
coalition. The figures also show that there
Contribution is set to go ahead who want to contribute more towards
are 23 wards in west London where
after a consultation found strong the Westminster community to do so.”
the rate is over 40%. This is all based
support a new scheme that will allow The Archbishop of York, Dr
the proportion living in low income
its wealthiest residents to pay an extra John Sentamu, said: “I congratulate
households after housing costs (AHC).
voluntary tax for social projects. Westminster City Council and I fully
A person is considered to be living in
The scheme has been recommended endorse their imaginative initiative. May
poverty if their household income is
by Cabinet after a survey of residents in all of us who are willing to do this be
below 60% of the average figure.
the highest Council Tax band, Band H. given the facility to do so. Thank you,
Westminster’s Church Street has
Over 400 people responded positively by Thank you! You are fantabulous!”
56.1%, or 1,700 children growing up in
saying they would support poverty and is among the nation’s worse.
an opportunity to pay Meanwhile, Queen’s Gate in Kensington
more for the benefit of the and Chelsea has the lowest in west
community. London with only one in 26 or 3.9% of
Residents of the most children living in poverty. worse areas include four wards in Tower
expensive properties will Four of the top five wards, Church Street, Hamlets and one each in Birmingham,
be invited to consider Churchill, Westbourne, and Queens Park Blackpool, Burnley, Liverpool and
voluntarily paying an are all in Westminster, while three of Manchester.
amount double the Band the lowest five, Queens Gate, Campden, “It is scandalous that a child born in
H Council tax (£833), and Courtfield are all in Kensington and some parts of the UK now has a greater
although any donations will Chelsea. chance of growing up in poverty than
be welcomed. Across the UK there are a total of 87 being in a family above the breadline,”
Money raised by the electoral wards with over 50% of children Dr Sam Royston, chair of End Child
scheme would be used living in poverty, a huge increase from Poverty and director of policy and
towards rough sleeping in 2015 when there were only 21. The research at the Children’s Society said.
England, which
Wandsworth new homes currently under construction.
Photograph © Flickr
is responsible for In addition to this the Council has an
the preservation
of historic Council lays announced plans to build 1,000 new
affordable homes across the borough
buildings in the
country, has listed foundations for both social rent and low cost
home ownership, alongside two large
it as top priority.
Work is needed for huge regeneration housing programmes in
Roehampton and Clapham Junction,
to remove graffiti
as well as to infrastructure plus planned investment of £150m in
improving its existing homes portfolio.
clear the drains
and gutters. But investment The council’s finance spokesman Guy
Senior said: “It is important the council
Wealdstone continues to invest in improving the
police station is borough’s infrastructure so that it
just one of nine continues to meet the needs of local
new entries from Wandsworth Council has announced residents and businesses.”
West London to further investment in improving the
Historic buildings enter the register in 2017. borough’s infrastructure over the next
Photograph © Wandsworth Borough Council
Number 2 Gasholder at Fulham Gas two years. An extra £17m will be spent
at risk of falling Works in Sands End Lane, near the
Worlds End Estate, is another Grade
on improving school buildings, providing
new school places, and expanding
apart II listed building. It was built in 1830
and is thought to be the world’s oldest
facilities for children and young people.
Over the next two years £7.7m will be
surviving gasholder. The entrance arch at spent improving Wandsworth’s transport
Kensington and Chelsea’s Gasper Mews infrastructure, resurfacing roads and
is also top priority for the watchdog. pavements and implementing road
As many as nine historic Buildings in The arch leads into a cul-de-sac and layout improvements and traffic calming
London were declared at risk of falling has deteriorated, showing visible cracks measures.
apart in 2017. These include the former according to the report. A further £3.5m will be spent providing
Wealdstone police station. Built in 1908, There 179 total structures in west a new larger and more modern library
the Grade II listed building in High London on the Heritage at Risk register in Wandsworth town centre along
Street was added to Historic England’s with Kensington and Chelsea having the with a planned spend total of £30m
Heritage at Risk register last year. The highest at 43. Other entries to the list for Nine Elms in the next two year,
former police, which once comprised include the draped woman sculpture in intended provide social and transport
a magistrates’ court, has been empty Hammersmith, the Church of St Peter in infrastructure for the new residents and
since 2015 and was used by squatters Ealing, and Kew Bridge Railway Station businesses who will occupy the 20,000
before being boarded up. Historic in Hounslow.
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Opinion & Comment
Democracy leads to populism, populism
Why we need
MARIUS BRILL’S is a cult of personality and the ultimate
personality is a demagogue, a tyrant, a
dictator. more Leveson
MEMEING OF LIFE
Meme: An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another...
Democracy is one of humanity’s most
sacred memes, even Popes get elected. It’s
an idea that’s been around so long you’d
have thought we would have a handle
By Peter Burden
on it by now. Yet it remains so nebulous
Wikipedia just says “No consensus exists
Democrafatigue go there out of respect for an historical on how to define democracy, but legal The events, crimes, you could say, that
idea but everyone knows it’s barely fit equality, political freedom and rule of led up to the first Leveson inquiry have
for purpose when, in their pockets, they law have been identified as important dwindled into the mist in our rear view
have the ability to instantly connect to characteristics.” Like ‘Art’ its lack of mirror, as high profile scandals tend to
the 65 million other people who live in definition is both its strength and its after all the shoutings done.
It’s raining. I’m upstairs on the the UK, to say nothing of the rest of the weakness. We can’t dismantle it but we Just to remind you: one British
no. 49 to Clapham Junction in developed world. can’t enshrine it either. It’s anything ‘newspaper’, so derided for the relentless
You might think that the enforced we want it to be. A chore in Clapham, grubbiness of the news it purveyed that it
a humid breath fug. Two gents slow speed of our pencil and paper a liberation in Soweto. Whether it’s to was known as the News of the Screws, was
are sitting in front of me, “May democracy might encourage serious elect another bunch of narcissists into found to have been earwigging messages
contemplation of the issues being voted Parliament or rip away our European left in the voicemail boxes of Prince
3rd. More bloody elections. on but, nowadays my opinion changes citizenship, it can be both inane and William’s and Prince Harry’s staff. Or
Might as well move in to the seven times before breakfast. I scroll profound. rather, the paper’s management claimed,
through headlines on my phone before I On Thursday 3rd of May, on the they had been listened to by one ‘rogue
voting booth I’m in there so get dressed, listen to the radio as I shave, face of it, all we’re doing is electing a reporter’, a shabby little ‘royal editor’
often.” and before the first oat hits the bottom bunch of faceless Council bureaucrats to called Clive Goodman, with the help of
of my bowl I’ve encountered countless oversee our parking permits and deny us an outside contractor, Glenn Mulcaire,
“Yeah.” arguments and I’m ready to voice my planning permissions for our basements. who knew how to get into other
“It’s bigger than most flats outrage, or support, for things I had no But, in reality, this is the last official people’s voicemail accounts and listen to
idea existed an hour before, let alone democratic opportunity to put our messages.
round here anyway.” cared about. opinion to Parliament before Brexit. To begin with the paper got
“And you get a free pencil.” The system has problems. Even It can’t be understated how important away with it, by co-operating in the
back in its early days, when chaps with this local election is. If it doesn’t matter prosecution of Goodman and Mulcaire,
“I don’t understand why MPs beards were still working out how to what colour of politics runs your rubbish and the resignation of the editor, Andy
can’t decide anything on their plague generations of schoolchildren collection, if you believe that British Coulson, who felt that, although he
with fiendish calculations for working sense of decency and fair play means knew ‘absolutely nothing’ about what had
own without asking everybody out hypotenuses and other tangents, tolerance even of bally foreigners, if happened, he was responsible because
to go and vote all the time.” Plato spotted the fundamental flaw your life (like mine) only exists because it happened ‘on his watch’. There were
in democracy. “The insatiable desire immigrants were allowed to escape here
I
many obvious, ridiculous anomalies
groan slightly at the luxury of of [freedom],” he says in his Republic, from wartorn Europe, if you’re happy in the claims by the bosses of ‘News
their Democrafatigue and they “introduces the change in democracy, being a European, if you were born a International’ (Rupert Murdoch’s British
shut up. But I’m left with a couple which occasions a demand for tyranny. European, if your family are European, operation which had owned the rag
of thoughts: Democracy’s clearly not … When a democracy which is thirsting if you have children who may need the since Murdoch snatched it from under
getting the respect it used to and, it’s for freedom has evil cupbearers presiding work opportunities that a 27 country Robert Maxwell’s nose in 1969) that a
been over a hundred years since he was over the feast, and has drunk too deeply bloc can offer, if your property is losing ‘single rogue reporter’ was guilty of these
cited in the Court of Appeal but the man of the strong wine of freedom, then, value as London loses international crimes. The paper was nevertheless able
on the Clapham Omnibus/Routemaster unless her rulers are very amenable and significance, if you want the Troubles to sustain this fantasy from the time of
is alive and well and reeking of Old give a plentiful draught, she calls them to in Northern Ireland to never return, if the arrest of Goodman and Mulcaire in
Spice. account and punishes them.” Democracy, you want the economy to turn around, 2006, until 2009 when the truth began
On the other hand, Democracy in the Plato argues, naturally leads to tyranny if you want the focus of our politicians to seep out like a bad smell from the
internet age seems much less robust. unless democratic leaders are benign. to go back to genuinely pressing box of wrongdoing on which they had
For a start, the technology, a piece of He recognised democratic voters elect domestic issues like the funding of the been heavily sitting. It was becoming
paper, a pencil and a balsa wood booth, personalities not policies. We vote in NHS… then only vote for a party that increasingly clear that thousands of
is centuries behind most other opinion our image. We vote for people. Which definitively supports a referendum on the individuals’ mobile phones had been
collating mechanisms. According to the means that the policies of those with final Brexit deal: Vote Lib Dem, Vote hacked by Screws’ hacks, and even now,
Office of National Statistics, “90% of charisma, or sheer force of personality, Green, Vote Renew, Vote Remain. Send nine years after the original revelations
men and 88% of women” and “virtually always trump (forgive the pun) boring a message and use democracy like it’s still many more similar cases have been
all adults aged 16 to 34 years (99%)” people with ideas of good governance. in fashion. emerging from the Screws daily sister, the
are internet users. Compare that to the Sun.
historic high voting booth user rate of News International had been
just 68.8% in the last election. willingly supported in their efforts to
Most of the UK has access to instant keep the lid on the box by the inertia
polling and voting on everything from a of under-inquisitive politicians of both
blue/gold dress to feeding celebrities live main parties who did not want to upset
cockroaches and they attract more voters the owners of the Sun, the Screws, the
than your average election. More people Times and the Sunday Times.
know how to use Facebook than a voting In July 2009, the Guardian published
slip. If we cherish democracy, rather than a story by their top investigative reporter,
just give it lip service, and expect it to be Nick Davies, that News International
relevant, we really need to help it adapt had settled a claim for damages as a
to modern life. For my university-aged result of phone hacking by payment of
kids, visiting a school hall with makeshift a large sum (“a million pounds”) to the
booths, that don’t even take whacky director of the Professional Footballers
photos to upload to Instagram, is akin Association, Gordon Taylor.
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A show of indignation was staged by the newspapers required to comply with it.
Commons Select Committee for Culture Cameron declared that he
Media and Sport, chaired by conservative would implement all Leveson’s DUDLEY SUTTON’S
John Whittingdale, whose main aim was recommendations, but once again,
not to shake the bow on which the wasps’
nest dangled too vigorously.
pusillanimous politicians allowed
themselves to be pushed around by heavy
I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THAT
The then Leader of the Opposition, lobbying not only from the Murdochs,
David Cameron had, at the behest of his but also by the Barclay brothers who own
colleague, George Osborne, employed The Telegraph (fast degenerating into a
the disgraced Andy Coulson as his head tabloid) and of course, Paul Dacre, ogre- From A Childhood
of communications. Rebekah Brooks, in-chief at the Daily Mail. By Rainer Maria Rilke
a former editor of the paper and now As a result, the new body, Impress,
chief executive of News UK (into which set up under the terms of the Royal
News International has morphed) had Charter, failed to win support from any
developed a cosy relationship with major print or digital media players. In The darkness was like riches in the room
Cameron, who, it seems, along with an implausible attempt to compel these
a large number of his parliamentary newspapers to accept the jurisdiction in which the boy sat, secret in himself.
colleagues, had been prepared to thrust of the new watchdog, the government
his head as far as possible up the nether threatened to trigger Section 40 of the
regions of Murdoch’s alimentary canal in Crime and Courts Act 2013, which And when his mother came in, as in dreams,
return for good press. meant effectively that those publications
This feeble tolerance of criminal that didn’t submit to the new a glass trembled on the quiet shelf -
behaviour could no longer be sustained independent regulator would have to
when it was found that the paper had bear the legal costs of all complainants; she felt the room give her away and stooped
hacked the phone of Milly Dowler, a whether they won or lost!
teenage victim of sexual murder. The The maverick papers (and even the
paper had to close, and was shortly more ethical ones) erupted into shouts to kiss her boy: ‘You’re here?’… Then half shy
followed by the start of the promised of “FOUL!” and tirades about the
concomitant Leveson Inquiry, set up gagging of a free press. It’s impossible they both turned their eyes to the piano,
to discover “the culture, practices and to believe that government legislators
ethics of the press, including contacts didn’t know this would happen, and the for many an evening when she sang to him
between the press and politicians and whole process would stub its toe again, as
the press and the police.” It was also it had after the Calcutt Report in 1990.
“to consider the extent to which the It seems likely that there was a tongue the child was caught strangely in her singing.
current regulatory regime has failed and firmly lodged inside a ministerial cheek
whether there has been a failure to act when the threat was first made.
upon any previous warnings about media The originally proposed second part
misconduct.” Inevitably, the actions of of Sir Brian Leveson’s inquiry (Leveson He sat quite still. His big gaze
journalists and management at the News 2) was intended to examine the extent
of the World was the primary focus. of unlawful or improper conduct within
At that stage it was limited with regard News International and other media hung on her hand, bowed underneath the ring
to the depth of its questioning, since organisations. It would also consider
new criminal prosecutions were in the the extent to which any relevant police and stepping as though in heavy blown snow
offing, and some actions of the witnesses force investigated allegations relating
summoned to appear would be sub- to News International, and whether over the white piano-keys.
judice. the police received corrupt payments or
Nevertheless, a comprehensive airing were otherwise complicit in misconduct,
of the culture and methods prevailing, as uncovered by ongoing investigations (trans. Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland)
particularly among the non-serious by the police in Operations Weeting,
press; the Tabloids, the Red Tops, Elveden and Tuleta.
the Shag Rags, was achieved. It was The current Secretary of State for
clearly established that the organisation Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt
charged with policing press behaviour, Hancock has recently confirmed the
The Press Complaints Commission, had
failed as hopelessly as anyone would have
government’s lack of appetite for further
antagonising their friends in the press SUSCRIBE & SUPPORT
expected of a body set up and controlled by formally slinging out Leveson 2. His
by the press it was supposed to regulate; justification is that there is no longer KCW Today. See page 15 for details
like alcoholics running a brewery, it was any need to examine whether or not the
widely suggested. press and the police have engaged in cosy
The PCC had been set up in 1990, financial relationships with each other, in Britain). Whether or not she has as
following a searching inquiry by the while a number of cases that had been cosy a relationship with Theresa May
Calcutt committee in to the inadequacies opened as a result of the various police as with her predecessor has not been
of its fore-runner, the Press Council. This operations have been quietly closed. revealed.
committee had also recommended a truly After the failure of the CPS to bring Apart from this, there is still a
independent watchdog, but sensitive about guilty verdicts in the 2014 trial of large amount of historic and ongoing
politicians, always paranoid about many of the parties involved in events
www.peterburden.net
press activity which urgently needs
negative press, had caved in and allowed at News International, it’s been back to the attention of precisely the inquiry
press self-regulation to continue. business for some of the major players. that Leveson 2 was intended to be. It
Leveson recommended very strongly Rebekah Brooks, who pleaded not guilty is depressing for lovers of truth to see
that this had to stop, and a new entirely to compliance in criminal phone hacking politicians so predictably roll over and
independent body must be established, on the grounds of her own incompetence, allow themselves to be flattered into
not a statutory body, as this would have is nevertheless so beloved by her boss, submission by aggressive, unprincipled
been perceived as a form of government Rupert and his sons, that they made her newspaper proprietors with clear political
censorship, but an organisation set up CEO of News UK (the Murdochs’ re- agendas of their own.
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